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Benghazi and Arab Spring Rear Up in U.S. Campaign

How the Gap Arose Obama and Romney Between Talk and Differ Sharply on New Intelligence Mideast Course
By ERIC SCHMITT By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

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On the Beach, a Runner Pauses

Mitt Romney took time Sunday in Florida to watch his staff in a friendly game of touch football. With the fierce presidential race winding down, he and President Obama are finding punchier ways to convey their messages to voters. The Caucus, Page A11.

Worried Sick: Candidates Face Hard Choices on Afghanistan debate, when Afghanistan will be Meningitis Risk five subjects the two candiAfter Election, Task of one ofdiscuss. dates Haunts 14,000 Even after more than a decade Ending War While
By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER By DENISE GRADY

Cathy Literski could tell something was wrong just from her mothers voice on the telephone. Her mother had learned that a steroid drug injected into her spine for back pain might have been contaminated with a fungus that could cause meningitis. Mrs. Literski had recently had the same type of injections herself, at the same pain clinic in Brighton, Mich. For a moment, neither woman could speak. I think were both terrified that the other one is going to come down with it, Mrs. Literski, 57, said. Shes worried sick about me, and Im worried sick about her. Shes 80 years old, and if she were to come down with it, she would have very little chance of survival. It will be weeks, maybe even months, before the two women know if they are in the clear, past the incubation period for this type of meningitis, which can cause strokes. About 14,000 people in the United States are in the same nerveracking situation: knowing they might have been infected, waiting to see if they get sick. So far, 282 have contracted meningitis, and 23 have died, in a national outbreak linked to a contaminated drug made by the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass. A few other patients have developed joint inContinued on Page A3

WASHINGTON Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. described the Obama administrations latest war strategy in deliberately stark terms in his debate with Representative Paul D. Ryan: We are leaving Afghanistan in 2014, period. Mr. Ryan did not dispute that deadline, but insisted on a little wiggle room, saying that Mitt Romney would consult with his generals about the timing and resources and conditions on the ground, to avoid imperiling Americas gains in a war that began in 2001. Remarkably, that exchange 11 days ago may have been the most substantive discussion all campaign season about how to manage the longest-running conflict in American history. It was not an argument over what Ameri-

Keeping Influence
cas goals should be, but how fast to get out. Yet for either President Obama or Mr. Romney, finding a satisfactory end to the war in Afghanistan and maintaining American influence in the continuing covert battle in Pakistan will be a far greater challenge than simply deciding whether to turn out the lights, or dim them, on the war effort after 2014. Managing the conflict while America heads for the exits will require the next president to confront a series of difficult choices, some of which may finally surface Monday night at the third and final presidential

of conflict, the decisions that will be required will be painful: Will the United States keep training the Afghan Army, even if greenon-blue attacks Afghan troops turning on their trainers keep taking a deadly toll? Will the next president work through the increasingly hostile Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, or work around him, since he is supposed to leave office around the time that American troops depart? Will he keep trying to negotiate with the Taliban, or exercise influence by keeping an enduring presence of 10,000 to 15,000 troops inside Afghanistan? Even if the next president successfully negotiates that longterm American presence in Afghanistan a part of the administrations plan that was never acknowledged by Mr. Biden in the debate will it prove long enough to keep the Taliban from retaking strategic cities? Will it sustain attacks inside Pakistan Continued on Page A11

WASHINGTON Even as Susan E. Rice took to the Sunday talk shows last month to describe the Obama administrations assessment of the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, intelligence analysts suspected that the explanation was outdated. Ms. Rice, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has said that the judgments she offered on the five talk shows on Sept. 16 came from talking points prepared by the C.I.A., which reckoned that the attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans had resulted from a spontaneous mob that was angry about an anti-Islamic video that had set off protests elsewhere. That assessment, described to Ms. Rice in briefings the day before her television appearances, was based on intercepted communications, informants tips and Libyan press reports, officials said. Later that Sunday, though, American intelligence analysts were already sifting through new field reports that seemed to contradict the initial assessment. It would be several days, however, before the intelligence agencies changed their formal assessment based on those new reports, and informed administration officials about the change. Intelligence officials say such a lag is typical of the ever-changing process of piecing together shards of information into a coherent picture fit for officials public statements. Gov. Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans have sharply criticized Ms. Rices comments and the administrations shifting public positions on the cause of the attack, criticisms that Mr. Romney will probably reprise in the final presidential debate on Monday night. On Sunday, Congressional Republicans cited the administrations response to the attack as symptomatic of larger leadership failings. This is going to be a case study, studied for years, of a breakdown of national security at Continued on Page A12

BENGHAZI, Libya When people here talk about American politics, many look to the sky, where the buzz of surveillance drones has grown heavy since last months deadly assault on the United States mission in this city in eastern Libya. Give it a rest, Obama, one resident posted in a Twitter message on Saturday morning, after a low-flying drone woke much of the city. We want to get some sleep. The drones are a vivid reminder that Benghazi has become the focal point of a fierce debate over what role the United States should seek to play in shaping the new order emerging from the revolts of the Arab Spring, an issue that is expected to be a flash point in Monday nights foreign policy debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama. Yet Benghazi has entered the American political lexicon with contradictory meanings. To Mr. Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, the city has become shorthand for the growing threat to the United States from Islamist militants and what Romney advisers call the Obama administrations passivity in the face of the menace. To President Obama, Benghazi is also the place where moderate Islamists took up arms to defend American diplomats from extremists, a democratically elected president rushed to express his solidarity with Washington and thousands turned out to demand the rule of law and mourn an American envoy. The candidates differing views encapsulate their approaches to both the Arab Spring and the nature of American power. Mr. Obama has emphasized cautious restraint, out of philosophical support for Arab demands for self-governance and out of a conviction that events in the region are largely beyond American control. Mr. Romney has stressed his wariness of the popular uprisings and vowed a more assertive approach to influContinued on Page A12

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A Prairie Liberal, Trounced but Never Silenced

By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM
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Afghan forces preparing to patrol in southern Helmand Province on Sunday. The Taliban continue to pose a threat.

Fresh Windows, but Wheres the Start Button?

By NICK WINGFIELD

Over the years, Keith McCarthy has become used to a certain way of doing things on his personal computers, which, like most others on the planet, have long run on Microsofts Windows software. But last week, when he got his

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A one-size-fits-all operating system across devices.

hands on a laptop running the newest version of Windows for the first time, Mr. McCarthy was flummoxed. Many of the familiar signposts from PCs of yore are gone in Microsofts new software, Windows 8, like the Start button for getting to programs and the drop-down menus that list their functions. It took Mr. McCarthy several minutes just to figure out how to compose an e-mail message in Windows 8, which has a strippeddown look and on-screen buttons that at times resemble the runic assembly instructions for Ikea furniture. It made me feel like the biggest amateur computer user ever, said Mr. McCarthy, 59, a copywriter in New York. Windows, which has more than

a billion users around the world, is getting a radical makeover, a rare move for a product with such vast reach. The new design is likely to cause some headscratching for those who buy the latest machines when Windows 8 goes on sale this Friday. To Microsoft and early fans of Windows 8, the software is a fresh, bold reinvention of the operating system for an era of touch-screen devices like the iPad, which are reshaping computing. Microsoft needs the software to succeed so it can restore some of its fading relevance after years of watching the likes of Apple and Google outflank it in the mobile market. To its detractors, though, Windows 8 is a renovation gone wrong, one that will needlessly Continued on Page A3

George McGovern, the United States senator who won the Democratic Partys presidential nomination in 1972 as an opponent of the war in Vietnam and a champion of liberal causes, and who was then trounced by President Richard M. Nixon in the general election, died early Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90. His death was announced in a statement by his family. He had been moved to hospice care in recent days after being treated for several health problems in the last year. He had a home in Mitchell, S.D., where he had spent his formative years. In a statement, President Obama called Mr. McGovern a champion for peace who was a statesman of great conscience and conviction. To the liberal Democratic faithful, Mr. McGovern remained a standard-bearer well into his old age, writing and lecturing even as his name was routinely invoked by conservatives as synonymous with what they considered the failures of liberal politics. He never retreated from those ideals, however, insisting on a

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Senator George McGovern at a news conference in 1971.

strong, progressive federal government to protect the vulnerable and expand economic opportunity, while asserting that history would prove him correct in his opposing not only what he called the tragically mistaken American war in Vietnam but also the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. A slender, soft-spoken ministers son newly elected to Congress his father was a Republican Mr. McGovern went to Washington as a 34-year-old former college history teacher and decorated bomber pilot in World War II. He thought of himself as a son of the prairie as well, with a fittingly flat, somewhat nasal voice and a brand of politics traceable to the Midwestern progressivism of the late 19th century. Elected to the Senate in 1962, Mr. McGovern left no special mark in his three terms, but he Continued on Page A15

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ELECTION 2012 A10-12

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SPORTSMONDAY

Angry Lebanese Protest Syria

Leaders in Beirut quelled a demonstration that erupted over a car bombing for which Damascus was blamed. PAGE A4

2 New Saints Tied to America

An American Indian woman who was born near Albany and a German-born nun who ministered to lepers in Hawaii were among seven canonized at the VatPAGE A20 ican by Pope Benedict XVI.

Focus on Voter Turnout

Get-out-the-vote efforts have moved front and center for both presidential campaigns in their tight race. PAGE A10
OBITUARIES A15-16

Giants Win; Jets Fall Short

A late 77-yard touchdown catch by Victor Cruz, right, lifted the Giants to a 27-23 victory over the Washington Redskins. In Foxborough, Mass., the Jets took a lead in the fourth quarter but lost in overtime, 2926, to the New England Patriots, who took sole possession of first place in the PAGE D1 A.F.C. East.

San Francisco Forces a Game 7

The Giants defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-1, to extend the N.L.C.S. PAGE D1
ARTS C1-7

In China, Pushing for Change

As a leadership transition nears, officials and intellectuals are seeking what they broadly call reform. PAGE A4
NATIONAL A13-14

Nobel Laureate Dies

Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who showed it was possible to transplant bone marrow to treat blood cancer, was 92. PAGE A16
BUSINESS DAY B1-9

Art Worth Millions, or Nothing

A lawsuit claims that a gallery made big profits from faked paintings. PAGE C1
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Shooting Rampage at a Spa

A gunman opened fire at a spa in a suburb of Milwaukee, killing three women and injuring four others, before apparently killing himself. PAGE A13

Bill Keller

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Disneys Mouse Trouble

Redesigning its Web site, Walt Disney continues to seek a winning strategy for profiting from the Internet. PAGE B1

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Inside The Times

INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL BUSINESS
QUOTATION OF THE DAY

Rumors Continue to Surface Gender Gap in 2012 Race Nears Historic High On Fidel Castros Health
It is still not known with absolute certainty whether Fidel Castro is dead, alive or somewhere in between. But evidence that he is out and about in Havana surfaced when a Venezuelan politician visiting the island said he met with the former Cuban leader. PAGE A4 Although polls disagree on the exact magnitude of the gender gap, the consensus of surveys points to a large one this year rivaling the biggest from past elections. PAGE A10

NBC Finds Itself On Unfamiliar Ground

NBCs surprise top ranking among younger viewers is in large part a result of the poor performance of its network rivals, which have failed to deliver any hot new shows.
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It made me feel like the biggest amateur computer user ever.

KEITH MCCARTHY, a 59-year-old copywriter, on trying out the new Windows 8 software.[A1]

Akin Likens Opponent to a Dog

Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate candidate, drew fire over his comments likening his Democrat opponents legislative actions to those of a dog responding to a command to fetch. PAGE A11

Camera Gains More Appeal

The GoPro, a video camera worn by surfers, sky divers and the like, is broadening its appeal and prospering in an industry that continues to face difficulties. PAGE B1

Denials of Nuclear Talks

Both the Iranian Foreign Ministry and the White House contradicted a report that they had agreed to oneon-one talks on Irans nuclear program. PAGE A6

ARTS

Legal Battle Over Religion

A Texas school superintendents stance on religious expression has put him at odds with his students and his neighbors, the governor, the attorney general and, some in his town believe, his God. PAGE A13

AMC and Dish Reach Deal

A suite of cable channels operated by AMC Networks are coming back on the Dish Network, marking the end of a blackout over several months that affected millions of customers. PAGE B4

Jordan Says Attack Foiled

Jordanian officials said that they had foiled a major terrorist plot, arresting 11 people who they said had been planning since June to attack shopping malls and diplomatic targets in the country. PAGE A6

Looking in the Fridge And Finding Some Poetry

In The Hungry Ear, the editor Kevin Young delivers 158 poems about food and drink: many tasty dishes and some inedible bits, Dwight Garner writes. Books of The Times. PAGE C1

Jackson Returning to Clinic

Four months after taking medical Jesse L. Jackson Libyan Town Under Siege leave, Representativehint of when he Jr., who has given no A city under siege, a rising death toll will return to work, will head back to and hospitals with patients wounded the Mayo Clinic for a checkup, said his by gunfire were unmistakable signs father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. PAGE that war has returned to the Libyan A15 town of Bani Walid, imperiling the countrys fragile political transiNEW YORK tion. PAGE A6

SPORTS

Seeing Through Illusions Of the Sports Hero

In light of the dramatic falls of Michael Vick, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Tiger Woods and now Lance Armstrong, we need to either recalibrate our definition of the sports hero or scrap it altogether, William C. Rhoden writes. Sports of The Times. PAGE D8

OP-ED

Paul Krugman PAGE A23

Palestinians Vote in Cities

The municipal elections, the first of any kind in the Palestinian territories in six years, were dismissed by many as unimportant because Hamas refused to take part or to conduct voting in the territory it controls. PAGE A8

A Schools New Approach To Vocational Education

Pathways in Technology Early College High School in Brooklyn is a six-year program tailored to give students interested in the technology industry a boost, including an associates degree. PAGE A17

Union Leader Holds Tight

Donald Fehr, the leader of the N.H.L. Players Association, seems unfazed by criticism from fans after the owners rejected the unions offer to settle the lockout. PAGE D6

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Corrections
FRONT PAGE

An article on Friday about a second federal appeals court ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act referred incorrectly to the formation of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, a House of Representatives panel. It has existed since at least the early 1980s; in was not created in 1993, the year the House formally acknowledged it. And it was created to represent the position of Congress in litigation matters, not to take on the Defense of Marriage Act.
INTERNATIONAL

ownership of an Argentine Navy training vessel misspelled part of the name of the hedge fund. It is Elliott Capital, not Elliot.
BUSINESS DAY

ed on the work shown, Sail Away. In addition to Johnny Botts, the artist known as Misho contributed to the piece.
SPORTS

ing with the United States Postal Service team was taken by Franck Fife of Agence FrancePresse Getty Images.
OBITUARIES

The State of the Art column on Thursday, about a data storage system for corporate users that is known as RAID arrays (redundant array of independent disks), misstated what Drobo, the company that is introducing the system for non-corporate users, based its name on. It is data robotics, not disk robot.
THE ARTS

An article in some editions on Friday about the history of the Yankees being swept in postseason series misstated the Yankees pitchers earned run average in losing the American League Championship Series to the Detroit Tigers this year. It was 4.14, not 3.92. A picture caption on Tuesday with an essay about the ways to restructure professional cycling in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping case omitted the photographers name in some editions. The picture of the essays author, Michael Barry, racErrors and Comments: nytnews@nytimes.com or call 1-888-NYT-NEWS (1-888-698-6397). Editorials: letters@nytimes.com or fax (212) 556-3622. Public Editor: Readers dissatisfied

An obituary on Friday about the scientist Stanford R. Ovshinsky referred incorrectly to one of his inventions. It is the nickelmetal hydride battery, not the nickel-metal hybrid battery. The error was repeated in a front page summary of the obituary, and the headline with the summary misstated, in some copies, Mr. Ovshinskys given name. An obituary on Thursday about the conceptual artist Michael Asher misstated the date of his death. He died on Monday, Oct. 15 not on Sunday, Oct. 14. with a response or concerned about the papers journalistic integrity can reach the public editor, Margaret Sullivan, at public@nytimes.com. Newspaper Delivery: customercare@nytimes.com or call 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637).

An article on Tuesday about the medical treatment given to a Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban referred incorrectly to the Persian Gulf state where an American military facility is located that was one of two initial options discussed for treatment. It is Oman, not Muscat (Muscat is the capital city of Oman). An article on Friday about a dispute between Argentina and an American hedge fund over

A dance review on Thursday about the American Ballet Theater gala at City Center in Manhattan misidentified the company for which Agnes DeMille created Rodeo, which had its premiere 70 years ago and was performed at the gala. It was the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, not American Ballet Theater. A picture caption on Oct. 6 with an article about Costcos decision to start selling fine art again omitted an artist who collaborat-

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Cathy Literski, at her home in Michigan, and her mother received steroid injections that have been tied to a meningitis outbreak.

Worried Sick: Meningitis Risk Haunts 14,000

From Page A1 fections from having the drug, methylprednisolone, injected into knees, hips, shoulders or elbows. Three lots of the drug, more than 17,000 vials, were shipped to 23 states. The meningitis and other infections are not contagious. As the case count rises day by day, experts are racing to see if they can determine which patients among all those exposed are most likely to contract meningitis. If they can identify the highrisk patients, doctors can follow them intensively with spinal taps and other tests in hopes of detecting the disease and treating it early enough to prevent its dreadful complications. As early as Monday, health officials may be able to offer doctors a method to estimate a patients risk and help decide how aggressive the follow-up should be, Dr. Marion Kainer of the Tennessee Health Department said on Friday during a telephone conference. In Tennessee, which has had more cases and deaths (69 cases and 9 deaths as of Saturday) than any other state, the State Health Department has found that one lot (06292012@26) infected more patients than others, and that the older the medicine when it was given and the higher the dose, the more likely a patient was to get sick. But Dr. Kainer emphasized that another lot (08102012@51), more of which went to other states, also appeared to be heavily contaminated and risky. She said researchers thought older medicine was riskier because the fungus was multiplying in the vials and making them more dangerous. The earlier treatment begins, the better. Doctors do not want to wait until patients become seriously ill but they say they must also avoid treating people who are not infected, because the drugs have severe side effects. Yet doctors responding to the outbreak say it can be extremely difficult to determine whether symptoms are getting worse in people who were probably already suffering from chronic pain. The stress of knowing that they have been exposed to a potentially deadly infection is also making matters more difficult. During the teleconference, one doctor said, To be real honest, I believe I would have symptoms if I had been told I was given this medication. So far, most of the meningitis cases have been caused by a fungus called Exserohilum, a type of black mold. People with severe symptoms have been hospitalized and given high intravenous doses of a powerful antifungal drug, voriconazole, that can cause liver and kidney problems, hallucinations and abnormal heart rhythms. But when the symptoms are mild and a spinal tap finds evidence of early infection, some patients can be treated at home with pills, said Dr. Carol Kauffman, an expert on fungal diseases at the University of Michigan. It is not clear how long the treatment will have to continue. The medical profession has no experience in treating Exserohilum infections of the nervous system, said Dr. Thomas F. Patterson, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. However, he said that in a meningitis outbreak in North Carolina in 2002, also caused by a black mold, voriconazole cured four of five patients (the fifth died). That outbreak was also caused by a contaminated steroid injected for back pain, also made by a compounding pharmacy (not the New England one). Mrs. Literski, a retired school days later, on a Friday, she heard about the outbreak. That weekend, she had a headache, nausea and dizziness, and very early on Oct. 8, when she got up to use the bathroom, she passed out, something that had never happened before. She went to the emergency room, where doctors performed a spinal tap and told her the results were normal. But they said she should come back if her headache worsened. So far, the headache has not worsened, but it has been severe, she said on Friday. I dont want to be tested again unless I have to, she said. She has consulted a lawyer, Alyson Oliver in Rochester, Mich., who said that about a half dozen other patients had also contacted her. Mrs. Literski said she felt terribly guilty because her mother, who previously had the injections and thought they helped, had planned to get them at a different clinic, until Mrs. Literski talked her into switching. I was the one who encouraged her to come to the Brighton facility so I could be with her, Mrs. Literski said. She added: Im concerned that my mother isnt sharing symptoms because shes terrified to have a spinal tap. For herself, Mrs. Literski said, the only option seems to be to wait and see. She said, Its like an ominous cloud following me around every day, sapping the joy out of life because youre waiting to find out if you have a deadly disease festering in your body.

A risk of major illness hangs over the heads of thousands.

guidance counselor, has already had one spinal tap to look for signs of meningitis. It was negative, but doctors warned that the disease could still develop later and that she might have to be tested again. The test is unpleasant, and her mother has declined it. Mrs. Literski previously tried spinal injections for disc disease, without success. She then had two back operations, but still had severe pain. Desperate for relief, she tried the injections again in August and again on Sept. 20. On Oct. 3, before hearing about the meningitis outbreak, she woke up with a severe headache and a stiff neck. She does not commonly have headaches. Two

A Windows Makeover, but Wheres the Start Button?

From Page A1 force people to relearn how they use a device every bit as common as a microwave oven. I dont think any user was asking for that, said John Ludwig, a former Microsoft executive who worked on Windows and is now a venture capitalist in the Seattle area. They just want the current user interface, but better. Mr. Ludwig said Microsofts strategy was risky, but it had to do something to improve its chances in the mobile business: Doing nothing was a strategy that was sure to fail. Little about the new Windows will look familiar to those who have used older versions. The Start screen, a kind of main menu, is dominated by a colorful grid of rectangles and squares that users can tap with a finger or click with a mouse to start applications. Many of these so-called live tiles constantly flicker with new information piped in from the Internet, like news headlines and Facebook photos. What is harder to find are many of the conventions that have been a part of PCs since most people began using them, like the strip of icons at the bottom of the screen for jumping between applications. The mail and calendar programs are starkly minimalist. It is as if an automaker hid the speedometer, turn signals and gear shift in its cars, and told drivers to tap their dashboards to reveal those functions. There is a more conventional desktop mode for running Microsoft Office and older programs, though there is no way to permanently switch to it. Microsoft knew in the summer of 2009 that it wanted to shake up Windows. It held focus groups and showed people prototypes of the tile interface and its live updates. devices like the iPad, which have distinct interfaces, albeit with some shared technologies. Timothy D. Cook, Apples chief executive, has said of Microsofts strategy: You can converge a toaster and refrigerator, but these things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. Jakob Nielsen, a user interface expert at the Nielsen Norman Group, conducted tests with four people who used a traditional computer running Windows 8 and found that they had a lot of struggles with the new design. Mr. Nielsen said they appeared to become especially confused when shifting back and forth between the modern Windows 8 mode and the desktop mode. Mr. Nielsen said Windows 8 was more suitable for tablet computers with their smaller displays, but it was not helpful for workers who needed to have lots of applications visible at once. I just think when it comes to the traditional customer base, the office computer user, theyre essentially being thrown under the bus, Mr. Nielsen said. Microsoft disputes this idea. Mr. Harris said most test users did not have trouble juggling the two modes and regardless, workers were more likely to operate in desktop mode if they wanted to see many applications simultaneously. Microsoft is convinced that most people will quickly become accustomed to Windows 8. But to help ease the transition, the software offers tutorials when it is first started up. And Microsoft is spending more than $500 million on a marketing campaign that is partly intended to familiarize people with the new design. Mr. Harris said the company needed to modernize Windows for the way people use computers today: Were not surprised people have a strong reaction to it.

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Joanna Lin, 23, who works in sales and marketing for a hotel chain in New York, said she was impressed with the software.
We would get this delightful reaction of people who would say, This is so great, and it has Office too, said Jensen Harris, Microsofts director of program management for the Windows user experience. Sixteen million people have been using early versions of the software. The boldness of the proach. Joanna Lin, 23, who works in sales and marketing for a hotel chain in New York, said she was impressed with the software. The feeling was very fluid, said Ms. Lin, who was the most enthusiastic of five people that The New York Times asked to briefly try Windows 8 last week. Definitely a step up from Windows 7. But the product is a major gamble for Microsoft, a company whose clout in the technology industry has been waning. The PC business, which generates much of Microsofts revenue, is in a severe slump as newer products like smartphones and tablets take more dollars from peoples wallets. To help it gain traction in the mobile market, Microsoft made Windows 8 a one-size-fits-all operating system for touch-screen tablets, conventional computers with keyboards and mice, and newer devices that combine elements of both. (Confusingly, Microsoft is also introducing a separate but similar operating system, Windows RT, that cannot run older programs.) Apple took the opposite approach with the Mac and mobile

A screen of tiles, flickering with Internet updates.

changes has delighted some users, who say they believe that for the first time, the company is taking greater creative risks than its more celebrated rival, Apple. I think its functional, clean, said Andries van Dam, a pioneer in computer graphics and a Brown University computer science professor, who receives research money from Microsoft. I welcome it. Younger users may be more likely to embrace the new ap-

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

Many Urge Next Leader Of China To Liberalize

By EDWARD WONG and JONATHAN ANSFIELD

BEIJING After it was leaked that Xi Jinping, the man anointed to be the next Communist Party chief of China, had met in private with a well-known supporter of political liberalization, the capitals elite began to buzz about the import of the encounter. Hu Deping, the son of a former leader, who went to Mr. Xis home in July, has organized salons where the scions of powerful families have discussed how to keep the party from becoming mired in corruption and losing the trust of ordinary Chinese. People briefed on the meeting said Mr. Xi had declared his support for steady reform. Hu Deping through certain channels sent out the message that he had been meeting with Xi Jinping, said Zhang Lifan, a historian who knows Mr. Hu. I think the two are trying to send a signal. As Chinas critical once-a-decade leadership transition approaches in November, Chinese officials, policy advisers and intellectuals are again pushing for what they broadly call reform a further opening up of the economic and political system that the party has constructed through 63 years of authoritarian rule. With Chinas economy slowing, the disconnect between haves and have-nots building, and state-owned businesses exerting even greater influence on policy, advocates for change say the status quo appears increasingly sclerotic. Much of the talk now over Chinas future path centers on whether Mr. Xi, the son of a revolutionary leader who helped oversee Chinas post-Mao ecoCHANGING OF THE GUARD A Call for New Policy

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Government forces and protesters clashed in Beirut on Sunday after the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, who was killed by a car bomb.

Angry Lebanese Attempt to Storm Government Offices

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

nomic transformation, can muster the confidence, ideological grounding and power base to push through what reformers see as the policies needed both to keep China vigorous and help overcome its growing inequities. Mr. Xi, 59, has not revealed his plans and intentions to rise to his level in the party system, survival depends on holding cards close, analysts say. But the messages he is hearing are becoming clearer: a number of prominent people orbiting Mr. Xi are urging the party to adopt more liberal policies to regain the legitimacy it enjoyed when it was a revolutionary force. The harsh expulsion last month of Bo Xilai, who tried to woo traditionalists and Maoists before he fell into disgrace, has also encouraged liberals to call for party leaders to adopt systemic changes. Hu Shuli, an influential Chinese journalist acquainted with Mr. Xi, published an editorial this month in her magazine, Caixin, under the headline Bo Xilai as a Catalyst for Political Reform. Those close to Mr. Xi who are urging reform go well beyond the usual liberal intellectual voices. They include active and retired officials, childhood friends from Chinas red nobility, army generals and even a half-sister, Xi Qianping. Mr. Xi and his allies have dropped a few hints recently that Mr. Xi is at least open to hearing new ideas. One political theorist said Mr. Continued on Page A9

BEIRUT, Lebanon Lebanons jittery composure throughout the long Syrian uprising wobbled but held on Sunday, as political and religious leaders quelled street protests that erupted after the emotional funeral of a security chief whose killing in a car bombing was widely blamed on the Syrian government. After the funeral, protesters attempted to storm the Grand Serail, the Ottoman-era garrison in Beirut that houses the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, after his government was denounced at the funeral for being a puppet of Bashar al-Assads Syrian administration. Security forces surrounding the graceful hilltop complex sporadically lobbed tear-gas canisters and fired their guns into the air, breaking up the demonstration. Protest chants included: Bashar al-Assad is worth as much as a shoe! and Hezbollah is a terrorist group! The sudden squall exposed the undercurrent of tension buzzing through Lebanon for much of the 19 months since the uprising began against Mr. Assads government. The eruption on Sunday reflected a simmering anger over the killing of Sunni civilians in Syria by allies of Mr. Assads Alawite sect. Despite such outbursts and the occasional fights between supporters and opponents here, Lebanon has repeatedly inched back from the brink; leaders from all factions seem conscious that the kindling could easily fuel a conflagration. Fouad Siniora, a former prime minister and a prominent Sunni Muslim politician, attacked the government during an angry funeral oration, saying, The Lebanese people wont accept, after today, the continuation of the Hwaida Saad, Hania Mourtada and Josh Wood contributed reporting.

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Sons of Wissam al-Hassan at his funeral. Syria has been widely blamed for the generals death.
government of assassination. Within hours, he was back on the airwaves, calling for calm and condemning street protests as no way to try to replace a government. Numerous others made similar calls, including Sheik Muhammad Qabbani, the grand mufti of the Sunni Muslims, who said that the street is not the way to solve issues. The main confrontation around the Grand Serail was over in less than two hours. By nightfall, only about 30 protesters were left, many of them young Syrians, vowing to camp there until the government fell. The security forces blocked off all entrances to the Serail with coils of barbed wire about two yards high. Only minor injuries were reported from the scuffles in Beirut, but there were scattered reports of more violent episodes and Sunni-Shiite tensions elsewhere in Lebanon, including gun battles in the northern city of Tripoli, with residents and local news broadcasts reporting at least one person killed. Tripoli has a standing fault line between two adjacent neighborhoods, one primarily Sunni Muslim and the other Alawite, the same main factions arrayed against each other in Syria. In Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations and Arab League peace envoy in Syria, met with Mr. Assad to try to arrange a short cease-fire for Id alAdha, the feast of sacrifice that Muslims around the world will celebrate at the end of this week. But the difficulty in stopping the violence was accented by a car bomb that went off in the square of Bab Tuma, the gateway to a storied neighborhood in the old city. The Syrian state-run news agency, SANA, put the toll at 13 killed and 29 injured, and published photos of a string of blackened vehicles that it blamed on a terrorist attack. Since the uprising began in March 2011, the Lebanese government has pursued a policy of disassociation, trying to maintain at least the appearance of neutrality as the Syrian crisis has descended into civil war. Broadly speaking, the cabinet of Mr. Mikati, also a prominent Sunni Muslim, and his Hezbollah allies remain close to Mr. Assads government. The main opposition, a combination of Sunni Muslims, Druse and some Christians, has been outspoken in condemning Syria. Both Hezbollah, a militant Shiite organization, and their staunchest foes, Sunni Muslim jihadists, have dispatched fighters to opposite sides in Syria. Lebanese politicians of all stripes have long gotten in and out of bed with Syria. Damascus controlled Lebanon as a vassal state for some 30 years before its military and secret police were forced to withdraw in the wake of the huge protests that followed the February 2005 assas-

sination of Rafik Hariri, Lebanons leading politician. Afterward, a string of car bomb assassinations like that of the security chief on Friday silenced prominent critics of Syria. No politician of Mr. Hariris stature or charisma has emerged in the opposition another reason for the anemic antiSyria protest movement. Cynical Lebanese also note that some politicians have sunk large investments into real estate ventures. A construction boom, perhaps the biggest since the civil war ended in 1990, is reshaping downtown Beirut into a warren of expensive apartment towers and local branches of Tiffany and Gucci, among many luxury brands. The thinking goes that the politicians do not want all the glitter to go up in flames lest they lose their investments. Although the rich Persian Gulf tourists those flashy shops are meant to attract are scarce amid the recent tension, shops and cafes not far from the protests seemed to be functioning normally on Sunday. But thousands of protesters turned up for the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, the Sunni Muslim head of internal security and an outspoken critic of Syria, who died with seven others in a car bomb explosion on Friday. Of the eight killed, only four have been identified. It is widely suspected that General Hassans death was in retaliation for his role in August in the arrest of Michel Samaha, a key Syrian ally here, on charges of plotting sectarian bombings. After General Hassans coffin was borne through the streets, he was buried near the tomb of Mr. Hariri just off Martyrs Square in Beirut. After this assassination, I feel like my whole country is at risk, said Michel Matta, an engineer who brought his wife and children down off Mount Lebanon for the funeral. Every person who calls for Lebanons independence ends up in the grave.

Exhibit A in Debate Over Castros State

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

MEXICO CITY It is still not known with absolute certainty whether Fidel Castro is dead, alive or somewhere in between. But with rumors churning all week that he was dead or nearly so, tantalizing evidence that he is out and about in Havana surfaced on Sunday when a Venezuelan politician visiting the island said he had met with the former Cuban leader for five hours and then showed off a picture of Mr. Castro smiling and dressed in a checkered shirt and straw hat, like the retiree he is. Fidel is very well, Elias Jaua, the former vice president of Venezuela, Cubas closest ally, told reporters on Sunday. It was the first publicly shown A reporter for The New York Times contributed reporting from Havana.

photograph of Mr. Castro, 86, since he appeared with Pope Benedict XVI in March during his visit to Cuba, and it seemed to be an effort by Cuba and Venezuela to bat down a deluge of rumors about Mr. Castros health. New whispers almost instantly sprouted over whether it was really him or if the photo was old or a fake. The Cuban government did not release any photos itself on Sunday, but state news media reported that Mr. Castro would publish an article in government publications on Monday, accompanied by pictures. A spokesman for the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City also released a statement that included a video of Mr. Jaua speaking to reporters and showing the photo, and his comment that Mr. Castro had engaged in an animated dialogue with employees at the ho-

tel where he was dropping off Mr. Jaua. Mr. Jaua said he took the photo on Saturday afternoon in a minibus carrying him, Mr. Castro and other guests to the landmark Hotel Nacional in Havana. They discussed agriculture, history, tourism, international politics and other topics, he said. The photo shows Mr. Castro smiling at the camera and making a gesture, surrounded by five guests who included the director of the hotel, Antonio Martinez Rodrguez, and Mr. Castros wife, Dalia Soto del Valle. Mr. Castro did not seem to be in a vegetative state, hooked to a life-support machine or already dead, as rumors on social media had it last week, partly fed by a Venezuelan doctor in Miami who said he had heard that Mr. Castro had had a serious stroke and was terminally ill. The fact that Mr.

Elias Jaua, a former vice president of Venezuela, with a photo that he says shows him with Fidel Castro in Havana on Saturday.
he had a picture of Mr. Castro. Mr. Castro, after a mysterious intestinal ailment, stepped down as president in 2006, handing over official power to his brother, Ral Castro, who is 81. State news media reported on Sunday that the former leader had voted by absentee ballot in municipal elections. Granma, the official newspaper, said Mr. Castro was visited at home by a member of the electoral council to submit his ballot that was later turned in at a local precinct and deposited in the ballot box. President Castro, for his part, appeared in pictures and statereleased video on Sunday as he voted. Scholars not allied with the government called the elections a charade.

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Castro published a congratulatory note to medical students in a government newspaper on Thursday did little to tamp down the rumors. Mr. Rodrguez said in an interview on Sunday that Mr. Castro had turned up unannounced and invited him into the minibus to talk. Mr. Castro did not get out

of the bus, he said. Thats just how he is, he said. It was very exciting. With reporters in Havana tipped off that he had met with Mr. Castro, Mr. Jaua emerged from the hotel on Sunday and was peppered with questions about the encounter, producing a print of the photo when asked if

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Libyan Town Under Siege Is a Center of Resistance to the New Government

By KAREEM FAHIM

CAIRO A city under siege, a rising death toll and hospitals filling with men wounded by gunfire were unmistakable signs Sunday that war has returned to the Libyan town of Bani Walid, imperiling the countrys fragile political transition. At least 22 people have been killed in the last week and hundreds more injured in fighting around the city, a one-time bastion of support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi that has shrugged off the new governments authority. The violence, rooted in old enmities and nudged by fresh outrages, has pitted militias from a rival town against fighters in Bani Walid, a hilltop city in western Libya where, according to government officials, wanted men have fled. Residents of the city say that the electric and gas supplies have been cut off and that the militias encircling the town, including many from the coastal city of Misurata, are shelling it indiscriminately. On Saturday, the United Nations representative for Libya warned all sides to abide by humanitarian principles and expressed concern at reports of growing civilian casualties resulting from the shelling. In the interests of national reconciliation and long-term stability of the country, a mediated settlement is urgently needed, the representative, Tarek Mitri, said in a statement. In Tripoli, the Libyan capital, hundreds of people from Bani Walid invaded the Parliament building on Sunday, demanding an end to the violence, according to news reports. In Benghazi in the east, residents reported that hundreds of protesters who were marching in support of Bani Walid destroyed the offices of a television station. For weeks, the worlds attention has been focused on BenghaSuliman Ali Zway contributed reporting from Tripoli, Libya.

those responsible. Political leaders say the assault on Bani Walid is a government operation that includes militias from all over the country. But Bani Walids leaders say the attack is dominated by fighters from Misurata. Its miserable, said the member of Bani Walids local council, who requested anonymity for fear of retribution by Misuratas fighters. He said the militias were shelling the city with heavy artillery. I cant count the number of injured. Every day is worse. Mr. Sweheli, the lawmaker from Misurata who said he visited the front lines near Bani Walid on Sunday, dismissed the reports of indiscriminate shelling of the city, calling them propa-

A community remains a holdout against one of the Arab Spring revolutions.

ganda from the towns leaders. I can assure you, there was shelling, but only of military targets, he said. It was the fighters defending Bani Walid who were preventing civilians from leaving the town, he said. He denied that the military operation was rooted in a desire for revenge by Misurata, which endured months of shelling by Qaddafi forces during the war and where residents seethe over a feud with Bani Walid that has lasted for decades. There are lots of Libyans all over who are still with the regime, Mr. Sweheli said. We accept them as part of the new Libya. He drew a distinction between loyalists and antigovernment activists. Remnants of the Qaddafi regime are not allowing Libya to achieve the stability we are aiming for, he said. They dont want our revolution to succeed.

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Protesters from Bani Walid shouted their defiance after Libyan forces dispersed a protest in front of Parliament on Sunday.
zi, where an attack on an American diplomatic mission left four Americans dead and highlighted the problems of Libyas unaccountable militias. But in some ways the fighting around Bani Walid, a year after Colonel Qaddafi was caught and killed, is a more pressing reminder of the challenges faced by a weak government that has been unable to tamp down feuds and divisions from the war. Leaders in Bani Walid have complained that the countrys new rulers have marginalized them because of their loyalty to the old government. Theirs is hardly the only complaint of neglect or retaliation. Other loyalist cities have been left in ruins, with little hope of recovery, or have been stripped of residents accused of treason. There has been no investigation into the killing of Colonel Qaddafi, nor into the deaths of dozens of his loyalists who were found executed as the rebels celebrated the end of the dictatorship. A local council member from Bani Walid said the city was seeking to participate in the government but refused to be humiliated by Misurata, which has frequently been accused of trying to dominate the post-Qaddafi order. But some of Libyas new leaders say that Bani Walid has endured as a stronghold of resistance to the new government. Bani Walid is becoming a center of opposition, and for people wanted for their crimes during the war of liberation, said Abdulrahman Sewehli, a member of Parliament from Misurata. The latest fighting began with a search for wanted men. In July, fighters from Bani Walid were implicated in the kidnapping of a young man from Misurata named Omran Shaaban, who was with the group of men who claimed to have found Colonel Qaddafi hiding in a drainage pipe as he tried to flee his pursuers in October 2011. Mr. Shaaban was held in Bani Walid for two months and, according to Misuratas leaders, was tortured; he died while being treated in a Paris hospital. Confronted with the killing of a favorite son, leaders in Misurata demanded a response from the government, and the Libyan Parliament issued an order to arrest

U.S. and Iran Deny Plan for Nuclear Talks

On Eve of Debate, Quelling a Report of One-on-One Negotiations
By BRIAN KNOWLTON and THOMAS ERDBRINK

WASHINGTON The question of whether the United States should seek to engage Iran in one-on-one talks on its nuclear program joined the likely topics for Mondays final presidential debate as supporters of President Obama and Mitt Romney jousted on Sunday over the issue. The prospect of such talks was raised in an article published over the weekend by The New York Times that said Iran and the United States had agreed in principle to direct talks after the presidential election. On Saturday, the White House denied that a final agreement on direct talks had been reached, while saying that it remained Brian Knowlton reported from Washington, and Thomas Erdbrink from Tehran. Jodi Rudoren contributed reporting from Jerusalem.

open to such contacts. On Sunday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry dismissed the report. But if the report proved to be true, said a supporter of Mr. Romney, the Republican candidate, Irans motives should be seriously questioned. I hope we dont take the bait, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on Fox News Sunday. I think this is a ploy by the Iranians to buy time for their nuclear program and divide the international coalition, he said. A supporter of Mr. Obama, Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, said on the same program that the tough international sanctions the president helped marshal against Iran might be bearing fruit exactly as hoped, forcing Iran to blink. This month of October, the currency in Iran has declined 40 percent in value, Mr. Durbin, a member of the Foreign Relations

Committee, said. There is unrest in the streets of Tehran, and the leaders in Iran are feeling it. Thats exactly what we wanted the sanctions program to do. The Times, citing unnamed senior Obama administration officials, reported over the weekend that after secret exchanges, American and Iranian officials had agreed in principle to hold one-on-one negotiations between the nations, which have not had official diplomatic relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Irans foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, denied on Sunday that any direct talks had been scheduled. We do not have anything such as talks with the United States, he told the semiofficial Fars news agency. Mr. Salehi predicted that there would be a new round of talks in November with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council includ-

Jordan Says 11 Plotted A Series Of Attacks

By RANYA KADRI

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A money changer in Baghdad, where Irans rial is traded. The rial dropped 40 percent under Western sanctions against Iran.
ing the United States and Germany, but said that there is no fixed date yet. Several rounds of such talks have failed to produce a breakthrough. The United States and its partners say Irans nuclear program is aimed at producing a weapon, but Iran says the program is for peaceful purposes. Weighing in on the topic from Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that although he did not know whether the United States and Iran had discussed the possibility of direct negotiations, very sharp sanctions and a credible military option were the best means to halt Tehrans nuclear program. He said Iran had used earlier multinational talks to drag its feet and to gain time to advance its weapons program. In the past, Irans president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and members of his inner circle have floated the idea of re-establishing some diplomatic contacts with the United States. But while Mr. Ahmadinejad is the public face of the Iranian government, Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is the only Iranian leader with the authority to approve direct negotiations with the United States. According to an Obama administration official, an understanding on direct talks was reached with senior Iranian officials who report to Ayatollah Khamenei. But Iranian analysts suggested that if there had there been any behind-the-scenes negotiations, the ayatollah would have publicly hinted of a change in his stance. Instead, he has done nothing but strongly denounce all ideas of any compromise in the nuclear case, said Abbas Abdi, a former politician critical of Mr. Ahmadinejad. That stance leaves little space for diplomatic maneuvering, Mr. Abdi said, adding that negotiations with the United States could only weaken the ayatollahs position. Direct talks with our archenemy would be a disgrace for those who support him, and create more leverage for his opponents to criticize him. Mr. Abdi said. Amir Mohebbian, a foreign affairs analyst whose writings are published on Ayatollah Khameneis official Web site, denounced any idea of direct talks. The Obama administration is clearly very eager to convince the U.S. voters that their sanctions are working, Mr. Mohebbian said. But as long as the U.S. makes threats and creates sanctions against us, no negotiations will be endorsed by our supreme leader.

AMMAN, Jordan Jordanian officials said Sunday that they had foiled a major terrorist plot, arresting 11 people who they said had been planning since June to attack shopping malls and diplomatic targets in the country. Samih Maayta, the Jordanian minister for media and communication, said in an interview that the group had been staking out locations for months and planning to use car bombs, machine guns and other heavy weapons in an attack that could have killed hundreds of citizens and foreigners. The group, apparently made up of Jordanians, called itself 11-9 the Second, referring to a string of hotel bombings in Amman that killed 60 people on Nov. 9, 2005. Jordans General Intelligence Directorate had all their activities under surveillance, Mr. Maayta said. The groups experiments concentrated on creating explosives that would do the maximum damage and cause the highest losses. Jordan is an important ally of the United States and has a peace treaty with Israel, its neighbor. A spokesman for the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel declined to comment on Sunday evening about whether Israeli intelligence had assisted the Jordanian authorities in the case. Mr. Maayta said that the group had traveled to Syria and was planning to take advantage of the chaos there to obtain weapons, including TNT, which they planned to add to existing explosives to increase their power. He said the group had taken counsel from Al Qaeda in Iraq via the terrorist sites on the Internet, and had posted their plans online to enable others to be able to create the same explosives. Most of the targets of the plot were said to be in the affluent Abdoun neighborhood in the southern part of Amman, home to several upscale nightclubs that are popular with young Jordanians and tourists. The plans apparently included suicide bombers, exploding cars, machine-gun fire and tossed grenades. They were targeting foreign diplomats in hotels and in public places, Mr. Maayta said. They were starting to target two main malls. He said the intelligence service seized weapons, computers, cameras and forged documents in connection with the arrests.

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Corruption Case Prompts Soul-Searching In a Tourist Haven

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

ANTIGUA, Guatemala The towering Volcano of Fire came roaring to life recently, rattling the ground in this pastel-washed tourist mecca as if a subway train were passing underneath and astonishing visitors with its thundercloud of ash. They could be forgiven for missing the other, more subtle upheaval transpiring here that same day last month: At City Hall, the police were marching away the mayor and rounding up nine other people in a corruption case that many view as a major step toward attacking the kind of political malfeasance long taken for granted in Guatemala. This country is ailing, still recovering from a 36-year civil war that ended in 1996. It is one of the hemispheres most violent. It is one of the poorest. Corruption has snaked from the smallest village to the upper rungs of power. (A former president is awaiting extradition to the United States on money-laundering and other charges.) But here, in this high-altitude, cobblestone wonder of colonial architecture, fine restaurants, language schools and great coffee, residents saw themselves as somewhat apart from the countrys troubles. We are aware we created a bubble, said Elizabeth Bell, a local historian and tour guide who moved here from the United States four decades ago and has helped in the movement to preserve the colonial charm that has made the town a hit destination. But the placid veneer hid civic turmoil underneath. The mayor, Adolfo Vivar Marroqun, as well as his brother-inlaw, the towns finance director, were rounded up with eight other people and jailed on charges of fraud, money laundering, abuse of authority, among others. Kara Andrade contributed reporting.

Mr. Vivar was accused of absconding with millions of dollars in public funds through overvalued contracts, fake jobs, nepotism, accounting maneuvers and the allegations were serious enough for a special United Nations team of prosecutors, here since 2007 to tackle impunity and organized crime, to take the case. Francisco DallAnese, the former attorney general of Costa Rica who leads the United Nations group, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, said he hoped the case sent a message to local politicians who are corrupt, which he called a widespread problem in Latin America. He said his office, in conjunction with federal prosecutors and the police, was still tallying the financial damage. There was no shame, Mr. DallAnese said, adding, This is a model case to replicate investigations in even more structurally complicated municipalities. The attorney general, Claudia Paz y Paz, called the case another step toward holding the public authorities politicians, the police, the military accountable in ways they had never been before. Few believe the case will tarnish the image of the town for tourists; on a recent weekend, the streets were full of people chattering in English, Italian, German and French, passing preserved Spanish ruins from the 17th and 18th centuries. They strolled oblivious to the goings-on at City Hall, an architectural jewel; browsed indigenous handicrafts; sampled locally made chocolates; and snapped pictures of the volcano-framed vistas. But among Antiguans, the case has caused much soul-searching. Some see the case as a natural progression of maturing institutions 16 years after peace accords ended a war between right-wing governments and leftist guerrillas that a United Nations commission said left 200,000 people dead. This fits perfectly with the birth of democracy, Ms. Bell, the

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The central market in Antigua, Guatemala, where people saw themselves as somewhat apart from the nations troubles.
historian, said. A few people worry about any blemish on a place they worked hard to nourish and protect, fighting off big hotels and other perceived intrusions on the historical ambience even the McDonalds is discreetly cloaked in a colonial building. But they also say that Guatemala must be a place where crime cannot go unpunished, as it often is. I think it could be negative for someone to come to visit Antigua and read the city is corrupt, said Jos Victor Ordoz, 79, a retired surgeon and Antiguan who is on the board of a civic group, Salvemos Antigua. But it could also be good. There is corruption everywhere, so it is great that Antigua is trying to do something about it. Indeed, corruption is so taken for granted in Guatemala that few question a payoff here and there. But civic leaders found the mayor increasingly intolerable. Mr. Vivar grew up in one of the poor villages that ring the town and supply its work force. He became a medical doctor, and as mayor, elected twice, he seemed to have a get-it-done spirit that cut through red tape and political annoyances. Civic leaders cheered him, at first, for fixing up parks and attending the needs of the poorer villages. But in the past year, questions have come up. Why were the cobblestone streets not being repaired despite all the money approved for it? How did that new condominium project a few miles from downtown get licenses without the required environmental study? Why did the city install off-theshelf security cameras around town as theft and crime rose when a high-tech system was promised? Mr. Vivars personal wealth, meanwhile, seemed to increase vastly. We had had a good dialogue, said Luis Felipe Valdez Soto, the private secretary to the local monsignor and one of several community leaders demanding answers. Then he stopped talking to me. Local reporters began asking nothing more than the usual use of the justice system to settle scores among rival politicians. He made the mistake of being stupid and left the door open to this and has to be held accountable, said Pablo Arroyave, a businessman whose family goes back generations here. But they dont have to come after him with the fierceness they are doing it with. The mayor, who remains jailed, could not be reached for comment. But a deputy council member, Jos Antonio Palomo, a close friend, said that he, too, doubted the charges, and he wondered if prosecutors were playing up the case to make international headlines. Naturally, it is much more notorious that it is the mayor of Antigua, because that resounds more on the international level, Mr. Palomo said. But the prevailing view is that Antigua, indeed the country, will be better off when all is said and done. Everybody is satisfied, Mr. Ordoz said, that justice may finally be working in Guatemala.

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Voting Favors Spains Leader In Home Area

By RAPHAEL MINDER

Civic Duty and Economic Worries Drive Palestinian Voters in Parts of West Bank
By JODI RUDOREN

MADRID Spains governing Popular Party retained control of Galicia, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoys home region, on Sunday in an election that was seen as a significant bellwether for Mr. Rajoys program of tax increases and other austerity measures. In the neighboring Basque region, however, voters preferred parties favoring self-determination for the region over either the Popular Party or the Socialists who govern it now, presenting another challenge for Mr. Rajoy as his national government also confronts a separatist drive in Catalonia.

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Sundays vote outcome in the Galicia region of Spain was seen as a bellwether of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoys programs.
In Galicia, the Popular Party won 41 of the 75 seats in the regional Parliament, according to provisional results released late Sunday. In the Basque region, the conservative Basque Nationalist Party won the largest bloc of seats, 27 out of 75, while Euskal Herria Bildu, a far more radical separatist coalition, ran second with 21. The incumbent Socialists won only 16 seats, and the Popular Party just 10. Attention will now focus on whether the Nationalists will turn to the radicals or to a mainstream party to form a coalition. Mara Dolores de Cospedal, the Popular Party secretary general, told reporters on Sunday that the results in Galicia were a vote of support for the policies of the Popular Party in the whole of Spain. Under pressure to meet budgetary commitments to Spains European partners, Mr. Rajoy has ordered Spains regions to tighten their finances. Galicia has won plaudits from Mr. Rajoy for its fiscal discipline. Still, Mr. Rajoys popularity has plunged since he took office last December, and his partys leader in Galicia, Alberto Nez Feijo, focused his re-election campaign on his own record rather than Mr. Rajoys. He succeeded in enlarging his regional parliamentary majority by three seats on Sunday. Feijo is somebody to watch for the coming years, Xaqun Fernndez Leiceaga, a Socialist lawmaker in Galicia, said before the election.

AL BIREH, West Bank More than half the Palestinians who participated in municipal elections on Saturday said they did so because they saw voting as a civic duty, twice the portion giving the next most popular reason. More than one-third said that jobs and economic conditions were their top concern, far more than any other single issue. And nearly two-fifths of voters were under 30, a much greater proportion than that age groups share of the population. Those results from an exit poll by the group the Arab World for Research and Development suggest that Palestinians are hungry for democracy and change after years of political stalemate, according to Nader Said, the sociologist who led the study. I think the political message is that, still, there is a hope for the Palestinians to discourse, Mr. Said said at a news conference here on Sunday. The municipal elections, which were held Saturday after being postponed twice, were the first of any kind in the Palestinian territories in six years. Many here dismissed them as unimportant because Hamas, the militant Islamic faction that rules the Gaza Strip, refused to take part or to conduct voting in the territory it controls. Neither was there any voting in East Jerusalem, or in about 250 West Bank cities and villages that failed to attract enough candidates for a contest. But if those limitations made the elections less of a general political barometer and more of an internal referendum about President Mahmoud Abbass Fatah Party, which dominates the Palestinian Authority and the politics of the West Bank, the message from the voters was mixed. Fatah candidates generally did well, but in 8 out of 16 major municipalities, the official lists of Fatah candidates were outpolled either by slates led by former Fatah members who were ousted from the party for daring to run independently, or by a mixture of other factions. (Half of the 820 voters who were surveyed by Mr. Saids group at polling places in 19 cities and towns on Saturday identified themselves as Fatah supporters.) They have to really revisit their policies, Ghada Zughayar, executive director of Aman, a coalition of civil society groups, Khaled Abu Aker contributed reporting from Al Bireh, West Bank, and Fares Akram from Gaza City.

said of Fatah. They must give more confidence and more room for young leaders and moderate leaders among Fatah moderate in the sense that they are accepting the real democracy, and they are accepting that there should be others to partner with Fatah, sharing the ruling of the country. Mr. Abbas and his allies, who were the targets of violent street protests last month over economic conditions, tried to portray the voting results as a victory, noting that many of the supposedly independent candidates who won were in fact Fatah loyalists. They also pointed out that local elections are inherently local, focused on municipal services and not on broad national questions, like how to deal with Israels occupation of the West Bank and the deep rift between Fatah and Hamas. Eighty-five percent of those who won the elections are politically with us theyre all for a

A message of hope for some, but others dismiss elections.

two-state solution, for negotiations; theyre behind President Abu Mazen and the Palestinian leadership, said Mohammad Shtayyeh, minister of the Palestinian economic council, using Mr. Abbass nickname. It was an important step for us to inject new blood in the democratic system. It is important to revitalize the democratic structure itself. Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatahs central committee, said the first victory was that elections were transparent, fair and democratic. But Basem Ezbidi, a political science professor at Bir Zeit University, described the vote as almost comical, and said he did not participate in part out of fear that it would consolidate the division between Gaza and the West Bank. Voting is absolutely an empty shell at this point, Professor Ezbidi said. I dont think this event will move Palestinian politics. It will deepen the ills and the problems and the old stumbling issues. The major question now is whether the taste of local democracy that West Bank voters got on Saturday will increase the pressure on Palestinian leaders

to schedule national parliamentary and presidential elections, which are long overdue, delayed by the Hamas-Fatah divide. Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, said after casting his municipal ballot on Saturday that he expected national elections to follow soon. Majed Arouri, a democracy and human rights expert here, said Sunday that she sees the municipal elections as part of a political project by Mr. Fayyad to create a new political and legal system in the West Bank that is different than the one that exists in Gaza. But Mr. Shtayyeh, an adviser to the president, said that holding national elections would be pointless until after the completion of the Palestinians pending bid for recognition of statehood at the United Nations. Taher al-Nounou, a spokesman for the Hamas government in Gaza, said the voting in the West Bank on Saturday would only deepen the rift with Fatah. The local elections have no legitimacy and integrity, Mr. alNounou said in a written statement. Its results are noncommittal, illegal and we do not recognize it. Nasser Lahham, editor in chief of the Maan News Agency, said that regardless of such statements by Hamas leaders, actual Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem are feeling jealousy toward their West Bank brethren. Because of that he believes Mr. Abbas and Mr. Fayyad will quickly call national balloting, with or without Hamass participation. If there is no elections for the Parliament and the president, there will be a third intifada, Mr. Lahham said in an interview. We are talking about angry people, poor people. If they are not going to the elections, they have bad alternatives. If you compare the situation today with before yesterday, you will see the change, he added. Now people are thinking again that they have the ability to choose the leadership, and it is not impossible. Mr. Said, who conducted the voter survey, noted that 19 percent of respondents ranked the Internet as their top source for information about the campaign, more than any other source, including family, pamphlets and posters, radio and television, and public meetings. We are in a new time, a new era, he said. Family councils are not the most important. We have turned from a traditional community to a mixed one.

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From Page A4 Xi, with the backing of Jiang Zemin, the former party chief, had overseen a team researching the Singapore model of governing that allows more liberal economic policies and political voices under one-party rule. Wu Si, the editor of a journal backed by liberal party elders, said that he has heard encouraging reports that practical work on political system reform could emerge after the transition. Mr. Xi also recently issued an indirect warning about corrupt practices that have soiled the partys image, telling officials studying at the Central Party School in Beijing that time should not be spent on networking and buying dinners. To push systematic changes in the next few years, however, Mr. Xi will also need to assure the current party chief, Hu Jintao, that such a drive will not tarnish Mr. Hus legacy, analysts say. On Oct. 16, Seeking Truth, a party journal, ran a long essay that trumpeted a July speech by Mr. Hu as setting the tone for reforms. The conflicts that have arisen from reforms can only be solved by deepening reform, it said. The essay was read out on China Central Television. When Mr. Hu took power in 2002, there was much hope among liberals and Westerners that he would push the kind of reforms being talked about once again. But many analysts and political insiders are now calling the years under him and Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, a lost decade, in which China, for all its advancements, retrenched into a quasi-command economy, ignored legal protections and expanded the state security appaJane Perlez contributed reporting. Mia Li contributed research.

Russian Forces Kill 49 Rebels In North Caucasus Strike

By ANDREW ROTH

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Changing of the Guard

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ratus. Analysts say that Mr. Xi faces great political risks in taking on the nations many vested interests and possibly repudiating Mr. Hus policies. Moreover, the authority of the top office has become more diffuse with each generation, and Mr. Xi would need to marshal powerful alliances to push through changes. Another obstacle to change is the way that Mr. Xis own circle has profited from the current system: Bloomberg News reported in June that some members of Mr. Xis family had amassed fortunes totaling at least several hundred million dollars. The challenge before party leaders is summed up in a new paper from Strategy and Reform, a research group that advises Chinas main economic development agency: Of course, reform will bring much risk, but the risk of not reforming is bigger. Choose the lesser of the two evils. The paper, which emphasizes

changing Chinas economic structure, suggests creating a new committee that supersedes all government organs to push more liberal economic policies. On political reforms, it urges the party to be an open and progressive central power that allows individuals and private companies significantly greater autonomy. The paper mentioned Singapore as a model several times. Liberal policy advisers have long pressed a reform agenda, including expanding competition in state-dominated industries, elevating village elections to the township level or higher, building a more independent judiciary, giving ordinary people more land-use rights, and providing a stronger social safety net to encourage greater domestic spending. For all their exhortations, few who are pushing for such changes are seeking an end to one-party rule. That is why Singapore, which has been a point of reference for Chinas reformers since the 1980s, has emerged again among some of Mr. Xis advisers. In the summer of 2010, the political theorist said, Mr. Xi had a little-known meeting at the beach resort of Beidaihe with Lee Kuan Yew, the former Singaporean prime minister who espouses flexible authoritarianism. Before that, Mr. Lee met with Mr. Jiang, the former party chief. At the time, Mr. Xi and Mr. Jiang came

to an understanding to try to adopt the Singapore model down the road, said the theorist, who was asked to provide feedback for a project to study the issue. Mr. Xi visited Singapore that November, and other top officials have followed. Last year, Gen. Liu Yazhou, an advocate of party reform, dispatched a team of military officers to live in Singapore and prepare a study, which is expected to be presented to Mr. Xi after the transfer of party posts in November. Bo Zhiyue, a scholar at the National University of Singapore, said the groups mission was to find a solution for China after the 18th Party Congress. That will not be easy. In the period leading up to the congress, tensions have emerged between Mr. Xi and Mr. Hu, the current party chief, over setting the official policy direction for the future leadership; Mr. Xis absence from public life for two weeks this autumn was in part related to that, said two people who know Mr. Xi and, like him, are the princeling children of senior party officials. And even among his supporters, there are some who question whether any adopted reform mantle would be more show than substance. No matter whether Xi actually reforms China or not, said a member of a prominent military family, he has to entertain reforms, for the sake of the reformists and the public.

MOSCOW Russias security services have killed 49 rebels and captured dozens more in a counterterrorism offensive that officials called a considerable blow to the insurgency in the North Caucasus region, the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee announced on Sunday. President Vladimir V. Putin had urged the use of increasingly aggressive means to subdue the insurgency in the North Caucasus ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the southern city of Sochi, which is at the edge of the turbulent region. Its a matter of honor for the security services and special forces to do everything for these events to happen in a normal, celebratory atmosphere so that nothing darkens these events, Mr. Putin said at a meeting with military advisers and the chief of Russias Federal Security Service. Mr. Putin urged them to show daring to prevent any terrorist attacks, especially during the Sochi Olympics and the 2018 World Cup soccer tournament, which will have matches in several Russian cities. A representative of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee told reporters in Moscow that the rebels who were killed were among the most odious insurgent leaders, and were responsible for a campaign of terrorism that included bombings, the murder of police officers and attacks on schools in the Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria Republics. Russian officials said that more than 90 militant bases and 26 weapons caches were destroyed during the operation, which spanned two months. Though reKABARDINO-BALKARIA

ports of rebel attacks against government convoys and raids by special operations forces are an almost daily occurrence in the North Caucasus, where the rebels aim to establish an Islamic state, the fighting has been particularly intense lately. Mr. Putin said on Friday that 313 insurgents had been killed in the region in the past several months; in all of 2011, security forces killed 384 people suspected of being rebels in the North Caucasus, according to the news service Caucasian Knot. Antiterrorism forces are also employing increasingly aggressive tactics. Early this month, airstrikes on a rebel encampment hit so close to Makhachkala, the Dagestan capital, that confused residents reported that a bomb had exploded in the city. Local news reports said this month that the Russian Army had become involved in antiterrorist operations in the region for the first time since 2006, when army units withdrew from the North Caucasus. The withdrawal was taken as a sign that the security situation had stabilized. A commander for the 58th Army told the Echo of Moscow radio station that the army was engaging rebels in certain regions, but that it was playing a supporting role behind the local police and special forces. In a separate development, Magomed Khazbiyev, a leading opposition figure in the Republic of Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, was sentenced on Friday to 15 days in prison for blocking a police vehicle. Mr. Khazbiyev had helped organize protests in Moscow against antiterrorist operations in the North Caucasus.
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When It Comes to Election-Year Gender Gaps, 2012 Ranks High

By NATE SILVER

If only women voted, President Obama would be on track for a landslide reelection, equaling or exceeding his margin of victory over Senator John McCain in 2008. Mr. Obama would be an overwhelming favorite in Florida, Ohio, Virginia and most every other place that is conventionally considered a swing state. The only question would be whether he could forge ahead into traditionally red states like Arizona, Georgia and Montana. If only men voted, Mr. Obama would be biding his time until a crushing defeat at the hands of Mitt Romney, who might win by a margin similar to the one Ronald Reagan realized over Jimmy Carter in 1980. Only California, Hawaii, Illinois and a few states in the Northeast could be considered safely Democratic. Every other state would lean red or would at least be a tossup. Although polls disagree on the exact magnitude of the gender gap (and a couple of recent ones seemed to show Mr. Romney eliminating the presidents advantage among women), the consensus of surveys points to a large one this year rivaling the biggest from past elec-

tions. The gender gap is nothing new in American politics. Since 1972, when exit polling became widespread, men and women split their votes in three elections 1996, 2000 and 2004 and came close on several other occasions. In 2008, for example, Mr. Obama won resoundingly among women, beating Mr. McCain by 13 points, but won by only a single point among men. The biggest gender gap to date in the exit polls came in 2000, when Al Gore won by 11 points among women, but George W. Bush won by 9 points among men a 20-point difference. The numbers this year look very close to that. Since the first presidential debate in Denver, there have been 10 high-quality national polls that reported a breakout of results between men and women. (I define a high-quality poll as one that used live telephone interviews and

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called both land lines and cellphones.) The gender gap in these polls ranged from 33 points (in a Zogby telephone poll for The Washington Times) to just 8 points (in polls by Pew Research and The Washington Post). On average, however, it was 18 points, with Mr. Obama leading by an average of 9 points among women but trailing by 9 points among men. If those numbers carry forward to the exit polls on Election Day, the gender gap will rank among the largest ever the 20-point split in 2000 and the 17-point splits in 1980 and 1996. The gender gap was nearly absent in 1972 and 1976, the first two years the exit polls tested it. But after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, reproductive rights became a greater focus in presidential elections particularly in 1980, when the Reagan campaign highlighted his opposition to abortion. The gender gap jumped to 17 points that year, with men much more likely to vote for Mr. Reagan. The gender gap has often been widest when there is a Democratic president running for re-election, as in 1980 and 1996 (or a Democratic vice president looking to ascend to the presidency, as

in 2000). Women, apart from their tendency to vote Democratic, also seem slightly more inclined than men to give the incumbent party another chance. When the incumbent is a Republican, as in 1976 and 1992, this can mitigate the gender gap. If the current FiveThirtyEight forecast were recalibrated to show an overall nine-point lead for Mr. Obama his lead among women in polls since the Denver debate he would be a clear favorite in states totaling 347 electoral votes. Mr. Romney would be favored in states containing just 140 electoral votes. An additional 51 electoral votes would be too close to call. About the opposite would happen if Mr. Romney led nationally by nine points his current advantage among men. He would be all but certain to win states containing 321 electoral votes and would be highly competitive in traditionally blue-leaning states like New Jersey, Oregon and Washington. The large gender gap exists despite the fact that mens and womens economic roles are becoming more equal according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women represented 47 percent of the labor force as of September and

that women suffered at least as much as men in the recent economic downturn. The unemployment rate among women was 7.5 percent as of September; it was 7.0 percent when Mr. Obama took office in January 2009. The unemployment rate among men is higher 8.0 percent as of September but it has declined rather than increased since Mr. Obama took office. It was 8.6 percent in January 2009 and peaked at 11.2 percent that year. This suggests the gender gap instead has more to do with partisan ideology than pocketbook voting; apart from their views on abortion, women also take more liberal stances than men on social issues like same-sex marriage and gun control. Presidential candidates have faced increasing pressure to align with the bases of their parties on social issues. Mr. Obama reversed his position this year and publicly supported same-sex marriage. Mr. Romney has abandoned a number of moderate stances he took on social issues as the governor of Massachusetts. So long as the ideological gap between the parties grows, the gender gap may grow as well.

Campaign Boils Down to Door-to-Door Voter Drives in Battleground States

By TRIP GABRIEL

ORLANDO, Fla. In Florida, which wrote the book on battleground states in 2000, its going to be hand-to-hand combat all the way down, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, Brett Doster, said over the weekend. When Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. visited Orlando on Saturday, he skipped a public rally in favor of dropping in on a campaign office, where he urged volunteers to canvass their neighborhoods the thing that matters the most. Get-out-the-vote efforts have moved front and center for both campaigns, particularly here in Florida, reflecting the tightening of the race in all the battleground states and nationally. The latest poll confirming the trend was an NBC News/Wall Street Journal national survey released on Sunday, which showed a dead heat nationally with each candidate favored by 47 percent of likely voters, and underscored how Mr. Romney was continuing to make gains among female voters while holding a comfortable lead among men. With Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney both out of sight preparing for their third and final debate on Monday in Boca Raton, Fla., which will focus on foreign policy, their surrogates Mr. Biden and Representative Paul D. Ryan were busy firing up their bases, the es-

sence of voter turnout. Mr. Ryan told a crowd in Council Bluffs, Iowa, that it could look back at this moment as when we reclaimed our freedoms, in a speech reminiscent of the fiery rhetoric of the Republican nominating contest. Mr. Biden delivered a large Box o Joe and doughnuts to volunteers, some of whom were preparing to knock on doors, and told them: When you show up at the door, youre not just asking, Vote for us. Youre vouching for us. The hardest thing for a man or woman to do, he added, is to say, I vouch for you. Republicans say that this time around, they are light-years ahead of the lackluster voter turnout efforts in 2008 for Senator John McCain, whose campaign began running short of money in the late stages. We learned from a lot of research and testing that volunteer door knocking is the purest form of voter contact, said Rich Beeson, national political director for the Romney campaign. Both sides acknowledge that as they pour millions of dollars into television ads, a rough parity will exist in the air war. In the coming week, the Obama campaign and its outside allies and the Romney campaign and its backers will spend roughly the same in Florida, toContinued on Page A12

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Mitt Romney took some time off Sunday for a coin toss in a football game between staff members and journalists.

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Sharpening the Message For the Final Push

Afghan National Army soldiers stood behind American soldiers during a graduation ceremony at Bagram Air Base in March. There is fear that the Taliban insurgency will regain lost territory after the America military leaves the country in 2014.
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In the closing days of the 2012 presidential campaign, President Obama and Mitt Romney are finding sharper, punchier ways to communicate their basic arguments. Bumper-sticker politics has been around forever. But it often takes presidential candidates a while to hone their closing arguments. Listening to both men recently in the debates and on the stump has made it clear that their advisers have worked hard to distill the campaign themes and attacks into a single word or phrase. The idea? Make sure everyone can understand what the simple message is. Here is a sample from each side:

The Democrats
Romnesia At a rally on Friday morning in Fairfax, Va., Mr. Obama found a way to encapsulate his campaigns attack on Mr. Romneys attempts to moderate some of his more conservative positions. He accused Mr. Romney of forgetting his previous positions because he has a case of Romnesia. The president was not the first to come up with the word it has been bouncing around on Twitter for weeks. But it was a big hit with the crowd at George Mason University, and it will most likely find its way into many of the presidents rallies. Malarkey Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. used the word several times during his debate with Representative Paul D. Ryan, Mr. Romneys running mate. He has continued to use it to attack the Republican tickets veracity. Campaigns can sometimes simply accuse their rivals of lying. But that can appear harsh to voters, especially in the waning days of a race, when people can tire of the negativity. A word like malarkey can seem like a more lighthearted way to say the same thing. Sketchy Deal In his first debate with Mr. Romney, the president stumbled about for a concise way to question the Republicans economic and tax plans. What came out was a long and rambling critique that for some was hard to follow and seemed defensive. In the second debate, Mr. Obama found his phrase. By calling Mr. Romneys tax and budget plans a sketchy deal, Mr. Obama condensed his argument into two words. Expect the president to continue repeating the term as he crosses the country. Binders Full of Women During the second presidential debate, Mr. Romneys description of being handed binders full of women who were potential appointees when he was the governor of Massachusetts became an Internet sensation. But the presidents team has used it in a serious way, as an easy catchphrase to signify his belief that Mr. Romneys policies would be bad for women. The phrase gets huge applause at rallies and will no doubt remain in the Democrats stump speeches in places where they think they can make gains among women.

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Running on Fumes For the last week, Mr. Romneys campaign has been accusing the president of not having much of a second-term agenda. The idea is to highlight what Mr. Romneys organization believes is a backward-looking, defensive campaign by the president. Running on fumes captures that sentiment and will most likely be repeated on the trail during the rallies ahead. The Republican campaign hopes people will be able to identify easily with the imagery of a White House that is out of ideas. Last Four Years Several weeks ago, when Mr. Romneys campaign was down in the polls and struggling, his top advisers came up with a new formulation of Ronald Reagans Are you better off now than you were four years ago? The adaptation: We cant afford another four years like the last four years. Mr. Romney seems to like it. He used it during the first two debates, and he and Mr. Ryan regularly repeat it on the stump. It appears often in Republican advertisements and literature. That is not likely to change, as Mr. Romneys camp tries to persuade voters to make a change. Hope Is Not a Strategy When it comes to foreign policy, Mr. Romney has accused the president of failing to achieve the grand vision he laid out in 2008. Speaking several weeks ago in Lexington, Va., Mr. Romney praised Mr. Obamas hopes for the Middle East, but said that hope is not a strategy. The Republican campaign believes that wording nicely captures what it says is a feckless, ineffective foreign policy that has not achieved its goals. For a public that is more focused on domestic issues and less knowledgeable about national security, the phrase could help make Mr. Romney seem an acceptable commander in chief. The Shrinking Campaign Mr. Romney and his allies have recently begun talking abut the smallness of the presidents campaign. They say Mr. Obamas ads about Big Bird and catchy terms like Romnesia testify to a lack of big ideas. On the stump, Mr. Romney has said his rival is reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. But the shrinking campaign is likely to be the way he talks about it in the last two weeks of the race.

Candidates Facing Hard Choices in Afghanistan

From Page A1 against insurgents, and, if necessary, enable the United States to respond quickly enough if Pakistans fast-expanding nuclear arsenal appears in jeopardy of falling into the hands of extremists? Underlying all these questions is a more fundamental one: Was Mr. Obamas troop increase, which officially came to an end last month, worth the cost in American blood and treasure? Mr. Obama has avoided that discussion throughout the campaign. When the so-called surge of troops ended, returning the American force level to its preincrease total of 68,000, he never acknowledged the moment, perhaps to avoid reminding Americans that so many American troops remained, or to avoid reminding the Taliban that even those troops will soon be gone. For his part, Mr. Romney has rarely delved into the question of how he would handle the war differently. In January, trying to appeal to his conservative base, he declared, We should not negotiate with the Taliban, we should defeat the Taliban, adding that his strategy would amount to, We go anywhere they are, and we kill them. After aides warned him that sounded like a prescription for endless war, he has not repeated that view since. The reality facing the next president is a fairly grim one. Officials say that the next occupant of the Oval Office will have to confront the fact that as Americans and their allies pull out, the Taliban will regain control over territory American troops fought and died to secure. When you look at the map in two years, the Taliban are going to be controlling big, rural swaths of the south, one senior administration official said. And thats something no one wants to talk about very much. Perhaps the absence of any sustained discussion in the campaign should be of little surprise: Mr. Obama is haunted by seemingly reasonable assumptions made in 2009 about how the troop increase would turn out, almost all of which turned out to be off the mark. And Mr. Romney sooner or later will have to decide whether his call for a restoration of American leadership, which he talks about almost daily at campaign stops, includes extending a war that has grown deeply unpopular, even among Republicans. The most immediate issue facing the next president is how to ensure that Afghanistans major cities remain in Afghanistans control. For Mr. Obama, it is not a new problem. When the president was first assessing the Afghan and Pakistan strategy in 2009, intelligence reports circulating in the White House and the Pentagon reported that Taliban fighters were advancing on Kandahar, Afghanistans second-largest city and the Talibans spiritual home. Other insurgent units were moving into position to encircle the capital, Kabul. Members of Mr. Obamas national security team saw a possible disaster looming early in his presidency, one that to his older aides was reminiscent of the scenes of Americans fleeing Saigon, when Mr. Obama was still a teenager in Hawaii. At the time, the administration dismissed the threat. But securing the Karzai government even though it had just won reelection in a contest that involved significant fraud helped drive Mr. Obamas decision to commit more than 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, over the reservations of Mr. Biden and others. Administration officials are finally beginning to acknowledge publicly how dire the situation actually was in 2009. Afghanistan faced the real prospect that the Taliban would take over large parts of the country, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta said recently, echoing more specific assessments by lower-level officials who declined to be named. I think there was a real risk that the mission in Afghanistan might very well fail. There is no question that the troop increase blunted Taliban offensives, forcing the insurgents to retreat from critical population centers across Kandahar and Helmand Provinces. Once they retreated, Afghan forces were able to send troops into these areas and establish security. And the security ring around Kabul has been extended. The military, eager to provide metrics to prove what it accomplished, notes major improvements in civilian life. Before the troop increase, 7.1 million Afghan children were in school, including 2.7 million girls. Now the figure is 8.2 million children, including 3.1 million girls. The Pentagon argues that 80 percent of the Afghan population now lives in comparative safety, in places where only 20 percent of the attacks initiated by insurgents occur. Today the fear is a bit different: that the tenuous gains made by the troop increase will erode. We wanted to wrest back control of the south from the Taliban that was their psychological birthplace and real center of gravity, said Brig. Gen. Gordon B. Davis, who spent years in Kabul and now oversees the teaching of Afghanistans lessons at the Armys main school for young officers, at Fort Leavenworth. But when asked to assess whether the effort was worth the cost, General Davis chose his words carefully, as do his colleagues. I think so, to date, he said. Well really have to wait and see until next year to see just how successful, how enduring, it is. General Daviss question about endurance is the one likely to dominate Situation Room dezai, whose promises of ending a legacy of corruption and ineptitude have gone unfulfilled. Indeed, as the troop increase ended, officials in Washington were angered to hear Mr. Karzai publicly denounce the American-led war effort. Those criticisms came as the Pentagon tallied the 2,000th American death of the war. Then there is Pakistan. Even the biggest enthusiasts of the troop increase those in the military and the White House who maintain the Taliban have been rolled back concede that Pakistan was a place where almost nothing worked. Offering them a new, steady source of aid doesnt give us much leverage, one White House official noted in a recent interview, and threatening to cut off aid doesnt give us much, either. A senior military official said that before the troop increase there were roughly 2,000 insurgents moving regularly across the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. And after the increase was over, he said, there are still about 2,000. The low was hit in 2011, after a series of events that angered both sides: the killing of two Pakistani assailants by a C.I.A. security officer, the raid on Osama bin Ladens lair in Abbottabad that sparked outrage over the violation of Pakistani sovereignty, and the American airstrike on a Pakistani border outpost that killed 24 soldiers. Lurking just beyond the tensions over counterterrorism is another problem that the administration has steadfastly refused to discuss in public: the rapid expansion of Pakistans nuclear arsenal. The growth has largely come in the form of new, smaller, more mobile weapons, which many fear would be easier to steal. And attacks on Pakistani bases by the Pakistani Taliban, including a series in recent months at sites where nuclear weapons are believed to have been stored, has only driven the anxiety higher. American officials now talk broadly of a new awareness among Pakistanis of the threat posed to their nation by militancy, and they have heard promises by the government of a military initiative this coming winter but they predicted the same thing at the beginning of the American troop increase.

Americas longest conflict doesnt figure in election debate.

bates about Afghanistan over the next year. The 353,000 Afghan security forces trained by the United States and its NATO allies may not be able to hold the rural territory, despite Mr. Obamas instructions in 2009 that the military should not seize any territory that it could not reliably transfer to the Afghans. If the Taliban start moving toward the cities, would American forces re-enter the conflict? Mr. Biden seemed to say no at the vice presidential debate. White House officials say only if Kabul is threatened would the United States intervene beyond the planned mission to train Afghan forces and go after high-value terrorist targets. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan insist they will make sure hard-fought gains are not lost, but they do not say what they are prepared to do to prevent that. Nor has any candidate talked about how to deal with Mr. Kar-

G.O.P.s Beleaguered Akin Draws Ire Over Fetch Talk

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In a charged race, likening behavior of a rival to that of a dog.

in her first run for Senate six years ago. The tight race has gotten personal on both sides. Mr. Akins campaign has attacked Ms. McCaskills wealth and said she has benefited off of taxpayers. Mr. Akin has highlighted in recent weeks that housing development companies tied to Ms. McCaskills husband had received $40 million in federal money. Rick Tyler, an adviser to Mr. Akin, played down Mr. Akins comments. His opponents, he said, simply were trying to distract from the important issues. I think this cycle is becoming interesting because its becoming puerile and infantile with this parsing of little statements, while we ignore $16 trillion of debt and unemployment, Mr. Tyler said. He added that Mr. Akin, made an analogy probably could have made a better one. Everybodys going to find a reason to get their feelings hurt and get bent out of shape. Mr. Tyler also joked that Mr. Akin could have said liberals people actually like dogs.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate candidate, drew ire and fire again during the weekend for comments likening his Democrat opponents legislative actions to those of a dog responding to the command of fetch. The race between Mr. Akin and Senator Claire McCaskill has been one of the most contentious and closely watched ones in the nation, punctuated by comments from Mr. Akin about women that his detractors, including Ms. McCaskill, have used to try to paint him as extreme. Speaking about Ms. McCaskill at an event in Springfield on Saturday, Mr. Akin said, She goes to Washington, D.C., and its a little bit like, uh, you know, one of those dog, you know, fetch. And she goes to Washington, D.C., Mr. Akin continued, and gets all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies and she brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri. And it seems to me that shes got it just back-

wards. What we should be doing is taking the common sense that we see in Missouri and taking that to Washington, D.C., and blessing them with some solutions instead of more problems. The comments were first reported by the Web site PoliticMo.com, which posted an audio recording of the comments online on Saturday. They came about two months after Mr. Akin set off a storm of criticism across the political spectrum by suggesting that in cases of a legitimate rape, womens bodies could ward off becoming pregnant. That comment drastically changed Mr. Akins fortunes. Once favored to win a seat that Republicans thought would be a sure pickup in their effort to win control of the Senate, Mr. Akin fell behind in the polls and bigtime donors withdrew pledges of millions of dollars. Ms. McCaskills campaign quickly pounced on Mr. Akins comment, using it in a daily e-mail series it had been sending to reporters that highlighted a separate comment or action by Mr. Akin that the campaign

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Representative Todd Akin debating Senator Claire McCaskill on Thursday in Clayton, Mo.
viewed as extreme. Akin continues to offend women, anyone else with a sense of decency, the e-mails headline read. We were planning to send out one of our usual 35 Days, 35 Ways press releases, but Todd Akin did the work for us when he compared Claire to a dog in Springfield last night, the e-mail continued. It went on to post links to several articles about the comment and said the remark was another in a series of quotes that could place more distance between Akin and female voters. Mr. Akin also drew criticism last month when he suggested that Ms. McCaskill was much more ladylike during debates

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EL ECTION 2012

Arab Spring Rears Up As Issue In Election

From Page A1 encing their outcome. That disagreement in many ways mirrors the paradoxical views of America held by many of the regions people and policy makers, who see Washington as all-powerful but also doomed to self-sabotage whenever it intervenes there. Many here ask, nodding toward the sky, has America not learned the lessons of Iraq? People, psychologically, are quite anxious, said Jalal el-Gallal, a Benghazi political activist, who worries that the pressures of an election year could prompt an American strike on militants suspected in the consulate attack. It would destroy all the good will that was won over the last two years of engagement, and it could undermine the elected government and make the place ungovernable. More than a decade of public opinion polls have shown that, except for the hope that America might goad Israel toward recognizing a Palestinian state, overwhelming majorities of the populations in every Arab country would prefer a more restrained American foreign policy like Mr. Obamas. For many, Mr. Romneys assertion in an address that there is a longing for American leadership in the Middle East is not just false but a laugh line. If Mr. Obamas soft touch is popular in the region, however, it may not be in Americas best interest, argued Shadi Hamid, research director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. There is a widespread sense in the region that Obama is a weak, somewhat feckless leader, Mr. Hamid said, citing Mr. Obamas acquiescence in confrontations with Israeli leaders over settlements and with Egypts generals over the prosecution of American-backed nonprofit groups. People think that if you are in a standoff with Obama and you hold your ground, he will eventually back down, Mr. Hamid said. The contrast between the candidates is so stark they sometimes appear to be on opposite sides of the Arab Spring itself. President Obama, his advisers say, began with the premise that the old American-backed order of secular autocracies was already crumbling from within and could no longer promise stability, while the Arab demands for self-governance accorded more with American values. The president made a decision to side with democratic change, said Benjamin Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, and we made it clear that it is not our place to dictate the outcomes in any given country. Mr. Romney has emphasized the risks of uprisings. Eliot A. Cohen, a foreign policy adviser to his campaign, said he questioned the concept of an Arab Spring altogether. It is not clear to me what is germinating, he said. Where the president says he is supporting new democracies, Mr. Romney argues that the Obama administration has, in effect, Suliman Ali Zway contributed reporting from Benghazi, Libya, and Mayy El Sheikh from Cairo.

Gap Arose Between Talk And Latest Intelligence

From Page A1 every level, failed presidential leadership senior members of the Obama administration failed miserably, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on Fox News Sunday. The gap between the talking points prepared for Ms. Rice and the contemporaneous field reports that seemed to paint a much different picture illustrates how the process of turning raw field reports, which officials say need to be vetted and assessed, into polished intelligence assessments can take days, long enough to make them outdated by the time senior American officials utter them. Intelligence officials, alarmed that their work has been turned into a political football, defend their approach, noting that senior administration officials receive daily briefings that reflect the consensus of the nations array of intelligence agencies, but can also dip into the fast-moving stream of field reports, with the caveat that that information is incomplete and may be flat wrong. A demand for an explanation that is quick, definite and unchanging reflects a nave expectation or in the present case, irresponsible politicking, James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said at an intelligence symposium on Oct. 9. The Associated Press reported Friday, for instance, that within 24 hours of the attack, the C.I.A.s station chief in Tripoli, Libya, e-mailed headquarters that witnesses said the assault was mounted by heavily armed militants. But intelligence officials said Sunday that one report was not enough to establish the attacks nature. According to interviews with a half-dozen American officials, including policy makers and intelligence officials, here is a rough chronology of what happened, some details of which The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. On Sept. 13, Ms. Rice and other cabinet-level officials were told about the assessment that there had been protests at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi. The first briefing was exactly as one would expect in the early aftermath of a crisis, an American intelligence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the continuing F.B.I. investigation of the assault. It carefully laid out the full range of sparsely available information, relying on the best analysis available at the time. Briefers said extremists were involved in attacks that appeared spontaneous. On Sunday, Sept. 16, Ms. Rice summed up a common theme she voiced on all five television programs: What this began as was a spontaneous, not a premeditated, response to what happened, transpired in Cairo, where protesters angered by the video invaded the grounds of the American Embassy. Critics say Ms. Rice overlooked that Al Qaeda might have been involved. But when asked by Bob Schieffer of CBS News about Al Qaedas possible role, Ms. Rice said: Its clear that there were extremist elements that joined and escalated the violence. Whether they were Al Qaeda affiliates, whether they were Libyan-based extremists or Al Qaeda itself, I think, is one of the things well have to determine. The unclassified talking points were written by the C.I.A. with input from other intelligence agencies so that members of Congress and senior officials could say something preliminary about the attacks; the points would be expected to be somewhat cautious, American officials said. The points clearly reflect the early indications of extremist involvement in a direct assault, the American intelligence official said. It wasnt until after the points were used in public that people reconciled contradictory information and assessed there probably wasnt a protest around the time of the attack. That change in the intelligence communitys assessment did not happen until a series of reviews from Sept. 20 to Sept. 22, an American official said on Sunday. Some of the new information came from American officials evacuated from Benghazi on Sept. 12. The American intelligence official said it took time to determine whether extremists took over a crowd, or if the guys who showed up were all militants. Mr. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, approved the release of an unusual public statement on Sept. 28 about the evolving intelligence conclusions. His spokesman, Shawn Turner, said then that analysts had revised their assessments to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by extremists. By the end of last week, intelligence officials settled into a new position that they had been suggesting for several days. American officials cautioned that it, too, could change as more information became available. Right now, there isnt any intelligence that the attackers preplanned their assault days or weeks in advance, said the intelligence official. The bulk of available information supports the early assessment that the attackers launched their assault opportunistically after they learned about the violence at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

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Protesters on Sunday in Bahrain, where a Shiite democracy movement has been crushed.
ties, leaving the United States no choice but to build partnerships with them. Breaking decades of mutual hostility, the administration has opened cordial relations with the Islamists who dominated elections in both Tunisia and Egypt in each case, with promises of tolerance, pluralism and constitutional democracy. White House officials said they have no bias against Islamist parties. We will judge these parties not by who they are but what they do, Mr. Rhodes said. Officials said that responsibility for governing and participation in the political process can have a moderating influence on the movement. We believe there is a chance for democratic change to undercut the Al Qaeda narrative, Mr. Rhodes said. The Romney camp, on the other hand, views Islamists even the most moderate as a potentially threatening force. Despite their public statements and recent track record, Mr. Cohen argued, it was premature to conclude that any of the Islamists were committed to democracy. I think we have to be very cautious that it is only a one man, one vote, one time kind of process, he said. We are going to have a very complicated relationship with these people. To Mr. Romney, foreign aid should be used for political leverage, particularly in Egypt. Mr. Obama has resisted attaching any conditions to the $1.5 billion in annual American aid to Egypt in order to preserve friendly relations and long-term influence. Mr. Romney has vowed to use the money as punishment or reward. For example, Mr. Cohen said, Mr. Romney might penalize Egypts Islamist government for its slow response when protesters breached the walls of the American Embassy in Cairo last month. We are not going to give those kinds of sums to people who fail to deliver on their most basic obligations to us, he said. But Mr. Darrag of the Muslim Brotherhood said the aid was not much of a cudgel against a country with an economy of $200 billion a year. It is just not acceptable for one party to say, We give you this amount of money so you have to listen to what we are saying, he said. That is when we get very offended. Such talk was the difference between a candidate and a president, Mr. Darrag said, arguing that governing responsibility would moderate Mr. Romney as well, just as it has previous presidents. I would say Romney would sound the same as Obama four years after the start of his term, Mr. Darrag said, That has always been the case.

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Syrian rebels crawled on a sidewalk in Aleppo on Saturday as they tried to rescue a Syrian civilian who had been shot.
abandoned the region to forces hostile to American interests. If you dont even try to shape events, Mr. Cohen said, then for sure you are going to get a bad outcome. Neither candidate has fully squared the potential conflicts of American values and interests, a problem most acute in the case of Bahrain. Its Sunni Muslim monarch used brutal force to crush a democracy movement among the Shiite majority, but the island kingdom is also home to the United States Navys Fifth Fleet and a crucial bulwark against Iranian influence. Obama administration officials say they concluded that even the presence of the Fifth Fleet gave Washington little influence over Bahrains rulers. Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni monarchies in the Persian Gulf were determined to prop up the kingdom even if the United States withdrew. In the most urgent question now posed by the Arab Spring, rebels in Syria are battling a longtime American foe, marching under the banner of Arab democracy and pleading for Washington to supply them with weapons. But the Obama administration has nonetheless declined to provide the arms, saying it has too little sway over the direction of the insurgency, the influence of Islamist extremists, the potential that the weapons might be turned on neighbors like Israel or the likelihood of a sectarian blood bath. Iraq, White House advisers say, proved that the United States is ill equipped to manage a sectarian civil war. Mr. Romney has vowed to arm the opposition despite the acknowledged risks, as a way of buying an American say in whatever comes next. Sooner or later Assad is going to go down, so you are better off getting in there early to try to shape what you are going to get as a result, Mr. Cohen said, referring to Bashar al-Assad, Syrias ruler. Or the choice is to be passive, as we have been, and watch the void filled by others who dont like us, like hard-line Islamists. On Friday, the Syrian opposition declared a national demonstration to express its frustration at the American refusal to supply it with weapons. But the Syrian rebels also say they doubt that as president Mr. Romney would live up to his promise or that Congress would let him. It is just propaganda for the elections, said Abu Jaafar El Megharbel, an activist from Homs. Some regional governments supportive of the rebels dismissed Mr. Romneys proposal in even stronger terms. That would explode the whole area, if Romney is serious about it, warned Amr Darrag, the top foreign policy official of the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the party of the countrys newly elected president. The difference reflects the good experience of President Obama and a lack of experience of Governor Romney. On the subject of political Islam, the Obama administration concluded that democracy would inevitably empower Islamist par-

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Presidential Campaign Boils Down to Door-to-Door Voter Drives in Crucial States

From Page A10 taling over $8 million, according to a firm that tracks political advertising. That means that no voter in the state is likely to be unaware of Mr. Romneys or Mr. Obamas message, so the importance of motivating supporters to vote is all the more crucial in a race that both sides expect to be decided by one or two percentage points. When it comes to a close race, a ground game is good for that final field goal, said Mr. Doster, who ran George W. Bushs 2004 re-election campaign in the state. Both sides cite a blizzard of numbers to show who is doing a better job contacting and motivating voters one by one. Mr. Biden said Democrats had registered 14,264 new voters before the deadline Oct. 9. Republicans counter that since 2008 they have added enough new votSarah Wheaton contributed reporting from Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Jeremy W. Peters from New York. ers to narrow Democrats historic registration advantage by 150,000. Democrats boast of 104 field offices in Florida, where 29 electoral votes are at stake. Republicans say that at their 47 offices so many new volunteers have come down to variables like Denver Dukess ankles. See? said Ms. Dukes, 54, an Obama volunteer in Fort Pierce, Fla., who hiked the hem of her long skirt to show ankles swollen from hitting the streets to register new Democratic voters. I got 18, 20 a day, she said. My lowest day was 11. Ive been working hard, very hard. The day after registration ended, Obama volunteers turned to encouraging people to use absentee ballots and to participate in an eight-day window for early voting in many counties as of Oct. 27. Meanwhile, in Casselberry, north of Orlando, John Chapin, 23, a Romney volunteer, visited more than 350 houses on Saturday morning and was back to walk another neighborhood in the afternoon. Rather than engaging in lengthy conversations, as suggested by Mr. Biden to Democratic field troops, the Republican volunteers were businesslike. Are you supporting Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? Mr. Chasign, Mr. Chapin still recited his script: Are you supporting Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? Who is Obama? asked Jalta Pace, who answered the door in gardening gloves. Everybody better wake up because the first thing that dude is going to do if re-elected is were going to be a socialist country. We have to move on, Mr. Chapin said politely. Mr. Chapin and his fellow canvasser, Parker Hoffman, 18, grew up in the area, a suburb of Orlando in Seminole County, which Mr. McCain won in 2008. We know these people, said Mr. Chapin, who hopes to make a career in politics. He recalled riding his bike through the neighborhood, just the sort of advantage both campaigns cite when it comes to winning support voter by voter. But familiarity occasionally leads to awkward encounters. Mr. Chapin said he knocked on the door of an ex-girlfriends parents the other day. They were like, No, John, we dont want to talk to you, he said.

Floridas turnout may rest in part on volunteers stamina.

forward since Mr. Romneys commanding first debate performance that the intensity is on their side. A senior member of the Obama campaign in Florida, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said, If it comes down to a dogfight over who can turn out the most votes, I feel very confident we can win that fight. And so it goes, round and round in a contest that may come

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Workers at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., set up the stage Sunday for the next evenings presidential debate.
pin asked, then filled in a bubble. Sometimes the conversation did not get far. Hello, is this the Balsamos? Mr. Chapin asked at one house. Yes. But no, said the woman who answered, eyeing Mr. Chapins Young Americans for Romney T-shirt. A couple cleaning out their garage, Timothy and Diana Hester, said they were at a rally that Mr. Romney held in nearby Apopka, Fla., two weeks earlier. Well early-vote for sure, Mr. Hester said. At a home with a Romney lawn

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gunman Kills 3 Women at a Wisconsin Day Spa Employing His Wife

By STEVEN YACCINO and MONICA DAVEY

BROOKFIELD, Wis. A gunman opened fire inside a day spa in this Milwaukee suburb on Sunday morning, killing three women, forcing others some bloodied and still in bathrobes to flee into nearby streets, and sending the authorities on a tense hunt that was slowed by fears of explosives and ended hours later with the discovery of the gunmans body. In addition to the three people killed in the shooting at the Azana Salon and Spa, a long-established shop in a busy suburban commercial district near a mall, four women were injured in the shooting, the authorities said. None of the victims had been publicly named as of Sunday evening as the authorities sought to positively identify them and to notify family The gunman, whom the police identified as Radcliffe F. Haughton, 45, a resident of Brown Deer, also died inside the spa, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police said. The shootings appeared to stem from a domestic dispute, painfully docu-

mented in weeks of police reports and court orders, between Mr. Haughton and his estranged wife, who witnesses said was employed at the salon. Todays action was a senseless act on the part of one person, Mayor Steven V. Ponto of Brookfield said somberly late Sunday. He quickly added, Try as we might, these cant be avoided. Residents largely view the Milwaukee suburbs as safe and relatively removed from the worries of urban life. This doesnt happen in Brookfield, said Christine Carpenter, 24, who works at a drugstore not far from the spa and on Sunday evening was still trying to grasp what had happened. You think good neighborhood, good schools this stuff doesnt happen to us. In fact, however, in recent years in the Milwaukee suburbs, there have been other such attacks, including a shooting less than three months ago in which a self-proclaimed white supremacist named Wade M. Page opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. In 2005, here in Brookfield, less than a mile away

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Officers responding to reports of gunfire on Sunday at Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield, Wis.
from the day spa, a gunman killed seven people, including two teenage boys, at an evangelical church meeting, and later killed himself. The shooting, the authorities said, began shortly after 11 a.m. Central time, sending staff members and barefoot clients fleeing into parking lots and businesses. Witnesses described a panicked scene of bloodied women and confused passers-by who, at least initially, could not understand what had occurred, even as at least one person was seen crying, according to witnesses, and screaming out to passing cars. Everybody was keeping calm, but we were all confused about what was going on, said Joe

Brent, 27, of Minneapolis who said he had been in a McDonalds next door to the spa when he heard a gunshot. Almost immediately, said Mr. Brent, who was in town for a job interview, a police officer entered the restaurant and ordered everyone out. As he was leaving the McDonalds, he said, he saw a woman in her 20s leaving the salon, holding a paper towel to her bleeding neck as a police officer escorted her to an ambulance. It was pretty bad, Mr. Brent said. I was surprised that she was able to walk. He said he then saw officers carry two more women from the salon and put them on stretchers, he said. Four women between 22 and 40 years old were treated for gunshot wounds at Froedtert Hospital, officials at the hospital said. Several had undergone surgery or were expected to soon, the officials said. As the authorities carried victims away, Police Chief Daniel K. Tushaus said, they faced another problem: they were uncertain where the gunman was, and Continued on Page A14

In Texas, a Legal Battle Over Biblical Banners

A Superintendents Ban on Religious Signs Puts Him at Odds With His Community
By MANNY FERNANDEZ

KOUNTZE, Tex. In a barrage of recent e-mails, telephone calls and letters to his office, Kevin Weldon has been called some of the worst things a Christian man in this predominantly Christian town can be called: un-Christian, and even anti-Christian. Ive been in this business a long, long time, said Mr. Weldon, the superintendent of the 1,300student school district in Kountze, northeast of Houston. People that know me know how I am. Even though I got those things, Im going to be honest with you, this may sound very flippant, but it just went in one ear and out the other. Mr. Weldon, 53, is in a position that few superintendents in small-town Texas have found themselves: taking a stand on religious expression that has put him at odds with the majority of his students and his neighbors, not to mention the governor, the attorney general and, some in Kountze believe, his God. After consulting with lawyers, Mr. Weldon banned the districts cheerleaders from putting Bible verses on the banners they hoist

Backing a Christian message, but not the signs that bear it.
at the beginning of football games, out of concern that the signs were unlawful and amounted to school-sanctioned religious expression. A group of cheerleaders and their parents sued Mr. Weldon and the district, prompting a legal battle that has outraged and inspired Christians across the country. Last week, a judge issued a temporary injunction, barring the district from prohibiting the banners for the rest of the football season while the case proceeds to trial. Mr. Weldon, a Protestant and former football coach, has said he supports the cheerleaders and their message, but feels he must uphold the law. Though he has taken a stand that pleases the Anti-Defamation League and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, he is not their ally. Though his action upset the Liberty Institute, a Christian legal group representing the cheerleaders, he is not their opponent. He is caught somewhere in between. He made the decision against

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the popular prevailing sentiment, and hes been reviled for it, Mr. Weldons lawyer, Thomas P. Brandt, told the judge last week. He has stood, though, solidly in favor of not what he personally wants, but what he perceives the law requires. Mr. Weldon has had to defend his decision even as Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott and scores of students, parents and others have criticized the districts ban on the signs and registered their dismay and disgust in subtle and not-sosubtle ways. The marquee outside the First Baptist Church quoted Acts 5:29: We must obey God rather than men. Steve Stockman, a born-again Christian and former congressman running for re-election in the area, suggested that Mr. Weldons job was on the line. Banning religion is a direct assault on our founding principles, Mr. Stockman said in a statement. This is East Texas, not San Francisco. The superintendent can either overturn his ban on religion, or pack his bags. Not everyone has been so harsh. Rebekah Richardson, 17, a Kountze High School cheerleader, said: We understand that hes in a hard situation. Mr. Weldon said that over all, people in Kountze have treated him respectfully. He has attended the football games without incident, watching the Kountze Lions burst through the very banners (But thanks be to God, which gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, one read) at issue in the lawsuit. Its a great small town, and theyre just standing up for what they truly believe in, he said. You cant fault people for that. In a heavily wooded part of the state called the Big Thicket, Kountze is an old-fashioned town of 2,100 with a history of religious tolerance. In the early 1990s, residents elected their first black mayor, Charles Bilal, a Muslim. The majority white, Christian voters made Mr. Bilal the first Muslim mayor in the United States. His granddaughter, Nahissaa Bilal, 17, a Christian, is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Mr. Weldon is a relative newcomer here, arriving last year to lead the district, which has only four schools. With his whitehaired crew-cut and burly frame, he resembled not a former coach but a former linebacker, and though his critics claim he has cowered to blue-state liberals, his office dcor seemed decidedly red, with the head of the biggest deer he ever shot while hunting mounted in a corner. The cheerleaders case centers on whether the banners amount to private speech protected by state and federal law, or government-sponsored speech that can be regulated and censored. Lawyers for the students argued that because the cheerleaders created the messages after school without guidance or financial assistance from administrators, their banners were private speech. District lawyers said the banners

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Kevin Weldon, above, superintendent of the Kountze Independent School District in Texas, barred the districts cheerleaders from putting Bible verses on banners they hoist at football games. His directive prompted a lawsuit.

were in no way akin to someone waving a John 3:16 sign in the stands and could be regulated, because the cheerleaders were school representatives. The case began last month, when the district received a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based group of atheists and agnostics. The letter, written on behalf of an anonymous resident who had attended a game, called the cheer-

leaders banners unconstitutional. Mr. Weldon said he contacted lawyers for the district and for the Texas Association of School Boards. Both advised him to prohibit the signs. The advice stemmed from a Supreme Court ruling in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, which established that prayers led by students at high school football games were unconstitutional. Myself and the board have

said all along that we do not have a problem with the kids doing what theyre doing, Mr. Weldon said. Were not hostile against any type of religion, but we also want to make sure as a school district that were following the law. In a state where courtroom battles over public expressions of Christianity are routine, the cheerleaders case has been unusual. In other disputes, local offi-

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Supporters last week after a Hardin County judge gave the cheerleaders a temporary victory.

cials have been on the same side as state leaders, or they have taken neutral stands. In 2001, after Mr. Perry prompted criticism by bowing his head and saying Amen as a pastor led a prayer at an East Texas public school, the superintendent there tried to stay out of the issue. Im not going to question the governor, the superintendent in Palestine, Jerry Mayo, told The Associated Press at the time. But in Kountze, Mr. Weldon has ended up aligned, albeit reluctantly, with the out-of-state atheist group that first complained about the banners. Many in town thought the two sides would settle the lawsuit. The negotiations stalled, and the case proceeded at the Hardin County Courthouse. Mr. Weldon had to testify, answering questions about whether he harbored a hostility toward Christianity or the Bible. He said in court, under questioning by a lawyer for the cheerleaders, David Starnes, that his directive violated a school policy that allowed students to express their religious viewpoints at nongraduation events. And Mr. Weldon had to watch while his lawyer crossexamined two nervous students, one of whom was a 16-year-old cheerleader who cried on the stand. Afterward, Mr. Weldon sought out the two students. The defendant had a message for the plaintiffs. He told them he was proud of them.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

Jesse Jackson Jr., on Leave, to Return to Hospital

CHICAGO (AP) Four months after taking medical leave, Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., who has given no hint of when he will return to work, will head back soon to the Mayo Clinic for a checkup, his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said Sunday. Mr. Jackson, a Democrat from Illinois, was released in September from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., after seeking treatment for bipolar disorder and gastrointestinal issues. He has been with his family in Washington since, but has not appeared in public or campaigned for re-election, beyond a recent robocall. Nor has he said when he would return to Capitol Hill. His spokesmen would say only that Mr. Jackson remained on the Nov. 6 ballot. The senior Mr. Jackson said that his son would go back to the Mayo Clinic in the near future, but he would not say when or for how long. He said only that doctors could determine if his son could return home immediately or undergo more inpatient treatment. He has not regained his balance altogether, Mr. Jackson said. But hes seeking his balance. He also said that his son had an overwhelming desire to get back to work, but that any predictions were premature. A Mayo spokeswoman, Duska Anastasijevic, said that Mr. Jackson was not a current patient and that she could not confirm whether he planned to check into the clinic. Mr. Jacksons spokesman, Frank Watkins, said he did not have any further information. Many questions about Mr. Jacksons medical leave have gone unanswered. He first took medical leave in June for what his staff described as exhaustion, but the information was not disclosed until two weeks later. Since then, information has come in spurts. It took weeks for Mr. Jacksons office to say where and for what he was being treated. The timing of his leave has also drawn scrutiny. Just weeks from the election, Mr. Jackson remained under investigation by the House ethics committee for links to Rod Blagojevich, the imprisoned former governor. The committee is looking into allegations that Mr. Jackson was involved in discussions about raising money for Mr. Blagojevichs campaign in exchange for an appointment to the Senate seat left vacant when Barack Obama became president. And the announcement of the leave came just days after a former fund-raiser connected to those allegations was arrested on unrelated federal medical fraud charges. Mr. Jackson has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and has said his name would be cleared. More recently, The Chicago SunTimes reported that a federal inquiry related to his campaign finances was under way. Mr. Jackson, who first won office in a 1995 special election, faces two little-known candidates on the November ballot. He is widely expected to be re-elected to a ninth full term despite having not appeared in public for months. His Chicago-area district is heavily Democratic, and many community leaders and mayors have endorsed him. Mr. Jackson has said recently that he sees doctors twice a day while at the familys home in Washington. His wife, Sandi Jackson, has said that only doctors would be able to say when he could return to work. The congressmans first com-

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Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. of Illinois is returning to the Mayo Clinic, where he was treated for bipolar disorder.
munication to the public since the leave came on Saturday in a robocall to voters in which he asked for patience. I am anxious to return to work on your behalf, but at this time it is against medical advice, Mr. Jackson said in the recorded call. And while I will always give my all to my constituents, I ask for your continued patience as I work to get my health back.

Gunman Kills Three Women at Wisconsin Day Spa Employing His Wife
From Page A13 came upon something that initially appeared to be an improvised explosive device inside the spa presumably left by the gunman. The possibility that the gunman might still be loose set off new chaos, leading the authorities at the hospital where victims were being treated to put the entire facility on lockdown, preventing routine visitors from even entering the building. For hours, highway exits near the spa were closed down, some stores in the nearby mall were shut, and police officers from around the region all but filled the area. In another Milwaukee suburb, Brown Deer, where Mr. Haughton lived, the police cordoned off a section of his neighborhood, sending residents from their homes, and checked his home with bomb-detection equipment. Neighbors said they had watched the police use a battering ram to burst through the front door and garage of his home, after shouting instructions for him to emerge. No explosives were found. The events left many in the community reeling. We dont even lock our doors around here, said Daniel Montenero, a neighbor of Mr. Haughton. There is no crime here. I walk my 2-year-old grandson past that house twice a day. Steven C. Rinzel, the police chief in Brown Deer, said the authorities had handled domestic disturbances at the home before. And police and court records showed a series of escalating troubles in recent days. On Oct. 4, the Brookfield police said they had responded to a report that Mr. Haughton had slashed the tires of his wife, who they were not identifying. Four days later, records show, she sought a temSteven Yaccino reported from Brookfield, Wis., and Monica Davey from Chicago. Michael Schwirtz and Marc Santora contributed reporting from New York.

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porary restraining order against him. As recently as last week, the records showed, he had been ordered to stay away for four years, and prohibited from possessing firearms. When the authorities first entered the spa, they came upon smoke, the result of a small fire that Chief Tushaus said was believed to have been set by the gunman. A sprinkler system was going off, and nearby was evidence of a propane tank, at least initially suggesting that an explosion was intended. By late Sunday, the circumstances seemed less certain, but for hours during the afternoon, the authorities raced to find Mr. Haughton, issuing his image to news outlets and asking the public to look for the car he owned. We were expecting an armed encounter if we did come across him, Chief Tushaus said. It was late in the day, more than five hours after the shooting, when police officers found his body inside the spa, a large, two-story facility with numerous rooms.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

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George McGovern Dies at 90, a Liberal Trounced but Never Silenced

From Page A1 voted consistently in favor of civil rights and antipoverty bills, was instrumental in developing and expanding food stamp and nutrition programs, and helped lead opposition to the Vietnam War in the Senate. The war was the cause he took into the 1972 election, one of the most lopsided in American history. Mr. McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and won just 17 electoral votes to Nixons 520. The campaign was the backdrop to the burglary at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington and to the Nixon organizations shady fund-raising practices and sabotage operations, later known as dirty tricks, which were not disclosed until after the election. The Republicans portrayed Mr. McGovern as a cowardly left-winger, a threat to the military and the free-market economy and someone outside the mainstream of American thought. Whether those charges were fair or not, Mr. McGovern never lived down the image of a liberal loser, and many Democrats long accused him of leading the party astray. Mr. McGovern resented that characterization mightily. I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie, he said in an interview for this obituary in 2005 in his home in Mitchell. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. Im what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. But we probably didnt work enough on cultivating that image, he added, referring to his presidential campaign organization. We were more interested in ending the war in Vietnam and getting people out of poverty and being fair to women and minorities and saving the environment. It was an issue-oriented campaign, and we should have paid more attention to image.

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A LONG CAREER George McGov-

ern, with Thomas F. Eagleton in 1972, above; with a young Bill Clinton in 1972, far left; and at home in 2002 amid memorabilia from his political career, left.

The 1972 Nomination

Mr. McGovern was 49 years old and in his second Senate term when he won the 1972 Democratic nomination, outdistancing a dozen or so other aspirants, including Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, the early front-runner; former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the nominee in 1968; and Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, a populist with a segregationist past who was gravely wounded in an assassination attempt in Maryland during the primaries. Mr. McGovern benefited from new party rules that he had been largely responsible for writing, and from a corps of devoted young volunteers, including Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham, who took time off from Yale Law School to work on the campaign in Texas. The nominating convention in Miami was a disastrous start to the general election campaign. There were divisive platform battles over Vietnam, abortion, welfare and court-ordered busing to end racial discrimination. The eventual platform was probably the most liberal one ever adopted by a major party in the United States. It advocated an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, amnesty for war resisters, the abolition of the draft, a guaranteed job for all Americans and a guaranteed family income well above the poverty line. Several prominent Democrats declined Mr. McGoverns offer to be his running mate before he chose Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri. Mr. McGoverns organization was so disorganized that by the time he went to the convention rostrum for his acceptance speech, it was nearly 3 a.m. He delivered perhaps the best speech of his life. We reject the view of those who say, America, love it or leave it, he declared. We reply, Let us change it so we can love it more. The delegates loved it, but most television viewers had long since gone to bed. The convention was barely over when word got out that Mr. Eagleton had been hospitalized three times in the 1960s for what was called nervous exhaustion, and that he had undergone electroshock therapy. Mr. McGovern said he was behind his running mate a thousand percent. But less than two weeks after the nomination, Mr. Eagleton was dropped from the ticket and replaced by R. Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy in-law and former director of the Peace Corps. The campaign never recovered from the Eagleton debacle. Republicans taunted Mr. McGovern for backing everything a thousand percent. Commentators said his treatment of Mr. Eagleton had shown a lack of spine. In the 2005 Times interview, Mr. McGovern said he had handled the matter David E. Rosenbaum, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, died in 2006. William McDonald contributed reporting.

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badly. I didnt know a damn thing about mental illness, he said, and neither did anyone around me. With a well-oiled campaign operation and a big financial advantage, Nixon began far ahead and kept increasing his lead. When Mr. McGovern proposed deep cuts in military programs and a $1,000 grant to every American, Nixon jeered, calling the ideas liberalism run amok. Nixon, meanwhile, cited accomplishments like the Paris peace talks on Vietnam, an arms limitation treaty with the Soviet Union, a prosperous economy and a diplomatic opening to China. On election night, Mr. McGovern did not bother to call Nixon. He simply sent a telegram offering congratulations. Then, he said, he sat on his bed at the Holiday Inn in Sioux Falls and wrote his concession speech on hotel stationery. In his book on the campaign, The Making of the President 1972, Theodore H. White wrote that the changes Mr. McGovern had sought abroad and at home had frightened too many Americans. Richard M. Nixon, Mr. White wrote, convinced the Americans, by more than 3 to 2, that he could use power better than George McGovern. Mr. McGovern offered his own assessment of the campaign. I dont think the American people had a clear picture of either Nixon or me, he said in the 2005 interview. I think they thought that Nixon was a strong, decisive, tough-minded guy, and that I was an idealist and antiwar guy who might not attach enough significance to the security of the country. The truth is, I was the guy with the war record, and my opposition to Vietnam was because I was interested in the nations well-being. His staff, he said, urged him to talk more about his war experience, but like many World War II veterans at the time, he was reluctant to do so. How long, he was asked, did it take to get over the disappointment of losing? You never fully get over it, he replied. But Ive had a good life. Ive enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

Humble Beginnings
George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in a parsonage in Avon, S.D., a town of about 600 people where his father, Joseph, was the pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. A disciplinarian, his father, who was born in 1868, tried to keep his four children from going to the movies and playing sports. His mother, the former Frances McLean, was a homemaker about 20 years her husbands junior. The family moved to Mitchell, in

southeastern South Dakota, when George was 6. He went to high school and college there, enrolling at Dakota Wesleyan University in 1940. After Pearl Harbor, Mr. McGovern joined the Army Air Corps. In 1943 he married Eleanor Stegeberg, who had grown up with an identical twin on a South Dakota farm. They had met at Dakota Wesleyan. Mr. McGovern was trained to fly the B-24 Liberator, a four-engine heavy bomber, and he flew dozens of missions over Austria, Germany and Italy. On his 30th mission, his plane was struck by enemy fire. Lieutenant McGovern crash-landed the plane on an island in the Adriatic. He earned a Distinguished Flying Cross for the exploit. After his discharge, Mr. McGovern returned to Mitchell his father had recently died and resumed his studies at Dakota Wesleyan. He graduated in 1946 and went to Northwestern University for graduate studies in history. With a masters degree, he returned to Dakota Wesleyan, a small university, to teach history and political science. I was the best historian in a one-historian department, he said in an interview in 2003. During summers and in his free time, he continued his graduate work and received a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern in 1953. Mr. McGovern left teaching to become executive secretary of the South Dakota Democratic Party, and almost single-handedly revived a moribund operation in a heavily Republican state. Month after month, he drove across South Dakota in a beat-up sedan, making friends and setting up county organizations. In 1956, gaining the support of farmers who had become New Deal Democrats during the Depression, he was elected to Congress himself, defeating an overconfident incumbent Republican. He became the first Democratic congressman from his state in more than 20 years. Mr. McGovern left the House after two terms to run for the Senate and was soundly beaten by the sitting Republican, Karl E. Mundt. He then became a special assistant to the newly elected president, John F. Kennedy, and the director of Kennedys Food for Peace program, an effort to provide food for the hungry in poor countries. In 1962, Mr. McGovern ran for the Senate again, and this time he won, by 597 votes. He defeated Joseph H. Bottum, a Republican serving out the term of Senator Francis H. Case, who had died in office. In the Senate, Mr. McGovern became a reliable vote for Democratic initiatives and a leader on food and hunger issues as a member of the Agriculture Committee. But he was more interested in

national politics than in legislation. After Robert F. Kennedy, fresh from his victory in the California presidential primary, was assassinated in Los Angeles in June 1968, the Kennedy camp encouraged Mr. McGovern to enter the race as an alternative to Humphrey and Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota. Mr. McGovern did so but was unable to catch up to Humphrey. Almost from the moment the 1968 campaign ended, Mr. McGovern began running for the 1972 nomination. He traveled the country, recording on index cards the names of potential supporters he met. He also became the chairman of a Democratic Party commission on delegate selection, created after the fractious 1968 national convention to give the rank and file more say in picking a presidential nominee. What became known as the McGovern commission rewrote party rules to ensure that more women, young people and members of minorities were included in delegations. The influence of party leaders was curtailed. More states began choosing delegates on the basis of primary elections. And the partys center of gravity shifted decidedly leftward. Though the rules were not written specifically to help Mr. McGovern win the nomination, they had that effect. After he was crushed by Nixon in the 1972 election, Mr. McGovern returned to the Senate and began campaigning for re-election in 1974. At the Gridiron Clubs annual dinner in 1973, he told the assembled Washington elite, Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way and I did. Mr. McGovern was re-elected to the Senate in 1974, a landslide year for Democrats after Watergate. He defeated Leo K. Thorsness, a novice politician. It proved to be Mr. McGoverns last success in elective politics. As the conservative movement gained force, Mr. McGoverns popularity dropped. In 1980, he was defeated by James Abdnor, a plain-spoken Republican congressman who had clung to Ronald Reagans coattails and was helped by antiMcGovern advertisements broadcast by the National Conservative Political Action Committee. Mr. McGovern ran for the Democratic presidential nomination again in 1984, but withdrew after winning only 23 convention delegates, most of them in Massachusetts. Unlike some of his peers, Mr. McGovern did not become wealthy in office, and he said he had no interest in lobbying afterward. Instead, he earned a living teaching, lecturing and writing. He briefly owned a motor inn in Stratford, Conn., and a bookstore in Montana,

where he owned a summer home. But neither investment proved profitable. What he called the big tragedy of my life occurred in 1994. His daughter Teresa J. McGovern, who had suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, froze to death, acutely intoxicated, in a parking lot snowbank in Madison, Wis., at the age of 45. His eyes welled up as he talked about it 11 years later. That just about killed me, he said. I had always had a very demanding schedule. I didnt do everything I could as a father. As therapy, Mr. McGovern researched and wrote a book, Terry: My Daughters Life-and-Death Struggle With Alcoholism, published in 1997. (An addiction-treatment center named after her was established in Madison.) That year, President Bill Clinton appointed Mr. McGovern ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He moved to Rome, and he worked on plans for delivering food to malnourished people around the world. In 2000, Mr. Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor.

Returning Home
After four years in Rome, Mr. McGovern and his wife moved back to Mitchell, where they lived in a ranch-style house owned by Dakota Wesleyan and helped raise money for a university library that was named after them. The university is also home to the McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service, a research and educational institution founded in 2006. The McGoverns also had a home in St. Augustine, Fla. Eleanor McGovern died in 2007 at 85. A son, Steven, who had also struggled with alcoholism, died in July at 60. Mr. McGoverns survivors include three daughters, Ann, Susan and Mary; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Mr. McGovern remained robust in old age. To celebrate his 88th birthday, he sky-dived in Florida. Last fall, he was hospitalized twice, once after falling and hitting his head outside the Dakota Wesleyan library before a scheduled C-Span interview, and another time for fatigue after completing a lecture tour. But he rebounded and resumed making public appearances this year. Mr. McGovern remained a voice in public affairs, notably in 2008, when, in an op-ed article in The Washington Post, he called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for their prosecution of the war in Iraq. He published books regularly, on history, the environment and other subjects. In Out of Iraq (2006), written with William R. Polk, he argued for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, to end in 2007. In his final book, What It Means to Be a Democrat, released last November, he despairs of an insidious political atmosphere in Washington while trying to rally Democrats against extremism in the Republican ranks. We are the party that believes we cant let the strong kick aside the weak, Mr. McGovern wrote. Our party believes that poor children should be as well educated as those from wealthy families. We believe that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes and that everyone should have access to health care. With the country burdened economically, he added, there has never been a more critical time in our nations history to rely on those principles. We are at a crossroads, he wrote, over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

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AT WAR AND BACK HOME From left, Mr. McGovern in 1943; with President John F. Kennedy in 1962; at a press conference as the chairman of the Senate Nutri-

tion Committee in 1977; and with his daughter Teresa on her last birthday. Mr. McGovern called her alcohol-related death at 45 the big tragedy of my life.

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E. Donnall Thomas, Who Advanced Bone Marrow Transplants, Dies at 92

By DENISE GELLENE

Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who showed that it was possible to transplant bone marrow to save the lives of patients dying from blood cancer and other blood disorders, a discovery that earned him a Nobel Prize, died on Saturday in Seattle. He was 92. His death was announced by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, where he had long been on the faculty. When Dr. Thomas began his research in the late 1950s, bone marrow transplants were seen as a frightening last resort. Patients suffered dangerous complications from the procedure, and survival rates were grim. The patients immune system would either destroy the transplanted marrow as foreign, or the transplanted marrow, which contains immune system cells, would destroy the patients lungs, kidneys and other organs. The only successes were in identical twins because their tissue types matched. Many physicians abandoned the approach, believing that bone marrow transplantation would never be safe enough to be practical. Dr. Thomas persevered, despite numerous failures and the criticism that he was exposing his patients to undue risks. He learned to match tissue types between recipients and donors, and to use drugs to tamp down the immune system. His team carried out its first transplant using a matched sibling donor for a patient with leukemia in 1969. Eight years later, the team performed the first

Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, left, accepting the Nobel Prize in 1990.

matched transplant from an unrelated donor, a success that led to the formation of a national registry that now includes more than 11 million marrow donors. Dr. Thomas received the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the first successful kidney transplant. In announcing the prize, the Karolinska Institute said discoveries by both men were crucial for those tens of thousands of severely ill patients who either can be cured or given a decent life when other treatment methods are without success. Today, bone marrow transplants are an accepted treatment for leukemia and other blood cancers, and can cure some inherited forms of anemia, like sickle cell disease. Edward Donnall Thomas was born on March 15, 1920, in Mart, Texas, a rural town about 100 miles south of Dallas. He was the only child of Dr. Edward E. Thomas, a general practitioner, and Angie Hill Donnall, a teacher. He learned to hunt and fish, and as an adult, he would unwind after a hard day by filling shells with gunpowder. He studied chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his bachelors degree in 1941 and his masters degree in 1943.

To pay for his education, he worked odd jobs around campus. After a shift waiting tables at a womens dormitory, he got into a snowball fight with a journalism student, Dorothy Martin. The couple married in 1942, and soon afterward, his wife shifted her career ambitions to become his laboratory technician and lifelong collaborator. Dr. Thomas went on to Harvard Medical School, where he became interested in leukemia and bone marrow. He received his medical degree in 1946, spent two years in the Army, then returned to Boston to complete his residency and conduct research. In 1955, he was appointed physician in chief at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, now Bassett Medical Center, in Cooperstown, N.Y., an affiliate of Columbia University. As soon as he arrived, Dr. Thomas started experimenting with bone marrow transplants in dogs, to work out the technical problems, and in people dying of leukemia. He reasoned that replacing a patients diseased marrow with that from a healthy donor could cure leukemia. By 1957, his team had performed marrow transplants on six patients, after first destroying the patients own marrow with radiation. The results were dismal. None of the patients survived beyond 100 days. Most people left the field, Dr. Thomas told an interviewer. They felt that this couldnt ever be done. Some physicians felt strongly that the transplants shouldnt go on as an experi-

mental thing, he said. Dr. Thomas found that dogs given whole-body radiation and marrow from their litter mates had the same problems that humans did with infection, rejection and graft-versus-host disease, in which immune cells in the graft attack the patients organs as foreign. But occasionally, a dog survived the procedure and remained healthy. Dr. Thomas surmised that matching donors to patients was crucial. In 1963, he moved to the Uni-

A discovery that saved lives and earned a Nobel Prize in medicine.

versity of Washington and developed a system for matching the tissue types of dogs. By the mid-1960s, he showed that most irradiated dogs that received marrow from matched donors survived long-term. Around the same time, researchers elsewhere had worked out methods for matching human tissue types. In 1969, Dr. Thomas began transplanting marrow from matched siblings to patients with very advanced leukemia. Patients were irradiated in an underground bunker at a former military facility, the only place in the Seattle area with the required radiation sources, then rushed by ambulance to a sterile hospital ward. We went back and forth

like Ping-Pong balls, Dr. Thomas said. He would inoculate horses to obtain a serum to treat graftversus-host disease, sometimes getting kicked in the process. Because patients were highly susceptible to infection until the transplanted marrow took hold, Dr. Thomas had their food sterilized in an autoclave normally used for germ-proofing surgical tools. Most of his initial 54 patients died of transplant complications or leukemia despite the precautions, but six experienced complete remissions. These small successes led him to conduct transplants in patients with less advanced leukemia. In 1979, he reported curing half the leukemia patients who underwent transplantation when their disease was in chemotherapy-induced remission. Bone marrow transplants now can cure 70 to 80 percent of the healthiest children and teenagers with leukemia. Dr. Thomas joined the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1974, serving as its first director of medical oncology and later as director of the clinical research division. The center has become a world leader in bone marrow transplantation. Dr. Thomas was named professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Washington in 1990. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1982 and received the National Medal of Science in 1990. Besides his wife, his survivors include two sons, E. Donnall Jr. and Jeffrey, and one daughter, Elaine Thomas.

Claude Cheysson, 92, Candid French Foreign Minister

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Claude Cheysson, who as an outspoken foreign minister in the socialist government of Franois Mitterrand in the 1980s barreled into difficult issues with often undiplomatic zeal, died Oct. 15 in Paris. He was 92. His family announced the death. President Franois Hollande called him a great servant of the state and a passionate and lucid politician. Mr. Mitterrand became Frances first leftist chief of state in almost 25 years in 1981. When he appointed four Communists to government posts, it was Mr. Cheyssons job to reassure the newly installed Reagan adminis-

An official described as the least diplomatic of all the diplomatic corps.

tration in Washington. France is France, he said in an interview with The New York Times. She honors her signature. Mr. Cheysson, who was viewed as a moderate, was reported to be a candidate for prime minister had Mr. Mitterrands opponent, Valry Giscard dEstaing, the incumbent president, won re-election. Under the French system, the president exercises top authority while the prime minister handles day-to-day affairs. When it came to expressing his views as foreign minister, Mr. Cheysson was frank. He was pleased to say that he had often heard Mr. Mitterrand call him the least diplomatic of all the diplo-

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matic corps. He called President Augusto Pinochet of Chile a curse on his people, and said the Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov was lacking in human warmth. When President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt was assassinated, Mr. Cheysson said the death removed an obstacle to rapprochement within the Arab nation. Flora Lewis, the foreign affairs columnist of The Times, wrote, He is a sharp-tongued man, particularly bright, with convictions as rocky as his chin, and too much concern for candor and clarity to bother with diplomatic mumbles. Mr. Cheyssons outspokenness could put him at odds with his boss. When Britain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands against Argentine claims, Mr. Cheysson demanded that France side with Argentina against what he saw as British colonialism. But Mr. Mitterrand countermanded him, saying that Britain had supported France in two world wars

and that it was Frances duty to help Britain. In the Middle East, Mr. Cheysson scolded Israel for violating United Nations resolutions and the Palestine Liberation Organization for relying on violence. He argued that developed nations must provide tens of billions of dollars to the third world, an idea the United States secretary of state, Alexander M. Haig Jr., called unrealistic. George P. Shultz, Mr. Haigs successor, said dealing with Mr. Cheysson was aggravating. Mr. Cheysson was born in Paris on April 13, 1920, graduated from the elite universities cole Polytechnique and cole Nationale dAdministration, and fought with Free French forces against the Nazis in North Africa. He rose through a succession of diplomatic and governmental posts. He was a member of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, from 1973 to 1981 and again from

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Claude Cheysson, left, a foreign minister under Franois Mitterrand, in an undated photo with Yitzhak Shamir of Israel.
1985 to 1989, then served as a Socialist member of the European Parliament until 1994. Mr. Cheysson is survived by his third wife, Daniele, as well as by three sons and three daughters, the British newspaper The Guardian reported. Mr. Cheysson did not lack that French quality of honneur that some Americans interpret as superciliousness. In answer to Washingtons worries about Communists in the French government, he said in a radio interview, It is possible the Americans analysis is not precise enough for them to understand that the situation in France is quite unique.

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Aberlin, Jane Barry, Amy Blair, Ellen Bond, Bonnie Cahn, Donnie Cooper, Robert Fortunoff, Louis Igel, Martin Kalech, Marc Kauder, Beatrice Klebanow, Sheila Nadel, Elizabeth Torgan, Lita Harris Ignall, Beulah Lubin, Rita

Deaths
HARRIS IGNALLBeulah, on October 20, 2012 at age 100. Beloved wife of the late Irving Harris and the late Theodore Ignall. She is survived by Charles Fingerhut, Judy and Roy Snyder, Diane and Peter Ignall, Richard Ignall and grandchildren Nancy and Brian McGraw, David Ignall, Jeff Ignall, Jackie and Scott Ignall, Heather and Mike Liang and great-grandchildren Jake and Dylan Ignall. She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her. Memorial service Monday, October 22nd, 2012, 1:30pm at Frank E. Campbell, 1076 Madison Ave, at 81st St.

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LUBINRita, 87, of Boca Raton, Florida. Beloved wife of the late Jerome ("Jerry") Lubin. Beloved mother of Meryl and Ron Gallatin and Patty and Joe Finkelstein. Loving and proud grandmother of Alan (Sharyn) Gallatin, Amy Gallatin, Warren (Stacey) Finkelstein, Robyn (Jared) Fischer, adoring great-grandmother of Joshua, Jacob, Sasha, Sophie, Rose, Emma, Naomi, Abigayle, Matthew and Ryan. There will be a graveside service at 1pm on Monday October 22 at New Montefiore Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hands on Tzedakah, 2901 Clint Moore Rd. #318, Boca Raton, FL 33496

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ABERLINJane, 98, of Staten CAHNDonnie, 87, on October Island, on October 19. Widow 20, 2012. Beloved wife of the of Isador, beloved mother of late James for fifty wonderful Robert and Jean, grandmoth- years. Loving mother of Dier of Phoebe, Noah, Kathryn, ane and Martin Chesin and and Alex, great-grandmother the late George, devoted of Liliana. Long active in grandmother of Amy Chesin, Jacob Gladish, community volunteer work Lisa and and the arts, 1971 Staten Is- adored great-grandmother of land Advance Woman of Noah and Adam Gladish. Achievement. Calling hours at Donnie will be greatly missed Meislohn-Silvie Funeral Home by her loving family and at 1289 Forest Ave on Mon- friends. Service 11:30am Tuesday, October 22, 7-9 PM, and day, October 23, 2012 at "The IGELMartin, On October 19, Tuesday, October 23, 10-11 Riverside," 76 St. and Amster- 2012, peacefully at home surAM. Funeral and internment dam Ave. Contributions in rounded by those he loved. at 11:30 AM Tuesday at Baron Donnie's memory to Calvary Loving and devoted husband 1740 Eastchester of Halina and father of Gary Hirsch Cemetery, followed Hospice, immediately by memorial Road, Bronx, NY 10461. and Tamara. Adoring grandtribute at JCC of Staten Isfather of Elana. Services land, 1466 Manor Rd. October 22 at COOPERRobert L, 80, died Monday, BARRYAmy Anhalt Buchn- at home in Brooklyn, NY, on 11:15am. Riverside Memorial er, 98 years old, October 19, October 19, 2012. Husband Chapel, 76th St. and Amster2012 in Atlanta, GA. Daughter and dearest friend of Alice dam Avenue. of the late Sidney Anhalt and Pepper Cooper, father of Lisa Blanche Anhalt. Beloved wife Philip (Babu) and David of the late Paul Barry. Moth- Cooper (Sharona); grandfaer of Judith Williamson ther of Tobias Philip and Ey- KALECHMarc, 64, of White (William), Susan Black (Mark lon, Mia and Talia Cooper, Plains, NY died on October Miller) and Jonathan (Susan). brother of Paul Cooper and 19, 2012. He survived by his Grandmother of Sharon (Pe- Betty Pearle, Robert L. Coop- loving wife WCBS-TV political ter), Michael, Gideon, er was Professor of Sociology reporter, Marcia Kramer, two Nicholas, Justin and Rachel. and Education at the Hebrew step-children, Margot Runes Great-grandmother of Katie, University of Jerusalem. His and Max Runes, sister Joan Adam, Madeline and Ryan. book Language Planning and Moverman and his two fur Long time resident of Great Social Change (Cambridge kids, Moe Kalech and Curlty Neck, NY and Boca Raton, University Press 1989) has Kalech. He graduated from FL. She was a beautiful wom- been influencing educators the University of Miami with an who brought joy and love and social and political plan- a degree in political science. He was born and raised in where ever she went. ners for over two decades. New York City and stared BLAIREllen Lopin. Burial is The Chinese edition is sched- working at the New York today Monday October 22 at uled for 2013. On retirement, Post as a copy boy in 1965. traveled around the He worked his way up to reNoon in Queens at Mount He- he bron Cemetery at 130-04 Ho- world, dropped his middle ini- porter, night city editor, and and published Around metropolitan editor before he race Harding Expressway, tial the World With Mark Twain was named managing editor Flushing. A memorial is being (Arcade 2000). From 2010 un- in 1993. He said he was most planned. til twelve days before death, BONDBonnie Lee. Passed he anonymously published: proud of creating the so called weeping Alexander away peacefully on Friday anchises-anoldmansjournal. night October 19, 2012 at the blogspot.com. Services will be front page on March 16, 1993 age of 80 after a long battle at Congregation Beth Elohim during a staff revolt against Hirshfeld. with cancer. Bonnie was a 274 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, then owner Abe wonderful and loving woman Tuesday, October 23 11:30am. Funeral services will be Monwho will be deeply missed by The family will be receiving day, October 22 at Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel, all of her family and innumer- at home 4:00 to 9:00pm able friends. Bonnie was a Wednesday, Thursday and 575 King St., Port Chester, NY. lifelong New Yorker; residing Sunday, 10:00 to noon Friday at 1 East End Ave. for her and Sunday. Contributions in first 76 years and then at 185 his memory may be made to KAUDERBeatrice, 88, East 85th St. for her last four Congregation Beth Elohim, beloved wife, mother, grandyears. Bonnie devoted her life National Public Radio and mather and friend. It is hard to charity, her family and her Prospect Park Alliance. to imagine life without you. friends. Her influence betYou're with Sam - Rest in tered the lives of all those peace. Love, Ronnie & Paul she touched. A viewing of her FORTUNOFFLouis. We Susan, Stuart & Alison, Jenna, urn and remains will be held deeply mourn the passing of Nadine, Elana, Samantha, at St. James' Episcopal Louis, the beloved son of our Chase, and all your relatives Church in Manhattan, NY at dear friend, Helene Fortunoff and friends. Services were 865 Madison Ave. (at the cor- Grossman. 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NADELElizabeth, 103, on October 20, 2012. Beloved wife of the late Max. Loving mother of Alfred and Ida, grandmother of five and great-grandmother of ten. Services were held Sunday at graveside.
NADELElizabeth. We note with sorrow the passing of our long time member Elizabeth Nadel and extend sincerest condolences to her bereaved family. Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein and President David B. Edelson, Central Synagogue of New York City

TORGANLita, 81 of Baiting Hollow, NY, passed away Saturday October 20th, 2012 at home surrounded by family and friends. Born October 17, 1931in Bronx, NY, the daughter of late Henrietta Segal. She is survived by her husband Samuel Torgan, son and daughter-in-law Keith and Barbara Torgan; son and daughter-in-law Evan and Maya Torgan; grandchildren Peyton, Haley and Matt. Funeral service was held Sunday October 21st, 2012 at Gutterman's Funeral Home in Woodbury, NY. Burial took place at Wellwood Cemetery. Somewhere over the rainbow may you rest in peace.

In Memoriam
GORDONLarry. 1956-1960. 52 years have passed since you left me, but the memories of your short life are indelible. Mommy PERRYEdward. June 27, 1908 - October 22, 1993. Dear Edward, your spirit is always with me. Your presence is greatly missed . Much Love, Fito
TICHNERAlan. 3/2/27 - 10/22/03. Forever your Gloria.

Leon Jaroff, a science writer and editor who persuaded Time Inc. to start Discover magazine in 1980, became its top editor and for many years wrote the popular Skeptical Eye column challenging pseudosciences, died Saturday at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 85. His wife, Mary Kay Moran, confirmed his death. Mr. Jaroff was the senior editor in charge of the science, medicine, behavior and environment sections of Time magazine when, after nearly a decade of lobbying, he convinced his corporate bosses that there was a market for a Time Inc. science magazine. It was a period of growing interest in popular science publications, such as Omni and Science Digest. In 1978 The New York Times started its Science Times section. As early as 1971, Mr. Jaroff noticed that newsstand sales of Time magazine jumped almost every time a science article was on the cover, and he began presenting the numbers to corporate executives. He managed to persuade the heavyweights, Frederic Golden, a former science writer and editor at Time and Discover, said. Selling science to people who graduated to be managers was very difficult. Mr. Jaroff was managing editor of Discover, a monthly, for four years, overseeing cover articles on the search for life in space, the evolution of sex and the secrets of the brain, among other topics. Circulation rose from about 400,000 in the first year to 935,000. But after a disagreement with his bosses about expanding coverage of psychology and psychiatry I didnt think they were very solid sciences, he once said

A science writer and editor whose admirers named an asteroid in his honor.
column in 2000. What happened to the quarantine notices that were once routinely posted on houses afflicted by measles, mumps or whooping cough? Or the long rows of iron lungs filled with polio victims unable to breathe on their own? Why do the words diphtheria and scarlet fever draw only blank stares from todays kids? Because of vaccines, thats why. Leon Morton Jaroff was born in Detroit on Feb. 27, 1927, the only child of Abraham and Ruth Jaroff. He served in the Navy during World War II and earned a degree in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Michigan, where he was managing editor of the college newspaper. After briefly working for an engineering magazine in New York he became a clerk at Life magazine and by 1958 was a reporter in Times Detroit bureau. Mr. Jaroffs first marriage, to Claire Lynn Fox, ended in divorce. Besides his wife of 35 years, he is survived by two sons, Peter and Nicholas; three daughters, Jill Jaroff, Susan Malfa and Jennifer Goff; and eight grandchildren. A rare honor came to Mr. Jaroff in 1998, 13 years after his Time cover article asked, Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? The International Astronomical Union renamed a six-mile-wide asteroid 7829 Jaroff.

Leon Jaroff
Mr. Jaroff returned to Time. Discover has since been sold several times, and in 2010 was bought by Kalmbach Publishing; its circulation is now about 550,000. Science Digest ceased publication in the late 1980s, and Omni stopped publishing in 1995. Mr. Jaroff wrote more than 40 cover articles for Time, among them Race for the Moon, The Test-Tube Baby and Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? His doubts about psychology and psychiatry were in keeping with the wariness he brought to the Skeptical Eye columns he wrote for Discover and later Time. Creationism, astrology, extrasensory perception, U.F.O.s and alternative medicine were among his targets. But he would also challenge doubters of legitimate advances in health care, like vaccinations. In reality, the antivaccine activists demonstrate both medical illiteracy and an appalling ignorance of history, he wrote in a

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

At Technology High School, Goal Isnt to Finish in 4 Years

By AL BAKER

Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills. Some desks are patched with tape, others etched with graffiti. The view across the street is of a row of boarded-up brownstones. The building and its surroundings in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, may look run-down, but inside 150 Albany Avenue may sit the future of the countrys vocational education: The first 230 pupils of a new style of school that weaves high school and college curriculums into a six-year program tailored for a job in the technology industry. By 2017, the first wave of students of P-Tech Pathways in Technology Early College High School is expected to emerge with associates degrees in applied science in computer information systems or electromechanical engineering technology, following a course of studies developed in consultation with I.B.M. I mean, in 10th grade, doing college work? said Monesia McKnight, 15, as she sat in an introduction to computer systems course taught by a college pro-

fessor. How great is that? The United States has the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. Yet many with four-year degrees are facing a transforming economy where jobs require less generalized types of education and more of the skills that many college graduates lack, in science, technology, engineering or math. Into this breach, school systems around the country have been aiming to start new high schools like P-Tech. Officials in Chicago were so taken by New Yorks school that they opened five similar schools this year with corporate partners in telecommunications and technology. Besides New York and Illinois, education officials in Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee have committed to creating such schools, and the Obama administration has recommended that Congress provide more money for vocational education the preferred name is career and technical education, or C.T.E. to promote this approach. A year from now, New York City plans to open two more schools just like P-Tech, focusing on other growing industries in the city, possibly including

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A class at Pathways in Technology Early College High School in Brooklyn.

health care. A fourth one is planned to open in September 2014. The State Board of Regents is also trying to develop assessment exams for this type of school, perhaps one that could be substituted for one of the usual Regents tests. When we view high-quality C.T.E. programs, we see how engaged those students are and what clear aspirations they have for their future, said John B. King Jr., the state education commissioner. Unfortunately, thats not always present in some of our struggling schools. P-Tech, which began last year with a ninth grade and now has a 10th grade, is inside Paul Robeson High School, which is being phased out because of poor performance. Students attend from 8:35 a.m. to 4:06 p.m., in 10-period days that intersperse traditional classes like math

and English with technology and business-centric courses like workplace learning, which teaches networking, critical thinking and presentation skills. Second-year students are offered physics and global studies as well as the business courses and college-level courses in speech or logic and problem solving or both. There is also a sixweek summer academy for geometry. The objective is to prepare students for entry-level technology jobs paying around $40,000 a year, like software specialists who answer questions from I.B.M.s business customers or deskside support workers who answer calls from PC users, with opportunities for advancement. Stanley S. Litow, the president of I.B.M.s International Foundation, the companys philanthropic arm, and a former deputy schools chancellor in New York, said that the P-Tech curriculum was mapped backward: I.B.M.s own employees were analyzed to learn what skills a student would need. Each student also is paired with a mentor from the company, as is the principal, Rashid F. Davis; students take trips to I.B.M. facilities to learn such things as how computer chips are made; the company helped train the schools 18 teachers, and it provides a full-time liaison based at the school to work with faculty from the New York City College of Technology and the City Continued on Page A20

Chickens Threaten To Divide Community

A Dispute in Brooklyn Grows Rancorous

By VIVIAN YEE

The month-old dispute that has turned neighbor against neighbor in Brooklyn has spawned petitions, door-to-door campaigns and reams of fliers. There have been shouting matches, and even an intervention from a city councilman. And it all started with eight clucking hens. Ten days ago, members of the Warren-St. Marks Community Garden in Park Slope brought the hens to their temporary home: a wood-and-metal coop, nestled into one side of the garden, that members began building in late September. Although the garden members say they handed out fliers announcing their plans to residents on nearby blocks, many have complained that the garden made its decision without consulting anyone. Since then, a somewhat atypical not-in-mybackyard battle has emerged over the chickens. The opponents many of them residents long entrenched in the neighborhood have pilloried the garden as an exclusive club that has trampled on the communitys concerns. The dispute has also prompted some who live near the garden, which has coexisted peacefully with the surrounding blocks since its inception in the 1980s, to re-evaluate how a community garden ought to balance gardening with its community. There is a pattern here of being untruthful, not really reaching out to the neighbors, not being community-spirited; there is a history of being exclusive, said Ahhalia Smith, the most prominent of those opposed to the chickens. Ms. Smith and members of her family dom-

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Ahhalia Smith spoke Sunday at a long and heated meeting in Park Slope over a community gardens new additions, like the one at left.
inated a rancorous and sometimes profane meeting on Sunday over the chickens future. It was frequently conducted at top volume, prompted much muttering and head-shaking on the sidelines, and featured eloquent speeches about the meaning of community alongside detailed discussions of rat history, coop wiring and composting. (A city rat consultant, whom garden members had invited to inspect the garden, was also on hand to proclaim the chickens rat-free.) Supporters say the chickens, which normally live on Governors Island but winter in various foster homes around the city, have attracted far more visitors than normal, and that they help fulfill the gardens environmental mission by eating scraps and contributing to the compost pile. The anti-chicken faction, which has gathered about 160 signatures on a petition protesting the hens, charged that they would bring stink, vermin, flies, lead poisoning and possibly even avian flu into the neighborhood. Garden members say the outcry has taken them by surprise, especially since six Governors Island chickens spent last winter in a private yard on the same block without anyone complaining. They say they tried to pre-empt concerns about rats and noise by building the coop, which is supposed to be rat-proof, next to an empty lot and by consulting chicken experts. But they acknowledge that they should have told their neighbors sooner, and they say they hope the chicken squabble will encourage more open relations between neighborhood and garden in the future. Community gardening is really just as much about the community as the gardening, and chickens can sometimes point out ways in which thats the case, said Siena Chrisman, a garden member. If people on the block are not feeling like its an open space, thats an issue. The people on the block were not shy about sharing their opinions Sunday afternoon, often shouting over one another despite the efforts of the moderator, Lisa Bloodgood, a community liaison from City Councilman Stephen Levins office, to keep peace. The chicken farmer whom garden members had invited to speak was silenced by several scolding, finger-wagging women, saying in unison: You dont know this neighborhood. Shame on you! Still, the opponents efforts may come to nothing. Because it is on privately owned land, the garden has a legal right to keep the chickens until April when they will return to Governors Island, according to Mr. Levins office. By meetings end, however, most attendees appeared to agree that they wanted to honor the spirit, rather than the letter, of the deed to the land, which stipulates that the garden is privately owned but for public use. Garden members said that, because of the community outcry, they would hold a vote on the chickens fate and would invite residents to join the garden so they could participate. That seemed to defuse the tension, at least for the afternoon. I want to get along with my neighbors, said Ibon Muhammad, who has lived on Warren Street since 1980. I dont want a chicken to get between me and my neighbor.

As Election Day Approaches, Groups Push to Highlight Campaign Finance Reform

By THOMAS KAPLAN

With two weeks remaining before Election Day, advocates for creating a system of public financing for state elections are preparing to funnel at least $600,000 into two State Senate races in an effort to make money in politics a more prominent campaign issue. Two outside groups, one started by a son of the billionaire financier George Soros and the other by the husband of the Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, are preparing to show television advertisements in the Hudson Valley and Buffalo area to promote candidates who favor tightening the states campaign fund-raising rules. Other advocates are planning a statewide tour, the Caravan of Corruption, to highlight Albanys long history of ethical transgressions. Some progressive leaders are urging Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to take a more active role in supporting candidates who favor public financing of campaigns. Government reformers are hoping that with super PACs dominating the presidential race, voters in New York will be more interested than ever in confronting the flood of money into the political system, providing a window of opportunity in Albany to overhaul cam-

paign fund-raising laws that are among the most lenient in the country. They are pushing for the state to adopt a campaign fund-raising system modeled after the one used in New York City, where candidates can receive $6 in public money for every dollar they raise from small individual donors. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said last week that the proposal could be among those that lawmakers consider if they return to Albany for a special session after the Nov. 6 elections. In the meantime, a coalition of labor unions and government reform organizations is trying to rally support for what they refer to as fair elections, starting with a push to raise awareness among voters. The efforts could have implications for control of the State Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority. In the Hudson Valley, where a new Senate seat created through the redistricting process is seeing one of the most competitive races in the state, advocates of public financing have earmarked at least $500,000 for advertising to support the Democratic candidate, Cecilia Tkaczyk. That outlay dwarfs the fund-raising by Ms. Tkaczyk, who at the beginning of October had just under $35,000 in her campaign treasury.

Ms. Tkaczyk, a school board member from Schenectady County, supports public financing. A spokesman for her opponent, George Amedore, a Republican assemblyman, said Mr. Amedore supported changes like increased disclosure but opposed any system in which the cost of campaigns was forced upon the backs of taxpayers. A group Jonathan Soros helped found is investing $250,000 in the race and will begin showing an advertisement supporting Ms. Tkaczyk on Tuesday. The group, Friends of Democracy, has previously targeted House members whom it accused of opposing campaign finance reform. Mr. Soros, whose father has contributed millions of dollars to political causes and candidates, said the State Senate contest offered a chance to put one more vote in the column of reform, and to send a message to other Albany lawmakers that voters cared about the issue of money in politics. Part of the importance is demonstrating that actually being on the wrong side of reform can impact your ability to get re-elected, Mr. Soros said. Another group, Protect Our Democracy, is spending $250,000 on mailers supporting Ms. Tkaczyk and attacking Mr. Amedore, and plans to pour

$100,000 into television advertising to support a Republican state senator, Mark J. Grisanti of Buffalo, who has suggested that he is open to supporting some campaign-finance changes like reduced contribution limits. The group received its seed money from Mr. Hughes, the Facebook cofounder, and his husband, Sean

Making big contributions to candidates and putting pressure on the governor.

Eldridge, a venture capitalist and political activist, who is running the effort. Also planned for this week is the Caravan of Corruption, which on Tuesday and Wednesday will make nine stops, from Long Island to Buffalo, intended to highlight the misdeeds of the states elected officials over the last decade. At the same time, some progressive leaders are growing frustrated that Mr. Cuomo, who gave life to the public financing proposal by including it in his

State of the State address this year, has not been outspoken about the issue during this years election season. They are particularly upset that he has not offered endorsements to several Democratic candidates like Ms. Tkaczyk who are running for open seats in the State Senate, given that the Republican majority has opposed public financing. The liberal group MoveOn.org sent an e-mail to its New York members on Sunday saying that in crucial races that will determine control of the Senate, Gov. Cuomo has been silent. The e-mail included a petition urging Mr. Cuomo to take a stand and endorse the Democrats who support your agenda. If Governor Cuomo isnt willing to help fair-elections Democrats beat right-wing Republicans who support the corrupt status quo, he risks being seen as a phony, Justin Ruben, the executive director of MoveOn, said. Mr. Cuomo has worked productively with Senate Republicans and has repeatedly declined to say whether he wants his party to take control of the Senate. He has endorsed a mix of Democrats and Republicans this year, and he said last week that he intended to endorse people who I believe are in the best interest of the State of New York.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

Law Banning Masks at Protests Is to Be Challenged

By COLIN MOYNIHAN

The crowd had gathered outside the Russian Consulate in New York, awaiting the sentencing in Moscow of members of the punk protest band Pussy Riot. Some held aloft placards proclaiming their solidarity with the band members; others strummed guitars. Many in the crowd that day in August wore the same sort of brightly colored balaclavas worn by the women in the band. The choice of apparel led to the arrest of some demonstrators, who were charged with disorderly conduct and with violating an arcane provision in the loitering law that makes it unlawful for three or more people to wear masks in public. Now, a lawyer for three women arrested that day says he is preparing to challenge the constitutionality of the law, which he argues should not apply to peaceful protesters. We believe this law is overly broad, the lawyer, Norman Siegel, said recently. Political protest is a quintessential freedom of expression. Mr. Siegel said his arguments would differ from those used in previous challenges. Instead of stating that his clients needed to hide their identities with masks because the ideas they were spreading are controversial, he said, he will assert that the masks themselves were integral to the message the three women were communicating. The ban on masks in New York State dates to 1845, when it was adopted in response to events in the Hudson Valley, where local tenant farmers disguised as

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Officers arrested masked demonstrators at a protest in August.

Asserting that choice of apparel is a form of protected speech.

American Indians had attacked and killed landlords. The law includes exceptions for masquerade parties and similar events. The police have periodically used the law during political demonstrations. In 2002, for instance, commanders said they would enforce the law during protests that accompanied meetings of the World Economic Forum in Manhattan. Over the past year, the police have regularly cited the mask law while arresting participants in gatherings and marches connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement. The law has been litigated several times over the past decade

or so, with state courts, federal courts and appeals panels seesawing back and forth over whether it can be fairly applied. Perhaps the most vigorous challenge came in 1999, after police officials said Ku Klux Klan members could not wear masks during a rally in Lower Manhattan. Assisted by Mr. Siegel, then the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, the group sued, saying the Giuliani administration had violated their members rights by denying them permission for the rally, and adding that the masks were needed to protect the Klan members from retaliation. Federal judges twice ruled in favor of the Klan, but the matter was ultimately decided in 2004 by an appeals panel that ruled that the masks were not necessary to convey the Klans message, which could also be communicated through their tall hoods and

flowing robes. Another challenge came in 2000 after 14 anarchists wearing black bandannas across their faces were arrested in Union Square on May Day. A State Supreme Court justice declined to dismiss charges against the defendants, saying they had not shown that the masks were necessary to protect them from harassment by the authorities. But the justice, Gregory Carro, also concluded that the United States Constitution protects the right to wear a mask during a peaceful political demonstration. Mr. Siegel said he thought his argument that the balaclavas themselves were a form of protected speech would be bolstered by the previous court decisions. If successful, he said, the argument could provide a way for other groups to wear masks without being subject to arrest. Last week, his clients, Rebekah Schiller, Esther Robinson and Rachel Weldon, appeared in court and told prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorneys office that they planned to go to trial. Afterward, they discussed their reasons for opposing the mask law. Ms. Weldon said that while certain forms of protest, like marches and picket lines, were recognized as valid, less familiar tactics might be more effective at conveying a message. The mask law, historically and currently, has caused people to conform to a certain way of delivering their speech, she said. Its not just what youre saying but how youre saying it that should be protected from interference by the government.

Man Is Charged In Queens Rape

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on charges of raping a woman at a massage parlor in Queens and robbing a second massage parlor, the police said. The man, Zhordrack Blodywon, was taken into custody by the authorities in Nassau County after he left a massage parlor in Great Neck, the police said. An employee recognized him from either a sketch or surveillance video the New York Police Department had released in connection with a string of massage parlor crimes, the police said. Mr. Blodywon is accused of raping a 55-year-old woman on Wednesday at a massage parlor on Union Street in Flushing, Queens. A few days later, on Saturday at 1 a.m., he is believed to have stolen two cellphones from a nearby massage parlor, also on Union Street, the police said, adding that he was armed with a gun at the time. Mr. Blodywon was arrested later that day after he went to the Great Neck massage parlor. The police had initially believed that the rape on Wednesday was connected to an assault on Aug. 17. In that attack, a man beat a 41-year-old woman unconscious in a massage parlor on Washington Place in Greenwich Village before sexually assaulting her, the police said. Mr. Blodywon has not been charged in connection with the Aug. 17 attack; the case is still under investigation, the police said.

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Over 150 people gathered Sunday at Trinity Church in Manhattan to honor Gen. Horatio Gates.

An Escape From Historys Margins

Now, 2 Centuries Later, Cemetery Marker Honors General
By JULIE TURKEWITZ

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Mention the Victor at Saratoga and people may think that you are talking about a horse. Yet that so-called victor, Gen. Horatio Gates, the commander of the American forces at the Battle of Saratoga, played a crucial role in the triumph there over the British forces of Gen. John Burgoyne in October 1777. Though other figures of the War of Independence are still widely revered and studied, Gates faded from the national memory. He died in New York in 1806 and was buried at Trinity Churchyard in Lower Manhattan. Precisely where is not known. On Sunday afternoon, more than 150 people gathered at the cemetery just off Wall Street to celebrate the installation of a marker that will serve as his gravestone and to highlight his long-neglected role in American history. This is a great day in my point of view in the history of the city of New York, James S. Kaplan said in an address to the gathering, made up mostly of members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The story of Gatess recent escape from historys margins began with Mr. Kaplan, a New York tax lawyer who discovered the generals legacy during a visit to the Saratoga National Historical Park upstate two decades ago. For the past 16 years, he has conducted an early-morning walking tour of Lower Manhattan on the Fourth of July, with Gatess story as the centerpiece. Make that very early morning: It begins at 2 a.m. and ends at 6. You wouldnt believe how many people have said, Its a great time of day for a tour, because Im not doing anything then, Mr. Kaplan said. According to Mr. Kaplan, Gates was a perpetual underdog who believed that men should advance in life through merit, not wealth. Gates was born in England and became a soldier. After several frustrating years trying to ad-

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vance, he left the British Army and sailed to the colonies, becoming a farmer in Virginia. When the Revolution broke out, he volunteered for the colonial forces. In this army, he rose rapidly through the ranks, perhaps largely because he had a deep understanding of the enemy. By August 1777, the British and American forces were at a standoff in New York. Gates was placed at the head of the Northern Army. Within a month of taking control, his force grew to be equal in size to that of the British. Eventually he amassed an army of 17,000 men. People kept coming in, Mr. Kaplan said. It was like Woodstock. In September, British and American troops clashed at Saratoga, and the Americans were defeated. Some of the officers serving under Gates including Benedict Arnold urged an immediate counterattack, but he called for restraint and told them

to wait for a British offensive. Sure enough, a British attack failed, allowing American forces to encircle and defeat the British on Oct. 7. While it was Gatess strategy that achieved victory, it was Arnold who led that final attack. That is why Arnold, not Gates, is often credited with the victory. It was his strategy that was successful, said Mr. Kaplan, referring to Gates. Saratoga was a decisive moment, spurring the French to enter the war on the side of the Americans, which helped secure eventual victory. Many people today, Mr. Kaplan said, would say that Benedict Arnold won it. I say its bunk, he continued. The whole thing was over before Arnold even jumped in. Yet Gates might have helped put himself on the path to relative obscurity. He had a falling out with George Washington. And in 1780, his forces were defeated at the Battle of Camden in South Carolina. The New York chapter of the D.A.R. decided his memory was worthy of revival. After Mr. Kaplan wrote an article about the general, the organizations New York State regent, Denise Doring VanBuren, made a commitment to raise $2,200 for a marble marker on the south side of the Trinity cemetery. On Sunday afternoon, members of the organization, some of whom had traveled from as far as Florida and Kansas, gathered by the plaque. With the cemeterys soft green ground treacherous for high heels, they listened as Mr. Kaplan spoke of the general, who was in his 50s at the time of Saratoga and was called Granny Gates, by his peers. I thought it was such a wonderful historic opportunity to be here, said Rhoda Justice Garcia, 63, of Tampa, Fla., a descendant of Brig. Gen. Silas Newcomb, another Revolutionary War leader. I knew about Gates, but now I will look up more.

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Challenging Owners to Raise Wages, Workers at a Second Carwash Vote to Unionize

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Maintaining that they face widespread minimum-wage violations, workers at a Bronx carwash belonging to one of the citys largest carwash owners voted to unionize on Saturday, making it the second of New York Citys 200 or so carwashes where workers joined a union. The workers at Webster Carwash, nearly all of them immigrants, voted 23 to 5 to unionize after a six-month campaign, according to officials with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which joined with several worker advocacy groups to organize the employees. The effort was part of a campaign to unionize dozens of New

York City carwashes with the aim of achieving better wages, worker treatment and safety conditions. Last month, workers at Astoria Car Wash and Hi-Tek 10 Minute Lube in Queens became the first carwash not just in New York, but on the entire East Coast, to unionize, voting 21 to 5 to do so. Webster Carwash is owned by Lage Management Corporation, which owns several dozen carwashes that have faced a wave of wage lawsuits and investigations. The company, headed by John Lage, agreed to pay $3.4 million in back wages and damages in 2009 to 1,187 current and former employees to settle a lawsuit accusing it of many wage violations. And last spring, officials in

the office of the New York State attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, said they were investigating Mr. Lages carwashes over possible wage violations. Ernesto Salazar, an immigrant from El Salvador who has worked at Webster Carwash for six years, said he was delighted about the vote. This is a time for immigrant workers to earn a voice through their union to speak up to their bosses, Mr. Salazar said in Spanish through an interpreter. The union will support us in pushing to raise wages. You cant afford to live here on the amount they pay us. Mr. Salazar says he earned $6.50 an hour, 75 cents below the federal minimum wage. He said he had been earning $5.50 an

A corporation paid millions in back pay and damages in 2009.

hour, but received a raise after the unionization drive started. He said he does receive some cash tips. He added that the workers wanted better safety training and conditions in light of the many chemicals they use in cleaning and polishing cars. An employee at Webster Carwash who answered the telephone on Sunday said that no manager was available to answer questions from a reporter. And an

employee who answered for Mr. Lages main corporate office in Pelham Manor, N.Y., said to call back on Monday because the office was closed. Mr. Lages son Michael Lage, who is also part of the business, has in the past denied accusations of wage violations, saying that the lawsuits and claims the companys carwashes face were part of an effort by the union to attract new members and their dues payments. The retail workers union had worked closely with two advocacy groups, Make the Road New York and New York Communities for Change. The groups have submitted petitions to unionize two other Lage-owned carwashes, one in SoHo and one in Queens.

There are an estimated 5,000 carwash workers in the city. We are proud of the employees at Webster, who have taken a significant step toward improving their jobs and their lives by voting to join the union, said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. These brave workers stood up to their employer, like David slaying Goliath. Last April, the citys public advocate, Bill de Blasio, pointing to the wage violation charges, urged city agencies to stop using Lage-owned carwashes to clean city vehicles. He said that since 2010, the city had paid the Lage Management Corporation more than $170,000 for cleaning city cars.

METROPOLITAN DIARY

EAR DIARY: Late in the day on Sept. 13, I took my 7-year-old daughter, Emma, with me to vote in the primary. I explained to her that while there were not many races to vote on actually only one in my district I rarely miss a vote because I consider it my duty as a citizen and a privilege that too many in this country take for granted. My daughter has accompanied me when I have voted in most instances since she was 3, and so understood the experience and was excited to go. But I was nonetheless surprised when as we walked into the school that serves as our polling place, she asked if she could pull the lever inside the booth. And then it dawned on me: she represents the last generation of New Yorkers who will know what that was like. Not surprisingly, even she felt a little disappointed at the seeming lack of gravitas of filling in a circle and scanning the form. That was it? she asked. Yep, that was it. Guess we all

need to adjust to new systems. Jessica Goldfarb Dear Diary: A yogurt store in our SoHo neighborhood serves its various yogurt concoctions in small glass bowls. When it first opened some months ago, the bowls were plain glass. Now the bowls have the name of the company imprinted on them in raised glass letters. You take the yogurt home in its glass bowl, and if you return the cleaned bowl to the store, you get 25 cents off your next order. The thing is that these bowls, now numbering about 25 in our home, keep piling up in our kitchen and we keep forgetting to bring them back. Customers I chat with in the yogurt store tell me they have the same problem. We are all wondering if these bowls are the new status symbol of SoHo shoppers. Then again we wonder why the yogurt store cant just use recyclable paper containers! Jennifer Dorn Dear Diary: I am a second-year medical student at Mount Sinai on the Upper East Side. I was walking home down Madison with my just spent 14 hours in the hospital dont talk to me face when an elderly gentleman in a suit called out to me, Excuse me, do you know where Sarabeths is? I had never heard of the place Im an unseasoned Upper East

nounced so that we all could hear, I didnt even know she was sick! It later occurred to me that this routine had probably been going on for years every time Aida was on the bill. And now that the Lincoln Center Met stores its scenery in-house, we have seen the end of Egyptian processionals on Seventh Avenue. Jerrold Goldman Dear Diary: I was traveling to Queens to celebrate my mothers 87th birthday, and to take her to her favorite restaurant, Applebees in Bayside. Before lunch, I had to shop for her at Waldbaums in College Point. Two police cars with blinking red lights followed me into the parking lot and stopped right behind me. One officer asked to see my license. I wasnt speeding, was I, Officer? I asked. No, you werent. But see that? Thats the problem, he said, pointing to my windows. He could have been speaking Russian. I had no idea what he was referring to. Its your tinted windows. Were trying to eliminate them. Heres a ticket, but if you get it fixed in two weeks, itll cancel out the ticket, he said. The burglars, bank thieves and others are still on the lam, but I got caught and ticketed for tinted windows. Clearly every good deed, like taking your mom out for her 87th birthday, gets punished. Gary M. Stern

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Sider so I pulled out my iPhone and mapped the address. Four blocks that way. Eager to get home, I dismissed his thanks and tried to rush off ahead. But the man was sprightly and stuck with me. On the first block he thanked me. On the second block he told me, in reference to my iPhone, that he was too old to try new things. Between the third and fourth blocks he clutched my arm as I tried to cross on a red light. I walked the last block more slowly with him, his hand still on my arm, and when we got to

Sarabeths he released me, said, Wish me luck its a first date, and went inside. Sophie Clarke Dear Diary: The opening of the Metropolitan Opera always reminds me of when I used to pass by the stage door in back of the old Met on Seventh Avenue every morning on my walk from Pennsylvania Station to my office in Times Square. The sidewalk would be cluttered with flats, props and pieces of scenery. Workers would be busy taking out the previous

nights set and moving things in for that evenings performance. One morning we were delayed to allow a large sarcophagus to be removed from a parked van. Six burly workers placed it carefully on their shoulders, three on each side, and marched with slow, measured steps across the sidewalk and up the ramp through the stage door. Two more men, flanking the entrance, respectfully doffed their caps and lowered their heads as the cortege passed into the building. As they replaced their hats, one of them an-

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Pope Canonizes 7 Saints, Including 2 Women With New York Ties

Many Believers Cross the Atlantic For a Vatican Mass
By RACHEL DONADIO

VATICAN CITY Tens of thousands of faithful, some wearing feathered headdresses and beads, others in colorful Hawaiian shirts and leis, turned out Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven saints, including the first American Indian one as well as a 19th-century nun who tended to patients with leprosy in Hawaii. Cheers rose from the crowd when the pope named Kateri Tekakwitha, known as Lily of the Mohawks and beloved by American Indians; and Sister Marianne Cope, a German-born nun who was raised in Utica, N.Y., before moving to Hawaii. But the loudest cheers were for St. Pedro Calungsod, a 17th-century Filipino martyr, from a large contingent of Italys Filipino community that came out to celebrate. The canonization Mass comes amid a meeting of bishops aimed at shoring up religious belief worldwide, and several of the saints were missionaries. Benedict prayed that the witness of the new saints would speak today to the whole church. May their intercession strengthen and sustain her in her mission to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world, he added. Kateri was born in Auriesville, N.Y., about 40 miles northwest of Albany, in 1656, to an Algonquin mother and a father who was Mohawk. She was baptized by French Jesuits at age 20, after losing her parents in a smallpox epidemic. After being persecuted by some of her contemporaries for her faith, she fled to an Indian settlement in what is now Canada, where she died at age 24. Kateri impresses us by the action of grace in her life in spite of the absence of external help, and by the courage of her vocation, so unusual in her culture, Benedict said, as he sat on a golden throne wearing a cream-colored mantle with golden stripes and a miter with red trim. May her example help us to live where we are, loving Jesus without denying who we are, he said. St. Kateri, protectress of Canada and the first American Indian saint, we entrust you to the renewal of the faith in the first nations and in all of North America. American Indians from across the United States and Canada had come to Rome to celebrate Kateri, who had long been a symbol of hope. Early Sunday morning, a group from the First Nation of the Ojibwe in Manitoba, Canada, stood in St. Peters Square sounding round leather drums and singing Kateri, o Kateri, youre in my holy plan. Were very excited and happy to be here, said one singer, Nancy Bruyere, who wore two long black braids and fringed leather

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Clergymen gathered Sunday in St. Peters Square as Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven, including Kateri Tekakwitha, an American Indian. Last year, Benedict confirmed that Jake Finkbonner, receiving holy communion, left, was cured of flesheating bacteria after his parents prayed to Kateri in 2006. Some people wore headdresses to honor her.
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clothing. Last year, Benedict confirmed that an 11-year-old American Indian boy from Washington State had been miraculously cured of flesh-eating bacteria after his parents prayed for intervention through Kateri in 2006, the second miracle required to confirm her sainthood. Some American Indians have said that canonizing Kateri is an implicit offense to American Indian traditions, but Eleanor Smith, a youthful 80, from Albuquerque, did not agree. Its a combination of your Catholic and your native traditions blending together, said Ms.

Smith, who is of Mississippi Choctaw and Navajo heritage. We all believe in the same creator. God, creator, Father Sky its all the same. Others came to honor St. Marianne Cope, a former mother superior of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis in Syracuse, who moved to the island of Molokai in 1883 to tend to those with Hansens disease, or leprosy. There, she worked with Father Damien De Veuster, a Belgian priest who was canonized in 2009. Benedict called St. Marianne, who died in 1913, a shining and energetic example of the best of the tradition of Catholic nursing

sisters and of the spirit of her beloved St. Francis. Kathleen Ford, 67, had come with a group from the Diocese of Syracuse. You can relate to her; she was a forerunner in health care, Ms. Ford said, as she stood in a group wearing white kerchiefs that read, Sisters of St. Francis. Beloved lover of outcasts. The Vatican confirmed that a woman from Syracuse was cured from complications of pancreatitis in 2005 after praying to Mother Marianne, the second miracle needed to assure the nuns sainthood. Yvonne Pascua, 65, said she

had come to Rome from Kapaa on the island of Kauai for the canonizations of both St. Marianne and St. Damien. After Father Damien, Sister Marianne stepped up to the plate, she said. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said it was an honor to have two saints with ties to the state. This is an extraordinarily blessed day for New York, with now St. Kateri and St. Marianne Cope, he said after Sundays Mass. We share them. The Canadians love St. Kateri and the Hawaiians St. Marianne Cope, but boy oh boy are we ever holding our heads high in New York,

added the cardinal, who is expected to travel to Syria this week as part of a delegation chosen by Benedict to deliver spiritual support to the war-torn region. St. Pedro Calungsod was killed by tribesmen on Guam in 1672 when he was helping Spanish Jesuits convert the natives. Among the other saints named Sunday were Jacques Berthieu, a 19th-century Jesuit missionary who was killed by rebels in Madagascar; Carmen Salles y Barangueras, a Spanish nun; and Giovanni Battista Piamarta who founded a Catholic press in Brescia, Italy.

A Brooklyn High School Where the Goal Isnt to Finish in 4 Years

From Page A17 University of New York, which also helped develop the course work. Mr. Litow said that while no positions at I.B.M. could be guaranteed six years in the future, the company would give P-Tech students preference for openings. They would also be well-trained for other information technology jobs, Mr. Litow said. Because that is the problem, he said. Too few kids have these skills. P-Tech students are chosen by lottery, with academics not factored in, said Josh Thomases, the Education Departments deputy chief academic officer. Mr. Davis said that 52 percent of last years ninth graders scored below proficiency on their math and English eighth-grade exams. But he noted that 76 of those 102 pupils had already passed the English and Integrated Algebra Regents exams. He said 16 took a college class over the summer at the New York City College of Technology, and since school began this year, they and 34 others are enrolled in at least one college class that is taught at P-Tech by one of three professors from the college. At the center of all this is the notion that there are young people who have as much potential to learn what we think of as basic academics as anyone, but whose learning style, whose interests and preferences are for doing things where they can see: What does this mean? Why am I doing this? said Stephen F. Hamilton, a professor of human development at Cornell University who has studied the success of Germanys apprenticeship programs. Right now, he added, I think what P-Tech is trying to do is laudable. There were 600 applicants for the second freshman class, or about six times as many as for the first. This is despite the schools threadbare appearance. Mr. Davis said he pours most of his resources into academics even using Robesons beat-up desks to save on costs. You have to know where to place your priorities, and our priorities are in the intellectual capital of the people that we hire, said Mr. Davis, who added that 88 percent of his students were poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-price lunch (the citywide average is about 75 percent). Whether the school is worth the investment depends on how it is compared. Since most vocational schools finish in four years Mr. Litow said some P-Tech students could be on a fast track to finish in four the sixyear program costs the city more. But most of the jobs the students are aiming for require at least a two-year associates degree as well. Absent financial aid, New York Citys community colleges charge $3,900 a year in tuition. And what is the return on the individual student? Mr. Litow said. It is the difference between a low-wage job with no career job, like Eketa Roberts, 15, who said she wanted to be a lawyer, possibly in technology; Cierra Copeland, 15, who wants to be a cardiac surgeon; and Clifton McDonald, 15, who wants to create technology that improves on prosthetics, and also write fiction. Clifton has already written five chapters of a novel about a boy with amnesia, who woke up in a world that he doesnt completely recognize. Another, Lamar Agard, 14, noted the practical realities, too. Im getting an associate degree, he said as he sat in his ninth-grade math class. Its giving me the opportunity of getting my college degree without having to pay for it. Recently in Dan Berkleys 10th-grade physics class which was being taught in part by Brian Lewis, a math teacher the students were well dressed and some even had briefcases. Amare Lewis, 15, said he never wore a tie to school until now. If Im going to take these classes, and be part of I.B.M., I feel like I want to dress well, he said.

An I.B.M. partnership gives an advantage to students who have an interest in technology.

and the solid wages and skills to have a productive middle-class job. Several students at P-Tech said they felt the school was giving them a new start in academia, by appealing to their passions for learning something that moved them. Some were already looking beyond the prospect of an I.B.M.

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Students use computers even in an English class at P-Tech.

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The Myth of Job Creation

The government does in fact create jobs, important jobs, millions of them
The headlines from the last presidential debate focused on President Obama challenging Mitt Romney on issue after issue. There was a less noticed, but no less remarkable, moment when Mr. Obama agreed with Mr. Romney on something and both were entirely wrong. The exchange began with a question about the offshoring of American jobs. Part of Mr. Obamas answer was that federal investments in education, science and research would help to ensure that companies invest and hire in the United States. Mr. Romney interrupted. Government does not create jobs, he said. Government does not create jobs. It was a decidedly crabbed response to a seemingly uncontroversial observation, and yet Mr. Obama took the bait. He said his political opponents had long harped on this notion that I think government creates jobs, that that somehow is the answer. Thats not what I believe. He went on to praise free enterprise and to say that governments role is to create the conditions for everyone to have a fair shot at success. So, they agree. Government does not create jobs. Except that it does, millions of them including teachers, police officers, firefighters, soldiers, sailors, astronauts, epidemiologists, antiterrorism agents, park rangers, diplomats, governors (Mr. Romneys old job) and congressmen (like Paul Ryan). First, the basics. At last count, government at all levels federal, state and local employed 22 million Americans, with the largest segment working in public education. Is that too many? No. Since the late 1980s, the number of public-sector workers has averaged about 7.3 for every 100 people. With the loss of 569,000 government jobs since June 2009, that ratio now stands at about 7 per 100. Public-sector job loss means trouble for everyone. Government jobs are crucial to education, public health and safety, environmental protection, defense, homeland security and myriad other functions that the private sector cannot fulfill. They are also critical for private-sector job growth in two fundamental ways. First, the government gets its supplies from private-sector companies, which is why Republican senators like John McCain have been frantically warning about the dire effects on job creation if Congress moves ahead with planned military spending cuts. (Republicans insisted upon the cuts as part of their ill-advised showdown over the debt ceiling.) Second, government spending on supplies and salaries reverberates strongly through the economy, increasing demand and with it, employment. That means the economy suffers when government cuts back. A report by the Economic Policy Institute examined the effect of recent cutbacks at the state and local level including direct loss of government jobs and indirect loss of suppliers jobs; the jobs that should have been added to keep up with population growth; and the reduction in purchasing power from other cutbacks. If not for state and local budget austerity, the report found, the economy would have 2.3 million more jobs today, half of which would be in the private sector. The government does not create jobs? It most certainly does. And at this time of state budgetary hardship, a dose of federal fiscal aid to states and localities could create more jobs, in both the public and private sectors.

How to Measure a Teachers Effectiveness

TO THE EDITOR:

Re Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings (Op-Ed, Oct. 15): I couldnt agree more with Deborah Kenny that evaluating teachers with high-stakes tests is a dreadful idea. However, her use of hearsay and anecdote to fire the teacher whose students performed exceptionally well on the state exam but whose attitude was viewed as negative demonstrates why the answer to teacher accountability does not lie at the opposite extreme of employment-atwill contracts that undermine due process. Who holds principals accountable? Ms. Kennys anti-union approach sidesteps the hard work of documenting teachers over time and helping them improve, even if that improvement may involve an attitude adjustment. Districts that use peer-assisted review use master teachers to evaluate peers, and the results are taken before a panel that includes union leaders and district supervisors. This approach allows for rigorous and authentic evaluation, honors due process and gets rid of teachers who do not improve. GARY ANDERSON New York, Oct. 15, 2012 The writer is a professor at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University.
TO THE EDITOR:

observations and measures of student learning that dont eliminate principal judgment, but give principals a fuller picture of teacher performance. Indeed, the teacher whom Ms. Kenny uses as an example would not fare well under such a system; despite his students success on tests, his rating would be pulled down by low classroom practice scores from his principal. A better approach for rating teachers is not enough, by itself. But without addressing evaluation, we have little hope of improving education quality or strengthening the teaching profession. TIMOTHY DALY Brooklyn, Oct. 15, 2012 The writer is president of TNTP, a national organization working to ensure effective teaching.
TO THE EDITOR:

Deborah Kenny discusses how parents, students, administrators and teachers know who the good and underper-

Faith, Football and the First Amendment

A Texas case is testing whether a landmark Supreme Court ruling is still the law of the land
When the football team of Kountze High School in East Texas runs on the field for games this season, the players burst through banners carrying words from the Bible. To the schools cheerleaders, the banners are personal statements, sharing messages of inspiration. They say the banners are a form of free speech and religious expression protected by the Texas Constitution and Texas statutes. But under a 2000 Supreme Court ruling in a Texas case, this kind of religious display at a public school event clearly violates the First Amendment. Those banners are not merely personal expressions of belief, but in that setting become religious messages endorsed by the school, the school district and the local government. Thats why officials of the school district last month prohibited the banners at football games. Cheerleaders and their parents sued, and on Thursday, a state court judge temporarily blocked the school districts policy and allowed the cheerleaders to use religious banners until the case is resolved in a trial next June. In the 2000 case, the Supreme Court said the Constitution prohibits a student from delivering prayers over the public address system before each football game because that practice violates the First Amendments Establishment Clause, which forbids government from favoring a particular religion. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority, the choice between whether to attend these games or to risk facing a personally offensive religious ritual is in no practical sense an easy one. The Constitution, he said, demands that the school may not force this difficult choice upon these students. Texass attorney general, Greg Abbott, intervened to support the cheerleaders and Gov. Rick Perry endorsed the move. If you think about it, the governor said, the Kountze cheerleaders simply wanted to call a little attention to their faith and to their Lord. These officials are blind to the dangers to religious freedom when government shifts from being neutral about religion to favoring a particular one. In fact, this problem is prevalent all over Texas. According to a report last month by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, aggressive championing of Christian beliefs in state classrooms, assemblies and graduation ceremonies as well as at football games seems to have many school districts, parents and students cowed in an atmosphere of intimidation and even fear. As Justice Stevens said, One of the purposes served by the Establishment Clause is to remove debate over this kind of issue from governmental supervision or control, to avoid the dangers of a union between church and state. In this country including in Texas the Constitution does not leave religious freedom up to majority rule.

Deborah Kenny speculates that rating teachers will ruin teaching. But we have good evidence that not rating teachers accurately is already doing incredible damage. In 2009, my organization showed how existing evaluation systems label virtually all teachers good or great, rendering such ratings meaningless and preventing schools from recognizing excellence, helping teachers reach their full potential or addressing poor performance. The effects on the teaching profession are devastating. Teachers end up being treated like widgets rather than professionals, and school districts end up without the information they need to improve teacher quality, which has a greater impact on student achievement than any other factor they can control. Getting teacher evaluation right is tough, but states like New York are on the right path by insisting on multiple assessment methods such as classroom

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forming teachers are without ratings. That is true. The problem is that it is almost impossible to remove the poor teachers, and they know that. Have ratings or dont have ratings. That is not the salient point. It is employment-at-will contracts that will improve teaching. Let schools decide on the teachers they wish to hire, retain and dismiss based on the criteria they think best. Tenure is the real problem. DEBORAH PRIGAL Washington, Oct. 15, 2012

Higher Mass Transit Fares? A Look at the Numbers

TO THE EDITOR:

For Congress From New York and Connecticut

New York and Connecticut have some of the most competitive Congressional races in the country. Here are our choices in six key races: New Yorks 11th Congressional District (Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn) The Democrat, Mark Murphy, is a much-needed fresh face to represent this beleaguered district. A former media and real estate executive, Mr. Murphy most recently worked for the New York City public advocate, Bill de Blasio. He says his priority would be to work to preserve health care reform, Medicare and social services. Michael Grimm, the incumbent and a Republican, was carried into office in 2010 by Tea Party conservatives. A swirl of investigations around Mr. Grimm raises questions about his past judgment and fund-raising. One business associate was convicted of skimming $2 million from electric bills. In September, prosecutors said that another business associate has ties to the Gambino crime family, and a former campaign fund-raiser for Mr. Grimm has been charged with immigration fraud. Mr. Grimm denies any wrongdoing, but this race should be an easy choice for voters. We endorse Mr. Murphy. New Yorks 18th Congressional District (Orange, Putnam, parts of Dutchess and Westchester) Representative Nan Hayworth, a freshman Republican, is locked in a bitter contest with the Democrat, Sean Patrick Maloney, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and two New York governors, David Paterson and Eliot Spitzer. Despite her Tea Party support, Dr. Hayworth, a retired ophthalmologist, tries to cast herself as a moderate, particularly on womens issues. Yet she has favored limiting contraception coverage for employees and voted to defund Planned Parenthood. Mr. Maloney promises to support health care reform, help the middle class and oppose tax cuts for the rich. We recommend Mr. Maloney. New Yorks 24th Congressional District (the Syracuse area) All that voters really need to know is that their conservative Republican congresswoman, Ann Marie Buerkle, was named one of the Flat Earth Five by the League of Conservation Voters. She won this title for denying the existence of global warming. Dan Maffei, the Democratic congressman unseated by Ms. Buerkle and the Tea Party in 2010, is back for a rematch. He is a lawyer whose reasonable views include a far better record on the environment. We endorse Mr. Maffei. New Yorks 25th Congressional District (the Rochester area) Representative Louise Slaughter, a 13-term Democrat, is in a tight race with Republican Maggie Brooks, the Monroe County executive. Ms. Slaughter has worked to bring development to her Rust Belt district and is a strong supporter of health care reform. Her opponent wants to undo that law. We recommend Ms. Slaughter. New Yorks 27th Congressional District (the states northwest corner) Representative Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is in a close race with Chris Collins, a Republican former Erie County executive. He wants to overturn health care reform and has criticized Ms. Hochul for supporting more spending on schools and other services in her area. She describes herself as a moderate and voted against the Ryan budget. She is by far the better candidate. Connecticuts Fifth Congressional District (northwestern area) In this open seat there are two excellent candidates. Elizabeth Esty, a Democrat, is a lawyer, womens rights advocate and former member of the Connecticut Assembly. State Senator Andrew Roraback, the Republican, is a rare moderate who supports womens rights, campaign finance reform and protecting the environment. Ms. Esty has proved she will vote her conscience. She voted to abolish capital punishment after a gruesome murder in her state, losing her Assembly seat as a result. This is the kind of political fortitude Washington desperately needs. We endorse Ms. Esty.

Your Oct. 13 editorial Another Fare Increase? reflects the frustration of many transit riders in the New York City area and the hope that somehow the state can step in and reduce the problem. But there are several realities that should be considered as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority holds public hearings on proposed fare increases. First, when all relevant costs, including interest payments on debt, are considered, transit riders now pay less than half the cost of their rides. By its own analysis, the M.T.A. recovers only 36 percent of its costs through fares systemwide. Second, the M.T.A.s policy of regular and predictable fare increases is preferable to the historic pattern of large irregular increases in tough times. Third, since 1996, when MetroCards were introduced, the average price of a subway or bus ride (including discounts for multiple purchases and free bus

transfers) has increased only 18 percent, from $1.38 to $1.63. In contrast, the cost of a cup of coffee has risen 100 percent, a gallon of milk 126 percent and a gallon of gas 177 percent. Rather than look for more state tax revenues, a better approach would be to seek a greater cross-subsidy from motor vehicle users, who benefit from the reduced traffic that mass transit makes possible. The M.T.A. already uses some of its toll revenue to cover mass transit costs, and it receives a portion of the license and registration fees the state charges drivers. These sources and new ones, such as tolls to enter the central business district, are preferable on efficiency and equity grounds to relying on more general taxes or on fare increases above half the actual costs of providing a ride. CAROL KELLERMANN President Citizens Budget Commission New York, Oct. 15, 2012

Out of Afghanistan
TO THE EDITOR:

Avoiding Highway Crashes

TO THE EDITOR:

Re Time to Pack Up (editorial, Oct. 14): I was thrilled with your editorial calling for the United States to leave Afghanistan not in 2014, as scheduled, but as soon as we can responsibly do so. The American people are fed up with a long, no-win war that has not only witnessed widespread political and economic corruption but has also seen the deaths of more than 2,000 of our troops. The war isnt worth the death of one more of our brave soldiers. The billions of dollars that we have poured into this war could have been far better used for the pressing needs here at home. The bitter irony is that whether we stay in Afghanistan or leave now will make little difference to the state of the country. Our own interests require that we leave now. H. DAVID TEITELBAUM Redwood City, Calif., Oct. 15, 2012

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Re A Sad Sequence of Collisions, by Cynthia Wachtell (Op-Ed, Oct. 13): Motor vehicle crashes dont just happen to public officials or their families; they happen to everyone. Every week, more than 600 people die on our roads. If airplanes crashed this frequently, the response of our elected leaders would be swift and decisive. Federal and state officials ignore or are slow to advance common-sense and cost-effective laws and regulations to improve driver and vehicle safety. Last year, only a few states seriously considered laws to improve teenage driver safety, toughen drunken driving penalties, ban texting or require all motorcycle riders to wear helmets. Instead, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan signed legislation repealing the states motorcycle helmet law despite conclusive data showing that helmet use reduces deaths, prevents brain injuries and saves taxpayers money. Highway crashes are an unacceptable public health epidemic. Traffic deaths are climbing again, and we have solutions at hand. Unfortunately, we lack political leadership at all levels of government. JACQUELINE S. GILLAN President, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety Washington, Oct. 14, 2012

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Presidential Mitt
he is Egypts first democratically elected president, and hes torn between the forces of virulent Islamism and tolerant secularism. He needs, and may respond to, our help and encouragement. Morsi is nobodys idea of a model democrat, but he has stood by Egypts treaty with Israel, called for the overthrow of Syrias murderous regime, and seems to want doing the same in Afghanistan). But you lack standing to make that case. You endorsed the war, and one of your main foreign policy mentors, Dan Senor, was complicit in the worst failures of the occupation. Admitting that you were wrong is not easy. (Trust me.) But I think voters would respect something along these lines: Like most Americans I supported President Bushs decision to intervene in Iraq. That was a mistake. It distracted us from the more important mission in Afghanistan, and on top of that we botched the occupation. But we should learn from our mistakes, not run from them. And President Obama was in such a hurry to get out that he left Iraq in serious danger sist the temptation to be too bold: President Obama is right to be cautious about Syria. It is an immensely complicated, dangerous problem that menaces half a dozen other states in the region. But on Syria, as on so many other problems around the globe, the presidents response to a complicated problem has been to turn away, to play it down. I have no intention of taking America to war in Syria, but the best way to avoid that is not to sit back while the situation deteriorates. As president I will invite Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey, other NATO leaders and our Arab allies to Camp David for an urgent summit aimed at bringing the Syrian civil war, and the Assad regime, to an end.
OPEN THE DOOR TO A DEAL WITH IRAN

N the closing weeks of debates, rallies and advertising, Mitt Romney has reinvented himself, or re-rereinvented himself, as a technocrat with a heart. Gone from the stage is the ideologue he portrayed in his quest for the nomination. Some see the current rendering as the authentic Mitt. Others see a soulless opportunist. My own suspicion is that Romney has the instincts of a center-right pragmatist, but that if elected he will be hostage to the same far-right forces he kowtowed to in the primaries. Monday night, in the only debate devoted to foreign policy, he has a chance to put the finishing touches on this latest, less extreme version of himself. On foreign policy Romney has sometimes displayed the worst aspects of neocon and neophyte. On the particulars his policy playbook is hard to distinguish from President Obamas, but on the stump we often get the swagger of a freedom-agenda cowboy combined with a gift for gaffe. This is not, of course, a foreign-policy election, but voters want a threshold level of competence and judgment. Romneys goal tonight is to set a tone and an agenda that wins the respect of those who pay attention to the subject (and who will write the next-day appraisals) while reassuring the broader electorate that he can be trusted with our security. Id describe myself as a qualified admirer of President Obamas foreign policy. It is reactive and rarely inspiring, but judicious and flexible. Romney shows little instinct for a dangerously complex world. But in the spirit of nonpartisanship, heres my advice to the challenger. of the few foreign-policy moments of the second debate, the discussion of the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, you blew an opportunity to cast doubt on Obamas record as the scourge of terrorists. Your problem was not the argument over when the president identified the attack as an act of terror. Your real mistake was playing political gotcha with a national tragedy. You turned a fair question into a cheap shot, and you got your comeuppance. This time, try to remember that you are not campaigning for a job at The Weekly Standard.

The Secret Of Our Non-Success

The U.S. economy finally seems to be recovering in earnest, with housing on the rebound and job creation outpacing growth in the working-age population. But the news is good, not great it will still take years to restore full employment and it has been a very long time coming. Why has the slump been so protracted? The answer backed by overwhelming evidence is that this is what normally happens after a severe financial crisis. But Mitt Romneys economic team rejects that evidence. And this denialism bodes ill for policy if Mr. Romney wins next month. About the evidence: The most famous study is by Harvards Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, who looked at past financial crises and found that such crises are typically followed by years of high unemployment and weak growth. Later work by economists at the International Monetary Fund and elsewhere confirmed this analysis: crises that followed a sharp run-up in private-sector debt, from the U.S. Panic of 1893 to the Swedish banking crisis of the early 1990s, cast long shadows over the economys future. There was no reason to believe that this time would be different. This isnt an after-the-fact rationalization. The Reinhart-Rogoff aftermath paper was released almost four years ago. And a number of other economists, including, well, me, issued similar warnings. In early 2008 I was already pointing out the distinction between recessions like 1973-5 or 1981-2, brought on by high interest rates, and postmodern recessions brought on by private-sector overreach. And I suggested that the recession we were then entering would be followed by a prolonged jobless recovery that would feel like a continuing recession. Why is recovery from a financial crisis slow? Financial crises are preceded by credit bubbles; when those bubbles burst, many families and/or companies are left with high levels of debt, which force them to slash their spending. This slashed spending, in turn, depresses the economy as a whole. And the usual response to recession, cutting interest rates to encourage spending, isnt adequate. Many families simply cant spend more, and interest rates can be cut only so far namely, to zero but not below. Does this mean that nothing can be done to avoid a protracted slump after a financial crisis? No, it just means that you have to do more than just cut interest rates. In particular, what the economy really needs after a financial crisis is a temporary increase in government spending, to sustain employment while the private sector repairs its balance sheet. And the Obama administration did some of that, blunting the severity of the financial crisis. Unfortunately, the stimulus was both too small and too short-lived, partly because of administration errors but mainly because of scorched-earth Republican obstruction. Which brings us to the politics. Over the past few months advisers to the Romney campaign have mounted a furious assault on the notion that finan-

On the subject of Irans nuclear program, you have been all bluster. You attacked Obama for offering to negotiate, when it was precisely that willingness foolishly rebuffed by Tehran that earned the president sufficient credibility to enlist a broad alliance behind really tough sanctions. In the past you have said Iran should be denied not only nuclear weapons but the right to enrich uranium for civilian uses, a deal-killer. Most important, you sound not just ready to use force, but eager. Now there is talk of one-to-one negotiations. Tell us that as president you would plan to bargain from strength, but bargain seriously. And dont take civilian enrichment off the table.
APPLY SOME BAIN RIGOR TO DEFENSE

Your proudest credential for the presidency is that you have worked in the private sector, turning bloated enterprises into models of efficiency and productivi-

GO EASY ON BENGHAZI Governor, in one

What Romney can say to sound like a credible commander in chief.

ty. The one place you have failed to capitalize on that is our national defense. On the contrary, you have advocated that the military be guaranteed a minimum of 4 percent of our national wealth. Youve got it backward: Heres your money, now what do you need? The better Romney line: I will not stint on national security or shortchange the men and women who serve their country. But I will apply the discipline I learned in the private sector to make sure our defense dollars are spent wisely. The U.S. military will be a lean, mean fighting machine.
COOL IT ON CHINA You wouldnt be the
NICHOLAS BLECHMAN

SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS Everyone knows you are de-

voted to the security of Israel. But if, as you told the audience at Virginia Military Institute earlier this month, you are committed to work for a democratic Palestinian state, you have to get past some big obstacles of your own making: your slavish affection for Bibi Netanyahu, your private assertion to donors in the infamous video that Palestinian statehood was almost unthinkable, your suggestion that there is something defective in Palestinian culture. Why not tip your hat to the moderate modernizers like Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, the president and prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, who have struggled, despite the intransigence of Israel and the intransigents in their own ranks, to tamp down the violence and build the rudiments of a state? It might not maximize your Jewish support in Florida, but it would enhance your credibility as a peacemaker, currently nonexistent.
AND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT, EXTEND A HAND TO MOHAMED MORSI He may be a

of a civil war that could do as much harm as Saddam Hussein ever did.
DONT RUSH INTO SYRIA A lot of voters

good relations with the U.S. And in Egypt the likely alternative is much worse. This wont tip any swing states into your column, but it wont hurt, and it would be, pardon the expression, presidential.
CONCEDE THAT THE WAR IN IRAQ WAS A MISTAKE You have a case to make that

product of the Muslim Brotherhood, but

Obama quit Iraq badly (and that he risks

including this one agonize about how to deal with the civil war in Syria. We are horrified by the humanitarian catastrophe and would rejoice in the downfall of a monstrous regime. But (unlike some of your neocon cheerleaders), we are wary of being drawn into another regional war, or making matters worse by unleashing sectarian reprisals or empowering a Syrian version of the Taliban. Your proposal to arm the rebels carries a real risk that those weapons will be turned on us. Re-

first candidate to pummel China on the campaign trail and make nice in the White House. But the stridency of your protectionist rhetoric your promise to formally label China a currency manipulator, clearing the way for a tariff war makes many of your supporters cringe. O.K., blaming China is a time-tested applause line. But youll sound smarter if before you start the spanking you try this: A prosperous China is good for America. It is a market for our exports, a source of capital, a moderating force. In short, I advise you to demonstrate that you understand the world is a complex, unpredictable, subtle and rapidly metamorphosing place. Obama wont be expecting that. Frankly, neither will I.

The Lost World of George McGovern

By Josh Garrett-Davis

EORGE S. McGOVERN is, in some sense, the reason I exist. My parents met as radical community organizers in their early 20s, an idealistic honey-haired student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a scraggly wannabe farm boy from Brown University, knocking on doors for the now defunct Acorn. Its a typical 1975 story, except that they were pounding the pavement in Sioux Falls, S.D., a provincial little city at the edge of the upper Midwest and the Great Plains. Stranger still, they stayed in the state my dad for nearly 40 years, my mom for 15. Its astonishing to think now, but South Dakota made sense as a destination for idealistic young liberals in the mid-1970s. Senator McGovern, who died Sunday at the age of 90, had run an inspiring but catastrophic campaign for the presidency three years earlier, bravely opposing the Vietnam War. The states junior senator, James Abourezk, was another liberal Democrat and the first Arab-American elected to the upper chamber. And Red Power activism was roiling the states Indian reservations; the Wounded Knee standoff on the Pine Ridge Reservation even captured the nations attention for several months in 1973. I was born a few years later, in 1980, just months before Mr. McGovern lost his race for a fourth term in the Senate. It wasnt yet clear that the Plains political winds were shifting to the right. My parents ran a record store, Prairie Dog Records, and we lived in a small house with a low-tech solar collector, a box that trapped the bright prairie sun under glass and blew its warmth into the house on frigid winter days. In summer, we tended an organic garden fertilized with sheep manure from my godparents farm. By the time I was 3, I had formulated (or parroted) the crowd-pleasing stump speech, Ronald Reagan is mean; he gives money to rich people. We found a place amid a Plains liberalism whose patron saint was Mr. McGovern: Christian, populist, antiwar. Mr. McGovern, the son of a Methodist minister, had become horrified with war as a bomber pilot in World War II and studied theology when he returned home. Our domestic world of Free to Be . . . You and Me songs fell apart a few years after President Ronald Reagan tore the solar panels off the White House. My parents divorced, and I lived with my mom for three years until she moved to Oregon with a lesbian partner, at which point my dad won custody of me. Perhaps thats why I feel such nostalgia for the age of McGovern and

my happy early years. Our home always displayed a giant sheet of burlap on one wall with hundreds of political buttons, including Teachers for McGovern, Nurses for McGovern, and even the collectors item McGovern-Eagleton Come Home America. (Nearby, there were big 19th-century portraits of earlier Plains political leaders, like the Sioux

ELISABETH MOCH

The prairie populism of South Dakota is all but dead today.

chief Red Cloud.) These relics entertained me in a way that a television would have in a normal house. I grew up rolling my eyes at my dads endless phone conversations recruiting South Dakota Democratic candidates (by the 1990s, virtually all of them were doomed). At the time, I preferred the cultural politics of abrasive music and weird haircuts. But I inherited my dads admiration for the anti-corporate farmers with

manure-caked boots and the Lakota activists who camped out for months to protest yet another federal taking of their land. I associated Mr. McGoverns name with sitting through Quonset-hut political gatherings that democratically dragged on and on, with my numb fingers at Easter sunrise vigils protesting the Minuteman missiles embedded in the prairie, with our turntable playing Red Willow Bands song You Cant Get There From Here. Mr. McGovern had descended from a proud Plains tradition: the antiwar populism of William Jennings Bryan and the redistributive politics of the Nonpartisan League. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on labor militancy during the Colorado Coalfield War of 1913-14. Yet as I came of age, so did a new political tradition in South Dakota. Senator Larry Pressler, who replaced Senator Abourezk in 1979, attacked Big Bird and PBS long before Mitt Romney found it useful to do so. (Mr. Pressler, a Vietnam veteran, recently endorsed Mr. Obama over Mr. Romney, citing the presidents positions on veterans issues.) The old prairie populism faded as family farmers loosened their alliance with union labor. I felt increasingly out of place in South Dakota, and steadfastly hid the secret of my moms sexual orientation. Today, the old liberal Plains folk are tending a thinning row of populist Christian liberalism. Their social gospel has lost ground to anti-abortion and antigay politics. Today the State Senate has 30 Republicans and 5 Democrats. Pundits even suggested our Republican senator, John Thune, as a running mate for Mr. Romney. On a recent visit home, I watched my dad on the phone once more, futilely trying to persuade President Obamas Sioux Falls office to send a small sign and a few stickers to the Democratic Party storefront in Rapid City, S.D. It turns out Obama for America keeps an office in Sioux Falls largely to recruit volunteers to canvass Sioux City, Iowa, 90 miles away. This is a sensible strategy, I suppose. After all, South Dakota is not in play. But perhaps my dad isnt merely quixotic as he recruits candidates in impossible legislative districts. He, like Mr. Bryan and Mr. McGovern, is a man of faith, and it was faith in the promise of justice that sustained those earlier prairie progressives against seemingly hopeless odds. Like farmers, they had to believe the drought would eventually break.

On the dangers of financial crisis denialism.

cial-crisis recessions are different. For example, in July former Senator Phil Gramm and Columbias R. Glenn Hubbard published an op-ed article claiming that we should be having a recovery comparable to the bounceback from the 1981-2 recession, while a white paper from Romney advisers argues that the only thing preventing a rip-roaring boom is the uncertainty created by President Obama. Obviously, Republicans like claiming that its all Mr. Obamas fault, and that electing Mr. Romney would magically make everything better. But nobody should believe them. For one thing, these people have a track record: back in 2008, when serious students of history were already predicting a prolonged slump, Mr. Gramm was dismissing America as a nation of whiners experiencing a mere mental recession. For another, if Mr. Obama is the problem, why is the United States actually doing better than most other advanced countries? The main point, however, is that the Romney team is willfully, nakedly, distorting the record, leading Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff who arent affiliated with either campaign to protest against gross misinterpretations of the facts. And this should worry you. Look, economics isnt as much of a science as wed like. But when theres overwhelming evidence for an economic proposition as there is for the proposition that financial-crisis recessions are different we have the right to expect politicians and their advisers to respect that evidence. Otherwise, theyll end up making policy based on fantasies rather than grappling with reality. And once politicians start refusing to acknowledge inconvenient facts, where does it stop? Why, the next thing you know Republicans will start rejecting the overwhelming evidence for manmade climate change. Oh, wait.

ONLINE: MORE OP-ED

Bruce Miroff on George McGoverns character and clarity of moral vision; a selection of Mr. McGoverns Op-Ed articles for The New York Times.
nytimes.com/opinion

Josh Garrett-Davis is the author of Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains.

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Publisher Sees a Poetry In Print

Gambling is not about luck, its about timing; knowing when the moment comes to grab your winnings and push away from the table. Felix Dennis, the British magazine publisher, took America by storm in the 1990s with Maxim, a bawdy mens magazine with modTHE MEDIA EQUATION els whose garments always seemed on the precipice of falling off. The formula was so successful, he also started Stuff, a little brother brand, and Blender, a music magazine. In 2007, Mr. Dennis sold the magazines to Alpha Media, backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners II, a private equity firm, for $250 million. The bottom dropped out of the category, Stuff was folded into Maxim, Blender ceased publication, Maxim hemorrhaged ads and employees and its owners defaulted on their loans. Mr. Dennis, who built and sold computer magazines in America when the category was hot, had done it again. After selling Maxim, he repaired to England with a big bag of loot, though he did hang on to The Week, a low-cost print aggregation of news done by others, which has outlasted the print version of Newsweek. In 2011, he also bought Mental Floss, a smarty pants magazine and Web site aimed at a young, connected demographic. Mr. Dennis, who has invested aggressively in digital operations in Britain and elsewhere, is intent on proving there is still life left in Continued on Page 7

NBC Finds Itself in Unfamiliar Territory: On Top

By BILL CARTER

DAVID CARR

The television network landscape has an upside-down look this fall: NBC, last among younger viewers for a decade, is suddenly on top. Numerous unexpected factors have played a role in this surprising turnaround, some of which are not likely to last, but the numbers are clear. Among the viewers prized by most advertisers 18- to 49-year-olds NBC has beaten its network rivals every week of the new television season. Thats three weeks, and NBC is in contention to post a fourth

victory when the Nielsen accounting is official on Tuesday. (CBS, as it has for years, remains well ahead in terms of the total number of viewers.) NBCs ascent is the most striking development of the season, but it goes hand in hand with a wider story of network performance that, NBC aside, has ranged from disappointing to alarming. While NBC has managed to increase its 18-49 number an impressive 15 percent, ABC is down 12 percent, Fox is down 19 percent and CBS which had a Continued on Page 9

BP Board Approves Russia Deal

By ANDREW E. KRAMER and STANLEY REED

BROWNIE HARRIS/NBC

The science fiction drama Revolution is a breakout hit.

MOSCOW BPs board has approved an offer from the Russian state oil company, Rosneft, to buy most of BPs business in Russia for cash and shares in Rosneft, further consolidating Russias control of its oil industry, an executive with knowledge of the decision said. Under the terms of the deal, BP would remain in Russia but initially at least only as a minority investor in an oil company controlled by the government of President Vladimir V. Putin. Later, BP is hoping to use this new strategic tie with the Kremlin to drum up other business. BP had been telegraphing its willingness to make a deal for some time, and Rosneft formally submitted an offer on Thursday to buy out BPs 50 percent of a joint venture here called TNKBP. The boards authorization allowed BPs chief executive, Robert W. Dudley, to negotiate the final terms for BPs sale of its Russian holdings within a range of acceptable combinations of cash and shares, the executive with

A move is part of an oil companys shrink to grow strategy.

knowledge of the decision said. The ranges were $10 billion to $14 billion and 15 to 20 percent of Rosnefts shares. BP is likely to receive at least one seat on the board. A formal announcement is expected as early as Monday. BPs stock rose about 4 percent last week when it became clear that a deal was imminent. For BP, the sale comes as the biggest step yet in Mr. Dudleys shrink to grow strategy in the wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Mr. Dudley, a Mississippian, took over in the midst of that disaster and decided that BP, to survive, should put its global business on a new footing by selling older, less profitable fields and concentrating on exploration. BP sold assets in countries from Venezuela to Vietnam. The Russian holdings were the largest that fit the category for potential sales, comprising mostly aging oil fields in Siberia with little potential for new output. Still, they account for about 25 percent of BPs global production, or about as much oil as BP pumps in the United States, including Alaska. For the Russian Continued on Page 2

A Camera Of Daredevils Gains Appeal

There have been two major milestones in narcissistic photography in the last century. The first was the invention of the selftimer, which Kodak began selling during World War I. The second came a few years ago, as teenagers stood before mirrors takDISRUPTIONS ing pictures of themselves with camera phones to share online. The camera phone is perfect for the social networking era. But even smartphones have a limitation: you need to hold them. As the smartphone has pushed some camera companies off a cliff, a tiny, ultrahigh-resolution camera that can record that very feat has taken off into the stratosphere, figuratively and literally. The GoPro, which costs $200 to $400, was mounted on Felix Baumgartner as he sky-dived 24 miles. It has been affixed to jets traveling at Mach 5 and surfboards sent down 100-foot waves. More impressive than all of those extreme feats is that little GoPro has become the worlds fastest growing camera company. As other companies have sunk, GoPro has sold three million cameras in three years. The market research firm IDC says that makes the GoPro the most popular video camera in the country. Last week, the company, which began 10 years ago with a dispos-

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Disneys Digital Struggle

In an Effort to Succeed Online, an Overhaul for Disney.com
By BROOKS BARNES

NICK BILTON

LOS ANGELES Trying to finally master the Internet the way it has theme parks or animated films, the Walt Disney Company has redesigned its Web site, Disney.com, for the third time in five years. The new site, introduced this month and promoted as cleaner, simpler, more elegant, is one way Robert A. Iger, Disneys chief executive, hopes to turn around the companys gaming, mobile and Internet division after 15 consecutive quarters of losses some $977 million in total. Mr. Iger is optimistic about new products, which include an ambitious and un-

announced gaming initiative code-named Toy Box. He has promised that Disney Interactive will turn a profit sometime next year. Its about time, he told analysts in May, sounding a bit fed up himself. But questions abound. Disney has now taken several stabs at creating a thriving Web site, and has vacillated on game strategy. Has the entertainment giant finally solved the riddle of new media? Or is it playing a no-win game on the whiplash-fast Web? Furthermore, why has the deep-pocketed Disney taken this much time to figure it out? Weve been waiting for years and years and years, said Jessica Reif Cohen,

a senior analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. For traditional media companies, this really does seem like a totally different skill set. Figuring out the Internet is critical for all media companies, but Disneys future in particular depends on a winning strategy. The children it hopes to turn into lifelong consumers of its products are increasingly living online. Disney Channel used to be the companys most important welcome mat. Now executives refer to Disney.com as the front door. The interactive divisions losses are small for a company that last year reContinued on Page 2

A Sale Gives a Magazine on Healthy Eating a New Lease on Life

By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY

Continued on Page 6

SHELBURNE, Vt. Employees at Eating Well magazine sometimes dont quite believe their good fortune. Since the Meredith Corporation bought the magazine last year for $29 million, it moved out of the drafty warehouse offices it shared with curtain-climbing raccoons and a squirrel skilled at stealing bread loaves, and into a new $500,000 space with views of the Adirondacks and room to grow an edible garden. And the staff can

now consult with Meredith editors at magazines like Every Day With Rachael Ray and Family Circle to brainstorm about test kitchens and effective covers. But as in any new relationship, especially when it involves partners who have been burned, Eating Wells 40 employees are wary. Hachette bought Eating Well in the late 1990s and abruptly shut it down. It took a decade for the magazines small but loyal staff to build it up again and

place its trust in a new corporate owner. Everyone was a little nervous at first we would get sucked up by this big company, said Stacy Fraser, the test kitchen manager who worked at the magazine under both owners and on a recent afternoon worked around stacks of freshly picked apples and gourds lining the test kitchen counter. People are feeling more secure that Meredith is in for the long run. But Eating Well is still trying

to forge its own path in a world without Gourmet, the long-running magazine that published its last issue in November 2009. It didnt follow the approach many food magazines took through the recession and celebrate high-calorie foods, like rich pasta dishes or ribs, aiming to take the edge off readers job losses and dwindling retirement accounts. The magazine isnt coveted by foodies as is Lucky Peach, from McSweeneys and the chef David Chang, and isnt afraid to offer

the kind of tips that some might scorn, like using store-bought pizza dough or making Jell-O desserts. Were not going to outdo Gourmet, said Lisa Gosselin, the editorial director. She played down her own cooking talents as she presided over a flavorful lunch of oven-baked fried chicken, a crunchy and flavorful massaged kale salad, fresh bean and tomato salad with honey vinaigrette and Cheddar cornmeal Continued on Page 9

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Disney, Struggling to Assert an Online Presence, Makes Over Its Web Site
From First Business Page corded $4.8 billion in profit on $40.9 billion in revenue. Ms. Cohen noted that new media is not a primary driver of Disney shares, which have climbed 57 percent over the last year, to about $51.90. But at some point those losses threaten to besmirch an otherwise stellar record for Mr. Iger, who has said he will step down as chief executive in 2015. I dont think hes going to want any black marks, Ms. Cohen said. Almost every major media company has had a difficult tangle with the Web or gaming. Time Warner and AOL. News Corporation and MySpace. Viacom and the Rock Band game maker, Harmonix. Disney is no different. In 2001, under Mr. Igers predecessor, the company took $878 million in charges to close its Go.com portal. But recently, Disney has had more technology brainpower than most. Steve Jobs sat on its board from 2006 until his death last year. Current board members include John S. Chen, chief executive of the software developer Sybase, and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebooks chief operating officer. Mr. Iger himself is a strong technology advocate, pushing for the companys ABC network to become the first channel to offer its shows on iTunes, for instance. That Disney has nonetheless struggled underscores how difficult it is for traditional media companies to compete in this arena. Challenges include the pool of available talent. If you are a prominent technology executive, or a creative young designer, you are more likely to join Google or found a start-up, not toil deep inside a media conglomerate. Disney and its cohorts also resemble aircraft carriers trying to compete with speedboats. Smaller gaming companies can quickly change course as technology preferences change (although upstarts like Zynga have not succeeded at that lately). But the lumbering likes of Disney move slower. Consider Epic Mickey, a 2010 video game that depicted a rough-and-tumble version of Mickey Mouse. Disney spent six years developing the idea, which Mr. Pitaro has also reversed Disneys go-it-alone Web strategy. He has sharply bolstered its presence on YouTube, spending up to $15 million to make original Web series. One of them, based on Outfit7s Talking Friends apps, has generated over 102 million views in only a few months. Disney now operates more than 60 YouTube channels. We have to take our content to our guests wherever they are, Mr. Pitaro said. Mr. Pitaro and Mr. Pleasants are working to build character franchises that can spread across Disneys empire, a priority for Mr. Iger. There is promise in Swampy, an alligator who stars in Disneys mobile game Wheres My Water? The hit game 100 million downloads and counting has spawned a modest toy line and been added to Typhoon Lagoon, a Walt Disney World water park. Disney Channel will run a Swampy short series next month. Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two arrives on Nov. 18 before Thanksgiving and playable on every available game platform while Club Penguin, a virtual world where children groom virtual arctic fowl, is set to fully expand onto mobile devices after a long delay. Its an important ingredient to profitability, Mr. Pleasants said of Club Penguin. Mr. Pleasants is also pouring money into a project Disney refers to as Toy Box, a console game with extensive mobile and online applications in which various Pixar and Disney characters will interact with one another for the first time. Im excited about what weve already done and where were going, he said, adding that Disney has had three No. 1 apps in the last six months. But every time Disney appears on the verge of making true strides in digital media, it seems to stumble. Last week, a major executive resigned: Lane Merrifield, the founder of Club Penguin, will join an education-focused start-up after clashing with Mr. Pleasants in operating philosophy and personality. Mr. Pleasants said he is proud of the intensity he has brought to his division. When his contract expires in 2014, he said it would be an honor to be asked to stay. We have a long way to go, he said, but we have a plan and just need to execute it.

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John Pleasants, left, and James Pitaro, co-presidents of Disney Interactive, cut costs after being named to their posts in 2010.
required approval from a number of executives because it involved tweaking a sacred character. Disney managers then limited its release to the Nintendo Wii console, whose popularity had slumped by the time the game reached stores. Disney also missed that years Thanksgiving retail season. Disney also bet heavily on console-based games operating six development studios but consumers abruptly moved to mobile gaming. Disney was not positioned to swiftly follow and had to buy its way in, spending what analysts considered a large sum, $563 million, for the social gaming company Playdom in 2010. As for Disney.com, it must serve an array of products: 13 theme parks, games, childrens books, TV, movies, music, Broadway and online worlds like Club Penguin. (ESPN and ABCs digital businesses, both considered innovative and successful, are handled by separate divisions.) Disney.com must cater to a broad audience, including toddlers interested in Winnie the Pooh and mothers booking theme park vacations. Leading Disney Interactives latest quest for profitability are James Pitaro, a former Yahoo executive, and John Pleasants, Playdoms former chief executive. Named co-presidents in 2010, they quickly cut costs through a series of layoffs and have shut down three of Disneys console game studios. Going forward, their profitability strategy turns on multiple fronts. Disney Online, which also includes subsidiaries like the parenting site Babble.com, attracts about 33 million monthly unique visitors, according to comScore. Mr. Pitaros vision for those sites centers on entertainment. We cant expect to grow Disney.com in reach and engagement if were just focused on marketing, Mr. Pitaro said.

A softer sell, and more reliance on exclusive videos.

The redesigned Web site still provides advertising support for Disney products, but the sell is much softer and relies heavily on exclusive videos backstage at Disneys Broadway musical Newsies, for instance, or ReMicks, a video series where classic Disney cartoons are remixed to current dance music. The sites overhaul is only in its first stages. Plans call for adding a movie streaming service.

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The Web series Talking Friends, based on mobile apps.

LOOKING AHEAD
ECONOMIC REPORTS Data to be

released will include new home sales for September (Wednesday); weekly jobless claims, durable goods for September and pending home sales for September (Thursday); and third-quarter gross domestic product and the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index for October (Friday).
CORPORATE EARNINGS

Caterpillar, Hasbro, Texas Instruments and Yahoo (Monday); 3M, AK Steel, CIT, DuPont, Harley-Davidson, Lexmark, RadioShack, United Parcel Service, United Technologies, Whirlpool, Xerox, Amgen, Facebook and Netflix (Tuesday); AT&T, Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Delta Air Lines, Eli Lilly, General Dynamics, IAC/InterActive, KimberlyClark, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, US Airways, Volkswagen and Zynga (Wednesday); Aetna, Altria, Biogen Idec, Colgate-Palmolive, ConocoPhillips, Credit Suisse, Daimler, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, International Paper, JetBlue Airways, New York Times, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, Sprint Nextel, Apple and Amazon.com (Thursday); and Comcast, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Interpublic Group, K.K.R., Merck, Moodys

and Weyerhaeuser (Friday). IN THE UNITED STATES On Tuesday, Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Mary L. Schapiro, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will provide updates on their agencies priorities at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Associations annual meeting; and Apple is expected to introduce a smaller iPad. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve will issue a statement at the conclusion of a two-day policy-making meeting Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director, is scheduled to be sentenced for leaking inside information to Raj Rajaratnam, cofounder of the Galleon Group. On Thursday, Microsoft will introduce Windows 8, the latest version of its operating system.
OVERSEAS On Wednesday, Mario

BP Board Approves Deal To Sell Business in Russia

From First Business Page industry, the buyout of BPs share in TNK-BP takes a large swath of the industry full circle back to state ownership. Rosnefts chief executive, Igor I. Sechin, a former military intelligence officer and close aide to Mr. Putin, is a proponent of greater state ownership in the oil industry. TNK-BP is the third-largest Russian oil company; if Rosneft buys out both BP and the handful of Russian billionaires who control the other half of TNK-BP, Rosneft will become the worlds largest publicly traded oil company, with production of about 4.5 million barrels a day. We have seen this remarkable strengthening of the influence of Rosneft and Sechin personally, John Lough, a former TNK-BP official who is a Russia specialist at Chatham House, a British research organization, said in an interview. At the moment, the way the Russian system works is by achieving a distribution of influence and access to rents or windfall profits to achieve overall equilibrium on which the state is based, he said. Sechins apparent strengthening of influence could come at the cost of maintaining that balance. It Andrew E. Kramer reported from Moscow and Stanley Reed from London. could upset the apple cart. For Mr. Putin, this represents a milestone in the consolidation of the Russian oil industry. Oil and natural gas contribute about 50 percent of the federal budget and 60 percent of export revenues. For most of Mr. Putins tenure, oil has been his ticket. During Mr. Putins re-election campaign last winter, for exam-

With a buyout, much of Russian oil would return to the state.

ple, the government was able to ladle out oil-revenue-based raises in public sector wages. Many soldier salaries doubled in January. In addition to taxes, the government extracts profits from the dividends the majority state owned energy companies Gazprom and Rosneft pay. If Rosneft buys out both BP and the Russian partners in TNK-BP, the federal governments share of the oil industry will rise above 50 percent. When oil prices are around $100 a barrel, the Russian industry and the government together make about $1 billion a day from export sales of oil and natural gas.

Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, will brief German lawmakers on the debt crisis. On Thursday, an International Trade Commission judge will release his findings in a patent infringement case between Apple and Samsung concerning the design of the iPhone, its user interface and headset plugs.

Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

The Treasurys schedule of financing this week includes Mondays regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday. At the close of the New York cash market on Friday, the rate on the outstanding three-month bill was 0.10 percent. The rate on the six-month issue was 0.14 percent, and the rate on the fourweek issue was 0.10 percent. The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week:
MONDAY Johnson County, Kan., Unified School District, $79.8 million of general obligation bonds. Competitive. TUESDAY California, $549.8 million of general obligation bonds. Competitive. Charleston County, S.C., School District, $62.1 million of general obligation bonds. Competitive. WEDNESDAY Minnesota, $219.4 million of general obligation bonds. Competitive. ONE DAY DURING THE WEEK California Health Facilities Financing Authority, $65 million of hospital debt securities. Bank of America. Chesapeake, Va., $153 million of toll road revenue bonds. Citigroup Global Markets. Colorado Health Facilities Authority, $1.6 billion of Catholic Health Initiatives revenue bonds. J. P. Morgan Securities. Conroe, Tex., Independent School District, $210 million of unlimited tax school building and refinancing bonds. FirstSouthwest. Cypress-Fairbanks, Tex., Independent School District, $76 million of refinancing debt securities. Wells Fargo Securities. El Paso, $82.2 million of general obligation refinancing bonds. RBC Capital Markets. Griffin, Ga., $54.5 million of combined public utility revenue refinancing bonds. Raymond James. Honolulu, $889 million of tax-exempt debt securities. Bank of America. Illinois Housing and Development Authority, $54 million of housing revenue bonds. RBC Capital Markets. Indiana Finance Authority, $61 million of facilities revenue bonds. J. P. Morgan Securities. Indiana Municipal Power Agency, $52 million of power supply system revenue refinancing bonds. Citigroup Global Markets. Indiana, $381 million of Community Health Network debt securities. Wells Fargo Securities. Lakewood, Colo., $109.3 million of revenue refinancing bonds. RBC Capital Markets. Miami-Dade County, $488 million of special obligation bonds. Citigroup Global Markets. Oklahoma Water Resources Board, $85 million of debt securities. Bank of America. Philadelphia, $71.2 million of water and wastewater revenue refinancing bonds. Siebert Brandford Shank. San Antonio, $50 million of revenue refinancing bonds. FirstSouthwest. St. Louis, $147.4 million of wastewater system refinancing revenue bonds. Siebert Brandford Shank. Tarrant, Tex., Regional Water District, $102.4 million of water revenue refinancing bonds. J. P. Morgan Securities. Virginia College Building Authority, $60 million of educational facilities revenue bonds. Goldman Sachs. Virginia Resources Authority, $53 million of debt securities. Citigroup Global Markets. Wake Forest, N.C., Baptist Medical Center, $228.6 million of hospital refinancing revenue bonds. Morgan Stanley.

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A deal for its Russian business would give BP a minority interest in Rosneft and establish a strategic tie with the Kremlin.

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New Name For Parent Of Weather Channel

Highlighting Mission Beyond Television
By BRIAN STELTER

In a move it compared to Apple Computers shedding of the word computer, the Weather Channel Companies has dropped channel from its name. Its not ridding itself of the actual Weather Channel, a staple of cable lineups across the country. The channels name will remain the same. But the corporate rebranding reflects the fact that most of the Weather Companys growth is coming from the Web and from specialized products for businesses, not from television. It senses huge opportunities in international markets where it will not have a television channel, but will have apps and Web sites. The word channel is too limiting. The Weather Company better defines who we are, said David Kenny, who was named the chairman and chief executive of the company in January. Mr. Kenny proposed the name change while presenting a threeyear plan to the companys board in September. (The company is owned by NBCUniversal and the private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group.) In the board meeting, Mr. Kenny cited Apples name change: When Apple Computer decided to just be Apple, it broadened their minds to what was possible, he said. Apple put the iPhone on sale the same year it streamlined its name. The iPhone now brings in more revenue than Apples computers do. The change by the Weather Channel Companies reminded Mike Vorhaus, a digital media analyst who heads Magid Advisors, of the companies that dropped dot-com from their names a decade ago. Now I think many companies will want to drop any reference to

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David Kenny, chairman and chief executive of the Weather Company, proposed the name change last month. The word channel is too limiting, he said.
platform in their name, he said. They arent a channel or online or mobile they are just media. Bye-bye channel, hello crossplatform. The flagship Weather Channel, available in 100 million homes in the United States, still accounts for more than half of the Weather Companys revenue, thanks in large part to the per-home fee it receives from cable and satellite distributors. But the channel business has been slowing significantly, Mr. Kenny said. Already the companys advertising revenues are fairly evenly split between television and digital media. He expects digital media (including mobile devices, an area of focus) to overtake television in that category. Products for businesses weather forecasts for airlines, energy traders, local television stations and others account for 10 percent of the companys revenue now. That proportion could double in the next three years, Mr. Kenny said. Over the summer the company bought another supplier of professional products, Weather Central. It also bought Weather Underground, a competitor to its consumer Web site, Weather.com. Last week, just before the new name was announced internally, the company laid off about 75 people, 7 percent of its work force. The layoffs were attributed to a reorganization, partly necessitated by the recent acquisitions. Additionally, Mr. Kenny said the television division wasnt altogether efficient in its production, suggesting it was overstaffed. Driving the acquisitions and the name change is a sense that the companys unit of measurement is not a minute or an hour of TV programming. Instead, its a local forecast one that can be shared on television, distributed to apps and sold to businesses. The company wants to offer a 30day local forecast in the future. At an all-staff meeting last Wednesday, Mr. Kenny emphasized science and innovation, saying the Weather Companys focus was on connecting people with the

Seeing opportunities in apps and Web sites in international markets.

worlds best weather forecasts. His comments foreshadowed a shift for the flagship television channel, as well. The previous chief executive of the company, Michael J. Kelly, oversaw the addition of taped reality shows and documentaries, some of which were only tangentially connected to weather. The changes sometimes lifted the channels ratings,

but alienated fans who wanted live weather news. Mr. Kenny seems to be pulling back a bit: taped shows in the future will have weather as a main character, he said, not just a background character. A documentary series about ironworkers in New York is not being renewed, for instance. Some new programs will emphasize stories from Internet users who submit weather videos and photos. The TV division has really doubled down on weather enthusiasts as their core audience, Mr. Kenny said. Were not trying to serve everybody, he added. Were trying to serve our core audience really well.

French Music Streaming Service Is Taking On the World, but Omitting America
By ERIC PFANNER

PARIS Most of the biggest Internet companies got their start in the United States or expanded there quickly. One of the most successful European startups, on the other hand, hopes to turn itself into a global powerhouse by ignoring America. The company, Deezer, is one of the biggest players in digital music streaming, trailing only the market leader, Spotify, in the number of paying customers it has attracted globally. Like Spotify, which is based in London, Deezer, with headquarters in Paris, offers subscribers unlimited access to millions of songs on demand, via PCs, mobile phones and other devices. Deezer just got a big endorsement for its approach. Access Industries, the owner of Warner Music Group, pumped 100 million euros, or about $130 million, into Deezer this month, in what analysts described as one of the biggest investments ever in a French start-up. This shows that they think the music market is beginning to turn around, Axel Dauchez, chief executive of Deezer, said in an interview. Deezer, which started in 2007, has just moved into a slick new headquarters, where employees conduct business meetings on lawn chairs and on sofas disguised as musical keyboards. Paint it black, reads a neon sign on the somber-toned wall behind Mr. Dauchez. Like the Rolling Stones, Deezer is on a mission to blot out the color red in this case, from the ailing music industrys ledgers. After a battle with piracy that has cut its sales in half in just over a decade, the music industry has high hopes for streaming, which is growing faster than digital purchases, as many listeners decide that ownership makes less sense than in the days of plastic and vinyl. While Deezer and Spotify are still losing money, their sales are growing rapidly. Deezer generated about 50 million euros in revenue last year, and Mr. Dauchez

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Axel Dauchez, the chief executive of Deezer, near a decorative sign reading Paint it black at the companys Paris headquarters.
has set a goal of 1 billion euros in sales in 2016. With more than two million paying customers, Deezer trails Spotify, which has more than four million. Spotify introduced an fectively leave it stranded behind enemy lines, so Deezer expects the streaming war to be waged on different shores, Mark Mulligan, a music industry analyst, wrote on his Web site. They are both right and wrong. Analysts say Deezer is right to worry about competition in the United States, where Spotify competes with services like Rhapsody, Pandora and Rdio, even though their business models all vary slightly. Mr. Mulligan says there is room for growth in the United States, because premium streaming services remain too expensive for most consumers. But the field is less crowded outside the United States, where Spotify is the clear leader in streaming in many of the markets it has entered except France, where Deezer reigns. Spotify, too, is planning for the battles ahead. Several people briefed on the companys plans said it had begun a new round of fund-raising, seeking to secure several hundred million dollars in new investment. New financing is essential for Deezer and Spotify because they are burning through significant amounts of cash. To attract new listeners, both companies offer free versions of their services, subject to certain restrictions. Yet both companies must pay a royalty to a recording company every time someone listens to one of their tracks. While streaming services sell advertising to cover some of the costs of free listening, Mr. Dauchez said raising revenue in this way had proved to be more challenging than expected. So Deezer now sees its free service primarily as a way to entice listeners into paying for its premium offerings, which include things like unlimited streaming and special content and recommendations, along with no ads. This makes expanding into new markets expensive. While Deezer says it was profitable last year, it expects to lose money until 2014 as it enters new markets. The company set up sites in several other European countries in 2011 and accelerated its global expansion this month. Its an incredibly difficult business to be in, said Giles Cottle, an analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media. The only way to reach profitability is to achieve massive scale or to rewrite the record industry deals, which is unlikely to happen. Deezer has reached something approaching a large scale in France, home to the majority of its subscribers. Many of them were added via a marketing partnership with a Deezer shareholder, France Tlcom, which includes the service in certain mo-

An international strategy in a less crowded field.

American version last year, and it has been growing quickly. But Deezer has turned its back on the United States and plans to use its new money to finance an expansion into more than 160 other countries. Like a canny general who decides to march around a heavily fortified stronghold and thus ef-

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bile phone packages. Some analysts question whether customers acquired through bundled deals are as valuable as those who actively seek out a certain music service. But others say such partnerships are important because the differences between services like Spotify and Deezer are relatively minor. Each offers catalogs with millions of songs and a premium subscription, including smartphone access, priced at about 10 euros a month in much of Europe or 10 pounds, or $16, in Britain. To try to differentiate itself from Spotify and other streaming services, and to compete with unlicensed, illegal music offerings, Deezer emphasizes its social features and the editorial content of its sites. Deezer editors select playlists and offer users information on local performances by their favorite artists, for example. We dont just want to be a smart jukebox, as some people refer to streaming sites, Mr. Dauchez said. If you want to rebuild the value of music, you have to rebuild the engagement with the listener. Access Industries, the owner of Warner Music that made the big investment in Deezer, is a vehicle of Len Blavatnik, a Russian-born American investor. Mr. Blavatnik declined, via a spokesman, to comment for this article. Analysts said it was desirable for Warner and the major music companies, which also own stakes in Spotify, to maintain diversity in the distribution of digital music. They want to avoid repeating the early days of digital, when there was only one major legitimate platform, iTunes, which could largely dictate the terms of licensing deals. Mr. Dauchez said the new investors were also attracted to Deezers international strategy. The United States accounts for about half of worldwide digital music sales, compared with about a quarter of the overall music business, he noted, so there is room for the rest of the world to catch up. Im not saying we will never be in the U.S., but if you start in the U.S., you are too U.S.-centric, he said.

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Chocolate and Its Friends Await the Callers

Hearst Plans Holiday E-Book Of Its Magazines Recipes
By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY

A new Halloween-themed commercial for the Mars brand Snickers plays a variation on the tale of the headless horseman.
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN

OT content to just hand out Skittles and escort trick-or-treaters, adults are celebrating Halloween themselves. This year, 36 percent of adults are planning to host or attend a Halloween party, up from 25 percent in 2005, according to the National Retail Federation. As consumers stock up for door-ringing superheroes or for their own gatherings, candy brands are stepping up marketing efforts. A new commercial for Snickers, a Mars brand, for example, features a white-haired man with an enormous head and tiny body, who unsteadily approaches a group of trickor-treaters, and is asked by a young Dracula who he is. Im the horseless headsman, the man responds. I think you mean the headless horseman, says another boy, dressed as an alien. No, I mean the horseless headsman. Hows that even scary? asks a girl in a mummy costume. Look at my head! the man says, trying to scare the children to no avail. Young Dracula hands the man a Snickers, explaining that you get confused when youre hungry. When the man bites into the Snickers and is transformed into an actual headless horseman, the children scream. The commercial, by BBDO New York, part of the BBDO Worldwide unit of the Omnicom Group, was introduced on Oct. 8. Mars had a 37.9 percent share of the chocolate candy market in 2011, behind category leader Hershey, with a 43.3 percent share, according to Mintel, a market research firm.

marshmallow chicks, about 30 percent of candy sold is used in recipes or craft projects, according to Matthew Pye, vice president for corporate affairs at Just Born, which owns Peeps. On its Web site, Peeps, which also makes Halloween marshmallow candy, includes a project that uses frosting like grout to conjoin marshmallow ghosts and cats to form a candy bowl. The recipe suggests filling the bowl with the autumn medley variety of Mike and Ike, another Just Born candy. Noncandy brands also turn to recipe development. For Halloween, Jell-O offers a brain mold on its Web site, JelloMoldShop.com. Suggested recipes include Oozing Brain, an opaque brain made from peach gelatin and evaporated milk over which warm strawberry gelatin is dribbled to resemble coagulating blood. You turn your face away, but you smile, said Nadine Rich, the brand manager for Jell-O, a Kraft Foods Group brand, about the concoction. And kids love this kind of thing.

Hershey is introducing 10 Halloween products this year, up from six last year. Among them is a Halloween twist on its popular Easter treat, the Cadbury Creme Egg. The Screme Egg is also a chocolate egg with white filling, but with a green yolklike center instead of yellow. Also this year, as noted in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Hershey is using seasonal packaging that focuses less on Halloween and more on autumn. We still have Halloween-themed packaging with black and orange, Anna Lingeris, a Hershey spokeswoman, said in an interview. But she added that many new packages, including some for Hersheys Kisses and Reeses Pieces, feature fall colors and fall graphics related to fall activities. While Halloween products are heavily discounted starting on Nov. 1, the new Hershey strategy enables more products to remain relevant and at full price through November, Ms. Lingeris said. Among seasonal candy purchasers, 30 percent buy at least some discounted candy right after the holiday, according to Mintel. To increase what food marketers call usage occasions, candy brands often develop seasonal recipes. At Peeps, best known for

Other noncandy brands also are angling for a Halloween lift. Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, has more in-store promotional displays tied to Halloween this year than ever, according to the company. Displays feature haunted castles and characters like Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein. For 20-count variety packs of brands including Doritos, Cheetos and Fritos, the displays show the snacks in buckets carried by trick-or-treaters. General Mills discontinued its monsterthemed cereals Count Chocula, Franken

Berry and Boo Berry as year-round products in 2011, and now offers them only in the fall as Halloween items. General Mills also promotes cereal-bar versions of Count Chocula and Lucky Charms as handout treats, with the products available at Walmart. Also at Walmart, under the Betty Crocker Fruit Snacks division of General Mills, Halloweenthemed mini Fruit Roll-Ups include Boo Berry and Franken Berry flavors. Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, a PepsiCo brand, is marketing a 28-pack of small granola bars with chocolate chips and candy pieces for trick-or-treaters, with the package highlighting that they contain whole grains and no corn syrup. Health claims are more pronounced for the Clif Kid Zbar Full Moon Brownie, a Halloween offering made with organic ingredients and fortified with vitamins and minerals. We wanted to bring out something that parents could feel good about giving to their kids as opposed to a lot of candy, said Jennifer Yun, the brand director for Clif Kid, a division of Clif Bar & Company. Sold singly for about 90 cents, Ms. Yun said the bar may be costly for handing out to trick-or-treaters, and better suited for lunchboxes and classroom parties. While homeowners may give little consideration to what they hand out on Halloween, Cybele May, founder of Candy Blog, said that for young trick-or-treaters that choice may be loaded. Whether they admit it or not, kids judge the adults they get the candy from, and their peers, based on their candy taste, Ms. May said. Kids that are 8 or 9 years old dont have cars or anything to use as social markers, so candy is a good way for creating some hierarchy.

The season has arrived when newsstands stock their shelves with holiday magazines with plump turkeys on their covers, and this year, those cover stars are joining magazines transition to digital publishing. On Tuesday, the Hearst Corporation, which has been at the forefront of searching for profits in the digital publishing world, is printing an electronic book called Lets Talk Turkey. While Hearst has already dipped its toe into electronic publishing for individual magazines like Cosmopolitan and Esquire, this is the first time Hearst has published content from a variety of its magazines in digital form. The e-book contains 100 holiday recipes, including herb roasted turkey from Womans Day, herb oyster stuffing from Good Housekeeping, butternut squash soup from Country Living and pumpkin pie from Redbook. Its online price, $3.99, and its cover photo of an herb roasted turkey, make it competitive with many other holiday magazine issues. David Carey, the president of Hearst Magazines, said expanding into electronic books with content from its portfolio makes sense because holiday magazines have been selling well this year and the company has a vast recipe archive. An e-book format also consolidates many recipes readers of Hearst magazines have been saving for years. You think of how many readers keep clip files, Mr. Carey said. This kind of does that for them. Mark Gompertz, creative director of content extensions for Hearst Magazines, who joined the company this summer after 17 years at Simon & Schuster,

An e-book, Lets Talk Turkey, goes on sale Tuesday.

said he was eager for the first e-book to be about holiday recipes. He said that when he moved recently, he lost his familys file of Thanksgiving recipes. He hopes that Hearst eventually will publish an e-book a month, he said, adding that it has already planned for a grilling e-book near Fathers Day and a design e-book tied to Mothers Day. Jane Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Open Road, a digital publisher that is working with Hearst under the imprint eHearst Books, said there is enough demand for a book about turkey recipes to be profitable. She said that is especially true because the e-book does not carry the overhead or require the planning of publishing a print book. This is a curated product that has come from a very trusted source, Ms. Friedman said. Its very, very timely.

Debate? Football? Why Not Both?

By BRIAN STELTER

Fans of political and athletic battles face quite a conundrum on Monday night. The third and final presidential debate coincides with ESPNs Monday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears, from President Obamas adopted hometown, and the Detroit Lions, hailing from Mitt Romneys birthplace. Whats a patriotic American to do? ESPN is subtly advertising a solution: watch both. Not with a picture-in-picture display on the TV screen thats so 1990s but with two screens, like a TV set and an iPad. A pair of ads that started appearing on ESPN on Saturday promote the WatchESPN app, which allows subscribers of certain cable companies to watch ESPN on phones and computers at no additional charge. This debate will be settled on the gridiron, one of the ads says, after referencing the verbal battle that will be taking place on a stage in Boca Raton, Fla. The ad concludes, Dont miss a minute of Monday Night Football on

ESPN, the WatchESPN app and WatchESPN.com. Monday Night Football is blacked out on phones because the National Football League has a separate mobile carriage deal with Verizon. So the ads for Monday nights game show a bigscreen TV set transforming into a laptop computer and then a tablet computer, but not a phone. Of course, some football fans may relegate the debate to the laptop or tablet screen while keeping the game on the bigscreen TV, since ESPNs sibling ABC and dozens of other outlets are live-streaming the debate. Recent second-screen studies by Nielsen and other measurement companies have found that many tablet and phone owners use the devices at least once a day while watching television. This has been on display during the presidential debates, as millions of real-time reactions to comments from Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney have been recorded on Facebook and Twitter. Surely at least a few debateand-football watchers will have a third screen handy for reacting to both events.

Agency Puts City Stories on Stage

By STUART ELLIOTT

At left, Jell-O recipes for the holiday. Above, Quaker Chewy Granola Bars packaged for trick-or-treating.

AMC Networks and Dish Reach Deal for Return of Channels

By BRIAN STELTER

A suite of cable channels operated by AMC Networks is coming back on the Dish Network, ending a blackout of months that had affected millions of customers. AMC Networks flagship channel, AMC, returned to Dish on Sunday in time for the second

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episode of the new season of The Walking Dead. The first episode drew 10.9 million viewers on Oct. 14 even with the channel blacked out for Dishs 14 million customers. AMC offered a Web stream of the episode to Dish customers. It is the highest rated drama in cable history. The other channels owned by AMC Networks, the Sundance Channel, WE tv and IFC, will return to Dish Network homes on Nov. 1, the company said on Sunday. The terms of the carriage agreement were not disclosed, but Dave Shull, the senior vice president for programming at Dish, said in a statement that it was a multiyear deal. Josh Sapan, the chief executive of AMC Networks, said in a statement, We are glad to partner again with Dish Network and are delighted to bring back our popular channels and programming to their customers.

A fight that began in July finally ends, with a multiyear deal.

The end of the blackout coincided with a settlement in a four-year breach-of-contract lawsuit between Dish, controlled by Charles W. Ergen, and VOOM, a former subsidiary of Cablevision, which like AMC Networks is controlled by Charles F. Dolan. Dish contended that its decision to stop carrying AMCs channels on July 1 was unrelated to the legal fight, but AMC said otherwise. VOOM, a set of high-definition TV channels founded by Mr. Dolan, sought more than $2 billion in damages after Dish stopped distributing the channels

in 2008. Dish asserted that it had the right to terminate the carriage contract because Cablevision had not lived up to its commitment to invest $100 million a year in VOOM. The case went to trial at the beginning of the month, but court was adjourned on Wednesday, causing speculation that a settlement was imminent. In the settlement, announced Sunday afternoon, Dish will pay $700 million to Cablevision and AMC Networks, $80 million of which is for the purchase of spectrum licenses from Cablevision. The licenses will expand Dishs ability to sell wireless broadband service to customers. Along with the restoration of AMC Networks channels, Dish will also start to carry Fuse, a channel operated by the Madison Square Garden Company, which is overseen by Mr. Dolans son James.

Many a newcomer to New York has dreams of Broadway stardom. The new New York office of the Chicago-based Leo Burnett advertising agency has made it, at least for now, as far as a theater in the East Village. The 9th Space Theater at P.S. 122, at 150 First Avenue, will soon be home to a play called 8 Million Protagonists, to be presented by Leo Burnett New York in a joint venture with The Village Voice. The play is based on an online initiative called New York Writes Itself that helped introduce the office when it was opened last year by Burnett, part of the Publicis Groupe. If the plays title evocative of the line There are eight million stories in the naked city from the 1948 movie The Naked City and its TV spinoff is not sufficient to tip off potential ticket buyers to the subject matter, the subtitle might: An Off Broadway Play Written by the Streets of N.Y. The play is composed of material from the New York Writes Itself Web site, submitted by New Yorkers, about their everyday lives in the city. When we originally came to New York, we thought this city was filled with amazing stories, said Jay Benjamin, chief creative

officer at Leo Burnett New York, and we wanted to make something of those. Plans call for nine performances of 8 Million Protagonists, from Nov. 1 through Nov. 10; tickets are $20 each. Proceeds from ticket sales are meant to offset the production costs of the play, estimated at under $100,000. The play is being presented in association with a production company named, coincidentally, LB Entertainment; it is unrelated to Leo Burnett New York, which is the plays executive producer. Everyone in the office has touched the play in some capacity, Mr. Benjamin said, giving as an example a co-producer, Shaina Stigler, who works in the creative department. Also, Michael Canning and Kieran Antill the executive creative directors at the office who developed New York Writes Itself with Mr. Benjamin share a credit, original concept by. The play is another spinoff from New York Writes Itself, which also includes a YouTube channel and a letterpress art exhibit in collaboration with the Art Directors Club. After its run, 8 Million Protagonists could become an ongoing play, Mr. Benjamin said, adding, The script could change based on what happens in the city.

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Back to E-Mail: An AOL Twist On Sorting It Out

AOLs got mail, again. On Thursday, the company began its rollout of Alto, a new e-mail program that it hopes will re-establish the company as the e-mailing juggernaut it was in the 1990s. Yes, were still in business, stage-whispered David Temkin, a senior vice president for mail and mobile at AOL. Were still around. The service will be available free to anyone who wants to use it, not just current AOL mail users. Mr. Temkin said the company still had 20 million active e-mail users and was not looking to disrupt their service. Rather, AOL is trying to introduce a new product that will appeal to its current user base as well as Gmail, Yahoo and Mac mail users, among others. The nature of e-mail has changed, but the applications have not, Mr. Temkin said. But the last thing people want is another e-mail address. They want a better way to manage the e-mail they have. One of Altos key features is automatic sorting. As mail comes in, it is filtered into stacks, which are similar to folders. The program will automatically look for e-mail from social networks, daily deal sites and retailers, sorting messages into stacks for later perusal. Users can also create their own stacks for e-mail from a particular person, like a partner or a boss, as well as keywords. E-mail with attachments and photographs is also sorted into stacks. The messages can be browsed quickly and by year. Users can easily mark messages as favorites and snooze them, prompting the service to make them reappear after a designated period of time. Alto also allows people to gain access to their Google calendars and Google Drive, a document storage service. JENNA WORTHAM

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A snowboarder wearing a GoPro was photographed by another.

A Camera of Daredevils Gains Broader Appeal

From First Business Page able camera that was strapped to surfers wrists, unveiled the Hero 3. You might think a product announcement from a camera company would be like a funeral held shortly before the subject died. But it was more like a celebration for someone who was going to live forever. Bigwave surfers those who ride 80-foot waves for fun showed their GoPro shots to sky divers, who, in turn, had their own stories to show. How did this happen? Nick Woodman, the founder and inventor of GoPro, says, Right place, right time. It was almost that simple. Mr. Woodman, 37, made the first crude GoPro when he went to Indonesia on a surfing trip. He wanted to take pictures of a friend in the water. But when he turned the camera around to take pictures of himself, he realized the companys potential. The big aha moment was in 2007, when we realized the bigger opportunity wasnt just making wearable cameras for photographers, Mr. Woodman said. It was making wearable cameras for people to photograph themselves. This was happening just as Google was buying YouTube, and sites like Twitter and Facebook were going mainstream. What do people like to do on those social networks? Display themselves. Mr. Woodman began selling inexpensive mounts that could attach the GoPro to anything: surfboards, bicycles, helmets, body harnesses, cats, you name it. He follows in the long tradition of the lone innovator disrupting an industry, like Michael Dell selling computers out of his dorm room or Kevin Plank creating Under Armour clothing in his grandmothers basement. Innovators have to seek the right mix of features to reach their new audience and undermine entrenched companies. Ross Rubin, a consumer technology analyst with Reticle ReE-mail: bilton@nytimes.com Brian X. Chen contributed reporting. search, said GoPro had made wise decisions about what not to do, like whether to add an LCD screen on the back of the camera or Wi-Fi function. They were willing to say no to many things as well. But what happened next was astounding, even to Mr. Woodman: people started to develop a relationship with GoPro. One of the magical things that started happening with the company was our customers felt compelled to give us credit in their photos and videos, Mr. Woodman said. People would upload videos to YouTube saying, Me and my GoPro going sky diving. You certainly dont see people uploading videos that say, Check out my Sony Cybershot ski vacation. A search on YouTube for GoPro summons more than half a million videos. Millions of photos and videos litter social networking sites, all tagged with the cameras name in the same way people highlight their friends. Now, the appeal is moving beyond extreme sports enthusiasts, whose idea of fear is sitting in a cubicle, to the people who sit in cubicles watching GoPro videos. It is also becoming a musthave tool for movie and television directors. Cameron Glendenning, director of photography for Deadliest Catch, said he used dozens of GoPros when documenting the Alaskan king crab fishermen on the Discovery Channel show. I have 30 or 40 on every show. If I junk another camera, then Im fired, yet I can junk these cameras all day long, he said. You cant tell the difference between someone shooting with a $100,000 camera or a GoPro. The big camera companies are trying to displace GoPro, but they may be a decade too late and may now lack a cultural connection to todays consumers. For the last 50 years, companies like Nikon and Canon have been focused on precision, which has its benefits but also has its limits, said Chase Jarvis, a photographer and director. GoPro is incredibly disruptive to these legacy camera makers, and I can tell you, their launch parties feel a little bit different. They are from a different culture.

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Charles Simonyi, a billionaire space tourist, oversaw Office applications at Microsoft.

onyi, who holds a Ph.D. from Stanford, was a member of the group at Xerox PARC that largely invented modern personal computing. He wrote a word processor called Bravo that displayed text on a computer screen as it would appear when printed on a page a breakthrough technique at the time, called WYSIWYG, for What You See Is What You Get. Bravo would become Microsoft Word. The company, based in Bellevue, Wash., sprang from Mr. Simonyis research at Microsoft on intentional programming, clever software that better understands what a user wants to do, his or her intentions. Intentional programming, in its ultimate vision, would be a big step above programming languages essentially allowing people to tell machines what computing tasks they want done. If this sounds like science fiction to you, you have plenty of company among the skeptics. Whether Intentional Software is an intriguing research venture or a real company is an unanswered question. Its work has attracted a couple of contracts from Darpa, the Pentagons advanced research agency, and some private sector projects. The partnership will design software that sits on top of a persons digital calendar and communications, including e-mail, text messages, Facebook and Twitter feeds. Then, the software will automatically apply the Getting Things Done principles of capturing, clarifying, organizing, reviewing and prioritizing the various channels of information in a persons life. Every person, though, would be able to tailor the behavior of the software to individual priorities, like work chores filtered by what is immediate and what is important. Flexibility, Mr. Allen says, is crucial to avoid the pitfall of most software, which he refers to as Naziware. What is needed, he said, is an orientation tool. Right now, the computer is not an orientation tool its a disorientation tool, he said.
STEVE LOHR

A $40 Tablet Comes to India

A $40 tablet, by selling in places Silicon Valley barely notices, may change the competitive landscape. The inexpensive device is called a Ubislate 7Ci, made by a London company called Datawind. Its initial market is schools in India. A fully functioning

Getting It Done In Smarter Ways

If big names and bold ambitions predicted success, then the new partnership between David Allen, the personal productivity guru and author of Getting Things Done, and Intentional Software would surely be a winner. The goal: to help organize a persons digital life. Intentional Software was founded a decade ago by Charles Simonyi, a software wizard and an early employee at Microsoft, who oversaw the design of its Office productivity applications. Recently, Mr. Simonyi is probably best known as a billionaire space tourist, having twice taken rides on the Soyuz spacecraft. Yet Mr. Simonyis greatest achievements are in computing. His pedigree goes back before Microsoft. In the 1970s, Mr. SimBits, updated all day:
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DATAWIND

Suneet Singh Tuli of Datawind with the Ubislate 7Ci.

7-inch tablet, with a touch screen, Wi-Fi capability, a microphone and camera, a headphone jack and a USB port, it is pretty much everything you need to be fully functional on the Internet. Every criticism a Western reviewer may have with this tablet (the keyboard is small for big American fingers, the camera resolution is low, the software has lots of ads) must also meet with the riposte Yeah, but its only $40. For people who cant dream of owning even a first-generation iPad, its more than enough. The biggest problem we have with this device is that none of the decision-makers, the reviewers or the trend setters are our customer, said Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive of Datawind. Personal computers caught on in the U.S. when the price got to about 25 percent of the average persons monthly income. In India, where people make $200 a month, that is about $50, added Mr. Singh, who was born in India and raised in Canada. Inexpensive devices are likely to come to the United States and European markets with some of the hardware costs offset by advertising or by content sales through the device. Googles Nexus 7 tablet is $199 now, but people are saying it will be a $49 device in a year or two, said Ken Dulaney, an analyst with Gartner. Content sellers will underwrite hardware costs, so that devices eventually end up being free to consumers. Stacy J. Smith, Intels chief financial officer, said his company expected to see such tablets, and would compete for the business. Mr. Singh is a long way from that level of mass production, but another competitor is likely to flood the rest of the world with cheap tablets soon. That could lead to an explosion of novel applications, similar to the online car sales that are moving into Africa thanks to cloud computing. Datawind has sponsored an applications contest for students, which generated a point-of-sale system for street vendors, who make $100 a month or less. Any rival would need a cheaper tablet to compete with Mr. Singh, or it could just get used to a lot of ads. QUENTIN HARDY

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N.F.L.: Packers vs. Texans NBC 11.8 ........................................................................................... NCIS CBS 11.8 ........................................................................................... NCIS: Los Angeles CBS 9.6 ........................................................................................... The Big Bang Theory CBS 9.1 ........................................................................................... Dancing With the Stars Results ABC 9.1 ........................................................................................... Dancing With the Stars ABC 9.0 ........................................................................................... Vegas CBS 7.8 ........................................................................................... The Voice (Tuesday) NBC 7.6 ........................................................................................... 60 Minutes CBS 7.5 ........................................................................................... Mod. Fam. (29 m.)/Voice (Mon.) ABC/NBC 7.4 ...........................................................................................

N.F.L.: Texans vs. Jets ESPN 9.0 ............................................................................................ Vice Presidential Debate FoxN 5.9 ............................................................................................ Walking Dead AMC.................. 5.4 .......................................................................... On the Record . . . (Thursday) FoxN 5.0 ............................................................................................ M.L.B.: Tigers vs. Yankees, Gm. 1 TBS 4.2 ............................................................................................ M.L.B.: Orioles vs. Yankees, Gm. 3 ............................... TBS 3.9 ............................................................. M.L.B.: Cardinals vs. Natls., Gm. 5 TBS 3.7 ............................................................................................ Coll. Foot.: S.C. vs. L.S.U. ESPN 3.7 ............................................................................................ N.F.L.: Steelers vs. Titans NFLN 3.6 ............................................................................................ M.L.B.: Orils. vs. Yanks, Gms. 4, 5 TBS 3.5 ............................................................................................

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FOOTBALLS GROWING REACH

NFLN ratings, and the local boost.

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Felix Dennis, who revels in his ability to be a nuisance to the rest of the business, in his London rooftop garden.

Bears vs. Packers (9/13) 5.3 6.5 5.2 5.9 Browns vs. Ravens (9/27) 4.6 5.2 Giants vs. Panthers (9/20) 4.3 4.7 Cardinals vs. Rams (10/4) 3.6 4.0 Steelers vs. Titans (10/11) This year the N.F.L. changed its blackout rule to allow teams to lower the sellout requirement from 100 to 85 percent before hometown fans can see the game on TV (although doing so changes the division of ticket revenue between the two teams). Since its start in 2006, no game shown on the N.F.L. Network has been blacked out. N.F.L. games typically top the primetime broadcast and cable network ratings. For example, the Thursday night Bears-Packers match, above, fell just behind two ESPN games on Monday night that led that weeks cable ratings. Local markets add to the complicated mix of advertising, cable and satellite provider fees, ticket prices and local broadcast rights that make up the intricate N.F.L. broadcast economy.
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MOVIE BOX OFFICE Weekend estimates in millions.

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Paranormal Activity 4 (1) $30.2 $ 30.2 ........................................................................................... Argo (2) 16.6 43.2 ........................................................................................... Hotel Transylvania (4) 13.5 119.0 ........................................................................................... Taken 2 (3) 13.4 106.0 ........................................................................................... Alex Cross (1) 11.8 11.8 ........................................................................................... Sinister (2) 9.0 32.0 ........................................................................................... Here Comes the Boom (2) 8.5 23.2 ........................................................................................... Pitch Perfect (4) 7.0 45.8 ........................................................................................... Frankenweenie (3) 4.4 28.3 ........................................................................................... Looper (4) 4.2 57.8 ...........................................................................................

Snow White and the Huntsman (33) ........................................................................................... . The Avengers (19) ........................................................................................... . The Five-Year Engagement (40) ........................................................................................... . Battleship (47) ........................................................................................... . What to Expect When Youre Expecting (33) ........................................................................................... . The Cabin in the Woods (26) ........................................................................................... . Dark Shadows (12) ........................................................................................... . Safe (40) ........................................................................................... . The Hunger Games (57) ........................................................................................... . Katy Perry: Part of Me (26) ........................................................................................... .

The Poetry of Print Still Draws a Publisher

From First Business Page print. With a keen understanding of readers and a deft touch for timing, hes proud that hes still able to be a nuisance to the rest of the business. I have sold at the top of market several times, he cackled. Nobody remembers how long Ive been at this. I love the media game. Love. It. He also happens to be a bestselling poet in his native England. In a documentary, Felix Dennis: Millionaire Poet, that is out right now, Tom Wolfe is seen reading three of his poems. A ruffler of feathers and professed bearded dwarf, Mr. Dennis knows his way around a quip and tends to dole them out at a very high frequency. He was once invited to give the annual Delacorte Lecture to the students at Columbia Journalism School and advised them to ignore advertisers they are sen companions in his 2006 best seller How to Get Rich, but these days the enfant terrible seems, well, a little less terrible. His biggest current addiction is writing poetry and his latest project is a room-size rock weighing 30 tons inscribed with one of his poems, the ostentatiously titled Mirabile Dictu. (Latin for wonderful to relate.) When finished, the rock will be dropped by heavy-lift helicopter into the forest he planted near Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. I said it sounded extravagant. It should cost a lot of money! I am not a poor man! he said in his office in Midtown Manhattan, and then erupted with a huge Falstaffian laugh that is one of his many trademarks. The trademark seemed to be at risk in January on Friday the 13th, he drolly points out when he was found to have throat cancer while visiting his estate on the Caribbean island of Mustique. He rushed back to London and had surgery and radiation, which shaved 40 pounds off him. The treatment went well, so that means his ashes wont be going under that rock anytime soon (only Mr. Dennis would have a headstone the size of a room). The Week, a big hit in both print and on the Web in Britain, has been a growing performer here, increasing its circulation to 525,000 from 100,000 when Mr. Dennis first brought it to the United States in 2001. Mental Floss is still tiny it will have a circulation of 150,000 when it is audited at the end of the year, according to Dennis

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Food Network Mag. 140.2 +31.1% ................................................................................. Cooking Light 114.2 17.1 ................................................................................ Food & Wine 96.8 12.2 ................................................................................ Every Day . . . Ray 79.1 +28.7 ................................................................................ Bon Apptit 66.0 0.1 ................................................................................
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I Knew You . . . Taylor Swift Big Machine .................................. .......................................................... Gangnam Style Psy Republic .................................. .......................................................... Skyfall Adele XL/Col. .................................. .......................................................... One More Night .......................................................... Maroon 5 Octone/A&M .................................. Die Young Kesha Kemosabe .................................. .......................................................... Some Nights Fun. Fueled/Rmn .................................. .......................................................... We Are Never . . . .......................................................... Taylor Swift Big Machine .................................. Diamonds Rihanna Def Jam .................................. .......................................................... Too Close Alex Clare Universal .................................. .......................................................... Red Taylor Swift Big Machine .................................. ..........................................................

Cond Nast Traveler 117.0 10.4% ................................................................................. Travel + Leisure 103.0 13.0 ................................................................................ United Hemispheres 52.9 7.8 ................................................................................ Flying 50.8 +22.0 ................................................................................ Cruising World 50.2 20.5 ................................................................................

*Programs, of at least 30 minutes, viewed live or by same-day recording. Broadcast programs are prime time. A ratings point is 1.15 million homes. Change is from a year ago. Data collected through Oct. 19; Cooking Light was an anniversary issue. Ranked by rental revenue. Ranked by combined ratings for the N.F.L. Network and affiliate broadcasts in local markets, for games through Oct. 11..

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A respected and best-selling poet with a penchant for jokes.

merely guests and focus on readers. They are my bread, my butter, my caviar and my Gulfstream jet. Actually, I always rent the private jets. My rule is, if it flies, floats or fornicates, rent it. Its cheaper in the long run. But he is oddly chaste about the death of the print version of Newsweek, a magazine which he had constantly slagged as a bloated, beside-the-point publication. I have always been a fan of Tina, he said, referring to Tina Brown, the editor, and thought she brought a sense of fun to magazines, but there was no way that was ever going to work out. It had huge costs at a time the economics would not support it. He added: Youll get no triumphalism from me. I was a subscriber, believe it or not, and its never good when a magazine goes away. Even though he believes that American magazines are overedited and overstaffed No one else in the world takes so many people to make magazines Mr. Dennis says that there is nonetheless a lot of life left in printed products here. No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet, he said. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come. Mr. Dennis, 65, got his start selling magazines on Kings Road in London and worked his way over to the editorial side at Oz magazine, where he quickly ran afoul of British obscenity laws and was charged with conspiracy to corrupt public morals. The verdict against him and his co-defendants they were convicted of two lesser charges was eventually overturned. He then got in early on the computer craze with a raft of hobby magazines, although to this day he does not use e-mail and carries no cellphone. He owned up to frittering away $100 million on drugs and ill-choE-mail: carr@nytimes.com; Twitter: @carr2n

Canada Still Ponders Deal For Fuel Firm

TORONTO (Reuters) Canada could still approve the $5.2 billion acquisition of Progress Energy Resources by the Malaysian state oil company Petronas, the countrys finance minister said Sunday, despite blocking the deal late last week. The Canadian government said late Friday that the deal did not provide the net benefit required from foreign buyers under the Investment Canada Act. But Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Canadian television that negotiations were continuing. Im not involved in those discussions directly, Mr. Flaherty said in an interview on CTV. The minister of industry is. He added: Im sure theyll continue to work on it. Theres another period of time during which they can continue to have discussions and try to satisfy the concerns that the Department of Industry has. The governments announcement on Friday, minutes before a deadline, was a blow to Petronas. Its domestic oil supplies are shrinking, and it has been trying to increase its resources beyond Malaysia and volatile areas like Sudan. The announcement also raises questions about a $15 billion offer from the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or Cnooc, for the Canadian oil producer Nexen and could weigh on other Canadian companies hoping for foreign investment to tap their energy reserves. Canadas tar sands are the worlds third-largest crude oil reserve, behind only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, while the countrys vast shale oil and gas deposits are still in the early stages of development. The government has said the oil sands alone will require about $650 billion in investment in the next decade, much of which will have to come from foreign sources. But the willingness of Prime Minister Stephen Harpers Conservative government to accept foreign ownership of Canadas strategic resources has been an open question since 2010, when it blocked the $39 billion bid by the Australia mining giant BHP Billiton for Potash of Saskatchewan, the worlds largest fertilizer maker.

Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

Publishing executives but is playing larger on the Web and mobile, with almost four million unique users a month. It also sells about $1.5 million in merchandise a year to its cultlike audience. Never shy, Mr. Dennis chided me for having written bearishly about the magazine business. You are far too parochial, he said. America is not the center of the universe. Hearst just bought all of the international editions of Elle. The owners of Maxim just got a $6 million check from Russia. Those are still very good businesses and they are making me very, very rich. Its true that a stake has been driven through the heart of a lot of publishing and we will have to be digital wizards to survive, but if we are doing it right, we know our customers. If I have any trick, its knowing what the customer wants five minutes before he does. No amount of market research can do that. I noticed his trademark beard was gone. Radiation, he said, his hand circling where the beard once was. Alas, the bearded dwarf is no more. A huge honking laugh filled the room and I suggested it was unbecoming to laugh at ones own jokes. I never said I was becoming, he said. And then again came the laugh.

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NBC Finds Itself in Unfamiliar Place: Atop the Ratings for Younger Viewers
From First Business Page huge start last fall because of curiosity surrounding the departure of Charlie Sheen from Two and a Half Men is down 24 percent from the three-week period a year earlier. The two developments are linked: NBC has been able to ascend at least in part because its competitors have descended so sharply. Even at NBC, few people expected this performance. We didnt dare dream wed win the first three weeks of the season, said Stephen B. Burke, the NBC chief executive. We were pretty sure we would do better, and had laid the groundwork and had the strategy to do better. Robert Greenblatt, in his second season heading NBCs entertainment division, said, I was hoping wed be out of fourth place and comfortably in third. But were comfortably in first. NBC came into the season with a limited strategic objective. Our big goal was to build one night a year, Mr. Burke said. With National Football League games making Sunday night an all-but-guaranteed win, the idea was, O.K., wed like to try to win Monday night, Mr. Burke said. And well try to be competitive on Tuesday. Thus far, NBC has won every Monday and Tuesday to go along with its football-fueled Sunday. The crucial decision was adding a second edition of the hit singing competition, The Voice, on Monday to complement the version that ran in the spring. There were people saying we brought it back too soon, Mr. Greenblatt said. The outcome of that move has yet to be determined. This is the first time a singing competition is going to have two arcs in the same season, said Brad Adgate, senior vice president of research for the mediabuying agency Horizon Media. Foxs American Idol has always stuck to one edition a season. But The Voice has continued to be a potent draw, easily eclipsing Foxs fall-season singing show, The X Factor. The other essential ingredient in NBCs early success has been the addition of the seasons only breakout hit, Revolution. That drama, about a postapocalyptic world without electrical power, has not only dominated its 10 p.m. Monday time period, it has added more than 50 percent in the 18-49 audience when delayed viewing is included. Mr. Greenblatt said that having two hours of The Voice on Monits coverage one night. The preview pulled in 16 million viewers. The Olympics helped us, Mr. Greenblatt said, noting that NBC rushed many of its new shows on two weeks before the other networks. It was smart not to let the platform of the Olympics die out completely. But the other networks may have helped NBCs cause by offering little new to excite younger viewers. It has not been a stellar season for first-year shows, said Mr. Adgate of Horizon Media. Last fall, new shows like Two Broke Girls on CBS, New Girl on Fox and Once Upon a Time on ABC were all instant hits, but nothing at that level has emerged on any of those networks. Fox replaced the longtime favorite medical show House with a much-derided offering called Mob Doctor. CBS replaced Two and a Half Men on Mondays with a comedy called Partners that has found little traction. ABCs longtime Monday powerhouse, Dancing With the Stars, has been overtaken by The Voice and has lost a significant portion of its younger viewership. The greatest threat in the battle for younger viewers is the continuing appeal of top cable dramas. AMCs The Walking Dead smashed everything else on television in drawing young viewers for its premiere last week. Other cable series this fall, like Sons of Anarchy and American Horror Story on FX, are attracting more coveted young viewers than many network shows. Mr. Greenblatt said every network had noticed the numbers posted by The Walking Dead. Im scrambling around to see if we have anything high-concept like that in development, he said. The show most like that is Revolution, a series Mr. Greenblatt described as a big new idea which is where I think you need to be in drama.

Success built on football, a new hit science fiction drama and rivals missteps.
day would not have been enough to turn the night around if NBC had not developed a show that could take advantage of that big lead-in audience. You have to have a show that the audience truly wants to watch, he said. At this point last season, NBCs Monday consisted of two hours of The Sing-Off and a new drama, The Playboy Club. That lineup averaged 4.4 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the 18-49 audience. This years lineup has averaged 11.3 million viewers and a 4.2 rating. The Voice has also set up improvement on Tuesday night by attracting winning ratings from 8 to 9, and driving viewers to two new comedies, Go On, and The New Normal, from 9 to 10. Frontloading the week was a centerpiece of the strategy. NBC used the big audiences it attracted this summer for the Olympics to promote its new shows, even sliding a preview of Go On into

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Above, Matthew Perry and Allison Miller, seated at right, in a scene from Go On. For The Voice, Cee Lo Green draws on his musical talents in his role as a coach to the contestants.

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But the networks have offered little else this fall containing the new-idea elements of twisty plotlines and serialized storytelling, two of the hallmarks of cable drama. (Fox has a contender in that category coming in January, an intense serial-killer drama, The Following.) It doesnt make sense for the networks to put on another police procedural if they are trying to

get younger, Mr. Adgate said. They need shows that get people talking on social media. Mr. Adgate said NBC deserved credit for its fall strategy, though he added that the gains might be hard to sustain. In the first quarter, they wont have football, he said. CBS is likely to get back on track after the new year, partly because it always does because

of a largely stable schedule. But the main reason is that it owns rights to both the A.F.C. championship game in prime time and the Super Bowl. Were certainly not declaring victory, because we know its long term and the season goes in cycles, Mr. Greenblatt said. But to have this kind of strength at the beginning of the season is really unexpected.

Sale to Corporate Owner Gives Magazine on Healthy Eating a New Lease on Life
From First Business Page biscuits with chives. Readers dont seem to want Eating Well to veer from its format of recipes and articles about flavorful healthy meals for readers with limited time and tight budgets. Ms. Gosselin said readers sent angry letters when the magazine profiled the healthy eating habits of celebrities like the model and designer Lauren Bush and Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View. It welcomes celebrity chefs when they talk about food. The difference between us and the Food Network is were more about food and less about entertainment, she said. As advertising has dwindled in the past year at many food magazines, Eating Wells advertising pages declined by 7.4 percent in the past year, in line with many other food magazines, but it has gained circulation under Meredith, jumping to 549,300 from 369,231 in the last year. Meredith executives credit the growth to their ability to market the magazineto 100 million subscribers to their magazines, books and other products. Newsstand sales, helped by the companys previous relationships with sellers, jumped 46 percent in thepast year to 73,311, from 49,909. (Meredith also doesnt appear to be giving away the magazine to raise circulation. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the average subscription price per copy in 2011 declined to $2.01 from $2.14 the year before.) By comparison, Cooking Light, which is owned by Time Inc., had a decline in advertising pages of 17 percent, and its circulation modestly rose to 1.814 million, from 1.783 million. Food Network, the blockbuster magazine owned by Hearst, had an ad page increase of 14.8 percent and a small circulation bump, as well. Tom Harty, president of Merediths National Media Group, said the company wanted Eating Well to thrive, and he pointed to and Mr. Lawrence restarted the magazine in 2002. Once again, Mr. Lawrence left shortly afterward to work on books about marine biology. He says the magazine should have a better chance of surviving now. Food and health is one of the great topics of our age, he said. Its driven by peoples desire to eat more healthy. That thinking also persuaded Thomas P. Witschi to join the magazine in late 2005 and see if he could build its national presence. Mr. Witschi, who describes himself as not a good cook, insisted that the magazine remain in Vermont because of the high concentration of food writers there. He shopped for private equity investors to help build up the magazine and is frank about how much the magazines success depended on timing. We started this turnaround in 2006. Had we started this 12 months later, I dont think we would have made it, said Mr. Witschi, who now is president of Merediths lifestyle group. Mr. Witschi seems more confident that Eating Well has a better chance of success now than it did in the 1990s because of the nations continuing problem with obesity and desires for healthier and tasty food. We need to talk to the Walmart customer. We need to talk to the McDonalds customer, he said. Were not shy about it. Why not?

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Were not going to outdo Gourmet, said Lisa Gosselin, right, Eating Wells top editor, working with Jessie Price, deputy editor.
its new offices here in Shelburne as proof of its commitment. We are extremely pleased with its growth and performance over the past year, Mr. Harty said. Eating Well also makes money by repackaging its healthy recipes and nutritional content to outside organizations. It supplies recipes to Food Networks Web site, repackages some of its content into newsletters for health care companies and publishes a free magazine called Eat Healthy Your Way to be placed in checkout lines at commissaries on military bases around the world. The licensing and custom publishing business now make up about one-quarter of Eating Wells total revenue, and that part of the business, according to the company, is growing more than 30 percent a year. To help guide coverage, the magazine follows topics searched by its nearly four million unique site visitors each month. Ms. Gosselin said that search data showing readers were interested in Jell-O prompted its September article. Its very data-driven, said Ms. Gosselin about the magazines content. Some of our articles are in there because we know theres an interest in, say, chocolate pumpkin pie. Through the magazines transition, it has remained tied to Vermonts thriving local food scene, which Ms. Gosselin says is as essential to Vermont as fashion is to New York. Its new offices sit across from Shelburne Vineyards and Fiddlehead Brewery. The pages of the magazine feature products from local farmers, like apples from nearby Shelburne Orchards. As the orchards owner, Nick Cowles, rolled out a crust for a three-foot-wide apple pie on a recent afternoon, he talked about how much he appreciated the magazine even though it didnt highlight two of his favorite ingredients: butter and whiskey. They have recipes in there that dont have butter. Im a big believer in butter, Mr. Cowles said. But I think its a great magazine. Eating Well began in 1988, when James Lawrence, publisher of a small magazine called Harrowsmith Country Life, and his colleagues were becoming more health-conscious as they approached their 40s. The first issue, published in nearby Charlotte, appeared in September 1990. Mr. Lawrence, who calls himself a serial entrepreneur, left shortly afterward to start a book publishing company. In these early years, Eating Well appeared to thrive. In a plan Mr. Lawrence provided to prospective investors, he said that paid circulation grew to more than 400,000 within the first year and eventually grew to 700,000 subscribers. But by the time it was sold to Hachette, it was troubled by internal squabbles about whether to cater to older or younger readers. Hachette closed it in 1999. Many of Eating Wells staff members remained in the area,

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Lawsuits Claim Knoedler Made Huge Profits on Fakes

By PATRICIA COHEN

For more than a dozen years the Upper East Side gallery Knoedler & Company was substantially dependent on profits it made from selling a mysterious collection of artwork that is at the center of a federal forgery investigation, former clients of this former gallery have charged in court papers. The analysis is based on financial records turned over as part of a lawsuit

against the gallery filed by Domenico and Eleanore De Sole, who in 2004 paid $8.3 million for a painting attributed to Mark Rothko that they now say is a worthless fake. The Rothko is one of approximately 40 works that Knoedler, which closed last year, obtained from Glafira Rosales, a little-known dealer whose collection of works attributed to Modernist masters has no documented provenance and is

the subject of an F.B.I. investigation. Between 1996 and 2008, the suit asserts, Knoedler earned approximately $60 million from works that Ms. Rosales provided on consignment or sold outright to the gallery and cleared $40 million in profits. In one year, 2002, for example, the complaint says the gallerys entire profit $5.6 million was derived from the sale of Ms. Rosaless works.

Knoedlers viability as a business was substantially and, in some years, almost entirely dependent on sales from the Rosales Collection, the De Soles claimed last month in an amended version of the suit they filed this year. While the forgery allegations are well known and have been the subject of three federal lawsuits against Knoedler, the recent filings expand the known Continued on Page 5

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The former Knoedler Gallery in its town house, at 19 East 70th Street.

Cacophonous Declarations of Independents

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The Swedish duo Icona Pop at Santos Party House at the 31st annual CMJ Music Marathon. From Tuesday through Saturday some 1,300 acts took turns onstage across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Bonanza and glut, harbinger and revival, party and business meeting, auditions and acclamations, a random sample of whats new: the CMJ Music Marathon is all of them at once. At the 31st annual CMJ, from Tuesday through Saturday, about 1,300 acts took their turns during official CRITICS showcases usually a set lasting half NOTEBOOK an hour or less across Manhattan and Brooklyn. Many of them went on to play again and again through the festival, sometimes for hundreds of people, sometimes for barely a few dozen. They came all the way from Australia or directly from Brooklyn: lugging their instruments through the streets, lending equipment to one another, glad-handing any interested listener, selling do-it-yourself CDs and vinyl and, by and large, striving to garner enough new attention and contacts to make all the effort worthwhile. Bands like the xx and Arcade Fire have emerged from CMJ with exponentially expanded reputations; the prospect is enough to draw new hopefuls by the hundreds. CMJ has stood for College Music Journal and then College Media Journal; it started as a collegeradio newsletter and chart compiler. Its core is still music aiming for college radio airplay and, more recently, exposure through the countless Internet outlets for everything loosely described as indie. Which, in the 2010s, is virtually anything shut out of commercial radio formats for being too idiosyncratic, unfashionable, ahead of its time, unpolished, arty or just off-base alongside many contenders whod be perfectly delighted with a shot at the Top 40 or, perhaps, a licensing fee to lend their music to a commercial. Indie or not, CMJ is about careers. In my peregrinations through this years CMJ I saw about 100 acts, less than 10 percent of the possibilities. So it could be mere coincidence that I kept noticing the inroads that electronic dance music has made in an indie realm that used to equate the authentic with the handmade. It wasnt just the laptops, samplers and electronic drum pads that kept turning up onstage alongside the guitars. And, luckily, it wasnt merely an onslaught of the blunt four-on-the-floor beat that D.J.s turned producers Continued on Page 5

JON PARELES

A WORD WITH: KAREN ALLEN

A Lifetime of Regret, Born in a Moment

By ALLAN KOZINN

Maximizing Performers And History

The repertory for American Ballet Theaters recent weeklong season at New York City Center consisted of just seven performances, featuring six ballets, each by a different choreographer, and one pas de deux. (Or two if you include the pas de deux from James DANCE Kudelkas Cruel REVIEW World, performed at the opening-night gala but, mercifully, not again.) The choreography spanned 70 years. Rightly the weeks most talked-about feature was Symphony #9, the premiere by Alexei Ratmansky and the first in-

A Summer Day, the emotionally stark one-act by the Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, may seem an odd vehicle for Karen Allen, an actress best known for her feisty film portrayals, most notably Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ms. Allens unnamed character in the play which opens Thursday at the Cherry Lane Theater revisits a painful afternoon, decades earlier, when her husband took a small boat into the bay near their isolated country house and never returned. In the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production Ms. Allen remains onstage the entire time, sometimes narrating, sometimes closely examining the actions of

her younger self (played by another actress), sometimes seeming to try to push the unfolding events toward a different conclusion. Ms. Allen, whose previous stage appearance in New York was in Speaking in Tongues, in 2001, took time out between rehearsals last week to talk about the play and about her other lives as a teacher, stage director and proprietor of Karen Allen Fiber Arts, in Great Barrington, Mass., for which she designs colorful, hand-knit sweaters, scarves and hats. These are excerpts from the conversation.
Q. A Summer Day is a desolate play. What led you to choose it?
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Karen Allen returns to stage in Summer Day, a one-act at the Cherry Lane Theater.

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Looking in the Fridge and Finding Some Poetry

The Hungry Ear
Poems of Food & Drink Edited by Kevin Young
319 pages. Bloomsbury. $25.

Take away this pudding, Winston Churchill reportedly said. It has no theme. I can understand Churchills hilarious pique. Its how I often feel about poetry and about food writing. Both can be thin and flavorless. Both can be puddings BOOKS without themes. Combine dining OF THE TIMES and verse, as has been done in a new anthology called The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink, and you have the potential for a perfect storm of muckiness.

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The good news about The Hungry Ear, edited by Kevin Young, the talented, prolific and sometimes sloppy poet, isnt that it sidesteps bad poetry (it doesnt), but that it also delivers such a groaning board of things to love, from Seamus Heaney on oysters and Lucille Clifton on collard greens to Theodore Roethke on root cellars and Jane Kenyon on shopping at an IGA. In Kenyons wonderful poem her narrator walks the dingy supermarket aisles in Franklin, N.H., while thinking:

Things would have been different if I hadnt let Bob climb on top of me for ninety seconds in 1979. There are 158 poems about food and drink in The Hungry Ear. This volume is easily the best bathroom book of 2012, no small praise. (There should be a National Book Award in this category.) Its surprising that no one has thought to do an anthology like this before. Getting to the good material, though, is like Continued on Page 4

stallment of his coming Shostakovich symphony trilogy. An exciting work, its an important, complex achievement. Like its music its full of Russian history, but like Balanchines ballets to Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky it expands those layers so that we breathe them too. In several stylistic and compositional ways, however, Mr. Ratmansky is no Balanchine disciple, despite having learned an extraordinary amount from that Continued on Page 7

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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain , from left, David Suich, Peter Brooke Turner, Hester Goodman, George Hinchliffe, Richie Williams, Will Grove-White and Jonty Bankes, at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night.

Another Kind of String Theory, Plinking Up Where Tiny Tim Left Off
What was the tipping point that touched off the ukuleles current vogue? For rockers, perhaps it was the Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedders most recent solo album, Ukulele Songs, and its corresponding MUSIC REVIEW tour. The young virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has surely made an impact among admirers of instrumental prowess. For indie-rock fans theres Arone Dyer of the gangly, effusive duo Buke and Gase; for the rest of the world, Zooey Des-

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chanel. Whatever it was that sparked the fuse, the once lowly little cousin of the guitar is visible as never before, wrested from its associations with novelty performers like George Formby and Tiny Tim, and endowed with an oversize dose of unexpected hipness. Instrument dealers have noted a huge surge in sales. And on Wednesday evening a notable number of audience members present in Carnegie Hall for a concert by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain turned up toting

instruments of their own. That was no coincidence. The 27-year-old ensemble, which played at Zankel Hall two years ago, tipped off its admirers in advance that this concert, presented in Carnegies main hall, the Isaac Stern Auditorium, would include an audience participation segment. It came midway through the concert, with Relentlessly in C (a knowing wink to Terry Rileys In C), composed by an orchestra member, George Hinchliffe, that lived up to its billing with ceaseless

cellular motifs in the key of the title. As the ensemble played onstage, ripples and shimmers wafted up from audience members throughout the hall. Otherwise the evenings program mostly adhered closely to the one the orchestra played in 2010. You heard the deadpan cover of the Talking Heads Psycho Killer; the whistling-enhanced takes on Bachs Badinerie (from the Orchestral Suite in B minor) and Ennio Morricones theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; the vaudeville lark

through the Sex Pistols Anarchy in the U.K.; the punning spin on Isaac Hayess theme from Shaft; and bravura mashups of popular songs. It all amounted to superbly tuneful fun. Performing on ukuleles ranging in size from a conventional soprano instrument to a tubby electric-bass model, the seven orchestra members on hand mixed instrumental panache and affable singing with no small amount of inimitably British drollery. (One member who missed the 2010 concert be-

cause of illness missed this one for the same reason.) At times you heard echoes of Django Reinhardts Gypsy-jazz institution Quintette du Hot Club de France and of Russian balalaika ensembles (notably in a setclosing cover of Formbys Leaning on the Lamp Post). And in a faithful rendition of Lady Gagas Born This Way, you heard a dance-floor declaration of independence repurposed into what might well have been a plucky defense of quirky musical proclivities.

A Little Lascivious Music (Send in Attila the Hun)

Tucked into the saucy cabaret revue Vienna to Weimar, a survey of Austrian and German songs from operetta through the Weimar era at the Triad, is a guilty pleasure titled A Little Attila. Composed in 1922 by Rudolf Nelson and translated into English by MUSIC REVIEW Jeremy Lawrence, the song is a politically incorrect rape fantasy focused on Attila the Hun, whom the song describes as a cute little brute whos selfish and oblivious, lascivious and lewd. The narrator declares, I dont need a flotilla or a villa by the sea/but oh for a scintilla of some virility. At Saturdays opening-night show A Little Attila was delivered with just the right tone of lubricious amusement by the singer K T Sullivan and her musical partner Karen Kohler, who were accompanied on piano by Jed

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Distler. Ms. Sullivan, who represents the Viennese side of the shows cultural equation, is operatically trained. And while she is no Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, she delivered familiar songs (mostly waltzes) by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehr with an airy enjoyment. Ms. Kohler, a lean, angular German-born cabaret singer, represented the Weimar era. Wearing a mans tuxedo, she made a striking contrast to Ms. Sullivans voluptuous courtesan of a certain age. As they stood arm in arm and sang vintage reflections on gender and sexuality, in both German and English, they teased you with the idea that they might be lovers. While singing Raus mit den Mnnern aus dem Reichstag (Chuck Out the Men), a thoroughly modern-sounding denunciation of male aggression with an anti-Nazi message, you had
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Illuminating Charpentier At the White Light Festival

Art, like life, provides few certainties, but a performance by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants featuring music of the French Baroque is as close to a sure thing as you can get. Mr. Christie, an American conductor, harpsichordist and scholar who has made a MUSIC REVIEW home in France since 1970, has long been a towering authority on music from the time of Louis XIV. With Les Arts Florissants, his extraordinary ensemble, he has helped to revitalize the reputations of worthy composers like Lully, Charpentier and Rameau. Charpentier, whose 1685 chamber opera Les Arts Florissants provided a name for Mr. Christies institution, served as the focus for a program presented at Alice Tully Hall on Friday evening, as part of Lincoln Centers latest White Light Festival. Overshadowed during his lifetime by Lully, whose courtly status warded off serious rivals, Charpentier fashioned a canon of enduring elegance and charm: thankfully, one that he had the foresight to preserve meticulously. Mr. Christie and his troupe, who are scheduled to bring a celebrated Aix-en-Provence Festival production of Charpentiers sacred drama David et Jonathas to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April, offered something of a preview with this concert. The program, presented without intermission, included three religious motets spanning a supremely productive stretch of a life spent at the periphery of the royal court. The earliest work on the program, Motet Pour les Trspasss 8: Plainte des mes du Purgatoire, was a product of Charpentiers service to the Guise family, which endured a swift series of calamitous deaths during the early 1670s. The motet, based on the biblical book of Job and scored for two four-part choirs, evoked the familys tribulations with chromatic density and plangent solo lines. Surrounding that work were

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two later dramatic motets: Caecilia Virgo et Martyr, completed in 1685, and Filius Prodigus, from 1680. Narratively simplistic, yet illuminated with technical ingenuity and emotional potency, the tiny dramas reflect Charpentiers studies with an Italian master, Carissimi, and by extension a link to the inventions of Monteverdi. Each allowed soloists from Mr. Christies ensemble to shine. In Caecilia the soprano Rachel Redmond was resplendent in the title role, a Christian martyr; Benjamin Alunni, a tenor, and Reinoud Van Mechelen, a high tenor, sang Valerianus and Tibur-

Vienna to Weimar continues through Sunday at the Triad, 158 West 72nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 362-2590.

Vienna to Weimar K T Sullivan, left, and Karen Kohler in their cabaret

revue, which features German and Austrian songs, at the Triad.

Chanteuses, tuxedoed and voluptuous, take on male aggression.

the feeling that they could take on the world. As long as they stood together, men, even Attila the Hun, were dispensable. Although its songs arent arranged in a strict chronology, the show follows an arc in which cushy Viennese sentimentality gives way to hard-edged BrechtWeill cynicism in much harsher times, then returns for a final giddy fling in Lehars Meine Lippen, sie Kssen so heiss (My Lips, They Kiss So Hot) and The Merry Widow Waltz. Weimar to Vienna is a perfect complement to Mark Nadlers 54 Below show, Im a Stranger Here Myself, which includes a couple of the same songs. Weimar is in the air.

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Les Arts Florissants William

Christie conducting a program of Charpentier at Alice Tully Hall on Friday as part of Lincoln Centers White Light Festival. tius (Caecilias husband and his brother) with agility and spirit. In Filius Prodigus Mr. Van Mechelen was a brilliantly impassioned Prodigal Son, well played against the bass Geoffroy Buffires supple Pater. Responding to a thunderous ovation Mr. Christie offered a generous four encores: more Charpentier (the finale of David et Jonathas; the Agnus Dei from Messe Assumpta Est Maria; and a giddy chorus from Filius Prodigus), and a closing rendition of Campras Requiem Aeternam, suffused with a white light that suited the occasion.

William Christie conducts Juilliard415 on Saturday evening at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center; (212) 769-7406, juilliard.edu.

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Paranormal Activity 4 Leads Box Office

The Paranormal Activity horror series took a terrifying tumble over the weekend, as its fourth installment proved sharply less popular with North American ticket buyers than the franchises immediate predecessor. Paranormal Activity 4 (Paramount) took in about $30.2 million, or 42 percent less than Paranormal Activity 3 managed last year over its first three days. Copycat movies, franchise fatigue and dismal reviews may have contributed to these results. Still, this movie (with Kathryn Newton, above) only cost $5 million to make and took in an additional $26.5 million overseas, a stronger-than-expected tally. Argo (Warner Brothers) was a robust second, taking in an estimated $16.6 million, for a two-week total of $43.2 million, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box-office data. Hotel Transylvania (Sony) chugged along in third place, selling $13.5 million in tickets, for a four-week total of $119 million. Fourth place went to Taken 2 (20th Century Fox), which brought in $13.4 million, for a three week total of about $106 million. Tyler Perry, experimenting with a role outside of his own movie factory, flopped with Alex Cross, which placed fifth, taking in about $11.8 million; Summit Entertainment released this crime mystery, which was independently BROOKS BARNES produced, for about $22 million.

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My Soul Rejoices The Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola on Wednesday, opening the season of the series Sacred Music in a Sacred Space.

Relative Rarities by Mozart, Solemn and Spirited

Leaving a concert at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Wednesday evening, I replied to a text message from a musician friend asking what had been on the program. Mozart vespers, Bach Magnificat, I wrote. Mozart wrote vesMUSIC REVIEW pers? he wrote back. Mozarts two settings of the prayer service are not among his most performed works, but they offer great beauties. Though the Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (Solemn Vespers of the Confessor, K. 339), performed on Wednesday, is best known for the soaring soprano aria Laudate Dominum, its choral movements are powerful. There are exhilarating details, as when the choirs female voices mirror the violins in an upward

Louis C. K. to Host Saturday Night Live

He may not have succeeded in his quest to take over from David Letterman at CBSs Late Show, at least not in the fictional world of his FX comedy series, but in real life Louis C. K., left, has landed another highly coveted late-night television spot: He will be the host of Saturday Night Live on NBC on Nov. 3. Louis C. K., the pioneering standup comedian and writer, director and star of FXs Louie, will be joined by the pop-rock trio Fun. when he makes his hosting debut on SNL. This booking comes in the middle of a national standup tour that Louis C.K. embarked upon without the help of a third-party ticketing service, and it will follow a seven-night, 14-show stand at City Center in Manhattan starting Monday. While he infrequently acts outside projects that he has written himself, Louis C. K. has made exceptions; he has appeared as a recurring character on NBCs Parks and Recreation and also has a role in an untitled Woody Allen movie. Saturday Night Live has a long tradition of featuring stand-up comedians as hosts, from its first episode in 1975, hosted by George Carlin, to more recent episodes hosted by Louis C. K.s sometime rival Dane Cook.
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the letter, which has been posted on the Dramatists Guilds Web site, Mr. Norris said that it was his final correspondence with the management of the Deutsches Theater that caused him decide to withdraw the rights to the production. After much evasion, justification and rationalizing of their reasons, he wrote, they finally informed me that the color of the actresss skin would ultimately be irrelevant, since they intended to experiment with makeup. Mr. Norris asks that writers boycott productions of their own work in German theaters if those practices are implemented. A zero-tolerance position is the only position to take, in my opinion, and if we are united then perhaps a few German theaters may take notice and, hopefully, in time, a better course of action, he said. In an e-mail on Sunday, Mr. Norris declined to comment further. An online petition has also started at Avaaz .org to stop this practice in German theaters in reaction to a recent production of Herb Gardners Im Not Rappaport at Schlosspark Theater in Berlin, where a white actor played Midge, a black character.

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scale in the Beatus vir. But Wednesdays account was most interesting when you heard glimpses in it of other, greater things: the Confitebor has some of the swirling energy of the opening movement of Mozarts Requiem, albeit in a far sunnier mood. The Solemn Vespers followed another relative rarity by Mozart, his Church Sonata in C (K. 329), one of a body of brief orchestral movements that he wrote to connect sections of the Mass. This one, with oboes, trumpets and drums added to the standard strings and organ, has a pleasantly spirited richness. It was good, but just good, as were the vespers and much of Wednesdays concert, My Soul Rejoices, which opened the season of the churchs well-loved series Sacred Music in a Sacred Space and featured the Choir and

Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola. Led by the artistic director of the series, K. Scott Warren, the orchestra played the Mozart works with a smoothness that verged on blandness, and the choir sang with fullness but not much incisiveness. The soloists in the vespers, the soprano Katherine Wessinger and the mezzosoprano Sara Murphy, sounded sweet and detached. By the first work on the second half of the program, Bachs Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, the orchestra had gained some tightness while staying well clear of transcendence. But then there was a startling transformation as these same forces converged for an exciting performance of Bachs Magnificat in D (BWV 243). The churchs acoustics still favored a big, diffuse sound rather than a clear, pointed one, but the choirs ener-

gy and diction were suddenly more focused. The woodwinds introduction to the mezzo-soprano aria Esurientes implevit bonis was beautifully balanced. The brasses were excellent throughout, with a shining trumpet solo in the Fecit potentiam, whose controlled chaos Mr. Warren led with confidence. In the Esurientes Ms. Murphy handled the flowing runs with assurance but also deep feeling. Ms. Wessinger sang her aria, Quia respexit humilitatem, with stricken dignity, and the other soloists the tenor John Tiranno, the bass Michael Reder and the resonant, moving mezzosoprano Jennifer Feinstein were similarly committed, like the conductor, choir and orchestra, to the works shifts of mood and driving undercurrent of intensity.

Glum Teenager Flies Pink-Painted Coop

Unwitting moviegoers who drop into Sassy Pants may be forgiven for wondering if they have accidentally stumbled into the kingdom of John Waters. Its low-rent Southern California setting may not be Baltimore, but the movies writer and director, Coley Sohn, FILM has a similar fascinaREVIEW tion with the ethos associated with The Jerry Springer Show. Who could have imagined that the most Waters-like character, Chip Hardy, the roly-poly, much younger lover of a gay car salesman, would be played by that quintessential lost child, Haley Joel Osment of The Sixth Sense and A.I. Artificial Intelligence? Mr. Osment, now 24 and hairychested, revels in the part of an ostentatiously effeminate boy toy with a side-sweep hairdo, eye

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Sassy Pants
Opened on Friday in Manhattan.
Written and directed by Coley Sohn, based on her short film Boutonniere; director of photography, Denis Maloney; edited by Robin Katz and Kindra Marra; music by Angela Correa; production design by Rachel Payne; costumes by Mairi Chisholm; produced by Adam Wilkins and Pavlina Hatoupis. At the Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 27 minutes. This film is not rated. WITH: Ashley Rickards (Bethany), Anna Gunn (June Pruitt), Haley Joel Osment (Chip Hardy), Diedrich Bader (Dale Pinto), Martin Spanjers (Shayne Pruitt) and Jenny OHara (Grandma Pruitt).

A New Book Is Due From Elizabeth Strout

Random House announced on Sunday that it would publish a new work by Elizabeth Strout in March. The book, The Burgess Boys, will be her first since the 2008 release of her interconnected short-story collection, Olive Kitteridge, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2009. In a news release the publisher said that Ms. Strouts novel would focus on two brothers in Brooklyn who are called back to Maine by their sister because of a family scandal.

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Playwright Challenges Racial Casting Practices

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris, below, has called for a boycott in Germany of theater productions in which white actors are cast in roles explicitly written for black performers. In a letter addressed to fellow members of the Dramatists Guild, a trade association for writers, Mr. Norris condemned such casting, which he described as widespread in Germany. Mr. Norris wrote the letter after his experience with a production of his Tony Award-winning play, Clybourne Park at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, in which a white actress had been cast to play a black character. In

Footnote
The Joyce Theater is to announce on Monday its lineup for the spring season. Highlights include Ice Hot: A Nordic Dance Festival with performances by Tero Saarinen Company, Danish Dance Theater and Carte Blanche (March 6 to 17); the New York premiere of A Bend in the River, performed by the Cambodian Khmer Arts Ensemble with choreography by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (April 9 to 14); and Ballet v6.0, a festival designed to recognize dancers and choreographers who create work outside of larger, more traditional companies (Aug. 6 to 17).

makeup, tight cutoff jeans and a swiveling gait. At last we know he can do more on the screen than mope. Chips margarita-guzzling sugar daddy, Dale (Diedrich Bader), is the divorced father of Bethany

PHASE 4 FILMS

Haley Joel Osment and Ashley Rickards in Coley Sohns film.

(Ashley Rickards), the movies oppressed teenage heroine, who flees the suffocating home of her prudish mother, June (Anna Gunn of Breaking Bad), to live with Chip and Dale. Chip is delighted to take Bethany shopping (on Dales credit card) and to gay bars. One major difference between Mr. Waters and Ms. Sohn is that Mr. Waters loves his freaks and geeks, while Ms. Sohn is more ambivalent. For its first 45 minutes Sassy Pants satirizes downscale suburban life with a scathing contempt for mean girls, vacant teenage boys and empty mall culture. To protect Bethany and her younger brother, Shayne (Martin Spanjers), from these contaminating influences, June has home-schooled them in her house with its suffocatingly cutesy pinkpainted interiors. The beautiful but terminally glum Bethany runs away when June insists that she enroll in an online college and continue living under her thumb. Until Sassy Pants loses its nerve and turns somewhat warm and fuzzy, Ms. Sohn maintains tight control of the story of Bethanys liberation from her domestic prison to pursue fashion. (The movie is based on her short Boutonniere.) Once the film softens, it starts to come unglued. It plays one final nasty joke on the monstrously controlling June. As Bethany is about to fly the coop, her younger brother, who has been sullenly biding his time in hell, asks her to show him how to put on earrings and apply eye makeup.

Fragile Hope Can Take Root, Even at the Depths of the Dust Bowl
When the people at Axis Theater Company say that Last Man Club will make you feel as if you were living through the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, they are deadly serious. And that is both a compliment and a problem. This atmospheric, expertly structured THEATER one-act drama by RanREVIEW dy Sharp, at the Axis Theater on Sheridan Square, is something of a companion piece to The Grapes of Wrath, in which the Joads leave the drought and dust storms of the Great Plains, hoping to make a

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new life (and perhaps see the sun again) in California. Last Man Club is about the people who stayed behind in their devastated hometowns. The Dust Bowl illusion is masterly, starting with David Zeffrens splendid lighting design, in which everyone and everything has a slight sepia tint. Then the sound designer, Steve Fontaine, adds the constant wailing of the Last Man Club continues through Sunday at Axis Theater Company, 1 Sheridan Square, West Village; (212) 352-2101, axiscompany.org.

Last Man Club

Axis Theater Company wind. And Ms. Sharp has directed some of her six cast members in a stylized way that suggests that they have been spiritually lobotomized by their experience. The four local residents played nicely by David Crabb, Lynn Mancinelli, Spencer Aste and Britt Genelin often seem to be living in a bad dream, and they pull the audience in with them. The production actually does too good a job of recreating

the hypnotic feel of that place and time. Periodically Ms. Sharp has an actor shout a line with particular force and volume, possibly to rouse any theatergoers whose eyelids are feeling very heavy. Then a stranger comes to town, which seems unlikely under these circumstances. In fact two strangers come to town, separately. Middle Pints (George Demas) Ms. Sharp loves a distinctive character name and Henry Taper (Brian Barnhart) have absolutely never met before. (Yeah, right.) So when Middle reveals the possibility of a machine that

could end the drought and therefore everyones misery, it certainly adds to his credibility that Henry, a total stranger, thinks investing in it is the best idea since Franklin D. Roosevelt, the current president, repealed Prohibition. And on that slender but oddly believable premise hangs our story of deception, despair and some surprising aspects of persistent hope. As Pogord (Mr. Aste) says, when others are fantasizing about life after the storms: Maybe. You never know when somethings going to end.

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A Lifetime of Regret, Born in a Moment

From First Arts Page
A. Ive been directing a lot, and as a director there are a lot of stories I want to tell and a lot of plays I fall in love with that dont necessarily have roles for me. But when I read this play, I felt very moved by it. I had a very deep connection with it from the beginning. Its about loss and about a moment in time when someone makes a small, wrong decision and something terrible comes from it, and they spend their whole life trying to forgive

themselves. Thats a very poignant thing, something weve all experienced, if not on the tragic level of this character. It doesnt happen to me often when I read a play, but I was choked up by parts of it.
Q. Youve said that youre guess-

ing that about 25 years has elapsed between the husbands disappearance and the present, in which your character reconstructs the days events. Have you created a sub rosa biography for her, a sense of what shes been through in those years?

A: Yeah, I like to do stuff like that, Ive given it quite a bit of thought. And I have some things in my own life to draw on, because I do have a house in the country, and I do live there by myself, and people are always saying to me, Why are you living out in the middle of nowhere by yourself? I think that she is somebody who just has shut down. Shes isolated herself from the world. I think there are so many different ways you can interpret the play. Some people say: Are we watching a dream? Is this something that she does whenever this friend comes to visit her, that she has this ritual of bringing this to life? I think and I know Sarah [Cameron Sunde], our director, feels that this is a play that allows itself to be interpreted in a lot of different ways. Q. The very first thing the audience sees is you walking to the edge of the stage and tearing up. That must be difficult to do, right off the bat, every night. A. I think it probably changes from night to night, depending on what Im working with offstage. You know, as one does, you work with everything inside of yourself that you can bring to a role. And of course I have someone in my life who is no longer part of my life, and you work with those levels of regret and loss. So I think there are nights where, maybe when I make that connection, it does well up, and I

It doesnt happen to me often when I read a play, but I was choked up.
KAREN ALLEN

Actress, stage director, teacher and designer

York], because theres not a lot of work. Most films or television things that would come my way, where you could actually make some money to live on, are out of the city, and when you have a child, you cant pull him in and out of school all the time. So I felt that a better place for us to be was in the countryside, and that even though it meant putting my career as an actor on the back burner, I just felt that that was the wiser thing to do. So creating the design line became my way of creating something interesting for me to do while I stayed put and was a mom. Q. Do you still create new designs? A. I do, I try to. I have a feeling that my life is now shifting back. [My son] is on his own, and hes living on his own, and hes working, and he loves what he does. I feel like this transition is taking place for me. And as much as Ive loved doing the design part of my life, I have a feeling that Im actually going to be focusing more on working in the theater. Im so enjoying being here in New York, and I just have a feeling that theres a tidal shift taking place.

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feel very emotional. And there might be nights when I make the connection and it takes different directions.
Q. Before you became an actress,

A. I came to having to make some

you studied design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. But having established a thriving acting career, what led you to start your textile company?

very tough decisions at a certain point in my life that had really to do with my son. We were living here in New York when 9/11 happened, and I was trying to hold on to my house [near Great Barrington, Mass.], because I wasnt really ready to give it up. I felt very hamstrung here [in New

Looking in the Fridge and Finding Poetry and Puddings

From First Arts Page working your way to the heart of an artichoke. There are tasty things along the way, but youll be shedding a lot of inedible bits. There are many lines like this one from Mary Swanders Ode to Okra: Heal me with the nod of your leaves. Persevere. Mr. Young reprints the entirety of Howard Nemerovs Bacon & Eggs: The chicken contributes,/But the pig gives his all. He gives us Thomas Luxs delirious poem about his childhood refrigerator in 1957, with maraschino cherries as fiery globes, like strippers/at a church social. Theres Billy Collins, feeling sorry for the fish he is about to consume, yanked from the sea and now lying dead/next to some boiled potatoes in Pittsburgh. And there is Honore Jeffers, winsome on barbecue: Dont ever trust white folk to cook your meat until its done to the bone. Allen Ginsbergs ecstatic Supermarket in California utterly scatters whatever hush might build up: Whole families/shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados,/ babies in the tomatoes! Ginsberg and Tom Wolfe should have dueled with exclamation points at 10 paces. Several of the best poems here are vinegary; they cut against the mellow grain. Judith Ortiz Cofers Beans: An Apologia for Not Loving to Cook strikes me as a small anti-food classic. Ms. Cofer grew to hate the cloying smell of boiling beans because it was, to her childhood sense of things, the smell of women waiting, and the smell of women turning away from childrens demands for attention and love. Ive been poking though a prepublication copy of The Hungry
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EDWARD ALBEES WHOS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

Kevin Young
Ear for a few months now, and Ive been glad to have it in my house. But it has also, like a guest who fills the refrigerator with 64ounce bottles of Pepsi, made me crazy. Its an editorial anti-master class. Mr. Young is a young poet and editor who sometimes seems to be working so fast that he, as the state police sometimes say about people who crash their cars into trees in the fog, overdrives his headlights. His introduction to this volume, as is his introduction to a new collection of Lucille Cliftons poems that he co-edited, is upbeat and celebratory but also talky and facile. In The Hungry Ear Mr. Young tells us nothing about his editorial process. Why and how did he choose the poems that are here? Why do so few of them predate the 20th century? You dont

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have to print the Franklins section of the prologue to The Canterbury Tales, for example (the sauces were poignant and sharp) in a book like this one, but it would be nice to know why canonical works arent included. There is a typo in this books fourth poem, Robert Haass lovely Meditation at Lagunitas. (A thin wire of grief becomes a think wire of grief.) This is not worth remarking upon perhaps. But there are no typos in the four poems of his own that Mr. Young includes, which is more than anyone else except Campbell McGrath and Kenyon, each of whom also has four. Its easy to bully an anthologist for not including ones favorites. But no Ogden Nash? (Parsley/ Is gharsely.) No Ira Gershwin? (You like potato and I like po-tah-to). No appearance of Randall Jarrells classic Next Day, which begins: Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All,/I take a box/And add it to my wild rice. No When Dean Young Talks About Wine, by Tony Hoagland, the best wine poem ever written? And wheres Jim Harrison? He is, no question, Americas lustiest eater-poet. Some of the poems that are missing from The Hungry Ear would have brought more wit to the feast. The volume might have ended with The Heart Attack, by Frederick Seidel. Or even better, with The Beautiful Bowel Movement, by John Updike. What a great meal this book mostly is. What heartburn it provides.

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SIREN'S HEART:

Bridge
Phillip Alder
One of the true arts of defensive play in bridge is helping your partner to avoid an error. Norberto Bocchi from Italy did exactly that in the diagramed deal from the Cavendish Teams in Monaco last week. It occurred in the match between the Lavazza team from Italy (Maria Teresa Lavazza, Guido Ferraro, Bocchi, Agustin Madala, Giorgio Duboin and Antonio Sementa) and Roy Welland of New York City and Sabine Auken, Josef Piekarek and Alexander Smirnov from Germany. At the other table Sementa (South) went down one in four spades after West led the diamond ace. Piekarek (South) opened and closed the auction with his threespade bid. Madala (West) led the heart deuce. South discarded a diamond under dummys ace, then ran the spade nine. West won with his queen and accurately shifted to a low club, dummys ten losing to Easts queen. Bocchi (East), knowing that he had trump control, returned his second club. Declarer won with dummys jack, ruffed a heart in his hand, cashed the spade ace and continued with the spade jack. What did East do after winning with his spade king? South had cleverly concealed the club deuce, leaving West thinking that his partner had probably started with only two clubs but perhaps he had three. NORTH 9 AJ843 864 A J 10 5 S h d C S h d C EAST K732 Q 10 6 Q J 10 2 Q4 S h d C S h d C WEST Q K9752 A97 K983

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Neither side was vulnerable. The bidding: West North East South 3S Pass Pass Pass West led the heart deuce.

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Almost everyone in Bocchis position would have led the diamond queen, but he led the diamond ten! Now, when West took declarers king with his ace, he immediately returned a club for his partner to ruff. Then East cashed the diamond queen for down two. Minus 50 and plus 100 gave the Lavazza team 2 international match points on the board in a match won by 16 imps. As Marco Catellani mentioned in the Daily Bulletin, it was only an extra undertrick, but sometimes beauty comes in small packages.

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Shirtless Men Cloaked In Drama

An audience members brain could be forgiven, while weathering Thursday nights nearly three-hour Stars of the 21st Century ballet gala at the David H. Koch Theater, for certain paranoid flights of fancy. At some point, confronted by yet another instantly forgettable heterosexual melodrama of a duet, one DANCE REVIEW might easily convince oneself that all these international luminaries were in fact performing the same dance. How else to explain the preponderance of shirtless men, bastardized classical themes, tepidly simulated sex, hyperextended legs and spotlights? There were moments of relief in the 20th iteration of this event, which showcases some of ballets elite performers dancing in works selected in collaboration with the Stars artistic director, Nadia Veselova Tencerby: the Mariinsky Ballets Vladimir Shklyarov joyously eating up space in Balanchines Tschaikovsky Pas de deux, the crystalline precision of the Royal Ballets Sarah Lamb and Eric Underwood in an excerpt from Wayne McGregors Limen and the Bolshoi Ballets Svetlana Zakharova, she of the endless limbs. And, especially, the Bolshois Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin in Victor Gsovskis Grand Pas Classique; not even the horribly canned music could diminish their steely technique and sovereign presence. Much of the relief came during choreography created nowhere close to the 21st century. There is nothing like a ballet gala to turn a person into a reactionary conservative. Then again, there is nothing remotely contemporary or illuminating about most of these newer works (by choreographers including Edwaard Liang, Judith Jamison, Boris Eifman and Dwight Rhoden). They seem determined to ignore all truths about the human condition in favor of enough emoting to make a soap star blush. To see a dancer like the Staatsballet Berlins Vladimir Malakhov reduced to a human forklift in a duet from Angelin Preljocajs Parc (1994), his lips locked with Nadja Saidakovas in an extended death grip, is to feel despair for the state of an art form. (Insult to injury: According to press materials, this was Mr. Malakhovs final New York performance.) Dancers careers are generally short. It is easy to see whats compelling about an opportunity to be onstage in New York, earn some money and soak up the adulation of your public. But, really, how can these artists stand to pour themselves into such excruciatingly thin material? Forget about choreography that stretches dancers; couldnt they at least find choreography that doesnt actively work to diminish them?

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KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Hayden Menzies of the Toronto punk band Metz at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at the CMJ Music Marathon on Friday afternoon.

Cacophonous Declarations of Independents

From First Arts Page now use to propel radio hits although that was there too from acts like Icona Pop, two women from Sweden who settled scores with ex-lovers in chirpy, pounding, singalong-ready choruses, but who also deployed a tableful of electronic gadgetry to remix their songs on the spot. Just as often the dance-music effect was an undogmatic blend of live and machine-generated rhythms, an embrace of sounds that are difficult or impossible to produce on physical instruments, a willingness to trance out with repetition, and a sense of song structure resembling a dance-music set: prizing smooth transitions and not looking back. That showed up in songs by Duologue that strung together verses, refrains, guitar patterns, electric-violin lines and percussion breaks, and in the plinking, floating, Minimalistic reveries of two groups featuring the singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston: the band Braids and her electronic duo, Blue Hawaii. Another intriguing art-rock band, Hundred Waters, has extrapolated its own kind of convoluted songs from Bjorks mixture of the pastoral and the futuristic. Gabriel Bruce, a songwriter whose deep baritone and morose, death-haunted lyrics might have led him toward Leonard Cohen territory in another era, had electronic beats and backup dancers instead. Gold Minds, an Australian band, brought tuneful pop approachability to the kind of dance rock that appeared in the 1980s, revving it up with buoyant Caribbean syncopations. Savoir Adore, from Brooklyn, combined two sounds of optimism: surging folkrock chords and the solid foundation of an electronic beat. CMJ included electronica explorers like Jerome LOL, who threaded jazz basslines through his mixes, and Holy Other, who concocted deep, eerie dirges. Maria Minerva, originally from Iceland, offered electronica as demented performance art; while she generated loops and samples chords, rhythms, haze she crooned in a slurred, obsessive singsong, repeating lines like I see all the lonely people
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Nicole Miglis of Hundred Waters at Mercury Lounge on the lower East Side.
looking at the other lonely people. But there was far more dancing for the marchlike, midtempo instrumentals and clear-cut tunes of Com Truise, a duo of electronics and drums. Electronica experiments infused some of CMJs hip-hop. Instead of straightforward looped beats Mykki Bianco rapped some of his down-anddirty free associations over a deep, eardrum-pressuring subwoofer drone and stray blips and crackles. Ratking two rappers and two electronics players delivered its rhymes in an nearly impenetrable fog of crackly, sputtering noise. Death Grips also placed a thick electronic squall around live elements: rhymes from Stefan Burnett and the live drumming of Zach Hill from the group Hella. Not all of CMJs hip-hop was so willfully difficult; for more mainstream rappers, CMJ is just another media platform. Angel Haze rocketed through her most belligerent tough-gal rhymes, slinging polysyllables at top speed. Killer Mike, in a vigorous set shot for MTV, veered between making political statements and exulting in what he cheerfully called vices. And Kitty Pryde offered cute, comedic expositions of unrequited crushes. Yet as always, CMJ was a bastion of guitar-driven rock; college radio is a holdout against programmed, AutoTuned current pop, and its often a bas-

Drawing hopefuls by the hundreds, CMJ is about careers, indie or not.

tion of revivalism. Metz, a three-man band from Canada, steamrollered through the festival, blasting brawny punk and metal guitar riffs that generated the festivals most enthusiastic buzz. The band DIIV brought nimble intricacy, reviving the precise, cascading,

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Stars of the 21st Century Andrei

Merkurievand Svetlana Zakharova at the Koch Theater on Thursday night.

pick-and-strum guitar patterns of bands like the Feelies and New Order. Savages reclaimed the frenetic, dissonant drones and crescendos of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, with the ascending wail and piercing glare of its lead singer, Jehnny Beth. The ZZZs, a three-woman group from Japan, also revived some decades-old strategies: the crisp, conceptual riffs of no wave. Poor Moon revived genial, reassuring 1970s folk-pop. And reaching further back, toward the 1960s, Wooden Indian Burial Ground surged through blues-riffing garage psychedelia, with vicious guitar tones and a handmade analog synthesizer, while Twerps offered kindly, strum-along songs proffering friendship and love. CMJ was also hospitable to more mainstream contenders. Sky Ferreira, who performed day and night throughout the festival, had pouty, pop-rock love songs clearly aimed for a broad audience. Little Green Cars, an Irish band, arrived in the wake of Mumford & Sons, sharing that bands American label. They too have earnest songs about love and devotion, delivered with folky strumming and hearty vocal harmonies, but with more of a 1960s flavor than Mumford. Merchandise a band that, despite its name, has been giving its music away online summed up this years CMJ more uneasily. It is emerging, ambivalently, from the Tampa punk underground, although its music is closer to the brooding, surging, crooning post-punk of the Smiths. It made its CMJ debut outside the official CMJ, at a concert presented by the online magazine Pitchfork, playing a ragged set to a crowd with a lot of conversation in the back. Its beat was electronic: a drum machine. And Carson Cox, its lead singer, offered grudging encouragement to the crowd eager to claim the next big thing. You can move, he said.

Collectors Lawsuits Claim Knoedler Made Huge Profits on Fake Artworks

From First Arts Page number of Rosales artworks that were handled by the gallery, which was in business for 165 years, and assert that they played a pivotal role in the gallerys success. After the F.B.I. issued subpoenas to the gallery in the fall of 2009, Michael Hammer, Knoedlers owner, halted the sale of any Rosales works. Knoedler ended up losing money that year and in 2010, the court papers say. Lawyers for the gallery and its former president Ann Freedman declined to discuss the accuracy of the De Soles financial analyses. But they suggested the level of profits is irrelevant if the artworks sold were the authentic and valuable works of acknowledged masters; the gallery and Ms. Freedman still insist on their authenticity. Labeling a work a forgery is an extreme step, Luke Nikas, one of Ms. Freedmans lawyers, said in an interview, especially when substantial evidence of authenticity exists. Plaintiffs irresponsible lawsuits caused the very harm they complain of. Ms. Rosaless lawyer has said that his client never knowingly defrauded anyone. The size of the profits is significant, the De Soles contend, because they say the gallery should have realized that someone cannot buy undiscovered masterpieces for the prices Knoedler paid Ms. Rosales. For example, Knoedler paid her $950,000 in 2003 for the untitled Rothko that it sold the following year to the De Soles for a 773 percent markup. John D. Howard, another former Knoedler customer who is suing, paid $3.5 million for a work said to be by Willem de Kooning (plus a $500,000 commission to an intermediary dealer), a 366 percent markup over the $750,000 that Knoedler had paid to Ms. Rosales just two days earlier. In his complaint Mr. Howards lawyer, John Cahill, described the $750,000 as a price so low it virtually announced its dubious nature. (A third suit, over the authenticity of a $17 million painting attributed to Jackson Pollock, was settled this month in a confidential agreement.) Of course buying cheap and selling high is every sellers goal. And Ms. Freedman, few would dispute, is a good saleswoman. But several art dealers described the markups as unusual. Speaking generally Michael Findlay, a director of Acquavella Galleries in New York, said a price way below market should be a red flag. Why is it so cheap? he said. Thats a smell test. One reason for the low prices, though, Ms. Rosales said the collector had inherited the works about two dozen major pieces by artists like Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Pollock and de Kooning from his father, a European migr with homes in Switzerland and Mexico. But the lawsuits state that over the years Ms. Rosales altered her account in several ways. For example, after saying the art was acquired in the 1950s with the help of Alfonso Ossorio, a painter and a friend of Pollocks, she later identified a different middleman when an independent art panel called Mr. Ossorios involvement inconceivable, the papers report. According to Ms. Freedmans lawyers Ms. Rosales at one point told Ms. Freedman to stop pressing for more information about the unnamed collector, saying, Dont kill the goose thats laying the golden egg. At the moment 14 works Ms. Rosales brought to market 9 of which were handled by Knoedler have been judged as fake by authenticating bodies. A company called Orion Analytical also conducted forensic tests on at least five Rosales paintings and reported that materials on the canvasses were not available or were inconsistent with the dates on the works. To counter the charges Ms. Freedmans and Knoedlers lawyers have collected affidavits from two experts who vouch for the authenticity of the art along with other evidence. For example, to rebut the idea that paint found on the Rosales Pollock work was not available in Pollocks day, the lawyers cite a 1980 interview that Lee Krasner, Pollocks widow, gave The Partisan Review in which she said that Pollock at one point got DuPont to make up very spe-

Elegy, a painting once attributed to Robert Motherwell, was later discovered to be a fake.
is the lack of paperwork attesting to provenance. Ms. Freedmans lawyers said that the payments to Ms. Rosales reflected the enormous risk Knoedler undertook as well as the substantial costs of researching, conserving and evaluating the newly uncovered art. That research confirmed the authenticity of the works, and thus their value, the lawyers said. Ms. Rosales has said the bulk of the newly discovered masterworks came from an old family friend, an anonymous collector whom she has steadfastly refused to name. Files at Knoedler about him were labeled Secret Santa.

Paying millions for a Rothko painting that is now called worthless.

cial paints for him, and special thinners. Charles D. Schmerler, Knoedlers lawyer, dismissed Orions conclusions: Certain individuals appear to be creating a cottage industry out of attacking these paintings. There are no accepted scientific methods or standardized guidelines in this area. And as Ms. Freedman herself said in a recent e-mail, These paintings were exhibited in museums around the world and heralded as masterworks.

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Choosing a Flaky Morsel For Armageddon Brunch

Let it be said henceforth that a quiche is nothing to sneeze at. Oh, I know, youve always thought of quiches as silly cuisine, fit to be served only at that silliest of meals, brunch. How wrong you were. A quiche is a mighty thing, as powerful and blessed THEATER as womanhood itself. REVIEW Such, in any case, is the lesson to be culled from 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, a frolicsome little play that ventures into such heady excesses of absurdism that it deserves to be de-

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche

By Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood, additional contributions by Mary Hollis Inboden, Megan Johns, Thea Lux, Beth Stelling and Maari Suorsa; directed by Sarah Gitenstein; sets by Kevin McClintock; costumes by Nathan R. Rohrer; lighting by Nicholas J. Carroll; sound by Gary Tiedemann; associate producers, Carol-Jeannette Jorgensen and Vinca Jarrett; production stage manager, Smyra Yawn; assistant director, Jaime Totti. Presented by John Arthur Pinckard and SoHo Playhouse. At the SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, South Village; sohoplayhouse.com. Through Nov. 20. Running time: 1 hours 15 minutes. WITH: Caitlin Chuckta (Ginny Cadbury), Rachel Farmer (Lulie Stanwyck), Megan Johns (Wren Robin), Thea Lux (Veronica Schultz) and Maari Suorsa (Dale Prist).

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If you want to make a frolicsome comedy, you have to break some eggs.
scribed as a Mama-ist work. (Dada, for reasons that will become apparent, wouldnt do at all.) A hit at the New York International Fringe Festival last summer, this slap-happy, five-character comedy has now settled into the SoHo Playhouse, where its raw and magnetic dementia seems destined to attract a cult following. Written by Evan Lin-

der and Andrew Hobgood (and it is slightly unfortunate that they happen to be men), Quiche is an audience-baiting sort of show that is probably best seen a little lubricated, and the management does not frown on your bringing drinks from the bar into the theater. Directed by Sarah Gitenstein, Quiche assembles the members of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein, all self-described widows, in an unnamed middle-American town in 1956. (The members include all of us, by the way, and we have been given name tags to prove it.) The occasion: the societys annual quiche breakfast, overseen by its five officers (played by Rachel Farmer, Megan Johns, Thea Lux, Caitlin Chuckta and Maari Suorsa). Dressed in Easter-egg colors, with matching hats and New Look knockoff skirts (the costumes are by Nathan R. Rohrer), these chipper leading ladies conduct business as usual. They work the aisles to compliment us on our floral decorations for the community center (a bleakly cheerful room, designed by Kevin McClintock) and for the quiches we have submitted for competition. There is much talk of the history of this all-female institution, founded by a pioneering woman (her motto: Deal with it), who

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From left, Thea Lux, Caitlin Chuckta, Rachel Farmer, Megan Johns and Maari Suorsa with the titular dish in the play 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood.
stumbled in the woods upon a colony of hens. That is why eggs, of which quiches are made, are sacred to her followers. And no meat, it should be noted, has ever been allowed to enter their quiches. Humor built on doubleentendres, spoken by clueless characters, is the wispy stuff of sketch comedy. (Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon made a high art of it in those NPR parodies on Saturday Night Live.) It is not infinitely sustainable. Quiche started off as a 10-minute playlet, and 10 minutes into this expanded version, you may feel youve had quite enough, thank you. But at a certain point the play takes a leap beyond tidy smirkiness into the outer space of sloppier, cruder and far more satisfying nonsense. This occurs during the official quiche tasting, when one of the officers (the secretary, if you must know, played by Ms. Chuckta) gets carried away and dives head first (no, make that tongue first) into the winning entry. I am not speaking metaphorically. Did I mention that by this time the world outside has been destroyed by a nuclear blast, and that we of the Susan B. Anthony

Society may be the only surviving members of the human race? Well, it has been. And you are probably well aware that in such extreme circumstances confessions are made and truths are declared that might not otherwise, uh, come out. This means that there will be one wonderfully terrible how-Igot-this-way monologue (performed by Ms. Suorsa), as well as a whole lot of call-and-response testifying that will include you, dear theatergoers, who, no matter what your gender or sexual interests, will have become a lesbian for the night. As I said, you might want to have a drink or two before. And while you may well enjoy yourself heartily at Quiche, you may also wake up the next morning feeling as if you had danced in your underwear with a lampshade on your head.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Members of American Ballet Theater performing Antony Tudors Leaves Are Fading (1975), part of a week of six ballets (each by a different choreographer) and one pas de deux at City Center.

Maximizing Performers and Fleshing Out History in Shostakovich

From First Arts Page great master. His greatest value to todays scene is the different directions he opens up. In these performances his Symphony #9, as happens with many distinguished pure-dance compositions, kept disclosing recurrent motifs, further facets, more intricate moods. Its a work pulled in opposite directions by formality and informality, one way toward pattern and the other toward chaos. In particular it second movement; and yet the other half, enigmatically, remain standing. There are images of symmetry that dissolve, stormlike changes of formation, striking subgroup sequences of wit and vigor. The two performances I saw after Thursdays premiere were both led by a second cast of five principals. Sascha Radetsky and Stella Abrera danced the roles created by Craig Salstein and Simone Messmer; Veronika Part and Roberto Bolle replaced Polina Semionova and Marcelo Gomes as the central couple; and Jared Matthews succeeded Herman Cornejo as the lone virtuoso who becomes the works mysterious protagonist. (At the Saturday matinee, which I missed, Mr. Cornejo was injured during the performance course and was replaced in the finale by Mr. Matthews.) The second-movement pas de deux, danced by Ms. Part and Mr. Bolle, looked more pointedly like a private affair, even occasionally furtive. Mr. Bolle was beautiful but without any of Mr. Gomess internal drama. Ms. Part, by contrast, signaled facially every different mood; her dance style, luscious but also laborious, made us intensely aware of the degrees of suffering and strain in her role. Mr. Matthews, though eloquent in the slow-waving gestures with which his character faces away into the distance, was not the galvanizing force of nature that Mr. Cornejo had been; though he is taller, his style is lighter weight. Mr. Radetsky and Ms. Abrera immediately made their roles their own: coolly, elegantly explosive, powerfully driven. When you connect these changes of cast to those that Mr. Ratmansky has employed for his other works, you see how invaluable he is as a company artist. Although he began work with Ballet Theater only in 2009, hes given big breaks to a very wide number of artists at all levels of this troupe. There are now many Ballet Theater dancers Mr. Cornejo, Mr. Gomes, Ms. Messmer, Ms. Part are only the most obvious whose artistry you dont fully comprehend until you have seen them in their Ratmansky roles. Symphony #9 has, like all Mr. Ratmanskys pure-dance work, a powerfully connective
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Alexei Ratmanskys Symphony #9 is pulled toward both pattern and chaos.

now seems temperamentally more somber and structurally more churning than at first viewing; Mr. Ratmansky has revealed tensions that are often not noticed in this score. The complexity of the dances for the corps de ballet may be the ballets most exceptional feature. When a slow-walking line of women crosses the front of the stage and then lines up as a crouching column on one side, it echoes a line of men weve seen already on the opposite side of the stage. When half the ensemble members crouch and lie down, theyre exactly echoing the lead couple at the end of the

sense of character and community. His marvelous mastery of the vocabulary of academic ballet is subtly combined with a sense of sublimated acting. Surely, though, these dance characters are less urbane than their elegant costumes by Keso Dekker. (The mens sequined belts feel especially wrong.) The changes in Jennifer Tiptons lighting heighten the ballets drama at several moments. As yet Im unsure why she accompanies the opening

Herman Cornejo in Mark Morriss Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes (1988), an American Ballet Theater highlight.

dances, one of the perkiest parts of both score and music, with dark lighting on the backdrop. Perhaps to suggest an imminent thundercloud? Two of the works revived this season have often been hailed (sometimes by close friends of mine) as masterpieces; I wish I could agree. To me Jos Limns Moors Pavane (1949) is slices of ham masquerading as a courteous roundelay; and Twyla Tharps In the Upper Room (1986) with its dancers peeling off layers of clothing, its Philip Glass score piling on layers of sound (those terrible heavenly voices!) and the billowing clouds of smoke lighted by Ms. Tipton is ludicrously manipulative and synthetic. Each work has admirable passages, as does Antony Tudors prolonged, pretty-pretty Leaves Are Fading (1975). The pas de deux from Balanchines Stars and Stripes (1958) is terrific. At Ballet Theater, however, Sarah Lane, as its ballerina, has no swagger, no fun, while her partner, Daniil Simkin who has both as well as acute timing has no weight. Some people take offense at Agnes de Milles Rodeo (1942), but I dont think its just the tourist in me that loves it. I dont, however, need to see it very often, whereas I never see Mark Morriss Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes (1988) as much as Id like. The most refreshing work in current Ballet Theater repertory, its enchanting both witty and intoxicating in its array of steps, in its musical timing and in its elaborately formal structure.

The season was dominated above all by two men: Mr. Cornejo and Mr. Gomes, life-enhancing artists both. But since I have praised them before, let me single out others. The role of the Moors Friend in Limns Pavane is one of several that show how Cory Stearns, with his male-model looks, grows far more absorbing when animated by a role with a streak of malice. (Witness his Oberon in The Dream and Kastchei in The Firebird.) Ms. Messmer, wonderful in everything she does, had a searing moment of hawklike keenness as the Friends Wife in the same dance. In The Leaves Ms. Abrera, held aloft in a sculpturally firm arabesque with one arm arched high, provided that works most burning image. Roman Zhurbin one of the worlds great dance actors brought both tragic depth to Limns Moor and expansive virile power to the Head Wrangler in Rodeo. Its startling to see how much character and emotion he can communicate simply by the way he stands and looks; the flow of weight, the angle of his head, the detail of his gaze all speak volumes. Marian Butler is marvelously right for the Rodeo Cowgirl. Arron Scott is so stylish a dancer that, even when hes beside Mr. Cornejo in In the Upper Room, its to him I look to see just how a phrase should be accentuated. Joseph Gorak, immensely engaging and gifted as a dancer, needs to drop his pretty inflections of head and wrists if he is to be a leading man.

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High pressure will provide a dry day with ample sunshine. It will be windy across New England, but farther south winds will be light. An approaching front will push some clouds into northern areas tomorrow while southern areas remain sunny and tranquil. Temperatures will be seasonable across New England.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

Vogelsong and Giants Push Cardinals to Game 7

By ANDREW KEH

MONICA S. DAVEY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Marco Scutaro scored on Buster Poseys groundout to put the Giants ahead, 1-0, in Game 6 of the N.L.C.S on Sunday. Scutaro went 2 for 3 with 2 R.B.I.

SAN FRANCISCO After halting the relentless forward momentum of the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday, the San Francisco Giants returned Sunday for a raucous home6 coming and, GIANTS with remarkable CARDINALS 1 ease, seemed to wrest all that Series tied, 3-3 momentum as their own. Galvanized by their home fans, the Giants cruised to a 6-1 victory against the Cardinals in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series at AT&T Park. For the second straight game, they staved off elimination, prolonging their quest to become the seventh team to win a best-of-seven league champi-

onship series after falling behind by three games to one. The teams return to the same field Monday night to settle the deadlock. We know whats at stake, and now to get to this point, were excited, Manager Bruce Bochy said. Being down 3-1, you go out there and you play like theres no tomorrow, and these guys have done a great job of it. Theyre keeping their poise and finding ways to get it done. Matt Cain will start Monday for the Giants, trying to help them extend what would amount to one of the unlikeliest playoff runs in recent memory. Kyle Lohse will take the ball for the Cardinals, hoping to give them a chance to defend their championship. The winner will host the Detroit Tigers on Wednes-

The Playoffs

N.L.C.S. GAME 7

Kyle Lohse vs. Matt Cain Monday, 8 p.m. TV: Fox

St. Louis at San Francisco

day night for Game 1 of the World Series. I dont want these guys doing anything different than what theyve been doing to get to this point, Cardinals Manager Mike Matheny said. If Continued on Page D7

In the End, the Jets Stop Themselves

By BEN SHPIGEL

STEPHAN SAVOIA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Patriots linebacker Rob Ninkovich sacking Mark Sanchez and forcing a fumble on the final play of overtime. Sanchez threw for 328 yards.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. The Jets afternoon at Gillette Stadium began just as their week did, with Rex Ryan opening his mouth. On his way out of the tunnel and onto the PATRIOTS 29 field, Ryan took a 26 moment to bark at JETS some New Eng- Overtime land fans. He might have been provoked, but leading up to Sunday he rarely was. Ryan is consumed by all things Patriots their championships, their coach, their quarterback and he relished reminding them that the Jets had beaten them three times in the last three seasons and, even more, that they would do so again. I want them to know, Ryan had said. By nightfall, the Patriots did know. The Patriots knew that the Jets the short-handed Jets, the overmatched Jets, the underdog Jets had restored a reputation sullied by ugly defeats, stifling the N.F.L.s most dangerous offense en route to overcoming a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit. But the Patriots also knew they reigned in the A.F.C. East, leaning on two Stephen Gostkowski field goals a 43-yarder as time expired in regulation, a 48-yarder on their opening possession of overtime to subdue the Jets in the latest captivating installment of what could be the N.F.L.s most entertaining rivalry. New England secured a 29-26 victory when Rob Ninkovich forced, then recovered a Mark Sanchez fumble with 7 minutes 35 seconds remaining in the extra period. This was a golden opportunity, linebacker Calvin Pace said. A bunch of couldas, shouldas, wouldas. Those what-ifs were spread like sawdust throughout a game that New England led, 23-13, with 5:45 left, but that within minutes the Jets felt they would win. There was the third-quarter field goal they settled for after failing on two plays from inside the 5. There was the third-down drop by Stephen Hill on their penultimate drive in regulation, forcing them to kick a game-tying field goal instead of seeking a go-ahead touchdown. But none engendered more regret than the sequence that followed Antonio Allens recovery of Devin McCourtys fumbled kickoff return, at the New England 18, just before the two-minute warning. The Jets lost 7 yards on their next three plays, with Sanchez taking a 10-yard sack when his intended target, Jeremy Kerley, slipped on his route. Nick Folk kicked a 43-yard field goal, but the Patriots, operating their no-huddle offense to perfection Continued on Page D3

Manning Isnt at His Best Until Giants Need It Most

By SAM BORDEN

STOUDEMIRE OUT
Amare Stoudemires knee injury will keep him out of the Knicks season opener. Page D5.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Giants quarterback Eli Manning let go of the ball and was immediately buried, his body disappearing beneath a white Washington Redskins jersey like a child slip27 ping under a GIANTS sheet. REDSKINS 23 From ground level, Manning could not see where his pass had flown, but so many of them had gone to the wrong place Sunday behind or in front of his receivers, or even to the other team that it was hard to imagine that this one, the most important of the game, would be perfect. But it was. As receiver Victor Cruz ran under the ball, Manning stood up, stepped back and raised a hand in the air. The placid, unruffled, awshucks Manning dissolved, replaced

for just a moment by raw emotion. Manning spun around and pumped his fist; down the field, Cruz sashayed into a most unlikely salsa dance celebration. The play, a 77-yard rainbow of a touchdown pass with a little more than a minute remaining, ultimately proved the difference in a taut, 27-23 victory over Washington (3-4). It was, all at once, thrilling, emotional and an utter relief as the Giants saved themselves from what just seconds earlier had shaped up as a brutal defeat. Looking at the back of 80s heels there what a feeling that was, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin said, referring to Cruz by his uniform number. While defensive end Justin Tuck professed to be unmoved by the finish Its gotten old, he said, half-

FALL PRACTICE
The Detroit Tigers played a game, sort of, as they awaited the World Series. Page D7.

SUZY ALLMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Giants Victor Cruz on a 77-yard touchdown reception from Eli Manning with less than two minutes left in the game Sunday.
jokingly, of Mannings flair for the theatrical certainly most of the fans at the sold-out MetLife Stadium were pleasantly surprised. Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III had tossed his own magical pass, hitting Santana Moss for a 30-yard touchdown catch just 19 seconds beContinued on Page D2

THE FALL OF HEROES

Perhaps it is time to seek values in sport rather than in athletes like Charles Barkley, above. William C. Rhoden. Page D8.

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P R O F O O T B A L L N. F. L . W E E K 7

Manning Is Not at His Best Until the Giants Need It the Most
From First Sports Page fore Cruzs catch. That gave the Redskins a 3-point lead and seemed certain to drop the Giants (5-2) to a dispiriting 0-3 in the N.F.C. East. The Giants had played inconsistently to that point, with Manning struggling and the offense looking out of sync. Given that, it seemed improbable that Manning would muster the sort of late-game drive he led eight times last season. And in truth, he did not. This was not a drive so much as a flash: after David Wilson returned the kickoff to the 23, Manning threw one incompletion and then dropped back again on the second play. What he saw looked familiar. During the Giants final drive at the end of the first half, Manning noticed the Redskins safeties shading their coverage of Cruz to the outside edges of the field, essentially doing their best to keep the speedy receiver from breaking a big play down the sideline. Back in the hurry-up offense at the end of the game, Manning saw the same coverage. And so as Cruz took off running at the snap, Manning threw the pass toward the N.F.L. logo at midfield, not down the side, hoping that Cruz would detect the same hole he had. Cruz did. I saw the middle of the field wide open, Cruz said afterward, his smile spreading wide. And I took it. The pass landed softly in Cruzs outstretched hands, and there was no one in front of him. As he did several times last season on breakaway catches, Cruz quickly glanced up at the large video boards in the end zones to help him gauge whether he could be caught. He liked what he saw. There was one defender trying to dive at him, so Cruz veered slightly to his right before sprinting into the end zone for his seventh touchdown in seven games this season. Manning said: I didnt see the ball get caught. Just heard the cheer and thought that was probably a good thing. He shrugged and added, I needed to make a play there. Manning had been, in his own words, a little off for most of the afternoon. While his numbers were not awful he finished 26 of 40 for 337 passing yards he threw several uncharacteristically poor passes, including a fourth-quarter interception just one play after the Giants had forced a fumble by Griffin. It looked as if that turnover might doom the Giants Coughlin said it put a lump in my throat but Griffin could not finish off what was a sterling performance in his first N.F.C. East game. Griffin passed for 258 yards

SUZY ALLMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Giants Chase Blackburn, on ground, forcing a fumble by Santana Moss in the final minute Sunday. Below, Keith Rivers pressuring Robert Griffin III.

Giants Close-Up
PLAYER OF THE WEEK Justin Tuck had taken plenty of abuse from the

Giants other defensive linemen about how he was the old man in the room, so he was relieved to record his first sack of the season on Sunday. Finally, Tuck said, noting happily that Jason Pierre-Paul and Osi Umenyiora also registered sacks of Washingtons shifty Robert Griffin III.
NUMBER OF THE WEEK After two weeks of superb rushing, Giants running

back Ahmad Bradshaw totaled just 43 yards on 12 carries (though he did score a 1-yard touchdown). Bradshaw seemed particularly emotional throughout the game and at one point had what appeared to be a heated exchange with Coach Tom Coughlin. Thats between he and I, Coughlin said afterward.
TALKING POINT Can the Giants secondary, after being torched by Tony

Romo and his receivers in Week 1, contain the Dallas offense in a difficult divisional game at Cowboys Stadium next Sunday?
SAM BORDEN
BARTON SILVERMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES

and 2 touchdowns but did much of his dazzling with his legs. Griffin typically whizzes around the field as part of the Redskins option offense, and Sunday was no

different: he rushed for 89 yards and continually kept plays alive, coming up with two slithering scampers on the late drive that gave Washington its short-lived

lead. On fourth-and-10 from his own 23, Griffin slipped in and out of trouble, scurrying away from Jason Pierre-Paul and completing a

19-yard pass for a first down. On the next snap, Griffin took off, running for 24 yards. Two plays later, he threw the scoring pass to Moss.

Im mad at the football gods for putting him in the N.F.C. East, Tuck said, adding that facing Griffin twice a season is going to be a headache. For all the superlatives Griffin drew from the Giants, however, there was still no doubt about which quarterback closed the game better. Griffin threw a third-quarter interception and lost a fumble in the fourth; Manning rebounded from his mistakes to complete his longest pass of the game, sealing his 27th career game-winning drive and 2nd this season. It is what the Giants have come to expect. Even on a day when he was not at his best, even from the bottom of a pile, Manning found a way. We have the best quarterback in the league, linebacker Michael Boley said. So its never over.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL
ANALYSIS

At Kansas State, Team Goals and an Individual Honor Mesh

By TIM ROHAN

When Bill Snyder arrived at Kansas State in 1989, he brought his 16 Goals for Success. In 1998, at the height of his programs success, he would quiz his quarterback, Michael Bishop, at their weekly team meetings each Friday. Meticulous in his approach, Snyder would present Bishop, or any player for that matter, with a situation for example, its third down, the defense is playing a Cover-3, and the cornerbacks are readying to jam the receivers at the line of scrimmage and ask: What play do we call? In front of the team, Bishop, a Heisman Trophy finalist that year, would be expected to answer correctly. And for good measure, Snyder would sometimes ask: And what is goal No. 9? The 16 goals, of which No. 9 is to eliminate mistakes, were the intrinsic principles Snyder used in helping turn Kansas State from the nations worst college football program when he began his first stint as its coach in 1989 to its first No. 1 ranking in that 1998 season. On Sunday, in the midst of Snyders second tour at the helm and with the 16 goals still in place, the Wildcats were ranked third in the Bowl Championship Series standings with another Heisman contender, Collin Klein, at quarterback. In a 41-point victory against West Virginia on Saturday, Klein scored seven touchdowns passing for three scores and rushing for four to put himself atop the Heisman race. If Klein exemplifies Snyders option offense at its best, he does the same for Snyders 16 goals. Its a great fit, without a doubt, Doug Klein, Collins father, said of his son and the 73year-old Snyder.

BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES STANDINGS

The B.C.S. rankings are determined by three components: the Harris Interactive poll, the USA Today coaches poll and the average of six computer rankings. Each component counts one-third toward a teams B.C.S. score.
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HEISMAN WATCH
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Kleins seven touchdowns (4 rushing, 3 throwing) throttled West Virginia. Manti Teo, LB, Notre Dame
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With the Heisman Trophy contender Collin Klein at quarterback, Kansas State is 7-0 after blowing out West Virginia.
Collin Klein was lightly recruited coming out of high school in Loveland, Colo., in 2008, when he committed to play for Ron Prince, who was replaced by Snyder to start the 2009 season. I mean this as a compliment, the kid is straight-lined; it was almost like recruiting a kid out of 1950, said Vanderbilt Coach James Franklin, the former offensive coordinator who recruited Klein. He was, yes sir. He was, no sir. He was unbelievably polite, Franklin said. Very spiritual. I mean, if you had a checklist in all the things you were looking for in a football player, and all the things that you were looking for in someone to date or marry your daughter, he had all those things. As Kleins popularity grows, he continues to deflect praise. Goal Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are commitment, unselfishness and unity. The buzz around Klein began last season, Kleins first as a starter, when he first orchestrated Snyders offense in a productive, unassuming manner. He won 10 games and ran for 27 touchdowns, a Football Bowl Subdivision record for a quarterback. The strides of the 6-foot-5, 226pound Klein are long and tall, his arms flap at his side as he gains speed, and he looks every inch of 6-5, especially when he lowers his pads to take defenders head on. His father said he played through broken ribs, a cracked sternum, a separated throwing shoulder and a broken thumb on his throwing hand last season. Goal No. 5 is to be tough; goal No. 7 is to give a great effort. Kleins feet dance in the pocket, and he cocks the ball near his ear, then unfurls javelinlike spirals. It does not appear effortless, but it has been more than effective as Klein is ranked the second-most efficient quarterback in the F.B.S., and he has completed 70.5 percent of his passes. It took dedication in the off-season as Klein worked to improve his accuracy (57.3 percent last season), according to his father, who, deferring to Snyders tightlipped approach to running his

10. Georgia

11. Mississippi State 7-0 12. Florida State 13. South Carolina 14. Texas Tech 15. Rutgers 16. Louisville 17. Stanford 18. Clemson 19. West Virginia 20. Texas A&M 21. Boise State 22. Michigan 23. Texas 24. Ohio 25. Wisconsin 7-1 6-2 6-1 7-0 7-0 5-2 6-1 5-2 5-2 6-1 5-2 5-2 7-0 6-2

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Computer rankings: The six providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each accounts for schedule strength in its formula. The highest and lowest ranking for each team is dropped, and the remaining four are added and divided by 100 (the maximum possible points) to produce a computer rankings percentage.

Smith will have to play nearly perfectly to overcome his last two games.

team,declined to name a program or mentor that helped his son. His father did say that Klein was invited to the Manning Passing Academy. Goal No. 4 is to improve. Goal No. 6 is self-discipline. And goal

No. 12 is no self-limitations. Klein seemed to put on a oneman show Saturday, scoring on seven consecutive drives, none more spectacular than another. The awe has come in the result, and the Wildcats 7-0 start, run-

ning the same option plays they did in 1998. That year, Bishop said a lack of publicity from playing in small-town Manhattan, Kan., hurt his Heisman chances. Klein should not suffer the same fate. Although the way he runs, with subtle head nods and side steps, is more understated, Klein has validated Snyders principles, his play loud and clear.

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P R O F O O T B A L L N. F. L . W E E K 7

Redskins Griffin Adds Excitement Even in Loss

By TOM PEDULLA

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Robert Griffin IIIs age and thin professional rsum say he is a rookie. Nothing else does. In his first N.F.C. East game Sunday, against the highpowered Giants, Griffin statistically outplayed the two-time Super Bowl most valuable player Eli Manning by throwing for 258 yards and running for 89 more in a 27-23 defeat. I try not to approach the game like a rookie, Griffin said. I dont try to give myself excuses. Yes, Manning had the last word with his deadly 77-yard bomb to Victor Cruz with 1 minute 13 seconds left. But Griffin, the 22-year-old bipartisan toast of the nations capital, was hardly overshadowed. He completed 20 of 28 passes for 258 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for a passer rating of 108.9. Manning hit 26 of 40 for 337 yards, a touchdown and 2 interceptions. His rating was 78.9. Griffin ran nine times for 89 yards, and he showed his ability to buy time on a critical fourthand-10 conversion. Although Washington slipped to 3-4 and lost tight end Fred Davis for the rest of the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon, the mood in the Redskins locker room was surprisingly upbeat. It has been that way since the franchise traded up to draft Griffin second over all. You just have opportunities, wide receiver Santana Moss said. Offensively, we can do anything we want with the ball in his hands or with the guys we have running in the backfield. The hard-charging presence of the rookie running back Alfred Morris, a sixth-round pick out of Florida Atlantic who gained 120 yards on 22 carries, also suggests better days are ahead for Washington and Coach Mike Shanahan after records of 6-10 and 5-11. Even in defeat, Moss remains excited. Every time we step on the field and do something great as an offense, its a moment to be cherished, he said. Its something we havent done here in a while. Griffin is already making greatness seem almost routine. He unleashed his blistering 4.3 speed in the 40-yard dash during a 76-yard touchdown sprint the previous Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, capping a 38-26 victory that snapped an eight-game home losing streak for the Redskins. The jaunt was the longest by a quarterback since the Pittsburgh Steelers Kordell Stewart rushed 80 yards for a score in a Dec. 22, 1996, game against the Carolina Panthers. On fourth-and-10 in a musthave situation at his 23, with Washington trailing by 20-16 with 2:07 remaining, Griffin displayed quickness, elusiveness, poise and precision. He dropped back and calmly worked through his first couple of options. Nothing was there. He scrambled to his left, maintaining his gaze downfield. Still nothing. He danced to avoid defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, known as one of the leagues fiercest pass rushers after he produced 16.5 sacks last season. He ran around back there for what seemed like forever, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin said. At no time was there anything in Griffins body language to suggest that he was feeling harried or not in control. He had previously discussed this kind of situation with his teammates to let them know what they could expect. Im trying to tell everyone, You work through the play, and when youve exhausted everything, you go to backyard ball, he said. Only after exhausting everything and everyone did he discard the playbook. Thats kind of the purest form of football, tight end Logan Paulsen said. Its like in the backyard. Everyone is just trying to get open. With Pierre-Paul still in pursuit and linebacker Chase Blackburn bearing down, Griffin spotted Paulsen finally breaking free over the middle. He gunned the ball 19 yards to him to keep alive a seven-play, 77-yard drive that ended in a perfect 30-yard throw to Moss with 1:32 left. Although Manning answered, everyone left knowing that Griffin would be heard from again and again.

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Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski catching a touchdown pass against the Jets LaRon Landry. He had six receptions for 78 yards, including two scores.

Jets Rally Late, but in the End, They Stop Themselves

From First Sports Page against a soft zone defense, marched 54 yards in 1:37 as Gostkowski forced overtime. Im thinking weve got this, but Im thinking Ive seen this same story before, Pace said, referring to Tom Bradys penchant for last-minute comebacks. Referring to a touchdown that never happened, he added: I just knew in my heart we had seven right there, I really did. It just didnt happen for us. Instead of celebrating an uplifting victory, the Jets changed afterward in a locker room so quiet that the sound of athletic tape ripping could be heard in a distant corner. Moral victories do not exist in the zero-sum culture of the N.F.L., but especially against this opponent, at this stadium, with first place in the division at stake. They arrived here seeking credibility. They left good, but not good enough. We knew it was going to be a dogfight, theres no question about it, Ryan said. I tell you, it stinks being on this end of it. The Jets are 3-4, with a treacherous schedule ahead: games against pesky Miami and at Seattle bookending a bye week, with a road meeting at the Rams after that. Then New England visits MetLife Stadium on Thanksgiving night, and by then the Jets will know more about themselves. Already they have revealed tremendous resilience since losing Darrelle Revis and Santonio Holmes to severe injuries, playing markedly better after being blown out by San Francisco on Sept. 30. What troubled them so on Sunday was that they had largely contained Brady, who still threw for 259 yards and 2 touchdowns, both to Rob Gronkowski; had largely neutralized Wes Welker; and had limited the Patriots to 10 points over the final 43 minutes of regulation and yet they still lost. It stings, Sanchez said. It just stings. From a strong week of practice, the Jets sensed that their game plan picking on the Patriots maligned secondary, harassing Brady, disrupting receiv-

Jets Close-Up
KEY PLAY The sack of Mark Sanchez by Jermaine Cunningham and Rob Ninkovich that forced the game-ending fumble. Until then, it seemed as if anything was possible, including one more scoring drive for Sanchez and the Jets. NUMBER OF THE WEEK: 120 The number of receiving yards amassed on seven catches by Jeremy Kerley, who continues to emerge as a go-to threat. Kerley accounted for five of the Jets eight longest plays Sunday. TALKING POINT Did the Jets performance re-establish them as contenders in a jumbled division, or exaggerate their status as a flawed team?

BEN SHPIGEL

ers at the line of scrimmage would be successful, and for much of Sunday it was. Against the leagues 28th-ranked pass defense, against a secondary lacking its starting safeties, Sanchez completed 28 of 41 passes for 328 yards, a touchdown and a ghastly interception. He was most impressive on a 14-play, 92-yard drive that drew the Jets within 23-20, completing 9 of 10 passes, including a 7-yard touchdown to Dustin Keller. As Ryan said of the Patriots, nobody is going to shut them

down, and so the Jets knew they needed to minimize mistakes and keep Brady off the field. A miserable first half ended with the Jets trailing, 16-10, despite a 104-yard kickoff return by McCourty; a muffed handoff to Shonn Greene that resulted in a safety; and a general lack of awareness by Sanchez, who realized that Hill was more open at the Patriots goal line than a 24-hour 7-Eleven just as Alfonzo Dennard swooped in for the interception. In meetings all week, the Jets stressed the importance of scor-

ing touchdowns not field goals against New England. A week after succeeding on all five redzone chances against Indianapolis, they were 2 for 4 Sunday, and a curious play-call on third-and-2 from the New England 4 with the Jets trailing by 6 early in the third quarter did not help. Sanchez threw incomplete on a slant pattern to Chaz Schilens, who was covered well and cannot separate as well from defenders on such plays as someone like Holmes, as Tim Tebow, who extended the Jets first scoring drive by converting in the same situation, stood on the sideline. In truth, the could-have-beens paled to the reality that slapped them in overtime, when Kyle Wilson committed a costly thirddown pass-interference penalty on Aaron Hernandez, the flag thrown late. Knowing that a touchdown would win the game, Sanchez drove the Jets to their 40 before he failed to sense Ninkovichs pressure from the outside and was subsequently dumped to the turf. Sanchez got up, but it remains to be seen whether the Jets can do the same.

Patriots of Old Are Absent Against Error-Prone Jets

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. There was a moment Sunday afternoon when it seemed as if the inevitable New England Patriots avalanche was about to bury the Jets, sending their ON PRO season into a deep FOOTBALL freeze, plummeting their quarterbacks into a vicious spin cycle. Early in the second quarter, the Patriots had just forced the Jets into a safety Vince Wilfork shoving Matt Slauson into Shonn Greenes personal space, rushing a handoff that went awry and had received the free kick. When the Patriots are behaving like the Patriots of old, operating with a ruthless efficiency, this would have been the time when Tom Brady would have marched them into the end zone, rolling up 9 quick points and leaving the Jets in tatters with nearly three quarters to go. This is not those Patriots, not yet at least. These Patriots dont capitalize as readily on those miscues. In this case, the Patriots drive ended after just four plays and little more than a minute with a third-down sack of Brady. They did not take gifts like face-mask penalties on punts and smash them into opponents faces. These Patriots stared in disbelief as the Jets, so often mistake-prone, forced a fumble on a kickoff late in the game that set up the field goal that the Patriots had to match to send the game to overtime. These Patriots needed Mark Sanchez to make another terrible error he fumbled on the final play of the game to prevail. Brady looked exhausted and

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The Patriots Devin McCourty after a 104-yard kickoff return in the first quarter against the Jets.
annoyed as he ran off the field, the bullet dodged, the 29-26 victory secured. The Jets reputation is of an undisciplined mess, and there was plenty Sunday to support that impression. But the Patriots must have looked at the enemy and realized that they were dangerously close to becoming that themselves. They took a few shots, they took what we gave them, Wilfork said. We knew what type of game it was going to be. Our main job was to get out of the game with a W. I dont care how we did it. The Patriots are 4-3 and lead the division by a half-game over the idle Miami Dolphins and by a game over the Jets and the Buffalo Bills. The Patriots three losses have been by a combined 4 points, and in the glass-half-full interpretation, thats an indication of how close they are to being undefeated. There had been times when it felt as if the Patriots were unlucky to have three losses. Kicker Steve Gostkowski missed a 42yard field goal to lose the game against Arizona, unusual for a kicker who made a 43-yarder to send this game to overtime and then a 48-yarder to win it. But this time, the Patriots gave the Jets opportunities to win, with all their recent foibles on full display. They dropped passes, were porous in the secondary and had an uneven pass rush. On the Jets first-quarter touchdown run, the Patriots defense had just 10 players on the field. With about five minutes left in the game, Brady was nearly intercepted on a deep pass. They led by just 6 points at halftime and had to punt on four of five drives in the first half, even though the Jets had given up a 104-yard kickoff return, had given up the safety and had been intercepted. The Patriots entered the game as the N.F.L.s top-scoring team, but all that dazzling offense still doesnt close out opponents. They have blown two leads in losses, and in the last three games, they have been outscored in the fourth quarter, 34-6. On Sunday, they gave back a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter. The Jets sometimes brought pressure and sometimes dropped into coverage, and there were stretches when Brady looked hesitant, as if he was not sure of

what he was seeing and didnt know where to throw. It was not our best day of execution, Brady said. We have to nail those things down. A lot of those inconsistencies, you dont score points. Those last couple drives, we moved the ball better. I wouldnt say they were great drives, but they were good enough. This was the right season for the Patriots to endure growing pains. There is nothing close to a dominant team in the A.F.C. The Houston Texans were blown away by the Green Bay Packers last week, then turned around Sunday to trounce the Baltimore Ravens, who might have been the best team before their defense was decimated. The Patriots are as likely a contender as anybody, one that Coach Bill Belichick said he believed was improving every week. The Patriots can point to their final two drives Sunday for incremental evidence of that. With Brady twice completing a series of short passes to move them into field-goal range, the Patriots used their offense to do what their defense couldnt: close out an opponent they had allowed to stick around. It is surely not where the Patriots envision themselves being in January, or in a month. But in a conference, in a league, so closely bunched that is good enough for now. At the end of the year, only one team is really happy, Brady said. Its a building process, about playing your best football at the most important times. The Patriots are lucky it happened in overtime Sunday.

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HOUSTON His list was short and delivered in an aw-shucks sort of tone, but Texans Coach Gary Kubiak did find a TEXANS 43 few glaring mistakes Sunday durRAVENS 13 ing the Texans 4313 rout of the Baltimore Ravens. I didnt like the way we came out of the locker room in the third quarter, Kubiak said. Oh, and as a side note, running back Arian Foster blew a block assignment on a blitz. Otherwise, the Texans reaffirmed their supremacy in the A.F.C. with a pristine performance, establishing a team record for points and ripping an injury-depleted Baltimore defense for 420 yards. Quarterback Matt Schaub was 23 of 37 for 256 yards and threw 2 touchdown passes. Foster ran for 98 yards on 19 carries, scoring on two short runs in the second half, before 71,708 fans, the largest regular-season crowd at Reliant Stadium. At 6-1, Houston continued the best start in the franchises 11-year history and beat Baltimore for the first time in seven meetings. The Texans pulled one game ahead of the Ravens and took a two-game lead over the rest of the A.F.C. as they head into their bye week. Baltimore fell to 5-2, still the conferences second-best record, suggesting a first-half schedule filled with mediocrity for both teams. Indeed, the Texans have faced one opponent outside the A.F.C. and were routed by the Green Bay Packers, 42-24, last week. But Houstons dominance otherwise has included blasting everyone else by an average score of 32-14.3. We know the road to where we need to go went through the Ravens, said defensive end Antonio Smith, who had two of Houstons four sacks. As of right now, were the best team in the A.F.C. But whenever youre on top, someones going to want to knock you off. Even teams you think cant beat you are going to be fired up against us. Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco threw two interceptions, one re-

turned 52 yards for a touchdown by cornerback Johnathan Joseph. Flacco finished 21 for 43 for 147 yards and threw a touchdown pass, but the Texans shut down running back Ray Rice, who managed 42 of Baltimores 55 yards on the ground. The Ravens were so frustrated that after making the score 36-13 on Justin Tuckers 54-yard field goal, they attempted an onside kick with 12 minutes 23 seconds still remaining. What werent they able to do? Ravens Coach John Harbaugh said. It was about as complete a performance as you can have on both sides of the ball. The loss to the Packers stung the Texans, and they were very aware they had never beaten the Ravens, who had ousted them in last seasons divisional playoff game. It was a perfect setup for us, Smith said. Coming off last week and the way we played, this was exactly what we needed. The Texans sent the Ravens reeling with two touchdowns in 39 seconds at the end of the first quarter and start of the second quarter. Schaub connected with wide receiver Kevin Walter in the end zone on a 25-yard pass, and one play after the kickoff, defensive end J. J. Watt tipped a pass intended for Torrey Smith. Joseph reached down with one hand like a shortstop spearing a soft line drive and scored to give the Texans a 16-3 lead. The Ravens drew some inspiration from the return of linebacker Terrell Suggs, the N.F.L.s defensive player of the year, who had offseason surgery for a torn Achilles tendon. Suggs started and made a quick impact with a first-quarter sack of Schaub, but with linebacker Ray Lewis and cornerback Lardarius Webb lost for the season, the Ravens defensive slide continued to accelerate. They are going to bounce back, Foster said. We were able to exploit what we saw on film. You never go into a game expecting to score 40 points. The defense helped us out by getting off the field, and we executed pretty well.

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Linebacker Jonathan Vilma played his first game of the season.

ROUNDUP

Vilma Returns to Saints, But Brees Is the Difference

By The Associated Press

Miami at Jets, 1 Giants at Dallas, 4:25 Jacksonville at Green Bay, 1 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 1 Carolina at Chicago, 1 San Diego at Cleveland, 1 Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1 Seattle at Detroit, 1 Washington at Pittsburgh, 1 New England vs. St. Louis at London, 1 Oakland at Kansas City, 4:05 New Orleans at Denver, 8:20 Open: Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Houston
MONDAY, OCT. 29

GIANTS 27, REDSKINS 23

Washington . . . . 3 N.Y. Giants . . . . 0 10 13 0 0 1023 1427

FIRST QUARTER Washington 3, N.Y. Giants 0. FG Forbath 20, 2:13. Drive: 17 plays, 93 yards, 9:11. SECOND QUARTER N.Y. Giants 7, Washington 3. A.Brown 1 run (Tynes kick), 12:41. Drive: 12 plays, 80 yards, 4:32. Washington 10, N.Y. Giants 7. Moss 26 pass from Griffin III (Forbath kick), 8:45. Drive: 8 plays, 80 yards, 3:56. Washington 10, N.Y. Giants 10. FG Tynes 27, 3:53. Drive: 10 plays, 63 yards, 4:52. Washington 13, N.Y. Giants 10. FG Forbath 43, 1:49. Drive: 6 plays, 55 yards, 2:04. Washington 13, N.Y. Giants 13. FG Tynes 39, :02. Drive: 10 plays, 59 yards, 1:47. FOURTH QUARTER N.Y. Giants 20, Washington 13. Bradshaw 1 run (Tynes kick), 12:55. Drive: 7 plays, 35 yards, 3:47. N.Y. Giants 20, Washington 16. FG Forbath 45, 5:21. Drive: 4 plays, 5 yards, 1:40. Washington 23, N.Y. Giants 20. Moss 30 pass from Griffin III (Forbath kick), 1:32. Drive: 7 plays, 77 yards, 1:27. N.Y. Giants 27, Washington 23. Cruz 77 pass from Manning (Tynes kick), 1:13. Drive: 2 plays, 77 yards, 0:19. A81,352. Was NYG FIRST DOWNS. . . . . . . . . . 24 22 Rushing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 Passing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 17 Penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 THIRD DOWN EFF . . . . . . 6-13 8-12 FOURTH DOWN EFF. . . . . . 3-3 0-0 TOTAL NET YARDS . . . . . . 480 393 Total Plays . . . . . . . . . . . 69 60 Avg Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0 6.6 NET YARDS RUSHING . . . . 248 64 Rushes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 19 Avg per rush . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 3.4 NET YARDS PASSING . . . . . 232 329 Sacked-Yds lost . . . . . . . 3-26 1-8 Gross-Yds passing . . . . . . 258 337 Completed-Att.. . . . . . . .20-28 26-40 Had Intercepted. . . . . . . . . 1 2 Yards-Pass Play . . . . . . . . 7.5 8.0 KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB . . . 6-5-2 6-5-5 PUNTS-Avg. . . . . . . . . . 1-33.0 3-40.0 TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE. . 37 147 Punt Returns . . . . . . . . . 2-13 0-0 Kickoff Returns . . . . . . . 1-17 4-106 Interceptions . . . . . . . . . . 2-7 1-41 PENALTIES-Yds . . . . . . . . 7-55 3-30 FUMBLES-Lost. . . . . . . . . . 5-3 0-0 TIME OF POSSESSION . . .32:43 27:17 RUSHINGWashington, Morris 22-120, Griffin III 9-89, Young 5-26, A.Robinson 1-14, Paul 1-(minus 1). N.Y. Giants, Bradshaw 1243, A.Brown 5-17, Manning 2-4. PASSINGWashington, Griffin III 20-28-1258. N.Y. Giants, Manning 26-40-2-337. RECEIVINGWashington, Hankerson 6-70, Paulsen 4-76, Moss 3-67, Morgan 2-16, Morris 2-10, F.Davis 1-13, Young 1-6, Royster 1-0. N.Y. Giants, Cruz 7-131, Bennett 5-79, Nicks 5-53, Bradshaw 4-22, Hixon 3-32, A.Brown 1-17, Hynoski 1-3.

San Francisco at Arizona, 8:30 TITANS 35, BILLS 34

Tennessee . . . . 14 7 7 735 Buffalo . . . . . . . 14 6 14 034 RUSHINGTennessee, C.Johnson 18195, Harper 7-8, Hasselbeck 1-(minus 2), Reynaud 1-(minus 4). Buffalo, F.Jackson 9-71, Spiller 12-70, Fitzpatrick 2-23, B.Smith 1-2. PASSINGTennessee, Hasselbeck 22-33-0205. Buffalo, Fitzpatrick 27-35-1-225. RECEIVINGTennessee, Washington 6-43, Britt 4-30, Williams 3-38, Wright 3-19, Cook 2-37, Reynaud 2-18, Stevens 1-17, C.Johnson 1-3. Buffalo, F.Jackson 8-49, Spiller 6-32, St.Johnson 5-71, Jones 4-47, Chandler 2-15, Graham 1-6, B.Smith 1-5.

Days Best
The Titans 35-34 win over the Bills was at its wildest in the first quarter, when the teams combined for three touchdowns in a span of 30 seconds. The stretch began as Fred Jackson caught a 3-yard touchdown pass to tie the score at 7-7. The Titans scored on their first play after the kickoff, on Chris Johnsons 83-yard run, but the Bills Brad Smith returned the ensuing kickoff 89 yards for a score. The Raiders Lammar Houston forced a fumble on the overtime kickoff to set up Sebastian Janikowskis winning kick in a 26-23 win over the Jaguars. Quarterbacks Drew Brees and Josh Freeman combined for 797 passing yards in the Saints 35-28 victory over the Buccaneers. The Vikings had seven sacks in their 21-14 win over the Cardinals. Defensive ends Brian Robison (three) and Jared Allen (two) accounted for five of them.

Mondays Matchup

Lions (2-3) at Bears (4-1) 8:30 p.m., ESPN Line: Bears by 6

Chemistry is supposed to be vitally important in football. The Bears seem to disprove that each week. The teams offense and defense appear to hate each other and yet the Bears keep winning. Jay Cutler is a difficult quarterback to root for, with a rather high sulk-to-touchdown ratio, but the Bears get plenty of scoring from their defense, which makes up for the teams offensive inconsistency. Having intercepted a league-leading 13 passes, the Bears have returned five for touchdowns. Linebacker Lance Briggs has taken two of them back for scores while also leading the team in tackles. The Lions, who have taken a major step backward offensively this season, came out of their bye week with a win over the Eagles. But Matthew Stafford has yet to connect with Calvin Johnson for a touchdown pass, and this week he will be doing everything he can not to complete one to Briggs or his ball-hawking teammates. Pick: Bears BENJAMIN HOFFMAN

Jonathan Vilma gave New Orleanss struggling defense an emotional lift, and Drew Brees did the rest for the suddenly resurgent Saints in a 35-28 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. Vilma played for the first time this year while appealing a seasonlong suspension for his role in the Saints bounty program but did not record a tackle. Brees, however, continued the stellar play the Saints (2-4) are counting on getting from him to turn their season around following an 0-4 start. He extended his N.F.L. record for consecutive games with at least one touchdown pass to 49 he threw four over all and led long scoring drives on four straight possessions to turn a 14-point deficit into a 28-21 halftime lead. Breess four scores helped make up for the New Orleans defense, which gave up 513 yards. We want to get on a streak here, said Brees, who has thrown for three or more touchdowns in five of six games. Youve got to win more than one before youre on a streak. So now weve got two, and we want to keep that going. Vilma was businesslike after the game, answering questions while he dressed. He said he was not sure how many snaps he played, but that he felt fine and believed he was in good enough condition to play an entire game. Josh Freeman passed for a career-high 420 yards for the Bucs (2-4), more than half of them to Vincent Jackson, but Tampa Bay paid for missed chances. Jackson had seven catches for 216 yards, but he failed to score on a 95-yard play when safety Malcolm Jenkins ran him down at the Tampa Bay 1. LeGarrette Blount was stopped for no gain on three straight runs, then Freeman lost 4 yards on a keeper on fourth down.

great, Romo said. Two plays after Buffalo safety George Wilson dropped a potential interception, Matt Hasselbeck hit Nate Washington for a 15-yard touchdown pass on fourth down with 1:03 left to lift THE TITANS TO A WILD 35-34 WIN OVER THE BILLS. Visiting Tennessee got a boost from Chris Johnson, who emerged from a season-long hibernation with 195 yards and 2 touchdowns. Adrian Peterson ran 23 times for a season-high 153 yards and a touchdown, and THE VIKINGS SURVIVED A DREADFUL SECOND HALF TO BEAT THE CARDINALS, 21-14. Chris-

SAINTS 35, BUCCANEERS 28

New Orleans . . . 7 21 0 735 Tampa Bay . . . . 14 7 0 728 RUSHINGNew Orleans, P.Thomas 1332, Sproles 5-27, Ingram 7-21, Brees 1-1. Tampa Bay, Martin 16-85, Freeman 2-9, Ware 1-4, Benn 1-2, Blount 5-(minus 2). PASSINGNew Orleans, Brees 27-37-1377. Tampa Bay, Freeman 24-42-0-420. RECEIVINGNew Orleans, Moore 9-121, Colston 7-73, Sproles 4-32, Henderson 3-75, D.Thomas 2-27, Morgan 1-48, Collins 1-1. Tampa Bay, Jackson 7-216, Clark 5-51, Williams 4-36, Martin 3-37, Underwood 2-35, Stocker 1-33, Lorig 1-6, Ware 1-6. MISSED FIELD GOALSTampa Bay, Barth 42 (WL).

tian Ponder threw a touchdown pass to Percy Harvin for host Minnesota, but he had only one completion for 4 yards in the second half while the Vikings (5-2) punted five straight times. Ponder finished 8 of 17 for 58 yards and 2 interceptions. Ben Roethlisberger threw a touchdown pass and Shaun Suisham kicked three field goals as THE
VISITING STEELERS OVERCAME THEIR INJURY-DEPLETED RUNNING GAME to

STEELERS 24, BENGALS 17

Pittsburgh . . . . . 3 11 3 724 Cincinnati . . . . . 7 7 3 017 RUSHINGPittsburgh, Dwyer 17-122, Rainey 4-17, A.Brown 2-13, Wallace 2-7, W.Johnson 1-5, B.Batch 2-4, Roethlisberger 1-(minus 1). Cincinnati, Green-Ellis 18-69, Sanu 1-7, Peerman 1-5, Dalton 1-(minus 1). PASSINGPittsburgh, Roethlisberger 27-37-1-278, A.Brown 0-1-0-0. Cincinnati, Dalton 14-28-1-105. RECEIVINGPittsburgh, Wallace 8-52, A.Brown 7-96, Miller 6-53, Sanders 2-40, Cotchery 1-20, Rainey 1-8, Paulson 1-7, W.Johnson 1-2. Cincinnati, Whalen 4-31, Sanu 3-27, Gresham 3-19, Hawkins 2-17, Green 1-8, Tate 1-3.

beat the Bengals, 24-17. Roethlisberger was 27 of 37 for 278 yards, leading an offense missing its top two running backs Rashard Mendenhall and Isaac Redman and two offensive linemen because of injury. Jonathan Dwyer ran 17 times for 122 yards.

PACKERS 30, RAMS 20

Green Bay . . . . . 10 0 7 1330 St. Louis . . . . . . 3 3 0 1420 RUSHINGGreen Bay, Green 20-35, Cobb 1-19, Kuhn 3-16, Rodgers 2-0. St. Louis, Jackson 12-57, D.Richardson 8-36, Givens 1-14, Pead 1-1. PASSINGGreen Bay, Rodgers 30-37-0342. St. Louis, Bradford 21-34-1-255. RECEIVINGGreen Bay, Nelson 8-122, Cobb 8-89, Ja.Jones 6-53, Green 4-29, Finley 2-31, Kuhn 1-16, Driver 1-2. St. Louis, Gibson 5-60, St.Smith 4-26, Givens 3-73, D.Richardson 3-43, Quick 2-31, Pettis 2-17, Kendricks 2-5. MISSED FIELD GOALSGreen Bay, Crosby 58 (WR).

Good News for Colts

Hours after Indianapolis Coach Chuck Pagano was sent home from the hospital, Andrew Luck led THE
COLTS TO A 17-13 HOME WIN OVER THE BROWNS by rushing for two scores.

COLTS 17, BROWNS 13

Cleveland . . . . . 0 6 7 013 Indianapolis. . . . 7 7 3 017 RUSHINGCleveland, Hardesty 7-28, Weeden 1-13, Richardson 8-8, Ogbonnaya 1-6. Indianapolis, Ballard 20-84, Carter 1141, Luck 3-12, Moore 3-11. PASSINGCleveland, Weeden 25-41-0-264. Indianapolis, Luck 16-29-0-186. RECEIVINGCleveland, Little 6-52, Cooper 4-53, Watson 3-36, Benjamin 3-33, Ogbonnaya 3-17, Gordon 2-59, Richardson 2-11, Cribbs 1-8, Cameron 1-4, Weeden 0-(minus 9). Indianapolis, Wayne 6-73, Avery 4-46, Hilton 2-22, Fleener 2-17, Ballard 1-19, Allen 1-9.

Cowboys Bounce Back

Tony Romo led visiting Dallas into field-goal range and Dan Bailey converted a 28-yarder with 3 minutes 25 seconds remaining to lift THE COWBOYS TO A 19-14 WIN OVER THE PANTHERS. Bailey had four field goals and Romo passed for 227 yards and a touchdown as the Cowboys (3-3) helped ease some pressure from their highly criticized 3129 loss to Baltimore last week, a game marred by poor clock management. You know that every week youre either great or terrible or at least semi-terrible or semi-

Injury Report
The Jaguars were without running back Maurice Jones-Drew (foot) and quarterback Blaine Gabbert (shoulder) by the time they got to overtime against the Raiders. . . . Redskins tight end Fred Davis tore his Achilles tendon against the Giants. . . . Browns running back Trent Richardson attempted to play despite a rib injury but was pulled after managing 8 yards on eight carries. He did not play in the second half.

The interim coach Bruce Arians intimated that he could almost hear the cheers of Pagano, who is being treated for leukemia. Hopefully, he didnt get too dag gone exhausted coaching from the bedroom, and his count didnt go down, Arians said. A week after he tied a team record with six touchdown passes, Aaron Rodgers added three more in THE PACKERS 30-20 WIN AT THE RAMS. Rodgers passed for 342 yards in Green Bays second turnoverfree victory; the Packers (4-3) had alternated losses and wins the first six weeks. Winning is fun, said Jordy Nelson, who had eight catches for 122 yards. Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 40-yard field goal his fourth kick of the game after Cecil Shorts III fumbled on the opening possession of overtime, and THE RAIDERS RALLIED FROM 14 POINTS DOWN IN THE SECOND HALF to beat the visiting

VIKINGS 21, CARDINALS 14

Arizona . . . . . . . 0 7 0 714 Minnesota . . . . . 7 7 7 021 RUSHINGArizona, Stephens-Howling 20104, Powell 4-13, Doucet 2-9. Minnesota, Peterson 23-153, Harvin 2-10, Ponder 1-2, Gerhart 1-1. PASSINGArizona, Skelton 25-36-1-262. Minnesota, Ponder 8-17-2-58. RECEIVINGArizona, Roberts 7-103, Housler 5-54, Stephens-Howling 4-45, Fitzgerald 4-29, Doucet 3-19, Floyd 1-7, Powell 1-5. Minnesota, Harvin 4-37, Peterson 2-6, Simpson 1-8, Jenkins 1-7. MISSED FIELD GOALSArizona, Feely 47 (WR).

TEXANS 43, RAVENS 13

Baltimore. . . . . . 3 0 7 313 Houston . . . . . . 9 20 7 743 RUSHINGBaltimore, Rice 9-42, Flacco 2-7, Leach 1-6. Houston, Foster 19-98, Tate 10-47, Forsett 6-32, Casey 1-6, Schaub 1-(minus 2). PASSINGBaltimore, Flacco 21-43-2-147. Houston, Schaub 23-37-0-256. RECEIVINGBaltimore, Pitta 5-33, Rice 5-12, T.Smith 4-41, Boldin 3-24, J.Jones 2-17, Doss 1-15, Dickson 1-5. Houston, Johnson 9-86, Daniels 7-59, Walter 4-74, G.Graham 2-32, Foster 1-5.

RAIDERS 26, JAGUARS 23

Jacksonville 7 . . 10 3 3 023 Oakland 3 . . . . . 3 7 10 326 RUSHINGJacksonville, Jennings 2144, Jones-Drew 2-6, Henne 3-4. Oakland, McFadden 19-53, Palmer 6-14, Schmitt 1-2. PASSINGJacksonville, Gabbert 8-12-0110, Henne 9-20-0-71. Oakland, Palmer 26-46-1-298. RECEIVINGJacksonville, Jennings 7-58, Shorts 4-79, Lewis 3-20, Thomas 2-17, Blackmon 1-7. Oakland, Myers 7-44, Heyward-Bey 4-85, Reece 4-58, Moore 4-36, McFadden 4-28, Streater 2-41, Goodson 1-6. MISSED FIELD GOALSOakland, Janikowski 64 (SH).

COWBOYS 19, PANTHERS 14

Dallas . . . . . . . . 0 3 10 619 Carolina . . . . . . 0 7 0 714 RUSHINGDallas, F.Jones 15-44, Tanner 13-30, Romo 3-11. Carolina, Newton 6-64, Stewart 10-35, Tolbert 3-9, D.Williams 2-4. PASSINGDallas, Romo 24-34-0-227. Carolina, Newton 21-37-1-233. RECEIVINGDallas, Witten 6-44, Austin 5-97, F.Jones 5-30, Ogletree 4-27, Bryant 2-14, Tanner 1-8, Vickers 1-7. Carolina, Smith 7-83, LaFell 4-53, Olsen 4-31, Murphy 3-48, Stewart 3-11, Newton 0-6, Gross 0-1.

Jaguars, 26-23.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

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PRO BASKETBALL

With Roles Undecided, Nets Settle on Attitude

By HOWARD BECK

It was tough to say who hit the Nets harder Sunday: the players themselves (during practice) or their coach (afterward). Avery Johnson seemed heartened by a workout he called the hardest practice that weve had, which included a few borderline continuations of last nights boxing match at Barclays Center. Johnson said that last part with a chuckle and a twinkle in his eyes. He has always been partial to fighters on the basketball court. But that only served to underline a broader concern: that the Nets still lack the snarl and the defensive tenacity required of a contender. This team does not have the personality that I thought it would have at this point, Johnson said. That has been somewhat of a disappointment. He added: We dont have a hit-first mentality. And if you dont have a hit-first mentality, then youre going to get hit. So thats what Im talking about. Johnson has raised these concerns before, but this was by far his strongest statement on the subject. With 11 days to go until opening night, it sounded like an alarm bell. Or a warning shot. Although the Nets starting lineup seems set, Johnson said that everything in his rotation was subject to change. Roles could evolve as the Nets seek a 9to 10-man group capable of playing consistent defense. The defensive deficiencies became glaring last week, when the Nets lost preseason games at home to the Boston Celtics (by 30 points) and the Philadelphia 76ers (by 10). They were slow in transition and sluggish in their rotations, and the path to the basket was often unimpeded. Johnson specifically listed power forward as a concern, pointing to the Nets struggles against smaller, more mobile

frontcourts. He played Kris Humphries for just 15 minutes against the Celtics front line of Kevin Garnett and Jared Sullinger and for 13 minutes against the 76ers, who started Thaddeus Young. Although Johnson stopped short of saying that Humphriess starting role was in jeopardy, he said flatly, We do not have a rotation yet, and suggested that the Nets might have to change lineups at times to cover for some of our weaknesses. Everything right now is an open book, Johnson said. Defending against mobile power forwards will be a concern in an era in which small lineups have become fashionable. Miami is now starting Chris Bosh at center, next to two small forwards, Shane Battier and LeBron James. The Knicks most effective lineups last season featured Carmelo Anthony at power forward a position he could play quite a bit with Amare Stoudemire out for the next two to three weeks because of a knee injury. The Nets and the Knicks meet on Wednesday night in their preseason finale, and again Nov. 1 for the season opener. In Gerald Wallace, the Nets have a capable defender who can slide to power forward when opponents play small. Humphries is not nearly as mobile as Wallace, but the Nets badly need him for his rebounding. Some patience is called for, too. The Nets turned over nearly the entire roster in the last eight months. This group has been together for just three weeks. And the team just had a stretch of five games in seven nights, which did not allow for any meaningful practice time. When youre not ready for games like that, it can be a little tough on a team, Deron Williams said, adding, We need practice. With just one preseason game left, the Nets will have ample time to practice and work out the kinks over the next 11 days. De-

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Kris Humphries, above, at Barclays Center on Sunday. Joe Johnson, far left, signed autographs at a practice for a few thousand fans, including Brayden Klein, near left.
he said. Because I really love this team. I think their hearts are right. But they just need some better direction.

REBOUNDS
C. J. WATSON (sore hip), JERRY STACKHOUSE (sore knee) and KEITH BOGANS (sore foot) sat out

fense in particular, protecting the lane will be the primary focus on every one of those days. Johnson is counting on better coordination among all five defenders and more aggression

from his center, Brook Lopez. He either wants a hard foul, a blocked shot or a charge when it comes to people attacking in the paint, Lopez said. Thats got to become a mentality for myself

and the team. Sundays feisty practice which was closed to reporters apparently gave Johnson reason for optimism. Boy, were going to get there,

Sundays practice. . . . The Nets followed their usual workout with a one-hour open practice for several thousand fans at Barclays Center.Some 8,000 tickets were distributed to season-ticket holders and select fans through a corporate sponsor. The attendance appeared to be well short of that.

The Oldest N.B.A. Rookie in 40 Years Is Actually a Seasoned Professional

By NATE TAYLOR

Pablo Prigioni called his best friend again and again. Prigioni, in Spain, needed advice this summer about the N.B.A., the Knicks and the United States so he reached out to his friend Luis Scola to talk about a tough decision. Prigioni remembered that Scola faced a similar choice five years ago, and for Scola, the decision to join an N.B.A. team had been an easy one, because that was his dream. Prigioni now had a chance to

A passing prodigy who has played point guard in Spain since 1999.
follow Scola to America. The Knicks had made Prigioni a proposal, and he found it too attractive not to consider. Still, he had doubts about saying yes. Where would the new path lead? Could he succeed? Would he find happiness? During many phone calls this summer, Scola, now a Phoenix Suns forward, gave positive feedback. He promised Prigioni he would enjoy the adventure. Prigioni, now a 35-year-old rookie with the Knicks, knows he is here in large part because of Scola. I have a lot of respect for him both as a person and a player, said Prigioni, who is the oldest N.B.A. rookie in the last 40 years, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. He really wanted me to make the jump, and I appreciated that. Prigioni did not need to prove he could play. He had become a passing prodigy in his homeland, Argentina. In Spain, Prigioni developed into one of the best point guards in the Euroleague, the highest level of basketball in Europe. Last summer at the London Olympics, he started for the Argentine team that included Scola, Manu Ginobili and Carlos Delfino, countrymen who had N.B.A. pedigrees. Prigioni, however, did not dream of the N.B.A. Most of the guys of my generation didnt focus on that, he said. In 1999, Prigioni went to Spain to play for Baloncesto Fuenlabrada and, he said, fell in love with the country. He soon met his wife, Raquel, and was voted the best point guard three times in the A.B.C., the top league in the country. Prigioni and Scola forged their friendship in 2003 as teammates on the Spanish team Caja La-

boral. Prigioni taught Scola how to score from different spots on the floor. The two also grew closer because they became fathers around the same time. Scola, who moved to the Houston Rockets from Caja Laboral in 2007, said he always believed Prigioni had the skills to thrive in the N.B.A. and thought it was his responsibility to let Prigioni know this summer. He didnt just make me better he made everyone better, Scola said. I really, really wanted him to come. So did Glen Grunwald, now the Knicks general manager. Grunwald appreciated Prigionis passion for passing and his basketball IQ. Each summer, Grunwald made calls overseas wondering if Prigioni was ready for the N.B.A. Glen and I have talked for at least the past five years about Pablo, said George Bass, one of Prigionis agents. Besides preferring to stay in Europe, though, the 6-foot-3, 180pound Prigioni had a buyout in his contract that was worth about $2 million, and the Knicks had point guards under contract. That changed this year. Prigioni became a free agent, and the Knicks were in need of a reliable point guard. Grunwald brought Prigioni to New York for a workout before the Olympics, and he impressed Coach Mike Woodson with his passing ability and his tenacity on defense. Hes a playmaker, Woodson said of Prigioni. If youre open, hes going to find you. And he gets up into you defensively. After the tryout, Prigioni said,

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The Knicks Pablo Prigioni, a 35-year-old rookie and a native of Argentina, fighting for a loose ball with the Celtics Jamar Smith, center, and Dionte Christmas in a preseason game Oct. 13.
he was still unsure about joining the Knicks. But one by one, his Argentine teammates urged him to reconsider. Scola, Ginobili and Delfino asked Prigioni the same question: when your career is over, will you regret not playing at the highest level? He achieved everything in Europe, Scola said. This was the next step. Prigioni said he did not like to think a lot when it came to lifealtering decisions. Explaining his willingness to give the Knicks a try, he said, I felt something different this summer in my heart. Prigioni signed a one-year deal. With the Knicks, Prigioni says he finds everything a little different. He works at the same drills, but there is a sense of excitement that comes with a new experience. Prigioni realizes he is a basketball contradiction. Although he has been a professional overseas for 15 years, he will still be considered in the same category as the rookie Kendall Marshall, a 21year-old point guard the Phoenix Suns drafted in June in the first round. Prigionis family and friends, and even some members of the Spanish news media, have kidded him about his status as an old rookie. Well see how it works, he

Stoudemire Will Miss Start of Season With Knee Injury

By NATE TAYLOR

SYRACUSE Another knee injury will force Amare Stoudemire to miss the start of the regular season. The Knicks announced Sunday that Stoudemire had ruptured a popliteal cyst behind his left knee. It was unclear if Stoudemire was injured during the Knicks game against the Toronto Raptors on Friday, the only time he has played this preseason, or if his knee worsened over time. Stoudemire alerted Coach Mike Woodson and the training staff that he felt discomfort in his knee after the Knicks 109-98 loss to the Boston Celtics on Saturday. He was examined Sunday in New York, and a magnetic resonance imaging test revealed the rupture. Stoudemire will not need surgery but is expected to be out two to three weeks. Hes frustrated, Woodson said of Stoudemire. He put a lot of time in his work this summer. Its a long season and its ear-

ly. Hopefully, we can resolve that problem and get him back in uniform. Stoudemires knee kept him off the court during training camp. He sustained a bruise Oct. 10 when he bumped knees with his teammate Chris Copeland during a scrimmage in practice. Stoudemire had two knee operations one on each knee, one microfracture and the other arthroscopic in the 2005-6 season with the Phoenix Suns. Stoudemire also missed 15 games last season with an ankle injury and bulging disks in his lower back. Its sad, his fellow forward Carmelo Anthony said. It seems like he cant catch a break. Hopefully, its nothing too serious. Mentally, its just sad for him to have to go through that. Stoudemire showed no signs that his knee was bothering him against the Raptors. He finished with 18 points and 5 rebounds in 26 minutes. He led us to believe he was ready to go,

Woodson said. Hell rebound. Stoudemire will probably work with team doctors at the training facility and will probably not be with the team during its final two preseason games. Kurt Thomas will replace Stoudemire as the starter, though Woodson said he was not sure who would be his starting power forward for the regular-season opener Nov. 1 against the Nets. When asked if he would help fill in for Stoudemire, Anthony said, Im pretty sure Ill be there when we want to have a smaller lineup and speed in the game, adding that it depends on the opponent.

REBOUNDS is expected to be the starting shooting guard in Mondays game against the Philadelphia 76ers at the Carrier Dome. Brewer had arthroscopic knee surgery six weeks ago. I think Im going to throw him in the lineup, MIKE WOODSON said. Im going to push him to play.
RONNIE BREWER

said. Its a great opportunity for me to play with such great players. One consideration that intrigued Prigioni was the chance to play alongside Jason Kidd, a point guard he modeled himself after. They have been on the court together during the preseason, sharing duties at point guard. We connected right away, Kidd said. He understands how to play the game and he keeps it simple. Hes fun to play with. Compared with his teammates, Prigioni, who is close to fluent in English, is quiet on most days. As the lone international player on the Knicks roster, he chooses to learn by watching his teammates and Woodson. Most of the Knicks, Prigioni acknowledged, do not know Spanish. Prigioni has tried to become acclimated to America for the last month. He and his wife have seen the Broadway show Evita and have shopped on Fifth Avenue. Prigioni took less money to be with the Knicks about half of his salary last year with Caja Laboral and he had to quickly obtain a drivers license, a Social Security number and visas for his family. Scola said Prigioni would have to adjust to the 82-game N.B.A. season. N.B.A. games are also longer, the trips are rougher and the level of competition is greater. The N.B.A. is a different world, Scola said. But Prigioni has been quick to modify his game, while showing a bit of flash, too. Through three preseason games, he has 19 points, 28 assists and 6 steals. Prigioni is at his best in the pick-and-roll. He is quick enough to get by defenders, and he can slip passes between defenders in tight space. He has made impressive assists to Tyson Chandler for alley-oop dunks. On defense, Prigioni likes to be aggressive and steal the ball. One thing he does not do often, however, is score. His reason is simple: with the Knicks, it is not his job. The most important thing for me is that my teammates want to play with me, he said. Prigioni knows that if he were a 21-year-old rookie, he would be nervous about the coming season. But he is closer to the end of his career than to the beginning. A lot of rookies come in and they are trying to gain confidence, said Chandler, who met Prigioni this summer when the United States national team played Argentina in Barcelona. Pablo knows who he is. He definitely doesnt play like a rookie. And he shouldnt.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012

BASEBALL

Red Sox Make a Trade To Get a New Manager

By ANDREW KEH

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An entrance to a parking garage near Yankee Stadium for Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Oct. 13.

Unfilled Lots Put Parking Company in Peril

By KEN BELSON

The highest payroll in baseball did not help the Yankees in their failed bid to make the World Series. Charging as much as $58 to park has not helped the company that runs the parking lots around Yankee Stadium, either. Bronx Parking Development Company, the operator of the lots, has defaulted on nearly $240 million of its bonds because of overambitious forecasts and less expensive transportation alternatives for fans, like the subway and Metro-North Railroad. If new revenue is not found and costs are not cut in the coming months, the company could go bankrupt even though the city provided more than $200 million in subsidies, some of which were used to replace parkland where parking lots now stand. The companys next debt payment is due in April. The Yankees do not own the lots, which have nearly 9,300 spots, and Bronx Parking has ignored their suggestions for improving conditions, a team spokesman said. But fans who drive to Yankee Stadium said fixing the parking problem was simple: lower the prices. The whole thing is supply and demand, said Ray Hanson, who attended a Yankees game last week with his friend. They

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Fans using Metro-North Railroad, with a West 153rd Street station, means fewer drivers.
parked for free on the Grand Concourse and walked a few blocks to the stadium. If they charged $20, the lots would fill up. This year, the parking lots have been 43 percent full on average during games and other events at Yankee Stadium, down from 46 percent last year, according to regulatory filings. The lots have generated $767,000 less than expected this year on game days, and continued shortfalls forced Bronx Parking to dip deep into its reserve fund to meet its semiannual bond payments. On Oct. 1, Bronx Parking took $4.6 million from its fund to cover its bond payment of $6.9 million.

That left just $422,000 in the reserve fund, leading to the default. Edward Moran, the chief restructuring officer at Bronx Parking, said that to bolster the companys finances, other measures are needed, including persuading bondholders to accept less than they are owed. Unless debt service costs are lowered through a voluntary restructuring, bankruptcy will eventually be B.P.D.C.s only available option, he wrote in an analysis in June. Moran declined to say whether parking prices would be cut, though he said all aspects of the companys operations were being reviewed. Moran said the Metro-North station at West 153rd Street, which opened in 2009, has severely affected the parking lots. The new train stop was not included in the companys original forecasts, he said. Even so, the station, much to the pleasure of transportation advocates and local residents, has been a success because it has kept cars off congested streets. Nearly 4,100 fans on average took Metro-North trains to the stadium for weekend games, including many who live in Connecticut, New Jersey and Westchester County who previously drove to games. We used to drive in, said Dave Weaver, who paid about $23

for a round-trip ticket on MetroNorth from his home in Fairfield, Conn., to the stadium. But tickets are astronomical, gas is high and the parking is expensive. If the 4,100 rail passengers on a single weekend game had driven, with four passengers in a vehicle, that would have been roughly equivalent to more than 1,000 vehicles driving to the stadium. Another 15,000 fans take the subway on game days; many of them live in New York City and are unlikely to drive to the game. Though the citys Industrial Development Agency issued the bonds on behalf of Bronx Parking, the city is not on the hook for them. However, the company owes the city $25.5 million in rent and payments in lieu of taxes accumulated since 2007. The back rent, combined with the subsidies and high parking prices, have watchdog groups, like Good Jobs New York, wondering about the wisdom of turning parkland into parking lots and calling it economic development. I would love to say the garages are doing well and were using the money for other things, said Bettina Damiani, the project director at Good Jobs New York. But its not adding up and never will.

After sinking to their first losing season since 1997, the Boston Red Sox have hired John Farrell to be the clubs new manager. The three-year deal, announced Sunday afternoon, was made possible through a trade between the Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays. Farrell managed the Blue Jays for the last two seasons and was under contract for one more year. As compensation, the Red Sox sent shortstop Mike Aviles to the Blue Jays and received the right-handed pitcher David Carpenter in return. It is the fifth time in major league history that one team provided compensation to another for the services of a manager. Farrell, 50, will be returning to the Red Sox after serving as the teams pitching coach from 2007 to 2010, winning a World Series with the club his first year. Im extremely excited to be returning to the Red Sox and to Boston, Farrell said in a statement. I love this organization. Its a great franchise in a special city and region, with great fans, and we want nothing more than to reward their faith in us. Farrells job will be to clean up what has become something of a disaster in Boston; the Red Sox have missed the postseason the last three years. The clubs 2011 season was sullied by reports of disciplinary problems and ended with the departure of the longtime manager Terry Francona. It sunk even lower this year, with the Red Sox compiling a 69-93 record over a season pocked with messy conflict. On multiple occasions, veteran players clashed with Manager Bobby Valentine, who had been hired with fanfare before the season and was fired promptly upon its conclusion. Farrell enjoyed a good relationship with the Red Sox players during his tenure as the teams pitching coach. Over his four seasons there, the Red Sox posted a 4.11 earned run average, the third best in the American League during that time. It would be cool for him to get back and pick up where he left off with us, the right-hander Clay Buchholz said last month, according to The Boston Globe. I think everyone liked him when he was here. He was always upfront about everything; he was all business. He was an easy guy to talk to if you needed help in some category of the game. Farrell, a native of Monmouth Beach, N.J., produced a 36-46 record in eight seasons as a right-

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John Farrell managed Toronto for the last two seasons and was under contract to the Blue Jays for one more year.
handed pitcher. He spent five years as the director of player development for the Cleveland Indians before his first stint on the Red Sox coaching staff. Farrell then compiled a 154-170 record in two seasons managing the Blue Jays. His broad set of experiences and exceptional leadership skills make him the ideal person to lead

A former pitching coach returns to a dismal Boston team.

our team, Red Sox General Manager Ben Cherington said in a statement. I have known him in various capacities throughout my career, and I hold him in the highest regard as a baseball man and as a person. The Red Sox interviewed several candidates in recent weeks, including the Yankees bench coach Tony Pena. By choosing Farrell, the club hopes to restore a link to its not-too-distant seasons of glory. We met some outstanding managerial candidates in this process, the Red Sox president, Larry Lucchino, said in a statement. John Farrell brings a unique blend of managerial experience, leadership and presence, pitching expertise, front office experience, and an established track record with many members of our uniformed staff and members of our front office.

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Buoyed by Experience, Fehr Holds Tight to His Composure and His Principles
By JEFF Z. KLEIN

Last week was a dismal one for Donald Fehr and the N.H.L. Players Association, and not just because the owners flatly rejected the unions offer to settle the N.H.L. lockout. For the first time since negotiations began last summer, public opinion seemed to have shifted: many fans, who had been blaming Commissioner Gary Bettman and the owners for the impasse, started to blame Fehr and the players. Yet none of that is likely to sway Fehr, perhaps North Americas most effective union leader over the past three decades. He has drawn fans wrath before, but

A union leader seems unfazed by rising criticism from fans.

his accomplishments are enormous. As head of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1983 to 2009, Fehr thwarted efforts to impose a salary cap and kept players salaries high. In three years with the N.H.L. Players Association, he repaired a hopelessly fractured union and readied it for confrontation with the owners. Players understand that this is something in which they all have to hang together, Fehr said. You can paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: if we dont hang together, were going to hang separately. Fehr is something of an anachronism: an ardent trade unionist in an era when the power of unions outside of sports is shrinking. Don Fehr is an enormously bright and committed lawyer, and a liberal person of the left, said Fay Vincent, the baseball commissioner from 1989 to 1992.

He is very committed to using collective bargaining to improve the conditions and economic well-being of his constituents. Fehrs politics stand in sharp contrast to those of the N.H.L.s United States-based owners, who as a group have donated more heavily to Republican candidates and causes than their N.F.L. and N.B.A. counterparts. Despite a public reputation for combativeness, Fehr also draws praise from former adversaries for honesty, integrity and a calm, businesslike demeanor. Donald Fehr was a perfectly honorable person I dont think he ever lied to me, said Richard Ravitch, who negotiated for the baseball owners in the two years that preceded the 1994-95 strike. He never lost his temper; in fact, I thought he was a cold fish. But he was very honorable and very straightforward. A man of few words, even if his favorite word was no. Vincent called Fehr absolutely straight and totally honest. He added, I dont think his worst enemies have ever found him lying to them or misleading them. In Canada, fans angry with the union for not accepting the owners demand for a 12 percent pay cut last week called radio stations to speculate that Fehr was dictating a militant stance to the players. But no players have suggested that is happening. One of Dons core principles is the need to appropriately and accurately reflect the consensus of the players, and that leadership comes from the ranks, not from the top down, said Gene Orza, Fehrs longtime general counsel with the baseball players union, who still confers regularly with Fehr. Your position-taking has to be supported by a large, large portion of the players. Orza said he was not surprised by fans accusations. There are two things theyve been saying for years in baseball, he said.

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Donald Fehr, head of the N.H.L. Players Association, prevailed legally in baseball labor disputes.
Theres never enough left-handed pitching, and the union is always leading the players around by the nose. N.H.L. fans seemed to dread Fehrs arrival on the hockey scene in 2009, when he was asked to repair a players union torn by internal squabbling after accepting a 24 percent pay cut and a salary cap in the 2004-5 lockout. The union had gone through four leaders in four years. Like many baseball fans, hockey fans saw Fehr as responsible for the strike that canceled the 1994 World Series. But what is often forgotten is that the strike ended by court order, when Judge Sonia Sotomayor ruled that the owners had engaged in unfair labor practices. The old contract was reinstated and, legally at least, Fehr and the union were vindicated. That followed other legal victories by Fehr over the owners, who were found to have illegally colluded by refraining from bidding against one another for free agents. Fehr took over as the director of the baseball union in 1983, soon after Marvin Miller stepped down. Youve got to remember, the first thing that I was met with within a year or so was collusion, Fehr said. It was followed by a lockout, followed by an attempt to impose a salary cap, followed by court decisions that the owners were breaking the law right and left and Sunday. And they were portraying me as somebody who didnt want to let them do that. And I didnt, Fehr continued. I thought collusion was bad. I thought the 90 lockout was bad. I thought the attempt to impose the salary cap in 94 was bad. I thought the way they bargained was bad. While baseball has had labor peace since 1996, Fehr has often spoken of a new playbook for other sports leagues, in which they impose salary caps and lock out players to force them to accept pay cuts. The N.F.L. and N.B.A. lockouts of 2011 reduced players shares of revenue in those sports to about 50 percent, and Bettman has frequently cited that as a main rationale for the current N.H.L. lockout. Fehr said the same people are behind these tactics regardless of the sport a reference to the Proskauer Rose law firm, which represents the N.H.L., the N.F.L., the N.B.A. and Major League Baseball in labor negotiations. Bettman worked there as a lawyer in the 1970s.

Bob Batterman, a top Proskauer Rose lawyer who works closely with the N.H.L. and the N.F.L., said in January that the pendulum has swung too far toward the employees, and that employers are using lockouts because unions are reluctant to do what the employers consider reasonable. Fehr said: Hes obviously right that employers are using the lockout more often. Bob has been the architect of a whole host of those. In Fehrs baseball days, he sometimes had a reputation for arrogance and curtness in dealings with reporters and in negotiations. But in the hockey job, Fehr has been remarkably accessible to reporters, and he has kept his cool after difficult negotiating sessions with Bettman a contrast with the often fuming demeanor of Bob Goodenow, the union boss during the last N.H.L. lockout. Id like to think I am wiser, more measured, Fehr, 64, said when asked whether he has mellowed over the last quarter-century. But I dont really know thats for other people to judge. Talks are expected to resume this week in New York, with bargaining still stalemated but a solution in sight. Bettman is calling for an immediate reduction of players salaries to 50 percent of league revenue from 57 percent, a 12 percent pay cut. Fehr is calling for a gradual reduction to 50 percent that avoids pay cuts. Whatever happens, Bettman and the owners should not expect Fehr to roll over. After all the concessions the players made last time, in the billions of dollars, and with the owners having had record revenues seven years in a row, and the two highest growth years being last season and the season before, we see no basis upon which to tell players to go backward, Fehr said.

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Tigers Enter Idle Stretch With Sense Of Urgency

By BEN STRAUSS

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Ryan Vogelsong pitched seven innings on Sunday, striking out nine batters and holding the Cardinals to one run, four hits and a walk as the Giants won, 6-1.

On a National Stage After Years in the Wilderness

SAN FRANCISCO Ryan Vogelsong was an afterthought when he reported to spring training for the San Francisco Giants last season. He had been there a decade earlier, before a worldwide adventure of injury, rejection and mediocrity, and the Giants had just won the World Series. But to Dave RighetON BASEBALL ti, the Giants longtime pitching coach, Vogelsong stood out. It was not so much his stuff, which was not too different from what it had been in 2001, when the Giants traded him to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was his attitude. He wasnt messing around, Righetti said Sunday night, after Vogelsong brought the Giants to the verge of the National League pennant. He came to camp to win a job, and he never changed his demeanor. These are tedious days, and guys look at him and go, This guy wants it bad. The St. Louis Cardinals know the look. They have seen it twice in this N.L. Championship Series, falling to Vogelsong in Games 2 and 6. Both times, he allowed one run in seven innings, and on Sunday, in a 6-1 victory, he set a career high in strikeouts, with nine. If the Giants win Game 7 on Monday, Vogelsong would be a strong candidate for the series Most Valuable Player award. It would be a hard-earned reward for a 35-year-old right-hander who spent years in the baseball the Hanshin Tigers, the Orix Buffaloes, the Salt Lake Bees, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs and the Tibourones de La Guaira in Venezuela. There were a lot of nights where I was like: This just isnt for me. This isnt what Im supposed to do, because if I was supposed to do this, Id be doing better, Vogelsong told a San Francisco radio station, KNBR, this summer. Sometimes it makes me cringe, thinking about those days, how I used to throw. It was a struggle. Even in Japan, for Hanshin and Orix, Vogelsong had mixed results. In three seasons there, he was 11-14 with a 4.17 earned run average, splitting time between starting and relieving. He has mastered the twoseamer, Bobby Valentine, who managed in Japan in those seasons, said Sunday in an e-mail. He pitched O.K. there. Pitching O.K. was only good enough to earn Vogelsong a minor league deal with the Phillies for 2010. Vogelsong had a good strikeout rate for their Class AAA team in Lehigh Valley 73 strikeouts in fewer than 60 innings but was released that July with a 4.91 earned run average. He was not much better for the Angels affiliate in Salt Lake. Needing to make a better impression, Vogelsong went to La Guaira that winter. He pitched well and caught the attention of the Giants hitting coach, Hensley Meulens, who was coaching another Venezuelan team. Meulens recommended Vogelsong to the Giants, who signed him on Dec. 29, 2010. Vogelsong, who also drew interest from the Los Angeles Dodgers, has said he chose the Giants partly because of his familiarity with Righetti and Mark Gardner, the longtime bullpen coach. But while Righetti rememof a late-moving fastball and had a keener understanding of hitters swings, and after two starts at Class AAA in April 2011, Vogelsong quickly earned a promotion to the Giants. He went 13-7 last season, and followed that up by going 14-9 to earn a spot in the Giants playoff rotation. He worked five solid innings in Game 3 of the division series in Cincinnati, and after a shaky beginning to his Game 2 start against St. Louis, he settled in and gave the Giants their first win of this series. Vogelsong called that the best game he has ever pitched after the third inning, anyway and said that he got away with more mistakes on Sunday. Even so, he struck out six of his first nine batters and did not allow a hit until there were two outs in the fifth inning. Besides a changeup that baffled Carlos Beltran for a strikeout in the first inning, Vogelsong mostly dominated with a precision two-seam fastball at 92 miles an hour. He used it to twice strike out Allen Craig by clipping the outside corner in the first inning, and by running it down and in, under Craigs bat, to end the fourth. The ballpark erupted in cheers, and as the game went along, the crowd chanted Vogey! Vogey!, saluting a most unlikely October sensation. These fans, they bring it all the time, Vogelsong said. Its pretty amazing.

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Daniel Descalso struck out twice against Vogelsong, who pushed the N.L.C.S. to a decisive seventh game.
wilderness. Weird things have to happen that are much bigger than us for things to work out like this, Vogelsong said. I just think Gods had a plan for me this whole time, and its finally gotten me to ultimately where I wanted to be. It was a rocky path, one that would have been easy for Vogelsong to leave. His trade had brought the Giants the righthander Jason Schmidt, the ace of their 2002 World Series team. Vogelsong struggled in Pittsburgh and blew out his elbow, becoming little more than a footnote in Giants history. After his last game for the Pirates, in June 2006, Vogelsong pitched for all these teams before the Giants finally brought him back: the Indianapolis Indians,

At 35, a pitcher is having success back where he started.

bered Vogelsong fondly, his expectations were limited. I always thought he was going to be maybe a seventh- or eighthinning guy a real good one because he had a power fastball and a power curve, Righetti said. Two hundred innings, I didnt know if he could handle that; you dont know that about any young guy. But you see just an older guy that stayed in shape, matured, his arms better, its fresh. He always knew he could pitch. We just caught lightning in a bottle, to be quite frank. Vogelsong added a slider, but mostly he remained a power pitcher; even his changeup, Righetti said, is a little harder than the Giants would like. But he showed extraordinary command

Giants Push Cardinals to Game 7

From First Sports Page theyve got something else in the tank, then theyve shorted themselves and theyve shorted us all season long. Spurred on by the crowd, the Giants jumped to a 5-0 lead within the first two innings and then rode the brilliant pitching of Ryan Vogelsong to protect it. After guiding the Giants to their Game 2 victory last week, Vogelsong on Sunday allowed one run, four hits and one walk over seven ruthlessly efficient innings, while recording a career-high nine strikeouts. He charged through the early part of the game, chomping steadily on a piece of gum, pounding the strike zone with fastballs. Only 3 of his first 31 pitches were off-speed, and he struck out five Cardinals through the first two innings. Gradually, more and more curveballs and changeups tumbled from his hand, but the results stayed the same. Vogelsong did not allow a hit until the fifth inning, and he did not allow a run until the sixth, when Allen Craig slipped a runscoring single past third base. I pitch like its 1-0 or 0-0 all the time, Vogelsong said. But to have a cushion like that definitely allows you to attack the plate a little more. Several Giants players, Vogelsong included, noted the partylike atmosphere inside the ballpark. Before the game, the feeling of occasion was heightened upon the unfurling of an American flag across the width of the outfield and a loud flyover by a pair of swooping fighter jets. There was an irreverent celebrity presence, too. James Hetfield, the lead singer of Metallica, grabbed a microphone and warmed up the crowd with a lightly profane pep talk. During the seventh-inning stretch, the rapper Lil Wayne stood on the field and led the crowd, announced at 47,070, through a buoyant rendition of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. When you have fun, you see the result, said Pablo Sandoval, who helped ignite his team with a one-out double in the first inning. Sandoval cruised into second, clapping his hands. Then Marco Scutaro, who went from first to third on Sandovals hit, scored on Buster Poseys subsequent groundout. Chris Carpenter, the Cardinals big game specialist, struggled for the second time this series, seeming to get swallowed up inside the crackling intensity of the fans. And in an uncanny bit of coincidence, he produced nearly the same pitching line he did during his Game 2 loss: four innings pitched; five runs allowed, only two of them earned; two walks; six hits and 76 total pitches. (He had six strikeouts Sunday after getting only one his previous start.) In the second, Brandon Belt hit a triple off the high brick wall in right-center field. After an out and an intentional walk to Brandon Crawford, Vogelsong slapped a grounder to shortstop, where Pete Kozma bobbled the

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ball, allowing Belt to score with ease. Later, Vogelsong rumbled from first, close on Crawfords heels, to score on Marco Scutaros two-run double. The Giants then jumped ahead, 5-0, when Sandoval, after fighting through a 10-pitch at-bat, sent a single through the infield, scoring Scutaro from second. After enjoying their cushion for the games middle expanse, the Giants padded their lead in the eighth inning on Ryan Theriots run-scoring, seeing-eye single. Home runs are nice, believe me, and well take them if we can get them, Bochy said. But thats not our strength, we know it. So its important that we do the small things to help win a ballgame. In yet another do-or-die game, the Giants did all those small things, bouncing along with their fans into an unlikely Game 7.

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DETROIT The Detroit Tigers World Series tuneup felt more like a sleepy March afternoon in the Grapefruit League than anything closely resembling postseason baseball. There were nearly as many minor leaguers as major leaguers at Comerica Park on Sunday and no umpires to arbitrate a seven-inning intrasquad scrimmage held in front of empty grandstands. A Tigers team made up mostly of major leaguers defeated another Tigers team that consisted mostly of minor leaguers, 3-1, although little attention was paid to the scoreboard, which was never turned on. The Tigers, faced with five days between their American League Championship Series triumph over the Yankees and the start of the World Series on Wednesday, sought something to keep them fresh as they awaited the winner of the National League Championship Series between St. Louis and San Francisco. The sense of urgency was buttressed by memories of 2006, when the Tigers were idle for six days after their A.L.C.S. sweep of Oakland and then delivered a flat performance in a five-game World Series loss to St. Louis. Were not dumb, Tigers Manager Jim Leyland said before the scrimmage. We do learn from the past. He added, Were not going to sit around staring at each other. The 2006 Series was a qualified disaster for the Tigers. They won 95 games during the regular season and faced the Cardinals, who won just 83. But the Tigers emerged from the long layoff icecold, hitting just .199 during the series. Their defense was even worse, committing eight errors. Leyland, who also managed that team, called the performance rusty. He also said the weather leading to the series played a factor, forcing the Tigers to attempt workouts at the Lions neighboring football stadium. A lot of people thought we just became fat cats in 2006 and said, Were in the World Series, whats the difference if we win? Leyland said. Thats not what we did at all. We had plans to have batting practice out on the field, but I can remember going over to Ford Field in a golf cart and getting rained on like crazy. We just couldnt do anything. The minor leaguers were flown to Detroit from the Florida Instructional League for a workout Saturday and for Sundays full scrimmage to help keep Leylands team in game shape. They had the week off in 06, and obviously they thought that hurt them a little bit, catcher Gerald Laird, who was not on that team, said. I like the fact they brought guys in for us to keep us sharp and keep us going. Hopefully, we can go into the World Series and the speed of the game feels the same. The Tigers got an extra boost as Sunday morning dawned sunny and bright here, providing ideal conditions and averting a situation Leyland said he had considered: flying the team to Florida for a similar scrimmage. A handful of fans gathered on Adams Street beyond center field to watch the action, while inside the park, foul balls thudded and ricocheted off empty seats. Leyland worked several of his relievers, including Joaquin Benoit and Jose Valverde, against major league hitters. Valverde, Detroits closer during the regular season, has struggled in the postseason. He pitched the first inning Sunday and allowed a run, but in an effort to treat it like a real game, he did use his famous knee slaps as he jogged in from the bullpen. Alex Avila and Don Kelly had home runs. Theyre doing this businesslike, Leyland said of his players. They understand the purpose. Another important lesson taken to heart from 2006 appears to be fielding practice for Tigers pitchers. The pitching staff committed five errors during the World Series that year, and at one point during Sundays game a Tigers coach went to the plate, halted action and simulated bunting situations. Leyland noted that pitchers had extra fielding practice during Saturdays workout. Despite the strangeness of the scene at Comerica Park and the lengths the Tigers have taken to avoid any repeats of 2006, Leyland was in high spirits. The Tigers, after all, are on their way to the World Series. Asked if he would have preferred only a day or two off between series, like his opponent, Leyland smiled and said that after sweeping the Yankees, he would have been happy to wait three weeks for the World Series.

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Seeing Through the Illusions of the Sports Hero

That wise basketball philosopher Charles Barkley once declared, I am not a role model. A star with the Phoenix Suns at the time, Barkley was lambasted by a large portion of the news media who insisted that high-profile athletes, by virtue of their celebrity, SPORTS should act like paraOF THE TIMES gons of virtue, even if they werent. Barkley, in his text for a Nike advertisement, was referring to role models, not sports heroes, but the concepts come from the same deepseated need to make things what they are not. We crave illusion, and athletes have historically been vessels of our self-deception. In light of the dramatic falls of Michael Vick, Marion Jones, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Tiger Woods and now Lance Armstrong, we need to either recalibrate our definition of the sports hero or scrap it altogether. The concept is based largely on ignorance: the less we know about an athlete, the easier it becomes to invest him with lofty ideals. The ideals have little to do with the athletes character and everything to do with creating an artificial construct that serves a need. Sports heroism contains a number of elements. There is the emotion of heroism. My father loved Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, and he wasnt alone. They were icons of an era. After Louis defeated Primo Carnera in 1935, a writer for The Los Angeles Times gushed: The colored race couldnt have chosen two more remarkable men than Jesse Owens and Joe Louis to be its outstanding representatives. Owens is being hailed as the greatest track and field athlete of all time, same thing goes for Dead Pan Joe Louis, whose decisive defeat of Carnera has sent the scribes scurrying to the dictionaries seeking superlatives of greater scope than any theyve used before. There is the propaganda of heroism. Louis and Owens the grandsons of slaves and the sons of sharecroppers were tools of an American image-making machine designed to show the world, and Nazi Germany in particular, that the United States had it right. But the heroic reality, based on a myth to begin with, is often grim. Louis battled drug addiction for years, was forced to fight past his prime and wound up destitute. He appeared on TV game shows at the end of his career, wrestled professionally and spent time in a psychiatric institution. When Owens refused to continue a tour across Europe after the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he was barred for life as a professional by the Amateur Athletic Union. He was hounded by the Internal Revenue Service and was even tracked by the F.B.I., which monitored his talks abroad to make sure Owens was no Paul Robeson. As Owens headed to the ballpark one afternoon to participate in yet another cheesy moneymaking exhibition, he came across an article in that days New York Post that poignantly described his condition. By all odds the most famous athlete on the field, Owens will also be the least fortunate, the article said. He attained a degree of proficiency in his sport far above the reach of any Dodger or Red in baseball when he won four gold medals at the Olympic Games. The newspaper added: Tonight Owens will be on display for half an hour. He will give handicaps to ball players in the 100yard dash. He will skip over a flight

COLLEGE FOOTBALL A.P. TOP 25

First-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 20, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Alabama (59) . . . . . . .7-0 1,499 1 2. Oregon . . . . . . . . . . .7-0 1,424 2 3. Florida (1) . . . . . . . . .7-0 1,380 3 4. Kansas St. . . . . . . . . .7-0 1,333 4 5. Notre Dame . . . . . . . .7-0 1,241 5 6. LSU . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-1 1,172 6 7. Oregon St. . . . . . . . . .6-0 1,106 8 8. Oklahoma . . . . . . . . .5-1 1,065 10 9. Ohio St. . . . . . . . . . .8-0 1,028 7 10. Southern Cal . . . . . .6-1 944 11 11. Florida St. . . . . . . . .7-1 872 12 12. Georgia . . . . . . . . . .6-1 745 13 13. Mississippi St.. . . . . .7-0 739 15 14. Clemson . . . . . . . . .6-1 713 14 15. Texas Tech . . . . . . .6-1 653 18 16. Louisville . . . . . . . . .7-0 620 16 17. South Carolina . . . . .6-2 591 9 18. Rutgers . . . . . . . . . .7-0 539 19 19. Stanford . . . . . . . . .5-2 421 22 20. Michigan . . . . . . . . .5-2 300 23 21. Boise St. . . . . . . . . .6-1 258 24 22. Texas A&M. . . . . . . .5-2 252 20 23. Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . .7-0 181 25 24. Louisiana Tech . . . . .6-1 106 NR 25. West Virginia . . . . . .5-2 76 17 Others receiving votes: Toledo 49, Texas 33, Wisconsin 31, TCU 29, Nebraska 24, Penn St. 18, NC State 13, Oklahoma St. 12, Arizona 7, UCLA 7, Tulsa 6, Arizona St. 5, N. Illinois 5, Cincinnati 3.

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USA TODAY TOP 25 POLL

First-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 20, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (59) . . . . . .7-0 1,475 1 2. Oregon . . . . . . . . . .7-0 1,403 2 3. Florida . . . . . . . . . . .7-0 1,329 4 4. Kansas State . . . . . .7-0 1,326 3 5. Notre Dame . . . . . . .7-0 1,221 5 6. LSU. . . . . . . . . . . . .7-1 1,164 6 7. Oklahoma . . . . . . . . .5-1 1,084 7 8. Southern California . . .6-1 1,014 9 9. Oregon State . . . . . .6-0 974 11 10. Florida State . . . . . . .7-1 948 10 11. Georgia . . . . . . . . . .6-1 850 12 12. Mississippi State . . . .7-0 800 16 13. Clemson . . . . . . . . .6-1 788 13 14. Louisville . . . . . . . . .7-0 720 14 15. Rutgers . . . . . . . . . .7-0 637 17 16. South Carolina . . . . .6-2 598 8 17. Texas Tech . . . . . . .6-1 571 20 18. Boise State . . . . . . .6-1 407 22 19. Stanford . . . . . . . . .5-2 401 23 20. Michigan . . . . . . . . .5-2 264 25 21. Texas A&M. . . . . . . .5-2 229 19 22. West Virginia . . . . . .5-2 173 15 23. Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . .7-0 132 NR 24. Texas . . . . . . . . . . .5-2 109 NR 25. Wisconsin. . . . . . . . .6-2 104 NR Others receiving votes: Louisiana Tech 100; Nebraska 71; TCU 71; Cincinnati 51; Oklahoma State 37; Toledo 30; Arizona State 21; Tulsa 21; Duke 16; Northern Illinois 14; Northwestern 11; LouisianaMonroe 7; Western Kentucky 3; UCLA 1.

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HARRIS TOP 25
First-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 20, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Alabama (109) . . . . . .7-0 2,868 1 2. Oregon (5) . . . . . . . .7-0 2,727 2 3. Florida (1). . . . . . . . .7-0 2,622 3 4. Kansas State . . . . . .7-0 2,571 4 5. Notre Dame . . . . . . .7-0 2,374 5 6. LSU. . . . . . . . . . . . .7-1 2,270 6 7. Oklahoma . . . . . . . . .5-1 2,021 9 8. Oregon State . . . . . .6-0 2,001 10 9. Southern Cal . . . . . . .6-1 1,934 11 10. Florida State . . . . . . .7-1 1,911 8 11. Georgia . . . . . . . . . .6-1 1,603 12 12. Mississippi State . . . .7-0 1,602 14 13. Clemson . . . . . . . . .6-1 1,562 13 14. Louisville . . . . . . . . .7-0 1,324 16 15. Rutgers . . . . . . . . . .7-0 1,205 17 16. South Carolina . . . . .6-2 1,189 7 17. Texas Tech . . . . . . .6-1 1,074 21 18. Stanford . . . . . . . . .5-2 929 20 19. Boise State . . . . . . .6-1 762 23 20. Michigan . . . . . . . . .5-2 490 NR 21. Texas A&M. . . . . . . .5-2 465 19 22. West Virginia . . . . . .5-2 363 15 23. Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . .7-0 293 NR 24. Texas . . . . . . . . . . .5-2 237 25 25. TCU . . . . . . . . . . . .5-2 195 22 Other teams receiving votes: Wisconsin 136; Nebraska 128; Louisiana Tech 127; Cincinnati 116; Oklahoma State 72; Toledo 44; Tulsa 39; Arizona State 37; NC State 31; Northwestern 17; Duke 10; Northern Illinois 7; UCLA 7; Nevada 6; LouisianaMonroe 4; Iowa State 2.

Top left, Charles Barkley, then a star for the Phoenix Suns, declared in an ad, I am not a role model. Above from left, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong and Kobe Bryant, superstars in their sports who have had a fall. Nike cut ties last week with Armstrong, but continued them with Woods and Bryant.
of low hurdles and try to beat ball players who are running 120 yards on the flat. He will give an exhibition of broad jumping. The holder of six world records will be one of the trained seals rounding out the show. Its a terrific comedown, but its a living. There is the hypocrisy of heroism. Last week Nike announced that it was jumping off the Lance Armstrong bandwagon. the second most highly compensated athlete behind Woods. But Armstrong has no more mountains to climb, no more Tour de Frances to win. Publicly humiliated, his reputation shattered, Armstrong has no value to any of the companies who backed him, including his own, apparently. Last week, Armstrong announced he was stepping down as the chairman of Livestrong, his cancer foundation. At least Armstrong is alive to defend what is left of his reputation. Finally, there is the tragedy of heroism. Joe Paterno was revered at Penn State. He was admired and celebrated by journalists as the coach who did it the right way, who graduated his athletes and stressed character. But Paterno was fired for his role in the Jerry Sandusky child sexualabuse scandal. The universitys board of trustees determined that Paterno should have and could have done more to protect the children whom Sandusky abused. Will all the good that Paterno accomplished be buried with him, overshadowed by the scandal? At the funeral of Julius Caesar in Shakespeares play, Mark Antony says, The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. But must this be? Armstrong did overcome cancer and has, in fact, raised millions of dollars for cancer research. Paterno did in fact graduate players. Consider the public citizen who runs into a burning building and saves a family. Later we discover that the same citizen has been cited for domestic abuse. Should personal scandals negate the good deed? The lives are still saved. Sport has no enduring worth unless attached to a set of higher values. A few years after Barkley made his comments about role models, Bill Bradley, the former senator and Knicks star, wrote a wonderful book, Values of the Game. It focused on basketball, but the values Bradley outlined form the foundation of all sports: passion, discipline, selflessness, respect, courage, leadership, responsibility, resilience. Given the realities of social media, forgiveness and resilience are far more valuable than heroism. There is nothing heroic about the athlete who plays hurt and performs brilliantly, the hitter who smacks the game-winning home run or the kicker who makes the winning field goal on the last play of the game. Perhaps we can agree, moving forward, that our sports heroes do good things but do not have to be good people. In her book on heroism, Heroes, Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship, Lucy Hughes-Hallett argues: Virtue is not a necessary qualification for hero status; a hero is not a role model. On the contrary, it is of the essence of a hero to be unique and therefore inimitable. The American hero is part of our mythology, a relic of days gone by. Dead and unnecessary. Charles Barkley may have had it right, after all.

PRO BASKETBALL W.N.B.A. CHAMPIONSHIP

All Times EDT (Best-of-5) INDIANA WINS SERIES, 3-1 Oct. 14: Indiana 76, Minnesota 70 Wednesday: Minnesota 83, Indiana 71 Friday: Indiana 76, Minnesota 59 Sunday: Indiana 87, Minnesota 78

W.N.B.A. CHAMPIONS
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 Indiana Fever Minnesota Lynx Seattle Storm Phoenix Mercury Detroit Shock Phoenix Mercury Detroit Shock Sacramento Monarchs Seattle Storm Detroit Shock Los Angeles Sparks Los Angeles Sparks Houston Comets Houston Comets Houston Comets Houston Comets

Searching for values in sport itself, rather than in athletes.

Why did Nike abandon Armstrong and not Tiger Woods or Kobe Bryant? Nike said it was betrayed and misled, though certainly no more than the world was deceived by Woods, who implied or allowed marketers to infer that his great character was at the root of his athletic success. Armstrong was simply an illusionist: he told us he was riding up the sides of mountains without chemical help. The reasons Nike stuck with Woods and abandoned Armstrong have more to do with money. Woods and Bryant are still making loads of it for the corporation. Woods remains golfs greatest attraction; Bryant has won N.B.A. championships and, according to Forbes, is

N.B.A. PRESEASON
SUNDAY
Orlando 104, San Antonio 100 Philadelphia 88, Boston 79 Oklahoma City 108, Denver 101 Sacramento 99, L.A. Lakers 92

GOLF MCGLADREY CLASSIC

Sea Island Resort, Seaside Course ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA. Purse: $4 million Yardage: 7,005; Par: 70 LEADING FINISHERS Tommy Gainey, $720,000 . 69-67-68-60264 David Toms, $432,000. . . . 65-67-70-63265 Jim Furyk, $272,000 . . . . . 66-65-66-69266 Brendon de Jonge, $165,333 66-69-68-65268 Davis Love III, $165,333 . . . 65-66-66-71268 D.J. Trahan, $165,333 . . . . 66-67-66-69268 Chad Campbell, $124,667 . 66-67-69-67269 Greg Owen, $124,667 . . . . 64-69-71-65269 Charles Howell III, $124,667 66-68-67-68269 Arjun Atwal, $92,000 . . . . . 67-63-69-71270 Charlie Beljan, $92,000 . . . 66-71-68-65270 David Mathis, $92,000 . . . . 69-69-65-67270 Michael Thompson, $92,000 65-68-69-68270 Mark Wilson, $92,000 . . . . 68-69-66-67270 Blake Adams, $64,000 . . . 68-68-69-66271 Daniel Chopra, $64,000 . . . 68-69-66-68271 Harris English, $64,000 . . . 71-66-66-68271 Kyle Reifers, $64,000 . . . . 67-68-67-69271 Scott Stallings, $64,000 . . . 68-70-67-66271 Scott Brown, $41,714 . . . . 67-70-70-65272 Sean O'Hair, $41,714 . . . . 73-66-67-66272 Brendan Steele, $41,714 . . 67-71-66-68272 Camilo Villegas, $41,714 . . 65-71-68-68272 Bud Cauley, $41,714. . . . . 62-70-68-72272 Ken Duke, $41,714 . . . . . . 67-68-68-69272 Bill Lunde, $41,714 . . . . . . 68-68-68-68272 Stuart Appleby, $22,550 . . 69-68-67-69273 Roberto Castro, $22,550 . . 69-66-68-70273 Will Claxton, $22,550 . . . . . 70-66-65-72273 Ben Crane, $22,550 . . . . . 68-71-62-72273

TENNIS ERSTE BANK OPEN

Wiener Stadthalle VIENNA Singles Championship Juan Martin del Potro (1), Argentina, d. Grega Zemlja, Slovenia, 7-5, 6-3. Doubles Championship Andre Begemann and Martin Emmrich, Germany, d. Julian Knowle, Austria, and Filip Polasek (2), Slovakia, 6-4, 3-6, 10-4.

LUXEMBOURG OPEN
CK Sportcenter Kockelsheuer LUXEMBOURG Singles Championship Venus Williams, United States, d. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-2, 6-3. Doubles Championship Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka (1), Czech Republic, d. Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu (2), Romania, 6-3, 6-4.

HANABANK CHAMPIONSHIP
Sky 72 Golf Club, Ocean Course INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 6,364; Par: 72 LEADING FINISHERS (x-won on the third hole of a playoff) x-Suzann Pettersen, $270,000. 63-68-74205 Catriona Matthew, $168,366 . . 68-70-67205 Yani Tseng, $122,138 . . . . . . 67-70-69206 Se Ri Pak, $94,483 . . . . . . . . 70-67-70207 Lexi Thompson, $69,135 . . . . 68-70-70208 Sandra Gal, $69,135 . . . . . . . 69-68-71208 Brittany Lincicome, $40,482 . . 72-70-67209 Hee Young Park, $40,482 . . . 69-73-67209 Mina Harigae, $40,482. . . . . . 68-72-69209 Ha-Neul Kim, $40,482 . . . . . . 66-72-71209 Azahara Munoz, $40,482 . . . . 66-72-71209 So Yeon Ryu, $40,482. . . . . . 66-70-73209 Cristie Kerr, $29,313 . . . . . . . 70-72-68210 Karin Sjodin, $29,313 . . . . . . 64-75-71210 Jiyai Shin, $25,318 . . . . . . . . 71-71-69211 Haeji Kang, $25,318 . . . . . . . 70-70-71211 Inbee Park, $25,318 . . . . . . . 70-70-71211 Danielle Kang, $22,400 . . . . . 71-70-71212 Beatriz Recari, $22,400 . . . . . 69-71-72212 Jodi Ewart, $20,833 . . . . . . . 74-69-70213 Ai Miyazato, $20,833 . . . . . . . 66-75-72213 Julieta Granada, $18,989 . . . . 69-74-71214 Brittany Lang, $18,989 . . . . . 73-69-72214 Jung-Min Lee, $18,989 . . . . . 69-71-74214 Yoon-Kyung Heo, $16,316 . . . 69-74-72215 Amy Yang, $16,316 . . . . . . . 70-72-73215

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STOCKHOLM OPEN
Kungliga Tennishallen STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Singles Championship Tomas Berdych (2), Czech Republic, d. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (1), France, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Doubles Championship Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares (3), Brazil, d. Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Nenad Zimonjic (1), Serbia, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 10-6.

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SPORTS BRIEFING
AUTO RACING
Grega Zemlja, 7-5, 6-3, in the Erste Bank Open final in Vienna. (AP)

W.N.B.A. Crown Is First for Fever

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Tamika Catchings scored 25 points to help the Indiana Fever win their first W.N.B.A. title with an 87-78 victory over the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday night. FEVER 87 It was also the LYNX 78 first league title for Catchings, Indiana wins who had won series, 3-1 three Olympic gold medals and an N.C.A.A. championship at Tennessee in 1998, but never a W.N.B.A. crown. Catchings, who was the most valuable player of the finals, averaged 24.8 points in the series, which the Fever won by 3-1 over the Lynx, the defending W.N.B.A. champions. The Fever won even though their No. 2 scorer, Katie Douglas, missed most of the series with a sprained left knee. Douglas checked in with 3.2 seconds left to a loud ovation. Seimone Augustus, Minnesotas leading scorer in the playoffs, scored 8 points but shot 3 for 21. Lindsay Whalen scored 22 points and Maya Moore added 16 for the Lynx, who were trying to become the first team to win consecutive titles since Los Angeles in 2001 and 2002.

Kenseth Captures Victory in Kansas

Matt Kenseth won for the second time in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, at the repaved Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan., on Sunday. Jimmie Johnson salvaged a ninth-place finish, good enough to keep his points margin gap behind Brad Keselowski, the Chase leader, who finished eighth, un(AP) changed.

GOLF

KREMLIN CUP
Olympic Stadium MOSCOW Singles Men Championship Andreas Seppi (2), Italy, d. Thomaz Bellucci (4), Brazil, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3. Women Championship Caroline Wozniacki (3), Denmark, d. Sam Stosur (1), Australia, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. Doubles Women Championship Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (1), Russia, d. Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova (2), Russia, 6-3, 1-6, 10-8.

Pettersen Prevails in a Playoff

Suzann Pettersen won the HanaBank Championship in Incheon, South Korea, for her ninth L.P.G.A. Tour title, beating Catriona Matthew with a 5-foot birdie putt on the (AP) third hole of a playoff after blowing a big lead. Tommy Gainey shot a course-record 60 in the McGladrey Classic at Sea Island in Georgia and earned his first PGA Tour win. He won by a shot, having to wait more than two hours to see if anyone could catch him. (AP) Bo Van Pelt won the Perth International in Australia, closing with a four-under 68 for a two-stroke victory over a fellow American, Jason Dufner, to secure his first victory in a European Tour-sanctioned event. (AP)

SPEEDSKATING

American Is First to Break 40 Seconds

The American J. R. Celski become the first short-track speedskater to break the 40-second barrier in the 500 meters, setting a world record of 39.973 seconds in a World Cup final in Calgary, Alberta. (AP)

SOCCER M.L.S. STANDINGS

EAST y-Sporting KC x-D.C. x-Chicago x-New York x-Houston Columbus Montreal Philadelphia New England Toronto FC W 17 17 17 15 14 14 12 10 8 5 L 7 10 11 9 8 12 15 16 17 20 T Pts GF GA 9 60 40 26 6 57 52 42 5 56 45 40 9 54 54 46 11 53 48 39 7 49 42 43 6 42 45 50 6 36 36 40 8 32 38 44 8 23 35 60

AUTO RACING HOLLYWOOD CASINO 400

Kansas Speedway KANSAS CITY, KAN. Lap length: 1.5 miles LEADING FINISHERS (Start position in parentheses) 1. (12) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 267 laps, 141.7 rating, 48 points, $389,611. 2. (16) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 267, 107.4, 42, $231,954. 3. (14) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 267, 109.5, 42, $177,615. 4. (1) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 267, 116.3, 41, $156,015. 5. (33) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 267, 82.5, 39, $184,840. 6. (3) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 267, 114.5, 39, $146,854. 7. (39) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 267, 92.6, 37, $124,015. 8. (25) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 267, 87.1, 36, $144,310. 9. (7) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 267, 108.6, 36, $148,651. 10. (19) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 267, 95.3, 35, $147,626. Top 12 in Points: 1. B.Keselowski, 2,250; 2. J.Johnson, 2,243; 3. D.Hamlin, 2,230; 4. C.Bowyer, 2,225; 5. K.Kahne, 2,220; 6. M.Truex Jr., 2,207; 7. T.Stewart, 2,203; 8. J.Gordon, 2,199; 9. M.Kenseth, 2,195; 10. K.Harvick, 2,191; 11. G.Biffle, 2,188; 12. D.Earnhardt Jr., 2,128.

TENNIS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Venus Williams Wins in Luxembourg

Venus Williams won her first WTA tournament in more than two years, beating Monica Niculescu, 6-2, 6-3, at the Luxembourg Open. Williams, ranked No. 41, won her 44th singles title. Niculescu, ranked 70th, lost in the Luxembourg Open final for the second straight year. (AP) Caroline Wozniacki beat Samantha Stosur, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, in the final of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Andreas Seppi rallied to beat Thomaz Bellucci, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3, to win the mens final. (AP) Tomas Berdych won his second ATP title this year, rallying against top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, in the Stockholm Open. (AP) Top-seeded Juan Martn del Potro beat the qualifier

Alabama Has Its Best Streak at No. 1

Alabama is No. 1 in the Associated Press poll for an eighth straight week, the Crimson Tides longest stay atop the rankings. The Tide had twice been No. 1 for seven consecutive weeks: in 1979 and in 1980. (AP)

PRO FOOTBALL

Fan Falls Off Escalator at Giants Game

The New Jersey State Police said a man was critically hurt after falling more than 20 feet from an escalator as he left MetLife Stadium after the Giants beat the Washington Redskins. (AP)

WEST W L T Pts GF GA y-San Jose 19 6 8 65 71 42 x-Seattle 15 7 11 56 51 32 x-Real Salt Lake 17 11 5 56 46 35 x-Los Angeles 15 12 6 51 58 47 x-Vancouver 11 13 9 42 35 41 FC Dallas 9 13 11 38 40 45 Colorado 10 19 4 34 42 50 Portland 8 16 9 33 33 55 Chivas USA 7 18 8 29 22 56 x-clinched playoff berth; y- clinched conference Sundays Games Portland 1, Vancouver 0 San Jose 2, Los Angeles 2, tie Seattle FC 3, FC Dallas 1

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Home teams listed first Premier League Sunderland 1, Newcastle United 1 Queens Park Rangers 1, Everton 1