F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Tuesday
October 27, 2009
Midnight in New York
Nine pages © 2009 The New York Times
Ex-A.I.G. Chief Builds a New Venture senate leader
Maurice R. Greenberg, who
built the American International
Group into an insurance behe-
moth with an impenetrable maze
of on- and offshore companies, is
at it again.
Even as he has been lambasting
the government for its handling
of A.I.G. after its near-collapse,
Greenberg has been quietly
building up a family of insurance
companies that could compete
with A.I.G. To fill the ranks of his
venture, C.V. Starr & Co., he has
been hiring some of the people he
once employed.
Greenberg may have received
some unintended assistance from
the U.S. Treasury. Just last week,
the Treasury severely limited
pay at A.I.G. and other companies
that were bailed out by taxpayers.
That may send more refugees in-
to Greenberg’s arms, since C.V.
Starr is free to pay whatever it
wants.
“Basically, he’s just starting
‘A.I.G. Two’ and raiding people
out of ‘A.I.G. One,’ ” said Douglas
A. Love, an insurance executive
who has also hired A.I.G. tal-
ent for his company, Investors
Guaranty Fund of Pembroke,
Investigators Say Pilots Distracted by Laptops
Any employee at a company
that has gone through a merger
knows how distracting it can be
when the new owner imposes new
rules. That distraction, not a nap,
was what two Northwest Airlines
pilots say caused them to fly far
beyond the Minneapolis airport
last week, federal investigators
reported Monday.
The pilots told the National
Transportation Safety Board
that they missed their destination
because they had taken out their
personal laptops in the cockpit,
a violation of airline policy, so
the first officer, Richard I. Cole,
could tutor the captain, Timothy
B. Cheney, in a new scheduling
system put in place by Delta Air
Lines, which acquired Northwest
last fall.
The interim report from the
safety board ran counter to theo-
ries in aviation circles last week
vows to pursue
Bermuda.
Greenberg’s success may be at
a public option
the expense of taxpayers. People
who work in the industry say that
if he is already luring A.I.G.’s
people, he may soon be siphoning
off its business, and, therefore,
its means to repay its debt to the
government.
“To me, it’s just going to be a
matter of time before the valua-
tion of what he’s building is great-
er than the valuation of A.I.G.,”
said Andrew J. Barile, an insur-
ance consultant in Rancho Santa
Fe, Calif.
A.I.G., meanwhile, is struggling
to regain its footing. The recipient
of the biggest taxpayer bailout in
history, it has been ordered by
the government to restructure,
unwind its complex derivatives
and pay back the taxpayers.
At 84, Greenberg remains
larger than life. He spent nearly
four decades forging A.I.G. out
of private companies, devising
its Rubik’s Cube structure and
building it into the world’s largest
insurance group with a $1 trillion
balance sheet. He lost most of his
fortune when the company nearly
collapsed last year.
that the two pilots might have
fallen asleep or were arguing in
the cockpit. Each pilot, in sepa-
rate interviews with the safety
board that totaled more than five
hours, denied those theories.
“Both said they lost track of
time,” the report stated. It also
said that the pilots had heard
voices over their cockpit radios
but ignored them.
The pilots passed breath analy-
sis tests to check for alcohol use,
and had a 17-hour break between
the San Diego-to-Minneapolis trip
and their previous flight.
Delta, in a statement Monday,
hinted strongly that the lapse
could cost both men their jobs.
“Using laptops or engaging in
activity unrelated to the pilots’
command of the aircraft dur-
ing flight,” the statement said,
“is strictly against the airline’s
flight deck policies and violations
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He was ousted from A.I.G. in
an accounting scandal in 2005,
and has insisted that he was not
responsible for the problems that
almost brought down A.I.G. last
year — extremely risky trading
in derivatives by its financial
products unit. At the moment, C.
V. Starr does not have a financial
products unit, a spokesman for
Greenberg said.
After he was pushed out, Green-
berg fought with A.I.G. over how
to untangle assets that they both
laid claim to. Over the summer,
he won, earning the rights to $4.3
billion in A.I.G. stock that he had
removed from an offshore re-
tirement plan. The company had
argued that he had improperly
cashed out the stock and used the
money to finance new business
ventures that were competing
with his former company.
With his battles with A.I.G. now
largely resolved, Greenberg is
free to use that money for his lat-
est ventures. Just this month, C.V.
Starr leased 141,000 square feet of
space on Park Avenue in Manhat-
tan, in one of Lehman Brothers’
old headquarters.
MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
of that policy will result in termi-
nation.”
The pilots remain suspended
until completion of the airline’s
investigation.
The impromptu tutoring ses-
sion apparently caused Cole and
Cheney to ignore air-traffic con-
trollers for about 90 minutes on
Wednesday night, and forget to
begin preparations for landing in
Minneapolis. Instead, the plane
flew about 110 miles to the skies
over Eau Claire, Wis., as more
than a dozen air-traffic control-
lers in three locations serving
Denver and Minneapolis tried to
get the pilots’ attention.
The North American Aero-
space Defense Command read-
ied four fighter jets and had them
on “runway alert” in the vicinity,
according to a command spokes-
man.  MICHELINE MAYNARD
and MATTHEW L. WALD
WASHINGTON — The Senate
majority leader, Harry Reid,
sided with his party’s liberals on
Monday and announced that he
would include a government-run
insurance plan in the health care
legislation that he plans to take
to the Senate floor within a few
weeks.
His proposal came with an es-
cape hatch: A state could refuse
to participate in the public insur-
ance plan by adopting a law to opt
out. Even so, the announcement
was a turning point in the debate
over how much of a role govern-
ment should play in an over-
hauled health care system.
With Republicans united in op-
position, Reid needs support from
all members of his caucus to take
up the legislation. Aides said that
he appeared to be short of that
goal, lacking firm commitments
from several senators.
Should Reid prevail, both cham-
bers in Congress would be consid-
ering bills on the floor containing
a version of a government-run
plan to compete with private in-
surers in selling health coverage
to consumers. The House is still
weighing what the details of its
approach.
Just weeks ago, the prospects
for such an approach seemed
remote, reflecting all-out opposi-
tion from conservatives to what
they considered an excessive
government role in the economy
and a lack of enthusiasm from
many moderate Democrats. But
the idea has consistently drawn
strong support in national polls,
and it has backing from Presi-
dent Obama, though he has not
insisted on it.
“The best way to move forward
is to include a public option with
the opt-out provision for states,”
said Reid, Democrat of Nevada.
“I believe that a public option
can achieve the goal of bringing
meaningful reform to our broken
system.”  ROBERT PEAR and
DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
International
German Limits on War Face Afghan Reality
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan —
Forced to confront the rising in-
surgency in once peaceful north-
ern Afghanistan, the German
Army is engaged in sustained
and bloody ground combat for the
first time since World War II.
Soldiers near Kunduz have had
to strike back against a fierce
campaign by Taliban insurgents,
while carrying the burden of be-
ing among the first units to break
the German taboo against mili-
tary combat abroad that arose
after the Nazi era.
At issue are how long Germany
will allow its troops to stay and
fight, and whether they will be
given leeway from their strict
rules of engagement to pursue the
kind of counterinsurgency being
advocated by U.S. generals.
For Germans, the realization
that their soldiers are now en-
gaged in ground offensives in an
open-ended war requires a fun-
damental reconsideration of the
country’s principles.
14 Americans Dead in Afghan Helicopter Crashes
KABUL, Afghanistan — Four-
teen Americans were killed in
Afghanistan on Monday in two
crashes involving helicopters.
Neither crash appeared to in-
volve hostile fire, military offi-
cials said.
In the most lethal of the two
crashes, seven American ser-
vicemen and three agents with
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration died when their
Chinook twin-rotor helicopter
crashed in western Afghanistan
after a firefight with Taliban in-
surgents. Twenty-six people were
injured: 11 U.S. servicemen, one
American civilian and 14 Afghan
soldiers.
Iraq Reaches a Voting Deal as Toll Rises in Bombings
BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials
reached a tentative agreement
on a new election law on Mon-
day, even as workers continued
to recover more bodies from the
wreckage of Sunday’s bomb at-
tacks, including an uncertain
number of children from two day
care centers.
The toll climbed to as many as
155 dead and an unknown number
still missing.
The violence appeared to have
After World War II, German
society rejected using military
power for anything other than
self-defense, and pacifism has
been a rallying cry for genera-
tions, blocking allied requests for
any military support beyond hu-
manitarian assistance.
German leaders have chipped
away at the proscriptions in re-
cent years, in particular by par-
ticipating in airstrikes in the Ko-
sovo war. Still, the legacy of the
combat ban remains in the form
of strict engagement rules and
an ingrained shoot-last mental-
ity that is causing significant ten-
sions with the United States.
Driven by necessity, some of
the 4,250 German soldiers here
have already come a long way.
Last Tuesday, they handed out
blankets, volleyballs and flash-
lights as a goodwill gesture to
residents of Yanghareq, about
20 miles northwest of Kunduz.
Barely an hour later, insurgents
with machine guns and rocket-
The crash followed a gun bat-
tle with insurgents that broke
out when the Americans and
Afghans raided a compound be-
lieved to harbor drug traffickers.
The Americans and the Afghans
killed more than a dozen fighters,
military officials in Kabul said.
The Chinook crashed as the U.S.
and Afghan forces were leaving.
A spokesman for the U.S. com-
mand here said it was not disclos-
ing the location of the crash be-
cause they wanted to protect the
Americans who were working to
recover the helicopter.
In the second crash, four U.S.
servicemen died and two were
injured when two helicopters col-
jolted members of Parliament
into action: Calling the bomb-
ings an attack on the unity gov-
ernment, Iraqi leaders swiftly
responded with a compromise
agreement on a new election law
that had eluded them for weeks
and threatened to delay national
elections that were scheduled for
January. Details of the agree-
ment were not revealed.
The bombs were in a two-ton
van and a minibus, which passed
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
propelled grenades ambushed
other members of the company.
The Germans fought back, kill-
ing one of the attackers, before
the dust and disorder made it
impossible to tell fleeing Taliban
from civilians.
“They shoot at us and we shoot
back,” said Staff Sgt. Erik S., who,
according to German rules, could
not be fully identified. “People are
going to fall on both sides. It’s as
simple as that. It’s war.”
“The word ‘war’ is growing
louder in society, and the politi-
cians can’t keep it secret any-
more,” he added.
Germany’s troops are caught
in the middle. In interviews last
week, soldiers from the Third
Company, Mechanized Infantry
Battalion 391, said they were un-
derstaffed for the increasingly
complex mission here. Two men
from the company were killed in
June, among 36 German soldiers
who have died in the Afghan war.
 NICHOLAS KULISH
lided. The military released few
details, but said that insurgents
were not to blame.
Two other service members
were killed in attacks over the
weekend in eastern Afghanistan,
the military said. One was killed
by a homemade bomb; the other
died from wounds suffered dur-
ing an insurgent attack.
President Obama, speaking
at the Naval Air Station in Jack-
sonville, Fla., paid tribute to the
American casualties, saying,
“Like all those who give their
lives in service to America, they
were doing their duty, and they
were doing this nation proud.”
DEXTER FILKINS
multiple security checkpoints,
according to Baghdad’s gover-
nor. Trucks are banned from the
streets during daylight unless
they have special permits issued
by the military and checked at ev-
ery roadblock.
“There was a ton of explosives
in each vehicle and the blasts
were extremely powerful,” said
Brig. Gen. Stephen R. Lanza,
spokesman for the U.S. military
in Iraq. ROD NORDLAND
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in brief
Karadzic Refuses
To Attend Trial
On the first day of his trial be-
fore a U.N. tribunal, Radovan
Karadzic, the former Bosnian
Serb leader who stands accused
of genocide, refused to appear
in court. He sent word that he
wanted more time to prepare
his defense, angering a group
of more than 160 Bosnians who
had traveled by bus to The
Hague to watch the proceed-
ings. The sesson ended in less
than 20 minutes. (NYT)
Stem-Cell Scientist
Sentenced for Fraud
Hwang Woo-suk, a disgraced
cloning expert from South Ko-
rea who had claimed major
breakthroughs in stem-cell re-
search, was convicted Monday
of falsifying his papers and em-
bezzling about $705,000 in re-
search funds. A judge sentenced
him to a suspended two-year
prison term, saying Hwang had
shown remorse and had not tak-
en research money for personal
use. Seoul National University,
disowned him in 2005, saying
that he had fabricated the pa-
pers he had published to global
acclaim. (NYT)
Uruguay Runoff
A former guerrilla fighter,
José Mujica, won 47.5 percent of
the vote in the presidential elec-
tion in Uruguay on Sunday, of-
ficials said, but he faces a run-
off on Nov. 29 with Luis Alberto
Lacalle, a conservative former
president, who won 28.5 percent.
 (NYT)
Tunisian Re-Elected
President Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali of Tunisia was elected
to a fifth term with 89.6 percent
of the vote against three chal-
lengers, officials said Monday.
 (AP)
22 Feared Drowned
Twenty-two schoolchildren
were feared drowned after they
plunged into a river in Malaysia
while crossing a bridge that col-
lapsed during a camping trip,
officials said Tuesday.  (AP)
national
For Young Runaways, Sex Buys Survival
ASHLAND, Ore. — She ran
away from her group home in
Medford, Ore., and spent weeks
sleeping in parks and under
bridges. Finally, Nicole Clark,
14, grew so desperate that she
accepted a young man’s offer of
a place to stay. The price would
come later.
They had sex and he soon be-
came her boyfriend. Then one
day he threatened to kick her out
if she did not have sex with sev-
eral of his friends in exchange for
money. She agreed, fearing she
had no choice.
“Where was I going to go?” said
Nicole, now 17 and living here.
That first exchange of money
for sex led to a downward spiral
of prostitution that lasted for 14
months, until she escaped last
year from a pimp who she said
locked her in his garage apart-
ment for months.
“I didn’t know the town, and the
police would just send me back
to the group home,” Nicole said.
Battle of G.O.P. Ideology in Congressional Race
WATERTOWN, N.Y. — From a
command center inside the Days
Inn here, activists from around
the country are fighting to pre-
serve what they see as the integ-
rity of the Republican Party.
Urged on by leaders like Sarah
Palin and Dick Armey, the for-
mer House majority leader, they
have come to defeat Dede Scoz-
zafava, the Republican candi-
date for Congress, whose views
on abortion, same-sex marriage
and taxes they deem insufficient-
ly conservative.
They have poured hundreds of
thousands of dollars into the ef-
fort, running 800 radio spots and
recruiting 200 volunteers to work
Fans Crusading to Reunite Religion and Football
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. —
After Sept. 11, the football cheer-
leaders at a public high school
here wanted to make the Bible
a bigger part of Friday night
games. They painted messages
like “Commit to the Lord” on
paper banners that the players
charged through onto the field.
The school district ended that
tradition after a parent expressed
concern that it could prompt a
First Amendment lawsuit. Now,
“I’d also fallen for the guy. I felt
trapped in a way I can’t really
explain.”
Most of the estimated 1.6 mil-
lion children who run away each
year return home within a week.
But for those who do not, the
struggle to survive often means
selling their bodies.
Nearly a third of the children
who flee or are kicked out of their
homes each year engage in sex
for food, drugs or a place to stay,
according to studies published
in academic and public health
journals. This dangerous barter
system can quickly escalate into
prostitution. And then, child wel-
fare workers and police officials
say, it becomes extremely diffi-
cult to help runaways escape the
streets. Many become more en-
tangled in abusive relationships,
and the law begins to view them
as criminals.
Child welfare advocates and
officials in government and law
enforcement say that while the
the polls on Election Day.
Many of the activists readily
acknowledge that their efforts
could deliver the election to the
Democratic candidate, Bill Ow-
ens, but say it is more important
to send a message than to win.
“This is the shot that needs to
be fired to Republican leaders to
wake them up,” said former Rep.
Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado.
The seat became vacant after
President Obama appointed John
M. McHugh, the long-serving Re-
publican congressman, as Armey
secretary. It is the only Congress-
sional race next week.
Scozzafava has been endorsed
by the Republican leadership
a month later, the new policy has
produced a reaction by the fans,
who are displaying more biblical
verses in the stands.
This town of 9,600 people has
taken up the cause of the cheer-
leaders. Calling themselves War-
riors for Christ (the team is called
the Warriors), fans have held ral-
lies at churches and a local polo
field and sold more than 1,600 T-
shirts bearing passages from
Deuteronomy and Timothy.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
data is scarce, they believe that
the problem of prostituted chil-
dren has grown, especially as the
Internet has made finding clients
easier.
“It’s definitely worsening,” said
Sgt. Kelley O’Connell, a detective
who until this year ran the Boston
Police Department’s human-
trafficking unit. “Gangs used to
sell drugs,” she said. “Now many
of them have shifted to selling
girls because it’s just as lucrative
but far less risky.”
The barriers to rescuing these
children are steep: cuts to men-
tal heath services, child welfare
agencies incapable of prevent-
ing them from running away, a
dearth of residential programs.
“These kids enter prostitution
and they literally disappear,”
said Bradley Myles, deputy direc-
tor of the Polaris Project, based
in Washington, which directly
serves children involved in pros-
titution and other trafficking vic-
tims. IAN URBINA
in Congress and has received $1
million from the National Repub-
lican Congressional Committee.
But the conservative establish-
ment in Washington is throwing
its support behind Douglas L.
Hoffman, an accountant who is
running on the state’s Conserva-
tive Party line.
Scozzafave, who serves in the
State Assembly, said that while
her view of the Republican Par-
ty is more expansive than some
conservatives might like, Re-
publicans should be focused on
growing their numbers even if
it means accepting candidates
whose opinions are unorthodox.
JEREMY W. PETERS
On game nights, the stadium
of the school, Lakeview-Fort
Oglethorpe High, just south of
Chattanooga, is dotted with signs
reading “You Can’t Silence Us”
and “Living Faith Outloud,” along
with biblical verses.
Kaitlynn Corley, 18, a cheer-
leader, said the ban had put a
damper on her senior year, pre-
venting her from singing “Jesus
Loves You” with other fans.
 ROBBIE BROWN
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Plea in Terror Case
A Jordanian accused of trying
to blow up a Dallas skyscrap-
er with what he thought was
a car bomb pleaded not guilty
at his arraignment. The man,
Hosam Maher Smadi, 19, faces
one count of attempting to use
a weapon of mass destruction
and one count of bombing a pub-
lic place. A trial date was set for
Dec. 7. The authorities said they
arrested Smadi on Sept. 24 after
he parked a truck in a garage
beneath the 60-story Fountain
Place office building in down-
town Dallas. Once he was at a
safe distance, Smadi dialed a
cellphone he thought would ig-
nite a bomb in the vehicle, but
the device was actually a decoy
provided by F.B.I. agents posing
as operatives of Al Qaeda, ac-
cording to the F.B.I.  (AP)
Translator Shortage
The F.B.I.’s collection of wire-
tapped phone calls and inter-
cepted e-mail has been soaring
in recent years, but the bureau
is failing to review “signifi-
cant amounts” of such material
partly for lack of translators,
according to a Justice Depart-
ment report released Monday.
The inspector general’s report
showed that the number of the
bureau’s linguists — both staff
members and contractors —
had fallen slightly to 1,298 as of
September 2008, from a peak
in 2005. It met its hiring targets
in 2008 for only 2 of 14 targeted
languages.  (NYT)
Government Offers
Vaccine Assurance
Health and Human Servic-
es Secretary Kathleen Sebe-
lius promised that, despite de-
lays, there would eventually be
enough swine flu vaccine for
all Americans. “The vaccine
is coming out the door as fast
as it comes off the production
line,” she said. The secretary
appeared on news programs
to deliver the assurance. Slow
growth of the vaccine in eggs
and production problems at the
five companies making the vac-
cine mean the country will have
only about 30 million doses by
the end of this month.  (NYT)
business
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ING Is Ordered by Europe to Sell 2 Units
A year ago, governments
around the world scrambled to
pull their biggest banks from the
brink of collapse. Now, policy
makers are wrestling with just
how much to rein in the financial
behemoths that contributed to
the crisis.
How large and interconnected
banks should be, and whether
they should ever be bailed out
again by taxpayers, boils down
to whether financial institutions
should be allowed to become too
big to fail. Regulators are already
putting down some markers.
On Monday, the Dutch finan-
cial conglomerate ING Group
became the first bank to be or-
dered broken up by regulators as
the price for a taxpayer bailout
of 10 billion euros ($14.9 billion).
Under pressure from the Euro-
CNN Last in Cable News Prime-Time Ratings
CNN, which created the all-
news cable network almost 30
years ago, hit a new competitive
low with its prime-time programs
in October, with three of its four
programs between 7 and 11 p.m.
finishing fourth and last among
the cable news networks.
It was the first time that the pro-
grams had ever performed that
poorly against their news network
competitors. October was also the
third month in the last year that
CNN as a network finished fourth
behind the three other cable news
networks in prime time with the
audience that the networks rely
on for advertising sales.
CNN had a strong performance
Autopsy Says Madoff Investor Drowned in His Pool
An autopsy shows that Jeffry
M. Picower, a prominent philan-
thropist accused of reaping about
$7 billion in profit from Bernard
L. Madoff’s vast Ponzi scheme,
drowned on Sunday after having
a heart attack.
Picower was found at the bot-
tom of the swimming pool at his
oceanfront mansion in Palm
Beach, Fla. The Palm Beach po-
lice confirmed the cause of death
on Monday after an autopsy by
the Palm Beach County medical
examiner.
Dollar/YEN 92.21 U 0.11
10-yr treasury 3.55% U 0.06
pean Commission, the bank an-
nounced plans to accelerate the
sale of its insurance operations
and its Internet banking business
in the United States to refocus on
its European customer base. ING
nearly collapsed last fall under a
mountain of troubled American
mortgage assets.
Other European banks propped
up by taxpayer money, like the
Royal Bank of Scotland and Com-
merzbank of Germany, could
soon face pressure to sell major
businesses, too.
In the United States, regulators
have opposed strict size limits on
banks, and have so far focused
on whether banks are too big
to manage. Federal regulators
ordered Citigroup, perhaps the
most troubled large American
bank, for example, to streamline
in the election year of 2008, but the
channel’s prime-time numbers
are down 22 percent from 2007.
The development comes at a
time when the commercial envi-
ronment has become challenging
for nearly all news organizations,
including newspapers and maga-
zines.
In an era when the relationship
between the White House and Fox
News is making headlines, and
when the ideological rivalry be-
tween MSNBC on the left and Fox
News on the right is commanding
the spotlight, CNN has little from
a news angle to stir consistent in-
terest from viewers.
As a consequence, CNN’s posi-
Picower had been under grow-
ing pressure for months as he
faced litigation over his disputed
role in the Ponzi scheme operated
by Madoff, who was arrested in
December and pleaded guilty in
March to operating a long-run-
ning fraud that cost thousands of
victims billions of dollars.
The Palm Beach police report-
ed that emergency personnel had
been called to the Picower home
at 12:09 p.m. on Sunday by Picow-
er’s wife, Barbara, who said she
had found her husband in the pool
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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its operations, but stopped short
of breaking up the company.
This week, American lawmak-
ers are expected to bring the glob-
al debate about whether banks
are too big to manage — or just
too big — to the top of the regula-
tory agenda. Rep. Barney Frank,
D-Mass. and the House Financial
Services Committee Chairman,
plans to introduce proposals to
make it easier for regulators to
take control of large, failing fi-
nancial firms and, if necessary,
split them up.
Fear that new rules could make
financial companies more stable,
but potentially less lucrative to
investors, sent bank stocks tum-
bling on Tuesday. The KBW index
of bank stocks fell 4 percent.
 ERIC DASH
 and CHRIS NICHOLSON
tion in prime-time programming,
the most profitable area of the
cable news business, has been un-
dermined by the strength of com-
peting channels that focus largely
on opinion-based programs dur-
ing those hours.
CNN itself is responsible for one
of those competitors, having in-
stalled some popular opinionated
hosts at its sister network HLN,
formerly Headline News, which
has emerged in recent months
as a stronger performer in prime
time than CNN itself.
In October, CNN’s programs
were behind not only Fox and
MSNBC, but HLN as well.
 BILL CARTER
at the family home. He could not
be revived and was pronounced
dead at 1:30 p.m. at Good Samari-
tan Medical Center in West Palm
Beach. The Picowers’ lawyer,
William D. Zabel, said that Pi-
cower, who was 67, had a history
of heart problems and had Par-
kinson’s disease.
Picower was a well-known Wall
Street investor and had a profes-
sional and personal relationship
with Madoff that went back sev-
eral decades.
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FairPoint Bankruptcy
FairPoint Communications
sought bankruptcy protection
on Monday after struggling to
absorb phone lines purchased
from Verizon Communications.
FairPoint reached an agreement
with secured lenders on a restruc-
turing plan that would reduce its
debt by $1.7 billion, the company
said in a statement.
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business
For Delphi Pensioners, Union Label Helps
WARREN, Ohio — Bruce
Gump and his neighbors feared
for their retirement checks when
the federal government took over
the pension plans at Delphi, the
big auto parts maker where they
once worked.
But four months later, Gump
finds himself in a far more peril-
ous condition than his neighbors.
On his street, he is the only
Delphi worker whose pension
benefits may be cut. His neigh-
bors all belong to unions and have
received a lifeline in an unprec-
edented deal related to the gov-
ernment-supervised bankruptcy
of General Motors, the onetime
parent of Delphi. (G.M. spun off
the parts division as a separate
company 10 years ago.)
Gump and some 21,000 other
salaried workers and retirees
are furious that their roughly
46,000 union co-workers at Delphi
have had their benefits restored,
apparently with government lar-
gesse, and they have not.
“They’ve been relatively well
taken care of,” he said. “But I’m
being thrown out with yester-
day’s trash.”
The Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corp., which insures pension
plans, caps the amount of benefits
it will pay, using a formula based
on age and the type of benefits an
employee earned. But in a side
arrangement, G.M. is agreeing to
pay special supplements, called
top-ups, so that Delphi’s union re-
tirees get everything they were
promised.
The automaker is drawing
the money from its own pension
fund, according to a person fa-
miliar with the arrangement. In
a sense, the G.M. pension fund is
being weakened to help the Del-
phi union members.
Gump and others suspect the
Treasury Department told G.M.
to pay the supplements in its
roles as the company’s largest
shareholder and the financier
of its restructuring through the
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Obama administration officials
confirmed that they brought the
parties together to negotiate a
resolution of Delphi’s pension
failure, but said they did not dic-
tate the outcome.
The difference between the
haves and have-nots at Delphi is
not between the highly paid and
lower-wage earners.
As a senior engineer, Gump
simply did not belong to a union.
Neither did Delphi’s thousands
of other engineers, bookkeep-
ers, clerks, quality controllers,
purchasing agents and other
white-collar employees. They
may have earned more in some
cases, but they did not have the
chance to earn paid overtime the
way union members did in good
years. Records show the aver-
age pay for a non-union worker
just shy of 50 years old, with 20
to 24 years’ service, was about
$96,000.
 MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
5
in brief
Verizon Profit Falters
Verizon Communications’
third-quarter profit fell 9 per-
cent, less than expected, from
the same period last year as
wireless subscriber gains offset
slower-than-anticipated growth
in its television service. Verizon
Wireless added a net 1.2 million
mobile customers, beating the
average estimate of one million
from five analysts contacted by
Reuters. (Reuters)
Fewer Paper Readers
The two-decade erosion in
newspaper circulation is looking
more like an avalanche, with fig-
ures released Monday. In the six
months ended Sept. 30, sales fell
by 10.6 percent on weekdays and
7.5 percent on Sundays, from the
same period a year earlier, for
several hundred papers report-
ing to the Audit Bureau of Circu-
lations.  (NYT)
journal Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6

A Hypnotizing Hunt for Mushrooms Leaves Russians Bewildered

MOSCOW — Earlier this month, a sodden It happens every mushroom season. Rus- “mushroomers’ club,” said he believes Rus-
and unshaven man emerged from the woods sians are passionate about gathering mush- sians’ sense of the natural world has dulled
near the southern Russian village of Gory- rooms, an ancient pastime they call the “quiet over the generations, leaving them too often
achy Klyuch, telling rescuers he spent three hunt,” and routinely become so hypnotized disoriented in the woods.
nights perched in trees to get away from jack- that they get hopelessly lost. Regional search- “People are leaning on technology, forget-
als. and-rescue teams fan out on foot or in helicop- ting that nature is still nature,” said Kuznets-
A similar tale came from the taiga near ters, occasionally enlisting tracking dogs or ov, a Muscovite, whose Web site advertises
Irkutsk, in Siberia, where a 22-year-old man parachute jumpers, and newspapers retell a mobile global positioning system as “the
wandered for five days, covering himself their stories with gusto. mushroomer’s best friend.”
with pine boughs at night to ward off frostbite. Fall has drawn Russians into the forest for “Civilization carries a certain negative
Eleven time zones to the west, near the Baltic too many centuries to count. Even hardened side, and people are losing their natural in-
Sea, a search and rescue team found an el- urbanites whisper endearments to the wood stincts,” he added. “They are city people now.”
derly couple in a swamp where they had spent spirits before turning their eyes to the ground, City people or not, they creep out with
the night, the wife in what officials described a gesture to their pagan ancestors. But Alek- wicker baskets at dawn, when mist is still
as “a state of panic.” sandr Kuznetsov, who founded an online rising from the earth, looking for humid sun-
warmed spots where mushrooms have risen
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editorials of the timeS bob herbert

The Case for More Stimulus Changing the World

The consensus among economists is that the
recession is over. Corporate profitability has
been boosted by job cuts, pay cuts and a drive
to restock depleted inventories. Immense fed-
eral stimulus has jolted the economy.
But what happens when those measures run
their course? The economy is going to need
more government support, or it is bound to be
very weak for a very long time, and vulnera-
ble to a relapse. Unemployment is expected to
worsen well into next year. Foreclosures are
expected to rise. State and local governments
face budget shortfalls in 2010 that are as bad
or worse than this year’s.
Yet Washington is not providing a coher-
ent plan for effective stimulus. The Senate
has been hamstrung for nearly a month over
the most basic relief-and-recovery boost:
an extension of unemployment benefits. The
Obama administration has called for an ex-
pensive crowd-pleaser of dubious effective-
ness: sending every Social Security recipient
an extra $250.
And Washington is mired in a warped po-
litical debate. Republicans say continued
economic weakness is proof that February’s
stimulus package failed. Lawmakers in both
parties fret that large budget deficits pre-
clude more stimulus, lest the burden of debt
outweigh the benefit of deficit spending.
Both arguments are wrong. If anything,
ongoing economic problems are a sign that
stimulus needs to be bolstered. Deficits are
a serious issue, but the immediate need for
stimulus trumps the longer-term need for
Trying Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic, accused of ordering
some of the worst atrocities in Europe since
World War II, is still tormenting his victims.
More than 160 Bosnian Muslims traveled to
the Hague for the start of the former Bosnian
Serb leader’s war crimes trial on Monday
only to have him boycott the proceeding.
Judges with the International Criminal Tri-
bunal for the former Yuogoslavia adjourned
the session and promised to begin on Tuesday
with or without Karadzic in the dock. The
trial must go ahead. After so many years of
anguish, the relatives of the thousands of who
were killed deserve a chance at justice.
It took 13 years and enormous international
pressure to persuade Serbian authorities
to finally arrest Karadzic. (He was living in
Belgrade posing as a New Age healer.) He
faces 11 charges of war crimes and genocide
for his role in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo,
the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at
Srebrenica and the so-called ethnic-cleansing
campaign against Bosnian Muslims and Cro-
ats.
Slobodan Milosevic played similar games
with the court for four years, only to die of a
heart attack before a formal verdict was ren-
deficit reduction. A self-reinforcing stretch of
economic weakness would be far costlier than
additional stimulus.
The Senate could take a step in the right di-
rection by extending unemployment benefits
without further delay. That is the single most
effective way to boost consumption and pre-
serve jobs, because it creates spending that
would otherwise not occur.
Next, Congress and the administration
should agree on ways to ease the dire finan-
cial condition of the states. Most important is
continued aid for Medicaid programs. Gover-
nors will begin to prepare their new budgets in
early 2010, and those budgets will be in effect
for a year, starting in July. So the states need
to know soon what to expect from the federal
government through mid-2011. As long as the
states are suffering, any economic recovery
efforts by the federal government will be un-
dermined.
Other measures being floated are less ef-
fective than unemployment benefits and aid
to states. Many of the $250 checks to Social Se-
curity beneficiaries will not be spent quickly.
Proposals to extend and expand the $8,000 tax
credit for first-time homebuyers are even less
well targeted. Since it was enacted in Febru-
ary, only an estimated 15 percent of buyers
who claimed the credit needed the money to
make the purchase.
To be effective as stimulus, cash must be
targeted to needy populations. The housing
market would be better served by a reinvigo-
rated attempt to reduce foreclosures.
dered. Karadzic seems equally determined
to mock the court and draw things out. He re-
fused to send a lawyer to the hearing, refused
to enter pleas, and, unsuccessfully, claimed
immunity from prosecution, asserting that
he had cut a deal with the former U.S. envoy,
Richard Holbrooke, in 1996. Holbrooke has de-
nied this. The court must accord Karadzic ap-
propriate rights, but it cannot let him control
the process.
Karadzic’s trial is not the only unfinished
business in the Balkans. His military chief,
Gen. Ratko Mladic, is believed to be still hid-
ing in Serbia. We doubt the claims of Serb of-
ficials who say they don’t know where he is.
The war in Bosnia is over, but the peace deal
enshrined a political system that continues to
promote division rather than conciliation. The
United States and European states recently
proposed a comprehensive plan to stabilize
Bosnia and clear the way for the country
to join the European Union — including by
breaking down official ethnic divisions and
improving the rule of law and human rights
practices. Persuading Bosnia’s leaders to
choose that route will be as important to exor-
cising the Balkan ghosts.
One of the most cherished items in my pos-
session is a postcard that was sent from Mis-
sissippi to the Upper West Side of Manhattan
in June 1964.
“Dear Mom and Dad,” it says, “I have ar-
rived safely in Meridian, Mississippi. This is a
wonderful town and the weather is fine. I wish
you were here. The people in this city are won-
derful and our reception was very good. All
my love, Andy.”
That was the last word sent to his family by
Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old college stu-
dent who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan,
along with fellow civil rights workers Michael
Schwerner and James Chaney, on his first full
day in Mississippi — June 21, the same date
as the postmark on the card.
The postcard was given to me by Andrew’s
brother, David, a good friend.
Andrew came to mind over the weekend as
I was thinking about the sense of helplessness
so many ordinary Americans have been feel-
ing as the nation is confronted with one enor-
mous, seemingly intractable problem after
another: the wars; the economic downturn;
the home foreclosure crisis.
Americans have tended to watch with a
frightening degree of passivity as crises of all
sorts have gripped the country and sent mil-
lions of lives into tailspins. Where people once
might have deluged their elected representa-
tives with complaints, joined unions, resisted
mass firings, marched for social justice and
created new civic organizations to fight for
the things they believed in, the tendency now
is to assume that there is little or nothing ordi-
nary individuals can do about the conditions
that plague them.
This passivity and sense of helplessness
most likely stems from the refusal of so many
Americans over the past few decades to ac-
cept personal responsibility for the policies
and choices that have led the country into
such a dismal state of affairs, and to turn their
backs on any obligation to help others who
were struggling.
Being an American has become a specta-
tor sport. With that kind of attitude, Andrew
Goodman would never have left the comfort
of his home.
The nation’s political leaders and their cor-
porate puppet masters have fouled this nation
up to a fare-thee-well. We will not be pulled
from the morass without a big effort from an
active citizenry, and that means a citizenry
fired with a sense of mission and the belief
that their actions can make a difference.
It can start with just a few small steps. Rosa
Parks helped transform a nation by refusing
to budge from her seat. Maybe you want to
speak up publicly about an important issue,
or host a house party, or perhaps arrange a
meeting of soon-to-be dismissed employees,
or parents at a troubled school.
It’s a risk, sure. But the need is great, and
that’s how you change the world.
sports Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8

Matchup Has Potential to Bring Drama Back in brief

The Yankees have been away How many indelible moments Sabathia and Lee have domi-
from the World Series since 2003, have there been in that time? Not nated this postseason, with a Coyotes Lose Game,
and in the meantime, baseball’s many. combined earned run average of But Agree to Sale
showcase has flopped on Will this World Series 0.96 in six starts. In Pedro Marti- The Rangers beat the Phoenix
a national scale. Baseball be better, a classic on the nez, Cole Hamels and Joe Blan- Coyotes, 5-2, on Monday at Mad-
There have been ca- Analysis level of the Twins and the ton, the Phillies have three other ison Square Garden, winning for
thartic championships for Braves in 1991, or even the starters who have won a World the first time in four games as
old hardball towns: Boston, Chi- Angels and the Giants in 2002? It Series game. The Yankees have Marian Gaborik scored twice to
cago, St. Louis and Philadelphia is impossible to say, of course, but Andy Pettitte, who will pitch in gain a share of the league goal-
waited decades for the titles that it sure seems likely. Neither team his eighth World Series. The Yan- scoring lead. The night may
arrived in the interim. But none of will be a pushover. kees’ other starter, A.J. Burnett, prove to significant for Phoenix.
those World Series captured the The Phillies have won their last was hit hard in the first inning of The bankrupt Coyotes seemed
country. Baseball needs the Yan- five postseason series, losing only his last start, against the Angels to move one step closer to stay-
kees and the Phillies to reverse once each round and going 11-1 at in Game 5. But otherwise he has ing in the Phoenix area under
that trend. Citizens Bank Park. The Yankees been stingy for about six weeks. new ownership. The Coyotes’
For the first time, five consecu- are 7-2 this postseason, winning all As compelling as the start- owner, Jerry Moyes, agreed to
tive World Series have lasted only five games at Yankee Stadium. ers will be, the most interesting sell to the N.H.L.  (NYT)
four or five games. The Red Sox Both teams can structure their dynamic will probably come in
swept the Cardinals in 2004, the starting rotations the way they the late innings. The Yankees’
White Sox swept the Astros in want, leading with the former Cy Mariano Rivera and the Phillies’ McGwire to Coach
2005, the Cardinals bounced the Young winners C.C. Sabathia of Brad Lidge are the only closers Mark McGwire is back in
Tigers in five in 2006, the Red Sox the Yankees and Cliff Lee of the this postseason without a blown baseball, reunited with Tony
swept the Rockies in 2007, and the Phillies in Game 1. (Both are for- save. Yet both teams are known La Russa as the St. Louis Car-
Phillies trumped the Rays in five mer Indians, another bit of misery for late-inning comebacks. dinals’ hitting coach. La Russa
last October. for Cleveland’s tortured fans.)  TYLER KEPNER agreed to return for a 15th year
as manager on Monday with a

N.F.L. Study of Dementia Has Flaws, Experts Say
The N.F.L. and its doctors have
consistently dismissed indepen-
dent studies showing unusual
cognitive decline in former play-
ers. They insist that a long-term
study by the league’s committee
on concussions, expected to be
published in several years, will
be the authoritative analysis.
But that study is fraught with
statistical, systemic and conflict-
of-interest problems that make
it inappropriate to examine the
issue, according to many experts
in epidemiology, dementia and
health policy who assessed the
study’s design. Another voice be-
longed to a member of the House
Judiciary Committee, which will
hold a hearing on football brain
injuries Wednesday.
“Hey, why don’t we let tobacco
companies determine whether
smoking is bad for your health
or not?” said Rep. Linda T. San-
chez, Democrat of California and
a member of the Judiciary Com-
mittee. “It’s a very appropriate
metaphor.”
Every independent expert in
epidemiology and neurology con-
tacted by The New York Times
cited at least one of the following
issues: that the study’s paucity
of subjects will leave it unable to
find any statistically significant
difference in dementia rates;
that a study financed by the
N.F.L. and run by its committee
doctors cannot be considered
trustworthy; and that Dr. Ira
Casson, the league’s primary
voice in discrediting all outside
evidence, should not personally
be conducting all of the neurologi-
cal examinations.
The critics said their primary
concern was that an improperly
conducted study, should it claim
no discernible cognitive decline
among players, could mislead
the public about the seriousness
of football brain injuries.
 ALAN SCHWARZ
one-year contract, the first time
he hasn’t had a multiyear deal
with the team. All of his coach-
es will return except for Hal
McRae, who will be replaced by
McGwire. (AP)
nfl scores
SUNDAY’S LATE GAMES
Arizona 24, N.Y. Giants 17
MONDAY
Philadelphia 27, Washington 17
NHL scores
SUNDAY’S LATE GAMES
San Jose 4, Philadelphia 1
Los Angeles 6, Columbus 2
Vancouver 2, Edmonton 0
MONDAY
Rangers 5, Phoenix 2
Montreal 3, Islanders 2, OT
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Cleveland 69/ 41 0 61/ 45 PC 61/ 46 Sh
Dallas-Ft. Worth 61/ 52 0.34 67/ 46 PC 71/ 52 S
Denver 53/ 21 0 54/ 31 C 34/ 29 Sn
Detroit 64/ 42 0 61/ 48 C 62/ 50 Sh
Houston
Kansas City
72/ 62
56/ 41
2.01
0.26
70/ 54 PC
58/ 36 PC
80/ 54 PC
62/ 44 PC
Los Angeles 90/ 61 0 70/ 60 S 68/ 53 S
Miami 88/ 73 0 88/ 79 PC 90/ 80 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 49/ 42 0 58/ 37 S 55/ 41 C
New York City 60/ 46 0 61/ 49 C 58/ 51 R
Orlando 88/ 66 0 88/ 72 T 90/ 72 PC
Philadelphia 63/ 46 0 60/ 48 Sh 61/ 52 Sh
Phoenix 82/ 59 0 88/ 57 S 64/ 57 PC
Salt Lake City 55/ 32 0 41/ 37 SS 40/ 28 C
San Francisco 68/ 57 0 67/ 53 W 68/ 50 S
Seattle 52/ 46 1.15 52/ 45 C 51/ 45 C
St. Louis 56/ 52 0.32 57/ 47 Sh 64/ 48 PC
Washington 64/ 45 0 60/ 49 Sh 64/ 52 R
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 95/ 77 0 86/ 77 C 86/ 73 C
Athens 72/ 63 0.35 75/ 59 R 72/ 57 PC
Beijing 69/ 54 Tr 64/ 45 S 72/ 48 S
Berlin 55/ 46 0.02 56/ 50 C 52/ 45 Sh
Buenos Aires 64/ 45 0 75/ 50 PC 81/ 57 PC
Cairo 84/ 72 0 90/ 72 PC 91/ 70 S
Cape Town
Dublin
77/ 61
58/ 50
0.08
0.05
68/ 55 PC
61/ 55 R
66/ 54 PC
63/ 54 PC
Geneva 61/ 45 0 63/ 43 PC 66/ 48 PC
Hong Kong 86/ 73 0 81/ 73 S 81/ 73 S
Kingston 91/ 79 0.12 88/ 79 S 86/ 79 S
Lima 67/ 63 0 70/ 63 C 70/ 63 C
London 62/ 50 0 64/ 57 C 70/ 55 PC
Madrid 78/ 54 0 75/ 57 S 75/ 57 PC
Mexico City 74/ 57 0.01 72/ 54 Sh 75/ 54 C
Montreal 45/ 30 0 50/ 36 C 50/ 37 C
Moscow 40/ 36 0.02 45/ 39 R 41/ 39 Sh
Nassau 90/ 77 0.04 89/ 79 S 89/ 79 S
Paris 64/ 43 0.01 64/ 46 PC 66/ 48 C
Prague 59/ 46 0.04 57/ 52 C 57/ 46 C
Rio de Janeiro 85/ 73 0.01 81/ 72 T 77/ 70 R
Rome 72/ 50 0 73/ 57 S 70/ 55 PC
Santiago 84/ 44 0 79/ 43 PC 84/ 45 PC
Stockholm 49/ 45 – 48/ 36 Sh 41/ 36 C
Sydney 63/ 57 2.56 66/ 59 C 73/ 59 PC
Tokyo 61/ 55 0.71 73/ 55 PC 70/ 55 PC
Toronto 53/ 41 0 57/ 48 C 50/ 46 R
Vancouver 49/ 45 0.91 51/ 41 C 48/ 39 C
Warsaw 51/ 46 Tr 50/ 43 C 48/ 39 C
sports journal
For Managers, Head Games and Gut Feelings
Philadelphia Phillies Manager
Charlie Manuel is a 65-year-old
potbellied baseball lifer who
honed his instincts in minor
league outposts like Colorado
Springs and Wisconsin Rapids,
Wis. He comes armed with data
but is more likely to play a hunch,
to go with his gut. His counterpart
on the Yankees, Joe Girardi, is a
45-year-old workout fanatic with
a degree in industrial engineer-
ing from Northwestern. As much
as any manager around, he is
comfortable with statistics and
employs a modern approach to
his job.
Manuel has proved that his
method works, guiding the Phil-
lies to a World Series title last
year and to a second consecutive
National League pennant. Girar-
di’s does, too, and the contrast in
managerial styles will serve as a
fascinating backdrop to the World
Series, which begins Wednesday
night at Yankee Stadium. The
teams are evenly matched, each
boasting relentless lineups, left-
handed aces and rosters replete
with strong-willed players. How
Manuel and Girardi react to the
other’s moves could determine
the champion.
A former hitting coach, Manuel
is attuned to the offensive side of
baseball. He plays for big innings,
Will the Real Brett Favre Please Stand Up?
Brett Favre looked glassy-eyed
Sunday night after he took one last
hard hit from the Pittsburgh Steel-
ers, but the Minnesota Vikings’
first loss of the season will take
only a little shine off the return of
the prodigal Favre in Green Bay
next week.
Favre will protest that these
games do not really mean much
to him, but consider this: when
the Vikings hosted the Packers a
few weeks ago, Favre broke from
his routine of going on the field
early to throw the ball around
and chat up his buddies from the
other team. Favre is such a world-
class schmoozer that when Steve
Mariucci took the San Francisco
49ers into Lambeau Field to play
the Packers years ago, Favre
stopped throwing his warm-up
passes, walked over to Mariucci
and 49ers quarterback Steve
Young, and said, “Let’s take a pic-
ture,” Mariucci recalled, adding:
“So the three of us took pictures.”
eschews the bunt — the Phillies’
55 sacrifices were the second-
fewest in the N.L. — and is apt to
let hitters swing at 3-0 pitches.
A former catcher, Girardi has a
keen understanding of pitchers,
knowing when they need a break
and what they can handle. His de-
cision to have Jose Molina catch
A.J. Burnett in the playoffs has
not hurt the Yankees.
Catchers often make good
managers, and Girardi made up
for an absence of minor league
managing experience by apply-
ing teachings from role models
like Tony La Russa, Don Zim-
mer and his college coach, Ron
Wellman. He learned a great
deal from watching Zimmer, the
Yankees’ longtime bench coach,
interact with Joe Torre, who once
complimented Girardi by calling
him “Don Zimmer with stats,” a
tribute to his meticulous nature.
“Numbers are extremely im-
portant, and I do a lot of research
in numbers,” Girardi said in an
interview last month. “But when
you make that split-second deci-
sion, you’ve got to go by your gut.
And sometimes, the risk you take
is really worth the reward.”
Girardi apprenticed under
Torre, serving as his bench coach
in 2005. That season, Girardi kept
a binder that tracked manage-
Don’t expect the class reunion
routine Sunday. Mariucci, who re-
mains close to Favre, says he ex-
pects Favre to warm up indoors
instead, shielding himself from
the weirdness of the situation. Joe
Montana took Kansas City into
the playoffs after he left the 49ers,
but at least the two teams were
not hated division rivals.
There has been nothing to com-
pare to Favre’s flight from Green
Bay to the Vikings, with a stopover
in New York, especially now that
the Packers (4-2) and the Vikings
(6-1) are in a genuine race for the
National Football Conference
North title, with the Packers just
a game and a half behind.
“I’m glad the first game with
them is over,” Favre said Sunday
night about playing the Pack-
ers. “My career with Green Bay
speaks for itself. That won’t
change. For three hours, I’ll be on
the other side. Do I know what that
will feel like? I have no idea.”
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
rial strategies and opponents’
tendencies, and he also helped
the Yankees’ catchers prepare by
streamlining the game plans. To
Girardi, one of the worst things
anyone can say is that he was un-
prepared.
Manuel managed 1,198 games
in the minor leagues, starting in
1983 for a Minnesota Twins’ Class
A affiliate in Wisconsin Rapids.
He mowed the grass, chalked the
foul lines and installed the pitch-
ing rubber and home plate at the
beginning of the season.
“I didn’t know nothing about the
game, and I mean that,” Manuel
said. “The only thing I knew how
to do was play right field and play
some first base, and I thought I
could hit.”
As a minor league manager,
Manuel did not have detailed
scouting reports, video resources
or binders of statistics the way he
does now, so he learned to trust
his instincts and develop a feel for
his players’ strengths and weak-
nesses.
“It’s easy to look at matchups
and cover your butt by sticking to
them,” said Pete Mackanin, the
Phillies’ first-year bench coach.
“But there’s so much more in-
volved. If it were easy to go strict-
ly by numbers, anybody could do
it.” BEN SHPIGEL
Maybe a little like that hit
James Harrison put on him on the
final play of the Steelers game.
Favre has insisted he is not mo-
tivated by revenge against the
Packers and General Manager
Ted Thompson, but Mariucci sus-
pects otherwise. “I think that’s hu-
man nature,” he said.
So far, Favre has proved that
he was right about wanting to go
to the Vikings. His comfort level
in the offense, which is virtually
identical to the one he ran in Green
Bay, is obvious.
For all the early hosannas
thrown his way in the first half of
his Jets season, it does not take
much film study to see the differ-
ence. Still, there were a few mo-
ments Sunday when Favre looked
as if he was channeling his lone
Jets season, raising the question
of whether another late-season
tailspin is coming up as rapidly as
the gray hair in his beard.
 JUDY BATTISTA
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n.h.l. standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 9 2 0 18 37 25
Rangers 8 3 1 17 46 33
Devils 6 3 0 12 26 22
Phila. 5 3 1 11 31 27
Islanders 1 4 5 7 22 37
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Buffalo 6 1 1 13 26 16
Montreal 6 5 0 12 30 32
Ottawa 5 2 2 12 30 26
Boston 5 4 1 11 30 32
Toronto 0 7 1 1 15 35
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Wash. 6 2 2 14 37 30
Atlanta 4 3 1 9 28 24
Tampa 3 3 3 9 24 32
Carolina 2 5 3 7 24 34
Florida 2 6 1 5 19 35
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 7 3 1 15 36 27
Columbus 6 4 0 12 33 34
St. Louis 4 4 1 9 24 25
Detroit 3 4 2 8 25 31
Nashville 3 6 1 7 18 33
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Colorado 8 1 2 18 38 26
Calgary 7 2 1 15 41 33
Edmonton 6 4 1 13 38 33
Vancou. 6 5 0 12 31 28
Minnesota 3 8 0 6 23 35
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
L.A. 8 4 0 16 44 38
San Jose 7 4 1 15 42 35
Dallas 5 2 4 14 37 32
Phoenix 6 4 0 12 26 22
Anaheim 3 5 1 7 22 31
Call to Curb Spending
MIAMI — From stratospheric
coaches’ salaries to a growing
divide between the haves and
the have-nots of college sports,
university presidents say they
are very worried about the com-
mercialization of intercollegiate
athletics. Yet they feel power-
less to do much about it, accord-
ing to a survey of 95 presidents
released Monday by the Knight
Commission on Intercollegiate
Athletics, a watchdog group.
The survey, which was limit-
ed to presidents of universities
that are members of the Foot-
ball Bowl Subdivision, is seen as
a first step by the Knight Com-
mission in addressing what
many consider the most press-
ing issue facing college sports
today: how to defuse the “arms
race” in spending by the na-
tion’s top college sports pro-
grams and ensure that institu-
tions with smaller budgets can
continue to compete. (NYT)