F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Wednesday
October 28, 2009
Midnight in New York
Nine pages © 2009 The New York Times
health officials C.I.A. Is Said to Pay Karzai’s Brother
trying to manage
vaccine rationing
LOS ANGELES — The top pub-
lic health official in Los Angeles
County stood at a swine flu vacci-
nation site in Compton, Calif., on
Tuesday and gently told elderly
residents that they really ought
to go home.
“I explained to people 65 or old-
er, ‘The reason we are doing this
is for children,’ ” said the official,
Jonathan E. Fielding, the direc-
tor of the county’s Department
of Public Health. “I told them,
‘They are at very high risk for
this flu, and you’re at low risk. I
am sure you wouldn’t want to get
a shot that left a kid who is at risk
in harm’s way.’ ”
People have lined up in South-
ern California and across the
country in recent days in the hope
of getting a prick in the arm, but
a dearth of the H1N1 vaccine has
created an unexpected dynamic:
local government officials, hospi-
tal workers and doctors in private
practice are being conscripted as
ad-hoc swine flu police.
The goal is to make sure that
those Americans with the high-
est risk for contracting the virus
— and experiencing the more
dangerous complications that
can ensue — get injected first.
But as thousands of people have
gathered at vaccine distribu-
tion points, some have lied about
a pregnancy, or an underlying
medical condition, that would
move them ahead of the pack. In
any case, officials say it is virtu-
ally impossible to verify most of
the claims.
Government officials have set
unambiguous priorities based
on who is most vulnerable: preg-
nant women, people who live with
or take care of infants under six
months of age, health care work-
ers, anyone six months to 24 years
of age and people who are older
than that but have underlying
health problems that make them
susceptible to influenza-related
complications.
JENNIFER STEINHAUER
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed
Wali Karzai, the brother of the Af-
ghan president and a suspected
player in the opium trade, gets
regular payments from the C.I.A.,
and has for much of the past eight
years, according to current and
former U.S. officials.
The agency pays Karzai for
a variety of services, including
helping to recruit a paramilitary
force that operates at the C.I.A.’s
direction in and around Kanda-
har, Karzai’s home.
The ties to Karzai have created
deep divisions within the Obama
administration. Critics say the
ties complicate America’s rela-
tionship with President Hamid
Karzai. The C.I.A.’s practices al-
so suggest that the United States
is not doing everything in its pow-
er to stamp out the drug trade, a
source of Taliban revenue.
More broadly, some U.S. offi-
cials argue that the reliance on
Ahmed Wali Karzai undermines
the U.S. push to develop an effec-
tive central government. “If we
are going to conduct a population-
centric strategy in Afghanistan,
and we are perceived as backing
thugs, then we are just undermin-
U.S. Weighs Focus on Afghan Population Hubs
WASHINGTON — President
Obama’s advisers are focusing
on a strategy for Afghanistan
aimed at protecting about 10 top
population centers, administra-
tion officials said Tuesday, de-
scribing an approach that would
stop short of an all-out assault on
the Taliban while still seeking to
nurture long-term stability.
Obama has yet to make a de-
cision and has other options
available to him, but as officials
described it, the debate is no lon-
ger over whether to send more
troops, but how many more will
be needed. The question of how
much of the country should fall
under the direct protection of
American and NATO forces will
be central to deciding how many
troops will be sent.
At the moment, the administra-
tion is looking at protecting Ka-
bul, Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif,
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ing ourselves,” said Maj. Gen.
Michael T. Flynn, the senior U.S.
military intelligence official in
Afghanistan.
Ahmed Wali Karzai said that
he cooperated with U.S. civilian
and military officials, but did not
engage in the drug trade and did
not receive payments from the
C.I.A.
Officials said that Karzai helps
the C.I.A. operate the Kandahar
Strike Force, which is used for
raids against suspected insur-
gents and terrorists. He is also
paid for allowing the C.I.A. and
Special Operations troops to rent
a large compound outside the
city — the former home of Mullah
Mohammed Omar, the Taliban’s
founder. “He’s our landlord,” a
senior U.S. official said.
Karzai also helps the C.I.A.
communicate with and some-
times meet with Afghans loyal to
the Taliban. The Obama adminis-
tration is placing a greater focus
on encouraging Taliban leaders
to change sides. And some offi-
cials said that the allegations of
Karzai’s role in the drug trade
were not conclusive.
But with more U.S. lives on the
Kunduz, Herat, Jalalabad and
a few other village clusters, of-
ficials said. The first of any new
troops sent to Afghanistan would
be assigned to Kandahar, the Tal-
iban’s spiritual capital, seen as a
center of gravity in pushing back
insurgent advances.
But military planners are also
pressing for enough troops to
safeguard major agricultural
areas, like the hotly contested
Helmand River valley, as well as
regional highways essential to
the economy — tasks that would
require significantly more rein-
forcements beyond the 21,000 de-
ployed by Obama this year.
One administration official
said Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal,
the top commander in Afghani-
stan, had briefed Obama’s advis-
ers on how he would deploy any
new troops under the approach
being considered by the White
line, the relationship with Karzai
is setting off anger among mili-
tary officers and officials in the
Obama administration. They
say that Karzai’s suspected role
in the drug trade, as well as what
they describe as the mafialike
way that he lords over southern
Afghanistan, makes him a ma-
levolent force.
These officials say the evidence
suggests strongly that Karzai has
enriched himself by helping the il-
legal trade in poppies and opium
to flourish. The assessment of
these officials dovetails with that
of senior officials in the Bush ad-
ministration.
“Hundreds of millions of dol-
lars in drug money are flowing
through the southern region, and
nothing happens in southern Af-
ghanistan without the regional
leadership knowing about it,” a
senior military officer in Kabul
said. “If it looks like a duck, and it
quacks like a duck, it’s probably
a duck,” the officer said. “Our as-
sumption is that he’s benefiting
from the drug trade.”
DEXTER FILKINS
MARK MAZZETTI
and JAMES RISEN
House. The first two additional
combat brigades would go south,
including one to Kandahar, while
a third would be sent to eastern
Afghanistan and a fourth would
be used flexibly across the nation,
said the official, who like others
insisted on anonymity to describe
internal deliberations.
Administration and military of-
ficials said the strategy would in-
clude other elements, like accel-
erated training of Afghan troops,
expanded economic development
and reconciliation with less radi-
cal members of the Taliban.
But such a strategy would be
open to complaints that Ameri-
can and allied forces were in ef-
fect giving insurgents free rein
across large parts of the nation.
“We are not talking about sur-
rendering the rest of the country
to the Taliban,” a senior adminis-
tration official said. (NYT)
International
Ripple of Extremism in Indonesia Penal Code
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia —
Under Islamic law, or Shariah,
the religious police have admin-
istered public canings for such
things as gambling, prostitution
and illicit affairs. But under a new
Islamic criminal code that goes
into effect this month, the Sha-
riah police will be wielding a new
and more potent threat: death by
stoning for adulterers.
Most of Indonesia still lives up
to its reputation for a moderate
brand of Islam, and Islamist par-
ties suffered heavy losses in this
year’s elections. But how Aceh
went from basic Islamic law to
endorsing stoning in a few short
years shows how a radical minor-
ity has successfully pushed its
agenda by cowing political and
religious moderates.
In recent years, as part of a
decentralization of power away
from Jakarta, at least 50 local
governments have passed Shari-
ah-based regulations regarding
conduct and dress, though none
Grim Milestone for U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Eight
Americans died in combat in
southern Afghanistan on Tues-
day, bringing October’s total to
53 and making it the deadliest
month for Americans in the eight-
year war. September and October
were both deadlier months over
all for NATO troops.
The service members, along
with an Afghan interpreter ac-
companying them, were killed
and an undisclosed number of
troops were injured in several
attacks involving “multiple,
complex” improvised bombs, ac-
cording to a statement from the
NATO-led coalition.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari
French Court Finds Scientology Guilty of Fraud
PARIS — The French branch
of the Church of Scientology was
convicted of fraud and fined near-
ly $900,000 on Tuesday by a Paris
court. But the judges did not ban
the church entirely, as the prose-
cution had demanded, saying that
a change in the law prevented such
an action for fraud. The church
said it would appeal.
The verdict was among the
most important in several years
to involve the group, which is reg-
have gone as far as Aceh to deal
with criminal matters.
Human rights advocates be-
lieve the regulations discrimi-
nate against non-Muslim minori-
ties and contravene the country’s
Constitution, which guarantees
freedom of religion. But the gov-
ernment of President Susilo Bam-
bang Yudhoyono — a moderate
whose Muslim credentials have
often been questioned by political
opponents — has not challenged
them. In fact, Yudhoyono has
backed morality-based laws that
pleased conservatives but an-
gered human rights advocates.
The president has yet to com-
ment on the stoning provision,
leaving it to his aides to quietly
criticize it and clearly hoping
that the Aceh Parliament will re-
peal it. Aceh’s governor has said
he will refuse to carry out any
stonings, and even supporters ac-
knowledge that the punishment
will be extremely hard to apply.
Nevertheless, because the gov-
Yousuf Ahmadi, said Taliban
fighters had blown up two ar-
mored vehicles carrying the
troops near Zabul Province. His
report could not be verified.
On Monday, two helicopter
crashes resulted in the deaths
of 11 U.S. service members and
three drug enforcement agents,
but hostile fire was almost cer-
tainly not a factor in those cases,
according to a military spokes-
man.
The United States has been in-
creasing the number of soldiers
and Marines in Afghanistan and
many have gone into some of the
toughest areas of the country.
Southern Afghanistan has been
istered as a religion in the United
States but has no similar legal pro-
tection in France.
It is considered a sect here, and
says it has some 45,000 adherents,
out of some 12 million worldwide.
It was the first time here that the
church itself had been tried and
convicted, as opposed to individu-
al members.
The case was brought by two for-
mer members who said they were
pushed into paying large sums
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
ernor lacks veto power, stoning
could remain on the books.
That would be an embarrass-
ment for Yudhoyono, who has
sought to raise Indonesia’s in-
ternational standing through its
status as the world’s third larg-
est democracy and its most pop-
ulous Muslim nation. If Aceh’s
lawmakers fail to repeal stoning,
the central government may be
forced into the potentially divi-
sive course of a court challenge
to the local application of Shari-
ah, which has gained wide accep-
tance here.
“If people are caught, they
should be given a warning the
first time,” said Fati Ibrahim, 43,
a mother of four who was buying
dustpans at a large store here.
“But if they’re caught a second or
third time, they should be stoned.
“Otherwise, they’ll give Aceh a
bad image. They’ll embarrass us
outside Aceh, that we’re not prac-
ticing Islam as it should be.”
NORIMITSU ONISHI
the most contested ground with
both locally based insurgents
and fighters that cross the border
from Pakistan.
Also on Tuesday, the U.S. and
NATO-led forces said an Army
plane that had been missing since
Oct. 13 was found last Wednesday
with the remains of three civilian
crew members in the high moun-
tains of northeastern Afghanistan
over Nuristan Province.
Early Wednesday, three em-
ployees of the United Nations
were killed when militants
launched a raid on a guest house
called Bakhtar in Sherpur, an
affluent area of central Kabul, a
U.N. spokesman said. (NYT)
of money in the 1990s, pressed to
sign up for expensive “purifica-
tion courses” and harassed to buy
a variety of vitamins and other
forms of pharmaceuticals, plus
electronic tests to measure spiri-
tual progress.
The major fines were rendered
against the Scientology Celebrity
Center in Paris and a Scientology
bookstore. Six group leaders were
convicted of fraud.
STEVEN ERLANGER
2
in brief
No Deal on Election
Iraq’s political parties failed
to agree on election laws on
Tuesday, despite a proposed
deal put together by the nation’s
top political figures the day be-
fore. The stalemate was an-
other blockage in negotiations
that have dragged on for weeks,
threatening national elections
scheduled for Jan. 16. Members
of political parties said there
was broad general agreement
on allowing people to vote for in-
dividual candidates, rather than
lists. But the parties remained
divided on legislation governing
elections in Kirkuk. (NYT)
Conviction Upheld
In Berlusconi Case
In a further blow to Silvio
Berlusconi, the prime minister
of Italy, a Milan court on Tues-
day upheld the conviction of a
British lawyer found to have ac-
cepted a bribe for protecting
him. A Milan appeals court up-
held a lower court’s determi-
nation that the lawyer, David
Mills, had taken $600,000 in ex-
change for false testimony in
two trials relating to offshore
companies that Mills helped set
up for Fininvest, Berlusconi’s
holding company. Berlusco-
ni faces a separate trial in the
same case. (NYT)
Ship Collision
A Japanese navy destroy-
er collided with a South Kore-
an freighter in the waters off
southern Japan on Tuesday, set-
ting off fires on both boats and
injuring three crew members.
 (NYT)
Sailboat Missing
A British couple sailing from
Seychelles vanished after their
distress signal was picked up
Friday, and British officials
have warned the couple’s fam-
ily that they may have been
kidnapped by Somali pirates.
The couple, Paul and Rachel
Chandler, age 58 and 55, of Tun-
bridge Wells, were aboard their
38-foot sloop, the Lynn Rival,
when they disappeared on a 150-
mile stretch from the main Sey-
chelles islands southwest to the
Amirante Islands.  (NYT)
national
Health Lobbyists Work to Keep Deals Intact
WASHINGTON — One is a
smooth-talking former con-
gressman from Louisiana — “the
Swamp Fox,” constituents called
him — who relishes his image as
a rascal and a Cajun raconteur.
The other is a fireman’s daughter
from Rhode Island, strait-laced
and studious, who mastered the
arcane world of health policy as
an analyst for the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
As perhaps the two most pow-
erful health industry lobbyists
in Washington, the two of them,
Billy Tauzin and Karen Ignagni,
are the odd couple of the capital’s
health care debate.
Tauzin, a Democrat turned
Republican, is the chief lobbyist
for drug makers. After cutting a
10-year deal for his industry —
blessed by the White House — to
help pay for a health care over-
haul, he is now working to keep
his pact from unraveling on Capi-
tol Hill.
Ignagni, a Democrat who rep-
resents insurers, told President
2 in Chicago Held in a Plot to Attack Denmark
WASHINGTON — Two Chi-
cago men have been charged in
what officials said was a plot to
attack employees of a Danish
newspaper that in 2005 published
cartoons of the Prophet Muham-
mad, according to criminal com-
plaints unsealed Tuesday in fed-
eral court in Chicago.
The most serious charges,
conspiracy to murder and maim
in a foreign country, were filed
against David C. Headley, who
was born in the United States,
lived in Pakistan and now resides
in Chicago.
Headley told the F.B.I. that his
initial target was a building occu-
pied by Morgenavisen Jyllands-
Maine’s Same-Sex Marriage Vote Is Seen as Crucial
Less than a week before Maine
voters decide whether to repeal
the state’s new same-sex mar-
riage law, donations and volun-
teers are pouring in to sway what
both sides call a nationally sig-
nificant fight.
Supporters of the marriage law,
which the Legislature approved
in May, have far more money and
ground troops than opponents,
who have been led by the Roman
Catholic Church. Yet most polls
Obama in March that he had her
“commitment to play, to contrib-
ute and to help pass health care
reform this year.” Now, a day af-
ter losing a critical battle to keep
a new government insurance
plan out of the Senate health bill,
she is fighting to persuade offi-
cial Washington she meant what
she said, as Obama accuses her
industry of waging a “smoke and
mirrors” campaign to undermine
reform.
The story of these two lobby-
ists — a Republican who found
favor with a Democratic White
House and a Democrat on the
outs — illustrates the complexi-
ties Obama faces in the health
care endgame. The president had
some early success in bringing
industry on board. But as the ex-
periences of Tauzin and Ignagni
suggest, keeping it there will be
easier said than done.
A senior White House official
said that Tauzin was “very ag-
gressive in wanting to be at the
Posten in Copenhagen, but later
proposed killing the cartoonist
and cultural editor, officials said.
Headley, 49, who changed his
name from Daood Gilani in 2006,
and another man, Tahawwur Hus-
sain Rana, 48, are older and with
seemingly more substantial ties
to their communities than other
recent terrorism suspects. Rana
is a businessman who was born in
Pakistan and is now a Canadian
citizen living legally in Chicago.
Rana is accused of providing
material support to terrorism.
He has known Headley since
they attended the same military
school in Hasan Abdal, Pakistan,
officials said. Rana is accused
show the two sides neck and neck,
suggesting that gay couples here,
as in California last year, could
lose the right to marry just six
months after they gained it.
The battle here has been com-
paratively low profile, but it
comes at a crucial point in the
same-sex marriage movement.
Still reeling from last year’s de-
feat in California, gay-rights ad-
vocates say a defeat here could
further a perception that only
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
table.” The result was the $80
billion deal with the Senate Fi-
nance Committee, and the White
House’s assent. For the industry,
it was a chance for millions of new
customers.
Ignagni offered her own conces-
sions, including covering people
with pre-existing conditions, end-
ing lifetime coverage caps and
simplifying record-keeping, all
the while fighting the “public op-
tion.” She insists her companies
are still committed to passing
health care overhaul this year.
“There are very different in-
dustry dynamics here,” said Rep.
Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., who teach-
es health policy at Vanderbilt
University. “The basic deal for
these two industries, and others,
is that they promised to behave if
they get 40 million new custom-
ers. But now they are seeing they
might not get as many new cus-
tomers, and they are wondering
if they still have to behave.”
SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
of using a travel agency to help
Headley arrange visits to Paki-
stan and Denmark.
Headley was arrested on Oct.
3 at O’Hare airport as he was
boarding a plane on the first leg
of a trip to Pakistan. Rana was
arrested on Oct. 18 at his home.
Both men are scheduled to ap-
pear in federal court in Chicago
on Wednesday.
Officials said Headley consult-
ed closely with three Pakistani
men identified in an F.B.I. affida-
vit as members of Harakat-ul Ji-
had Islami, a terror group affili-
ated with Al Qaeda, with whom he
referred to the plot as the “Mick-
ey Mouse Project.”  (NYT)
judges and politicians embrace
same-sex marriage.
If Maine’s law is upheld, how-
ever, it would be the movement’s
first victory at the ballot box. Vot-
ers in about 30 states have banned
same-sex marriage.
Connecticut, Iowa, Massa-
chusetts and Vermont allow gay
couples to marry, but courts and
legislatures, not voters, made it
possible.
ABBY GOODNOUGH
3
in brief
Assailant Killed
At Medical Office
A man stabbed a doctor while
being treated at a psychiatric
office at a Boston medical build-
ing on Tuesday and was then
fatally shot by an off-duty se-
curity guard who saw the at-
tack, the police said. The stab-
bing occurred at the Massachu-
setts General Hospital Bipolar
Clinic and Research Program,
in a building near the main
hospital. The doctor, a woman
whose name was not released,
was in stable condition. The po-
lice identified the man who was
killed as Jay Carciero, 37, of
Reading, Mass. The security
guard was off duty and just hap-
pened to be at the scene, said
Bonnie Michelman, the hospi-
tal’s security director. (AP)
Pilots Lose Licenses
The Federal Aviation Admin-
istration on Tuesday revoked
the licenses of two Northwest
Airlines pilots who flew more
than 100 miles beyond their des-
tination. The F.A.A. took unusu-
ally swift action against the pi-
lots: Capt. Timothy B. Cheney,
53, of Gig Harbor, Wash., who
was hired by Northwest in 1985,
and First Officer Richard I.
Cole, 54, of Salem, Ore., who was
hired in 1997. The “emergen-
cy” revocations cited “failing to
comply with air traffic control
instructions and clearances and
operating carelessly and reck-
lessly.” (NYT)
Legalizing Marijuana
California lawmakers are
holding a hearing on Wednes-
day on the effects of a bill that
would legalize, tax and regulate
marijuana, in what would be
the first such law in the United
States. Officials estimate the
law could bring the state about
$1.4 billion a year, and Gov. Ar-
nold Schwarzenegger has indi-
cated he would be open to a “ro-
bust debate” on the issue. Three
legalization initiatives are being
circulated for signatures to ap-
pear on the ballot next year, all
of which would permit adults to
possess marijuana for person-
al use and allow local govern-
ments to tax it.  (NYT)
business
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NASDAQ 2,116.09 D 25.76
As Home Sales Thaw, Fears of a New Chill
Even as new figures show
house prices have risen for three
consecutive months, concerns
are growing that the real estate
market will be severely tested
this winter.
Artificially low interest rates
and a government tax credit are
luring buyers, but both those in-
ducements are scheduled to end.
Defaults and distress sales are
rising in the middle and upper
price ranges. And millions of peo-
ple have lost so much equity that
they are locked into their homes
for years, a modern variation
of the Victorian debtor’s prison
that is freezing a large swath of
the market.
“Plenty of pain yet to come,”
said Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S.
economist for MFR. He is fore-
casting an imminent resumption
Bill Shifts Costs of Bank Rescues From Taxpayers
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration and the head of an
important House committee un-
veiled legislation on Tuesday to
give the government broad new
powers to shift the cost of rescues
of big, troubled financial institu-
tions from taxpayers to other
large companies.
The legislation, drafted jointly
by Treasury officials and Rep.
Barney Frank, the head of the
House Financial Services Com-
mittee, would create a special
fund, paid by assessments on
financial companies with more
than $10 billion in assets, to bear
the costs of big firms that fail.
A statement by the committee
Big Lender GMAC Asking for Billions in U.S. Aid
GMAC, the troubled consumer
finance company, is seeking bil-
lions of dollars in federal aid, a
move that would be its third tax-
payer bailout and which could
give the government a controlling
stake in the company, according
to people briefed on the situation.
GMAC and Treasury Depart-
ment officials have been locked in
negotiations over how to structure
the third bailout as it approaches
a crucial deadline in early Novem-
ber for shoring up its finances.
The government already owns
Dollar/YEN 91.81 D 0.40
10-yr treasury 3.44% D 0.10
of price declines.
This summer, housing seemed
at last to be stabilizing. A flood of
last-minute buyers trying to con-
clude a deal before the tax credit
expires Nov. 30 helped push up the
Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller
home price index a seasonally
adjusted 1 percent in August, it
was announced on Tuesday.
That was the first time since
early 2006 that the widely watched
measure of 20 metropolitan areas
put together three consecutive in-
creases. Sixteen of the 20 cities in
the index rose in August, including
San Francisco, up 2.6 percent.
While underlining the impor-
tance of that long-awaited rise,
Maureen Maitland, the S.&P.
vice president for index services,
warned, “Everything is up for
grabs this winter.”
said that the legislation follows a
“polluter-pays model where the
financial industry has to pay for
its mistakes — not taxpayers.”
Assessments on those companies
would be made only after the col-
lapse of a large institution, and the
legislation gives the government
authority to levy such payments
over an extended period.
The legislation tries to respond
to the enormous outcry over the
serial taxpayer bailouts over
the last 15 months of some of the
nation’s biggest financial com-
panies, including Bear Stearns,
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the
American International Group,
Citigroup and Bank of America.
about a 35 percent stake in the
company from $12.5 billion of
investments made over the last
year as part of a broader restruc-
turing of General Motors.
Any fresh injection of govern-
ment money, or the conversion
of its existing preferred shares
into common stock, would give
taxpayers a much larger — per-
haps even a majority stake — in
the company.
The government’s investment
in GMAC would vastly surpass
its nearly 34 percent stake in
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
gold (ny) $1,040.05 U 1.55
crude oil $79.55 U 0.87
Consumers seem acutely
aware of the strains ahead. The
Conference Board’s consumer
confidence index fell unexpect-
edly in October, after reaching
its high for the year in September,
the board announced Tuesday.
The only hot sector of the real
estate market has been foreclo-
sures. Investors and first-time
buyers have been competing
for these, often creating bidding
wars. But with the economy still
weak, many analysts expect
more foreclosures.
Another factor likely to weigh
on home sales in the coming
months is a rise in interest rates.
As the Federal Reserve ceases its
buying of mortgage-backed secu-
rities, rates may well drift up to 6
percent, from 5 percent.
 DAVID STREITFELD
The measure, directed at in-
stitutions whose troubles might
pose risks to the financial system,
would create a powerful financial
services oversight council, led by
the Treasury secretary and com-
posed of top regulators, to set poli-
cy and tougher regulations for the
largest companies and mediate
disputes between federal agen-
cies. It would also give the Fed-
eral Reserve Board a lead role in
directly supervising many of the
largest financial conglomerates.
The legislation would impose
new restraints on industrial loan
companies and would not permit
any more commercial companies
to own banks. (NYT)
Citigroup, and could reignite the
public debate over the Obama
administration’s role as a major
investor in corporations.
The talks highlight the impor-
tance of GMAC, a 90-year-old in-
stitution christened as a bank only
late last year, to the national econ-
omy — and its continued trouble
in surviving without government
support. GMAC was designated
by the Obama administration
earlier this year as a key source
of buyer and dealer financing for
G.M. and Chrysler.  (NYT)
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PepsiCo Gets Approval
BRUSSELS — PepsiCo won Eu-
ropean Union regulatory approv-
al on Tuesday to buy the bottlers
Pepsi Bottling Group and Pep-
siAmericas. PepsiCo announced
the $7.8 billion deal in early Au-
gust after running the bottlers as
separate companies for the last
10 years. The E.U. cleared both
deals, saying they would not im-
pede competition. (Reuters)
Business
Weight Gain Linked to Antipsychotic Drugs
Young children and adoles-
cents who take the newest gen-
eration of antipsychotic medica-
tions risk rapid weight gain and
metabolic changes that could
lead to diabetes, hypertension
and other illnesses, according the
biggest study yet of first-time us-
ers of the drugs.
The study, to be published
Wednesday in The Journal of the
American Medical Association,
found that 257 young children
and adolescents in New York
City and on Long Island added 8
to 15 percent to their weight af-
ter taking the pills for less than
12 weeks.
The patients, ages 4 to 19, add-
ed an average of one to one-and-
a-half pounds a week.
“The degree of weight gain is
alarming,” said Dr. Wayne K.
Goodman, head of a Food and
Drug Administration advisory
panel on the drugs last summer
and chairman of psychiatry at
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Some Union Votes Go Against Cuts at Ford
DETROIT — Many workers at
the Ford Motor Co. are signaling
that they are unwilling to help the
automaker cut its labor costs fur-
ther, by voting against what would
be the third round of concessions
in the last two years.
Members of at least five local
chapters of the United Automobile
Workers union have turned down
the proposed changes, which in-
clude a six-year wage freeze for
newly hired workers, some job-
classification changes and a pro-
vision that bars the union from
Reva, Tiny Leader of the Pack, Is Poised to Upsize in Electric Cars
BANGALORE, India — De-
pending on whom you ask, this ti-
ny company is either the next big
thing in automobiles, or a maker
of glorified golf carts.
What is indisputable is that
as the whole automotive world
seems to be racing suddenly to-
ward the age of electricity, the
Reva Electric Car Co. is in the
lead, ahead of better-known local
competitors like Tata Motors and
global giants like General Motors
and Toyota.
Daimler and Toyota are sup-
posed to start trials of electric
versions of the Smart Car and
in Manhattan. “The magnitude is
stunning,” he said.
Although the drugs’ influence
on weight and metabolism had
been previously detected, Good-
man, who was not involved in the
study, said the speed and mag-
nitude of the effects found in the
study were greater than previ-
ously reported — findings he said
were made possible by looking
exclusively at new patients.
The four drugs in the study,
the most popular antipsychotic
medications, are industry block-
busters, with combined sales of
$12.7 billion last year. And while
all four caused weight gain, there
were differences in the extent of
the side effects. Among them,
Zyprexa, made by Eli Lilly & Co.,
showed the most severe effects
on weight and metabolism. The
study’s authors, and an accom-
panying JAMA editorial, called
for closer monitoring of patients
taking the drugs, as well as addi-
tional long-term studies.
striking over demands for better
pay and benefits through 2015.
Ford, the only one of the three
Detroit automakers to avoid bank-
ruptcy this year, says it needs the
modifications to remain com-
petitive with General Motors and
Chrysler, whose workers agreed
to similar deals in the spring.
Compared to its crosstown rivals,
Ford has been surging.
Only about a third of the locals
representing Ford’s 41,000 union
workers had finished voting by
Tuesday, but already the poten-
the Prius, respectively, by the
end of the year. The Nissan Leaf
will come out next year, as will
the Chevy Volt. And the Obama
administration is committing bil-
lions of taxpayer dollars to loans
to help companies produce alter-
native vehicles, including hybrids
and all-electric cars.
But years before the sleek Te-
sla Roadster hugged California
highways or General Motors un-
veiled the Chevrolet Volt, Chetan
Kumar Maini was making and
selling stubby electric vehicles
turned out by a nondescript fac-
tory here. Reva has more all-
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The drugs are prescribed for
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
and a broad range of less serious
psychological conditions. Their
use by children and teenagers
has been rising steadily. A 2008
study found that patients under
19 years old accounted for 15 per-
cent of antipsychotic drug use in
2005, compared with 7 percent in
1996.
The study, financed by federal
grants, is the largest yet pub-
lished on childhood use of the
drugs. And because it is also the
largest study of first-time users
of the drugs, whether children or
adults, it provided an opportunity
to analyze the cause and severity
of near-term side effects.
As a result, the study goes fur-
ther than previous research in
distinguishing varying metabol-
ic effects among the four drugs,
according to Dr. Judith L. Rapo-
port, another expert who was not
involved in the research.
 DUFF WILSON
tial for successful ratification was
diminishing unless U.A.W. lead-
ers could quickly contain growing
opposition among rank-and-file
members.
At Ford’s largest assembly
plant, where nearly 4,000 work-
ers build pickup trucks and small
sport-utility vehicles near Kansas
City, Mo., 92 percent voted against
the deal, according to results
posted on the Local 249 Web site.
Workers at five plants in Michi-
gan also have voted it down.
 NICK BUNKLEY
electric vehicles on the road than
any other company, but it still has
a long haul before it can make
the vehicles marketable for the
masses.
Last month, the company won
an important stamp of approval
when General Motors said it
would use Reva’s technology in
the electric version of its Chevro-
let Spark, a small car whose con-
ventional gasoline version G.M.
sells here already. The electric
version of the Spark is expected
to go on sale in India by the end
of next year, according to G.M.
officials.
5
in brief
Consumers’ Mood
Consumers’ confidence about
the U.S. economy fell unexpect-
edly in October as job prospects
remained bleak, a private re-
search group said Tuesday, fuel-
ing speculation that an already
gloomy holiday shopping fore-
cast could worsen. The Consum-
er Confidence Index, released
by The Conference Board, sank
unexpectedly to 47.7 in October.
Wall Street analysts had pre-
dicted a reading of 53.1.  (AP)
Visa Turns to Profit
Visa posted a quarterly profit
on Tuesday, reversing a year-
earlier loss, as cost reductions
and growing debit card use
made up for a decline in pay-
ment volume reflecting con-
sumer spending cutbacks. Visa
said it earned $514 million, or
69 cents a share, on revenue
of $1.87 billion. That compares
with a loss of $356 million, or
45 cents a share, on revenue of
$1.71 billion a year earlier. (AP)
Daimler Rebounds
PARIS — Daimler, the Ger-
man maker of Mercedes cars
and trucks, said on Tuesday
that it had returned to profit
after three straight quarterly
losses. The company, based in
Stuttgart, posted net income of
56 million euros, or $83 million
for the July-September period.
That was a big turnaround from
the 1.1 billion euro loss it posted
in the second quarter. (NYT)
Reva’s technology is “second to
none,” said Karl Slym, president
and managing director of G.M.
India, adding that Reva’s appeal
came from its drive train, the col-
lection of components that move
the car, which is easily installed
in different vehicles and works
with various batteries.
Reva’s new model, the NXR,
will comply with European safety
regulations, seat four and travel
up to 100 miles on a full battery
charge, at speeds of up to 40 miles
an hour — what is known in the in-
dustry as a city car.
 VIKAS BAJAJ
journal Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6

There Is New Meaning for Night Class at Community Colleges

BOSTON — Winston Chin hustles Tuesdays Similar booms have forced many of the na- “I liken myself to the old woman who lives
from his eight-hour shift as a lab technician to tion’s 1,200 community colleges to add make- in a shoe,” said Mary L. Fifield, the president
his writing class at Bunker Hill Community shift parking lots, rent extra space and keep of Bunker Hill, where enrollment is up 16 per-
College, a requirement for the associate’s de- thousands of students on waiting lists this cent over last fall. “The seams are tearing,
gree he is seeking in hopes of a better job. fall. While Bunker Hill offers two midnight and people are just popping out all over.”
He is a typical part-time student, with one classes — the other is Psychology 101 — and Virtually every state is dealing with en-
exception. His class runs from 11:45 p.m. Clackamas Community College in Oregon rollment booms at community colleges, the
to 2:30 a.m., the consequence of an unprec- holds welding classes until 2 a.m., others have American Association of Community Col-
edented enrollment spike that has Bunker added classes as early as 6 a.m. to make room leges says, with some in California reporting
Hill scrambling to accommodate hundreds for the jobless and others whom the recession increases of 35 percent. The demand comes
of newcomers. In the dead of night, he and his has nudged back to school. amid deep cuts to higher education budgets,
classmates dissect Walt Whitman poems and The deluge also includes an unusually large but also at a hopeful time for community col-
learn the finer points of essay writing, fueled number of recent high school graduates, leges: President Obama recently announced
by unlimited coffee, cookies and an instructor diverted from more expensive four-year col- a $12 billion plan to increase the number of
who does push-ups beforehand to stay lively. leges by the economic downturn. community college graduates by five million
by 2020.
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editorials of the timeS thomas l. friedman

The Fog of Ethics in Albany Don’t Build Up

Extortion, bribery, racketeering — those
are just some of the crimes that have sent
members of the New York State Legislature
to jail in the last five years. The most recent
example surfaced last week when federal
prosecutors released the sentencing docu-
ment for Anthony Seminerio, the former
Assemblyman who resigned after pleading
guilty to fraud. The Queens Democrat spent
30 years in the Legislature, collecting his pay-
check from taxpayers. For a good part of that
time, he used his elected position to solicit
“consulting fees” from two hospitals, the Long
Island Rail Road and other clients, all with im-
portant business before the Legislature.
The details of the government’s case reads
like a profanity-laden film script — with the
growling lawmaker muscling people into pay-
ing him or he would ruin their companies and
“kill” their bills in Albany. This went on for
years until another assemblyman — indicted
for separate crimes — agreed to wear a wire
while talking to Seminerio.
Obviously, there is no law that could turn
Seminerio into an honest citizen. What makes
it even worse is that the Legislature’s rules
on reporting outside income are so weak that
the public had no way of recognizing a scam
like this one. As State Sen. Daniel Squadron,
a Manhattan Democrat, puts it simply, “No-
body’s minding the candy store.”
The deliberations of the Legislative Eth-
ics Commission are secret, and its reporting
rules on outside income are shockingly weak.
Lawmakers are required to list income only
Microchips and Monopolies
Following a 16-month-long formal investi-
gation, and years of dithering during the Bush
administration, the Federal Trade Commis-
sion is reportedly within weeks of filing an
antitrust complaint against Intel for abusing
its dominant position in the microchip market
to shut out a smaller rival, Advanced Micro
Devices.
The rest of the world has not waited. Since
2005, antitrust authorities from Japan, South
Korea and Europe have taken action against
Intel for anticompetitive behavior. In May,
the European Commission fined the company
nearly $1.5 billion for offering illegal rebates
to computer makers that bought all or nearly
all their chips from Intel, and delayed or can-
celed the sale of products with A.M.D. chips.
Four out of five PCs in the world run on In-
tel’s microchips. If Intel is abusing its outsize
clout to marginalize rivals and hinder the de-
velopment of competitive products, it should
be made to stop.
Intel and its allies in Congress have been
circling the wagons. The company wants the
F.T.C. to delay any action until after the end of
a civil lawsuit between Intel and A.M.D. that
is due to go to trial next March following years
within broad ranges on documents that are
edited before the public sees them. Those
who work as lawyers are told not to list cli-
ents. That exemption serves many lawmak-
ers well, including New York’s most power-
ful lawmaker/lawyer — Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver who works for Weitz & Luxen-
berg, one of New York City’s largest personal
injury law firms.
In the case of Seminerio, it took federal
prosecutors to discover that officials at one
hospital had paid him at least $300,000 over
the years. This hospital had secured more
than $100 million in state financing and other
benefits from state taxpayers.
When Sen. Hiram Monserrate was con-
victed of assaulting his girlfriend, the voters’
outrage was so high that Sen. John Sampson,
the Democratic conference leader, decided to
bypass the ethics commission. He established
a public ad hoc group of senators to decide
Monserrate’s fate. We hope that it will have
the gumption to call for kicking Monserrate
out of the Legislature. Monserrate has been
raising money to pay his attorneys’ fees and
seems to have no plans to make his contribu-
tors public. He should be required to do so.
At some point, New Yorkers have to ask
themselves whether they want lawmak-
ers with outside jobs. But there is a lot that
needs to be fixed right now, including limits
on whose money legislators can accept and
rigorous public reporting requirements for
all outside income.
The corruption in Albany has to end.
of pre-trial investigation. Intel is appealing
the European decision, arguing that the Com-
mission cherry-picked evidence and relied on
emails from ill-informed low-ranking execu-
tives. And it has been talking to members of
Congress from states such as Oregon or Ari-
zona, where Intel employs more than 25,000
people in total.
A letter to the F.T.C. signed by nearly two
dozen members of Congress, Republicans and
Democrats, blasted the European fine as part
of a troublesome trend in Europe towards
regulatory protectionism.” They claimed the
chip market was highly competitive — point-
ing to a fast decline in prices — and urged
the administration to be “an advocate of the
‘American Way’.”
But the F.T.C. must focus on the issues, not
the politics. A decade of Supreme Court deci-
sions hostile to antitrust enforcement has let
monopolists get away with all sorts of abusive
behavior because consumers weren’t suffer-
ing higher prices. This approach ignores the
importance of consumer choice in high-tech
industries, which depend on competition to
provide the incentive to innovate. Competi-
tion needs competitors.
We need to be thinking about how to reduce
our footprint and our goals in Afghanistan in a
responsible way, not dig in deeper. We do not
have the Afghan partners, the NATO allies,
the domestic support, the financial resources
or the national interests to justify an enlarged
and prolonged nation-building effort.
I base this conclusion on three principles.
First, all of the moments of progress in that
part of the world have one thing in common:
America had nothing to do with it.
The Camp David treaty was not initiated by
Jimmy Carter. Rather, Anwar Sadat went to
Jerusalem in 1977 after Israel’s Moshe Dayan
held secret talks in Morocco with Sadat aide
Hassan Tuhami. Egypt and Israel decided
that they wanted a separate peace.
The Oslo peace accords started in Oslo — in
secret 1992-93 talks between the PLO repre-
sentative, Ahmed Qurei, and the Israeli pro-
fessor Yair Hirschfeld.
The U.S. surge in Iraq was militarily suc-
cessful because it was preceded by an Iraqi
uprising sparked by a Sunni tribal leader,
Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, who set out to
evict the pro-Al Qaeda thugs who had taken
over Sunni towns and were imposing a funda-
mentalist lifestyle.
The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, the
Green Revolution in Iran, and the Pakistani
decision to finally fight their own Taliban in
Waziristan were all examples of moderate,
silent majorities acting on their own.
The message: “People do not change when
we tell them they should,” said the Johns Hop-
kins University foreign policy expert Michael
Mandelbaum. “They change when they tell
themselves they must.”
And when the moderate silent majorities
take ownership of their own futures, we win.
That’s how I see Afghanistan today. I see no
moderate spark. What if we shrink our pres-
ence in Afghanistan? Won’t Al Qaeda return,
the Taliban be energized and Pakistan col-
lapse? Maybe. Maybe not. This gets to my sec-
ond principle: In the Middle East, all politics
happens the morning after the morning after.
Be patient. Yes, on the morning after, the Tal-
iban will celebrate, Pakistan will quake and
bin Laden will issue an exultant video.
And the morning after the morning after,
the Taliban factions will start fighting each
other, the Pakistani Army will have to destroy
their Taliban, or be destroyed by them, Af-
ghanistan’s warlords will carve up the coun-
try, and, if bin Laden comes out of his cave,
he’ll get zapped by a drone.
My last guiding principle: We are the world.
A strong America is what keeps the world on
a decent path. A weak America would be a di-
saster. China, Russia and Al Qaeda all love the
idea of America doing a slow bleed in Afghani-
stan. I don’t. Yes, shrinking down in Afghani-
stan will create new threats, but expanding
there will, too. I’d rather deal with the new
threats with a stronger America.
sports Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8

For Two Sluggers, It Is October of Their Lives in brief

It has been the iron law of base-
ball since the first World’s Cham-
pionship Series in 1903: good
pitching beats good hitting. And
there are plenty of good pitch-
ers among the Yankees and the
Philadelphia Phillies. There are
three Cy Young Award winners,
two World Series most valuable
players and the career leader in
postseason victories.
But there is no mistaking the
towering figures of the 105th
World Series, which starts
Wednesday night at Yankee Sta-
dium. The Yankees’ Alex Rod-
riguez and the Phillies’ Ryan
Howard are having the October
of their lives. They are prodigious
sluggers at the height of their
powers, cleanup hitters anchor-
ing power-packed lineups at the
two most homer-friendly parks
in the majors.
“I think our approaches this
postseason, as opposed to previ-
ous postseasons, are a lot better,”
Howard said. “I think both of us
are a lot more patient, both of us
are a lot more relaxed, it looks
like. I’m going out there and just
having fun, and it looks like that’s
what he’s doing as well.”
Never before has a World Se-
ries included two players who
have smashed 55 home runs in a
season. Since 2005, Howard is first
in the majors in homers and runs
batted in. Rodriguez is second in
R.B.I. and third in home runs (Al-
bert Pujols is second).
Just as Rodriguez took own-
ership of the American League
playoffs this month, Howard
dominated the National League
series. Rodriguez hit .438 with
5 homers and 12 runs batted in
against Minnesota and the Los
Angeles Angels; Howard ripped
Colorado and the Los Angeles
Dodgers for a .355 average, 2
home runs and 14 R.B.I.
“He has been huge for them,
similar to what Alex has been for
us,” Yankees Manager Joe Girar-
di said. “He’s dangerous, and he
can hit the ball out to all fields.”
So can Rodriguez, as the Phil-
lies saw when he lashed an oppo-
site-field homer off Brad Lidge
to tie a game at Yankee Stadium
on May 23. Two of Rodriguez’s
583 career home runs have come
off Cliff Lee, who starts Game 1
for the Phillies against C.C. Sa-
bathia.
Nobody is having more fun than
Rodriguez and Howard, who have
struggled in past Octobers. In his
last 17 postseason games before
this month, Rodriguez hit .148. In
the first 10 postseason games of
his career, Howard hit .200 with-
out a homer.
 TYLER KEPNER
China Bans Sprinter
HONG KONG — The fastest
woman in China, the sprinter
Wang Jing, has been barred for
life after failing a drug test, ac-
cording to the official Chinese
news agency Xinhua. Wang, 21,
from Fujian, tested positive for
elevated levels of epitestoster-
one and testosterone, according
to a meet official at the Chinese
National Games. (NYT)
Arrest in Stabbing
The University of Connecti-
cut police arrested a 21-year-old
man from Bloomfield, Conn.,
and charged him Tuesday with
murder in the stabbing death of
the Connecticut football player
Jasper Howard during a campus
fight on Oct. 18. The man, John
William Lomax III, was being
held on $2 million bail.  (NYT)

Celtics Prevail in First Test of Revamped Powers Top Pick Is Injured

CLEVELAND — Boston Celt-
ics Coach Doc Rivers did not wear
a heavy coat when he entered
Quicken Loans Arena on Tuesday
night, an indicator of the early
stage of a new N.B.A. season. His
words, though, carried a trace of
late-season plotting and position-
ing.
Even a game between the con-
ference rival Cleveland Cavaliers
on opening night can stunt or grow
future playoff seedings.
“Before the game, it means
more,” Rivers said. “After the
game, it’s one of 82.”
In that case, it is one down and
81 to go for the Celtics. In the first
act of a matchup that could re-
cycle itself deep in the Eastern
Conference’s playoffs, the Celtics
opened the season with a 95-89 vic-
tory over the Cavaliers.
In the process, they exhumed
past haunts. Cleveland wears
their homecourt advantage like a
security blanket, winning 39 of 41
games last season. Even the Celt-
ics’ championship team of two
seasons ago had trouble defeating
Cleveland here.
There were new faces to a ri-
valry restocked and renewed and
a welcomed return of Kevin Gar-
nett. After a summer of change
and a preseason of dress rehears-
als, Shaquille O’Neal officially
wore the Cavaliers’ wine and gold.
Rasheeed Wallace was featured
as the new pride of the Celtics, fin-
ishing with 12 points.
But it was a familiar figure that
rattled the Cavaliers. Paul Pierce
hit a jumper with 1 minute and 3
seconds left that clinched the vic-
tory. Pierce led the Celtics with
23 points and Ray Allen provided
16. Garnett totaled 13 points and
9 rebounds. Their contributions
helped offset LeBron James’s tal-
ly of 38 points and 8 assists. James
also recorded four blocks. O’Neal
added 10 points and 10 rebounds.
 JONATHAN ABRAMS
Blake Griffin, this year’s No. 1
overall draft pick, will be out up to
six weeks with a stress fracture in
his left kneecap, probably delay-
ing his debut with the Los Angeles
Clippers until mid-December.
 (AP)
NBa scores
TUESDAY
(Opening day)
Boston 95, Cleveland 89
Washington 102, Dallas 91
NHL scores
MONDAY’S LATE GAMES
Toronto 6, Anaheim 3
TUESDAY
Washington 4, Philadelphia 2

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yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches)
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partly cloudy,R-rain, S-sun, Sh-showers, Sn-snow, SS-
snow showers, T-thunderstorms, Tr-trace, W-windy.
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sports journal
A Voice for N.F.L. Players With Head Injuries
TAMPA, Fla. — As the presi-
dent of the Tampa Bay Bucca-
neers and the daughter of their
owner, Gay Culverhouse was the
woman in the men’s locker room.
Twenty years later, she is trying
to keep her former players out of
the emergency room.
Sitting at a restaurant here Fri-
day, she reconnected with a few
Buccaneers retirees. There was
Richard Wood, the fearsome line-
backer known as Batman whose
searing migraines and tendency
to get lost while driving near his
home leave him scared for his
future. Across the table was Scot
Brantley, an even harder hitter
through the 1980s whose short-
term memory is gone. Then there
was Brandi Winans, former wife
of Buccaneers lineman Jeff Win-
ans, who slipped into such inexpli-
cable depression, fogginess and
fury several years ago that their
marriage splintered.
Culverhouse looked at dis-
ability forms, listened to stories,
offered counsel and expressed
regret. She has done the same via
telephone for another half-dozen
former Buccaneers in their 40s or
50s who have increasing cognitive
problems. Having followed story
after story detailing how Na-
tional Football League retirees
are experiencing various forms
Martinez Bringing His Show Back to the Bronx
For 45 minutes Tuesday after-
noon, the Yankees hung over Pe-
dro Martinez. Above him dangled
a banner of Reggie Jackson. On ei-
ther side were flags adorned with
the interlocked “NY.” Television
cameras and boom microphones
hovered, waiting to capture ev-
ery pithy thought, every one-liner
Martinez cared to share about his
implausible return to baseball’s
grandest stage — a Game 2 start
in the World Series, against his old
nemesis, at Yankee Stadium.
Even if Martinez did not enjoy
all the attention surrounding his
reunion with Derek Jeter and
Company — “I’m not going to
comment about the Yankees,” he
said — he clearly preferred it to
the alternative: sitting at home in
the Dominican Republic watch-
ing friends compete for a champi-
onship. That was his lot last Octo-
ber, and over the last four months
Martinez has, almost improbably,
ascended from a midseason pick-
of dementia at several times the
national rate, and listening to the
league and its doctors cast doubt
that football played any role in
their problems, she has emerged
after 15 years to reconnect with
players and sound an alarm.
She will testify before the House
Judiciary Committee at its hear-
ing on football brain injuries on
Wednesday to, as she put it, “tell
the truth about what’s going on
while I still have the chance.”
Culverhouse has blood cancer
and renal failure and has been
told she has six months to live.
“I’ve got to see that someone
stops this debacle before it gets
any worse,” said Culverhouse, 62,
the daughter of the former own-
er Hugh Culverhouse who held
various executive positions from
1985 to 1994. “I watched our team
do anything it could to get play-
ers back on the field. We have to
make that right.”
The N.F.L. and the players
union have added programs to aid
former players since their pen-
sion and disability plans came un-
der public fire two years ago. One
helps with joint-replacement sur-
geries, another with cardiovascu-
lar health screenings. The most
prominent is the 88 Plan, which
helps pay expenses for players
with dementia. But for the hun-
up to a crucial figure in the Phil-
lies’ title defense.
With the teams’ left-handed
aces, Cliff Lee and C.C. Sabathia,
potentially canceling each other
out, the series may turn on how
well their teammates pitch. Mar-
tinez will have the first chance on
Thursday in Game 2.
“The bigger the moment, the
bigger the stage, the more he
likes it,” Phillies Manager Charlie
Manuel said, adding: “He’s used
to it and he’s done it before, and I
think he’s the guy that’s more apt
to handle it good. I think this is a
perfect setting for him.”
In starting Martinez over Cole
Hamels, the most valuable player
in the Series last year, Manuel is
taking a calculated risk, and he
explained Tuesday that he pre-
ferred breaking up his left-handed
starters.
But Manuel also gambled by
pitching Martinez, 38, coming off
a 15-day layoff, in Game 2 of the
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
dreds of those whose cognitive
decline falls short of dementia,
the industry’s disability plan has
little to offer.
A recent New York Times anal-
ysis of the plan’s 73 current mem-
bers suggested that N.F.L. retir-
ees ages 60 to 89 are experiencing
moderate to severe dementia at
several times the national rate.
A recent telephone survey spon-
sored by the N.F.L. had similar
results, corroborating findings
from several independent stud-
ies, but the league and its doctors
continue to discredit all evidence
of such a link.
“Telling the players that foot-
ball has nothing to do with it is
literally adding insult to injury,”
Culverhouse said. “It’s a joke. It’s
unconscionable.”
Culverhouse read about the
controversy, heard about how her
former lineman Tom McHale had
died at 45 with brain damage as-
sociated with boxers, and began
calling her former players.
Every former player Culver-
house called had debilitating
physical problems, she said. A
stunning portion had cognitive
ones, even in their mid-40s, and
most of them lacked the short-
term memory or concentration
required to seek medical assis-
tance.  ALAN SCHWARZ
National League Championship
Series. That afternoon, every-
thing was perfect for Martinez —
the warm weather, the spacious
dimensions of Dodger Stadium,
his command — as he silenced
Los Angeles over seven shutout
innings. Some Yankees said they
came away impressed.
“It’s amazing how good he is
and how good his command was,”
Andy Pettitte said.
Pitching in cooler weather, at
night, in a smaller ballpark and
against a more powerful Yankees
lineup will present Martinez with
new challenges — but none that he
did not encounter during intense
meetings as a member of the Red
Sox. When Martinez pitched for
Boston, fans used to swear at him
and try to fight him as he left Yan-
kee Stadium.
“You know what?” Martinez
said. “I might be the only player
that brings fear to the fans with-
out throwing a pitch.” (NYT)
9
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 4 1 11 33 31
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 1 7 1 3 21 38
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Wash. 7 2 2 16 41 32
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 6 1 7 25 37
Chiefs Bar Johnson
The Kansas City Chiefs have
barred running back Larry
Johnson from practice and all
other team activities as the club
and the N.F.L. look into com-
ments he made Monday to re-
porters in the locker room.
According to multiple reports,
Johnson — in telling reporters
to get away from him — used
a slur that referred to gays. He
used the same slur on his Twit-
ter feed. He has also posted de-
meaning remarks about Coach
Todd Haley. In a statement re-
leased through his agent, John-
son apologized for his remarks
— although in the list of people
to whom he apologized, he did
not mention gays.
Last season, Herman Ed-
wards, who was the Chiefs’
coach, benched Johnson for
three games for an unspecified
violation of team rules.
Johnson has 358 yards on 132
rushes this season.  (NYT)