F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Thursday
October 29, 2009
Midnight in New York
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Wider Authority for F.B.I. Stirs Concern clinton arrival
WASHINGTON — After a So-
mali-American teenager from
Minneapolis committed a sui-
cide bombing in Africa in 2008,
the F.B.I. began investigating
whether a Somali Islamist group
had recruited him on U.S. soil.
Agents fanned out to scrutinize
Somali communities, including
those in Seattle and Columbus,
Ohio. The operation unfolded as
the Bush administration was
relaxing domestic intelligence-
gathering rules.
The F.B.I.’s interpretation of
those rules was recently made
public when it released, in re-
sponse to a Freedom of Informa-
tion lawsuit, its “Domestic Inves-
tigations and Operations Guide.”
The disclosure has opened the
widest window yet onto how
agents have been given greater
power in the post-Sept. 11 era.
In seeking the revised rules,
the bureau said it needed greater
flexibility to hunt for would-be
terrorists. One section lays out
a low threshold to start investi-
gating a person or group as a po-
tential security threat. Another
allows agents to use ethnicity or
religion as a factor — as long as it
Vaccine Shortage Is Political Test for Obama
WASHINGTON — The mo-
ment a novel strain of swine flu
emerged in Mexico last spring,
President Obama instructed his
top advisers that his adminis-
tration would not be caught flat-
footed in the event of a deadly
pandemic. Now, despite months
of planning and preparation, a
vaccine shortage is threatening
to undermine public confidence in
government, creating a very pub-
lic test of Obama’s competence.
The shortage, caused by delays
in the vaccine manufacturing
process, has put the president in
exactly the situation he sought to
avoid — one in which questions
are being raised about the govern-
ment’s response.
Aware that the president would
be judged on how well he handled
his first major domestic emer-
gency, the Obama administra-
tion left little to chance. It built a
in pakistan met
is not the only one — when select-
ing subjects for scrutiny.
by fatal attacks
“It raises fundamental ques-
tions about whether a domestic
intelligence agency can protect
civil liberties if they feel they
have a right to collect broad per-
sonal information about people
they don’t even suspect of wrong-
doing,” said Mike German, a for-
mer F.B.I. agent who now works
for the American Civil Liberties
Union.
Valerie Caproni, the F.B.I.’s
general counsel, said the bureau
has adequate safeguards to pro-
tect civil liberties as it looks for
people who could pose a threat.
“The F.B.I. has been told that we
need to determine who poses a
threat to the national security —
not simply to investigate persons
who have come onto our radar
screen.”
The manual authorizes agents
to open an “assessment” to “pro-
actively” seek information about
whether people or organizations
are involved in national secu-
rity threats. Agents may begin
such assessments against a tar-
get without a particular factual
justification. The basis for such
new Web site, Flu.gov — a sort of
one-stop shopping for information
about H1N1, the swine flu virus.
It staged role-playing exercises
for public health officials and the
news media.
It commissioned public service
announcements, featuring the
fuzzy Sesame Street characters,
Elmo and Rosita, singing in Eng-
lish and Spanish about “the right
way to sneeze.” The president
added a swine flu update to his
regular intelligence briefing — he
also receives an in-depth biweekly
memorandum on the prevalence
of the disease worldwide and in
the United States — and appeared
in the Rose Garden to urge Ameri-
cans to wash their hands.
Early on, Obama told his aides
he wanted them to “learn from
past mistakes,” said John O. Bren-
nan, Obama’s Homeland Security
adviser, who has been coordinat-
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an inquiry “cannot be arbitrary
or groundless speculation,” the
manual says, but the standard is
“difficult to define.”
Assessments permit agents
to use potentially intrusive tech-
niques, like sending confidential
informants to infiltrate organi-
zations and following and photo-
graphing targets in public.
F.B.I. agents previously had
similar powers when looking for
potential criminal activity. But
until the recent changes, greater
justification was required to use
the powers in national security
investigations because they re-
ceive less judicial oversight.
Farhana Khera, president of
Muslim Advocates, said that
the F.B.I. was harassing Mus-
lim-Americans. Her group was
among those that sued the F.B.I.
to release the manual.
Caproni cited the search for
signs of the Somali group, Al
Shabaab, to illustrate why the
manual allows agents to consider
ethnicity. In that case, the bureau
worried that other such teenag-
ers might return from Somalia to
carry out domestic operations.
CHARLIE SAVAGE
ing the flu-preparedness effort.
Obama and his top aides studied
earlier flu outbreaks, including
one in 2004, when a vaccine short-
age created a political problem
for President George W. Bush,
and another in 1976, when Presi-
dent Gerald R. Ford ordered a
mass vaccination campaign for
an epidemic that never material-
ized — and faced criticism for it.
Now, with officials at the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention reporting that H1N1
is widespread in 46 states, public
health experts and leading sena-
tors are giving the Obama admin-
istration only mixed grades.
“I would give them a B for per-
formance so far,” said Dr. Eric
Toner, a senior associate at the
Center for Biosecurity at the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh Medical
Center, who has advised the ad-
ministration. (NYT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Tal-
iban militants in Pakistan and Af-
ghanistan punctuated Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
arrival with deadly attacks on
Wednesday, underscoring their
ability to cause chaos even in the
face of offensives on both sides of
the border.
In Pakistan, a car bomb tore
through a congested market in
Peshawar, killing as many as 101
people, many of them women and
children. The authorities said the
attack was the country’s most se-
rious in two years, and the deadli-
est ever in Peshawar, which has
become a front line for Taliban
efforts to destabilize the govern-
ment.
In Kabul, Taliban suicide
bombers stormed a guesthouse,
killing five U.N. employees and
three other people. The attack
was meant to scare Afghans
away from voting in a runoff elec-
tion on Nov. 7 between President
Hamid Karzai and his challeng-
er, Abdullah Abdullah, a Taliban
spokesman said.
The violence cast a shadow
over the visit of Clinton, who
was meeting with government
ministers in Islamabad, 90 miles
southwest of Peshawar, when
news of the explosion came over
television screens. Clinton imme-
diately condemned the bombing,
which in killing women and chil-
dren seemed aimed at the very
constituencies she has champi-
oned in her travels to other devel-
oping countries.
“These attacks on innocent
people are cowardly; they are not
courageous, they are cowardly,”
Clinton said at a news conference
with the Pakistani foreign minis-
ter. “They know they are on the
losing side of history,” she said of
the militants. “But they are deter-
mined to take as many lives with
them as their movement is finally
exposed for the nihilistic, empty
effort it is.” MARK LANDLER
and ISMAIL KHAN
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Corruption Undermines Fragile Iraqi State
BAGHDAD — As Iraqi offi-
cials work to assign blame for
the attacks on the heart of the
government on Sunday, concern
is rising that a greater security
threat may come from within
the system in the form of corrup-
tion.
A recent report by the inspec-
tor general of the Interior Min-
istry specifically mentions the
bribery of checkpoint guards:
The blast on Sunday at the Jus-
tice Ministry, surrounded by
checkpoints, killed nearly 160
people, while a similar attack
in August on the Foreign and Fi-
nance Ministries killed at least
122.
“These car bombs didn’t come
from the sky!” said Judge Abdul
Sattar al-Beiriqdar, spokesman
for the Higher Judicial Council.
“They must have been driven in
streets until they reached their
target. If there were no corrup-
tion, the attackers wouldn’t risk
passing through these check-
U.S. Quietly Aids Pakistani Drives on Taliban
WASHINGTON — Even as
the Pakistani government plays
down the U.S. role in its military
operations in Taliban-controlled
areas, the United States has qui-
etly rushed hundreds of millions
of dollars in arms, equipment and
sophisticated sensors to Paki-
stani forces in recent months, of-
ficials said.
During preparations this
spring for the Pakistani offen-
sives in Swat and South Wa-
ziristan, President Obama per-
sonally intervened at the request
of Pakistan’s top army general
to speed the delivery of 10 Mi-17
troop transport helicopters. Pen-
tagon officials have also hurried
In Cancún, Police Officers Picked the Wrong Tourist for Their ‘Little Bite’
MEXICO CITY — “Piece of
cake,” the three police officers
might have thought when they
spied the rental car with five
American tourists on the main
drag of Cancún’s hotel zone.
They pulled the car over and
told the driver, Scott Fischbach,
that he was going about a mile an
hour over the speed limit, recalled
his wife, Michelle Fischbach. One
of the officers then cupped his
hands and asked Fischbach to
points.”
But the corruption runs much
deeper, endangering the fragile
sense of security in Iraq, with se-
curity services that seem aimed
as much at enriching themselves
as protecting Iraqis, according
to dozens of interviews with po-
lice officers and officials.
“Corruption is a phenomenon
that forms a real threat to the
structure of the state,” said
Jawad Bolani, the interior minis-
ter. His ministry is Iraq’s second
largest, employing one of every
four Iraqis working in the public
sector, which accounts for a vast
majority of the jobs in Iraq.
Contracts are manipulated
and fudged to wring personal
profit. Police officers are told
they are fired even as command-
ers continue to take their pay.
Criminals and insurgents are
freed with a well-placed bribe,
criminal records are expunged
for payment, detainees are
abused by guards in order to ex-
spare parts for Cobra helicopter
gunships, night vision goggles,
body armor and eavesdropping
equipment to the fight.
U.S. surveillance drones are
feeding video images and target
information to Pakistani ground
commanders, and the Penta-
gon has provided the Pakistani
Air Force with high-resolution,
infrared sensors for F-16 war-
planes, which Pakistan is using to
guide bomb attacks on militants’
strongholds in South Waziristan.
In addition, the number of Spe-
cial Forces soldiers and support
personnel who are training and
advising Pakistani Army and
paramilitary troops has doubled
blow into them.
“This was their Breathalyz-
er,” said Mrs. Fischbach. “They
tried very hard, but Scott doesn’t
drink.” The police took his driver’s
license and told him they would
take him to jail unless he came up
with $300. The patrol car escorted
the family back to the hotel, where
she says the group of relatives
came up with the money.
What the police may not have
expected, however, was that Mrs.
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tort money from relatives.
Beyond the outright financial
corruption, there is also political
corruption, where the parties vy-
ing for power here look to secure
the loyalty of large chunks of the
security apparatus, according to
Iraqi and Western officials.
“Our brigade commander
steals $34,000 out of the $41,000
allocated monthly for the food,”
said one police officer. “He re-
placed our battalion commander
four times because they were not
cooperating with him.”
Another officer described how
there are people on the payroll
who never show up for work, but
come only to get their pay, which
they share with their patron.
“Every officer with the rank of
a colonel or higher has at least 10
policemen from whom he takes
all or part of their salaries,” said
the officer. “We call those police-
men ‘fadhaei,’ ” which translate
roughly as aliens from outer
space.  MARC SANTORA
in the past eight months, to as
many as 150, a U.S. adviser said.
The Americans do not conduct
combat operations.
Pakistani officials are loath to
publicize the aid because of deep-
seated anti-American sentiment
in Pakistan. And they privately
express frustration about the
pace and types of assistance,
which totals about $1.5 billion this
year.
Hasan Askari Rizvi, a military
analyst in Lahore, said that pub-
licly acknowledging the military
aid — an open secret in Pakistan
— could hand militants fresh am-
munition for propaganda.
 ERIC SCHMITT
Fischbach was a state senator —
or that she would complain so ef-
fectively.
On Wednesday, the episode
made front-page news in Mexico
after Cancún officials released
the information, some eight
months after the event took place.
(Yes, those police officers were
fired long ago.)
And in Paynesville, Minn., the
Fischbachs got a check in the
mail from the Cancún city gov-
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in brief
Attack on U.N.
The guests were sleeping when
the gunmen, in police uniforms,
arrived early Wednesday. They
shot the guards, scaled the gate
of the guest house and began fir-
ing grenades, the beginning of
a two-hour siege in Kabul. By
the end of the siege, at least five
U.N. employees, two Afghan se-
curity officials and the brother-
in-law of an Afghan politician
were dead, as were the three at-
tackers. The strike was the big-
gest on the United Nations in Af-
ghanistan in its half-century of
work here and sent the organiza-
tion into lockdown. (NYT)
Scholar Punished
An Iranian-American scholar,
Kian Tajbakhsh, who has been
jailed in Iran since July and was
sentenced last week to 15 years
in prison, has been transferred
into solitary confinement, a fam-
ily member said. He was arrest-
ed after protests broke out fol-
lowing the disputed June 12 elec-
tion. On Wednesday, state televi-
sion reported that Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei said that questioning
the results of the election was
“the biggest crime.”  (NYT)
Pirates Captured
The ordeal of a seafaring Brit-
ish couple thought to have been
seized by Somali pirates took a
new turn on Wednesday after
European Union naval officials
said they had captured seven pi-
rates. A man who has acted as a
spokesman for the pirates said
the pirates were part of a 10-per-
son contingent that kidnapped
the couple days earlier.  (NYT)
ernment.
The transit officer’s “mordida,”
or little bite, is standard in Mex-
ico, but most violations usually
cost no more than $50.
When Mrs. Fischbach returned
home, she wrote a letter to Grego-
rio Sánchez Martinez, Cancún’s
mayor, mentioning her position
as a state legislator.
“I personally attended to it,”
Sanchez said.
ELISABETH MALKIN
national
Pelosi Changes Course on a Public Option
WASHINGTON — Under pres-
sure from moderate-to-conserva-
tive members of the House Dem-
ocratic caucus, Speaker Nancy
Pelosi has decided to propose a
government-run insurance plan
that would negotiate rates with
doctors and hospitals, rather than
using prices set by the govern-
ment, aides said Wednesday.
Pelosi said the public plan,
which she prefers to call a “con-
sumer option,” would compete
with private insurers. But the
speaker was apparently unable
to muster the votes needed for the
“robust” liberal version of a pub-
lic plan, which she has repeatedly
said would save more money for
consumers and the government.
Members of the House Demo-
cratic leadership team offered
these details of their bill, to be
unveiled on Thursday. It would
provide coverage to 35 million
or 36 million people. The 10-year
cost of expanding coverage
would be less than the $900 billion
With a Veto Message, Schwarzenegger Gets Even
SAN FRANCISCO — Oh, Ar-
nold.
In an apparent effort to infuse
the dry work of government with
a dash of manly brio, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger recently issued
a veto statement that contained
a message — and not a nice mes-
sage — that some interpret as a
put-down of the bill’s author.
The message can be seen only
by a careful reading of the print-
ed version of the veto statement.
By taking the first letter of each
line, beginning with the third line,
two words emerge: The first is
obscene; the second is “you.”
There is history here, of course.
The bill in question, which would
Roy DeCarava, Influential Photographer, Dies at 89
Roy DeCarava, the child of a
single mother in Harlem who
turned that neighborhood into his
canvas, becoming one of the most
important photographers of his
generation by chronicling the
lives of its ordinary people and
its jazz giants, died on Tuesday in
Manhattan. He was 89 and lived
in Brooklyn.
Over a career of almost 60
years, DeCarava — who fiercely
guarded the manner in which his
ceiling suggested by President
Obama. The cost would be offset
by new taxes and by cutbacks in
Medicare, so the bill would not in-
crease the federal budget deficit
in the next 10 years or in the de-
cade after that.
The new bill, like an earlier
version, retains a surtax on high-
income people, but increases the
thresholds. The tax would hit
married couples with adjusted
gross incomes exceeding $1 mil-
lion a year and individuals over
$500,000 — just three-tenths of 1
percent of all households, Demo-
crats said. Pelosi can describe
the proposal as a “millionaires’
tax.” The original thresholds
were $280,000 for individuals and
$350,000 for couples.
The government insurance
plan would negotiate rates with
doctors and hospitals, as private
insurers do. Payments would not
be based on Medicare rates, as
Pelosi had wanted. Democrats
from rural areas balked at the
have assisted financing for proj-
ects along the San Francisco
waterfront, was sponsored by
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano,
a Democrat from the city who
recently heckled the governor
at a Democratic gala here after
Schwarzenegger, a Republican,
unexpectedly decided to speak at
the event.
Ammiano, who is gay and was
upset over cuts to state-financed
AIDS programs, shouted at the
governor, calling him a liar. Am-
miano also apparently shouted
another — more vulgar — insult.
Aaron McLear, the governor’s
spokesman, offered a kind of de-
nial of the hidden message, which
work was exhibited and whose
visibility in the art world re-
mained low for decades — came
to be regarded as the founder of
a school of African-American
photography that broke with the
social documentary traditions of
his time.
“I do not want a documentary
or sociological statement,” he
wrote in his application for a
Guggenheim fellowship, which
he won in 1952. His goal was “a
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use of Medicare rates, saying
they were so low that hospitals
could not survive on them.
House Democratic leaders
will hold a rally at the Capitol
on Thursday to promote the bill.
They hope to take it to the House
floor next week, with a final vote
before Veterans Day, Nov. 11.
Scores of lobbyists were “cor-
dially invited” to attend the rally
in e-mail messages sent Wednes-
day by Pelosi. The Senate major-
ity leader, Harry Reid, Democrat
of Nevada, announced Monday
that he too had decided to include
a government plan, with negoti-
ated rates, in the bill he intends to
take to the Senate floor for weeks
of debate.
House Democrats do not have
firm commitments from enough
lawmakers to guarantee passage
of their bill at the moment. But
their aggressive schedule sug-
gests they are confident they can
round up the votes they need.
 ROBERT PEAR
was first reported by The San
Francisco Bay Guardian.
“It was just a weird coinci-
dence,” McLear said in an e-mail
message. “I suppose when you do
so many vetoes, something like
this is bound to happen.”
A spokesman for Ammiano
said that his boss did not mind the
hidden message, just the veto.
“Kudos to the governor for his
creative use of coincidence with
his veto message,” the spokes-
man, Quintin Mecke, said in an e-
mail message. Mecke added, “We
will call it even and start with a
clean slate with the governor
from here on out.”
JESSE McKINLEY
creative expression, the kind of
penetrating insight and under-
standing of Negroes which I be-
lieve only a Negro photographer
can interpret.”
His books, like “The Sweet Fly-
paper of Life” a collaboration
with Langston Hughes, and his
famous photographs — a girl in a
graduation dress heading down a
shadowed street; a stage portrait
of John Coltrane — were hugely
influential. RANDY KENNEDY
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in brief
Mayor Convicted
Larry Langford, the contro-
versial and flamboyant may-
or of Birmingham, Ala., was
convicted of multiple counts of
bribery in a federal corruption
trial in Tuscaloosa on Wednes-
day. A jury took less than two
hours to determine that as pres-
ident of the Jefferson County
Commission, Langford accept-
ed more than $230,000 in cash,
expensive clothing and jewelry
in exchange for steering $7.1
million in county bond busi-
ness to a prominent investment
banker. The bonds and debt re-
structuring destabilized the fi-
nances of the county, which in-
cludes Birmingham, and its
sewer system, helping to push
the county to the brink of bank-
ruptcy last year.  (NYT)
School Vaccination
Has Few Takers
Fewer than half of New York
City parents with children in
elementary school have given
permission for their children
to receive the swine flu vaccine
at school, reflecting some am-
bivalence about the need for the
vaccine or concern about its ef-
fects. At Public School 157 in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,
where health officials opened
their public school vaccination
campaign on Wednesday, only
a third of students had permis-
sion to receive it. Some parents
may assume that if their chil-
dren contracted swine flu in the
spring, they were now immune,
a belief supported by most flu
experts.  (NYT)
Test of New Rocket
On Wednesday, for the first
time since 1981, a rocket that
was not a space shuttle took
off from a launching pad at the
Kennedy Space Center at Cape
Canaveral. With a clearing in a
partly cloudy sky, the Ares I-X
rocket — a prototype of NASA’s
next-generation Ares I rocket —
zipped off at 11:30 a.m., heading
east over the Atlantic Ocean. As
tall as a 32-story building but
with a first stage only 12 feet
wide, the Ares I-X looked skinny
and top-heavy. Yet it flew as en-
visioned.  (NYT)
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Google’s Free GPS for Phones Undercuts Rivals
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. —
GPS navigation devices were the
latest must-have tech toy just two
years ago, and shares of device
makers like Garmin and Tom-
Tom were soaring.
That didn’t last long. In a turn-
about that has been remarkably
swift even for the fast-moving
technology business, those com-
panies have suffered as competi-
tion has pulled down prices — and
as more people have turned to
their cellphones for directions.
In the latest blow to the busi-
ness, Google announced a free
navigation service for mobile
phones on Wednesday that will
offer turn-by-turn directions, live
traffic updates and the ability to
recognize voice commands. The
service will initially be available
on only one phone, the new Motor-
3rd Rescue Is Considered to Shore Up GMAC
It might seem like a lot of cash
for one supersize clunker, a good-
money-after-bad attempt to
jumpstart a broken-down giant of
Detroit.
But as the Obama administra-
tion contemplates a third rescue
of GMAC, the onetime finance
arm of General Motors, federal
officials, automotive executives
and analysts all say the company
is — just like the biggest Wall
Street firms — too big to fail.
Despite two taxpayer-financed
bailouts, GMAC is still struggling,
even as its two biggest customers,
General Motors and Chrysler,
have put bankruptcy behind
Strategy of Motorola’s New Chief Is Poised to Pay Off
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. —Sanjay
Jha’s honeymoon as co-chief ex-
ecutive at Motorola lasted just a
few minutes into his first meeting
with employees in 2008.
“Why should we trust you?”
one employee blurted. The frus-
tration was understandable.
Motorola, which pioneered cell-
phones and built such consumer
favorites as the StarTac and the
Razr, had not had a hit phone in
years, and a succession of leaders
could not find one.
Jha, 46, an engineer who
worked his way up at Qualcomm
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ola Droid, but will be expanded to
more phones soon.
In a briefing on Tuesday in
advance of its announcement,
Google said that the service
might be supported by advertise-
ments in the future. That would
make driving directions the lat-
est form of information to shift
from being a paid service to one
that is ad-supported.
“This is consistent with a cer-
tain pattern of Google, where
they are able to build volume
and usage of a product and then
subsidize it with advertising,”
said Greg Sterling, principal of
Sterling Market Intelligent, a re-
search firm.
The losers, he said, were com-
panies like TomTom and Garmin,
along with the cellphone carriers,
which offer navigation services
them.
While the collapse of GMAC
probably would not send shock
waves through the financial sys-
tem the way the failure of a giant
bank would, it would nonetheless
deal a devastating blow to the
auto industry, its suppliers and
employees.
GMAC, which lends money
to buyers of G.M. and Chrysler
vehicles, is racing to shore up its
finances before a crucial Nov. 9
deadline when federal regulators
will evaluate its financial health.
In a prelude to what is likely to
be another direct government res-
cue, GMAC borrowed $2.9 billion
from a chip designer to the No.
3 executive, answered the chal-
lenge, saying employees should
not take him on faith but watch
what he did.
Jha also knew he had only a
year to deliver new handsets that
could go head to head with Ap-
ple’s iPhone if he had any hope of
retaining the trust of Motorola’s
employees, investors and cus-
tomers. “If I didn’t have smart-
phones in the market for Christ-
mas of ’09, this business wouldn’t
have a runway,” he said.
Jha does not have Motorola
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by subscription.
Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief
executive, said that he didn’t
view the new service as hurting
an industry. Instead, he said, it is
a boon to consumers, made pos-
sible by the increasing power of
smartphones and the growing
ubiquity of Internet access.
“Obviously we like the price of
free, because consumers like that
as well,” he said.
But analysts say that if suc-
cessful, Google’s service could
chip away at sales of stand-alone
GPS devices and subscription
navigation services offered by
cellphone carriers.
Google’s announcement also
reflects a broader shift toward
consolidation in the gadget world.
 JENNA WORTHAM
 and MIGUEL HELFT
in the bond market on Wednesday
with the backing of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
But that money probably will
not be enough to plug all the holes
at GMAC, whose disastrous foray
into subprime mortgages pushed
the company to the brink of bank-
ruptcy. GMAC is seeking as much
as $5.6 billion in taxpayer money,
on top of the $12.5 it received in
two previous installments along
with the growth in its lending re-
sponsibilities.
The government has already
pumped more into GMAC than it
did into Chrysler’s car business.
 ERIC DASH
flying again, but he at least has it
poised for a takeoff. On Wednes-
day, Verizon Wireless introduced
Motorola’s new Droid smart-
phone, which is nearly as thin
as an iPhone but with a bigger
screen and a slide-out keyboard.
T-Mobile has started selling
another Motorola smartphone
called the Cliq.
“Motorola is a different place
than it was a year ago,” said Paul
E. Cole, T-Mobile’s vice president
for product development. “San-
jay has done a spectacular job.”
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G.M. Claims Gains
DETROIT — General Motors
executives said Wednesday that
October would be its third con-
secutive month of market share
gains, proof that consumers were
returning to its showrooms after
G.M.’s humbling tour through
bankruptcy court this summer.
The company will reveal more
about its financial condition this
week. (NYT)
business
Spitzer Lieutenant Takes a Different Course
Eric R. Dinallo was once one of
Eliot Spitzer’s right-hand men.
He is credited with dusting off
the Martin Act, the sweeping New
York state securities law, and de-
vising a way for Spitzer to use it
to prosecute Wall Street corrup-
tion and make a national name as
state attorney general.
And it was Dinallo, as the head
of the investor protection bureau
in the attorney general’s office,
who oversaw the case against
Henry Blodgett and other securi-
ties analysts who hyped stocks to
curry favor with their firms’ in-
vestment banking clients.
So one might expect now that
he is running for attorney general
himself, Dinallo, 46, would take up
the role as scourge of Wall Street.
But along with the obvious prob-
lem — being one of Spitzer’s men
does not have the cachet it once
did — Dinallo does not want to be
mistaken for the second coming
of Spitzer.
He envisions a less combative
relationship with Wall Street and
thinks that systemic reforms
are best handled in Washington.
Since declaring his candidacy in
August, Dinallo has won support
from some of Spitzer’s most fer-
vent foes, including Richard A.
Grasso, the former head of the
New York Stock Exchange, and
Kenneth G. Langone, a founder
of Home Depot who sat on the
stock exchange’s board. He even
expresses reservations about his
old boss’s case against Grasso
over his lofty pay.
“It would be easy in these times
to only rail against the evils that
have been, but that would sweep
too broadly and do real harm,”
said Dinallo, a Democrat. “We
don’t want to kill Wall Street, but
we do want to learn from what
happened.”
Of course, the whole notion
of a Democrat running for New
York’s attorney general next
year is complicated, because An-
drew M. Cuomo, a highly popular
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Democrat, already holds the job.
Dinallo is assuming that Cuomo
will run for governor next year to
supplant a faltering Gov. David
A. Paterson.
A changing of the guard would
be closely watched. Under Spitzer
and then Cuomo, the New York at-
torney general’s office has often
picked up where the Securities
and Exchange Commission did
not venture.
Few regulators were more
despised than Spitzer on Wall
Street.
But there is a division among
state officials over how vigor-
ously New York’s attorney gen-
eral should batter Wall Street.
On the one hand, there has been
outrage across the country at
the enormous bill for the rescue
of Wall Street. On the other hand,
New York depends on Wall Street
for about a fifth of the state’s rev-
enue, and its latest troubles have
depleted the state’s coffers.
 DANNY HAKIM
5
in brief
US Airways Cuts
US Airways will reduce
routes and cut 1,000 jobs start-
ing next year in a plan that will
leave it focused on its four key
hubs. The airline says the job
cuts will happen in the first half
of 2010. Once the changes are
made, US Airways Group Inc.
will do 99 percent of its flying
through four hubs in Philadel-
phia; Phoenix; Charlotte, N.C.;
and Washington.  (AP)
Law Firm Merger
Two international law firms
are in high-level merger talks in
a move that would create a behe-
moth with 2,500 lawyers, an indi-
vidual with knowledge of the dis-
cussions said on Wednesday. To-
gether, the two firms — Hogan
& Hartson, based in Washington,
and Lovells, in London — would
probably be one of the top 10 law
firms in the world. (NYT)
journal Thursday, October 29, 2009 6

In the West Bank, Gloom Gives Way to Joy on the Soccer Field
AL RAM, West Bank — Given the sheer imparted a collective sense of achievement demonstrate together. Sometimes she takes
exhilaration of the cheering, flag waving, that had eluded their male compatriots for a the place of the man because he is in jail or is
anthem singing crowd packed into the soccer long time. in the mountains, hiding.”
stadium in this otherwise drab West Bank With the peace process stalled and the This game, she said, proved that “Pal-
town one afternoon this week, one could have Palestinian polity divided, the atmosphere estinian women can do everything — even
been forgiven for thinking that an indepen- is generally dour. Yet the game turned into football.”
dent Palestinian state had just been born. an exuberant carnival of social liberation In Al Ram, just north of Jerusalem, signs
The Palestinians were playing the Jor- and national pride. The line between the dual of the Israeli occupation are never far away.
danians. But more significant was that the quests for equality and statehood became The stadium sits half a block from Israel’s
women’s teams were playing, and for the increasingly blurred as the women chased West Bank separation barrier. Though it is
Palestinian side it was the first international the ball. made up mostly of a fence, barbed wire and
match played outdoors at home. “In our culture,” said Rukayya Takrori, 50, ditches, here in this urban environment it
In front of a roaring crowd of at least 10,000 the Palestinian team’s manager, “Palestin- takes the form of a high, seemingly endless
— about three-quarters women and a quar- ian women work side by side with the men in concrete wall. To enter Jerusalem, West
ter equally enthusiastic men — the players the fields and factories. They fight together, Bank residents must have special permits
and pass through the nearby Kalandia
crossword Edited By Will Shortz checkpoint, a gray, prisonlike crossing of
turnstiles and watchtowers. On Sunday, an
PUZZLE BY JOE KROZEL
Israeli security guard on duty there was
ACROSS 45 Mass ender? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
stabbed and wounded by a young Palestinian
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khans designer 14 15 16 woman.
5 Punts, e.g.
But at Monday’s soccer game, Palestin-
49 Made a switch
in a game
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ians came together in a more peaceful en-
10 Maintain
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14 Joining of 52 Carriers of arms
opposite sides
the event clearly bore the stamp of the non-
53 Beethoven
dedicatee
23 24 25
Islamist, nationalist camp that holds sway in
15 First word of the
Lord’s Prayer in 26 27 the West Bank.
54 Has been
French around since, Watching over the players on the field
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were huge posters of the Palestinian leader
17 ___ perpetuum 57 Bomb 34 35 36 37 38 Yasir Arafat and his successor, Mahmoud
(let it be
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60 Went after
18 Sinclair Lewis
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novel 61 Tag words minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam
20 Setting piece 62 “Doctor Who” 49 50 51 52
Fayyad.
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feature 63 Italian rumbler 57 58 59
world, also sent a representative, in a salute
24 Rankle 64 Big ados to the Palestinian commitment to the sport.
60 61 62
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sorties 63 64 65
though one Palestinian and a few of the Jor-
28 Half of bi-
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34 Wind element products evidence? hem. The youngest player, Aya Khatib, 14, is
27 Charles and 44 Fleischer and
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others
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editorials of the timeS
Ongoing Agony of the Banks
It is hardly surprising that GMAC, the con-
sumer finance company, is circling back to
the government for a third helping of taxpayer
money. GMAC is struggling under the double
whammy of bad car loans and the fallout from
its misguided foray into mortgage finance at
the height of the housing bubble. After the gov-
ernment applied stress tests to the banks last
May, GMAC was the only big bank that could
not raise the capital it was deemed to need.
Still, GMAC’s return to the public trough —
where it expects to get up to $5.6 billion on top
of the $12.5 billion it has received since Decem-
ber — should serve as a reminder that much
of the American banking system is nowhere
near where it needs to be despite hundreds of
billions of dollars doled out by the Treasury.
If the federal government’s strategy to save
the banks was meant to get them back into the
business of lending to American consumers
and businesses, it has not worked yet.
GMAC’s sorry state is bad enough news for
Main Street. It is the main source of financ-
ing for General Motors and Chrysler dealers
around the country. That means it is virtually
assured to get the additional money it needs
for the same reason that the government
bailed out the automakers and then gave them
the windfall profits of the cash-for-clunkers
initiative: too many auto-sector jobs are on
the line.
But GMAC is hardly the only hobbled big
bank in the country. Bank of America report-
A Watershed Decision
The decision by Chesapeake Energy Corp.
not to drill for natural gas in New York City’s
watershed is a smart and welcome move on
the company’s part, and very good news for
the 8.2 million New York City residents who
depend on this environmentally sensitive re-
gion for their drinking water.
The threat has not, however, disappeared.
Chesapeake is believed to be the only lease-
holder in the watershed, but its decision is
not binding on other companies. New York
State needs to adopt regulations that place
the watershed permanently off limits, while
imposing the strictest possible safeguards on
drilling anywhere else where drinking water
supplies might be affected.
The process of extracting gas from shale,
known as hydraulic fracturing, requires
shooting a mix of water, sand and chemicals
into the ground at high pressure. While pend-
ing state regulations would require drillers
to take special precautions in the watershed,
there are too many points in the process
where toxic chemicals could escape into the
water supplies.
Chesapeake decided against drilling there
mainly for business reasons. Its plans had al-
ready drawn stiff opposition from some poli-
ticians. Any accidental contamination would
ed a $1 billion loss in the last quarter and is still
limping along, dragged down by its bloated
portfolio of bad loans. Citigroup relied on ac-
counting gymnastics and a dubious decision to
stockpile few reserves against potential loan
losses in order to make a $100 million profit.
The mere fact that these banks are still go-
ing concerns is because of the government’s
willingness to ply them with cash. But neither
is lending much.
The banks that do have the financial where-
withal — like Goldman Sachs and JPMor-
gan Chase, which made combined profits of
nearly $7 billion in the third quarter — are not
making their money through lending. They
are making it from trading complex financial
products that few people understand.
Meanwhile, sectors of the economy are
being starved of credit. Consumer credit by
commercial banks stood at $834 billion in Au-
gust — about $45 billion less than at the end
of last year. Business financing is doing no
better. Banks’ outstanding commercial and
industrial loans fell to $1.411 trillion in Sep-
tember, $170 billion less than a year earlier.
Commercial paper issued by nonfinancial
businesses has plummeted 40 percent over
the last year.
This will not do. It is impossible for econom-
ic recovery to take hold when credit is sputter-
ing as it is. For the Obama administration’s
financial strategy to be a success, the banks
must lend again.
create a huge environmental and public rela-
tions headache.
The company hasn’t given up all that much.
The one million acres northwest of New York
City that comprise the watershed contain less
than one-tenth of the rich deposits of natural
gas lodged in the state’s portion of the Marcel-
lus Shale, a layer of rock that runs from West
Virginia to New York.
New York State officials, who have eagerly
embraced drilling as one answer to upstate
New York’s economic woes, recently issued
800 pages of proposed regulations to govern
drilling in the Marcellus Shale. They insisted
the rules were tough enough to prevent acci-
dents. Now Chesapeake has decided that it is
unwilling to take the risks.
Chesapeake’s decision also undercuts one
of Albany’s main fears: that companies with
leases to exploit mineral rights in the water-
shed would sue if the state denied them the
opportunity to do so. Chesapeake has decided
that it won’t even try to exercise that right.
And its chief executive, Aubrey McClendon,
told The Times that he didn’t expect any other
company “would dare” to acquire leases in the
watershed. All in all, Albany has no remaining
excuse not to declare the New York City wa-
tershed, once and forever, a drill-free zone.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 7
nicholas d. kristof
Schools, Not Guns
One of the most compelling arguments
against more troops in Afghanistan rests on
this stunning trade-off: For the cost of a single
additional soldier stationed in Afghanistan for
one year, we could build roughly 20 schools
there.
The hawks respond: It’s impossible to build
schools now because the Taliban will blow
them up. In fact, it’s still quite possible to op-
erate schools in Afghanistan — particularly
when there’s a strong “buy-in” from the local
community.
Greg Mortenson, author of “Three Cups of
Tea,” has built 39 schools in Afghanistan and
92 in Pakistan, and not one has been burned or
closed. CARE has 295 schools educating 50,000
girls in Afghanistan, and not a single one has
been closed or burned by the Taliban. The Af-
ghan Institute of Learning, another aid group,
has 32 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan,
with none closed by the Taliban.
In short, there is still a vast scope for great-
er investment in education, health and agri-
culture in Afghanistan. These have a better
record at stabilizing societies than military
solutions.
Matthew P. Hoh, a U.S. military veteran
who was the top civilian officer in Zabul Prov-
ince, resigned over Afghan policy. He argues
that our military presence is feeding the in-
surgency, not quelling it.
Schools are not a quick fix, but we have
abundant evidence that they can, over time,
transform countries. In the area near Afghan-
istan there’s a nice natural experiment in the
comparative power of educational versus
military tools.
Since 9/11, the United States has spent $15
billion in Pakistan, mostly on military sup-
port, and today Pakistan is more unstable
than ever. In contrast, Bangladesh has fo-
cused on education. Bangladesh now has
more girls in high school than boys. (In con-
trast, only 3 percent of Pakistani women in the
tribal areas are literate.)
Educated Bangladeshi women have joined
the labor force, laying the foundation for a
garment industry and working in civil society
groups. That has led to a virtuous spiral of de-
velopment, jobs, lower birth rates, education
and stability. That’s one reason Al Qaeda is
holed up in Pakistan, not in Bangladesh, and
it’s a reminder that education can transform
societies.
When I travel in Pakistan, I see evidence
that Islamic extremists believe in the trans-
formative power of education. They pay for
madrassas that provide free schooling and
often free meals for students. They then of-
fer scholarships for the best pupils to study
abroad in Wahhabi madrassas before return-
ing to become leaders of their communities.
What I don’t see on my trips is similar num-
bers of American-backed schools. It breaks
my heart that we don’t invest in schools as
much as medieval, misogynist extremists.
sports Thursday, October 29, 2009 8

Lee Goes Distance as Phils Throttle Yanks in brief

When the Philadelphia Phillies
traded for Cliff Lee in July, there
was no playoff data to explore, no
highlights of Lee striking out the
cleanup man or fielding bouncers
behind his back. Lee had pitched
for the last team to win a postsea-
son series at the old Yankee Sta-
dium, but he was not even on the
roster.
In the two years since, Lee has
taken to the Bronx as few visitors
have. He started the final All-Star
Game at the old Stadium, won
the opener of the new place in
April and made its World Series
debut his personal showcase on
Wednesday night.
Lee carved the Yankees with
the precision of a master chef, al-
lowing six hits and an unearned
run in a 6-1 victory. Chase Utley
homered twice off C.C. Sabathia,
Lee’s former Cleveland team-
mate, who allowed no other runs
N.F.L. Is Scolded Over Players’ Brain Injuries
WASHINGTON — The com-
missioner of the N.F.L. faced
heated criticism on Wednesday
before the House Judiciary Com-
mittee, with lawmakers, former
players and even a former team
executive accusing the league of
neglect in its handling of active
and retired players with brain
injuries.
With evidence mounting of
a link between playing profes-
sional football and cognitive im-
pairment in later life, and news
reports of poor medical treat-
ment for some former players
with dementia and other signs
of mental decline, the commit-
and just two other hits in seven
innings.
Sabathia was very good, but
Lee was outstanding. The Phil-
lies did not warm up a reliever
until the ninth, when the Yankees
scored on a throwing error by
Jimmy Rollins. Lee struck out 10
with no walks, and his earned run
average in four postseason starts
is 0.54.
“I was told that you’d have to
pry the ball out of his hand to get
him off the field,” General Man-
ager Ruben Amaro Jr. said last
week. “You couple that with the
kind of talent that he has, and it’s
a pretty good fit.”
The Phillies have won the open-
ing game of their last six postsea-
son series, including all three last
season, when they won their first
title in 28 years. They are trying
to become the first repeat cham-
pion since the Yankees of 1998 to
tee repeatedly challenged the
commissioner, Roger Goodell, to
defend the league’s policies and
research.
“The N.F.L. sort of has this
blanket denial or minimizing of
the fact that there may be this
link,” Rep. Linda T. Sánchez, D-
Calif., said to Goodell during the
daylong hearing. “And it sort of
reminds me of the tobacco com-
panies pre-’90s when they kept
saying, ‘Oh, there’s no link be-
tween smoking and damage to
your health.’ ”
When pressed, Goodell would
not say whether he thought there
was a link between football and
2000.
The Yankees have not won
since then, and their principal
owner, George Steinbrenner,
was there to watch a home game
for the first time since the season
opener. But in Game 1, as then,
Lee outpitched Sabathia.
Sabathia retired the first two
hitters of Game 1, and he had a 1-2
count on Utley, the third hitter.
Then he lost his control.
Ten of his next 15 pitches
missed the strike zone. One of the
strikes went for a double to the
right-field corner by Ryan How-
ard. But with the bases loaded
and two outs, Raul Ibanez topped
a high 3-1 fastball to second base,
ending the threat.
Lee had a smoother beginning.
He needed just 11 pitches to rip
through the top of the Yankees’
order.
 TYLER KEPNER
cognitive decline among N.F.L.
players. He did say, “I can think
of no issue to which I’ve devoted
more time and attention than the
health and well-being of our play-
ers, and particularly retired play-
ers.”
Several Republican mem-
bers of the committee said that
Congress should have no role
in regulating football on either
the professional or youth levels.
“We cannot legislate the elimina-
tion of injuries from the games
without eliminating the games
themselves,” said Rep. Lamar S.
Smith, R-Texas.
 ALAN SCHWARZ
Wolves Nip Nets
Jonny Flynn scored 13 of his
18 points in the fourth quar-
ter on Wednesday to help erase
a 19-point deficit, and Damien
Wilkins converted a putback
at the buzzer, as the Minnesota
Timberwolves edged the visit-
ing New Jersey Nets, 95-93.(AP)
Sabres Beat Devils
Clarke MacArthur and the
rookie Tim Kennedy scored ear-
ly in the first period to help the
Buffalo Sabres remain unbeat-
en on the road with a 4-1 victory
over the New Jersey Devils on
Wednesday night. Ryan Miller
made 31 saves. The Sabres are
4-0 on the road. (AP)
NBa scores
TUESDAY’S LATE GAMES
Portland 96, Houston 87
L.A. Lakers 99, L.A. Clippers 92
WEDNESDAY
Atlanta 120, Indiana 109
Orlando 120, Philadelphia 106
Toronto 101, Cleveland 91
Boston 92, Charlotte 59
Miami 115, Knicks 93
Detroit 96, Memphis 74
Minnesota 95, Nets 93
San Antonio 113, New Orleans 96
Oklahoma City 102, Sacramento 89
NHL scores
TUESDAY’S LATE GAMES
Colorado 3, Edmonton 0
Detroit 5, Vancouver 4
WEDNESDAY
Buffalo 4, Devils 1
Islanders 3, Rangers 1
Phoenix 4, Columbus 1
St. Louis 5, Carolina 2
Pittsburgh 6, Montreal 1
Ottawa 4, Florida 3
Dallas 4, Toronto 3, OT
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Boston 51/ 49 0.20 52/ 44 PC 57/ 42 S
Buffalo 54/ 48 0.56 56/ 45 C 65/ 48 Sh
Charlotte 69/ 55 0.86 75/ 47 PC 70/ 54 Sh
Chicago 57/ 48 0.06 69/ 48 PC 64/ 58 R
Cleveland 56/ 52 0.73 65/ 46 PC 67/ 53 T
Dallas-Ft. Worth 69/ 48 0 73/ 67 T 66/ 48 Sh
Denver 33/ 29 0.35 31/ 22 Sn 43/ 20 PC
Detroit 63/ 50 0.09 61/ 47 PC 62/ 52 T
Houston
Kansas City
81/ 51
66/ 49
0
0
80/ 73 T
64/ 55 Sh
64/ 59 T
53/ 44 PC
Los Angeles 68/ 56 0 74/ 48 S 76/ 51 S
Miami 90/ 79 0 90/ 79 PC 88/ 79 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 51/ 37 0 56/ 49 R 45/ 41 C
New York City 57/ 52 1.28 57/ 47 C 60/ 48 PC
Orlando 90/ 72 0 90/ 71 PC 87/ 72 PC
Philadelphia 63/ 55 1.41 60/ 49 Sh 63/ 48 PC
Phoenix 67/ 51 0 66/ 45 S 74/ 48 S
Salt Lake City 42/ 30 0.01 39/ 23 PC 46/ 29 PC
San Francisco 62/ 55 0 69/ 50 S 68/ 52 PC
Seattle 45/ 39 0 53/ 43 R 58/ 48 Sh
St. Louis 58/ 52 0.06 68/ 53 T 62/ 56 R
Washington 71/ 58 1.34 62/ 52 C 64/ 52 C
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 81/ 75 Tr 86/ 77 R 86/ 77 R
Athens 70/ 64 0.12 70/ 55 C 68/ 52 PC
Beijing 65/ 50 0 72/ 50 S 50/ 45 R
Berlin 51/ 46 0.02 50/ 41 C 46/ 36 S
Buenos Aires 81/ 61 0 90/ 63 S 88/ 63 T
Cairo 87/ 72 0 82/ 70 PC 77/ 72 PC
Cape Town
Dublin
70/ 55
64/ 55
0.02
0.04
70/ 52 S
61/ 54 C
75/ 50 S
61/ 55 R
Geneva 57/ 36 0 66/ 45 PC 63/ 43 PC
Hong Kong 85/ 75 0 82/ 73 S 82/ 73 S
Kingston 91/ 79 Tr 88/ 79 S 88/ 79 S
Lima 71/ 63 0 70/ 63 C 68/ 63 C
London 65/ 52 0.01 66/ 50 PC 64/ 55 PC
Madrid 78/ 50 0 73/ 57 PC 73/ 55 PC
Mexico City 69/ 57 0.24 77/ 57 C 79/ 55 Sh
Montreal 45/ 39 0 55/ 36 PC 57/ 39 Sh
Moscow 45/ 41 0.67 41/ 34 C 32/ 28 SS
Nassau 89/ 77 0 90/ 79 PC 90/ 75 S
Paris 64/ 41 0 66/ 48 PC 63/ 50 PC
Prague 53/ 46 Tr 55/ 48 C 48/ 37 S
Rio de Janeiro 80/ 72 0.47 84/ 70 R 86/ 66 T
Rome 69/ 50 0 70/ 54 PC 72/ 55 S
Santiago 87/ 54 0 86/ 50 PC 88/ 48 PC
Stockholm 42/ 37 0 41/ 34 C 41/ 30 PC
Sydney 75/ 57 0 75/ 57 PC 79/ 57 S
Tokyo 71/ 59 0 70/ 61 PC 75/ 61 PC
Toronto 53/ 50 0.09 55/ 46 C 63/ 50 R
Vancouver 45/ 37 0 50/ 41 R 59/ 46 R
Warsaw 49/ 45 0.02 46/ 37 PC 43/ 34 PC
sports journal
As in Play, Agassi Pushes Limit in His Book
Provocative during his long,
shape-shifting playing career,
Andre Agassi is staying true to
form in retirement.
An excerpt from his
soon-to-be-released auto- Tennis
biography, “Open,” was Analysis
published in The Times
of London on Wednesday. In it,
Agassi revealed that he used the
illegal drug crystal meth on mul-
tiple occasions during his annus
horribilis in 1997, when his rank-
ing fell out of the top 100 and he,
despite serious concerns, mar-
ried the actress Brooke Shields.
Agassi wrote that he failed
a doping test for the banned
substance that year, then lied
to the Association of Tennis
Professionals about how the
crystal meth entered his body in
a successful attempt to avoid a
suspension and the public pillo-
rying that would have gone along some troubling questions for the
with it.
Agassi, a popular eight-time
Grand Slam singles champion,
has earned a reputation as a
humanitarian, someone who was him if crystal meth — a banned
presumably under no obligation
to fess up to past transgressions.
Of course, Agassi has a book to
sell, and this is not your average
talking point.
Mercantile concerns were
surely not primary to someone of Ricci Bitti, certainly sounded
Used Very Little, Eagles’ Vick Hasn’t Shown Much
When the Philadelphia Eagles
signed Michael Vick in August,
questions about the decision cen-
tered on whether Vick deserved
a second chance in the N.F.L.
after spending more than a year
in federal prison for his role in a
dogfighting operation. Left out
of the conversation was another
question: after missing two sea-
sons, was Vick any good?
A month into the Vick experi-
ment, the answer remains un-
clear. Vick has barely been on the
field in four games and has made
almost no impact, rushing nine
times for 22 yards and complet-
ing two of six passes for 6 yards.
He has often looked slow, as he
did on a run against the Redskins
when he struggled to get around
the edge. That could be an indica-
tion that he lacks the dynamism
in his legs that had defined his tal-
ent. It seems unlikely he will ever
again be able to run as he did in
2006, when he gained 1,039 yards.
Agassi’s means, and even if they
were, admitting to using crystal
meth is not without risk in terms
of his relationships with the cor-
porate world and future
sponsors.
But judging from the
tenor of the excerpts,
which also put flesh on the bones
of his fraught relationship with
his hard-driving father, Mike, it
seems that Agassi has decided
to take the same soul-stripping
approach to the literary process
that he once took to running hills
in Las Vegas in the off-season. In
collaboration with his co-author,
J.R. Moehringer, he has pushed
himself beyond the typical
boundaries in an attempt to gen-
erate something exceptional and
perhaps clear his conscience in
the process.
But his revelations also raise
sport Agassi professes, in his
book, to hate with “a dark and
secret passion.”
Why did the ATP exonerate
stimulant in 1997 and now, also
known as methamphetamine —
was found in his system? Does it
indicate a flawed, lax approach?
The International Tennis Fed-
eration president, Francesco
“I think they signed a very nice
backup quarterback,” the former
Ravens coach Brian Billick said.
“I would question, did you waste
some money? You don’t just step
back in.
“The difficulty you’ll have is,
how does he get better? The only
place you get better is in a game.
You can practice until the cows
come home, and it won’t make a
difference.
“It will be next year before we
have a chance to see if Michael
Vick can come back,” he said.
“Maybe not to the degree he was
— I’m talking about the ability to
run around, do things like he did.
But 90 percent of Michael Vick is
still pretty good.”
Most striking is how little the
Eagles have used Vick and their
Wildcat package. There was an
expectation that he would be-
come an extra weapon for the
offense, one that defenses would
have to prepare for extensively.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
eager to put distance between
that drug-testing era and today
on Wednesday. In a statement,
Ricci Bitti underscored that
Agassi’s case occurred before
the World Anti-Doping Agency
was founded in 1999 and “during
the formative years of antidop-
ing in tennis when the program
was managed by individual gov-
erning bodies.”
Agassi wrote that he was “in a
bad way” in 1997 when he claims
he first tried crystal meth, at the
urging of an assistant he identi-
fies as Slim. Agassi wrote that
he was full of concern about his
impending marriage to Shields,
whom he later divorced, and also
that he was concerned about a
serious neck injury to the daugh-
ter of his longtime friend and
physical trainer Gil Reyes.
Agassi wrote that he was in-
formed of his positive test later
in the year by a phone call from
a doctor working with the ATP.
He then composed a letter of ex-
planation to the panel, lying and
blaming his positive result on
unwittingly ingesting the drug in
one of the sodas that Slim regu-
larly spiked with crystal meth.
“I feel ashamed, of course,”
Agassi wrote. “I promise myself
that this lie is the end of it.”
 CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
Vick was in for 11 plays in his first
game, and that was perceived as
a tantalizing glimpse into what
was to come. But Vick’s involve-
ment has decreased since then,
and against Oakland two weeks
ago, he was in for just two plays.
Against Washington on Monday,
he had one pass and three runs.
“We just said, listen, if he can
contribute, let him contribute,”
Coach Andy Reid, whose team
hosts the Giants on Sunday, said
in a conference call on Wednes-
day. “We know he is a very talent-
ed guy. That is how we have gone
about it; just take baby steps
there.”
In the meantime, the clock is
ticking for Vick. He is 29 years old,
and Billick said that speed is the
first thing to go for athletic quar-
terbacks. While Vick toils with
few results, the game has contin-
ued to evolve, with an emphasis on
precision passing — never Vick’s
strength. JUDY BATTISTA
9
n.h.l. standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 10 2 0 20 43 26
Rangers 8 4 1 17 47 36
Devils 6 4 0 12 27 26
Phila. 5 4 1 11 33 31
Islanders 2 4 5 9 25 38
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Buffalo 7 1 1 15 30 17
Ottawa 6 2 2 14 34 29
Montreal 6 6 0 12 31 38
Boston 5 4 1 11 30 32
Toronto 1 7 2 4 24 42
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 6 3 7 26 39
Florida 2 7 1 5 22 39
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 7 3 1 15 36 27
Columbus 6 5 0 12 34 38
St. Louis 5 4 1 11 29 27
Detroit 4 4 2 10 30 35
Nashville 4 6 1 9 22 36
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Colorado 9 1 2 20 41 26
Calgary 7 2 1 15 41 33
Edmonton 6 5 1 13 38 36
Vancou. 6 6 0 12 35 33
Minnesota 3 9 0 6 26 39
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
L.A. 8 4 0 16 44 38
Dallas 6 2 4 16 41 35
San Jose 7 4 1 15 42 35
Phoenix 7 4 0 14 30 23
Anaheim 3 6 1 7 25 37
New L.P.G.A. Chief
After a three-month search,
the L.P.G.A. announced
Wednesday the hiring of Mi-
chael Whan as the eighth com-
missioner in its 59-year history.
Whan, chosen from a field of
hundreds of applicants, will re-
place Marsha Evans, who took
over in July on an interim basis
after the resignation of Carolyn
Bivens. Whan will take over in
January after a transition pe-
riod. Bivens was forced out af-
ter a player revolt precipitated
largely by a loss of tournament
sponsors that reduced the 2009
schedule to 27 events from 34
in 2008.
Whan, 44, is an experienced
marketer who began his busi-
ness career at Procter & Gam-
ble. A lifelong golfer, Whan
learned about the business of
golf at Wilson Golf and later at
TaylorMade Adidas Golf North
America, where he became an
executive vice president.(NYT)