F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Sunday
November 1, 2009
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gop candidate, Karzai Rival Said to Be Dropping Out
pressed by right,
abandons race
A moderate Republican whose
candidacy for an upstate New
York Congressional seat had set
off a storm of national conserva-
tive opposition, abruptly with-
drew on Saturday, emboldening
the right at a time when the Re-
publican Party is enmeshed in a
debate over how to rebuild itself.
The candidate, Dede Scozzafa-
va, said she was suspending her
campaign in the face of collaps-
ing support and evidence that she
was heading for a loss in a three-
way race on Tuesday involving
Douglas L. Hoffman, running on
the Conservative Party line, and
Bill Owens, a Democrat.
Scozzafava had been under
siege from conservative leaders
because she supported gay rights
and abortion rights and was con-
sidered too liberal on various fis-
cal issues.
“The reality that I’ve come to
accept is that in today’s political
arena, you must be able to back
up your message with money
— and as I’ve been outspent on
both sides, I’ve been unable to
effectively address many of the
charges that have been made
about my record,” Scozzafava
said in a statement.
The Republican National
Committee, which had strongly
backed Scozzafava’s candidacy,
issued a statement applauding
her decision and announcing it
was now supporting Hoffman.
Yet other prominent Repub-
licans expressed concern that
Scozzafava’s decision seemed
likely to encourage conservatives
going into next year’s midterm
elections, raising the prospect of
more primaries against Repub-
lican candidates that they deem
too moderate. Party leaders had
argued that local parties should
be permitted to pick candidates
that most closely mirror the
sentiments of the district, even
if those candidates vary from
Republican orthodoxy on some
issues.  (NYT)
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ab-
dullah Abdullah, the chief rival to
President Hamid Karzai, plans to
announce on Sunday his decision
to withdraw from the Nov. 7 Af-
ghan runoff election, seemingly
handing a new term to Karzai but
potentially damaging the gov-
ernment’s credibility, according
to Western diplomats here and
people close to Abdullah.
Abdullah seemed to be keep-
ing his options open until the last
second, perhaps maneuvering
for more bargaining power, as he
has throughout the Afghan politi-
cal crisis.
Those close to him, speaking on
condition of anonymity on Satur-
day, said Abdullah had commit-
ted to leaving the runoff, but was
still trying to decide whether to
publicly denounce Karzai, whom
he has accused of stealing the
Aug. 20 election, or to step down
without a fight during a news
conference scheduled for Sunday
morning.
American and other Western
diplomats said they were worried
that a defiant statement by Abdul-
lah could lead to violence and un-
dermine Karzai’s legitimacy, and
Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India
BARSUR, India — At the edge
of the Indravati River, hundreds
of miles from the nearest inter-
national border, India effectively
ends. Indian paramilitary offi-
cers point machine guns across
the water. The dense jungles and
mountains on the other side be-
long to Maoist rebels dedicated to
overthrowing the government.
“That is their liberated zone,”
said P. Bhojak, one of the officers
stationed at the river’s edge in
this town in the eastern state of
Chattisgarh.
Or one piece of it. India’s Maoist
rebels are now present in 20 states
and have evolved into a potent and
lethal insurgency. In the last four
years, the Maoists have killed
more than 900 Indian security offi-
cers, a figure almost as high as the
more than 1,100 members of the
coalition forces killed in Afghani-
stan during the same period.
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they were urging him to bow out
gracefully. Obama administra-
tion officials have scrambled for
weeks to end the deadlock, trying
to ensure a smooth government
transition as President Obama
weighs whether to increase the
American military presence in
Afghanistan.
People close to Abdullah said
that his representative met with
Karzai on Saturday but that they
were unable to make any prog-
ress on the issue that has brought
the two campaigns to logger-
heads: Abdullah’s demands
that the Afghan election system
be overhauled to head off more
fraud in the second round. After
the first round of voting, a U.N.-
backed panel threw out nearly a
million of Karzai’s ballots — one-
third of his total — on the grounds
that they were fake.
“Abdullah is not going to par-
ticipate in the election, full stop,”
said an Afghan close to Abdullah.
“He is still trying to figure out
what he wants to say.”
If Abdullah pulls out, there
would still be the question of the
runoff vote itself. Afghan officials
said it seemed likely that it would
If the Maoists were once dis-
missed as a ragtag band of out-
dated ideologues, Indian leaders
are now preparing to deploy near-
ly 70,000 paramilitary officers for
a prolonged counterinsurgency
campaign to hunt down the guer-
rillas in some of the country’s
most rugged, isolated terrain.
For India, the widening Maoist
insurgency is a moment of reck-
oning for the country’s democra-
cy and has ignited a sharp debate
about where it has failed. In the
past, India has tamed some se-
cessionist movements by coaxing
rebel groups into the country’s
big-tent political process. The
Maoists, however, do not want to
secede or be absorbed. Their goal
is to topple the system.
Once considered Robin Hood
figures, the Maoists claim to rep-
resent the dispossessed of Indian
society, particularly the indig-
simply be canceled; the possi-
bility of Taliban violence alone
would appear to render pointless
another Afghan election where
the winner is known in advance.
Salih Muhammed Registani,
one of Abdullah’s campaign man-
agers, said he thought that Abdul-
lah would “boycott” the election
and, if he did, force its cancella-
tion. “If they hold the election with
just one candidate it would be like
the former Soviet Union,” he said.
The election deadlock, now in
its ninth week, has highlighted
the Afghan state’s fragility, as
well as showing deep and growing
divisions among Afghans. And it
has, like so many other recent
events here, posed a worsening
problem for American and other
Western leaders, who have found
themselves stuck with a leader
who has lost the support of large
numbers of Afghans and whose
government is widely regarded
as corrupt. An Obama adminis-
tration official said Saturday that
the White House had not spoken
to Abdullah and that it had no im-
mediate plans to do so.
 DEXTER FILKINS
 and ALISSA J. RUBIN
enous tribal groups, who suffer
some of the country’s highest
rates of poverty, illiteracy and
infant mortality. Many intellec-
tuals and even some politicians
once sympathized with their
cause, but the growing Maoist
violence has forced a wrenching
reconsideration.
India’s rapid economic growth
has made it an emerging global
power but also deepened stark in-
equalities in society. Maoists ac-
cuse the government of trying to
push tribal groups off their land to
gain access to raw materials and
have sabotaged roads, bridges
and even an energy pipeline.
“The root of this is dispossession
and deprivation,” said Ramachan-
dra Guha, a prominent historian
based in Bangalore. “The Maoists
are an ugly manifestation of this.
This is a serious problem that is
not going to disappear.”  (NYT)
International
A Thirsty Plant Leaves Crops in Yemen Dry
JAHILIYA, Yemen — More
than half of this country’s scarce
water is used to feed an addic-
tion.
Even as drought kills off Ye-
men’s crops, farmers in villages
like this one are turning increas-
ingly to a thirsty plant called qat,
the leaves of which are chewed
every day by most Yemeni men
(and some women) for their mild
narcotic effect. The farmers have
little choice: Qat is the only way
to make a profit.
Meanwhile, the water wells
are running dry, and deep
cracks have begun opening in the
parched earth.
“They tell us it’s because the
water table is sinking so fast,”
said Muhammad Hamoud Amer,
a farmer who has lost two-thirds
of his peach trees to drought in the
past two years. “Every year we
have to drill deeper and deeper to
get water.”
Across Yemen, the under-
ground water sources that sus-
For Clinton, Little Progress for Middle East Talks
JERUSALEM — Seeking to
break a hardening impasse in the
Middle East, Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton met
Saturday with the Palestinian
leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to plead
with him to return to the negotiat-
ing table with the Israeli leader,
Benjamin Netanyahu.
But Abbas stood firm that Isra-
el must halt construction of Jew-
ish settlements in the West Bank
and East Jerusalem before any
talks could begin, rebuffing an
Israeli proposal, relayed by Clin-
ton, to limit building to 3,000 ad-
ditional housing units, the Pales-
tinian spokesman, Saab Erakat,
said on Israeli radio.
Dalai Lama Defends a Trip to a Region in Dispute
BEIJING — The Dalai Lama
said Saturday that the Chinese
government was wrong to at-
tribute political motives to his
travels, including a planned trip
in early November to a Buddhist
mountain enclave in northeast-
ern India that China claims as its
territory.
“The Chinese government con-
siders me a troublemaker, so it is
my duty to create more trouble,”
he joked, according to The As-
tain 24 million people are running
out, and some areas could be de-
pleted in just a few years. It is a
crisis that threatens the very sur-
vival of this arid, overpopulated
country, and one that could prove
deadlier than the resurgence of
Al Qaeda here.
Water scarcity afflicts much
of the Middle East, but Yemen’s
poverty and lawlessness make the
problem more serious and harder
to address, experts say. The gov-
ernment now supplies water once
every 45 days in some urban ar-
eas, and in much of the country
there is no public water supply at
all. Unlike some other countries
in the region, like Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates,
Yemen lacks the money to invest
heavily in desalination plants.
Making matters worse is the
proliferation of qat trees, which
have replaced other crops across
much of Yemen, taking a grow-
ing share of water, according to
the World Bank. The government
American officials said Clinton
had not urged Abbas to accept
the offer in their nearly two-hour
meeting, which was arranged
hastily and took place in the Per-
sian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi.
But they said she was eager to
close the gap between the two
sides.
“It’s not for us to make a coun-
teroffer,” said a State Depart-
ment spokesman, Philip J. Crow-
ley. “It’s for us to work with both
sides and see if we can’t narrow
those positions to a point where
negotiations make sense.”
Later, Clinton arrived in the Is-
raeli capital for evening meetings
with Netanyahu and his senior
sociated Press. “The Chinese
government politicizes too much
wherever I go. Where I go is not
political.”
The Chinese government has
protested the Dalai Lama’s plans
to visit the Tawang region of Ar-
unachal Pradesh, an Indian state
that borders Chinese-ruled Tibet
and the nation of Bhutan. China
claims that Tawang is histori-
cally part of Tibet, which China
has controlled since 1951.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
has struggled to limit drilling by
qat farmers, but to no effect. The
state has little authority outside
the capital, San‘a.
The lack of water is fueling
tribal conflicts and insurgen-
cies. Those conflicts, including an
armed rebellion in the north and a
separatist movement in the south,
make it more difficult to address
the water crisis. Many areas are
too dangerous for government en-
gineers or hydrologists to visit.
Climate change is deepening the
problem, making seasonal rains
less reliable, said Jochen Renger,
a water resources specialist with
the German government who ad-
vises the Water Ministry.
“It is a collapse with social,
economic and environmental
aspects,” said Abdul Rahman
al-Eryani, Yemen’s minister of
water and environment. “We are
reaching a point where we don’t
even know if the interventions we
are proposing will save the situa-
tion.”  ROBERT F. WORTH
ministers, before flying on Sat-
urday night to an Arab regional
conference in Morocco.
Clinton’s meetings with the
Israeli and Palestinian leaders
raised the Obama administra-
tion’s engagement in a diplomat-
ic process that had been largely
delegated to its special envoy,
George J. Mitchell. While Mitch-
ell has already made more than a
dozen trips to the region, Clinton
had been to Israel only once as
secretary of state.
Mitchell accompanied Clinton
to her meetings, which in addi-
tion to Abbas included the crown
princes of Bahrain and Abu Dha-
bi.  MARK LANDLER
The Chinese government has
said the Dalai Lama’s plan to vis-
it there affirms his “splittist” in-
tentions. China has long accused
him of advocating for Tibetan in-
dependence, even though the Da-
lai Lama, the spiritual leader of
the Tibetans, says he wants only
genuine autonomy for Tibet.
India says a self-governing
Tibet ceded Tawang to British-
ruled India in a treaty signed in
1914.  EDWARD WONG
2
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Arrest in U.N. Attack
The authorities have arrest-
ed eight people, including one
in Saudi Arabia, in connection
with the deadly attack on a U.N.
guest house last week, the Af-
ghan intelligence chief said Sat-
urday. The intelligence chief,
Amrullah Saleh, said those ar-
rested claimed the assailants,
who were killed in the attack,
came from the Swat Valley of
Pakistan. Saleh’s comments
are likely to intensify criticism
of the security provided to U.N.
employees working in Afghani-
stan. The United Nations has al-
ready said that it took too long
for Afghan police and NATO
troops to respond to the attack
on Wednesday, in which eight
people, including five U.N. staff
members, were killed.  (AP)
AIDS in S. Africa
South African President Ja-
cob Zuma last week definitively
rejected the stance of his pre-
decessor, Thabo Mbeki, who de-
nied the viral cause of AIDS and
the critical role of antiretroviral
drugs in treating it. In a coun-
try that now has more H.I.V.-in-
fected people and annual AIDS
deaths than any other, Zuma is-
sued a clarion call on Thursday
for a battle against the disease.
 (NYT)
Investigator Killed
A senior Iraqi police offi-
cer who was investigating last
week’s deadly suicide bombings,
which struck at the heart of the
government, was killed in his of-
fice on Thursday night, accord-
ing to security officials. They
said the officer, Maj. Arkan
Hachim, was gunned down by a
suspect in the bombings who had
been brought in for questioning.
 (NYT)
S. Korean Troops
South Korean announced
plans on Friday to send troops
and police officers to Afghani-
stan to help protect its aid work-
ers. The plans, if approved by
Parliament, will reinstate a
South Korean military presence
in Afghanistan two years af-
ter the country withdrew its 200
troops from there.  (NYT)
national
Corzine Courts Obama Backers in Final Push
NEWARK, N.J. — In the final
hours of this intensely fought
campaign, supporters of Gov. Jon
S. Corzine are knocking on doors
with a message for people who
voted for Barack Obama: Your
president needs you.
In an effort they are calling
“Yes We Can 2.0,” Corzine cam-
paign officials are devoting mil-
lions of dollars and thousands of
volunteers to try to bring back
to the polls those 442,000 New
Jersey residents who had never
voted before Obama’s election
last November. They are flooding
them with phone calls, mail and
text messages, hoping to contact
each of them at least eight times
before Tuesday.
With the president significantly
more popular than Corzine in New
Jersey, the governor has lashed
himself to Obama, and will ap-
pear beside him on Sunday on the
president’s third visit to the state
to campaign on Corzine’s behalf.
Top Democrats Push for Plans to Trim Deficit
WASHINGTON — Faced with
anxiety in financial markets
about the huge federal deficit and
the potential for it to become an
electoral liability for Democrats,
the White House and Congressio-
nal leaders are weighing options
for narrowing the gap, including a
bipartisan commission that could
force tax increases and spending
cuts.
But even the idea of a panel to
bridge the partisan divide has run
into partisan objections. Many
Democrats are loath to cede such
far-reaching decisions to a com-
mission and doubt Republicans’
willingness to compromise. And
most Republicans remain ada-
California’s Fiscal Health Continues to Deteriorate
LOS ANGELES — Just three
months after Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger cut, taxed and
line-item-vetoed away a two-year
budget gap of $26 billion, Califor-
nia faces billions of dollars in new
shortfalls, with the problem likely
to deepen in the next fiscal year.
At a recent conference here on
the condition of California’s fis-
cal health, the state treasurer,
Bill Lockyer, called the budget “a
train wreck.” And, he added, “it’s
going to get worse.”
Whether or not the first-time
Obama voters turn out could
make a crucial difference in this
race. Most polls show Corzine
and his Republican opponent,
Christopher J. Christie, running
neck and neck two days before
the election.
The outcome could also help an-
swer a question nagging at Demo-
crats nationally: Can they keep
engaging those drawn to the polls
by Obama’s charisma and historic
campaign, or will last year prove a
one-time surge for the party?
The governor’s race in Virginia
is also being closely watched for
what it may say about Obama’s
ability to persuade supporters to
back other Democrats. The Dem-
ocrat, Creigh Deeds, is trying to
draw Obama’s backers with ral-
lies and fliers showcasing him in
photographs with the president.
But the situation is tricky
there; Obama is not as popular in
Virginia as he is in New Jersey,
mantly opposed to tax increases.
“If we have the same process
and the same people, we are going
to get the same results,” said Sen.
Evan Bayh, D-Ind., who recently
met with President Obama to dis-
cuss the idea. “The Democratic
Party wants to spend more than
we can afford, the Republican
Party tends to want to cut taxes
more than we can afford. So we
are stuck.”
Concerns about the deficit are
building even as the White House
and Congress continue to add to
it with tax cuts and spending to
stimulate the economy. Yet those
costs do not trouble most econo-
mists and market analysts. The
California finance officials say
the state is facing a shortfall of
roughly $7 billion for the current
fiscal year, which ends June 30,
and several estimates have that
gap ballooning to between $10
billion and $20 billion in the next
fiscal year.
Like many other states, Califor-
nia is facing continued revenue
shortfalls as personal income and
corporate taxes falter. But Cali-
fornia lawmakers are also facing
the implosion of expected cost
Sunday, November 1, 2009
and Deeds, who trails the Repub-
lican, Bob McDonnell, by double
digits in most polls, has distanced
himself from some of the presi-
dent’s domestic policies.
In New Jersey, even Corzine’s
most ardent supporters acknowl-
edge that selling him to Obama
admirers is not easy. On the sur-
face, it would be hard to imagine
two political figures more differ-
ent. Obama is charismatic and
eloquent, while Corzine is self-ef-
facing and an often meandering
public speaker. And more signifi-
cant, Corzine bears the burden of
the state’s gloomy economy and
reputation for corruption.
Jason O’Donnell, the Corzine
campaign’s field director in
Hudson County, acknowledged
the challenge. “There’s only one
Barack Obama,” he said. “Jon
Corzine may not be as dramatic,
but he’ll be a great partner for the
president.”
 DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
main driver of long-term deficits
is the chasm between the benefit
programs Medicare and Medic-
aid and federal tax collections,
which are at one of their lowest
levels in many decades.
The administration argues that
Obama’s proposed health care
overhaul is “the most significant
act we could take to tackle the
deficit,” as Christina D. Romer,
the chairwoman of his Council
of Economic Advisers, said in a
speech last week. But it remains
unclear how much the health care
legislation would slow the growth
of Medicare and Medicaid.
 JACKIE CALMES
 and CARL HULSE
savings, as lawsuits and other
factors have reduced or elimi-
nated savings that were figured
into the budget passed last July.
High unemployment and an
overall sluggish economy have
led to lower-than-expected reve-
nues flowing in. The state’s com-
bined personal, corporate and
sales taxes fell more than $1 bil-
lion below projections for the first
quarter of the year, according to
the state controller, John Chiang.
 JENNIFER STEINHAUER
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in brief
Secret C.I.A. Jails
F.B.I. agents who arrived at
a secret C.I.A. jail overseas in
September 2002 found prison-
ers “manacled to the ceiling
and subjected to blaring music
around the clock,” and a C.I.A.
official wrote a list of ques-
tions for interrogators including
“How close is each technique
to the ‘rack and screw,’ ” ac-
cording to hundreds of pages of
partly declassified documents
released Friday by the Justice
Department. The documents in-
clude handwritten notes, appar-
ently prepared by Justice De-
partment officials, discussing
the possibility of prosecuting
some employees of the Central
Intelligence Agency.  (NYT)
Battle Over Petition
On Tuesday, voters in Wash-
ington State will decide whether
to extend to registered domestic
partners the same rights mar-
ried couples have, short of mar-
riage. But the campaign over
the referendum, placed on the
ballot by opponents of same-sex
marriage, has been overshad-
owed by one issue: whether the
individual names of the petition-
ers should be made public, and
ultimately, circulated on the
Web. The U.S. Supreme Court
weighed in last week, deciding
to let stand a lower court ruling
that ordered Washington’s sec-
retary of state not to disclose
the names of the signers. The
Supreme Court did not rule on
the merits of the issue, and it is
unclear whether it will.  (NYT)
New Terror Concern
After disrupting two recent
terrorism plots, U.S. intelligence
officials are increasingly con-
cerned that extremist groups in
Pakistan linked to Al Qaeda are
planning smaller operations in
the United States that are hard-
er to detect but more likely to
succeed than the spectacular at-
tacks they once emphasized, se-
nior counterterrorism officials
say. In both cases, the main de-
fendants are long-term resi-
dents of the United States with
substantial community ties who
traveled to Pakistan, where they
trained with extremist groups
affiliated with Al Qaeda.  (NYT)
Arts
Almodóvar and Cruz: Soul Mates
Sitting in an East Side hotel suite in early
October, across from the writer-director
Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz picked up
a glossy magazine and gazed admiringly at
the cover photograph of Uma Thurman. “It’s
good,” she said, turning the picture toward
Almodóvar.
He leaned toward it, enthusiastically as-
sessing Thurman’s pose and cropped blond
coiffure. “Yes, yes,” he said to Cruz, acceler-
ating from English into Spanish as his mind
started racing along tracks of celluloid.
“It’s true,” he said, laughing. “I really am
fascinated by actresses, by everything they
do, even by the dressing room, which is the
sanctum sanctorum of any actress. And I am
especially fascinated by actresses who play
actresses.”
Which is precisely what Cruz does in “Bro-
ken Embraces,” Almodóvar’s fourth col-
laboration with her — and, she said, her most
difficult. In the movie, which closed this fall’s
New York Film Festival and opens in theaters
on Nov. 20, she plays Lena, a rich man’s kept
woman, who has the chance to fulfill, however
briefly, her long-deferred dream of being a
movie star when she becomes romantically
involved with a director (Lluís Homar). Lena,
a heartbreaking figure whose own identity is
so unformed that she is only too eager to be-
come someone else (early in the movie, she is
costumed and styled as Audrey Hepburn), is
“maybe the saddest character I ever wrote,”
Almodóvar said. “She has a past she doesn’t
like at all, so when she finds she can imperson-
ate someone, it’s like having a new life. She is
hard — a fallen angel. And that is the biggest
challenge I have given Penélope so far.”
Almodóvar’s films with Cruz have often
found the sweet spot where the ornate trap-
pings of melodrama eventually fall away to
reveal deeper and more complicated emo-
tions and motives. They’ve also offered Cruz
some of her richest opportunities. In the 1997
thriller “Live Flesh,” she dominates the first
10 minutes, playing an impoverished prosti-
tute in 1970 Madrid who gives birth on a city
From Debauched Rock Star to Laid-Back L.A. Artist With a Solo Album
Julian Casablancas, savior of debauched
New York City rock ’n’ roll, is sober now and
living in Los Angeles.
The shaggy-haired frontman of the Strokes,
who not so long ago could be seen stumbling
home from East Village bars around dawn, a
rightly sloppy paragon of the city’s resurgent
downtown scene, is currently renting a white
Spanish-style house in the Silver Lake neigh-
borhood. He just bought a car for $1,000: a ’92
Cutlass. He likes the sunshine. He is smitten.
“It’s fun; I won’t lie,” he said on a recent vis-
it back east. “L.A.’s kind of, like, seven really
cool towns. It’s so laid-back. If you go in the
right spot, you can walk around, and you don’t
need a car. It’s a lot easier to eat healthy. And
the weather!”
bus. Two years later, when he was casting “All
About My Mother,” which would win the Os-
car for best foreign-language film, Almodó-
var called upon her again, this time to play
a nun. Even as she falls into an affair with a
transvestite and becomes H.I.V.-positive,
she remains the film’s sweetest, purest pres-
ence.
And in the 2006 drama “Volver,” Cruz
earned her first Academy Award nomination
for playing a determined widow who was an
amalgam of women from Almodóvar’s child-
hood in La Mancha, albeit with a little Sophia
Loren thrown in.
“Someone asked me, ‘Is she a muse for
you?,’ ” said Almodóvar. “Well, yes. She is a
muse for me in the sense that a muse is some-
one who makes you better than you are.”
“No, no,” replied Cruz, shaking her head and
smiling. “I know exactly how good you are.”
The chemistry Almodóvar, 60, and Cruz, 35,
share would almost seem romantic if he were
not one of the world’s best-known openly gay
directors and she were not linked in the tab-
loids to the actor Javier Bardem.
Over their first three films, she rode the
emotional waves of each new role — “In Pe-
dro’s movies I am always either dying or
having babies,” she said — and their kinship
developed. When she won her supporting-
actress Oscar last year for Woody Allen’s
“Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” she thanked
Almodóvar effusively.
If “Broken Embraces” didn’t strain their
bond, it was still taxing. “This was the movie
where I cried the most between takes,” Cruz
said.
Almodóvar took pleasure even on the hard-
est days of shooting. “All the difficulties ac-
tresses have at the moment they are acting
really interest me,” he said. “At that time,
the director is like the husband, the lover, the
friend, the mother, the father, the psychia-
trist. But there’s also a point when the direc-
tor has to be terribly cruel, because actresses
sometimes have to face their own demons.”
 MARK HARRIS
The move is temporary but it’s emblematic
of the changes in his life in the last few years:
from wild-living rock star to steady artist and
mindful family man, with he and his wife, Ju-
liet, expecting their first child.
On Tuesday his first solo album, “Phrazes
for the Young,” will be released on Cult Re-
cords/RCA. Cult is his own, newly started
and self-financed imprint, with a handful of
bicoastal employees. He wrote and arranged
all the music and played much of it himself. In
Los Angeles he’s been getting a band together
and prepping for a tour that will include a se-
ries of residencies with elaborate stage shows.
Evident ambition has replaced obtuse ennui.
“With this record the goal was always to try
to take, like, cool, underground-type music
Sunday, November 1, 2009 4
The Examined Life
Is Worth Staging
Lynn Redgrave, sitting with her dog, Viola,
in her bouquet-filled dressing room at the
Manhattan Theater Club, was describing the
exact moment in 2003 that she jettisoned her
inner critic and fearmonger.
She needed to draw on that newfound clar-
ity and peace this year: “Nightingale,” her in-
trospective one-woman play about her grand-
mother, opens here on Tuesday, she is coping
with the recent death of her niece Natasha
Richardson, and she herself just underwent
treatments at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center.
Redgrave, a member of the famous acting
clan that has also produced her father, Sir Mi-
chael Redgrave, and her older sister, Vanessa
Redgrave, discussed all that during a recent
interview. The clarity, she said, came after
she had had a mastectomy and chemothera-
py for breast cancer in 2003 and had plunged
back into work. She was coping with her usual
opening-night jitters while waiting to take the
stage as the prim Miss Fozzard in “Talking
Heads,” at the Minetta Lane Theater.
“I was standing there and I thought, ‘Why
would I get in my way?’ ” Redgrave said. “At
that point in 2003, I didn’t know how it’s all go-
ing to turn out because my cancer was a big
tumor when it happened.”
“I could be dead, but I’m not,” she recalled
thinking. “Here I am. I’m not dead.”
“And to this day, everything has changed,”
Redgrave continued, explaining that previ-
ously she had often been very critical of her-
self. “And I’m not afraid.”
“Nightingale” is a series of family stories
and dialogues (real and imagined) about love,
marriage and motherhood, with a shifting se-
ries of characters impersonated by Redgrave.
She said that links to her relatives are impor-
tant to her understanding of herself. “I have
this thing, it’s like holding hands, even dead or
alive, but holding, holding because then some-
how it makes me O.K., I’m being held steady,”
she said. FELICIA R. LEE
and try to make it popular somehow,” Casa-
blancas, 31, said over a Saturday dinner at
an Italian restaurant in the East Village. Far
from the disaffection of the Strokes’ records,
“Phrazes” seems mostly well adjusted. “I’m a
happy guy,” he said, offering a dimpled grin.
Still, he added: “I never wanted to do a solo
record, to be honest. I just felt like I had no
choice.”
Jason Bentley, the musical director of
KCRW radio in California, said he was “a lit-
tle surprised, but pleasantly so” by the album,
though he expected only hard-core Strokes
fans to seek out the record. But, he added,
“There is a chance that the pop appeal of these
songs will establish a new fan base on its own
merits.”  MELENA RYZIK
business
Can Citigroup Carry Its Own Weight?
Over the past 80 years, the U.S.
government has engineered not
one, not two, not three, but at least
four rescues of the institution now
known as Citigroup. In previous
instances, the bank came back
from the crisis and prospered.
Will Citigroup rise again from
its recent near-death experi-
ence?
The answer to that question
concerns not only the 276,000 em-
ployees who work at what was
once the world’s largest bank, but
the taxpayers as well. Even as
Citigroup’s stock has soared from
a low of $1.02 to its current $4.09
— and the company has eked out
a $101 million profit in the third
quarter along the way — it’s still
unclear whether it can climb out
of the hole that its former leaders
dug before and during the mort-
gage mania. If Citigroup remains
stuck, taxpayers will be on the
hook for outsize losses.
Citigroup remains a sprawling,
complex enterprise, with 200 mil-
Time Heals Everything in Quarterly Statements
Though stocks have soared
more than 50 percent since the
market hit bottom in March, the
sentiment of individual investors
is hardly euphoric.
In fact, the percentage who say
they are “bullish” today is only
slightly higher than it was in the
summer, when the market was
much lower, according to a sur-
vey by the American Association
of Individual Investors.
Yet these attitudes could
change soon, but not because any-
thing has changed in the market.
It’s simply that time is passing,
and the quarterly performance
reports sent to investors will soon
no longer highlight the worst of
Ford’s Plan to Cut Costs Falls Short in Union Vote
DEARBORN, Mich. — Union
workers at the Ford Motor Co.
have refused to help the com-
pany make more cuts to its labor
costs.
Changes to the workers’ con-
tract that would have allowed the
cuts appeared headed for certain
defeat Saturday after about 72
percent of workers voted to re-
ject the deal, according to a tally
compiled by The New York Times
from results at separate plants.
lion customer accounts and oper-
ations in more than 100 countries.
And when people talk about insti-
tutions that have grown so large
and entwined in the economy that
regulators have deemed them too
big to be allowed to fail, Citigroup
is the premier example.
As a result, the government
has handed Citigroup $45 billion
under the Troubled Asset Re-
lief Program over the last year.
Through the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp., a major bank
regulator, the government has
also agreed to back roughly $300
billion in soured assets that sit on
Citigroup’s books. Even as other
troubled institutions recently
curtailed their use of another
F.D.I.C. program that backs new
debt issued by banks, Citigroup
has continued to tap the arrange-
ment.
Chris Whalen, editor of the In-
stitutional Risk Analyst, calls
Citigroup “the queen of the zom-
bie dance,” referring to the group
last year’s losses.
At the moment, the quarterly
brokerage and 401(k) plan state-
ments still reflect an important
time lag. Open a recent state-
ment and you’re likely to find that
despite their gains of late, most of
your stock investments still lost
money for the 12 months through
the third quarter. The Standard &
Poor’s 500-stock index, for exam-
ple, was off nearly 7 percent in the
12 months ended Sept. 30.
Fast-forward to current figures,
which won’t be reflected in most
investment reports for weeks.
Even after Friday’s losses, many
numbers look much better.
Investors may think the market
Ford needed 9,000 more votes
for passage, with fewer than 7,000
votes outstanding to be either cast
or counted through Sunday.
Ford, which said it needed the
changes to reduce some advan-
tages the union gave to General
Motors and Chrysler as those
companies headed into bankrupt-
cy in the spring, is not expected to
seek a new deal.
The Ford proposal, which was
supported by the union’s leader-
Sunday, November 1, 2009
of financial institutions that the
government has on life support.
Vikram S. Pandit, Citigroup’s
C.E.O., said in an interview that
he was confident that Citigroup
was on the right course, focusing
on global banking and shedding
segments of the company — like
insurance and the brokerage
business — that aren’t part of
that mission.
Neil M. Barofsky, special in-
spector general of TARP, has
assembled a team to examine
how Citigroup is using taxpayer
funds. Concerns about oversight
are shared by others, particular-
ly financial analysts.
“Traditional banking is still in
a recession, and the situation is
very tenuous,” said Janet Tavako-
li, founder of Tavakoli Structured
Finance, a consulting firm. “If we
do get our money back from Citi,
some of it will be the money we
printed to give to them.”
 ANDREW MARTIN and
 GRETCHEN MORGENSON
has improved tremendously over
the last few weeks. It hasn’t. It’s
just that by the end of October, the
market was more than a year be-
yond the swoon that followed the
collapse of Lehman Brothers.
People are often told that they
should invest for the long run, but
Greg Schultz, a principal at Asset
Allocation Advisors, a financial
planning firm in Walnut Creek,
Calif., said that “shorter time
frames actually impact investor
psychology more.”
“Investors aren’t looking at 10
years,” he said. “They’re looking
at how they’ve been doing over 6
months, 9 months, 12 months.”
 PAUL J. LIM
ship, would have frozen the pay of
newly hired workers and banned
the union from striking in order
to demand higher pay or benefits
until 2015.
In return, Ford promised to
pay each worker a $1,000 bonus in
March 2010 and to guarantee the
assignment of new products to
some plants, creating or saving a
total of about 7,000 jobs, accord-
ing to calculations by union lead-
ers. NICK BUNKLEY
5
in brief
401(k)’s Getting
Respect, For Now
In light of recent downturns,
some financial experts have de-
clared that 401(k)’s are a poor
way to save for retirement,
partly because market volatili-
ty can make them vulnerable.
What? Was it all a big mis-
take? That has to be a distress-
ing idea for many investors
who’ve been spiriting money
away in 401(k)’s week after
week, year after year.
Employers and financial
companies have done a great
job of convincing workers that
401(k)’s are a good idea. In the
private sector, total assets in
401(k)-type accounts surpassed
assets in pension-type accounts
starting in 1996, according to
the Employee Benefit Research
Institute. Total individual re-
tirement account assets over-
took pension assets in 1998.
To certain experts, 401(k)’s
might not be ideal, but they’re
all some investors have. And
declarations about how aw-
ful they are may evaporate in
the next sustained upturn (and
return when a new downturn
hits).  (NYT)
Rising Rates
For Credit Cards
Have you checked the inter-
est rates on your credit cards
lately? Odds are they’re going
way up.
That’s because credit-card
companies are rushing to raise
rates and tack on extra fees
ahead of a law slated to take ef-
fect Feb. 22 that is supposed to
limit such moves in the future.
In some cases, rates are dou-
bling to as high as 30 percent or
more, even for people who pay
their bills on time.
The maneuvering by the card
companies is serving up anoth-
er blow to American consumers
who are already struggling with
their finances. U.S. lawmakers
let that happen by giving the
card companies nine months to
prepare for the rules.
“The delay allowed them to
restock their arsenal with weap-
ons,” said Lloyd Constantine, an
attorney who has spent 22 years
litigating cases tied to the cred-
it-card industry.  (AP)
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22 23 24

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1 Tops grandparent, meaning “young
maybe man” 29 30 31 32
5 Quilt filler 91 Coward with a pen
43 Rare mushroom? 33 34 35 36
9 Detest 92 ___ gratification
47 “Uh-uh” 37 38 39 40 41 42
14 Some I.R.A.’s 93 Boombox button
51 Backrub response
17 Some extra books 95 Hannibal of “The 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
52 It comes before the
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53 Put away 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
status update 97 Old TWA hub: Abbr.
55 Some sushi bar 98 Three or four
22 Eyewear providing orders 64 65 66 67 68
hindsight? 99 “Maybe” music?
24 French town 56 Give up smuggled 69 70 71 72 73
goods? 101 Dreams that don’t
25 Restrain die? 74 75 76 77 78
62 Guards against
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a player may be book
schneidered 64 Area code 801 88 89 90 91 92
area 105 Runner Budd
27 Repeated 106 Simile words 93 94 95 96 97 98
a Benjamin 65 Swamp thing
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66 Use www.irs.gov, center
99 100 101 102 103
experiment say
29 Peanut-loving 108 Bug that never 104 105 106
68 Not exciting takes a ride?
ghost? 107 108 109 110 111 112
69 1989 Madonna hit 113 Deux of these are
32 Intermittent better than one
revolutionary? 71 High-school athletic 113 114 115
star at a casino? 114 “As You Like It”
33 Afflicts setting
116 117 118 119
74 ___ area
34 “___ Can Cook” 115 Hustle
(onetime PBS 75 Indian government (No. 1101)
show) of 1858-1947 116 60 minuti
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to Cleopatra You” group, 2000 20 Big Super Bowl 49 Pause producer 85 Strip, sand and
Aztecs expense stain
118 “Bill ___ History of 50 City near
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briefly response the United States”
advice for kids? 54 Bias Amazins
37 Christianity, e.g.: 79 Barack Obama, for 119 Détente
23 Pompom holder 56 New York politico 87 Tugboat services
Abbr. one
28 Had as a base Andrew 89 Sammy Davis Jr.
38 Bluff bit 81 Noble Les Paul? DOWN
57 Follower of each or autobiography
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Perot
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U P T I M E D E S I U T E S 35 Kind of bean 60 Not fun at all
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A S H A L E E E O N A I D E 7 Broadway, say 98 Dormant Turkish
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T O O L B O X I V E I S I D O R E back Woman in Red,” 100 Botanist Gray and
O X Y M O R O N E L S E A L Y 1984 70 Lever or level others
10 Inexpensive pen 72 “The Big Country,”
N E V E R T O L D A N Y O N E S E G U E 101 Popinjay
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A Y E S E A R I D L E E S T target 102 Mings, e.g.
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S C U M S O L O P A C I N O 44 Vegetable that 103 Job precursor:
13 Fairy tale sister gives you an 76 Peachy-keen Abbr.
S A V A N N A N O V A H O O V E S
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for their shape 109 X
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opinion
editorials of the timeS
Mandates and Affordability
If Congress approves health care reform, (and have access to millions of new custom-
virtually all Americans will be required to buy ers), the companies would also be forced to
health insurance or pay a penalty. That raises compete with other private plans, and possi-
a question: Will the policies be affordable? bly a public option, encouraging them to lower
People everywhere are complaining that premiums and accept lower profits.
relentlessly rising costs are making health Will There Be Help? Right now, only the
insurance unaffordable. The situation is espe- poorest Americans get help, through the state-
cially dire for millions of Americans who are federal Medicaid program. The bills in both
uninsured, self-employed or whose employers houses would expand eligibility for Medicaid
do not offer subsidized group coverage. to cover millions more people, and lower the
A survey by the Commonwealth Fund found contributions of the poorest Americans.
that 73 percent of the adults who tried to buy For those buying policies on the exchanges,
insurance on the open market over a three- perhaps 30 million people in all, the bills would
year period never bought a plan — because provide tax-credit subsidies to help low- and
they could not afford it, could not find a plan middle-income people pay the premiums.
that met their needs or were turned down. People would have to pay specified percent-
Pending legislation would help some of ages of their income toward the premium,
them by preventing rejections or high charg- ranging in the House bill from 1.5 percent for
es based on health status and by setting mini- those barely above Medicaid level to 12 per-
mum benefit requirements. But many people cent for those earning four times the poverty
who might still find the premiums too high level, or $88,000 for a family of four.
will face an agonizing choice: buy insurance That sounds like a substantial hit at the up-
coverage or pay a penalty of hundreds or even per end — $10,560 for a family of four before
thousands of dollars per family. subsidies kick in. But it is comparable to what
Successful reform will provide financial many workers are currently willing to pay for
support for those who need it and is the only their group policies.
way to finally guarantee coverage for tens of What’s Affordable? No one has a clear an-
millions of uninsured Americans. swer, and various experts use different ap-
• proaches to calculating affordability. Some
Here is a look at some of the issues behind estimate what people would have to pay for
the affordability debate: such other necessities as housing, food, day
Why is a Mandate Necessary? It is impor- care, transportation and taxes, and then see
tant that everyone be required to buy insur- how much is left over that could pay for health
ance, either from their employers or on new insurance. Others look at what people at vari-
insurance exchanges. Reliable studies show ous income levels are paying for health insur-
that people who lack insurance seldom get ance today, without a requirement.
regular medical care and therefore suffer By either yardstick, Jonathan Gruber, a
more severe illness and death than those who prominent health economist at the Massachu-
are insured. When they do get sick, they often setts Institute of Technology, believes that all
turn to expensive emergency rooms for free of the pending bills in Congress would make
care — driving up costs for everyone else. health insurance affordable to the vast ma-
Finally, the health care reforms, which re- jority of Americans and that none of the bills
quire insurers to accept all applicants, will would require anyone to buy insurance they
not work well unless nearly everyone carries could not afford.
health insurance. Unless the pool includes a Which Version Is More Affordable? The
large number of healthy people, the costs for House bill, unveiled last week, seems a safer
everyone on the exchange will be too high. bet than the Senate Finance bill (which must
Will Premiums Go Up or Down? Those still be merged with another Senate bill) to
forced to buy their own insurance could make coverage affordable and widespread.
choose from an array of private plans — and It has stronger penalty provisions for indi-
possibly a public plan — that will be offered viduals who decline coverage, thus making it
on the exchanges. There is sharp debate over more likely that the pools on the exchanges
whether these plans would be less or more ex- would be large enough to spread the risk.
pensive than plans that would be available on It would require employers to offer health
the open market. coverage and pay a substantial share of the
Insurance industry studies contend that premiums or face a very stiff penalty, thus
premiums would go up because various fees easing the burden on many workers. And it
imposed on health insurers and health care would provide relatively generous subsidies.
providers to pay for covering the uninsured Congressional leaders will have to meld the
would inevitably get passed on to consumers. versions in coming weeks. We believe that a
We believe premiums would come down for final bill should include a strong mandate, a
several reasons. Companies would no longer public option and generous subsidies. That
need to spend as much money on administra- is the best chance of covering the maximum
tive costs, to screen out people with pre-exist- numbers of Americans and making insur-
ing conditions (prohibited by all reform bills). ance affordable. We believe that right now the
If they wanted to participate on the exchanges House version does all of that best.
Sunday, November 1, 2009 7
maureen dowd
Port Mortuary’s Pull
WASHINGTON — Michelle had gone up to
New York to watch the World Series opener
with Jill Biden and Yogi Berra. The president
had dinner with Sasha and Malia. Then, short-
ly before midnight, he boarded Marine One
and flew to Dover Air Force Base.
On the tarmac in the darkness, he stood at
attention, saluting, as 18 flag-draped cases
were taken off an Air Force C-17 and carried
to Port Mortuary by military teams in camou-
flage fatigues and black berets.
The parade of death included casualties
from America’s most horrific day in Afghani-
stan in four years, and its bloodiest month of
the war. It may have been a photo op, another
way Obama could show he was not W., the
president who started the Iraq war in a haze
of fakery and then declined to ever confront
the reality of its dead.
Certainly, as Obama tries to figure out how
to avoid being a war president when he’s sad-
dled with two wars, he wants as much military
cred in the bank as he can get.
But it was also a genuinely poignant mo-
ment. It is how we want our presidents to be-
have, doing the humane thing especially when
it’s hard. And Obama, who called it “a sober-
ing reminder’’ of sacrifices made, signaled to
Americans that he will resist blinders as he
grapples with the conflicts he inherited.
Leave it to Liz Cheney, in her bid to out-
Cheney her scary dad, to suggest that Obama
is a crass publicity-seeker. “I think that what
President Bush used to do is do it without the
cameras,’’ she told a Fox News radio host.
She’s right: There were no press cameras
at Dover in the previous administration.
There was also no W.
While Bush occasionally visited the wound-
ed and the families of those killed, he never
went to Dover to salute the fallen. And he
barred any media coverage of it, trying to air-
brush the evidence that the wars he started
were not the cakewalks he had promised.
Obama, the wunderkind who came out of
nowhere to win the presidency, was supposed
to push America out of the ditch and into a glit-
tering future. But modernity is elusive when
you’re in a time machine to the 14th century
called Afghanistan. The tableau of Obama at
Dover evoked the last line of “The Great Gats-
by:” “So we beat on, boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
As Obama comforted families at a tragic
moment, he also had to contemplate a tragic
dimension of his own presidency: It’s nice to
talk about change, but you can’t wipe away
yesterday. What he had in mind for renovat-
ing society hinged on spending a lot of money
on energy, education, the environment and
health care. Instead, he has been trapped in
the money pits of a recession and two wars.
For now, the man who promised revolution
will have to settle for managing adversity.
It is, as Yogi Berra said, “déjà vu all over
again.”
sports Sunday, November 1, 2009 8

In 26-Mile Slog, a Shortcut Can Be Tempting in brief

Two California women run-
ning together in last year’s New
York City Marathon needed more
than four hours to cover the first
16 miles. Then, they seemingly
transformed into elite athletes,
their finishing times suggesting
a world-record pace through the
marathon’s toughest section.
Turns out, they had taken a
shortcut. They ran in only four
boroughs, skipping the Bronx
and making a beeline for the fin-
ish line.
They cheated. And they were
not alone.
Thirty years after Rosie Ruiz
infamously combined distance
running and subway riding, some
marathoners still succumb to
temptation and take unscrupu-
lous means to the end.
Last year, 71 runners in the
New York City Marathon were
disqualified for various viola-
Crew Chief Prepares for Last Race With Busch
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Kyle
Busch celebrated 12 wins with
the crew chief Steve Addington,
including a comeback victory last
year at Talladega Superspeed-
way.
It seemed like a lifetime ago,
though, on Friday as Addington
prepared for his final weekend
with Busch. He will call Sunday’s
race at Talladega and then hand
the job to Dave Rogers in a firing
that admittedly left Addington
“pretty confused.”
“Do I agree with it? No,” Add-
ington said. “But it is what it is, and
I felt like we had a good run.”
Busch said the decision was
tions of race rules — at least 46 of
them for reducing the marathon
to something less than 26.2 miles.
An untold number of runners
escape detection, marathon of-
ficials said. Surely some cheats
will prosper among the 42,000 en-
tered in Sunday’s race.
Mary Wittenberg, the race
director, called the number of
cheats shocking.
She added, “We have a duty to
make sure that everyone who
crosses our famed finish line
earns the medal they achieve.”
Runners have found several
ways to skirt the rules. Some take
shortcuts, stepping off the course
and rejoining it closer to the fin-
ish, often sneaking into Central
Park once they enter Manhattan
near Mile 16. Other racers hand
their identities to faster runners,
by giving them their designated
bibs or the electronic timing sen-
made by the team owner Joe Gibbs
and the president J.D. Gibbs, and it
was based on a lack of consistency
this season.
“It seems like we’re either
feast or famine we’re either go-
ing to win the race or finish 30th,”
Busch said. “Some of that’s my
fault, some of that’s just not hav-
ing the right stuff for me, and Joe
and J.D. felt like we needed to try
something new to get something
of a more consistent basis and
championship-caliber.”
Addington and Busch charged
out of the gate at the start of the
2008 season. Busch moved to Joe
Gibbs Racing after he was fired
sors that attach to their shoes to
officially record progress at in-
tervals on the course.
It falls on Tom Kelley, the mar-
athon’s director for race scoring,
and other staff members to comb
through race data and catch
those who have cheated. He has
been the marathon’s hall moni-
tor for years, so he knows how to
find stories of transgressions in
the streams of timing data.
The New York Road Runners,
the marathon’s organizer, gives
each runner with suspicious
times a chance to explain. When
Kelley is confident that cheating
has occurred, he may issue a life-
time ban from the race. He said
some Europeans caught taking
shortcuts had explained that in
their culture, any long run was
a marathon. “They don’t under-
stand it’s a set distance,” he said.
 ANDREW W. LEHREN
from Hendrick Motorsports, and
Addington got the job of trying to
rein in Nascar’s wild child.
He made it look easy with im-
mediate results. They almost won
the season-opening Daytona 500,
and got their first win together
three weeks later with a victory at
Atlanta.
But a summer slump cost him
a spot in the Chase. Busch missed
the final qualifying spot by just 8
points. Now, six races later, Gibbs
officials decided to make a switch
atop the pit box. Rogers, crew
chief for Gibbs in the Nationwide
Series, will replace Addington be-
ginning next week at Texas. (AP)
All-Williams Final
The Williams sisters are head-
ed for another title matchup.
Venus, the defending cham-
pion, defeated Jelena Jankovic,
5-7, 6-3, 6-4, in one semifinal
Saturday at the Sony Ericsson
Championships in Doha, Qa-
tar. Caroline Wozniacki retired
against Serena in the other,
trailing by 6-4, 0-1, because of an
apparent abdominal injury.
Serena, who secured the year-
end No. 1 ranking this week, and
Venus will play for the title Sun-
day.  (AP)
Match Play Finals
Anthony Kim reached his first
Volvo World Match Play Cham-
pionship final by beating Rob-
ert Allenby of Australia, 5 and 4,
on Saturday in Casares, Spain.
Kim, who beat Allenby, 5 and 3,
at the Presidents Cup, rallied
from an early two-hole deficit,
pulling away at the 27th hole in
near-perfect conditions at the
Finca Cortesin course.  (AP)
NBa scores
FRIDAY’S LATE GAMES
Phoenix 123, Golden State 101
Dallas 94, L.A. Lakers 80
NHL scores
FRIDAY’S LATE GAMES
Forida 6, Dallas 5
Anaheim 7, Vancouver 2
San Jose 3, Colorado 1
SATURDAY
Philadelphia 6, Carolina 1
Boston 2, Edmonton 0
Atlanta 3, Ottawa 1
New Jersey 2, Tampa Bay 1

WEATHER
High/low temperatures for the 20 hours ended at 4 p.m.
yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches)
for the 18 hours ended at 2 p.m. yesterday. Expected
conditions for today and tomorrow.
Weather conditions: C-clouds, F-fog, H-haze, I-ice, PC-
partly cloudy,R-rain, S-sun, Sh-showers, Sn-snow, SS-
snow showers, T-thunderstorms, Tr-trace, W-windy.
U.S. CITIES
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Atlanta 70/ 55 0.22 63/ 45 S 69/ 44 S
Albuquerque 54/ 33 0 65/ 38 S 67/ 41 S
Boise 55/ 37 0 54/ 40 PC 56/ 35 PC
Boston 73/ 47 0 58/ 52 PC 53/ 42 PC
Buffalo 63/ 51 0.18 48/ 39 PC 53/ 39 PC
Charlotte 71/ 59 0 55/ 51 Sh 63/ 44 PC
Chicago 47/ 40 0 53/ 35 PC 56/ 45 PC
Cleveland 72/ 50 0.57 51/ 40 PC 55/ 35 PC
Dallas-Ft. Worth 71/ 42 0 75/ 47 S 74/ 51 S
Denver 50/ 32 0 54/ 28 S 48/ 28 PC
Detroit 64/ 48 0.26 50/ 37 PC 53/ 38 C
Houston
Kansas City
73/ 46
56/ 39
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0
74/ 47
67/ 43
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76/ 49
61/ 45
S
PC
Los Angeles 82/ 53 0 86/ 57 S 88/ 59 S
Miami 90/ 79 0 88/ 75 S 88/ 73 S
Mpls.-St. Paul 45/ 35 0.05 54/ 34 C 49/ 39 PC
New York City 71/ 55 0.05 59/ 51 PC 57/ 45 S
Orlando 88/ 68 0 86/ 68 PC 84/ 68 PC
Philadelphia 72/ 55 0.10 59/ 52 PC 60/ 44 PC
Phoenix 77/ 50 0 85/ 55 S 88/ 57 S
Salt Lake City 56/ 39 0 57/ 36 PC 58/ 37 S
San Francisco 59/ 52 0 66/ 55 PC 74/ 55 S
Seattle 58/ 52 0.27 53/ 47 PC 53/ 45 PC
St. Louis 56/ 43 0 59/ 41 S 63/ 42 PC
Washington 70/ 58 0.02 58/ 50 PC 60/ 43 PC
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 90/ 75 0 88/ 75 PC 90/ 75 PC
Athens 60/ 53 0 61/ 48 W 61/ 46 PC
Beijing 57/ 41 0.24 37/ 23 R 37/ 21 S
Berlin 44/ 34 0 46/ 34 C 45/ 41 R
Buenos Aires 64/ 57 0 70/ 61 T 81/ 61 T
Cairo 81/ 66 Tr 75/ 64 PC 73/ 61 S
Cape Town
Dublin
74/ 57 0
61/ 50 0.24
72/ 55 PC
57/ 45 R
77/ 54 C
54/ 43 PC
Geneva 53/ 46 0 64/ 48 C 57/ 39 R
Hong Kong 86/ 75 0 84/ 70 PC 77/ 61 W
Kingston 90/ 75 0 88/ 77 S 88/ 77 S
Lima 69/ 63 0 72/ 63 PC 70/ 64 C
London 64/ 52 0.02 64/ 50 R 55/ 46 R
Madrid 77/ 52 0 72/ 57 PC 61/ 50 C
Mexico City 79/ 55 0.59 72/ 45 C 72/ 48 PC
Montreal 58/ 52 0.07 48/ 32 C 50/ 32 PC
Moscow 32/ 27 Tr 30/ 28 C 32/ 27 PC
Nassau 88/ 75 0 88/ 77 S 90/ 77 S
Paris 61/ 41 0 63/ 55 R 54/ 50 R
Prague 35/ 23 0 50/ 36 C 45/ 38 R
Rio de Janeiro 83/ 70 0 88/ 70 S 91/ 72 S
Rome 64/ 46 0 63/ 46 PC 66/ 50 Sh
Santiago 78/ 55 0 77/ 43 C 64/ 39 PC
Stockholm 43/ 27 0 43/ 36 C 43/ 37 C
Sydney 76/ 64 0 81/ 61 S 84/ 63 PC
Tokyo 71/ 61 0 77/ 54 Sh 63/ 46 R
Toronto 62/ 52 0.23 46/ 39 PC 50/ 37 C
Vancouver 56/ 53 0.31 54/ 45 PC 54/ 43 Sh
Warsaw 38/ 25 0 39/ 30 PC 39/ 30 PC
sports journal Sunday, November 1, 2009 9

Selig Sets the Tone for Redemption With McGwire

The World Series moved to Instead, he set a tone for redemp-
Philadelphia, where the Yankees tion.
and the Phillies were scheduled During a phone interview on
to play Games 3, 4 and 5. But the Friday, he explained why. “I
most jarring baseball news came can’t be disingenuous,” he said.
before the Series began “If Tony La Russa and
with the announcement Sports Dave McKay and Dave
that Mark McGwire, Of Duncan and Bill DeWitt
the disgraced home run The Times and all these people who
slugger, was return- lived with him, know
William C.
ing to baseball. The St. him, want him back, I
Louis Cardinals said last Rhoden don’t have any reason to
Monday that he would be tell them no.”
their hitting coach. Fairly or not, McGwire is
More stunning than that was identified with the use of per-
Commissioner Bud Selig’s en- formance-enhancing drugs in
dorsement of the hire. Selig’s of- baseball. In 1998, McGwire and
fice had been lobbied for months Sammy Sosa reignited waning
by Cardinals ownership, the front passion for baseball with a chase
office and Manager Tony La for Roger Maris’s single-season
Russa, whom McGwire played home run record, which McG-
for in Oakland and in St. Louis. wire won with 70 homers. The
The Cardinals didn’t need Selig’s commissioner’s office, baseball
permission to hire McGwire, but executives, even the news media
they needed his blessing. offered daily paeans to McGwire.
Selig could have remained McGwire retired in 2001, be-
silent or could have said that fore baseball began its investiga-
he had a problem with the hire. tion into the use of performance-
enhancing drugs. He was never
formally accused or indicted,
but he was one of the threads that
unraveled baseball’s steroid
scourge when an Associated
Press reporter, Steve Wilstein,
saw a container of androstene-
dione in McGwire’s locker.
McGwire admitted taking the
androstenedione, an over-the-
counter muscle-building prod-
uct. It was legal at the time, and
not disallowed by Major League
Baseball, though it later barred
the use of androstenedione.
McGwire was also linked to the
use of performance-enhancing
substances that were not barred
by baseball when he was play-
ing. An F.B.I. steroid sting op-
eration conducted in the early
1990s linked McGwire and Jose
Canseco to a steroid dealer.
Selig is open about his admira-
tion for McGwire. His relation-
ship with Barry Bonds is hardly
as cordial. Bonds is not a warm
and fuzzy hero, and he has been
linked to the Balco case and is
awaiting trial on perjury charg-
es. But amnesty should be about
being even-handed, not favor-
ing personal pets. Asked about
Bonds’s future if acquitted on
perjury charges, Selig said that
if a club wanted to hire him as a
player or a coach, “I don’t think
there will be an issue.”
That’s not good enough. As he
did with McGwire, Selig should
advocate for a player like Bonds
or any other player linked to
performance-enhancing drugs
who has been acquitted or not
formally charged.
His legacy as baseball com-
missioner will be defined by the
scourge of performance-enhanc-
ing drugs. The strongest state-
ment he can make is not simply
welcoming back an immensely
popular player like McGwire.
The strongest step toward
redemption is going down as the
commissioner who welcomed
Barry Bonds back to the fold.

A California Derby Is at the Center of M.L.S. Playoffs

CARSON, Calif. — Julian Val-
entin has been ill with the flu most
of the week, which means that no
matter how much disinfectant
he sprayed around the cozy two-
bedroom apartment he shares
near the beach, his roommate,
Ante Jazic, has not been around.
Jazic has preferred to stay with
his girlfriend.
Perhaps, in the interest of co-
habitational harmony — as well
as good health — this arrange-
ment is all for the best.
This Sunday and next, the Los
Angeles Galaxy, of which Valen-
tin is a member, and Chivas USA,
for whom Jazic plays, will face
off in the first round of the M.L.S.
playoffs. It is a home-and-home
series, which makes it a little
uncomfortable for these teams
because, like Jazic and Valentin,
they live under the same roof.
The teams not only share the
same stadium, the Home De-
pot Center, they share the same
weight room, advertising repre-
sentatives and parking lot. Their
locker rooms are along the same
corridor. Upstairs, the teams’ of-
fices are separated by 35 paces
down a hallway.
But mi casa es su casa?
“It will be uneasy,” Galaxy
midfielder Chris Klein said. “And
I think after the first game, it will
be even more so.”
Intracity rivalries extend to
the postseason occasionally. The
Mets and the Yankees played
their Subway Series in 2000, the
Rangers and the Islanders have
met many times in the N.H.L.
playoffs, and the Giants and the
Athletics crossed the San Fran-
cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for the
1989 World Series.
But, according to the Elias
Sports Bureau, this is the first
time that two American profes-
sional sports teams using the
same facility have met in the
playoffs since the 1944 World
Series between the St. Louis Car-
dinals and the St. Louis Browns,
who shared Sportsman’s Park.
The added air of win or go home
— or is it win or stay home? —
should heighten what has been a
fierce rivalry. David Beckham
was welcomed to it two years ago
with a boot to the midsection from
the Chivas captain, Jesse Marsch,
which set off a red-card-inducing
melee between the teams.
In three matches this season, 91
fouls were committed and 4 play-
ers ejected.
“The Super Clasicos are differ-
ent, the atmosphere, the inten-
sity,” Jazic said, referring to the
rivalry by its nickname. “I know
nobody wants to go a whole year
— until the next playoffs — hav-
ing to see the guy who knocked
you out.”
Since Chivas USA arrived as
an expansion club in 2005, it has
presented, along with the Gal-
axy, a clash of cultures. As Jorge
Vergara, the owner of the storied
Mexican club Chivas de Guadala-
jara and a part owner of Chivas
USA, declared at the time, “It’s
the Latinos versus the Gringos,
and we’re going to win.”
The best representation of the
competing philosophies is in the
faces of two players who may be
sharing space at midfield: Beck-
ham and Jorge Flores.
The world-famous Beckham
arrived in 2007 with paparazzi
and klieg lights. The locally lit-
tle-known Flores came after an
“American Idol”-like tryout on
Spanish-language television.
Anschutz Entertainment
Group, which owns the Galaxy
and the stadium, has sought star
power to sell its product, bringing
in Beckham and Landon Dono-
van, whose combined salary of
more than $7.4 million exceeds
the payroll of every other team in
the league. Until this season, the
Galaxy led M.L.S. in attendance
since moving into the Home De-
pot Center in 2003.
The crowds are mostly subur-
ban, well heeled and generally
look like the team, which is most-
ly white and Anglo.
At Chivas practices, most of
the communication between
players takes place in Spanish.
But Chivas has had a harder time
winning over the vast Latino soc-
cer audience, which turns out in
droves to watch the top Mexican
or European clubs but not for
former Mexican stars past their
prime, like Paco Palencia and
Claudio Suárez.
“We’re separate, but equal,”
said Jazic, who has played for
both organizations. “It’s the
same distance we cover, but not
the same ground.”
Still, the rhetoric has toned
down on both sides, as Chivas’s
bravado has been beaten down
on the business side, and the Gal-
axy’s runaway hubris has been
clipped after the first two sea-
sons of the Beckham experiment
proved disastrous.
“The animosity that happens
now is strictly on the field as op-
posed to off the field,” Marsch
said. “Before, they always looked
down on us. I don’t think they do
that anymore.” BILLY WITZ