F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Monday
November 2, 2009
Midnight in New York
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Britain Jails Texting Driver Who Killed KARZAI CHALLENGER
OXFORD, England — Inside
the imposing British Crown Court
here, Phillipa Curtis, 22, and her
parents cried as she was remand-
ed for 21 months to a high-security
women’s prison, for killing some-
one much like herself. The victim
was Victoria McBryde, an up-and-
coming university-trained fashion
designer.
Curtis had plowed her Peugeot
into the rear end of McBryde’s ne-
on yellow Fiat, which had broken
down on the A40 Motorway, killing
McBryde, 24, instantly.
The crash might once have been
written off as a tragic accident.
Curtis’s alcohol level was zero.
But her phone, which had flown
onto the road and was handed to
the police by a witness, told a story
that — under new British sentenc-
ing guidelines — would send its
owner to prison.
In the hour before the crash,
she had exchanged nearly two
dozen messages with at least five
friends, most concerning her en-
counter with a celebrity singer
she had served at the restaurant
where she worked.
They are filled with the man-
gled spellings and abbreviations
Obama Campaigns for Corzine in New Jersey
NEWARK — President Obama
swept into New Jersey on Sunday,
pleading with his supporters to
summon up the enthusiasm they
poured into his election last No-
vember and deliver a victory for
Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine.
“He’s one of the best partners I
have in the White House. We work
together,” Obama said. “We know
our work is far from over.”
Obama’s appearances in Cam-
den and Newark underscored the
White House’s determination to
stave off defeat for Corzine, the
only Democratic incumbent up for
re-election this year, who is facing
an aggressive challenge from Re-
publican Christopher J. Christie.
The race is one of several likely
to be viewed as a barometer of the
president’s popularity.
In a congressional race in up-
state New York, the White House
helped to engineer the surprise
STEPS ASIDE BUT
that typify the new lingua franca
of the young. “LOL did you sing to
her?” a friend asks. Curtis replies
CHALLENGES FRAUD
by typing in an expletive and add-
ing, “I sang the wrong song.” A last
incoming message, never opened,
came in seconds before the acci-
dent.
With that as evidence, Curtis
was sentenced last February
under 2008 British government
directives that regard prolonged
texting as a serious aggravating
factor in “death by dangerous
driving” — just like drinking —
and generally recommend four to
seven years in prison.
The case reveals the tensions
that arise when law enforcement
and the courts begin to crack down
on a dangerous habit that has be-
come widespread and socially
acceptable. Is texting while driv-
ing bad judgment, or a heinous
crime? And what is the appropri-
ate punishment?
Upon hearing the sentence,
prosecutors — backed by the
police and McBryde’s mother
— quickly appealed to Britain’s
highest court for a longer prison
term, calling 21 months “unduly
lenient.”
endorsement of the Democratic
candidate, Bill Owens, by Assem-
blywoman Dede Scozzafava, the
Republican nominee who dropped
out on Saturday. The move by
Scozzafava, a moderate former
small-town mayor, only intensi-
fied the intra-party fighting in a
contest that has become a battle
for the future of the Republican
party.
In New York City, Mayor Mi-
chael R. Bloomberg and City
Comptroller William C. Thompson
Jr. raced across the five boroughs
in last minute appeals to voters.
Bloomberg tried to ward off com-
pacency among his supporters,
with polls showing him with a
comfortable lead, while a vastly
underfunded Thompson tried to
generate enthusiasm among core
Democratic voters.
Virginia voters will also choose a
new governor Tuesday, but there,
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“She came across as a lovely
young girl, and I’m sure it wasn’t
a nice feeling for the judge to send
someone like this to prison — but
someone is dead because of a text
message,” said Bill Sykes, the of-
ficer who responded to the crash
and led the investigation.
But many young people, among
them the dead woman’s own sib-
lings and friends, disagreed, sym-
pathizing also with Phillipa Curtis.
“I think Phillipa’s sentence was
long enough, as she seemed like
such a normal girl,” said Gemma
Pancoust, the victim’s cousin and
close friend, with whom she liked
to sing karaoke to Dolly Parton’s
“9 to 5.” “Until Tory’s death I tex-
ted while driving, as have most
people. I don’t think she realized
the danger she was causing.”
The lord chief justice of England
and Wales, Lloyd Jones, heard the
appeal to extend the 21-month
prison term. While concluding
that the punishment was “lenient”
and “arguably it was unduly so,”
he declined.
He cited Curtis’s “positive good
character” as well as her “genuine
remorse” over the collision.
 ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
the Republican Bob McDonnell
has a double-digit lead against the
Democrat Creigh Deeds, and the
White House has all but conceded
Deeds cannot overtake him.
“We need to get to the polls each
and every person who is sick and
tired of Corzine,” Christie said.
Obama tried to rebut Christie’s
attacks on Corzine over the state’s
economic problems, saying the
Republican supported policies
that contributed to the nation’s
continuing financial woes.
“Listening to Jon’s opponent,
you’d think New Jersey was the
only state going through a tough
time right now,” Obama said. “I
have something to report: we
have the worst financial crisis
since the Great Depression. By
the way, that didn’t start under
Jon’s watch, that didn’t start on
my watch.”  DAVID CHEN
 DAVID HALBFINGER
KABUL, Afghanistan — Af-
ghanistan’s last presidential
challenger, Abdullah Abdullah,
dropped out of the race on Sun-
day, accusing the government of
profound corruption and electoral
fraud even as the Obama admin-
istration rallied around President
Hamid Karzai.
Abdullah, in an emotional
speech to thousands of supporters
here, urged Afghans not to take to
the streets to protest or boycott
the political system. But he said
he could not take part in an elec-
tion runoff this week that he felt
would be at least as fraudulent
as the badly tainted first round in
August, in which almost a million
ballots for Karzai were thrown out
as fakes. “I hoped there would be
a better process,” he said. “But it
is final. I will not participate in the
Nov. 7 elections.”
Advisers to President Obama
called Abdullah’s decision a per-
sonal choice that would not greatly
affect American policy and was in
line with the Afghan constitution.
And they portrayed the election
of Karzai as essentially settled
enough that Obama could move
forward with deciding whether to
send as many as 40,000 additional
troops to Afghanistan, with an an-
nouncement that likely remains at
least three weeks away.
“Every poll that had been taken
there suggested that he was likely
to be defeated anyway, so we are
going to deal with the government
that is there,” said David Axelrod,
a senior adviser to Obama, on
CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Even though Karzai’s camp in-
sisted that the Nov. 7 vote would go
on, American and other Western
officials in Afghanistan said they
would push for a legal decision
to make Karzai president rather
than holding a one-candidate elec-
tion under direct threat of violence
by militants against polling plac-
es.  CARLOTTA GALL
 and JEFF ZELENY
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Korean School Preserves Innocence at DMZ
TAESUNG FREEDOM VIL-
LAGE, Korean Demilitarized
Zone — Kim Han-seul, a fifth
grader, has the most heav-
ily armed crossing guard in the
world.
Each morning, his school bus
picks him up at a bustling town
outside the Demilitarized Zone
that separates South and North
Korea.
It drives through wire fences,
tank traps and military check-
points along a road flanked by
minefields.
After a 50-minute drive escort-
ed by a military jeep with a United
Nations flag, the bus unloads Han-
seul and a score of other students
at Taesung Elementary, the only
school inside the Korean Demili-
tarized Zone, a heavily armed no
man’s land guarded on both sides
by nearly two million troops fac-
ing off in an uneasy truce.
“People say that if a war broke
out, I am going to be the first to be
killed,” said Han-seul, an 11-year-
Iran Braces for Renewed Opposition Challenge
BEIRUT, Lebanon — As Iran
prepares for a major commemo-
rative rally on Wednesday, the
leaders of the opposition move-
ment called over the weekend
for a renewed challenge to the
government, setting the stage for
a possible showdown between pro-
testers and the police.
Although the opposition leaders,
Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mo-
hammad Khatami, did not openly
call for street protests, their re-
marks were widely seen as a call
to arms on a day of considerable
symbolic importance.
The occasion is the 30th anniver-
sary of the takeover of the United
States Embassy in Tehran by
New Smaller Bomb Attacks Leave Baghdad on Edge
BAGHDAD — A week after the
deadliest attack in Iraq in more
than two years, a scattering of
smaller bomb attacks around the
country on Sunday raised fears of
a sustained escalation in violence
as American forces withdraw.
The bombings, which killed at
least 12 people and wounded more
than 50, killed both police officers
and civilians and struck Sunni as
well as Shiite areas.
Though violence in Iraq has fall-
old with horn-rimmed glasses.
“But I say, if we haven’t had an-
other war since the Korean War
in the 1950s, why would you ex-
pect a war to happen now? I don’t
have a worry in the world.”
Nearby, armed South Korean
soldiers stood guard behind the
corners of school buildings.
This two-story island of child-
hood innocence is the proudest
part of Taesung Freedom Village,
the only pocket of land inhabited
by South Korean civilians inside
the 2.5-mile-wide Demilitarized
Zone.
For decades, the village and
its school have symbolized the
uneasy peace on the border. To
keep them populated, South Ko-
rea has given the villagers in-
centives for staying, exempting
them from taxes and mandatory
military service. Taesung is one
of South Korea’s richest villages,
its farmers allotted 10 times as
much farmland as their average
counterparts elsewhere in the
hard-line students on Nov. 4, 1979.
The day is marked every year
with anti-American rallies.
For weeks, opposition groups
have been calling for their sup-
porters to turn the event into a
show of support for their protest
against the disputed June presi-
dential election and its violent
aftermath. The authorities have
repeatedly warned that they will
put down any protests fiercely.
On Wednesday, Iran’s supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
said questioning the results of the
June elections was “the greatest
crime.” He did not refer directly
to the Nov. 4 rally, but his com-
ments were widely interpreted as
en sharply since 2007, many Iraqis
fear an increase before parlia-
mentary elections scheduled for
Jan. 16. Since the attacks on Oct.
25, which killed 155 and destroyed
three government buildings in
Baghdad, the authorities have
arrested dozens of suspects and
security officers, and critics have
lashed out at the government for
failing to provide security.
Vice President Tariq al-Hashi-
mi said in a statement on Sunday
Monday, November 2, 2009
country.
Still, by 2007, Taesung was suc-
cumbing to the problem plaguing
every other rural village in South
Korea: its population was shrink-
ing and aging as young people left
for college and jobs in cities.
So last year, South Korea and
the United Nations Command,
which oversees the southern side
of the Demilitarized Zone, decid-
ed to bring children from outside
the Demilitarized Zone to attend
Taesung Elementary.
Now the school has 30 students,
the maximum allowed under an
agreement between the South
and the United Nations Com-
mand. Everything in the school is
free except for snacks.
“There are 15 outside students
waiting for a vacancy here,” said
Joo Sung-hyun, 37, one of the
school’s 18 teachers. “Our school
gets special attention, and it’s bet-
ter equipped and better staffed
than most other schools in South
Korea.”  CHOE SANG-HUN
a stark warning that the govern-
ment would brook no challenges.
Khamenei is said to have been sur-
prised and angered after another
annual pro-government rally in
September, known as Jerusalem
Day, was largely hijacked by anti-
government protesters.
Moussavi, in his first state-
ment in more than a month, urged
his supporters on Saturday to
continue their opposition to the
results of the election, which he
had dismissed from the start as
fraudulent. He urged them to
avoid violence, and cited the Nov.
4 anniversary as a reminder that
leaders should follow the will of
the people.  (NYT)
that the Baghdad attacks were
preventable, and he blamed “cat-
astrophic gaps and breaches in
security forces.”
Also on Sunday, a special envoy
from the United Nations arrived
in Baghdad to investigate secu-
rity here. Iraqi leaders had asked
the United Nations Security Coun-
cil to study the role of neighboring
countries in last week’s attacks
on itsministries.
 JOHN LELAND
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Fighting in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At
least 36 people have been killed
and scores wounded in three
days of fighting in towns across
southern and central Somalia,
a local human rights group said
Sunday. “At least 36 people died
and 175 others were injured in
Mogadishu, Galcaio and in Ba-
kool region in the last three
days,” said Ali Yasin Gedi, vice
chairman of the rights group,
the Elman Peace Center.
Government troops fought a
rebel group in a central town,
the two main insurgent forces
battled each other in the south
and police officers from the
semiautonomous northern re-
gion of Puntland clashed with
soldiers on their border.
 (Reuters)
Israel Makes Arrest
JERUSALEM — The Israeli
police said Sunday that they had
arrested Jack Teitel, a 37-year-
old American immigrant and a
West Bank settler, and charged
him in an array of killings and
terrorist attacks over the last
12 years, including the murders
of two Palestinians, the bomb-
ing of a leftist Israeli profes-
sor’s home and the maiming of
a 15-year-old boy who belongs
to a community of Jews who be-
lieve in Jesus.
The murders with which he
has been charged, of a taxi driv-
er in Jerusalem and a shepherd
south of the West Bank city of
Hebron, took place in 1997. The
attacks on the teenager and
on the professor occurred last
year.  (NYT)
Russian Plane Crash
MOSCOW — A Russian mili-
tary cargo plane crashed Sun-
day on takeoff in Siberia, killing
all 11 crew members on board,
officials said.
The crash was the second ac-
cident in less than a month in-
volving an Il-76, the mainstay
of the Soviet and Russian Air
Force since the 1970s. These
and a string of other accidents
have raised concerns about the
condition of Russia’s aging fleet
of Soviet-built aircraft.
The cause of the crash on Sun-
day was not yet known.  (AP)
national
Immigrant Jail Tests Views on Lawyer Access
A startling petition arrived at
the New York City Bar Associa-
tion in October 2008, signed by 100
men, all locked up without crimi-
nal charges in the middle of Man-
hattan.
It described cramped, filthy
quarters where dire medical
needs were ignored, hungry pris-
oners were put to work for $1 a
day by a private company under
federal contract, and any protest
met threats of transfer to worse
jails far away.
The petitioners, seeking an
investigation, were among 250
detainees imprisoned in an immi-
gration jail that few New Yorkers
even know exists. Above a busy
post office, on the fourth floor of
a federal office building in Green-
wich Village, the Varick Street
Detention Facility is easy to miss.
For years it was shuttered, but it
quietly reopened last year under
an arrangement that pays divi-
dends to an Alaskan native tribe.
Now it takes in 11,000 men each
Strategy on Health Care Seems to Be Paying Off
WASHINGTON — After months
of plodding work by five Congres-
sional committees and weeks of
back-room bargaining by Demo-
cratic leaders, President Obama’s
arms-length strategy on health
care appears to be paying divi-
dends, with the House and the Sen-
ate poised to take up legislation to
insure nearly all Americans.
Debate in the House is expected
to begin this week, and the Senate
will soon take up its version.
In interviews, senior advisers to
the president said the progress on
Capitol Hill vindicated Obama’s
strategy of leaving the details up
23 College Presidents Made More Than $1 Million in 2008, Survey Finds
The presidents of the nation’s
major private research universi-
ties were paid a median compen-
sation of $627,750 in the 2007-8 fis-
cal year — a 5.5 percent increase
from the previous year — accord-
ing to The Chronicle of Higher
Education annual executive com-
pensation survey.
The highest paid private uni-
versity executive was Shirley Ann
Jackson, president of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
N.Y., with a pay package totaling
$1,598,247 in fiscal 2008.
According to the survey, pub-
year, most of them longtime New
Yorkers facing deportation with-
out a lawyer.
Galvanized by the petition, the
bar association and its allies sent
teams of volunteers into the jail to
offer basic legal counsel to detain-
ees — a strategy the Obama ad-
ministration has embraced as it
tries to fix the nation’s sprawling
immigration detention system.
“Immigration and Customs En-
forcement considers the access to
legal services at Varick Street as
a good model,” said Sean Smith, a
spokesman for Janet Napolitano,
secretary of homeland security,
who oversees immigration en-
forcement.
But the lawyers doing the work
have reached a quite different con-
clusion, after finding that most de-
tainees with a legal claim to stay
in the United States are routinely
transferred to more remote jails
before they can be helped. The
lawyers say their effort has laid
bare the fundamental unfairness
to lawmakers, though they are
wary of sounding overconfident.
“You don’t see any shimmy-
ing in the end zone,” said Rahm
Emanuel, the White House chief
of staff. “No spiking the ball on the
20-yard line here.”
The bills have advanced further
than many lawmakers expected.
Five separate measures are now
pared down to two. But the legisla-
tive progress has come at a price.
In the absence of specific guid-
ance from the White House, it has
moved ahead in fits and starts.
From here on, the challenges will
only grow more difficult.
lished in Monday’s edition, 23 pri-
vate college presidents made over
$1 million in total compensation,
and 110 made more than $500,000.
Such large pay packages are still
relatively new in higher educa-
tion: as recently as 2002, there
were no million-dollar presidents.
Over all, the Chronicle survey
found, the median pay for presi-
dents of the 419 private colleges
and universities surveyed was
$358,746, a 6.5 percent increase
over the previous year.
Why is university presidents’
pay going up so much?
Monday, November 2, 2009
of a system where immigrant
detainees, unlike criminal defen-
dants, can be held without legal
representation and moved from
state to state without notice.
In a report to be issued on Mon-
day, the association’s City Bar
Justice Center is calling for all im-
migrant detainees to be provided
with counsel.
The new focus on Varick high-
lights the conflict between two
forces: the administration’s plans
to revamp detention, and current
policies that feed the flow of de-
tainees through the system as it
is now. A disjointed mix of county
jails and privately run prisons, the
detention network churns roughly
400,000 detainees through 32,000
beds each year.
“Any attempt to get support
or services for them is stymied
because you don’t know where
they’re going to end up,” said
Lynn M. Kelly, the director of the
Justice Center.
 NINA BERNSTEIN
In the House, where leaders
have vowed to pass a bill by Nov.
11, a fight over abortion coverage
could still imperil the legislation,
and Obama could lose votes from
liberals upset that the bill includes
a weakened “public option,” a gov-
ernment insurance plan to com-
pete with the private sector.
In the Senate, where Democrats
will need support from every
member of their caucus to reach
the 60-vote threshold to avoid a po-
tential filibuster, Obama’s hands-
off strategy carries particular
risks.  ROBERT PEAR and
 SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
“I think the answer you’d get
from the governing boards that
set these salaries is that it’s a
market and it’s increasingly hard
to find these people,” said Jeffrey
Selingo, editor of The Chronicle of
Higher Education, which has pub-
lished its compensation survey
annually since 1993. “That said,
almost every year, presidential
salaries have gone up faster than
inflation, and faster than tuition,
which rankles some people on
campus.”
The Chronicle’s information is
from federal tax documents for
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Search Called Off
Military officials said on Sun-
day that they did not expect to
find survivors among the sev-
en Coast Guard members and
two Marines missing since their
aircraft collided in a ball of fire
Thursday off the coast of San
Diego.
After searching 644 square
miles of ocean, officials direct-
ing the search declared it a “re-
covery operation” and focused
on investigating the cause of
the crash and combing through
about 50 miles of floating de-
bris.  (NYT)
6 Bodies Found
The badly decomposed bodies
of six women were found at the
home of a convicted rapist in
Cleveland last week, all victims
of homicide, the coroner’s office
said Sunday.
At least five of the women
seemed to have been strangled,
said Powell Caesar, a spokes-
man for the Cuyahoga County
coroner. Decomposition made
it difficult to determine how the
sixth died, he said.
The convicted rapist, Anthony
Sowell, 50, was arrested Satur-
day.  (AP)
Nature Reserve
Puerto Rico’s governor on
Friday canceled the designa-
tion of part of the island’s north-
eastern coastline as a nature
reserve, opening the door to
large-scale development along
a white-sand beach where pro-
posals for hotel resorts have
sparked bitter protests.  (AP)
the 2007-8 fiscal year, the most re-
cent data available, but from a pe-
riod before the current economic
downturn.
“Since then, many presidents
have taken pay cuts, donated part
of their pay in scholarships, or had
their pay frozen,” Selingo said.
Selingo pointed out, however,
that even if presidential pay has
stopped growing so quickly, tu-
ition has not, with 58 private col-
leges charging more than $50,000
for tuition, fees, room and board
this year, compared with only five
last year.  TAMAR LEWIN
business
Creditors Back CIT Group’s Bankruptcy
As the CIT Group sought des-
perately to avoid bankruptcy
this summer, it argued that be-
ing forced into Chapter 11 protec-
tion would spell disaster for its
customers: a wide swath of the
nation’s small and midsize busi-
nesses who rely on the 101-year-
old company for financing.
On Sunday, CIT entered what
it called a different kind of bank-
ruptcy, one that will let it re-
emerge from court protection
by the end of the year under the
ownership of its creditors, who
widely supported the reorgani-
zation plan.
The filing marks the culmi-
nation of months of bargaining
among CIT, its creditors and
the federal government over the
company’s fate. Bank regula-
tors concluded over the summer
that even though CIT was vital
to many small businesses that
needed financing, the company’s
problems did not pose the type of
systemic risk that led to the ag-
An Atypical Billionaire in the Legal Spotlight
For Raj Rajaratnam, the bil-
lionaire hedge fund manager
charged with insider trading, legal
problems are nothing new.
In 2005, he paid $20 million in
back taxes, penalties and interest
to settle a federal investigation in-
to a sham tax shelter that he used,
according to a previously undis-
closed lawsuit. His Galleon Group
funds were entangled in an earlier
fraud case.
But both the case against Raja-
ratnam and the man himself are
more complex than they may first
appear. Rajaratnam and Galleon
trade assets rapidly and focus
TV Finds That a Mortal Foe, the DVR, Is Really a Best Friend
In what may seem a media
business version of the Stockholm
syndrome, television network ex-
ecutives have fallen in love with
a former tormentor: the digital
video recorder.
The reason is not simply that
more households own digital video
recorders — 33 percent compared
with 28 percent at this point in 2008
— helping some marginal shows
become hits. It is also that more
people seem content to sit through
the commercials than networks
once thought.
These factors mean DVR rat-
gressive rescues of Citigroup and
Bank of America.
Even so, the bankruptcy fil-
ing means taxpayers will lose
the $2.3 billion investment they
made in CIT as part of the gov-
ernment’s sweeping financial
rescue last fall, marking the first
such loss of the bailout program.
Even though the government
has been repaid with interest for
its investments in companies
like Goldman Sachs and Mor-
gan Stanley, it will probably see
more losses in companies like the
American International Group
and Chrysler.
By filing a so-called prepack-
aged bankruptcy plan, CIT is
aiming to limit the damage in-
flicted on the scores of retailers
and other companies that de-
pend on the specialized financ-
ing it provides. It is the dominant
provider of factoring, in which a
company sells the debt it is owed
to a company like CIT at a dis-
count.
on short-term gains. But those
tactics are not illegal. The cred-
ibility of a crucial witness against
him has already been seared, and
Rajaratnam’s fund actually lost
money on the trades outlined in
the complaint against him.
And Rajaratnam does not en-
tirely fit the stereotype of a Wall
Street billionaire. Friends paint
him as gregarious and generous,
a fan of cricket and an avid player
of fantasy football, a relatively
straightforward man whose par-
ents live with him and his wife,
Asha, in Manhattan.
Among Rajaratnam’s strongest
ings now add significantly to live
ratings and thus to ad revenue.
“The DVR was going to kill tele-
vision,” said Andy Donchin, direc-
tor of media investment for the ad
agency Carat. “It hasn’t.”
Nearly half of all people watch-
ing delayed shows are still watch-
ing ads. According to Nielsen, 46
percent of viewers 18 to 49 years
old for all four networks taken to-
gether are watching the commer-
cials during playback. Why would
people pass on the opportunity to
skip through them?
The most basic reason, accord-
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Many companies that provide
factoring have been hit hard by
the faltering economy and have
closed their doors, leaving more
businesses dependent on the likes
of CIT, according to Michael
C. Appel, the head of the retail
and consumer practice at Quest
Turnaround Advisors, a consult-
ing firm.
“In the long run it will be good
for CIT,” said Emanuel Wein-
traub, chief executive of Eman-
uel Weintraub and Associates, a
management consultancy. “In
the short term it will not be good
for thinly financed companies
that may not be immediately
taken in by other lenders.”
CIT’s filing will test whether a
financial company can survive
the Chapter 11 process. Bank-
ruptcy has long been considered
a death knell for lenders, whose
very existence depends on the
confidence of its creditors and
customers.
 MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
supporters is Geoffrey Canada,
the chief executive of the Harlem
Children’s Zone, a charity that
runs after-school programs and
workshops. After Rajaratnam’s
arrest, Canada volunteered to be
one of five co-signers of Rajarat-
nam’s $100 million bail. Prosecu-
tors initially asked for Rajarat-
nam to be held without bond, call-
ing him a flight risk.
If Rajaratnam did flee, Canada
could lose everything he owns. But
Canada said he was comfortable
with the arrangement. “I have not
had a moment’s doubt,” he said.
 ALEX BERENSON
ing to Brad Adgate, the senior vice
president for research at Horizon
Media, a media buying firm, is
that the behavior that has under-
pinned television since its inven-
tion still persists. “It’s still a pas-
sive activity,” he said.
And those passive viewers are
watching in numbers big enough
to turn some hits (“House” on Fox)
into even bigger moneymakers,
some middling successes (“How
I Met Your Mother” on CBS) into
healthier profit centers, and some
seemingly endangered shows
(“Heroes” on NBC) into possible
4
in brief
Geithner: Growth
Before Deficit Cuts
Treasury Secretary Timothy
F. Geithner acknowledged that
the federal deficit was too high,
but said that the priorities now
are economic growth and job
creation.
On “Meet the Press” Sun-
day on NBC, he said President
Obama is committed to deal-
ing with the deficit in a way that
would not add to the tax bur-
den of people making less than
$250,000 a year. Obama has not
decided how to cut the deficit,
Geithner said.
“Right now we’re focused on
getting growth back on track,”
he said on the broadcast.  (AP)
Children Watch
More TV Than Ever
Nielsen reported last week
that children ages 2 to 5 spent
nearly 25 hours a week watch-
ing television, the highest fig-
ure on record. They spent an
additional seven weekly hours
watching DVDs, playing video
games and watching TiVo-style
time-shifted television.  (NYT)
New G.E. Unit
General Electric’s health
care division is introducing on
Thursday a new unit, eHealth,
dealing with electronic medical
records.
The goal for the unit is region-
al and statewide health infor-
mation exchanges. A $564 mil-
lion grant from the federal gov-
ernment to the states will help
get things started.  (NYT)
survivors.
Two years ago, Nielsen started
measuring television consump-
tion by the so-called “commercial-
plus-three” ratings, which mea-
sure viewing for the commercials
in shows that are watched either
live or played back on digital video
recorders within three days.
At the time, network executives
resisted the change, fearing that
they would never get credit for
recorded shows because viewers
would skip through all the com-
mercials. But the figures show
otherwise.  BILL CARTER
business
Small Banks Move In as the Giants Falter
The Texas banker Edward
Speed wants his fellow Texans to
think small.
Sensing an opportunity to capi-
talize on public outrage over big
national banks rescued by tax-
payers bailouts, Speed has started
a campaign urging Texans to take
their cash out of banks like Wells
Fargo and turn it over to small
homegrown institutions like his,
the Texas Dow Employees Credit
Union.
His pitch drips with Texas
swagger — “Real Texans bank
locally” reads one of his ads. “We
respectfully suggest they head on
back home and make their profits
where they live.”
He started a Web site, bank-
withtexans.org, urging people to
switch their accounts from “out-
of-state carpetbaggers” to local
institutions that never embraced
risky Wall Street investments like
credit-default swaps and instead
stuck to taking deposits and mak-
ing old-fashioned loans.
China’s New Stock Exchange Opens With a Surge
SHANGHAI — The highly an-
ticipated opening of China’s new
Nasdaq-style stock exchange last
Friday is already being seen as a
watershed moment for the coun-
try’s capital markets, providing
an alternative source of financing
for upstart companies.
Investors went on a wild buying
spree during the first day of trad-
ing Friday on the Growth Enter-
prise Market, or GEM, sending
the shares of some companies
soaring as much as 210 percent.
“This is potentially a major
Comcast Is Said to Be Close to a Deal to Acquire NBC Universal
General Electric and the cable
giant Comcast have moved closer
to a deal to hand over control of
NBC Universal to Comcast, with
a formal announcement could
be made sometime next week,
people briefed on the talks said
Sunday.
After meetings last week,
the two companies on Friday
reached a tentative agreement
over the main points of a deal,
these people said. Comcast would
own about 51 percent of NBC Uni-
versal, contributing several bil-
lions of dollars in cash and its own
stable of cable networks to the
Across the country, community
banks like Speed’s are trying to
tap into the public’s outrage over
Wall Street greed to lure custom-
ers from their big multinational
competitors.
The overarching message: You
can trust us, because we did not
cause the crisis and did not need
bailouts.
Of course, 115 small banks have
failed since the financial turmoil
began last year, and more are ex-
pected. But they represent a small
fraction of the nation’s 8,000 or so
community banks.
The message is being spread on
highway billboards, in local tele-
vision spots, at town hall meetings
and even at professional baseball
games.
At the Colorado Rockies home
opening game in April, fans at Co-
ors Field witnessed a single-en-
gine propeller plane with a banner
in tow. It read: “This is the closest
thing we have to a private jet.”
The ad was commissioned by
game changer in China’s high-
tech industry,” said Yu Zhou, a
professor at Vassar College in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. “For about
10 years, the biggest problem for
China’s innovative companies
was finance. You know it is very
hard for them to get loans from
state-owned banks.”
The buying was so feverish
that regulators temporarily sus-
pended trading in the shares of
all 28 newly listed companies at
different points on Friday, and
analysts warned about the risks
new venture.
G.E., which currently owns 80
percent of NBC Universal, would
contribute several billion dollars
of debt to hold an initial 49 percent
stake in the new entity, though it
is expected to eventually sell its
ownership interest over several
years.
Much work remains before the
deal can be finalized. The main is-
sue is negotiations with Vivendi,
the French conglomerate that
owns 20 percent of NBC Univer-
sal. Talks with Vivendi are con-
tinuing, focused largely on how
to reach an acceptable valuation
Monday, November 2, 2009
FirstBank of Colorado, which
hired a local marketing firm to
design ads that promoted the re-
gional bank’s conservative lend-
ing practices.
The recession has provided an
opening for small banks to pro-
mote their relative stability. Ac-
cording to the Federal Deposit In-
surance Corp., the federal agency
that insures deposits, banks with
less than $1 billion in assets re-
mained the best capitalized in
the industry, meaning they have
adequate cash to absorb loan de-
faults.
And most smaller banks have
continued to extend credit to con-
sumers and small businesses,
while big banks like Citigroup
continue to cut back on their out-
standing loan balances. With
Sunday’s bankruptcy of the CIT
Group, one of the biggest small
business lenders in the country,
community banks sense even
more opportunity to fill the void.
 ZACHERY KOUWE
posed by excessive speculation
and inflated stock prices.
The first batch of companies
listed on the GEM — including
film producers, software makers
and pharmaceutical companies
— raised about $2 billion in their
initial public offerings.
By the end of trading Friday,
the combined market value of the
newly listed companies was more
than $20 billion, creating fortunes
for the founders and investors in
those companies.
 DAVID BARBOZA
of NBC Universal, these people
said.
Vivendi’s chief executive,
Jean-Bernard Lévy, said at an in-
dustry conference last week that
his company may seek to sell its
stake in NBC Universal through
an initial public offering. Under
the terms of its agreement with
G.E., Vivendi has the right from
mid-November to mid-December
to sell its stake in NBC Universal.
But analysts largely expect G.E.
to reach a deal to buy Vivendi’s
stake.
Other potential bidders have
surfaced, including the News
5
Death in Web Era
Raises New Issues
PARIS — Almost everybody on
the Internet will someday have to
make a decision after a loved one
dies, whether it is what to do with
a Facebook profile or passing on
archived e-mail messages.
Off-line, no deed and title com-
pany sends a crew to tear down a
home. But online, under the agree-
ments that users accept, that can
be the default setting.
“When you have a real, tangible
sword or gold coin, you can have
an exclusive right to that object,
and the law can recognize that,”
said Greg Lastowka, a law profes-
sor at Rutgers University in New
Jersey who is writing a book on
property rights and virtual goods.
“But when you have the mediation
of the network software and the
owner of the virtual environment,
they have an interest as well.
They’re caught in the middle.”
One way to resolve the question
of access is for a site to require a
user to name a digital executor
to receive a person’s latest pass-
words after death.
“I think we’re heading in that
direction,” said Devan R. Desai,
a visiting fellow at the Center for
Information Technology Policy at
Princeton and a professor at the
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
in California. “It’s an easy way
to address this issue on a large
scale.”
The solution is effective — but
if the executor enters an account
with the name and password of
the deceased without the knowl-
edge of the service provider, that
entry may constitute identity
fraud, Desai said.
 CHRIS V. NICHOLSON
Corp. But talks between G.E.
and Comcast have advanced far
enough that a deal with another
company is unlikely, people
briefed on the matter said.
Even if a deal is finalized by
next week, it would still require
regulatory approval, a process
that could take several months.
If a deal is completed, it would
help diversify Comcast’s hold-
ings beyond its cable television
operations, a longstanding goal
for its chief executive, Brian Rob-
erts.  ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
 and MICHAEL J. de la
 MERCED
journal Monday, November 2, 2009 6

A Neil Simon Broadway Revival Falls Victim to Changing Tastes

Neil Simon was the cross-over comedy king get how Broadway works, or what to make of family laughing through the tears.
of Broadway and Hollywood from the 1960s, our culture.” “American sensibilities about comedy
when his play “Barefoot in the Park” and What went wrong with “Brighton Beach change so rapidly, especially in the cultural
three other major shows overlapped in New Memoirs” is a case study in success and fail- centers on the East Coast and West Coast
York, through the 1990s, an era that included ure on Broadway today: There were no big where people are always looking for the next
hit films, three Tony Awards, and a Pulitzer stars like Jude Law in the current commer- new style of humor, whereas Neil Simon’s
Prize. cial hit “Hamlet,” there was no marketing brand of humor is pretty unchanging,” said
But comedy is changing on Broadway, and campaign that framed the Simon play as a Susan Coprince, author of the book “Under-
on Sunday one of Simon’s most-produced can’t-miss theatrical event, and there was no standing Neil Simon” and a professor of Eng-
plays in the last 25 years, “Brighton Beach wow factor that brought the period piece to lish at the University of North Dakota.
Memoirs,” became one of the biggest com- life, like the breakneck pacing of the popular Simon, who wrote for the television series
mercial flops on Broadway in recent memory. farce “Boeing-Boeing” last year. But the fail- “Your Show of Shows,” was a forefather of
It closed a week after it opened, shocking ure also reflects America’s evolving sense of situation comedy writers whose scripts for
many, not least the writer himself. humor and taste. stage and screen were embraced by actors
“I’m dumbfounded,” Simon, 82, said in an People, for whatever reason, didn’t want like Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Jack Lem-
interview. “After all these years, I still don’t to see the Simon play, about a Depression-era mon and Walter Matthau. But sitcoms have
given way to reality shows like “American
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opinion
edit o rials o f the ti m e S
Six Tests for Equality and Fairness
Political battles this fall in six different
parts of the country could have a profound im-
pact on whether the United States will extend
the promise of equal rights to those who are
not allowed to marry simply because they are
the same sex as their partner.
Three jurisdictions — New York, New
Jersey and the District of Columbia — seem
tantalizingly close to securing legislative ap-
proval for measures ending the hurtful and
unjustifiable exclusion of same-sex couples
from civil marriage. But in Maine, Washing-
ton State and Kalamazoo, Mich., voters are
being asked on Tuesday to strip away vital
rights and protections.
The dominant Election Day battleground is
Maine. Last fall, forces of the religious right
backed a successful ballot measure that over-
ruled California’s top court by banning same-
sex marriage. Now those forces are trying for
another mean-spirited victory with Maine’s
Question 1, which, if approved, would block the
legalization of same-sex marriage passed by
the State Legislature and signed by Gov. John
Baldacci in May. With the outcome likely to be
close, a heavy turnout by voters committed to
tolerance and justice is crucial.
Washington State has yet to approve same-
sex marriage. But it took a positive step last
May when Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a bill
that granted gay and lesbian couples the state-
provided benefits that married heterosexual
couples have, like the right to use sick leave to
care for a partner. Voters should affirm this
progress by voting yes on Referendum 71.
The Court and Your Savings
The Supreme Court hears arguments Mon-
day in a case about mutual funds and high
management fees. Mutual funds are the main
vehicle Americans use to save for retirement,
and excessive mutual fund fees are another
way an underregulated financial industry has
been enriching itself at the expense of the gen-
eral public.
Congress wisely put limits on the ability of
funds to overcharge investors. The Supreme
Court needs to give the law the power that
Congress intended.
People often invest through 401(k) pro-
grams that offer little choice among funds.
And when there is a wide choice, mutual funds
usually do not compete much on fees.
While these fees may look small in percent-
age terms, they have an enormous impact on
how much money investors end up with. For
example, the Employee Benefits Security
Administration has described two scenarios
of workers who keep $25,000 in a 401(k) for 35
years. The one who pays 1.5 percent in fees
and expenses ends up with 28 percent less at
retirement than the one who pays 0.5 percent.
Congress addressed the problem of high
fees in 1970 by adding Section 36(b) to the In-
A third initiative, in Kalamazoo, Mich., has
the potential to overturn a measure unani-
mously approved by the City Commission
barring discrimination-based on sexual ori-
entation or gender identity in housing, em-
ployment and public accommodations. Fair-
minded voters should respond by voting yes to
uphold the antidiscrimination law.
Following the election, attention will shift
to New York, New Jersey and the District of
Columbia, which stand a realistic chance of
joining the states where same-sex marriages
are allowed.
The New York situation is particularly
frustrating. Gov. David Paterson strongly
supports granting same-sex couples the free-
dom to marry, and the State Assembly has
twice passed a bill to do so. But the overdue
measure has been in limbo because the Demo-
crats who control the State Senate’s calendar
keep dawdling.
In New Jersey, support has been building
for a measure allowing same-sex marriages.
Legislators should pass it during November’s
lame-duck session. Gov. Jon Corzine has said
he would sign the law.
In the District of Columbia, the City Council
seems ready to approve a local law legalizing
same-sex marriage in the shadow of the Capi-
tol dome. That might prompt a Congressional
attempt to tamper with home rule. But the
fact that Congress has let stand a recent D.C.
law recognizing same-sex marriages legally
performed elsewhere gives hope that such
meddling can be avoided.
vestment Company Act of 1940. It imposes on
mutual fund investment advisers “a fiduciary
duty with respect to the receipt of compensa-
tion for services.” Relying on Section 36(b), a
group of investors sued Harris Associates, a
firm that advises the mutual funds in which
they own shares. They charged that the firm
breached its duty by charging mutual fund
customers fees that could be more than twice
what it charged independent, non-fund clients
for similar work.
The United States Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit in Chicago upheld a District
Court decision throwing out the case, based on
much too narrow an interpretation of Section
36(b). In a sharp break with previous inter-
pretations of the law, it suggested that the fees
charged by an adviser like Harris can only be
set aside if the adviser misleads or interferes
with a fund’s ability to negotiate fees. The law
requires more.
The Supreme Court should rule that fund
advisers have a responsibility to set fees that
are comparable to those they charge other
customers, and what would be negotiated in
a fair, arm’s-length deal. It should then order
the District Court to reconsider the case.
Monday, November 2, 2009 7
Paul Krugman
More Stimulus, Please
The good news is that the American Recov-
ery and Reinvestment Act, a.k.a. the Obama
stimulus plan, is working just about the way
textbook macroeconomics said it would. But
that’s also the bad news — because the same
textbook analysis says that the stimulus was
far too small given the scale of our economic
problems. Unless something changes drasti-
cally, we’re looking at many years of high un-
employment.
And the really bad news is that “centrists”
in Congress aren’t able or willing to draw the
obvious conclusion, which is that we need a lot
more federal spending on job creation.
Last week’s G.D.P. report showed the econ-
omy growing again, at a better-than-expected
annual rate of 3.5 percent. Suppose that the
economy were to keep growing at 3.5 percent.
If that happened, unemployment would even-
tually start falling — but very, very slowly. It
could take a decade to return to something like
full employment.
Worse yet, it’s far from clear that growth
will continue at this rate. Solid growth will only
continue if private spending takes up the baton
as the effect of the stimulus fades. And so far
there’s no sign that this is happening.
So the government needs to do much more.
We can’t afford not to. Unfortunately, the politi-
cal prospects for further action aren’t good.
High unemployment doesn’t just punish the
economy today; it punishes the future, too. In
the face of a depressed economy, businesses
have slashed investment spending. This will
hurt the economy’s potential for years to
come.
Deficit hawks like to complain that today’s
young people will end up having to pay higher
taxes to service the debt we’re running up right
now. But anyone who really cared about the
prospects of young Americans would be push-
ing for much more job creation, since the bur-
den of high unemployment falls disproportion-
ately on young workers — and those who enter
the work force in years of high unemployment
suffer permanent career damage.
Even the claim that we’ll have to pay for
stimulus spending now with higher taxes later
is mostly wrong. Spending more on recovery
will lead to a stronger economy, both now and
in the future — and a stronger economy means
more government revenue. Stimulus spending
probably doesn’t pay for itself, but its true cost,
even in a narrow fiscal sense, is only a fraction
of the headline number.
O.K., I know I’m being impractical: ma-
jor economic programs can’t pass Congress
without the support of relatively conservative
Democrats, and these Democrats have been
telling reporters that they have lost their ap-
petite for stimulus.
But I hope their stomachs start rumbling
soon. We now know that stimulus works, but we
aren’t doing nearly enough of it. For the sake of
today’s unemployed, and for the sake of the na-
tion’s future, we need to do much more.
sports Monday, November 2, 2009 8

Yankees Pull Away in Ninth and in Series in brief

PHILADELPHIA — The Yan-
kees were so different nine years
ago, when they won their last
World Series, so different and yet
somehow the same. They revolve
now around a constellation of im-
ported superstars with extrava-
gant contracts. But their ethos is
the same. They grind.
A two-out, three-run, ninth-in-
ning rally in Game 4 of the World
Series Sunday has brought the
Yankees to the edge of a title.
They ripped the heart from the
defending champions in a 7-4 vic-
tory over the Philadelphia Phil-
lies at Citizens Bank Park, taking
a three-games-to-one lead in the
World Series.
With two outs and the bases
empty off Brad Lidge, Johnny Da-
mon worked a nine-pitch at-bat
before lining a single to left field.
With the Phillies shifting their
infield against Mark Teixeira,
Damon stole two bases, swiping
second and sprinting for the un-
covered third base.
Lidge hit Teixeira with a 1-1
fastball, then faced Alex Rodri-
guez, whose homer stirred the
Yankees from a three-run deficit
on Saturday. Rodriguez clubbed
an 0-1 fastball on one hop off the
left field wall, scoring Damon with
the go-ahead run. A single by Jorge
Posada brought in two more, and
Mariano Rivera worked a 1-2-3
ninth.
It was a defining moment for
Damon, calling to mind the piv-
otal 10-pitch walk by Paul O’Neill
that sparked a comeback against
the Mets in the opener of the 2000
World Series. And it was the big-
gest hit of Rodriguez’s complicat-
ed career, a clutch moment on the
biggest stage when his team was
on the brink of disaster.
Joba Chamberlain had put
them there, blowing a victory for Victory for Orlando
C.C. Sabathia by allowing a two-
out, full-count homer to Pedro Fe- Jameer Nelson scored 30
liz that tied the game in the bottom points, J. J. Redick had a ca-
of the eighth. When the Yankees reer-high 27 and the Orlando
then got to Lidge, Chamberlain Magic used a season-high 17
became the winning pitcher. 3-pointers to win, 125-116, at To-
Earlier in the game, Joe Blan- ronto on Sunday. Redick, Nelson
ton’s first pitch had drilled Rodri- and Ryan Anderson each made
guez in the back, near the 1 of the five 3-pointers against the Rap-
13 on his jersey. tors. Anderson had 20 points, 12
and Dwight Howard had 24. The Mil
Rodriguez had been hit by Cole Sa
Hamels’s first pitch to him on Sat- Magic (3-0) remained unbeaten
Ho
urday, and later he was plunked after going 8-0 in the preseason.
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by Chad Durbin. The pitch from  (NYT)
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Blanton was too much for Rodri-
guez, who turned his back to the NFL Scores
Mo
catcher and stood still. His non- Sunday’s Games
Ne
St. Louis 17, Detroit 10
violent resistance was pouty but Ne
Miami 30, Jets 25
effective. The umpires warned Dallas 38, Seattle 17
Ho
both benches, prompting an argu- Chicago 30, Cleveland 6
Me
ment from Yankees Manager Joe Baltimore 30, Denver 7
Min
Girardi. Sabathia would not be al- Houston 31, Buffalo 10 Tu
lowed to retaliate. Indianapolis 18, San Francisco 14 De
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San Diego 24, Oakland 16 Wa
Tennessee 30, Jacksonville 13 Ph

Favre Shows He Can Still Win at Lambeau
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brett
Favre’s return to Lambeau Field,
in a Minnesota Vikings uniform
that Packers fans have grown to
detest, turned out as badly for the
Packers as the teams’ meeting
last month at the Metrodome.
Favre threw for 244 yards and
four touchdowns, and Minnesota
held off a furious second-half ef-
fort by Green Bay to win, 38-26.
The victory gave the 7-1 Vikings a
commanding lead over the Pack-
ers (4-3) and the Bears (4-3) in
the N.F.C. North division.
Before the largest crowd to see
a regular-season game at Lam-
beau — 71,213 — Favre directed
the Vikings to a 24-3 second-half
lead. The game appeared close to
being decided after Percy Harvin
and Favre hooked up for a spec-
tacular 51-yard touchdown pass
early in the third quarter. Harvin
caught the ball at the Green Bay
21-yard line while three defensive
backs — Atari Bigby, Nick Collins
and Charles Woodson — collided
behind him and fell to the turf like
tenpins. Harvin turned upfield
and scored easily.
Favre’s return to Green Bay
produced a noticeably cool recep-
tion. At 2:26 p.m., Favre jogged
onto the field, trailed by a jogging
TV crew. The stands appeared al-
Minnesota 38, Green Bay 26
Carolina 34, Arizona 21
Or
Mil
L.A
Open: New England, Cincinnati,
most half full, and the boos com- Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Washington, Uta
menced, though quite a few peo- Tampa Bay Atl
ple appeared to be applauding. A
security team flanked Favre as NBA Scores
he left the field, preventing even Sunday’s Games
some Packers from getting close Orlando 125, Toronto 116
enough to shake hands. Miami 95, Chicago 87
When the Vikings returned for Boston 97, New Orleans 87
the kickoff, Favre was the last Portland 83, Oklahoma City 74
player out of the runway. The Denver 133, Memphis 123
Phoenix 120, Minnesota 112
booing grew louder when Favre
Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, late
appeared, again when he and the
other four Vikings captains ap- NHL Scores
proached midfield for the coin Sunday’s Games
toss, and once more when the Vi- Rangers 1, Boston 0
kings’ offense trotted out for its San Jose 5, Carolina 1
first series with 11:37 left in the Columbus 5, Washington 4, OT
first quarter.  PAT BORZI Colorado at Vancouver, late

WEATHER
High/low temperatures for the 21 hours ended at 4 p.m.
yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches)
for the 18 hours ended at 1 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
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Atlanta 63/ 44 0.04 68/ 45 S 70/ 47 S
Albuquerque 64/ 39 0 67/ 40 S 69/ 40 S
Boise 54/ 38 0 57/ 35 S 58/ 38 S
Boston 59/ 52 0.03 50/ 42 C 54/ 42 C
Buffalo 49/ 43 0 54/ 37 S 48/ 44 Sh
Charlotte 68/ 52 0.94 61/ 43 PC 69/ 43 S
Chicago 52/ 32 0 53/ 41 PC 47/ 32 S
Cleveland 51/ 39 0 56/ 33 PC 46/ 41 C
Dallas-Ft. Worth 75/ 46 0 76/ 50 S 73/ 50 S
Denver 59/ 36 0 49/ 30 PC 60/ 30 S
Detroit 50/ 39 0 53/ 38 C 47/ 38 PC
Houston
Kansas City
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Los Angeles 86/ 55 0 85/ 57 S 86/ 58 S
Miami 88/ 73 0 87/ 74 S 87/ 73 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 57/ 36 0 48/ 37 S 42/ 25 PC
New York City 58/ 50 0.12 54/ 45 C 58/ 44 PC
Orlando 87/ 72 0 82/ 67 PC 80/ 65 PC
Philadelphia 57/ 51 0.07 54/ 46 C 60/ 44 PC
Phoenix 85/ 55 0 89/ 58 S 91/ 59 S
Salt Lake City 61/ 38 0 60/ 38 S 61/ 38 S
San Francisco 70/ 52 0 72/ 53 S 75/ 54 S
Seattle 52/ 43 0 53/ 44 PC 55/ 45 PC
St. Louis 61/ 37 0 65/ 46 PC 56/ 40 S
Washington 58/ 51 0.62 55/ 45 C 62/ 44 PC
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 86/ 75 0.31 88/ 72 S 90/ 75 PC
Athens 57/ 50 Tr 61/ 49 PC 70/ 51 Sh
Beijing 36/ 30 0.63 42/ 21 S 51/ 28 S
Berlin 41/ 28 0 45/ 39 R 43/ 39 Sh
Buenos Aires 70/ 64 1.02 77/ 57 T 66/ 52 PC
Cairo 80/ 68 0 72/ 64 S 72/ 63 PC
Cape Town
Dublin
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Geneva 56/ 37 0 55/ 43 R 50/ 39 R
Hong Kong 92/ 75 0 79/ 63 W 73/ 59 PC
Kingston 87/ 75 0 88/ 77 S 88/ 77 PC
Lima 71/ 61 0 70/ 63 C 70/ 61 C
London 63/ 50 0.08 55/ 47 PC 57/ 48 R
Madrid 77/ 54 0 61/ 52 PC 63/ 48 PC
Mexico City 69/ 52 0 69/ 46 PC 68/ 45 PC
Montreal 52/ 43 0.35 50/ 32 PC 45/ 32 R
Moscow 32/ 27 0.03 30/ 23 C 32/ 27 PC
Nassau 86/ 70 0 90/ 77 S 88/ 77 S
Paris 64/ 54 0.02 55/ 46 PC 59/ 46 R
Prague 34/ 32 0 42/ 36 R 45/ 41 Sh
Rio de Janeiro 77/ 72 0 88/ 72 T 90/ 70 T
Rome 64/ 41 0 69/ 50 Sh 67/ 50 PC
Santiago 68/ 54 0 68/ 41 C 68/ 36 PC
Stockholm 43/ 39 – 45/ 37 C 43/ 36 S
Sydney 79/ 63 0 84/ 64 PC 95/ 64 PC
Tokyo 79/ 59 0 65/ 52 R 59/ 50 PC
Toronto 49/ 41 0.01 51/ 37 PC 45/ 36 PC
Vancouver 50/ 37 Tr 50/ 43 Sh 54/ 43 PC
Warsaw 42/ 32 0 41/ 28 S 37/ 28 S
sports journal Monday, November 2, 2009 9

In Philadelphia, Eagles Crush Listless Giants NFL STANDINGS

PHILADELPHIA — In the
final two minutes of the Eagles’
40-17 victory over the Giants on
Sunday, the hosts tried to end the
embarrassment mercifully.
Donovan McNabb fell to one
knee after a first-down snap to
run down the clock without scor-
ing anymore or risking anyone’s
health.
But Giants Coach Tom Cough-
lin refused to concede. He called
timeouts, forcing the Eagles to
run plays and then punt.
When the Giants got the ball
back, Coughlin used Eli Manning
until the last snap, on which Man-
ning was sacked.
It was a curious ending to a
game in which the Giants had
shown little urgency or tempo
when they still had a faint chance
to win.
Manning, who threw two more
interceptions (and has five in his
last two games), was asked if his
coach was sending a message to
his team, which lost its third con-
secutive game after opening the
season with five victories.
“I don’t know,” Manning said.
“We’re going to go fighting. If
Coach wants us to finish a game,
we’re going to give it a shot. You
kind of get to the point where you
don’t look at the scoreboard any-
more.” (NYT)
Dolphins Beat Jets Again
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. —
As his teammates filtered toward
the locker room, the rookie run-
ning back Shonn Greene crouched
near the Jets’ bench, alone, para-
lyzed by disbelief.
The Jets found no answers Sun-
day. Not in their rematch against
Miami. Not in their seesaw sea-
son. Not in a game in which they
dominated in nearly every cat-
egory except the most important
one, the final score, which was 30-
25 in favor of their division rival,
in front of 77,531 fans at Giants
Stadium who watched the Jets
find another way to lose. “Some-
times, things just don’t make
sense,” Coach Rex Ryan said.
Certainly not on Sunday. The
Jets gained 378 yards and held the
Dolphins to 104 yards, the fourth-
lowest total ever by an opponent.
Jets quarterback Mark San-
chez accounted for three touch-
downs. The recently acquired
receiver Braylon Edwards made
a spectacular one-handed scor-
ing grab.
In fact, fullback Tony Richard-
son said that Ryan makes a list
before each game, and this week,
the Jets crossed off every goal but
one — the box next to victory.
 (NYT)
Colts Stay Unbeaten
The Indianapolis Colts won
their 16th consecutive regular-
season game, the equivalent of
an undefeated season, and Jim
Caldwell became the first rookie
coach since the N.F.L. merger to
open his career with seven con-
secutive wins, thanks to Sunday’s
18-14 victory over visiting San
Francisco.
The Colts (7-0) are the last
unbeaten team in the Ameri-
can Football Conference for the
fourth time in five years after
Baltimore defeated Denver, 30-7.
¶While Indianapolis was busy
extending its winning streak, the
St. Louis Rams were stopping
one. Steven Jackson’s 25-yard
touchdown run with 1 minute 38
seconds left lifted the Rams to a
17-10 win over the host Detroit Li-
ons that ended a 17-game losing
streak.
¶The Baltimore rookie Lard-
arius Webb returned the second-
half kickoff 95 yards for a touch-
down, and the Ravens beat the
visiting Denver Broncos, 30-7, to
end a three-game losing streak
with a surprisingly easy victory.
It was the first loss for Denver (6-
1) under the first-year coach Josh
McDaniels.
¶Vince Young threw for a
touchdown in his first start since
the 2008 season opener, Chris
Johnson set a franchise record
by rushing for 228 yards, and the
Tennessee Titans beat the visit-
ing Jacksonville Jaguars, 30-13,
for their first win of the season.
Tampa Bay, which had a bye, is
now the only winless team in the
N.F.L.
¶Tony Romo threw touch-
down passes to three receivers
— including to Miles Austin, who
scored for the third consecutive
game — and did not have an in-
terception for a career-best third
straight game, leading host Dal-
las to a 38-17 victory over the Se-
attle Seahawks and into a tie with
the Eagles for the lead in the Na-
tional Football Conference’s East
division. The Cowboys (5-2) have
won four of five.  (AP)
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PA
N. England 5 2 0 .714 198 98
Jets 4 4 0 .500 177 134
Miami 3 4 0 .429 176 177
Buffalo 3 5 0 .375 123 169
South W L T Pct PF PA
Indianapolis 7 0 0 1.000 197 91
Houston 5 3 0 .625 198 168
Jacksonville 3 4 0 .429 133 177
Tennessee 1 6 0 .143 114 211
North W L T Pct PF PA
Cincinnati 5 2 0 .714 163 128
Pittsburgh 5 2 0 .714 167 129
Baltimore 4 3 0 .571 199 137
Cleveland 1 7 0 .125 78 209
West W L T Pct PF PA
Denver 6 1 0 .857 140 96
San Diego 4 3 0 .571 185 159
Oakland 2 6 0 .250 78 201
Kansas City 1 6 0 .143 105 181
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PA
Phila. 5 2 0 .714 203 133
Dallas 5 2 0 .714 197 136
Giants 5 3 0 .625 212 183
Washington 2 5 0 .286 96 123
South W L T Pct PF PA
New Orleans 6 0 0 1.000 238 127
Atlanta 4 2 0 .667 144 114
Carolina 3 4 0 .429 128 166
Tampa Bay 0 7 0 .000 96 203
North W L T Pct PF PA
Minnesota 7 1 0 .875 244 174
Green Bay 4 3 0 .571 187 134
Chicago 4 3 0 .571 159 150
Detroit 1 6 0 .143 113 205
West W L T Pct PF PA
Arizona 4 3 0 .571 157 143
San Fran. 3 4 0 .429 147 140
Seattle 2 5 0 .286 135 147
St. Louis 1 7 0 .125 77 221
Monday
Atlanta at New Orleans, 8:30

New Method for Sharpening Skates Suits Hockey Pros to a V

The technological history of hockey is lit-
tered with elaborate ideas that did not pan
out, like the Fox network’s glowing puck, the
heated skate blade and Cooperalls.
But since last November, a simple innova-
tion that costs next to nothing has become
popular among N.H.L. professionals and
weekend warriors alike: a skate-sharpening
method called the flat-bottom V.
“It’s been great for me,” said Jack John-
son, a defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings
and a candidate for the United States Olym-
pic team. “It’s sharper, but at the same time,
you can get just as much glide as with the
old sharpening, so you get the best of both
worlds.”
BlackStone Sports, the Ontario manufac-
turer of skate maintenance equipment that
developed the flat-bottom V method, says
players on about 20 of the N.H.L.’s 30 teams
have switched from the traditional sharp-
ening method in use for decades. The list of
notables includes Zach Parise of the Devils,
Joe Thornton and Rob Blake of the San Jose
Sharks, Jason Arnott of the Nashville Preda-
tors, Milan Michalek of the Ottawa Senators
and Doug Weight of the Islanders.
“It started with Cory Stillman in Florida,”
said Steve Wilson, who founded Blackstone
with his father, Murray, and developed the
flat-bottom V cut with him and with company
engineers.
“I was down there last year with a proto-
type to show the Panthers’ equipment man-
ager, and Cory said, ‘Hey, I want to try it.’ He
went out, loved it, and demanded that I leave
the prototype there.”
Word spread through the Panthers’ dress-
ing room, Wilson said, and other teams
picked up on it.
“You know how hockey players are,” Wil-
son said. “They talk to each other.”
Proponents of the new method say this
combination provides a sharper bite on turns
and a freer glide in straight-ahead skating.
Conventional skate sharpening uses a
grinding stone that creates a concave arc in
the bottom of the blade.
The flat-bottom V uses specially made spin-
ners to carve out tiny fangs along the skate
blade’s ridges that bite into the ice for turns.
The flat bottom between the fangs, similar
to the flat cut of a speedskater’s blade, puts
more of the blade’s surface in contact with
the ice and is supposed to increase speed.
The dimensions involved are minuscule.
Yet some players swear by it.
“My turns feel good, and I don’t feel slow
coming out of them, so I’ve got no com-
plaints,” Johnson said. JEFF Z. KLEIN