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Thursday, November 5, 2009 from the pages of Midnight in New York © 2009 The New York Times

Major Setback in Maine for Gay Rights energized g.o.p.

looking to avoid
They had far more money, vol- will risk political capital on gay
unteers and political support, rights.
Now, many will argue that that
approach is not enough. Some
and geography was on their side,
intraparty feud
Tuesday’s defeat is also likely to
given that New England has been further splinter a movement that
more accepting of same- has been debating the
are already pressing for more
aggressive tactics, like speeding
up a ballot measure to reverse
sex marriage than any News best tactics for success. California’s ban on gay marriage
other region of the coun- Analysis Some prominent gay next year, instead of taking more WASHINGTON — Republicans
try. Yet gay rights sup- politicians last month time to build support. Others emerged from Tuesday’s elections
porters suffered a crushing loss skipped a gay rights march on want to focus on swaying federal energized by victories in Virginia
when voters decided to repeal Washington, questioning its pur- lawmakers to repeal the Defense and New Jersey, but their leaders
Maine’s new law allowing gays pose, which only emboldened of Marriage Act, which Rep. Bar- immediately began maneuvering
and lesbians to wed. some of the younger advocates at ney Frank, the nation’s highest- to avoid a prolonged battle with
Maine had seemed to offer an the march to call for a new gener- ranking openly gay politician, has conservative activists over what
excellent chance of reversing the ation of leaders. Some advocates called foolish at this point. the party stands for and how to re-
national trend of voters rejecting said they were unimpressed Opponents said that given gain power.
marriage equality at the ballot when Obama signed a law against Maine’s “live-and-let live” men- The victories, in races for gover-
box. Instead, it became the 31st gay hate crimes but offered rela- tality, the results were strong nor, were cast by the party’s nation-
state to block same-sex marriage tively restrained remarks. They proof that same-sex marriage al chairman, Michael Steele, as a
through a referendum. questioned whether it was time was not gaining acceptance. sign of a “Republican renaissance.”
At a time when gay rights activ- to take a more confrontational “It interrupts the story line In New Jersey, Gov. Jon S. Corzine
ists believe that President Obama posture toward Obama, who ben- that is being manufactured that was toppled by the Republican
is not treating their agenda as a efited during the 2008 campaign suggests the culture has shifted nominee, Christopher J. Christie. In
high priority, the Maine loss has from a surge of votes and dona- on gay marriage and the fight is Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell, the
left them asking who their friends tions from gay men and lesbians. over,” said Maggie Gallagher, Republican, defeated his Democrat-
are. At stake, they say, is not only In Maine, advocates had stuck president of the National Organi- ic opponent, R. Creigh Deeds.
gay marriage, but the military’s to a familiar path: Using their zation for Marriage, the Christian Republicans said the victories
ban on openly gay service mem- own personal stories, they tried group that is leading the charge showed that President Obama and
bers and the federal law banning to persuade voters that gay peo- against same-sex marriage. his party were vulnerable
same-sex marriage. ple were no different from their “Maine is one of the most secular Yet throughout the day, Repub-
State legislatures had been straight neighbors and deserved states in the nation. It’s socially licans grappled with the disap-
viewed as new allies in the fight equal treatment under the law. liberal. They had a three-year pointing outcome of a special elec-
for gay marriage after the Maine, head start to build their organiza- tion for what had been a reliably
Vermont and New Hampshire tion, and they outspent us two to Republican House seat in upstate
Online: assessing the vote one. If they can’t win there, it re-
legislatures approved such bills New York. That contest became
earlier this year. But now, with Democrats perceive a new ally does tell you the majority of a battleground between the party
Maine voters dealing a rebuke urgency in their agenda. Americans are not on board with establishment and a conservative
to their Legislature, it is far from nytimes.com/national this gay marriage thing.” insurgency demanding more ideo-
clear whether elected officials ABBY GOODNOUGH logical purity. The race was won by
a Democrat, Bill Owens, after the

Dissidents Subvert an Anti-U.S. Rally in Tehran Republican candidate, a moderate,

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran’s be-
leaguered opposition movement
struggled to reassert itself on
Wednesday, as tens of thousands
of protesters braved police beat-
ings and clouds of tear gas on the
sidelines of a major, government-
sponsored anti-American rally.
The protests — in Tehran and
several other cities — were the
opposition’s largest street show-
ing in almost two months, and
came on the 30th anniversary of
the takeover of the U.S. Embassy
in 1979, an event that was a cru-
cible for both Iran and the United
States. Although a huge deploy-
ment of police beat back and
scattered many of them, the pro-
testers took heart at their ability
to openly challenge the govern-
ment despite a stream of stark
warnings from all levels of Iran’s
conservative establishment.
Even some government au-
thorities seemed to grudgingly
concede that the opposition had
disrupted the annual anti-Amer-
ican rally. The official IRNA news
agency reported in midafternoon
that “rioters,” many wearing the
opposition’s green symbols, had
gathered in front of its offices on
Valiasr Street chanting “Death
to the Dictator” and other anti-
government slogans.
At the same time, a new theme
emerged, with many protest-
ers declaring their impatience
with President Obama’s policy
of dialogue with the Iranian gov-
ernment. Many could be heard
chanting: “Obama, Obama — ei-
ther you’re with them or you’re
with us,” witnesses said.
Protesters openly flouted the
day’s official anti-American
message. There were reports of
several dozen arrests, including
some outside Tehran, and many
injuries. The reformist cleric Me-
hdi Karroubi, who has become
the government’s most outspo-
ken critic, narrowly avoided inju-
ry when pro-government forces
fired a tear gas cylinder at him
as he marched with protesters in
Tehran, according to Radio Farda,
an American-backed station. Two
of his guards leapt to defend him
and were hospitalized for their
wounds, the station reported.
 ROBERT F. WORTH
quit as conservative leaders rallied
around Douglas L. Hoffman.
Despite Hoffman’s loss, conserva-
tives vowed to press on with opposi-
tion to centrist Republicans. That
vow intensified concerns among
party leaders that Tuesday’s re-
sults could be dimmed by intramu-
ral battles.
“When our party is united, wheth-
er you run in a Northern state or a
Southern state, our party can win,”
said the House Republican whip,
Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia.
The debate has been fueled by a
populist anger among grass-roots
conservatives, encouraged in part
by leaders like Sarah Palin. The
situation is complicated because
the party has no dominant leaders
or establishment to bridge the di-
vides and help articulate a positive
agenda. ADAM NAGOURNEY
International Thursday, November 5, 2009 2

Afghan Policeman On a Remote Island, a Refugee Problem Grows

Kills 5 British
KABUL, Afghanistan — The
deaths of five British soldiers at
the hands of an Afghan policeman
with whom they were working
have unleashed an outcry in Brit-
ain and highlighted the vulner-
ability of Western troops as they
carry out a key part of the counter-
insurgency strategy to train more
Afghan Army and the police.
The attack occurred at midday
on Tuesday in Helmand Province
as the soldiers relaxed in the warm
autumn sun on the roof of the joint
checkpoint overlooking a shared
British-Afghan compound. They
were so much at ease that they
had shed their body armor and
helmets, never thinking that they
would be attacked by one of the
men they lived and worked with,
said a provincial official. The at-
tacker fled, setting off a manhunt.
For Britain, it was one of the
highest number of fatalities in
a single attack in Afghanistan,
bringing to 92 the number of Brit-
ish troops killed so far this year.
It came one month after an
Afghan policeman fired on U.S.
soldiers during a joint patrol in
Wardak Province, killing two, and
intensified concerns about Taliban
infiltration of the security forces,
in particular the police, which are
supposed to be preparing to take
a broader role in combating the
insurgency.
An Afghan official in Helmand
said local people believed the
gunman was sympathetic to the
Taliban insurgents who have been
fighting an increasingly bold cam-
paign. Six British soldiers were
also wounded.  (NYT)
CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Aus-
tralia — Deep in the jungle on
this small island lost in the In-
dian Ocean, Australia’s new $370
million refugee detention center
reaches its full power after its
lights come on at dusk. Bracketed
by rain forest, steep cliffs and the
sea, it rises from the darkness and
becomes visible from the island’s
only inhabited corner, some 10
miles away.
The center — opened a few days
before Christmas but now nearly
full with refugees from Afghani-
stan and Sri Lanka — has come to
symbolize what many call one of
Australia’s defining fears: the ar-
rival of boat people from Asia.
All boat people seeking asylum
in Australia are first brought here
to Christmas Island, 220 miles
south of Indonesia and nearly
1,000 miles from the Australian
mainland, and most are now
held at enormous cost within the
center’s electrified, 13-foot-high
razor-wire fences.
But even as boats arrive every
few days, advocates for refugees
and even the government’s own
human rights commission are
urging the government to close
the place down and sort the asy-
lum-seekers on the mainland.
They compare Christmas Island
to Guantánamo Bay or describe
it as a reincarnation of the many
notorious prison islands in Aus-
tralia’s convict history.
“They put this center way out
here on this remote island, and
then they built it way, way, way
out on the island in the jungle,”
said Charlene Thompson, a social
worker who counsels asylum-
seekers here. She equated the
Asylum seekers being taken by barge from an Australian
Navy ship to Christmas Island.
new center to Port Arthur, a 19th-
century penal colony in Tasmania.
“It’s a jail, a high-security jail, and
it feels like the asylum-seekers are
being treated as criminals.”
The influx of boat people has
rattled the government of Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd a year be-
fore another election. Recently,
Rudd, accused by the opposition
of being soft on illegal immigra-
tion, asked Indonesia’s president,
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to in-
tercept a wooden cargo ship from
Malaysia with 260 Sri Lankans
bound for Australia.
If the Sri Lankans, now held in
Indonesia, had been brought here,
their numbers would probably
have pushed the center beyond
its capacity of 1,200. That, in turn,
could have forced the government
to start processing the boat people
on the mainland.
“I make absolutely no apology
whatsoever for taking a hard line
on illegal immigration to Austra-
lia,” said Rudd, who had initially
kemal jufri/Imaji, FOR The New York Times
won praise from refugee advo-
cates for reversing some of the
harshest anti-immigration mea-
sures of his predecessor, John
Howard, including charging asy-
lum seekers for their stay in gov-
ernment facilities.
Rudd has continued to send
boat people here for processing.
He has also retained his prede-
cessor’s “excision” policy, under
which asylum seekers on islands
like this one are barred from the
mainland’s refugee review sys-
tem. At first reluctant to use the
new center, the symbol of his pre-
decessor’s policies, Rudd housed
the boat people in an older facility
here.
But a surge of asylum seekers
late last year forced the authori-
ties to start using the new center.
Nearly 2,000 boat people have
been sent to Christmas Island this
year. Currently, their numbers are
believed to match the island’s lo-
cal population of 1,100.
NORIMITSU ONISHI

C.I.A. Officers Convicted
An Italian judge on Wednesday convict-
ed a base chief for the C.I.A. and 22 other
American C.I.A. operatives of kidnapping
a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003. The case
was a symbolic victory for Italian prosecu-
tors, but it seemed highly unlikely that any-
one would spend any time in prison. Judge
Oscar Magi handed an eight-year sentence
to Robert Seldon Lady, the former base
chief in Milan, and five-year sentences to
the others. All were tried in absentia.
Most of the top C.I.A. officers have left
the agency, with the exception of Stephen
R. Kappes, who is now the C.I.A.’s second
ranking official.  (NYT)
In Brief
Israelis Seize Cargo Ship
Israeli Navy commandos seized a cargo
ship early Wednesday in the Mediterranean
Sea that Israeli officials said was carry-
ing rockets and ammunition bound for Hez-
bollah militants. The ship, the Franco St.
Johns, sailing under an Antiguan flag, was
intercepted near Cyprus and taken to Ash-
dod harbor in southern Israel.  (NYT)
U.S. Diplomat in Myanmar
A senior U.S. diplomat who visited Myan-
mar said that Washington would improve
relations with the nation if its military gov-
ernment embraced reconciliation with
Myanmar’s democratic opposition. The dip-
lomat, Kurt M. Campbell, an assistant sec-
retary of state, is the highest-ranking U.S.
official to hold substantive talks in Myan-
mar in more than a decade.  (NYT)
Rebel Attack on Saudi Arabia
A Saudi border guard was killed and 10
were injured when gunmen crossed the bor-
der from Yemen and opened fire, the state-
run Saudi Press Agency reported. The at-
tack, in Jebel Dukhan, appeared to be the
first attack on Saudi Arabia by the Houthi
rebels, who have fought an intermittent war
against the Yemeni government for more
than five years, analysts said. (NYT)
national
Nation Faces Shortage of Seasonal Flu Vaccine
Even though the regular flu
season has yet to start, the nation
is facing a severe shortage of sea-
sonal flu vaccine as well as swine
flu vaccine.
Federal officials and indepen-
dent flu experts have said the situ-
ation was unavoidable, given that
the global swine flu pandemic had
raised demand for all flu shots far
beyond what manufacturers can
make in a year.
The shortage does not mean
there will be an increase in sea-
sonal flu deaths, which average
about 36,000 a year. The same
amount of vaccine was made this
year as last, and there is no reason
to believe any of the three strains
of seasonal flu will be worse this
winter. In parts of the Southern
Hemisphere, swine flu seemed
to “crowd out” seasonal flu this
winter, experts said, but whether
it will do so here is impossible to
predict.
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director
of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, told a House sub-
committee on Wednesday that of-
ficials were “very frustrated” by
the shortages but unable to pre-
vent them.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of
the National Institute for Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, said it
showed “the inexorable connec-
tion between preparedness for
pandemic flu and preparedness
for seasonal flu.”
In New York, the shortage is so
acute that the city health depart-
ment on Wednesday asked doc-
tors to stop giving seasonal vac-
cines to healthy adults under 65.
“Some additional supplies of
vaccine are expected during No-
vember,” said Dr. Thomas Farley,
the city’s health commissioner.
“But the demand may continue to
exceed the supply.”
Shortages are being reported
across the country. Based on
recent telephone surveys and
health insurer billing data, the
C.D.C. believes that up to 85 mil-
lion Americans have already had
seasonal flu shots, according to
Thursday, November 5, 2009
David Daigle, a C.D.C. spokes-
man. Last year at this time, only
about 61 million had.
Last year was the previous
record: 113 million doses of vac-
cine were made and about 103
million Americans took them.
This year, between February and
May, manufacturers had grown
virtually the same amount — 114
million doses — before they were
asked to switch to swine flu vac-
cine. They have shipped about 90
million does of season flu vaccine,
Daigle said.
Unless there is a sudden loss of
interest, a shortage seems inevi-
table even after the remaining 24
million are shipped. Exactly when
shipping will finish is unknown.
One company that had problems
growing one of the three seasonal
flu strains has not even filled its vi-
als yet, according to a flu expert.
The current problems began
years ago, experts said, when vac-
cine companies started abandon-
ing the American market.
DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
3
In Brief
Water Bills Approved
California lawmakers ap-
proved a series of bills that
would vastly overhaul the
state’s troubled water system.
The plan calls for a comprehen-
sive restoration of the Sacra-
mento-San Joaquin River Delta.
 (NYT)
Jobless Benefits
The Senate voted to extend
up to 20 weeks of unemploy-
ment benefits to those who have
been out of work a long time. An
added provision would continue
an $8,000 credit for first-time
homebuyers. (NYT)
Victim Identified
The number of women found
dead in a sex offender’s home
rose to 11, and the Cleveland po-
lice announced the name of a
victim: Tonia Carmichael, 52,
missing for a year. (NYT)
business 
Disney Will Give Mickey Mouse a Makeover
LOS ANGELES — For decades,
the Walt Disney Co. has largely
kept Mickey Mouse frozen under
glass, fearful that even the tiniest
tinkering might tarnish the brand
and upend his $5 billion or so in
annual merchandise sales. One
false move and Disney could have
New Coke on its hands.
Now, however, concerned that
Mickey has become more of a
corporate symbol than a beloved
character for recent generations
of young people, Disney is taking
the risky step of re-imagining him
for the future.
The first glimmer of this will
be the introduction next year of
a new video game, Epic Mickey,
in which the formerly squeaky
clean character can be cantan-
kerous and cunning, as well as
heroic, as he traverses a forbid-
ding wasteland.
New York Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel
In 2005, Michael S. Dell’s
namesake company was get-
ting pounded. His competitors
were selling personal comput-
ers and servers built on cheap,
popular and powerful chips from
Advanced Micro Devices, while
Dell had stuck loyally with slower
chips from Intel.
In an e-mail note to Intel’s chief
executive, Paul S. Otellini, Dell
threatened to switch to A.M.D. “I
am tired of losing business,” Dell
wrote. “We are losing the hearts,
minds and wallets of our best cus-
tomers.”
Otellini reminded Dell that
Intel had paid Dell more than $1
billion in the last year. “This was
judged by your team to be more
than sufficient to compensate for
J.P. Morgan Forfeits Millions to Settle Bribery Case
J.P. Morgan Securities will for-
feit hundreds of millions of dollars
in fees on derivatives contracts
that it sold an Alabama county,
under a settlement announced
Wednesday that could offer hope
to other governments staggering
under similar deals.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission charged in a lawsuit
on Wednesday that J.P. Morgan
had made unlawful payments
to friends of Jefferson County’s
commissioners in a scheme to
win lucrative business from the
county to sell bonds and trade in
derivatives..
And at the same time, in a par-
allel but separate effort, Disney
has quietly embarked on an even
larger project to rethink the char-
acter’s personality, from the way
Mickey walks and talks to the
way he appears on the Disney
Channel and how children inter-
act with him on the Web — even
what his house looks like at Dis-
ney World.
“Holy cow, the opportunity to
mess with one of the most recog-
nizable icons on Planet Earth,”
said Warren Spector, the creative
director of Junction Point, a Dis-
ney-owned game developer that
spearheaded Epic Mickey.
The effort to re-engineer Mick-
ey is still in its early stages, but
it involves the top creative and
marketing minds in the company,
all the way up to Robert A. Iger,
Disney’s chief executive.
the competitive issues,” he wrote.
Dell delayed buying A.M.D. chips,
and Otellini said in a later e-mail
message to a colleague that Dell
was “the best friend money can
buy.”
Such payments to PC makers,
along with other aggressive busi-
ness tactics, are at the heart of
the antirust lawsuit filed against
Intel on Wednesday by New
York’s attorney general, Andrew
M. Cuomo. Cuomo’s case — the
first antitrust charges against
the company in the United States
in more than a decade — follows
similar actions by regulators in
Europe and Asia.
According to Cuomo’s lawsuit,
Intel, the world’s largest chip
maker, has for years used large
The lawsuit also named two for-
mer J.P. Morgan employees. One
of those men has already served a
prison term for manipulating sim-
ilar bond deals in Philadelphia.
To settle the lawsuit, J.P. Mor-
gan will drop its claims for $647
million in termination fees it had
been trying to make Jefferson
County pay on the derivatives.
The settlement also calls for J.P.
Morgan to pay a $25 million pen-
alty to the commission and $50
million to the county.
Over the last decade, thou-
sands of governments around
the country entered into deals
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business 
Cost of Medical Devices Is Kept Mysterious
When makers of heart defibril-
lators wanted Medicare to vastly
expand the types of patients eli-
gible to receive the devices, which
can cost upward of $25,000, agency
officials were skeptical. It was not
clear how many of those patients
would actually need a defibrilla-
tor, a device that can deliver a life-
saving shock to restore a faltering
heart to normal rhythm.
So government and industry
struck a deal back in 2004. Medi-
care agreed to expand the device’s
use, nearly doubling the number
of patients who qualified for one.
The companies, in return, agreed
to pay for a study to see which pa-
tients really benefited.
Five years later, Medicare un-
derwrites more than half of the
$4 billion the nation now spends
annually on defibrillators, but the
agency is no closer to knowing
how many lives that big invest-
ment is saving. That is because the
device companies did not finance
the study beyond their initial $4
million commitment, and Medi-
Party’s Over as Chrysler Sets More Serious Tone
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — The
old Chrysler was famous for its
aggressive marketing and auto-
show stunts, like running a cattle
drive down the streets of Detroit
to publicize a new pickup.
But for its coming-out party on
Wednesday, the new Chrysler
stuck to a far more serious and
subdued script.
For more than six hours, Sergio
Marchionne, Chrysler’s new chief
executive, and his top lieutenants
marched through details of the
company’s five-year plan in front
of an audience of about 300 indus-
try analysts and reporters.
Until now, Chrysler has been
Fed Signals Any Interest Rate Increase Is Far Away
WASHINGTON — The Federal
Reserve signaled Wednesday it
was not close to raising interest
rates, saying that the economy
remained weak even though the
recession appeared to be over.
The central bank said it would
keep its benchmark interest rate
at virtually zero, and it made no
change to its longstanding man-
tra that economic conditions were
likely to warrant “exceptionally
low” rates for “an extended pe-
riod.”
care did not pick up the slack. As
a result, researchers still cannot
gather data that would identify
those types of patients who would
most benefit from a defibrillator.
There is still no way of track-
ing which types of defibrillator
patients have received life-saving
shocks and which ones have not
needed their devices.
And so, doctors keep implant-
ing costly defibrillators in patients
who may not benefit from them.
And doctors and patients have no
way of knowing whether one pro-
ducer’s model performs better
than a competitor’s.
The picture is no clearer for the
many other types of medical de-
vices that taxpayers, through gov-
ernment-run programs like Medi-
State of the Art
David Pogue reviews Motor-
ola’s new Droid smartphone.
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relatively quiet since it emerged
from bankruptcy this summer,
with the help of $12.5 billion in aid
from the U.S. government and a
new partnership with Fiat, the
Italian automaker.
Fiat, which owns 20 percent of
the company, is now firmly in con-
trol and is being guided by a new
board partly selected by Presi-
dent Obama’s auto task force.
A parade of executives laid
out in methodical fashion how
Chrysler planned to increase its
U.S. market share from its current
level of 8 percent, and achieve $3
billion in purchasing savings with
Fiat by 2014.
For practical purposes, ana-
lysts said, policy makers are still
at least six months away from
tightening monetary policy.
“Economic activity has contin-
ued to pick up,” the central bank
said in a statement after its two-
day policy meeting. But policy
makers quickly cautioned con-
sumer spending would be slug-
gish, businesses were still cutting
back and economic growth would
be “weak for a time.”
Despite speculation that the
Thursday, November 5, 2009
care, underwrite. Every year, for
instance, doctors give patients
tens of thousands of artificial hips
and knees, without having the
data to indicate how long they will
last or which ones work best, and
Medicare picks up the bills.
As Congress seeks to revamp
the nation’s health care system,
medical devices might seem an
inviting target to better control
Medicare spending. Outlays on
implanted devices stand at about
$76 billion annually in this coun-
try and are rising at a rate faster
than the cost of drugs, according
to a recent study by the McKin-
sey Global Institute, a consulting
group. With an aging population
in America, Medicare is picking
up more of those costs.
But legislation pending in the
House and Senate may not help,
some experts say, because the
proposals do not require device
makers to compete on the same
ground as other manufacturers —
product performance and price.
 BARRY MEIER
They said it would start earning
a profit in 2011 and would be earn-
ing $5 billion a year by 2014. The
outstanding government loans
will be repaid as well by then,
Chrysler’s new chairman, C. Rob-
ert Kidder, said.
The earnest message delivered
by executive after executive was
that Chrysler’s passion for prod-
ucts would be enhanced by Fiat’s
expertise in engines, design and
technology over all. The compa-
ny plans to reinvigorate its core
Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge brands
with broad makeovers.
 BILL VLASIC
 and NICK BUNKLEY
Fed might hint about raising in-
terest rates in order to head off
future inflation, it was unclear on
Wednesday whether policy mak-
ers even discussed a change in
the wording of their guidance.
Policy makers did elaborate on
the economic indicators they will
be watching most closely. Those
will be the level of “resource uti-
lization,” which primarily means
the unemployment rate, the trend
in inflation, and the stability of in-
flation expectations. (NYT)
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style
In Manhattan, Where the Boys Aren’t
Man on the premises!
Martha Morales, the evening
supervisor at the Webster Apart-
ments, a large, brick home to 370
women of varying ages and occu-
pations, strode down a long cor-
ridor lined with identical doors.
She zeroed in on one of them and
knocked.
“Can I come in your room?” she
called out politely — and then got
straight to the point. “We think
you have a man in there.”
A young woman opened the
door.
There was no man to be seen in
the small, modest chamber, just
a narrow single bed, desk and a
chest of drawers. But there was
also a closet. Under orders, the
young woman opened it.
Sure enough, crouching inside
amid the hanging garments was a
terrified-looking male — who pro-
ceeded to run for his life. He tore
out of the room and disappeared
down the hall. Morales let him go,
staying behind to speak sternly
to his female host and order her
to report to the building’s man-
ager, Maryann Lienhard, the next
morning.
This is not a tale from the 1950s.
It is straight out of 21st century
New York City. With an amused
smile but an earnest tone, Lien-
hard (who warned the embar-
rassed tenant that she would get
“no second chances”) recalled
the incident the other day — just
A Blurring Line Between Spa and Medical Office
There is little to suggest that the
TriBeCa MedSpa in Manhattan is a
medical facility, at least in the tra-
ditional sense. In the waiting area,
called the Tranquillity Room, a
waterfall cascades down one wall.
A client may have a pedicure or fa-
cial before entering a softly light-
ed space where a plastic surgeon
performs laser Fraxel treatment
or some other minimally invasive
procedure that would cost twice as
much in a harried doctor’s office.
TriBeCa MedSpa is one of 1,800
medical spas in the United States,
hybrid facilities that offer treat-
ments like laser hair removal and
liposuction alongside massages
and other traditional spa fare. In
recent years, the business has
become a growth industry: from
July 2007 to December 2008, the
number of medical spas increased
85 percent, according to the Inter-
national Spa Association, far out-
Beatrice de Gea/The New York Times
The Webster Apartments, for
women only, on 34th Street.
one small drama from a slice of
life that many people assume van-
ished from the city decades ago.
The Webster, on West 34th
Street, is one of the few remaining
all-female residences in a city that
used to have many. Hotels and
apartment houses that provided
temporary refuge for young la-
dies hoping to find fame, or start a
career (or snare a husband) in the
big city occupy a distinct sliver of
New York lore. The most famous,
the Barbizon Hotel for Women on
East 63rd Street, was memorably
depicted in Sylvia Plath’s 1963
novel “The Bell Jar” as populated
by well-to-do “girls” whose par-
ents “wanted to make sure their
daughters were living in a place
where men couldn’t get at them
pacing the growth of day, destina-
tion and resort spas.
The kinds of procedures per-
formed in medical spas has also
increased. At the Park Avenue
Medical Spa in Armonk, N.Y., for
instance, clients who have un-
dergone chemosurgery for skin
cancer, which may leave the skin
pitted, can receive reconstructive
surgery, a treatment that falls out-
side the strictly aesthetic category
and may point in the direction the
industry is evolving.
“It certainly seems like the wave
of the future,” said Dr. Gerald
Ginsberg, a cosmetic surgeon and
medical director of the TriBeCa
MedSpa.
Even so, the rapidly growing in-
dustry is coming under increased
scrutiny. Proposed legislation to
tighten controls over the creden-
tials of those who can own a medi-
cal spa; what procedures can be
Thursday, November 5, 2009
and deceive them.”
Though the Barbizon and oth-
ers, such as the Parkside Evange-
line on Gramercy Park, have suc-
cumbed to developers’ offers over
the years, sold and remade into
condos or hotels, the smattering of
all-female residences that remain
are thriving, most with waiting
lists of prospective tenants.
It costs about $1,000 per month
to live at the Webster. For that
you get a small single room and
shared bath but also a hot break-
fast and dinner, maid service, use
of a large walled garden and a roof
deck with a spectacular view of
the Empire State building.
Bygone conventions like cur-
fews disappeared years ago. But
other rules are very much alive.
“Please note: Male visitors may
not use the elevators without a
staff escort,” reads a sign near the
dining room at the Webster.
Two residents, Alice Powell and
Nicola Tiahlo, are both 23-year-
old interns at a nongovernmental
organization that works with the
United Nations. Powell, who grew
up in Paris, and Tiahlo, from Lon-
don, met at work. Last year, as a
graduate student in Dublin, Pow-
ell said, “I lived with three guys.
It’s quite nice living with girls.”
Tiahlo agreed. “I think it’s a lot
less competitive” she said. Be-
sides, she added with a smile, “We
still manage to go out and meet
men.” HILARY STOUT
performed in such places; and
how much training someone must
have to perform particular proce-
dures is making its way through
several state medical boards, in-
cluding those in Massachusetts,
New York, Utah and Florida.
Despite the safety and regula-
tory controversies concerning
medical spas, there are thousands
of satisfied medical spa customers.
Among them is Gail Fox of Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla., who went to
the Anushka Cosmedical Center
Spa and Salon in West Palm Beach,
for facial fillers that were adminis-
tered by a nurse practitioner and
found the experience “a pleasure.”
“The service was on sale so the
price was right. That’s what drew
me in. The pace was slower than at
my dermatologist’s office. All my
questions were answered, and I
didn’t feel pressured,” Fox said.
 CAMILLE SWEENEY
6
Starring on Stage,
And in the Peloton
Even on a bike, Mark-Paul Gos-
selaar can’t always ride away
from his résumé.
Not long ago, Gosselaar, a
35-year-old actor, was at a bike
shop near the George Washington
Bridge when he noticed another
rider giving him a strange look.
Gosselaar hopped on his bike and
pedaled off, but the other rider
followed. “He’s like, ‘Hey, sorry
dude, weird question,’ ” Gosselaar
recalled, “ ‘But are you that guy
from ‘Saved by the Bell?’ ”
It has been a decade and a half
since Gosselaar last roamed the
halls as Zack Morris, the blond
troublemaker of Bayside High
School, on the Saturday morning
comedy “Saved by the Bell.”
These days, he plays a defense
lawyer in the TNT drama “Rais-
ing the Bar.” He is in New York
City making his stage debut in
an Off Broadway play, “The Un-
derstudy,” opening Nov. 5 at the
Laura Pels Theater.
Lately, however, Gosselaar has
developed another distinction: as
perhaps the best celebrity-slash-
bicyclist in America. Granted, it’s
a niche category with no official
rankings and a smattering of big
names, like Jake Gyllenhaal and
Matthew McConaughey.
Yet Gosselaar is the real span-
dexed deal. In and around Santa
Clarita, Calif., where he lives, he
competes at the Category 2 level,
racing in fields that often include
professionals.
Gosselaar started racing bikes
seriously in 2005. An avid moto-
cross racer, he was convinced by
friends to join a relay team for a tri-
athlon, and was underwhelmed by
his time in the biking leg. Inspired
to get better, he began riding and
soon found success in amateur
events. Gosselaar won his second
race, but was disqualified for a mi-
nor infraction at the finish line.
“I took my hands off the bars,”
he said. He had raised his hands,
unsure if the race was over.
Since then,Gosselaar has moved
up the ladder in the Southern
California racing scene. He now
races for the Amgen-Giant Elite
Masters team, a highly regarded
squad that includes a number of
former national champions.
“He’s a really good rider,” said
Chris DeMarchi, a teammate on
Amgen-Giant. “It amazes me,
with all the hours he puts in with
TV time.” JASON GAY
journal Thursday, November 5, 2009 7

A Conservative TV Hero Is a Champion of Fiction to Rival Oprah

Virtually every novelist in America fanta- many of his views. — where Beck promised viewers “it will keep
sizes about getting picked to appear on Oprah “He’s our Oprah,” said Brad Thor, a writer you on the edge of your seat — Rollins said he
Winfrey’s talk show. But now an increasing of political thrillers who has appeared on met several people at a book signing who told
number of writers have discovered a new Beck’s radio and television programs several him they bought the book based on Beck’s
champion: Glenn Beck, the outspoken media times. “God love him, we’re very fortunate.” recommendation.
darling of populist conservatism. At a time when the book industry is strug- According to Seale Ballenger, a publicist for
On his radio show and cable television pro- gling to maintain, much less increase, sales, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
grams, first on CNN Headline News and now publishers and authors say an appearance that released “The Doomsday Key,” the book
on the Fox News Channel, Beck has enthusi- on Beck’s television or radio programs helps remained in the Top 10 of the New York Times
astically plugged dozens of authors, a major- attract new readers. After James Rollins, hardcover fiction best-seller list longer than
ity of them writing in the thriller genre. And the author of “The Doomsday Key,” a thriller is typical for this type of novel. “It was totally
while he often selects authors whose plots or about a group of Defense Department scien- driven by Glenn Beck,” Ballenger said.
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editorials of the timeS
The Off-Off Year Elections
Tuesday’s vote, particularly the election of
Republican governors in New Jersey and Vir-
ginia, has produced heated predictions about
the revived power of Republican social conser-
vatism and the declining fortunes of Barack
Obama and his 2008 coalition.
If there were broad messages in the grab bag
of contests, they were for both parties: Voters
remain fearful about the economy. Indepen-
dent voters are a force to be reckoned with.
And everyone wants results.
In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg
narrowly won a third term. It is impossible to
link that to President Obama. Bloomberg won
on competence, but the closeness of the race
contained another message for Bloomberg:
Tone down the arrogance. Voters who said
they most valued a leader who understood
them went overwhelmingly for Thompson. If
the mayor wants to create a legacy of leader-
ship, he needs to be less imperious and listen
more closely to his constituents.
Competence was also the issue in New Jer-
sey. Gov. Jon Corzine failed to deliver on the
promise of his financial expertise and could not
get even party loyalists to vote for him in suf-
ficient numbers. Independents voted for the
Republican, Christopher Christie, who won
with just under 49 percent of the vote.
That election was not about Obama, al-
though he is probably regretting the three
visits he made there. It certainly was not a
referendum on Republican orthodoxy, since
Christie did not run as a social conservative.
And while Christie did run a traditional anti-
A Powerful Idea on Youth Violence
As a former beat cop, Ron Huberman, the
new chief of public schools in Chicago, learned
long ago that violence among young urban
people could not be solved simply by hauling
ever larger numbers of children off to jail.
With the prompting and support of Mayor
Richard M. Daley, Huberman is trying a new
approach to the violence that has killed and
maimed hundreds of young people.
The plan will offer mentoring, counseling
and jobs to high-risk students. Huberman ana-
lyzed the cases of more than 500 young people
who were killed or wounded in gun violence
over the last two years. The analysis suggests
that nearly 10,000 of the city’s 113,000 high
school students are at risk of becoming victims
of gun violence and need help.
Their lives follow a clear pattern. They are
absent from school more than 40 percent of the
time, on average. They have fallen behind and
are more likely to be enrolled in special educa-
tion. And they generally attend 38 of the city’s
nearly 140 public high schools.
None of the shooting incidents occurred
inside the schools, and most happened well
after school hours. But the chaotic schools
attended by high-risk students tend to differ
from better-run schools in measurable ways.
tax campaign, most voters polled on the eve of
the election said they did not know much about
his views.
In Virginia, Republican Robert McDonnell
also avoided trademark social conservative is-
sues like abortion and same-sex marriage. His
two main pledges were to create jobs and fix
the public transportation system. He handily
beat R. Creigh Deeds, even in the state’s more
Democratic and liberal precincts.
One race, a special election for the House of
Representatives in upstate New York, did turn
on an ideological divide — but it was within
the Republican Party. The party’s leadership
drove its candidate, Assemblywoman Dede
Scozzafava, out of the race because she crossed
the line on issues like abortion. The anointed
conservative, Douglas Hoffman, then lost to
the Democrat, Bill Owens.
So what does this all mean for next year’s
election? Above all, it means that voters want
their leaders to focus on sound policy making,
not party orthodoxy. And the No. 1 issue is the
economy.
That means that Obama and Democrats in
Congress should not draw the wrong conclu-
sion and get timid about vital tasks like health
care reform or more stimulus spending to cre-
ate jobs. At some point, they are going to have
to bite the bullet and raise taxes to pay for all
of this. Christie and McDonnell, who promised
to do more for their citizens, will also have to
deliver. And we suspect that they are going to
find it very hard do that and cut taxes. The vot-
ers are not in a forgiving mood.
They have fewer counselors and social work-
ers. They have higher rates of suspension and
expulsion. They more often involve the police
in minor skirmishes, like shoving matches,
that then go unresolved.
Huberman wants to remake high-risk
schools by beefing up the social work and coun-
seling staff, by better training security guards
and overhauling a disciplinary process that
seems designed to throw out as many children
as possible as quickly as possible. Most crucial,
he hopes to improve involvement by guardians
and parents.
Chicago has a gang turf problem. To deal
with that, the city plans to do a better job of cre-
ating safe-passage lanes so that students will
be able to come and go from school without
being harmed. At-risk students will be offered
paying jobs and paired with advocates who will
engage the young person’s family and be avail-
able around the clock. The point is to provide
these young people with a constructive adult
relationship.
The plan will cost $60 million for the first two
years. But it will more than pay for itself if it re-
duces the number of shootings and deaths and
puts more young people on the road to produc-
tive lives instead of the road to prison.
Thursday, November 5, 2009 8
nicholas d. kristof
Unhealthy America
The moment of truth for health care is at
hand, and the distortion that perhaps gets the
most traction is this:
We have the greatest health care system in
the world. Sure, it has flaws, but it saves lives
in ways that other countries can only dream of.
Abroad, people sit on waiting lists for months,
so why should we squander billions of dollars
to mess with a system that is the envy of the
world?
That delusion may be the single greatest
myth in the health care debate. The United
States ranks 31st in life expectancy (tied with
Kuwait and Chile), according to the World
Health Organization. We rank 37th in infant
mortality (partly because of many premature
births) and 34th in maternal mortality. A child
in the United States is two-and-a-half times as
likely to die by age 5 as in Singapore or Sweden,
and an American woman is 11 times as likely to
die in childbirth as a woman in Ireland.
Canadians live longer than Americans do
after kidney transplants and after dialysis,
and that may be typical of cross-border differ-
ences. Yet another study, cited in a recent re-
port by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and the Urban Institute, looked at how well 19
developed countries succeeded in avoiding
“preventable deaths,” such as those where a
disease could be cured or forestalled. The Unit-
ed States ranked in last place.
The figures are even worse for members of
minority groups. An African-American in New
Orleans has a shorter life expectancy than the
average person in Vietnam or Honduras.
I regularly receive heartbreaking messages
from readers combating the predations of dis-
ease and insurers. One correspondent, Linda,
told me how she had been diagnosed this year
with abdominal and bladder cancer — leading
to battles with her insurance company.
“I will never forget standing outside the
chemo treatment room knowing that the medi-
cation needed to save my life was only a few
feet away, but that because I had private insur-
ance it wasn’t available to me,” Linda wrote.
“I read a comment from someone saying that
they didn’t want a faceless government bu-
reaucrat deciding if they would or would not
get treatment. Well, a faceless bureaucrat
from my private insurance made the decision
that I wouldn’t get treatment and that I wasn’t
worth saving.”
There is one U.S. statistic that is above aver-
age: life expectancy for Americans who have
already reached the age of 65. At that point,
they can expect to live longer than the aver-
age in industrialized countries. That’s because
Americans above age 65 actually have univer-
sal health care coverage: Medicare.
Online: gail collins
Hark! The voters have spoken!
nytimes.com/opinion
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Yankees Win Their 27th World Series In Brief

A sliver of time for other teams
is an epoch for the Yankees, who
define themselves by champion-
ships. For eight seasons, they led
the majors in victories, payroll
and drama. They built a ballpark,
created a network and expanded
their brand around the globe. But
they did not win the World Series.
Now they have done it. There
is a 27th jewel in the Yankees’
crown and a peaceful, easy feel-
ing across their empire. The Yan-
kees captured their first title since
2000, humbling the defending
champion Philadelphia Phillies
on Wednesday night, 7-3, in Game
6 of the World Series at Yankee
Stadium.
Hideki Matsui, who was the
m.v.p. of the Series, homered and
drove in six runs to tie a World
Series record, and Andy Pettitte
ground through five and two-
thirds innings for his second vic-
Resignations Point to Problems for Hockey Union
The N.H.L. Players Associa-
tion is facing an uncertain future
after another round of upheaval
with the resignation of its interim
director, outside counsel and six-
member advisory board.
At the center of the resignations
were accusations that the union
was being “hijacked” by a four-
member panel of veteran players
appointed in mid-October to in-
vestigate the August firing of Paul
Kelly, the former union chief, and
to review the union’s constitution
and operations.
The turmoil is the latest for a
union with a tumultuous history,
and it comes on the threshold
of critical negotiations with the
tory in five days. Mariano Rivera
collected the final five outs, retir-
ing Shane Victorino on a ground-
out to end it.
It was the eighth anniversary of
Rivera’s lowest moment, when he
blew Game 7 of the 2001 World Se-
ries in Arizona. The Yankees lost
the World Series again two years
later, to Florida, and they did not
return until this season, fortify-
ing their roster with free agents
around the core of Rivera, Pettitte,
Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada.
Pettitte became the second
pitcher to win all three clinch-
ing games of a postseason. The
other was Boston’s Derek Lowe
in 2004, when the Yankees lost a
three-games-to-none lead to the
Red Sox in the American League
Championship Series, fumbling
away a pennant and plunging into
a postseason funk.
Pettitte was gone that autumn,
league over a new collective bar-
gaining agreement.
The current agreement, which
is set to expire at the end of next
season, was forged in the after-
math of the lockout that canceled
the 2004-5 season.
A new agreement could prove
crucial to the league’s improv-
ing but still-precarious financial
health amid the current economic
slump.
Chris Chelios, the 47-year-old
defenseman and longtime union
activist who now plays for the
Chicago Wolves of the American
Hockey League, was the most
criticized of the four panel mem-
bers in several resignation letters
part of a three-year sojourn to his
Houston hometown. Otherwise,
Pettitte, Rivera, Jeter and Posada
have been Yankees since 1995,
through dynasty and drought and
back to the top. They have each
earned five championship rings,
one more than Babe Ruth.
Working on three days’ rest,
Pettitte, 37, looked ragged at
times with five walks and three
strikeouts. But he held up better
than the Phillies’ Pedro Martinez,
38, his old Boston adversary, who
lasted just four innings.
The two had faced each other
six times in the regular season,
splitting the decisions, and on
Tuesday, Martinez billed the
matchup as “two old goats out
there doing the best they can and
having fun with it.” Only once be-
fore had starters at least 37 met in
the World Series.
 TYLER KEPNER
that were made public. Chelios,
a Kelly supporter, and Detroit
defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom,
San Jose defenseman Rob Blake
and Boston forward Mark Recchi
were appointed to the panel by the
player representatives.
On Friday, Ian Penny, who took
over as interim director Aug. 31
after union representatives over-
whelmingly voted out Kelly, re-
signed but wrote in his resignation
letter that he was “constructively
dismissed.”
Penny added that it had “simply
become impossible to work for the
players in the environment that
has been created.”
 JEFF Z. KLEIN
A New Cotton Bowl
The replacement for the Cot-
ton Bowl game, the Dallas Foot-
ball Classic, has been lined up.
The Cotton Bowl game will be
played this season in the new
Cowboys Stadium in Arling-
ton, Tex., and the Dallas Foot-
ball Classic will begin on Jan.
1, 2011. The plan needs N.C.A.A.
approval. (AP)
Woman N.B.A. Coach
Nancy Lieberman is set to be-
come the first woman to coach
an N.B.A. Development League
team. A news conference is
scheduled for Thursday to in-
troduce Lieberman as the first
coach of the team, which will
begin play during the 2010-11
season in Frisco, a suburb about
a half-hour north of Dallas.
 (AP)
NHL scores
TUESDAY’S LATE GAMES
Pittsburgh 4, Anaheim 3
Vancouver 4, Rangers 1
WEDNESDAY
San Jose 3, Columbus 2, SO
Buffalo 3, Islanders 0
Devils 3, Washington 2
Florida 3, Carolina 0
Calgary 3, Dallas 2, OT
Colorado 4, Phoenix 1
nBA scores
TUESDAY’S LATE GAMES
Atlanta 97, Portland 91
WEDNESDAY
Orlando 122, Phoenix 100
Miami 93, Washington 89
Toronto 110, Detroit 99
Denver 122, Nets 94
Indiana 101, Knicks 89
Boston 92, Minnesota 90
L.A. Lakers at Houston, 8:30

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yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches)
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partly cloudy,R-rain, S-sun, Sh-showers, Sn-snow, SS-
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Kingston 90/ 75 0 88/ 77 C 84/ 77 C
Lima 71/ 63 Tr 70/ 59 PC 70/ 61 C
London 54/ 43 0.16 55/ 48 Sh 57/ 41 PC
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sports
Barred for Drugs, but Returning Easily to Track
ARCADIA, Calif. — In 2007, Ken-
tucky racing officials found cobra
venom, a powerful painkiller, in
the barn of Patrick Biancone, a
horse trainer with prestigious vic-
tories from Hong Kong to France.
He was barred from the sport for
a year. Steve Asmussen, the na-
tion’s leading trainer, served a
six-month suspension in 2006 af-
ter one of his horses failed a drug
test in Louisiana, and is appealing
another six-month suspension
handed down in Texas for another
medication violation.
Both, however, will saddle hors-
es in the Breeders’ Cup, which
begins Friday here at Santa Anita
Park and will bring together hors-
es from around the globe to com-
pete in 14 races worth more than
$25.5 million in purse money.
Biancone and Asmussen are
not alone: more than a half-dozen
other trainers with multiple and
serious drug violations will have
contenders in the starting gate
of one of thoroughbred racing’s
greatest events.
In fact, of the top 10 American-
based trainers in purse winnings
this year, only one, Christophe
Clement, has never been cited for
a medication violation, according
to industry records.
“Ten years ago, you were em-
barrassed to get a medication sus-
pension,” said Clement, whose
Toyota Is Pulling Out of Formula One to Cut Costs
TOKYO — Toyota announced
Wednesday that it would give up
its prized Formula One racing
team in an effort to slash costs, re-
focus the company on green cars
and turn a profit amid continued
weakness in the auto sector.
Toyota, the world’s biggest au-
tomaker, joins a growing exodus
of Japanese auto companies from
racing, highlighting the woes fac-
ing the country’s once cash-rich
manufacturers. Honda pulled out
of Formula One racing in Decem-
ber, while the tire-maker Bridge-
stone said this week that it would
not renew its exclusive deal to
supply tires to the series when its
contract expires in 2010.
Subaru and Suzuki pulled out
of the World Rally Championship
before the season, citing concerns
about the global crisis, while Ka-
wasaki is quitting MotoGP, the top
motorcycle competition.
“I hope you will understand that
based on the current business
Gio Ponti will compete in the $5
million Classic. “Now trainers get
suspended and go away, and when
they come back they get more
horses and more owners than
they had before they left.”
It is part of an evolving culture
in horse racing that ultimately re-
wards those who seek any means,
legal and otherwise, to get an
edge. When illegal drug use goes
undetected, trainers walk away
with the winnings and an en-
hanced reputation. But when they
are caught, they are all too often
handed punishments that are in
name only. Their horses still run
and their stables still operate, usu-
ally under the name of a trusted
assistant.
“It seems like we’re handing out
speeding tickets instead of arrest-
ing people for dealing drugs,” said
Tom Ludt, a member of the Ken-
tucky Horse Racing Commission,
which regulates the sport in the
commonwealth and handed down
Biancone’s suspension.
In 2006, for example, when As-
mussen was suspended by Loui-
siana authorities when a filly he
trained tested 750 times over the
legal limit for the local anesthetic
mepivacaine, which can deaden
pain in a horse’s legs, he turned
his horses over to Scott Blasi, his
longtime assistant. Blasi won 198
races in 2006 as the Asmussen
environment we have no choice
but to make this very painful de-
cision,” Akio Toyoda, the Toyota
president, said at a news confer-
ence in Tokyo on Wednesday. “To
all fans, I apologize from the bot-
tom of my heart.”
Toyota was expected to find buy-
ers for its team, though the fate of
the team remained unclear. Toyo-
ta’s exit from Formula One racing
could save the company 50 billion
yen a year, about $550 million, ac-
cording to Bloomberg News.
Toyota had hoped that its For-
mula One racing team would help
it win fans among younger driv-
ers, as well as bolster its presence
in Europe, where the sport is most
popular.
But in recent months, some ex-
ecutives have said that the expen-
sive sport was a drain on Toyota’s
resources at a time of crisis and
was out of line with the company’s
strength in eco-friendly cars.
Toyota leaves Formula One rac-
Thursday, November 5, 2009
stable finished the year with more
than $14 million in earnings.
Soon after his return, Asmus-
sen was given Curlin, who went
on to win the Preakness Stakes in
2007 and then became a two-time
Horse of the Year for Jess Jack-
son, the founder of Kendall Jack-
son Wines.
Asmussen and Jackson are very
likely to win a Horse of the Year
title for a third time this year with
the filly Rachel Alexandra. She is
skipping the Breeders’ Cup after
going eight for eight this year, in-
cluding victories against 3-year-
old colts in the Preakness and the
Haskell.
In July, shortly after Texas an-
nounced its suspension of Asmus-
sen, Ludt, who also is general
manager of Vinery Stable, took 21
horses away from him. But his de-
cision lasted only so long. He has
returned six horses to Asmussen
— including the multiple stakes
winner Kodiak Kowboy, who was
supposed to compete in the $2
million Breeders’ Cup Sprint on
Saturday but was scratched this
week because of illness.
Ludt acknowledges that his
words and actions are often in con-
flict over the subject of drugs in
horse racing. He said he returned
to Asmussen because “it’s a tough,
brutal sport, and you want to win.”
 JOE DRAPE
ing with a less-than-stellar record,
though Toyoda said the team’s
performance had nothing to do
with the decision to quit the sport.
The automaker has been a For-
mula One competitor since 2002,
but failed to win a single race. It
finished fifth in this year’s cham-
pionship, placing sixth and sev-
enth in the last race of the season
in Abu Dhabi last Sunday. Toyota’s
best result in the series came in
2005, when it finished fourth in the
constructor standings.
Coincidentally, Brawn GP —
which took over the old Honda
team — won the Formula One
championship this year, which the
team had failed to achieve under
Honda.
With Toyota’s exit, there will be
no Japanese constructor on the
Formula One grid in 2010, throw-
ing the popularity of the sport in
the world’s second-largest econo-
my into question.
 HIROKO TABUCHI
10
n.h.l. standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 12 3 0 24 52 34
Rangers 9 6 1 19 51 43
Devils 9 4 0 18 34 30
Phila. 7 4 1 15 45 34
Islanders 5 5 5 15 37 45
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Buffalo 9 2 1 19 36 24
Ottawa 6 4 2 14 37 37
Montreal 7 8 0 14 42 50
Boston 6 7 1 13 33 37
Toronto 1 7 5 7 31 52
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Wash. 8 3 4 20 54 47
Tampa 5 4 4 14 34 43
Atlanta 6 4 1 13 39 33
Florida 5 7 1 11 35 44
Carolina 2 9 3 7 28 53
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 8 4 1 17 39 31
Columbus 7 5 2 16 44 49
Detroit 6 4 3 15 40 42
Nashville 6 6 1 13 28 38
St. Louis 5 6 1 11 29 33
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Colorado 11 3 2 24 49 35
Vancou. 9 7 0 18 46 42
Calgary 8 4 1 17 47 41
Edmonton 7 7 1 15 45 46
Minnesota 5 9 0 10 31 42
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
San Jose 11 4 1 23 55 40
L.A. 9 4 2 20 51 45
Phoenix 9 6 0 18 39 34
Dallas 6 3 6 18 50 48
Anaheim 4 7 2 10 37 46
Knicks Stumble
The Knicks’ top priority this
season, other than hoarding
salary-cap space for LeBron
James, is to impress LeBron
James. They need him to be-
lieve they can be respectable,
competitive and worthy of his
presence when free agency
opens in July.
Those qualities were no-
where to be found Wednesday
night as the Knicks humili-
ated themselves with a 101-89
loss to the Indiana Pacers at
Madison Square Garden. The
Knicks may consider adopting a
more intense approach soon, as
James and his Cleveland Cava-
liers teammates are due to pay
them a visit Friday night.
Coming off their first victo-
ry of the season, a crisp defeat
of the New Orleans Hornets on
Monday, the Knicks quickly re-
verted to old, bad habits. They
played with little fire, shrugged
on defense and stumbled on of-
fense. (NYT)