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Friday, November 6, 2009 from the pages of Midnight in New York © 2009 The New York Times
Palestinian President Rules Out a Race for Re-Election black hoods over their heads.
The chief of the Federal Securi-
ty Service said they were identi-
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The laid bare the deepening tensions It was not clear whether Abbas
fied during a crackdown on ex-
Palestinian president, Mahmoud over the Americans’ failure to ex- was determined to quit, although
tremist groups. (NYT)
Abbas, warned on Thursday that tract an Israeli settlement freeze he said his decision was final.
he would not seek re-election, the or any concessions from Arab What seems clear is that high-lev-
latest sign that the Obama admin- leaders. el peace talks will not resume any Karadzic Trial Halted
istration’s drive to broker a Mid- Clinton’s visit sowed anger and time soon. A top aide to Abbas said Judges ordered Thursday
dle East peace accord has fallen confusion among Palestinians and a large part of his “despondency that a lawyer be imposed on
into disarray. other Arabs after she praised as and frustration” was because of Radovan Karadzic, the former
Abbas, 74, has threatened to step “unprecedented” the offer by the Obama’s unrealized promises. Bosnian Serb leader on trial in
aside before, but his announce- Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Without a stop to Jewish settle- The Hague, but halted the trial
ment, coming immediately after Netanyahu, to slow down, but not ments, he said, Islamist rivals in until March 1, to give a lawyer
Secretary of State Hillary Rod- stop, construction of Jewish settle- Hamas could triumph, and vio- time to get ready. (NYT)
ham Clinton’s visit to the region, ments in the West Bank. lence could break out. (NYT)
national Friday, November 6, 2009 3
In Brief
Jobless Aid Wins Passage Democrats Push Climate Bill his nine wives. A jury of seven men and five
women in El Dorado, Tex., deliberated two
The government moved Thursday to as- Democrats on the Environment and Pub- hours and 20 minutes before returning a
sist long-unemployed workers and strug- lic Works Committee pushed through a cli- verdict of guilty in the first trial of a dozen
gling businesses, as well as home buyers mate bill on Thursday without any debate members of the Yearning for Zion Ranch.
and homeowners facing foreclosure. Fannie or participation by Republicans. The 959- The defendant, Raymond M. Jessop, 38, will
Mae announced a Deed for Lease program page measure passed by an 11-to-1 vote be sentenced after a second hearing before
in which those in danger of eviction may be with the support of all the Democrats ex- the jury on Monday. (NYT)
able to stay as tenants in their houses for at cept Sen. Max Baucus of Montana. Republi-
least a year. Congress gave final approval cans boycotted the meetings. (NYT)
to a measure that will extend unemploy- Ruling on Sanford Travel
ment benefits. Other provisions of the bill Polygamist Convicted The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled
will expand two popular tax breaks — one that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark
for home buyers, the other for businesses One of the leaders of a polygamist sect Sanford’s travel must be made public,
operating at a loss. President Obama will was convicted Thursday night of sexual- clearing the way for lawmakers consider-
sign the measure into law on Friday morn- ly assaulting an under-age girl whom the ing impeachment to review a report on the
ing, aides said. (NYT) church elders had assigned to him as one of inquiry. (AP)
business Friday, November 6, 2009 4
“We have become so paranoid illegal tipping-and-trading ring so case through a new civil com-
for no reason,” the young trader elaborate that he was nicknamed plaint filed by the Securities and COMMOD I T IE S / BON D S
told his friend in an evening call “Octopussy,” because his tenta- Exchange Commission on Thurs-
on his cellphone in late Febru- cles touched so many confidential day. GOLD 10-YR. TREAS. CRUDE OIL
YIELD
ary 2008. There was always a sources, prosecutors said. “When we announced our first
reason to be paranoid, his friend One of those sources, accord- arrests three weeks ago, I said U 0.10 unch D 0.78
responded, and they agreed to ing to prosecutors, was Arthur J. this case would be a wake-up call 1,092.30 3.52 79.62
continue their talk at their Man- Cutillo, 33, a lawyer at the presti- for Wall Street,” said Preet Bha-
hattan gym. gious firm of Ropes & Gray, who rara, the U.S. attorney in Manhat-
The topic was illegal insider was also arrested Thursday. He tan. “Well, today the alarm bells
trading, according to federal was accused of sharing secret in- have only grown louder.” Foreign Exchange
prosecutors and market regula- formation with Goffer on at least Unlike the Galleon case, where Fgn. currency Dollars in
in dollars fgn.currency
tors. And the paranoia was justi- four deals the law firm was han- senior officials at corporations Thurs. Wed. Thurs. Wed.
fied: the calls were being inter- dling for clients. passed tips on early earnings es-
cepted by the F.B.I. as part of an Goffer and some of the other timates to people at the fund, the Australia .9106 .9136 1.0982 1.0946
Bahrain 2.6537 2.6523 .3768 .3770
expanding investigation by the people arrested Thursday had Goffer case centers on allegations Brazil .5806 .5811 1.7223 1.7210
government into the improper personal and professional links that may sound more familiar to Britain 1.6586 1.6583 .6029 .6030
use of confidential information with defendants in a larger insid- students of the insider trading Canada .9391 .9419 1.0648 1.0617
by Wall Street traders. er trading case pending against scandals of 25 years ago — early China .1464 .1465 6.8301 6.8280
On Thursday, the trader, Zvi the Galleon Group hedge fund; tips about deals from the people Denmark .1998 .2000 5.0050 5.0000
Dominican .0278 .0277 36.02 36.15
Goffer, 32, was arrested and ac- its founder, Raj Rajaratnam; and involved in doing them. Egypt .1828 .1827 5.4690 5.4745
cused of being the linchpin of an other defendants added to the DIANA B. HENRIQUES Europe 1.4868 1.4888 .6726 .6717
Hong Kong .1290 .1290 7.7502 7.7500
The Lobsters That Got Away, and Didn’t River Town Where
WESTPORT, Mass. — In this be more a restaurant, in other
The West Began
little town on the south coast, peo- words, than a jail. One theory says MARIETTA, Ohio — A deep
ple like me — summer folk — are that the bugs you catch are just current of history runs through
known as skukes. I’ve never met the ones that happen to be there this quiet town of 15,000 nestled in
anyone who knows the real deri- at the time. the arms of the Ohio and Musking-
vation of the term, but it’s not a Chip and I nevertheless bought um Rivers. Indians first left their
compliment. Skukes are annoying 10 traps — the state limit for “rec- mark here, in great earthen burial
because they drive up the price of reational” lobstering. We wasted mounds. Then, as the first char-
real estate and because they do for about a month painting the buoys tered city in the Northwest Ter-
fun what year-rounders do for a a garish blue and orange, not very ritory, Marietta felt the nation’s
living. Take lobstering, for exam- traditional but smart as it hap- initial footprints as it strode west.
ple. Most of the summer there was pened, because garish orange is As the birthplace of governors,
a local man at the town dock sell- easy to spot from a distance. Find- senators and even a vice presi-
ing lobsters for a very reasonable jodi hilton for The New York Times
ing your traps after you put them dent, Marietta has had a historic
$4.99 a pound. Skukishly, I thought in, we discovered, is by far the impact on its state and nation that
I would be more enterprising and A skuke’s goal: catching hardest part of lobstering. transcends its small size. For visi-
try to catch my own. My goal was lobsters during the summer. On a good day we’d find all 10, tors that history is meticulously
by the end of the summer to hear but often one or two went unac- preserved in the town’s brick-
my family complain: “What? Lob- countably AWOL for a day or two, paved streets, stately 200-year-
ster again?” though, and except for Chip, I’m and a couple of times we failed to old homes and more than 300
Over about a month Chip pretty sure no one saw me, or else find the offshore set altogether. monuments.
Gillespie, my pal and partner in I would be a new skuke legend. For bait we used frozen pogies The town was settled in 1788,
this enterprise, and I managed to The first thing you learn about from the local tackle shop. Fresh when Gen. Rufus Putnam led 47
land six keepable bugs — as we lobstering is that nobody really would have been cheaper but also former Revolutionary War of-
lobstermen say — and taking into understands lobsters. Lobsters smellier. Next year we might even ficers in a crude flatboat to the
account the cost of gas, bait and like the shelter of rocks and prefer think about catching our own. rivers’ junction, where they built
the lobster traps themselves, I fig- cold water to warm. They move Checking the traps, allowing a fortified settlement. George
ure they worked out to about $50 around a lot and find their food time for aimless circling, took a Washington — who owned land
a pound. Not a bargain, certainly, by smell — that’s what the anten- couple of hours, and we did it ev- in the area — actively encouraged
but they tasted better than any nas are for — and not by sight. But ery few days. the arduous journey.
lobster I’d ever had. the whole notion of trapping them More often than not we’d return Visitors can tour Campus Mar-
I also had incalculable amounts may be a misconception. There empty handed — “What? No lob- tius on Second Street, the territo-
of fun and on two occasions scared is some evidence to suggest that ster again?” — though on three ries’ first civilian settlement. The
myself half to death — once in the traditional lobster pot, with its memorable occasions there were a museum encloses Putnam’s home
seas swollen by Hurricane Bill two “rooms” — the kitchen and pair of bugs, yellow rubber bands on its original foundation; thick
that were almost more than my the parlor, as they’re known — now around their claws, scuttling bolted shutters, rough floors and
boat could handle, and once by and funnel-shaped nets, is not as in the bucket. When they got too an open hearth testify to the pio-
almost falling overboard before I confining as fishermen think, and rambunctious, we told them to cut neers’ hard life.
was even out of the harbor. This that the bugs come and go more or it out. “Campus Martius isn’t fancied
was very early in the morning, less as they please. The cage may CHARLES McGRATH up like Williamsburg,” said James
O’Donnell, a longtime history pro-
Finding a Bit of Animal House in the Bauhaus fessor at Marietta College. “But if
you want to see how a middle-class
family lived in the 1790s — sleep-
Ask most people what they think much of the ideological and cre- here is the quasi-religious mysti- ing eight to a room and cooking
of when they hear the word Bau- ative clashes that rocked the cism that infused parts of the Bau- over an open fire — here it is.”
haus, and they’re likely to come up school during its brief but remark- haus in its earliest years. The first A trolley tour by local guides is
with tubular steel furniture, pre- able history — between commer- image you see when you step into probably the best way to begin a
fabricated housing, ranks of naïve cial and creative values, pragma- the galleries is an expressionist Marietta visit. The trolleys cruise
utopians and Tom Wolfe’s with- tists and idealists, social activists painting from 1919 by Johannes It- past landmarks like the Meigs
ering disdain for all of the above. and aesthetes. It makes a convinc- ten, who ran the school’s introduc- House, built in 1802 and home of
A show about the Bauhaus? No ing case that the remarkable cre- tory course. Its colorful abstract a postmaster general — aptly
thanks. Who, after all, really needs ative output of the Bauhaus had as forms, which break down into named Return J. Meigs. One of the
to see another Breuer chair? much to do with this constant dis- a dense pattern of overlapping tour’s chief attractions is Mound
Which is why “Bauhaus: Work- cord as with the individual genius triangles, circles and rectangles, Cemetery on Fifth Street. Said to
shops for Modernity,” opening on of any of its members. evoke the refracted glass of a be the resting place of more Revo-
Sunday at the Museum of Modern Even more unexpected is how stained glass cathedral window. lutionary War officers than any
Art, is such an unexpected treat. relevant much of the school’s mis- The show allows you to glimpse graveyard in the nation, it also has
The kind of exhibition that comes sion still feels, from the ongoing how the school’s creative clashes the so-called Great Mound, or Co-
around once in a rare while, it effort to come to terms with mind- were a reflection of how much nus, built by Indians as long ago as
takes a sledgehammer to the cli- bending technological advances their participants had at stake — 800 B.C. ROBERT C. YEAGER
chés, particularly the notion that to the desire to serve an audience both aesthetically and politically
the Bauhaus marched in lockstep beyond the cultural elite. It’s true — in the future. All of them lived
to a single vision. this mission was pursued with an somewhere between the world as
Organized by Barry Bergdoll, optimism that would be hard to they saw it and the world as they Arts Beat
the museum’s chief curator of ar- conjure today, but if the show has wished it could be. Their yearning, No. 1 omission from Top 10
chitecture and design, and Leah a message, it’s that a little naiveté never fulfilled, haunts you long af- book list: Women.
Dickerman, its curator of painting can be productive. ter you leave the show. nytimes.com/artsbeat
and sculpture, the show makes One of the many revelations NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
journal Friday, November 6, 2009 7
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sports Friday, November 6, 2009 10
It’s About the Money, and the Yanks Have a Lot N.B.A. Standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Jimmy Rollins stood in the Yankees celebrate. ing to be here, so we don’t worry Atlantic W L Pct GB
middle of the losing clubhouse Rollins was philosophical. “I about anyone leaving. Boston 6 0 1.000 —
early Thursday morning, speak- don’t really look at it as some- “We’re a good team, we just Philadelphia 2 2 .500 3
ing with reporters and putting thing that hurts,” he said, refer- came up short this year, but go- Toronto 2 2 .500 3
the best face possible on the ring to the loss. ing down the future, I don’t see Knicks 1 4 .200 4{
Philadelphia Phillies’ Sports “We would like to have anything changing. I think we’re Nets 0 5 .000 5{
four-games-to-two gotten the win. You think geared up for that; nothing’s Southeast W L Pct GB
Of
World Series loss to the about the fans that are going to change in terms of who Atlanta 4 1 .800 —
Yankees.
The Times going home empty-hand- we’re going to put out there on Miami 4 1 .800 —
“They were the bet- William C. ed at the end of the sea- the field.” Orlando 4 1 .800 —
ter team this series,” he son. But winning and los- Brave talk, but is it realistic? Charlotte 2 2 .500 1{
Rhoden
said. “Do I think we’re ing is part of the game. In a sport where the teams that Washington 2 3 .400 2
the better team? I really do. They From the time you start playing, have the gold tend to win, the Central W L Pct GB
showed a lot of heart. A lot of grit. you understand that at the end of Yankees are one of the few teams Chicago 3 2 .600 —
We drilled a couple of guys, no the season only one can win, and that can harbor realistic dynastic Cleveland 3 3 .500 {
one backed down and they ex- it’s not always going to be you. aspirations. Detroit 2 3 .400 1
Milwaukee 1 2 .333 1
ecuted.” They won. Congratulations.” If Matsui or Johnny Damon do
Indiana 1 3 .250 1{
Rollins, the Phillies’ shortstop, Rollins was asked about a pos- not return, the Yankees may go
set the tone before the Series sible Phillies dynasty. They won after St. Louis outfielder Matt WESTERN CONFERENCE
when he predicted that the Phil- the National League East in 2007, Holliday. Need one more starting
lies would beat the Yankees in they won the World Series in pitcher? Why not go after the Los Southwest W L Pct GB
five or six games. 2008, they came close this year. Angeles Angels’ John Lackey? San Antonio 2 1 .667 —
After the Yankees won Game The team isn’t too old and has a Posada has two years left on his Dallas 3 2 .600 —
6, Derek Jeter told some report- $111 million-plus payroll — eighth contract. Who is to say that as Houston 3 2 .600 —
Posada winds down, the Yankees New Orleans 2 3 .400 1
ers that Rollins’s prediction had highest in baseball.
Memphis 1 4 .200 2
served as motivation. But with a projected lineup won’t go after Minnesota Twins
Did Rollins believe that? He next year in which every starting catcher Joe Mauer? The fran- Northwest W L Pct GB
laughed. “Heck no,” he said. position player but one will be at chise has its shopping cart out. Denver 5 0 1.000 —
Oklahoma City 2 2 .500 2{
“Maybe somebody else, not least 30, the window is closing. Beware. With checkbook in
Portland 2 3 .400 3
Derek Jeter. He doesn’t need me Will the Phillies be able to spend hand, the Yankees may be com-
Utah 1 3 .250 3{
to motivate him.” the money necessary to fortify ing to a neighborhood near you. Minnesota 1 4 .200 4
A year ago, Rollins and his the team?
Pacific W L Pct GB
teammates were doing the cel- “You usually got to win two in a
Online: Rivera’s future L.A. Lakers 4 1 .800 —
ebrating after defeating the Tam- row, but San Antonio does a pret- Phoenix 4 1 .800 —
pa Bay Rays in the World Series. ty good job of winning every oth- The star reliever wants to Golden State 1 2 .333 2
Early Thursday, the Phillies, with er year,” Rollins said, referring to pitch five more years. L.A. Clippers 1 4 .200 3
their starting and relief pitching the N.B.A.’s Spurs. “We still have nytimes.com/sports Sacramento 1 4 .200 3
discombobulated, watched the a good group of guys who are go-
Suspension Sought
Does LeBron James Need to Be King of New York? The National Organization for
Women called on the Oakland
If LeBron James were to scrawl Cavaliers visit New York to play where you are physically situated Raiders to suspend Coach Tom
his career goals on, say, a New the Knicks. is nearly as important as it was 20 Cable while the team investi-
York deli napkin, the list might In Cleveland, James has been years ago.” gates accusations that he has a
look something like this: blessed with solid teammates, The world has changed since history of violent behavior to-
¶Win Most Valuable Player deep playoff runs and a finals Falk brokered the deals that ward women.
award appearance. The Knicks will try turned Jordan into the greatest The NOW president, Terry
¶Win Olympic gold medal to mesmerize him with Broad- sports marketing vehicle ever in O’Neill, praised the Raiders in
¶Win N.B.A. championship way lights and Madison Avenue the 1980s and ’90s. a statement for undertaking a
¶Become global icon riches. The Internet gives fans a “serious evaluation” of charg-
These are not modest aspira- The conventional wisdom is 24-hour connection to their sports es made by Cable’s first wife,
tions, but then James, the Cleve- that if James leaves Cleveland, it heroes, no matter where they Sandy Cable, and former girl-
land Cavaliers star who answers will be to chase fame and fortune play. Games are beamed to televi- friend, Marie Lutz, that Cable
to the nickname King, is no mod- in New York, the greatest market sions in every hemisphere, and to physically abused them. But she
est figure. He secured a gold med- of all. But it might be a misguided computers and mobile phones via said that Cable should be sus-
al in 2008 and the M.V.P. award pursuit, based on a faulty prem- satellite. Players converse with pended while that investigation
last spring. ise. fans through blogs and Twitter proceeds.
An N.B.A. title has eluded him, Steve Rosner, partner and and Facebook. Cable has acknowledged
but he is doing O.K. on the global- co-founder of 16W Marketing in The sports world is flat. striking Sandy Cable with an
icon front, with strong jersey sales Rutherford, N.J., said, “I always And market size, which was open hand more than 20 years
in Europe and China. thought that was a misnomer, once a key consideration in en- ago and said it was the only
So what do you get for the su- when athletes would play in New dorsement deals, is virtually ir- time he had touched a wom-
perstar who has everything? The York that they would make more relevant, according to agents, an inappropriately. Lutz ac-
answers might determine where endorsement money.” consultants and image experts. cused Cable of assaulting her
James lands next summer, if he David Falk, the onetime super- Moving to New York might give as recently as last January, but
becomes a free agent. agent who represented Michael James a small boost, but most say Cable said previously he was
He will get a chance to weigh his Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Alonzo it would be negligible. cleared by the police in that
options on Friday night, when the Mourning, said, “I don’t think that HOWARD BECK case. (AP)