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Friday, November 6, 2009 from the pages of Midnight in New York © 2009 The New York Times

kerik confesses 12 Killed in Rampage at Army Base


to cheating i.r.s. An Army psychiatrist facing
deployment to one of America’s
he described as the sole gunman,
had been shot four times, but was

and telling lies war zones killed 12 people and


wounded 31 others on Thursday
in a shooting rampage with two
hospitalized off the base, under
guard, in stable condition and
was not in imminent danger of
handguns at the sprawling Fort dying.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Ber- Hood Army post in Central Texas, Another military spokesman
nard B. Kerik, a former detective military officials said. listed the major’s condition as
who rose to lead the New York Po- The gunman, who was still critical. The condition of the of-
lice Department before his career alive after being shot four times, ficer who shot the gunman was
crumbled in scandal, pleaded guilty was identified by law enforce- not given.
Thursday to eight charges including ment authorities as Maj. Nidal Hasan was not speaking to in-
tax fraud and lying to White House Malik Hasan, 39, who had been in vestigators, and much about his
officials. the service since 1995. Hasan was motives was unknown.
The prosecution and the defense about to be deployed to Iraq or Af- Cone said that terrorism was
recommended that Judge Stephen ghanistan, said Sen. Kay Bailey not being ruled out, but that pre-
C. Robinson sentence Kerik to 27 to Hutchison, R-Texas. liminary evidence did not suggest
33 months. The judge set sentencing Clad in a military uniform and that the rampage had been an act
for Feb. 18. Kerik was ordered to pay firing an automatic pistol and an- RODOLFO GONZALEZ of terrorism. Fox News quoted a
austin american/statesman, ap
restitution of nearly $188,000. other weapon, Hasan, a balding, retired Army colonel, Terry Lee,
For the swaggering Kerik, the chubby-faced man with heavy Parents waited outside as the as saying that Hasan, with whom
morning marked the low point in a eyebrows, sprayed bullets inside base was locked down. he worked, had voiced hope that
career filled with operatic twists. a crowded medical processing President Obama would pull U.S.
Kerik was a police detective when center for soldiers returning from troops out of Iraq and Afghani-
Rudolph W. Giuliani chose him as or about to be sent overseas, mili- Army responded and returned stan, had argued with military
his bodyguard and chauffeur during tary officials said. the gunman’s fire, officials said, colleagues who supported the
his first mayoral campaign. The two The victims, nearly all military adding that Hasan was shot by a wars and had tried to prevent his
men forged a connection that lasted personnel but including two civil- first-responder, who was herself own deployment.
throughout Giuliani’s mayoralty ians, were cut down in clusters, wounded in the exchange. As ambulances wailed to the
and beyond. the officials said. Witnesses told In the confusion of a day of wild scene, officials said the extent of
Giuliani appointed Kerik to a se- military investigators that med- and misleading reports, the ma- injuries to the wounded varied
nior position in the Correction De- ics working at the center tore jor and the officer who shot him significantly, with some in criti-
partment, and then as the city’s 40th open the clothing of the dead and were both reported killed in the cal condition.
police commissioner even though wounded to get at the wounds and gun battle, but both reports were Obama called the shootings “a
he lacked a college degree. administer first aid. erroneous. horrific outburst of violence” and
Kerik led the Police Department As the shooting unfolded, Eight hours after the shootings, urged Americans to pray for those
through the 9/11 attack, meeting military police and civilian of- Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, a base who were killed and wounded.
President Bush at the ruins of the ficers of the Department of the spokesmen, said Hasan, whom ROBERT D. McFADDEN
World Trade Center. Kerik im-
pressed the president enough that
the White House tapped him to
lead the Department of Homeland
Told of War Horror, Suspect Feared Deployment
Security in 2004. The bid quickly WASHINGTON — Born in Vir- matic stress disorder, first at Wal- a soldier who throws himself on a
collapsed and Kerik withdrew his ginia, the son of immigrant par- ter Reed Army Medical Center in grenade to protect fellow soldiers
name from consideration, citing ents from a Palestinian town near Washington and more recently to suicide bombers.
unpaid taxes for his family’s nanny. Jerusalem, he joined the Army at Fort Hood, he knew all too well Nader Hasan said his cousin
More serious allegations then be- right out of high school. The Army the terrifying realities of war, said never mentioned in recent phone
gan to surface. put him through college and then a cousin, Nader Hasan. calls that he was going to be de-
The case against Kerik centered medical school, where he trained “He was mortified by the idea ployed.
on claims that a New Jersey con- to be a psychiatrist. of having to deploy,” Hasan said. Major Hasan had two broth-
struction firm, the Interstate Indus- But Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, “He had people telling him on a ers, one in Virginia and another
trial Corp., suspected of organized the 39-year-old man accused of daily basis the horrors they saw in Jerusalem, his cousin said. The
crime ties, paid for much of the Thursday’s mass shooting at Fort over there.” family, by and large, prospered in
renovation work at Kerik’s home in Hood, Tex., began having second The F.B.I. earlier became the United States, Hasan said.
the Bronx, in the hope that he would thoughts about a military career a aware of Internet postings by a Hasan, 40, a lawyer in Virginia,
help the company obtain a city li- few years ago after other soldiers man calling himself Nidal Hasan, said his cousin became more
cense. harassed him for being a Muslim, a law enforcement official said. devout after his parents died in
Kerik admitted to allowing Inter- he told relatives in Virginia. The postings discussed suicide 1998 and 2001. “His parents didn’t
state to pay about $250,000 to reno- He had also more recently ex- bombings favorably, but the in- want him to go into the military,”
vate his apartment while he was pressed deep concerns about be- vestigators were not clear wheth- Hasan said. “He said, ‘No, I was
correction commissioner, and to ing sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. er the writer was the major. In born and raised here, I’m going
contacting officials on Interstate’s Having counseled scores of re- one posting, a man named Nidal to do my duty to the country.’ ”
behalf. SAM DOLNICK turning soldiers with post-trau- Hasan compared the heroism of  JAMES DAO
INTERnational Friday, November 6, 2009 2

Big Obstacles Seen in Afghan Training Effort In Brief


WASHINGTON — A series of Among the conclusions in the built logistics system, a relic of the
government reviews have pre- new reports: one out of every four Soviet era and one of the training International Inquiry
sented the Obama administration or five men in the security forces program’s orphans, has become a On Kenyan Violence
with a dire portrait of Afghani- quit each year, meaning that tens drag on the combat forces.
Members of the political elite
stan’s military and police force. of thousands must be recruited Among other problems, one of
in Kenya could face an inter-
As President Obama considers just to maintain the status quo. the reports found, the U.S. mili-
national investigation into the
his top commander’s call to rap- The number of Afghan battalions tary’s training headquarters sim-
violence that shook the coun-
idly double Afghanistan’s secu- able to fight independently actual- ply does not have enough people
try after elections last year. Af-
rity forces, the internal reviews ly declined in the past six months. to do all it is already being asked
ter months of stonewalling by
describe an overstretched enter- “The most significant challenge to do, a flaw that unless corrected
Kenyan politicians, Luis More-
prise struggling to nurse along the to rapidly expanding the Afghan would only prolong the U.S. pres-
no-Ocampo, the chief prosecu-
poorly led and largely illiterate Af- National Security Forces is a lack ence in Afghanistan.
tor of the International Crimi-
ghan forces. of competent and professional Construction is also falling be-
nal Court, said Thursday that
In September, Gen. Stanley leadership at all levels, and the in- hind, leaving recruits living in
crimes against humanity had
A. McChrystal, the top U.S. com- ability to generate it rapidly,” con- tents and making a boom in bar-
been committed during the
mander in Afghanistan, recom- cluded an assessment from the racks-building problematic, since
postelection period and that he
mended increasing the Afghan U.S.-led training headquarters. there are not yet enough qualified
would seek a formal investiga-
Army as quickly as possible — to Another September report, the engineers.
tion. Several of the prime sus-
134,000 in a year from the current Pentagon inspector general’s an- And attempts to draw Afghan
pects, accused by human rights
force of more than 90,000, and nual review of the training pro- businesses into the war effort
groups of masterminding the
perhaps eventually to 240,000. He gram, warned that any accelera- have backfired. One local start-
violence, are high-ranking gov-
would also expand the police force tion “will face major challenges. ” up company assigned to do basic
ernment ministers. (NYT)
to 160,000. A third assessment, a quarterly weapons maintenance for the Af-
“Nothing in our experience over report sent to Congress last week, ghan Army tried to use hammers
the last seven to eight years sug- revealed that despite the forma- and nails to hold grenade launch- Saudis Join Fight
gests that progress at such a rapid tion of new army battalions, fewer ers together and ultimately had to Saudi warplanes bombed a
pace is realistic,” said Rep. John F. of them were capable of operating be trained by a U.S. contractor. group of Yemeni rebels late
Tierney, D-Mass., chairman of a independently. One reason may THOM SHANKER Wednesday on the countries’
House panel on national security. be that the Afghan Army’s jerry- and JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. border, a day after the rebels
overran a strategic hilltop and

U.N. to Relocate Hundreds of Afghanistan Workers killed a Saudi border guard.


The airstrikes appeared to sig-
nal an expansion of the war
KABUL, Afghanistan — The ried out a string of attacks. Five of the United Nations’ in- against the Houthi rebels, who
U.N. mission in Afghanistan an- In recent weeks, U.N. workers ternational staff members were have been fighting the Yemeni
nounced plans on Thursday to on both sides of the border have killed, along with two Afghan se- government intermittently for
relocate hundreds of foreign staff been singled out in deadly attacks, curity officials and the brother-in- more than five years.  (NYT)
members, sending some out of in what appears to be a deliberate law of a prominent Afghan politi-
the country, in the wake of a lethal campaign by insurgents to under- cian, before the attackers were
attack on its workers at a guest- cut international support for the shot and killed. The strike was the 2 to Face Charges
house last week. embattled Afghan and Pakistani biggest on the United Nations in In Moscow Killings
The relocation of its workers governments. Afghanistan in its half-century of
Two young people identified
here, while temporary, was one Five U.N. workers for the World work here.
as ultranationalists will face
more signal of mounting pressure Food Program were killed in a sui- A U.N. spokesman, Adrian Ed-
charges in the January shoot-
on U.N. operations as security de- cide attack at the program’s offic- wards, said Thursday that about
ing that killed a crusading law-
teriorates around the region. The es in the Pakistani capital, Islam- 600 international staff members
yer, Stanislav Markelov, and a
move comes just four days after abad, in early October. Last week would be temporarily relocated
reporter, Anastasia Baburova,
the United Nations announced it in Kabul three insurgents dressed either to other places in Afghani-
in an attack that cast a pall over
was withdrawing its international in police uniforms scaled the front stan or outside the country, pri-
Russian human rights activ-
workers from northwestern Paki- gate of a guesthouse housing Unit- marily Dubai and Central Asian
ists. Prosecutors announced the
stan, where insurgents are fight- ed Nations personnel to mount a countries.  ALISSA J. RUBIN
arrest of Nikita Tikhonov and
ing Pakistani troops and have car- terrifying two-hour siege.
Yevgenia Khasis, both in their
20s, who appeared in court with

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

Leaders Scramble Gruesome Find Has Neighbors Angry at Police


For Health Votes CLEVELAND — After the third partment.
police station in a row refused In the case of Drain’s niece,
WASHINGTON — House to take a missing person report “certainly our records show that
Democratic leaders worked furi- about her niece two years ago, we spent a significant amount
ously Thursday to secure the final Sandy Drain took matters into her of time investigating the disap-
votes for weekend approval of a own hands. pearance,” Stacho said, including
sweeping health care overhaul She organized search parties checking leads, looking up license
as President Obama threw his to comb abandoned houses. She plates and obtaining Walker’s
weight behind the lobbying effort got neighborhood children to dental records.
and Republicans dug in against help post fliers on light poles. She Experts on crime also point out
the health plan. recruited a national advocacy that unlike cases involving miss-
Democratic vote counters, group for missing persons to hold ing children, where the police
working as thousands of conser- a rally. She even hired a psychic to typically react quickly, cases in-
vative protesters chanted “Kill look for clues in her niece’s apart- volving missing adults are more
the Bill” outside the Capitol and ment. complicated. With adults, the po-
later swarmed through Congres- “It was pretty obvious the po- lice tend to investigate only when
sional office buildings, said they lice weren’t going to help us,” there is clear evidence of foul play,
did not yet have the necessary 218 said Drain, 65, who added that the rather than just signs of a fam-
confirmed supporters. But they police only began seriously in- ily feud or the disappearance of
said they were confident they vestigating the case of her niece, a drug addict who, perhaps, has
would exceed that total in time for Gloria Walker, after her initial ef- KEN BLAZE for The New York Times chosen to remain out of touch.
a landmark vote set for Saturday forts prompted the news media to Many of the women from the
Sandy Drain’s niece was
on the $1.1 trillion, 10-year health begin asking questions. neighborhood who were reported
plan. “If you’re from this neighbor- missing for two years. missing were known drug users,
President Obama made a sur- hood, you come to expect that,” according to neighbors and the
prise public appearance at the she said. police.
White House on Thursday to her- Her desperation and anger residents in this largely poor and But as a crowd gathered to
ald endorsements for the House have grown here on Cleveland’s black neighborhood who told of stare at the cream-colored du-
measure from the American Med- east side since the police last week encountering similar frustrations plex where Sowell lived — one of
ical Association and AARP. arrested Anthony Sowell, a con- in getting the police to investigate the better-maintained homes in
Republicans were engaged in victed sex offender who has been cases of missing adults. a neighborhood filled with aban-
a determined effort to block the charged with multiple counts of “They belittled it and made doned houses — many people
measure, with House Republi- murder after 11 decomposing bod- jokes,” said Barbara Carmichael said it should not matter whether
cans lining up to address thou- ies were discovered in his house about her repeated and failed ef- a person was a drug user for the
sands of conservatives gathered and backyard. forts to file a missing person re- police to investigate.
at the West Front of the Capitol. Despite being accustomed to port about her daughter Tonia, Many also wondered aloud
No House Republican is expected drugs and violence, residents said whose body was the first of the 11 whether they knew anyone
to vote for the measure. they were shocked by the case’s found in Sowell’s house to be iden- among the dead.
Some Democrats from more gruesomeness and appalled that a tified this week. “They told me to “She has been missing since
conservative districts, such as man convicted of attempted rape wait a while because she would April,” Fawcett Bess, owner of the
Reps. Ike Skelton of Missouri, Dan had apparently been able to hide return once all the drugs were pizza shop across the street from
Boren of Oklahoma, Jim Marshall such heinous crimes, even as au- gone.” Sowell’s house, said of a former
of Georgia and Bobby Bright of Al- thorities were regularly checking Law enforcement officials said girlfriend of Sowell’s. “But nobody
abama, made it clear they would up on him. they did everything they could. really paid any attention because
oppose the measure. Community activists added “We take these cases seriously,” she was into the dope. It’s crazy.”
CARL HULSE and that in recent years they had re- said Lt. Thomas Stacho, a spokes- IAN URBINA
DAVID M. HERSZENHORN ceived dozens of reports from man for the Cleveland Police De- and CHRISTOPHER MAAG

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

14 Charged in Widening Insider Trading Case the markets


After weeks of speculation on expect to make more arrests in managers in Massachusetts and DJIA NASDAQ S&P 500
Wall Street, prosecutors brought the coming weeks. The investi- California, including one from 203.82 49.80 20.13
a fresh round of insider trading gation is part of a broad Federal Roomy Khan, the witness at the U 2.08%
U 2.42%
U 1.92%
charges on Thursday that left no Bureau of Investigation push into center of the case against Raja- 10,005.96 2,105.32 1,066.63
doubt they are aimed at hedge crimes related to hedge funds. ratnam.
funds and the networks of market And for the first time, the au- As part of a plea agreement EUROP E
gossip that are endemic on trad- thorities hinted that they might made public Thursday, prosecu-
BRITAIN GERMANY FRANCE
ing floors. be brushing against the pinnacle tors agreed not to charge Richard
The charges, against 14 money of the hedge fund world, S.A.C. Choo-Beng Lee, a California fund FTSE 100 DAX CAC 40
managers, lawyers and other in- Capital Management, a $12 billion manager who worked at S.A.C. 17.75 36.69 38.40
U 0.35% U 0.67%
U 1.05%
vestors, followed the arrest last fund company. Neither S.A.C. nor from 1999 through January 2004,
month of a hedge fund billionaire, any current employee has been on any insider trading he commit- 5,125.64 5,480.92 3,708.73
Raj Rajaratnam, on charges that charged with wrongdoing. ted at S.A.C. as long as he had dis-
he had profited from inside infor- The broadest of Thursday’s closed the insider trading to them. AS I A/PAC I F I C
mation. complaints names seven defen- Lee pleaded guilty in October to
JAPAN HONG KONG CHINA
Prosecutors described a net- dants, including Arthur J. Cutillo, insider trading while running his
work that used prepaid cell- a lawyer at the prestigious firm of own hedge fund last year. NIKKEI 225 HANG SENG SHANGHAI
phones to avoid detection, and Ropes & Gray, who is accused of Jeffrey L. Bornstein, Lee’s law- 126.87 135.69 26.52
that was pierced in part through offering tips on impending take- yer and a partner at K&L Gates, D 1.29% D 0.63% U 0.85%
surveillance and wiretaps. overs that the firm worked on. said Lee was cooperating with 9,717.44 21,479.08 3,155.05
One law enforcement official, The tips were then passed among the authorities and could not
speaking on condition of anonym- a group of lawyers and traders. comment on the letter or what AMER I C AS
ity because the investigation is Prosecutors also announced information Lee might be able to CANADA BRAZIL MEXICO
continuing, said the authorities five guilty pleas from hedge fund provide.  ALEX BERENSON
TSX BOVESPA BOLSA
109.50 903.15 304.83

Insider-Trading Scheme That Brought in $20 Million U 0.99% U 1.41%


11,180.70 64,815.72 29,735.34
U 1.04%

“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

U.S. Turns to New Drug for Serious Cases of H1N1 Flu


Japan .01102 .01102 90.78 90.74
Mexico .07492 .07526 13.347 13.287
Norway .1760 .1764 5.6803 5.6700
Singapore .7168 .7169 1.3951 1.3948
Athena Gurno thought her al- tracks his daughter’s progress. talized patients who are too ill to So. Africa .1315 .1315 7.6050 7.6050
lergies were acting up when she Peramivir may also be a life take two approved flu drugs that So. Korea .00085 .00085 1172.9 1182.5
started coughing in early Octo- saver for its developer, BioCryst work against the virus in similar Sweden .1429 .1424 6.9979 7.0225
ber. But within days, Gurno, 30, Pharmaceuticals, which was ways — Tamiflu by Roche, which Switzerlnd .9837 .9858 1.0165 1.0144
was in a Seattle hospital, close to founded in 1986 but has never had is typically given as a pill, or Re-
death from the H1N1 flu. a drug reach the market. lenza from GlaxoSmithKline,
Desperate, her doctors tried On Thursday, the federal gov- which is inhaled. Online: MORE PRICES
a still-experimental drug called ernment ordered 10,000 treat- Late Thursday, the govern- AND ANALYSIS
peramivir. After getting her sec- ment courses of peramivir for its ment announced orders for intra-
Information on all United
ond dose, Gurno started to recov- national stockpile. It is paying venous versions of Tamiflu and
er, though she is still in intensive $22.5 million, or about $2,250 per Relenza, which are much cheaper States stocks, plus bonds, mu-
care, according to her father, John patient. Shares of BioCryst rose — a development that could force tual funds, commodities and for-
Spikowski. nearly 13 percent, to $11.39. shares of BioCryst to give up eign stocks along with analysis of
“This saved Athena’s life,” Peramivir is given intrave- some of their gains. industry sectors and stock indexes:
Spikowski reported on a blog that nously, making it usable by hospi-  ANDREW POLLACK nytimes.com/markets
business  Friday, November 6, 2009 5

Goodbye to the Accounting Reforms of 2002


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publican-controlled House and simply out to help small business- accounting rules in the United Comcast 318318 14.20 + 0.14
a Democratic-controlled Senate. es, which would be burdened by States. But this year, a subcom- LibMEntA 303749 33.10 + 1.76
Now a Democratic Congress is having to report on whether they mittee of the House Financial Ser- HuntBnk 254724 3.77 + 0.08
gutting it. maintained acceptable financial vices Committee held a hearing at OnSmcnd 236090 7.29 + 0.46
Nvidia 218091 12.27 + 0.29
The House Financial Services controls, and to have auditors which legislators threatened dire
Committee this week approved check on whether those controls action if the chairman of the fi- Amex Actives
an amendment to the Investor did work. nancial accounting board did not Vol. (100s) Last Chg.
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Shoes Are the Recession’s Not-So-Guilty Pleasure ProspctAcq


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For months now, consumers shoes more than you wear out NwGold g 15341 3.98 – 0.05
have been hunkering down, buy- handbags,” said Marie Driscoll, donned so many times a week be- GrtBasG g 15230 1.55 – 0.03
ing only what they need to sur- an analyst with Standard & Poor’s fore colleagues snicker. And new
vive, like groceries, diapers, medi- Equity Research who is adept at shoes spruce up old outfits.
cine — and shoes. rationalizing her own shoe pur- Another popular theory is that Stocks on the Move
Shoes? chases. Living in New York, she as the economy has inspired a
Shares of the following companies may
The American public, it would walks everywhere. “I use the ar- back-to-basics mentality, with
have unusual moves in U.S. trading to-
seem, cannot carry on without gument, ‘If I spend $150 to $300 on families dining and vacationing at morrow. Stock symbols are in parenthe-
new shoes, which have been sell- shoes, this is my car.’ ” home, people are focusing on free ses, and prices are as of 5:55 p.m. in
ing well as the broader economy Many shoes, of course, can be outdoor activities that require New York.
struggles toward recovery. had for a lot less than that, which comfortable or rugged shoes.
Crocs Inc. (CROX:US) lost 5 percent to
Retailing executives and ana- makes them a recession-friendly Shoe buyers for major retailing
$6.50. The maker of colorful clogs with
lysts offer varying explanations. indulgence. Most of the shoes be- chains said sales were also driven holes forecast fourth-quarter adjusted
The one favored by many of them ing bought today are moderately by styles for children and babies. loss of as much as 20 cents a share,
is that consumers consider shoes priced, according to retailers and Children regularly grow out of wider than the average analyst estimate
a necessity, so people feel less market researchers. shoes and parents are typically of a loss of 16 cents.
guilt about buying them. Also, the cost-per-wear of a pair loath to scrimp on their children.
Nvidia Corp. (NVDA:US) climbed 5.9
“I would argue you wear out of shoes is far lower than that of STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM percent to $12.99. The maker of graph-
ics chips reported third-quarter prof-

Final Arguments Against 2 in Bear Stearns Fraud Case


it excluding some items of 19 cents a
share, beating the 10-cent average of
analyst estimates.
Prosecutors spent nearly three The two men, Ralph Cioffi and told the jury, which is expected to Sotheby’s (BID:US) fell 7 percent to
hours on Thursday wrapping up Matthew Tannin, “thought the begin deliberations next week. $16.94. The auction house reported
their case against two former laws and rules applied to every- “What it is about, is the two de- third-quarter adjusted loss of 84 cents
Bear Stearns hedge fund manag- one else but them,” she added. fendants lied to their investors. a share as art sales contracted with the
ers, arguing that the two knew Cioffi is also facing insider It’s not about the future,” she global economy. On average, the three
their funds were in trouble in the trading charges on allegations he added, “But a case of black and analysts surveyed by Bloomberg fore-
spring of 2007 and lied to inves- moved $2 million he had invested white lies.” cast a loss of 29 cents a share.
tors. in one of the failing hedge funds Dane Butswinkas, Cioffi’s main Starbucks Corp. (SBUX:US) rose 3.9
“If you are trusted with other to another less risky fund while lawyer, said prosecutors have percent to $20.46. The coffee-shop op-
people’s money on Wall Street, telling investors he was adding to taken e-mail messages out of erator reported fourth-quarter profit ex-
you can’t defraud them,” Assis- his position. context and provided “mislead- cluding some items of 24 cents a share
tant U.S. Attorney Ilene Jaro- “This case is not about hedge ing sound bites” to try to prove a as cost cuts expanded margins. The
slaw told jurors in her closing fund strategy or what happened criminal conspiracy when there earnings beat the average analyst esti-
remarks. in the market in 2007,” Jaroslaw was none.  ZACHERY KOUWE mate by 15 percent.  (Bloomberg)
feature Friday, November 6, 2009 6

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

Scientists Are Seeing Signs of a Resurgence for Gene Therapy


Not long ago, gene therapy seemed trou- Salute San Raffaele in Milan. But now, he added, “there is a lot of reason-
bled by insurmountable difficulties. After “It’s exciting,” added Dr. Kenneth Cornetta, ably cautious optimism.”
decades of hype and dashed hopes, many who a gene therapy researcher at Indiana Univer- The latest encouraging news arises from
once embraced the idea of correcting genetic sity and president of the American Society of a paper published Friday in the journal Sci-
disorders by giving people new genes all but Gene and Cell Therapy. “The science gets bet- ence. An international team of researchers
gave up the idea. ter every year.” is reporting the successful treatment of two
But scientists say gene therapy may be on The field was dealt a blow when the first children with adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD,
the edge of a resurgence. There were three gene therapy success, reported six years ago, in which the fatty insulation of nerve cells
recent, though small, successes — one involv- turned out to have a problem. Eighteen of degenerates. A result is progressive brain
ing children with a fatal brain disease, one 20 children with a rare genetic disease were damage and death two to five years after di-
with an eye disease that causes blindness and cured, but then three developed leukemia and agnosis.
one with children who have a disease that de- one died of it. Researchers and gene therapy Scientists say they believe they avoided the
stroys the immune system. companies became skittish. cancer problem by using a different method to
“We are ready to move,” said Dr. Luigi Nal- “I like to be really cautious,” said Dr. Mark get genes into the children’s DNA. Two years
dini of the Institute for Gene Therapy at Vita- Kay, a gene therapy researcher at Stanford. have gone by, and the children are doing well.
The children were not cured, but their
disease was arrested. And gene therapy was
crossword Edited By Will Shortz as good as the standard treatment for the dis-
ease, a bone marrow transplant. In this case,
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sight of five children and seven adults with a
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OPINION Friday, November 6, 2009 8

editorials of the timeS david brooks

The Republican Health Plan The Suburban Mind


House Republican leaders have produced would not prevent insurers from denying cov- Democrats did poorly in elections on Tues-
their own health care reform bill. It would do erage or charging higher premiums based on day partly because of disappointed liberals
almost nothing to reduce the high number pre-existing conditions. who think that President Obama is moving too
of Americans who have no insurance. And it The Republicans have been railing that the slowly, but mostly because of anxious subur-
makes only a token stab at slowing the rising Democratic reforms will do little to slow the ban independents who think he is moving too
costs of medical care. rapid rise in medical costs. But neither party fast. In Pennsylvania, there was an eight-point
Despite that, the Republicans are pitching has a solution. The Republican bill would cap swing away from the Democrats among inde-
their bill as far more affordable than the Demo- malpractice awards — a clear infringement pendents from a year ago. In New Jersey, and
crats’ approach. And you are sure to hear a lot of the rights of injured patients. It would get Virginia, the swings were 12 and 13 points.
in coming days about how it could reduce pre- lesser savings by requiring electronic transac- The most telling races this year were the
miums. How it compares in that respect with tions for administrative tasks and opening an suburban rebellions. In Westchester and Nas-
the Democratic proposal is not yet clear. But a approval process for generic biological medi- sau counties in New York, Republican candi-
lot of the Republicans’ savings come from re- cines. The Democratic bills would use both of dates defeated entrenched Democratic county
duced coverage. Pay less and get less. those for savings and initiate an array of pilot officials. In Pennsylvania, the G.O.P. won six
The good news is that this bill has no chance projects to try to find solutions. out of seven statewide offices.
of passing. The bad news is that unless the The Republican bill’s emphasis is on reduc- Middle-class suburban voters are now in
Democrats push back with the hard facts, the ing premiums. Compared with current trends, play. What do these voters want?
Republicans could use it to spread false hope of the Congressional Budget Office estimates The first thing to say is that this recession
a “cheaper” alternative. that under the Republican bill, the average pre- has hit the new suburbs hardest. A survey by
According to the Congressional Budget Of- mium would drop by 7 to 10 percent for employ- the National Center for Suburban Studies at
fice, the Republican plan would provide $61 ees enrolled in group plans at small businesses Hofstra University found that 76 percent of
billion over 10 years to expand coverage (com- and by 5 to 8 percent for people who buy their suburbanites say they or someone they know
pared with more than $1 trillion in the Demo- own policies. At large employers, the average has lost a job in the past year.
crats’ bill). That paltry effort, the budget office premium might drop by 0 to 3 percent. These voters are not turning to government
estimates, would extend coverage to a few mil- Much of the premium reduction was attrib- for support. According to Gallup, the percent-
lion people who would otherwise be uninsured uted to shrinking the services covered. The age of Americans who believe that there is too
in 2019, leaving 52 million citizens and legal Democrats plan to set minimum benefit re- much government regulation rose from 38 per-
residents below Medicare age without cover- quirements to protect people from skimpy poli- cent in 2008 to 45 percent in 2009. The percent-
age or about 17 percent of that population, right cies that leave them without adequate protec- age of Americans who want unions to have less
where it is today. tion. The budget office is planning to estimate influence rose from 32 percent to a record 42
The Republican bill has some good provi- how the Democratic bills would affect premi- percent.
sions, such as prohibiting insurers from impos- ums. Americans need to know that so they can Over the past seven months, the number of
ing annual or lifetime caps on what they will make a full comparison. But there should be people who say government is doing too many
pay, and automatic enrollment of workers in no illusions here. The “affordable” Republican things better left to business has jumped from
employer-sponsored group coverage. But it health care reform isn’t health care reform. 40 percent to 48 percent, according to a Wall
Street Journal/NBC News poll.
According to that same survey, only 31 per-
A Bad Way to Spend Money cent of Americans believe that the president
and Congress “should worry more about boost-
Congress threw good money after bad this credit would have purchased those homes ing the economy even though it may mean
week when it voted to extend and expand a without it. To put it another way, the tax credit larger budget deficits.” Sixty-two percent be-
wasteful home buyer’s tax credit set to expire has been wasteful spending, not stimulus lieve the president and Congress “should wor-
at the end of the month. spending. ry more about keeping the deficit down, even
The new program, which will continue The bill that passed both houses of Congress though it may mean it will take longer for the
through the spring, is being portrayed as a this week extends the program through April economy to recover.”
rescue plan for the ailing housing market. 2010 and grants the full tax credit to couples These shifts have not occurred because con-
But this costly giveaway to the real estate who earn up to $225,000. The expanded pro- servatives and liberals have changed their
and mortgage industry will spend far more gram introduces a $6,500 tax credit for people minds. They haven’t. The shift is among in-
in taxpayers’ dollars than it can ever deliver who already own homes but want to buy new dependents. According to Gallup, the share of
in economic benefit. As happened with the ones. independents who describe their views as con-
cash-for-clunkers program in the automobile The vote gives campaigning lawmakers servative has moved from 29 percent last year
industry, the program will make housing look something to crow about on the stump. But the to 35 percent today. The share of independents
momentarily better but is unlikely to contrib- new tax credit appeals primarily to affluent who believe there is too much government reg-
ute to long-term recovery. voters who do not need the government’s help ulation of business has jumped from 38 percent
The original program allowed a credit of buying property. And encouraging buyers to to 50 percent. Independents are in the position
$8,000 for first-time home buyers who earn up leave one house for another does nothing to of a person who is feeling gravely ill at the same
to $75,000 individually or $150,000 filing jointly. reduce the glut of homes on the market, which time he has lost faith in his doctor.
The program got a black eye earlier this month is an important factor driving down housing This does not mean that independents are
when the Treasury Department’s inspector prices. Finally, the tax credit does nothing turning into Republicans. But it does mean the
general for tax administration reported that about the central housing problem, which is Democrats have to fight to regain some of their
tens of thousands of people had exploited loop- foreclosure. most crucial supporters.
holes in the law to claim credits for which they If Congress wants to spend the taxpayers’ Independents support the party that seems
appeared not to be eligible. money to do something about the struggling most likely to establish a frame of stability and
But even before that, housing analysts were housing market — and it should — it should order, within which they can lead their lives.
finding that the tax credit did little for home invest the money where it is most needed, in They can’t always articulate what they want,
sales. Between 80 percent and 90 percent of better programs that help people avoid fore- but they withdraw from any party that threat-
the people who have bought homes using the closure and stay in their homes. ens turmoil and risk.
sports Friday, November 6, 2009 9

After the Championship Comes the Challenge In Brief


It was never as easy as the Yan- most. The Yankees led the majors strained right calf muscle, Matsui
kees made it seem the last time in regular-season victories over because he was used exclusively Free-Agent Filings
they were champions. They won those seasons, with 775, about as the designated hitter. Both
four World Series in five seasons, four more per season than the players’ contracts have expired. Pitcher John Lackey and
from 1996 through 2000. They did Red Sox. The capricious nature of Ideally, the Yankees want the outfielder Matt Holliday were
not win again until Wednesday at the three-tiered postseason con- flexibility to use the designated among 79 players who filed for
Yankee Stadium. tinually tripped up the Yankees, hitter spot for players like Jeter, free agency Thursday, the first
“You forget how good it feels who bowed in the first round four 35; third baseman Alex Rodri- possible day to do so. Outfield-
after the final out,” said the cap- times. guez, 34; and catcher Jorge Pos- er Jason Bay, first baseman
tain, Derek Jeter, early Thursday Yet it was not simply bad luck ada, 38. But Matsui and Damon Carlos Delgado, pitcher John
morning. “But I appreciated the that knocked the Yankees from are freshly minted World Series Smoltz and reliever Billy Wag-
last ones we won. I knew it was their perch. They were old, and legends. ner also filed, as did pitcher Jon
very, very difficult to do. If it was age will be the biggest challenge Cashman likely understands, Garland after the Los Angeles
easy, people would be repeating in cultivating another dynasty. deep down, that a great achieve- Dodgers declined his $10 million
every year. No one’s done it since The team’s first test comes imme- ment of the season was probably option. He will receive a $2.5
we did.” diately, a clash of sentiment and keeping so many older players million buyout.  (AP)
The Boston Red Sox won twice practicality involving two of their healthy and productive. Four sig-
this decade, but not consecutive- best players in the World Series: nificant Yankees in their mid- to America’s Cup Fight
ly. The Philadelphia Phillies won Hideki Matsui, 35, who batted late-30s were coming off surgery:
SAN DIEGO — The most con-
last season, but the Yankees van- .615 in the World Series and was Posada to his shoulder; Matsui to
tentious America’s Cup in the
quished them in six games this named the most valuable player, his knee; Mariano Rivera to his
158-year history of the compe-
time. The St. Louis Cardinals won and Johnny Damon, who turned shoulder; Rodriguez to his hip. All
tition may be headed to Aus-
two pennants, but only one title. 36 on Thursday and hit .364. had standout years.
tralia. Officials for Alinghi, the
The Yankees won a lot from 2001 Both were on the bench for the But how long can they all defy
Swiss boat that is the defending
to 2008, just not when it mattered end of the series, Damon out with a time?  TYLER KEPNER
champion, told Justice Shirley
Kornreich of New York State
Critics Remain Despite Progress With Synthetics Supreme Court that they would
race the American challenger
BMW Oracle Racing off Austra-
ARCADIA, Calif. — The number 1,000 on dirt. At Santa Anita Park, has the worst mortality rate for
lia as a compromise.  (AP)
of thoroughbreds in California where the Breeders’ Cup World thoroughbreds in the world, in
who suffered fatal breakdowns Championships will be held begin- training and in racing. In fact, one
has fallen by 40 percent since ning Friday, fatalities fell to 1.59 aspect of the study supported a NHL scores
the state switched from dirt to per 1,000 starts, from 2.89. growing sentiment in the veteri- THURSDAY
synthetic surfaces, according to “It is what it is, which is a pretty nary community that the overuse Montreal 2, Boston 1, SO
a study compiled by state regu- dramatic fall-off, contrary to what of legal and illegal medications Columbus 4, Atlanta 3
lators. But skepticism persists some trainers think,” said Dr. Rick has imperiled the welfare of race- Detroit 2, San Jose 1, SO
Ottawa 3, Tampa Bay 2, OT
among horsemen who contend Arthur, equine medical director horses. Vancouver 5, Minnesota 2
the all-weather surfaces have for the California Horse Racing Mary Scollay, the equine medi- Calgary 2, St. Louis 1, OT
only created a new set of injuries Board. “When racehorses are at cal director for the Kentucky Phoenix 3, Chicago 1
and are no safer than traditional their best, I am absolutely con- Horse Racing Commission, said
dirt tracks. vinced that they are safer on the California’s methodology for col- nBA scores
The California numbers sug- synthetics than they are dirt.” lecting the data was rigorous and WEDNESDAY’S LATE GAMES
gest otherwise. Since 2006, when Arthur warned that synthetic the numbers were comprehen- L.A. Lakers 103, Houston 102, OT
New Orleans 114, Dallas 107, OT
Hollywood Park installed the first surfaces were not a cure-all for sive. California has been perform- Atlanta 113, Sacramento 105
artificial oval, to September of this saving horses’ lives, and cited sev- ing necropsies on horses who have Golden State 113, Memphis 105
year, the fatality rate has fallen to eral factors that have contributed died on its racetracks since 1992. THURSDAY
1.70 per 1,000 starts, from 3.09 per to the fact that the United States  JOE DRAPE Chicago 86, Cleveland 85

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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)

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