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Saturday, November 7, 2009 from the pages of Midnight in New York © 2009 The New York Times

Army Is Testing Theory of a Sole Killer jobless rate hits

KILLEEN, Tex. — On Wednes- Army chief of staff, and John M.
day and Thursday, Maj. Nidal McHugh, the Army secretary,
asked. “I don’t think that anyone
would have ever expected a psy- 10.2%, with more
Malik Hasan seemed in a hurry traveled Friday to Fort Hood, the
to give his worldly belongings to Army’s largest post, as a wide-
a neighbor. First a Koran. Then spread investigation into the
chiatrist trained to help others’
mental health would be the one
who would go off himself, unless
underemployed
bags of vegetables. Finally a mat- shooting began. there’s more to it, and that’s what
tress, clothing and odds and ends “This is a tough one,” Casey they’re looking for,” she added. For all the pain caused by the
from his bare one-room flat. said. “It’s a kick in the gut. There’s In Washington, a law enforce- Great Recession, the job market
“I’m not going to no doubt about that.” ment official said an early search still was not in as bad shape as it had
need them,” he told the The local police said of Hasan’s computer did not indi- been during the depths of the early
neighbor, Patricia Villa. that ballistics tests cate any direct exchanges with 1980s recession — until now.
He was going, he said, showed there was only known terrorists. The official With the release of the jobs report
to Iraq or maybe to Af- one shooter and that said investigators do not have a on Friday, the broadest measure of
ghanistan. none of the casualties complete record of his Internet unemployment and underemploy-
That was just one of had been hit by bullets use, as Hasan had multiple e-mail ment tracked by the Labor Depart-
many details to emerge fired by the police. accounts and used computers in ment has reached its highest level
Friday about Hasan, But officials were not several locations. since at least 1970. If statistics went
the 39-year-old Army Maj. Nidal prepared to say whether The F.B.I. became aware of In- back so far, the measure would al-
psychiatrist accused Malik Hasan the attack was the act of ternet postings by a man calling most certainly be at its highest level
of a shooting spree at a lone and troubled man himself Nidal Hasan earlier this since the Great Depression.
Fort Hood that killed 13 or connected to terrorist year. The postings drew attention The official jobless rate — 10.2 per-
people and wounded at least 28 groups. President Obama asked because they favorably discussed cent in October, up from 9.8 percent
others. people to avoid “jumping to con- suicide bombings. But the investi- in September — remains lower than
An American-born Muslim of clusions” while the investigations gators are still not clear whether the early 1980s peak of 10.8 percent.
Palestinian descent, he was deep- continued. the writer was Hasan. But that rate excludes millions of
ly dismayed with the wars in Iraq Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Hasan had told family mem- people who have given up looking
and Afghanistan but proud of his R-Tex., said Army officials were bers that he had experienced for work and part-time workers who
Army job. He wore Middle East- trying to determine “if there is anti-Muslim harassment and had want to be working full time.
ern clothes to the convenience something more than just one de- tried for several years to be dis- In all, more than one out of every
store and his battle fatigues to ranged person involved here.” charged. But the Army, which had six workers — 17.5 percent — were
the mosque. He was trained to She also said that the shooting paid for his education and was in unemployed or underemployed in
counsel troubled soldiers, but had prompted Army officials to great need of psychiatrists, re- October. The previous high was 17.1
bottled up his own distress about examine procedures in tracking fused, family members said. percent, in December 1982.
deploying. people who may have problems. CLIFFORD KRAUSS The rate is highest today, some-
Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the “Was enough done?” she and JAMES DAO times 20 percent, in states that had
big housing bubbles, like Califor-

Police Officer Ran to Gunfire, and Ended It

KILLEEN, Tex. — The police
officer who brought down a gun-
man after he went on a shooting
rampage at the Fort Hood Army
base here was on the way to have
her car repaired when she re-
sponded to a police radio report
of gunfire at a center where sol-
diers are processed, the authori-
ties said Friday.
As she pulled up to the center,
the officer, Sgt. Kimberly Denise
Munley, spotted the gunman,
later identified as Maj. Nidal Ma-
lik Hasan, brandishing a pistol
and chasing a wounded soldier
outside the building, said Chuck
Medley, the director of emergen-
cy services at the base.
Munley — a woman with a
fierce love of hunting, surfing and
other outdoor sports — bolted
from her car, yanked her pistol
out and shot at Hasan. He turned
nia and Arizona, or that have large
manufacturing sectors, like Michi-
gan, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island
on her and began to fire. She ran “She’s absolutely a hero,” he and South Carolina.
toward him, continuing to fire, said. “She had the training; she The new benchmark is a sign of
and both she and Hasan went knew what to do. And she had just how much damage financial cri-
down with several bullet wounds, the courage to do it — by doing ses tend to inflict. A recent book by
Medley said. it she saved countless Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S.
Whether Munley was people’s lives.” Rogoff, two economists, found that
solely responsible for The original 911 call over the last century the typical cri-
taking down Hasan or came in at 1:23 p.m., and sis had caused the jobless rate in the
whether he was also hit five minutes later Mun- country where it occurred to rise for
by gunfire from another ley had already shot the almost five years. By that standard,
responder is unclear, gunman. the jobless rate here would continue
but she was the first to Munley began her ca- rising for two more years, through
fire at him, the authori- reer as a police officer in the end of 2011.
ties said. Kimberly the beachside town of Most economists predict that
Munley, 34, is an ex- Munley Wrightsville, N.C., after the rate will begin to fall next year,
pert in firearms and a graduating from high largely because of the government’s
member of the SWAT school in nearby Wilm- response — fiscal stimulus, interest-
team for the civilian police de- ington. She served several years rate cuts and a variety of creative
partment on the base, officials in the Army and met her husband, steps by the Federal Reserve and
said. Matthew Munley, a member of Treasury Department. Friday’s re-
Medley said she had been the Special Forces, at Fort Hood. port showed that monthly job losses
trained in a tactic called active They have a 3-year-old daughter continued to slow recently, though
shooter protocol, which was in- and live in Killeen. the improvement has been gradual.
tended for this kind of situation.  JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.  DAVID LEONHARDT
international
China’s Bureaucrats Clash Over Online Game
BEIJING — It could almost be
a World of Warcraft game session
— two competing titans, plotting
against each other, swapping
blows, embarked on a quest for a
single prize that only the stronger
of them will claim.
But this is not virtual reality.
The titans are two agencies of the
Chinese government. And their
quest is for a potentially rich
prize: the power to regulate the
real World of Warcraft, among
the most popular online games in
China.
The background: On Monday,
the Chinese General Administra-
tion of Press and Publication or-
dered the Shanghai-based opera-
tor of World of Warcraft, NetEase,
to shut down its servers for World
of Warcraft. The agency said that
it had had rejected the company’s
application to become the new
host of the game’s four million
Chinese players.
But by Wednesday, the Ministry
of Culture had struck back.
“In regards to the World of
Afghans Worried at Prospect of More U.S. Troops
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — As
Americans, including President
Obama’s top advisers, tensely de-
bate whether to send more troops
to Afghanistan, Afghans them-
selves are having a similar discus-
sion and voicing serious doubts.
In bazaars and university cor-
ridors across the country, the war
has left people exhausted and im-
patient. Nearly everyone agrees
that the Afghan government must
negotiate with the insurgents. If
more U.S. forces do arrive, many
here say, they should come to train
Afghans to take over the fight.
“What have the Americans
done in eight years?” said Abdul-
lah Wasay, 60, a pharmacist in
As Honduran Deal Failed, Split Behind the Crisis Grew
MEXICO CITY — The collapse
of an agreement that only a week
ago was celebrated in Honduras
as bringing the end to a political
standoff bears all the earmarks of
the divisions that have long char-
acterized the crisis:
The two sides hew to contradic-
tory interpretations of the agree-
ment. The United States and the
rest of the hemisphere are at odds
over how to move forward, and
Manuel Zelaya, the president who
Warcraft incident, the General
Administration of Press and Pub-
lication has clearly overstepped
its authority,” a ministry official,
Li Xiong, was quoted as saying in
the Economic Information Daily,
a newspaper in Beijing. “They do
not have the authority to penalize
online gaming.”
The matter now appears des-
tined for settlement by the State
Council.
On its face, the defining aspect
of the dispute involves money.
The online gaming industry in
China is huge, and growing fast.
Revenues in 2008 rose about 50
percent to at least $2.9 billion,
according to Alicia Yap, a Hong
Kong analyst for Citi Investment
Research & Analysis.
The press administration said
last month that foreign invest-
ment in Chinese online gaming
operations is forbidden. But Tuo
Zuhai, deputy minister of cul-
tue, speaking at a conference
of computer game developers,
condemned the administration’s
Charikar, a market town about
25 miles north of Kabul, express-
ing a view typical of many here.
“Americans are saying that with
their planes they can see an egg
18 kilometers away, so why can’t
they see the Taliban?”
Such sentiments were repeated
in conversations with more than
30 Afghans in Kabul and nearby
rural areas and with local officials
in outlying provinces. The com-
ments point to the difficulties that
U.S. and Afghan officials face if
they choose to add more foreign
troops.
Wasay and several friends
visiting his pharmacy were dis-
cussing the Taliban’s killing of a
was ousted in a coup in June, re-
mains holed up in the Brazilian
Embassy while his unelected suc-
cessor, Roberto Micheletti, still
runs the government.
With just three weeks to go be-
fore a general election, the main
presidential candidates have been
traveling the country promising to
pave roads and build houses while
the rest of the world has been de-
bating whether the election will be
legitimate.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
“surly interference in domestic
online game enterprises,” accord-
ing to the Shanghai-based blog
web2asia.com.
“This is a major issue of right
and wrong, and is a matter of prin-
ciple,” the blog stated, quoting a
transcript of Tuo’s remarks.
Which agency will win the reg-
ulatory battle remains unclear,
although the Ministry of Culture,
with allies among other ministeri-
al-level offices, is said to enjoy an
edge. Regardless, there appears
to be much for both offices to do.
The government this summer
proclaimed its desire to clean up
the Internet, ridding it of pornog-
raphy, gambling, violence and se-
ditious material.
The ministry dived further
into that Herculean task in the
past week, announcing sanctions
against 188 companies that it said
were running unlicensed, vulgar
or overly violent online games.
NetEase and World of Warcraft
were conspicuously absent from
the list.  MICHAEL WINES
police chief in a rural part of the
province. The rumor was that the
Taliban had severed his head and
delivered it to his son.
True or not, the anecdote was
part of a growing mythology of
Taliban power and a general per-
ception that neither the Afghan
government nor U.S. troops were
protecting Afghans.
“In the first days of the war, the
Americans defeated the Taliban
in just a few days,” said Moham-
med Shefi, a graduate student
in the pharmacy school at Kabul
University. “Now they have more
than 60,000 forces and they can-
not defeat them.”
ALISSA J. RUBIN
Zelaya, focused on what many
believed to be the spirit of the
agreement, which was his return
to office at the head of a unity gov-
ernment.
Analysts say Micheletti took
control of the formation of the
unity government himself, and
Zelaya refused to submit names
for it. A deadline for forming the
government passed, and Zelaya
declared the agreement dead.
 ELISABETH MALKIN
2
In Brief
2 Soldiers Missing
Two paratroopers with the
82nd Airborne Division are
missing in western Afghanistan,
and an intensive search is under
way, a spokesman for the in-
ternational forces said. The sol-
diers were on a resupply mis-
sion on Nov. 4 but did not return
as expected. A Taliban spokes-
man said fighters had recov-
ered the bodies of two drowned
soldiers in Badghis Province.
Reuters reported that the prov-
ince’s police chief, Abdul Jabar,
said the two were Americans
and that they had drowned dur-
ing a gun battle.  (NYT)
Zimbabwe Diamonds
An international body
charged with stopping the illic-
it trade in diamonds that fuels
conflict decided not to suspend
Zimbabwe, though its investiga-
tors had concluded Zimbabwe’s
military had organized smug-
gling syndicates with the gov-
ernment’s permission and used
“extreme violence” against il-
legal miners. Instead, the U.N.-
endorsed Kimberley Process
nations decided to send a moni-
tor to decide whether future ex-
ports of rough diamonds from
the Marange fields in eastern
Zimbabwe can be certified as
conflict-free.  (NYT)
Admission in Killing
The man suspected of mur-
dering a prominent human
rights lawyer and a journal-
ist in Moscow has admitted to
committing the crime, saying
he did so out of “personal en-
mity” for one of the victims, his
lawyer said Friday. Investiga-
tors say that Nikita Tikhonov
was the shooter in the January
killings and that an accomplice,
Yevgenia Khasis, acted as look-
out. They were arraigned on
Thursday. Tikhonov’s lawyer
said he intended to kill only
the rights lawyer, Stanislav
Markelov.  (NYT)
Pirates’ Demand
Spain said Friday that it
would not free two captured pi-
rates as demanded by fellow pi-
rates who are holding a Spanish
trawler and 33 crew members
off the coast of Somalia.  (AP)
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Lines Hardening Dedicated, Caring, and Suddenly Lost at Home

On Health Bill
WASHINGTON — House Dem-
ocrats put the finishing touches
on their health care legislation
on Friday, and were struggling
to bridge an internal divide over
the politically treacherous issue
of insurance coverage for abor-
tions. Democratic leaders said
they were confident that they
would have the 218 votes needed
to pass the bill, but they continued
to scramble behind the scenes.
A planned visit to the Capitol by
President Obama was postponed
until Saturday so that a face-to-
face appeal would have greater
impact on wavering lawmakers
just before the vote.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden
Jr., cabinet secretaries, and the
White House chief of staff, Rahm
Emanuel, worked the phones,
imploring undecided Democrats
to vote yes on a bill that they said
would be remembered as a land-
mark achievement.
“What I explained to the presi-
dent is my district is a difficult
district on this,” said Rep. Jason
Altmire, D-Pa., who received calls
from Obama, Emanuel and two
cabinet secretaries. Altmire said
he remained undecided. He quot-
ed Obama as saying, “The only
two options are failure or move
the ball down the field.”
As members of both parties
girded for hours of floor debate
on Saturday, lines began to hard-
en and attention was focused on
Democrats coming out in opposi-
tion to the bill.
As of Friday evening, Demo-
cratic officials counted just more
than 205 certain votes. (NYT)
The stress of American soldiers
fighting in two wars is so great
that the military sends scores of
mental health professionals over-
seas. Five of those were among
the 13 people shot dead on Thurs-
day by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan,
an Army pyschiatrist, who also
treated traumatized soldiers.
Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Ra-
cine, Wis., one of the victims, was
a nurse practitioner who helped
veterans struggling with post-
traumatic stress disorder at the
Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Af-
fairs Medical Center in Milwau-
kee.
“He just wanted to help the sol- MICHAEL STRAVATO/The New York Times
diers because they helped us,”
said his uncle, Larry Seager of Military police officers observe a moment of silence at Fort
Mauston, Wis. “And then he got Hood on Friday afternoon.
shot by a psychiatrist.”
When the shooting began, mem-
bers of three units of Army reserv- Mesa, Calif., who had worked with grow up.” And when his two-year
ists in the Combat Stress Control mentally disabled adults in San commitment was finished, he re-
Detachments were inside a medi- Diego, had also been deployed as enlisted, right in the middle of the
cal and services center at Fort part of a Reserve combat stress Iraq desert on his 21st birthday.
Hood signing medical forms and unit. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chi-
getting last-minute vaccinations Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, 55, cago, was returning home from
before they went overseas. who grew up in Pittsburgh, joined Iraq because she was in the first
There is no evidence that Ma- the military like her father and trimester of her pregnancy. Velez
jor Hasan singled out his fellow grandfather, said her sister, Mar- had joined the Army three years
combat stress counselors, but an garet Yaggie. Warman was a phy- ago to fulfill her father’s dream of
Army official said he had been sician’s assistant. serving the country.
scheduled to deploy with the three Others inside the Soldiers Read- Pfc. Aaron T. Nemelka, 19, of
Reserve units. iness Processing Center, who had West Jordan, Utah, had been plan-
The Army has not released the no connection to the mental health ning to propose to his girlfriend
names of the victims, but their services, were standing in lines at next month before deploying to
families were notified, and some the time of the shooting. Iraq or Afghanistan in January,
confirmed the deaths that came Michael Pearson, 21, of Boling- relatives said.
so unexpectedly on U.S. soil. brook, Ill., joined the Army a year Right before the shots rang out,
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, joined the ago and was training to deactivate Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn.,
Army shortly after the Sept. 11 at- bombs. was in line for a physical. Xiong,
tacks, a few years after graduation Spec. Jason D. Hunt, 22, joined who has three children, had
from her high school in Kiel, Wis. the military three years ago be- moved his family to Texas while
She was part of Seager’s unit. cause, he told his grandmother, he prepared to deploy overseas.
Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of Serra in Frederick, Okla., “it was time to LIZ ROBBINS

Raid on Acorn Offices
Louisiana investigators raided Acorn’s
offices in New Orleans on Friday, taking
hard drives and documents in an investiga-
tion into accusations of embezzlement and
tax fraud when the group’s national head-
quarters was based in New Orleans.  (AP)
Vaccine in the Workplace
Dr. Anne Schuchat, the federal health of-
ficial in charge of immunization and re-
spiratory diseases, said Friday that swine
flu vaccine should be distributed through
many outlets, including workplace clinics,
to get it to high-risk people as quickly and
In Brief
efficiently as possible. She was responding
to a furor caused by the revelation that the
employee health departments of some Wall
Street banks, including Goldman Sachs and
Citigroup, had received small shipments
of vaccine, while pediatricians, clinics and
major hospitals waited for their full allot-
ments.
“There’s nothing wrong with an employ-
er-based clinic,” Schuchat said.  (NYT)
Orlando Office Shooting
A former office worker opened fire in his
old building in downtown Orlando on Fri-
day, killing one person and injuring five oth-
ers. The gunman, Jason Rodriguez, 40, was
quietly arrested hours later at his mother’s
home. Officials said Rodriguez, an engineer
who was fired two years ago by an architec-
tural design firm, showed up around 11:45
a.m. at his former workplace on the eighth
floor of a building near Interstate 4, and be-
gan to shoot randomly.  (NYT)
More Openings at M.I.T.
M.I.T. is considering expanding its stu-
dent body by more than 300 students, if it is
able to create additional student housing.
The dean of admission, Stuart Schmill, said
the goal was to return the undergraduate
student body to 4,500, the size it was in the
1980s and 1990s. (NYT)
business 
Citigroup Offers Options to Retain Bankers
Hoping to encourage bankers
and managers to stay, Citigroup
began dispensing several million
stock options this week to more
than a quarter of its workers.
Many Citigroup employees saw
their nest eggs vanish after the
bank’s share price plummeted to
about $4 today from about $56 a
few years ago.
As an extra incentive to stay
and help with the turnaround,
Citigroup is granting one stock
option just above the current
market price for each share em-
ployees had accumulated. If the
share price rebounds, Citigroup
employees could see an increase
in their 2009 compensation.
The program, announced in
June, covers about 75,000 Citi-
group employees, and excludes
its 100 highest-ranking execu-
tives and other top earners who
Economists Look for Signs of Hope in Job Data
As the unemployment rate
surged to 10.2 percent in October,
reaching double digits for the
first time in 26 years, it suddenly
seemed possible that the nation
might yet confront the worst job-
lessness since the Great Depres-
sion.
In the six decades since the
government began compiling
such data, the highest level of un-
employment came at the end of
1982, when it hit 10.8 percent.
Despite the widespread as-
sumption that the recession has
already ended, and even as the
economy has resumed growing,
the government’s latest snap-
shot of the labor market released
Friday testified to the uncomfort-
able truth that expansion had yet
to translate into jobs.
Executives Worried After Spate of Insider Trading Arrests
The phone lines at law firms
have been busy in recent weeks
as hedge fund managers and
technology executives deluge
lawyers with one question: What
information is safe to share?
Following recent prominent ar-
rests for insider trading, lawyers
at major corporate law firms on
both coasts said Friday that they
had fielded scores of calls from
nervous hedge funds and tech-
nology firms, seeking reassur-
ance that they had done nothing
illegal and advice on how to keep
fall under the purview of the fed-
eral pay czar. In total, the bank
could issue two to three million
stock options, worth as much as
$11 million at today’s prices.
In some ways, the use of stock
options is a move back to the fu-
ture. For the last few years, Citi-
group awarded big portions of
restricted stock to align employ-
ees’ interests with those of share-
holders. Stock options, which in-
crease in value only if the share
price rises, fell out of favor after
the technology bust because of
accounting rule changes and a
steady drumbeat of criticism
that they created perverse incen-
tives.
Citigroup, itself, was known for
an option-reload program that
enriched executives by auto-
matically granting stock options
to those who cashed out their old
“The guy on the street is going
to ask, ‘What recovery?’ ” said
Stuart Hoffman, chief economist
at the PNC Financial Services
Group in Pittsburgh. “The job
market is still in reverse.”
The sharp rise in unemploy-
ment — which climbed from 9.8
percent in September, as the
nation lost another 190,000 net
jobs — intensified pressure on
the Obama administration to
show results from the $787 billion
package of spending measures
unleashed early this year to spur
the economy.
On Friday, President Obama
signed into law a bill that that ex-
tends both unemployment bene-
fits and temporary tax credits for
homebuyers, adding that he was
on the lookout for other ways to
it that way.
“Right now we’re still at Defcon
2,” said Anthony L. Perricone, a
lawyer at Jones Day who advises
hedge funds. “They’re going to
err on the side of conservatism.”
For executives in these two
worlds, passing along informa-
tion and gossip is a way of life
and a necessity for business. But
many executives have begun
watching their words.
“What do you say when some-
body says, ‘How’s business?’
and you say ‘It’s not bad, we’re
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Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays
SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon
Valley may have discovered the
perfect business: charging real
money for products that do not
exist.
These so-called virtual goods,
like a $1 illustration of a Cham-
pagne bottle on Facebook or the
$2.50 Halloween costume in the
online game Sorority Life, are no
more than a collection of pixels on
a Web page.
But it is quickly becoming com-
monplace for people to spend a
few dollars on them to get ahead
in an online game or to give a
friend a gift on a social network.
Analysts estimate that vir-
tual goods could bring in a billion
dollars in the United States and
around $5 billion worldwide this
year — all for things that, aside
from perhaps a few hours of work
by an artist and a programmer,
cost nothing to produce.
“It’s a fantastic business,” said
Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Ven-
ture Partners, a venture capital
firm that has invested $10 million
in several virtual goods compa-
Questioning a Genetic Test for Risk of Lung Cancer
Christopher Taylor says he nev-
er lasted more than a week when
he tried to quit smoking in the
past. But it has been four weeks
and counting this time, since a ge-
netic test indicated he had a much
higher risk of developing lung
cancer than the average smoker.
Of course, said Taylor, a 45-year-
old salesman who has smoked for
25 years, he already knew that
cigarettes were dangerous. But
he thought, “It’s not going to hap-
pen to me.” Then came the gene
test.
“To actually take a test that
says you are genetically prone to
Prep Schools Feel the Pangs of the Broader Economy
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. —
For now, the nation’s biggest pre-
paratory schools are protecting
students like Ivy Alphonse-Leja,
who depends on financial aid to
attend the Lawrenceville School.
“There was never a concern
that I could not come back next
year,” she said recently.
The question is whether the
schools, which suffered sig-
nificant declines in their endow-
ments as financial markets with-
ered, can offer that same promise
nies. “Because it’s digital, the
marginal cost for every one you
sell is zero, so you have 100 per-
cent margins.”
Virtual goods have been popu-
lar in Asia for years. In the United
States though, only ardent video
game fans spent money on them,
mostly for swords and spells in
virtual fantasy realms. That is
rapidly changing, driven by the
popularity of widely appealing
games for social networks and
smart phones.
In Restaurant City, a game by
Playfish on Facebook, 18 million
active users manage their own ca-
fe and stock it with virtual casse-
roles and cakes. In Zynga’s game
FarmVille, 62 million agrarian
dreamers cultivate a farm, plant
squash seeds and harvest their
crops with tractors.
These games and many others
have casual gamers reaching for
their wallets.
“It’s an experience, like go-
ing to the movies. That’s how I
describe it,” said Sara Merrill of
Parsonfield, Me., who plays Pet
this, then there’s no excuse,” Tay-
lor said.
Scaring people into quitting is
the marketing rationale for that
new genetic test, called Respi-
ragene, which claims to identify
which smokers have the highest
risk of developing lung cancer.
The test, developed by a compa-
ny called Synergenz BioScience
in New Zealand, where Taylor
lives, is now being offered over
the Internet in the United States
for $700.
While some health experts say
the tests may be useful, others are
skeptical that it can accurately
to incoming students.
The question goes to the heart
of the prep schools’ longtime ef-
forts to open up their classrooms
to promising students of all in-
comes, and not just the children
of wealthy families.
The schools are left with lim-
ited options. This is a bad time to
dip more deeply into their endow-
ments. Raising tuition would just
mean that “more of their families
may qualify for financial aid be-
cause their incomes may become
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Society on Facebook with her two
young sons five times a week.
Recently, the family used a
credit card to buy $20 worth of
the game’s currency, then bought
items like a haunted mirror and a
potion that helped their pet, De-
mon Baby, grow bat wings. “It’s
still cheaper than taking the kids
to Target where they will ask for a
toy,” she said.
For outsiders, the selling of vir-
tual goods might seem the very
definition of a swindle.
But often, strong motives are
at work. Users of social networks
can buy one another gifts, like
images of flowers and birthday
cakes, typically for a dollar each.
“It’s not about the good itself,
it’s about the underlying human
emotion or desire,” said Moshe
Koyfman, a principal at Spark
Capital, which has invested in
two virtual-goods start-ups. “The
recipient knows the person took
time, picked something meaning-
ful and spent money on it.”
 CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
 and BRAD STONE
distinguish between smokers ex-
tremely at risk and those merely
very at risk.
Skeptics also question whether
even the most dire results would
prompt many smokers to quit.
They say Respiragene is one of
a proliferating number of genetic
tests that are being offered direct-
ly to consumers without adequate
proof they are accurate or medi-
cally useful.
Respiragene has not been ap-
proved by the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, which usually does
not regulate such tests.
 ANDREW POLLACK
insufficient to pay tuition bills,”
said Amy Falls, who oversees the
endowment for Phillips Academy
in Andover, Mass. And attracting
gifts from alumni may get harder
if the downturn continues.
Lawrenceville has decided to
keep its financial aid budget flat
for now, and that means “some-
what fewer newcomers receive
aid next year,” the school’s
chief financial officer, Wesley R.
Brooks, said.
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movies
Part Bootstrap Drama, Part Gothic Tale of Adult Cruelty
Claireece Jones, the Harlem
teenager at the center of “Pre-
cious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’
by Sapphire,” lives in a world of
specific and overwhelming hor-
ror. She goes by her middle name,
Precious, which seems like a cru-
el taunt, since nearly everyone
around her thinks she’s worthless
and lets her know it.
Precious’ mother, Mary, played
with operatic fervor by the come-
dian Mo’Nique, dispenses a daily
ration of humiliation and abuse.
Precious, overweight and illiter-
ate — and played by an extraor-
dinarily poised first-time actress
named Gabourey Sidibe — has a
young daughter and is pregnant
for a second time. The father in
both cases, who is nowhere to be
seen, is Precious’ father too.
In Lee Daniels’ risky, remark-
able film adaptation, written by
Geoffrey Fletcher, the facts of
Precious’s life are laid out with
unsparing force (though not in
overly graphic detail). But just
as “Push” achieves an eloquence
that makes it more than a fictional
diary of extreme dysfunction,
so too does “Precious” avoid the
traps of well-meaning, preachy
lower-depths realism. It howls
and stammers, but it also sings.
Daniels allows splashes of fan-
tasy, daubs of humor and floods
of unabashed melodrama into the
drab landscape of Precious’ strug-
gle. Ugliness is all around her, but
beauty is there too.
There is something almost
reckless about this filmmaker’s
eclecticism, which extends from
the casting — pop stars and tele-
vision personalities alongside
trained and untrained actors — to
the visual textures and the sound-
track music. “Precious” is a hy-
brid, a mash-up that might have
been ungainly, but that manages
to be graceful instead. It’s partly
a bootstrap drama of resilience
and redemption, complete with a
hardworking teacher (Paula Pat-
ton) wrangling a classroom full of
disadvantaged girls.
It’s also the nearly Gothic story
Saturday, November 7, 2009
of a child tormented by the cruelty
of adults, as lurid as a Victorian
potboiler or a modern-day tell-all
memoir.
Above all “Precious” is un-
abashedly populist in its potent
emotional appeal and at the same
time determined to challenge its
audience’s complacency as only a
genuine work of art can.
Mary, brimming with rage,
thwarted love and plain mean-
ness, is a character bound to pro-
voke discomfort. Even otherwise
misogynistic hip-hop artists will
pay tribute to the heroism of Afri-
can-American mothers, and to see
that piety so thoroughly dispensed
with is downright shocking.
Other provocations are more
subtle but no less pointed. There
are virtually no men in this movie.
Precious’ father is glimpsed brief-
ly in flashbacks of his assaults on
her, and in fantasy sequences that
provide escape from her pain.
Precious’ cosmos, for better and
for worse, is a universe of women:
the social worker (Mariah Carey,
6
scrubbed of any vestige of diva-
hood); the teacher, Ms. Rain; her
co-worker in the remedial educa-
tion program, played by the co-
median and talk show host Sherri
Shepherd; and Precious’ fellow
students.
Inarticulate and emotionally
shut down, her massive body at
once a prison and a hiding place,
Precious is also perceptive and
shrewd, possessed of talents
visible only to those who bother
to look. At its plainest and most
persuasive, her story is that of a
writer discovering a voice. “These
people talked like TV stations I
didn’t even watch,” she remarks
of Ms. Rain and her lover (Kim-
berly Russell).
Sidibe, perhaps the least-known
member of this movie’s unusual
cast, is also the glue that holds it
together. Nimble and self-assured
as Daniels’ direction may be, he
could not make you believe in
“Precious” unless you were able
to believe in Precious herself. You
will. A.O. SCOTT
journal Saturday, November 7, 2009 7

At the Morgan Museum, the Jane Austen That Her Family Knew
Who would not wish for a close relation 8-year-old girl playfully deciphering these Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy.” Like Austen’s
like Aunt Jane? In early 1817, the year she good wishes. own voice, the show is exquisitely informa-
died, suffering, perhaps, from lymphoma and The difficulty comes, though, in imagining tive while being almost laconic, displaying a
beginning work on a novel she became too Austen herself. She was such a subtle reader wealth of material with careful explication,
ill to finish, Jane Austen wrote a letter to her of her characters’ manners, so knowing about yet allowing the viewer to tease the writer’s
8-year-old niece, Cassandra. their flaws and virtues, yet herself so opaque sensibility out of the objects on display.
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yppah wen raey.” ine her in the flesh. You have to read her the Morgan’s Literary and Historical Manu-
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ward, from that opening New Year’s wish companions, attending to subtle signs, man- lecting from the world’s largest institutional
to her dear Cassy to the signature, “Ruoy nerisms and language. collection of Austen manuscripts and letters.
Etanoitceffa Tnua, Enaj Netsua.” The author, And for anyone who has even begun to Early editions of the novels are here, of
here as elsewhere, does not condescend to take her measure, there may be no greater course, along with period books that influ-
her readers, but she also knows who they are pleasure than to visit the new exhibition at the enced Austen, including works by Samuel
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OPINION
editorials of the timeS
Investors Beware
Things turned Orwellian in the House Finan-
cial Services Committee this week when mem-
bers — with the backing of the White House —
passed an investor protection bill that would
make it all too easy for thousands of publicly
traded companies to cook their books.
While the bill offers investors important
protections — including imposing a fiduciary
duty on brokers who give investment advice
— an amendment was added to permanently
exempt smaller public companies (worth less
than $75 million) from a post-Enron auditing
requirement. It passed with votes from 28 of
the committee’s 29 Republicans (one was ab-
sent) and 9 Democrats. All clearly were more
interested in pleasing corporate constituents
than protecting investors.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed after the
Enron debacle, requires public companies
to have independent auditors attest to the ef-
fectiveness of their internal controls against
financial fraud. During the Bush years, the
regulation-averse S.E.C. routinely exempted
small public companies from the audit require-
ment, saying it was unduly burdensome. But
research shows that the law has succeeded in
reducing errors and fraud, a big plus for inves-
tors. And changes made in 2007 have made the
audits less onerous for business.
Age Bias Gets Second-Class Treatment
After working for a vending machine com-
pany for more than 20 years, James O’Connor
was replaced with someone younger. He sued.
He testified that his boss had disparaged older
workers, including saying — two weeks before
he was fired — “O’Connor, you are too damn
old for this kind of work.” A federal court was
unmoved, ruling in 1995 that he had not con-
nected the bigoted comments to his firing.
When two older supervisors at a light bulb
company were fired and sued, their claim of
age discrimination was denied. A federal ap-
peals court ruled in 1994 that the statement
by the company’s vice president that “there
comes a time when we have to make way for
younger people” was “irrelevant.” It was sim-
ply a “fact of life,” the court said.
Age discrimination is illegal. But when com-
pared with discrimination against racial mi-
norities and women, it is a second-class civil
rights issue. The Supreme Court drove its infe-
riority home again in June of this year, ruling
that older workers must show that age was the
decisive factor in their firing — not merely a
contributing factor, which can be enough for a
race or sex claim.
Congress is considering overturning the rul-
ing. It should do so. It is particularly important
in the current downturn, with age discrimina-
tion complaints soaring. But the problem is
larger than any one legal standard.
The nation has always treated age discrimi-
nation skeptically. In the early 1960s, many
employers had policies against hiring workers
For those reasons, the S.E.C.’s new chair-
woman, Mary Schapiro, announced in Sep-
tember that the exemption would end in June.
Unfortunately, the White House also appears
to be more attuned to the concerns of corporate
constituents than to the sensible S.E.C. chief.
When the legislation comes up for a full vote
in the House, members should strip it of this
destructive amendment that only entrenches
an antiregulatory policy of the Bush years.
We fear the problem — in Congress and with
the White House — doesn’t end with this one
bill.
While President Obama and Democratic
leaders say they are committed to more trans-
parency and regulation over derivatives — the
complex instruments that were at the heart of
the financial crisis — they are supporting a
dangerous exemption for big businesses in the
derivative reform bill pending in the House.
Another House bill to protect consumers of fi-
nancial products has concessions for big and
small banks alike. It appears that the adminis-
tration will support those concessions, too.
Obama and his aides have said repeatedly
that they are committed to closing the regula-
tory gaps that allowed the financial system to
spin so dangerously out of control. They need
to do a lot more.
over a certain age, and mandatory retirement
rules. Yet when Congress drafted the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, it was reluctant to include
age as a protected category. Instead, it direct-
ed labor secretary to study the matter.
President Johnson’s labor secretary, Wil-
lard Wirtz, reported that there was substantial
discrimination against older workers, and the
nation was needlessly denying older people
“opportunity for that useful activity which
constitutes much of life’s meaning.”
Bolstered by Wirtz’s report, in 1967 Congress
passed the Age Discrimination in Employment
Act. But the courts have repeatedly thrown up
barriers to age discrimination suits. In 1993,
in one of its most damaging rulings, the court
decided that if employers fire workers whose
pension costs or salaries are high, they are
not discriminating, even if the overwhelming
number of people fired are older workers.
There are several possible reasons that age
discrimination is not taken as seriously as
other biases. Many people also seem to agree
with the appeals court in the light bulb case:
that unlike racism, which is inherently wrong,
there is something natural about the old mak-
ing way for the young. Never mind that with
the Social Security retirement age rising, and
pensions disappearing, many older Americans
have no choice but to work.
To be rejected on account of age is clearly
unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should
take it more seriously than it does.
 ADAM COHEN
Saturday, November 7, 2009 8
bob herbert
Stress Beyond Belief
The authorities will deal with Nidal Malik
Hasan, who is accused of bringing mass mur-
der into a military base on U.S. soil. But the rest
of us need to look very closely at the stress be-
yond belief that is being endured by so many
other men and women in the armed forces —
men and women who are serving gallantly
and with dignity, who have not taken out their
frustrations on one another, and who deserve
better from the broader society.
Simply stated, we cannot continue sending
service members into combat for three tours,
four tours, five tours and more without paying
a horrendous price in terms of the psychologi-
cal well-being of the troops and their families,
and the overall readiness of the armed forces
to protect the nation.
None of this is the military’s fault. There
have not been nearly enough people willing to
serve in the armed forces to properly staff two
wars.
I spent some time on the West Coast recently
interviewing doctors and researchers study-
ing the enormous problem of troops returning
from Afghanistan and Iraq with some form of
mental health disorder, most commonly de-
pression and post-traumatic stress disorder,
or P.T.S.D. The caseloads are off the charts,
and very often the P.T.S.D. or depression (or
both) are accompanied by substance abuse,
problems with anger, domestic violence and
family breakdown.
These are not weak men and women we are
talking about. This is the toll that the horror of
combat, especially repeated doses of it, takes
on people.
“These invisible wounds of war are profound
and relatively common,” said Dr. Charles Mar-
mar, a psychiatrist and one of the nation’s
leading experts on stress-related disorders.
“Pound for pound, they may be more disabling
than physical wounds. People often don’t seek
treatment for P.T.S.D. or depression or psycho-
sis, and they are very disabling without proper
treatment.”
A small sliver of the U.S. population has car-
ried the burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghan-
istan, mostly without complaint, for years. It’s
time to reassess what we’re doing to them.
By the end of last summer, the Army was
reporting the highest tallies of soldier suicides
since accurate record-keeping began. We’re
getting saturation media coverage of Thurs-
day’s outburst of horror at Fort Hood, but we
haven’t heard a lot about the scores of suicides
at that same base since the invasion of Iraq.
If we’re going to fight wars as a nation, then
we need to draw our warriors from a wider
swath of the population and give them the full
and complete support that they need and de-
serve. We’ll no doubt be analyzing the twisted
psychological state of Nidal Malik Hasan ev-
ery which way from sundown. But we’ll con-
tinue to give short shrift to the daily struggles
and frequent horrors of the honorable men and
women who have taken on the thankless task
of fighting our wars.
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Marriage Proposals and Ubiquitous Pinstripes In Brief

The Yankees took one last ride
together to celebrate their cham-
pionship. It was a slow, joyous
journey up Broadway, an outdoor
party attended by hundreds of
thousands of their closest friends.
For the first time in nine years, the
Yankees and their fans could brag
about being the best.
The fans offered marriage pro-
posals to players, suggested that
the Yankees re-sign Hideki Matsui
and shouted about the importance
of repeating as champions.
“Let’s see — we had to get up at
6:30,” Nick Swisher said. “It’s not
hard to wake up if you know some-
one is going to be cheering for you
all day.”
The cheering almost never qui-
eted, starting when the Yankees
exited buses to climb onto the pa-
rade floats and continuing as they
left a ceremony at City Hall clutch-
ing keys to the city. Derek Jeter
waved to so many people that he
stopped feeling like a shortstop
and started feeling like someone
with a more important job.
“You feel,” Jeter said, “like
you’re the president, waving.”
Naturally, all the Yankees, from
the parade veterans like Jeter,
Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and
Mariano Rivera, to the parade neo-
phytes like Swisher, Alex Rodri-
guez, C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett
and Mark Teixeira, raved about
being honored in distinctly New
York fashion. There were so many
fans huddled in Yankee jerseys
that the sidewalks transformed
from concrete to pinstriped.
Swisher eyed so much paper fly-
ing out of office windows that he
said, “It looked like it was snow-
ing.” Rodriguez explained how the
“incredible” display led him to re-
flect on a season that began tumul-
tuously and climaxed with his first
title. Sabathia joked that he should
have invited LeBron James, who
was in town with the Cleveland
Cavaliers and is coveted by the
Knicks. James, a smiling Sabathia
said, could have witnessed what it
is like to win it all in New York.
As the players exchanged an-
ecdotes about the best moments
from a day they will long cherish,
Teixeira, the always serious first
baseman, made a revealing com-
ment. “We were brought here to
do this,” he said, referring to the
$423.5 million the Yankees invest-
ed to to sign Sabathia, Teixeira
and Burnett as free agents.
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The Yankees and their fans
celebrate in New York.
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Meyer Fined
Urban Meyer of Florida be-
came the first coach to be dis-
ciplined under the Southeast-
ern Conference’s new policy on
criticizing officials. The league
fined Meyer $30,000 on Friday,
for saying referees missed a
late hit against quarterback
Tim Tebow in No. 1 Florida’s
41-17 win against Georgia. (AP)
Nets Off to 0-6 Start
Andre Iguodala scored 16
points, and the 76ers rallied past
the Nets, 97-94, on Friday night.
The Nets fell to 0-6, their worst
start in franchise history. The
Nets were without six players
because of injuries (AP)
NHL scores
THURSDAY’S LATE GAMES

Ingram Keeps the Heisman Talk at Arm’s Length

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The con-
jecture that surrounds the Heis-
man Trophy has found its way to
Mark Ingram, sophomore run-
ning back at Alabama, and all the
hypothesizing embarrasses him.
He wants to avoid it as much as
he wants to avoid talking about
the long prison sentence facing his
father, the former Giants receiver,
also named Mark Ingram.
“Little Mark,” as he was known
by his family growing up around
Flint, Mich., recently called his
maternal grandfather, Art John-
son, who was a running back at
Michigan State in the late 1950s,
and asked him how to stiff-arm the
talk about the Heisman, college
football’s top individual award.
“He told me, ‘Grandpa, I’m just a
sophomore, there are better play-
ers on this team, this shouldn’t be
happening,’ ” Johnson recalled.
“He said he just wants to win a
championship.”
Johnson said he reminded In-
gram of their talks when Ingram
was younger. The family, Johnson
said, preached that nothing good
came from self-promotion, and
that it was right not to be enchant-
ed with the Heisman speculation.
“Alabama told us they were not
going to promote him for the Heis-
man,” Johnson said. “I said: ‘You
think that is going to hurt our feel-
ings?’ That’s not what we’re about
Rangers 4, Edmonton 2
Anaheim 4, Nashville 0
Los Angeles 5, Pittsburgh 2
FRIDAY
in this family.’ ” Devils 2, Islanders 1
The same message came from Toronto 3, Carolina 2
the jail cell in Queens where his Washington 4, Florida 1
father is being held before his Philadelphia 5, Buffalo 2
sentencing Nov. 20 on a charge of Dallas 2, Vancouver 1
Chicago at Colorado, 9
failure to surrender, which will be
tacked on to a previous 92-month
sentence for money laundering nBA scores
and bank fraud. THURSDAY’S LATE GAME
“My father told me to stay hum- Utah 113, San Antonio 99
ble, get better,” Ingram said qui- FRIDAY
Orlando 110, Detroit 103
etly of a recent phone call. Indiana 102, Washington 86
A circle formed around Ingram Philadelphia 97, Nets 94
long before his father went to jail, Charlotte 103, Atlanta 83
his cushion from life’s blows. It Phoenix 110, Boston 103
includes his mother, Shonda; his Miami 96, Denver 88
Milwaukee 87, Minnesota 72
grandparents; his aunts; and his Toronto 107, New Orleans 90
sisters, who are 15, 11, and 9. Cleveland 100, Knicks 91
 RAY GLIER Houston 105, Oklahoma City 94

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Amid Yankee Celebrations, Cashman Reflects
Brian Cashman urged all the
Yankees to enjoy the ticker-tape
parade through Lower Manhat-
tan on Friday morning.
The players earned it; they had 11-year-old daughter, Grace, so
every right to feel the Sports
love from the crowds in
Of
the narrow streets. This
was their hour.
The Times
Cashman, the Yan- George
kees’ general manager,
Vecsey
has known champion-
ships — three of them in a row
from 1998 through 2000. He is no
longer so young, all of 42, and
he knows how much luck goes
into a championship, even for a
team with the biggest payroll in
baseball.
Cashman praised his manager,
Joe Girardi, for taking a cue from
Giants Coach Tom Coughlin, who
ratcheted up his personality and
promptly won the Super Bowl in
2008.
“This might be the last time
they are all together,” Cashman
said in a reflective mood on
Thursday, not that many hours
after the Yankees defeated the
Phillies to clinch their 27th cham-
pionship.
He was anticipating the way
the players would be shuttled
slowly through the canyons, in a
paper blizzard in bright sunshine,
almost as close as they were
in the mosh pit on the mound
A Sign, Perhaps, in Filly’s Win at the Breeder’s Cup
ARCADIA, Calif. — Horseplay-
ers ignore omens at their own risk.
And the ones who had been on the
fence about the chances of the
tough old mare Zenyatta beating
a stout field of boys on Saturday in
the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Clas-
sic shivered with goose bumps on
Friday when Life Is Sweet rolled
off the final turn, squared her pow-
erful shoulders and took aim at the
finish line.
Life Is Sweet knows Zenyatta
well. They are both trained by
John Shirreffs, and Life Is Sweet
chased Zenyatta home in three
races this year. There is no shame
in that: Zenyatta has never been
beaten in 13 races.
So there was a certain amount
of karmic justice when Life Is
Sweet rolled into the stretch of the
$2 million Ladies’ Classic at Santa
Anita Park and had the lane —
and the glory — all to herself. She
blew by Cocoa Beach, Lethal Heat
and Proviso for a two-and-a-half-
Wednesday night.
Cashman never made it to the
dais around second base. He
did not want to lose sight of his
they stood below and
watched all the Yankees
players fill the dais.
Then he took Thurs-
day off. Never got south
of the Connecticut-New
York border. He took
Grace and Teddy, 6, to school.
Went out for lunch at Subway.
And in his quiet way celebrated
the first championship since 2000.
Cashman was introduced
briefly as the architect of the
team and, along with everybody
else in the entourage, received
a key to the city, in honor of the
Brian Cashman, center, at City
length victory.
“She’s had some tough races,”
said her jockey, Garrett Gomez,
who was aboard Life Is Sweet for
those discouraging defeats at the
hands of Zenyatta, as well as a
hard race against the boys in the
Hollywood Gold Cup. “Her cam-
paign this summer was very dif-
ficult. When you run some tough
races like she did, it will take
something out of you.”
How much does Zenyatta have
left after two years of perfection?
We will know at dusk on Saturday
when she steps on the racetrack
and looks a pretty good bunch of
racehorses in the eye. Zenyatta is
a big girl — in fact, she will dwarf
most of the field. She is a power-
ful horse that picks up speed the
way a massive boulder does when
it plummets downhill.
What will be different for Ze-
nyatta in the Classic is that when
she launches her late run, she is
going to have company. Gio Ponti,
Saturday, November 7, 2009
27th championship. “They are all
special,” he said, recalling how he
could see the excellence of 1998
coming. Then came the romp
over the Braves in 1999. And he
called the five-game conquest
in 2000 of the Mets “the best of
them” because it was “a battle for
the city” that he and the Boss did
not want to lose.
Then came the dry years. They
stayed with Cashman on Thurs-
day — how the great Mariano
Rivera could not hold Arizona in
2001; how the Yankees had a lead
against Florida in the 2003 Se-
ries; how the 3-0 lead against the
Red Sox in 2004 got away. He has
held his job in an organization not
known for its patience. And now
he was heading for a parade.
POOL PHOTO BY MICHAEL APPLETON
Hall in New York.
Rip Van Winkle, Einstein, Twice
Over will be right there with her.
Jon White, the oddsmaker here,
has made Zenyatta the 5-2 Classic
favorite. Some of the competition
is even rooting for her.
“I wouldn’t mind getting beat
by Zenyatta,” said the Hall of
Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who
has a pretty good horse in the field
in Richard’s Kid.
“She’s been nothing but classy,
and she’s already done tons for the
sport. It would be a proper corona-
tion for a great mare.”
Zenyatta’s regular exercise rid-
er, Steve Willard, knows she will
be tested by the boys and by the
distance; it is her first mile-and-a-
quarter race.
“She’s going to have to have her
A game and be lucky, too,” Willard
said. “I think the distance will be
right down her alley, but there
are five or six real good horses in
there and no slouches.”
 JOE DRAPE
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n.h.l. standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 12 4 0 24 54 39
Rangers 10 6 1 21 55 45
Devils 10 4 0 20 36 31
Phila. 8 4 1 17 50 36
Islanders 5 6 5 15 38 47
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Buffalo 9 3 1 19 38 29
Ottawa 7 4 2 16 40 39
Montreal 8 8 0 16 44 51
Boston 6 7 2 14 34 39
Toronto 2 7 5 9 34 54
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Wash. 9 3 4 22 58 48
Tampa 5 4 5 15 36 46
Atlanta 6 5 1 13 42 37
Florida 5 8 1 11 36 48
Carolina 2 10 3 7 30 56
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Columbus 8 5 2 18 48 52
Chicago 8 5 1 17 40 34
Detroit 7 4 3 17 42 43
Nashville 6 7 1 13 28 42
St. Louis 5 6 2 12 30 35
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Colorado 11 3 2 24 49 35
Vancou. 10 7 0 20 51 44
Calgary 9 4 1 19 49 42
Edmonton 7 8 1 15 47 50
Minnesota 5 10 0 10 33 47
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
San Jose 11 4 2 24 56 42
L.A. 10 4 2 22 56 47
Phoenix 10 6 0 20 42 35
Dallas 6 3 6 18 50 48
Anaheim 5 7 2 12 41 46
Colts’ Injuries
Indianapolis Colts cornerback
Marlin Jackson and strong safe-
ty Bob Sanders were placed on
injured reserve on Friday.
Coach Jim Caldwell added
that the team’s other veteran
cornerback, Kelvin Hayden,
would be out three to four weeks
with a sprained knee. They rep-
resent significant losses for a
defense that leads the league in
fewest points allowed.
“The thing about it, though,
we’ve had young people step up
and do a great job in their ab-
sence,” Caldwell said. “We’ll
continue on that path.”
Jackson, who missed the sec-
ond half of the 2008 season after
injuring his right knee during
practice, sustained injury to his
left knee during a noncontact
drill on Wednesday.
Sanders, a two-time Pro
Bowler, tore his left biceps
against the 49ers and will need
surgery. Sanders has missed 40
of 87 career games.  (AP)