F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Sunday, January 31, 2010
As the G.O.P.
Hits It Stride,
Pitfalls Await
HONOLULU — Republican lead-
ers burst into applause here the other
day as their luncheon speaker, Gov.
Linda Lingle of Hawaii, shared the
latest analysis by a Washington Con-
gressional handicapper: The way
things are heading, she read, “you
can count on the Democratic major-
ity in the House being toast this fall.”
But as the Republican National
Committee ended its winter meet-
ing here on Saturday, party leaders,
if jubilant over a string of election
victories and declining support for
President Obama, were also ques-
tioning whether they could take full
advantage of the opening Demo-
crats had handed them.
At a moment of what appears to
be great if unexpected opportunity,
the Republican Party continues to
struggle with disputes over ideolo-
gy and tactics, as well as what party
leaders say is an absence of strong
figures to lead it back to power, from
the party chairman to prospective
presidential candidates.
From a sunny perch 5,000 miles
from chilly Washington, the party
leaders watched Republican mem-
bers of Congress try to keep their
balance as Obama sought to reclaim
the mantle of reasonable bipartisan-
ship in his State of the Union address
on Wednesday night and his remark-
able public debate in Baltimore with
House members on Friday.
At stake, they knew, was the heart
of the strategy they had pursued
for the last year and had intended
to carry into the midterm elections:
remaining unified to block the White
House at every turn, rallying the con-
servative base but leaving Republi-
cans vulnerable to being portrayed
as the obstructionist party of no.
“We have the wind at our back,”
said Katon Dawson, the former
chairman of the South Carolina Re-
publican Party. “We just have to find
our momentum.”
Over all, the Republican victory in
the Massachusetts Senate race was
a boost to party spirits and an oppor-
tunity to press the case that Obama
had fundamentally misread the elec-
torate.  ADAM NAGOURNEY
from the pages of
U.S. Building Up Missile Defenses
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration is accelerating
the deployment of new defenses
against possible Iranian missile
attacks in the Persian Gulf, plac-
ing special ships off the Iranian
coast and antimissile systems in
at least four Arab countries, ac-
cording to administration and
military officials.
The deployments come at a
critical turning point in Presi-
dent Obama’s dealings with Iran.
He is warning that his diplomatic
outreach will now be combined
with the “consequences,” as he
put it in the State of the Union ad-
dress, of the country’s continued
defiance on its nuclear program.
The administration is trying to
win broad international consen-
sus for sanctions against the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards
Corps, which Western nations
say controls the military side of
the nuclear program.
As part of that effort, Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
publicly warned China on Friday
that its opposition to sanctions
was shortsighted.
The news that the United
States is deploying antimissile
defenses — including a rare pub-
lic discussion of them by Gen.
David H. Petraeus — appears to
be part of a coordinated adminis-
China Leading Race to Make Clean Energy
TIANJIN, China — China
vaulted past competitors in Den-
mark, Germany, Spain and the
United States last year to become
the world’s largest maker of wind
turbines, and is poised to expand
even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged
the West in the last two years to
emerge as the world’s largest
manufacturer of solar panels.
And the country is pushing equal-
ly hard to build nuclear reactors
and the most efficient types of
coal power plants.
These efforts to dominate the
global manufacture of renew-
able energy technologies raise
the prospect that the West may
someday trade its dependence on
oil from the Mideast for a reliance
on solar panels, wind turbines
8 p.m. in New York © 2010 The New York Times
tration strategy to increase pres-
sure on Iran.
The deployments are also part-
ly intended to counter the impres-
sion that Iran is fast becoming
the most powerful military force
in the Middle East and to fore-
stall any Iranian escalation of its
confrontation with the West if a
new set of sanctions is imposed.
In addition, the administration is
trying to show Israel that there is
no immediate need for military
strikes against Iranian nuclear
and missile facilities, according
to administration officials, all of
whom requested anonymity.
By highlighting the defensive
nature of the buildup the admin-
istration was hoping to avoid a
sharp response from Tehran.
Military officials said that
the countries that accepted the
antimissile weapons were Qa-
tar, the United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain and Kuwait. They said
the Kuwaitis had agreed to take
additional defensive weapons to
supplement older, less capable
models it fielded years ago, while
it awaits delivery of an upgraded
system that it is seeking from
the Raytheon Co.. Saudi Arabia
and Israel have long had similar
equipment of their own.
Petraeus has declined to say
who was taking the American
and other gear manufactured in
China.
“Most of the energy equipment
will carry a brass plate, ‘Made in
China,’ ” said K.K. Chan, the chief
executive of Nature Elements
Capital, a private equity fund in
Beijing that focuses on renew-
able energy.
President Obama, in his state
of the union speech last week,
sounded an alarm that the United
States was falling behind other
countries, especially China, on
energy. “I do not accept a future
where the jobs and industries of
tomorrow take root beyond our
borders — and I know you don’t
either,” he told Congress.
The United States and other
countries are offering incentives
to develop their own renewable
equipment, probably because
many countries in the gulf are
hesitant to be publicly identified
as accepting American military
aid and the troops that come with
it. In fact, the names of countries
where the antimissile systems
are deployed are classified, but
many of them are an open se-
cret.
Petraeus spoke about the de-
ployments at a conference at the
Institute for the Study of War
here on Jan. 22, saying that “Iran
is clearly seen as a very serious
threat by those on the other side
of the gulf front, and indeed, it has
been a catalyst for the implemen-
tation of the architecture that we
envision and have now been try-
ing to implement.”
As described by administra-
tion officials, the moves have
several motives. “Our first goal
is to deter the Iranians,” said one
senior administration official, in-
sisting on anonymity because the
White House declined to answer
any questions about the rationale
behind the buildup. “A second is
to reassure the Arab states, so
they don’t feel they have to go
nuclear themselves. But there is
certainly an element of calming
the Israelis as well.”
 DAVID E. SANGER
 and ERIC SCHMITT
energy industries, and Obama
called for redoubling American
efforts. Yet many Western and
Chinese executives expect China
to prevail in the energy-technol-
ogy race.
Multinational corporations are
responding to the rapid growth
of China’s market by building
big, state-of-the-art factories in
China.
Renewable energy industries
here are adding jobs rapidly,
reaching 1.12 million in 2008. Yet
renewable energy may be doing
more for China’s economy than
for the environment. Total power
generation in China is on track to
pass the United States in 2012 —
and most of the added capacity
will still be from coal.
 KEITH BRADSHER
International Sunday, January 31, 2010 2

U.N. Retools Leaders in Davos Weigh Ways to Regain Trust

Haiti Food
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Af-
ter two weeks of often chaotic food
distribution, the United Nations
announced plans on Saturday for
a coupon-based system that aims
to give rice to 10,000 Haitians a
day at each of 16 locations around
Port-au-Prince.
The new program — with the
first coupons delivered Saturday,
and food to be distributed Sunday
— ends what officials described as
the “quick and dirty” initial phase
of emergency response, but it is al-
so an admission of what Haitians
were saying for days: that the
system failed to reach those who
needed it and was often exploited
by those it did reach.
Food giveaways, which began
with little trouble after the earth-
quake, have devolved into blood
sport as day after day, trucks ran
out of food before long lines of peo-
ple were served. In a few cases,
aid workers protected by only a
few police officers were overrun
by thousands of Haitians, as men
with muscular arms stampeded
children and reached beyond bar-
riers to grab what they could.
In other cases, U.N. troops have
resorted to tear gas and warning
shots, followed by a quick escape
before they could hand out all of
the food.
Marcus Prior, a spokesman for
the U.N. World Food Program,
said the new effort aimed to bring
distribution back under control.
“It’s a unique response to a unique
situation,” he told reporters at a
news conference here in the capi-
tal. “We need to stabilize the food
supply.”  DAMIEN CAVE
DAVOS, Switzerland — If there
was one takeaway from the an-
nual gathering of business and
political leaders in Davos this
year, it was this: trust in govern-
ments, corporations and above all
banks has become as elusive as
sure footing on the icy streets of
this Alpine resort.
There was general relief that the
financial system had been pulled
back from the abyss glimpsed by
many speakers at Davos a year
ago. As the chairman of the Brit-
ish bank HSBC, Stephen K. Green,
put it, “We’re in a better place than
we were then” although “there has
been a huge breakdown in trust.”
Over the first four days of most-
ly closed-door meetings at the
World Economic Forum, bankers,
central bankers and politicians
reached no consensus on the best
way forward to regulate markets
or banks. Like many bankers,
Green acknowledged “political
initiatives on both sides of the At-
lantic,” but was not ready to cede
the terrain to politicians. “It is
very important,” he said, “that we
don’t throw the baby out with the
bathwater.”
Members of the financial ser-
vices industry seemed ruefully
aware of how far they had sunk
in public regard. Commenting
on whether private equity com-
panies would support an Obama
administration proposal on bank
regulation, David M. Rubenstein,
managing director of the buyout
firm Carlyle Group, quipped, “Our
position is unsure because we’re
afraid if we come out in favor, it
won’t pass.”
Perhaps the billionaire investor
and philanthropist George Soros
summed up the ambivalence most
succinctly. “You want to keep reg-
ulation to a minimum,” he said,
“because it is worse than markets.
But you can’t do without it.”
And so, from President Nico-
las Sarkozy of France, who urged
creation of a new international
monetary system and even a new
reserve currency to replace the
dollar, to angry representatives
from trade unions, to the white
businessmen in suits who still
dominate this snow-kissed gath-
ering, the one certainty seemed to
be continued uncertainty.
Many influential participants
said that the financial crisis, res-
cue and search for solutions that
the world had experienced in
the last three years were with-
out precedent. That complicates
the search for solutions — how
do we define when we are out of
the mess? — and, in the West, in-
creases pressure on politicians
like President Obama to ease the
widespread pain.
Obama’s recent blasts at Wall
Street, coupled with a State of the
Union address focused on Main
Street and jobs, provided a back-
drop to the discussions here. The
only senior administration offi-
cial in attendance, Obama’s chief
economic adviser, Lawrence H.
Summers, evoked one reason
for Obama’s priorities before a
packed audience on Saturday, not-
ing that, in the United States, one
in five men aged 25 to 54 is now
jobless.
Although the U.S. economy
grew strongly in the last quarter
of 2009, persistent unemployment
has created a situation he de-
scribed as “a statistical recovery
and a human recession.”
It is “reasonable” to expect that
to decline to one in seven or eight
as the economy recovers, he said.
But it is far from the 95 percent
employment of American men
that age in the mid-1960s.
Contrast that with the buoyant
presentation, in the same discus-
sion, by Zhu Min, deputy gover-
nor of the People’s Bank of China.
“China had a good year,” Zhu
opened, before rattling off statis-
tics that boggle even economists’
minds: for instance, a 200-million
ton overcapacity in steel produc-
tion, roughly equal to the 198 mil-
lion tons produced in the 27-nation
European Union in 2008.
The Chinese delegation this
year, the biggest in 40 years of the
Davos gathering, was led by Li
Keqiang, the vice premier widely
tipped to be the next prime min-
ister. Their appearance exuded
much more confidence than even
two years ago, a reflection of what
many participants here said was a
clear shift of power east, particu-
larly to China.
The effect of that shift, and
whether it will lead to cooperation
or confrontation, concerns policy
makers in the West, particularly
the United States. China suggest-
ed that trust might be the answer
here, too.
“Between Chinese people and
American and Western people, we
lack mutual understanding,” said
Cheng Siwei, a former Chinese
politician and a co-chairman of
the International Finance Forum,
a Beijing-based think tank. The
only way to “keep this relation-
ship stable,” he said, is “to build
mutual trust.”  ALISON SMALE

Missile Strike Kills 15
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Three missiles
believed to have been fired from Ameri-
can drones killed 15 militants in North Wa-
ziristan late Friday night, Pakistani securi-
ty officials said Saturday. The target of the
strike was a compound in the Mamad Khel
area of North Waziristan, the officials said.
Four Arab and two ethnic Uzbek fighters
were among those killed, with the rest being
local militants, a security official said. Four
militants were wounded.  (NYT)
Taliban Deny Meeting
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s
In Brief
leaders on Saturday denounced reports
that their representatives had met with a
senior U.N.official to discuss the possibility
of face-to-face peace talks with the Afghan
government. In a statement sent to report-
ers, the Taliban leadership council called
reports that its people had met with Kai
Eide, the United Nations’ representative
here, “futile and baseless.” “The leadership
council once again emphasizes the continu-
ation of the Islamic jihad against all invad-
ers,” the statement said. The Taliban state-
ment followed reports by American and
U.N. officials that a group of men repre-
senting the Taliban had met Eide at an un-
disclosed location this month. The purpose
of the meeting, the officials said, was to dis-
cuss the possibility of opening peace talks
between the guerrilla group and the Afghan
government.  (NYT)
Call for Rally in Iran
The two main opposition leaders in Iran
called on their supporters on Saturday to
take part in a demonstration on Feb. 11, the
anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Kar-
roubi, the opposition leaders, urged support-
ers to participate in the rally next month,
the opposition Jaras Web site reported. Pro-
testors have hijacked public events to stage
antigovernment rallies since the disputed
June 12 elections.  (NYT)
national
Activists Go From High Jinks to Handcuffs
James O’Keefe III, the guerrilla
videographer, advised conserva-
tive students this month that they
needed to start taking more risks.
“The more you put yourself out
there and you take those calcu-
lated risks,” he told the Web site
CampusReform.org, which works
to foster conservative activism on
college campuses, “you’re actu-
ally going to get opportunities.”
Just days later, O’Keefe, 25,
took his own advice, but did not
get quite the opportunity he ex-
pected.
He and three other men — in-
cluding a 24-year-old associate, Jo-
seph Basel, who was interviewed
alongside O’Keefe by the Web
site — were arrested and charged
with a federal felony, accused of
seeking to tamper with the office
telephone system of Sen. Mary
L. Landrieu. Two of them were
impersonating repairmen in the
senator’s New Orleans office and
were caught after being asked for
identification.
O’Keefe said Friday that the
Obama to Submit $3.8 Trillion Budget Request
WASHINGTON — President
Obama will send a $3.8 trillion
budget to Congress on Monday
for the coming fiscal year that
would increase financing for edu-
cation and for civilian research
programs by more than 6 percent
and provide $25 billion for cash-
starved states, even as he seeks to
freeze much domestic spending
for the rest of his term.
The budget for the 2011 fiscal
year, which begins in October,
will identify the winners and los-
ers behind Obama’s proposal for
a three-year freeze of a portion of
the budget. Many programs at the
National Institutes of Health, the
National Science Foundation and
Northeastern Republicans Envision a Comeback
WASHINGTON — The North-
eastern Republican was nearly
driven to extinction by political
climate change, but the species ap-
pears poised to make a comeback.
The successful run of Scott
Brown in the Senate race in Mas-
sachusetts, coupled with the front-
runner status of Rep. Michael N.
Castle in Delaware in his bid for the
Senate and other strong candida-
cies, could bode well for Republi-
cans in a region that has been shed-
four men had been trying to de-
termine whether Landrieu was
avoiding constituent complaints
about the Senate health care
bill after her phone system was
jammed in December. (Her office
said no calls had been intention-
ally avoided.) On reflection, he
said in a statement, “I could have
used a different approach to this
investigation.”
But that approach was precisely
the kind that he and others have
been perfecting for years, a kind
of gonzo journalism or a conserva-
tive version of “Candid Camera.”
Those methods took root on col-
lege campuses in the latter half of
George W. Bush’s presidency, fos-
tered by a group of men and wom-
en in their late teens and early 20s
with a taste for showmanship and
a shared sense of political alien-
ation — a sort of political reverse
image of the left-wing Yippies of
the 1960s. They studied leftist ac-
tivism of years past as their pro-
totype
O’Keefe made his biggest na-
the Energy Department are in line
for increases, along with the Cen-
sus Bureau.
Among the losers would be
some public works projects of
the Army Corps of Engineers and
NASA’s mission to return to the
Moon, which would be ended as
the administration seeks to reori-
ent the space program to use pri-
vate companies for launchings.
The president will propose an ad-
ditional $10 billion in savings else-
where in the budget.
Exempted from the cuts, howev-
er, are national security, veterans
programs, Medicare, Medicaid
and Social Security — the most ex-
pensive and fastest-growing areas
ding them because of a sense that
the party had grown too conserva-
tive and focused on the South.
In the House, no New England
state is represented by a Repub-
lican, and neighboring New York
is down to two. The Senate’s two
moderate Republicans, Susan
Collins and Olympia J. Snowe of
Maine, say they would certainly
welcome the company.
“I love the irony that it is Mas-
sachusetts that has come to the
Sunday, January 31, 2010
tional splash last year when he
dressed up as a pimp and trained
his secret camera on counselors
with the liberal community group
Acorn — eliciting advice on fi-
nancing a brothel on videos that
would threaten to become Acorn’s
undoing.
He quickly became a cult hero
among young conservatives who
saw his work as path-breaking
and sought to emulate him.
Liberals have denounced his
methods as dishonest, a form of
entrapment, but national Repub-
lican leaders seized on them as
revelatory, pressuring Congress
into cutting Acorn’s financing.
Although he may be the most
public face of this new approach,
he is just one of a group of young
conservatives who use political
pranks and embarrassing record-
ings to upend what they view as
overwhelming liberal biases on
college campuses and in the cul-
ture at large.
 JIM RUTENBERG and
 CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
of the budget. By filling in the de-
tails behind the freeze, the admin-
istration hopes to show critics that
it used a scalpel rather than an ax
to keep spending for the targeted
domestic agencies to $447 billion
annually through 2013, saving $10
billion in the coming fiscal year.
The three-year freeze would
save $250 billion over the com-
ing decade, assuming the over-
all spending on the domestic
programs is permitted to rise no
more than the inflation rate for the
remainder of the decade — an aus-
terity that neither party has ever
achieved in Washington.
 JACKIE CALMES
 and ROBERT PEAR
rescue of the Republican Party,”
said Collins, referring to how the
election of Brown from the deep-
blue Bay State is energizing her
party and raising the spirits of
candidates who now know it is
possible for Republicans to win
even in Democratic strongholds.
Republicans see Brown’s win —
and an earlier victory in the New
Jersey governor’s race — as evi-
dence that independents are mov-
ing back their way.  (NYT)
3
In Brief
Gay Rights in Utah
Utah lawmakers will not con-
sider a law that would ban dis-
crimination against gay men
and lesbians in the workplace
and in housing, and will instead
spend the next year studying
the issue, key lawmakers said
Friday. In exchange, opponents
of gay-rights legislation will
drop any effort to prevent local
governments from passing their
own nondiscrimination laws this
legislative session. Gay-rights
advocates had hoped to build
on recent momentum created
by the Salt Lake City Council,
which passed nondiscrimina-
tion ordinances last year. Those
ordinances passed after The
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints said it would sup-
port the measures. (AP)
Arizona Gun Laws
Arizona’s permissive gun
laws gained national attention
last year when a man openly
carried an AR-15 rifle to a pro-
test outside a speech by Presi-
dent Obama. Now, gun rights
advocates are hoping for even
fewer restrictions on where
they can have a firearm. Among
their top goals is to make Ari-
zona the third state where it is
legal to carry a concealed weap-
on without a permit. Bills in the
House and the Senate would also
eliminate background checks
and training classes for people
to carry hidden guns. “That’s
sheer insanity,” said M. Kris-
ten Rand, legislative director
for the Violence Policy Center.
“If you remove the background
check requirement, you’re lit-
erally writing a death sentence
for law enforcement officers,
family members, just people in
the street.” But supporters say
criminals will carry concealed
weapons regardless of the law,
so gun restrictions affect only
law-abiding citizens.  (AP)
Judi Chamberlin, 65
Judi Chamberlin, whose invol-
untary confinement in a men-
tal hospital in the 1960s pro-
pelled her into a leading role in
the movement to guarantee ba-
sic human rights to psychiatric
patients, died on Jan. 16 at her
home in Arlington, Mass. She
was 65.  (NYT)
business 
Altria Weighs In on New F.D.A. Regulations
For years, Altria, home to Philip
Morris and its popular Marlboro
cigarette brand, was a corporate
pariah blamed for the deaths of
millions of people and sued for
hundreds of billions of dollars by
attorneys general in every state.
After eventually acknowledg-
ing that cigarette smoking was,
indeed, addictive and caused
disease, Altria began supporting
legislation that would ultimately
put the company under the regu-
latory thumb of the Food and
Drug Administration.
Did the company and its execu-
tives suddenly embrace a true
partnership on public health?
Or, as its longtime foes and com-
petitors have argued, was Altria
seeking to generate good P.R. or
lock in its market dominance by
cozying up to a regulator that
could restrict rivals?
Where They Go When the Banks Say No
In the glory days of the digital
photo frame business, when his
products were still a novelty and
shoppers were flush with cash,
getting a bank loan to manufac-
ture them was a cinch, Michael
Levy says.
“We would say: ‘We got a $1
million order from the Sharper
Image. We need financing. With a
snap of the fingers, the guy drove
down to my office, we’d sign a doc-
ument, he’d give us the money,”
Levy recalls, sitting in the Deer
Park, Long Island, office of the
Media Street Group that he runs
with his brother, Norm.
But like many other business
owners, Levy saw his prospects
change drastically in 2008 as the
financial crisis unfolded. The
Sharper Image and several other
Recharging Your Electronics, Mother Nature’s Way
A new solar cell that imitates
Mother Nature’s way of convert-
ing sunlight to energy is making
its debut in a variety of consumer
products.
The technology uses a photo-
sensitive dye to start its energy
production, much the way leaves
use chlorophyll to begin photo-
synthesis.
The dye-sensitized cells will be
used to provide power for devices
ranging from e-book readers to
cellphones — and will take some
interesting forms. For e-book
Another possible answer was
highlighted this month, as the
federal government began fine-
tuning aspects of a law that gives
the government sweeping new
powers to regulate the produc-
tion and marketing of tobacco
products.
A series of letters that Altria
submitted to the F.D.A. argues
that the government should, ef-
fectively, sign off on the notion
that smokeless tobacco products
are less harmful than cigarettes
— and that Altria and other com-
panies should be allowed to mar-
ket them as such to consumers.
It is a pivotal and divisive claim.
While public health doctors agree
that the smokeless products are
far less hazardous to individuals
than cigarettes, they still have
concerns because all tobacco
products contain nicotine and
top customers filed for bankrupt-
cy, and Levy found himself scram-
bling to keep the business afloat.
His longtime bank wanted noth-
ing to do with his company, Levy
says, and several other banks
spurned his loan requests, too.
After a year of hand-wringing, he
found an unconventional lender
that was still making loans — lots
of them.
It’s called Hartsko Financial
Services, and it provides short-
term credit to small and midsize
companies that sell everything
from olive oil to women’s san-
dals. In the last year or so, com-
panies have been beating a path
to Hartsko, and to other busi-
nesses like it — even if the loans
are vastly more expensive than
traditional ones from banks.
readers, for example, the cells
may be found in thin, flexible
panels stitched into the reader’s
cover. But such panels will also be
housed in new lines of backpacks
and sports bags, where they can
recharge devices like cellphones
and music players.
The technology, long in develop-
ment, will work best in full, direct
sunshine, said Dr. Michael Grät-
zel, a chemist and professor at the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne in Switzerland. But the
cells will also make good use of
Sunday, January 31, 2010
carcinogens. They also contend
that promoting smokeless prod-
ucts — some in tiny packages
in the shape of cigarette packs
— would attract new, perhaps
younger customers and maintain
the addiction for smokers who
might otherwise quit.
“If you look at how they’re mar-
keting smokeless now, they’re
marketing for dual use, and to
protect the cigarette market,
which is their big money maker,”
says Stanton A. Glantz, a profes-
sor of cardiology and a specialist
in tobacco research at the Univer-
sity of California, San Francisco.
An Altria spokesman said com-
pany executives declined to com-
ment because “we don’t want to
be perceived as leading the dis-
cussion” on the regulatory front.
 DUFF WILSON
 and JULIE CRESWELL
Richard Eitelberg, Hartsko’s
founder and president, said his
company previously fielded
many loan requests from compa-
nies on the financial brink. Now,
he says, Hartsko can also pick
from companies with solid finan-
cials that simply can’t get a bank
loan. “What we are seeing is bet-
ter deals than we did in the past,”
Eitelberg says. “We were viable
when banks were lending. Now
we are overwhelmed.”
Last year, Hartsko lent roughly
$150 million, compared with $84
million in 2008 and $60 million
the year before that, he said.
He estimates that the compa-
ny will lend about $240 million
this year. Profit, he says, was in
the “high six figures” in 2009.
 ANDREW MARTIN
dappled and ambient light, includ-
ing the indoor light of fluorescent
bulbs, he said.
G24 Innovations, a company in
Campbell, Calif., that has licensed
the technology, is using it to make
solar panels at its plant in Cardiff,
Wales, said John Hartnett, G24’s
chief executive.
Some of the panels will be
placed on covers as an accessory
for Sony e-book readers, said Tobi
Doeringer, the director of global
sales at Mascotte Industrial As-
sociates.  ANNE EISENBERG
4
Gender Parity Takes
Center Stage at Davos
DAVOS, Switzerland — At a con-
ference here dominated by China,
women — that other huge emerg-
ing market — rose to the fore on
Saturday morning in a debate
about “The Gender Agenda.”
The three male chief executives
who joined three professional
women on the stage were among
the most forceful in arguing that
gender parity was an excellent
business proposition:
“This is about good business,”said
Martin Sorrell, the chief executive
of WPP, who said that 50 percent
of his company’s employees were
women, even at senior manage-
ment level.
“Women are always more ef-
fective sales people,” said Muhtar
Kent, chief executive at Coca
Cola; 70 percent of the shoppers
for the company’s products are
women.
A successful car company today
needs women, said Carlos Ghosn,
chief executive of Renault-Nissan,
who is putting in place quotas at
all levels of the company.
The panelists — who included
Arianna Huffington of The Huff-
ington Post; Orit Gadiesh, chair-
man of Bain and Co.; and Sher-
yl Sandberg, chief operating offi-
cer of Facebook — agreed that a
crucial challenge for women was
combining a career with family.
Ganiesh stressed the impor-
tance of making gender parity a
strategic matter with measurable
objectives along the way. Sand-
berg said companies should ad-
just so as not to penalize women
for taking maternity leave. And
Huffington emphasized that a
change in corporate culture must
embrace men as well.
“It’s not just for women, it’s for
men,” she said. “We’ve created a
group of sleep-deprived stressed
people at the very top.”
“If we had people who were less
stressed and had more sleep and
more life-work balance,” she said,
“we might not have been on the
verge of financial meltdown.”
Yet the women on the panel ap-
peared adamant about not man-
dating quotas.
“I don’t want to have a job be-
cause they need to have me, I want
to have a job because I earned it,”
Sandberg said.
Sandberg, a 40-year-old mother
of two, said that all of the men and
none of the women who were in
business school with her 15 years
ago, were in full-time employ-
ment. (NYT)
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On Broadway, Less Scenery to Chew
NEW YORK — These days at a big Broadway
musical, you don’t hear many audible gasps
when the curtain rises, or when scenery trans-
forms to reveal a theatrical vision.
Not like the oohs and ahhs of audiences at
Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals like “The
King and I” in the 1950s, Stephen Sondheim
and Hal Prince productions like “Follies” and
“Sweeney Todd” in the ’70s, and later spec-
tacles like “Starlight Express,” with its roller-
skating apparatus, and “Miss Saigon,” with its
helicopter.
Instead, this season on Broadway some the-
atergoers and critics have been asking whether
musicals have become increasingly cost-con-
scious with their visual artistry, and with mixed
results.
The four major musical revivals so far this
season — “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Finian’s Rain-
bow,” “Ragtime” and “A Little Night Music” —
were panned in some quarters for stage design
that seemed thinly conceived or even flimsy.
Even the most commercially successful re-
cent productions of musicals — “Billy Elliot:
The Musical,” “Hair” and “West Side Story”
— lean to the stripped-down, partly in hopes of
highlighting the choreography and plot.
The drift toward smaller-is-better Broadway
musicals will continue to be scrutinized through
the spring season.
A revival of “La Cage aux Folles,” while
stuffed with wigs, beads and heels for its drag
queens, is favoring plot, character and a small
orchestra over lavish scenery.
The musty old house and unfussy graveyard
of “The Addams Family” looked relatively basic
during the show’s pre-New York run in Chica-
go. “American Idiot” has a busy, seedy-looking
set full of punk-band posters and video screens.
And the February previews for the effects-
laden “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” were
delayed because of difficulty raising money for
a show estimated to cost around $50 million.
Sonia Friedman, a producer of “A Little Night
Music” and “La Cage,” said that while the tough
economy had made investors more cautious, it
had not wiped out all musical spectaculars — it
just called for some productions to use greater
Creators of ‘Lost’ Prepare to Take the Show Home in Final Season
LOS ANGELES — From the time that Oce-
anic Airlines Flight 815 crashed on a mysteri-
ous island in the 2004 premiere of “Lost” on
ABC, almost everything that appeared to be
true about the fate of the survivors has become
if not actually false, then at least vastly more
complicated that it originally seemed.
The island itself, for example, which at first
seemed to be disconcertingly deserted, soon
proved itself to be even more disconcertingly
inhabited. While those inhabitants (known as
the “others”) are liars, kidnappers and mur-
derers, ultimately their crimes are revealed to
serve a larger, protective purpose. And though
it appears that for survivors of the crash the ul-
timate goal is to leave the island, many who do
imagination when working within financial
limits.
“I do feel that intimate stagings of musicals
like ‘A Little Night Music’ and ‘La Cage aux
Folles’ are a smart, efficient economic model,”
said Friedman, who is based in London but reg-
ularly produces on Broadway. “I do not neces-
sarily think they are the way things will always
be done now or in the future. There is room for
both.”
Robert Longbottom, the director and chore-
ographer of the Roundabout Theater Compa-
ny’s revival of “Bye Bye Birdie,” which closed
last Sunday, said he and his creative team had
performed “serious due diligence about see-
ing if we could get what we wanted for the best
price.” Longbottom called the show’s scenery
and costumes first-rate, but acknowledged that
working within confines had been challenging.
“Sometimes — if you find you don’t have the
funds to have all the bricks and mortar to do ev-
ery scene in every way you want — you have to
be creative,” he said.
For some Broadway veterans of musical ex-
travaganzas, however, the recent spate of un-
derstated, austere production values often feels
like a disappointing concession to the increas-
ing expense of producing on Broadway, espe-
cially in a recession. In some instances, these
veterans say, producers and directors are be-
ing creatively cost-conscious, but in other cases
their shows look done on the cheap.
“The smaller scale of musicals is all about
money, I believe, and what I hear in a lot of con-
versations is people thinking out loud about
how to make it small to make it more appeal-
ing to investors and producers,” said Prince,
who has won Tonys as a director of large-scale
works like “Showboat,” “The Phantom of the
Opera,” “Evita” and musicals by Sondheim.
“When I directed the original ‘Follies’ and
‘Little Night Music,’ I didn’t really worry about
those musicals recouping, and no one put pres-
sure on me to worry about it,” Prince continued.
“That’s not as true today. And I’m not sure the
environment exists today to mount huge works
with the calmness and confidence that we did
decades ago.”  PATRICK HEALY
leave find themselves inexorably pulled back.
For the men pulling the levers behind the
“Lost” curtain, finding ways to wrap up both
the fate of the story’s characters and the mys-
teries of the island for the program’s final 16
episodes, which begins Tuesday, is a multifold
challenge.
“Normally the thing that you have to execute
is coming up with fulfilling endings and resolve
the fate of your characters,” said Damon Lin-
delof, an executive producer who, with Carlton
Cuse, oversees the series and is writing the key
episodes for the coming season. “But we also
have the added weight of how are we going to
resolve this mythology.
“The show is so predicated on questions. So
Sunday, January 31, 2010 5
A 19th-Century Idea,
With a Few Updates
Pat Metheny, the jazz guitarist, has lately
been downright obsessed with robots, and with
getting them to do his bidding. “I haven’t slept
more than four hours a night for six months
now,” he said one day last fall at a makeshift re-
hearsal space in Brooklyn.
Metheny stood before a 14-foot-high, 35-foot-
wide wall festooned with musical instruments:
a circuit-wired one-man band. The contraption
sprang to life in a mechanical whirl: beaters
tapping cymbals, levers gliding over strings,
mallets cascading across a vibraphone.
Metheny closed his eyes and hunched over
his guitar, bringing a human touch to “Expan-
sion,” the centerpiece of his new album, “Or-
chestrion” (Nonesuch).
Metheny, 55, traces his intrigue with musical
automation to an antique player piano in the
basement of his grandfather’s house in Wiscon-
sin. Later he learned about orchestrions, the
pneumatically driven mechanical orchestras
that flourished in the 19th century.
Metheny’s interest led him to Eric Singer, a
Brooklyn engineer and musician doing similar
work with a group he called Lemur (League of
Electronic Musical Urban Robots). Soon Lemur
had been commissioned to build an orchestra.
“Everything came in months late,” Metheny
said of the instruments, which began arriving
last March, along with a daunting challenge.
“There’s some hardcore technical reasons why
most mechanical music doesn’t groove that
hard,” he said. “And I thought, ‘Man, if it should
be able to do anything, it should be able to do
that.’ So one of my first tasks was to go through,
solenoid by solenoid, and find out how each one
felt the beat. And then figuring out software
compensations for that latency.”
Then there was the music, some of which he
had composed ahead of time.
“I very quickly had to find out what they were
good at,” he recalled, referring to the robots.
“What can they do, what can’t they do? And
there’s a whole bunch that they can’t do. But I
kind of wrote for their strengths.”
 NATE CHINEN
now we’re in answer mode, and have been for
quite some time.”
And while the creators of “Lost” have as-
sured viewers for much of the last five years
that yes, they know the answers to those ques-
tions, they acknowledge that they do not yet
know exactly how the series will come to a
close.
“We feel like over the course of the entire
season we’re going to be answering questions
and explaining things,” Cuse said. “We’re re-
ally going to focus on making sure the resolu-
tion of these characters comes to a place that
we as writers feel satisfying. And that’s kind
of the best approach we can take to make the
show end well.”  EDWARD WYATT
books Sunday, January 31, 2010 6

Stone’s New Collection Features Familiar Types Editor’s Row

The title of Robert Stone’s new
collection of stories, “Fun With
Problems,” is clearly meant to
be read in an ironic sort of way.
Stone’s characters do not have
fun. They may get high, get drunk
or get loaded, but they are almost
always lost, disaffected and des-
perate. They may visit exotic
parts of the world and go on all
sorts of wild adventures, but in
doing so, they are always court-
ing danger or falling prey to bad
faith, bad karma and bad vibes.
Even scuba diving or bungee
jumping becomes for them exis-
tential confrontation with mor-
tality, raising primal questions
about courage and angst, life and
death, God or his absence.
Stone tends to be at his best —
in his novels “A Hall of Mirrors,”
“Dog Soldiers” and “Damascus
Gate” — when he’s using his
reportorial skills to conjure a
strange or alien land, and rely-
ing on his narrative gifts to cre-
ate harrowing action sequences
that reveal his characters’ in-
nermost needs and fears. He’s at
his worst — in, say, the abysmal
“Bay of Souls” — when he’s pon-
tificating (or allowing his heroes
to pontificate) about the meaning
of life, and stuffing his story lines
full of predictable, prepackaged
B-movie tropes.
Unfortunately, “Fun With
Problems” is a grab-bag collec-
tion that’s full of Stone’s liabilities
Fun With Problems
By Robert Stone
195 pages. Houghton Mifflin $24
as a writer, with only a glimpse
here and there of his strengths.
“Honeymoon” is a ridiculous lit-
tle tale about a man who talks to
his former wife while on his hon-
eymoon with a new young bride,
and who later commits suicide
during a dive. “Charm City” is
an equally preposterous story
about a grifter named Margaret
who works with her meth-head
daughter and the daughter’s
boyfriend. Margaret picks up a
mark — a middle-aged, married
writer — at a classical music re-
cital, cases his country home for
things to steal and then ransacks
the house with her gang.
As for “High Wire,” it reads
like a wobbly variation on Stone’s
1986 Hollywood novel, “Children
of Light.” Once again, we’re
given a portrait of a burned-out
screenwriter with a taste for
coke and ’ludes and alcohol, and
his onetime lover, a troubled ac-
tress who specializes in “the old
nothingness-and-grief routine”
and who’s on the fast track to dis-
solution and despair.
Matthews, the hard-drinking
hero of the title story, is a hard-
boiled case. He picks up a wom-
an named Amy, persuades her
to drink with him (even though
she’s a “drunk farm” alumna
who’s trying to stay sober), takes
her to bed and abruptly walks out
to her tears.
He was the man, Stone writes,
whose ex-wife had once said that
he didn’t care whether he even
had sex, as long as he could make
some woman unhappy.
Matthews wears his hardheart-
edness proudly like a badge:
“Spite had taught him detach-
ment. The trick was to carry on
indifferent to his own feelings and
without pity for things like Amy’s
ditsy vagueness or the neediness
she was beginning to display.”
Similar cynics populate Stone’s
novels, of course, but in the most
persuasive of those books, he
not only maps the sources of his
heroes’ malaise and the fallout
it has on their lives but also dra-
matizes their flailing efforts to
grab after one last chance at a big
score or even a whiff of love and
salvation.
In the stories in this volume
we are not given the full arc of
his people’s lives; we get only
snapshots of their drunken ni-
hilism and puerile self-pity. It’s
certainly not enough to make us
care, not even enough to engage
our voyeuristic curiosity; it’s
simply dismal and depressing.
 MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Crisis and Command: The His-
tory of Executive Power From George
Washington to George W. Bush, by John
Yoo. (Kaplan, $29.95.) The former Bush
administration lawyer finds appeal in
a presidency whose power is typically
expanded in a time of war.
Bomb Power: The Modern
Presidency and the National Security
State, by Garry Wills. (Penguin Press,
$27.95.) Wills argues that the unrelenting
increase of executive power has been a
constitutional travesty.
THE LADY IN THE TOWER: The Fall
of Anne Boleyn, by Alison Weir. (Bal-
lantine, $28.) Concentrating on the last
months of Boleyn’s life, Weir evaluates
the range of opinion about what lay
behind her execution.
FREE FOR ALL: Joe Papp, the Public,
and the Greatest Theater Story Ever
Told, by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp
with Gail Merrifield Papp. (Doubleday,
$39.95.) Interviews with Papp before his
death and with many others illuminate a
historic theatrical moment.
The Relentless Revolution: A
History of Capitalism, by Joyce Appleby.
(Norton, $29.95.) Apple­by has written
a global history of capitalism in all its
creative — and destructive — glory.
The Unnamed, by Joshua Ferris.
(Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, $24.99.)
This novel’s hero, a successful Manhattan
trial attorney, is afflicted with an uncon-
trollable compulsion to leave his desk and
trek for miles.

Paperback Row
Everything Ravaged, Everything
Burned, by Wells Tower. (Picador, $14.) The pro-
tagonists of these nine “polished and distinctive”
stories, as our reviewer, Edmund White, called
them, are men who are “older, battered, no longer
successful.” White praised Tower’s “remarkable
style”: his grasp of psychology, crisp dialogue and
supple syntax, and his dark, surrealistic vision of
American life.
The Inheritance: The World Obama Con-
fronts and the Challenges to American Power,
by David E. Sanger. (Three Rivers, $16.) George W.
Bush’s foreign policy, writes Sanger, The Times’s
chief Washington correspondent, “has left us less
admired by our allies, less feared by our enemies
and less capable of convincing the rest of the world
that our economic and political model is worthy of
emulation.” This book is a catalog of wasted oppor-
tunities and a blunt assessment of what is likely to
happen in the future — American troops in Afghani-
stan for decades, a nuclear Iran. In The Times, Gary
J. Bass found the book “dazzling and mordantly
hilarious” and Sanger a “shrewd and insightful stra-
tegic thinker.”
The Gamble: General Petraeus and the Ameri-
can Military Adventure in Iraq,by Thomas E.
Ricks. (Penguin, $17.) Picking up where Ricks’s dev-
astating “Fiasco” (2006) left off, this book examines
the surge, particularly its new counterinsurgency
tactics. In contrast to Bob Woodward, who saw the
surge’s origins in the White House in the fall of 2006,
Ricks, who covered the military for The Washington
Post from 2000 to 2008, argues that the Bush admin-
istration might never have contemplated the change
in strategy had the Democrats not won the midterm
elections that November. Ricks predicts that “the
events for which the Iraq war will be remembered
probably have not yet happened.”
LoWboy, by John Wray. (Picador, $14.) Lowboy —
so called for his love of riding subways — is a para-
noid schizophrenic teenager who is off his meds and
has escaped his chaperones from a mental institu-
tion. Chapters alternate between Lowboy’s skewed
perspective and those of his devoted mother and the
detective who is trying to find him. Our reviewer,
Charles Bock, enjoyed Wray’s “vibrant” characters
and the “poet’s eye” revealed in his descriptions of
New York and the subways where much of the nov-
el takes place. “Lowboy,” he said, is “meticulously
constructed” and “often gripping.”
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir, by
Jennifer Baszile. (Touchstone/­Simon & Schuster,
$15.) Growing up in a nearly all-white suburb of Los
Angeles in a house a block from the ocean during
the 1970s and ’80s, Baszile did not want for material
possessions but always felt that she did not fully be-
long and wrestled with “consuming fears of poverty,
failure, exclusion and rejection.” Baszile’s memoir,
written mostly from the perspective of herself as
a girl, reveals the turmoil underlying her family’s
achievements. She is now Yale’s first black female
professor of history.
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath:
The Past and Future of American Affluence, by
Robert J. Samuelson. (Random House, $17.) Samuel­
son’s meditation on inflation chides Walter Heller,
President Kennedy’s chief economic adviser, who
persuaded Kennedy to accept higher inflation in
exchange for more jobs, leading eventually to the
“stagflation” of the 1970s.
crossword Sunday, January 31, 2010 7

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e d i t o r ia l s o f t h e t i m e S
No Jobs, No Recovery
It may seem counterintuitive, but with the
government reporting stronger-than-expect-
ed economic growth at the end of last year, now
is the time to think about renewed recession —
and to act to avoid it.
The economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7
percent in the fourth quarter of 2009. But well
over half of that growth came from large ad-
justments to business inventories that are un-
likely to be repeated on a similar scale in the
months to come. As such, they are evidence
that the sick economy is recovering, not that
it is healthy.
Another chunk of growth was due to govern-
ment stimulus spending, which will wane in
2010. Much of the recent upsurge in business
purchases of equipment and software was like-
ly due to a rush to take advantage of an invest-
ment tax break before it expired in December.
So, what does it take to translate an incipi-
ent recovery into a sustained expansion? In a
word: jobs. Employment leads to income and
to spending. As sales deplete inventories, busi-
nesses restock, which creates more jobs and so
on in an upward spiral.
Unfortunately, with the economy already
some 10 million jobs short, there is no job
growth on the horizon robust enough to set
that upward spiral in motion. And because
the economy is already in such a deep hole, a
second leg down would mean ever worsening
hardship.
The House has already passed a bill that is
a good starting point for creating jobs. But the
Senate is sitting on its version, with Repub-
It Happened in Our Backyard
We sympathized with the concerns about se-
curity and inconvenience raised by the Justice
Department’s plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mo-
hammed, the self-described 9/11 mastermind,
at a federal courthouse in downtown Manhat-
tan, a short walk from ground zero.
But caving in to political pressure and agree-
ing to move the trial, as The Times reported
the Obama administration has decided to do,
was the wrong move. New York was the right
place for this trial. This is where the attack oc-
curred, and New Yorkers should have been
proud to see justice done here. The U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Manhattan has a long, successful
record of trying terrorists, including the ones
responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing.
President Obama was right to move Mo-
hammed and four other high-profile terrorism
suspects out of the jurisdiction of military tri-
bunals. President George W. Bush’s decision
to hold prisoners outside the law and then at-
tempt to try them in rigged military courts was
legally wrong, and hugely damaging to Ameri-
can values and this country’s global image.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg first supported
the president’s decision to hold the trial in
New York, but reversed field after looking at
licans and a handful of Democrats arguing
that deficit reduction is more important than
jobs. In the medium term, the deficit is a seri-
ous problem. But right now there is no way to
sustain a recovery unless millions of jobs are
created soon — and the private sector alone
cannot do that.
In his State of the Union address, President
Obama said that he, too, was worried about the
deficit. And as a sign of good faith, he commit-
ted to cuts in federal discretionary spending
starting in the upcoming budget. The Senate
can show its good faith now by passing a jobs
bill, ideally this week.
A good final bill would combine the Obama
administration’s call for tax credits for hir-
ing and incentives for small-business lending
with sound features from the House and Sen-
ate versions. It would contain the House’s vital
provisions for extending unemployment ben-
efits and providing more aid to states. Without
such aid, states will have to make even deeper
budget cuts — laying off large numbers of their
own work forces and forcing their private sec-
tor contractors to do the same.
A final bill should also include provisions
from the House and the Senate to create infra-
structure jobs and public service jobs. And it
should adopt the Senate’s plan to create jobs
that foster energy efficiency.
Obama said he wanted a jobs bill on his desk
“without delay.” Getting a good bill passed will
be a crucial test of his ability to lead lawmak-
ers, including members of his own party, where
America needs them to go.
the costs of what could be a very long process.
Local business leaders protested, as did politi-
cians with a variety of motives — none really
sound and some profoundly cynical.
Obama should have worked with the mayor
to develop a security plan, one that limited lo-
cal disruption. The federal government should
have paid any additional cost. It will have to do
that wherever the trial is held.
The trial must remain within the federal
court system. Obama should not put it in a
makeshift court on a military base and defi-
nitely should not give in to demands from the
right to return Mohammed (and the four other
prisoners) to the tribunals.
Trying mass murderers in a criminal court
is not “soft on terrorism.” The federal courts
have tried, convicted and imprisoned many
terrorists. The tribunals have not held a single
trial, and may never have one that Americans
can be proud of.
Holding the trial in New York would be in-
convenient. Democracy makes demands on its
citizens. It is inconvenient to serve on a jury,
too. This was just not-in-my-backyard-ism.
Nearly 10 years after 9/11, it is sad if this coun-
try cannot freely conduct its business in Lower
Manhattan.
Sunday, January 31, 2010 8
thomas l. friedman
A New Uneasiness
DAVOS, Switzerland — As a political ba-
rometer, the Davos World Economic Forum
usually offers up some revealing indicators of
the global mood, and this year is no exception. I
heard of a phrase being bandied about here by
non-Americans — about the United States —
that I can honestly say I’ve never heard before:
“political instability.”
“Political instability” was a phrase normally
reserved for countries like Russia or Iran or
Honduras. But now, an American businessman
here remarked to me, “people ask me about
‘political instability’ in the U.S. We’ve become
unpredictable to the world.”
Mind you, criticizing, poking fun at and com-
plaining about America is the only global sport
more popular than soccer. But in the past, it
was always done knowing that America was
this global bedrock that could always be count-
ed upon to lead. But this year is different. This
year, Asians and Europeans, in particular, pull
you aside and ask you some version of: “Tell
me, what’s going on in your country?”
You can understand why foreigners are un-
easy. They look at America and see a president
elected by a solid majority, coming into office
riding a wave of optimism, controlling both
the House and the Senate. Yet, a year later, he
can’t win passage of his top legislative priority:
health care.
“Our two-party political system is broken
just when everything needs major repair, not
minor repair,” said K.R. Sridhar, the founder
of Bloom Energy, a fuel cell company in Silicon
Valley, who is attending the forum. “I am talk-
ing about health care, infrastructure, educa-
tion, energy. We are the ones who need a Mar-
shall Plan now.”
It was hard to read President Obama’s elo-
quent State of the Union address and not feel
torn between his vision for the coming years
and the awareness that the forces of inertia and
special interests blocking him — not to men-
tion the whole Republican Party — make the
chances of his implementing that vision highly
unlikely. Right now we are stuck.
The sad and frustrating thing is, we are so
close to being unstuck. If there were just six
or eight Republican senators — a few more
Judd Greggs and Lindsey Grahams — ready to
meet Obama somewhere in the middle on defi-
cit reduction, energy, health care and banking
reform, I believe that in the wake of the Mas-
sachusetts wake-up call the president would
indeed meet them in that middle ground to
forge not just incremental compromises, but
substantial ones on these key issues. But so far,
the Republicans are having a good year politi-
cally by just being the Party of No.
It is a shame because we are as a country
scrounging around for a few billion more dol-
lars of stimulus to help our unemployed and
small businesses — when the biggest stimulus
of all is hiding in plain sight: ending our political
paralysis and the pall of uncertainty it is casting
over everything from the cost of my health care
to the way our biggest banks can do business.
sports Sunday, January 31, 2010 9

A Determined Williams Stands Securely on Top In Brief

MELBOURNE, Australia — As
Serena Williams collapsed on the
court Saturday, weary and elated
after capturing her fifth Austra-
lian Open title, those who follow
tennis, or perhaps sports of any
kind, knew they had witnessed the
performance of a great champion.
She had turned back a pretty good
champion in Justine Henin for a
hard-fought 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory.
It was Williams’s 12th Grand
Slam title, which matches Billie
Jean King’s total and is six behind
Chris Evert’s. Williams is halfway
to the record for major titles held
by Margaret Court, who was at
Melbourne Park to present the
championship trophy.
Williams, 28, fought through
pain to earn it — her right thigh
and left knee and wrist were
wrapped, as they have been for
the past two weeks. And her gri-
States Taking the Lead Addressing Concussions
As dozens of state lawmakers
consider legislation to improve
awareness and treatment of
concussions in youth sports, the
movement is resembling a music
style or weather pattern: what
started in the Pacific Northwest is
wafting across the United States.
Last year Washington and Or-
egon passed the first concussion-
specific laws covering scholastic
sports. Each mandated education
for coaches, immediate removal
from play of any athlete suspected
of a concussion in a game or prac-
tice and proper medical clearance
before that athlete could return.
Washington’s in particular —
named after Zackery Lystedt, a
teenager who in 2006 sustained a
maces and hobbled steps as she
battled Henin further betrayed
her distress.
Williams’s ability to endure is
one of her vital intangibles, as is
her ardor for the competitive part
of the game. She played doubles
here nearly every day, and she
and her sister Venus won their
11th major title on Friday. These
are only part of the reason Wil-
liams is the only active women’s
player who owns a career Grand
Slam. Yes, she has a thundering
serve, a ballistic forehand and the
ability, as Henin put it, “to hit the
right shots at the right time.”
But mostly, as Williams said, “I
get up for the big ones.” She dem-
onstrated that early in the third
set.
In the previous set, Henin used
a symphony of shots to save two
break points and held for 3-3, then
serious brain injury playing foot-
ball — is a template for other states
formulating similar legislation.
The trend will get a name next
week when the Zackery Lystedt
Brain Project is formally an-
nounced at the Super Bowl. Spear-
headed by the Sarah Jane Brain
Foundation and the American Col-
lege of Sports Medicine, the initia-
tive will continue those organiza-
tions’ push for states to enact laws
similar to Washington’s. Florida,
Massachusetts, New Jersey and
New York are among those with
bills in the works.
“We are going to get maybe 24
states passing the laws or mak-
ing serious headway this year,”
said Patrick Donohue, founder of
won 13 of the last 14 points. Henin
was a maestro, waving her racket
and calling in every section of her
orchestra — booming forehand
winners, tinkling backhand slices
that Williams could not run down
— and controlling the rhythm of
the game.
When Henin held serve to go
up, 1-0, in the third set, Williams
looked at her racket, and gave it
and herself a talking-to.
“I thought I was just giving her
too many points,” Williams said.
“She was playing well, but I knew
I could play better so I literally told
myself, ‘I need to man up.’ ”
Williams leaned on her big,
deadly and accurate serve to dish
out 12 aces, then broke Henin’s
serve three straight games and
left little doubt that she was the
best women’s tennis player in the
world right now.  JOE DRAPE
the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation.
The national organization focused
on youth brain injuries is named
after his 4-year-old daughter, who
was seriously injured when shak-
en by a nurse as an infant.
Donohue added: “Washington’s
law is a work of art, and it took
almost two years, but they’ve al-
ready done the hard work. We
don’t need to take two years in
every state.”
The laws cover youth sports
beyond football; other contact
sports, particularly girls soccer
and basketball, have recently
been recognized as breeding
grounds for concussions that of-
ten go ignored or are mistreated.
 ALAN SCHWARZ
N.F.L.’s Hawaii Plans
The N.F.L. said its commit-
ment to Hawaii remained even
though this year’s Pro Bowl was
being played in Miami Gardens,
Fla. The league has announced
19 island nonprofit organiza-
tions will benefit from $100,000
as part of the longstanding
N.F.L. Charities Pro Bowl
Grant Program. The game had
been played in Honolulu since
1980 and is to return to Hawaii
in 2011 and 2012.  (AP)
Two Share Lead
in Qatar Masters
Paul Casey shot a six-under-
par 66 to share the lead with
Bradley Dredge after the third
round of the Qatar Masters.
Casey arrived in Doha still
feeling the effects of a linger-
ing rib muscle injury and hav-
ing missed the cut in each of
his three previous appearanc-
es at the tournament. But he
made seven birdies to tie with
Dredge (70) with a 10-under to-
tal of 206. Lee Westwood shot a
70 to stay one shot off the lead.
Brett Rumford, who had the
overnight lead, only managed
a 73 and is three shots back.
 (AP)
NHL scores
SATURDAY
Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Islanders 1
Ottawa 3, Montreal 2
nBA scores
FRIDAY’S LATE GAMES
Utah 101, Sacramento 94
Charlotte 121, Golden State 110

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sports journal Sunday, January 31, 2010 10

Long-Suffering Saints Fans Could Use Some Good Times

If there is any justice in the Orleans to write about a team
world, les bons temps — the good that had lost all 14 games and got-
times — will continue to roll right ten its coach fired.
through next Sunday, straight “Two weeks ago, I cried,” said
through to Mardi Gras. the quarterback, a chap named
New Orleans needs Sports Archie Manning, recall-
all the bons temps it can ing the 13th consecutive
Of
get. loss. The 14th was even
No foolish event like a
The Times worse. The Saints had a
football game will ever George 35-7 lead at halftime and
make up for Hurricane Vecsey lost, 38-35, in overtime to
Katrina, which came the 49ers.
roiling out of the Gulf of Mexico “But last week, I promise you,
on Aug. 29, 2005, and the govern- I didn’t know whether to laugh or
mental neglect that followed. It is cry,” Manning added.
not hard to root for New Orleans Manning’s wife was expect-
to survive. ing a third child — “our playoff
Even on a trivial level like baby,” he said. That would be Eli,
sports, New Orleans has also suf- born Jan. 3, 1981, the winner of
fered with its Saints, who have Super Bowl XLII. The oldest son,
never been to a Super Bowl. Now Peyton, won Super Bowl XLI and
they will meet the Indianapolis is back with the Colts to play the
Colts, touching off all kinds of Saints next Sunday.
memories. Archie Manning is on record
I remember a quarterback who that he is rooting for the Colts,
talked about crying. I remember because of Peyton.
people who wore paper bags over “Anybody who thinks it’s dif-
their heads as a statement about ferent must not have children,”
the team they called the Aints. Archie told Mike Chappell of The
This was 1980. I was sent to New Indianapolis Star last Sunday
after Peyton had pitched his way
into his second Super Bowl.
Peyton has been a credit to his
family and the city that nurtured
him. Of course, Archie Manning
must root for his flesh and blood.
But what about the rest of us?
To paraphrase Tevye in the song
“If I Were a Rich Man,” would it
spoil some vast eternal plan if the
Saints won the Super Bowl?
Enough suffering already. New
Orleans fans suffered in their
unique way in 1980, putting bags
on their heads. This was a stunt
by Buddy Diliberto, a television
personality whose bartender
Robert Le Comte had designed
bags with two eyeholes and the
name AINTS printed across the
forehead.
Diliberto told me about the fan
who couldn’t stand it anymore
and stuck his two Saints tickets
under his windshield wiper. Take
these tickets. Please, take these
tickets.
“When he got back to his car,
there were six tickets stuck in
his window,” Diliberto said, and I
believed him.
Diliberto passed on to the Big
Bartender in the Sky in 2005. I
was wondering what goofiness
he’d be pulling this week, but
apparently he once promised to
wear a dress if the Saints ever
reached the Super Bowl, so his
son has picked out a tasteful little
frock for next Sunday.
Speaking of sons: Archie Man-
ning played 10 full seasons for the
Saints (and was injured for an
11th) and bits of three other sea-
sons for other teams but never
reached the playoffs. He was in
Indy last week with sons Cooper
and Eli, watching Peyton. Now
he will root against the team for
which he cried.
“That’s just the way it is,” Ar-
chie said.
Fair enough. For the rest of us,
rooting for underdogs is part of
the game.
If there is any justice in the
world, the Saints and les bons
temps will continue to roll. I bet
Archie Manning wouldn’t cry,
either.

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