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October 21, 2009
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Risks Seen in Many Cancer Screenings vatican bidding
The American Cancer Society,
which has long been a staunch de-
fender of most cancer screening,
is now saying that the benefits of
detecting many cancers, espe-
cially breast and prostate, have
been overstated.
It is working on a message, to
put on its Web site early next year,
to emphasize that screening for
breast and prostate cancer and
certain other cancers can come
with a real risk of overtreating
many small cancers while miss-
ing cancers that are deadly.
“We don’t want people to panic,”
said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medi-
cal officer of the cancer society.
“But I’m admitting that Ameri-
can medicine has overpromised
when it comes to screening. The
advantages to screening have
been exaggerated.”
Prostate cancer screening has
long been problematic. The can-
cer society does not advocate test-
ing for all men. There has been
much less public debate about
mammograms. Studies from the
1960s to the 1980s found they re-
duced the death rate from breast
cancer by up to 20 percent.
The cancer society’s decision
to reconsider its message about
the risks as well as potential ben-
Volcker Fails to Sell a Strategy to Curb Banks
Listen to a top economist in the
Obama administration describe
Paul A. Volcker, the former Fed-
eral Reserve chairman.
“The guy’s a giant, he’s a ge-
nius, he is a great human being,”
said Austan D. Goolsbee. “When-
ever he has advice, the adminis-
tration is very interested.”
Well, not lately. The aging Vol-
cker (he is 82) has some advice,
deeply felt, and he has been re-
peating it to those around the
president.
He wants the nation’s banks to
be prohibited from owning and
trading risky securities, the very
practice that got the biggest ones
into deep trouble in 2008. And the
administration is saying no, it will
not separate commercial bank-
ing from investment operations.
“I am not pounding the desk
to get anglicans
efits of screening was spurred
in part by an analysis published
to join its fold
Wednesday in The Journal of the
American Medical Association,
Brawley said.
In it, researchers report a 40
percent increase in breast cancer
diagnoses and a near doubling of
early stage cancers, but just a 10
percent decline in cancers that
have spread beyond the breast to
the lymph nodes or elsewhere in
the body. With prostate cancer,
the situation is similar.
If breast and prostate can-
cer screening really fulfilled its
promise, the researchers note,
cancers that once were found late
would now be found early, when
they could be cured. A large in-
crease in early cancers would be
balanced by a commensurate de-
cline in late-stage cancers. That
is what happened with screening
for colon and cervical cancers.
But not with breast and prostate
cancer.
The new analysis, by Dr. Laura
Esserman, a professor of surgery
and radiology at the University
of California, San Francisco, and
director of the Carol Frank Buck
Breast Care Center there, and
Dr. Ian Thompson, professor
and chairman of the department
all the time, but I am making my
point,” Volcker said. Still, he does
head the president’s Economic
Recovery Advisory Board, which
makes him the administration’s
most prominent outside econom-
ic adviser. As Fed chairman from
1979 to 1987, he helped the country
weather more than one crisis. And
in the campaign last year, he ap-
peared occasionally with Obama,
including a town hall meeting in
Florida last fall. His towering
presence (he is 6-foot-8) offered
reassurance that the candidate’s
economic policies, in the midst of
a crisis, were trustworthy.
More subtly, Obama has in
Volcker an adviser perceived as
standing apart from Wall Street,
and critical of its ways, some ad-
ministration officials say, while
Timothy F. Geithner, the Trea-
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of urology at The University of
Texas Health Science Center, San
Antonio, finds that prostate can-
cer screening and breast cancer
screening are not so different.
Both have a problem that goes
counter to everything people have
been told about cancer: They are
finding cancers that don’t need
to be found because they would
never spread and kill or even be
noticed if they were left alone.
That has led to a huge increase in
cancer diagnoses because, with-
out screening, those innocuous
cancers would go undetected.
At the same time, both screen-
ing tests are not making much
of a dent in the number of can-
cers that are deadly. That may
be because many lethal breast
cancers grow so fast they spring
up between mammograms. And
the deadly prostate ones have al-
ready spread at the time of can-
cer screening.
The dilemma for breast and
prostate screening is that it is not
usually clear which tumors need
aggressive treatment and which
can be left alone. And one reason
that is not clear, some say, is that
it has not been much of a priority
to study it.
GINA KOLATA
sury secretary, and Lawrence H.
Summers, chief of the National
Economic Council, are seen,
rightly or wrongly, as more sym-
pathetic to the concerns of invest-
ment bankers.
Volcker’s proposal would roll
back the nation’s commercial
banks to an earlier era, when
they were restricted to commer-
cial banking and prohibited from
engaging in risky Wall Street ac-
tivities.
The Obama team, in contrast,
would let the giants survive, but
would regulate them extensively.
While the administration’s pro-
posal languishes, giants like Gold-
man Sachs have re-engaged in
old trading practices, once again
earning big profits and planning
big bonuses.
LOUIS UCHITELLE
VATICAN CITY — In an ex-
traordinary bid to lure tradition-
alist Anglicans en masse, the
Vatican on Tuesday announced
it would make it easier for Angli-
cans uncomfortable with their
church’s acceptance of female
priests and openly gay bishops to
join the Roman Catholic Church
while retaining many of their tra-
ditions.
Anglicans would be able “to
enter full communion with the
Catholic Church while preserv-
ing elements of the distinctive
Anglican spiritual and liturgical
patrimony,” said Cardinal Wil-
liam J. Levada, the prefect for the
Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith.
The announcement seemed a
rare opportunity to capitalize on
deep divisions within the Angli-
can Church to attract new mem-
bers at a time when the Catholic
Church has been trying to rein-
vigorate itself in Europe.
The issue has long been close to
the heart of Pope Benedict XVI,
who for years has worked to build
ties to those Anglicans who, like
conservative Catholics, spurn the
idea of female and gay priests.
Catholic and Anglican leaders
sought on Tuesday to present the
move as a joint effort to aid those
seeking conversion. But it ap-
peared that the Vatican had en-
gineered it on its own, presenting
it as a fait accompli to the Most
Rev. Rowan Williams, archbish-
op of Canterbury and the spiritu-
al head of the Anglican Commu-
nion, only in recent weeks. Some
Anglican and Catholic leaders
expressed surprise, even shock,
at the news.
The move could have the deep-
est impact in England, where
large numbers of traditionalist
Anglicans have protested the
Church of England’s embrace of
liberal theological reforms like
consecrating female bishops.
RACHEL DONADIO and
LAURIE GOODSTEIN
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Burst of Violence Rattles Brazil’s Olympic City
RIO DE JANEIRO — Just over
two weeks ago, this striking city
landed the 2016 Olympic Games,
the first ever in South America,
setting off a sweaty, impromptu
beach party that lasted most of
the weekend. President Luiz Ina-
cio Lula da Silva of Brazil sobbed
with happiness. Rio’s residents
glowed with pride.
Then over the weekend, in a
chilling outburst of violence, drug
traffickers wielding what the po-
lice believe was a large-caliber
weapon shot down a police heli-
copter just one mile from Mara-
cana stadium, where the opening
and closing ceremonies of the
Olympic games will be held and
the World Cup final will be played
two years before the Olympics.
Suddenly, the celebration has
been overwhelmed by hand-
wringing that Rio’s chronic prob-
lem of drug violence, its Achilles
heel, is being laid bare before the
world, and at a particularly inop-
portune time. Brazilian leaders
Path to Stability Unclear After Karzai Concession
KABUL, Afghanistan — Presi-
dent Hamid Karzai’s concession
of the need for a runoff election in
Afghanistan appears to have pre-
vented his country from slipping
into paralysis, but has created a
new landscape of risks and uncer-
tainty.
Karzai’s concession was a criti-
cal first step toward creating a
credible Afghan government,
coming after heavy pressure
from European and U.S. officials,
including veiled threats that his
actions could affect pending deci-
sions about troops levels, accord-
ing to an American official.
But diplomats questioned
whether a new vote could be orga-
Officials Are Lowering Expectations for Climate Treaty
WASHINGTON — With the
clock running out and deep differ-
ences unresolved, it now appears
that there is little chance that in-
ternational climate change nego-
tiations in Copenhagen in Decem-
ber will produce a comprehensive
and binding new treaty on global
warming.
The gulf between rich and
poor nations, and even among
the wealthiest nations, is just too
wide.
are out touring the world, search-
ing for the outside investments
needed to build billions of dollars
in urban infrastructure to pre-
pare for the events.
The images of the downed po-
lice helicopter “really shocked
Brazilians, and now everyone is
worried about what will happen
with the games,” said Nadine
Matos, 21, who works at a hair
salon a block from Copacabana
Beach. “We need to tell the world
where we stand so that people
outside Brazil understand what
measures we are taking and are
not so worried when planning to
come down here.”
For years, the police essential-
ly abandoned the shantytowns,
or favelas, that ring the city’s
wealthier neighborhoods, follow-
ing a policy that more resembled
containment than enforcement.
That allowed drug traffickers
to create criminal strongholds
where violence is pervasive. And
as the downing of the helicopter
nized before the announced date
of Nov. 7, and whether a second
round of balloting would have
more security or less fraud than
the first, in which nearly a quar-
ter of ballots were thrown out by
international auditors. “There
are huge constraints to deliver-
ing in the second round,” said one
Western official. “Can you deliver
a result that is any different from
the one we’ve already got?”
The host of uncertainties left
open the prospect of what admin-
istration officials and their West-
ern allies expect will be three
weeks of horse-trading as Karzai
and his principal challenger, Ab-
dullah Abdullah, decide whether
The United States and many
other major pollutant-emitting
countries have concluded that it
is more useful to take incremen-
tal but important steps toward a
global agreement rather than to
try to jam through a treaty that
is either too weak to address the
problem or too onerous to be rati-
fied and enforced.
Instead, representatives at the
Copenhagen meeting are likely
to announce a number of interim
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illustrated, the police have not
done enough to slow the flow of
heavy weapons into the favelas.
“We never hid our problems
during the candidacy process,”
Rio’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, said
while besieged by reporters in
London, where he was on the first
leg of a swing in search of inves-
tors for the public works projects.
“We always said to people that we
were still facing problems.”
This year the government has
tried a community policing ap-
proach to stemming the violence
and cracking down on the traf-
fickers holding sway over dozens
of shantytowns, where about a
third of Rio’s six million residents
live.
But the effort involves only five
favelas so far, and the weekend of
mayhem has set off a new round
of debate here about whether the
more militaristic strategy that
has long prevailed has been use-
ful.
 ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
they can strike a deal to actually
avert a runoff.
Diplomats said the efforts to get
the two men to join forces would
now intensify. Abdullah has hinted
he would be open to negotiate, but
Karzai, at a news conference here
on Tuesday, seemed to rule it out.
“The coalition has no legitimacy
and is not possible,” he said, stand-
ing alongside Sen. John Kerry,
D-Mass., who negotiated with
Karzai.
Afghanistan’s Independent
Election Commission certified the
vote on Tuesday, saying Karzai
had received 49.7 percent of the
votes. He needed more than 50
percent to avoid a runoff. (NYT)
steps and agree to keep talking
next year.
“There isn’t sufficient time to
get the whole thing done,” Yvo
De Boer, the Dutch diplomat who
leads the U.N. climate secretari-
at and oversees the negotiations,
said late last week. “But I hope it
will go well beyond simply a dec-
laration of principles. The form I
would like it to take is the ground-
work for a ratifiable agreement
next year.” JOHN M. BRODER
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in brief
Scholar Sentenced
An Iranian-American scholar
who was jailed during the pro-
tests following Iran’s disputed
presidential election has been
sentenced to at least 12 years
on charges of acting against na-
tional security, Iranian state
media reported Tuesday. Kian
Tajbaksh, a sociologist and ur-
ban planner with a doctorate
from Columbia, was arrested
July 9 and testified during a
mass trial of opposition support-
ers in August.  (NYT)
Missiles for Poland
Poland, smarting after Presi-
dent Barack Obama announced
last month that he would scrap
plans to deploy an antiballis-
tic missile system in Eastern
Europe, will accept an offer to
host parts of a new, more mo-
bile missile defense system, Pol-
ish officials said Tuesday. The
plan for so-called SM-3 missiles,
first proposed in Washington
last month, will be spelled out in
more detail on Wednesday when
Vice President Joseph R. Biden
Jr. holds talks with leaders in
Warsaw. (NYT)
University Attacked
Two suicide attackers struck
the International Islamic Uni-
versity in Islamabad, Pakistan,
killing six people. The attackers’
bombs ripped through a cafete-
ria for female students, two of
whom were among the dead, and
destroyed an office in the Shari-
ah and law department. (NYT)
Ruling on Ortega
President Daniel Ortega of Ni-
caragua appears to have won
the right to seek re-election in
2011. The constitutional com-
mission of the Supreme Court
overturned bans on consecutive
re-election and on serving more
than two terms on Monday. But
the president of the Supreme
Court refused to recognize the
decision.  (AP)
U.S. Aid for Mali
The United States is increas-
ing military assistance to Mali
to help Mali fight militants in its
northern desert.  (Reuters)
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Lonely Assignment: Witness to Executions
Of all the consequences of
shrinking newsrooms, one of the
oddest is this: Fewer journalists
are available to watch people die.
But Michael Graczyk has wit-
nessed more than 300 deaths, and
many of those were people he had
come to know.
An Associated Press reporter
based in Houston, Graczyk covers
death penalty cases in Texas, and
since the 1980s, he has attended
nearly every execution the state
has carried out. Whenever pos-
sible, he has also interviewed the
condemned killers and their vic-
tims’ families.
Often, Graczyk produces the
only account of the execution.
Covering executions was once
considered an obligatory part of
what a newspaper did, like writ-
ing up school board meetings and
printing box scores, but such tra-
ditions have fallen away.
A generation ago, he had plenty
of company from other journal-
ists at the prison at Huntsville.
Court to Hear Case on Release of Detainees
WASHINGTON — The Su-
preme Court on Tuesday agreed
to decide whether federal courts
have the power to order prisoners
held at Guantánamo Bay to be re-
leased into the United States.
The court’s decision to hear the
case adds a further complication
to the Obama administration’s
efforts to close the prison at the
naval base in Guantánamo Bay,
Cuba. A measure in Congress
that would allow detainees to be
admitted to the United States
just to face trial had to overcome
strong resistance before win-
ning final passage on Tuesday.
The administration has met with
only fitful success in persuading
Kerik, Former Police Commissioner, Is Sent to Jail
Bernard B. Kerik, New York
City’s former police commis-
sioner, was sent to jail Tuesday
by a federal judge who said Kerik
had leaked sealed information
from his upcoming criminal trial
as part of an attempt to generate
public sympathy.
Judge Stephen C. Robinson,
of U.S. District Court in White
Plains, revoked Kerik’s $500,000
bail and delivered a withering
criticism of him from the bench,
But then shrinking news organi-
zations found it harder to justify
the expense of what was, from
most parts of the state, a long
trip.
“There are times when I’m the
only person present who doesn’t
have a stake in the outcome,” he
said.
Seeing inmates in the death
chamber, strapped to a gurney
and moments away from lethal
injections, he has heard them
greet him by name, confess to
their crimes for the first time,
sing, pray and, once, spit out a
concealed handcuff key. He has
stood shoulder to shoulder with
other witnesses who stared, wept,
fainted, turned their backs or, in
one case, exchanged high-fives.
No reporter, warden, chaplain
or guard has seen nearly as many
executions as Graczyk, 59, Texas
officials say. In fact, he has prob-
ably witnessed more than any
other American. He does his job
with a low-key, matter-of-fact
foreign allies to accept prisoners
cleared for release.
The Supreme Court is unlikely
to hear arguments in the case be-
fore late February, a month after
the administration’s deadline
of Jan. 22 for closing the prison,
though there have been recent
signals that the deadline may not
be met.
The case concerns 13 men from
the Uighur region of western
China who continue to be held
although the government has de-
termined that they pose no threat
to the United States.
Last October, a federal judge
here ordered the men released
into the care of supporters in
describing him as a “toxic com-
bination of self-minded focus and
arrogance.”
“He sees the court’s rulings as
an inconvenience, something to
be ignored, and an obstacle to be
circumvented,” the judge said.
Kerik, 54, who was once Presi-
dent Bush’s top choice to lead the
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, faces three criminal trials
in federal court. Jury selection in
the first trial — in which he faces
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
lack of sentiment.
“The act is very clinical, almost
anticlimactic,” Graczyk said.
“When we get into the chamber
here in Texas, the inmate has
already been strapped to the gur-
ney and the needle is already in
his arm.”
Witnesses stand on the other
side of a barrier of plexiglass and
bars, able to hear the prisoner
through speakers. And the only
sound regularly heard during the
execution itself, is of all things,
snoring. A three-drug cocktail
puts the inmate to sleep within
seconds, while death takes a few
minutes.
Before the drugs flow, the in-
mate is allowed to make a last
statement.
One inmate “sang ‘Silent
Night,’ even though it wasn’t any-
where near Christmas,” Graczyk
said. “I can’t hear that song with-
out thinking about it. That one re-
ally stuck with me.”
RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
the United States, initially in the
Washington area. But a federal
appeals court reversed that rul-
ing in February, saying that judg-
es do not have the power to over-
ride immigration laws and force
the executive branch to release
foreigners into the United States.
The appeals-court ruling has
tied the hands of judges consid-
ering challenges from prisoners.
According to the Justice Depart-
ment, trial judges have granted
petitions for writs of habeas cor-
pus from 30 Guantánamo prison-
ers. Of that group, 10 have been
transferred to foreign countries.
None have been admitted to the
United States. ADAM LIPTAK
corruption, conspiracy and tax
fraud charges — is to begin on
Monday.
Robinson said Kerik had vio-
lated the terms of his bail in pro-
viding the sealed information
to a New Jersey lawyer. The
lawyer, Anthony K. Modafferi
III, e-mailed the material to The
Washington Times in an effort
to generate coverage that would
disparage prosecutors, Robinson
said.  (NYT)
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in brief
College Costs Rise
The price of a college educa-
tion rose substantially last year,
despite a 2.1 percent decline in
inflation from July 2008 to July
2009. Four-year public colleges
raised tuition and fees by an av-
erage of 6.5 percent last year.
Prices at private colleges rose
4.4 percent, according to a re-
port by the College Board. With
room and board, the average
cost of attendance at a public
four-year college is now $15,213,
the report found. At private non-
profit colleges, which enroll
about one in five students, the
average total cost of attendance
is now $35,636. (NYT)
Inquiry on Physicist
Federal agents have seized
computers and files from a
Los Alamos, N.M., physicist, P.
Leonardo Mascheroni. He said
he was told that the seizures
were part of an investigation
into possible nuclear espionage.
Mascheroni declared his inno-
cence. He was laid off from the
Los Alamos National Labora-
tory in 1988 and has ever since
championed a type of laser fu-
sion. The secrets of hydrogen
bombs and laser fusion can be
similar, and the inquiry appears
to center on whether he broke
rules in discussing his proposed
laser with a man who called
himself a representative of Ven-
ezuela.  (NYT)
No Medicare ‘Fix’
Democrats backed down
Tuesday from their effort to in-
crease Medicare payments to
doctors. The Senate majority
leader, Harry Reid, Democrat
of Nevada, had hoped to whisk
the Medicare bill through the
Senate this week, but Republi-
cans had other ideas, and so did
some moderate and conserva-
tive Democrats. They said they
could not swallow the Medicare
bill because it would cost $247
billion over 10 years and none
of the cost would be offset or
paid for. Reid said the bill would
“fix” a formula that threatens
to cut Medicare payments to
doctors by 21 percent in 2010.
If such cuts occurred, he said,
fewer doctors would accept
Medicare patients.  (NYT)
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Credit Suisse Overhauls Compensation
As Wall Street looks forward
to a new era of blowout bonuses,
the unthinkable is happening,
at least at Credit Suisse, the big
Swiss bank. It said Tuesday that
it would radically change the way
it paid its employees.
In a break with longstanding
industry practices, Credit Suisse
intends to alter the mix of salaries
and bonuses for its top employees,
tie the bonuses to a specific finan-
cial measure and effectively claw
back the payouts if the bank’s for-
tunes dim.
The move will not necessarily
reduce compensation at Credit
Suisse, which is moving aggres-
sively to compete with American
banks on Wall Street. But the shift
nonetheless brings Credit Suisse
in line with pay practices endorsed
in September by the Group of 20
In Insider Trading Case, Trade That Lost Millions
Raj Rajaratnam, the authori-
ties say, masterminded one of the
biggest insider-trading schemes
in a generation. But if Rajarat-
nam was trading on insider infor-
mation, apparently he wasn’t a
very good at it.
A close examination of the
trades that led to his arrest last
week reveals a startling fact:
In all, Rajaratnam lost millions
from what prosecutors charac-
terize as illegal trading.
One bad trade, in the shares of
the chip maker Advanced Micro
Devices, cost his hedge fund, the
Galleon Group, $30 million. That
loss more than wiped out the
profits that prosecutors claim
Fans of E-Books Keep Up Enthusiasm for Format
The publishing industry has
been under a dark cloud recently.
Sales are down this year, despite
prominent books by Dan Brown
and Edward M. Kennedy. Wal-
Mart and Amazon are locked in a
war for e-commerce dominance,
creating new worries among pub-
lishers and authors about dwin-
dling profits.
But amid the gloom, some sell-
ers and owners of electronic read-
ing devices are making the case
that people are reading more be-
cause of e-books.
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nations and puts the bank ahead
of resurgent rivals like Goldman
Sachs, some of which are contem-
plating similar changes but have
yet to make their plans public.
Goldman, for its part, an-
nounced new pay principles in
May, which it says embrace best
practices on compensation.
A year after Washington res-
cued the financial industry, bo-
nuses are once again front and
center as some big banks roar
back in profitability. Goldman,
for instance, is on track to award
bonuses that could rival the re-
cord payouts it made at the height
of the boom.
But the likelihood that Wall
Street will enjoy big paydays as
many ordinary Americans are
struggling has angered some
policy makers and created a pub-
Rajaratnam and his accomplices
reaped with their scheme.
Prosecutors highlighted the
winning trades in a case that they
say stretched from the secretive
world of hedge funds to some of
the country’s biggest technology
companies. They did not men-
tion the losers. Profitable or not,
insider trading is insider trading.
And Rajaratnam, who maintains
he is innocent, may have broken
the law even if he lost money on
his trades.
But the fact that some of the in-
vestments soured, and that, in all,
Rajaratnam lost money, could be
powerful evidence for defendants.
Inside information is, by defini-
Amazon for example, says that
people with Kindles now buy 3.1
times as many books as they did
before owning the device. That
factor is up from 2.7 in Decem-
ber 2008, when the company last
provided the statistic. “You are
going to see very significant in-
dustry growth rates as a result
of the convenience of this kind of
reading,” said Jeffrey P. Bezos,
chief executive of Amazon.
Sony, maker of the Reader fam-
ily of devices, says that its e-book
customers, on average, download
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lic relations headache for banks.
Many are struggling to defuse the
resentment directed at the indus-
try.
The Credit Suisse plan will cov-
er roughly 2,000 employees in the
United States. Top executives will
receive a greater portion of their
total compensation in the form
of their monthly cash salaries,
while bonuses will be split evenly
between cash and stock.
The stock will vest over four
years, and the cash portion will
pay out in three. But both compo-
nents will be adjusted based on the
bank’s performance over that pe-
riod, with a particular emphasis
on its return on equity, a closely
watched financial measure. The
performance of an executive’s
business will also be taken into
account.  GRAHAM BOWLEY
tion, information that is material
to investors, and thus could cause
a company’s stock to move in a
direction that will be obvious in
advance. For example, if a com-
pany’s stock is trading at $75 and
someone learns that the company
will be taken over for $100 a share,
that information would be mate-
rial. But routine corporate news is
not considered material.
The fact that Rajaratnam lost
money on the trades could mean
he and other defendants will re-
ceive a short sentence even if
they are convicted, said Steven
D. Feldman, a partner in the law
firm Herrick, Feinstein.
 ALEX BERENSON
about eight books a month from
its online library. That is far more
than the approximately 6.7 books
than the average American book
buyer purchased for the entire
year in 2008, according to Bowk-
er, a publishing industry tracking
firm.
Fans of the reading devices
suggest that the convenience of
using digital reading devices,
which offer a sense of control and
customization, has sparked a
greater interest in books.
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California Sues Bank
California charged the State
Street Corp. with fraud, accusing
the bank of cheating the state’s
two largest pension funds of at
least $56.6 million by overcharg-
ing them for a series of foreign
exchange trades. The lawsuit, un-
sealed on Tuesday, contends that
the bank consistently overcharged
the two state pension funds, Calp-
ers and Calstrs. (NYT)
Business
Public Spending Habits Are Straining Japan
TOKYO — How much debt can
an industrialized country carry
before the nation’s economy and
its currency bow, then break?
The question looms large in the
United States, as a surging bud-
get deficit pushes government
debt to nearly 98 percent of the
gross domestic product. But it
looms even larger in Japan.
Here, years of stimulus spend-
ing on expensive dams and roads
have inflated the country’s gross
public debt to twice the size of its
$5 trillion economy — by far the
highest debt-to-G.D.P. ratio in
recent memory.
Just paying the interest on its
debt consumed a fifth of Japan’s
budget for 2008, compared with
debt payments that compose
about a tenth of the United States
budget.
Yet, the finance minister, Hiro-
hisa Fujii, said Tuesday that the
government would sell 50 trillion
yen, about $550 billion, in new
bonds — or more.
F.D.A. to Clarify Standards for Front of Food Labels
The Food and Drug Admin-
istration said Tuesday that it
would seek to clear up the confu-
sion caused by a surge of upbeat
nutritional claims — for every-
thing from Froot Loops to may-
onnaise — that manufacturers
have begun to make on packaged
food labels.
By early next year, officials
said, the agency will issue pro-
posed standards that companies
must follow in creating nutrition
labels that go on the front of food
packaging.
Automobile Brand Loyalty, Once Taken for Granted, Is Relic of Past
DETROIT — To sell a car in the
1980s, dealers had to do little more
than open their doors, and loyal
buyers would show up to trade in
their Chevrolet for a new Chev-
rolet, or their Toyota for another
Toyota.
Nearly four in five Americans
were repeat buyers back then,
staunchly faithful to brands that
they knew, trusted and were part
of their self-image. The allegiance
often continued through genera-
tions of families, like party affili-
ations in politics.
Now, partly as a result of in-
creasingly fickle consumer
For jittery investors, Japan’s
rising sea of debt is the stuff of
nightmares: the possibility of
an eventual sovereign debt cri-
sis, where the country would be
unable to pay some holders of its
bonds, or a destabilizing collapse
in the value of the yen.
In the immediate term, Fujii’s
remarks prompted concerns
of a supply glut in bond mar-
kets, sending prices on 10-year
Japanese government bonds
down 0.087 yen, to 99.56 yen, and
yields to their highest point in six
weeks.
The Obama administration in-
sists that it understands the risks
posed by deficits and increasing
debt. Its critics are doubtful. But
as Washington runs up a trillion-
dollar deficit this year, with tril-
lions in debt for years to come, it
need look no farther than Tokyo
to see how overspending can rav-
age an economy.
Tokyo’s new government,
which won a landslide victory on
That could force manufactur-
ers to deliver the bad news with
the good, putting an end to a com-
mon practice in which manufac-
turers boast on package fronts
about some components, such as
vitamins or fiber, while ignoring
less appealing ingredients, like
added sugar or unhealthy fats.
The F.D.A.’s move could pres-
ent a challenge to the Smart Choic-
es program, a nutrition labeling
campaign begun this summer
with much fanfare by some of the
nation’s largest food companies.
tastes and the industry turmoil in
Detroit, that hard-won loyalty is
largely gone.
So far this year, only about 20
percent of car shoppers stayed
with the same brand when they
purchased a new vehicle, accord-
ing to a study by the Oregon-based
firm CNW Marketing Research.
As a result, the industry is see-
ing the kind of churn it hasn’t wit-
nessed since Japanese manufac-
turers began making inroads in
the American market more than
30 years ago.
“The days when people bought
a Toyota car or a General Mo-
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
an ambitious (and expensive)
social agenda, is set to issue a re-
cord amount of debt, borrowing
more in government bonds than
it will receive in tax receipts for
the first time since the years af-
ter World War II.
“Public sector finances are
spinning out of control — fast,”
said Carl Weinberg, chief econo-
mist at High Frequency Eco-
nomics in a recent note to clients.
“We believe a fiscal crisis is im-
minent.”
One of the lessons of Japan’s
experience is that a government
saddled with debt can quickly run
out of room to maneuver.
“Japan will keep on selling
more bonds this year and next,
but that won’t work in three
to five years,” said Akito Fu-
kunaga, a Tokyo-based fixed-
income strategist at Credit
Suisse. “If you ask me what
Japan can resort to after that,
my answer would be ‘not very
much.’ ”  HIROKO TABUCHI
That program has drawn fire be-
cause it gives a nutritional seal of
approval to many foods, including
sugary cereals and high-fat may-
onnaise, that many nutritionists
consider to be unhealthy.
“We believe in the science
behind the Smart Choices pro-
gram,” Mike Hughes, the pro-
gram’s chairman, said in a state-
ment. “We also look forward to
the opportunity to participate in
F.D.A.’s initiatives on front-of-
package labeling.”
 WILLIAM NEUMAN
tors product for 25 years are
over,” said Art Spinella, CNW’s
president. “There really isn’t any
brand loyalty any more.”
Chris Allen is a case in point. Al-
len, 24, grew up near Detroit. His
father works for an auto supplier,
and his family’s garage was al-
ways full of G.M. products.
After graduating from col-
lege, Allen moved to Los Angeles,
where he works for a market re-
search firm. And when he bought
his first car, he chose a Volkswa-
gen GTI. “If G.M. produced a ve-
hicle I wanted, it would have been
at the top of my list,” he said. “But
5
in brief
Producer Prices Fall
Even as investors were bid-
ding up the prices of commodi-
ties like oil and gold last month,
wholesale prices in the United
States were falling, reflecting
weak demand at home. The gov-
ernment’s Producer Price Index
fell 0.6 percent in September af-
ter rising by 1.7 percent a month
earlier, the Labor Department
reported Tuesday. The figures
show that, despite a weakening
dollar, inflation remains a re-
mote concern. (NYT)
United Loss Narrows
The UAL Corp., the parent
company of United Airlines, re-
ported a quarterly loss on Tues-
day but said it was beginning to
see signs that business travel
could pick. UAL lost $57 million
and revenue fell 20.3 percent, to
$4.43 billion. But the profit loss
was smaller than analysts ex-
pected, and much smaller than
the $792 million loss during the
same period last year.  (AP)
Sun Cutting Jobs
Sun Microsystems, waiting
for European regulators to ap-
prove its acquisition by the
Oracle Corp., plans to cut as
many as 3,000 jobs, or about
10 percent of the work force,
to pare expenses over the next
12 months. The cuts will oc-
cur around the world, Sun said
Tuesday in a regulatory filing.
European approval is among
the final hurdles in the $7.4 bil-
lion acquisition.  (Bloomberg)
they don’t.”
Each percentage-point move-
ment represents tens of thousands
of sales, and underscores how car
buyers, armed with reams of data
from the Internet, are compari-
son shopping as never before. And
because most cars have become
more reliable, choice becomes
more a matter of taste.
“Brand loyalty has shrunk be-
cause of widespread improve-
ments in the products,’’ said
James Farley, Ford’s head of
marketing. “The ‘trust factor’ is
more or less the same for most
cars.” BILL VLASIC
journal
Lifting the Lid on the Lavish Russian Art of Gift-Giving
MOSCOW — Until recently, Aleksandr Y.
Khochinsky occupied a special niche in this
capital, known as much for its corruption as
for its wealth. He was an antiquarian who spe-
cialized in providing high-class grease for the
best-connected palms in the government and
other high-level circles.
Harried businessmen would rush in off
the streets to his gallery here, Bogema, and
think nothing of spending tens of thousands
of dollars for the right item to delight the
powerful, whether a set of dueling pistols, a
suit of armor, antique Rolex watches or a $2
million seascape by the Russian artist Ivan
Aivazovsky.
crossword Edited By Will Shortz
Khochinsky prided himself on his talent for
finding the perfect gift. “Tell me only a few
details about the man,” he said in a recent tele-
phone interview. “Is he a hunter, a fisherman,
does he chase women? I can find a gift.”
Normally, the world Khochinsky navigated
so successfully is hidden from view. But now,
after a very delicate transaction that he says
went horribly wrong and left him accused of
blackmail by a powerful figure, Khochinsky
has decided to lift the veil on the cozy world he
knows so well.
There is little chance that the dispute that
has embroiled Khochinsky and forced him to
leave the country will be resolved; high-level
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6
spats like this seldom are in Russia. But the
deal, as described by Khochinsky, illuminates
an aspect of life here for people at the intersec-
tion of business and politics at the highest lev-
els, including the most powerful politician of
them all: Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin.
The current entanglement began with
the purchase, in 2006 at a Sotheby’s auction
in Paris, of 26 letters written by Voltaire to
Catherine the Great, dating from 1768 to 1777.
Khochinsky said he bought them for $869,000
— a world record for 18th century handwrit-
ten texts, according to Sotheby’s — for a Rus-
sian billionaire who had made his money in
banking and real estate.
Handing a little something to a bureaucrat
is an old tradition in Russia — popularly
known as giving “greyhound puppies,” a ref-
erence to a Nikolai Gogol character who ac-
cepted only puppies as gifts.
Sergei V. Bobovnikov, a dealer in late
imperial and Soviet-era decorative art, said
artwork and antiquities make fine gifts for bu-
reaucrats today, either to keep or to donate to
museums. Bureaucrats, he said, “are buried
in these gifts on their birthdays, anniversaries
and so on.”
Khochinsky’s client wanted to give them to
Putin, who was then president, with the idea
that he could then donate them to a Russian
library. In this, the billionaire was following a
more recent tradition of currying favor in the
Kremlin by returning cultural and historic
artifacts to Russia. Khochinsky said he saw
special value in the letters as a gift to Putin.
Voltaire, though critical of the 18th-century
French monarchy, had famously praised
Catherine the Great as an enlightened despot.
But now, Khochinsky says, the letters have
vanished and he is out the $869,000 purchase
price. He says the letters disappeared some-
time after he gave them to Russia’s Channel
One, a state television outlet, to arrange a tele-
vised handover of the documents to Putin.
While it is doubtful anyone will ever know
what happened to the letters, one thing seems
certain: Khochinsky’s line of work, if not
Khochinsky himself, will continue to play an
important role in Russia.
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editorials of the timeS
Karzai Relents
Before Afghanistan’s president, Hamid
Karzai, acceded to a runoff election on Tues-
day, you could almost hear his arm being
twisted. And it took a lot of top-level talent to
do it. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clin-
ton, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain
and the French foreign minister, Bernard
Kouchner, all insisted that Karzai accept an
international audit that found that nearly
one-third of his first-round votes were stolen
— driving his final count to below 50 percent.
Even then it took a five-day marathon of
negotiations with Sen. John Kerry, chairman
of the Foreign Relations Committee, to get
Karzai to do what was necessary. And that
was the easy part.
To ensure that the runoff is fair and cred-
ible, it’s going to take a lot more effort and
high-level attention — and even more arm-
twisting. And there are less than three weeks
before the Nov. 7 vote.
A fair election is essential. But if Karzai
wins, it won’t turn him into the credible leader
that the Afghan people deserve and the cred-
ible partner that the United States needs if
there is any hope of holding off the Taliban.
Karzai’s challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, talks
a better game but is untested.
The next Afghan government has no hope at
all unless it is truly committed to rooting out
corruption (Karzai will have to start with his
own brother, who U.S. officials charge is deep-
ly involved in the drug trade) and delivering
basic services and security to its people.
President Obama may still be undecided
about future United States troop levels, but he
should be delivering this message to Afghani-
stan’s leaders — and the U.S. military and dip-
Justice for the Mentally Disabled
After eight years of the Bush administration
using the power of the Justice Department to
undermine civil rights laws, it is good to see
the department applying one of those laws,
the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990.
It has started a timely new initiative aimed
at full enforcement of that law, which forbids
unjustified isolation of the mentally disabled
and requires that they be integrated into the
wider community where appropriate.
The initiative is having its coming-out par-
ty in New York where Justice Department
lawyers are seeking to intervene in a closely
watched federal lawsuit involving thousands
of mentally ill people being held in privately
run adult homes. A federal judge recently
described them as “even more restrictive or
‘institutional’ than psychiatric hospitals” that
they were intended to replace.
In a ruling last month, Judge Nicholas
Garaufis of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn
painted a dismaying picture of adult “homes”
that in no way complied with federal law and
that were more like jails than houses. In these
lomats — right now.
Planning for the Afghan election was well
along before President Obama took office.
But he and his aides should have taken a lot
more care to ensure that Karzai and his chal-
lengers understood that wholesale fraud
would be a disaster — in Afghanistan and in
the United States, where support for the war
is fast evaporating.
The Afghan government must immediately
dismiss any election officials implicated in the
fraud. The United Nations, which sponsored
the independent audit, will have to play a more
robust role in overseeing the preparations for
the vote, monitoring polls and the count. The
United States and NATO must get ready to
provide security for voters and monitors.
To have any chance of producing a legiti-
mate result, both candidates must make
clear that, this time, they are not encouraging
and will not tolerate ballot-box stuffing and
phantom voting. While Karzai’s supporters
accounted for nearly a million tainted ballots,
some 200,000 votes cast for Abdullah were
also thrown out.
Meanwhile, there is talk of a possible po-
litical deal between Karzai and Abdullah that
might obviate the new election. That should
not be anyone’s first choice. If it is unavoid-
able, it must be done constitutionally, and it
must produce a functional government that is
committed to a responsible agenda.
We have watched as American officials de-
bate military strategy for Afghanistan. They
need to devote at least as much attention to
coming up with an effective political strategy.
The lesson of the stolen election is clear: Noth-
ing in Afghanistan can be taken for granted.
places, mentally ill people who did not pres-
ent a danger to themselves or to others had
little of the privacy, freedom or enriching
activities that would help them develop full,
independent lives.
That thousands of New Yorkers were still
confined in this way is striking since the state
already knows the right way to do it. New
York is known nationally for vibrant, innova-
tive housing developments where mentally
ill people live successfully and independently
while receiving mental health and other ser-
vices from community-based groups.
The judge has already required the state to
produce a plan for correcting this egregious
situation with the warehousing of the men-
tally disabled. But in the letter announcing its
intent to intervene, the Justice Department
said this matter was “a great concern’’ to the
federal government. It said it wanted a role in
the process because the remedy designed in
New York might serve as a national model for
dealing with this problem. The onus is now on
the state to come up with that remedy.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7
thomas l. friedman
New Untouchables
Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle
Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in
Washington. Just before the session began,
a man came up, introduced himself as Todd
Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee
was about to speak about — our struggling
public schools — was actually a critical rea-
son for the Great Recession.
There’s something to that. The subprime
mortgage mess coincided with an education
breakdown on Main Street.
“Our education failure is the largest con-
tributing factor to the decline of the American
worker’s global competitiveness, particu-
larly at the middle and bottom ranges,” ar-
gued Martin, a former global executive with
PepsiCo and Kraft Europe and now an inter-
national investor. “This loss of competitive-
ness has weakened the American worker’s
production of wealth, precisely when technol-
ogy brought global competition much closer
to home. So over a decade, American work-
ers have maintained their standard of living
by borrowing and overconsuming vis-à-vis
their real income. When the Great Recession
wiped out all the credit and asset bubbles that
made that overconsumption possible, it left
too many American workers not only deeper
in debt than ever, but out of a job and lacking
the skills to compete globally.”
A Washington lawyer friend recently told
me about layoffs at his firm. Lawyers who
were used to just showing up and having work
handed to them were the first to go because
with the bursting of the credit bubble, that
flow of work just wasn’t there. But those who
have the ability to imagine new services and
new ways to recruit work were being retained.
They are the new untouchables.
Those who are waiting for someone to hand
them work could have a long wait. Those with
the imagination to make themselves untouch-
ables will thrive.
As the Harvard labor expert Lawrence
Katz explains it: “If you think about the labor
market today, the top half of the college mar-
ket, those with the high-end analytical and
problem-solving skills who can compete on
the world market or game the financial sys-
tem or deal with new government regulations,
have done great. But the bottom half of the top,
those engineers and programmers working on
more routine tasks and not actively engaged
in developing new ideas or recombining exist-
ing technologies or thinking about what new
customers want, have done poorly.”
High school grads in construction or manu-
facturing have been clobbered, added Katz.
“But those who have some interpersonal skills
— the salesperson who can deal with custom-
ers face to face or the home contractor who
can help you redesign your kitchen without
going to an architect — have done well.”
Our schools have a doubly hard task now —
not just improving basic skills, but entrepre-
neurship, innovation and creativity.
sports Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8

Sabathia and Rodriguez Power the Yankees in brief

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Yan-
kees are one game away from
the World Series, one win away
from the stage they abandoned
five years ago in an epic playoff
collapse. Their best players are
playing their best when it mat-
ters the most.
C.C. Sabathia and Alex Rodri-
guez powered the Yankees to a
10-1 victory over the Los Angeles
Angels in the American League
Championship Series on Tuesday
at Angel Stadium. The Yankees
lead the series, three games to
one, and can clinch their 40th pen-
nant in Game 5 on Thursday.
They have not been to the
World Series since 2003, when
they lost to Florida in six games
and reacted by trading for Rodri-
guez, the reigning most valuable
player who wilted the next four
Octobers. When they missed the
playoffs last year, the Yankees
N.B.A. Reaches a Deal With the Referees Union
Negotiators for the N.B.A. and
its referees union agreed Tuesday
on a new contract, making it likely
that the league’s regular officials
will be on the court when the regu-
lar season begins next week.
The contract must be ratified
by a majority of the union’s 57
referees, with a vote scheduled
for Friday. A person with direct
knowledge of the negotiations
predicted the deal would be ap-
proved, ending a lockout that be-
gan Sept. 18.
“It’s highly likely the referees
will be back on the court in time
for the season,’’ said the person,
who requested anonymity while
responded by signing Sabathia,
the most coveted free agent.
Working on three days’ rest
Tuesday, Sabathia repeated his
Game 1 performance, allowing
one run in eight innings. It was Sa-
bathia’s first start on three days’
rest since last year’s division se-
ries, when he could not complete
four innings for Milwaukee.
Rodriguez had the best game of
his scintillating postseason, with
a homer, a single, a double, a sto-
len base and three runs scored.
Sabathia allowed a Kendry Mo-
rales homer on Tuesday and just
four other hits, striking out five
and throwing 95 miles per hour in
the eighth inning. He is 3-0 with a
1.19 earned run average in three
postseason starts. Rodriguez is
batting .407 (11 for 27) with five
homers, 11 runs batted in and nine
runs in the playoffs.
The Yankees had little trouble
discussing private negotiations.
Spokesmen for the N.B.A. and
the National Basketball Refer-
ees Association declined to com-
ment.
Both sides have reason for cau-
tion. Negotiators thought they
had an agreement in late Septem-
ber before the union’s executive
board suddenly reversed itself.
With board members split, the
referees overwhelmingly reject-
ed the proposal by a 43-14 vote.
However, the new agreement,
reached during a meeting at the
N.B.A.’s Midtown Manhattan of-
fices, was apparently designed
to meet the referees’ remaining
Tuesday with Scott Kazmir, the
left-hander the Angels acquired
from Tampa Bay in August. Ka-
zmir had humbled most of the
Yankees while pitching for the
Rays, but past results do not often
mean much against a hot team.
Angels Manager Mike Scioscia
pulled Kazmir before he could
face Rodriguez in the fifth, with
the Yankees leading 3-0. After a
leadoff single by Mark Teixeira,
he summoned Jason Bulger, who
had fanned Rodriguez in Game 1.
Bulger had no such luck this
time. Rodriguez turned on his
second pitch and launched it out
to left for his fifth home run in
the playoffs. Only one Yankee,
Bernie Williams in 1996, has ever
hit more homers in a postsea-
son, with six. Williams played 15
games that postseason; Rodri-
guez has played seven.
TYLER KEPNER
concerns.
The meeting took place with
all of the leading principals at the
table, including Commissioner
David Stern and the union’s lead
negotiator Lamell McMorris,
who had both withdrawn from the
process during particularly con-
tentious episodes.
There was increased urgency
for all parties, with the regular
season fast approaching. The first
games will be played Tuesday
night. The referees have missed
two paychecks. The N.B.A. has
not used replacement referees for
a regular-season game since 1995.
 HOWARD BECK
Little College Profit
Fewer than 25 percent of all
major college athletic depart-
ments made money in 2007-8,
according to the N.C.A.A., which
surveyed all 119 Football Bowl
Subdivision members. Of those,
25 reported overall profits for
the fiscal year ending June 2008,
up from 19 in 2006. More than
half of all football and men’s
basketball programs finished
in the black. Only one women’s
basketball team made a profit.
 (AP)
Not So Irrelevant
Kansas City kicker Ryan Suc-
cop, who was Mr. Irrelevant in
the April draft as the last player
chosen, was seemingly the only
relevant player on the field Sun-
day in the Chiefs’ 14-6 victory
over Washington. He was 4 for 4
on his field-goal attempts, scor-
ing 12 of the Chiefs’ 14 points.
 (NYT)
Extension for Cutler
CHICAGO — The Chicago
Bears and quarterback Jay Cut-
ler have agreed on a two-year
contract extension that runs
through the 2013 season. Ac-
quired in a blockbuster trade
from Denver in the offseason,
Cutler has lead Chicago to a 3-2
record. (AP)
NHL scores
MONDAY’S LATE GAMES
Edmonton 2, Vancouver 1
TUESDAY
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 1
Montreal 2, Atlanta 1, SO

WEATHER
High/low temperatures for the 20 hours ended at 4 p.m.
yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches)
for the 18 hours ended at 2 p.m. yesterday. Expected
conditions for today and tomorrow.
Weather conditions: C-clouds, F-fog, H-haze, I-ice, PC-
partly cloudy,R-rain, S-sun, Sh-showers, Sn-snow, SS-
snow showers, T-thunderstorms, Tr-trace, W-windy.
U.S. CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Atlanta 68/ 41 0 73/ 46 S 72/ 53 PC
Albuquerque 71/ 54 0 55/ 45 C 64/ 39 S
Boise 60/ 41 0 62/ 41 PC 63/ 43 C
Boston 65/ 37 0 62/ 50 PC 69/ 51 PC
Buffalo 56/ 48 0 62/ 51 C 62/ 53 C
Charlotte 70/ 34 0 78/ 38 S 76/ 43 PC
Chicago 61/ 48 0 66/ 52 PC 55/ 50 Sh
Cleveland 65/ 48 0 70/ 49 PC 64/ 51 PC
Dallas-Ft. Worth 79/ 59 0 75/ 63 T 64/ 60 C
Denver 51/ 39 0 45/ 31 C 51/ 27 PC
Detroit 65/ 45 0 71/ 50 PC 55/ 53 C
Houston
Kansas City
81/ 61
73/ 55
0
0.01
80/ 68 T
69/ 59 Sh
77/ 72 T
49/ 46 Sh
Los Angeles 74/ 59 0 85/ 60 S 86/ 59 S
Miami 85/ 66 0 86/ 75 PC 87/ 77 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 54/ 46 0 46/ 44 R 47/ 36 PC
New York City 65/ 45 0 68/ 54 PC 73/ 55 PC
Orlando 81/ 57 0 85/ 65 PC 87/ 69 PC
Philadelphia 68/ 39 0 71/ 49 S 75/ 50 PC
Phoenix 83/ 70 0 84/ 61 S 88/ 61 S
Salt Lake City 55/ 46 0.42 61/ 41 PC 60/ 41 PC
San Francisco 64/ 57 0.24 68/ 55 PC 68/ 55 PC
Seattle 53/ 43 0 57/ 50 Sh 58/ 49 C
St. Louis 76/ 52 0 73/ 55 PC 63/ 57 T
Washington 68/ 41 0 72/ 49 S 76/ 53 PC
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 94/ 77 0 86/ 77 PC 88/ 77 PC
Athens 75/ 57 0 73/ 55 S 73/ 57 PC
Beijing 71/ 39 0 66/ 45 S 68/ 52 S
Berlin 47/ 34 0 50/ 36 PC 46/ 39 Sh
Buenos Aires 75/ 46 0 63/ 50 R 72/ 46 PC
Cairo 93/ 75 0 88/ 73 PC 82/ 70 S
Cape Town
Dublin
80/ 57 0
58/ 50 0
73/ 55 S
57/ 50 R
82/ 55 S
59/ 50 R
Geneva 51/ 28 0 64/ 50 Sh 61/ 45 C
Hong Kong 82/ 75 0.01 79/ 73 R 82/ 75 PC
Kingston 90/ 79 0 84/ 77 T 86/ 77 T
Lima 68/ 61 Tr 68/ 62 C 68/ 62 C
London 60/ 41 Tr 63/ 54 C 61/ 54 C
Madrid 61/ 55 0 54/ 50 C 61/ 52 Sh
Mexico City 74/ 52 0 77/ 50 C 79/ 50 PC
Montreal 57/ 43 0 49/ 34 PC 57/ 32 R
Moscow 45/ 28 0 46/ 37 C 46/ 41 R
Nassau 81/ 75 0 88/ 75 S 90/ 75 S
Paris 61/ 36 0.01 61/ 54 R 63/ 50 PC
Prague 40/ 32 0 52/ 34 PC 52/ 43 Sh
Rio de Janeiro 82/ 70 2.24 84/ 66 C 79/ 68 Sh
Rome 61/ 37 0 73/ 57 C 72/ 59 R
Santiago 75/ 48 0 75/ 45 C 77/ 48 PC
Stockholm 45/ 34 0 46/ 36 PC 46/ 39 C
Sydney 79/ 59 0 91/ 61 PC 75/ 61 C
Tokyo 81/ 66 0 70/ 59 PC 72/ 57 PC
Toronto 61/ 52 0 58/ 52 C 55/ 36 C
Vancouver 55/ 48 0 57/ 48 R 57/ 46 C
Warsaw 41/ 30 Tr 43/ 36 Sh 46/ 39 C
sports journal Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9

Baseball’s A-List Has Room for the Phillies n.h.l. standings

PHILADELPHIA — For the Rollins has seen to that. On Mon-
last nine days, my in-box has day, in the bottom of the ninth
been flooded by angry e-mail of Game 4, Rollins, the Phillies’
messages, mostly from fans of shortstop, doubled in the tying
the Philadelphia Phillies who ob- and winning runs as Philadel-
jected to my contention phia pushed the Dodgers
that a Dodgers-Yankees Sports to the brink of elimina-
World Series is what Of tion with a 5-4 victory.
baseball needs and what The Times So much for Yankees-
network executives pri- William C. Dodgers nostalgia.
vately want. Rhoden The great thing
A couple of them even about these playoffs
informed me that a host on WIP is that coaches’ polls and com-
radio in Philadelphia gave me puter rankings don’t factor in.
the honor of being his weasel of It doesn’t matter what you or I
the week. want, or what network execu-
The arguments were familiar. tives want.
The Dodgers are soft, aloof and The only thing that matters is
Hollywood. The Yankees are what unfolded at 11:52 Monday
arrogant, spoiled and overpaid. night when Rollins succeeded
The Phillies, on the other hand, and Dodgers closer Jonathan
work hard, play harder, play fair Broxton failed.
and care more about the game. Despite the snubs, Philadel-
The no-respect theme is a fa- phia plays on, forcing television
miliar lament in Philadelphia, networks to take note.
and in the case of the Phillies this Ryan Howard, the Phillies’
season, the lament is justified. slugger, sat in the middle of the
Despite being the defending clubhouse early Tuesday talk-
World Series champions, the ing about his team, the national
Phillies are treated like step- news media and the notion that
children by the networks, some- the Phillies are not being re-
times relegated to afternoon spected.
or late-night games, while the “There’s only one thing you
Yankees-Red Sox-Dodgers tri- can do, and that’s go out there
umvirate receives top billing. and win,” Howard said. “Wheth-
The Dodgers part of the equa- er they want to respect it or not,
tion is becoming moot; Jimmy doesn’t matter. We’ve got the
trophy; you’ve got to respect the
trophy.”
Howard has heard the Dodg-
ers-Yankees talk. Last year, he
heard the same talk about the de-
sirability of a Red Sox-Dodgers
World Series. Instead, Philadel-
phia played Tampa Bay.
“I don’t think it was the match-
up that people really expected
or wanted to see,” he said. “It
doesn’t matter what you want.
Who’s ever there at the end is
there at the end, whether it’s
Yankees and Phillies, Dodgers-
Yankees, Phillies-Angels.
You’ve got to respect whoever’s
there and whoever wins.”
Can the Dodgers force this
series back to Los Angeles? Of
course they can. Will they? Prob-
ably not.
With an opening win in Game
1, an 11-0 rout in Game 3 and a
spirit-breaking victory in Game
4, the Phillies have effectively
set up shop inside the Dodgers’
heads.
Rollins made the point
throughout the season, and he
made it again Monday night: the
greatest difference between last
year’s run and this year’s is that
this season’s opponents expect
Philadelphia to win as much as
the Phillies themselves expect
to win.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 8 1 0 16 33 19
Rangers 7 2 0 14 35 22
Devils 4 3 0 8 18 19
Phila. 3 2 1 7 21 19
Islanders 0 3 3 3 13 23
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Ottawa 5 2 0 10 22 16
Buffalo 4 1 1 9 18 12
Boston 3 4 0 6 20 23
Montreal 3 5 0 6 17 25
Toronto 0 6 1 1 14 32
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Wash. 4 2 2 10 29 24
Atlanta 4 1 1 9 21 15
Tampa 2 3 2 6 17 27
Carolina 2 4 1 5 15 22
Florida 2 4 0 4 14 22
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 5 2 1 11 29 23
Columbus 5 1 0 10 18 12
St. Louis 3 3 1 7 20 20
Detroit 3 3 1 7 22 25
Nashville 2 4 1 5 10 23
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Colorado 6 1 1 13 28 18
Calgary 5 2 1 11 30 28
Edmonton 5 2 1 11 30 22
Vancou. 3 5 0 6 23 25
Minnesota 1 6 0 2 15 25
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
San Jose 5 3 1 11 32 26
Phoenix 5 2 0 10 18 10
L.A. 5 4 0 10 28 29
Dallas 3 2 3 9 25 24
Anaheim 3 3 1 7 16 21

Complex Patterns Block N.F.L. Deadline Deals Manny Being Manny

Tuesday was the N.F.L.’s an-
nual trading deadline. Little was
expected to occur, and little did.
The blockbuster deals in base-
ball and the salary swaps of the
N.B.A. have few counterparts at
the N.F.L.’s deadline.
Football teams are reluctant to
shake up rosters once the season
has begun; most teams still har-
bor postseason hopes after Week
6, when the deadline arrives each
season. And the salary-cap rami-
fications of dealing or acquiring a
player at that point make it hard
for either side to consummate a
trade.
So while talk swirled in recent
weeks that the Cleveland Browns
would move quarterback Brady
Quinn or returner Josh Cribbs or
that the Buffalo Bills would send
Terrell Owens to a contender
before the 4 p.m. deadline, those
players will spend Week 7 in
the same uniforms they wore in
Week 6.
“It’s too early for teams to start
jettisoning players because it’s
still early in the year,” the former
Kansas City Chiefs executive
Carl Peterson said in a telephone
interview last week.
Peterson ran the Chiefs from
1989 until 2008. Last season, with
Kansas City headed toward a
rebuilding period and off to a 1-5
start, he began to get phone calls
about the Pro Bowl tight end
Tony Gonzalez.
The Green Bay Packers came
closest to making a deal before
the trade deadline, Peterson
said, but their best offer — a
third-round pick for a likely Hall
of Famer — came with conditions
about givebacks that he called
“onerous.” Other teams were
merely bargain hunting; one of-
fered a sixth-round pick, another
a seventh rounder.
“Am I going to do that for Tony
Gonzalez?” Peterson said. “I
think they would have hung me in
Kansas City.”
Peterson passed on the offers,
and the Chiefs found a better one
after the season. Days before the
draft, their new general manag-
er, Scott Pioli, traded Gonzalez to
the Atlanta Falcons for a second-
round pick in 2010.
The Falcons’ president, Rich
McKay, who previously served
as the general manager for both
Atlanta and Tampa Bay, said
the lack of activity at the trad-
ing deadline could be traced to
a simple fact: N.F.L. teams run
complex, one-of-a-kind systems.
That explains why the Bears,
after acquiring defensive end
Gaines Adams last week, did not
bother to activate him for Sun-
day’s game.
“In baseball, you can trade for
a left fielder and he can start for
you that night,” McKay said in
an e-mail message Monday. “In
football, that is simply not the
case.” ANDREW DAS
PHILADELPHIA — Manny
Ramirez reclined in a chair at
his locker on Tuesday, calmly
answering questions about the
dire situation his team was fac-
ing. If he was nervous that his
Los Angeles Dodgers are only
one loss from elimination, there
was scant evidence.
And if he was agitated by the
Dodgers’ loss in Game 4 of the
National League Championship
Series the night before, when
they gave up a ninth-inning lead,
he did not show it then, either.
When Phillies shortstop Jimmy
Rollins came to the plate in the
ninth inning Monday with the
game hanging in the balance,
Ramirez was not on the field or
even in the dugout watching.
“Actually, I was in the show-
er,” he casually remarked, thus
introducing a new entrant into
the Manny-Being-Manny honor
roll. “I only saw the highlight.”
 (NYT)