VOL.CLXI..No. 55,867 ©2012 The New York Times NEWYORK,SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Late Edition Today, clouds, sun, showers, thun- derstorm, cooler, high near 80. To- night, partly cloudy, low 65. Tomor- row, clouds and sun, high 80. Weather map appears on Page D8. $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+%![!.!#!? By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Even by the standards of Capi- tol Hill, where ambitious and awkward young people are thrust together in cramped work- places and crowded bars, the nuptial output of Senator Charles E. Schumer’s office stands out. Schumer staff members, put simply, like to marry each other. There have been 10 weddings so far, and two more scheduled this fall — an average of nearly one “Schumer Marriage” (his term) for each year he has spent in the Senate. Cupid’s arrow lands where it will, but many of the couples say that Mr. Schumer, a New York Democrat, has an unusual knack for guiding its journey. He keeps close track of office romances, quotes marriage-friendly Scrip- ture (“God to man: be fruitful and multiply”), and is known to cajole, nag, and outright pester his staff (at least those he per- ceives as receptive to such pes- tering) toward connubial bliss. Forget Master of the Senate. This is the Yenta of the Senate. “What’s the holdup?” the sena- tor asks couples who are dillydal- lying on an engagement. “Did you get a ring yet?” Other could- be-marrieds receive a simple in- struction: “Get moving!” “He would just keep saying, ‘Let’s go already,’” recalled Sean Sweeney, a top Democratic strat- egist who began dating the wom- an who would become his wife when they were on Mr. Schu- mer’s staff in 1999. When he pro- posed, the senator reacted “like a sportscaster,” Mr. Sweeney said. “‘Goooooal!’” The encouragement rarely stops at the altar. Mr. Schumer is described by aides as a fabulous wedding guest, quick to request a Jefferson Starship song from the D.J. and eager to dance with the bride. And his focus, like many a politician’s, never strays far from his legacy: first comes Schumer Senator, Senator, Make Me a Match: For Staff, Schumer Is Cupid Continued on Page A3 By ANNIE LOWREY WASHINGTON — With the de- bate over the federal deficit roil- ing last year, David Smick, a fi- nancial market consultant, held a dinner for a bipartisan group of connected budget thinkers at his expansive home here. At the table were members of the city’s conservative policy elite,including Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Fed- eral Reserve, and William Kris- tol, the editor of The Weekly Standard. But that evening, none drew more attention than a relatively new member of that best-of class: Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and now Mitt Romney’s running mate, who spoke passionately about the threat posed by the na- tional debt and the radical ac- tions needed to rein it in. “I thought,‘This is the one guy in Washington paying attention,’” said Niall Ferguson, the Harvard economic historian and commen- tator, who spent some of the rest of that evening, along with Mr. Kristol, trying to persuade Mr. Ryan to run for president. Much has been written about Mr. Ryan’s intellectual influ- ences:canonical conservative thinkers like Friedrich von Hayek, the Austrian economist, and Ayn Rand, the novelist and philosopher. Mr. Ryan’s enthusi- asm for them dates at least to his days as a precocious undergradu- ate at Miami University in Ohio. But since first coming to Wash- ington in the early 1990s, Mr. Ryan has been closely tied to an intellectual world more con- cerned with the political agenda Conservative Elite in Capital Pay Heed to Ryan as Thinker Continued on Page A12 Hudson River Park officials are consid- ering shutting down Pier 40 because it has become a financial drain. PAGE A15 NEW YORK A14-17 West Side Pier in Jeopardy By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MOSCOW — Three young women who staged an anti-Putin stunt in Moscow’s main Ortho- dox cathedral, and whose jailing became a cause célèbre champi- oned by artists around the world, were convicted of hooliganism on Friday and sentenced to two years in a penal colony. In the most high-profile rights case here in years, the impris- onment and trial of the women, members of a punk band called Pussy Riot, drew worldwide con- demnation of constraints on polit- ical speech in Russia. Rallies in support of them were held in doz- ens of cities around the world on Friday, including Paris, New York and London, where demon- strators appeared outside the Russian Embassy wearing bala- clavas, the band’s trademark headgear. Human rights groups and Western governments, including the United States, immediately criticized the verdict as unjust and the sentence as unduly se- vere. Because the women acted as a group, they had faced a max- imum sentence of seven years in prison. Prosecutors had urged a three-year sentence. The stiff punishment was handed down by a Moscow judge, Marina Syrova, who described the women as pos- ing a danger to society and said they had committed “grave crimes” including “the insult and humiliation of the Christian faith and inciting religious hatred.” As word of the sentences spread, a crowd of protesters out- side the courthouse howled an- grily, and then seemed to fall into a stunned silence. Sporadic pro- tests and violent arrests contin- ued throughout the evening. While the courtroom emptied, the three women were left in their glass enclosure, nicknamed the aquarium,and photographers were allowed to take pictures. As she was finally led away, the most outspoken of the three, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, said, “We are happy because we brought the revolution closer!” A police officer snapped back, “Well done.” Lawyers for the women said they intended to appeal the deci- sion. ANTI-PUTIN STUNT EARNS PUNK BAND TWO YEARS IN JAIL RUSSIAN CULTURE CLASH Trial of Three Women Put Intense Focus on Free Speech Continued on Page A8 MAXIM SHIPENKOV/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Band members in their Moscow courtroom enclosure, nicknamed the “aquarium,” after the verdict was delivered on Friday. By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — President Obama is set to end his term with dozens fewer lower-court ap- pointments than both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush achieved in their first four years, and probably with less of a last- ing ideological imprint on the ju- diciary than many liberals had hoped for and conservatives had feared. Mr. Obama’s record stems in part from a decision at the start of his presidency to make judicial nominations a lower political pri- ority, according to documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former admin- istration officials and with court watchers from across the politi- cal spectrum. Senate Republi- cans also played a role, ratchet- ing up partisan warfare over judges that has been escalating for the past generation by de- laying even uncontroversial picks who would have been quickly approved in the past. But a good portion of Mr. Oba- ma’s judicial record stems from a deliberate strategy. While Mr. Obama Limits Lasting Stamp On the Courts Continued on Page A11 By JIM YARDLEY BRAJAKHAL, India — Like a fever, fear has spread across In- dia this week, from big cities like Bangalore to smaller places like Mysore, a contagion fueling a message: Run. Head home. Flee. And that is what thousands of mi- grants from the country’s distant northeastern states are doing, jamming into train stations in an exodus challenging the Indian ideals of tolerance and diversity. What began as an isolated communal conflict here in the re- mote state of Assam, a vicious if obscure fight over land and pow- er between Muslims and the in- digenous Bodo tribe, has unex- pectedly set off widespread panic among northeastern migrants who had moved to more prosper- ous cities for a piece of India’s rising affluence. A swirl of unfounded rumors, spread by text messages and so- cial media, had warned of attacks by Muslims against northeastern migrants, prompting the panic and the exodus. Indian leaders, deeply alarmed, have pleaded for calm, and Prime Minister Man- mohan Singh appeared in Parlia- ment on Friday to denounce the rumor mongering and offer re- assurance to northeastern mi- grants. “What is at stake is the unity and integrity of our country,” Mr. Singh said. “What is at stake is communal harmony.” The hysteria in several of the country’s most advanced urban centers has underscored the deep roots of ethnic tensions in India, where communal conflict is usually simplified as Hindu versus Muslim,yet is often far more complex. For decades, Indi- an leaders have mostly managed to isolate and triangulate region- al ethnic conflicts, if not always resolve them, but the public pan- ic this week is a testament to how the old strategies may be less ef- fective in an information age. Last week, the central govern- ment started moving to stabilize Assam, where at least 78 people have been killed and more than Panic Seizes India as a Region’s Strife Radiates JAGADEESH NV/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Migrants in Bangalore trying to board a train home to India’s distant northeast on Thursday. Continued on Page A7 Migrants Flee Cities Amid Rumors of Ethnic Violence By AL BAKER Nearly half of New York City teachers reaching the end of their probations were denied tenure this year, the Education Depart- ment said on Friday, marking the culmination of years of efforts to- ward Mayor Michael R. Bloom- berg’s goal to end “tenure as we know it.” Only 55 percent of eligible teachers, having worked for at least three years, earned tenure in 2012, compared with 97 percent in 2007. An additional 42 percent this year were kept on probation for another year, and 3 percent were denied tenure and fired. Of those whose probations were extended last year, fewer than half won tenure this year, a third were giv- en yet another year to prove themselves, and 16 percent were denied tenure or resigned. The totals reflect a reversal in the way tenure is granted not only in New York City but around the country. While tenure was once considered nearly automat- ic, it has now become something teachers have to earn. A combination of factors — the education reform movement, slow economies that have pinched spending for new teach- ers, and federal grant competi- tions like Race to the Top that en- courage states to change their policies — have led lawmakers to tighten the requirements not only for earning tenure, but for keep- ing it. Idaho last year did away with tenure entirely by passing a law giving newly hired teachers no expectation of a contract renewal from one year to the next. In Florida, all newly hired teachers now must earn an annual con- tract, with renewals based upon their performance. Last month in New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie signed legis- lation overhauling the nation’s oldest tenure law and making it easier for teachers to be fired for poor performance. “There has been a sea change in what’s been happening with the teacher tenure laws,” said Kathy Christie, a senior official with the Education Commission of the States, a policy organiza- tion funded by state fees and grants. “In 2011 there were 18 state legislatures that addressed some component of teacher ten- ure and many of them in a signif- icant way, and that is enormous.” In New York City and many other districts, tenure decisions are increasingly based on how the teachers’ students score on standardized tests, as well as mandatory classroom observa- tions by principals or other ad- ministrators. “It is an important movement because what we know is that IN POLICY SHIFT, FEWER TEACHERS ARE GIVEN TENURE TREND IN CITY AND U.S. Once Nearly Automatic, Status Now Hinges on Performance Continued on Page A3 Gail Collins PAGE A19 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A18-19 Machinists,ignoring their leaders’ rec- ommendation, accepted a new contract that few of them like. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 Pact Ends Caterpillar Strike A horse that recently tested positive for a painkiller broke down and was eutha- nized at a New Mexico track. PAGE D1 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-8 Positive Test and a Breakdown Freed a year ago, three men long im- prisoned for the killings of three Arkan- sas boys are little more than acquaint- ances in a world of possibilities. PAGE A9 NATIONAL A9-13 Separate Paths After Freedom After a decade of Harry Potter movies and a de- tour to Brown and Oxford, Emma Watson is back with a new bag of tricks. T: THE TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE THIS WEEKEND Returning To the Screen Two Special Forces members were shot to death by a new Afghan local police re- cruit they were training. PAGE A8 Afghan Recruit Kills Americans Investigators are looking into Deutsche Bank and other institutions. PAGE B1 Inquiry on Money Laundering The downward spiral in shares of Face- book signals social media’s return to re- ality, James B. Stewart writes. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY End to Social Media Bubble Rebels advanced near the airport in Syria’s commercial capital, Aleppo, as another envoy was chosen to work to- ward a settlement in the war. PAGE A8 INTERNATIONAL A4-8 Syria Rebels Approach Airport Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. 2, starring one of gaming’s great he- roes, right, con- tains the elements of what makes a great video game last. A review. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Mario’s Still On the Case The choice of moderators for the politi- cal debates gave rise to complaints over lack of diversity. PAGE A11 Debating the Debate Choices A2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Errors and Comments: nytnews@nytimes.com or call 1-888-NYT-NEWS (1-888-698-6397). Editorials: letters@nytimes.com or fax (212) 556-3622. Public Editor: Readers dissatisfied with a response or concerned about the paper’s journalistic integrity can reach The Times’s public editor, Art Brisbane,at public@nytimes.com or call (212) 556-7652. Newspaper Delivery: customercare@nytimes.com or call 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637). Inside The Times INTERNATIONAL With Sanctions Looming, Iranians Trade for Dollars With American and European sanc- tions spurring a currency crisis in Iran, officials say a growing number of Iranians are packing trucks with devalued rials and heading to the freewheeling currency market next door in American-occupied Afghani- stan to trade for dollars. PAGE A4 Toll Rises in South Africa The police commissioner of South Africa said 34 people were killed and 78 wounded in what she described as a struggle by the police to contain a crowd of thousands of protesting miners. PAGE A4 Air France Passes the Hat Passengers on an Air France flight to Beirut, Lebanon, had two sur- prises on board: a stop in Damas- cus, and a request for cash to help pay refueling costs. PAGE A4 Heated Remarks in Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran fanned the flames of confron- tation with Israel on the annual Ira- nian holiday that calls for the Pales- tinian reclamation of Jerusalem from Israel’s control. PAGE A6 NATIONAL Prosecutors Drop Case Against Clinic The first criminal prosecution of Planned Parenthood came to an abrupt end when Kansas prosecu- tors dropped all charges against a local affiliate accused of failing to determine the viability of fetuses be- fore abortions were performed. PAGE A9 Beauty Amid Desolation While traditional graffiti may often be seen as a sign of urban decay, Living Walls, an Atlanta-based project,aims to empower, inspire and beautify. It gives 28 artists spaces to create murals in reces- sion-hit areas. PAGE A9 NEW YORK Savoring the Illicit Thrill Of Drinking Outside Stoop drinking. There may be no more archetypal after-dark pastime in the five boroughs of New York in summer. And while it is technically illegal, as stoops can be seen from the street, it persists. Summer Nights. PAGE A14 BUSINESS Stock Market Closes Up For Sixth Straight Week Stocks approached their highest lev- els of the year despite the lack of any major improvement in the econ- omy, closing out their sixth straight positive week. PAGE B1 A Letdown for Investors Potential was supposed to be bound- less for the top brands in social me- dia, but growth has failed to live up to investors’ expectations. Common Sense, James B. Stewart. PAGE B1 Shell Granted Approval Shell is confident it will get final ap- proval from regulators to begin drill- ing for oil off the Alaskan coast this year, despite embarrassing delays and equipment problems. PAGE B2 SPORTS Soccer to Reclaim Spotlight in England It takes something as major as the Olympics for England to forget about soccer, but after a summer off, the English Premier League is back to reclaim its title as the sporting spectacle of note. PAGE D6 ARTS Two Films on Picasso, Highlight Different Eras Two events in Picasso’s life, a quar- ter of a century apart, are at the heart of new movies by two of Spain’s veteran directors: “33 Días” will focus on the artist’s painting of “Guernica,” and “La Banda Picas- so” is about Picasso’s entanglement in the stunning theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris in 1911. PAGE C1 Hilary Kole at 54 Below Hilary Kole mixes cabaret, jazz and pop, and sings originals and works by Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks and George Michael, in a set at 54 Below, Stephen Holden writes. PAGE C6 FRONT PAGE An article on Friday about the United States’ growing imports of Saudi Arabian oil misstated the average number of barrels of Saudi crude imported daily in the first five months of last year, ac- cording to Energy Department estimates. It was 1.15 million bar- rels, not 1.15 million billion bar- rels. NATIONAL An article on Monday about Brig. Gen. Tammy S. Smith, the first openly gay military officer of flag rank, misstated the year she and her partner were married. It was this year, in March — not 2011. SPORTS An Associated Press report in the Sports Briefing column on Thursday about victories by Novak Djokovic and Andy Mur- ray in their opening matches at the Western & Southern Open re- ferred incorrectly to Djokovic’s performance at the London Olympics. He played for the bronze medal, but did not win it. (He lost to Juan Martín del Potro.) Because of an editing error, the On Baseball column on Thursday about San Francisco Giants out- fielder Melky Cabrera’s being suspended 50 games after testing positive for testosterone misstat- ed the time frame when Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sam- my Sosa will appear on the Hall of Fame ballot. It is this winter; they were not on the ballot last winter. WEEKEND A summer “Hot List” recom- mendation on June 22 about the Burning Man festival in Nevada Aug. 27-Sept. 3 misstated the sur- name of a founder of the festival. He is Larry Harvey, not Evans. It also referred incompletely to ticket prices (the event is now sold out). They ranged from $240 to $420, with some “low-income” tickets at $160; they were not all $420. And it also misstated the at- tendance cap. It is 60,900, not 50,000. (The errors were pointed out in an e-mail to The Times this week from the festival’s public relations manager; previous e-mails she sent went astray.) A film review on Friday about “Beloved” misstated a word in a lyric that a character sings to her beloved. The lyric begins “I can live without you,” not “I can’t live without you.” A film review on Friday about “Cosmopolis” misidentified the job held by the character Shiner, who is played by Jay Baruchel. He is Eric Packer’s chief of tech- nology, not his head of security. (Torval, played by Kevin Durand, is the head of security.) T: WOMEN A picture caption on Page 134 this weekend for a Céline bag, one of several new handbags this season, misstates the option for purchasing the $2,100 bag. It is available at Barneys New York, but not through barneys.com. An article on Page 148 this weekend about luxury brands in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, misidentifies the capital of Ka- zakhstan. It is Astana — not Almaty, which was the capital un- til 1997. Corrections ‘‘ If we go back and they attack us again, who will save us? I have visited my home. There is nothing left. ’’ SUBLA MUSHARY, who is living with her two teen- age daughters in a refugee camp after ethnic violence in the state of Assam in India. [A7] QUOTATION OF THE DAY OP-ED Joe Nocera PAGE A19 Charles M. Blow PAGE A19 Bridge C4 Crossword C6 Obituaries B8 TV Listings C8 Weather C8 Commercial Real Estate Market- place B6 The New York Times (ISSN 0362-4331) is published daily. 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THE NEW YORK TIMES 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018-1405 The Downtown Dance Festival featured a variety of styles and themes, including a tribute to Woody Guthrie. Above, Buglisi Dance Theatre performers in “This Is Forever.” ARTS, PAGE C1 PAULA LOBO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES SLIDE SHOWA tide of fear has swept across India as migrants in in the country’s cities have fled amid unfounded rumors that Muslims were planning attacks. nytimes.com/world ONLINE Ø N A3 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 when schools improve, a lot of the improvement relates back to hav- ing really strong teachers organ- ized around a common vision,” said Shael Polakow-Suransky, the city Education Department’s chief academic officer. “I think New York City has some of the best teachers in the country. It is a good place. People want to be here. So we are very fortunate. But we also want to keep pushing them, just like we want to keep pushing our kids.” Tenure does not afford any ad- vantages in pay or job assign- ments, or guarantee permanent employment. Its most important benefit is to grant teachers cer- tain protections against dismissal without justification, including the right to a hearing before an arbitrator. Teachers and their un- ions embrace tenure as an im- portant defense against indis- criminate or politically tinged hiring and firing. Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teach- ers, the city teacher’s union, said that he had always supported a “rigorous but fair” process of granting tenure. But, he said, large numbers of teachers were quitting the profession early in their careers, a sign that the city had not yet figured out how to help them succeed. According to the union, of the 5,231 teachers hired in the 2008-9 school year, nearly 30 percent had quit by the end of their third years. There are roughly 75,000 teachers in New York City schools, the nation’s largest pub- lic school system. “If New York City hopes to have a great school system, it will need to come up with better methods of helping teachers de- velop, not only at the beginning but throughout their careers,” Mr. Mulgrew said. Mr. Polakow-Suransky said it was not uncommon in the United States for teachers to leave the profession in the first few years, when things are the toughest. Ev- ery new teacher in New York re- ceives mentoring in the first year, as a “support system,” he said. “But if someone is not making it, and not happy, or the principal says, ‘You are not cut out for this,’ it is likely that they move on to something else, and that is not a bad thing,” he said. Joel I. Klein, the former schools chancellor, began nudg- ing principals several years ago to judge teachers more critically when deciding on tenure, and the percentage of denials slowly rose. But in 2010, when the mayor set about “ending tenure as we know it so that tenure is awarded for performance, not taken for granted,” 89 percent of teachers were still receiving it after their three-year probations ended. The city’s Education Depart- ment now has a team that trains principals in gathering the kind of evidence needed to assess a teacher’s skills. It also developed a rubric in which teachers were rated on a four-point scale in each of three categories: the teacher’s practice, based in part on class- room observations; students’ learning, which is judged largely on test score improvement; and the contributions the teacher makes to the school community. In each of those, teachers re- ceive a rating of highly effective, effective, developing or ineffec- tive, officials said. There is no hard rule on how many “effec- tives” or “highly effectives” are needed to gain tenure, which 2,186 teachers earned this year. The new system began to take full effect last year, when only 58 percent of teachers gained tenure after three years, and an addi- tional 39 percent had their proba- tions extended. There is no limit to the number of years the city can extend a teacher’s probation, though officials of the Education Department and the union said they had not heard of any teacher receiving more than three exten- sions. One special education teacher in Queens who was given a sec- ond one-year extension this year said that school officials cited im- provements she needed to make but were short on details of what criticisms her principal had. “No specifics were ever given,” said the teacher, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Also, she said, the new tenure evaluations were dividing teach- ers and lowering morale, with some newer teachers feeling pun- ished for the smattering of more experienced ones they saw as us- ing tenure as a “safety net,” but putting forth less effort in the profession.“The bigger picture is that they are trying to end ten- ure,” the teacher said. The nationwide shift on tenure has been remarkable for its speed and breadth, said Sandi Ja- cobs, vice president of the Na- tional Council on Teacher Qual- ity. It was awarded “virtually automatically” in most states as recently as 2009, she said. “Tenure was looked at as much more of a sacred cow,” Ms. Ja- cobs said. “Once states started to move on it, then the dominoes started to fall in other states.” In Shift, Many New York City Teachers Denied Tenure From Page A1 No Longer a Given The percentage of New York City teachers approved for tenure after three years on the job was much lower in 2010-1 and 2011-2 than in previous years. ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 Source: N.Y.C. Department of Education THE NEW YORK TIMES 97% 94 94 89 58 55 A union points out that nearly 30 percent of classroom hires quit in their first 3 years. Marriage, then come Schumer Babies. “Have kids; have a lot of kids,” Mr. Schumer, who has two daughters, is known to intone. “Start early and keep having them.” Sometimes, Mr. Schumer greets a former staff member, “So, is your wife pregnant again?” Other times, he does not even bother with the question. One former aide, who asked not to be named, recalled seeing the senator bump into a recently married couple, both Schumer alumni. “He just stared down at her midsection and said, ‘Well?’” In an interview in his Manhat- tan office, Mr. Schumer grinned and giggled as he recalled the couples he had brought together. “Our staff is a family,” Mr. Schumer said, his voice often tak- ing a paternal tone. “I want them to be happy. I get worried that they’ll be lonely. So I encourage them. If I think it’s a good match, I try to gently — as gently as I can — nudge it.” Mr. Schumer, who prides him- self on training the next genera- tion of Democratic leaders, runs his office like a Congressional West Point: boot-camp hours, sky-high expectations, and a powerful alumni network. Mr. Sweeney runs a major “super PAC” that supports President Obama; another alumnus, Josh Vlasto, is the press secretary for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and he plans this fall to marry Megan Murphy, Mr. Schumer’s schedul- er. But in between teaching the art of press strategy and budget talks, “Chuck,” as his young staff members call him, likes to impart a different kind of counsel: how to live well. His matrimonial maxims are repeated so often that staff members can finish the lines for him. “It brings him joy,” said Risa Heller, a former communications director, one of more than a doz- en former aides who recounted his sayings, often while imitating his voice. “He picks good people to work for him, and when they pick each other, it’s even better.” The senator said he took care to tailor his pitch, realizing that some may be more open than others. But he is known to plot a surprise, now and then.Josh Isay and Cathie Levine met in 1997, when Mr. Schumer was serving in the House. The two thought they had kept their relationship a secret — until Mr. Isay’s going- away party, at which Mr. Schu- mer announced to the entire staff that the couple “can now be pub- lic about what we all already know.” The two were mortified, al- though happy with the enormous grin on Mr. Schumer’s face. The senator later signed the ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract,at their wedding, and stayed late at the reception. “I have pictures of him doing the Love Train,” said Mr. Isay, now an influential politi- cal consultant in New York. Four of the couples inter- viewed for this article recalled similar experiences. “I just about tried to melt into the floor,” laughed Moira Campion McCo- naghy, whose relationship was revealed by the senator at a holi- day party. Later, when she and her boy- friend told Mr. Schumer they were engaged, the senator began recommending reception halls near Ms. McConaghy’s home- town,Endicott, N.Y. “He was bringing his knowledge of the en- tire state to our wedding plan- ning decisions,” said Ms. McCo- naghy, now the legislative direc- tor for Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat. Romance can be inevitable in an office of like-minded young po- liticos. “You have to be a certain type of personality in order to be successful in Schumer World,” Mr. Isay said, describing the sen- ator’s ideal hire as “Type-A, hard-working, fast-talking.” But Mr. Schumer likes to keep a thumb on the scale, interrupt- ing late-night policy meetings to grill aides for gossip on potential couples. And he occasionally counsels against choices that he deems questionable. “Marry a solid, good person,” he says. Daniel Squadron, a former as- sistant to the senator, was set up by Mr. Schumer and his wife, Iris Weinshall, a former New York City transportation commission- er whose chief of staff, Elizabeth Weinstein, had caught Mr. Squadron’s eye. If Ms. Weinshall called, Mr. Schumer “would ask with a gig- gle if I had spoken to Liz,” Mr. Squadron recalled. Once, all four bumped into one another at a Starbucks. The senator “was clearly proud of how flustered we were,” Ms. Weinstein recalled. Years later, after the couple married, Mr. Squadron confided to the senator that Ms. Weinstein was pregnant. Mr. Schumer was so excited that he blurted it out at a news conference — not know- ing that the couple had not yet told friends and colleagues. “After the marriage happens, the immediate question is: when is the baby?” said Mr. Squadron, who is now a New York state sen- ator. “After the baby happens, the immediate question is, when’s the next one?” Mr. Schumer often says his biggest regret was not having more kids. “Everyone has a hole inside themselves,” he said. “They don’t know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it’s so great; it’s just God’s greatest gift to us.” Couples that have not spoken to the senator in years receive calls when their child is born. “I was in a state of shock,” said Lau- ra Block, who gave birth 11 years after leaving Mr. Schumer’s em- ploy. “My phone rang and they said, ‘Can you please hold for Senator Schumer?’ I had just got- ten home from the hospital.” Schumer couples, in turn, often find ways to recognize the sena- tor’s role in their lives. Farrell and Elizabeth Sklerov, who met while interning for Mr. Schumer in 2003, named their black-and- white Shih Tzu after him. Ms. McConaghy, at her wed- ding, played “It’s Raining Men” in his honor. (Mr. Schumer loves the song — in the interview, he explained its message as: “It’s going to rain men, so you’re go- ing to find somebody nice.”) Mr. Schumer, whose wedding in 1980 was encouraged by a col- league in the New York State As- sembly, said his goal was to en- sure that the people under his charge could prosper without sacrificing happiness at home. “There are two tests in life, more important than any other test,” he said, his voice growing soft as the sun set behind him. “On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can’t wait to go to work? And when you’re ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, ‘I can’t wait to go home’?” “If you can say yes to both those tests,” Mr. Schumer said, “God has been good to you, don’t complain.” ‘Senator, Senator, Make Me a Match,’ Staff Says IN-SYNC PHOTOGRAPHY Senator Charles E. Schumer helped many staff members find love, including Cathie Levine, above; Elizabeth and Farrell Sklerov,with their dog Schumer,below left; and Elizabeth Stanley and Sean Sweeney. He has averaged nearly one “Schumer Marriage” for each year in the Senate. From Page A1 SALLY BREWER RICHARD PERRY/THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘He picks good people to work for him, and when they pick each other, it’s even better.’ A4 N SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By LYDIA POLGREEN MARIKANA, South Africa — South Africa’s police commissioner on Friday defended the actions of officers who opened fire on miners a day earlier dur- ing a wildcat strike at a platinum mine. She said the episode left 34 people dead and 78 wounded, a sharply higher toll than initially reported. The commissioner, Riah Phiyega, de- scribed a desperate struggle by the po- lice to contain the machete-wielding crowd of thousands of angry miners who broke through two lines of defense, leaving officers with no choice but to open fire with live ammunition. “The militant group stormed toward the police firing shots and wielding dan- gerous weapons,” Ms. Phiyega said at an emotional news conference here, us- ing an extensive array of aerial pho- tographs and video to demonstrate how the violence unfolded. Previous at- tempts by the 500-strong police force to repel the crowd with rubber bullets, wa- ter cannons and stun grenades had failed, she said. “This is no time for finger-pointing,” Ms. Phiyega said. “It is a time for us to mourn the sad and dark moment we ex- perienced as a country.” It was South Africa’s worst labor- related violence since 1994. The shoot- ings stunned the nation: front pages of newspapers were plastered with pic- tures of dead miners lying in a field above headlines like “Bloodbath” and “Killing Fields.” President Jacob Zuma cut short his trip to neighboring Mozambique for a regional summit meeting to rush to the site of the bloody protest, 60 miles northwest of Johannesburg. “These events are not what we want to see or what we want to become ac- customed to in a democracy that is bound by rule of law,” Mr. Zuma said in prepared remarks. He announced the formation of a commission of inquiry to investigate the illegal strike and the re- sponse of the police. The police retrieved six guns from the protesters, including one that had been taken from a police officer who was hacked to death by the workers earlier in the week, Ms. Phiyega said, as well as many machetes, cudgels and spears. Miners who escaped the melee gave a very different account of what hap- pened when the police closed in on the rocky outcropping they had occupied. A 36-year-old mine employee named Pau- los was among the striking workers on Thursday when the police began encir- cling the rocky hill with razor wire. “They started shooting at us with rubber bullets,” Paulos said. “Then I saw people were falling and dying for real. I knew then they were proper bul- lets.” He struggled to understand why the police had opened fire with live rounds. “I never thought this would happen,” he said. “We thought the police were there to protect us.” Women who said they were wives of missing miners gathered at the site of the protest, waving wooden sticks and singing protest songs. “I don’t know where my husband is, whether he is in jail, among the dead or the injured,” said a woman named Mba- lenhle who declined to give her last name. “Our husbands were only fight- ing for their rights, but the police are killing them.” The shootout followed a tense week of protests by workers at the platinum mine, owned by Lonmin, a London com- pany. The miners walked off the job last Friday, demanding that their wages be tripled. The striking workers are members of a radical labor union that splintered off from the National Union of Minework- ers, one of the country’s biggest and oldest unions. The splinter group claims that the older union, which is closely allied to the African National Congress, is too cozy with big business and the political elite. Frans Baleni, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, reject- ed that notion and said the rival union, the Association of Mine Workers and Construction Union, was giving people false hope, with tragic consequences. “You have opportunists who are abusing ignorant workers,” Mr. Baleni said. “We saw the results yesterday.” South African Police Official Defends Officers Who Fired on Miners SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS Above, South African investigators on Friday surveyed the scene where the police fired on striking miners the day before, killing 34 people and wound- ing 78. Left, a woman protesting the police actions at the Lonmin mine. THEMBA HADEBE/ASSOCIATED PRESS By STEVEN ERLANGER PARIS — The anxieties of an unexpected landing in war-ravaged Syria were compounded for passengers on an Air France flight when they were asked by the crew if they couldn’t possibly, you know, come up with some cash to help out with the refueling. Passengers on Air France Flight 562 were headed from Paris to Beirut, Lebanon,on Wednesday, but the religious and ethnic tensions of the civil war in Syria have spilled over into Leb- anon, too. Unrest around Beirut’s airport made it impossible to land, Air France said on Friday. The crew sought permission to divert to Amman, Jor- dan, but lacked the fuel to make it safely, so ended up in Damascus. (As if the Syrian capital were safer.) Air France stopped flying to Damascus in March as fighting escalated in Syria, and Paris and Damascus are not exactly on good terms these days, with France one of the most vocal countries calling for President Bashar al-Assad and his government to step down and face charges of war crimes. France pulled its ambassador from Damas- cus in March, and in a reflection of the current state of relations, the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, visiting a refugee camp for Syri- ans on the Turkish border, said on Friday: “The Syrian regime should be smashed fast. After hearing the refugees and their account of the massacres of the regime, Mr. Bashar al-Assad doesn’t deserve to be on this earth.” And then there is the matter of European Un- ion sanctions on Syria, which make even buying jet fuel, let alone on credit, a little complicated. Authorities at the Damascus airport told the crew that they could not accept credit cards be- cause of the sanctions — cash only. So as a pre- caution, an Air France spokeswoman said, the crew asked the passengers how much money they happened to have in their wallets to help pay for fuel. A friend of one passenger told Reuters that the passengers were willing. “Because of the ter- rible relations between the two countries and the situation in Syria, the passengers were really worried about landing there,” the friend said. Nei- ther the friend nor the passenger wished to be identified; press officers for Air France normally do not allow their names to be used. In the end, the airline managed to settle the bill without help from the passengers, and the plane took off two hours later to spend the night in Cyprus, where the troubled banks still take credit cards. The plane landed safely on Thursday in Beirut, which had apparently calmed down suf- ficiently in the interim. Air France refused to say how much it paid for the fuel or how it did so. Rerouted to Syria, Travelers Are Asked To Pass the Hat By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ANNIE LOWREY KABUL, Afghanistan — With American and European sanctions spurring a currency crisis in Iran, officials say a growing number of Iranians are packing trucks with de- valued rials and heading to the free- wheeling currency market next door in American-occupied Afghani- stan, to trade for dollars. The rial has lost more than half its value against the dollar, and cross- border bank transfers and currency exchanges have become difficult, as sanctions have slashed Iran’s vital oil revenue and cut the country off from international financial mar- kets. Iranian businesses and indi- viduals are desperate to avoid fur- ther losses, by converting their money and moving it out for safe- keeping. At the same time, the gov- ernment is trying to find alternate ways to bring in hard currency. Enter Afghanistan, where dollars function as a second national cur- rency after years of Western spend- ing and where financial oversight is so lax that billions of dollars in cash leave the country every year. Though Afghan and Western offi- cials say they cannot put a precise figure on the trade with Iran, they see it as a potential challenge to the sanctions, and one that the United States, as Afghanistan’s main bene- factor, helped create. The Iranians are “in essence us- ing our own money, and they’re get- ting around what we’re trying to en- force,” one American official said. It is a new iteration of an endur- ing problem in Afghanistan, where Western officials are already strug- gling to quell a storm of corruption that has undercut the war effort. In the years since the invasion, the country has become a smuggler’s dream, with a booming opium econ- omy and pervasive government graft that is widely believed to be a factor in funneling Western aid money to the Taliban. On its own, the rush of Iranian money to Afghanistan is unlikely to be enough to undercut the sanc- tions, which are the cornerstone of Western efforts to coerce Iran into abandoning its nuclear program. But it is clear that American offi- cials are worried. In one indication, President Obama last month quietly strengthened the sanctions by giv- ing the Treasury Department the capacity to punish any person who buys dollars or precious metals, like gold, on behalf of the Iranian gov- ernment. “We are taking steps to make it more difficult for the government of Iran to satisfy its heightened de- mand for dollars — and making it clear to anyone who provides dol- lars to the government that they face sanctions,” said David S. Co- hen, the Treasury Department un- der secretary for terrorism and fi- nancial intelligence. Afghan money traders said they were told this month by American officials to not conduct business with Arian Bank, an Afghan bank owned by a pair of Iranian banks. The Treasury Department has maintained sanctions against the Afghan and Iranian banks in the past few years, and the traders said they had been recently told that the Afghan bank was being used by the Iranian government to move cash in and out of Afghanistan. Western and Afghan officials, as well as traders in Afghan money markets, said that a number of Ira- nians had started seeking to buy dollars and euros with their rials as American and European sanctions tightened over the past year. The purchases are part of efforts by wealthy and middle-class Irani- ans to protect their savings and business profits by moving them offshore. But with legitimate trans- fers out of Iran virtually impossible because of the sanctions, Iranians are instead converting their rials in Afghanistan, and then moving the money to banks in the Persian Gulf and beyond. “The middle class is in a panic about what to do right now,” said Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, an econo- mist at Virginia Tech and an expert on Iran’s economy. More troublingly, in the eyes of Western officials, the Iranian gov- ernment is seeking to bolster its re- serves of dollars, euros and pre- cious metals to stabilize its ex- change rates and ensure that it can pay for imports. Iran had about $110 billion in foreign currency and pre- cious metal reserves in 2011, and those are believed to be dwindling now. Afghan traders have proved more than willing to trade dollars for rials, usable as a currency in many parts of western Afghanistan, at ad- vantageous exchange rates. Hajji Najeeb Ullah Akhtary, the president of Afghanistan’s Money Exchange Union, an association of traditional money transfer and ex- change businesses that are known as hawalas, said he and his mem- bers had seen a steady increase in Iranians bringing cash into Afghani- stan over the past year. That comes on top of routine transfers made by Afghans living and working in Iran, including more than one million im- poverished refugees, and the reg- Iranian Currency Traders Find a Haven in Afghanistan BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Customers go to money changers in an open-air currency market in Kabul, Afghanistan. Such markets ex- change afghanis, Pakistani rupees, American dollars and Iranian rials, among other currencies. Easing some of the effects of sanctions, in a market the Americans helped create. Continued on Page A6 ØØ N A5 INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By JODI RUDOREN M AALE S HOMRON , West Bank S OME years ago, after the death of a neighborhood teenager, a psychologist asked Dani Dayan, the leader of Israel’s settler movement, what kind of life he wanted for his only child. “If it’s for me to decide, I would like her to establish an outpost on the most challenging hill in Samaria,” Mr. Dayan re- called saying, using the biblical name for the northern swath of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “But she should never forget the road from that hill to the theaters of Tel Aviv and to the museums of Tel Aviv and to the restaurants of Tel Aviv.” From a bedroom window in his spacious, modern home here in this settlement about 20 miles northeast of Tel Aviv, Mr. Dayan — and his daughter, Ofir, 18 — can see the lights that represent those theaters, museums and restaurants. In his mind, he and his family, just by living here in the West Bank rather than yielding it to become a Palestin- ian state, are a “shield” protect- ing those theaters and mu- seums, and the survival of Is- rael itself. “You cannot maintain a Jewish soul of a community if you detach it from history,” he said. “If Israel detaches itself from Hebron and Bet El and Shilo, it will become an empty society, a shallow soci- ety that ultimately will forget why it’s here.” Mr. Dayan, 56, an immigrant from Argentina who got rich run- ning an information technology company, has devoted the past five years to expanding the Jew- ish presence in those and other disputed historic places across the West Bank as chairman of the Yesha Council, which repre- sents 350,000 settlers in 150 com- munities. Passionately ideologi- cal yet profoundly secular, he de- fies the caricature of settlers as gun-toting radicals who attribute their politics to God and the To- rah — he travels the world col- lecting art and wine, and a bald spot occupies the place others re- serve for a skullcap. Mr. Dayan’s movement has had a string of successes this summer. After Israel’s Supreme Court declared the tiny outpost of Ulpana illegal because it sat on private Palestinian land, he helped negotiate 800 new settler homes in exchange for a peaceful evacuation of 30 families.A col- lege in Ariel was elevated to uni- versity status, a first within a set- tlement. A government-appoint- ed commission of three respect- ed judges declared the entire set- tlement enterprise to be legal, contrary to international opinion. Over the last month, Mr. Da- yan declared victory against the two-state solution in an Op-Ed page article in The New York Times and in a lengthy article in The Atlantic. But as The Atlantic noted, he faces an internal battle among the settlers over tactics; many prefer a more principled, confrontational stand to his prag- matic, businesslike approach. On right-wing Web sites, Mr. Dayan has been denounced as a traitor and called “a danger to settlements.” A columnist, Hana- mel Dorfman, declared, “We, the youth of the settlements, of the hilltops, already don’t believe in you.” During the fight over Ulpana, there was a move to unseat Mr. Dayan, which he survived. But some within the movement say they are closely watching how he handles the scheduled move this month of Migron, another out- post declared illegal by the Su- preme Court. “His approach is: ‘O.K., let’s work with what I can do. It’s not good, but it’s good enough,’” said Itzik Shadmi, chairman of the Binyamin Council, which in- cludes about 40 settlements total- ing 50,000 residents. “My ap- proach is to fight until the end, to do some confrontation with the government, in order for every- body to understand that maybe they can win this battle but we will win the war itself.” But Mr. Dayan’s true adver- saries say his pragmatic ap- proach has made him the most effective leader the settlers have had. “Our challenge is to expose him,” said Yariv Oppenheimer, director of Peace Now, which op- poses all settlements. “His agen- da is the same as the most fa- natic right-wing settlers. But he has this ability to hide it and to speak with the public with a much more sensible argument and a much more moderate im- age.” M R. DAYAN — whose fa- ther, Moshe, was a sec- ond cousin of Gen. Moshe Dayan — came from Bue- nos Aires to Tel Aviv in 1971, in a family that revered Ze’ev Jabo- tinsky, the revisionist Zionist who led the underground mili- tary organization Irgun. But his brother, Aryeh, who declined to be interviewed, became a “radi- cal leftist anti-Zionist” journalist, as both men have put it. They re- tain a certain closeness by never mentioning politics: Aryeh re- fused to attend Dani’s wedding in 1987 on the ramp leading to the Temple Mount but joined a re- ception afterward in West Jeru- salem. Their cousin Ilana Dayan, a television journalist, said that Dani Dayan had been immersed in politics since he came of age but that his education in comput- er science and economics had helped “rationalize the dis- course.” “It’s not a debate about wheth- er the Messiah has come or is on his way,” Ms. Dayan said. “He’s talking realpolitik, he’s talking rational, he’s talking cost-benefit analysis. He will try to engage in a civilized and always intriguing argument, and he will try to con- vince you that from the point of view of the Zionist enterprise even the status quo is better than any Peace Now fantasy.” To Mr. Dayan, those who be- lieve in a two-state solution are “either naïve or liars.” He has a two-stage vision: for the next 30 to 40 years, Jews and Palestin- ians should continue to expand their communities in the West Bank, “with the kind of interac- tion that is minimal but allows people to live well.” Later, he imagines, leadership change in Jordan, where ethnic Palestin- ians are a majority, would lead to an arrangement in which the West Bank is jointly governed by Israel and Jordan with “shared responsibilities for two peoples between two states.” “I see a vision of everyone liv- ing normal lives here with a po- litical situation that has to be unique,” Mr. Dayan said one day in May. “There is no other exam- ple in history of a people dis- persed for 2,000 years that comes back to its land and reclaims it. It’s a very peculiar situation and will need a peculiar solution.” Mr. Dayan and his wife, Eynat, moved to Maale Shomron in 1988, living for two years in a trailer, as required by the settlement to prove their commitment. They built a showpiece home, where the sunken double-height living room is filled with a painting from Vietnam, a sculpture from Machu Picchu and a meditation bowl from Nepal. “This is from South Africa,” he said, pointing to a set of large wooden masks. “Post-apartheid South Africa. I refused to visit apartheid South Africa.” T OURING the settlements with Mr. Dayan is like at- tending a family reunion with a proud patriarch. At a plas- tics factory where Jewish and Arab workers take occasional field trips together, he said, “We are much less prejudiced toward Palestinians than Israeli society as a whole.” Leaving the college in Ariel, Mr. Dayan declared, “This is exactly what I want for Judea and Samaria: it’s a univer- sity that has some ideological tone, but it’s 21st-century, and it’s integral to the fabric of Israeli so- ciety.” Sampling robust reds at the Psagot winery, he mused, “This is my dream: to make a combination of mission, ideology, good life — that’s what makes life here permanent.” Standing on a lookout point in Elie, Mr. Dayan surveyed his em- pire, the red-roof settlements that dot the hills in every direc- tion. “When I hear Israeli politi- cians say there are isolated set- tlements that should be removed, I know they have never visited here,” he said. “I got to fulfill the dream of 100 generations. Today, it’s a day-to-day fact.” “You cannot maintain a Jewish soul of a community if you detach it from history.” DANI DAYAN RINA CASTELNUOVO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES THE SATURDAY PROFILE A Settler Leader, Worldly and Pragmatic SCIENCE Push for More Cholera Inoculations Pressure to adopt a cholera vaccine as part of the routine response to outbreaks mounted as two expert panels advised the World Health Organization to use it. On Thursday, experts meeting in Washington endorsed the use of the vaccine to control the continuing outbreak in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Studies conducted by medical charities there showed that two doses gave 90 percent protection. Separately, an expert panel advised the World Health Organization this year to seek enough money to create a global stockpile of two mil- lion doses for emergencies.On Friday,Sierra Leone declared its cholera outbreak a na- tional humanitarian emergency; it has had al- most 11,000 cases and 176 deaths since Janu- ary. Cholera kills through rapid dehydration. The vaccine is for healthy people, but it could be used to surround outbreaks and keep them from spreading. DONALDG.McNEIL Jr. ASIA China: Verdict Soon in Major Trial A Chinese court is expect- ed to issue a verdict on Monday in the murder trial of Gu Kailai, left, who is re- ported to have all but con- fessed to killing a Briton who had been a longtime friend and business associ- ate. The case upended the career of Ms. Gu’s ambi- tious husband, Bo Xilai, and shook the Com- munist Party as it prepares to transfer power to a new generation of leaders. Zhang Ming- wu, vice director of the Anhui Province gov- ernment information office, confirmed that a verdict would be announced Monday. Ms. Gu was tried Aug. 9 along with a fam- ily aide, both of whom are accused in the death of the Briton, Neil Heywood, in Chong- qing, the municipality run by Mr. Bo until March. During the trial, which lasted one day, Ms. Gu acknowledged that she got Mr. Heywood drunk in November and then poured poison into his mouth after he became sick and asked for water, according to an ac- count of the trial released by the official Xin- hua news agency that has been questioned by some analysts. Legal experts say they believe that Ms. Gu will be found guilty but will prob- ably escape execution. ANDREWJACOBS Japan: 14 Chinese Are Sent Home Japan said Friday that it had deported 14 Chi- nese citizens who were arrested on or near a disputed island, moving quickly to defuse a potentially damaging standoff with China. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan and members of his cabinet decided to send the Chinese back rather than to pursue criminal charges, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said. Japanese television showed seven of the Chinese citizens landing in Hong Kong on a commercial flight. The Japanese authorities said the other seven were put back on the boat they had used to reach the island and were being escorted out of Japanese wa- ters. The 14, who included activists and jour- nalists based in Hong Kong, were arrested Wednesday after seven of them arrived by boat on Uotsuri, part of an uninhabited island chain in the East China Sea called the Senka- kus by Japan and Diaoyu by China. The is- lands, controlled by Japan, are also claimed by China and Taiwan. MARTINFACKLER Thailand: 4 Die in Nightclub Fire Four people died and a dozen were injured Friday when a fire broke out at a nightclub on the Thai resort island of Phuket, the police said. The identities of the dead were not known late Friday, Maj. Gen. Chanasit Watta- nawarangkul, the chief of police in Phuket, said by telephone. Phuket is about 510 miles south of Bangkok. General Chanasit said that the fire had occurred after power was cut and then restored during heavy rain in the early hours of Friday. A transformer “exploded,” he said, and the fire spread quickly into the building. Four French citizens were among the injured, one of whom suffered serious burns, Thai news reports said. The nightclub, the Tiger Discotheque, is in Patong, one of the island’s most popular tourist spots. THOMAS FULLER AUSTRALIA Plan for Migrants Draws Warning Australia’s plan to reopen detention centers on remote Pacific islands for asylum seekers and migrants who arrive by sea could violate their human rights and harm their mental health, the United Nations warned on Friday. Both the United Nations’ refugee agency and human rights office said they were studying the plan, announced Monday, to reopen immi- grant detention camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. The plan was announced after a report said 964 asylum seekers had died since 2001 while making the dangerous journey. “While applauding the goal to protect the lives of the migrants and asylum seekers who seek entry to Australia, we are concerned that a reopening of offshore detention centers could result in violations of human rights,” said a United Nations human rights spokes- man, Xabier Celaya. Australia receives a small number of the world’s asylum seekers each year. (REUTERS) EUROPE France: South Struggles With Heat French authorities are fighting wildfires, keeping an eye on isolated elderly popula- tions and advising people to drink fluids as temperatures soar. Heat wave warnings were issued for a swath of central and southern France, from Burgundy to the Pyrenees. Tem- peratures are expected to reach up to 104 de- grees in some areas. The government is de- termined to avoid a repeat of the summer of 2003, when about 15,000 people died during a heat wave. Wildfires raged near Lacanau in the southwest on Thursday. Patrick Stefanini, a prefect for the Aquitaine region, said that they were brought under control Friday morning. (AP) World Briefing A6 N INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By FARES AKRAM GAZA CITY — Every Rama- dan for the past two decades, Mouin Mushtaha has made the pilgrimage to Mecca during the last 10 days of the Muslim holy month. This year, as Ramadan ticked away, he sat gloomily at the office of his tourism agency here, watching the festivities on television. For Mr. Mushtaha, it was not just a lost spiritual experience, but a missed business opportuni- ty: the Ramadan pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia is a major annual source of profit. But Gazans were unable to go to Mecca this season because exits through the Rafah crossing to Egypt were extreme- ly restricted after an Aug. 5 at- tack nearby that killed 16 Egyp- tian soldiers. “I, my wife and our 500 clients were supposed to be there now,” said Mr. Mushtaha, 64, pointing at the television in the air-condi- tioned office of his agency, the Mushtaha Company for Tourism and Travel. “My wife bursts into tears when she watches the Kaa- ba,” he added, referring to the cube-shaped building in Mecca that is among Islam’s most sa- cred sites. Egyptian officials closed Rafah completely for a week after the attack, amid concern that the perpetrators, believed to be from the Sinai Desert, had support from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Though the crossing was reopened several days before this weekend’s conclusion of Ra- madan, exits were limited to those with passports or resi- dences in Arab or European countries, or Gazans with hu- manitarian needs. Hamas, the Islamic movement governing Gaza, has denied any involvement of local residents in the fatal attack, and it shut down smuggling tunnels to Egypt in an effort to show cooperation. Since most residents of the Gaza Strip cannot travel through Israel, these restrictions meant that few were able to make it to Mecca this Ramadan. Muslims are expected at least once in their lifetime to make a major pilgrim- age, known as the hajj, during the final month of the Islamic lunar calendar. A minor pilgrimage, known as an umrah, can be un- dertaken at any time of the year. But an umrah during the final 10 days of Ramadan is considered spiritually equivalent to the hajj. Most Gaza travel agencies pri- marily handle “religious tour- ism,” with hajj and umrah trips forming the bulk of their busi- ness. Awad Abu Mazkour, who represents the travel companies, said that about 3,000 Palestinians were registered for umrah trips over the past 10 days. He estimat- ed the losses of the tourism com- panies at $2 million. Mr. Mushtaha said that his cli- ents had each paid him $1,000 or more, which he had spent weeks ago to book buses, airline tickets and hotel rooms. Now, the would- be pilgrims want their money back, and Mr. Mushtaha said the Hamas government would try to help adjudicate. Portions of ticket fees might be returned, he said, but recouping money from hotels — given their normally strict Ra- madan booking policies and the short notice of the cancellation — was less likely. He said it was the worst crisis facing the company since his fa- ther founded it 46 years ago. “There has never been a closure like this during religious occa- sions,” Mr. Mushtaha said. Sug- gesting that losses be split be- tween the customers and the companies — or, better yet, cov- ered in part by the Hamas gov- ernment — he added, “This is a complicated issue that all parties should work to resolve.” As he spoke, Mr. Mushtaha was interrupted by frequent tele- phone calls from customers seek- ing assurances that they might still make their way to Saudi Ara- bia; he could offer none. “I spent three years saving money and dreaming of this mo- ment,” said Subhia al-Masri, 46. “Losing the money I paid is noth- ing compared to losing the oppor- tunity to visit the Kaaba.” A Gaza Border Slams Shut, and With It, Chances for a Pilgrimage to Mecca HATEM MOUSSA/ASSOCIATED PRESS A Palestinian woman waited to cross into Egypt at Rafah after the Gaza border there reopened. Restrictions on exits have hurt religious tourism for Ramadan. An attack on Egyptians leads to restrictions during Islam’s holy month. ular supply of rials that circulates in Afghanistan. The cash “comes across in trucks,” he said, with transfers arranged by Afghan middlemen who take a 5 to 7 percent commis- sion. Iranians were converting rials into dollars in Kabul, the western border city of Herat and in the southern cities of Kandahar and Ghazni, Mr. Akhtary said. The transactions were largely con- ducted through hawalas, which allow people to transfer large sums of money for small fees to relatives or business associates in distant locales within minutes. The dealers in various places cover one another to make the system work, and settle up after the fact. The markets are often ram- shackle affairs that give little hint of the vast sums being moved. Kabul’s hawala market, for in- stance, is little more than a few dingy lanes hidden away on the banks of the Kabul River, a trick- le of fetid water that winds along trash-strewed banks. But it does huge business. Outside its store- fronts, men sit on the pavement behind rickety tables piled high with afghanis, Pakistani rupees, American dollars and Iranian rials, among other currencies. One hawala dealer, Hajji Ah- med Shah Hakimi, said two routes were primarily used to bring cash in from Iran: one di- rectly across the border with Iran and another through Pakistan. Both he and Mr. Akhtary in- sisted that they were not in- volved in smuggling cash for Ira- nians or anyone else, but that other hawala traders were. Mr. Hakimi said the sanctions on Iran were seen in Afghanistan as an American issue, and that is why some Afghans had no prob- lem smuggling money for Irani- ans. Some Afghan officials ech- oed that view, saying the Iranian money flow was not a top con- cern, though the broader prob- lem of bulk cash smuggling was. The flow of cash in and out of Afghanistan goes largely unmon- itored and unimpeded, a “coun- try-sized” money-laundering op- eration, said a European forensic auditor who has tracked financial crime in Afghanistan and spoke on the condition of anonymity. In 2011, an estimated $4.6 bil- lion, a sum equivalent to roughly a third of Afghanistan’s gross do- mestic product, was stuffed into suitcases, shrink-wrapped onto pallets or packed into boxes and flown out of Kabul’s airport on commercial airline flights, most of them headed for Dubai, United Arab Emirates, according to the central bank. Though new rules and better enforcement have begun to cut into the cash flying out of Kabul, it is anyone’s guess how much moved out of Afghanistan over- land on trucks or on twice-weekly flights to Dubai from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, said an Af- ghan official who tracks suspi- cious financial transactions and spoke on the condition of ano- nymity. “Kandahar?” he said. “We have no idea what is going there.” Iranian Currency Traders Find a Haven in Afghanistan From Page A4 BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Money piled up on a walkway at a currency market in Kabul. Some Iranian money arrives in Kabul by way of Pakistan. A ‘country-sized’ money-laundering operation that is largely unmonitored. Matthew Rosenberg reported from Kabul, and Annie Lowrey from Washington. By RICK GLADSTONE Iran’s president fanned the flames of confrontation with Is- rael on Friday, calling the Israeli government “an insult to human- kind” in a speech on the annual Iranian holiday that calls for the Palestinian reclamation of Jeru- salem from Israel’s control. The speech by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has become known for his baldly anti- Israel and anti-Semitic remarks, came as tensions had been inten- sifying with Israel, which regards Iran’s nuclear program as an ex- istential threat. Speculation has raged in the Is- raeli press about whether the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has de- cided to order a military strike on uranium enrichment sites in Iran that Israel suspects are part of a clandestine effort to build nuclear weapons. Iran contends that its uranium enrichment is peaceful. Mr. Ahmadinejad’s speech, as reported by the official Islamic Republic News Agency, added some new and incendiary flour- ishes to a theme he had pushed for his entire presidency. “The very existence of the Zi- onist regime is an insult to hu- mankind and an affront to all world nations,” the news agen- cy’s English-language report on the speech quoted him as saying. “Confronting Zionists will also pave the way for saving the whole humankind from exploita- tion, depravity and misery.” In another passage, Mr. Ahma- dinejad was quoted as saying that Jerusalem Day, which the Iranians call Quds Day after the city’s Arabic name, was “an occa- sion for all human communities to wipe out this scarlet letter, meaning the Zionist regime, from the forehead of humanity.” A violently anti-Israel message was also the theme of Jerusalem Day commemorations in Beirut, Lebanon, the home base of Hez- bollah, the militant political or- ganization that fought a war with Israel in 2006 and is aligned with the governments of Iran and Syr- ia in what they call the axis of re- sistance. Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah secretary general, said in a televised speech that its ar- senal of missiles trained on Israel included precision-guided rock- ets that could transform “the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists into hell.” Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary because of Iran’s suspect nuclear program, missiles capable of hitting Israeli targets,and support for militant Palestinian groups on Israel’s borders. Conversely, Iran’s cler- ical rulers have considered Israel one of the world’s most arrogant and dangerous powers since they came to power in the Islamic rev- olution of 1979. Iranian officials constantly point out that even though they repudiate nuclear weapons, Israel has an arsenal of them. Both Mr. Ahmadinejad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have regularly ex- coriated Israel’s existence, but Israel harbors particular antipa- thy toward Mr. Ahmadinejad, who has denied the Holocaust and predicted in a speech early in his tenure that Israel would one day be “wiped off the map.” PHOTOGRAPHS BY BEHROUZ MEHRI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Iranian men watched an anti-Israel demonstration in Tehran on Friday. An annual event celebrates solidarity with Palestinians. Iran’s President Calls Israel ‘an Insult to Humankind’ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran was surrounded by his bodyguards at the demonstration, where he spoke. On a holiday, Ahmadinejad adds flourishes to a familiar theme. Ø N A7 INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 300,000 have fled their homes for refugee camps. Then Muslims staged a large, angry protest in Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, on the western coast. A wave of fear began sweeping through the migrant communi- ties after several people from the northeast were beaten up in Pune, a city not far from Mumbai. By Wednesday and Thursday, the exodus had begun. So many people were pouring into train stations in Bangalore and Chen- nai that the Railways Ministry later added special services to certain northeastern cities. By Friday, even as some of the fears eased in the biggest cities, people were leaving smaller cities, in- cluding Mysore and Mangalore. To many northeastern mi- grants, the impulse to rush home — despite the trouble in Assam — is a reminder of how alienated many feel from mainstream In- dia. The northeast, tethered to the rest of the country by a nar- row finger of land, has always been neglected. Populated by a complex mosaic of ethnic groups, the seven states of the northeast have also been plagued by insur- gencies and rivalries as different groups compete for power. Here in Assam, the underlying frictions are over the control of land, immigration pressures and the fight for political power. The savagery and starkness of the vi- olence have been startling. Of the 78 people killed, some were butchered. More than 14,000 homes have been burned. That 300,000 people are in refugee camps is remarkable; had so many people fled across sub-Sa- haran Africa to escape ethnic persecution, a humanitarian cri- sis almost certainly would have been declared. “If we go back and they attack us again, who will save us?” asked Subla Mushary, 35, who is now living with her two teenage daughters at a camp for Bodos. “I have visited my home. There is nothing left.” Assam, which has about 31 mil- lion people, has a long history of ethnic strife. The current vio- lence is focused on the western- most region of the state, which is claimed by the Bodos as their homeland. For years, Bodo insur- gent groups fought for political autonomy, with some seeking statehood and others seeking an independent Bodo nation. In 2003, India’s central govern- ment, then led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, brokered a deal in which Bodo insurgents agreed to cease their rebellions in ex- change for the creation of a spe- cial autonomous region, now known as the Bodoland Territori- al Autonomous Districts. It was a formula long used by Indian lead- ers to subdue regional rebellions: persuade rebels to trade the pow- er of the gun for the power of the ballot box. Now the Bodos dominate the government overseeing the au- tonomous districts, even though they are not a majority, account- ing for about 29 percent of a pop- ulation otherwise splintered among Muslims, other indige- nous tribal groups, Hindus and other native Assamese. Competi- tion over landownership is a source of rivalry and resent- ment: the land rights of Muslims are tightly restricted inside the special districts, even though they constitute the region’s sec- ond-largest group, after the Bodos. “This whole fight is about land and capturing power,” said Mau- lana Badruddin Ajmal, a member of Parliament and a Muslim lead- er in a neighboring district. “It is not a religious fight.” These resentments exploded in July and early August, after an escalating cycle of attacks be- tween Muslims and Bodos. Soon entire villages were being looted and burned. The authorities have made few arrests, and each side has blamed the other. The Bodos say illegal Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh are streaming into the autonomous districts and taking over vacant land; Mus- lims say such claims are a smo- kescreen intended to disguise a Bodo campaign to drive out right- ful Muslim residents in a cam- paign similar to so-called ethnic cleansing. During the worst violence, the state government in Assam seemed paralyzed. One issue is that many former Bodo rebels never turned over their automat- ic weapons; some Muslims driv- en from their homes say Bodos scared them off by firing AK-47s into the air. To visit some of the affected villages is to witness the eerie si- lence of lives brutally interrupt- ed. In Brajakhal, the entire Mus- lim section was burned and looted, while the homes of non- Muslims were left untouched. In the nearby village of Chengdala, each side apparently attacked the other — both the Bodo and Mus- lim homes are destroyed, with a handful of others left standing. Sumitra Nazary, a Bodo wom- an, said her elderly father was bludgeoned to death with an ax. “He was paralyzed,” she said. “He couldn’t run away.” It is uncertain when the people in the refugee camps will be able to return to their villages. Para- military units and Assam police officers have erected temporary guard posts outside many of the destroyed or looted villages, promising security. Assam’s chief minister ordered refugees to begin returning to their homes this week, even as new violence was reported in some areas. At the camps, life is increas- ingly miserable. This week, two members of the National Com- mission for Minorities visited the region and documented problems with sanitation, malnutrition and living conditions at different camps, particularly those inhab- ited by Muslims. One camp had 10 makeshift toilets for 4,300 peo- ple. At another camp, they re- ported, more than 6,500 people were crammed into a converted high school, including 30 preg- nant women. The scene was little different at a Muslim refugee camp created at the Srirampur R.M.E. School. More than 5,200 people were liv- ing on the grounds, crowded un- der the shade of trees to hide from the broiling midday sun. Goi Mohammad Sheikh, 39, brought his wife and five children to the camp,but was returning to their village at night to protect their home. It had been looted but not burned, he said, and he and a group of other men were stand- ing guard. “We want to protect our houses,” he said. “In some vil- lages, it will not be possible to go back. It is too dangerous. But we will not leave our village. If they kill us, let them kill us. How do we leave our motherland?” As Distant Region’s Strife Radiates, Panic Grips India and Prompts Exodus From Page A1 PHOTOGRAPHS BY PRASHANTH VISHWANATHAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The burned remains of a home belonging to Muslims in Assam State in northeastern India. Dozens have died in violence between Muslims and the Bodo tribe. Above, Bodo tribeswoman at a relief camp in Assam State. Right, a Muslim who suffered chest pain during a scuffle with the Assam police at another camp. C HIN A M YANMAR N EPA L BHU TAN B o d o la n d INDIA INDIA A SS A M Bra jak ha al h N G D GLA D DES H BAN NGLADESH Brahmaputra River ang ang ang Gan nges ve ve v e Rive v e ver ve i 100 Mil e s P un e C hennai Bay o f Ben g al INDI A A rea o f detai l N ew D e lhi Mysore e Banga alore Mum Mumbai THE NEW YORK TIMES India’s northeast is isolated from the rest of the country. An illustration of how quickly fear can be spread in the digital age. A bloody rift that is less about religion than it is about land and power. Hari Kumar contributed report- ing. By CHOE SANG-HUN SEOUL, South Korea — The uncle of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, met on Friday in Beijing with President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China, indicating his growing influence as a crucial adviser to the young Mr. Kim. China’s official media said the trip could be a prelude to Mr. Kim’s first visit, but the official fo- cus was economic development. The meetings between Mr. Kim’s uncle, Jang Song-thaek, and the top Chinese leaders came toward the end of his six-day trip to Chi- na, during which the government in Beijing promised to help North Korea develop two special trade zones near the Chinese border. Such zones, if successful, would provide the North Korean gov- ernment with badly needed money as it tries to revive its staggering economy. Mr. Jang, 66, widely seen as Mr. Kim’s point man in oversee- ing the development of the zones, is the most powerful North Kore- an official to visit China since Mr. Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, went there in August 2011. South Kore- an analysts consider Mr. Jang to be a significant influence in Kim Jong-un’s recent efforts to tame his military and carry out his eco- nomic revitalization program, which, according to South Kore- an news media, includes allowing farmers to own part of their an- nual yield as an incentive. Such a plan, if put into effect, would be one of the most drastic reforms in North Korea, which officially sticks to “socialist economic prin- ciples.” Mr. Jang is the brother-in-law of Mr. Kim’s father, who died in December. When Kim Jong-il was alive, Mr. Jang often pre- ferred to stand in the background while party secretaries and mil- itary leaders stood closer to the elder Mr. Kim during official functions. Mr. Kim once banished Mr. Jang from Pyongyang, the capital. But his prominence has risen with the ascension of Kim Jong- un. Mr. Jang and his wife have climbed the party hierarchy as they worked to ensure a smooth transition of power in the Kim dy- nasty. North Korea’s state-run news media have provided daily up- dates on Mr. Jang’s trip, cover- age that is highly unusual for anyone except for the top leader. Bolstering that prominence was China’s willingness to grant Mr. Jang meetings with its top lead- ers — a treatment that South Ko- rean news media called “a level befitting a head of state.” Mr. Jang was visiting China as the chief of the central administra- tive department of the Workers’ Party of Korea. This week, his delegation signed several agreements with China on the development of spe- cial economic zones in Rason, on North Korea’s northern tip, and in Hwanggumpyong, a North Ko- rean island in the Yalu River that marks the southwestern border with China. Development there has been stalled for years, partly because of political tensions over the North’s nuclear program, but also because of poor infrastruc- ture. This week, China agreed to help build roads and provide elec- tricity. In a meeting on Thursday, Wang Jiarui, leader of the in- ternational liaison department of the Communist Party of China, told Mr. Jang that China was ready to “deepen cooperation in all areas, including the economy and trade,” Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said. China’s importance for North Korea has grown in recent years as United Nations sanctions have tightened and aid and trade with countries like South Korea have been chilled by the North’s nucle- ar and missile tests. Mr. Hu and Mr. Wen expressed their condolences for the recent flood victims in North Korea, Chi- na’s state news media reported. Nearly 200 people were killed in heavy flooding, according to the North Korean government, which has asked for humanitar- ian aid from the United Nations. South Korean news media have speculated that Mr. Jang might also have asked China for eco- nomic aid. China gives priority to ensur- ing stability in North Korea, but some analysts question whether that approach gives North Korea too much leeway. “But China’s unconditional economic support for North Korea has brought few political returns,” Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, the China and Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, said in an analysis on the Web site 38 North. “There are in- dications that North Korea is stepping up uranium enrichment and expanding its arsenal of nu- clear weapons.” North Korean Official Cements Status in Beijing Visit MA ZHANCHENG/XINHUA, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS President Hu Jintao, right, greeting Jang Song-thaek on Friday in a photo released by China’s official Xinhua News Agency. An uncle of Kim Jong-un moves from the background into a position of power. A8 N INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By RICK GLADSTONE and HWAIDA SAAD Syrian insurgents fighting loy- alist forces in the northern city of Aleppo seized areas near its air- port on Friday, threatening the government’s control of a stra- tegically vital supply conduit and scoring a propaganda victory in what has become a protracted battle in Syria’s largest metropo- lis. Rebel commanders reached by phone said their fighters had ad- vanced to within a few hundred yards of the airport perimeter. Syria’s state-run media, which have portrayed the Aleppo fight- ing by insurgents as a futile effort by criminal gangs, inadvertently confirmed the insurgent ad- vance, reporting that govern- ment troops deployed around the airport had repulsed attacks. “Our fighters are in all neigh- borhoods close to the airport,” said a rebel commander who identified himself as a former air force pilot named Wasel. The commander, who did not provide his full name for security rea- sons, also said the insurgents were benefiting from replenished supplies of ammunition after chronic shortages, “which is a reason for this progress.” The Aleppo fighting, as well as heavy clashes reported by activ- ists in the Damascus area, came as the United Nations and the Arab League announced a suc- cessor for Kofi Annan, the special Syria envoy who resigned in frus- tration two weeks ago over his in- ability to halt the conflict, now in its 18th month. Mr. Annan’s suc- cessor, Lakhdar Brahimi, a for- mer Algerian foreign minister and veteran diplomat who helped broker the end of Lebanon’s civil war, is expected to take up his new role in coming days. Mr. Brahimi’s appointment was announced in a brief state- ment by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general. “The violence and the suffer- ing in Syria must come to an end,” Mr. Ban said in the state- ment. “The secretary general ap- preciates Mr. Brahimi’s willing- ness to bring his considerable tal- ents and experience to this cru- cial task, for which he will need, and rightly expects, the strong, clear and unified support of the international community, includ- ing the Security Council.” Mr. Ban’s statement appeared to be a diplomatic swipe at the Security Council, which has been deeply divided over how to deal with Syria since the political up- rising against President Bashar al-Assad began. Russia and Chi- na, permanent Council members with veto power, blocked efforts by the other members to threaten the Syrian government with coer- cive measures over Mr. Assad’s harsh repression of protesters and his failure to implement Mr. Annan’s peace plan as promised. Mr. Annan, who called his job “Mission: Impossible,” attributed his failure in Syria partly to his inability to bring such pressure to bear. Mr. Brahimi, who has done oth- er troubleshooting work for the United Nations, including in Af- ghanistan and Iraq, did not im- mediately comment on his ap- pointment. But he issued a state- ment last week deploring the vio- lence in Syria and calling on all Syrians to embrace tolerance as part of a new formula for peace. “In the meantime, the U.N. Se- curity Council and regional states must unite to ensure that a politi- cal transition can take place as soon as possible,” Mr. Brahimi said in the statement, which was issued in his capacity as a mem- ber of the Elders, a group of ac- complished international leaders that also includes Mr. Annan. The appointment of Mr. Brahi- mi was announced a day after the Security Council decided to end the United Nations observer mis- sion in Syria, which was created in March as part of Mr. Annan’s peace plan. Disregard for the plan by Mr. Assad’s forces and the rebels seeking to topple him made the presence of the observ- ers irrelevant and endangered their safety. President Assad has found it increasingly difficult to portray an image of confidence and con- trol, undermined by a rash of de- fections and improvements in the fighting ability of the insurgents, who are getting military assist- ance from Turkey, Qatar and Sau- di Arabia, and now occupy pieces of territory along the Turkish border. They have tied down Syr- ian military units in Aleppo, Da- mascus and other major cities. The highest-ranking defector so far, Riyad Farid Hijab, the for- mer prime minister, visited Qatar on Friday for what his spokes- man said were discussions on “unifying the efforts of the oppo- sition to accelerate the pace of the downfall of the regime,” Reu- ters reported. Mr. Assad’s authority has also been weakened by an increas- ingly urgent humanitarian crisis in Syria, where, according to the United Nations, an estimated 2.5 million people need aid, more than one million have been up- rooted from their homes and tens of thousands have fled to neigh- boring countries, mostly Turkey. “Fighting continues in and around other cities in addition to Aleppo, including Homs, Damas- cus, Deir al-Zour, Idlib and Dara’a,” Marianne Gasser, the head of the International Com- mittee of the Red Cross delega- tion in Damascus, said in a state- ment on its Web site. “We are very concerned about the effects that the fighting is having on ci- vilians in these areas.” In a new threat, the World Health Organization reported that contamination in the water supply of rural Damascus from sewage had caused an outbreak of diarrhea. The Red Cross said its aid teams were working on water systems in Aleppo, rural Damascus, Deir al-Zour and Homs. PHIL MOORE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Syrians in Azaz, north of the commercial capital, Aleppo, in- spected a damaged tank next to a bombed mosque on Friday. Syrian Rebel Forces Advance Close to the Airport at Aleppo Rick Gladstone reported from New York, and Hwaida Saad from Antakya, Turkey. not been able to regain any terri- tory lost, and so they’re resorting to these kinds of attacks to create havoc,” Mr. Panetta said. About 11 percent of the “insider attacks” are because of Taliban infiltration into the Afghan secu- rity forces, Pentagon officials said on Friday, citing a new anal- ysis by the international military coalition in Afghanistan. The ma- jority of the attacks, they said, are for other reasons, including grudges and conflicts between NATO and Afghan forces. The Taliban, however, have fre- quently claimed responsibility for such attacks. In a public state- ment to observe the end of Rama- dan, the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said infiltra- tion of Afghan security forces by insurgents had been one of the group’s successes. “The enemy is not able to take a breath of relief in the main cit- ies, rural areas and even in their barricaded garrisons,” he said. “The foreign invaders and their allies in their military centers and bases do come under crush- ing blows of these heroic sol- diers.” Major Crighton said that the attacks on Friday were not car- ried out by Taliban infiltrators wearing Afghan uniforms, but By GRAHAM BOWLEY and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. KABUL, Afghanistan — Two American Special Forces mem- bers were shot to death on Friday by a new Afghan local police re- cruit they were training at a small outpost in western Afghan- istan. In a second “green-on-blue” at- tack on Friday, in the south, an Afghan security force member turned his weapon on other in- ternational service personnel, wounding two American soldiers, NATO and Afghan officials said. The two American service members who died were part of a Special Operations team working with the local police in Farah Province in the west of Afghani- stan, according to a NATO official who spoke on condition of ano- nymity because he was not au- thorized to comment on the at- tack. The Americans belonged to United States Forces-Afghani- stan, a command separate from the main NATO force. Special Operations forces are working closely with Afghan forces on the Afghan Local Police initiative, a group trained and fi- nanced by the United States and viewed as an important stopgap to secure remote corners of Af- ghanistan as international troops withdraw. Another American Special Forces service member was wounded and an Afghan po- lice recruit was killed in the shooting, said Aqa Noor Kentoz, the police chief of Farah Prov- ince. Mr. Kentoz identified the at- tacker. “When the training fin- ished, the ALP soldier Moham- mad Ismail turned his weapon to- ward our allies and killed two of them,” Mr. Kentoz said. In the second attack, in Kanda- har Province in the south, a member of the Afghan security forces shot at NATO service members. Nobody was killed, but some soldiers were wounded, said Maj. Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for the NATO-led In- ternational Security Assistance Force in Kabul. Major Crighton did not give the nationality of those NATO service members who were injured. But another coalition official, who spoke anon- ymously because he was not au- thorized to comment on the na- tionality of those injured in the at- tack, said the shooting wounded two American troops. In both cases, in Farah and Kandahar Provinces, the shoot- ings were carried out by individ- ual attackers, and both were shot and killed, Major Crighton said. The shootings were the latest in a spate of attacks by Afghan forces on their coalition counter- parts. The assaults have intensified in recent years in Afghanistan, where the military has called them green-on-blue attacks. Re- cently, however, the military has begun referring to them as insid- er attacks, including violence by people who are working inside the security force system but who may not be active members themselves. With the two epi- sodes on Friday morning, there have now been at least 31 such at- tacks in Afghanistan so far this year, including 21 that have re- sulted in fatalities. All told, the deaths of at least 39 NATO service members dur- ing the first eight months of 2012 have been attributed to these shootings. Those numbers for deaths and attacks already sur- pass the figures for green-on- blue attacks for all of 2011. The increase in the rate of this kind of violence has prompted Af- ghan and NATO military leaders — who are worried about the im- pact on morale and the propagan- da boost the attacks give to the insurgents — to investigate the circumstances surrounding each one. Defense Secretary Leon E. Pa- netta this week suggested that the Taliban were at least partly behind the increase in the vio- lence. “The reality is the Taliban has were members of the Afghan se- curity forces, according to the preliminary investigation. “Oper- ational reporting confirms that both cases involved members of the Afghan national security forces,” he said. Abdul Rahman Zowandi, a spokesman for the Farah gover- nor’s office, said the attacker in Farah, Mohammad Ismail, was a 60-year-old man who had been hired only two weeks earlier to train as a local police officer. Mr. Zowandi said the attacker opened fire on the American sol- diers as they were training his lo- cal police unit in the Bala Bolok district of Farah Province. He said that the local police unit had been established only two weeks ago, and that the police officers had all been hired from the local district. In a statement on the Farah shooting, United States Forces- Afghanistan said: “Two U.S. Forces-Afghanistan service members died this morning as a result of an insider threat attack in Farah Province.” It said, “Officials are investi- gating the incident to determine the facts, and as more informa- tion becomes available it will be released as appropriate.” Afghan Police Recruit Turns His Weapon on His American Trainers, Killing 2 An employee of The New York Times and Habib Zahori contrib- uted reporting from Kabul, and Elisabeth Bumiller from Washing- ton. Russia has seen an upwelling of dissent since disputed parlia- mentary elections last December, including demonstrations that drew tens of thousands of people onto the streets of Moscow. But the Pussy Riot case in recent weeks morphed into an interna- tional sensation, and focused in- tense attention on the efforts of the recently reinstalled presi- dent, Vladimir V. Putin, to clamp down on the opposition. This was partly because of the sympathetic appearance of the defendants — two are mothers of young children — and partly be- cause their group uses music to carry its message. But it also set them in a David-and-Goliath struggle against a formidable power structure: the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. But while the case has allowed critics of Mr. Putin to portray his government as squelching free speech and presiding over a rigged judicial system, it has also given the government an oppor- tunity to portray its political op- ponents as obscene, disrespectful rabble-rousers, liberal urbanites backed by the West in a conspir- acy against the Russian state and the Russian church. The extent of the culture clash was evident this month when Madonna paused during a con- cert in Moscow to urge the re- lease of the women, who have been jailed since March, and per- formed in a black bra with “Pus- sy Riot” stenciled in bold letters on her back. The next day, Dmi- try Rogozin, a deputy prime min- ister, posted a Twitter message calling Madonna a “whore.” On Friday, the Russian Ortho- dox Church issued a statement that referred to Nazi aggression and the militant atheism of the Soviet era, and said,“What hap- pened is blasphemy and sacri- lege, the conscious and deliberate insult to the sanctuary and a manifestation of hostility to mil- lions of people.” The case began in February when the women infiltrated the Cathedral of Christ the Savior wearing colorful balaclavas, and pranced around in front of the golden Holy Doors leading to the altar, dancing, chanting and lip- syncing for what would later be- come a music video of a profane song in which they beseeched the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Mr. Putin. Security guards quickly stripped them of their guitars, but the video was completed with splices of footage from another church. Because of the support they have received from stars like Ma- donna and Sting, the women of Pussy Riot have become more fa- mous, at least outside Russia, than other political opposition leaders here, some of whom are also the subjects of investigations and prosecutions. But while the women became minor celebrities, Pussy Riot is far more political than musical: Its members have never com- mercially released a song or an album, and they do not seem to have any serious aspirations to do so. When their trial opened late last month, the women apolo- gized, saying they had never in- tended to offend the Orthodox church but rather sought to make a political statement against Mr. Putin and against the church pa- triarch, Kirill I, for supporting Mr. Putin’s campaign for a third term as president. But Judge Syrova, delivering her decision, said that the politi- cal comments were spliced into the video later, and that the ac- tion in the church was therefore motivated by religious hatred. She also cited evidence that the women had psychological dis- orders, and she criticized them for embracing feminism, though she noted that “belonging to feminism in the Russian Feder- ation is not a legal violation or a crime.” Although the guilty verdict was widely expected, there were sev- eral heartbeats of silence in the courtroom after Judge Syrova finished reading her decision. Then, from somewhere in the gal- lery came shouts of “Shame!” and “Disgrace!” The defendants, Ms. Tolokonni- kova, 23, Yekaterina Samutsev- ich, 30, and Maria Alyokhina, 24, standing in the glass-plated en- closure in which they were held throughout the trial, smiled to each other as the sentences were announced and rolled their eyes. Outside the courthouse, sup- porters of the group chanted “Free Pussy Riot!” and clashed with the riot police. Dozens were arrested, including the former chess champion Garry Kasparov, who is active in the Russian polit- ical opposition. Mr. Kasparov fought with the police and ap- peared to be beaten as he was bundled into a police vehicle. In Washington, where Obama administration officials followed the trial closely, seeing it as a measure of Mr. Putin’s new presi- dency and its own troubled rela- tions with Russia, the White House and the State Department each criticized the verdict. The State Department all but called on Russia’s higher courts to over- turn the conviction and “ensure that the right to freedom of ex- pression is upheld.” A White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor, said the verdict was disappointing and the sen- tences disproportionate. “While we understand that the group’s behavior was offensive to some, we have serious concerns about the way these young women have been treated by the Russian judicial system,” he said. Amnesty International con- demned the sentences, which a spokeswoman said showed “that the Russian authorities will stop at no end to suppress dissent and stifle civil society.” Mr. Putin, commenting on the case briefly while in London for the Olympics this month, had said that he hoped the women would not be judged “too severe- ly,” but that the decision was the court’s to make. Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said after the verdict that the president had made his views on the case clear. But Mr. Peskov told the Interfax news agency, “He does not have the right to im- pose his view on the court.” The trial also showcased the often tilt- ed nature of the judicial system. Defense lawyers were barred from calling most of the witness- es they wanted, including experts and some eyewitnesses, even as prosecutors were allowed to call witnesses who had seen the Pus- sy Riot performance only on vid- eo. The women were given limited time to meet with their lawyers and also complained that they were not sufficiently fed or well rested. Stanislav O. Samutsevich, the father of the oldest defendant, said that he had hoped for lenien- cy. “Given that they have been imprisoned for five months, I hoped the sentence would be sus- pended,” he said in an interview outside the court. Mr. Samutsevich said that the women were at once going through a classic case of Russian repression, while also getting caught up in a new alliance be- tween church and state. “This is the experience all gen- erations of Russian people went through,” he said. “Our people were sent to prisons under all governments.” But, he added, “I think that we are rolling down to the practices of Iran, where one can get into prison for religious crimes, or Saudi Arabia. Is that what we want to see here?” Anti-Putin Stunt Earns Band Two Years in Jail LUCAS JACKSON/REUTERS A protester was arrested on Friday outside the Russian Consulate in New York. More photos are online at nytimes.com/world. From Page A1 Reporting was contributed by Ste- ven Lee Myers from Washington, and Nikolay Khalip, Anna Kor- dunsky, Ilya Mouzykantskii, An- drew Roth and Anna Tikhomiro- va from Moscow. The Department of De- fense has identified 2,072 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans recently: HOLMAN, Eric S., 39, Staff Sgt., Army; Evans City, Pa.; 192nd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ord- nance Group, 20th Support Command. KELLER, Andrew J., 22, Pfc., Army; Tigard, Ore.; First Bat- talion, 503rd Infantry Regi- ment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. Names of the Dead A9 Ø N SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By KIM SEVERSON ATLANTA — The list of things you learn about yourself when you get out of prison after 17 years is long: You’re al- lergic to shrimp, or you’re paralyzed by the choices in a grocery store or moved to tears by the softness of the night sky. The men known as the West Mem- phis Three thought they would die in prison, linked forever as the torturers and killers of three young boys. They have been free for a year now, living as little more than acquaintances in a world flooded with possibilities. Yet they are still linked, not only by a series of coming books and movies but by a legion of fervent supporters who hold them as a symbol of a flawed legal system. “Honestly, we all lived through this horrible time in our own way and got through it differently, so now I guess we all have a different way of healing,” said Jason Baldwin, 35, who went into prison a quiet, heavy metal-loving teenager ready to start a job as a grocery store bagger and came out — much to the amazement of most people who meet him — a sweet, optimistic and slightly goofy man who wants to help people who have been wrongly accused. Over the course of nearly two dec- ades, their imprisonment grew into a much-examined narrative about wrong- ful conviction, class, conformity and the power of celebrity. It ended last August in a legally awk- ward deal that had them declaring their innocence but pleading guilty to the murders while the State of Arkansas es- sentially admitted the evidence against them was weak but possibly viable. On Saturday, supporters of the three will party on Beale Street in Memphis to mark the anniversary of their release. The three men will not be there. In the year that has passed, their paths have crossed mostly for media events or awards. Jessie Misskelley, 37 — then a hard- partying teenager with a low I.Q. and a penchant for fighting whose shaky con- fession led to their conviction in 1994 — headed back to his old Arkansas neigh- borhood to be near his father. He be- came engaged to a woman with two children and started to study auto me- chanics. Mr. Baldwin, who taught classes to other inmates while he served a life sen- tence, is working toward a law degree in Seattle. He is deeply in love with Holly Ballard, a longtime supporter who wrote and visited him regularly. He, Mr. Misskelley and Ms. Ballard are listed as executive producers on “Devil’s Knot,” a feature film that was shot in the Atlan- ta area over the summer. Damien Echols, the brooding, charis- matic star of the trio and the one who spent nearly two decades confined for 23 hours a day in small cinder-block box on death row, could barely walk when he got out. Inside, he became a Zen Bud- dhist and married Lorri Davis, a Man- hattan landscape architect who became the driver behind the effort to free him. He moved to New York and wrote “Life After Death,” a memoir that will be released in September. He got matching tattoos with his friend Johnny Depp and spent time with Eddie Ved- der, the Pearl Jam frontman who was a West Memphis Three, a Year Out of Prison, Navigate New Paths WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, VIA HBO From left, Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, the West Memphis Three, after their 1993 arrests in the murder of three boys. Coming soon: A memoir and a Hollywood movie about the case. Continued on Page A13 By ROBBIE BROWN ATLANTA — Molly Rose Freeman gasped at the size of her wall: 180 feet long, 20 feet tall, a street artist’s dream. When she arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday, the subway underpass was blank concrete, speckled with dirt, spi- derwebs and weeds. By Sunday, Ms. Freeman, a 25-year-old Memphis muralist, will have turned it into her lat- est artwork: a lattice of blue and pink shapes, brightening a once-dull road- way. She will also have joined an assault on blight in Atlanta. Here in a city with one of the nation’s highest foreclosure rates, a project called Living Walls com- missions artists to spruce up recession- hit neighborhoods. While traditional graffiti may often be seen as a sign of urban decay, these mu- rals — sprawling, brightly colored por- traits and designs — aim to instill some optimism. The Atlanta-based project, which be- gan last week and ends Sunday, gives 28 artists their own spaces: sides of build- ings, foreclosed houses and subway un- derpasses. All paintings are done with owners’ permission and city permits, in neighborhoods like the crumbling Edge- wood district, not far from where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. grew up. “Painting a mural is not just saving money for the wall owner,” said Monica Campana, who helped found the project in 2010. “It’s giving a new look to a block, and it may be helping the neigh- borhood economically.” This year, its third, Living Walls has invited only female muralists. The goal is to showcase the creations, in aerosol and latex paint, of women from around the world, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Italy and Spain. The project, which includes lectures and parties cel- ebrating street art, is also meant as an alternative to larger conferences, like Art Basel Miami or the Congress for the New Urbanism. As Living Walls has grown in scope and recognition, its sponsorship has ex- panded to include a prominent law firm, the Museum of Design Atlanta and the W Hotel, where the artists receive free lodging. And there are other signs of At- lanta’s embracing street art. A 22-mile loop of jogging trails and public parks under construction around the city now features an array of commissioned works. “We’re not New York, we’re not L.A., we’re not Miami, with the history of street art,” Ms. Campana said. “But in a sense, that’s what’s appealing: you can bring street art to a new city.” The city has also redoubled efforts to rub out a different form of street art: il- legal graffiti. Two years ago, the mayor created a graffiti task force and the At- lanta police dedicated a full-time officer to track down the most prolific offend- ers. Last October, the city arrested sev- en men between 19 and 29 who they said were responsible for 800 acts of graffiti vandalism. They received fines and pro- bation. One of those arrested, Josh Feigert, 28, sees a double standard in the city’s embrace of projects like Living Walls, while it cracks down on graffiti. “It seems hypocritical,” he said. “I would hope people would learn a little more about graffiti, and that it is an art form, as well.” But a police spokesman, Carlos Cam- pos, said it was not the department’s job to determine the line between art and graffiti. “If someone spray-paints on a piece of property that doesn’t belong to them, without permission, that is a crime,” he said. “It doesn’t matter how beautiful or artistic it is.” R.J. Rushmore, a blogger who creat- ed a popular site called Vandalog about street art, said the form was so dom- inated by men that he had mistakenly assumed that some new, anonymous artists were men. “This really bucks the trend of it be- ing a boy’s club,” he said. Shanda Rogers is a makeup artist at a salon in the East Atlanta neighborhood where one of the murals was painted. A formerly drab wall is now covered with the bright zigzags and the smiling faces of three Jamaican children. “It just makes me want to dance,” Ms. Rogers said. “This whole neighborhood feels different.” Even once-skeptical neighborhoods have embraced the murals. Rodney Bowman, a carpenter, had grown so frustrated by illegal graffiti artists that he spent a night in a tree waiting to catch the vandals who struck at a near- by church. But he found a mural by Liv- ing Walls to his liking. “Graffiti is just some scrawl,” he said. “But this is beautiful. This is art.” PHOTOGRAPHS BY VIRGINIE DRUJON-KIPPELEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Indigo, a street artist from Vancouver, B.C., is among the international artists taking part in the Living Walls art project in Atlanta. Putting a Good Face On Street Art, To Upgrade Atlanta The all-female cast for this year’s project includes: top, Katey Truhn, 29, of Baltimore; bottom, Hyuro, of Argentina, working on her mural near Chosewood Park, in south Atlanta; in between, Jessie Unterhalter, in tools of the trade. A big difference between this public art and graffiti: this art is legal. By JOHN ELIGON KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first crimi- nal prosecution of Planned Parenthood came to an abrupt end Friday when Kansas prosecutors dropped all charges against a local affiliate accused of failing to determine the viability of fetuses be- fore abortions were performed. Many of the 107 charges, some of them felonies, initially filed against the affiliate, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, had already been dismissed since they were filed in 2007. The dismissal of the remaining charges, all misdemeanors, was an- nounced Friday in a news release by Steve Howe, the district attorney for Johnson County, and Derek Schmidt, the state attorney general. They said that state law did not pro- hibit Planned Parenthood from using the gestational age of fetuses to de- termine whether they were viable or could survive outside of the womb. Planned Parenthood had contended that fetuses from 22 weeks to 24 weeks old are not viable, and given the mortal- ity rates of premature babies, prosecu- tors said they could not adequately dis- pute that finding. “It is an unfortunate conclusion that I don’t think is going to satisfy anybody, but that is the reality of what we have to deal with today,” Mr. Howe said at a news conference in his office in Olathe, Kan., according to The Associated Press. “But ultimately, the decision should be about the law and the evi- dence.” In Kansas, a hotbed for the abortion debate, the decision ends a messy legal fight that saw both sides lobbing accu- sations of political misconduct. The case started under Phill Kline, a staunch abortion opponent who, when he was the Johnson County district at- torney, led a sweeping investigation of the state’s abortion providers. Initially, investigators looked into al- legations that providers were not re- porting all child rape cases. In 2007, Mr. Kline filed charges against Planned Parenthood accusing it of failing to maintain copies of abortion paperwork and then, fearing detection, of completing it after an investigation had begun. But many of those charges were dropped because, prosecutors said, records had been destroyed and some of the allegations fell outside of the stat- ute of limitations. On Friday, Mr. Howe and Mr. Schmidt went into great depth in explaining their decision to drop the charges, say- ing they had consulted numerous doc- tors and had weighed Planned Par- enthood’s practices against accepted medical norms. Planned Parenthood celebrated its le- gal victory with a strongly worded statement that blasted Mr. Kline and Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican and an abortion opponent, for what they called a political prosecution that in- truded on the privacy of women’s med- ical decisions. “This case has been an abuse of polit- ical power, pure and simple,” Pedro Iri- gonegaray, a lawyer for Planned Par- enthood, said in the statement. The case, Planned Parenthood said, “should serve as a warning to all Kan- sans and all Americans about the dan- gers to our free society of electing ex- tremists and ideologues to positions of power.” Abortion Cases Against Clinic Are Dropped By Prosecutors The end of a messy legal fight in Kansas that had both sides making charges of political misconduct. A10 N NATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By DAN FROSCH DENVER — Monday is the first day of the school year for Metropolitan State University of Denver, a compact, urban cam- pus in the heart of the city’s downtown. It also signifies the dawn of a controversial new policy for this institution of 24,000. Among the crowd of students who will show up for class next week are dozens of illegal immigrants who, as part of a specially tailored tuition rate, can now qualify for a reduced fee if they live in Colorado. The new rate, approved by the university’s board of trustees in June, has garnered praise from immigrant rights advocates here who have tried for years to get legislation passed that would al- low state colleges to offer dis- counted tuition to local, illegal im- migrant students. But the policy has also drawn the ire of conservatives who are threatening to sue the university to keep the rate from being put in place and have accused Metro State of openly defying Colorado law. Stephen Jordan, Metro State’s president, said the board took ac- tion after Colorado lawmakers failed to pass a similar tuition proposal this year. “Clearly, from our perspective, these are young people who were brought here of no accord of their own,” he said. “I think what our board was saying was, ‘Why wouldn’t we want to provide an affordable tu- ition rate for these students?’” he added. “So that they can get a college degree and become meaningful contributors to the economy of Colorado.” Under the new rate, illegal im- migrants will pay $7,157.04 per year at Metro State. That is near- ly $3,000 higher than the tuition for legal Colorado students but about $8,000 lower than what out- of-state students pay. Only those students who at- tended high school in Colorado for at least three years and re- ceived their high school or gen- eral equivalency diplomas here are eligible. So far, more than 100 have qualified, university offi- cials said. Dalia Quezada, 18, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, will start her freshman year at Metro State on Monday. Ms. Quezada, whose family brought her to the United States when she was 6, said she could not afford college if not for the discount. “My dream was always to at- tend a big university,” she said. “But realistically, it was too ex- pensive. But when Metro made the change, it opened up an op- portunity. It’s like my dream is becoming a reality.” Still, in a state where about 20 percent of residents are Hispanic and where the tuition issue gen- erates rancor in the legislature, the new policy has provoked a fu- ror, largely among Republican lawmakers. On June 20, university officials were called before a hearing of the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee to defend their plan. That same week, Colorado’s at- torney general, John W. Suthers, issued a nonbinding legal opinion criticizing the policy. “The decision by Metropolitan State College of Denver to pro- ceed on its own to create a new tuition category, undeterred by the legislature’s repeated rejec- tion of specific authorizing legis- lation, is simply not supported by governing law,” Mr. Suthers said in a statement at the time. According to the Higher Edu- cation Alliance, a coalition of Col- orado groups that supports the new policy, 13 states offer in-state tuition for students who are in this country illegally. But oppo- nents have defeated similar measures in Colorado six times. A spokeswoman for Mr. Suth- ers, a Republican, declined to ad- dress Metro State’s tuition rate, saying in an e-mail that the at- torney general’s office would not comment on “matters that may potentially be litigated.” Tom Tancredo, a former Colo- rado congressman and presiden- tial candidate who now heads the Rocky Mountain Foundation, a conservative research organiza- tion, said his group intended to sue the university in the next few months. Mr. Tancredo, a fierce propo- nent of tightening immigration laws, said: “There was a pro- posal to allow this in the legisla- ture. It failed. In its failure, it seems to me that a pretty strong signal was sent that you can’t do this in the absence of law.” Terrance Carroll, a Metro State board member and former Dem- ocratic speaker of the state House of Representatives, said there was always a concern about legal action, but the school remained confident the policy was lawful. University officials also said they were heartened by Presi- dent Obama’s executive order deferring deportation of young il- legal immigrants who have been in the United States since they were children. Though the deferral program, which began accepting applica- tions this week, does not directly affect Metro State, advocates hope it will help bolster support to expand the tuition policy to other Colorado colleges. Sarahi Hernández, 19, who is poised to start her sophomore year at Metro State, said the re- duced tuition would allow her to focus on school, rather than wor- rying about drumming up enough money to enroll. “It doesn’t mean I won’t have to work,” Ms. Hernández said. “But it will allow me to get my dream going.” PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW STAVER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Dalia Quezada, who will be attending Metropolitan State University of Denver, says its new policy will enable her to afford college. A College Lifts a Hurdle For Illegal Immigrants Sarahi Hernández says she will have less anxiety about money and more time to focus on school. A new tuition policy has raised hopes of potential students but anger among some lawmakers. By STEVEN YACCINO CHICAGO — Illinois lawmak- ers, who gathered at the Capitol in Springfield for a special ses- sion on Friday, failed to reach agreement on a pension package aimed at addressing the state’s ballooning fiscal problems. Pension costs in Illinois now account for 15 percent of a $33.7 billion budget that Gov. Pat Quinn signed in June, compared with 6 percent a few years ago. All told, the state is on the hook for more than $83 billion in un- funded pension liabilities, the worst of any state in the country. No one in the state denies the crisis at hand. But the protracted fight over how to fix it has been a struggle for Mr. Quinn, a Demo- crat who is caught between an- gry unions that helped elect him in 2010 and Republicans asking for deeper cuts as concern grows that bond rating agencies could downgrade the state if a compro- mise cannot be reached. “Today is a disappointing day for Illinois taxpayers,” Mr. Quinn said in a statement on Friday evening. “The only thing stand- ing between our state and pen- sion reform is politics.” States hit hard by the recession across the country have been tin- kering with their pension pro- grams in recent years in an effort to fix long-term financing prob- lems as millions of baby boomers reach retirement. Between 2009 and 2011, 43 states enacted some form of major alterations to their retirement plans for public em- ployees and teachers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Such laws were a rarity before 2005. Lawmakers in Illinois have over the years voted to skip con- tributions to the state’s pension funds, choosing to use the money for services and other budget es- sentials instead. For months, they have been divided over new legislation to shore up their pen- sion shortfalls. One measure would give state employees a grim choice: keep the current 3 percent compound- ed cost-of-living adjustment to their retirement checks each year and lose state-sponsored health insurance, or keep health insurance, but with lesser annual increases. That plan, which failed to come to a vote in the General Assembly after negotiations broke down on Friday, would have eliminated the state’s unfunded liabilities over the next 30 years, according to the governor’s budget office. Union leaders vehemently op- posed the bill and said the gover- nor was making public workers carry the burden of a problem that they did not cause. They have suggested closing corporate tax loopholes to help raise state revenue. At the Illinois State Fair this week, a crowd of union-led pro- testers, upset with the governor’s proposal, booed throughout his speech as a plane flying overhead pulled a sign that read “Gov. Quinn — Unfair to Workers.” Some were demonstrating again at the State Capitol on Friday. “You would think a Democratic governor would be on the side of the working people,” said Henry Bayer, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employ- ees Council 31, a public services workers’ union in Illinois, calling the proposed cuts “a Republican program.” But Mr. Quinn has not felt much love from state Republi- cans either. They say the pro- posed cuts are not comprehen- sive enough because they do not address pensions for teachers, university employees or judges. “These pension systems in Illi- nois are on the brink of near col- lapse,” said Tom Cross, the House Republican leader, stressing the need to “do it right.” A scaled-back pension bill was debated on the House floor on Friday that would have only al- tered elected officials’ pension benefits as a “first step.” But even that failed to come to a vote in the Democrat-dominated legis- lature after it became clear it could not get enough support. The governor’s budget office, meanwhile, projects that the state’s pension debt continues to grow by $12.6 million each day the debate continues. Illinois Legislators Fail to Agree on Pension Package PHOTOGRAPHS BY SETH PERLMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Mike Phillips of Vandalia, Ill., booed the governor this week at the State Fair in Springfield. Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, is caught between angry unions that helped elect him and Republicans seeking deeper cuts. Illinois’s unfunded pension liability is at more than $83 billion, the worst of any state. No day is complete without The New York Times. Ø N A11 NATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 CAMPAIGN 2012 Bush quickly nominated a slate of appeals court judges early in his first year — including several outspoken conservatives — Mr. Obama moved more slowly and sought relatively moderate ju- rists who he hoped would not pro- voke culture wars that distracted attention from his ambitious leg- islative agenda. “The White House in that first year did not want to nominate candidates who would generate rancorous disputes over social is- sues that would further polarize the Senate,” said Gregory B. Craig, Mr. Obama’s first White House counsel. “We were looking for mainstream, noncontrover- sial candidates to nominate.” Mr. Obama has still put a sig- nificant stamp on the judiciary, appointing two Supreme Court justices — the same number as Mr. Clinton and Mr. Bush each did in eight years — and 30 ap- peals court judges, roughly as many as either did on average per term.But his impact has been uneven. He has made signif- icant changes to some appeals court circuits — which have the final word on tens of thousands of cases a year — while leaving oth- ers untouched. In federal district courts, where trials are held, Mr. Obama has appointed just 125 such judges, compared with 170 at a similar point in Mr. Clinton’s first term and 162 for Mr. Bush. Mr. Obama is virtually certain to leave more vacant federal judgeships at the end of his term for the winner of the 2012 election to fill than he inherited from Mr. Bush.Beyond sheer numbers, Mr. Obama has reduced his long- term influence by appointing judges who were more than four years older, on average, than Mr. Bush’s, according to data com- piled by Russell Wheeler, a Brookings Institution scholar. Mr. Obama has also largely shied away from nominating as- sertive liberals who might stand as ideological counterpoints to some of the assertive conserva- tives Mr. Bush named. Instead of prominent liberal academics whose scholarly writings and videotaped panel discussions would provide ammunition to conservatives, Mr. Obama grav- itated toward litigators, prosecu- tors and sitting district and state judges, especially those who would diversify the bench. Mr. Obama was also initially slow to make nominations, falling far behind Mr. Bush’s pace in his first year, and while his tempo later picked up, his administra- tion never closed the gap. There are no nominees for several doz- en open seats, according to data compiled by the liberal Alliance for Justice. Even when the White House produced nominees, they faced significant obstacles on the Sen- ate floor. Republicans used pro- cedural rules to delay votes on uncontroversial appeals court nominees and on district court nominees, forcing Democrats to consume hours of precious Sen- ate floor time on confirmation votes for judges of a type that previously would have been quickly handled. “Obama didn’t assertively put forward progressive candidates who would be the ideological counterweights to some Repub- lican appointees, and yet his choices have been met with re- lentless obstructionism anyway,” said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice. “All of this has left Obama with a significant- ly smaller judicial footprint than he is entitled to.” Even as many liberals have re- acted tepidly to Mr. Obama’s nominees, conservatives have re- mained skeptical. M. Edward Whelan III, a prominent legal blogger and the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said he suspected that many would turn out to be “activist” left-wing judges. “Because the left is losing the debate over judicial philosophy, they are looking for folks who can be depicted as more moderate,” he said. “The sort of record that makes a candidate a ‘rock star’ to the left also makes that candidate politically toxic.” Ambiguous Philosophy It is far from clear, however, that Mr. Obama’s relatively mod- erate choices merely reflect polit- ical expedience. Despite hopes by some supporters that he would seek to balance ideologically con- servative judges with liberals, his own views on judicial philosophy are ambiguous. Teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago, he gained a reputation as a prag- matist who sometimes chal- lenged liberal orthodoxies. Posi- tioning himself for a Democratic presidential primary, he com- piled a nearly uniformly liberal record on judges as a senator, voting against John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice and filibus- tering some Bush nominees. Unlike Mr. Bush, who cast a spotlight on his nominees and ju- dicial philosophy, Mr. Obama has rarely discussed his views and has sometimes offered seeming contradictions. For example, he said judges should have “empa- thy” for people’s struggles and understand how rulings “affect the daily realities of people’s lives” — but also that they should impartially “approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda.” Mr. Obama’s most prominent comments about judges as presi- dent have been his criticism of what he has portrayed as a grow- ing “lack of judicial restraint” by conservatives seeking to over- turn campaign finance restric- tions and his health care law. But in April 2010, he shocked some supporters by suggesting a disparaging equivalence between recent conservative legal efforts and liberal court victories in the 1960s and ’70s. “It used to be that the notion of an activist judge was somebody who ignored the will of Congress, ignored democratic processes and tried to impose judicial solu- tions on problems instead of let- ting the process work itself through politically,” Mr. Obama said. “And in the ’60s and ’70s, the feeling was — is that liberals were guilty of that kind of ap- proach. What you’re now seeing, I think, is a conservative juris- prudence that oftentimes makes the same error.” Restored Balance When Mr. Bush left office, the conservative legal movement had made remarkable gains on the appellate bench, in part be- cause Republican presidents had controlled such appointments for 20 of the previous 28 years. Mr. Obama has managed to re- store a degree of partisan bal- ance on the appeals courts. To- day, Democratic appointees make up 49 percent of appeals court judges, up from 39 percent when Mr. Bush left office, and they are majorities on 6 of the 13 circuits, up from just 1, according to Mr. Wheeler. Two circuits exemplify Mr. Obama’s mixed record. He has transformed the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Rich- mond, Va., appointing 6 of its 15 active judges. Long considered the most conservative circuit in the nation, it now has a signif- icantly more liberal-leaning ma- jority. Last year, for example, the court ruled on a case that arose in 2003 when a deputy sheriff in Somerset County, Md., mistak- enly shot a man who was trying to avoid arrest for failing to pay child support. The deputy reached for his stun gun but acci- dentally grabbed his handgun and fired. The man, who survived, later sued, only to have a district court judge dismiss the case without a trial. But last summer, the ap- peals court voted, 9 to 3, to give the man a chance to make his case before a jury after all. For the once-conservative Fourth Circuit, a decision to side with a plaintiff over a police officer in a legally ambiguous dispute was a startling sign of change. But if the new-look Fourth Cir- cuit represents Mr. Obama’s greatest impact, its opposite is the powerful District of Columbia Circuit, which hears a range of lawsuits like challenges to fed- eral agency regulations and ha- beas corpus suits by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Obama waited nearly two years to make his first nomina- tion to that panel. After Repub- licans — their numbers swollen by the 2010 election — blocked a confirmation vote, he waited more than six months before try- ing again. His failure to fill any of its three vacancies has left a two- vote majority of Republican-ap- pointed judges in control. Frustrated Hopes Aides to Mr. Obama had initial- ly planned to move more asser- tively on lower-court judges. Af- ter the 2008 election, aides on Mr. Obama’s transition team filled a three-ring binder with a list of about two dozen potential ap- peals courts nominees, several people familiar with the process said. But hopes of rolling them out quickly were frustrated. Two Supreme Court vacancies prompted aides to set aside most work on lower judgeships. Per- sonnel upheavals added to the delays: Mr. Obama has had a re- volving cast of White House counsels and lower-ranking law- yers assigned to vetting judicial nominees. Mr. Obama’s emphasis on di- versity — he has appointed a higher percentage of women and members of minority groups than any predecessor — also slowed the search. (Awkwardly, the American Bar Association’s judi- cial vetting committee later scut- tled at least 14 finalists for nomi- nations — nearly all women or minorities — by declaring them “not qualified.”) And amid the fight on the health care bill, the White House negotiated with home-state law- makers to get them to sign off ahead of nominations. Some — including Democrats — dragged their feet, officials said. In a speech last year, Mr. Oba- ma’s second White House coun- sel, Robert F. Bauer, complained that lawmakers were “all too often hard to pin down.” “Sometimes it is just a question of personal preference: the presi- dent has selected a candidate, and a particular member would have chosen differently,” he said. “And this stalls progress on fill- ing the vacancy.” The transition team’s list in- cluded district judges it consid- ered shoo-ins for elevation — like David Hamilton, Mr. Obama’s first nominee, who had an unex- pectedly turbulent reception — and several high-powered legal scholars, including Pamela Kar- lan and Kathleen Sullivan, both of Stanford University, and Good- win Liu of the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, people familiar with the list said. Mr. Obama waited more than a year — when the health care fight was nearly over — before nominating Mr. Liu for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco. He was arguably the first Obama nominee who was the ideological equivalent of some of the most controversial Bush nominees. Af- ter a bruising fight, Republicans ultimately blocked him with a fili- buster. Mr. Obama has not since nomi- nated anyone else in his mold. Ms. Karlan — another prominent liberal academic — said the White House asked her in Febru- ary 2009 if she was interested in being considered. She said yes but never heard back. While she said she was not dis- appointed, Ms. Karlan expressed worries that if Republicans nomi- nated outspoken conservatives but Democrats did not nominate equally liberal ones, the center of mainstream legal debate would shift to the right.“I don’t think I’m any more liberal than An- tonin Scalia is conservative,” she said. “I believe in capitalism. I be- lieve in America. I believe that we should have criminal laws. It’s not like I’m an anarchist.” She also criticized Mr. Obama’s tactics in nominating Mr. Liu by himself, which she likened to sending a single soldier onto a battlefield to draw all of an oppo- nent’s fire. By contrast, she noted, Mr. Bush put forth groups of out- spoken conservatives at once. A few were blocked, but most made it through. Low-Key Model But for Mr. Obama, the Liu de- feat was a lesson. Even after the 2010 midterm elections, when the Republican takeover of the House curtailed his legislative agenda, he stuck to the relatively low-key model he had adopted at the start of his presidency. Last fall, for example, Mr. Oba- ma nominated Paul J. Watford to the Ninth Circuit, who was con- firmed in May. In part because he is black and relatively young, Judge Watford has attracted at- tention as a potential Supreme Court prospect on the Democrat- ic judicial farm team. But he has a strikingly mixed résumé for a judge with such status. A former prosecutor and law firm partner, Judge Watford clerked for a liberal Supreme Court justice but also for a con- servative appeals court judge. He represented liberal clients — sup- porters of campaign finance re- strictions and the rights of gay people — but also corporations facing suits over human rights abuses and faulty products. Some liberals have held out hopes that Mr. Obama might be more aggressive on judicial nominations in a second term; as his term progressed, Mr. Obama became more combative with Congressional Republicans. But Sheldon Goldman, a politi- cal science professor at the Uni- versity of Massachusetts,Am- herst, said that without signif- icant changes to Senate rules, a greater push might make little difference. “If Obama is re-elected, he is still going to face these same problems — and if he has a Re- publican Senate, it will be much worse,” he said. “I think the best liberals can hope for is for Obama to be able to appoint middle-of- the-road people that will hold back the pressure of conserva- tive activism. But certainly the great expectations when he was elected have not come to fru- ition.” Obama Lags on Filling Seats in the Judiciary, Limiting His Mark on the Bench 65 81 33% 46 43 33 24 31 27 18 55 33 42 27 33 50 46 43 40 77 63 64 82 38 67 58 55 67 33% 62 50 67 29 38 27 18 66 33 50 27 50 50 39 43 33 59 63 64 82 31 50 33 46 42 100 84 Obama’s Impact on the Federal Courts of Appeals President Obama was initially slow to make judicial nominations and has faced stiff opposition from Senate Republicans. Vacancies on the district courts have increased during his term, but he has restored some partisan balance to the appeals court bench. Number of appeals court judges appointed by ... VACANT VACANT VACANT 2009 2012 Composition of each court:2009 2012 CIRCUIT LOCATION APPOINTED BY: DEM.REP.DEM.REP. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th Boston New York Philadelphia Richmond, Va. New Orleans Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis San Francisco Denver Atlanta District of Columbia Federal circuit The Fourth Circuit includes Judge Roger Gregory, originally given a recess appointment by President Bill Clinton and then renominated by President George W. Bush, as a Democratic appointee. ... a Democrat... a Republican Source: Russell Wheeler, Brookings Institution THE NEW YORK TIMES 14 14 A MEASURE OF CHANGE Mixed Mark on the Bench By BRIAN STELTER and MICHAEL SHEAR Complaining about the moder- ators of the presidential debates is a time-honored tradition of the election season. Usually, the com- plaints wait until the moderators have actually asked a question. Not this year. Monday’s an- nouncement of this fall’s modera- tors — Jim Lehrer and Bob Schieffer will preside over two presidential debates; CNN’s Can- dy Crowley over a third, town- hall style debate; and ABC’s Martha Raddatz will moderate the vice-presidential debate — exposed the gulf between a new media environment moving at hyperspeed and the secretive Commission on Presidential De- bates, which is steeped in the tra- ditions of political stagecraft from prior decades. Alan Schroeder, a Northeast- ern University professor who has written books about presidential debates, said the four moderators were “pretty mainstream” and noted the complaints about a lack of diversity this year. Univision, the Spanish language broadcast- ing giant, used its nightly news- cast on Wednesday to draw at- tention to the lack of bilingual moderators and call for a candi- date forum on its network. The National Association of Black Journalists on Friday bemoaned the lack of black moderators as “unacceptable.” Even the selection of Ms. Crow- ley as the first female presiden- tial debate moderator in 20 years has been overshadowed by com- plaints about other choices seen as “safe,” like Mr. Lehrer, who was chosen for the 12th time. “We cannot make everybody happy. That’s just a fact of life,” said Mike McCurry, a former spokesman for President Bill Clinton who now serves on the commission. “I have talked to at least one network news division that was in an unhappy place.” Strategists at both campaigns believe the series of October face- offs could be critical in determin- ing who wins the White House this fall. But they are not eager to wade into the office politics of the selection process. “Nothing to say, but thanks for the opportunity,” Ben Ginsberg, the chief debate negotiator for Mr. Romney’s campaign, said in an e-mail message. But despite the denials from all sides, veteran political operatives say it is understood that cam- paign aides will find ways to com- municate their wishes to the commission members — at cock- tail parties, in casual conversa- tions over drinks or in “chance” encounters. The commission ruled out pick- ing one of the top three network news anchors, knowing how the other two might react. Mr. Lehrer had sworn he would never mod- erate a presidential debate again, perhaps in part because of the criticism he received in 2000 that he was not aggressive enough, prompting him to scoff, “If some- body wants to be entertained, they ought to go to the circus.” When commission members asked if he would change his mind, he initially answered with a Shermanesque statement: “If drafted, I will not run; if nominat- ed, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve.” But he was eventually per- suaded, he said, by a new debate format: six distinct 15-minute segments, with candidates get- ting two minutes to respond to questions, with the remaining time left for a deeper exploration of a topic. “He sniffed around when they got the new format and became interested again,” said one televi- sion official who, like the others involved in the process, would not speak for the record because the discussions were private. “There is always lobbying that goes on, but people were sur- prised that this is who they ended up with.” Fox News, which is the only in- dependent television network that has not been selected to have one of its anchors host a de- bate, made an aggressive push this year. The commission sent signals that the network was in strong contention, people famil- iar with the process said, but that changed in the last month. The Obama campaign raised ques- tions about the network because of its conservative leanings. The Romney campaign objected to MSNBC because of its liberal bent and threatened to boycott if one of its anchors was selected. Mr. Schieffer, known as “Schieff” to several members of the commission, was seen by par- ticipants as a likely moderator from the beginning. Wolf Blitzer of CNN was believed to be a lead- ing contender, but a desire for di- versity elevated Ms. Crowley, af- ter Mr. Lehrer and Mr. Schieffer were already in place, according to people familiar with the dis- cussions. On Friday, Rush Limbaugh railed against Ms. Crowley (“a far, far left-wing Democrat mom- ma”) and Mr. Schieffer (“a far, far left-wing Democrat and dino- saur”). He called Ms. Raddatz and Mr. Lehrer “far, far left” as well. More surprising was the re- action at PBS’s NewsHour, Mr. Lehrer’s home for more than 35 years until his retirement last year. The morning editorial meet- ing was under way on Monday when The Drudge Report re- vealed the names of the four moderators. Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff, the leaders of the pro- gram’s political coverage, were stunned to see the names. In the suddenly gloomy meet- ing, some wondered if the list was legitimate. Others murmured that the selection of Mr. Lehrer was a setback for the “News- Hour,” which has been trying to show off younger stars like Ms. Ifill. Ms. Ifill, in particular, was livid, according to several people present. “I was indeed disap- pointed,” she confirmed Friday. Criticism Greets List Of Debate Moderators PAUL HOSEFROS/THE NEW YORK TIMES During a 1996 presidential debate, Bob Dole and Bill Clinton greeted Jim Lehrer, who will again moderate this year. ‘Mainstream’ picks for the Obama and Romney face-offs. Brian Stelter reported from New York, and Michael Shear from Washington. This is the fourth article in a se- ries examining President Oba- ma’s record.Previous articles at: nytimes.com/politics From Page A1 By TRIP GABRIEL SPRINGFIELD, Va. — It is hard to imagine Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candi- date, sauntering into a hot-dog restaurant and having an elderly, white-haired woman shout, “Hey, kick some tail!” That is the greeting his new running mate, Paul D. Ryan, got in Ohio this week, though the woman’s language was saltier. Like all vice-presidential candi- dates, Mr. Ryan was picked to balance his party’s ticket, and one way he is the lid to Mr. Rom- ney’s pot is his approachability, the comfort level he inspires in everyday people. “Hey, I’m Paul,” he says, thrusting out a hand. At the Iowa State Fair he strolled arm in arm with the state’s Senator Charles E. Grassley like high-school sweethearts — another image impossible to imagine with Mr. Romney. As Mr. Paul completed his first week as the Republican vice- presidential candidate, whooshed overnight to the highest level of American celebrity with its perks and poison darts, he might have wished once or twice that he was in Colorado, climbing an- other Fourteener, which is how he had planned to spend the week if Mr. Romney did not call. State troopers now block in- terstate highway traffic to allow his motorcade to pass. At the same time, on Friday TMZ post- ed a picture of him shirtless, and he has experienced a head-spin- ning level of scrutiny from every detail of his record in office to whether his suit coats are cut too big. He stumbled a little under the intense exposure, denying he had requested funds from the federal stimulus while denouncing it in 2009 as a “wasteful spending spree.” That was Wednesday. By Thursday, he said that he had taken a closer look at his records and acknowledged requesting money on behalf of conservation groups from his Wisconsin dis- trict. Over all, Mr. Ryan easily passed the “deer in the head- lights” test that undermined the rollout of an earlier Republican vice-presidential pick, Dan Quayle, in 1988. He has drawn crowds in the thousands in Colorado, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia, who applaud- ed throughout his 20-minute stump speech even at lines that offer only medium-rare meat. He has had at least two years of tempering as a Republican lightning rod for his aggressive House budgets. And he says he has led more than 500 town hall meetings about Medicare, a topic already heating up the summer. With that in mind, Mr. Ryan has been prepping for his two biggest challenges before Elec- tion Day: an October debate with Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., whose expertise in foreign af- fairs should put Mr. Ryan on the spot, and his acceptance speech at the party convention in less than two weeks. In advance of the debate, Mr. Ryan has had policy briefings with Dan Senor, a senior adviser to Mr. Romney who is an expert on Israel and the Middle East, and also crafts speeches. On Tuesday, Mr. Senor boarded the candidate’s plane in Denver with two fat briefing books under his arm. They later were open on a table at the front of the plane as Mr. Ryan pored over them on the flight to Las Vegas. His front-of-the-plane entou- rage also includes two venerable Republican speechwriters work- ing on his convention address, John McConnell, who worked for President George W. Bush, and Matthew Scully, who wrote the Sarah Palin speech four years ago that electrified the party. But unlike Ms. Palin, Mr. Ryan has no need to introduce himself to the party base, which knows and loves him already. While vice-presidential candi- dates are usually given the job of attack dog, letting the candidate at the top of the ticket strike a statesmanlike tone, this has not been Mr. Ryan’s job, as widely expected. The roles were re- versed this week, with Mr. Rom- ney charging that Mr. Obama “disgraced the presidency” and telling him to take his “campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.” Mr. Ryan, for now, has been the portrait of amiability on the stump. He brushed off hecklers at the Iowa State Fair for not be- ing Midwest Nice. The campaign seems to be po- sitioning Mr. Ryan for an unex- pected role — not to electrify the base, as many expected, but to of- fer independents and wavering Democrats an approachable por- trait of conservatism. To the degree that involves Mr. Ryan presenting his personal journey of losing a father at a young age and coming of age un- der the mentorship of supply-side figures like Jack Kemp, that may prove a challenge. It turns out Mr. Ryan is no more comfortable speaking about his personal life than Mr. Romney has been. But one surprise is how readily Mr. Ryan talks about Mr. Rom- ney’s personal story. He seems to see in Mr. Romney the real-world embodiment of his theories of the free market, an Ayn Randian hero of capitalism. “Remember the Olympics?” Mr. Ryan told a crowd in Virginia on Friday, describing an organ- izing committee in Utah in 1999 mired in overspending and waste. “Well, what did they do?” he asked. “They asked a man in Massachusetts that they knew, that they trusted, to take over and save the Olympics.” Ryan, Appearing at Ease in First Week on Trail, Begins to Look Ahead ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Representative Paul D. Ryan in Virginia on Friday. Crowds have applauded throughout his 20-minute stump speech even at lines that offer medium-rare meat. A comfort level with crowds is evident, but a convention speech and debate await. A12 N NATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 CAMPAIGN 2012 of low taxes, light regulations and small government than philo- sophical ruminations on work and freedom. And since his emergence as the key Congressional Republican on the budget issue, Mr. Ryan has become a particular favorite of — and powerful influence on — the intellectuals, economists, writers and policy makers who are at the heart of Washington’s conserva- tive establishment. Mr. Ryan “is the good think- tanker-as-politician,” said Stuart Butler, the director of the Center for Policy Innovation at the Her- itage Foundation, a right-of-cen- ter research institution. “When I’m having a discussion with Ryan, I’m talking to someone who knows the material as well as, if not better than,I do.” Mr. Kristol, who has been one of Mr. Ryan’s loudest boosters in Washington, said, “He’s a guy who, unlike 98 percent of mem- bers of Congress, can sit in a con- ference room or around the din- ner table with 6 or 10 people from think tanks and magazines and more than hold his own in a dis- cussion.” Aides and confidants of Mr. Ryan describe him as an earnest- ly interested, tactically minded policy thinker,with a deep knowledge of budget numbers and close ties with the right’s in- fluential policy heavies. In his 20 years in Washington, Mr. Ryan has pursued ties with two groups of thinkers in partic- ular:policy scholars at research groups like the American Enter- prise Institute and commentators like Mr. Kristol and George F. Will of The Washington Post. The reputation for wonkiness is mer- ited, people close to Mr. Ryan said. He goes home with a stack of white papers. He calls econo- mists when he has questions about their budget projections or ideas. He also athletically argues for his policy ideas among the city’s policy elite in the white-table- cloth lunches, Capitol Hill meet- ings, private dinners and retreats where consensus gets formed. “He’s unusual,” Mr. Kristol said. “The only member of Con- gress I can remember like that is Pat Moynihan,” he said, referring to Senator Daniel Patrick Moyni- han, a New York Democrat who was known for his reaching intel- lect. Early in his career, Mr. Ryan worked at a nonprofit advocacy group, Empower America, now part of FreedomWorks, after col- lege and a brief stint on the Hill. Two of its founders, William J. Bennett, the former education secretary and current talk radio host, and Jack Kemp, the former housing secretary and 1996 Re- publican vice-presidential candi- date, became important mentors to Mr. Ryan. Mr. Kemp died in 2009. Mr. Kemp “taught me that big ideas are the best politics,” Mr. Ryan told National Review. “They will always be challenged, and they will sometimes be con- troversial, but you have to do what you think is right, what you’re passionate about, and be a strong advocate for it. If you do that, you can shift the debate in a major way.” While Mr. Ryan is sometimes compared to Mr. Kemp because of their similar energetic and af- fable styles, Mr. Ryan’s bedrock belief in smaller government has sometimes placed him to the right of his mentors. Mr. Kemp “wasn’t hostile to budget cuts, but he certainly wasn’t enthusiastic about them,” said Bruce Bartlett, a budget ex- pert who worked on Mr. Kemp’s staff and has known Mr. Ryan for two decades. “Jack just never thought that was important. He thought growth was important. He never proposed spending cuts to pay for tax cuts or anything like that.” The embrace by conservative policy elites began after Mr. Ryan became a prominent voice push- ing for the privatization of the So- cial Security system during the George W. Bush administration. Despite his lack of seniority — and in no small part because of his already firm reputation as an economic policy thinker — Mr. Ryan became the top Republican on the budget committee in 2007 and then its chairman when Re- publicans retook the House in 2010. In 2008, he released the first it- eration of his budget,the “Road- map for America’s Future.” It won plaudits in a right-of-center policy world that had gotten used to politicians watering down its ideas and acquiescing to a bloat- ed federal budget through the Bush years. “Probably more than any other member of Congress, he says, ‘What if we really try to apply conservative principles, limited- government principles, to legisla- tion? Let’s see how far we can get, given the political realities,’” said Michael F. Cannon, a health policy expert at the Cato Insti- tute, who described Mr. Ryan as a contrast to other Republicans who are quick to abandon small- government proposals under pressure from industries or in- terest groups. “He’s worried about much more than the budget arithmetic, about the kind of government that we are going to have in America,” said Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center here and a favored policy thinker of Mr. Ryan. “He’s a politician, not an O.M.B. economist,” Mr. Levin said, referring to the Office of Management and Budget at the White House. Conservative Elite Pay Heed to Ryan as a Thinker MATTHEW CAVANAUGH/EPA Jack Kemp, who died in 2009, was a crucial mentor,but many of Mr. Ryan’s positions are to the right of those Mr. Kemp held. ASSOCIATED PRESS Ideas of Ayn Rand and Friedrich von Hayek shaped Mr.Ryan, but others have had a far more practical influence on his career. A favorite of influential men like Alan Greenspan and William Kristol. From Page A1 ALLYN BAUM/THE NEW YORK TIMES By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI The Republican vice-presiden- tial candidate Paul D. Ryan and his wife, Janna, paid 20 percent of their adjusted gross income in federal income taxes in 2011 and 15.9 percent in 2010, according to tax returns he released Friday. The couple reported an adjust- ed gross income for 2011 of $323,416 — about half of which came from Mr. Ryan’s salary as a congressman from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budg- et Committee — and paid $64,764 in federal income taxes. In 2010, they reported adjusted gross income of $215,417 and paid $34,233 in federal income taxes. In addition to Mr. Ryan’s sala- ry, for 2011 the couple reported more than $116,000 in income from rental property, invest- ments and several trusts, assets that the campaign has said are owned mostly by his wife. Mr. Ryan’s financial disclosure forms estimate the couple’s net worth as between $2.1 million and $7.8 million, much of which is in Ms. Ryan’s trust, which is valued at $1 million to $5 million. The release of Mr. Ryan’s tax returns comes as his presidential running mate, Mitt Romney, has come under sustained pressure to disclose more information about the taxes he has paid on his fortune, valued at more than $250 million. Mr. Romney has disclosed less tax information than most other recent presidential candidates — releasing a 2010 return, which showed that he paid 13.9 percent of his adjusted gross income of $21.6 million in federal income taxes, and an estimate of his 2011 taxes. Mr. Romney has declined re- peated urgings to disclose tax re- turns from other years, but said this week that he had paid an ef- fective rate — the percentage of adjusted income — of least 13 percent in federal taxes in each of the past 10 years. The Romney campaign said that it reviewed several years of Mr. Ryan’s tax returns while vet- ting potential running mates, but would publicly disclose only two years’ worth. President Obama and his wife, Michelle,have released tax re- turns for the past 12 years, and reported paying 26 percent of their adjusted gross income in federal taxes in 2010 and 20.5 per- cent last year. Among the nonwage income reported by the Ryans in 2011 was $33,153 of capital gains and $29,987 in dividends. The couple also reported earning royalties from leasing land and mineral rights to energy companies. They also received income from the Prudence Little Living Trust, in which Ms. Ryan has an interest. The couple filed an amended return in 2011, because their orig- inal return understated their in- come by $61,122 — a mistake they attributed to accidentally omit- ting income from the trust. The Ryans reported making $2,600 in charitable donations in 2010 and $12,991 in 2011. They were subject to the al- ternative minimum tax of $786 in 2010 and $11,684 in 2011. Ryan Tax Returns Show 20 Percent Rate in 2011 Proportionally higher taxes than paid by Mitt Romney. N A13 NATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 lead supporter for his release. He also helped make a documentary, “West of Memphis,” with the New Zealand filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. And he learned about the pow- er of social media, which did not exist when the men went in but which ultimately helped free them and continues to help Mr. Echols build a fan base. “Sometimes I still can’t believe I’m actually out. That I actually survived,” he wrote this week in a Twitter message. Who really committed the crime is still a mystery. Efforts of private investigators and lawyers and an avalanche of documenta- ries, investigative reports, books and the coming Hollywood mov- ie, starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth and directed by Atom Egoyan, all point to one version of the truth: whoever it was, it was not these three. Supporters, including some of the parents of the second-grade boys who were killed in 1993, want the case reopened. The men’s lawyers and supporters keep pushing for Arkansas’s gov- ernor, Mike Beebe, to pardon them, which a spokesman said he was unlikely to do. “This has so far been a very cynical and unsatisfactory end to a sinister prosecution,” said Mara Leveritt, an Arkansas journalist who wrote “Devil’s Knot,” the 2002 best-selling book that exam- ined how an overmatched de- fense and what she called “sa- tanic panic” led to the convic- tions. She is working on a new book about them, and her original book is becoming the movie. Mr. Firth plays an investigator, Ron Lax, and Ms. Witherspoon stars as Pam Hicks, the mother of Ste- ven Branch, one of the boys who was found naked in a drainage ditch, bound with his own shoe- laces. Ms. Hicks, who still lives in Ar- kansas, became deeply connect- ed to the producer, Elizabeth Fowler, who spent nearly a dec- ade trying to get the movie made. The two prayed together and cried together. Ms. Hicks also spent time showing Ms. Witherspoon around the old neighborhood and watching the movie being shot, worrying that the pregnant actor was too hot in the Southern hu- midity. Having a movie made about the most horrific thing to ever happen to you is kind of weird, Ms. Hicks said, “but I’ve been talking about it since Day 1, so it was a method of therapy for me.” Ms. Hicks has never been able to see the evidence in the case, including her son’s bicycle, so she filed a suit this month against the West Memphis Police Depart- ment and city officials. Like most of the people in the West Memphis area, Ms. Hicks first thought the teenagers were devil worshipers. But now she and the stepfather of Chris Byers, another victim, believe someone else committed the crimes. On the top of her list is her for- mer husband, Terry Hobbs, whose DNA matched a hair that was found in one of the knots used to tie the boys. Mr. Hobbs, who lives in Memphis, has re- peatedly denied it, and the police say he is not a suspect. Todd Moore, the father of one of the boys, has also insisted that no one other than the West Mem- phis Three had anything to do with the boys’ deaths. Those who think otherwise, he has said, are buying the hype that years of ce- lebrity attention and an estimat- ed $10 million or more in legal and investigative work can buy. Scott Ellington, the prosecutor who negotiated the plea arrange- ment and is running for Con- gress, said that his office was working on material provided by the men’s lawyers but that he had not seen anything definitive. “You don’t have dot to dot to dot,” he said. “And that’s what we need if we were to reopen the case.” Still, he said he was willing to do that if such evidence ap- peared. “I’m man enough to present that evidence to a judge and let the judge decide.” He has seen “West of Mem- phis,” but you will not see him in line for “Devil’s Knot,” and he does not plan to buy a copy of the third installment of the HBO doc- umentary series called “Paradise Lost,” the first of which, produced in 1996, the men credit with ulti- mately bringing their freedom. How much the men will sup- port one another’s projects going forward is unclear. Mr. Echols hated that he was portrayed as a blood-drinking devil in the original script for “Devil’s Knot,” and pushed for changes, said Lonnie Soury, a New York publicist who became part of his defense team. Then, in his book, Mr. Echols criticized Mr. Baldwin for not immediately accepting the deal, saying Mr. Baldwin had grown to love prison and was acting as if he was mor- ally superior. That hurt Mr. Baldwin, who ini- tially did not want to admit to something he says he did not do, preferring to take a chance on an upcoming hearing to examine new evidence that would have probably included DNA samples and charges of juror misconduct. But as the short timeline on the offer approached, he became con- vinced that Mr. Echols would not survive much longer. “I didn’t take the deal for me,” he said. “I took it for Damien.” The two currently are not speaking. Those around them hope the rift will heal. “Part of the downside of the Hollywood thing is there are so many people who claim this,” Mr. Soury said. “They want to own Damien and Jessie and Jason. Part of their struggle was trying to take back their lives and own their story.” EVAN AGOSTINI/ASSOCIATED PRESS Jessie Misskelley, left, Damien Echols, center, and Jason Baldwin in October in New York. STEVE HEBERT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Mr. Echols and his wife, Lorri Davis, in Arkansas in August 2011 after his release from prison. West Memphis Three, a Year Out of Prison, Are Navigating New Paths GRANT BLANKENSHIP FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The director Atom Egoyan, gesturing, during the filming of “Devil’s Knot” in Atlanta. Three men who are now little more than acquaintances. From Page A9 By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Transportation Security Ad- ministration officers who are in a behavioral detection program de- signed to spot terrorists at air- ports have been ordered to un- dergo special training after offi- cers in Boston were accused of racially profiling passengers. All officers at Boston Logan In- ternational Airport, where the profiling is said to have occurred, and managers of similar pro- grams nationwide must attend a four-hour class on why racial pro- filing is not acceptable and why it is not an effective way to spot ter- rorists. The order was announced on Friday, in a written statement, by the Homeland Security De- partment, which oversees the T.S.A. It said the class would include “a discussion on how terrorists in the United States do not match any racial or ethnic stereotype.” Officers stationed at more than 100 airports will have to take an online “refresher course to re- inforce that racial/ethnic profil- ing will not be tolerated,” the de- partment said. It said Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security secretary, had directed John S. Pistole, the head of the Transportation Secu- rity Administration, to require employees to have the training. The announcement came five days after The New York Times reported that the T.S.A. was in- vestigating claims that the be- havioral detection program at Logan airport involved racial profiling of minorities in an effort to generate arrests to show the program was producing results. Officers were accused of stop- ping, searching and questioning a disproportionate number of Hispanics and blacks who they believed were more likely to have outstanding warrants or be in possession of drugs or other con- traband. In response, the T.S.A. said it was investigating the ac- cusations. “T.S.A.’s behavior detection program is a critical part of our approach to securing travel, but profiling passengers on any basis is simply not tolerated,” the Homeland Security Department said. “Profiling is not only dis- criminatory, it is also an ineffec- tive way to identify someone in- tent on doing harm. Officers are trained and audited to look for observable behaviors, and behav- iors alone.” Ms. Napolitano also directed Mr. Pistole to improve the agen- cy’s collection of data related to the program and to work with the department’s civil rights consult- ant to review program pro- cedures. On Friday, a high-ranking T.S.A. official went to Boston to meet with agency employees and officials at the airport, telling them that profiling would not be tolerated. A day earlier, Mr. Pis- tole was at Detroit Metropolitan Airport to convey a similar mes- sage to T.S.A. employees. “We remain very concerned by the allegations and are anxious to review the findings of the federal investigations,” said David S. Mackey, the interim chief execu- tive of the Massachusetts Port Authority. “We acknowledge the T.S.A.’s swift response and will continue to work with them to en- sure security at Logan is legal, ef- fective and does not use racial profiling.” William Keating of Massachu- setts, one of the top Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee, called this week for an outside investigation into the accusations of profiling.He also sent a letter to the chairman of the House’s Homeland Security oversight subcommittee, calling for a hearing when Congress re- convenes next month. Mr. Keating said that an in- vestigation of “matters of civil rights being violated” should not be “left to the agency itself.” “Last year, there was a Con- gressional subcommittee field hearing at Logan, which high- lighted that the airport’s security policies are some of the best in the country,” he said. “If T.S.A. of- ficers, however, have evidence of racial profiling, this needs to be addressed immediately since the Logan program is the vanguard and model for the entire country.” Profiling Claims at Airport Result in Order for Training Officials react to allegations against Boston security staff. NEW ENGLAND Massachusetts: A Short Outing For ‘Old Ironsides’ on Sunday The Navy’s oldest warship will sail under its own power for just the second time in more than a century to commemorate the battle that won it the nickname Old Ironsides. The Constitution, which was launched in 1797, will be tugged from its berth in Boston Harbor on Sunday to the main deepwater pathway into the harbor. It will then set out to the open seas for a 10-minute cruise. The short trip com- memorates the day two centuries ago when the Constitution bested the British frigate Guerriere in a fierce battle during the War of 1812. It follows a three-year restoration project and is the first time the Constitution has been to sea on its own since its 200th birthday in 1997. Before that, it had not sailed under its own power since 1881. The Constitu- tion is periodically tugged into the harbor for historical display. (AP) WEST California: iPad Stolen From Home Of Jobs Is Found in Clown’s Hands A professional clown who played music on an iPad as he made balloon animals said on Fri- day that he had no idea his friend had snatched the tablet from the home of Steve Jobs. Kenneth Kahn, who performs as Kenny the Clown, said he had received the iPad from a friend who owed him money for a vacation they planned to take to Hawaii. “He owed me $300 for the plane tickets, so he said he had an Apple computer that he wasn’t using any- more,” Mr. Kahn said. “I said fine, not having any clue what the hell was going on.” Mr. Kahn, 47, who made unsuccessful bids to be- come mayor of Alameda and San Francisco, said he played music on the iPad for a few days at a local art and wine fair before police officers came for it. The device has been re- turned to the family of Mr. Jobs, the Apple co- founder, who died on Oct. 5. Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda was arrested on suspicion of breaking into the Jobs family home in Palo Alto. Apple investigators identified Mr. McFarlin after he used the stolen device to connect to his iTunes account on the Internet, police officials said. Mr. McFarlin acknowl- edged to the police that he had broken into the Jobs residence, as well as other homes, and he wrote an apology letter to Mr. Jobs’s wid- ow, a police report said. (AP) California: Young Immigrants Eligible for Driver’s Licenses Young illegal immigrants who qualify for President Obama’s deportation deferral pro- gram will be eligible to obtain a driver’s li- cense in California. Mr. Obama’s program, which began Wednesday, will grant work per- mits to immigrants who are 30 years or younger and meet program requirements. California law permits the Department of Mo- tor Vehicles to issue driver’s licenses to indi- viduals who present an “employment author- ization document.” The young immigrants, “once they have been given deferred action, can apply for a driver’s license,” said Conrado Terrazas, a spokesman for Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, who has tried unsuccessfully to pass a law allowing licenses for illegal immigrants. ANA FACIO-KRAJCER MIDWEST Ohio: Change of Venue Sought In Trial Over Cafeteria Killings The defense team for a teenager charged with killing three students and wounding three others in a high school cafeteria in Chardon asked a judge on Friday to move the trial out of the community. “Geauga County has been in an ongoing state of mourning, anger and community support for the victims and their families,” lawyers for the teenager, T.J. Lane, 17, said in their request. Every major roadway and every neighborhood in Chardon and in surrounding communities has memorials to the victims, defense lawyers said, and the grief poses a risk that any local jury will be bi- ased against him. The defense said news cov- erage of the shooting had been so extensive and the subject “so disturbing” that it would be impossible to find an unbiased jury in Geauga County, east of Cleveland. Mr. Lane has been charged with aggravated murder, at- tempted aggravated murder and felonious as- sault in the shooting at Chardon High School on Feb. 27. He could face life in prison if con- victed. No motive has been established for the shooting. (AP) National Briefing A14 Ø N SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By EMILY S. RUEB Gibran K. Brown and Jaie Jordan sat on the stoop of their brown- stone, looking out over Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, as they do most warm evenings. In the distance, dust settled on the soccer pitch as players scattered after a game. Ex- cept for a jingling dog collar, the huffing of a passing jogger and the chorus of cicadas, the cooling air was quiet. “Once you’re here, the day is over,” said Mr. Jordan, reclining with his miniature pinscher, Miss China, coiled on his lap, sipping a $3 Pabst Blue Ribbon from a large wine glass. Mr. Brown, who lives in another apartment in the five-story building, added: “Why spend $20 or $30 in a local pub to be in a stuffy place? We’ve got the air and the trees.” The vibe was similar, but with key differences, on a recent balmy Saturday evening in Harlem. A husband and wife sat in camping chairs 13 steps up from the side- walk. A Coors Light and a chardon- nay filled, respectively, a red plas- tic party cup and a Paula Deen “S.L.U.T.S.” cup (the letters stand for “Southern ladies under tremen- dous stress”). The woman said they had a backyard, but preferred to sit on the stoop “to take in the community.” But she didn’t want to give her name. “You know it’s illegal,” she said in a hushed voice. Stoop drinking. There may be no more archetypal after-dark pas- time in the five boroughs of New York in summer, when the stairs leading up to the parlor floor of your home are transformed into an outdoor living room, a place where neighbors can gather for an im- promptu midweek drink or a bleacher seat where you can sit quietly, contemplating the passing parade with an adult beverage. It tends to be a midweek activity, one for which no planning and, cer- tainly, no reservations are re- quired. But the woman in Harlem was right: it is illegal. Because a stoop can be viewed from the street or sidewalk, it can be considered a public place, which is defined by the New York Administrative Code as “a place to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access.” A gate can provide a di- vide between these public and pri- vate spheres, but not always. Some drinkers edge a few steps closer to the front door, even though that doesn’t make a difference: more than a few have been fined when the passing parade happened to in- clude a police officer. Yet night after night, the illegal- ity continues. On the corner of Cumberland Street and DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene, a couple newly relocated from Montreal prepared an elab- orate spread of mozzarella salad, a cutting board filled with pata negra and other cured meats, ac- companied by a Spanish red wine. On 105th Street and Riverside Drive in Manhattan, a 20-some- thing couple sipped Bacardi Coco- nut on the rocks through straws from tall white foam cups. At the corner of West Fourth and West 12th Streets in Manhattan, a wom- an whose mother had been in in- tensive care for two days smoked American Spirits while sitting with her two Chihuahuas on the steps leading up to a red-brick building, a cup of Red Stripe at her feet. At about 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday in south Park Slope, Brooklyn, three couples sat on low-slung beach chairs and on the stairs of a brown- stone with small glasses of Writers Tears whiskey or cans of Coors Light. One woman ducked inside briefly to make sure her child was still asleep. Although it is unclear how many summonses are handed out to peo- ple drinking on their stoops, in 2011 the New York Police Department issued 124,498 of them for public drinking, which is not a crime but does constitute a “quality of life” vi- olation. It is at the discretion of the patrolling officer whether or not to write up the pink slip, which usu- ally carries a $25 fine and a trip to criminal court, or both. But more important, it requires being caught in the act. When the Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, toast- ed the presenter of NBC’s “Talk Stoop” with a glass of white wine during an on-camera interview in 2009, he did not apologize for his ac- tions. More recently, drinkers in Harlemand in Boerum Hill, Brook- lyn, were issued summonses for doing the same thing, though one was drinking soda from a red plas- tic cup. The majority of these cases Savoring the Illicit Thrill Of a Glass of Something, Outside Having a Beer on the Steps to Your Home Is Technically Illegal, but Nevertheless Popular Clockwise from bottom left, Richard Bell, 39, and Butch; Loran Gregson, 21; Kurt Kiraly, 48; Daniel Broadhurst, 26; and Jordan Galloway, 26, in front of a brownstone in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. A group of friends awaiting a taxi in Fort Greene. Laws against side- walk tippling, legally a violation, are enforced at officers’ discretion. Continued on Page A17 SUMMER NIGHTS On the Stoop PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL KIRBY SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The East Village apartment burglar, successful once, came back for more, and was caught in a trap and arrested. But a mystery lingered. How did he get in that apartment? Had he lived there before? No. And the build- ing’s super said the lock was changed after the previous tenant left. A week after his arrest, the mystery was solved with an explanation from the burglar himself, one that could make many New Yorkers stop and think about their home security. As recounted in this space last week, he first broke into an apartment on East 11th Street on June 12, stealing video games and leaving no sign of forced en- try. The tenant, a professor who wanted only his surname, Lee, used, bought a $149 high-resolution camera to record video of the apartment in case the bur- glar returned. He did, on Aug. 6, and the camera caught him rummaging around Mr. Lee’s guitar and music equipment. The video was televised on several sta- tions and made the rounds online. A few days later, the police arrested Piotr Pasciak, who, at age 24, was al- ready a felon, having burglarized homes upstate in 2009. After his release from prison, he moved to Greenpoint, Brook- lyn, last year, working a series of jobs before returning to crime. Why? “I have a heroin addiction,” Mr. Pas- ciak said Thursday in an interview at Rikers Island, where he is being held awaiting legal proceedings. He told his story, largely uncorroborated. His troubles began at age 16, he said, when, driving a motorcycle after dark, he hit something and was thrown into the woods, breaking bones in his back. There began a dependence on painkill- ers and a habit of using prescription drugs and, later, heroin. In 2009, he broke into a friend’s house and grabbed a few guns, thinking the friend would not miss them. The guns were “collateral” for a drug dealer, Mr. Pasciak said, and he expected to return them. He was wrong and got caught. After almost two years, he was re- leased and moved to the Greenpoint apartment his parents own. He said he worked as a doorman in Manhattan, and for a real-estate brokerage compa- ny and an air-conditioning repair outfit — he has training in welding — and at a restaurant in Williamsburg. He re- lapsed with heroin late last year, and failed drug tests for his parole officer. He went to rehab and was released with what he called an insufficient supply of Suboxone, used to treat drug addiction. In April, working for the real estate company, he was showing apartments all over Manhattan. It was hard work, and after a particularly stressful week with a prospective tenant who ultimate- ly did not sign a lease, he left and soon returned to his $50- to $100-a-day heroin habit. His money ran out. When he left his job, he said, he kept the keys to the apartments he was showing. One of them was on East 11th Street. Someone had moved in. On June 12, he rang the doorbell and, satisfied no one was home, entered with the key and stole the video games. “I didn’t hurt anyone,” he said. He re- fused to name the real estate employer or say what he did with the electronics, other than that they were used to get heroin. The building’s super said vari- ous real estate brokers showed apart- ments there. Neither he nor Mr. Lee re- membered seeing Mr. Pasciak before. Two months later, broke again, Mr. Pasciak returned to the apartment. “I wasn’t thinking clearly,” he said. He felt safe from recognition because he did not hang out in the East Village. Need- less to say, he never noticed the camera. That was a Monday. Two days later, he visited the Army recruiting office in Times Square, seeking to enlist and start over, but he said he was told his criminal record made him ineligible. He used heroin that day. The following morning, he was awak- ened by police officers in his bedroom. One of them said, “Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy,” first handcuffing, then dress- ing Mr. Pasciak, he said. He was sick with withdrawal in the precinct. He ad- mitted burglarizing the apartment. When he was arrested, he had 682 friends on Facebook. But being a Face- book friend, by clicking a button, is dif- ferent from being a visit-you-at-Rikers friend, standing in line in the sun, riding two buses and passing through two met- al detectors and turning out your pock- ets and opening your mouth for inspec- tion for contraband. He is pretty sure he has none of those friends. “I find myself in these places,” he said, “and I say, ‘How did I get here?’” How He Did It, In the Words Of the Burglar E-mail: crimescene@nytimes.com Twitter: @mwilsonnyt MICHAEL WILSON CRIME SCENE Piotr Pasciak served time for burglary, then returned to a life of sporadic crime. He has been arrested again. By ARIEL KAMINER A well-regarded program that re- cruited professional chefs to help the New York City Department of Educa- tion provide fresher, healthier food in public schools is being discontinued be- cause it does not meet new federal nu- trition standards, the department said Friday. Organized by the nonprofit group Wellness in the Schools, the program won attention in culinary circles and ap- plause from parents for bringing profes- sional chefs into schools to plan and help prepare meals like vegetarian chili, pasta with fresh pesto and roasted chicken with homemade spice rub. But according to Marge Feinberg, a department spokeswoman, the pro- gram’s approach does not comply with the requirements of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act, which sets higher nutritional standards for the food served to students across the country, and provides an additional subsidy of 6 cents per meal for schools that comply. She said that the program, used in 30 city public schools in the last year, would not be involved in the planning of menus and preparation come fall. In those schools and others, however, Wellness in the Schools, also known as WITS, will continue to offer cooking demonstrations, provide educational materials about nutrition and maintain salad bars, which are not regarded as part of the basic cafeteria menu. “The WITS menus that they provided to schools last year do not meet the new federal regulations,” Ms. Feinberg said, without offering specifics. But Sharon Richter, a licensed nutri- tionist who has worked with WITS for several years, countered that the group has always maintained higher nutri- tional standards than those required by law, and pushed the city’s Department of Education to improve its own stand- ards, like reducing corn syrup and hy- drogenated oil. “I’m working through the new menus to make sure they all fit the new re- quirements,” she said. Any adjustments would be minor, she said, like including fresh fruit and the salad bar on the list- ed menu items rather than offering them as extras, or altering the mix of vegetables over the course of the week. Over all, she said, “It’s a very obvious thing how much healthier these are, the recipes made from scratch as opposed to prepackaged food.” A spokeswoman for the United States Department of Agriculture had no im- mediate comment on the WITS pro- gram, but noted that the department en- couraged partnerships between chefs and schools through the Chefs Move to Schools program, which pairs profes- sional chefs with local cafeterias na- tionwide. The program is a part of Mi- chelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign. Parents in the affected New York City schools praised the WITS program, and expressed shock that it was being dis- continued. Jean Moreland, a parent at P.S. 84 in Manhattan and co-president of the PTA, said: “It baffles me, that in a city where our mayor is so concerned with the size of our sodas, he is O.K.with feeding our children fatty and processed foods rath- er than the much healthier WITS op- tions.” Michael Anthony, the executive chef at Gramercy Tavern, who worked with Public School 41 in Manhattan during the past year, said the project “was met with an enormous amount of enthusi- asm from kids, parents, cafeteria work- ers and administrators.” As for the new change in policy, he said: “We will con- tinue to be dedicated to the kids at 41 and to the organizers of WITS to see that it doesn’t just go by the wayside. It’s important to stand up for the right of our kids to eat healthy food and live healthy enjoyable lives.” Nancy Easton, the executive director and co-founder of WITS, which was formed in 2005, said that there was an ever-increasing demand from public schools for its services. “We’ll still partner with schools, but we just won’t be in the kitchens,” she said, expressing hope that the situation would change within a few months. But Ms. Feinberg indicated otherwise: “This is a change for the upcoming school year. I can’t talk about beyond that.” City Ends School Lunch ProgramThat Used Professional Chefs A group does not meet new federal nutrition standards, the Education Department says. By LISA W. FODERARO When it was created in the late 1990s, Hudson River Park seemed like a new genre of public space, a state-city hybrid built on and over the water, with continu- ing maintenance to be paid for by commercial development on a handful of piers. For years, one of the biggest contributors to the park’s bottom line has been Pier 40, where parking fees have generated $5 million a year, nearly a third of its annual budget for routine main- tenance. But this year, with Pier 40’s roof falling in and the pilings un- derneath it deteriorating, the pier has turned into a drain on the park’s finances:fixing only a fraction of the roof would cost $6.2 million. In recent weeks, the Hudson River Park Trust, which runs the park, has closed a stairwell, bath- rooms and one of three fields be- cause of worsening conditions. Park officials are now talking about the possibility of shutting down Pier 40 entirely. “The intent was for Pier 40 to be developed so that it would support the park, but now the park is supporting the pier,” said Madelyn Wils, president and chief executive of the Hudson River Park Trust. “Many board members have weighed in and said that we can’t put money that we don’t have into the pier.” The loss of the pier, a 15-acre structure that juts over the Hud- son River at Houston Street, would not only cut off a future revenue stream, it would also af- fect hundreds of sports teams currently using the fields there, and the drivers of 1,600 cars that park there. The park, along five miles of the Hudson, draws millions of visitors a year on foot and bicycle to the West Side of Manhattan. But its waterfront location has posed challenges, with aging structures subject to the batter- ing of wind and water, and the trust has struggled all along to fulfill one of its key mandates — the need to be self-sustaining. The main problem, park offi- cials say, is that the legislation that originally created the park severely restricted commercial uses of the piers. Pier 40 can only be used for re- tail and entertainment purposes, and,over the years,two develop- ment proposals have fallen through. Community opposition helped defeat the most recent plan, which called for a large re- tail complex and a theater hous- ing Cirque du Soleil. Some city and state officials say that the development options for the pier should be expanded to include housing, which could generate enough cash to pay for the repair of the pier’s pilings and roof, estimated to cost $125 mil- lion, as well as yearly revenue for routine maintenance. But a bill in Albany that would have permit- ted office and hotel space, though not housing, never came up for a vote in the last session. Assemblyman Richard N. Gott- fried, one of the authors of the original Hudson River Park Act and sponsor of the most recent bill, said that it did not go far enough to fix the pier’s ills and that he wanted to reintroduce the bill allowing housing, perhaps as early as December if a special session of the Legislature is called. Currently,any developer on the pier would only get a 29-year lease, which Mr. Gottfried said was too short. His last bill would have lengthened the potential lease term to 49 years, which, he and others said, still might not be enough to attract a developer willing to tackle the pier’s infra- structure. “The reason I think housing should be open to consideration is that it does appear to have the lowest traffic impact while also producing the most reliable and highest revenue stream,” Mr. Gottfried said. “So I think it real- ly ought to be on the table.” But building apartments on public land is hard. Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is still under development along the East Riv- er, is the best example of a park that relies on private housing to pay for its annual maintenance. But development there, though it is moving forward, has been met with community opposition. Deborah J. Glick, the assem- blywoman whose district in- cludes Pier 40, says that neigh- borhoods like Chelsea and Tri- BeCa, which abut the park, need more open space, not luxury housing. She said that the original prohi- bitions against certain types of development in the park were the result of careful thinking and scores of community meetings. “The statement by the trust that it’s considering a phased shutdown is really a tactic to pressure the community and elected representatives to adopt the suggested plan for residential development,” Ms. Glick said. Rather than housing, which she said would change the char- acter of the park, Ms. Glick said she would prefer to add office space as a permitted use at the pier, while also exploring pier work and a new park improve- ment district that would impose fees on nearby buildings. (The trust also supports those ideas.) The city’s parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe, dismissed the idea that talking about a shut- down was a strategic ploy. The pier’s challenges are so se- vere, he said, that a park im- provement district, while poten- tially helpful with routine mainte- nance, would not cover the re- placement of 3,600 steel pilings or the roof. “I don’t think anyone is exag- gerating the importance of what needs to happen,” said Mr. Benepe, a member of the trust’s board who supports the housing option. “We’re closing more and more of the parking on the pier, which is in need of immediate stabilization and long-term work. The hopeful thing is that the solu- tion to these problems lies within reach and most people under- stand that some kind of compro- mise is needed.” In the meantime, parents are starting to organize to save the pier and its playing fields. Daniel Miller, former president of Greenwich Village Little League, said many residents would sup- port housing if it meant keeping spaces for soccer, baseball and lacrosse. Under the law establishing the park, half of the pier must be set aside for recreation. “As a com- munity, we have to be open to all options,” Mr. Miller said. “Let’s say a 20-story building goes up; maybe we could then get 75 per- cent of the pier’s footprint for fields. The greater the percent- age of the pier we can have for our youth, the better.” PHOTOGRAPHS BY OZIER MUHAMMAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES Park officials are considering shutting down Pier 40, the 15-acre structure that sits over the Hudson River at Houston Street. Repair Costs Could Bring Down a Popular Pier Just to fix a part of the roof would cost $6.2 million this year. The Hudson River Park Trust, which oversees the park and the piers, wants to develop private housing to generate money. Some state officials see the proposed shutdown as a tactic to pressure the community to change the character of the park. A landing was developed to support Hudson River Park, not vice versa. ØØ N A15 NEW YORK THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations in New York City will be suspended because of Id al-Fitr. Other regulations will remain in effect. Parking Rules By MATT FLEGENHEIMER A State Supreme Court justice on Friday rebuffed the Bloom- berg administration’s plan to ex- pand street hail service beyond Manhattan, signaling an uncer- tain future for livery taxis in the city and a victory for the yellow- cab industry, which has vigor- ously opposed the plan. Justice Arthur F. Engoron, of State Supreme Court in Manhat- tan, said that the city had vio- lated the home-rule provisions of the State Constitution because the plan was written into law by the State Legislature after the Bloomberg administration had been stymied by the City Council. The city had defended taking the plan to the Legislature by argu- ing that the policy was of state concern. The law had authorized the city to issue up to 18,000 “hail li- censes” for northern Manhattan and the other boroughs. The measure required that 20 percent of the new vehicles be wheelchair accessible. The law also allowed the city to issue 2,000 medallions for wheel- chair-accessible yellow taxis, which were expected to generate $1 billion for the city at auction. But the entire law was “null and void,” Justice Engoron said in his decision, citing the home- rule concerns and a so-called poi- son-pill provision in the bill stip- ulating that if part of the law was declared invalid, the entire stat- ute would have to be scrapped. David S. Yassky, the chairman of the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, called the decision “a great loss to millions of New Yorkers outside of Manhattan” as well as to livery drivers, “whose ability to feed their families by providing a popular service” had been jeopardized. “We owe it to all New Yorkers to appeal this judge’s opinion,” he said. Michael A. Cardozo, the city’s corporation counsel, said he was confident that an appellate court would be more receptive to the city’s arguments, adding, “The irrational fear of lost profits by medallion owners and lenders should not be permitted to derail these important programs.” The yellow taxi industry cheered the ruling. In a state- ment, the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, a plaintiff in one of the suits challenging the law, expressed relief that a “flawed and destructive plan” had been turned back. “Chairman David Yassky and the administration back-doored a flawed plan in Albany and got caught,” the group said. “It’s that simple.” Justice Engoron echoed some of his decision in June, in which he issued a temporary restrain- ing order for the plan and ques- tioned the city’s decision to cir- cumvent the Council. “When all is said and done, railways are a state concern, taxi- cabs are a local concern,” Justice Engoron said Friday. He added that if every cross-border trans- action created a substantial state interest, “the borders might as well be abolished, and the state can just run everything.” He said the city had proved it- self “up to the task of regulating its own taxicabs.” “New York City taxicabs are arguably engaged in interstate commerce,” he noted. “Does that mean that the United States Con- gress can mandate that all City taxicab drivers must eat broccoli three times a week to keep them- selves healthy?” The delay of the auction of me- dallions for 2,000 wheelchair-ac- cessible yellow taxis had already thrown the city budget into flux. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has warned that if the city could not sell the new medallions, many city jobs would have to be cut. The litigation had also spurred a debate among likely mayoral candidates. Bill de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, urged the court to overturn the law, calling it an unconstitutional usurpation of the City Council’s power. Mr. Bloomberg has called this argu- ment “stupid.” Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough presi- dent, expressed support for the plan. On Friday, Mr. Stringer sug- gested that negotiations outside of the courtroom, including a pos- sible resuscitation of discussions with the City Council, might prove more efficient than slog- ging through an appeals process. “Let’s bring the parties togeth- er and pass the necessary legisla- tion to make this plan constitu- tional in the judge’s eyes,” he said in an interview. “I don’t think we have to wait for an appeal that probably won’t be decided until sometime in 2013 at the earliest.” Court Overturns Law Expanding Taxi Service Aug. 17, 2012 Midday New York Numbers — 129; Lucky Sum— 12 Midday New York Win 4 — 4516; Lucky Sum— 16 New York Numbers — 847; Lucky Sum— 19 New York Win 4 —5492; Lucky Sum — 20 New York Take 5 — 4, 10, 13, 17, 32 New York Pick 10 — 1, 4, 5, 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 26, 31, 33, 37, 42, 44, 50, 60, 68, 69, 72 Midday New Jersey Pick 3 — 201 Midday New Jersey Pick 4 — 1242 New Jersey Pick 3 — 879 New Jersey Pick 4 —7511 New Jersey Cash 5 — 9, 21, 26, 28, 35 Mega Millions — 8, 20, 24, 35, 56; mega ball, 24 Connecticut Midday 3 — 962 Connecticut Midday 4 — 2116 Connecticut Daily — 497 Connecticut Play 4 — 4627 Connecticut Cash 5 — 6, 23, 24, 25, 30 Connecticut Classic Lotto — 5, 26, 28, 32, 37, 40 Aug. 16, 2012 New York Take 5 — 7, 16, 25, 34, 37 Lottery Numbers By JAMES BARRON The assignment was to make an eight-minute video “collage” that explained “King Lear” using images of modern celebrities. Whom to cast as Lear? “We needed to think of some- one who is very powerful, but also crazy,” said Paola Ocampo, 16, one of 26 teenagers in a sum- mer program at the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side. “We thought of Donald J. Trump.” They leafed through a stack of magazines until they found a photograph of Mr. Trump in which he looked as if he had a dark purpose. That was at odds with the glee in their voices as they clipped it. There was more glee as they scanned it onto a computer. And there was still more as they antic- ipated a Royal Shakespeare Com- pany production of “King Lear,” to be staged at the armory in the fall, by filling the cast in their vid- eo with photographs of Lady Gaga as Goneril, Natalie Port- man as Cordelia and Morgan Freeman as the Earl of Glouces- ter. So it goes in the reception rooms at the armory, with high- ceilinged spaces designed by Gilded Age geniuses like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stanford White.The soldiers who once marched there have been re- placed by officials from a non- profit arts group — and by the Armory Youth Corps, which gives high school students a taste of what goes on behind the scenes. They do a variety of jobs, sometimes working as greeters and ushers at the armory, other times plunging into a de facto hands-on course in history — the armory’s rich history. They are helping in the digitalization of the thousands of photographs the military left behind when it leased the building to the Park Avenue Armory Conservancy. “When we got here, every sin- gle locker we opened had treas- ures inside,” said Rebecca Rob- ertson, the conservancy’s presi- dent. “We found three Lincoln letters,and magazines from when the Queen Mother came here.” She explained that one of the letters from Lincoln was be- neath an issue of Life magazine that included an article about the Queen Mother’s visit to the Unit- ed States in 1954 — and the ball that the Seventh Regiment gave in her honor at the armory. If an army travels on its stom- ach, the Seventh Regiment must have been ready to march. Ms. Robertson said that when the Seventh Regiment became the first volunteer militia to answer Lincoln’s call for troops at the be- ginning of the Civil War, “Del- monico’s went with them.” Del- monico’s was the restaurant that defined fine dining in New York in the 1820s. As for the photographs, the youth corps has digitized dozens this summer. Kirsten Reoch, the armory’s historian, said youth corps members, like Tim Vincent, 16, learned about the Seventh Regiment as they went along, identifying the soldiers in the photographs they scanned. Mr. Vincent was holding a pho- tograph of Colonel Daniel Apple- ton, who led the Seventh Regi- ment for 27 years, from 1889 to 1916 — and who was photo- graphed in a tent alongside a statue of Caesar Augustus. What did he learn about Colo- nel Appleton from the photo- graph, which he said was taken in the 1880s? “I would say he was insecure,” Mr. Vincent said, “because he had to have a statue and he had to have his men take it with them and put it in his tent when they went on maneuvers.” (Ms. Reoch said the photo had been taken at a camp near Peekskill, N.Y. “Summer camp for adults,” she said.) Another youth corps member, Sobiha Ahmed, 18, from Canarsie, Brooklyn, measured the photo as Mr. Vincent and Ms. Reoch told stories about Colonel Appleton: he had taken over from the Sev- enth Regiment’s first command- er, Col. Emmons Clark; he has the largest portrait of anyone in the armory, a huge painting by one of the wide staircases; he changed the look of the armory before World War I; and his fam- ily controlled the publishing house that put Henry James and Edith Wharton before the public. Across the hall was the “Lear” project, which Ms. Robertson de- scribed as “figuring out how to make ‘Lear’ relatable” to teen- agers. “Lady Gaga looks really evil,” Ms. Ocampo said, sounding pleased. Ms. Ocampo will see how evil the Royal Shakespeare Compa- ny’s Goneril looks: She will go to London to watch rehearsals, as Jonathan Amaya did last year for “Macbeth.” “That was my first Shake- speare,” said Mr. Amaya, 18, from East New York, Brooklyn. “I loved it.” He said he had learned about live theater from watching different performances there. “They’d change it up, and I’d see the stuff they’d cut out, and I un- derstood it more,” he said. But back to “Lear.” Ms. Ocam- po said the group got the idea to cast Mr. Trump as Lear when “Cordelia gets banished.” “We thought, ‘You’re fired,’” she said. So what did they make of the family dynamics of “King Lear”? “I think they need some coun- seling,” she said. While Casting ‘Lear’ at the Armory, Discovering History A16 Ø N NEW YORK THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 News and conversa- tion from the five boroughs: nytimes.com/cityroom City Room By RUSS BUETTNER Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has repeatedly said that the small number of guns found by police officers during stop-and- frisk encounters shows that the program is working as a deter- rent, and not that the police are exercising poor judgment in de- ciding whom to stop, as critics have argued. But a federal judge said on Fri- day said that the city had “no evi- dence” to make the deterrence claim, and called the argument “too speculative” to be admitted in court by New York City’s ex- pert witness in a class-action law- suit challenging the constitution- ality of the city’s use of stop-and- frisk tactics. The city’s expert appeared to be trying to “to justify stops on the basis of their deterrent im- pact, regardless of their legality,” Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Fed- eral District Court in Manhattan wrote. It was the latest strongly word- ed ruling by Judge Scheindlin in a civil suit filed on behalf of peo- ple who were frisked on the streets and released. In granting the case class-action status in May, she condemned what she called the city’s “deeply troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental constitutional rights.” A trial in the case could begin before the end of the year. The city of Philadelphia, faced with a similar suit, signed a consent de- cree last year that has reduced the number of encounters. Mayor Bloomberg has suggested that crime rose there as a result. The suit argues that the city is conducting stop-and-frisk en- counters on the basis of race, in violation of the 14th Amendment. The city says that the stop-and- frisk program, which dates to the 1990s, is concentrated in high- crime areas, and does not focus on minorities. A plaintiffs’ expert witness in the case is expected to testify that his analysis of city data shows that about 10 percent of stops result in an arrest or sum- mons, and guns are seized in only 1 of every 1,000 stops. “I found these statistics power- ful evidence of a widespread pat- tern of unlawful stops,” Judge Scheindlin noted. In response, the city sought to have its expert, Dennis C. Smith, an associate professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wag- ner School of Public Service, tes- tify that finding guns was not the appropriate measurement of suc- cess for a “proactive, prevention- focused” tactic. Rather, Professor Smith would argue that a goal of the program was to convince would-be gun carriers to leave their guns at home. Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W.Kelly have made the same argument. In the mayor’s most full-throated defense of the tactic, he told a black congregation in Brooklyn that the policy was deterring peo- ple from carrying guns. “By making it ‘too hot to carry,’ the N.Y.P.D. is preventing guns from being carried on our streets,” the mayor said at the First Baptist Full Gospel Church of Brownsville. “That is our real goal — preventing violence be- fore it occurs, not responding to the victims after the fact.” Judge Scheindlin also suggest- ed that the city was seeking to make the suit a referendum on whether stop-and-frisk tactics re- duce crime, but she said the trial would focus narrowly on whether how the city has employed the tactic passes constitutional mus- ter. The city’s Law Department did not comment of the aspects of their expert testimony that the judge disallowed. But in a state- ment, the department said it was pleased that Mr. Smith would be able to critique the plaintiff ex- pert’s analysis of the role of race in stop and frisks. Darius Charney, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the case against the city, said the city had framed the issue as whether or not its stop-and-frisk policy worked. “We’re not here to argue whether stop-and-frisk is a wise police tactic,” Mr. Charney said. The argument, he said, was, is “the way the Police Department is doing it legal or not.” Judge Bars Testimony By Expert In Frisk Suit A plaintiffs’ lawyer says the issue is not whether a tactic is wise, but if it’s legal. By MATT FLEGENHEIMER Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Friday that the city’s much-heralded bike-share pro- gram would not begin until next year, ending weeks of speculation about the program’s fate and dashing cyclists’ hopes of seeing the city’s newest public travel al- ternative this year. Speaking on his morning radio program, Mr. Bloomberg attrib- uted the decision to software problems, which he has cited re- peatedly in recent weeks amid calls for a further explanation for the delay. “The software doesn’t work,” the mayor said. “Duh.” “You’re not going to put it out until it does work,” he added. By the spring, he added, “hope- fully the software will work.” The program was scheduled to begin last month. Shortly after the mayor’s com- ments, the city released a more detailed timeline. In March 2013, the Transportation Department said, the program will begin with 7,000 bikes at 420 stations. “New York City demands a world-class bike-share system, and we need to ensure that Citi Bike launches as flawlessly as New Yorkers expect on Day 1,” Janette Sadik-Khan, the trans- portation commissioner, said in a statement. Under the original plan, the program, operated by Alta Bicy- cle Share, was to begin with a partial rollout this summer, then expand to a total of 10,000 bikes and 600 stations by summer 2013. Though Alta’s contract called for it to begin the program in July, the city’s comments in re- cent days suggested a financial penalty for the company was un- likely. The Transportation Depart- ment said Friday that “the time- line, agreed to by all parties, does not affect the Citi Bike sponsor- ship structure, which uses $41 million in private funding from Citi to underwrite the system for five years.” “The people that are putting up the money understand,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “They’re prob- ably not any happier about it than the people who want to rent the bikes or you and me or every- body else. But that’s the real world.” Alta has encountered delays to its programs in other cities. Last week, Chicago announced that its program would be delayed until next spring, after initially plan- ning to begin in late summer. An Alta program in Chattanooga, Tenn., was also delayed because of software problems, though it began last month. Some have attributed the soft- ware glitches to a continuing dis- pute between the Public Bike System Company, Alta’s Montre- al-based partner, and 8D Tech- nologies, which supplied the soft- ware for successful programs in Boston and Washington, among other cities. The Public Bike System Com- pany has severed ties with 8D for the installation of new technol- ogy in cities like New York and Chattanooga. The change was probably responsible for the de- lays, said Isabelle Bettez, the chief executive of 8D. “What was sold to these cities is not what, at the end of the day, will be installed,” Ms. Bettez said in an interview last week. “The technological solution is a big, big part of the system, not the one that you necessarily see. You see it when it doesn’t work.” Asked on Friday about the crit- icism of Alta in recent weeks, Ali- son Cohen, the company’s presi- dent, said she could not “com- ment on what other people are saying.” “Obviously, we’re disappointed in the timeline,” she said. “We re- gret that it happened in this way.” Ms. Sadik-Khan said the city became aware of the software is- sues in the spring. When city offi- cials were informed about a new software supplier, she said, they did not anticipate that code would be written “from scratch.” A 2013 start date, Ms. Sadik- Khan said, allowed the city “more than enough time to work out the remaining issues” with the new operating code, which she de- scribed as “everything from the Internet transactions to locks at bike-share stations.” New York City would continue to expand the system to 10,000 bikes after the March rollout, offi- cials said. The news came as a disap- pointment, if not a total surprise, to city cyclists. Paul Steely White, the executive director of Trans- portation Alternatives, an advo- cacy group that has worked alongside the city to promote the program, said it was critical that it “be launched correctly, not quickly.” “New York’s public bike-share program will not only be the larg- est bike-share system in the Western Hemisphere,” he said in a statement, “it will also be the city’s first, brand-new, full-scale form of public transit since the subway’s debut more than 100 years ago.” Mr. White added in an inter- view that with a spring start, cy- cling might become a more po- tent political issue in the coming mayoral election. “It arguably improves the public perception, the political perception, leading up to the election,” he said. John C. Liu, the city comptrol- ler, who issued a report in June warning that the city could face lawsuits from bike accidents when the program began, said Friday that the delay provided an “opportunity to address the re- maining safety issues associated with the plan.” Debut of City’s Bike-Share Program Is Pushed Back to March ‘The software doesn’t work,’ the mayor says on the radio. ‘Duh.’ Michael M. Grynbaum contribut- ed reporting. MICHAEL NAGLE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES It was late on Thurs- day afternoon, and the lifeguards at Ja- cob Riis Park in Queens had all gone for the day, so Sade Bennett, 24, lifted her 3-year-old niece, Denaya,to join other children in the chair left delightfully va- cant by the grownups. A Tower Of Temptation LIBRADO ROMERO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Angel Ordonez working on a computer at the Park Avenue Armory. He is part of a group of teen- agers spending the summer doing a variety of jobs.Some are working on a Shakespeare project. ARCHIVES OF THE SEVENTH REGIMENT, STATE OF NEW YORK A photo from the 1880s of Colonel Daniel Appleton, who led the Seventh Regiment for 27 years, from 1889 to 1916. Ø N A17 NEW YORK THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 “If you phone a Unitarian Church between the middle of June and Labor Day in Septem- ber, the most you are apt to get is a recorded mes- sage,” Charles S. Slap said in his sermon at the First Unitarian Society of Sche- nectady, N.Y., on Sept. 8, 1985. “Our more orthodox friends never cease to be as- tounded by the contents of the message: ‘This church is closed for the summer. If you are one of those people who actually need a church during the summer, try the Presbyterians.’ ” Was he joking? Well, in part — Mr. Slap surely did not wish Pres- byterianism on potential follow- ers. But in the matter of his own church being closed for the sum- mer, he was serious. “Indeed,” he added, “85 percent of Unitarian societies go into their strange ec- clesiastical hibernation” in the summer months. Although Mr. Slap did not give a source for his figure — the ser- mon text can be found in his book “Two Black Cats,” published in 1993, a year after his death — Unitarians of a certain age will acknowledge the truth in what he said. After the school year ended, God took a break, and Unitarians took to Cape Cod, in Massachu- setts. But over the last 10 years or so, the leisurely Unitarian summer has mostly become a thing of the past. Ministers are working throughout the year, and congre- gational buildings offer services year-round. This leaves two questions: where did the Unitari- an summer off come from, and where has it gone? The Unitarian Universalist As- sociation was formed in 1961 by the merger of two liberal Chris- tian organizations, the Unitarians (who historically had taught that Jesus was a man, not divine) and the Universalists (who believed in universal salvation; everyone got saved). The Unitarian tradi- tion, in particular, had long ap- pealed to freethinkers and intel- lectuals, including many college professors. Hence, one theory about the summers off: thank Harvard. Unitarianism in the United States took off after 1805, when Harvard caused a scandal by appointing a Unitarian professor of theology. In the years after, many Congre- gational churches took a Unitari- an direction in their teaching. “Since then,” Mr. Slap opined, “our fate has been tied to Har- vard University,” whose calendar has provided for summers off since the early 1800s. And since Unitarianism was a religion of the educated and pro- fessional class, the vacationing class, “the Unitarian churches in New England would all close down in June, and everyone headed for the Cape,” he said. Kenneth Hurto, who served congregations in Des Moines and in Alexandria, Va., is now the de- nomination’s district executive in Florida. He said the culture of summers off “is long since gone,” but he remembers a different age. “When I came into the minis- try 40 years ago, I heard about colleagues who had the trunk of the car packed on Memorial Day,” he said. “They would disap- pear after the service and not be back until the first of October.” The Unitarian summer off was so well known that there were jokes about it. “You know the joke about why the practice went on so long?” Mr. Hurto asked. “Be- cause God trusts us.” Rachel Walden, a spokeswom- an for the association, agreed that far more congregations go year-round than used to be the case. “But that is regionally spe- cific,” Ms. Walden said. “In the Maine and upper New England areas, where people might go away to summer homes, there are congregations that close dur- ing the year.” There are other congregations, in summer beach communities, that “might be open only during the summer,” she said. Several ministers said the real shift occurred in the past decade, citing reasons as mundane as re- cruitment and as profound as the changing nature of ministry. “Part of that is a recognition that people move during the sum- mer and they are church shop- ping right now,” said Kenneth Brown, who was ordained in 1974. His first church, in Exeter, N.H., “closed after Father’s Day,” but ministers have given up that lux- ury. “Quite frankly,” he said, “it behooves us to have strong serv- ices and a minister available” in the summer months. Susan Ritchie, a minister in Lewis Center, Ohio, and a profes- sor at Starr King School for the Ministry, in Berkeley, Calif., said: “I think part of the reason it’s changing has to do with different expectations for ministers. It has been moving away from being just the public intellectual and more toward the helping profes- sion. And that has to do with the feminization of the ministry.” According to Ms. Walden, a majority of Unitarian ministers are women. And male ministers of an earlier generation, Dr. Ritchie believes, may have felt more comfortable leaving their flock for months at a time. And their congregants did not expect any different. “When they left for the sum- mer, they really left for the sum- mer,” she said. “They’d get a place on the Cape and not even leave a forwarding address.” Unitarians Break With Tradition of Extended Time Off in Summer mark.e.oppenheimer @gmail.com; twitter/markoppl MARK OPPENHEIMER BELIEFS By ALISON LEIGH COWAN A former rabbinical aide who may hold the fate of a United States representative in his hands has been arrested on im- migration-fraud charges, federal authorities said on Friday. According to a criminal com- plaint unsealed on Friday, the aide, Ofer Biton, 39, who used to work for Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto of Manhattan, schemed to com- mit immigration fraud and other illegal acts with other people. United States Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold signed a warrant on Monday that led to Mr. Biton’s arrest late in the week. Mr. Biton, who was arraigned in Brooklyn on Friday and or- dered held at the Metropolitan Detention Center without bail, has previously denied any wrongdoing. His lawyer, Jeffrey Udell, declined to comment on Friday. According to the complaint, Mr. Biton deceived the govern- ment in June 2010 about the source of $500,000 that he claimed to have put into a new business that was to make him el- igible for a permanent visa. Immigrants who can document that they have invested signif- icant amounts of capital in the United States and have created jobs for Americans are often eli- gible for a permanent visa for themselves and their families. But under the rules, the seed money for the business has to have been obtained honestly. In his papers, Mr. Biton claimed much of the money for his business came from a loan from a family friend. In challenging that account, the complaint strongly hints that the money was raised through more coercive means, like ex- tortion. While it was not mentioned in the complaint, Mr. Biton has also emerged as a key figure in the 2009-10 Congressional campaign of Representative Michael G. Grimm, a Republican who repre- sents Staten Island and Brooklyn and is seeking re-election. Though Mr. Biton is barred from raising money for federal election campaigns because he is an ille- gal immigrant, he is said to have raised much of Mr. Grimm’s cam- paign money for that race from the rabbi’s followers and left the impression with some of them that he expected help with his visa problems in return if Mr. Grimm was elected. Mr. Grimm, who has not been charged with a crime, insists he complied with all campaign laws. The presence of Anthony Capozzolo, the head of the public corruption unit of the United States attorney’s office in Brook- lyn, at Mr. Biton’s arraignment, reinforced the appearance that the case has more significance to the government than a mere im- migration case. Mr. Capozzolo has been busy ever since the authorities became aware last year of serious irregu- larities and turmoil at Shuva Is- rael, an Orthodox yeshiva on the East Side of Manhattan that Mr. Biton helped establish as the top aide to and translator for Rabbi Pinto, who speaks Hebrew. For several months now, the authorities have been investigat- ing the possibility that Mr. Biton, along with Ronn Torossian, a public relations executive, em- bezzled millions of dollars in charitable funds from the yeshiva and extorted additional money from the rabbi and his followers until Mr. Biton parted ways with the congregation in 2010. Mr. To- rossian, who has not been charged, has emphatically denied any wrongdoing. Asked for comment, his lawyer, Gerald L. Shargel, called the complaint “a collection of hints and innuendos.” “There is nothing in the docu- ment that requires me to com- ment,” he added. Lawyers who read the com- plaint said that the charges ap- peared to have been narrowly drawn to preserve Mr. Biton’s ability to become a government witness and cooperate against other possible defendants in a scheme whose tentacles have al- ready touched off public corrup- tion investigations in the halls of Congress and overseas. By focusing strictly on the im- migration fraud and not on other areas where Mr. Biton might have criminal exposure, the gov- ernment may be ensuring that it minimizes the amount of poten- tially incriminating material it ul- timately has to make public about Mr. Biton, since that ma- terial could be used by other de- fendants to attack his credibility or motives, the lawyers ex- plained. “We’re satisfied that this in- vestigation is proceeding and we look forward to the criminal jus- tice system playing itself out,” said Arthur L. Aidala, Rabbi Pin- to’s lawyer. Congressional Fund-Raiser Charged With Immigration Fraud YOSSEF BEN YOSSEF Ofer Biton has been accused of immigration fraud. By VIVIAN YEE Oreo, the runaway horse who dumped his carriage driver and two passengers near Columbus Circle on Thursday, may have bolted his way into an easier life- style. Until that moment, Oreo, a 6-year-old draft gelding,had a typical story. Like many of his fellow car- riage horses, he was born in Pennsylvania. He had worked his trade for five years, gobbling sev- eral bags of carrots each night. On Thursday, he was pulling his red-and-white carriage with its jaunty flower bouquet near Central Park, as he usually did, but that afternoon turned out to be anything but usual. Something spooked him so badly that he took off running through the busy intersection at Columbus Circle, shedding his passengers, his driver and his carriage before being caught on Ninth Avenue. (The driver, Meh- met Dunbar, and a male pas- senger who was also injured, were released from the hospital by Friday morning.) Oreo, who is young by draft- horse standards, was destined to pull carriages for at least several more years. But his owner, Frank Nolan, has decided a midcareer change may be in order, said Ste- phen Malone, a longtime carriage driver and spokesman for the Horse and Carriage Association of New York. “When a horse suffers a trau- matic experience like that, we don’t want anything to happen in the future,” Mr. Malone said. Though Oreo suffered no more than a scratch or two, Mr. Malone said, he will most likely need sev- eral weeks to recover and re- adjust to city noise. Standing 16 hands high and weighing 1,700 pounds, Oreo has a deep brown splashing the front of his white body. He was exam- ined by two veterinarians on Thursday and suspended from carriage work for seven days, Mr. Malone said. A spokesman for the American Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, which monitors New York’s car- riage horses, said that if Oreo were to work again, he would have to pass a full examination. Oreo has several options. He may pull carriages in less urban settings, freelance in parades and weddings, or even try the trail- riding business. Or he could go private: Mr. Malone said the sta- bles had already fielded several calls from people wanting to give Oreo a new home, possibly buy- ing him for leisure. But for a glimpse of what prob- ably lies in store for Oreo, one need only look to Paddy, a 17- year-old Percheron who retired in May after 12 years in the car- riage force. He is living out his days at Blue Star Equiculture, a draft-horse sanctuary and organ- ic farm in Palmer, Mass., that takes in New York carriage horses. If Paddy’s months in the green pastures of central Massachu- setts are any indication, a life of pleasure may await Oreo. “Paddy has a girlfriend,” said Pamela Rickenbach, Blue Star’s director. “He’s having a great time.” The “girl” in question is a Bel- gian named Cami, rescued by Blue Star from a New Jersey auc- tion house known for sending horses to the slaughterhouse. In her first months at the farm, Cami refused to eat and watched the road as if pining for her for- mer owner, Ms. Rickenbach said. But since Paddy arrived, the two have been inseparable, and Cami has put on 150 pounds. Paddy, a tall, white horse, keeps active, marching in local parades and teaching younger horses to stand in a harness. He is also something of a celebrity: Ms. Rickenbach said people have come from all over the Northeast to visit him. Oreo may be dreaming of greener pastures, but some ani- mal rights groups expressed con- cern that many carriage horses ultimately end up in slaughter- houses. Carriage horse owners say they try to avoid that fate for their animals, though. Meanwhile, Oreo probably does not know that he has be- come a flash point in the reignit- ed debate over New York’s car- riage horses. Several animal rights groups and anti-carriage groups are backing previously proposed City Council legislation that would either ban horse- drawn carriages or replace them with “horseless carriages,” elec- tric cars driven by the former carriage drivers. Scott Levenson, a spokesman for New Yorkers for Clean, Liv- able and Safe Streets, one of the groups fighting for the legisla- tion, said hundreds of people had contacted his group after hearing about Oreo’s getaway. Last year, there were at least seven in- stances of a horse getting spooked, colliding with a vehicle or collapsing, events that animal advocates say harm the horses and endanger the public. The group’s online petition that sup- ports the City Council legislation had gathered more than 91,000 signatures as of Friday after- noon, up from about 86,000 on Wednesday. But the legislation lacks sup- port from crucial city officials, in- cluding the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. “In our society, we have, from cave-man times, used animals as part of our economy. We eat them,” Mr. Bloomberg said in an interview on WOR-AM on Friday morning. Of the horse-drawn car- riages, he said, “I think it’s some- thing that a lot of tourists really love. It makes New York, New York.” Oreo, for his part, had little to contribute. In his stall at the Clin- ton Park Stables on Friday af- ternoon, he tore hay from his feeder and stoically accepted the pats from the reporters and pho- tographers who came to see him, ready, it seemed, for a quieter life. ÁNGEL FRANCO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Oreo, the horse that dumped his carriage and ran amok near Columbus Circle on Thursday, at the Clinton Park Stables on Friday. Draft Horse That Bolted May End Up On Easy St. A less hectic job or a new owner may be in store for Oreo. are not publicized. In Harlem, down the block from the couple with the char- donnay and Coors, a man who identified himself as “D” sat on the threshold of the apartment building where he lives near Marcus Garvey Park. The door was ajar and he was clutching his keys. He said his disposable cup was filled with iced tea, but he ad- mitted to indulging in a beer on other nights to unwind between working two jobs, occasionally wearing a suit and tie. “I got a ticket right here,” he said, slapping the red concrete with his left hand. “Someone might be getting robbed, but they’ve stopped by here to ask what I’m drinking?” he said. “That’s a messed-up law to me.” One Brooklynite, Kimber Van- Ry, has become something of a hero to stoop drinkers. In 2009, Mr. VanRy challenged a violation for drinking a Sierra Nevada in front of his Prospect Heights co-op, where he was a board member. After he made several court appearances and one judge recused himself, the case was eventually thrown out. “These laws want to chase us all into private spaces that most people can’t afford or have ac- cess to,” Mr. VanRy said recently. Public drinking laws, he said, are unevenly enforced along ra- cial lines and don’t address actu- al crimes being committed. “I see this very much like stop and frisk,” he said. He suggested that spending time on the stoop strengthened the community. “When you don’t know your neighborhood and your neighbors, I think some- thing has been lost,” he said. Matt Rohrer and his wife, Su- san McCullough, chose to live in Park Slope partly, they said, be- cause of the welcoming steps that cascade down from the second floors of brownstones. It is not uncommon to see parents sitting on those steps sipping wine as their children splash in plastic pools on the sidewalk. “New York City’s not supposed to be so Puri- tan.” Mr. Rohrer said. Although the police regularly patrol their street, Mr. Rohrer said he and his wife had not been written up for their illegal activi- ties. But, he said defiantly, “I’m not going to stop.” Mr. Brown and Mr. Jordan were back on the stoop in Fort Greene last week, this time with 40-ounce Becks and Guinnesses that a neighbor delivered via skateboard in a black plastic bo- dega bag. Next door, a small group leaned against the black metal railings of their own stoop, talking quietly, laughing occa- sionally, with a bottle of red wine. Mr. Jordan excused himself to move his Jaguar to a better park- ing spot, and to check on a neigh- bor who recently lost his father. A woman with a yoga mat un- der her arm approached Mr. Brown to show him a photo of his son on her iPhone. “You must be so proud of him,” she said before kissing him on both cheeks and turning in for the night. Savoring The Illicit: Cocktails On the Stoop From Page A14 If the public can see you, that plastic cup of riesling is illegal, gate or no gate. Vivian Yee contributed reporting. This is the 11th in a series of arti- cles exploring how people in the New York City area spend their summers after dark. Summer Nights ONLINE: Previous articles in the series: nytimes.com/nyregion AVE MARIA CHAPEL Catholic Traditionalist Center 210 MAPLE AVE (off Post Ave) WESTBURY,L.I.,N.Y.11590 TEL:(516) 333-6470 TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS ASWASOFFEREDBYTHE LATE FATHERGOMMARA.DE PAUW SUNDAYMASS @9 a.m. FIRST SATURDAYS&HOLYDAYS: @9:30 a.m. DAILY:RADIOMASS VIDEOINTERNET MASS www.latinmass-ctm.org A18 Ø N EDITORIALS/LETTERS THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 An Emory University professor who uses speech recognition software says Autocorrect has made her prose recognizable. nytimes.com/opinion ONLINE:MORE LETTERS The lines on Wednesday were huge, like the ribbon of humanity at Navy Pier in Chicago that snaked through halls and stairwells and along the pier and then stretched, amazingly, out to and under Lake Shore Drive. Young ille- gal immigrants by the tens of thousands formed similar lines in other cities across the country. They lined up out- side churches and nonprofit agencies, holding paperwork and folders, to learn more about a new Obama administra- tion policy that would protect them from deportation and give them permission to work. It was the first day of applications for the administra- tion’s “deferred action” program, which does not give le- gal status to unauthorized immigrants, just a two-year re- prieve from expulsion. It’s simply a step away from indis- criminate deportations, a reordering of enforcement pri- orities to shield law-abiding young people who were brought here illegally as children. It’s also an application of common sense. But to Mr. Obama’s more strident critics, Wednesday was no less than the beginning of the end of the Constitution. One of them called it “A-Day,” for amnesty, and invoked the fall of the Roman Empire. In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday issued an executive order barring anyone who wins deferred action from getting public benefits or obtaining a driver’s li- cense. Because Arizona law already denies those things to illegal immigrants, her action seemed motivated by little more than spite. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama said of the Obama policy: “It is a direct threat to the rule of law and to the demonstrated desire of the American people for a lawful system of immigration.” Actually, it’s the opposite. Wednesday’s lines were more than a display of hope and enthusiasm. They were a full-scale outbreak of law and order, of people wanting to play by the rules, to make their way lawfully in the coun- try that needs them. Those who qualify for deferred action — young stu- dents and those with military service — are victims of a broken system. Back when Congress was functioning bet- ter, there was strong bipartisan support to help them be- come legal through the Dream Act. But Republicans sty- mied the bill, preferring the unlawful status quo — forcing millions to keep living indefinitely outside the law, then spending billions of dollars to slowly catch them one by one. It took courage for these young people to come out into the open, getting ready to present themselves to fed- eral authorities. There will be no appeals if their applica- tions are rejected. It is encouraging to see community agencies and nonprofits setting up information sessions, at reasonable cost, to process applicants’ paperwork and protect them from being defrauded by unscrupulous im- migration counselors. Organizations and law firms are do- nating time and expertise to help make the program work. Business leaders and philanthropic groups are raising pri- vate donations to help applicants cover their fees. It will be a wise investment. As Senator Richard Dur- bin of Illinois, who sponsored the Dream Act and cheered on the students in Chicago, said: “You can’t stop this force. This is a force of people who have grown up in this country and want to be part of its future. They are creat- ing a moral force beyond a legal force.” Long Lines and Big Dreams A new policy gives young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and a chance to work The JOBS Act — Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups — is a bad law. Enacted in April, it ends longstanding in- vestor protections, reduces market transparency and low- ers accounting and auditing standards for companies that are planning to go public. There’s a difference, however, between bad and worse. In recent weeks, the Securities and Exchange Commission has been under pressure from Congress to rush ahead with regulations to put the law into effect, without first issuing proposed rules and seeking public comment. A rushed process would deprive investor advo- cates of the chance to weigh in on how to carry out the law while still protecting individual investors from fraud. On Friday, however, the S.E.C. chairwoman, Mary Schapiro, confirmed that the agency would not ram new rules through without public comment. She will undoubt- edly take political heat for the decision, but she has made the right call. At issue are rules on “general solicitations,” or mass advertising of nonpublic securities to individual invest- ors. Before the JOBS Act, general solicitations were banned, a measure that shielded the general public from offerings that are difficult, if not impossible, to evaluate without special inside knowledge — and that are prone to fraud. Private companies, including hedge funds and ven- ture capital firms, could direct their offerings only to “ac- credited investors,” those with at least $1 million in net worth (not including a home) or at least $200,000 of year- ly income. Under the JOBS Act, the S.E.C. is required to lift the ban on general solicitations for private stock offerings. But investors in such deals must still meet the net worth or income requirements in previous law. It is up to the S.E.C. to provide “reasonable steps” that private-stock is- suers must take to ensure that their investors qualify. Hedge funds are pushing for loose standards; invest- or advocates have rightly called for strict standards to en- sure that everyday investors are not drawn into unsuit- able, and potentially fraudulent, high-risk investments. The JOBS Act makes the world less safe for investors. Done right, the rules the S.E.C. imposes can at least mini- mize the harm that is sure to come. The Unsafe World of Investing New rules, done right, could at least help shield investors from fraud Registering to vote in New York State is an unneces- sarily cumbersome process, time-consuming and prone to error. Voters fill out forms at one of 129 motor vehicle of- fices around the state, which then have to be sorted and mailed to local boards of elections.Some names never make it to the lists of registered voters. Little wonder that New York ranks a dismal 48th in the nation in voter regis- tration, trailed only by Texas and Mississippi. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has now made things much sim- pler. People with a valid driver’s license or state-issued nondriver’s identification card will be able to register to vote on the Department of Motor Vehicles Web site. This is definitely progress. According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, only 14 other states have or will soon offer online registration. Still, the plan needs further improvement. For one thing, lots of people don’t have driver’s licenses, especial- ly those living in New York City. They will still be required to fill out paper forms and hope for the best. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the new regis- tration lists will actually show up on the local election boards’ computers, which apparently can’t handle the new data. Cuomo administration officials promise that the computers at local boards will be “tweaked” next year. In the meantime, the new information received online from voters will be sent to a central Albany office, where it will be printed, rerouted and mailed to the county boards. That will still be cheaper, simpler and less vulnerable to error than the old system, the Cuomo people say. Mr. Cuomo’s next step should be to coax the Legisla- ture into purging or modernizing some of the state’s out- dated voting laws. Under ridiculously arcane rules, it can take a year for a New York voter to change political par- ties. The antiquated ballot format and styling need updat- ing.Registration should be allowed 10 days before an elec- tion, not more than 25 days, which is the way it works now. But give the Cuomo team its due. At a time when Re- publican lawmakers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida are throwing up new obstacles to voters, New York’s gov- ernor is trying to make voting easier. Welcome, New York Voters TO THE EDITOR: “Carbon Credits Gone Awry Raise Output of Harmful Gas” (“Chilling Ef- fect” series, front page, Aug. 9), about the effect of the United Nations’ carbon credit program in driving increased production of a coolant with a harmful waste gas byproduct, illustrates the key drawbacks of carbon credit programs, cap and trade, and related schemes. These programs often lead to per- verse incentives that produce no net re- duction in greenhouse gas emissions or, worse, can even increase emissions. Cap-and-trade programs, like the Euro- pean Union’s, allow offsets that are too easily manipulated. A better way to address the urgent problem of climate change is through instituting a fee on carbon. A carbon fee at the source, based on emissions per ton, would create an incentive for pro- ducers to develop innovative solutions to decrease their fossil fuel consump- tion and lower their emissions. It would be more straightforward to carry out and not subject to easy manipulation. Groups like Citizens Climate Lobby are advocating for adopting such a fee in the United States and Canada, with the revenue returned to citizens as divi- dends. International organizations like the United Nations would be wise to consider switching to a carbon fee sys- tem as well.SHIRA MARKOFF Fair Lawn, N.J., Aug. 10, 2012 The writer is co-leader of Citizens Cli- mate Lobby’s New York City chapter. TO THE EDITOR: Contrary to “Carbon Credits Gone Awry Raise Output of a Harmful Gas,” people foresaw huge risks around the Clean Development Mechanism. At the creation of the system and re- peatedly since, Environmental Defense Fund warned that minting credits for reducing emissions below “what would have otherwise occurred” in fast-grow- ing nations would spawn perverse in- centives, with industries tempted to generate bogus credits by inflating growth projections. But let’s free the baby from the bath- water. Nations with firm caps on emis- sions are on track to cut pollution signif- icantly, with little reliance on the bogus credits. Europe has now banned these kinds of credits, and California and oth- er jurisdictions are following suit. We should not thumb our noses at well-structured carbon markets be- cause of one system’s failed element. Attention and efforts should be focused on the real issues: ensuring the integri- ty of the market and the effectiveness of the effort.JENNIFER HAVERKAMP Director International Climate Program Environmental Defense Fund Washington, Aug. 9, 2012 Programs to Reduce Carbon Emissions SAM D’ORAZIO Fans of honest gamesmanship should be inured by now to the spectacle of a home run hitter caught conniving with his private druggist to break the rules. The latest is Melky Cabrera,the most valuable player in last month’s All-Star Game who humbly attributed his success to the Lord.After drug testing, the San Francisco Giants out- fielder was forced by league officials to admit this week that banned doses of testosterone also played no small role in his blazing bat speed. Baseball lovers may be used to this kind of disap- pointment. But are followers of competitive Scrabble also to steel themselves to cheating? In a word, yes. One of the most promising young players had to be thrown out of the national Scrabble championship tournament in Orlando, Fla.,this week when he was caught trying to hide two blank tiles — those invaluable wild cards a player can des- ignate as any letter. “The Scrabble world is abuzz,” John Williams Jr., the tournament director,admitted. He did not identify the cheater, a teenager in Division 3 who was competing for a $2,000 prize.The player forfeited his victories, departing no less ingloriously than Cabrera, who was banned for 50 games. The comfort for Scrabble players, as Mr. Williams pointed out, is that the game is relentlessly self-policing. Anyone who plays it even with family members (maybe particularly with family members) knows how furiously vigilant (snarling?) players can be toward one another. This was the case in Orlando, where another player spied the sly cheater and instantly alerted a referee. As in baseball, the cheating scandal did not stop the action. 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RICHIERI, Senior V.P., General Counsel LAURENA L. EMHOFF, V.P., Treasurer DIANE BRAYTON, Secretary TO THE EDITOR: Re “Amid a Political Calm, a Tax Break for the Wind Industry Advances” (Business Day, Aug. 3): Mitt Romney’s opposition to extend- ing the wind energy production tax credit is just one more sign of the Re- publican presidential candidate’s out- moded energy vision. A self-proclaimed skeptic about cli- mate change, Mr. Romney seeks to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to regulate carbon emis- sions. Complacent about existing fed- eral subsidies to the oil and gas in- dustries, he balks at supporting a clean, superabundant power source that is struggling to compete on a very uneven playing field. According to a report released by the National Renewable Energy Laborato- ry in June, America could supply nearly half our total power needs from wind and solar energy by 2050, using technol- ogy that is commercially available to- day. Imagine what that would do to our country’s carbon footprint. To move America toward a more sus- tainable energy future, we need na- tional leadership that will check the ex- cesses of well-entrenched fossil fuel in- terests while encouraging cleaner al- ternatives like wind. PHILIP WARBURG Newton, Mass., Aug. 3, 2012 The writer is the author of “Harvest the Wind: America’s Journey to Jobs, Ener- gy Independence and Climate Stability.” Romney and Wind Power TO THE EDITOR: “Wed and Tortured at 13, Afghan Girl Finds Rare Justice” (news article, Aug. 12) was painful to read, not just about Sahar Gul’s case, but also knowing that there are potentially millions of girls like her who need help. Her case shows the need for more political will, United Na- tions and donor development programs, and civil society engagement to end child marriage and domestic violence. Local and national efforts are essen- tial. But they need to be supported by ac- tion at the international level. Model projects in Ethiopia and India provide a road map for helping the well over 100 million girls currently at risk of forced or child marriages. If develop- ment goals in Afghanistan are to be real- ized, adolescent girls need continued, guaranteed access to education, repro- ductive health information and care, and enforcement of human rights protec- tions. Oct. 11 is an important opportunity to spotlight ending child marriage as the United Nations Population Fund and other parts of the United Nations will mark the first International Day of the Girl Child. Nowis the time for awareness and quicker action. BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIN New York, Aug. 13, 2012 The writer is an under secretary general of the United Nations and executive di- rector of the United Nations Population Fund. Forced Child Marriages TO THE EDITOR: Thank you for your Aug. 10 editorial on behalf of domestic-worker rights and my bill A.B. 889. Yes, we are in California, but the life of an average domestic worker here is less glamorous than that of the nannies, cooks and housemaids depicted by our state’s movie and TV studios. And de- spite what opponents have tried to say, the bill isn’t about casual teenage baby sitters. Underrecognized domestic workers also include those who act tirelessly on behalf of people with disabilities. That care does more than allow “households to function smoothly.” It allows people to stay at home instead of in institu- tions, preserving life and quality of life. As you point out, all these workers deserve fair labor protections — protec- tions enjoyed by most working people. That’s why California needs the Domes- tic Workers Bill of Rights. (Assemblyman) TOM AMMIANO San Francisco, Aug. 10, 2012 Domestic-Worker Rights TO THE EDITOR: Re “Museum Defends Antiquities Collecting” (Arts pages, Aug. 13): Your article about the Cleveland Mu- seum’s collecting policy does not ad- dress one of the more important aspects of collecting unprovenanced antiqui- ties: it gives legal and financial ex- posure to the institution. In recent years many museums and private collectors have had to return un- provenanced antiquities when they were seized by United States Customs or the F.B.I. or were the objects of law- suits brought by source countries. Acquiring antiquities without docu- mented provenance risks the refusal of source countries to lend objects and a boycott by the very scholars and ar- chaeologists with whom the museum collaborates on the study and exhibition of its collections. It ill behooves museums, institutions supported by public funds, to contribute to the destruction of the world’s cultural heritage by encouraging tomb robbing and the illicit trade in antiquities, activi- ties with connections to organized crime and international money launder- ing. ELIZABETH BARTMAN New York, Aug. 13, 2012 The writer is president of the Archaeo- logical Institute of America. Acquiring Antiquities Ø N A19 OP-ED THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 Tying up loose ends before vacation: What was that about? The Standard Chartered scandal, I mean. Nearly two weeks ago, we were led to believe that the big British bank had conducted some $250 billion worth of illegal transactions with Iranian institutions. But,after the charges were brought by the New York State Department of Financial Services, other regulators, in Washington and Lon- don, expressed shock. They were upset, first,because they had been blindsided and,second,because they,too,had been investigating the bank and were coming to the conclusion that its behavior was largely legal. Then, on the eve of a public hearing that could have cost the bank its New York license, Standard Chartered settled for $340 million. One the one hand, that is a huge sum for a state regulator to col- lect. On the other hand, it is a rounding error for the bank, which quietly put out the word that it had settled to put the bad publicity behind it. (Its calculation ap- pears to have been a good one — the bank’s stock quickly rose once the settle- ment was announced.) What is frustrating is that here we are, after these inflammatory charges have been hurled, with no idea whether they are true. If Standard Chartered routinely conducted illegal transactions, then Ben- jamin Lawsky, the chief New York bank regulator, showed the kind of spine that other regulators have largely lacked. And if it didn’t? Then the bank is the victim of a publicity-hungry regulator. Neither prospect is fun to contemplate. • Someone told me recently that a hand- ful of firms that use high-frequency trad- ing strategies are developing a new mi- crowave system to connect their Chicago and New York offices. The reason? To shave literally nanoseconds off the time it takes to complete trades. It’s true. It’s also madness. After I wrote about high-frequency trading two weeks ago, I wound up think- ing I had understated how corrosive — and pervasive — it has become. In fact, the markets have been largely optimized for high-frequency trading. The ex- changes cater to these traders. Everyone scrambles to get their business. Firms like Knight Capital —which lost $440 mil- lion a couple weeks ago in a computer fi- asco — both take orders from brokers and run their own trading systems. That gives them, undeniably, advantages for their own trading. The regulators, fo- cused on the prospect of computer mal- functions that lead to wild price swings, are missing the forest for the trees.The real issue is the capture of the markets by high-frequency traders, not the occa- sions their computers run amok. As for the long-term investor or the companies that want to tap the capital markets, their concerns scarcely matter. High-frequency trading is where Wall Street now makes its money. That’s all that counts. • Have you been following the recent athletic scandal swirling around the Uni- versity of North Carolina? It has been brewing since last August when The News and Observer of Raleigh obtained the transcript of a football player who’d suspiciously completed a senior-level course the summer before his freshman year. This triggered an inquiry going back to 2007, which revealed that the Af- rican and Afro-American Studies Depart- ment was a haven for no-show classes, grades that were quietly changed and bo- gus independent studies courses. The purpose of these shenanigans, it would appear, was to keep athletes, especially football players, eligible. The department chairman quickly re- signed, and the university promised to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. But,earlier this week, a transcript was posted online that appears to have been the scholastic record of the former U.N.C.— and current Chicago Bears — player Julius Peppers. Peppers attended North Carolina long before 2007; his first year was 1998. And his transcript —with its summer courses that magically al- lowed him to retain his eligibility — could serve as a template for how to remain eli- gible without getting anything that ap- proaches an education. It also suggests that these problems have been going on a lot longer than 2007. Is North Carolina a particularly bad actor? Hardly. But gaming the system has become a necessity for every big- time football and basketball school. In the wake of the Penn State scandal, the N.C.A.A.is vowing to never again allow universities to put athletics ahead of aca- demics. But it’s too late for that.The only real answer is to stop the hypocrisy, pay the players and let them attend school — if they want. • Let’s see: It’s been three months since Facebook went public. Since then, its stock has fallen around 50 percent, plain- tiffs’ lawyers are lining up to sue it over its botched initial offering, and the news coming out of Facebook has been unre- mittingly lousy. The person who was most reluctant to take Facebook public was Mark Zucker- berg, its youthful chief executive. I won- der what he’s thinking now. Ø JOE NOCERA Ever Hear The One About … Bank scandals, football scandals and then some. Let’s see if we can clear up a few things. First of all, Paul Ryan and Mitt Rom- ney are not the same person. They are- n’t even related! Stop spreading ru- mors! Although they do sort of look alike and enjoy spending time together. Perhaps Mitt regards Paul as the sixth son he never had. Ryan is the one who lives on the same block where he grew up. Romney is the one who lives above the car elevator. Ryan is the one who spent his youth cooking hamburgers at McDonald’s. Romney is the one who used to enjoy dressing up as a police officer and play- ing fun pranks on his prep school friends. Neither one of them worked as a Wienermobile driver. Really, I don’t know where you get this stuff. Ryan is the one who likes to catch cat- fish by sticking his fist into their bur- rows and dragging them out by the throat. Romney is the one who drove to Canada with his dog strapped to the car roof. When it comes to the issues, both men are on the same page. Although the page does keep turning and you have to wonder how average voters can cope with all of the confusion. Fortunately, polls suggest average voters have already decided who they’re going to support and,therefore, have no need whatsoever to try to fig- ure out which page the Romney-Ryan campaign is on. Practically the only person in Amer- ica who claims to have no idea who he’s going to vote for is Senator Joseph Lie- berman, who recently declared himself absolutely and totally undecided. Peo- ple, do you think it’s possible that the entire presidential campaign is now be- ing waged just for the benefit of Joseph Lieberman? On the one hand, that’s a real waste of about $1 billion. On the oth- er, it’s exactly what Joseph Lieberman has been waiting for all his life. Anyhow, about the issues: Ryan is the one who requested stimu- lus money for his district, but he is sor- ry. The stimulus was a terrible thing, and Ryan had no intention of trying to glom onto a chunk of it. He thought he was just forwarding a constituent re- quest for some … constituent thing. Or four. Romney is the one who hired undocu- mented workers to mow his lawn. To- tally by mistake. Ryan is the one who voted for a mas- sive prescription drug Medicare enti- tlement, the Bush tax cuts and two wars without paying for any of them. He is even sorrier about this than he is about the stimulus. Romney is the one who passed Oba- macare before Obama. But it wasn’t the same thing at all because it happened in a state. Both men want to make more big tax cuts that will be paid for with the closing of tax loopholes. They are in total, com- plete concurrence that the identity of these loopholes is not an appropriate topic for a presidential campaign. Ryan is supposed to be the Tea Party hero and Romney is the one they hated so much they were actually willing to contemplate a Newt Gingrich presiden- cy to avoid him. But I’m not entirely sure we can trust the hard right to know what it wants anymore. This week in Florida, a Re- publican primary uprising knocked out Cliff Stearns, a superconservative vet- eran congressman who had cam- paigned on his efforts to kill off federal funds for Planned Parenthood and em- barrass the Obama administration with an investigation into the Solyndra loans. That sort of bragging enraged the faith- ful by reminding them that Stearns was a Washington insider, and he lost to a newcomer named Ted Yoho. Maybe Tea Party voters now only want to send people to Washington who will lack the capacity to get anything done. Personally, I’m kind of O.K.with that. Also, I like the idea of having a con- gressman named Ted Yoho, as well as the fact that Yoho describes himself as a “large animal veterinarian.” We don’t have many veterinarians in Congress, and you never can tell when a visiting heifer will come down with a medical problem. All right, a little more about the is- sues. Romney has a plan to make Medicare solvent forever. We know this because he wrote “Solvent” on the board at a press conference the other day. Ryan used to have a plan to make Medicare solvent forever by taking it away from everybody under age 55 and giving them health insurance vouchers instead. But that was so 2011. Now, Ryan and Romney are on the same page when it comes to Medicare, which is that it must be saved from the $716 billion in cuts President Obama wants to make over the next 10 years. Although that same $716 billion was in the budget plan that Ryan got the House to pass this year. But it’s not like he expected it to happen. “We would never have done it,” he told campaign reporters, desperate wretches con- demned to roam the earth with calcula- tors, endlessly searching for the Ryan- Romney page.Ø GAIL COLLINS Political Page Turners Deconstructing Paul and Mitt. Shady money, voter suppression, shift- ing positions, murky details and wide- spread apathy. If there is a road map for a Mitt Rom- ney/Paul Ryan win in November, that’s it. Distasteful all. As The New York Times reported this week,Paul Ryan made the trip on Tues- day to kiss the ring of Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino owner who has pledged to spend as much as $100 million to defeat President Obama. No reporters were allowed in, of course. As The Times’s editorial page pointed out on Friday: “Last year, his company, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, announced that it was under investigation by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission for possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Prac- tices Act — specifically, that it bribed Chi- nese officials for help in expanding its ca- sino empire in Macau. Later, the F.B.I. became involved, and even Chinese reg- ulators looked askance at the company’s conduct, fining it $1.6 million for violating foreign exchange rules, The Times re- ported on Monday.” There was a saying I heard growing up in Louisiana: “Bad money doesn’t spend right.” On Wednesday, a judge in Pennsylva- nia who is a Republican refused to block a ridiculously restrictive, Republican- backed voter identification law from go- ing into effect in the state, which is a crit- ical swing state. Surprise, surprise. And to add insult to injury, The Phila- delphia Inquirer reported Friday: “On the same day a judge cleared the way for the state’s new voter identification law to take effect, the Corbett administration abandoned plans to allow voters to apply online for absentee ballots for the No- vember election and to register online to vote.” Corbett is Tom Corbett, the Republican governor of the state. In June, State Representative Mike Turzai, a Republican and the Pennsylva- nia House majority leader, ripped the ve- neer off the purpose of the voter changes in the state when he declared, “voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Rom- ney to win the state of Pennsylvania: done.” Angry yet? Well wait, there’s more. As has been well documented, Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on many of the major positions he once held: abortion, taxes, guns. Now his vice-presidential pick, has traded his wingtips for a pair of toe-splitters. Thursday, as Think Progress pointed out, Ryan adopted Romney’s position on China’s currency manipulation and steal- ing of intellectual property, saying: “Mitt Romney and I are going to crack down on China cheating and make sure trade works for Americans.” However, as Talking Points Memo re- ported: “Ryan has consistently opposed measures to crack down on China’s cur- rency manipulation practices, which tilt the playing field against American labor.” Furthermore, The Boston Globe re- ported Tuesday:“In 2009, as Rep. Paul D. Ryan was railing against President Oba- ma’s $787 billion stimulus package as a ‘wasteful spending spree,’ he wrote at least four letters to Obama’s secretary of energy asking that millions of dollars from the program be granted to a pair of Wisconsin conservation groups, accord- ing to documents obtained by The Globe.” Even so, Ryan denied the fact in an in- terview with a Cincinnati TV station on Thursday,saying, “I never asked for stimulus.” Ryan later recanted. In a statement,he said of the letters: “They were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security or Veterans Affairs are handled.” It contin- ued: “This is why I didn’t recall the let- ters earlier. But they should have been handled differently, and I take responsi- bility for that.” Oops!Paint a scarlet “H” on that man’s chest for hypocrisy. Romney,for his part,has consistently resisted specifying what he would cut to get to the balanced budget that he prom- ises, and he continues to resist calls to re- lease more tax returns. “Mitt Romney said on Thursday that he had not paid less than 13 percent of his income in taxes during the past decade,” The Times reported. But are we sup- posed to take his word for the rate being even that high? Absolutely not! Show, don’t tell, sir. America, this is the Republican ticket. Although most smart political observers currently have Romney losing the Elec- toral College, Romney, following this re- pulsive road map,is virtually tied with Obama in national polls of likely voters. That is,in part,because of apathy. As USA Today reported, the 90 million peo- ple who are unlikely to vote in November prefer Obama over Romney by 2 to 1, and “they could turn a too-close-to-call race into a landslide for President Obama — but by definition they probably won’t.” If this underhanded dirty dealing by the Republican ticket doesn’t jolt some of these unlikely voters into likely ones, I don’t know what will. Ø CHARLES M. BLOW Dark Road to the White House Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and a repulsive strategy. 55 If you were registered to vote and the general election for the United States President were held today, and the candidates were Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney, or a third party candidate, for whom would you vote or towards whom would you lean at this time? If you were registered to vote and the general election for the United States President were held today, and the candidates were Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney, or a third party candidate, for whom would you vote or towards whom would you lean at this time? Favorable opinions Unlikely Voters: 90 Million Strong Source: Suffolk University/ USA Today poll 14 43 % Registered but unlikely Unregistered and unlikely OBAMA ROMNEY 20 43 % OBAMA ROMNEY 25 % OBAMA ROMNEY By Najwa al-Beshti T RIPOLI , Libya A FTER four decades of tyrannical rule by Col. Muammar el- Qaddafi, financed largely by our country’s oil wealth, Lib- yans have taken steps this summer toward a true democracy. Last month, we got to vote in legislative elec- tions, and this month we experienced the first peaceful transfer of power, from the Transitional National Council to a new national assembly, in our country’s mod- ern history. While we are grateful to the Western countries that helped us topple Colonel Qaddafi last year, something perverse is happen- ing in those countries now. Oil in- dustry lobbyists are using their influence in Washington and Brussels to try to undermine transparency measures that could help prevent future tyrants from emerging. That must not be allowed to happen. When Colonel Qaddafi was in power, I worked for Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corpo- ration, in a position that allowed me to observe corruption first- hand. I helped produce audits that detailed the mismanage- ment of millions of dollars of oil revenues, including the system- atic underpricing of oil and the discounting of prices for select foreign companies. I initiated in- vestigations into why millions of barrels of crude oil went missing from an oil field in 2008; presum- ably, the proceeds had gone into the pockets of the elite. The regime never explained why it requested the audits, which were never released to the public. Feeling that I had to do something, I naïvely wrote 50 letters de- nouncing corruption, including three to Colonel Qaddafi’s powerful son Seif al- Islam. The result? I was demoted and suspended without pay. Intelligence agents interrogated me. I received death threats: after an unmarked car slammed into my car, intelligence agents visited me and told me,“Next time could be fa- tal.” Today, our allegations of corruption are being examined,but the investiga- tions continue to face obstacles. Earlier this year, based on my reports and those of others, Interpol, at the request of the Libyan government,sought the arrest of the former oil minister, Shukri Ghanem. But on April 29, before he could be de- tained for questioning, he was found drowned in the Danube River, near his home in Vienna. The Austrian authorities have said they found no indications of foul play, but an inquiry is continuing. If we are to transform Libya, we must not only investigate the past but also re- form the whole relationship between the energy industry and our government. We need to ensure that bidding is fair and open, that deals are transparent and aboveboard and that revenues are used properly. Public disclosure and legisla- tive oversight of contracts and payments are crucial. We cannot meet these goals without help from abroad. Colonel Qaddafi’s rule depended on the collusion of powerful foreign allies who would turn a blind eye to blatant corruption deals involving in- ternational oil companies and his regime. America can help prevent such corrup- tion from happening again. The Dodd-Frank overhaul of Wall Street regulations, which President Oba- ma signed into law in July 2010, included a provision, Section 1504, that requires American and foreign companies that are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose — country by country and project by project — how much they pay govern- ments around the world for access to their oil, natural gas and minerals. (Fed- eral law already prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials to get or re- tain business.) In December 2010, the S.E.C. issued proposed regulations to put Section 1504 into effect. The commission has yet to fi- nalize the rules but is scheduled to take up the matter on Wednesday, at a hear- ing in Washington. Some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies — along with industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute —are trying to water down the regulations or delay them from taking effect. Some are proposing to exempt resource-extracting companies from having to comply if a for- eign government objects, an idea I think of as a “tyrant’s veto.” The industry also claims that complying with the tough dis- closure requirements will be costly and may place companies at a competitive disadvantage — but these arguments have been thoroughly discredited, making it hard not to conclude that many would simply prefer to carry on operating in secret. A similar fight is playing out in Europe. The German govern- ment is resisting requirements for project-level reporting, and the European Council, which comprises leaders of the Euro- pean Union’s member states, has called for a weaker form of dis- closure. However, some mem- bers of the European Parliament continue to champion strong dis- closure requirements. Having helped Libya to over- throw a tyrant, the United States and the European Union can now help win the peace — by committing themselves to strong transparency standards for energy companies. In Lib- ya, we don’t want our oil resources to bol- ster new tyrants, and the world shouldn’t either. When tyrants control energy sup- plies and gun down their own citizens, they invite only rebellion, military in- tervention and oil-supply shocks. We want a stable, prosperous country under the rule of law, in which citizens benefit from their natural resources and hold their leaders to account. I urge the S.E.C., as well as European regulators, to resist the lobbying from the oil, gas and mineral industries and to issue strong rules consistent with the spirit of Section 1504. By making the oil companies answerable to the public — in America, Europe and everywhere they do business — we can turn oil into a force for transparent and open commerce rath- er than corruption and repression. Ø A Libyan’s Plea to the S.E.C. Make oil companies disclose what they pay foreign governments. Najwa al-Beshti is a former head of con- tracts at the state-owned National Oil Corporation of Libya. DOUG CHAYKA A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 B1 N SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 S.& P. 500 1,418.16 U 2.65 Dow industrials 13,275.20 U 25.09 Nasdaq composite 3,076.59 U 14.20 10-yr. Treasury yield 1.81% D 0.03 The euro $1.2333 D 0.0021 Personal Business Forced Insurance It’s up to the homeowner to be vigilant on force- placed insurance. 5 Shell official says Arctic drilling will begin this year. 2 Former chief of Peregrine pleads not guilty to fraud. 3 John Malone’s Lib- erty Media appears close to acquiring Sir- ius XM Radio. 2 By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Federal and state prosecutors are investigating Deutsche Bank and several other global banks over accusations that they fun- neled billions of dollars through their American branches for Iran, Sudan and other sanc- tioned nations, according to law enforcement officials with knowledge of the cases. But the recent clash between New York’s top banking regula- tor and federal authorities over how to handle a similar case against the British bank Stand- ard Chartered could complicate the investigations. The United States prosecutors worry that the $340 million set- tlement between the New York regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, and Standard Chartered sends a message to international banks and regulators that American authorities are uncoordinated and torn by divisions — since Mr. Lawsky acted alone in lev- eling the charges and settling the case. They also worry that foreign banks and regulators will no longer readily cooperate in turning over valuable trans- action data that reveal the par- ties behind the global movement of tainted money, according to the federal and state prosecu- tors who were not authorized to publicly discuss the investiga- tions. Now the authorities in the Jus- tice Department and the New York County district attorney’s office are debating how deeply involved Mr. Lawsky’s office should be in the investigations. A spokesman for Mr. Lawsky said the department “will con- tinue to cooperate and work with our law enforcement partners both federal and state.” The Deutsche Bank investiga- tion is the latest in a series of cases against global financial firms since 2009 that suggests the practice of transferring money on behalf of Iranian banks and corporations flour- ished under a loophole in United States policy that ended in 2008. A spokesman for Deutsche Bank declined to comment, but noted that the German bank de- cided in 2007 that it would “not engage in new business with counterparties in countries such as Iran, Syria, Sudan and North Korea and to exit existing busi- ness to the extent legally pos- sible.” Since 2009, the Justice Depart- ment, the Treasury Department and the Manhattan district at- torney’s office, working largely in concert, have brought charges against five foreign banks, con- tending they moved billions of dollars through their American subsidiaries on behalf of Iran, Cuba and North Korea, sponsors of terrorism and drug cartels. The cases against the five banks all included deferred pros- ecution agreements and re- quired the banks — ABN Amro, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Lloyds and most recently ING — to for- Deutsche Bank’s Business With Sanctioned Nations Under Scrutiny Source: Justice Department THE NEW YORK TIMES Seeing Sanctions Through Cases against foreign banks for illegal transactions with Iran and other nations brought by the Justice Department and the Manhattan district attorney. ING $619 million 2012 Barclays 298 2010 ABN Amro 500 2010 Credit Suisse 536 2009 Lloyds 350 2009 AMOUNT FORFEITED YEARBANK Continued on Page 6 By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Workers who had been striking at a Caterpillar hydraulic parts factory in Joliet, Ill., voted on Fri- day to ratify a proposed six-year contract that contained almost all of the concessions the company had demanded. In ratifying the deal, the strik- ers acted against recommenda- tions made by leaders of their un- ion local, who had objected strongly to the pact. The agree- ment was negotiated by union leaders from the district level to end a showdown that had gone on for months without significant progress toward a resolution. The fight between Caterpillar and the International Association of Machinists was considered a test case in American labor rela- tions, in part because Caterpillar was driving such a hard bargain when its business was thriving. The strike by 780 members of the machinists began on May 1 as workers rejected Caterpillar’s de- mand for a six-year wage freeze for two-thirds of the factory’s workers — those hired before May 2005 — at a time when the company was reporting record profits.Caterpillar argued that wages for the higher-paid work- ers exceeded market levels. The deal the workers ratified contained far-reaching conces- sions, including the wage freeze, a pension freeze for the more senior two-thirds of the workers and a steep increase in what the workers pay toward their health care insurance.It also called for a $3,100 ratification bonus, which union officials said Caterpillar agreed on Thursday to increase from $1,000. “It’s a win for Caterpillar — they achieved their bargaining objectives,” said Michael LeRoy, Caterpillar Workers Ratify Deal They Dislike Continued on Page 3 HALL OF FAMER SETTLES INSIDER TRADING CASE Eddie Murray, a Hall of Fame baseball player, agreed to pay $385,000 to settle S.E.C. charges of insider stock trad- ing on tips from a onetime teammate. Page 3. ROBERTO BOREA/ASSOCIATED PRESS It isn’t often that automobile in- surance becomes the subject of nationwide outrage. So when it does happen, it’s worth a peek in- side all our policies to figure out how they actually work and what the insurance companies are up to be- hind the scenes. This week, a man named Matt Fisher took to his Tumblr site to call out Progressive, which insured his sister,Katie, two years ago when she died in a car accident. The company recently sent its lawyer to court — not to assist her estate but to argue that the driver of the other car, who had a suspended li- cense and little insurance, was the innocent party. Or, as Mr. Fisher put it, “My Sis- have threatened to do. We also need to take a close look at our own coverage and determine whether we have a fundamental misunderstanding of how our var- ious auto insurance policies actu- ally work. Before @fishermatt became a social media phenomenon,he was a devastated older brother. His sister was just 24 when she died in Baltimore with two degrees from Johns Hopkins University to her name and nothing but promise in front of her. The insurance machinery began its work relatively quickly. Ms. Fisher had $100,000 in liability coverage per person in this acci- dent, and three people (and the lawyers negotiating for them) ter Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer in Court.” The outrage on social media came swiftly, and it was brutal. Progressive’s initial public com- ments parsing the definition of “defendant” only opened up the company to further vitriol. After several requests, I finally got Progressive to come to the phone and explain in detail, out loud and on the record, why it chose to fight Ms. Fisher’s family in court. In the end, the saga of Ms. Fish- er and her family isn’t just about whether Progressive made a needless mess of its reputation this week. And it’s not simply about whether everyone should drop their Progressive policies in protest either, as scores of people An Insurance Case That Flooded the Net Continued on Page 5 RON LIEBER YOUR MONEY Social Media, Once Soaring, Are Coming Down to Earth WHEN THE MAGIC DIES For technology companies, the transition from extraordinary to ordinary is brutal. News Analysis, Page 4. Continued on Page 4 With battered Facebook shares closing Friday at just over half their offering price in May, no one’s talking anymore about a social media “bubble.” Just a year ago, social media seemed the next big thing. With diz- zying user growth at Twitter, Zynga and especially Face- book, investors were euphor- ic about Internet sites that connected people with shared interests and experi- ences,seemingly the perfect media for targeted advertising. The professional networking and job search site LinkedIn was first to test the public’s appetite when it went public in May 2011.Its shares more than doubled to close at $94.25 after trading as high as $122.70 that first day. Early investors were understandably giddy, but others, like the former Treas- ury secretary Lawrence H. Summers, sounded a cautionary note. “Who could have imagined that the concern with re- spect to any American financial asset, just two years after the crisis, would be a bubble?” Mr. Summers asked at the time. Over the last year, Internet compa- nies like Groupon, Zynga and Yelp made their public debuts. Facebook followed in May at $38 a share, instantly giving the newly minted public company a valua- tion of nearly $105 billion.Since then, eu- phoria has given way to mounting anxi- ety. Facebook hasn’t closed above $38 since. The initial offering was widely deemed a debacle both for trading glitch- es and for the need for underwriters to prop up the stock. The shares’ subsequent decline accel- erated after the company’s first earnings report as a public company late last month dashed investors’ hopes for torrid growth. This week was the end of the lockup JAMES B. STEWART COMMON SENSE By NATHANIEL POPPER Stocks approached their high- est levels of the year on Friday in the wake of some mildly encour- aging economic data, closing out their sixth-straight positive week. Technology companies have led the markets’ rise. Apple’s stock hit an all-time high above $648 on Friday, bringing its mar- ket capitalization to $607 billion, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq in- dex having the best performance of the day —and for the year, up just over 18 percent since Janu- ary. The surge, however,has not helped Facebook, whose shares fell to $19.05,the lowest level since the company went public in May. The appetite for riskier assets has come alongside an even sharper turn away in recent weeks from the most popular ha- ven, United States Treasury bonds. The interest rate on the 10-year government bond has ris- en to 1.81 percent, from 1.4 per- cent,since late July, pulling up mortgage rates for consumers af- ter months of declines. The stock market rally in the United States and Europe has been built out of a series of small moves upward that have come since the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi,said in July that he would do “what- ever it takes” to support the euro, dispelling concerns that the Con- tinent’s single currency would fall apart. There have also been some promising economic reports, in- cluding one on Friday showing that the confidence of American consumers unexpectedly rose in August after two down months. But there are few signs that the United States or European econ- omies have strengthened signif- Continued on Page 6 In the Calm Of Summer, Stocks Climb Gingerly Continued on Page 4 By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER As their e-mail in-boxes filled with dai- ly deal offers from Web sites like Grou- pon, Lea Pische and Edwin Hermawan, a pizzeria waitress and a former lawyer living on the Lower East Side, finally de- cided to buy one: a discounted Skillshare class on how to start a business. Their business plan? It was a service that would unsubscribe people from all those daily deal e-mails. Three months after its introduction, UnsubscribeDeals.com has 7,800 unsub- scribers, a number that nearly doubled in the last month. Ms. Pische and Mr. Hermawan tapped into deal fatigue, a malady that has been afflicting the small businesses that offer daily deals and is now hitting consumers too. Daily deal services — like Groupon, LivingSocial and Google Offers — took off because they seemed to offer some- thing for everyone: small businesses got a novel way to bring new customers in the door, shoppers got a discount and the deal providers got a large cut of every sale. But signs of deal fatigue are every- where, raising questions about whether Groupon and its competitors can contin- ue their hyper-growth. In the last six months of 2011, 798 daily deal sites shut down, according to Daily Deal Media, which researches the in- dustry. When Groupon reported its second- quarter results this week, it said that ac- tive customers — defined as people who purchased a Groupon deal in the last year — grew just 1.1 percentage points, a significant slowdown from customer growth rates in previous quarters.While traffic to Groupon was higher at the beginning of 2012 than last year, it was down almost 10 per- Ready To Ditch The Deal Some Merchants, And Their Customers, Sour on Coupon Sites JAMES BEST J r ./THE NEW YORK TIMES B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Following are the most popular business news articles on NYTimes.com from Aug. 10 through 16: 1. Helen Gurley Brown, Who Gave Cosmopolitan Its Purr, Is Dead at 90 2. HCA, Giant Hospital Chain, Creates a Windfall for Private Equity 3. Common Sense: In the Superrich, Clues to Romney’s Tax Returns 4. John Bogle, Vanguard’s Founder, Is Too Worried to Rest 5. A Kalashnikov Factory in Russia Survives on Sales to U.S. Gun Owners 6. Air Travel’s Hassles Drive Riders to Amtrak’s Acela 7. Problems Riddle Moves to Collect Credit Card Debt 8. Supermarkets Try Customizing Prices for Shoppers 9. Standard Chartered Settles Iran Inquiry for $340 Million 10.Motorola Set for Big Cuts as Google Reinvents It And here are the most popular blog posts. 1. CNN and Time Suspend Journalist After Admission of Plagiarism (Media Decoder) 2. You Probably Have Too Much Stuff (Bucks) 3. Google Plans to Buy Frommer’s Travel Guides (Media Decoder) 4. How to Make Your Lost Phone Findable (Pogue’s Posts) 5. Virus Seeking Bank Data Is Tied to Attack on Iran (Bits) ONLINE:MOST POPULAR MEDIA WPIX Blacked Out in Some Homes in Fee Dispute WPIX, the New York City affiliate of the CW network, is being blacked out in homes serviced by Cablevision, a major New York metropolitan area cable company. The blackout took effect overnight because Cable- vision and the owner of WPIX, the Tribune Company, are arguing over the price to be paid for retransmission of the station. Tribune said that Cablevision “unilaterally removed” WPIX and three other stations, WPHL, WCCT and KWGN, from its cable systems while the previous retransmission contract between the two companies was still in effect. Until now, Cablevision has not paid any retransmission fees specifically for the four stations, according to Tribune. “What we have proposed amounts to less than a penny a day per subscriber,” Tribune said. Cable- vision, however, said the fees would add up to tens of millions of dollars over the course of years. BRIAN STELTER REAL ESTATE U.S. Hastens Shrinkage of Mortgage Firms’ Portfolios The government is changing the terms of its bailout agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to shrink the holdings of the two mort- gage giants more quickly,and will require payment to the government of all quarterly profits the companies earn. The Treasury Department announced the changes Friday to deal with concerns that the compa- nies could at some point exhaust the federal support they were guaran- teed when they were taken over by the government in September 2008. They would also be required to accelerate the reduction of their mort- gage holdings to hit a cap of $250 billion by 2018, four years earlier than planned. (AP) Essex House Hotel Is Acquired by a Chicago Concern Strategic Hotels and Resorts said on Friday that it had reached a deal to buy the Essex House Hotel from the Dubai Investment Group for about $362.3 million. Strategic Resorts, which is based in Chicago, said the deal includes 509 hotel rooms, nine condominium units and “significant hotel-level cash reserves.” It is expected to close on or before Sept. 7. In connection with the deal, Strategic Hotels said it signed a 50-year man- agement agreement with Marriott International to re-brand the hotel as the JW Marriott Essex House New York. (AP) FOOD Smucker Gains 5 Percent After a Strong Quarter The J.M. Smucker Company posted better-than-expected quarterly re- sults and forecast strong growth for the rest of the year. Smucker said it earned $110.9 million, or $1 a share, which compared with $111.5 million, or 98 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue in the period, which ended July 31 and was the first quarter of the company’s fiscal year, rose 15 percent to $1.37 billion,from $1.19 billion. Smucker, which sells Folgers brand coffee, said it expected green coffee costs to fall,easing some of the pressure on its coffee business, which accounts for a sizable part of its total sales. Stock in Smucker, which is based in Orrville, Ohio, rose $3.99, or 5 percent, to $82.96 a share. (REUTERS) BUSINESS BRIEFING By FLOYD NORRIS T HE economic recovery from the 2007-9 recession has been a slow one in the United States, prompting much grumbling. But at least the recovery is continuing. Figures released this week showed that many Euro- pean countries have entered new recessions, and that the slow- down is spreading from the pe- ripheral countries of the euro zone to others. Belgium and the Netherlands are among the na- tions that reported their econo- mies were smaller in this year’s second quarter than they were a year earlier. In Finland, which like the Netherlands had been among the loudest in calling for austerity in the peripheral coun- tries, the economy shrank in the quarter. The French economy is stag- nating, with no growth for nine months, and the German recov- ery is losing vigor. It was up a paltry 1 percent over the most re- cent four quarters. In that company, the disap- pointing 2.2 percent growth in the United States over the same peri- od seems almost vigorous. The accompanying charts show the change in gross domes- tic product since the world econ- omy bottomed in the second quarter of 2009. Germany leads the way among the countries shown, with a gain of 8.9 percent. The euro zone as a whole is up just 3.5 percent over those three years, and its G.D.P.has declined over the last year. But even those modest figures may overstate the strength of the economies, at least as seen by those who live in them. As the name suggests, G.D.P.figures re- flect a country’s production, in- cluding exports. Another statis- tic, called domestic demand in Europe and gross domestic pur- chases in the United States, re- flects what is bought in a country. Throughout Europe, that figure has risen less than the G.D.P.fig- ures. In the United States, on the other hand, domestic purchases in the second quarter were 7.4 percent larger than they were three years earlier, while G.D.P. was up 6.7 percent. Most European countries have yet to estimate domestic demand for the second quarter. In the euro zone as a whole, the first- quarter figure was only 0.9 per- cent higher than it had been at the bottom. All of that gain re- flected German buying; domestic demand in the rest of the zone is now lower than it was at the 2009 low. The charts show figures for the four largest economies in the euro zone — Germany, France, Italy and Spain — as well as for the euro zone itself. They also show the three largest non-euro developed economies — the Unit- ed States, Britain and Japan. Those relative performances are also shown by stock prices in the various countries. The MSCI indexes, developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and reflecting performance in dollars, show that the United States mar- ket was up by nearly two-thirds in mid-August from its level at the end of June 2009, assuming reinvestment of dividends. De- spite recent weakness in the Brit- ish economy, its stock market has risen nearly 50 percent. By contrast, the German mar- ket was up about a quarter and French stocks gained about 13 percent. The Japanese market rose less than 5 percent. Invest- ors in Italian and Spanish stocks lost money over the period. OFF THE CHARTS Recovery in U.S., Though Lackluster, Trumps Europe’s GERMANY FRANCE ITALY SPAIN Change in stock index MSCI total return index June ’09 through August 15, 2012 Change in real G.D.P. and real domestic demand 2q ’09 2q ’12 2q ’09 2q ’12 2q ’09 2q ’12 2q ’09 2q ’12 2q ’09 2q ’12 2q ’09 2q ’12 2q ’09 2q ’12 2q ’09 2q ’12 + 9% EURO ZONE UNITED STATES BRITAIN JAPAN Change in stock index MSCI total return index June ’09 through August 15, 2012 Change in real G.D.P. and real domestic demand + 9% + 6 + 6 + 3 + 3 0 0 – 3 – 3 – 6 – 6 Since June 2009, when major developed economies hit bottom after the credit crisis, Germany has seen the largest increase in gross domestic product. Even those euro countries that are now in recession have generally not fallen back to 2009 levels. But using another measure known as domestic demand, which reflects the level of final sales within a country, Italy and Spain have now fallen below where they were in 2009. Stock prices, another measure of the extent of economic recovery, have risen the most in the United States. Note: G.D.P. and domestic demand figures for the second quarter 2012 are preliminary. Estimates of domestic demand for the quarter are not available for some countries. Stock figures are in dollars. G.D.P. G.D.P. Domestic demand Domestic demand Sources: Eurostat; U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, British National Statistics Office and Cabinet Office of Japan, all via Haver Analytics; MSCI, via Bloomberg. THE NEW YORK TIMES Measuring Recoveries +27% +13% –21% –23% + 8% +63% +47% + 4% Floyd Norris comments on fi- nance and the economy at nytimes.com/economix. By CLIFFORD KRAUSS HOUSTON — Despite embar- rassing delays and trouble with its equipment, Shell remains con- fident that it will get final approv- al from regulators and be able to begin drilling for oil in Arctic wa- ters off the Alaskan coast this summer, the oil company’s top Alaska executive said on Friday. “We absolutely expect to drill this year,” Peter E.Slaiby,Shell’s vice president in charge of Alas- kan operations, said in a tele- phone interview. “Our confidence continues to grow,and we are feeling good.” Mr. Slaiby said the company was so convinced that it would be able to move forward that it was preparing to send two drill ships next week to Arctic waters from Dutch Harbor in southern Alas- ka. He acknowledged, though,that Shell had scaled back its original plans. He said the company would have time to drill only one or two exploratory oil wells be- fore the Arctic seas began freez- ing and the short summer drilling season ended — a retreat from its goal of drilling as many as five wells this year. Still, any drilling would be a big advance for the company, which has spent more than $4 billion over six years in its effort to be- come the first oil company in dec- ades to drill in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Shell’s ambitions have been repeatedly stymied by regulatory roadblocks and by lawsuits from environmentalists and Native groups. Energy experts say the two seas could yield up to a million barrels of oil a day, equivalent to about 10 percent of current do- mestic production.Over the last year, Shell has won a series of federal regulatory approvals to begin drilling this summer, and it needs only a few more approvals before it can do so. But Shell experienced a series of setbacks this summer that led some people, including company officials, to wonder if yet another year might pass without explora- tion. First, heavy ice floes delayed drilling plans. Then, last month, a drill ship dragged anchor and went adrift, nearly colliding with the Alaskan shore. No damage occurred, but the accident raised questions about Shell’s readiness to manage the challenging Arctic conditions, which include months of darkness, extreme winds and massive ice floes. Shell has also asked the Envi- ronmental Protection Agency for revisions to its air emissions per- mits. The biggest holdup has come from delays in revamping an oil containment barge called the Arctic Challenger, which is equipped with a dome that could be fitted over a leak to stop spill- age in the event of an accident. The barge, which is a vital part of the spill response plan approved by the federal government, re- mains in the port of Bellingham, Wash., as workers make last- minute fixes. The company had hoped to fin- ish work on the barge by Aug. 15, but the refitting has been compli- cated by three small oil spills caused by leaky hydraulic sys- tems. The barge must pass a Coast Guard inspection and tests by federal safety regulators before it can set sail for the Arctic. During a visit to Alaska on Monday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar blamed Shell’s slow work on the barge for the delays. “They have not been able to get it done,” he said. “If they had got it done, they may already be up there today.” Mr. Slaiby said that Shell had sent 40 technicians to help con- tractors get the barge ready, and that the company was working closely with the Interior Depart- ment and the Coast Guard to ad- dress their concerns. He said Interior officials had been “very, very accommodating in meeting the schedule that we have worked for,” and added, “They are really bending over backward to work with us and working through these inspec- tions.” The window for drilling, which is controlled by ice floes and agreements to protect wildlife, closes the third week of Septem- ber in the Chukchi Sea and at the end of October in the Beaufort Sea. An exploratory well can take three weeks to drill. Environmentalists are still considering ways to stop the drilling after years of mixed re- sults in the courts. “If the Coast Guard certifies a vessel that clearly does not meet maritime standards, then that would be unlawful and could be challenged,” said Brendan Cum- mings, senior counsel at the Cen- ter for Biological Diversity. Mr. Cummings also said environmen- talists could challenge the E.P.A. if it granted an exception to Shell’s air permit. Arctic Drilling Will Begin This Year, Shell Official Says JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Peter E. Slaiby, Shell’s vice president in Alaska, said the oil company had scaled back its plans. By AMY CHOZICK John C. Malone’s Liberty Me- dia appeared to be close to vic- tory on Friday in its continuing, and often sharp-elbowed, battle to take over Sirius XM Radio. Liberty said it planned to in- crease its stake in Sirius to more than 50 percent,from its current 48 percent, which would give Mr. Malone’s company definitive con- trol of the satellite radio service. In a request filed Friday with the Federal Communications Com- mission, Liberty asked the gov- ernment to approve its takeover. Liberty says it will “have pur- chased sufficient shares of Siri- us’s common stock and will con- vert its preferred shares” so that it can take over Sirius “within 60 days of commission consent.” In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Siri- us said it would “cooperate fully” with the F.C.C.in its review of Liberty’s takeover application. That represents a sharp turn- around for Sirius, which just a couple of months ago was much less cooperative.The company had urged the F.C.C. to reject a May 31 application by Liberty to approve a takeover. In that filing, Sirius said Liberty’s proposal of- fered “nothing more than a re- fined menu of options for how Liberty Media might assume con- trol of Sirius,” and did not outline specific details. Last week, Liberty said it planned to spin off its pay-televi- sion channel Starz into a separate company, a move that is expected to free up the cash Liberty needs to complete its purchase of Sirius shares. Liberty first invested in Sirius in 2009 when it gave the finan- cially troubled company a much- needed multimillion-dollar loan in exchange for a 40 percent stake. The rescue package proved a boon to Liberty (the loans were repaid and the stake is now valued at roughly $5 bil- lion),but a slippery slope for Siri- us since it eventually led to Liber- ty’s attempt to own the company outright. The corporate saga has pitted two of the media industry’s big- gest personalities against each other —Mr. Malone, who has or- chestrated some of the most sto- ried corporate takeovers from his Colorado ranch,and Mel Karma- zin, the chief executive of Sirius and formerly an executive with CBS and Viacom. “I would prefer not to lose Mel, but he’s gone public and said he won’t work for me,so what am I supposed to do?” Mr. Malone told reporters last month at a media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Mr. Malone also said Gregory B. Maffei, Liberty Media’s chief executive, who is largely credited as the architect of the Sirius take- over, would not run Sirius. “Greg’s not an operating man- ager,” Mr. Malone said. Liberty Media on the Cusp of Controlling Sirius XM Seeking the F.C.C.’s blessing in a lengthy takeover battle. N B3 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 By MARK SCOTT LONDON — In a report re- leased early Saturday in London, British politicians said the former Barclays chief Robert E. Dia- mond Jr.had not provided law- makers a full account of the ac- tions inside the bank during re- cent hearings into the rate-rig- ging scandal. The report also challenges some of Mr. Diamond’s asser- tions about the bank’s relation- ship with regulators. It also ques- tioned the top leadership at the bank and the candor of Mr. Dia- mond’s testimony. “Mr. Diamond’s evidence, at times highly selective, fell well short of the standard that Parlia- ment expects,” Andrew Tyrie,the British politician who led the re- cent hearings, said in a separate statement. Documents released by local authorities show that officials had questioned the culture at the top of the British bank as far back as 2010, though Mr. Diamond had said regulators were happy with the firm’s leadership. The doubts about Mr. Dia- mond’s testimony come after several of Barclays’ senior exec- utives, including its chairman, re- signed last month. The firm agreed to a $450 million settle- ment with American and British authorities over the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, one of the world’s most important benchmark rates. British lawmakers had called several of the firm’s executives and the country’s leading regula- tory authorities to testify before Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee, which had been in- vestigating the Libor scandal at Barclays. The lawmakers’ latest report criticized Mr. Diamond’s recol- lection of concerns that regula- tors had raised when he was ap- pointed chief executive, as well as issues with the culture at the British bank. Also in his testimony, Mr. Dia- mond had said British authorities were pleased with his relation- ship with the Financial Services Authority,the country’s regula- tor. The regulators, however, tes- tified that they had challenged the firm’s attitude toward risk and had called on Mr. Diamond to distance himself from colleagues in Barclays’ investment banking unit. In the latest report, it ap- pears that lawmakers mostly sid- ed with the authorities. “It seems to us inconceivable that Mr. Diamond could have be- lieved that the F.S.A. was satis- fied with the tone at the top of Barclays,” the report said. Mr. Diamond issued a sharply worded rebuke of the report. “I am disappointed by, and strongly disagree with, several statements by the Treasury Se- lect Committee,” Mr. Diamond said in a statement on Saturday. “There is little dispute that Bar- clays was both aggressive in its investigation of this matter and engaged in its cooperation with the appropriate authorities.” The latest report also ques- tioned the importance of a con- versation that Mr. Diamond held with Paul Tucker,the deputy gov- ernor of the Bank of England, in 2008. The discussion focused on the firm’s Libor submissions, and led to Jerry del Missier,a senior Bar- clays official, to ask some of the firm’s employees to alter their Libor rates. Mr. del Missier said he believed that he was acting on instructions from British govern- ment officials, though Mr.Tucker dismisses that contention. Lawmakers said that Barclays’ employees had been manipulat- ing rate submissions since 2007, and that Mr. del Missier’s ability to alter submissions showed a lack of regulatory compliance. “It remains possible that the entire Tucker-Diamond dialogue may have been a smokescreen put up to distract our attention,” the report said. Poor judgment by the firm’s board led to a lack of controls, which could have stopped the rate manipulation from taking place, according to the report. A Barclays spokesman said that the bank did not agree with all the report’s findings but was conducting an independent re- view of its business practices. The report also highlighted failures by the Financial Services Authority to address the manipu- lation of Libor. Concerns that firms were al- tering their Libor submissions were first brought to the atten- tion of authorities in late 2007, ac- cording to regulatory filings. But British officials joined their American counterparts in inves- tigating the abuses only in early 2010. Adair Turner,chairman of the authority, told British lawmakers last month that regulators had not perceived Libor to be a major area of risk during the recent fi- nancial crisis. “The manipulation was spotted neither by the F.S.A. nor the Bank of England at the time,” Mr. Tyrie said. “That doesn’t look good.” The British government is re- viewing how Libor will be set in the future. The inquiry may lead to greater regulatory oversight of the rate, while lawmakers are considering new laws that would make the manipulation of bench- mark rates a criminal offense. American and international au- thorities also continue to exam- ine the actions of other global fi- nancial institutions, including Citigroup and HSBC. New York and Connecticut state regulators announced on Wednesday that they were widening their own rate-rigging investigations. In Report, British Officials Raise Questions on Testimony of Barclays’ Chief AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, VIA GETTY IMAGES Robert Diamond, former chief executive of Barclays, testified before the British Treasury Select Committee in London in July. Doubts on his candor in a rate-rigging investigation. By PETER LATTMAN On the standout Baltimore Ori- oles baseball teams of the late 1970s, Eddie Murray,the Hall of Fame first baseman, shared the infield with the all-star third baseman Doug DeCinces. Federal regulators say that decades later, the two close friends shared something else: il- legal stock tips. Mr. Murray was charged on Friday by the Securities and Ex- change Commission with insider trading ahead of a merger an- nouncement after receiving ad- vanced word of the deal from Mr. DeCinces. The S.E.C. said that Mr. DeCinces had received the tip from James V. Mazzo,the former chairman and chief executive of Advanced Medical Optics, an eye care company that Abbott Lab- oratories acquired for nearly $3 billion in 2009. Mr. Murray, who was among the 10 highest paid players in the National League in 1991, when he signed a two-year deal with the New York Mets for $7.5 million, made about $235,000 in illegal gains by buying shares of Ad- vanced Medical Optics ahead of the deal and then selling his stake after it was announced, the S.E.C. said. Mr. Murray agreed to settle the case by paying $358,000 in disgorged profits and penalties without admitting or denying the charges. “It is truly disappointing when role models, particularly those who have achieved so much in their professional careers, give in to the temptation of easy money,” said Daniel M. Hawke,a senior S.E.C. enforcement lawyer. Michael J. Proctor,a lawyer for Mr. Murray, said that his client “is an honorable and ethical man who is settling this to put the matter to rest and move on with life.” The charges against Mr. Mur- ray come a day after federal reg- ulators charged another sports figure, the former University of Georgia football coach Jim Don- nan,with running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded fellow coaches and his former players. The latest cases add to the spate of lawsuits brought by the commission against athletes. Last December, the former Chi- cago Bears receiver Willie Gault was accused of artificially inflat- ing the stock of a company he helped run. He has denied the claim. The charges on Friday also add to the increasing number of insid- er trading cases brought over the last several years. Both the Jus- tice Department and the commis- sion have made rooting out illegal trading a priority. They have brought more than 100 cases against individuals since the fi- nancial crisis. Mr. Mazzo,55,ranks among the most prominent corporate managers charged with insider trading. Unlike Mr. Murray, Mr. Mazzo is fighting the charges. His stock tip allowed Mr. Murray, Mr. DeCinces and others to earn about $2.4 million in profits, the S.E.C. said. “He flatly and unequivocally denies the S.E.C.’s allegations,” said Richard Marmaro,a lawyer for Mr. Mazzo. “Mr. Mazzo has a spotless reputation for profes- sionalism, integrity and service to his community, built up over a career of 30 years. The notion that he would put all that at risk to give a single friend inside in- formation is absurd.” Earlier this year, Mr. Mazzo announced that he would retire at the end of 2012 from Abbott, where he serves as a senior exec- utive in the company’s eye care unit. An Abbott spokesman said the charges were a personal mat- ter for Mr. Mazzo and that he would remain an employee of the company until year-end. The S.E.C.’s complaint details repeated contact between Mr. Mazzo and Mr. DeCinces around the time of merger discussions between Advanced Medical Op- tics and Abbott. In one instance, just days before the merger an- nouncement, the two played golf at the same country club in Or- ange County, Calif., and there are records of two calls from Mr. DeCinces’s mobile phone to Mr. Murray’s. The accusations against Mr. Murray and Mr. Mazzo represent the second round of charges re- lated to the Advanced Medical Optics-Abbott combination. The commission brought its initial charges last year against Mr. DeCinces and three others. Mr. DeCinces also paid a fine Mr. Murray, 56,is one of only four Major League Baseball play- ers to finish his career with at least 500 homers and 3,000 hits. Last Saturday, the Orioles un- veiled a bronze sculpture of Mr. Murray at Camden Yards. Baseball Hall of Famer Settles Insider Trading Case ASSOCIATED PRESS Eddie Murray of Baltimore and Tim Foli, left, of Pittsburgh during a World Series game in 1979. Ex-athletes find that regulators are formidable foes. By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY The New York Times Company is paying its new chief executive, Mark Thompson, an annual sala- ry of $1 million and an immediate signing bonus valued at $3 mil- lion. The compensation package was detailed in securities filings released on Friday morning. In addition to the signing bonus — which will be paid in stock and stock options — Mr. Thompson is eligible for an annual bonus of $1 million. He is also eligible to receive a separate $3 million bonus for 2013 for meeting long-term incentives, to be paid out over three years. The bonus payments are not guaranteed unless Mr. Thompson meets certain goals set by the company. Except for the signing bonus, Mr. Thompson’s compensation is much the same as that of his predecessor, Janet L. Robinson, in terms of annual salary and bo- nus eligibility. Ms. Robinson left the company in December. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., The Times’s publisher, announced Mr. Thompson’s appointment Tuesday afternoon, concluding an extensive search. Mr. Thomp- son had previously been the di- rector general of the British Broadcasting Corporation, but had stated his intention to leave the job after the London Olym- pics, which ended on Sunday. Mr. Thompson was involved in expanding the BBC’s digital and global presence, areas that have become more crucial to the Times Company’s strategy in the face of significant challenges to the print newspaper. Mr. Sulz- berger had made clear his in- tention to select someone with deep digital knowledge and expe- rience across a variety of plat- forms. After Mr. Thompson ar- rived from London on Tuesday afternoon, he said in an interview that “it’s a privilege” to run the organization and called its news- room "the envy of the world." Mr. Thompson is expected to start his job in November. Times Chief to Get $1 Million a Year a labor relations professor at the University of Illinois. “There’s very little good news in this for the union — they have managed to maintain the bargaining rela- tionship. I wouldn’t say it’s a dis- aster, but it sure is a step back.” The striking workers had faced a tough choice in the ratification vote:accept a deal that many found unsatisfactory or continue a painful 15-week walkout with no guarantee that they could get Caterpillar to sweeten its offer. About 105 workers had already crossed the picket line and re- turned to work. The union’s leaders declined to disclose the results of the vote, which they said was close. Al Williams,a 19-year employ- ee at the plant, said he voted for ratification even though he dis- liked the six-year wage freeze. “I’m glad we’re going back to work,” he said. “I don’t think it’s the best deal, but it’s doable. I voted for it simply because they weren’t able to tell us definitively what we could hope to get other than what was in this offer.” For the workers, the deal was a slight improvement over what Caterpillar was offering when the walkout began. While the deal kept a six-year pay freeze for the more senior workers, it provided for a single raise during the six years for workers hired after May 2005 — a 3 percent raise at the end of this year. Caterpillar’s previous offer did not promise any raise for that group. During the negotiations, Cater- pillar also stepped back from its insistence that management be able to assign workers new jobs or new shifts indefinitely, outside of seniority. Under the deal ap- proved Friday, workers could still be assigned to new jobs or shifts irrespective of seniority, but for a maximum of 90 days. Mr. LeRoy said that the deal “does signal continued wage stagnation in the manufacturing sector, not only for unionized, but also nonunion workers.” Tim O’Brien,president of the striking local, Machinists Lodge Local Lodge 851, called for re- jecting the contract, saying the Joliet workers did not walk the picket lines for nearly four months and endure such sacrifice to settle for a stingy deal. But Steve Jones,the top official in Machinists District 8 in Burr Ridge, Ill., and the union leader who negotiated the settlement with Caterpillar, said the deal was the best the union could get. “If there was a better agree- ment out there to be had, we would have taken it,” Mr. Jones said on Wednesday after reach- ing the deal. The factory’s top tier, repre- senting two-thirds of the work- ers, earns an average of $26 an hour, while the lower-tier work- ers generally earn $12 to $19 an hour. Caterpillar said it had in- sisted on a pay freeze because it wanted to maintain the factory’s competitiveness and because the top-tier workers earned substan- tially above the market average. The contract does not include a cost of living adjustment for the workers, although Caterpillar has said it might adjust the pay of the lower-tier workers upward based on local labor market conditions during the six-year contract. During the strike, the workers often expressed anger that Cater- pillar was insisting on a wage freeze when the company, the world’s leading producer of earth-moving machinery, had a record profit of $4.9 billion last year, with forecasts of stronger earnings this year. The compen- sation of its chief executive, Douglas R. Oberhelman,in- creased by 60 percent in 2011, to $16.9 million. Caterpillar Workers End Strike, Ratifying Deal They Dislike MATT MARTON/SOUTHTOWNSTAR, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of Machinists Lodge Local Lodge 851 in Joliet, Ill., af- ter voting on a proposed contract with Caterpillar on Friday. From First Business Page By PETER LATTMAN The former chief executive of the failed brokerage firm Pere- grine Financial Group, who last month wrote a note admitting that he had committed a long- ranging investment fraud, plead- ed not guilty on Friday to lying to federal regulators. Federal prosecutors charged Russell Wasendorf Sr.,the former head of Peregrine, with 31 counts of deceiving regulators about the value of his customers’ accounts. If convicted, he would face a maximum prison sentence of 155 years. Last month, police in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where Peregrine was based, found Mr. Wasendorf un- conscious in his car after a sui- cide attempt. Alongside him was a note confessing to embezzling more than $100 million from cli- ents and defrauding the firm’s banks. The authorities arrested him, and regulators discovered a customer fund shortfall at Pere- grine of at least $200 million. As the government continues to examine Peregrine’s collapse, prosecutors are expected to seek additional charges against Mr. Wasendorf. Even with his earlier admission of wrongdoing, a not- guilty plea is not unusual at this stage of the case. He can try to strike a plea agreement with prosecutors by helping with the investigation, including tracking down missing customer money. During the 10-minute arraign- ment proceeding in Federal Dis- trict Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mr. Wasendorf stood quietly as his lawyer, Jane Kelly, entered the plea. He was dressed in or- ange prison garb, his hands and legs shackled, according to Bloomberg News. Ms. Kelly did not return a tele- phone call seeking comment. The charges against Mr. Wasendorf came just months af- ter MF Global, the now-defunct futures brokerage firm, could not locate more than $1 billion in cli- ent money. Together, the two col- lapses highlighted regulatory holes and insufficient financial protections in the futures indus- try, which largely consists of money management firms that trade contracts in commodities, currencies and interest rates. “These have been huge blows to the industry and we’re looking at a variety of solutions that will better protect customer funds,” said Walter Lukken,the presi- dent of the Futures Industry As- sociation, a trade group. Mr. Wasendorf was a promi- nent figure in the futures busi- ness. He served on an advisory committee at the National Fu- tures Association, one of the in- dustry’s primary regulators. His son, Russell Wasendorf Jr., served as the president of Pere- grine, which also did business as PFGBest. The elder Mr. Wasendorf also loomed large in Cedar Falls, a town with 40,000 people. An Iowa native, he moved his business from Chicago — the epicenter of the futures markets — to Cedar Falls and spent about $18 million on its new headquarters there. Peregrine came undone last month after the National Futures Association instituted changes to its auditing process that allowed the regulator to get information about the firm’s accounts directly from its banks. The association started putting the new system into effect on the morning that Mr. Wasendorf tried to kill him- self. In his confession note, Mr. Wasendorf said he acted alone. No other Peregrine executives have been charged in the case. Former Chief of Peregrine Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud WATERLOO COURIER, VIA REUTERS Russell Wasendorf Sr., Pere- grine’s chief executive. A court plea after a confessional note was found. B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 analysts used the dreaded word mature to describe Facebook’s penetration in North America, and others noted that user growth was slowing. A major challenge,as well as an opportunity,for Facebook is the migration of users from per- sonal computers to mobile de- vices. Facebook said 543 million users looked at the site on mobile devices during the last quarter, and its chief executive and founder,Mark Zuckerberg,ac- knowledged that the shift “is in- credibly important.” But Face- book hasn’t mastered how to con- vert customer use into mobile ad revenue. “Migration to mobile is a big problem,” Mr. Sena said. If ads become obtrusive and alienate users, Facebook could suffer the reverse network effect. That hasn’t happened yet. New companies, especially in nascent industries like social media, are hard to value. Some may thrive even as others fail. They may yet find ways to turn millions of us- ers into huge profits, as network television did in its heyday. And although many social me- dia investors have been burned in the short term, it’s not as if they’ve given up hope. Social media companies still trade at lofty valuations: Even af- ter recent declines, LinkedIn’s price-to-earnings ratio is a strato- spheric 852; Facebook’s is a much lower but still lofty 69.By comparison, the market average for companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index is about 16. Since they haven’t earned a full year’s profit, Groupon and Zynga don’t even have price-to- earnings ratios. “The valuations are still high,” Mr. Sena said. “There are few positive catalysts likely near term, and a lot of people think you’ll be able to buy these stocks cheaper.” period, which barred insiders from immediately selling their shares,and Facebook shares hit a new low, slumping to $19.05. Other Internet companies have fared even worse. Like Facebook, the Internet discount coupon site Groupon in- creased its offering price and number of shares just before its public debut last November.Af- ter rejecting a $6 billion takeover bid from Google in December 2010, Groupon shares closed at $26.11 on its first day of trading, up from its $20 offering price, giv- ing it a market value of $13 bil- lion. It has been pretty much down- hill ever since. On Friday, Grou- pon shares fell to $4.75,a decline of more than 75 percent from its offering price, giving it a market capitalization of just over $3 bil- lion, barely half what Google of- fered. Zynga, a company that makes online social games,went public in December at $10 and dropped 5 percent its first day. Although it traded above $14 a share as re- cently as March, it ended the week at $3,down 70 percent. Shares of even the best-per- forming social media sites have stagnated. Yelp’s shares, which jumped 64 percent on their first day of trading in March to close at $23, were below$22 this week. And LinkedIn, considered by many to be the gold standard for social media concerns, never again hit its opening peak, and ended the week below $102. Twitter and LivingSocial have put the brakes on going public; the companies have recently said they’re in no rush. That’s hardly surprising. What went wrong? Every company has its own story, but the euphoria over so- cial media companies as a group was rooted in what economists call the network effect. The more users a site attracts, the more others will want to use it, which creates a natural monopoly and a magnet for advertisers. Facebook has been a classic example.If your friends, col- leagues or classmates are all on it, you’re all but compelled to join. But evidence that the network ef- fect is working requires rapid growth in users and revenue, es- pecially during the early stages of a company’s public life. So far, social media has failed to deliver the kind of growth that would bol- ster investor optimism, let alone euphoria. The network effect is a double- edged sword, Ken Sena,a con- sumer Internet analyst at Ever- core,told me this week. “The network effect allowed these companies to grow so fast, but the decline can be just as fe- rocious,” Mr. Sena said. “If any of them misstep with users, they can leave, and the network effect goes into reverse.” The textbook case is Myspace,once the most visited social networking site, that is now a shadow of its for- mer self. This week’s Groupon earnings illustrated the problem for social media companies. In theory, Groupon should benefit from the network effect. The more users it attracts, the more merchants will want to offer coupons through Groupon, and vice versa. And on the face of it, the earnings report looked good. Groupon earned a profit of $28.4 million for the quarter, above analysts’ expecta- tions, reversing a loss a year ago. Groupon’s boyish-looking chief executive, Andrew Mason, called it a “solid quarter.” But growth, not profit, is what matters at the early stage in the life of a networked Internet com- pany. Groupon said revenue grew 45 percent over the same quarter last year.But it counts payments that it passes on to merchants as part of its revenue. When that part of revenue was excluded, revenue grew just 30 percent. And compared with the previous quarter, revenue grew just 1.6 percent. Growth in its core coupon busi- ness dropped 7 percent from a year earlier, according to Mr. Sena. (Other revenue came from Groupon’s Goods business, a low- er-margin operation that com- petes with Amazon.) Groupon projected that revenue growth in the next quarter would be just 2.9 percent higher. Such slow growth was a jolt for investors, and Wall Street’s judg- ment was swift, with Groupon shares down 27 percent on Tues- day, the day after the earnings were announced. A positive network effect is also supposed to exclude compet- itors, but Groupon has long suf- fered from the perception that it’s vulnerable to competition. The online auction market is dominated by eBay, for example, but many merchants offer cou- pons. Amazon bought a 29 per- cent interest in a rival coupon site,LivingSocial, and Google in- troduced its own offerings after being rebuffed by Groupon. There are now so many that sites have sprung up to help con- sumers sort them out. One of these, localdealsites.com, listed 167 sites when I consulted it this week, though many are much smaller in scope than Groupon. LivingSocial has run into its own concerns. Although the com- pany is still private, Amazon has to release some financial details because of its large ownership stake. Last month,Amazon said that it was writing off $28 million in LivingSocial’s book value and that LivingSocial lost $93 million in the quarter that ended June 30, even though revenue more than doubled. Facebook faced a similar prob- lemrooted in high expectations. In its first earnings report, it re- ported revenue growth of 32 per- cent over a year earlier and near- ly one billion users worldwide. But even though 32 percent topped analysts’ estimates, it was not the triple-digit growth many investors were hoping for. And although the number of monthly active users hit 955 mil- lion, that was just 29 percent higher than a year before. Some Social Media, Once Soaring on Wall Street, Are Coming Down to Earth TINA FINEBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Facebook shares dropped to $19.05 on Friday, barely more than half of its debut price in May. From First Business Page cent in May and June from the same months in 2011, according to comScore. Shares of Groupon have fallen 82 percent since it went public in November,and the company is now worth just $3 billion, half of what Google offered to buy it for in 2010. Gilt City, a daily deal service owned by Gilt Groupe, laid off employees and closed offices in six cities earlier this year. Google Offers, whose membership has plateaued in some cities, has had to teamwith 35 other deal provid- ers to supplement its own se- lection and help other companies reach customers. Facebook and Yelp were quick to jump on the fad, but backed off last year. Groupon is searching for alterna- tive ways to make money, like buying movie tickets,watches and other goods and selling them to shoppers. “Many of the other compet- itors have retreated or scaled down ambitions,” said Jordan Rohan, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus. “There are no real bar- riers to entry, but there are fairly significant barriers to success.” One of those barriers is keep- ing merchants happy. Though small businesses were excited at first about a new way to attract customers in a post-Yellow Pages world, many soon soured on the daily deals. Customers who bought deals overwhelmed the businesses, spent the bare mini- mum and never returned. The scene on a three-block stretch of Mississippi Avenue in Portland, Ore., is a snapshot of what is happening nationally, as merchants grow increasingly wary of daily deal services even as more daily deal salespeople try to court them. Muddy’s Coffeehouse, which serves coffee and granola in a purple-trimmed Victorian home, offered $24 of food and coffee for $12. It paid Groupon half of that. Muddy’s succeeded in drawing crowds — but ended up losing money. “I pretty much had to take a loan out to cover the loss,or we would have probably had to close,” the owner,Dyer Price, said. “They don’t warn you that you’re going to get hit really hard and that you have to be prepared. We will never,ever do it again.” A few doors down, Mississippi Studios & Bar Bar,a former Bap- tist church that became a live music club and burger and cock- tail restaurant, offered a Groupon deal but said it slowed down the bartender, who had to complete paperwork for each coupon, and brought in customers who did not return. “It was a huge boondoggle for us,and we were counting down the days until it was over,” said Kevin Cradock, co-owner of Mis- sissippi Studios. He said he had a better solution for local advertis- ing. “We still do the old-school thing,” he said.“We print these posters and hire kids on bikes to put the posters up.” He also tried Google Offers, whose deal was easier to process because Google sent an Android phone to scan coupons, but it did not attract repeat customers, ei- ther. The story was the same else- where. Kevin Stecko, founder of 80sTees.com, offered a Groupon deal for $20 off a $40 order, of which $10 would go to Groupon. Initially, the results looked good: 971 coupons were sold,and al- most all of the customers were new. But Mr. Stecko said he lost $2.96 per order on average, and only nine of the customers who used the Groupon deal had bought something else from the site since then. (He made some money, though, he said, because 14 percent of people who bought coupons did not redeem them.) “It devalues your product,” said Rafi Mohammed, a pricing consultant. “You get people who come in who are very price-sensi- tive,who aren’t going to come back and pay full price.” Groupon has added tools to help merchants with some of their most common complaints, like a scheduler so they can avoid an overwhelming rush of custom- ers. The company said that in the last two quarters, half of its offers were from businesses that had previously used Groupon. But that might not matter if shoppers continue to tire on daily deals. Tamara Koedoot, 47, a real es- tate agent in Portland, has spent about $100 on four deals a month for several years. But lately, it has been testing her patience, partly because she said business- es discriminated against her for using coupons. “As soon as they find out you have a Groupon, they don’t even want to work with you any long- er, so that’s a turnoff,” she said. Ms. Koedoot has cut back on buying deals because she has lost money when coupons she bought, like one for a Spanish language course, expired, or when she could not get restau- rant reservations before the expi- ration date. “My thoughts have definitely changed, and I think my friends are kind of feeling the same way,” she said. “We’ve got to quit buy- ing so many of them because it’s like, ‘We’ve got this Groupon, we have to go now.’” UnsubscribeDeals.com has be- come a support group for shop- pers who are fed up with deals. Some commenters take issue with the frequency of the e-mails, while others complain about the quality of the offers.“I once got a Groupon for teeth whitening,” one person wrote.“I went to the office and the receptionist gave me some bleach and told me to do it at home. She said it would be extra if I wanted the dentist to do it.” Merchants and Customers Start to Sour on Daily Deals OZIER MUHAMMAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES At left, Dyer Price, center, owner of Muddy’s Coffeehouse in Portland, Ore., said her business lost money on a Groupon deal.Ed- win Hermawan and Lea Pische, at right,created a Web site to help people unsubscribe from daily deal e-mails. Did not redeem the Groupon Spent exactly the value of the Groupon or up to $5 more Spent more than $5 over the value of the Groupon $5 to 10 more $10 to 20 $20 to 40 14 over $40 Kevin Stecko, the founder of 80sTees.com, an online T-shirt retailer, offered his customers a Groupon deal last year of a $20 coupon good for $40 worth of merchandise. But few of those who bought the coupon spent much more than its $40 value. Most customers, about 57 percent, spent only the value of the Groupon or up to $5 more. Only 29 percent spent more than that, and 14 percent did not redeem it at all. 132 553 116 96 60 One Retailer’s Experience With Groupon Source: Kevin Stecko, 80sTees.com THE NEW YORK TIMES OF 971 CUSTOMERS WHO BOUGHT GROUPONS FOR AN ONLINE T-SHIRT RETAILER From First Business Page LEAH NASH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES By PETER EAVIS Want to better understand the crazy world of technology stocks? That requires having a grasp of something that can best be described as the curse of the ordinary. That curse could mean that Facebook, which is already down by nearly 50 percent from its of- fering price to $19.05 on Friday, could drop even further. It’s all about valuations. Most efforts to judge the right stock market value for a compa- ny rely on profit forecasts. But earnings at young technology companies are harder to predict than at businesses using tradi- tional approaches to generate earnings in other industries. In times of optimism, that knowledge dearth can actually work to the advantage of technol- ogy companies. Executives fill that emptiness with promises of paradigm-breaking ways of do- ing business, prompting Wall Street analysts to project amaz- ing profits. Investors get excited and flock to their stock debuts. In short, it’s all about being seen as extraordinary. That magic allowed Facebook to go public at a stock price that was an astronomical 100 times its earnings per share. Back in May, investors seemingly had little trouble believing that Facebook could entwine advertising into all interactions on its site and gener- ate extraordinary revenue. Indeed, each of the companies that have gone public in recent months has needed one main magical story. For Groupon, it was that the company had found a revolutionary marketing tool that was perfect for small busi- nesses. The untapped market was theoretically huge. But the nightmare begins when investors stop believing in that central story. Earnings don’t have to be terrible, and they ha- ven’t been at the hardest hit firms — Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, the online game company. The earnings just have to contain a few clues that the dream won’t be achieved. Then, the transition from ex- traordinary to ordinary is brutal. Groupon is down 75 percent from its initial public offering. The market now values it as if it were any old marketing compa- ny; its shares are trading at 12 times the earnings that analysts are projecting for 2013, according to data from Thomson Reuters. This is a critical time for Face- book. The faith level in the company is declining. Right now, Facebook is trading at 31 times the earnings that analysts are expecting for 2013. That’s not too expensive, but it’s far above Google’s 2013 price-to-earnings ratio of 14 times. One reason investors have fled the stock is that Facebook’s sec- ond-quarter earnings showed few signs that it was close to achieving meteoric growth. “There have been almost no posi- tive signals at Facebook in the past six months,” said Anup Sri- vastava,an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Manage- ment at Northwestern Universi- ty. He thinks Facebook shares should be worth about $12, based on his estimates of the compa- ny’s future cash flows. Such a fate may seem unthink- able, given how far the stock has already fallen. But Facebook may struggle to keep pace with Goo- gle, which, though it is a more mature Internet company, is still finding ways to grow fast. In its second quarter, the volume of “paid clicks” (the number of times users click on a link that generates revenue for Google) rose 42 percent from the year- earlier period. That’s the fastest growth since 2007, according to analysts at Nomura. And despite its extraordinary growth, invest- ors still give Google’s shares only an ordinary valuation. But there’s still hope for Face- book. Negativity can feed on itself in the stock market, and the over- optimism of the I.P.O. may simply have been replaced with rabid pessimism today. “As with most other young growth stocks, no one really knows Facebook’s val- ue,” said Aswath Damodaran,a professor of finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. “That means people can overreact in both directions.” There are ways to get back into investors’ good graces. One is for Facebook to be more convincing when explaining why it’s special. Since its own I.P.O., LinkedIn has kept investors enthralled. The company trades at 79 times projected 2013 earnings, a clear sign that the market believes the company has created a revolu- tionary space for companies to recruit. Then there’s Amazon.com, which is extraordinarily talented at projecting itself as extraordi- nary. Its shares trade at 100 times its projected 2013 earnings, even though it has reported what might look like disappointing earnings for several years. The dream is that Amazon is well on its way to dominating Internet commerce, and can look forward to prodigious profits. Amazon.com also shows there’s a way to get investors be- lieving again. Its shares plunged amid fears that it could go bank- rupt soon after the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, but in the last 10 years it has regained extraordi- nary status. Facebook could use some of that Amazon magic. NEWS ANALYSIS For Its Shares to Rebound, Facebook Needs to Project More Magic N B5 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 wanted a piece of it: a passenger in her car, the driver of the car that hit her and a passenger in that car. Progressive sized up its legal risks. Three individuals thought Ms. Fisher had run a red light — the police officer who filed the accident report (but who did not witness it), Ms. Fisher’s passen- ger and the driver of the other vehicle. On the other hand, one eyewitness said that it was the other driver who ran the light. At that point, Progressive chose to pay the liability claims. “If we determine that we shouldn’t pay any third parties, our insured can get sued and be responsible for any amount over the limit,” said Mar- cia Marsteller, the business leader in Progressive’s legal department for claims. “If we make the wrong call and don’t pay them and perhaps we should have, there is an issue for her estate.” Here’s where things get tricky. Liabil- ity insurance pays money to injured peo- ple even if the policyholder is at fault. But the dispute in court that so infuriat- ed Ms. Fisher’s brother,Matt,also af- fected a different policy she had — un- derinsured motorist coverage — that op- erates under different rules. That coverage is something you buy if you’re worried about somebody hurting you who doesn’t have much insurance. The driver who hit Ms. Fisher had only $25,000 in liability coverage, and her par- ents tried to coordinate claims from his company and their daughter’s to collect the $100,000 total that her underinsured motorist insurance covered. The challenge with the coverage, how- ever, is that it pays you money only if the other driver is at fault. Many states, rec- ognizing the subtleties in assigning blame, will pay out partial claims based on the share of responsibility. But Mary- land is among a small number of states where insurance policyholders may get nothing under the terms of their under- insured motorist policies if they’re even lost in court, was roundly mocked online, will pay the underinsured motorist claim to the Fishers after all and is now also paying them a separate settlement to avoid a hearing before the state insur- ance commissioner. But Ms. Marsteller of Progressive said that the company was acting in Ms. Fish- er’s best interest from the start. “You make a decision and you might get a law- suit either way,” she said. “Our goal is to make the best decision overall for the in- sured, and I think we did that here.” A short personal coda here. I went back and checked my own insurance pol- icy and realized that while I have $1 mil- lion of liability coverage, I had the mini- mum amount of uninsured motorist cov- erage. My guess is that at the time I made that decision, I figured that my separate health, life and disability cover- age would cover me in the event of an ac- cident involving somebody driving around with no insurance. That seems foolish in retrospect, given all the things that I might have to pay for out of pocket if I were hurt badly. Plus, it cost less than $6 a month to take the un- derinsured coverage up to $1 million. The low price seems to indicate that the odds of making a claim are slim. But the Fishers’ experience suggests that having decent coverage is a good idea, and they are now considering increasing their own coverage. Before their daughter died, they had taken out a home equity loan to pay off some of her student loans. The proceeds from the uninsured motorist claim will allow them to retire the debt.But her mother said that the lawsuit was never about the money for them. “This is the last that the world will ever hear of my daughter,” she said. “And I didn’t want those last words about her to be that she was a reckless driver.”Alas, having in- surance doesn’t guarantee that your in- surer won’t cross the ring at some point and fight alongside the other person who was involved in your accident. And if companies make enough of the sort of miscalculations that Progressive did here, the costs may well be passed on to all of us in the form of higher premiums. fault (giving rise to her brother’s accusa- tion that the company defended her kill- er). The jury sided with the Fishers and determined that she bore no fault at all. The Fishers’ lawyer, Allen Cohen, said he felt that Progressive’s conduct raised questions about whether the state insur- ance commissioner would find that the company had acted in bad faith. After all, he explained, two of the witnesses who lined up against Ms. Fisher were not in- dependent, since one had made a liabil- ity claim against her insurance policy and another (the other driver) had po- tential criminal exposure. “I have no issue in general with insur- ance companies defending themselves,” he said. “But in this specific case, I have an issue with how they examined the ev- idence to come to the decision to aban- don their insured.” Progressive sure seems to have done absolutely everything wrong here. It paid out three liability claims, doubled down in court on its interpretation of the evidence that was behind those payouts, evidence and come to a different conclu- sion when it paid claims on Ms. Fisher’s liability policy, decided not to pay the full claim on the underinsured motorist cov- erage. While the company did engage in set- tlement negotiations with the Fishers, the two sides could not come to an agree- ment. “I think they’re still hoping that we are what they originally thought we were: stupid people that they could bully,” Joan Fisher said. “I think they thought that we would just turn our tails down behind us and walk away.” Instead, the Fishers chose to sue the driver of the other vehicle to determine who was truly at fault in the accident. Armed with a favorable judgment, they could then force Progressive to pay their daughter’s underinsured motorist claim in full. Progressive didn’t want that to hap- pen, so it filed a motion to intervene in the case and sent its lawyer to court alongside the other driver’s lawyer to make the case that Ms. Fisher was at 1 percent at fault. “You’re buying insurance that steps into the shoes of the guy who injured you,” said Tom Baker, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. “It’s kind of a nasty business, because they have to act like they’re the bad guy that hurt you.” Indeed, that is exactly what ended up happening with the Fishers. Even as Progressive was paying money to the in- jured people under the terms of Ms. Fisher’s liability policy, her family was making a claim on her underinsured mo- torist policy that she wasn’t responsible at all. “She was a very cautious kind of per- son,” said her mother, Joan Fisher. “She wasn’t a risk taker in any phase of her life. She was almost a nerd. I have never believed that she ran the red light.” The other driver’s insurance company appeared to be siding with the Fishers when it offered them the full $25,000 that his own liability policy covered. But Pro- gressive, having already assessed the YOUR MONEY A Closer Look at an Auto Insurance Case That Flooded the Internet Twitter: @ronlieber From First Business Page DOUGLAS HEALEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES MATT FISHER Joan and Steven Fisher, left,at their Connecticut home.They went to court to prove that their daughter Kaitlynn,known as Katie, was not responsible for the auto accident that took her life. Above, Katie in 2008. By PAUL SULLIVAN F ORCE-PLACED insurance isn’t high up on most people’s list of mortgage worries, not when so many people are in danger of losing their homes. But it’s been high up on mine ever since my wife and I had to battle our mortgage provider to remove flood insurance it had bought for us — and we didn’t need — for a condomini- um we owned in Florida. While we eventually convinced our lender that we had adequate flood cov- erage, I spent many hours on the phone over many months before I got the in- surance removed. I’ve since spoken to other people who had similar, if not worse, struggles. So I’ve been glad that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken up the cause. It released rules last week that deal with various aspects of mort- gage servicing, the next step in its pro- cess to make lenders more accountable to borrowers. There are legitimate reasons for force-placed insurance.It protects a lender’s interest in a property when the borrower lets property or hazard insur- ance lapse. Mortgage contracts contain clauses that stipulate that the borrower needs to maintain proper insurance. But force-placed insurance has be- come problematic in two main areas. In some cases, insurance — for hazard, flood or wind coverage — was pur- chased for homeowners without giving them enough time to buy their own poli- cy, and when the premiums were taken out of their monthly mortgage payment, it put them behind on their loan. (I should mention that the cost of force- placed insurance is almost always high- er than the market rate.) In other cases, borrowers were told they had to have coverage for something they did not think they needed and it was purchased for them anyway. In the worst cases, the cost of force- placed insurance pushed people who were already struggling financially into foreclosure. But even the best cases were not that great: people, like me, who eventually got the insurance re- moved after months of frustrating calls and repeated faxes of information. I wrote about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s initial proposals on force-placed insurance in April. These include stricter rules on when and how lenders notify borrowers that this insur- ance is going to be bought for them. The bureau’s goal with the rules is to educate consumers on the costs and coverage limits of force-placed insur- ance, said Moira Vahey,a spokeswom- an. But the homeowners I’ve talked to say the rules don’t go far enough, par- ticularly because they fail to impose penalties large enough to force lenders to be more responsive to consumers. The consumer agency said it would accept comments until Oct.9 and would issue the final rules in January. The homeowners told me they were pleased with the agency’s proposal to require lenders to tell consumers how much force-placed insurance would cost them. The bureau suggested that lend- ers send a letter to consumers stating in bold type what the price of the insur- ance would be and noting it was “proba- bly more expensive than insurance you can buy yourself.” The proposed letter also states that force-placed insurance “may not provide as much coverage as an insurance policy you buy yourself.” But as Brian Penny,a former employ- ee at Balboa, a force-placed insurer owned by Bank of America until last year, who has now become a whistle- blower, noted, the letters could easily be overlooked by consumers if they contin- ue to be mailed in nondescript enve- lopes. Ms. Vahey said the bureau had not considered requirements for the enve- lopes but that was an area open for comment. The homeowners told me they wor- ried that banks and insurers could still charge whatever they wanted for the force-placed insurance. The proposed rule states that the “charges would have to bear a reasonable relationship to the servicer’s cost of providing the service.” But a borrower and a lender might have different definitions of what is reasonable. The proposed letter does not provide a phone number or Web site for help if the lender does not comply. Ms. Vahey said the form letters were not intended “as much to report viola- tions as to educate the consumers.” But she added that the bureau has a super- visory role over the lenders. To get more ideas about the rules, I called two people who I thought would be at opposite ends of this debate: Mr. Penny, the whistle-blower, and Ed Del- gado,chief operating officer of Wing- span Portfolio Advisors, which as a ser- vicer for banks monitors insurance cov- erage on mortgages and handles fore- closures, short sales and other mort- gage matters. Mr. Penny said the rules should re- quire more disclosures on the relation- ship between the lenders and the force- placed insurers. “When you call to complain about your insurance, you’re talking to that insurance company,” Mr. Penny said. “People don’t know that. They think they’re complaining to B of A about QBE when they’re actually complaining to QBE about QBE.” QBE is one of the largest force-placed insurers. He said he feared that the penalties, as written in the rules, would not be ap- plied. “It’s very easy to hide that stuff,” he said. “They can make all the rules they want, but I don’t see how they can enforce these rules.” On the other side, Mr. Delgado said he thought the rules were stating the obvious.“Some of it just seems to be a reinforcement of common sense — make sure payments are applied, fix your errors,” he said. He suggested requiring the lenders to communicate more with the borrower. Instead of just mailing a letter, he said, it would be better if the lenders called before the insurance policies lapsed. (This is a service his company does not provide,but he said it could.) “Sending a letter may not always work,” Mr. Delgado said. “Making a call to verify residency and then determine the intent to maintain or secure insur- ance on the property would work better. What if the letter never hit the target? My bias is that communication come from multiple levels.” Mr. Delgado said he recently had to deal with force-placed insurance when he sold his house. But he said he was glad his lender had called him. “They said I was in breach of agree- ment on my insurance and they were going to provide insurance,” he said. “They were so focused on the lapse of insurance. I said,‘Check out my state- ment. My balance is zero because I just paid off my loan.’” More communication certainly can’t hurt. But from my experience,it is up to consumers to be vigilant and persistent — no matter how frustrating it is to re- peatedly call, e-mail and fax the force- placed insurance company. WEALTH MATTERS When the Lender Buys Your Home Insurance, a Call Is in Order REX C. CURRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Ed Delgado of Wingspan Portfolio Advisors said using common sense helped. “Make sure payments are applied, fix your errors,” he said. Force-placed insurance costs more than if you buy it yourself. Proposed federal rules on force-placed insurance leave much of the burden on homeowners to look out for their own interests. Readers of the Bucks personal finance blog offer their own stories about the insurance. nytimes.com/bucks ONLINE:LESSON FOR HOMEOWNERS PERSONAL BUSINESS B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 35 STW.,#147 B'twn Broadway &7th 500,700 &1400 sq ft,totally renov'd,new windows,acrossfromMacy's.NO FEE falconproperties.com 212-302-3000 Offices−Manhattan 105 When You Have Too Much Stuff When Andrew Hyde began an adventure in minimalism, he owned only 15 things. It eventually grewto 39 and now it sits around 60. It all started when he decided to take a trip around the world and sell ev- erything he didn’t need. As Mr. Hyde wrote on his blog, it changed his life after a brief period of befuddlement. When I came across his story, I was so inspired that I went home and found 15 things to give away. Most were clothes that I had long since stopped wearing. I have no idea why I still had a tie I hadn’t worn in four years or a shirt that no longer fit. I still own way more than 39 things, but getting rid of some of them felt amazingly good. I realized how much holding on to those things actually cost. When we hold on to stuff we no longer want or use, it does indeed cost us something more, if only in the time spent organ- izing and contemplating them. Mr. Hyde’s example is extreme, but I love thinking about extreme examples because they have the power to compel us to act. I found myself thinking: Why exactly do you own what you own? What could you get rid of and not miss? Do I really still need that? What is it costing me to own that? If the idea of cutting down on your possessions is daunting, start simple. At the end of every season, go through your clothes. If you didn’t wear it once, get rid of it. This process will generate a stack of stuff. Don’t try to sell it on eBay. It’s another cost (in time). Save yourself a headache, donate it to a charity and take the tax credit. You don’t need to get down to 39 possessions. Instead, this exercise is about determining why you own what you own and what it might be costing you to own it. CARL RICHARDS COMMENTS Getting rid of certain things is difficult because it forces one to admit that the possibilities that those things represent will never be realized. Examples for me are fishing equipment and books on fish- ing, ice skates, camping equipment, philosophy books, etc. — berchman, Carlisle, Pa. I recommend Freecycle to everyone trying to declutter. Local chap- ters operate Yahoo Groups that provide an open, commercial-free, zero-dollar way to find a home in need for your extra stuff. I’ll never forget the joy of an older couple who took away a service for 12 just weeks before Thanksgiving. They were thrilled to have a full set for the first time. Free and priceless. — Don Frick, North Carolina A Deposit By iPhone Bank of America has (finally) begun offering a check deposit feature on its mobile banking app for smartphones and tab- lets. So I tested it on my new iPhone, with varying results. Citibank, Chase and others al- ready offer mobile deposit, and some smaller banks, like USAA, have been offering it even long- er. I easily downloaded the free mobile banking app onto my iPhone and logged in using my online banking credentials. Be- cause I was using a new phone, I had to answer additional ques- tions to verify my identity. Once the app opened, I clicked on the “deposits” tab. The app directed me to take two photos: one of the front of the check and one of the back of the check (which must be endorsed “for deposit only”). This step took me a couple of tries with the first check, a com- puter-printed version. The app rejected my first two attempts as blurry. But once I moved to an area with better lighting,it worked. I chose an account, typed in the amount and clicked “deposit.” Pretty easy, and I didn’t have to get in my car and drive to a branch. But a handwritten personal check, sent by a relative as a gift for my daughter’s birthday, was a different story. Despite retak- ing the image many times, in dif- ferent lighting and from varying heights, I got the same error message: “The image is blurry. Please retake a clear photo.” A bank customer-service rep- resentative suggested uninstall- ing, then reinstalling, the app, and trying again later. (That didn’t help.) If that didn’t work, he suggested,there might be a problem with my phone’s cam- era. I called my cellular provider (Verizon), which sold me the phone. A representative had me snap a photo and text it to my- self to check the image quality. It looked clear to me. But the app still wouldn’t accept the check images. Verizon connected me to an Apple representative, who sug- gested removing the phone’s protective case, in case it was in- terfering with the auto-focus fea- ture. She also advised tapping on the phone’s screen to help fo- cus before snapping the shutter. Neither step helped. A second bank rep suggested the handwritten check might not be clear enough for the app to ac- cept. (A.T.M.’s sometimes can’t read such checks either.) So I will just have to deposit that one the old-fashioned way. (I was later able to deposit a different hand- written check.) The app instructed me to keep the checks for 14 days — in case they were needed for verification — and then destroy them. A bank spokeswoman said that “by and large, feedback has been positive” for the new feature. ANN CARRNS COMMENTS Another fetish for the iPhone-addicted. It doesn’t mat- ter that it takes more time or trou- ble (e.g.,having to resubmit check again and again, having to store the paper check for a time) to de- posit the check than banking nor- mally.— Ed, Alexandria, Va. A helpful hint here — put your finger on the shutter release until you’re ready to take the picture rather than “pushing” the button. Most camera-related apps take the picture when you remove your finger, giving you the opportunity to become your stillest before tak- ing the shot. Pushing the button often pushes the phone as well. — MaryBeth, Upstate New York E-Receipts At the Bank Lots of retailers now offer elec- tronic receipts for purchases. So why shouldn’t banks get into the act, too? Wells Fargo has been offering e-mail receipts at its A.T.M.’s for two years and is now offering the option to online customers who make deposits or withdrawals at its branches. About 12 percent of A.T.M. transactions now generate an e-receipt, a bank spokeswoman said. The bank has about 12,000 A.T.M.’s and 6,000 branches. Electronic receipts are avail- able to online banking customers, who may have the receipt sent to their online banking in-box or to another personal e-mail account they designate. ANN CARRNS COMMENT I don’t use the teller that often, but I love the idea of electronic receipts. It’s me, but I don’t like keeping paper receipts, which will eventually be lost in my drawer anyway. At least if they e-mail it to me or have it in my ac- count, I have a better chance of finding it if I ever need it! — dhruv, Chicago CARL RICHARDS icantly. This has many investors waiting for the next jarring event out of Europe or for a disap- pointing report on the United States economy. “It just seems we have many,many opportuni- ties to get it wrong, and the mar- kets are assuming we get it all right,” said Nicholas Colas, the chief market strategist at Con- vergEx Group. The Standard & Poor’s 500- stock index climbed 0.19 percent, or 2.65 points, to 1,418.16 on Fri- day. It is now up nearly 13 per- cent for the year and needs to gain less than a point to overtake the high for the year hit in April. The Dow Jones industrial aver- age finished the day up 0.19 per- cent, or 25.09 points, at 13,275.20. The Nasdaq index rose 0.46 per- cent, or 14.20 points, to 3,076.59. The summer calm is in stark contrast to the same time last year, when markets were swing- ing wildly amid the downgrade of United States debt and fears that Greece would default on its bonds and the United States was headed for a double-dip reces- sion. Since those lows, American stocks are up over 25 percent. The index that is used to track the volatility of the markets, re- ferred to as the VIX,fell this week to 13.45,its lowest level since 2007.It had risen to a high of 48 last August. Earlier this summer, it ap- peared that Wall Street would again have its vacation season ruined as concerns about Spain’s economy threatened to force the country to leave the euro. Most of the credit for the change in senti- ment since is given to Mr. Draghi of the European Central Bank. His message in July about sup- porting the euro was reinforced this week by the German Chan- cellor,Angela Merkel, who praised Mr. Draghi in a visit to Canada. Since Mr. Draghi’s comments, the main Spanish stock index is up almost 15 percent and the yields on Spanish government bonds have fallen sharply, with the 10-year bond interest rate dropping to 6.4 percent on Fri- day, from a high of 7.5 percent last month. But European leaders have managed to temporarily calm the markets at several times over the last few years, only to see the problems re-emerge. Many econ- omists are nervously awaiting a September ruling from a German court on the constitutionality of the European rescue fund that was announced this summer and that is seen as a crucial element in any recovery. Even if the court approves the program, there are still funda- mental weaknesses in the Span- ish, Italian and Greek economies, which do not appear to be im- proving as the governments con- tinue to cut their budgets. The Spanish central bank said Friday that the number of bad loans in the country grew in the first half of the year. “The Europeans have repeat- edly said, ‘We have a plan to calm the situation,’ and then it failed,” said Neal Soss,the chief econo- mist at Credit Suisse. “You cer- tainly can’t ignore that history. But at the same time, at this mo- ment this plan looks a bit more convincing.” In the United States, investors were encouraged by reports this week showing that retail spend- ing rose in July for the first time in four months.And the number of people filing for unemploy- ment benefits has been falling slightly after jumping earlier this summer. But the Federal Re- serve banks in Philadelphia and New York both said this week that manufacturing in their re- gions continued to decline. This has led economists to stick to their projections of slow growth through the rest of the year. “I don’t think the fundamen- tals have improved a lot,” said Kevin Giddis,the head of bond trading at Morgan Keegan. Looking ahead, many analysts say they are worried that even the current slow rate of growth could be jeopardized by the so- called fiscal cliff at the end of the year,when taxes are scheduled to rise if Congress takes no ac- tion. No one in the investing world is expecting Congress to take any steps to help the econ- omy before the election in No- vember. The discouraging economic data earlier this summer had in- creased the probability that the Federal Reserve would provide more monetary stimulus for the economy. And the prospect of the central bank buying government bonds pushed other investors to do the same, driving down yields to historic lows. Even though the recent im- provement in the economic out- look has been slight, it has been enough to convince many invest- ors that the Fed is not likely to take action anytime soon. This has been the primary explana- tion given for the sharp rise in government bond yields of the last three weeks. But many bond investors have said that they are not selling their holdings yet. David Ader, a bond strategist at CRT Capital Group, said that the recent spike in bond yields was largely related to the slowness of the summer trading environment. He said that with fewer people at their trading desks, when one person decides to sell,it pushes the price up more. “Let’s not confuse a change in prices for a change in facts,” Mr. Ader said. “We have not gotten a lot of new information.” STOCKS & BONDS The Dow Minute by Minute Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals yesterday. Source: Bloomberg THE NEW YORK TIMES 13,245 13,255 13,265 13,275 10 a.m.Noon 2 p.m.4 p.m. Previous close 13,250.11 From First Business Page laws can fundamentally hinder a case, as they did during tax-eva- sion investigations against Swiss banks. Data on transactions, in some earlier global bank cases, had been so redacted that au- thorities joked that they looked like “Swiss cheese.” The speed of obtaining the data, the prosecutors said, de- pends on a level of trust and co- operation. In the Credit Suisse case, for example, regulators from the Federal Reserve and prosecutors worked for months to persuade the Swiss bank and its regulators to release full data, an especially delicate proposition because of Swiss laws that fiercely guard cli- ent information, according to the law enforcement officials. With- out that, the investigation — re- sulting in a $536 million settle- ment and deferred prosecution agreement — could have dragged on much longer, the authorities said. Neil M. Barofsky,the former inspector general for the Treas- ury’s bank bailout fund, said fears that banks would not co- operate were overblown because it was “in their best interest to co- operate to avoid criminal pros- ecution and to keep their license.” In the case of Standard Char- tered, which is still being investi- gated by the Justice Department and the Manhattan district at- torney, among others, coopera- tion started nearly from the be- ginning when in 2010 the bank gave officials a battery of e-mails and other internal bank docu- ments detailing transactions with Iran from 2001 to 2007. The prosecutors have not yet found any money transfers that went to so-called specially desig- nated nationals, the term as- signed by the Treasury Depart- ment to terrorists, drug cartels or individuals or companies owned or operated by sanctioned coun- tries, the law enforcement offi- cials said. In his Aug. 6 order against Standard Chartered, Mr. Lawsky claimed the bank “left the U.S. fi- nancial system vulnerable to ter- rorists, weapons dealers, drug kingpins and corrupt regimes.” The order said the bank trans- ferred money on behalf of Iranian state-owned banks — including the Central Bank of Iran/Marka- zi, Bank Saderat and Bank Melli. American officials suspected Iran was using those banks to finance nuclear weapons and missile pro- grams. So far, prosecutors said that they had not yet discovered transactions with those banks af- ter the Iranian banks were added to the specially designated na- tionals list. Mr. Lawsky pointed out in his order that it was impos- sible to know how the money was used because Standard Char- tered deliberately stripped iden- tifying information from the transactions. As they continue to pursue in- vestigations against global banks, federal and state prosecu- tors are still deciding how they want to work with Mr. Lawsky, who took the reins of the re- vamped banking agency in 2011. In the past, the New York bank- ing department worked along- side federal and state prosecu- tors, but did not get a share of the forfeited money. gence Agency. Until 2008,foreign banks were allowed, in a sanctions loophole, to transfer money for Iran through their American subsid- iaries to a separate offshore insti- tution while providing the scanti- est information about the client to their United States units as long as they had thoroughly vet- ted the transactions for suspi- cious activity. As a result, Ameri- can law enforcement agencies generally have to push for more information from foreign banks. To get uncensored data, au- thorities work closely with in- ternational regulators and global banks to navigate European pri- vacy and bank secrecy laws. The feit a substantial amount of as- sets. The cases typically have not in- volved United States banks. Un- like foreign institutions, Ameri- can banks were prohibited from originating or receiving such transactions from Iran. That en- abled them to largely sidestep the conduct that has helped en- snare foreign banks. Mr. Lawsky, who claimed Standard Chartered plotted with Iran for nearly a decade to se- cretly process $250 billion through its New York branch, has been unwavering in his decision to move against Standard Char- tered. He has found support among those who think federal prosecutors have been too le- nient on big banks. Rather than undermine the po- licing of global banks, Mr. Law- sky’s actions strengthen regula- tion, said Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, who held hearings last month exposing HSBC money laundering viola- tions with Iran, Mexico and oth- ers. “New York’s regulatory action sends a strong message that the United States will not tolerate foreign banks giving rogue na- tions like Iran hidden access to the U.S. financial system,” Mr. Levin, who heads the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on In- vestigations, said in a statement this week. The investigation into Deutsche Bank is still in its very early stages, according to the law enforcement officials. So far, there is no suspicion that the bank moved money on behalf of Iranian clients through its Ameri- can operations after 2008, the offi- cials said. In the earlier cases, the banks agreed to financial settlements with prosecutors for as much as $619 million with ING bank in June. The cases are also valu- able, the prosecutors said, as a result of the trove of transactions typically unearthed. The infor- mation, including the identity of clients who sent money through the banks, can then be passed on to the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation and the Central Intelli- Deutsche Bank’s Ties to Sanctioned Nations Under Scrutiny JIN LEE/BLOOMBERG NEWS Benjamin M. Lawsky,of New York’s Department of Financial Services, settled a case with Standard Chartered bank. From First Business Page The latest in a series of cases against global investment firms. Readers of the Bucks personal finance blog tell their tales of dealing with underinsured motorist coverage in their automobile insurance policy. nytimes.com/bucks ONLINE:ABOUT YOUR POLICY By Reuters A federal consumer protection agency on Friday proposed new rules for fees often attached to mortgages, as well as new re- strictions on mortgage loan origi- nators, to help consumers com- pare loan options. Mortgages can carry different combinations of fees and points, which are payments borrowers can make to reduce the interest rate on a loan. This can make it difficult to compare competing loans and pick the best deal, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said. Under the proposed rules, creditors could continue offering such loans as long as they also provide consumers a loan option with no fees or points attached. “We want to provide consum- ers with clearer options and en- able them to choose the loan that they believe is right for them,” the director,Richard Cordray, said in a statement. The agency said it expected to issue final rules in January. The new rules create an ex- emption to a provision in the Dodd-Frank law that banned the imposition of points and fees for most loans. Under the exemp- tion, the practice could continue if borrowers also have the option of taking out a mortgage with no points or fees attached. Consumer Bureau Seeks to Make Mortgage Fees Clearer Source: The Conference Board THE NEW YORK TIMES L ea di ng I n di cators An index of 10 economic indicators of the Conference Board that are intended to predict overall economic activity; 2004 =100. 90 93 96 MAY. +0.3% JUNE –0.4% JULY +0.4% 95 94 ’12’11 In the Calm of Summer, Markets Climb Gingerly N B7 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Australia (Dollar) 1.0416 .9601 China (Yuan) .1573 6.3580 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1289 7.7567 India (Rupee) .0179 55.7300 Japan (Yen) .0126 79.5400 Malaysia (Ringgit) .3195 3.1300 New Zealand (Dollar) .8072 1.2389 Pakistan (Rupee) .0106 94.4200 Philippines (Peso) .0236 42.3700 Singapore (Dollar) .7980 1.2531 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1134.7 Taiwan (Dollar) .0333 29.9900 Thailand (Baht) .0318 31.4900 Vietnam (Dong) .0000 20840 Britain (Pound) 1.5698 .6370 Czech Rep (Koruna) .0495 20.1960 Denmark (Krone) .1657 6.0353 Europe (Euro) 1.2333 .8108 Hungary (Forint) .0044 224.79 Gold COMX $/oz 1922.50 1447.70 Oct 12 1614.70 1620.70 1611.30 1617.30 + 0.20 30,275 Silver COMX ¢/oz 4783.50 2610.50 Sep 12 2812.00 2829.00 2796.00 2800.20 ◊ 21.00 40,776 Hi Grade Copper COMX ¢/lb 450.50 309.15 Sep 12 338.25 342.45 337.50 341.95 + 3.70 50,419 Nasdaq 100 2780.30 + 12.21 + 0.44 + 27.44 + 22.06 Composite 3076.59 + 14.20 + 0.46 + 22.50 + 18.10 Industrials 2493.11 + 9.61 + 0.39 + 15.12 + 14.98 Banks 1829.34 + 12.44 + 0.68 + 21.79 + 13.07 Insurance 4538.27 + 27.76 + 0.62 + 16.35 + 6.11 Other Finance 3996.24 + 13.31 + 0.33 + 16.64 + 15.97 Telecommunications 197.03 + 0.78 + 0.40 + 3.00 + 0.05 Computer 1684.69 + 11.05 + 0.66 + 28.53 + 22.19 Industrials 13275.20 + 25.09 + 0.19 + 16.34 + 8.66 Transportation 5194.38 + 26.87 + 0.52 + 13.48 + 3.48 Utilities 478.91 ◊ 0.91 ◊ 0.19 + 12.01 + 3.06 Composite 4490.62 + 9.23 + 0.21 + 14.70 + 6.11 100 Stocks 651.58 + 1.00 + 0.15 + 20.83 + 14.15 500 Stocks 1418.16 + 2.65 + 0.19 + 18.78 + 12.77 Mid-Cap 400 977.85 + 4.75 + 0.49 + 15.20 + 11.23 Small-Cap 600 461.19 + 3.66 + 0.80 + 20.22 + 11.11 MARKET GAUGES +10% + 5% 0% – 5% Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index 3-MONTH TREND 1,250 1,300 1,350 1,400 1,450 June July Aug. +10% + 5% 0% – 5% Nasdaq Composite 3-MONTH TREND 2,700 2,800 2,900 3,000 3,100 June July Aug. +10% + 5% 0% – 5% Dow Jones Industrial Average 3-MONTH TREND 12,000 12,500 13,000 13,500 14,000 June July Aug. NASDAQ COMPOSITE 3,076.59 +14.20 U 10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD 1.81% –0.03 CRUDE OIL $96.32 +$0.43 U GOLD (N.Y.) $1,616.30 +$0.20 U THE EURO $1.2333 –$0.0021 D DOW INDUSTRIALS 13,275.20 +25.09 U S.&P. 500 1,418.16 +2.65 U STOCK MARKET INDEXES % 52-Wk YTD Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg DOW JONES STANDARD AND POOR’S NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE NASDAQ OTHER INDEXES NYSE Comp. 8102.08 + 12.08 + 0.15 + 9.21 + 8.36 Tech/Media/Telecom 6070.88 + 5.73 + 0.09 + 10.69 + 10.68 Energy 12741.52 ◊ 16.81 ◊ 0.13 + 4.86 + 2.67 Financial 4599.13 + 22.60 + 0.49 + 8.05 + 13.20 Healthcare 7621.63 ◊ 42.66 ◊ 0.56 + 14.56 + 8.18 American Exch 2424.69 ◊ 5.84 ◊ 0.24 + 5.36 + 6.42 Wilshire 5000 14793.92 + 37.66 + 0.26 + 17.66 + 12.16 Value Line Arith 3007.70 + 17.64 + 0.59 + 16.07 + 11.58 Russell 2000 819.89 + 6.81 + 0.84 + 16.46 + 10.66 Phila Gold & Silver 160.01 ◊ 0.64 ◊ 0.40 ◊ 24.71 ◊ 11.42 Phila Semiconductor 405.14 ◊ 3.12 ◊ 0.76 + 14.74 + 11.17 KBW Bank 47.24 + 0.26 + 0.55 + 21.94 + 19.96 Phila Oil Service 229.85 + 0.96 + 0.42 ◊ 3.35 + 6.27 When the index follows a white line, it is changing at a constant pace; when it moves into a lighter band, the rate of change is faster. CONSUMER RATES 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Federal funds 0.25 0.25% % Prime rate 3.25 3.25 15-yr fixed 2.98 3.43 15-yr fixed jumbo 3.48 4.32 30-yr fixed 3.68 4.21 30-yr fixed jumbo 4.25 4.93 5/1 adj. rate 2.96 3.01 5/1 adj. rate jumbo 2.84 3.37 1-year adj. rate 4.12 2.99 Mortgages 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 $75K line good credit* 4.22 4.38% % $75K line excel. credit* 4.22 4.30 $75K loan good credit* 5.35 5.71 $75K loan excel. credit* 5.28 5.48 Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 36-mo. used car 3.59 5.13% % 60-mo. new car 3.08 4.32 A uto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Money-market 0.51 0.57% % $10K min. money-mkt 0.55 0.63 6-month CD 0.47 0.54 1-year CD 0.70 0.86 2-year CD 0.85 1.00 5-year IRA CD 1.47 1.90 CD’s and Money Market Rates Home Yesterday Year Ago Yesterday’s rate Change from last week 1-year range Up Flat Down GOVERNMENT BONDS 0 1 2 3 4 5% 3 6 2 5 10 30 Months Years Maturity Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago Y ield Curve 0 1 2 3 4% 2012 2011 Fed Funds Prime Rate10-year Treas. 2-year Treas. Key Rates Source: Thomson Reuters INVESTMENT GRADE FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA Credit Rating Price Issuer Name (SYMBOL) Coupon% Maturity Moody’s S&P Fitch High Low Last Chg Yld% End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded. Investment grade or high-yield is determined using credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. *Par value in millions. Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. Issuer Name provided by S&P Capital IQ Total Issues Traded 5228 3752 1280 196 Advances 2655 1907 648 100 Declines 2303 1712 507 84 Unchanged 149 57 80 12 52 Week High 239 122 100 17 52 Week Low 86 59 25 2 Dollar Volume * 12,305 7,575 3,976 754 All Investment High Issues Grade Yield Conv Market Breadth Most Active Enterprise prods oper l p (edp) 6.875 Mar ‘33 baa2 bbb 125.066 125.036 125.036 –1.036 4.923 Enterprise prods oper llc (edp) 5.700 Feb ‘42 baa2 bbb 113.976 111.549 111.616 –1.985 4.947 Ford mtr cr co llc (f.Gsu) 8.125 Jan ‘20 baa3 bbb– 124.250 123.438 124.250 –0.250 4.267 Odyssey re hldgs (frfh3666567) 6.875 May ‘15 baa3 bbb– 113.125 113.000 113.000 3.789 N.A. General elec cap (ge.Hqt) 5.300 Feb ‘21 a2 115.842 112.600 113.588 0.296 3.437 Anheuser busch inbev worldwide (bud) 2.500 Jul ‘22 a3 a 100.914 98.640 99.010 0.009 2.614 Telefonica emisiones s a u (tef.Gw) 2.582 Apr ‘13 baa2 bbb+ 100.562 99.750 100.500 0.000 1.834 Lubrizol (brk3706507) 6.500 Oct ‘34 aa2 a+ 136.908 136.078 136.204 –1.658 4.014 Citigroup (c.Hfi) 6.125 Nov ‘17 baa2 a 114.400 114.051 114.264 0.061 3.153 Cooperatieve centrale raiffeisen-boerenl (rabo) 3.875 Feb ‘22 aa2 103.339 102.883 103.030 0.024 3.496 HIGH YIELD ATP oil & gas (atpg.Ge) 11.875 May ‘15 caa2 31.500 28.100 29.625 0.125 77.476 TXU (txu.Ko) 6.550 Nov ‘34 ca c 56.250 51.000 56.250 2.750 12.357 Energy future hldgs (txu.Lh) 11.250 Nov ‘17 ca ccc 94.000 93.000 94.000 2.250 N.A. Sprint cap (s.Gm) 6.900 May ‘19 b3 b+ 103.500 101.740 103.200 –1.011 6.304 NII cap (nihd.Go) 7.625 Apr ‘21 b2 77.375 75.250 75.500 0.500 12.317 Ally financial . (Gjm.Gu) 8.000 Mar ‘20 b1 bb– 116.875 116.000 116.500 –0.250 5.321 MGM resorts intl (mgm) 10.375 May ‘14 ba2 bb– 113.875 113.440 113.500 –0.250 2.363 HCA (hca.Ho) 6.375 Jan ‘15 b3 b+ 107.750 106.938 107.250 0.159 3.207 Radioshack (rsh.Gl) 6.750 May ‘19 caa1 cc 72.000 69.000 69.500 1.281 13.857 Travelport llc (trvp.Gc) 11.875 Sep ‘16 caa3 38.125 36.000 38.125 1.188 47.888 CONVERTIBLES Symantec (symc.Gf) 1.000 Jun ‘13 n.A. N.A. 109.375 108.000 109.199 –0.026 –9.591 Gilead sciences (gild.Gm) 1.000 May ‘14 n.A. 134.148 132.000 132.511 –0.916 –15.129 Intel (intc.Gd) 2.950 Dec ‘35 n.A. N.A. 114.500 113.500 113.500 0.500 2.206 Medtronic (mdt.Gk) 1.625 Apr ‘13 a1 n.A. 100.820 100.000 100.750 1.000 0.463 Endo health solutions (endp.Gb) 1.750 Apr ‘15 n.A. 127.375 124.569 124.916 –0.534 –6.694 Gilead sciences (gild.Gl) 1.625 May ‘16 n.A. 139.859 139.000 139.825 –0.147 –7.529 Intel (intc.Ge) 3.250 Aug ‘39 a2 135.000 134.283 134.750 –0.562 1.648 National retail pptys (nnn.Gh) 5.125 Jun ‘28 baa2 bbb 121.653 121.418 121.653 1.472 3.350 Suntech pwr hldgs co ltd (stp.Gd) 3.000 Mar ‘13 n.A. N.A. 44.550 43.375 44.000 –0.100 220.149 Archer daniels midland co l (adm.Gr) 0.875 Feb ‘14 n.A. A 101.128 99.000 99.938 0.312 0.918 0 2 4 6 8 10% 2012 2011 Yields FINRA-BLOOMBERG CORPORATE BOND INDEXES high yield +7.15% invest. grade +3.59% –10 – 5 0 + 5 +10 +15% 2012 2011 52-week Total Returns FINRA-BLOOMBERG CORPORATE BOND INDEXES high yield +10.64% invest. grade +7.06% ECONOMIC INDICATORS Source: Bloomberg 5-YEAR HISTORY %+10 –20 ’07 ’12 Construction Spending Change from previous year June ’12 %+7.0 May ’12 +7.0 %+10 0 ’07 ’12 Personal Savings Rate Percent of disposable income June ’12 %+4.4 May ’12 +4.0 –20 –70 ’07 ’12 Balance of Trade In billions of dollars Seasonally adjusted June ’12 –42.9 May ’12 –48.0 14 4 ’07 ’12 Housing Supply In months June ’12 6.6 May ’12 6.4 60 30 ’07 ’12 Manufacturing Index ISM; over 50 indicates expansion; seasonally adjusted July ’12 49.8 June ’12 49.7 Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield Source: Thomson Reuters T-BILLS 3-mo. 6-mo. BONDS & NOTES 2-yr. 5-yr. 10-yr. 30-yr. TREASURY INFLATION BONDS 5-yr. 10-yr. 20-yr. 30-yr. Nov 12 ◊ ◊ 0.09 0.08 +0.00 0.09 Feb 13 ◊ ◊ 0.14 0.14 ◊ 0.14 Apr 17 [ 105-25 105-28 –0-03 -1.08 Jul 22 [ 105-22 105-27 +0-03 -0.44 Jan 29 2ø 137-18 138-02 +0-03 0.18 Feb 42 } 103-01 103-26 +0-08 0.64 Jul 14 [ ◊ 99.68 99.69 ◊ 0.29 Jul 17 ø ◊ 98.55 98.56 +0.09 0.80 Aug 22 1| ◊ 98.28 98.30 +0.19 1.81 Aug 42 2} ◊ 96.41 96.44 +0.47 2.93 Most Recent Issues % 52-Wk YTD Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg MOST ACTIVE, GAINERS AND LOSERS Bank of Am (BAC) 8.00 +0.07 +0.9 1369129 Facebook I (FB) 19.05 ◊0.82 ◊4.1 1157729 Cisco Syst (CSCO) 19.06 +0.04 +0.2 540956 Marvell Te (MRVL) 10.54 ◊1.74 ◊14.2 537856 Sprint Nex (S) 5.19 +0.04 +0.8 435067 Groupon In (GRPN) 4.75 ◊0.25 ◊5.0 393476 Ford Motor (F) 9.63 +0.04 +0.4 343628 Sirius XM (SIRI) 2.56 ◊0.03 ◊1.2 340357 Molycorp I (MCP) 9.84 ◊1.32 ◊11.8 323616 Microsoft (MSFT) 30.90 +0.12 +0.4 300788 General El (GE) 21.00 ◊0.05 ◊0.2 295059 Pfizer Inc (PFE) 23.79 ◊0.23 ◊1.0 289750 Intel Corp (INTC) 26.33 ◊0.26 ◊1.0 288039 Citigroup (C) 29.03 +0.21 +0.7 271599 Brocade Co (BRCD) 5.76 +0.13 +2.3 223382 Ares Capit (ARCC) 16.81 ◊0.61 ◊3.5 218047 Oracle Cor (ORCL) 32.20 +0.17 +0.5 198889 PulteGroup (PHM) 13.38 ◊0.22 ◊1.6 194943 EMC Corp (EMC) 26.85 +0.59 +2.2 194631 Yahoo! Inc (YHOO) 15.03 +0.04 +0.3 192590 GT Advance (GTAT) 6.55 +1.16 +21.5 110889 Checkpoint (CKP) 8.64 +1.53 +21.5 10987 ANN INC (ANN) 33.89 +5.75 +20.4 93195 China Natu (CHNR) 8.54 +1.29 +17.8 50 American W (AMWD) 20.70 +2.89 +16.2 506 Oplink Com (OPLK) 16.31 +2.05 +14.4 8626 Global-Tec (GAI) 9.01 +0.96 +11.9 557 Clovis Onc (CLVS) 18.11 +1.92 +11.9 537 Spark Netw (LOV) 6.81 +0.66 +10.7 525 United Com (UCBA) 6.99 +0.67 +10.6 26 Farmers Ca (FFKT) 10.49 +0.98 +10.3 122 Francesca’ (FRAN) 34.32 +3.14 +10.1 22013 IXYS Corp (IXYS) 9.66 +0.88 +10.0 586 Reed’s Inc (REED) 5.78 +0.52 +10.0 2296 ServiceSou (SREV) 8.50 +0.74 +9.5 6636 Tower Inte (TOWR) 9.64 +0.83 +9.4 343 Pernix The (PTX) 7.01 +0.59 +9.2 152 Westway Gr (WWAY) 6.95 +0.58 +9.1 374 KCAP Finan (KCAP) 8.68 +0.69 +8.6 5038 Rofin-Sina (RSTI) 21.64 +1.71 +8.6 1695 Howard Ban (HBMD) 6.75 ◊1.25 ◊15.6 5 Marvell Te (MRVL) 10.54 ◊1.74 ◊14.2 537856 Molycorp I (MCP) 9.84 ◊1.32 ◊11.8 323616 Ion Geophy (IO) 6.89 ◊0.88 ◊11.3 43583 Aeropostal (ARO) 12.14 ◊1.52 ◊11.1 102583 Kirkland’s (KIRK) 9.92 ◊0.93 ◊8.6 1735 LiveDeal I (LIVE) 5.12 ◊0.48 ◊8.6 304 Velti PLC (VELT) 7.18 ◊0.58 ◊7.5 16767 BG Medicin (BGMD) 5.51 ◊0.44 ◊7.4 183 John B San (JBSS) 17.08 ◊1.23 ◊6.7 527 Ikonics Co (IKNX) 8.15 ◊0.57 ◊6.5 3 United-Gua (UG) 18.05 ◊1.25 ◊6.5 10 InterOil C (IOC) 78.02 ◊5.32 ◊6.4 15329 BroadVisio (BVSN) 8.15 ◊0.53 ◊6.1 439 Durata The (DRTX) 8.50 ◊0.55 ◊6.1 285 VAALCO Ene (EGY) 7.80 ◊0.50 ◊6.0 4508 America’s (CRMT) 45.77 ◊2.83 ◊5.8 3231 Orrstown F (ORRF) 8.42 ◊0.52 ◊5.8 203 Procera Ne (PKT) 22.62 ◊1.28 ◊5.4 4995 Jive Softw (JIVE) 15.38 ◊0.81 ◊5.0 13015 % Volume Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) % Volume Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) % Volume Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) 20 MOST ACTIVE 20 TOP GAINERS 20 TOP LOSERS FUTURES Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Source: Thomson Reuters FOREIGN EXCHANGE Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding. Foreign Currency in Dollars Foreign Currency in Dollars Dollars in Foreign Currency Dollars in Foreign Currency Monetary units per Lifetime Open Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest ASIA/PACIFIC EUROPE Norway (Krone) .1691 5.9130 Poland (Zloty) .3034 3.2956 Russia (Ruble) .0312 32.0325 Sweden (Krona) .1500 6.6684 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0274 .9733 Turkey (Lira) .5560 1.7986 Argentina (Peso) .2167 4.6140 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1437 6.9600 Brazil (Real) .4964 2.0145 Canada (Dollar) 1.0112 .9889 Chile (Peso) .0021 482.93 Colombia (Peso) .0005 1819.9 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0256 39.0500 El Salvador (Colon) .1144 8.7425 Guatamala (Quetzal) .1270 7.8710 Honduras (Lempira) .0513 19.5000 Mexico (Peso) .0762 13.1199 Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0422 23.6920 Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 4395.0 Peru (New Sol) .3828 2.6120 Uruguay (New Peso) .0473 21.1500 Venezuela (Bolivar) .2331 4.2893 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6526 .3770 Egypt (Pound) .1647 6.0720 Iran (Rial) .0001 12245 Israel (Shekel) .2482 4.0291 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4154 .7065 Kenya (Shilling) .0119 83.9000 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.5470 .2819 MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA AMERICAS Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 135.00 115.30 Oct 12 125.58 125.75 125.08 125.28 ◊ 0.27 131,285 Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 90.00 74.82 Oct 12 75.53 76.95 75.35 76.20 + 0.58 93,697 Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3630.00 2050.00 Dec 12 2415.00 2478.00 2403.00 2442.00 + 42.00 101,074 Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 291.95 153.70 Dec 12 161.80 163.70 160.25 163.20 + 1.40 82,518 Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 26.04 14.35 Sep 12 20.16 20.60 20.11 20.18 + 0.03 299,273 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 849.00 386.75 Dec 12 805.50 813.25 803.00 807.25 ◊ 0.25 678,060 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1691.50 914.00 Nov 12 1624.25 1647.50 1620.50 1645.75 + 20.50 359,210 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 977.50 629.50 Dec 12 881.50 899.00 881.00 894.50 + 12.75 246,081 Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 114.80 73.05 Sep 12 95.55 96.58 95.26 96.32 + 0.43 246,698 Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 3.34 2.21 Aug 12 3.11 3.11 3.07 3.09 ◊ 0.03 70,983 Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 10.67 2.57 Oct 12 2.93 2.98 2.91 2.95 0.00 217,500 Source: Thomson Reuters 0.65 0.70 0.75 0.80 0.85 euros 2012 2011 One Dollar in Euros $1 = 0.8107 70 80 90 100 110 $120 2012 2011 Crude Oil $96.32 a barrel 74 76 78 80 82 84yen 2012 2011 One Dollar in Yen $1 = 79.59 Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1500.0 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7500 So. Africa (Rand) .1202 8.3187 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6725 S&P 100 STOCKS Prices shown are for regular trading for the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange which runs from 9:30 a.m., Eastern time, through the close of the Pacific Exchange, at 4:30 p.m. For the Nasdaq stock market, it is through 4 p.m. Close Last trade of the day in regular trading. · + or · – indicates stocks that reached a new 52-week high or low. Change Difference between last trade and previous day’s price in regular trading. „ or ‰ indicates stocks that rose or fell at least 4 percent. ” indicates stocks that traded 1 percent or more of their outstanding shares. n Stock was a new issue in the last year. 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg 3M Co (MMM) 68.63 94.30 94.24 + 0.50 + 16.45 + 15.3 Abbott Lab (ABT) 48.50 67.45 65.92 ◊ 0.51 + 31.45 + 17.2 Accenture (ACN) 47.40 65.89 61.08 ◊ 0.07 + 12.03 + 14.7 Allstate C (ALL) 22.27 38.38 37.86 + 0.12 + 48.59 + 38.1 Altria Gro (MO) 25.27 36.29 35.41 + 0.01 + 36.19 + 19.4 Amazon.Com (AMZN) 166.97 246.71 241.17 ◊ 0.38 + 23.09 + 39.3 American E (AEP) 35.85 43.96 43.07 ◊ 0.18 + 13.85 + 4.3 American E (AXP) 41.30 61.42 57.59 + 0.22 + 25.58 + 22.1 Amgen Inc (AMGN) 50.74 84.39 83.38 + 0.28 + 61.21 + 29.9 Anadarko P (APC) 56.42 88.70 70.34 ◊ 0.63 ◊ 3.35 ◊ 7.8 Apache Cor (APA) 73.04 112.09 89.06 + 0.43 ◊ 15.09 ◊ 1.7 ” Apple Inc (AAPL) 354.24 648.19 648.11 + 11.77 + 70.36 + 60.0 AT&T Inc (T) 27.29 38.28 37.17 ◊ 0.07 + 27.43 + 22.9 Baker Hugh (BHI) 37.08 62.48 47.32 0.00 ◊ 25.75 ◊ 2.7 ” Bank of Am (BAC) 4.92 10.10 8.00 + 0.07 + 7.24 + 43.9 Bank of Ne (BK) 17.10 24.72 22.73 + 0.22 + 9.33 + 14.2 Baxter Int (BAX) 47.55 60.54 58.90 ◊ 0.02 + 9.56 + 19.0 Berkshire (BRKb) 65.35 86.01 85.87 + 0.65 + 18.64 + 12.5 Boeing Co (BA) 56.90 77.83 73.91 + 0.27 + 18.86 + 0.8 Bristol-My (BMY) 27.62 36.34 31.57 ◊ 0.35 + 10.73 ◊ 10.4 Capital On (COF) 36.33 58.69 56.79 + 0.56 + 27.70 + 34.3 ” Caterpilla (CAT) 67.54 116.95 90.01 + 1.42 + 2.70 ◊ 0.7 Chevron Co (CVX) 86.68 113.87 112.66 ◊ 0.66 + 15.34 + 5.9 ” Cisco Syst (CSCO) 14.90 21.30 19.06 + 0.04 + 20.25 + 5.4 Citigroup (C) 21.40 38.40 29.03 + 0.21 ◊ 2.75 + 10.3 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg Coca-Cola (KO) 31.67 40.66 39.53 ◊ 0.02 + 14.12 + 13.0 Colgate-Pa (CL) 84.06 109.84 106.18 + 0.35 + 23.02 + 14.9 Comcast Co (CMCSA) 19.54 35.16 34.02 ◊ 0.12 + 59.49 + 43.5 ConocoPhil (COP) 44.71 59.68 57.39 ◊ 0.16 + 12.67 + 3.3 Costco Who (COST) 73.40 97.76 96.14 ◊ 0.34 + 26.30 + 15.4 CVS Carema (CVS) 32.14 48.69 45.31 + 0.56 + 31.79 + 11.1 Dell Inc (DELL) 11.39 18.36 12.22 ◊ 0.01 ◊ 13.94 ◊ 16.5 Devon Ener (DVN) 50.74 76.34 58.97 + 0.08 ◊ 14.14 ◊ 4.9 Dow Chemic (DOW) 20.61 36.08 30.16 + 0.11 + 2.06 + 4.9 E. I. du P (DD) 37.10 53.98 50.65 + 0.09 + 8.39 + 10.6 ”eBay Inc (EBAY) 26.86 47.05 46.87 + 1.08 + 54.94 + 54.5 Eli Lilly (LLY) 34.66 44.67 42.42 ◊ 0.33 + 18.72 + 2.1 EMC Corp (EMC) 19.99 30.00 26.85 + 0.59 + 19.28 + 24.7 Emerson El (EMR) 39.50 53.78 52.30 + 0.21 + 13.97 + 12.3 Exelon Cor (EXC) 36.27 45.45 37.49 + 0.01 ◊ 11.81 ◊ 13.6 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 67.93 88.91 88.40 ◊ 0.27 + 19.20 + 4.3 FedEx Corp (FDX) 64.07 97.19 90.00 + 0.26 + 13.74 + 7.8 Ford Motor (F) 8.82 13.05 9.63 + 0.04 ◊ 13.32 ◊ 10.5 ”Freeport-M (FCX) 28.85 48.96 35.34 + 0.03 ◊ 24.18 ◊ 3.9 General Dy (GD) 53.95 74.54 65.70 + 0.34 + 6.17 ◊ 1.1 General El (GE) 14.02 21.19 21.00 ◊ 0.05 + 29.39 + 17.3 Gilead Sci (GILD) 34.45 58.84 56.75 + 0.06 + 47.59 + 38.7 Goldman Sa (GS) 84.27 128.72 103.60 + 0.11 ◊ 11.64 + 14.6 Google Inc (GOOG) 480.60 677.25 677.14 + 4.27 + 27.01 + 4.8 H.J. Heinz (HNZ) 48.54 55.96 55.64 + 0.10 + 6.37 + 3.0 Halliburto (HAL) 26.28 45.48 35.12 ◊ 0.18 ◊ 22.73 + 1.8 Hewlett-Pa (HPQ) 17.41 30.00 19.52 0.00 ◊ 37.81 ◊ 24.2 Home Depot (HD) 31.03 57.18 56.73 + 0.42 + 69.80 + 34.9 Honeywell (HON) 41.22 62.00 59.50 + 0.74 + 29.38 + 9.5 Intel Corp (INTC) 19.16 29.27 26.33 ◊ 0.26 + 27.38 + 8.6 Internatio (IBM) 157.13 210.69 201.22 + 0.38 + 17.34 + 9.4 Johnson & (JNJ) 60.83 69.75 67.80 ◊ 0.40 + 5.51 + 3.4 JPMorgan C (JPM) 27.85 46.49 36.98 ◊ 0.12 + 1.12 + 11.2 Kraft Food (KFT) 31.88 41.50 40.50 ◊ 0.20 + 17.29 + 8.4 Lockheed M (LMT) 68.17 92.50 92.40 + 0.35 + 29.79 + 14.2 ”Lowe’s Com (LOW) 18.28 32.29 27.87 + 0.42 + 38.66 + 9.8 MasterCard (MA) 293.01 466.98 426.81 ◊ 1.71 + 30.84 + 14.5 McDonald’s (MCD) 83.65 102.22 87.36 ◊ 0.10 ◊ 0.16 ◊ 12.9 Medtronic (MDT) 31.06 40.91 40.84 + 0.37 + 25.20 + 6.8 Merck & Co (MRK) 30.54 45.17 43.34 ◊ 0.60 + 34.60 + 15.0 Metlife In (MET) 25.61 39.55 34.79 + 0.21 + 2.96 + 11.6 Microsoft (MSFT) 23.79 32.95 30.90 + 0.12 + 22.40 + 19.0 Monsanto C (MON) 58.89 89.73 87.87 ◊ 0.45 + 25.17 + 25.4 Morgan Sta (MS) 11.58 21.19 14.59 0.00 ◊ 14.23 ◊ 3.6 National O (NOV) 47.97 87.72 78.51 + 0.30 + 14.93 + 15.5 ”News Corp (NWSA) 14.72 24.05 23.26 ◊ 0.25 + 36.58 + 30.4 Nike Inc (NKE) 78.50 114.81 96.26 + 1.48 + 16.61 ◊ 0.1 Norfolk So (NSC) 57.57 78.50 75.10 + 0.41 + 9.96 + 3.1 Occidental (OXY) 66.36 106.68 88.71 ◊ 0.55 + 1.26 ◊ 5.3 Oracle Cor (ORCL) 24.75 33.81 32.20 + 0.17 + 17.22 + 25.5 PepsiCo In (PEP) 58.50 73.65 73.39 ◊ 0.19 + 13.57 + 10.6 Pfizer Inc (PFE) 17.05 24.48 23.79 ◊ 0.23 + 28.66 + 9.9 Philip Mor (PM) 60.45 93.50 93.38 + 0.09 + 35.22 + 19.0 Procter & (PG) 59.07 67.95 67.00 0.00 + 8.64 + 0.4 Qualcomm I (QCOM) 45.98 68.87 63.29 + 0.72 + 24.07 + 15.7 Raytheon C (RTN) 38.35 56.92 56.23 ◊ 0.19 + 35.95 + 16.2 Schlumberg (SLB) 54.79 80.78 74.78 ◊ 0.20 ◊ 5.96 + 9.5 Simon Prop (SPG) 103.32 163.75 159.85 + 0.14 + 35.95 + 24.0 Southern C (SO) 39.86 48.59 46.08 + 0.01 + 13.47 ◊ 0.5 ”Starbucks (SBUX) 34.38 62.00 48.22 ◊ 0.18 + 24.60 + 4.8 Target Cor (TGT) 47.25 64.99 64.14 + 0.23 + 26.88 + 25.2 Texas Inst (TXN) 24.34 34.24 29.86 ◊ 0.41 + 10.88 + 2.6 Time Warne (TWX) 27.62 42.91 42.61 + 0.09 + 39.84 + 17.9 U.S. Banco (USB) 20.10 34.10 33.11 ◊ 0.10 + 47.61 + 22.4 Union Paci (UNP) 77.73 126.91 125.01 + 0.09 + 35.98 + 18.0 United Par (UPS) 61.12 81.79 76.49 + 0.12 + 17.53 + 4.5 United Tec (UTX) 66.87 87.50 80.37 + 1.60 + 11.55 + 10.0 UnitedHeal (UNH) 41.32 60.75 53.13 ◊ 0.26 + 16.69 + 4.8 Verizon Co (VZ) 34.65 46.41 44.06 ◊ 0.06 + 23.73 + 9.8 Visa Inc (V) 79.25 132.58 128.69 ◊ 0.99 + 53.22 + 26.8 Wal-Mart S (WMT) 49.94 75.24 71.99 ◊ 0.16 + 39.65 + 20.5 Walgreen C (WAG) 28.53 37.61 35.84 + 0.32 ◊ 0.83 + 8.4 Walt Disne (DIS) 28.19 50.65 50.46 + 0.21 + 51.21 + 34.6 Wells Farg (WFC) 22.61 34.80 34.03 ◊ 0.10 + 36.78 + 23.5 Williams C (WMB) 17.88 34.63 32.31 ◊ 0.35 + 40.56 + 19.8 ONLINE: MORE PRICES AND ANALYSIS Information on all United States stocks, plus bonds, mutual funds, commodities and foreign stocks along with analysis of industry sectors and stock indexes: nytimes.com/markets D % Total Returns Exp. Assets Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$) % Total Returns Exp. Assets Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$) LARGEST FUNDS +9.6 +3.0 ◊1.5 608 608 555 American Funds Capital Inc Bldr A (CAIBX) IH +9.5 +12.0 +2.0 0.63 57,830 American Funds Capital World G/I A (CWGIX) WS +12.6 +10.1 +0.5 0.82 45,246 Dodge & Cox International Stock (DODFX) FB +9.1 +1.4 ◊2.5 0.64 36,185 Vanguard Total Intl Stock Index Inv (VGTSX) FB +8.3 ◊0.8 ◊2.6 0.22 33,672 American Funds New Perspective A (ANWPX) WS +13.5 +10.8 +2.5 0.81 28,957 American Funds EuroPacific Gr A (AEPGX) FB +9.9 +1.7 ◊0.2 0.84 28,554 Harbor International Instl (HAINX) FB +10.7 +3.5 +0.5 0.77 27,609 PIMCO All Asset Instl (PAAIX) IH +9.0 +7.1 +7.2 0.15 22,483 BlackRock Global Allocation Instl (MALOX) IH +6.8 +3.5 +4.1 0.76 18,300 First Eagle Global A (SGENX) IH +8.3 +8.3 +5.8 1.13 15,268 Fidelity Diversified International (FDIVX) FB +10.5 +1.9 ◊3.2 0.95 13,218 American Funds SMALLCAP World A (SMCWX) WS +13.9 +6.9 +0.7 1.15 12,892 Thornburg International Value I (TGVIX) FG +9.1 +1.4 ◊0.9 0.86 11,679 Templeton Growth A (TEPLX) WS +11.6 +9.7 ◊2.9 1.11 11,291 PIMCO All Asset All Authority Inst (PAUIX) IH +10.4 +7.5 +8.8 0.22 9,639 Vanguard International Growth Inv (VWIGX) FG +10.8 +2.0 ◊0.6 0.49 9,092 Oakmark International I (OAKIX) FB +11.2 +7.2 +0.3 1.05 8,303 T. Rowe Price International Stock Fd (PRITX) FG +10.2 +2.8 ◊0.2 0.85 8,196 Mutual Global Discovery A (TEDIX) WS +10.0 +13.6 +2.1 1.31 7,774 Ivy Asset Strategy C (WASCX) IH +11.4 +2.0 +5.3 1.71 7,664 Scout International (UMBWX) FG +10.8 +3.8 +0.7 0.97 7,607 DFA International Small Cap Value I (DISVX) FA +8.8 ◊2.2 ◊2.9 0.71 7,534 Artisan International Inv (ARTIX) FB +16.4 +9.1 * 1.19 6,444 FPA Paramount (FPRAX) WS +9.5 +20.3 +3.3 0.95 250 Wasatch World Innovators (WAGTX) WS +16.5 +18.9 +4.9 1.87 137 Wells Fargo Advantage Intrns Wld Eq A (EWEAX) WS +14.7 +17.4 +1.7 1.40 144 PIMCO International StocksPLUS TR Str I (PISIX) FB +16.4 +16.9 +2.3 0.75 116 Wells Fargo Advantage WB Tactical Equity (WBGAX) WS +13.4 +16.5 ◊0.9 1.50 358 Third Avenue Real Estate Value Instl (TAREX) GR +23.5 +16.0 ◊0.5 1.11 1,585 DFA Global Real Estate Securities I (DFGEX) GR +17.9 +15.7 NA 0.37 1,234 Tweedy, Browne Value (TWEBX) WS +11.3 +14.7 +2.5 1.40 502 Oakmark Global Select I (OAKWX) WS +13.7 +14.6 +3.3 1.22 557 Dreyfus Worldwide Growth A (PGROX) WS +12.4 +14.4 +4.0 1.23 424 Prudential Global Real Estate Z (PURZX) GR +18.4 +14.2 +1.0 0.97 611 GAMCO Global Growth AAA (GICPX) WS +10.8 +14.2 +1.9 1.84 60 LEADERS LAGGARDS Nuveen Tradewinds International Value A (NAIGX) FV ◊1.9 ◊11.5 ◊2.5 1.34 238 Artio International Equity A (BJBIX) FB +5.3 ◊10.9 ◊7.5 1.27 994 ING Global Value Choice C (NAWCX) WS ◊5.2 ◊10.9 +3.5 2.21 59 Ivy Asset Strategy New Opportunities C (INOCX) IH +6.0 ◊10.7 NA 2.37 58 New Alternatives (NALFX) WS ◊5.2 ◊10.6 ◊6.8 1.03 145 Morgan Stanley Inst Intl Small Cap I (MSISX) FA +2.3 ◊9.8 ◊5.5 1.15 133 AllianceBern Global Thematic Gr C (ATECX) WS +4.6 ◊9.2 ◊2.7 2.34 78 Longleaf Partners International (LLINX) FB +4.5 ◊9.0 ◊5.4 1.37 1,374 Artio International Equity II A (JETAX) FB +6.5 ◊8.2 ◊5.6 1.31 328 Ivy Managed European/Pacific A (IVMAX) FB +6.9 ◊8.0 ◊3.3 0.60 72 Alpine Int Real Estate Equity Instl (EGLRX) GR +13.3 ◊7.2 ◊10.6 1.35 280 Hartford Global Real Asset C (HRLCX) IH +0.8 ◊6.6 NA 1.83 56 Average performance for all such funds Number of funds for period MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: WORLD STOCKS *Credit ratings: good, FICO score 660-749; excellent, FICO score 750-850. Source: Bankrate.com *Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Today’s fund types: FA -Foreign Small/Mid Val. FB -Foreign Large Blend. FG -Foreign Large Growth. FQ -Foreign Small/Mid Bl.. FR -Foreign Small/Mid Gr.. FV -Foreign Large Value. GR - Global Real Estate. IH -World Allocation. WS -World Stock. NA -Not Available. YTD -Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis. Source: Morningstar B8 N OBITUARIES THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By DENISE GRADY Dr. George F. Cahill Jr., a dia- betes expert who made pivotal discoveries about the role of insu- lin in metabolism by studying re- search subjects on starvation di- ets, and who testified at Claus von Bülow’s trials that he had tried to murder his wife with in- sulin, died on July 30 in Peterbor- ough, N.H. He was 85. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his daughter Eliza- beth Cahill Tiedemann said. Dr. Cahill and generations of researchers he trained “wrote a lot of what have become the text- books of physiology,” explaining glucose and protein metabolism both in normal health and in dia- betes, said Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, the chief academic officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, where Dr. Cahill was research di- rector from 1962 to 1978. Among his research subjects were divinity students who were paid $300 to fast for a week and hibernating bears. Some of his most important research, in the 1960s, involved tracking the blood chemistry of people who were trying out an experimental treat- ment for severe obesity: total starvation, for up to six weeks, in the hospital. A crucial finding was that in the first few days without food, the liver starts breaking down protein to make glucose to feed the brain. But using protein as fuel can be perilous, because it is the stuff of vital organs and mus- cle. But people do survive weeks of starvation. Dr. Cahill’s study helped explain why. After about a week, the body makes another shift, and instead of cannibalizing its own proteins it starts break- ing down fat into substances called ketones, which can feed the brain in place of glucose. A natural drop in insulin is what drives the shift to ketones, Dr. Cahill determined. The studies transformed scien- tists’ understanding of starvation and the way insulin regulates metabolism, said Dr. Joseph Avruch, a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. On a practical level, the find- ings helped establish the impor- tance of dietary protein to pre- vent organ damage in people who are on very low-calorie diets or who are ill or injured and not able to eat normally, said Dr. Rudolph Leibel, co-director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Colum- bia University Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Kahn said, Dr. Cahill helped the military formu- late high-energy bars for emer- gency rations. In 1982 and 1985, Dr. Cahill was called as an expert witness for the prosecution in the two trials of Mr. von Bülow for the attempt- ed murder of his wife, Martha (also known as Sunny). Mrs. von Bülow was in a deep coma, pos- sibly caused by extremely low blood sugar. Her husband was ac- cused of trying to kill her with in- sulin, which lowers blood sugar. Dr. Cahill reviewed more than two years of her medical records and testified at the first trial that her coma, and a prior one from which she had recovered, were caused by insulin. The insulin level in her blood, he told the court, was “out of the ballpark.” In the first trial, Mr. von Bülow was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He ap- pealed, the conviction was over- turned, and he was tried again. At the second trial, Dr. Cahill showed up with a pocket full of sugar cubes, which he lined up on the witness stand to help explain his points. He testified that insu- lin was the only plausible expla- nation for Mrs. von Bülow’s coma, but the defense lawyer challenged him repeatedly. Finally, Dr. Cahill said, “It is so difficult for me to answer inane questions.” Mr. von Bülow was acquitted at the second trial. Dr. Cahill was disappointed, Dr. Kahn said, adding, “I think he felt justice had not been done.” Mrs. von Bülow died in 2008, at 76, after nearly 28 years in a coma. George Francis Cahill Jr. was born in Manhattan on July 7, 1927. His father was a urologic surgeon at the Columbia College of Physi- cians and Surgeons. George Jr. attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., and entered Yale at 16. At 17 he enlisted in the Navy as a pharmacist’s mate and was scheduled to take part in the in- vasion of Japan, but the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Naga- saki changed that. After the war he finished col- lege at Yale, and in 1953 he gradu- ated from medical school at Co- lumbia. He went on to become a profes- sor of medicine at Harvard, and taught there until retiring in 1990. From 1958 until 1978 he also did research at the Joslin center, and from 1962 until 1990 he was a re- searcher and administrator for the Howard Hughes Medical In- stitute, which supports medical research. Besides Ms. Tiedemann, Dr. Cahill is survived by three other daughters, Colleen Cahill Rem- ley, Sarah Rhett Cahill and Eva Wagner Cahill; two sons, Peter duPont Cahill and George F. Cahill III; and 15 grandchildren. His wife of 60 years, the former Sarah duPont, died in 2010. In an online article, Dr. Kahn called Dr. Cahill a “consummate teacher” and said that when he retired from medicine he began teaching a biology course for nonscientists at Dartmouth Col- lege that was an overnight suc- cess. Within days of Dr. Cahill’s first lecture, the class had to be moved from a room that held 100 to an auditorium that seated more than 400. Dr. George F. Cahill Jr., Diabetes Expert, Is Dead at 85 A scientist who helped explain insulin’s role in metabolism. ASSOCIATED PRESS George Cahill Jr. at the 1985 retrial of Claus von Bülow. By DOUGLAS MARTIN “Incompetent, unlettered, un- skilled writers sell to unexacting editors. All of this is going com- pletely unnoticed by an incompe- tent readership.” So wrote Harry Harrison in a 1990 essay that described science fiction, the genre in which he wrote more than 60 novels, as “rubbish.” Some critics thought his work helped prove the point. Charles Platt, writing in The Washington Post in 1984, said that Mr. Harrison was better at “evoking the personalities of liz- ards than of people.” After long success in the field he questioned, Mr. Harrison died in southern England on Wednes- day at 87, according to an an- nouncement on his Web site. Flights of fancy were Harri- son’s stock in trade. A coal-fired flying boat? A submarine to Mars? No problem. He imagined taking a time machine to the fu- ture and finding no one there. In his 1966 novel “Make Room! Make Room!,” which was trans- lated to the screen as “Soylent Green” in 1973, he painted a dys- topian nightmare of too many people scrambling for too few re- sources. For his 1984 book, “West of Eden,” Mr. Harrison did research for two years — interviewing bi- ologists, anthropologists, engi- neers, linguists and philosophers. This is the writer who conjured up Slippery Jim DiGriz, a k a the Stainless Steel Rat, a raffish con man who starred in a dozen books over a half-century. DiGriz steals from humans, aliens and robots alike — though only if they have insurance coverage. But Mr. Harrison was best known for subverting his own genre. In 1965 he wrote “Bill the Galactic Hero” to satirize the mil- itaristic perspective he saw in “Starship Troopers” (1959), a book by the science-fiction giant Robert A. Heinlein. The St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers called Mr. Harrison’s book “a deeply felt antiwar statement.” He went on to write six sequels. Mr. Harrison employed an es- capist form to make serious points. “Make Room!” sketched a desperate, overpopulated world running out of resources. Paul R. Ehrlich, a founder of the Zero Population Growth movement, wrote the introduction to the pa- perback edition. “Soylent Green,” directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, imag- ined that the crackers sustaining the population were made from the mortal remains of fellow citi- zens. Mr. Harrison was appalled at the film’s addition of cannibal- ism to the plot, not least because humans put on meat too slowly. The crackers in the book were made from soybeans and lentils. In addition to averaging a nov- el a year, Mr. Harrison wrote about 100 short stories and a sci- ence-fiction textbook; edited more than 30 anthologies and a science-fiction literary journal; and financed a prize for writers who had advanced the genre. His work was translated into more than 30 languages. He became a cult hero in Russia. He was elected to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2004, and five years later the Science Fiction Writers of Amer- ica gave him its Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. He was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey on March 12, 1925, in Stamford, Conn. His father, Hen- ry, changed their last name to Harrison soon after Harry’s birth. Harry did not find out until he applied for a passport, at 30, that his last name was still Dempsey. He then changed it to Harrison, except when using Dempsey as a pseudonym. After finishing high school he was drafted into the Army, where he repaired gunsight computers and developed a hatred of the military that inspired much of his later writing. He studied art in New York, then worked as an il- lustrator and writer for pulp magazines. He wrote scripts for comic strips, including “Flash Gordon.” In the 1950s he began writing science fiction full time. For years Mr. Harrison, who found inspiration in the sardonic humor of Voltaire, could not find a publisher for an early story he wrote, “The Streets of Ashkelon,” about an atheist who tries to pro- tect the inhabitants of an alien world from the influence of a Christian missionary. It was eventually anthologized in the United States and translated into Swedish, Italian, Russian, Hun- garian and French. In another story, the Stainless Steel Rat’s homicidal wife, An- gelina, gave birth to twins who ended up marrying the same woman — after she had herself duplicated, becoming two identi- cal women sharing one mind. Mr. Harrison’s own wife, of 48 years, the former Joan Merkler, died in 2002. His survivors include his children, Todd and Moira. The Harrison family moved often and far, living in Mexico, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, the Unit- ed States and finally England. But Mr. Harrison preferred a world with no boundaries, and for that reason championed Espe- ranto, the artificial international language. He claimed, apparent- ly with no dispute, to have writ- ten the only science-fiction story in Esperanto. Harry Harrison, 87, Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction JERRY BAUER Harry Harrison, who wrote more than 60 novels. His book ‘Make Room! Make Room!’ became ‘Soylent Green.’ By PAUL VITELLO Dale Olson, a top Hollywood publicist who protected the pub- lic images of a throng of stars, in- cluding Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Kelly and Joan Crawford, and who helped persuade Rock Hudson to announce that he had AIDS, died on Aug. 9 in Burbank, Calif. He was 78. The cause was liver cancer, his spouse and only survivor, Eu- gene Harbin, said. In a four-decade career, Mr. Olson earned a reputation as an expert manager of Academy Award campaigns for clients, several of whom won, including Maggie Smith,for her perform- ance in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969);Robert Duvall, for “Tender Mercies” (1983);and Ms. MacLaine,for “Terms of En- dearment” (1983). Mr. Olson was considered old school in his courtliness, his knack for leaving no fingerprints when planting clients’ names in boldface columns, and his unflap- pability in the face of the unex- pected. In 1974 he faced a plane- load of disgruntled entertain- ment writers who had been invit- ed to the set of “The Klansman” for interviews with the film’s star, Richard Burton, and his wife, Elizabeth Taylor. Mr. Olson gave them the bad news first: Ms. Tay- lor had left the night before after quarreling with Mr. Burton. “The good news,” he added, “is that you will be the first to see Rich- ard Burton after the split.” But for volatility, nothing com- pared with the virtual media riot he faced in 1985 after Variety re- ported that Mr. Hudson was dy- ing of AIDS.Mr. Olson initially is- sued denials, as Mr. Hudson had instructed,but eventually per- suaded Mr. Hudson to help de- mystify the disease by announc- ing that he had contracted it. “I spoke to him and said:‘You have a terminal disease. This is going to affect a lot of people. And you can be the person who can make people aware of it,’” Mr. Olson said in a 2001 radio in- terview with Larry King. Mr. Hudson’s announcement was considered a turning point in public perceptions about AIDS, which until then had been largely dismissed as a disease contract- ed by people living at the mar- gins. In 1980 Mr. Olson represented Steve McQueen when The Na- tional Enquirer broke the news that he had terminal cancer. He was Natalie Wood’s publicist when she drowned in 1981 during a weekend boating trip. In a 2003 video interview,Mr. Olson said that in addition to the pain he felt over those deaths, they had un- nerved him in another way. “With all these clients dying,” he said, “I sometimes worried about my business — that I’d be known as, you know, the Kevorkian of publicists.” Dale C. Olson was born on Feb. 20, 1934,outside Fargo, N.D., and as a child moved with his family to Portland, Ore. He told inter- viewers that he had found his path in life at about 14, when he discovered he could get free tick- ets to movies and plays by writ- ing short reviews for the local newspaper. After high school he worked as a reporter for two years before moving to Holly- wood to write for Daily Variety and other entertainment publica- tions. He later joined the publici- ty and marketing firm Rogers & Cowan, where he rose to lead the motion picture division. He left in 1985 to found his own firm. Mr. Olson, who was frequently interviewed about this work, con- tributed his impressions to doz- ens of books about Hollywood. Joan Crawford, he said,“was the ultimate movie star.” Katharine Hepburn was grumpy,Gene Kelly never was. Judy Garland “was so terrified of being left alone,you couldn’t leave until she passed out.” Mae West, he said, generously granted him his first interview when he arrived in Hollywood. In Charlotte Chandler’s biography of Ms. West,he recounts that she returned the message he had left at her hotel. “How old are you?” she asked. “Nineteen,” he replied. “That’s a very nice age,” Ms. West said, and arranged for him to come by. Dale Olson, 78, Veteran Hollywood Publicist BILL DOW/THE ACTORS FUND Dale Olson at an awards party in Los Angeles in 2010. Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg were among his clients. BRINKER—Eugene. Died peacefully at home at age 95 on August 16,2012.A retired first vice president with Bankers Trust,his pro- fessional career spanned al- most 50 years.Born August 8, 1917,in New Rochelle,NY,he attended NYU and completed graduate courses in banking and credit at Dartmouth.A proud army veteran of World War II,he held the rank of captain upon his discharge in 1945.He was an avid skier, and was passionate about theatre,cabaret and jazz.He is survived by his loving wife of 30 years,Audrey Hayes Brinker;sister,Anne Adler, Baltimore;two children from a previous marriage,Marc Houston,Hawaii,and Nancy Hertz (Ralph),Briarcliff Manor,NY;granddaughter Mary Beth Hertz,Philadel- phia;and grandson Ralph Hertz,Briarcliff Manor,NY. Family will receive visitors at the John Krtil Funeral Home, 1297 First Ave (69th/70th) on Saturday,August 18,from 3:00 to 7:00.Funeral services will be held there Sunday,on Au- gust 19 at 10:30,with burial to follow at Cedar Park Ceme- tery,NJ.In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of choice. CHARLIP—Remy.We mourn the loss of our beloved cousin.Artist,writer,dancer, choreographer,and teacher. With his powerful spirit, Remy created and inspired love. The Baumel Family EARNEST—Ruth Stern Glass, passed away August 16th af- ter a long illness.Beloved wife of Allen Jerome Earnest, mother of Abraham and David Glass,grandmother of Molly and Madeline Glass, and sister of Ernest L.Stern. She also had a daughter-in- law Amy Glass and sister-in- law Barbara Stern.Ruth was a teacher in the New York City public school system,and the author of a memoir,"The Gate,"recounting her child- hood in Nazi Germany.She took part for many years in a writing workshop at Sarah Lawrence College,and was a beloved friend and member of a subsequent writing group and book club.She will be sorely missed by all who knew her. GERRY—Walter J.,90,of Trumbull,CT,died on August 16,2012,peacefully at his home.Born in Bronx,NY,son of the late Benjamin and Elsie Gerry,he is survived by his beloved wife of 66 years, Miriam Taishoff Gerry;three children Alexandra (Randi) of Norwalk,CT,Thomas of Round Top,NY,and Patricia Gerry Campbell of Newtown, CT;and his sister Roberta Gerry of New York City.He leaves three grandchildren Dylan and Kaitlyn Gerry and Alexander Campbell;his son- in-law William Campbell and daughter-in-law Brenda D. Gerry;two great-grandchil- dren Angelina and Dylan Ger- ry.He is predeceased by his grandson Joshua Gerry.A graduate of NYU,he served in the Army during World War II.Walt worked in the fi- nancial/accounting depart- ments of Burndy,Pfizer,Na- tional Starch,J.T.Baker Chemical Co.and Consolidat- ed Packaging Corp.He left the business world to enter the teaching profession,his long-time love.A long-time resident of Newtown then Norwalk,CT,Walt taught ac- counting and business at Housatonic Community Col- lege in Bridgeport,CT for over 25 years,where he earned the rank of full profes- sor.After retiring,he taught off-campus programs through Norwalk Community College. Visiting hours are Saturday, August 18th from 2 to 5pm at Green Funeral Home,57 Main St.Danbury,CT.A memorial service will be held at Green Funeral Home,on Sunday at 2pm.In lieu of flowers,contributions may be made to Sts.Peter and Paul Orthodox Church,93 Dodging- town Road,Bethel,CT 06801. ISIDORE-SACCOCIO—Marian, of Greenwich Village and East Quogue,NY,died Au- gust 15.Known for her warmth and sense of humor, she loved and was loved by a large extended family. Survived by her brother, Anthony Isidore,sister-in-law, Rosemary Fairchild,nephews Chris and Adam Isidore, nieces Carol Kokinda,Mary Sorge,stepchildren Robert Saccocio,Barbara Penkosky, Sandy Marquez,and many other loving relatives.Prede- ceased by her husband Frank Saccocio.A native of East Rochester,NY,“Mairz” moved to Greenwich Village in the 1950s and fell in love with neighborhood and NYC. She rose to head librarian at major firms,including the American Stock Exchange, Shearman & Sterling and Brookfield Office Properties and served as president of her co-op board.Services 10:30am.Saturday September 8,at Church of St.Rosalie, Hampton Bays,NY.In lieu of flowers,please donate to Alzheimer's Foundation. KASSIS—Henry Joseph,age 78,longtime resident of New York City,died on August 16, 2012 after a valiant battle with cancer.He will be profoundly missed.Beloved husband of Barbara Massey Kassis of New York,NY;loving father of Richard George Kassis and his wife Krista Ormond Kassis of Bedford,NY;and proud grandfather of Isabella Rose and Joseph Kohl Kassis. Henry also leaves behind many wonderful cousins, nieces,nephews and friends. A graduate of New York Uni- versity,he was Chairman of Kassis Management,Inc,and assembled a number of pres- tigious properties in New York City.Calling hours will be at Frank E.Campbell Funeral Home on Sunday, August 19th from 2-5pm and 7-9pm.A mass of Christian burial will be held at Church of Our Savior (38th and Park Avenue) at 10:00am on Mon- day,August 20th.Following funeral services,burial will take place at St.Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long Island.In lieu of flowers, please consider contributions in Henry's memory to:VN- SNY Hospice and Pallative Care,1250 Broadway,7th Floor,New York,NY,10001, c/o:Janet King. KING—Esther (Lieberman). Beloved wife of Dr.Harry King.Devoted mother of Richard,Kenneth and Nanette.Grandmother and great-grandmother.Sister of Philip,Lillian and Joyce.Fu- neral services will be held on Sunday August 19th at 10am at Riverside-Nassau North Chapel,55 North Station Plaza,Great Neck,NY.Shiva will be observed through Thursday,August 23. LINDENBAUM—Samuel H.,77 years old.Died peacefully in East Hampton,NY after a long illness.Beloved husband of Linda;devoted father of Erica Tishman and Laurie Lindenbaum;father-in-law of Steven Tishman and Bob Horne;cherished grandfather of Adam,Stuart,Julia,Sarah, Max and Rachel.Sandy was a brilliant real estate attor- ney,whose knowledge,skill, and widsom was respected by the entire real estate commu- nity.A true New Yorker, Sandy gave endlessly of his time,energy and expertise to so many people and charita- ble organizations.He will be greatly missed by his family, friends and colleagues.Funer- al services to be held on Monday,August 20th at noon, Central Synagogue,55th St. and Lexington Ave.,NYC. LINDENBAUM—Sandy.The governors,members and staff of The Real Estate Board of New York mourn the passing of Sandy Linden- baum.Sandy was our indus- try's leading land use and zoning attorney and provided the highest level of profes- sional advice for many of our city's most prominent com- mercial and residential devel- opments as well as New York's cultural,religious and educational institutions such as Carnegie Hall,Columbia University,the Museum of Modern Art,the Archdiocese of New York,the Guggen- heim Museum and the Weil Cornell Medical College. Sandy was a REBNY mem- ber for over 36 years,serving on the Board of Governors since 1988 and on the Execu- tive Committee as Vice Presi- dent from 1994.Sandy was honored by our industry when he received two of REBNY's most prestigious awards- the Kenneth R.Gerrety Humani- tarian Award in 1999 and in 2010,the Harry B.Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award.We extend our heart- felt condolences to his wife Linda and the entire Linden- baum family. Mary Ann Tighe Chairman Steven Spinola President NUSBAUM—Abby,on August 12 in San Francisco at 79. She was born in New York City and lived there most of her life.She graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Barnard College and worked in publishing and trade school administration prior to her retirement.She loved art and travel and had lived overseas in England and Panama,but was always happy to return home to New York.She is survived by her daughters,Jenny and Rachael,son-in-law,Mark, granddaughter,Eva,brother, Stuart,and sister-in-law,Bar- bara.She is loved and will be greatly missed.Memorial services will be held in San Francisco and New York City.Please send contribu- tions to the ASPCA. PEY—Derek C.,of Paris, France,formerly of Short Hills,NJ and Rio de Janeiro passed away peacefully on July 17,2012 and was in- terred at the Cimetiere de Terre-Cabade in Toulouse, France.Born May 27,1921 in Rijswijk,the Netherlands,he was predeceased by Joan Foster Pey,mother of his surviving sons Matthew (Deborah),Mark (Bibi), Jonathan (Susan),Christo- pher and nine grandchildren. He is also survived by his wife Sylvie de Turckheim. Graduate of University of Leiden and Harvard Busi- ness School.Member of Dutch WWII resistance movement,his banking ca- reer with Marine Midland and Interunion Banque (Paris) spanned the globe. Avid chef,painter and world traveler,Derek will be great- ly missed. RUBENSTEIN—Benjamin,79, of Yonkers,NY and Pompano Beach,FL passed away peacefully at home Wednes- day August 8,2012.He is sur- vived by his beloved wife of 50 years Gloria,his children Leslie,Richard and Andrew, his children-in-law Gene, Michele and George,and his grandchildren Magdalena, Emma,Henry,Katharine and Caroline.He is predeceased by his grandson Benjamin Maximilian.A wonderful hus- band,father and grandfather, he was greatly loved and will be sorely missed. Beecher, Leonora Berman, Kenneth Brinker, Eugene Charlip, Remy Earnest, Ruth Gerry, Walter Isidore-Saccocio, M. Kassis, Henry King, Esther Lindenbaum, Samuel Nusbaum, Abby Pey, Derek Rubenstein, Benjamin Swerdloff, Bluma Warner, Henry BEECHER—Leonora,died on August 16,2012.Beloved wife of Arthur.Devoted mother of William Beecher and Caren Beecher and beloved mother- in-law of Patricia Budziak. Cherished grandmother of Alexander,Marcus and Emma.Sister of Rhea Harris. Funeral Services Sunday 11:30am at Riverside-Nassau North Chapels,55 North Sta- tion Plaza (Opposite LIRR), Great Neck,NY. BERMAN—Kenneth Lloyd,72, died on August 15,2012 in his sleep.He is survived by his wife,Allene,daughters An- drea and Jillian,granddaugh- ter Alexandra,brothers David and William,and sister Nan- cy.A financial advisor for over 40 years,he loved his family,career and life with an unmatched enthusiasm,pas- sion and humor.He was a tireless giver,dedicated to en- riching every community he was a part of — the Jewish community,the local commu- nity,and the broader commu- nity through his volunteer ef- forts over 25 years at soup kitchens and area hospitals. Every person who he touched was forever changed by him. He will be missed terribly.Fu- neral service Sunday,August 19,11:00am at Congregation Kneses Tifereth Israel,575 King Street,Port Chester,NY. In lieu of flowers,donations may be made to Grace Church Community Center,33 Orchard Street,White Plains, NY 10603. SWERDLOFF—Bluma,D.S.W. The Columbia University Cen- ter for Psychoanalytic Train- ing and Research and the As- sociation for Psychoanalytic Medicine mourn the loss of our distinguished colleague,a pioneering oral historian who we were proud to have on staff.We extend our heartfelt condolences to her children and family. Eric R.Marcus,M.D. Director, CU Psychoanalytic Center Henry P.Schwartz,M.D., President,APM WARNER—Henry Goldsmith. Beloved and loving husband of Lucille and father of Marc Warner and Alison Smela, loving grandfather of Susan and Emily Smela,Jeffrey and Douglas Warner. CHRISTMAN—HenryM. You gave me life,love,Henry. Abraham GOODGOLD—Sally. Dearest Mom,one long heart- breaking year without you.I needed you.More in Sunday's August 19thNewYorkTimes. Love,Iris KLEIN-SHAPIRO—AmyS. Today on your 60th Birthday we remember the wonderful times that we shared together as a family. MITCHELL—Robert D. August 18,2006 Missedeveryday. Lauri SLATER—KathleenKuhn Dec.29,1946 - Aug.18,2011 Though gone from us forever, you are always in our thoughts andhearts. Withenduringlove,Mike, Nathaniel,AaronandAlexis Deaths Deaths Deaths In Memoriam C1 N SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 By JOHN WILLIAMS In the front window of the Drama Book Shop,on 40th Street in Midtown Manhat- tan,there is a sign that reads,“Playwright working,” with an arrow pointing down to just that. At 3:30 on a recent Friday af- ternoon, the featured writer was Hilary Bettis, one of 76 participants in Write Out Front, a three-week project continuing through Sept. 1. In two-hour shifts the writers work on new plays, with a screen shot of their words visible to passers-by. Micheline Au- ger, who runs the blog Theaterspeak,came up with the idea. The project echoes Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Watch Me Work,” an event at the 2011 Under the Radar Festival during which Ms. Parks labored on a project in the lobby of the Public Theater. Ms. Bettis said she was given no guide- lines, meaning she could check Facebook if she needed a breather. But though Write Out Front is meant to shed light on a pri- vate process, Ms. Bettis said that she often wrote from midnight to 5 a.m., and that certain common activities — like “pacing around in my underwear” or picking up a violin to play her way through a bit of writ- er’s block — would not be on display. Ms. Auger said she hoped to expand the project next year, with writers in the win- dow 24 hours a day,and the proceedings streamed online with a “playwright cam.” For now, the audience of pedestrians was enough to give Ms. Bettis pause. “I’m a brutally honest, dark writer,” she said, “so there’s a little of, ‘I don’t know if this is appropriate language for children, but I’m going to type these words anyway.’” It’s a concern that might be shared by Stephen Adly Guirgis, who wrote “The ___________ With the Hat,” which played Broadway last season. He will be in the window from 3 to 5 p.m. on Thursday. EARL WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Where Playwrights Take Center Stage Hilary Bettis in the window of the Drama Book Shop, where she is taking part in the program Write Out Front. One of gaming’s greatest heroes, Super Mario, must rescue Princess Peach for the umpteenth time in New Super Mario Bros. 2,a fresh game from the Japanese developers at Nintendo who have been creating interactive adventures for their plumber protagonist for more than a gen- eration. Mario’s adventures continue to look like kids’ stuff: all bright colors,peppy music and dumpy hero rescuing the girl. They are, however, among the most mature cre- ations in video games. That they eschew a nar- rative for grown-ups is just another sign that Nintendo designers reject plot as something that matters much in this realm. The Mario adventures also do nothing to further a medium’s supposed advance toward the emotionally compelling, the realistic or the cinematic. They instead re-emerge every few years as exemplars of the philosophy that the best games — be they Mario’s travels, profes- sional sports or Texas Hold ’Em — are both a concoction of well-balanced rules and an invi- tation for players to obey, bend or break those rules. The gamer’s enjoyment is a byproduct of that process. The latest installment, New Super Mario Bros. 2 (to be released on Sunday for the Nin- tendo 3DS and rated E for Everyone),follows the familiar path established with Super Mario Bros. in 1985,and tended with a string of hit se- Back to His Old Stomping Ground Continued on Page 5 New Super Mario Bros. 2 Images fromthis latest installment of the Mario adventures, to be released on Sunday for the Nintendo 3DS. STEPHEN TOTILO VIDEO GAME REVIEW NINTENDO The performers who appear in the Downtown Dance Festival each year aren’t stellar. Many aren’t professional; quite a num- ber aren’t adults. On the wrong day, too high a pro- portion of a mixed bill can be lackluster or foolish. The good programs, however, have often proved more than refresh- ing: they can be revelatory. As a perma- nent tourist in New York, I’m more than happy to sit in the open air near the southern tip of Manhattan. As a perma- nent student, I’m grateful when unfa- miliar forms of dance teach me some- thing new. One program this summer has shown me about important aspects of America I’d overlooked. I attended two programs this week, on Sunday and Thursday. Whereas most of the Downtown presentations are mixed bills, Thursday’s event be- longed to one company and one subject alone: Vanaver Caravan was honoring the centennial of Woody Guthrie in live music and dance. Because my own folk roots are Brit- ish, I’d long overlooked Guthrie and the folk strains he represents; I’d tended to go along too readily with the Gershwin song that says, “The real American folk song is a rag.” And so I arrived at this Guthrie tribute ready to resist or conde- scend. Instead I was quickly over- whelmed; my eyes repeatedly filled with tears. Titled “Pastures of Plenty,” this 90- minute tribute seamlessly embraced many facets of Guthrie’s America: the hobo vision, the affection for children and innocence, the Dust Bowl ballads, the compassion and anger caused by in- justice, the loyalty to music itself as a life force. Many of the lines are famous. “We come with the dust and we go with the wind.” “If you ain’t got the do re mi.” Woody Guthrie, Choreographer’s Muse SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES Downtown Dance Festival Members of the Vanaver Caravan performing in “Pastures of Plenty,” a tribute to Woody Guthrie at One New York Plaza. ALASTAIR MACAULAY DANCE REVIEW Continued on Page 5 By RAPHAEL MINDER MADRID — Two events in Picasso’s life, a quarter of a century apart, are at the heart of new movies by two of Spain’s veteran directors. Carlos Saura is preparing “33 Días” (“33 Days”), which will focus on the artist’s emotion- al upheaval in 1937, when he painted “Guernica,” his harrowing representation of the bombing of a Basque town that has come to symbolize the outrage of warfare. And in the autumn Fernando Colomo is to re- lease “La Banda Picasso” (“Picasso’s Gang”) about how Picasso found himself entangled in the stunning theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris in 1911. While the Mona Lisa was eventually recov- ered and found to have been stolen by a Louvre employee, Picasso was initially suspected of having taken part in the theft, which affected his relationship with some of the other artists work- ing in Paris. It destroyed his friendship with Guillaume Apollinaire, the French poet who helped clear Picasso of any involvement but who was forced to accept responsibility for another art theft. Turbulent relationships also marked Picasso’s life at the start of 1937, when he accepted a com- mission for the Paris Universal Exposition from the Republican government of Spain, then fight- ing a civil war against the Fascist troops of Gen. Francisco Franco. Picasso’s personal life was also in disarray: He was neglecting his wife, the Russian dancer Olga Khokhlova, and was in- volved with two mistresses: Marie-Thérèse Wal- ter and Dora Maar. “The scope of this ‘Guernica’ project got a lot broader after looking more closely at this huge Picasso’s Life Inspires Two Films Continued on Page 7 By JOHN WILLIAMS Soon after he published “On the Origin of Spe- cies,” Charles Darwin was accused of neglecting to mention the thinkers who had helped to shape evolutionary theory before him. He scrambled to put together a list of predecessors that would be added to future editions of his book. In “Dar- win’s Ghosts” Rebecca Stott tells the story of those predecessors’ work,from the empirical re- search of Aristotle to the studies of Alfred Russel Wallace, who was piecing together the science around the same time as Darwin. In The New York Times Book ReviewHugh Raffles called the book an “absorbing account,” with a narrative that “flows easily across conti- nents and centuries.” In a recent e-mail inter- view, Ms. Stott discussed the roots of her inter- est in Darwin, the reasons Wallace played sec- ond fiddle without complaint,and more. Below are edited excerpts from the conversation: Q. The very first sentence of your book is,“I grew up in a creationist household.” How much did that drive your interest in Darwin? A. Darwin was described as the mouthpiece of Satan in the fundamentalist Christian communi- ty in which I was raised. His ideas were cen- sored, and of course censorship can act as a kind of provocation to curiosity. The school library had a good encyclopedia with several pages on Darwin. I can’t say I understood much of his ideas back then, but I understood enough to be AWORD WITH: REBECCA STOTT On the Origin Of Darwinism: A Theory Evolved Continued on Page 7 C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Britain Bars Export of a Picasso The British government has placed a temporary export ban on a privately owned Picasso “Blue Period” painting, saying that the work — made in 1901 and on loan for decades to the National Gallery in Lon- don from the collection of a wealthy family — has become too impor- tant to Britain’s national heritage to allow it to be sold and to leave the country. Reuters reported that in March Christie’s auction house con- firmed that it had been instructed by the owners to find a buyer for a private sale of the painting, “Child With a Dove,” left. Edward Vaizey, the British culture minister, said on Friday that he was preventing the work from leaving the country until Dec. 16, and, if a serious attempt to meet the asking price was made by a private buyer or institution outside Britain, until June 16, 2013, according to Reuters. “This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom,” the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said in a statement. British law allows for such export bans and provides ways to give public institutions a chance to buy works at less than the market price. This month an important Manet painting bought by a collector outside Britain was prevented from leaving and was later sold to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. RANDY KENNEDY AMC Adds Reality Shows While AMC is perhaps best known for scripted dramas like “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” this cable channel is continuing to add to its roster of unscripted series — you might also call them reality shows — for those hours when Don Draper and Walter White are taking it easy. Joining its existing reality programs like “Comic Book Men,” above, and “Small Town Security,” AMC said, will be two as-yet-untitled shows, one that will chronicle the field of taxidermy,and the other set at Venice Beach in California. In a news release AMC said the taxidermy show would be a “hosted competition series” in which participants “pulled from both the rogue and classic schools of taxidermy” would be called upon “to create a distinct piece of art that is judged on overall presentation, creativity and technique.” The other series, it said, will followthe music pro- ducer Todd Ray and his family “as they own and operate the world famous Venice Beach Freakshow, a museum that ex- hibits strange creatures, living oddities and human attractions.” Both shows have been ordered for eight half-hour episodes and will be shown early next year. For those viewers who can’t get enough of the marketing and pro- motion world, AMC said it was also ordering a second season of its reality series “The Pitch,” which is set in the field of (mod- ern-day) advertising. Hammer Museum Awards Its New Art Prize The people have spoken, and the winner is: Meleko Mokgosi. Mr. Mokgosi, below, a painter who was born in Botswana and who has lived and worked re- cently in New York, is the recipi- ent of the inaugural Mohn Award, a prize given by the Ham- mer Museum in Los Angeles, whose winner is chosen, reali- ty-television- style, by mu- seumgoers from a pool se- lected by art professionals. The award is underwritten by Jarl Mohn, an art collector and former MTV executive who helped found the E! network, and his wife, Pamela. It will provide Mr. Mokgosi, 30, with $100,000 over two years. The award will include the publication of a monograph about his work, which often deals with contemporary political and social issues in Africa. A jury of curators selected him and four other finalists from among the 60 artists whose work is included in the exhibition “Made in L.A. 2012,” a new biennial that opened in June at the Hammer. RANDY KENNEDY Mary McCann Will Star In ‘Harper Regan’ The coming Off Broadway pre- miere of “Harper Regan,” a criti- cally acclaimed British play about family alienation and the limits of loyalty, will star Mary McCann,left, as the title character, one of the richest female roles in New York thea- ter this fall. Ms. McCann, a founding mem- ber of the At- lantic Theater Company, worked last summer with the “Harper Regan” playwright, Simon Ste- phens, in the theater’s produc- tion of his play “Bluebird,” which starred Simon Russell Beale. “Harper Regan” will run at the Atlantic as well, with preview performances beginning on Sept. 20 and opening night on Oct. 10. The play’s cast also includes Gar- eth Saxe as Harper’s troubled husband, Mary Beth Peil as her brittle mother, and Madeleine Martin as Harper’s precocious daughter; Ms. Martin played the pot-smoking teenage daughter in “August: Osage County” on Broadway. The director is Gaye Taylor Upchurch, who also staged “Bluebird” with Ms. McCann. PATRICK HEALY Michael J. Fox May Return to TV Michael J. Fox,who starred on the sitcom “Spin City” in the 1990s but stepped aside in 2000 as the symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease worsened, may return to network television next year. Sony Pictures Television is devel- oping a sitcom that would feature Mr. Fox, below,for the television season that starts in the fall of 2013, according to an executive with direct knowledge of the matter. The person insisted on anonymity because the project had not been publicly announced by Sony. All four major broadcast net- works are interested in bidding on the project, according to the entertainment Web site Vulture .com, which was the first to re- port on it. Parkinson’s disease was diagnosed in Mr. Fox in 1991. He later founded a nonprofit or- ganization to provide financing for a search for a cure. This year he said in an ABC News inter- view that a new combination of drugs had helped him control his tics and tremors. As a result, he said, he had started to accept more acting work, including guest appearances on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “The Good Wife.” BRIANSTELTER Indianapolis Museum Names New Director The Indian- apolis Museum of Art has cho- sen a new di- rector, the mu- seum’s board announced. Charles L. Ven- able,right, who has served for the last five years as the director and chief execu- tive of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., will succeed Max- well L. Anderson,who left Indi- anapolis this year to take over the Dallas Museum of Art. Mr. Venable, who will begin in the new job on Oct. 8, has served in curatorial and administrative roles at the Cleveland Museum of Art and at the Dallas Museum of Art, whose decorative art and de- sign collection he helped to ex- pand into one of the most impor- tant in the country. RANDY KENNEDY Director Plans Pinter With a Nightly Twist Most actors have enough lay- ers to explore with just one char- acter in “Old Times,” an enigmat- ic 1971 play about identity and fractured memories by Harold Pinter.But the theater director Ian Rickson has thrown down a challenge to Kristin Scott Thom- as and Lia Williams, the leading ladies for a coming London re- vival of “Old Times” — they will alternate in the roles of Kate and Anna, old friends who have not seen each other in 20 years. In a telephone interviewMr. Rickson suggested that a coin might be tossed right before some per- formances to keep the actresses, and audiences, on their toes about who will play which role. “I love a good creative chal- lenge, and so do Kristin and Lia, where we can’t grow too comfort- able onstage with preconceived expectations,” said Mr. Rickson, who directed the Tony-nominat- ed “Jerusalem” on Broadway last year. The plan was first reported in The Daily Mail in London.The production has yet to be officially announced, but rehearsals are expected to begin in November and performances in early 2013. PATRICK HEALY Arts, Briefly Compiled by Dave Itzkoff DAVID MOIR/REUTERS DANE POTTER/AMC The Sweet Spot A.O. Scott and David Carr discuss the continu- ing success of artists from the baby boom generation, like Meryl Streep and Bruce Spring- steen: nytimes.com/arts. ON THE WEB www.nytimes.com N C3 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Following are reviews of productions at the New York International Fringe Festival, which runs through Aug. 26. Information: fringenyc.org. 2 Households, 2 ____ Shakespeare’s R&J SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam Street, South Village (866) 468-7619 Through Sunday Follow me here: I was moved by seeing a man in the role of a young woman being kissed by a second guy, playing a teenage boy, who minutes earlier por- trayed an old lady. And that wasn’t the only instance of unex- pected emotion in “2 Households, 2 ________: Shakespeare’s R&J,” a pretty good show despite a fair- ly bad (and unprintable) title. In the play, Aaron Muñoz and Sam Muñoz (they are not relat- ed) take on some 20 characters in their hourlong, two-man version of “Romeo and Juliet.” It’s a rea- sonably faithful adaptation, treat- ing the famous speeches and scenes with due reverence while accentuating the ample humor. That humor becomes all the funnier with the constant charac- ter switching. It is delightfully confusing to find yourself con- vinced of a young woman’s infat- uation, only to do a double-take when realizing that she is in fact portrayed by a rotund man. Such casting, standard in Shake- speare’s time, is rare today and smartly managed by these dex- terous actors. Serious moments are similarly well handled. The murder of Mer- cutio is angry and intense, while the balcony scene is gentle and sweet. Swordplay and fistfights are surprisingly exciting. To be sure, “2 Households” oc- casionally sacrifices clarity for speed; it can seem as if the words were being rushed through rath- er than savored. And the two men, who together adapted and directed the play, would benefit from an outside hand to help them rein in a few scattershot sections. But over all the show, on a bare stage at the SoHo Playhouse, is nicely conceived and performed. It’s also clever without being too gimmicky. Except for that tacky title. KENJAWOROWSKI Becoming Liv Ullmann First Floor Theater La MaMa ETC 74A East Fourth Street, East Village (866) 468-7619 Through Aug. 26 Liv Ullmann hasn’t been seen much around these parts since 2009, when the production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” she di- rected at the Brooklyn Academy of Music played to rave reviews. Now this great actress returns to New York, albeit in name only, as Crystal Finn performs “Be- coming Liv Ullmann” at La MaMa ETC. Ms. Finn explains that she has been distraught ever since her boyfriend,Ezra,left her for a more stable, more accomplished, more marriage-worthy woman. Since Ms.Ullmann was Ezra’s first teenage crush, Ms. Finn fig- ures that she is the way to win him back. The show is her way of preparing for the lunch date where she’ll be the girl of his dreams. “Becoming another person is a lot of work,” she notes. “Some people might just go out and buy a Liv Ullmann mask and call it a day.” Or a biography. But not Ms. Finn. That’s the joke: she knows nothing about Ms. Ullmann. As she says, her “cursory research” had been unable to determine whether Ms. Ullmann has any children (one daughter) or if she is still alive (she is), let alone where she comes from. (Ms. Finn initially bets on Kansas.) Nor is she exactly aware of which films Ms. Ullmann acted in, though she’s certain “The Seventh Seal” is one. (It isn’t.) And Ingmar Bergman is in the mix somewhere, this much she’s sure, but it’s hard to ferret out his films — “they’re not even on Netflix Instant Watch.” The gag seems as if it would run out of gas quickly,but Ms. Finn builds the sketch well; half- way through, she’s aided by a plant in the audience who changes the tempo nicely. Mainly, she writes with a sharp edge and delivers her lines with a comic’s polish, making us laugh and even empathize with her scattered, clueless, crazy character, an effort that Ms. Ull- mann herself would no doubt re- spect. DANIEL M.GOLD Tail! Spin! Kraine Theater We need more Rachel Dratch in our lives. That former “Saturday Night Live” star manages to upstage a quartet of heavy-breathing politi- cians in the clever “Tail! Spin!” And one of them is Anthony Wei- ner. Mario Correa’s play draws on verbatim remarks from four men whose political careers were de- railed by hypocrisy: the New York congressman Mr. Weiner, he of the Facebook flirtations and underwear Twitpics; Gov.Mark Sanford of South Carolina,who skedaddled to join his “soul mate” in Argentina, leaving a spokesman to announce that he was wandering the Appalachian Trail; and Senator Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho,whose “wide stance” in a Minneapolis airport bathroom drew unwant- ed police attention. Such scandals seem to arrive so regularly now that it takes a while even to remember the fourth: Representative Mark Fo- ley,Republican of Florida, whose text messages to a former Con- gressional page are delivered with wolfish glee by Dan Hodapp. He’s well matched by Sean Dugan as the supercilious Mr. Craig; Nate Smith as the leering Mr. Weiner; and Mo Rocca as the peculiarly clueless Mr. Sanford. (They double as cops, journalists and political advisers too.) Playing the various “Wives, Tails, Beards & Barbara Wal- ters” who defend, implicate or in- terrogate the politicians, Ms. Dratch reminds us why she’s such an undersung comic treas- ure. Her Jenny Sanford is a tri- umph of deadpan spitefulness, and her quick switches between Mr. Weiner’s e-partners, includ- ing a smiley stripper and a hard- boiled blackjack dealer, are espe- cially delicious. Mr. Correa shrewdly sets the various confessions and evasions in counterpoint, so the stories echo without growing tiresome, and the production’s director, Dan Knechtges, keeps things moving at a rapid clip. Will our leaders ever learn? “Tail! Spin!’’ (which finished its brief,sold-out Fringe Festival run on Thursday) gleefully an- swers: Not very likely. SCOTT HELLER Theater in Review DIXIE SHERIDAN Sam Muñoz, top,and Aaron Muñoz in 2 Households, 2 ________ at the SoHo Playhouse. C4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 spade queen. South ruffed in the dummy, ran the club queen suc- cessfully, drew the last trump, and claimed. The German declarer called for the club queen at Trick 2. When Landen (East) played low smoothly, South became worried that if he finessed, West might win from king-singleton or king- doubleton and give his partner a diamond ruff. Then the spade ace would defeat the contract. So not unreasonably,South won with his club ace and contin- ued with the club ten. But then East won with his king, played a spade to his partner’s ace, and Lev (West) gave East a diamond ruff to defeat the contract. Plus 600 and plus 100 gave the United States 12 imps, 5 more than the team’s winning margin. It was that close. LILLE, France — At the Sec- ond World Mind Sports Games here, the United States open and senior teams qualified for the quarterfinals, which started on Friday and will end on Saturday at 1:20 p.m. Eastern time. The re- sults are at worldbridge.org. After Friday’s play, and with 48 boards to come on Saturday, the United States open team led Swe- den by 16 international match points. The senior team was 73 imps ahead of Denmark. In the round-of-16 matches that ended on Thursday, the women’s team (Sylvia Moss, Judi Radin, Lynn Deas, Beth Palmer, Migry Zur Campanile and JoAnna Stansby) was 61 imps down to Poland,with 16 boards to play. In what appeared to be a relatively flat set, the Americans almost stole the match, but eventually lost by 8 imps. The open team (Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz, Bob Hamman, Zia Mahmood, Jeff Meckstroth and Eric Rodwell) defeated India by 52 imps. And the seniors (Ritchie Schwartz, Lew Finkel, Neil Chambers, John Schermer, Steve Landen and Sam Lev) won a squeaker against Germany by 7 imps. The diagramed deal, Board 58 of 64, decided the senior match. At both tables North opened two hearts, showing some 10 to 14 points, and South ended in five clubs. (In the given auction, four spades was a splinter bid, show- ing club support and a singleton or void in spades.) The two Wests led a low dia- mond, dummy’s ten taking the trick. Schermer immediately played a spade to his king. West won with his ace and gave his partner a diamond ruff. East now led the Phillip Alder Bridge NORTH(D) S 7 h A Q 10 9 4 3 d A 10 6 C Q 5 2 WEST S A J 10 3 h 8 7 5 d J 8 5 4 3 C 7 EAST S Q 6 5 4 2 h K J 6 2 d 2 C K 9 6 SOUTH S K 9 8 h — d K Q 9 7 C A J 10 8 4 3 Both sides were vulnerable. The bidding: West North East South — 2 h Pass 3 C Pass 4 S Pass 5 C Pass Pass Pass West led the diamond four. GREAT WINES DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR CALL 877.698.6841 OR VISIT NYTWINECLUB.COM TO ORDER TODAY N C5 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 “Which side are you on?” “Have you seen that vigilante man?” “I ain’t got no home in this world anymore.” Quoted out of context, they mean little; in performance, borne on the rhythm and the melody, they overcame any de- fenses I might have had. And the dances were carried on the mu- sic. The performance had quite ex- traordinary charm. There were six musicians, one of whom — Livia Vanaver — also danced and contributed most of the chor- eography. Eight dancers were listed as company members, 14 as additional “summer dance on tour,” but there was no segrega- tion here. It was often impossible to know adult from youngster or student from professional. In the best sense, everything here was amateur; affection, good man- ners and objectivity shone in equal measure. Much of the dancing was clog- ging, but who could have mapped the borderline when it passed over into tap? Some of it was soft-shoe, and much was barefoot in the tradition associat- ed with Isadora Duncan. There were a few gleeful acrobatic feats; brief quotations of Irish footwork and East Asian ges- ture; and plenty of couple danc- ing. The same dancers showed many idioms without seeming to change gear; the stylistic inclu- siveness was the American melt- ing pot in action. The imagery in- cluded aggression, defeat, exu- berance, defiance, wind, dust and the open road. The spark of Joel Hanna’s tap- ping and clogging, like the sheer panache of his performance, was utterly winning, but his camara- derie was equally so. (He also choreographed one number.) You could see young men, wom- en, girls and boys, all daisy-fresh with commitment to something they loved. I single out Miarden Jackson and Zack Marshall. The blithe grace with which Mr. Jackson de- livered an air somersault and many dance phrases was mar- velous. The rosy-cheeked Mr. Marshall has brilliance of foot- work that often matches Mr. Hanna’s, but better yet is his ef- fortless, through-the-body wave- like response to music — in one simple marking step, a curve passed up his body like a ripple. And in the “Deportees” song, the way Marina Lopez, here barefoot, slowly used the whole of a musical phrase to extend an arm gesture was a perfect image of expressive grace. Apparently she has performed with Vanaver since she was 4; the current Vanaver age range is 9 (Emilyn Wheeler) to 69 (Bill Vanaver). Sunday’s program featured eight companies. Best of all were the members of the Dancewave Company, in their midteens, per- forming works by Andrea Miller and Ronald K. Brown as if releas- ing themselves. Some of the gaga movement in Ms. Miller’s work, with features of body-popping, has the compulsive, helpless quality associated with St. Vitus dance. Tim Bendernagel and Maddie Leonard-Rose kept claiming my attention with the immediacy of their performing throughout; but in Mr. Brown’s “To Harm the Dangerous” (excerpts from his 1995 “Lessons”), everyone shone in individual opportunities, no- body more powerfully than Des- teni Edwards,who at one point slowly rose into an upstretched backbend, her head and arms openly addressing the sky. By no means was everything so fine. Buglisi Dance Theater performed an excerpt from a love-story work that will have its premiere at the Joyce Theater in 2013; three male-female couples were locked in an unbroken se- ries of choreographically amo- rous climaxes to the post-Rach- maninoff strains of Steve Mar- goshes’ music. I am afraid I got the giggles when I checked the work’s title: “This Is Forever.” The five performers of Kun- Yang Lin/Dancers, from Phila- delphia, danced two East-meets- West excerpts from “Mandala Project II” drearily; to sustain slow motion interestingly needs more technique than was in evi- dence here. Exit 12 Dance Company’s “Homecoming,” about the spouses of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, was manipulatively sentimental and obvious in its ef- fects. Peridance Contemporary Dance Company’s “I Am You,” choreographed by Igal Perry, was bland and underdeveloped. The works by Phoenix Project Dance (“Stonehenge”), Jamal Jackson Dance Company (“Space Coding” and “Mile 21”) and Battery Dance Company (“Perceptual Motion”) were all works I have reviewed before. But the Jackson performance, promising the first time, has im- proved. And although “Perceptual Mo- tion,” a work by the company’s five dancers, has changed consid- erably and remains diffuse, it is at its most infectious in the sec- tion called “Taste.” Sean Scantle- bury and Bafana Solomon Matea are irresistible performers. PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAULA LOBO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES From left, members of Peridance Contemporary Dance performing “I Am You”; Carmen Nicole of Battery Dance in “Perceptual Motion”; and young members of the Dancewave Company. Woody Guthrie, Choreographer’s Downtown Muse Eiren Shuman and Olive Prince of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers in an excerpt from “Mandala Project II” at the Downtown Dance Festival in Battery Park. From First Arts Page sprout one coin;others will sprout more,but only if they are hit a second and third time quick- ly. Some enemies won’t flatten when jumped upon.Instead, if they’re turtles, they will become projectile weapons that can be kicked into a row of enemies — though these careening shells will dangerously ricochet back if they hit a stone or metal obstacle. To play a Mario game is to dis- cover these things and to chuckle end of the leap, an enemy is run- ning toward Mario, ready to hit (and kill) him, that’s the develop- er winking at the player. If the player makes the jump and quickly does a second hop to pounce on the enemy’s head, then sprints onward, that’s the player wagging an index finger back at Nintendo,as if to say, “Unh, unh, you didn’t fool me.” The rules of a Mario game have subrules. Some blocks, when bumped from below, will quels. All of these games are clas- sified as side-scrolling platfor- mers, so designated because of the movement on the screen. The player controls Mario, a small man in a brightly surreal, flat and mostly horizontal world called the Mushroom Kingdom. That landscape is displayed like a portion of tapestry that scrolls through the frame of a television, or in the case of New Super Mario Bros. 2, the upper screen of a portable Nintendo 3DS. Mario runs through this world from the left. The bad guys are creatures who march or fly in from the right. There is another hazard, the bottomless pit. Many of these interrupt Mario’s smooth running path. A good player makes sure that Mario jumps over all these obstacles. The plat- forms hover just above the height of Mario’s head. Our hero can jump onto those platforms too. The princess is at the right of the final main level, awaiting rescue. Many of society’s most suc- cessful games are competitions among players under guidance fromrules made by someone else. Mario games, however, like other great single-player video games, are based on the relation- ship between the gamer and the distant creators, in this case, the designers who devise a new batch of obstacle courses to navi- gate in each sequel. The designers tend to include delightful and mischievous sur- prises. For example, the designer may introduce a large expanse that the player can span only by directing Mario to run toward it at full speed and leap. If, at the while knowing that somewhere in Japan,the people who made the game are probably chuckling too. Every few years Nintendo re- leases a new side-scrolling Super Mario game, and each time the company adds a minimum of changes to the formula. In one se- quel Mario can briefly fly or sometimes run behind the sce- nery like a stagehand scamper- ing amid the props. In another, he can ride a small dinosaur that can shake its feet in midair and flutter a little bit. Nat- urally, to complicate this, the de- signers make some of that game’s bottomless pits wider. Each change is more profound than the addition of a more com- plex story line or an enhance- ment to the graphics might be. The maturation with every game involves the basic rules and the continuing playful conversation between creators and gamers. The most interesting advance in New Super Mario Bros.2 is therefore not Nintendo’s acquies- cence to make its single-player games more social by allowing players to swap scores or run through its levels together. The exciting changes are the small, clever additions: the new gold flowers that let Mario toss Midas- touch fireballs that can turn brick blocks into coins, a move that will backfire if Mario needs to leap onto those blocks to reach some important place. Another tweak: jumping through gold hoops makes ene- mies toss coins at Mario. An- other: sometimes Mario can grab a winged gold box, put it on his head and collect the coins that sprout from it. But coins sprout only while Mario moves,and he will lose the box if he recklessly moves into the path of an enemy. Each twist is a pleasant sur- prise. Each twist has a catch. New Super Mario Bros. 2 tal- lies all the coins that players col- lect. Players are encouraged to fetch a million of them. If Ninten- do were the kind of company that made its games say something important, the theme of New Su- per Mario Bros. 2 might be the pitfalls of greed. That is not how Nintendo plays. Like all the best Mario games, New Super Mario Bros. 2 toys with our capacity to discover, to understand and to adapt to a set of elegant rules that has been evolving for 27 years and count- ing. Back to His Old Stomping Ground, Still Out to Rescue the Peach Princess NINTENDO Images from the New Super Mario Bros. 2, featuring moving ledges, gold coins and turtles that can turn into projectile weapons. From First Arts Page In a game’s latest installment, some small, clever additions. Stephen Totilo is the editor in chief of the gaming Web site Kotaku.com. C6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Hilary Kole, a singer who has uneasily straddled the line be- tween cabaret and jazz in her shows at Birdland over the years, revealed a strong pop presence on Wednes- day evening at 54 Be- low,where she is ap- pearing with a five- piece band. After a shaky start, she found her mojo in a devastating performance of the Burt Bacharach-Elvis Costello ballad “God Give Me Strength,” introduced in the 1996 movie “Grace of My Heart.” It is a song that can only register if invested with an operatic intensity,and Ms. Kole rose to the occasion with an anguished performance whose mixture of rage and grief nearly matched the definitive re- cording by Audra McDonald. It was the first time I’ve heard Ms. Kole completely let go. She brought the same fervor to Stevie Nicks’s “Landslide” in a full-voiced rendition that cap- tured every nuance of this reflec- tion on emotional destruction and recovery. Ms. Kole explained that until now,she had stayed away from the singer-songwriter canon of the 1970s and beyond. But she demonstrated —not only here but also in two original numbers, “A Sliver of You” and “Where Are the Angels,” on which she accompanied herself on piano — that this is exactly where she should have been all along. Ms. Kole explored the darker corners of George Michael’s “Faith” and Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” both of which received hot,spicy ar- rangements into which Ms. Kole wove tentative vocal improvisa- tion. Her jazzier side remains prob- lematic. Her band — Chris Wab- ich on drums;Rubin Kodheli on cello;John Hart on guitar;Paul Gill on bass;and her arranger, Misha Piatigorsky,on piano — cooked up a seething samba ar- rangement of “Cabaret.” But her interpolations sounded like to- ken gestures unmoored to a rhythmic or conceptual founda- tion. When a singer is trying this hard to pluck notes out of the air, the spirit of the song gets lost, and it all sounds fussy. The same thing used to hap- pen to Ms. Kole’s closest equiva- lent, Jane Monheit,who has fi- nally gained the confidence and perspective to swing when she improvises. When Ms. Kole gets jazzy, she still thinks too much. STEPHEN HOLDEN MUSIC REVIEW Adding Stevie Nicks and Paul Simon, Then Setting the Songbook to Shuffle MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Hilary Kole performing her new cabaret set at 54 Below with a five-piece band and a selection of originals, pop, jazz and musical theater. Hilary Kole performs through Saturday at 54 Below, 254 West 54th Street, Manhattan; (646) 476-3551, 54below.com. FINAL 19 PERFS- ENDSSEPTEMBER2 BEST PLAY!2012 TONYAWARD “Pulverizingly Funny!” – Variety Today at 2 &8;Tomorrowat 3 CLYBOURNE PARK Telecharge.com/212-239-6200 Tue 7;Wed 2&7;Th 7;Fr 8;Sat 2&8;Sun 3 www.ClybournePark.com Walter Kerr Theatre,219 West 48th St Today at 2 &8,Tomorrowat 3 FINAL 3 PERFORMANCES! 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The two films, which will be in Spanish and French, are initially scheduled for Euro- pean distribution. Mr. Colomo, 66, said in Spanish that he had spent about eight years researching and preparing his script, reading during that time almost 100 books on Picasso, so that “this movie has probably required more work than all my previous 19 films combined.” Still, in the case of the Mona Lisa theft, “the story itself is so weird and surreal that I’m sure many spectators will think that it’s mostly fiction,” he said. Picasso’s work on “Guernica” has been extensively document- ed, not least by Maar, whose pho- tographs can be seen near the painting in the Reina Sofía mu- seum in Madrid. The painting it- self has recently undergone an- other major restoration and in- vestigation effort, using infrared and ultraviolet photography tak- en by a computer-controlled ro- bot to discover scratches and oth- er signs of damage, as well as to see if there were any previously unknown preparatory drawings or touch-ups. Mr. Saura has scheduled nine weeks of shooting, starting in Oc- tober, split between the town of Guernica and Paris. Mr. Colomo’s movie was shot in six weeks late last year in Bu- dapest, with a cast of newcomers and a budget of $5 million. “The cinema industry is now suffering so much in this financial crisis that not a single minute of filming can be wasted,” he said. Coincidentally, each movie has a lead actor who comes from Málaga, Picasso’s birthplace. Mr. Colomo cast Ignacio Mateos, who has worked for the Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. Mr. Saura’s Pi- casso is Antonio Banderas. Gwyneth Paltrow (who speaks Spanish) plays Maar. “What’s fascinating about Dora Maar is that she wasn’t just the lover but also the visual witness of Guerni- ca,” Mr. Saura said. He said that his film gave Mr. Banderas, who has appeared in two of Mr. Saura’s movies, “a great opportunity to do some- thing very different fromwhat he has done before and get to in- terpret a very complex charac- ter.” As for the physical resem- blance, “I think that he will end up looking a lot like Picasso, with the same stare and terrible ac- cent in French,” Mr. Saura said. In Ms. Paltrow’s case, he added, “The fact that her appearance isn’t as similar doesn’t worry me as much,because far fewer peo- ple actually know what Dora Maar looked like.” Having started out as a photog- rapher, Mr. Saura, 80, has di- rected some of the most ac- claimed Spanish movies of the past five decades, “Cousin Angél- ica” and “Carmen” among them, and has won awards at the Berlin and Cannes film festivals. His interest in painting led him to make a 1999 movie about Goya, called “Goya in Bordeaux.” Mr. Saura’s brother, Antonio, was a leading Spanish painter who knew Picasso. “My brother always said that the toughest moment for a paint- er is having to stand in front of a blank canvas,” Mr. Saura said, “which is also the kind of prob- lem that I have repeatedly had as a film director and certainly what Picasso was facing until the news of the Guernica bombing gave him a trigger to really want to get down to work.” Mr. Colomo is best known as a director of comedies, following “Paper Tigers,” his 1977 feature debut. He too is passionate about painting, and some of his own work hangs on the office walls of his production company in Ma- drid. “As a teenager, all I wanted to do is become a Cubist painter — until I finally understood that this would be difficult since the move- ment had died,” he said with a laugh. Beside his interest in painting, Mr. Colomo said that he had been intrigued by how his own experiences as a director bore some resemblance to the volatile relationships among Pi- casso, Apollinaire and some of the other Paris artists a century ago. “Picasso and all the others were in a survival struggle, fight- ing cold and hunger, despite the romantic notion that is now given to their time in Paris,” Mr. Colo- mo said. “In the world of arts, ev- erybody starts out being friends, struggling to overcome the same obstacles, but as careers begin to follow different paths and at dif- ferent speeds, the generosity and solidarity somehow fade away.” Ultimately, when questioned by a judge over the Mona Lisa theft, Picasso denied even know- ing Apollinaire. But Apollinaire took responsibility for a separate theft of two ancient stone statues from the Louvre, which he had helped organize at Picasso’s re- quest. Picasso had seen the statues and was so inspired by them that he asked Apollinaire to help smuggle them to his studio. He used the statues to compose “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” one of his most famous paintings. “A great friendship was some- how sacrificed for the sake of Pi- casso’s art,” Mr. Colomo said. Mr. Saura also views Picasso as an artist who never let any- thing get in the way of his work, whatever the consequences for his relationships. “Of course Picasso loved wom- en, but he was above all a tireless worker who lived for his paint- ing,” Mr. Saura said. “I think that if he hadn’t been so egotistical, he simply wouldn’t have managed to produce the work that he did.” Events in Picasso’s Life,a Quarter-Century Apart,Inspire Two Films SANDOR FEGYVERNEKY/COLOMO PRODUCCIONES Ignacio Mateos, left, as Picasso,and Pierre Benézit, as Apollinaire, in Fernando Colomo’s film “La Banda Picasso” (“Picasso’s Gang”), to be released this fall. JEON HEON-KYUN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY BEA KALLOS/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY From left, Carlos Saura, director of “33 Días” (“33 Days”); Picasso in his studio in the 1920s; and Mr. Colomo on the set of “La Banda Picasso” (“Picasso’s Gang”). From First Arts Page HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES Lead actors, both from Málaga, Picasso’s birthplace. mute with fascination. It was ex- traordinarily different from the biblical version of how things had come to be — but no less strange. Q. You’ve written about Darwin before. What led you to concen- trate on this aspect of his story? A. In writing “Darwin and the Barnacle,” I had come to respect the kinds of risks Darwin took in asking these dangerous ques- tions about the origins of species. But I also knewthere had been others before him who enter- tained similar ideas, and I want- ed to know if they had had to take similar risks. Q. Alfred Russel Wallace was in- dependently reaching the same conclusions as Darwin around the same time, and Darwin felt compelled to rush his book to publication to establish his pri- macy. Wallace responded to the situation with incredible equa- nimity. Why didn’t he fight for more turf? A. I don’t think it occurred to him to do that. There were subtle class issues that determined his place in the question of priority for him, I think. Wallace had long looked up to Darwin and [the ge- ologist] Charles Lyell and [the botanist] Joseph Hooker — they were gentlemen of science, whereas he thought of himself as a collector. Other things mat- tered to him more than fame — he was determined to play his part in the collection of proof about evolution. He was deeply proud to have been part of that, and also probably relieved to be able to slip away from the politics and the fuss and get back into the field. Q. Aside from Wallace, who came closest to scientifically (as op- posed to metaphorically) figuring out natural selection before Dar- win? A. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was one of the first men of science to have access to enough fossil and living animal specimens and bones to really gather the weight of evidence that would be needed to understand the ways in which species evolve. Lamarck worked in the Museum of Natural Histo- ry in Paris, which in 1800 had the most remarkable collection of natural history specimens in the world — Napoleon Bonaparte had stolen hundreds of famous European natural history collec- tions during the Napoleonic Wars and brought them all to Paris. Q. The book’s roster of notable predecessors starts with Aris- totle. As brilliant as he was, that’s a very early time for thoughts about evolution. What did he know or intuit that makes him a part of this intellectual lineage? A. What is remarkable about Ar- istotle is that he was the first to practice empirical science, rather than to settle for large-scale hy- pothetical theories about natural laws or cosmologies. He insisted on gathering facts; only facts he had verified with his own eyes. By trying to gather together all the information on all the animal species in the world, he was ask- ing questions about species di- versity and adaptation that would lead later scientists to evo- lutionary speculations. But he was not an evolutionist. He be- lieved in the fixity of species. Q. You start in 344 B.C. Then you hop forward to A.D. 850. And then to the late 15th century. What ac- counts for such large gaps be- tween periods of progress in this subject? A. I wish I knew. Perhaps certain thinkers or schools of thought have been lost to history. Perhaps in the West it was due to the dom- inance of Christianity, and partic- ularly Catholicism, over intellec- tual inquiry. Some of the periods of acceleration in the history of evolutionary thought were caused by material changes — the development of the printing press or of the microscope, growth in literacy rates, the grad- ual opening up of libraries and natural history collections to the public — but it always strikes me as salutary that one of the great- est periods of acceleration in evo- lutionary speculation took place in post-Revolutionary Paris be- tween 1790 and 1815, when the priests had been banished,and the professors had been given li- cense to pursue any question they liked. That’s when evolu- tionary ideas really came into their own. Q. The polyp is a small organism that plays a large role in the story. What about it captured people’s imaginations? A. I am particularly fond of the polyp. It was first “discovered” by a Swiss naturalist called Abra- ham Trembley in The Hague in the 1730s. Under a powerful mi- croscope, he found that if you cut the “animal” in half, it could re- generate itself. The discovery caused a sensation amongst Eu- ropean naturalists, philosophers and theologians because it seemed to challenge all natural laws — animals cannot regener- ate themselves. Why could a sim- ple organism like the polyp have such powers and not humans? Q. Darwin would add people to a list of acknowledgments, then cross them off. He criticized a predecessor in one edition of “Or- igin” and then struck that criti- cism from the next edition. What drove his anxiety about the list and his fiddling with it the way he did? A. I am more and more convinced that assembling that list of prede- cessors was a kind of political act as well as a public relations exer- cise for Darwin. He was effective- ly saying: “Look, I’m not the first. Here are the men who have made this claim before me. We are all responsible.” He wanted to have sane, re- spectable, ordinary people on that list to try to persuade his readers that evolution wasn’t a mad, French, radical, anti-estab- lishment idea. So it seems no co- incidence that he worked particu- larly hard at finding hard-work- ing respectable people like him- self to put on his list, and that a large proportion of those people are British. ASSOCIATED PRESS Charles Darwin in 1875. In Rebecca Stott’s book “Darwin’s Ghosts,” she discusses his predecessors across the centuries. BRUCE ROBERTSON Ms. Stott says where she grew up, “Darwin was described as the mouthpiece of Satan.” Aristotle was also interested in the diversity of species. 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(PG-13) (CC) (HD) (6:10) Veep “Fund- raiser.” (HD) Veep “Frozen Yoghurt.” (HD) The Newsroom “The Blackout Part I: Tragedy Porn.” (HD) (Part 1 of 2) Treme “That’s What Lovers Do.” The community mourns. (CC) (HD) Game of Thrones “Valar Morghulis.” (CC) (HD) (MA) Real Time With Bill Maher (HD) MAX Die Hard (1988). Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia. Explosions, shootings, hangings, splatterings. Huge hit. (R) (CC) (HD) (6:45) Strike Back Scott’s orders take him to Kenyan. (CC) (HD) (MA) ● Cowboys & Aliens (2011). Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford. E.T.’s attack frontier town. Wastes its clever title. (CC) (HD) SHO The Game (1997). Control freak’s life disrupted. (R) (CC) (HD) (5:45) Real Steel (2011). Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly. Promoter’s son bonds with robot boxer. Well-tooled entertainment. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) Strikeforce Sarah Kaufman vs. Ronda Rousey. From San Diego. (HD) (10:07) SHO2 The King’s Speech (2010). Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush. (R) (CC) (HD) (6:30) The Franchise: Miami Marlins The Franchise: Miami Marlins The Franchise: A Season With the Miami Marlins I Melt With You (2011). Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven. College buddies meet for annual reunion. Two-hour wail of middle-aged self-pity. (R) (CC) (HD) Big Brother After Dark (N) STARZ Salt (2010). Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber. C.I.A. agent accused of being Russian mole. Fast and efficient. (PG-13) (CC) (7:15) Friends With Benefits (2011). Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis. Friends, both dumped, add sex to their menu. “Scream” of rom-coms. (R) (CC) Colombiana (2011). Sexy assassin seeks revenge for parents’ deaths. Lethally pretentious. (PG-13) (CC) TMC Raw Deal (1986). Arnold Schwarzenegger. Former F.B.I. agent infiltrates crime family. Few surprises. (R) (CC) (HD) Fright Night (2011). Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell. Vampire moves in next door. Earnestly creepy. (R) (CC) (HD) Suck (2009). Malcolm McDowell, Jessica Paré. Rock band will do anything to be famous. (R) (CC) (HD) (10:50) CABLE 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 A&E Storage Wars (CC) (HD) (PG) Storage Wars (CC) (HD) (PG) Storage Wars (CC) (HD) (PG) Storage Wars (CC) (HD) (PG) Shipping Wars (CC) (HD) (PG) Shipping Wars (CC) (HD) (PG) Shipping Wars (CC) (HD) Shipping Wars (CC) (HD) (PG) Shipping Wars (CC) (HD) (11:01) Shipping Wars (CC) (HD) (11:31) Storage Wars (CC) (HD) (12:01) ABCFAM Alice in Wonderland (HD) (5:30) . WALL-E (2008). Voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight. (G) (HD) (7:59) . WALL-E (2008). Voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight. (G) (HD) The Mask (HD) AMC Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Robert Redford, Will Geer. (PG) (CC) (5:30) Wyatt Earp (1994). Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid. Dark, deadly Dodge City. Slowest plot in the West. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) APL My Cat From Hell (CC) (HD) (PG) My Cat From Hell (N) (HD) (PG) Tanked (N) (HD) (PG) Tanked (CC) (HD) (PG) Tanked (HD) (PG) Tanked (HD) (PG) BBCA Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: The Next Generation The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who The Nerdist (N) (CC) (HD) (14) The Women of Doctor Who (HD) Doctor Who BET Rags (2012, TVF). Musician’s family holds him back. (CC) (6) Seventeen Again (2000, TVF). Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry. Lab experiment turns elders into teenagers. (CC) Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006). Jascha Washington, Michael Beach. Special shoes turn untalented basketball player into a star. (PG) (CC) BIO Celebrity Ghost Stories (CC) (HD) Celebrity Ghost Stories (CC) (HD) Celebrity Ghost Stories (N) (HD) uneXplained uneXplained uneXplained uneXplained Ghost Stories BLOOM > Charlie Rose (N) (CC) (HD) Money Moves Conversations Political Capital Sportfolio (HD) > Charlie Rose (CC) (HD) Bloomberg Conversations Political Capital BRV The Real Housewives of New Jersey “Manzo-Thon.” (N) (Part 3 of 3) (7:11) Gallery Girls “All Tomorrow’s Par- ties.” (8:16) The Millionaire Matchmaker “Jersey in the House.” (14) (9:19) The Millionaire Matchmaker Frank Marino; Jason Bross. (10:22) The Millionaire Matchmaker “The Player and the Piano Player.” (11:25) CBSSN Inside the M.L.L.Baseball Cal Ripken World Series, second semifinal, Teams TBA.Baseball Cal Ripken World Series, first semifinal, Teams TBA.Baseball CMT Reba (CC) (HD) Reba (CC) (HD) Reba (CC) (HD) Reba (CC) (HD) My Big Redneck Vacation (N) (HD) Redneck Island (N) (CC) (HD) (PG) My Big Redneck Vacation (HD) Redneck Island CN Tom and Jerry Tom and Jerry & the Wizard of Oz (2011).Home Movies King of the Hill King of the Hill Family Guy (14) Black Dynamite The Boondocks Bleach (N) (14) CNBC Money in Motion Currency Ripping Off the Rich How I Made My Millions How I Made My Millions The Suze Orman Show “Pet Peeve.” (N) (CC) Princess “Jenni- fer K.” (N) (CC) Princess “Rachel P.” (N) (CC) How I Made My Millions How I Made My Millions The Suze Orman Show (CC) CNN CNN Newsroom (N) (HD) CNN Presents (CC) (HD) (PG) Piers Morgan Tonight (HD) CNN Newsroom (N) (HD) CNN Presents (CC) (HD) (PG) Piers Morgan Tonight (HD) COM Mr. Deeds (2002). (CC) (HD) (5:09) Joe Dirt (2001). David Spade, Dennis Miller. Goofy janitor searching for parents who abandoned him. Oh, what a lonely boy. (PG-13) (HD) (7:16) The Comedy Central Roast “Roseanne.” Roseanne Barr gets roasted. (CC) (HD) (MA) (9:24) Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff The comic performs. (N) (CC) (MA) The Burn With Jeff Ross (HD) COOK Food(ography) Food(ography) Everyday Italian Easy Chinese The Supersizers Go “Wartime.” Bitchin’ Kitchen Bitchin’ Kitchen Dinner Imposs.Unique Sweets Everyday Italian CSPAN News and Public Affairs Visualizing Global Issues (N) Road to the White House (9:10) News and Pub Visualizing Global Issues Road Wh. House CSPAN2 Book TV “A Fundamental Freedom.” (N) Book TV “The Lost Bank.” (N) (8:45) Book TV: After Words (N) Book TV “Twilight of the Elites.” (N) Book TV (N) CUNY Study With Eldridge & Co.CityWide Theater Talk (G) . As You Like It (1936). Elisabeth Bergner, Laurence Olivier.TimesTalks Arts & Leisure Real DIS Jessie (CC) (HD) (G) Gravity Falls (CC) (HD) (Y7) Good Luck Charlie (HD) (G) A.N.T. Farm (CC) (HD) (G) Gravity Falls (CC) (Y7) Code 9 “Hockey Havoc.” (CC) (G) Good Luck Charlie (HD) (G) Jessie “A Doll’s Outhouse.” (HD) A.N.T. Farm (CC) (HD) (G) My Babysitter’s a Vampire (HD) My Babysitter’s a Vampire (HD) DIY 10 Projects 10 Projects Holmes on Homes (HD) (G) Renov. Real.Renov. Real.Renov. Real.Renov. Real.Rehab Addict Rehab Addict Renov. Real. DSC Dual Survival “Hippo Island.” (CC) (HD) (PG) Dual Survival “Soaked.” The Pacific Northwest rainforest. (CC) (HD) (14) Dual Survival “Panic in the Jungle.” (CC) (HD) (14) Dual Survival “Bogged Down.” Pi- ranha-infested water in Brazil. (HD) Dual Survival “Stuck in the Muck.” (CC) (HD) (PG) Dual Survival (CC) (HD) (PG) E! Chelsea Lately The Soup (HD) Evan Almighty (2007). Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman. (PG) Keeping Up With the Kardashians Fashion Police (HD) (14) The Soup (HD) ENCFAM Secretariat (2010). Diane Lane, John Malkovich. (PG) (CC) . The Babe (1992). John Goodman, Kelly McGillis. (PG) (CC) (9:05) You Again (2010). Kristen Bell. (PG) (CC) ESPN Little League Baseball Little League Baseball World Series, Game 12: Teams TBA. (CC) (HD) Baseball Tonight (CC) (HD) SportsCenter (CC) (HD) SportsCenter ESPN2 A.T.P. Tennis U.S. Open Series: Western & Southern Open, Women’s semifinals. From Cincinnati. (CC) (HD) N.H.R.A. Drag Racing Lucas Oil Nationals, qualifying. ESPNCL Boys of Summer (2010). Documentary. (CC) Right To Play Boys of Summer (2010). Documentary. (CC) Right To Play FOOD Restaurant: Impossible (HD) (G) Restaurant: Impossible Restaurant: Impossible (HD) Wedding: Impossible (N) (HD) Iron Chef America (HD) Restaurant: Im. FOXMOV The One (2001). Jet Li, Carla Gugino. Parallel universes threatened by power-hungry agent. Flashy but one-dimensional. (PG-13) (CC) The One (2001). Jet Li, Carla Gugino. Parallel universes threatened by power-hungry agent. Flashy but one-dimensional. (PG-13) (CC) . Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh. (PG-13) (CC) FOXNEWS Fox Report (N) (HD) Huckabee (N) (HD) Justice With Judge Jeanine (N) (HD) Stossel (HD) The Journal Editorial Report Fox News Watch (HD) Justice With Judge Jeanine FSC Soccer Indiana University vs. Chivas de Guadalajara U-23.Laduma! Benin’s Journey (HD) Fox Soccer News (HD) English Premier League Soccer FUSE Nicki Minaj Takeover Nicki Minaj Takeover FX 2012 (2009). (PG-13) (HD) (4) Armageddon (1998). Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton. Mavericks out to save earth from asteroid. Not a believable moment in it. (PG-13) (HD) Wilfred “Service.” (HD) (MA) Anger Manage- ment (HD) (14) Totally Biased- Kamau Bell G4 American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (HD) (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) Ninja Warrior GOLF L.P.G.A. Tour Golf Safeway Classic, second round. From Beaverton, Ore. (HD) (6:30) P.G.A. Tour Golf Wyndham Championship, third round. From Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. (HD) GSN Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Newlywed HALL The Nanny Express (2009, TVF). Vanessa Marcil, Brennan Elliot. (CC) (HD) ● Smart Cookies (2012, TVF). Patricia Richardson, Jessalyn Gilsig. (HD) Smart Cookies (2012, TVF). Patricia Richardson. (CC) (HD) HGTV Home by Novo Dina’s Party (N) Shop This RoomShop This RoomLove It or List It (CC) (HD) (G) House Hunters Hunters Int’l House Hunters Hunters Int’l Love It or List It HIST Hatfields & McCoys (CC) (HD) (Part 2 of 3) (14) (6) Hatfields & McCoys A shattering New Year’s Day battle. (CC) (HD) (Part 3 of 3) (14) Pawn Stars “Bul- litt Proof.” (HD) Pawn Stars (CC) (HD) (PG) Pawn Stars (CC) (HD) (11:01) Pawn Stars (CC) (HD) (11:31) Hatfields & Mc- Coys (12:01) HLN Evidence Body-Evidence The Investigators “Trail of Clues.” Body-Evidence Evidence The Investigators “Obsession.” Evidence Body-Evidence Investigators ID Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (14) Wicked Attraction “Death Ride.” (CC) (HD) (14) Wicked Attraction “Weapon of Mass Seduction.” (N) (CC) (HD) (14) Happily Never After “Devoured By Love.” (N) (CC) (HD) Wicked Attraction “Death Ride.” (CC) (HD) (14) Wicked Attrac- tion (CC) (HD) IFC Home Movie (6:15) The Descent (2005). Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza. Six spelunkers encounter hungry underground predators. (R) (HD) George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2007). Film students flee zombies, cameras running. Clever, but it’s been done before. (R) (HD) The Descent (2005). (R) (HD) LIFE Bride Wars (2009). Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway. (PG) (CC) (HD) (6) ● Made of Honor (2008). Patrick Dempsey. Bride asks male best friend to be maid of honor. Be ready to roll your eyes. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) Two Weeks Notice (2002). Sandra Bullock. Millionaire confronts feelings for his lawyer. Vague and undernourished. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) Made of Honor (2008). (HD) (12:01) LMN My Mother’s Secret (2012, TVF). Nicole de Boer. (CC) (HD) (6) Last Man Standing (2011, TVF). Catherine Bell, Mekhi Phifer. Former soldier must rescue her husband. (CC) (HD) Nora Roberts’ Carnal Innocence (2011, TVF). Gabrielle Anwar, Colin Egglesfield. Violinist’s Mississippi sojourn turns deadly. (CC) (HD) Last Man Standing (2011, TVF). (HD) 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 LOGO 16 and Pregnant “Taylor.” Taylor’s mother prefers adoption. (CC) (PG) > Nip/Tuck “Cindy Plumb.” Mile- stone surgery. (CC) (MA) > Nip/Tuck “Blu Mondae.” Decision. (CC) (MA) > Nip/Tuck “Monica Wilder.” (CC) (MA) > Nip/Tuck “Shari Noble.” (CC) (MA) Margaret Cho: Beautiful (CC) MIL Weaponology “Green Berets.” (14) The Green Berets (1968). Duke subdues Vietnam, more or less singlehandedly. Hooray and holy mackerel! (CC) The Green Berets (1968). John Wayne. (G) (CC) MLB M.L.B. Regional Coverage. (HD) M.L.B. Tonight Live look-ins, updates, highlights.Quick Pitch MSG The Best of Boomer & Carton Vault: Clyde Vault: NYR in Vegas Chandler Shumpert . Brian’s Song (1971, TVF). James Caan. (G) (HD) MSGPL Saratoga in 30 Horsemanship Hockey Night LIVE!: Summer Ice From Jan. 31, 2012. (HD) MSG Vault Sports Unlimited Hockey Night MSNBC Caught on Camera (HD) Lockup (HD) Lockup (HD) Lockup (HD) Lockup (HD) Lockup (HD) MTV Cribs Priciest Pads Countdown Cribs Priciest Pads Countdown Cribs Priciest Pads Countdown . Drumline (2002). Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana. (PG-13) NBCS Caught Looking (HD) Bull Riding P.B.R. Bass Pro Shops Chute Out. From San Antonio.Game On!Action Sports From Ocean City, Md. (CC) (HD) NGEO Hard Time “The Hustle.” (HD) (14) Hard Time (HD) (14) Hard Time (HD) (14) Hard Time “Prison City.” (HD) (14) Hard Time (HD) (14) Hard Time (HD) NICK Victorious (HD) Victorious (HD) How to Rock (N) (CC) (HD) (G) You Gotta See iCarly (CC) (HD) Yes, Dear (HD) Yes, Dear (HD) > Friends (PG) > Friends (14) > Friends (14) NICKJR Bubble Guppies Bubble Guppies Team Umizoomi Team Umizoomi Dora Explorer Dora Explorer Go, Diego, Go!Go, Diego, Go!Ni Hao, Kai-lan Ni Hao, Kai-lan Yo Gabba NY1 NEWS On Stage NEWS NEWS NEWS Budd Mishkin New York Times Close Up NEWS Sports on 1 (11:35) OVA . Mississippi Burning (1988). (HD) (5) . Nell (1994). Carolina woodswoman. Thoughtful but predictable. Effective Jodie Foster. (PG-13) . Mississippi Burning (1988). Gene Hackman, William Dafoe. (R) (CC) (HD) OWN Hardcover Mysteries (CC) (HD) Sweetie Pie’s: An Extra Slice Sweetie Pie’s: An Extra Slice ● 10 Kids 2 Dads ● 10 Kids 2 Dads Sweetie Pie’s: An Extra Slice Sweetie Pie’s OXY Just Friends (2005). (PG-13) (CC) (6) Sweet Home Alabama (2002). Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas. (PG-13) (CC) Sweet Home Alabama (2002). Reese Witherspoon. (PG-13) (CC) SCIENCE Oddities (HD) Oddities (HD) Oddities (HD) Oddities (HD) Professor Weird Oddities (HD) Dark Matters: Twisted but True Oddities (HD) Oddities (HD) Professor Weird SMITH The Real Story “True Grit.” (HD) The Real Story “Apollo 13.” (HD) Air Disasters (CC) (HD) Death Beach (CC) (HD) (PG) The Real Story “Apollo 13.” (HD) Air Disasters SNY Boxing (CC) (6) Triathlon New York City Triathlon.Beer Money (HD) Beer Money (HD) Mets Postgame SportsNite (HD) N.F.L. Preseason Football Giants vs. Jets SOAP General Hospital (CC) (HD) (PG) General Hospital (CC) (HD) (PG) General Hospital (CC) (HD) (PG) General Hospital (CC) (HD) (PG) General Hospital (CC) (HD) (PG) Brothers/Sisters SPEED Rolex Sports Car Series Racing Montreal. From the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. (HD) Truth in 24 (HD) (PG) MotoGP Racing Mobil 1 The Grid Lucas Oil Off SPIKE I, Robot (2004). Will Smith. (PG-13) (HD) (6) . Independence Day (1996). Extraterrestrials come to Earth to destroy it. Irresistible action spectacle. (PG-13) (HD) Reign of Fire (2002). (PG-13) (HD) STYLE Tia & Tamera (HD) (PG) Gossip Girl “Pilot.” (CC) (HD) (14) Gossip Girl “The Wild Brunch.” (HD) Gossip Girl “Poison Ivy.” (HD) (PG) Jerseylicious “Living in Sin.” (HD) Jerseylicious SUN Get to Work “Walking That Beam.” Bobby must face responsibility. (HD) I Hate Valentine’s Day (2009). Nia Vardalos, John Corbett. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) I Am a Sex Addict (2005). Caveh Zahedi, Rebecca Lord. (CC) Nights and Weekends (2008). Long-distance relation- ship’s dying days. Mumblecore to the core. (CC) (11:10) SYFY Dawn of the Dead (2004). Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames. Flesh-eating zombies in Milwaukee mall. Second-rate remake. (R) (HD) (6:30) . Daybreakers (2009). Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe. Vampire works on blood substitute as humans grow scarce. Impressively styled. (R) (HD) Drag Me to Hell (2009). A young woman must shatter a powerful curse placed upon her. (PG-13) (HD) TBS > Seinfeld (CC) (HD) (PG) > Seinfeld (CC) (HD) (PG) > The Big Bang Theory (14) > The Big Bang Theory (14) Meet the Fockers (2004). Robert De Niro. Woman’s uptight parents meet fiance’s free-spir- ited ones. Modestly amusing, with enough stardust to plug up the holes. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) The Perfect Man (2005). Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear. (PG) (CC) (HD) TCM . Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). Freddie Bartholomew. (CC) (6) . Captains Courageous (1937). Spencer Tracy. Spoiled rich boy on Portuguese fishing boat. Memorable Kipling adaptation. (G) (CC) Kidnapped (1938). Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew. Very good adventure for the youngsters, via Stevenson story. (10:15) . Lloyd’s of London (1936). TLC Undercover Boss (CC) (HD) (PG) Undercover Boss (CC) (HD) (PG) Undercover Boss “Hooters.” (HD) Undercover Boss (CC) (HD) (PG) Undercover Boss (CC) (HD) (PG) Undercover TNT . War of the Worlds (2005). Tom Cruise. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) (5:30) Transformers (2007). Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson. Two races of robots wage war on Earth. Boys and their toys. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) Transformers (2007). Two races of robots wage war on Earth. Boys and their toys. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) TRAV All You Can All You Can Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (PG) Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (PG) Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (14) Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (PG) Ghost Adv. TRU Top 20 Most Shocking (14) Storage Hunters Storage Hunters Storage Hunters Storage Hunters Storage Hunters Storage Hunters Forensic Files Forensic Files Storage Hunters TVLAND Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith > Raymond > Raymond > Raymond > Raymond > Raymond King of Queens King of Queens USA > Law & Order: SVU “Avatar.” A vid- eo-game player goes missing. (HD) > Law & Order: SVU “Dominance.” (CC) (HD) (14) > Law & Order: SVU “Pure.” Miss- ing teenager. (CC) (HD) (14) > Law & Order: SVU “Dolls.” (CC) (HD) (14) White Collar “Honor Among Thieves.” (CC) (HD) (PG) The Condemned (2007). (CC) (HD) VH1 Hollywood Exes (HD) (14) Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (HD) (14) New Jack City (1991). Powerful New York drug lord. Chilling Snipes. (CC) You Got Served: Beat the World (2011). (PG-13) (HD) WE My Fair Wedding With David Tutera “Winter Wonderland Bride.” (HD) My Fair Wedding With David Tutera “Jennifer.” (CC) (HD) (G) My Fair Wedding With David Tutera “Corryn.” (CC) (HD) (G) My Fair Wedding With David Tutera “Day of the Dead Bride.” My Fair Wedding With David Tutera “Safari Bride.” (CC) (HD) (G) My Fair Wedding YES Extra Innings CenterStage (HD) Yanks Mag.Yankeeography (CC) 10 Years of YES YES Network’s tenth anniversary special. (HD) Yankees Classic 10:30 P.M. (Cinemax) COWBOYS & ALIENS (2011) Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig, above) wakes up bloodied and dazed in 1873 Arizona with a strange metallic bracelet locked on his wrist that turns him into a cowboy with a zap gun — the better to join forces with a ruthless cattle baron (Harrison Ford) and a mysterious traveler (Olivia Wilde) to subdue an army of aliens that is snatching up the townsfolk. The director,Jon Favreau,“can have a nice light touch, and his actors always seem as if they were happy to be there, which is true here too,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times of this adaptation of the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg.“Here, though, he wavers uncertainly between goofy pastiche and seriousness in a movie that wastes its title and misses the opportunity to play with, you know, ideas about the western and science-fiction horror.” She added, “Mr. Ford’s presence, along with that of Steven Spielberg (he’s an executive producer),makes you wonder what Mr. Spielberg would have done with this material, though maybe the better question is what Mr. Favreau would have done differently without him.” 5:30 P.M. (CUNY) RICHARD HEFFNER’S OPEN MINDIn this rebroadcast of a 2003 program,Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime Cosmopolitan magazine editor who died on Monday,discusses “Sex and the Single Girl,” the book that brought her fame and fortune when it was published in 1962. 8 P.M. (ABC) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006) Anne Hathaway plays Andy Sachs,a budding journalist and personal assistant who suffers at the velvet-gloved hand of her tyrannical boss, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep),in this adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s tissue-veiled portrait of the fashion magazine business. Ms. Streep plays the title character with a perfectionism that “has rarely seemed so apt,” A.O. Scott wrote in The Times, adding that Stanley Tucci, as Nigel, Miranda’s right-hand man-slave, “has never been better.” And he called Emily Blunt’s character, a perpetually dieting minion from hell, “a minor tour de force of smiling hostility.” 8 P.M. (HBO) THE CHANGE-UP(2011) Dave Lockwood (Jason Bateman, below),a corporate lawyer and father of three, finds his body switched with that of his bachelor best friend, Mitch Planko (Ryan Reynolds),an unemployed actor, after they urinate side by side into a public fountain while declaring that they’d like to live each other’s lives. Panic ensues when they return to the fountain and discover that it has been moved. Leslie Mann plays Dave’s high-strung wife, Jamie,whom Mitch has always secretly coveted. Olivia Wilde is Sabrina,a luscious legal associate with whom Mitch, as Dave, makes a promising connection. “The body-swapping premise, which is stale to begin with, isn’t explored with any depth, unless you find meaningful Freudian subtext in the movie’s relentless anal fixation,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. “But the premise at least sets up a farce that surpasses ‘The Hangover’ in gleeful crudeness and profanity. The similarities between the two movies aren’t coincidental: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore wrote both. David Dobkin, the director of ‘The Change-Up,’ is best known for ‘Wedding Crashers.’” 8 P.M. (Lifetime) MADE OF HONOR (2008) A slick Lothario (Patrick Dempsey) living large in New York off the fortune he made from his coffee cup invention suddenly decides that his best platonic friend (Michelle Monaghan, left with Mr. Dempsey) is the love of his life. Unfortunately, a rich, handsome aristocrat (Kevin McKidd) has gotten there first, and he’s perfect. Nearly. Writing in The Times, Stephen Holden said this comedy from the director Paul Weiland “adds tart satirical flavors to a cotton candy formula without sabotaging the sugar rush.” 9 P.M. (Hallmark) SMART COOKIES (2012) The channel celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.with this story about Julie Sterling (Jessalyn Gilsig),who is just two sales away from being named real estate agent of the year when her boss (Patricia Richardson) assigns her to lead a struggling local troop called the Fireflies. When Julie discovers that the girls are social outcasts, she decides to help them win the annual cookie sale competition against their rivals, the Monarchs. But her own career will have to wait. 10 P.M. (OWN) 10 KIDS 2 DADS Clint McCormack and Bryan Reamer,a gay couple in Farmington Hills,Mich., raise 10 adopted sons from difficult backgrounds. KATHRYNSHATTUCK WHAT’S ON TODAY ZADE ROSENTHAL/UNIVERSAL PICTURES By WALT BOGDANICH and REBECCA R. RUIZ A horse that recently tested positive for a supercharged painkiller drawn from a type of South American frog broke down and was euthanized Thurs- day at a New Mexico racetrack after winning a trial heat for the coming All American Futurity, one of the world’s richest horse races. The horse, Jess A Zoomin, was one of eight New Mexico quarter horses that tested positive for the painkiller der- morphin on the same day in late May. tracks. On Labor Day weekend last year, one of the quarter horse industry’s most celebrated jockeys, Jacky Martin, broke his neck at the finish line when his mount collapsed with a broken leg. Martin remains paralyzed. The Times also reported that the im- proper use of drugs was rampant at the state’s racetracks, as state racing au- thorities now acknowledge. Some train- ers there were giving horses large over- doses of painkillers,often without fear of penalty. The quarter horse industry has also ened the hand of racing industry figures who are pushing to lessen the influence of drugs, both legal and illegal, in rac- ing. The dermorphin cases became the focus of a recent congressional hearing on drugs in racing at which all the wit- nesses called for lifetime bans for any- one found to have knowingly given horses performance-enhancing drugs. New Mexico recently reformed how it regulates horse racing, including ex- panded drug testing, in response to an investigation by The New York Times, published in March, that found the state had the country’s most dangerous race- heat for the Futurity. Reed declined to comment. Vince Mares, executive director of the New Mexico Racing Commission, expressed frustration at the length of time the lab is taking to report its der- morphin findings. “We do not have the authority to tell other labs to hurry up,” Mares said. To date, 35 horses in four states — New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Nebraska — have tested positive for dermorphin, the frog secretion that is said to be 40 times more powerful than morphine. Those results have strength- All were running in an earlier round of trial heats to earn the right to advance to the Futurity, which has a purse of more than $2 million. The dead horse’s trainer, Jeffrey Heath Reed, is accused of doping five of those horses. But he has been allowed to continue training — and vying to win the Futurity on Labor Day — after exer- cising his right to verify the state’s posi- tive tests at a second laboratory. A second horse that Reed trained, which had not tested positive for der- morphin, also broke down and was eu- thanized Thursday during another trial Deadly End for Horse That Tested Positive for Painkiller Continued on Page D2 The 33-year-old lefthander became the first Mets pitcher to allow six runs or more in five consecutive starts as the Nationals cruised to a 6-4 win. Page D2. INGLORIOUS RECORD FOR JOHAN SANTANA The Yankees belted five solo home runs, including two by Nick Swisher, left, and Derek Jeter’s 250th, which tied him for ninth place on the club’s list. Page D3. YANKEES’ HOME RUNS EXTEND RED SOX’S WOES The Giants are the Super Bowl champions, but they have happily ceded the news media spotlight to the N.F.L. reality show that is the Jets.Page D7. GIANTS ARE HAPPY TO STEP ASIDE Welcome to the Neighborhood Photographs by TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES The Nets don’t officially step on the court in Brooklyn until the fall. But their footprints are already evident, even ubiquitous,around the borough. There is, of course, the giant arena at Flatbush and Atlantic announcing the arrival of the team. But there are also billboards and T-shirts, posters and caps, store window displays and bus stop signage. Call it the birth of a brand.More photographs, Pages D4-5. Ø N D1 SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Auto Racing 2:30 p.m. Nationwide Series, NAPA Auto Parts 200 ESPN Baseball 11:00 a.m. Junior League final, Aruba vs. Florida ESPN2 2:00 p.m. Senior League final, Guatemala vs. California ESPNU 4:00 p.m. Boston at Yankees FOX 7:00 p.m. Mets at Washington CH. 11 7:00 p.m. Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta MLB Baseball / 5:00 p.m. First semifinal, Maryland vs. T.B.A. CBSSN Cal Ripken World Series 7:30 p.m. Second semifinal, Japan vs. Korea CBSSN Baseball / Noon Game 9, Curacao vs. Germany ESPN Little League World Series 3:00 p.m. Game 10, Connecticut vs. Nebraska ABC 6:00 p.m. Game 11, Mexico vs. Uganda ESPN 8:00 p.m. Game 12, New Jersey vs. Oregon ESPN Basketball / W.N.B.A. 7:00 p.m. Atlanta at Indiana NBA TV 10:00 p.m. Los Angeles at Seattle NBA TV Football / N.F.L. 7:00 p.m. Giants at Jets CBS, NFL NET (Preseason) 10:00 p.m. Dallas at San Diego NFL NET Golf 1:00 p.m. Wyndham Championship, third round GOLF 3:00 p.m. Wyndham Championship, third round CBS 3:00 p.m. Champions, Dick’s Sporting Goods Open GOLF 4:00 p.m. U.S. Amateur, semifinals NBC 6:30 p.m. Safeway Classic, second round GOLF Horse Racing 5:00 p.m. Alabama and Sword Dancer Invitational NBCSN Soccer 9:50 a.m. England, Sunderland at Arsenal ESPN 10:00 a.m. England, Liverpool at West Bromwich Albion FSC 12:30 p.m. England, Tottenham at Newcastle FSC 7:00 p.m. Exhibition, Indiana University vs. Chivas de Guadalajara FSC 1:50 a.m. Women’s, U-20 World Cup, Brazil vs. Italy ESPNU Softball 5:00 p.m. Junior League, final ESPN2 Tennis 1:00 p.m. U.S. Open Series, Western & Southern Open ESPN2 7:00 p.m. U.S. Open Series, Western & Southern Open ESPN2 HOME AWAY SUN 8/19 THU 8/23 WED 8/22 SAT 8/18 TUE 8/21 FRI 8/24 MON 8/20 This Week METS WASHINGTON 7 p.m. CH. 11 WASHINGTON 1:30 p.m. CH. 11 COLORADO 7 p.m. SNY COLORADO 7 p.m. SNY COLORADO 7 p.m. SNY COLORADO 1 p.m. SNY HOUSTON 7 p.m. SNY YANKEES BOSTON 4 p.m. FOX BOSTON 8 p.m. ESPN WHITE SOX 8 p.m. YES WHITE SOX 8 p.m. CH. 9 WHITE SOX 8 p.m. YES CLEVELAND 7 p.m. CH. 9 TV Highlights More listings are at tvlistings.nytimes.com, under the Sports-Events category. JETS (PRESEASON) GIANTS 7 P.M. SATURDAY CBS, NFL NET PORTLAND RED BULLS 7 P.M. SUNDAY MSG+ GIANTS (PRESEASON) JETS 7 P.M. SATURDAY CBS, NFL NET CONNECTICUT LIBERTY 7 P.M. SATURDAY D2 Ø N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 BAS E BA L L HO R S E R AC I NG been rocked this year by charges that a small group of horsemen had been laundering money through racehorses for two Mex- ican drug cartels. Separately, in Kentucky, the state’s racing commission an- nounced Wednesday that it had instituted safety measures aimed at identifying injured or at-risk horses after a rash of fatal break- downs in May at the country’s most famous racetrack, Churchill Downs. John Ward, the commission’s executive director, said racing of- ficials have added an extra veter- inarian to watch horses for any sign of injury as they walk off the track after racing. Once horses are entered in a race, officials will examine their past performance charts in search of telltale signs of injury, such as pulling up or being trans- ported off the track. They will also watch video replays of cer- tain races and watch horses in training. Suspect horses would then be observed more closely. “We are trying to get real-time knowledge of the condition of our equine athletes,” Ward said, add- ing that the new precautions seemed to be working because the number of fatal breakdowns at Churchill Downs dropped from eight in May to two in June. As part of its investigation, The Times built its own database us- ing similar telltale signs of injury to identify problem tracks, train- ers and breeds. The paper also found that 24 horses die each week at America’s racetracks and that in one recent three-year period more than 3,800 horses had positive drug tests, mostly for illegally high levels of pre- scription drugs. Prominent veterinarians say the overuse of pain medicine can mask injury, putting both horse and rider at risk. From First Sports Page Joe Drape contributed reporting. Deadly Finish for Horse That Was Given Painkiller By JOE DRAPE SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — It requires a certain tempera- ment for a horseplayer to endure the grind of the Saratoga meet day in,day out.He needs to be shrewd but good-humored, ab- sorbed but resilient. A healthy bankroll helps,as does a strong, functioning liver. If you are married, an under- standing spouse is a must. An ab- sent one is best. Many, then, are called, but few are chosen, and 27 years ago,when the racing gods dropped Taylor Sage into this horsy Brigadoon,they smashed the mold and swore never to make another. Too many people would have had too much fun. Little Bear, as Sage is known, is a man whose size is eclipsed by his smile, his kindness and his zest for life. He has a trademark greeting: “Grrr,” he offers, and then explains, “with a little Gand three R’s.” He has tried a number of ca- reers and found success as a psy- chologist operating under the moniker of — what else —Sage Advice.He has also been an own- er of a wholesale auto parts busi- ness and, most recently, an exca- vation business. “I move dirt,” he said, his eyes twinkling at the simplicity of the explanation. Sage’s interests range far wid- er than four-legged animals run- ning in circles. He is an ardent supporter of his hometown Peter- borough Players, the acclaimed theater company in New Hamp- shire. He hunts ducks each year on Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, and he knows where the best res- taurants are from New York City to New England. The talent that Sage is most ap- preciated for, however, is to gra- ciously be the sun that a universe of horseplayers revolves around. That sun shines most evenings across the street from the race- track at the Turf Club, where Sage has hung his tack for decades af- ter the day’s card. He is the one offering rounds and introductions so the Coopers- town crowd is comfortable with the Vermonters and so his New Hampshire neighbors can find common ground with the New York City folks. Judges from Chi- cago have landed in his orbit,as have several chefs and a fellow lapsed psychologist who migrat- ed from New York to Vermont and Florida but now resides part time in South Carolina in a town that he identifies only as Hooter- ville. “You build these relationships over the years,and you keep meeting every August up here,” Sage said. “We’re all horseplay- ers. We’re all here to have fun.” Sage is not a heavy bettor, or whale,who churns money through the window. But his bankroll is just fine after a large Pick 6 score a couple of years ago. Just as gentlemen never tell, horseplayers are discreet about numbers as well as philosophy. “I handicap handicappers” is how Sage characterizes his meth- odology. Healthy liver? Check. Sage turns 67 next week,and while the number of late nights and early mornings are fewer and far between, he is out most every night. Understanding spouse? A hall of famer. Cathie Sage is the kind of wife who threw Taylor his 60th birth- day party by renting the track- side chalet here and having a race named after him. She makes it to the Spa for at least a few days each meeting,and the couple nev- er break stride. How Sage arrives at the race- track daily has become an event itself over the years. He has ridden his bike and ar- rived by rickshaw. For the second season, however, Sage has rented an electric wheelchair that not only powers him to and from the racetrack but also serves as his seat in the breezeway of what used to be the Travers Bar near the clubhouse turn. Sage has established his Bear’s Den in the basement of the Springwater Bed & Breakfast, across the alley from the Turf Club. The B & B is owned and op- erated by Peter and Leslie DiCar- lo. They befriended him years ago and cater to his every whim, whether it is a special parking spot for his red PT Cruiser with flames painted on its side or a special-order breakfast. Sage knows better than most how good he has got it. It is about now each year,at the midpoint of the meet,that he, as well as every other Spa horseplayer, has to beat back a little melancholy. “It’s a special place and it’s coming to an end,” he said. “Leav- ing here is like coming out of the cloud and landing hard in the real world.” Yes, it is — “grrr.” POSTCARDFROM SARATOGA SPRINGS In a Horseplayer’s Heaven, It’s Bear’s Season CHARLIE SAMUELS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Taylor Sage, left, with his friend George Sheehan at Saratoga Race Course, said of his methodology,“I handicap handicappers.” Taylor Sage, the sun around which many characters revolve. CA L E NDA R By ANDREW KEH WASHINGTON — Johan San- tana began his year enveloped in a thick haze of uncertainty. He appears to be wading into that haze again. Continuing a recent run of ineptitude, Santana was shelled for six runs during the Mets’ 6-4 loss to the Washington Nationals on Friday night, earn- ing him the dubious distinction of being the first player in franchise history to give up six runs or more in five consecutive starts. More significant, this latest poor outing, which dropped his record to 6-9 and raised his earned run average to 4.85, re- ignited concerns about his phys- ical state and sparked fresh de- bate about whether he should be shut down for the rest of the year. Santana had surgery last year to repair a torn capsule in his shoulder, and the fact that he be- gan the season as a viable starter was a pleasant surprise. His no- hitter on June 1 — the first no- hitter in franchise history — pro- vided an exhilarating shock. But his struggles since have muddied the plans for his immediate fu- ture. “My season has been a roller coaster, a lot of ups and downs, good days, bad days,” said Santa- na, who left open the possibility that he and Mets officials could decide to bring his season to a premature end. “We’ll see the next couple of days what they have to say or what we’re going to do.” The game began optimistically for the Mets, as Santana was giv- en a lead before he even took the mound, when Daniel Murphy drove a two-run single into cen- ter field. For a brief spell it seemed as if Santana’s recent ills might have been cured, as he maintained a perfect game the first time through the Nationals’ order. After the game Santana said his arm felt fine, and Manager Terry Collins expressed no in- terest in shutting him down. “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel, because you know he’s healthy,” Collins said. “Today’s stuff was better than the last time out.” Santana’s evening unraveled in the fourth. Jayson Werth, Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmer- man hit consecutive hard singles into center field. On a 1-1 count, Santana challenged Michael Morse with a high, 90-mile-per- hour fastball, which he crushed to the opposite field. Morse skipped out of the bat- ter’s box as the ball sailed over the wall in right-center field for a grand slam that put the Nation- al’s ahead, 4-2. Moments later, Morse popped out of the dugouts for a raucous curtain call before an announced crowd of 34,827. The feel at Nationals Park has been electric all season — a pro- found difference from the home atmosphere of previous years — as the home team has compiled the best winning percentage in baseball. On the field, the dichot- omy between the clubs was nota- ble, too, considering they were separated by just three and a half games at the conclusion of the 2011 season. After the Mets’ loss Friday, they trailed the Nationals, who lead the National League East, by 18 games. The buzzing crowd became fully charged again in the fourth, when Harper came up with two outs and a runner on first base and whipped a low fastball from Santana into the right-field seats, increasing the Nationals’ lead to 6-2. Santana got through the fifth, but his night ended after that. The Mets scraped a couple of runs back. Scott Hairston, who had three doubles on the night, scored on Ronny Cedeno’s groundout in the sixth, and Kelly Shoppach hit a solo home run to left in the seventh. But the Na- tionals’ bullpen shut the Mets out the rest of the way, sealing the victory for starter Ross Detwiler. After the loss, Dan Warthen, the Mets’ pitching coach, said it was clear Santana was not in “terribly strong pitching shape,” partly because he had been throwing since mid-December during his rehabilitation and partly because of his recent three-week stint on the disabled list. “It was very obvious the fourth and fifth inning that the ball was leaking back over the plate, los- ing velocity,” Warthen said. “It’s just a matter of building that arm strength up, because we saw a vintage Johan for three innings.” Warthen said he would likely sit down for a meeting with San- tana, Collins and General Man- ager Sandy Alderson in the com- ing days. The group will have much to discuss. Santana has struggled since the June 1 no-hitter, compil- ing an 8.27 earned run average during 10 subsequent starts. His recent time off, ostensibly to heal a sprained ankle, but also to rest his tired arm and body, did not yield immediate benefits. He returned Aug. 11 and gave up eight runs in just one and a third innings. That game raised questions about whether the Mets, who are set to pay Santana $25.5 million next year, would be better off sitting him for the rest of the season. And those questions emerged again from the haze of Santana’s latest start. With Another Mets First, Santana Raises Concerns Instead of Spirits PATRICK MCDERMOTT/GETTY IMAGES Michael Morse hit a grand slam in the fourth off Johan Santana, who allowed at least six runs for the fifth consecutive start. 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That’s the narrative we keep hearing, any- way, that the Red Sox have lost their way, that they loathe Bobby Valentine and actively plot to get rid of him so they can go back to drinking beer in the home club- house and having private parties on the owner’s yacht. Look, the Red Sox have some surly personalities, and a dys- functional dynamic in which play- ers feel free to go directly to own- ership to air problems with the manager. But Valentine was not universally loved by his Mets players, either. He took them to two National League Champion- ship Series, and one pennant, be- cause his stars played like stars, and he found unexpected value in role players. “He can’t manage the team and at the same time go and play for us,” David Ortiz said before Friday’s 6-4 loss to the Yankees. “All he can do is make moves and make decisions. But if you don’t have your squad out there pro- viding what you expect —be- cause of injuries or bad games or whatever — I don’t think people should be looking at it like it’s his fault we struggled the way we have this year.” Injuries and bad games. That’s why the Red Sox are likely to miss the postseason for the third year in a row. The players’ opin- ion of Valentine hardly matters. Valentine has always under- stood his role differently than most managers. He deflects controversy from his players by absorbing it him- self. If he makes enemies in the clubhouse, well, sometimes play- ers come together over a common enemy. offense has been challenged at times, and when it’s challenged and stressed, it’s been less fun.” The pitching coach Bob Mc- Clure said it was too simple to blame the team’s mediocre sea- son on Lester and Beckett. He said Lester, in particular, has been a victim of bad luck,and that his baseline statistics (6-10, 5.20 E.R.A.) do not tell the whole story. “If you really look at it, there’s more to it than that,” McClure said. “How bad is he, really? Yeah, he had a cluster of games that were bad. But he’s had a lot of them that were pretty good, too, and he’s gotten nothing out of them but a loss or a no-deci- sion.” Hitters have a .326 average off Lester when they put the ball in play, the highest mark for him since his 2006 rookie season. Les- ter does have five starts this sea- son of at least seven innings and no more than three earned runs, without a victory. But he also has five starts of fewer than five in- nings with at least four earned runs. The kindest way to describe Lester’s season is uneven, same as Beckett. They were supposed to be the anchors of the team. No wonder it seems rudderless. plains the record or where we are, other than I haven’t managed some situations as well as they could have been managed,” Val- entine said. “When you talk about the pitch- ing, the only thing the pitching has kind of stressed us on is that we’ve played, I think, an abnor- mal amount of games where we’ve been behind early,” he said. “And that might not statistically be true —it seems it —and I think it stresses the offense. Our Lester and Josh Beckett, who start the next two games this weekend. In 44 starts this season, they are a combined 11-20 with a 5.20 earned run average. The Red Sox are 16-28 in their starts; if they were merely .500 in those games, Boston would have come here just a half game out of a playoff spot. Instead, the Red Sox were six and a half back and ranked sixth in the wild-card standings. “I don’t think any one thing ex- “It’s been a challenging year,” Valentine said. “A lot of things go- ing on. I don’t know if it’s more than I expected, but it’s been challenging —just the way we like it.” The biggest challenge has been having to juggle injuries. Call it an excuse, if you want, but the extent of the Red Sox’ injuries is unprec- edented in the last 25 years. They have put 25 players on the dis- abled list this season, the most by any team since at least 1987, ac- cording to Stats Inc. Ortiz, the team’s only All-Star, strained his right Achilles’ tendon rounding second base on a team- mate’s home run July 16. Natural- ly, that was the season debut for Carl Crawford, who missed the first half with elbow and wrist in- juries, and the same week Jacoby Ellsbury returned from a three- month shoulder problem. “We’ve been dealing with so much injuries,” Ortiz said. “I was one that was very excited, know- ing that Ells and C.C. were com- ing in, and next thing you know, boom, I go on the D.L. And then after that, you see how many times those guys been on base, a situation that I wasn’t facing too much when I was playing. It’s just terribly frustrating.” Most frustrating of all, perhaps, has been the performance of Jon Of Red Sox’ Many Problems, Injuries Have Hurt the Most TYLER KEPNER ON BASEBALL ULI SEIT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Bobby Valentine has spent the season trying to hold together an injury plagued Red Sox team, facing criticismalong the way. Two struggling aces have only added to Valentine’s woes. By The Associated Press Yu Darvish paid a high price for making one bad pitch to To- ronto’s top hitter. Edwin Encarnacion hit his 31st home run, J.A. Happ won his sec- ond straight start and the Toron- to Blue Jays beat Darvish and the Rangers, 3-2, on Friday night on the road, handing Texas its fourth loss in five games. “He was good,” Rangers Man- ager Ron Washington said of Darvish. “We just didn’t support him with runs.” Darvish (12-9) lost for the sec- ond time in three starts, allowing three runs and three hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out 10. “From the beginning, I don’t think my fastball had a lot of life to it,” Darvish said through a translator. “But more often than not I was able to keep the ball down with my cutter, slider, all my other pitches. Over all, I think I was able to stay down and be ef- fective.” For Darvish, it was the seventh time this season he’s reached double figures in strikeouts, tying him with Jim Bibby (1973) for the Rangers rookie mark. Darvish failed to win consec- utive starts for the first time since a three-game winning streak in June, but allowed three earned runs for the second straight start after giving up 18 runs in his previous three out- ings. “I was able to throw with confi- dence tonight,” Darvish said. “Even if I fell down,2-0,I didn’t panic. I was able to relax and make my pitches.” Encarnacion, who became the first major leaguer to homer off Darvish when he took him deep in an April 30 Texas win at Rog- ers Centre, did it again with a sec- ond-deck blast in the first, his 31st. Rangers catcher Geovany Soto said location was to blame on Encarnacion’s homer, with Dar- vish leaving a pitch up in the zone. Encarnacion returned to the lineup after sitting out Thurs- day’s loss to the White Sox with a sore shoulder and wrist, the re- sult of a diving play in left field Wednesday. ROYALS 4, WHITE SOX 2 Salvador Perez hit a tiebreaking two-run double with two outs in the sev- enth inning for host Kansas City. Luis Mendoza pitched seven innings as the Royals won for the third time in four games. Paul Konerko hit a solo home run for Chicago after being acti- vated from the seven-day concus- sion disabled list. It was Koner- ko’s first game since he was struck by a Jarrod Dyson elbow while covering first base Aug. 7 against the Royals. TIGERS 5, ORIOLES 3 Prince Field- er hit a pair of two-run homers to lift Detroit over visiting Balti- more. Fielder got Detroit even at 3-3 in the sixth with a 462-foot shot to right-center field, then hit a soar- ing shot to right in the eighth to give the Tigers a 5-3 lead. BREWERS 6, PHILLIES 2 Ryan Braun hit his National League- leading 32nd home run, Yovani Gallardo won his fourth straight start, and Milwaukee extended its home winning streak to nine. MARLINS 6, ROCKIES 5 Jose Reyes and Giancarlo Stanton homered, Wade LeBlanc won for the first time as a starter and Mi- ami won on the road for just its third victory in its last 10 games. PIRATES 2, CARDINALS 1 James McDonald halted a string of inef- fective starts with six innings of two-hit ball, helping Pittsburgh on the road in a matchup of N.L. Central playoff contenders. Andrew McCutchen singled and scored on a passed ball in a two-run fourth for the Pirates, who also scored on a wild pitch that inning. Pittsburgh totaled 41 runs during its first six games in St. Louis this season. REDS 7, CUBS 3 Todd Frazier hit a two-run home run, Ryan Ludwick and Jay Bruce added solo shots, and host Cincinnati beat Chicago in the opener of a four-game weekend series. DIAMONDBACKS 3, ASTROS 1 Wade Miley pitched six solid in- nings and drove in a run to lead Arizona on the road. Miley hit a sacrifice fly and Chris Young doubled in a run in the fifth for Arizona, which has won seven consecutive games against the Astros. BRAVES 4, DODGERS 3 Pinch-hit- ter Juan Francisco’s two-out sin- gle in the 11th inning gave host Atlanta its fourth straight win. The backup catcher David Ross and the light-hitting Paul Janish kept the inning going with back-to-back singles off Brandon League (0-1) before Francisco punched one to left off Jamie Wright. Jonny Venters (4-3) earned the win. ROUNDUP Darvish Controls Mound but, After One Bad Pitch, Finishes Empty-Handed ABELIMAGES/GETTY IMAGES Toronto’s Edwin Encarnacion hit his 31st homer of the season in a 3-2 victory over Texas. By DAVID WALDSTEIN Shortly after the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox,6-4, at Yan- kee Stadium and Joe Girardi lauded the performances of sev- eral players, he slipped quietly into the club- house and placed the game’s lineup card on Derek Jeter’s chair in front of his locker. Jeter has been ticking off offen- sive milestones with impressive regularity, but only after a hand- ful of them — like reaching 3,000 hits — has he shown great per- sonal gratification. On Friday night,Jeter reached another one — his 250th home run — that pro- vided a rare moment for him to publicly express satisfaction. “I always hear all the time that I don’t hit home runs,” he said. “But in my mind it’s a lot of them. It’s something I’m happy with. I try to be consistent every year and do my job. Like I’ve always said, if you do it long enough, good things will happen. I think it’s a big number. Other people might not, but for me it’s a lot of home runs.” Jeter ranks 206th on the all- time list, breaking a tie with Jose Valentin, but for a leadoff hitter, 250 is a lofty number. Next on the list at 251 is Robin Yount, another player with 3,000 hits who played on one team, the Milwaukee Brewers,his entire career. With two more home runs, Jeter will tie his old man- ager, Joe Torre. Jeter joins Willie Mays as the only players with 3,000 hits, 250 home runs, 300 stolen bases and 1,200 runs batted in. The 250 homers also tied him with Graig Nettles for ninth place on the Yankees’ all-time list. It was his 10th home run, making this the 16th season in which he has re- corded at least 10. Before the game,Red Sox Manager Bobby Valentine was asked about Jeter’s success, and he just repeated, “He’s Derek Jeter,” as if the name itself was the highest praise. “He’s an amazing player,” Gi- rardi said. “When you think about what he’s done throughout his career, 38 years old, he’s played 15 days in a row. There aren’t too many guys 38 years old who play 15 days in a row. And he continues to be productive.” In addition to the lineup card to commemorate the event, Jeter got the ball back from Patrick Cullen, a fan from Stamford, Conn.— Valentine’s hometown — who caught it in the left-field seats. Jeter’s home run was one of five solo shots that the Yankees hit. Nick Swisher hit one from both sides of the plate. Curtis Granderson and Russell Martin hit back-to back home runs in the second inning. Valentine’s swooning Red Sox had a three-run shot from Dustin Pedroia that gave them a 4-3 lead in the third, but Jeter’s home run tied the score in the fifth. Phil Hughes allowed four un- earned runs in seven excellent in- nings to win for the first time since Aug. 1. Hughes made the throwing error that led to all four. The game started amid a downpour as mud caked the mound and small standing pud- dles formed on the warning track behind home plate. But the um- pire crew chief,Gary Darling, de- spite seeing several cracks of lightning brighten the sky above, had the teams play on. After the Yankees hit their third home run, Darling allowed the grounds crew to landscape the mound for Red Sox starter Franklin Mo- rales, but he never summoned the tarp. The forecast called for rain shortly after the first pitch, but that was to be followed by a clearing, which is what hap- pened, and the game went on. In the third, Boston was trail- ing, 3-0, when Mike Aviles led off with a single to center and went to third on Hughes’s throwing er- ror. With runners at first and third,Pedro Ciriaco beat out the relay throw on an attempted dou- ble play,and Aviles scored to make it 3-1. Jacoby Ellsbury walked to put runners at first and second,and one out later Pedroia hit one of Hughes’s fastballs over the wall in left field to give the Red Sox a 4-3 lead. Then it was time for Jeter hero- ics — a common occurrence to the delight of Yankees fans. INSIDE PITCH MARK TEIXEIRA did not play be- cause of recurring soreness in his left wrist. Teixeira said he did not think it would last long term, but he may miss a few games. He missed two games with the same injury earlier this month.... C.C. SABATHIA played catch with his in- jured teammate ANDY PETTITTE on Friday as he continued to recover from left elbow soreness. Sabath- ia is eligible to come off the dis- abled list Aug. 24 and has de- clared he will pitch that day. But JOE GIRARDI was not as convinced. “I haven’t really nailed down that that’s the date,” he said. “We have to see how his bullpen goes and how he feels. That way I have a little leeway on the second day or the third day or whenever it is. Let’s just see how his bull- pens go before I give an exact date on it.” ... ALEX RODRIGUEZ is scheduled to have another X-ray on his broken left hand Sunday. Jeter Hits Home Run, Savoring a Milestone ULI SEIT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Derek Jeter with Nick Swisher after hitting his 250th home run, tying him for ninth on the Yankees’ all-time list.Swisher hit two. YANKEES 6 RED SOX 4 D4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 Brownsville, Coney Island, Dumbo, Bensonhurst — legendary neighbor- hoods all, although some are, of course, of more recent vintage. But nowthey are also the targets and instruments of an N.B.A. branding campaign. The Nets are coming to Brooklyn, and evidence of their impending arrival is popping up,neigh- borhood by neighborhood. The Birth Of a Brand Photographs by TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES N D5 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 D6 ØØ N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 S C O R E B OA R D S O C C E R GOLF Walker Leads Wyndham Jimmy Walker shot an eight-under-par 62 on Friday to top the leader board at 12 under in the Wyndham Championship in Greens- boro, N.C. The defending champion Webb Simpson was a stroke back after a 63, and the first-round leader Carl Pettersson joined Tim Clark, Sergio García and the rookie Harris English at 10 under. (AP) ¶ Mika Miyazato and Sydnee Michaels each shot a seven-under 65 in 100-degree heat in North Plains, Ore., to share the first-round lead at the L.P.G.A. Tour’s Safeway Classic. (AP) ¶ Bernhard Langer topped the leader board at seven under when first-round play in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, N.Y., was suspended because of rain. Lang- er was facing an 8-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole when play was stopped with 69 players on the course. (AP) ¶ Steven Fox beat Chris Williams, the world’s top-ranked amateur, in the quarter- finals of the United States Amateur champi- onship at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Colorado. Fox, 21, of Hendersonville, Tenn., beat the 21-year-old Williams, of Moscow, Idaho, 4 and 2. Fox will play Brandon Hagy, 21, of Westlake Village, Calif., in a semifinal Saturday. (AP) BASEBALL New Jersey Team Loses Jordan Cardenas homered and pitched two and a third innings of hitless relief, and San Antonio took advantage of defensive mis- cues to beat Parsippany, N.J., 5-2, at the Lit- tle League World Series in South Williams- port, Pa. Outfielder Thomas Neal’s lunging catch saved an extra-base hit and helped Vancou- ver, British Columbia, beat Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 13-9. Mason Gillis drove in two runs with a check-swing double in a four-run fifth for New Castle, Ind., to break open a pitcher’s duel in a 4-0 victory over Greshem, Ore. Uganda, the first team from Africa to ad- vance to South Williamsport in the 66-year history of the tournament, fell to Panama in its debut, 9-3. (AP) COLLEGES Oklahoma Suspends Lineman Oklahoma defensive tackle Stacy McGee was suspended indefinitely for what Coach Bob Stoops called a violation of university policy. McGee is the fifth Sooner to be sus- pended this off-season. (AP) ¶ Boston College Athletic Director Gene DeFilippo, who has a treatable form of can- cer,said he was retiring after 15 years, a tenure in which he stabilized the program after a gambling scandal, led it into a new conference and saw it win four N.C.A.A. men’s hockey championships. (AP) HORSE RACING Injured Jockey Will Return Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. was cleared to ride af- ter injuring his ankle when he was thrown from his mount at Saratoga Race Course. Ortiz, 20, will ride the second-favorite Questing on Saturday in the $600,000 Ala- bama Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. (AP) S P O RT S B R I E F I NG BASEBALL METS SCHEDULE All Times EDT Aug. 18 at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Aug. 19 at Washington, 1:35 p.m. Aug. 20 Colorado, 7:10 p.m. Aug. 21 Colorado, 7:10 p.m. Aug. 22 Colorado, 7:10 p.m. Aug. 23 Colorado, 1:10 p.m. Aug. 24 Houston, 7:10 p.m. Aug. 25 Houston, 1:10 p.m. Aug. 26 Houston, 1:10 p.m. Aug. 28 at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. U.S. AMATEUR CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, COLO. Quarterfinals Upper Bracket Justin Thomas d. Oliver Goss, 2 up. Michael Weaver d. Ricardo Gouveia, 4 and 3. Lower Bracket Steven Fox d. Chris Williams, 4 and 2. Brandon Hagy d. Cheng-Tsung Pan, 4 and 3. Saturday's semifinal pairings Upper Bracket 10 a.m. — Justin Thomas vs. Michael Weaver Lower Bracket 10:15 a.m. - Steven Foxs vs. Brandon Hagy DICK'S SPORTING GOODS OPEN En-Joie Golf Course ENDICOTT, N.Y. Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 6,974; Par: 72 (37-35) First Round Leaderboard (When play was suspended) SCORE THRU Bernhard Langer . . . . . . . . . -7 14 Willie Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . -5 F John Huston. . . . . . . . . . . . -5 14 Lonnie Nielsen. . . . . . . . . . . -4 14 Mark Wiebe . . . . . . . . . . . . -4 11 Chien-Soon Lu. . . . . . . . . . . -4 8 Mark McNulty . . . . . . . . . . . -3 13 Andy Bean. . . . . . . . . . . . . -3 16 Michael Allen . . . . . . . . . . . -3 5 Gary Hallberg. . . . . . . . . . . -3 4 Joel Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . -3 F Steve Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . -3 15 Jeff Sluman . . . . . . . . . . . . -3 12 Nick Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3 13 Mark Calcavecchia. . . . . . . . -3 12 Loren Roberts. . . . . . . . . . . -3 14 Fulton Allem. . . . . . . . . . . . -2 17 Completed First Round Scores Willie Wood. . . . . . . . . . . .36-31—67 -5 Joel Edwards . . . . . . . . . .34-35—69 -3 Steve Lowery . . . . . . . . . .37-33—70 -2 Chip Beck . . . . . . . . . . . .36-35—71 -1 Bob Tway. . . . . . . . . . . . .36-36—72 E Craig Stadler. . . . . . . . . . .37-35—72 E Vicente Fernandez. . . . . . .35-37—72 E Tom Purtzer. . . . . . . . . . .38-35—73 +1 Peter Jacobsen. . . . . . . . .39-37—76 +4 Mike McCullough. . . . . . . .40-36—76 +4 Jay Sigel . . . . . . . . . . . . .40-38—78 +6 TRACK AND FIELD DN GALA MEETING STOCKHOLM (Race distances in meters) Men 100—1, Ryan Bailey, United States, 9.93. 2, Nesta Carter, Jamaica, 10.06. 3, Michael Frater, Jamaica, 10.12. 4, Darvis Patton, United States, 10.15. 5, Adam Gemili, Britain, 10.22. 6, Richard Thompson, Trinidad & Tobago, 10.23. 7, Gerald Phiri, Zambia, 10.24. 8, Nil De Oliveira, Sweden, 10.45. 400 hurdles—1, Michael Tinsley, United States, 48.50. 2, Felix Sanchez, Dominican Republic, 48.93. 3, Leford Green, Jamaica, 48.97. 4, Jehue Gordon, Trinidad & Tobago, 49.00. 5, Georg Fleischhauer, Germany, 49.79. 6, Rhys Williams, Britain, 49.93. 7, Michael Bultheel, Belgium, 50.02. 8, Angelo Taylor, United States, 50.41. 800—1, Mohammed Aman, Ethiopia, 1:43.56. 2, Taoufik Makhloufi, Algeria, 1:43.71. 3, Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich, Kenya, 1:44.23. 4, Edwin Kiplagat Melly, Kenya, 1:44.32. 5, Abubaker Kaki, Sudan, 1:44.42. 6, Marcin Lewandowski, Poland, 1:44.96. 7, Adam Kszczot, Poland, 1:45.36. 8, Duane Solomon, United States, 1:46.80. 9, Johan Svensson, Sweden, 1:50.05. 3,000 —1, Isiah Kiplangat Koech, Kenya, 7:30.43. 2, Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku, Kenya, 7:30.99. 3, John Kipkoech, Kenya, 7:34.03. 4, Edwin Cheruiyot Soi, Kenya, 7:34.75. 5, Vincent Kiprop Chepkok, Kenya, 7:35.04. 6, Evan Jager, United States, 7:35.16. 7, Arne Gabius, Germany, 7:35.43. 8, Collis Birmingham, Australia, 7:35.45. 9, Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa, Kenya, 7:40.01. 10. Daniele Meucci, Italy, 7:41.74. Triple jump—1, Christian Taylor, United States, 56-13/4. 2, Sheryf El Sheryf, Ukraine, 55-11. 3, Lyukman Adams, Russia, 55-61/2. 4, Will Claye, United States, 55- 43/4. 5, Tosin Oke, Nigeria, 55-0. 6, Samyr Laine, Haiti, 54-83/4. Shot put—1, Reese Hoffa, United States, 69-81/4. 2, Tomasz Majewski, Poland, 68- 111/4. 3, Ryan Whiting, United States, 68-81/2. 4, Dylan Armstrong, Canada, 67- 101/4. 5, Christian Cantwell, United States, 67-61/4. 6, Maksim Sidorov, Russia, 64-10. Javelin—1, Tero Pitkamaki, Finland, 285-4. 2, Vitezslav Vesely, Czech Republic, 274-9. 3, Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukraine, 266-6. 4, Antti Ruuskanen, Finland, 262-3. 5, Vadims Vasilevskis, Latvia, 260-4. 6, Ivan Zaytsev, Uzbekistan, 257-11. Women 200—1, Charonda Williams, United States, 22.82. 2, Bianca Knight, United States, 22.86. 3, Mariya Ryemyen, Ukraine, 22.94. 4, Anneisha McLaughlin, Jamaica, 22.96. 5, Jeneba Tarmoh, United States, 23.00. 6, Sherone Simpson, Jamaica, 23.15. 400—1, Sanya Richards-Ross, United States, 49.89. 2, Amantle Montsho, Botswana, 50.03. 3, Christine Ohuruogu, Britain, 50.77. 4, Antonina Krivoshapka, Russia, 50.93. 5, Francena McCorory, United States, 51.08. 6, Deedee Trotter, United States, 51.75. 1,500—1, Maryam Yusuf Jamal, Bahrain, 4:01.19. 2, Mimi Belete, Bahrain, 4:01.72. 3, Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopia, 4:02.04. 4, Shannon Rowbury, United States, 4:03.15. 5, Jenny Simpson, United States, 4:04.71. 100 hurdles—1, Dawn Harper, United States, 12.65. 2, Kellie Wells, United States, 12.76. 3, Alina Talay, Bulgaria, 12.79. 4, Virginia Crawford, United States, 12.83. 5, Queen Harrison, United States, 12.89. 3,000 steeplechase—1, Yuliya Zaripova, Russia, 9:05.02. 2, Habiba Ghribi, Tunisia, 9:10.36. 3, Etenesh Diro Neda, Ethiopia, 9:14.07. 4, Lydia Chepkirui, Kenya, 9:14.98. 5, Ancuta Bobocel, Romania, 9:25.70. High jump—1, Anna Chicherova, Russia, 6-63/4. 2, Svetlana Shkolina, Russia, 6-51/2. 3, Tia Hellebaut, Belgium, 6-41/4. 4, Ruth Beitia, Spain, 6-41/4. 5, Irina Gordeyeva, Russia, 6-2. Pole vault—1, Yarisley Silva, Cuba, 15-5. 2, Silke Spiegelburg, Germany, 14-11. 3, Fabiana Murer, Brazil, 14-11. 4, Lisa Ryzih, Germany, 14-71/2. 5, Jirina Ptacnikova, Czech Republic, 14-71/2. 6, Angelica Bengtsson, Sweden, 14-71/2. Long jump—1, Yelena Sokolova, Russia, 22-41/2. 2, Nastassia Mironchik-Ivanova, Belarus, 22-13/4. 3, Janay Deloach, United States, 21-111/2. 4, Shara Proctor, Britain, 21-11. 5, Ineta Radevica, Latvia, 21-10. 6, Olga Kucherenko, Russia, 21-9. Shot put—1, Valerie Adams, New Zealand, 66-53/4. 2, Yevgenia Kolodko, Russia, 62- 71/4. 3, Christina Schwanitz, Germany, 61-5. 4, Natalya Mikhnevich, 60-83/4. 5, Michelle Carter, United States, 60-4. Discus throw—1, Sandra Perkovic, Croatia, 225-7. 2, Darya Pischalnikova, Russia, 219- 4. 3, Nadine Muller, Germany, 213-6. 4. Yarelis Barrios, Cuba, 210-11. 5, Stephanie Brown-Trafton, United States, 207-10. SOCCER M.L.S. STANDINGS EAST W L T Pts GF GA Sporting KC 13 7 4 43 30 22 New York 12 7 5 41 40 34 Houston 11 6 7 40 35 27 Chicago 11 7 5 38 28 25 D.C. 11 8 3 36 36 29 Montreal 10 13 3 33 36 43 Columbus 8 8 5 29 21 22 Philadelphia 7 12 2 23 23 27 New England 6 12 5 23 26 29 Toronto FC 5 13 5 20 27 42 WEST W L T Pts GF GA San Jose 14 5 5 47 47 29 Real Salt Lake 13 9 3 42 36 30 Seattle 10 6 7 37 32 24 Los Angeles 11 11 4 37 44 40 Vancouver 10 8 7 37 28 31 FC Dallas 7 11 8 29 31 34 Chivas USA 7 9 5 26 14 25 Colorado 8 15 1 25 31 35 Portland 5 12 6 21 22 39 Saturday’s Games Vancouver at Seattle FC, 4 p.m. Sporting KC at Toronto FC, 4:30 p.m. San Jose at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. New England at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. FC Dallas at Real Salt Lake, 9 p.m. Chivas USA at Colorado, 9 p.m. GOLF WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP Sedgefield Country Club GREENSBORO, N.C. Yardage: 7,117; Par: 70 Second Round (a-amateur) Jimmy Walker. . . . . . . . .66-62—128 -12 Webb Simpson . . . . . . . .66-63—129 -11 Tim Clark. . . . . . . . . . . .63-67—130 -10 Sergio Garcia . . . . . . . . .67-63—130 -10 Harris English. . . . . . . . .66-64—130 -10 Carl Pettersson. . . . . . . .62-68—130 -10 Matt Every. . . . . . . . . . .65-66—131 -9 Bud Cauley . . . . . . . . . .66-65—131 -9 Troy Matteson. . . . . . . . .64-68—132 -8 Nicolas Colsaerts. . . . . . .67-65—132 -8 Tommy Gainey . . . . . . . .66-67—133 -7 Bill Haas . . . . . . . . . . . .68-65—133 -7 Davis Love III . . . . . . . . .67-66—133 -7 Kevin Streelman . . . . . . .68-66—134 -6 Tom Gillis. . . . . . . . . . . .64-70—134 -6 Scott Stallings. . . . . . . . .64-70—134 -6 Brandt Snedeker. . . . . . .67-67—134 -6 Rod Pampling. . . . . . . . .68-66—134 -6 Jamie Donaldson. . . . . . .68-66—134 -6 John Huh. . . . . . . . . . . .69-65—134 -6 David Mathis. . . . . . . . . .63-71—134 -6 Chad Campbell. . . . . . . .71-64—135 -5 Arjun Atwal. . . . . . . . . . .66-69—135 -5 Jason Dufner . . . . . . . . .68-67—135 -5 Charl Schwartzel. . . . . . .67-68—135 -5 Nick Watney. . . . . . . . . .66-69—135 -5 John Merrick. . . . . . . . . .66-69—135 -5 Richard H. Lee . . . . . . . .66-69—135 -5 Jason Kokrak . . . . . . . . .66-69—135 -5 Trevor Immelman. . . . . . .67-68—135 -5 Chris Kirk. . . . . . . . . . . .66-69—135 -5 Heath Slocum. . . . . . . . .68-67—135 -5 Rocco Mediate . . . . . . . .70-65—135 -5 Will Claxton. . . . . . . . . . .69-66—135 -5 Chez Reavie. . . . . . . . . .67-69—136 -4 Graham DeLaet. . . . . . . .69-67—136 -4 Justin Leonard . . . . . . . .68-68—136 -4 D.A. Points. . . . . . . . . . .68-68—136 -4 Kyle Thompson. . . . . . . .69-67—136 -4 Alexandre Rocha. . . . . . .68-68—136 -4 Y.E. Yang. . . . . . . . . . . .67-69—136 -4 Charles Howell III. . . . . . .67-69—136 -4 Brendon de Jonge. . . . . .68-68—136 -4 Billy Horschel . . . . . . . . .69-67—136 -4 Russell Knox. . . . . . . . . .68-68—136 -4 Bobby Gates . . . . . . . . .69-67—136 -4 Tim Herron. . . . . . . . . . .76-61—137 -3 Dicky Pride. . . . . . . . . . .69-68—137 -3 Lucas Glover . . . . . . . . .68-69—137 -3 Gary Christian. . . . . . . . .67-70—137 -3 Derek Lamely. . . . . . . . .69-68—137 -3 Brendan Steele. . . . . . . .72-65—137 -3 SATURDAY 4:05 Boston (Lester (L), 6-10, 5.20) at Yankees (Phelps (R), 3-3, 2.53) 1:07 Texas (Oswalt (R), 4-2, 6.53) at Toronto (Vllanueva (R), 6-2, 3.12) 7:05 Baltimore (Britton (L), 1-1, 8.10) at Detroit (Porcello (R), 9-7, 4.68) 7:10 Chicago (Peavy (R), 9-8, 3.04) at Kansas City (Chen (L), 8-10, 5.56) 9:05 Cleveland (Kluber (R), 0-1, 8.56) at Oakland (Colon (R), 9-9, 3.55) 9:05 Tampa Bay (Cobb (R), 7-8, 4.08) at Los Angeles (Wilson (L), 9-9, 3.32) 9:10 Minnesota (Diamond (L), 10-5, 2.97) at Seattle (Vargas, J (L), 13-8, 3.56) SATURDAY 7:05 Mets (Niese (L), 9-6, 3.67) at Washington (Jackson (R), 7-7, 3.74) 1:10 (1st game) Chicago (Smardzija (R), 8-10, 4.06) at Cincinnati (Cueto (R), 15-6, 2.45) 4:05 Pittsburgh (Bedard (L), 7-12, 4.56) at St. Louis (Lynn (R), 13-5, 3.65) 7:05 Arizona (Corbin (L), 4-4, 3.41) at Houston (Lyles (R), 2-9, 5.47) 7:10 Philadelphia (Hamels (L), 13-6, 2.91) at Milwaukee (Fiers (R), 6-5, 2.63) 7:10 Los Angeles (Harang (R), 8-7, 3.76) at Atlanta (Sheets (R), 4-2, 2.13) 7:10 (2nd game) Chicago (Raley (L), 0-2, 9.00) at Cincinnati (Redmond (R), No Record) 8:10 Miami (Eovaldi (R), 3-8, 4.28) at Colorado (Chatwood (R), 3-2, 4.28) 8:35 San Francisco (Zito (L), 9-8, 4.29) at San Diego (Stults (L), 3-2, 2.49) TENNIS WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN A U.S. Open Series event The Lindner Family Tennis Center MASON, OHIO Singles Men Quarterfinals Juan Martin del Potro (6), Argentina, d. Jeremy Chardy, France, 6-1, 6-3. Novak Djokovic (2), Serbia, d. Marin Cilic (12), Croatia, 6-3, 6-2. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, d. Milos Raonic, Canada, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, d. Mardy Fish (10), United States, 6-4, 7-6 (4). Women Third Round Li Na (9), China, d. Johanna Larsson, Sweden, 6-2, 6-2. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (17), Russia, d. Caroline Wozniacki (6), Denmark, 6-4, 6-4. Women Quarterfinals Venus Williams, United States, d. Sam Stosur (3), Australia, 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-4. Angelique Kerber (5), Germany, d. Serena Williams (2), United States, 6-4, 6-4. Li Na (9), China, d. Agnieszka Radwanska (1), Poland, 6-1, 6-1. Li Na (9), China, d. Agnieszka Radwanska (1), Poland, 6-1, 6-1. A.L. STANDINGS East W L Pct GB Yankees 71 48 .597 — Tampa Bay 64 54 .542 6 { Baltimore 64 55 .538 7 Boston 58 62 .483 13 { Toronto 56 63 .471 15 Central W L Pct GB Chicago 65 53 .551 — Detroit 64 55 .538 1 { Cleveland 54 64 .458 11 Kansas City 52 66 .441 13 Minnesota 50 67 .427 14 { West W L Pct GB Texas 68 50 .576 — Oakland 62 55 .530 5 { Los Angeles 62 57 .521 6 { Seattle 55 64 .462 13 { FRIDAY Yankees 6, Boston 4 Detroit 5, Baltimore 3 Toronto 3, Texas 2 Kansas City 4, Chicago White Sox 2 Cleveland at Oakland Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels Minnesota at Seattle N.L. STANDINGS East W L Pct GB Washington 74 45 .622 — Atlanta 70 49 .588 4 Mets 56 63 .471 18 Philadelphia 54 65 .454 20 Miami 54 66 .450 20 { Central W L Pct GB Cincinnati 72 47 .605 — Pittsburgh 66 53 .555 6 St. Louis 64 55 .538 8 Milwaukee 54 64 .458 17 { Chicago 46 71 .393 25 Houston 39 81 .325 33 { West W L Pct GB San Francisco 64 54 .542 — Los Angeles 65 55 .542 — Arizona 60 59 .504 4 { San Diego 52 68 .433 13 Colorado 45 72 .385 18 { FRIDAY Washington 6, Mets 4 Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 3 Atlanta 4, L.A. Dodgers 3, 11 innings Arizona 3, Houston 1 Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1 Miami 6, Colorado 5 San Francisco at San Diego PRO FOOTBALL N.F.L. PRESEASON All Times EDT WEEK 2 Thursday's Games Cleveland 35, Green Bay 10 Cincinnati 24, Atlanta 19 Friday Tennessee 30, Tampa Bay 7 Minnesota 36, Buffalo 14 Jacksonville 27, New Orleans 24 Carolina 23, Miami 19 Detroit 27, Baltimore 12 Oakland at Arizona Saturday N.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, 7 p.m. San Francisco at Houston, 8 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m. Kansas City at St. Louis, 9 p.m. Seattle at Denver, 9 p.m. Dallas at San Diego, 10 p.m. Sunday Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m. (NBC) TIGERS 5, ORIOLES 3 Baltimore ab r h bi bb so avg. Markakis rf 5 0 2 1 0 0 .284 Hardy ss 3 1 1 0 0 1 .227 McLouth lf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .256 Ad.Jones cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .293 Wieters c 3 1 1 2 1 0 .245 C.Davis dh 3 0 1 0 1 1 .251 Mar.Reynolds 1b 3 0 0 0 0 3 .218 Mahoney 1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Machado 3b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .333 Quintanilla 2b 3 1 0 0 1 0 .295 Totals 32 3 7 3 4 7 Detroit ab r h bi bb so avg. A.Jackson cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .306 Dirks lf-rf 4 0 0 0 0 0 .330 Mi.Cabrera 3b 3 3 2 1 1 1 .329 Fielder 1b 3 2 2 4 1 0 .311 Avila c 4 0 0 0 0 0 .256 D.Young dh 3 0 1 0 0 0 .265 Boesch rf 2 0 0 0 1 2 .248 Berry lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .274 Jh.Peralta ss 3 0 0 0 0 0 .261 Infante 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .296 Totals 29 5 5 5 3 5 Baltimore 001 020 000—3 7 2 Detroit 100 002 02x—5 5 1 HR—Wieters (17), off Verlander; Mi.Cabrera (31), off Tom.Hunter; Fielder (21), off Tom. Hunter; Fielder (22), off J.Romero. RBIs— Markakis (41), Wieters 2 (62), Mi.Cabrera (104), Fielder 4 (88). SB—McLouth (3), C.Davis (1). CS—A.Jackson (6). Baltimore ip h r er bb so np era Tom.Hunter 6 4 3 3 2 3 98 5.49 O'Day L6-1 1 Î/¯ 0 1 1 1 2 30 2.55 J.Romero Í/¯ 1 1 1 0 0 7 4.50 Detroit ip h r er bb so np era Verlander 6 6 3 3 4 6 116 2.53 Dotel 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 3.02 Benoit W2-3 1 0 0 0 0 0 12 3.40 Valverde S23-27 1 1 0 0 0 1 16 3.62 T—3:03. A—41,620 (41,255). YANKEES 6, RED SOX 4 Boston ab r h bi bb so avg. Ellsbury cf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .264 C.Crawford lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .287 Pedroia 2b 4 1 1 3 0 0 .281 Ad.Gonzalez 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .305 C.Ross dh 4 0 0 0 0 2 .276 Saltalamacchia c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .226 Aviles ss 4 1 2 0 0 0 .255 Podsednik rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .368 Ciriaco 3b 3 1 0 1 0 0 .317 Totals 33 4 5 4 1 5 New York ab r h bi bb so avg. Jeter dh 4 1 1 1 0 0 .319 Swisher 1b 3 2 2 2 1 0 .266 Cano 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .308 An.Jones rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .215 McGehee 3b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .250 Granderson cf 4 1 2 1 0 1 .237 R.Martin c 4 1 1 1 0 1 .198 J.Nix ss 4 0 1 1 0 2 .262 I.Suzuki lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .268 Totals 34 6 9 6 1 7 Boston 004 000 000—4 5 1 New York 120 011 10x—6 9 1 E—Aviles (12), P.Hughes (1). LOB—Boston 3, New York 5. 2B—C.Crawford (10). HR—Pedroia (10), off P.Hughes; Swisher (17), off F.Morales; Granderson (31), off F.Morales; R.Martin (13), off F.Morales; Jeter (10), off F.Morales; Swisher (18), off Mortensen. RBIs—Pedroia 3 (47), Ciriaco (12), Jeter (40), Swisher 2 (69), Granderson (69), R.Martin (33), J.Nix (16). Boston ip h r er bb so np era F.Morales L3-4 5 Í/¯ 6 5 5 1 3 92 3.67 Mortensen 1 2 1 1 0 2 20 1.84 A.Miller 1 1 0 0 0 1 14 2.90 A.Bailey Î/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 9 0.00 New York ip h r er bb so np era P.Hughes W12-10 7 4 4 0 1 4 106 4.23 D.Robertson H17 1 1 0 0 0 0 11 2.45 R.Soriano S30-32 1 0 0 0 0 1 14 1.68 T—2:49. A—49,422 (50,291). ROYALS 4, WHITE SOX 2 Chicago ab r h bi bb so avg. De Aza cf 3 0 1 0 0 1 .281 Wise ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .278 Youkilis 3b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .237 A.Dunn 1b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .206 Konerko dh 4 1 1 1 0 1 .315 Rios rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .306 Pierzynski c 4 0 1 0 0 0 .296 Al.Ramirez ss 4 1 2 0 0 2 .262 Viciedo lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .256 Beckham 2b 3 0 2 1 0 0 .227 Totals 33 2 8 2 1 10 Kansas City ab r h bi bb so avg. Getz 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .275 Moustakas 3b 2 1 1 0 0 0 .252 A.Escobar ss 4 1 2 0 0 0 .303 A.Gordon lf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .288 Butler 1b 3 1 1 1 1 0 .302 Hosmer 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .233 S.Perez c 4 0 2 2 0 0 .302 L.Cain cf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .268 Francoeur rf 1 0 0 0 3 1 .242 B.Pena dh 3 0 0 0 1 0 .250 T.Abreu 3b-2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .286 Totals 32 4 9 4 5 6 Chicago 000 110 000—2 8 0 Kansas City 010 001 20x—4 9 0 HR—Konerko (19), off Mendoza; L.Cain (4), off Sale; Butler (25), off Sale. RBIs— Konerko (55), Beckham (43), Butler (76), S.Perez 2 (19), L.Cain (20). SB—A.Escobar (23), L.Cain (5). CS—De Aza (10). Chicago ip h r er bb so np era Sale L14-4 6 Î/¯ 9 4 4 4 5 117 2.72 Crain Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 0 5 1.93 H.Santiago 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 3.57 Kansas City ip h r er bb so np era Mendoza W7-8 7 4 2 2 1 6 85 4.26 K.Herrera H14 1 2 0 0 0 3 24 2.51 G.Holland S5-7 1 2 0 0 0 1 13 3.14 T—2:31. A—22,169 (37,903). BLUE JAYS 3, RANGERS 2 Texas ab r h bi bb so avg. Kinsler 2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .267 Andrus ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .295 Hamilton lf-cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .290 Beltre dh 3 1 1 0 1 1 .303 Mi.Young 1b 4 1 1 0 0 1 .270 Dav.Murphy rf-lf 4 0 2 0 0 2 .303 Soto c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .175 Gentry cf 2 0 0 1 0 1 .318 N.Cruz ph-rf 1 0 0 0 1 0 .266 Olt 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Totals 31 2 4 1 3 12 Toronto ab r h bi bb so avg. R.Davis lf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .259 K.Johnson 2b 3 1 1 0 1 1 .230 McCoy pr-2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .190 Encarnacion dh 3 1 1 2 1 1 .294 Cooper 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .285 Y.Escobar ss 3 0 0 0 0 1 .245 Sierra rf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .333 Vizquel 3b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .216 Mathis c 3 0 0 0 0 3 .221 Gose cf 2 1 1 0 0 1 .200 Totals 28 3 4 3 2 11 Texas 000 010 100—2 4 0 Toronto 200 010 00x—3 4 1 HR—Encarnacion (31), off Darvish. RBIs— Gentry (26), R.Davis (33), Encarnacion 2 (82). SB—R.Davis 2 (37), Gose (9). Texas ip h r er bb so np era Darvish L12-9 7 3 3 3 1 10 114 4.51 Ogando 1 1 0 0 1 1 17 2.88 Toronto ip h r er bb so np era Happ W2-1 6 2 1 1 1 8 98 5.09 Delabar H5 Î/¯ 1 1 0 2 1 28 3.91 Lyon H4 Î/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 5 1.64 Loup H3 Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 5 2.60 Lincoln H1 Í/¯ 1 0 0 0 0 3 5.79 Janssen S16-18 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.27 T—2:42. A—26,816 (49,260). REDS 7, CUBS 3 Chicago ab r h bi bb so avg. DeJesus rf 5 0 0 0 0 0 .267 Barney 2b 5 0 1 0 0 0 .268 Rizzo 1b 5 0 2 0 0 0 .299 A.Soriano lf 4 0 0 0 1 1 .260 S.Castro ss 4 1 2 0 0 0 .278 Valbuena 3b 4 1 3 1 0 0 .221 B.Jackson cf 4 1 1 0 0 2 .194 Clevenger c 2 0 1 0 2 0 .232 T.Wood p 2 0 1 1 0 1 .219 LaHair ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .257 Bowden p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Cardenas ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .209 Al.Cabrera p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Totals 37 3 11 2 3 5 Cincinnati ab r h bi bb so avg. Cozart ss 4 1 1 1 0 1 .248 Stubbs cf 4 0 2 1 0 1 .231 B.Phillips 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .291 Ludwick lf 4 1 2 1 0 0 .271 Bruce rf 3 2 1 1 0 0 .251 Frazier 1b 4 2 2 2 0 1 .286 Rolen 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .248 Hanigan c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .278 Arroyo p 3 1 1 0 0 1 .156 Arredondo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Broxton p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Chapman p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Totals 33 7 10 6 0 5 Chicago 010 200 000—3 11 2 Cincinnati 010 510 00x—7 10 1 E—T.Wood 2 (2), Stubbs (4). LOB— Chicago 10, Cincinnati 3. 2B—Valbuena (13), Clevenger (10), Cozart (29), Arroyo (1). 3B—Stubbs (2). HR—Valbuena (4), off Arroyo; Ludwick (23), off T.Wood; Frazier (16), off T.Wood; Bruce (25), off T.Wood. RBIs—Valbuena (20), T.Wood (1), Cozart (28), Stubbs (37), Ludwick (66), Bruce (75), Frazier 2 (51). SB—Frazier (3). Chicago ip h r er bb so np era T.Wood L4-9 5 9 7 6 0 3 97 4.83 Bowden 2 1 0 0 0 0 18 5.79 Al.Cabrera 1 0 0 0 0 2 10 6.00 Cincinnati ip h r er bb so np era Arroyo W9-7 6 Í/¯ 9 3 3 3 3 109 3.96 Arredondo H10 Î/¯ 0 0 0 0 0 7 2.61 Broxton 1 2 0 0 0 2 18 7.20 Chapman 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 1.24 T—2:49. A—35,332 (42,319). NATIONALS 6, METS 4 New York ab r h bi bb so avg. Tejada ss 5 0 1 0 0 0 .316 An.Torres cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .234 D.Wright 3b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .322 Hairston rf 4 2 3 0 0 0 .274 Dan.Murphy 1b 4 0 1 2 0 0 .293 R.Cedeno 2b 2 0 0 1 2 0 .280 Bay lf 3 0 0 0 0 0 .155 Acosta p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- R.Ramirez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- I.Davis ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .216 Shoppach c 4 1 1 1 0 2 .143 J.Santana p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .086 Valdespin lf 1 0 0 0 1 1 .252 Totals 34 4 8 4 3 5 Washington ab r h bi bb so avg. Werth rf 4 2 2 0 0 0 .319 Harper cf 3 2 2 2 1 0 .249 Zimmerman 3b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .280 Morse lf 4 1 1 4 0 1 .299 LaRoche 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .263 Desmond ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .283 Espinosa 2b 2 0 0 0 1 1 .253 K.Suzuki c 3 0 0 0 0 0 .206 Detwiler p 2 0 0 0 0 2 .065 Stammen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Bernadina ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .299 Storen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Clippard p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Totals 31 6 8 6 2 5 New York 200 001 100—4 8 0 Washington 000 420 00x—6 8 0 2B—Tejada (20), Hairston 3 (21). HR— Shoppach (1), off Stammen; Morse (12), off J.Santana; Harper (11), off J.Santana. RBIs—Dan.Murphy 2 (51), R.Cedeno (21), Shoppach (1), Harper 2 (34), Morse 4 (44). CS—Bernadina (3). DP—Washington 1 New York ip h r er bb so np era J.Santana L6-9 5 7 6 6 0 4 93 4.85 Acosta 2 1 0 0 2 0 28 8.73 R.Ramirez 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 4.11 Washington ip h r er bb so np era Detwiler W7-5 6 6 3 3 1 1 84 3.25 Stammen H9 1 1 1 1 0 2 13 2.58 Storen H5 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 5.23 Clippard S26-30 1 0 0 0 2 2 20 2.93 T—2:42. A—34,827 (41,487). PIRATES 2, CARDINALS 1 Pittsburgh ab r h bi bb so avg. S.Marte lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .247 Snider rf 3 1 1 0 1 0 .333 A.McCutchen cf 2 1 1 0 2 1 .360 G.Jones 1b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .283 Grilli p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Hanrahan p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- McKenry c 4 0 0 0 0 1 .269 P.Alvarez 3b 4 0 2 0 0 0 .238 Barmes ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .218 Mercer 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .159 Ja.McDonald p 2 0 0 0 0 0 .140 Y.Navarro ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .174 Resop p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Cruz p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- G.Sanchez 1b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .210 Totals 31 2 6 0 3 5 St. Louis ab r h bi bb so avg. Jay cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .304 Craig 1b 3 0 1 0 1 1 .303 Holliday lf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .306 Beltran rf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .279 Freese 3b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .301 Descalso 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .230 T.Cruz c 2 0 0 1 1 0 .226 Furcal ss 3 0 0 0 0 2 .267 Westbrook p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .136 Rzepczynski p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- M.Carpenter ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .312 Salas p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 29 1 4 1 4 10 Pittsburgh 000 200 000—2 6 0 St. Louis 000 000 100—1 4 1 E—Furcal (13). LOB—Pittsburgh 5, St Louis 5. 2B—P.Alvarez (18), Craig (26), Freese (21). RBIs—T.Cruz (9). Pittsburgh ip h r er bb so np era McDonaldW11-5 6 2 0 0 3 7 87 3.61 Resop H8 Î/¯ 2 1 1 0 0 13 4.06 J.Cruz H14 Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 0 2 2.67 Grilli H27 1 0 0 0 0 2 16 2.44 Hanrahan S34-37 1 0 0 0 1 1 21 2.51 St. Louis ip h r er bb so np era Westbrook L12-9 7 Î/¯ 6 2 1 3 3 110 3.50 Rzepczynski Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 5 4.93 Salas 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 4.30 T—2:47. A—38,689 (43,975). LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, PA. All Times EDT Double Elimination UNITED STATES GREAT LAKES, New Castle, Ind.; MID- ATLANTIC, Parsippany, N.J.; MIDWEST, Kearney, Neb.; NEW ENGLAND, Fairfield, Conn.; NORTHWEST, Gresham, Ore.; SOUTHEAST, Goodlettsville, Tenn.; SOUTHWEST, San Antonio; WEST, Petaluma, Calif. INTERNATIONAL ASIA-PACIFIC, Taoyuan, Taiwan; CANADA, Vancouver, British Columbia; CARIBBEAN, Willemstad, Curacao; EUROPE, Ramstein, Germany; JAPAN, Tokyo; LATIN AMERICA, Aguadulce, Panama; MEA, Lugazi, Uganda; MEXICO, Nuevo Laredo. Thursday Tokyo 7, Willemstad, Curacao 0 Petaluma, Calif. 6, Fairfield, Conn. 4 Taoyuan, Taiwan 14, Ramstein, Germany 1, 4 innings Goodlettsville, Tenn. 12, Kearney, Neb. 1 Friday Vancouver, British Columbia 13, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico 9 San Antonio 5, Parsippany, N.J. 2 Aguadulce, Panama 9, Lugazi, Uganda 3 New Castle, Ind. 4, Gresham, Ore. 0 BRAVES 4, DODGERS 3 Los Angeles ab r h bi bb so avg. Victorino lf 4 0 1 1 0 2 .263 M.Ellis 2b 5 1 1 0 0 1 .263 Kemp cf 4 0 0 0 1 0 .349 Ethier rf 4 1 1 2 1 0 .285 H.Ramirez ss 5 0 2 0 0 1 .261 Loney 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .255 J.Rivera ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .241 L.Cruz 3b 3 1 3 0 2 0 .280 Treanor c 5 0 0 0 0 2 .176 J.Wright p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Capuano p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .095 Belisario p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- E.Herrera ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .244 Choate p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- League p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- A.Ellis c 0 0 0 0 0 0 .275 Totals 38 3 9 3 4 7 Atlanta ab r h bi bb so avg. Bourn cf 3 0 2 0 1 0 .293 Prado lf 5 0 0 1 0 1 .296 Heyward rf 4 0 1 1 1 2 .275 C.Jones 3b 5 1 1 1 0 0 .313 F.Freeman 1b 5 0 0 0 0 3 .273 Uggla 2b 5 0 0 0 0 3 .213 D.Ross c 4 1 1 0 1 1 .272 Janish ss 5 1 3 0 0 1 .227 Hanson p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .028 Durbin p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Re.Johnson ph 1 1 1 0 0 0 .304 Kimbrel p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- O'Flaherty p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Pastornicky ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .256 Venters p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- J.Francisco ph 1 0 1 1 0 0 .263 Totals 40 4 10 4 3 13 Los Angeles 000 002 100 00—3 9 1 Atlanta 010 000 020 01—4 10 1 E—Treanor (3), F.Freeman (5). LOB—Los Angeles 8, Atlanta 9. 2B—Victorino (23), M.Ellis (10), H.Ramirez (24), L.Cruz (13). HR—Ethier (12), off Hanson; C.Jones (13), off Capuano. RBIs—Victorino (47), Ethier 2 (69), Prado (52), Heyward (61), C.Jones (54), J.Francisco (28). SB—Bourn (32), Heyward (17), Janish (1). CS—Victorino (5). S—Victorino, Capuano, Bourn, Hanson. DP—Atlanta 1 Los Angeles ip h r er bb so np era Capuano 7 Í/¯ 5 3 3 1 8 91 3.14 Belisario BS3-3 1 Î/¯ 1 0 0 1 3 30 3.06 Choate Í/¯ 1 0 0 0 1 6 2.90 League L0-1 1 Í/¯ 2 1 1 1 1 30 10.80 J.Wright 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 4.08 Atlanta ip h r er bb so np era Hanson 6 Î/¯ 7 3 3 2 5 100 4.27 Durbin 1 Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 0 16 3.04 Kimbrel 1 0 0 0 1 2 15 1.20 O'Flaherty 1 0 0 0 1 0 14 2.32 Venters W5-3 1 2 0 0 0 0 16 3.54 T—3:36. A—33,093 (49,586). By GRAHAM RUTHVEN It takes something special for England to forget about soccer —something as mo- mentous as the greatest show on earth’s rolling into London for two weeks, in fact. But after a summer off, and a soaring Sum- mer Olympics, the English Premier League is back to reclaim its title as the land’s greatest sporting spectacle. The league, with its global following, will begin its long season Saturday, and it will start with Robin van Persie, the league’s top returning scorer, suddenly wearing the uniform of mighty Manchester United af- ter eight years with Arsenal. Whether this expensive transfer will reignite the once fierce competition between these two clubs will depend on whether Arsenal can mount a serious title challenge, which it has failed to do in recent seasons. More likely, Manchester United’s man- ager, Alex Ferguson,had Manchester City in mind when he acquired van Persie, a Dutch striker,this week. The 2011-12 Pre- mier League season ended with the two Manchester teams tied for first place, sep- arated only by goal difference. But one extra goal, scored by Manches- ter City’s Sergio Agüero with just 40 sec- onds remaining in injury time in the last game of the season, was enough to give Manchester City the league title and deny Manchester United its 20th. And for the first time in a generation, Manchester United now finds itself in a shadow cast from across its own city. The challenge for Manchester City’s manager, Roberto Mancini,will be to prove what happened in May was just the start of his team’s supremacy. But a board- room struggle with the team’s director, Brian Marwood, over what Mancini per- ceived to be a lack of funds to acquire new players hindered City’s preseason prep- arations. Fresh from a preseason tour of the Unit- ed States, and a loss to the M.L.S. All-Stars in Philadelphia, Chelsea starts the new season on the heels of a puzzling paradox. In some ways, last season was one to for- get. The worst league finish since the Rus- sian oligarch Roman Abramovich took over as owner in 2003, a bitter managerial change and even racism allegations against defender John Terry were all en- dured, yet the season ended with a Cham- pions League title. Now Chelsea has embarked on the next phase of Abramovich’s master plan. A single star, signifying their new cham- pions-of-Europe status, has been embroi- dered on this season’s jerseys and repre- sents all that Abramovich dreamed of. Well, almost. Barcelona’s former manager, Pep Guar- diola, might not have been tempted by Abramovich’s flirting over the summer, but Roberto Di Matteo, who stepped in and led Chelsea to Champions League glory, has been briefed about replicating the type of clever, intricate soccer for which Barcelo- na has become famous. Along those lines, about $90 million was spent to acquire the Brazilian playmaker Oscar and Belgium’s Eden Hazard, who has likened himself to Lionel Messi. If you are going to evoke Barcelona, that is cer- tainly a start. Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger has made a number of shrewd additions to his squad,but,just as was the case last year, the club’s summer has been dogged by speculation regarding the future of its star performers. The van Persie saga might have reached a conclusion, but midfielder Alex Song is still the subject of interest from Barcelona. At Tottenham Hotspur, the Croatian mid- fielder Luka Modric is playing the role of disembodied star, with a move to Real Ma- drid likely to be sealed soon. In a peculiar twist, Modric almost joined André Villas- Boas at Chelsea last season before Villas- Boas was dumped as the Blues’ manager. Now Villas-Boas presides over Tottenham, and Modric is trying to leave. Villas-Boas insists he has nothing to prove after his ignominious dismissal by Chelsea but argues that his new team can win the title. In Liverpool, the club’s worst Premier League finish — eighth place — cost Kenny Dalglish, better known as King Kenny,his job as manager. The team’s Boston-based owners, the Fenway Sports Group, who these days also have the troubled Boston Red Sox to contend with, brought in Bren- dan Rodgers to replace him. Rodgers’s attractive, passing philosophy with Swansea last season attracted wide- spread praise. He was even a guest of Spain’s coach, Vicente Del Bosque, at his Euro 2012 training camp. The challenge for Rodgers will be to communicate his philos- ophy to a team in desperate need of one. There are, of course, two parallel story lines in the Premier League, the other al- ways involving teams fighting to gain en- try into the league, or to avoid relegation. The three new teams this year are Read- ing, Southampton and West Ham. Gone are Bolton, Blackburn and Wolverhampton. The nature of the league dictates that if you’re not fighting for the top, you’re fight- ing the drop. For many teams a middle-of-the-pack finish would represent a successful cam- paign. It is all about to start, with numer- ous games now broadcast live on weekend mornings across the United States. In that regard, the English Premier League now extends from London to Los Angeles. So as American fans would say: play ball. KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/ASSOCIATED PRESS Having moved from Arsenal, Robin van Persie will try to help Manchester United knock its crosstown rival Manchester City from its place atop the Premier League. In England’s Premier League, Many Suitors for the Top Spot ØØ N D7 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,AUGUST 18, 2012 F O OT BA L L By The Associated Press The New England Patriots have agreed to terms with the Olympic medalist Jeff Demps, who played running back at Flor- ida but was not drafted by an N.F.L.team because he said he wanted to focus on track. Nick Caserio, the Patriots’ player personnel director,said in a meeting with reporters Friday that the team had nothing to re- port. But later in the night, after reports began to surface, the Pa- triots issued a news release to an- nounce the signing. Demps, 22,earned an Olympic silver medal in the 4x100-meter relay as part of the team that fin- ished second to Jamaica at the London Games last week. His football agent, Daniel Rose, said this week that several N.F.L. teams were interested in Demps. Tampa Bay and the Jets were among the teams that confirmed their interest. Caserio confirmed that the Patriots scouted Demps, but he went undrafted after he said he was giving up football. “Good with the ball, good speed, caught the ball O.K., a lit- tle bit undersized,” Caserio said. “Florida has had a track record of some pretty good football players that have come out of there. But any time we go into a school, we’ll look at everybody,regard- less of whatever their circum- stance is.” Demps had 2,470 rushing yards and 23 touchdowns in four sea- sons with the Gators, but he did not attend any college football all-star games or take part in any N.F.L.draft workouts while he fo- cused on track. He averaged 28.8 yards a return and also won mul- tiple national championships in track and field. “Obviously, he wants to get to work,” Rose said earlier this week. “He had some commit- ments he had to finish up with the Olympics, and we’ve been very honest and open with the teams. Now that’s all over with,and he can go to sleep and wake up Thursday morning and focus on football.” BOWE SIGNS OFFER Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe signed his franchise tender after skip- ping Kansas City’s entire off-sea- son program and the beginning of training camp.He will make about $9.5 million this season af- ter the two sides failed to reach a long-term deal by the July 16 deadline. STEELER ACTIVATIONS Before they broke camp at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., the Steel- ers made a surprise move in acti- vating nose tackle Casey Hamp- ton and running back Rashard Mendenhall from the physically unable to perform list.Each vet- eran has been rehabilitating a torn anterior cruciate ligament sustained in January. JAGUARS EDGE SAINTS Jordan Palmer hit Kevin Elliott with an 11-yard touchdown pass on fourth down with 13 seconds left, lifting the Jacksonville Jaguars to a 27- 24 preseason victory over the Saints in New Orleans.Blaine Gabbert,a second-year quarter- back for the Jaguars,completed 13 of 16 passes for 112 yards and two touchdowns.The Saints’ Drew Brees was 10 of 13 for 133 yards and one touchdown, an 8-yard pass to Devery Hender- son. PANTHERS TOP DOLPHINS Cam Newton outplayed the rookie Ryan Tannehill in a matchup of young quarterbacks as the Caro- lina Panthers defeated the Miami Dolphins, 23-17, in Charlotte, N.C. Newton looked extremely sharp, completing 8 of 11 passes for 119 yards and a touchdown,and the Panthers jumped all over the in- jury-depleted Dolphins defense early, scoring on their first three possessions to take a 17-0 lead. TITANS TROUNCE BUCCANEERS Chris Johnson ran for two touch- downs, and Rob Bironas kicked three field goals as the Tennessee Titans capitalized on some early turnovers to earn a 30-7 victory over the Buccaneers in Tampa, Fla. VIKINGS BEAT BILLS Christian Ponder threw a first-quarter touchdown pass in a sharp,three- possession appearance,and the Minnesota Vikings breezed to a 36-14 victory over the visiting Buffalo Bills, who got a decent performance from the backup quarterback candidate Vince Young. LIONS DEFEAT RAVENS Matthew Stafford threw two touchdown passes, Calvin Johnson had five catches for 111 yards and a score, and the Detroit Lions beat the host Baltimore Ravens,27-12. Stafford went 12 for 17 for 184 yards in four possessions. N.F.L. ROUNDUP Olympian And Patriots Reach Terms On a Deal By ZACH SCHONBRUN EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The prevailing hullabaloo at Gi- ants training camp in Albany arose on Tuesday, relating to un- comfortable dorm room accom- modations. Specifically, the beds were stiff and too small. A few players de- veloped back soreness. A couple of headlines emerged. “And that was the last day of camp,” tight end Martellus Ben- nett said. “Somebody should’ve complained about it earlier. They would’ve done something about it.” The rest of the football uni- verse yawned. The ho-hum Giants have man- aged to avoid any major contro- versy heading into this season. Instead they watched with be- musement as the Jets turned their training camp home in Cort- land, N.Y., into a story generator for the N.F.L.’s preseason news cycle. From the brawls during prac- tice to a shirtless Tim Tebow to the preposterously blatant at- tempts at secrecy surrounding the Wildcat offense, there has been no shortage of distractions clouding the Jets’ preparation. Meanwhile, the Giants, the reign- ing Super Bowl champions, have carried out their camp with all the electricity of a library tour. “I think we prefer it that way,” wide receiver Victor Cruz said. “We like to fly under the radar and do our work in silence. Once we start piling together some wins, that’s when the accolades come. We like to just play our game.” The Giants will be the visiting team at MetLife Stadium on Sat- urday night when they face the Jets in the second preseason game for both teams. They will enter the game almost over- looked, even though their roster remains largely unchanged from the one that won the Super Bowl in February. Some players are gone, includ- ing running back Brandon Ja- cobs, who had been one of the team’s more vocal members. His comments about the Jets were a topic of conversation in the Gi- ants’ locker room Thursday. “It’s a circus, man,” Jacobs told CBSSports.com, adding, “I’m just so tired of reading and hearing of everything over there, and it’s mid-August.” Sizzling rivalry fodder — ex- cept Jacobs made the comments from San Francisco, where he now plays for the 49ers. The current Giants could only smile. “I’m not going there,” Cruz said when asked about Jacobs’s opinion. “The Jets are the hometown ri- val, but we come to play with whoever” was all running back Ahmad Bradshaw would offer on the subject. When Bennett arrived as a free agent from Dallas, he thought he was joining a team that would re- ceive most of the attention from the fans and news media in the New York metropolitan area, considering the Giants are the defending champions. “I came here thinking they’d get more respect than they do,” Bennett said. “I don’t think peo- ple respect us the way they should. I think that’s the way it’s always been around here. “It seems like the way they like it.” Bennett has been the team’s most colorful newcomer. He showed up in Albany in a Bentley and, at various times, has com- pared himself to a black unicorn, Gandhi and Kim Kardashian. But he said he was beginning to sense that the Giants preferred keeping things on the mild side. “There are a lot of teams that haven’t won in a long time that get way more attention than we get here,” Bennett said. “But it’s all good. Nobody here really cares. We all just want to prove it on Sunday. I like that. It’s all about football here. It’s not about what everybody thinks about us or anything like that. We do foot- ball.” Quarterback Eli Manning joked earlier in training camp about feeling like the third most popular quarterback in the city, behind Mark Sanchez, the Jets’ starter, and Tebow, Sanchez’s backup. Is he going to use such a slight as motivation on Satur- day? “No, I’m just excited about go- ing against a good team, going against a good defense, and see- ing where we stand,” Manning said. Last week, David Carr, Man- ning’s backup, joked about taking his shirt off to try to generate more attention, but then added of the Jets’ quarterbacks, “I don’t envy their situation at all.” “It’s crazy that the defending Super Bowl champs don’t really have a lot of pressure on them,” Carr said. “It’s weird to say that, but we don’t get much attention. That’s our personality. All the other stuff is great for other teams, but we kind of relish the role we’re in.” At the training facility here, the players sleepily filed into their blue-carpeted locker room Thurs- day morning. Linebacker Clint Sintim and defensive end Justin Trattou were cut. A few backs re- mained sore. But the rumor Rich- ter scale hardly flinched. And in the Giants’ world, no news is good news. KATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS All the attention the Jets have received led Eli Manning to joke that he felt like the third most popular quarterback in the city. As Jets Grab Spotlight, Giants Are Happy to Step Aside By TIM ROHAN Just last week, Tyrann Mathieu was the rare collegiate defensive back who had earned star status as an outspoken dervish of a player, one who demanded atten- tion whenever he got near the ball. But Mathieu’s life has changed drastically, taking two sharp turns. He was dismissed from the Louisiana State team Aug. 10,for an unspecified rules violation, and his father reportedly told a New Orleans TV station that he has since checked into a drug re- habilitation facility in the Hous- ton area. He is also being coun- seled by John Lucas, a former N.B.A. player and coach who has struggled with drug addiction. The turnaround in Mathieu’s life may be considered stunning, but the struggles he is facing are not unusual.Just this off-season, Michael Dyer, a former Auburn running back, was dismissed from Arkansas State.Greg Reid will play cornerback for Valdosta State, not Florida State, for vio- lating team rules.Georgia run- ning back Isaiah Crowell was dis- missed from the squad.Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees and Clemson wideout Sammy Watkins face suspensions. “I guess they’re too young, or too immature, but there are too many temptations out there, and particularly if their background lends itself to that,” said Joe Till- er, a former Purdue coach. “It’s just a matter of time until the guy implodes.” The list of college stars who ran afoul of the rules stretches back for years.Brian Bosworth in 1987, Lawrence Phillips in 1995, Peter Warrick in 1999 and Cam Newton in 2008 all gained a de- gree of notoriety. In today’s information age, it is easier to get in trouble, said LaVar Arrington, who starred at Penn State in 1998 and 1999. He said he never considered himself a star, though he said he was overwhelmed by the attention he received after he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Now it is to a point, Arrington said, where “you almost have to live like a hermit if you don’t want to get in trouble.” Mathieu already had a memo- rable nickname — the Honey Badger — and his dynamic style of play, coupled with his outgoing personality, turned him into a public figure last season at the age of 19. “It’s difficult to tell people to be that character that makes people want to buy your jersey, or label you the Honey Badger, and then when the lights are off and there’s nothing else going on, now you’ve got to take that uni- form, that costume,off and be something totally different,” Arrington said. “Your best com- modity that may make you into a superstar may be the same thing that leads to you being in trou- ble.” These types of problems can begin even during the recruiting process, when coaches,confi- dants and friends repeatedly tell players “how special they are,” Tiller said, adding, “Almost to the point where we elevate ourselves to a status where we believe we’re nearly untouchable.” Once they reach campus,they can become exposed, especially with the advent of Twitter. Ma- thieu has more than 150,000 fol- lowers on the social media site, on which he posted in a space re- served for biographical informa- tion, “Dont follow me, I am not perfect.” Unlike in past eras, a player’s every move can be watched, re- corded and dissected these days, said Lloyd Carr, a former Michi- gan coach. Coaches’ pleas to act with caution can fall on some young and immature ears. “The truth is,the great major- ity of them, they get it,” Carr said. “But there are always examples out there every day that we can use, things that happen when you make mistakes.” In January 1987, Bosworth was suspended for steroid use and ul- timately forced off the team at Oklahoma.In 1995,Phillips, a Ne- braska running back, was arrest- ed on charges of assaulting his girlfriend. He wound up being re- instated by Tom Osborne, the Cornhuskers’ coach, as the team finished with the No. 1 ranking in the country. In 1999, Warrick was arrested in connection with a scheme to underpay for clothes at a depart- ment store in Tallahassee, Fla., where he attended Florida State. His subsequent suspension may have cost him the Heisman Tro- phy. Newton transferred from Flor- ida in 2008, having been charged with the theft of a laptop comput- er. He eventually wound up at Auburn, where he won the Heis- man, but his collegiate career was dogged by controversy. And there seems to be no letup in these types of situations. “The sport has never been as popular as it’s been today,” Tiller said. “I think it’s a little bit of overkill, really. We’re almost placing these athletes in an un- real world, sending them mes- sages that aren’t in line with real- life facts. 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Shore 77/67 A couple of thunderstorms L.I. South Shore 78/63 A couple of thunderstorms L.I. North Shore 78/63 Showers, thunderstorm Cape Cod 76/57 Showers, thunderstorm Kennebunkport Today’s forecast H 80s s 70s 0s s s s 70s s 60s 50 s 40s 40s s 1 00 + 100+ 100 100 1 10 1 90 s 9 0s 90 s 0s 90s 80 s 80 s 8 s 80s s 80 s 80s s s 70 70s s s 7 0 s 7 0 s 7 0 s 60 s 50 s Pi err e Bis m a r ck F arg o Minneapolis n St. Paul S Chicago o kee Milwauk Indianapolis i D etro it C levelan d Pittsburgh h Washingto on o ngto hi W phia Philad adelphia ad h ia hila adelph a h h New Yo York Yor o o Richmo ond o hm Norfolk N N N gh Raleigh Charlotte harlotte harlotte Cha rlo ar bia Columb At l a n ta Jacksonville J Orlando O Tampa a Mi am i N assa u Birmingham h Mobile Mo New New Orleans Jackson n Baton Rouge o Li tt l e R oc k Memphis lle Nashvi il sville Louis s Charlesto on o e Sioux Falls o C aspe r Cheyenne De nv er olorado Co o Springs S S eg Winnipeg na Regin n Billings Billings Billings H e l en a ise Bois is S Spokane S Va ancouver a Seatt tle t R e n o S Sa a Sa n an n Francisco n co F Fresno F Lo Los Lo s Angeles os S S Sa S San Sa n Diego an o H ono l u lu Hilo H F Fairban nks n Anchorage Anchora age a Juneau eau Phoenix Phoe Phoe P P ucson Tucso ucso L a s Vega Vegas Vega e Salt Lake ke C it y Albuquerque uque uque S anta F e L ubbock El P as o F t . 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Highlight: Prime Targets for Hurricanes GULF STORMS PRIME TARGETS FOR HURRICANES ATLANTIC STORMS 60° 70° 80° 90° 4 p.m. 12 a.m. 6 a.m. 12 p.m. 4 p.m. Record high 95° (1944) Normal high 83° Normal low 68° Record low 56° (1979) THU.YESTERDAY 71° 4 a.m. 88° 2 p.m. Metropolitan Almanac In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Temperature ............. +2.4°this month Avg. daily departure from normal ................ +3.5° Avg. daily departure from normal this year Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) ............... 82%Yesterday ............. 86%Est. normal Precipitation (in inches) ............... 0.00Yesterday .................... 2.86Record For the last 30 days ..................... 3.23Actual .................... 4.61Normal For the last 365 days ................... 55.17Actual .................. 49.92Normal LAST 30 DAYS Air pressure Humidity Cooling Degree Days Trends ........... 29.92 1 a.m.High ............ 29.81 4 p.m.Low ............. 63% 1 a.m.High .............. 42% 2 p.m.Low An index of fuel consumption that tracks how far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65 Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation trends com p are with those of the last 30 y ears. ................................................................... 15Yesterday ...................................................... 232So far this month ........................ 981So far this season (since January 1) ................................. 825Normal to date for the season Last 10 days 30 days 90 days 365 days Temperature Average Below Above Precipitation Average Below Above H L TODAY’S HIGHS FRONTS PRESSURE COLD HIGH LOW RAINSHOWERS ICEFLURRIES SNOWT-STORMSMOSTLY CLOUDY WARM STATIONARY COMPLEX COLD PRECIPITATION <0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ Weather patterns shown as expected at noon today, Eastern time. Cities High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Expected conditions for today and tomorrow. C ....................... Clouds F ............................ Fog H .......................... Haze I............................... Ice PC ........... Partly cloudy R ........................... Rain Sh ................... Showers S .............................Sun Sn ....................... Snow SS ......... Snow showers T .......... Thunderstorms Tr ........................ Trace W ....................... Windy –.............. Not available Recreational Forecast Sun, Moon and Planets Weather Report Meteorology by AccuWeather Sun Jupiter Saturn Moon Mars Venus National Forecast Boating First Quarter Full Last Quarter New Aug. 24 Aug. 31 Sep. 8 Sep. 15 Beach and Ocean Temperatures 9:56 a.m. 10:09 p.m. RISE 6:09 a.m. SET 7:49 p.m. NEXT R 6:10 a.m. R 12:30 a.m. S 3:17 p.m. R 11:06 a.m. S 10:19 p.m. R 7:15 a.m. S 8:02 p.m. R 8:23 a.m. R 11:20 a.m. S 10:11 p.m. R 2:34 a.m. S 5:07 p.m. United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow 80/ 65 T 80/ 66 PC Bridgeport 86/ 65 0 76/ 62 T 78/ 65 PC Caldwell 88/ 62 0 78/ 59 PC 79/ 59 PC Danbury 85/ 58 0 78/ 54 PC 77/ 54 PC Islip 84/ 62 0 78/ 63 T 80/ 61 PC Newark 91/ 67 0 80/ 64 T 80/ 64 PC Trenton 87/ 64 0 80/ 60 T 79/ 60 PC White Plains 87/ 63 0 75/ 58 T 78/ 59 PC Albany 82/ 59 0 76/ 51 PC 78/ 55 PC Albuquerque 85/ 65 0 90/ 67 PC 86/ 68 T Anchorage 63/ 52 0.05 64/ 55 R 60/ 54 R Atlanta 88/ 70 0.20 86/ 68 PC 87/ 67 PC Atlantic City 85/ 73 0 80/ 67 T 80/ 67 PC Austin 99/ 73 0 96/ 73 T 93/ 71 T Baltimore 91/ 68 0 82/ 60 T 82/ 63 PC Baton Rouge 91/ 75 Tr 90/ 73 T 89/ 73 T Birmingham 84/ 68 0.29 86/ 67 PC 87/ 65 T Boise 96/ 64 0 96/ 69 PC 96/ 64 PC Boston 86/ 68 0 76/ 62 T 76/ 60 PC Buffalo 76/ 56 0.13 74/ 54 PC 76/ 55 PC Burlington 80/ 56 0.02 74/ 49 PC 77/ 51 PC Casper 82/ 46 0 77/ 43 S 82/ 49 S Charlotte 89/ 68 0 88/ 67 T 86/ 65 T Chattanooga 83/ 69 0.01 84/ 65 PC 85/ 63 S Chicago 73/ 54 0 78/ 58 PC 78/ 58 PC Cincinnati 84/ 56 0.03 78/ 56 S 80/ 52 PC Cleveland 77/ 57 Tr 74/ 52 PC 76/ 55 PC Colorado Springs 84/ 56 0 77/ 51 PC 80/ 58 S Columbus 79/ 56 Tr 76/ 55 PC 79/ 57 PC Concord, N.H. 86/ 61 0 76/ 50 PC 78/ 52 PC Dallas-Ft. Worth 97/ 77 0 92/ 74 T 92/ 71 T Denver 85/ 56 0 81/ 53 PC 86/ 60 S Des Moines 78/ 53 0 76/ 57 PC 77/ 57 S Detroit 77/ 53 0 75/ 55 PC 77/ 58 PC El Paso 86/ 71 0.04 88/ 69 PC 91/ 72 T Fargo 76/ 48 0 76/ 51 PC 79/ 53 S Hartford 87/ 65 0 76/ 56 T 81/ 56 PC Honolulu 88/ 72 0 88/ 74 S 88/ 74 S Houston 99/ 78 0.02 93/ 76 T 90/ 75 T Indianapolis 78/ 55 0.06 78/ 57 S 79/ 57 PC Jackson 90/ 71 1.69 86/ 70 T 85/ 67 T Jacksonville 90/ 73 0.28 92/ 73 T 91/ 72 T Kansas City 82/ 55 0 80/ 56 T 80/ 58 S Key West 91/ 81 0 90/ 81 T 90/ 81 PC Las Vegas 102/ 84 0 102/ 86 PC 104/ 90 PC Lexington 80/ 58 Tr 78/ 56 PC 80/ 55 S Little Rock 88/ 66 0 84/ 67 PC 82/ 63 T Los Angeles 91/ 69 0 86/ 66 PC 84/ 65 PC Louisville 83/ 61 0 80/ 61 S 82/ 58 S Memphis 85/ 67 0.03 86/ 66 PC 83/ 65 T Miami 92/ 78 0.73 91/ 79 T 91/ 79 PC Milwaukee 72/ 55 0 72/ 59 PC 74/ 60 PC Mpls.-St. Paul 74/ 54 0 76/ 55 PC 75/ 58 T Nashville 79/ 63 0.02 82/ 60 PC 83/ 58 S New Orleans 90/ 77 1.78 90/ 76 T 89/ 75 T Norfolk 89/ 73 0 83/ 71 T 82/ 70 T Oklahoma City 90/ 69 0 86/ 66 T 86/ 62 S Omaha 79/ 53 0 76/ 55 T 79/ 57 S Orlando 92/ 74 0.06 92/ 75 T 91/ 75 T Philadelphia 89/ 68 0 82/ 63 T 82/ 65 PC Phoenix 101/ 83 0.17 100/ 85 PC 103/ 90 T Pittsburgh 78/ 55 0.14 76/ 53 PC 76/ 56 PC Portland, Me. 79/ 65 0 76/ 57 PC 76/ 55 PC Portland, Ore. 98/ 63 0 86/ 60 PC 79/ 55 PC Providence 85/ 68 0 76/ 62 T 80/ 60 PC Raleigh 91/ 69 0 84/ 66 T 83/ 65 T Reno 97/ 66 0 96/ 65 T 94/ 63 T Richmond 91/ 70 0 84/ 66 T 83/ 64 PC Rochester 75/ 54 0.17 74/ 52 PC 77/ 54 PC Sacramento 96/ 62 0 91/ 56 S 91/ 59 S Salt Lake City 94/ 67 0 92/ 68 S 92/ 63 PC San Antonio 101/ 77 0 96/ 76 T 95/ 75 T San Diego 83/ 69 0 78/ 69 PC 77/ 69 PC San Francisco 67/ 55 0 67/ 55 PC 67/ 54 PC San Jose 81/ 58 0 77/ 56 S 77/ 56 S San Juan 88/ 78 0.28 90/ 78 Sh 90/ 79 S Seattle 93/ 60 0 82/ 58 PC 75/ 52 PC Sioux Falls 76/ 50 0 76/ 50 PC 79/ 54 S Spokane 93/ 61 0 96/ 66 PC 91/ 61 PC St. Louis 82/ 57 0 82/ 59 S 83/ 61 S St. Thomas 90/ 79 0.10 89/ 79 Sh 90/ 79 S Syracuse 77/ 54 0.04 75/ 51 PC 76/ 52 PC Tampa 88/ 77 0.05 89/ 78 T 90/ 76 T Toledo 75/ 50 Tr 76/ 51 PC 77/ 54 PC Tucson 88/ 74 0.02 89/ 75 T 94/ 77 T Tulsa 87/ 65 0 84/ 64 T 87/ 62 S Virginia Beach 89/ 74 0 83/ 71 T 81/ 70 T Washington 93/ 70 0 82/ 66 T 83/ 68 PC Wichita 84/ 62 0 85/ 60 T 84/ 62 S Wilmington, Del. 89/ 70 0 82/ 62 T 81/ 63 PC Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Algiers 104/ 70 0 101/ 75 S 95/ 69 S Cairo 95/ 77 0 98/ 76 S 96/ 75 S Cape Town 61/ 44 0 65/ 41 S 59/ 47 PC Dakar 86/ 79 0.69 89/ 80 T 88/ 78 T Johannesburg 70/ 34 0 66/ 46 S 70/ 47 S Nairobi 66/ 57 0.02 73/ 50 T 77/ 57 PC Tunis 95/ 75 0 92/ 72 S 95/ 70 S Baghdad 109/ 81 0 113/ 85 S 113/ 85 S Bangkok 93/ 81 0 89/ 78 Sh 88/ 78 Sh Beijing 84/ 71 0.10 82/ 72 T 86/ 72 T Damascus 99/ 68 0 99/ 66 S 103/ 63 S Hong Kong 88/ 79 0.45 86/ 81 T 88/ 82 T Jakarta 93/ 74 0 91/ 75 T 92/ 75 S Jerusalem 86/ 69 0 88/ 69 S 88/ 68 S Karachi 90/ 81 0 90/ 81 PC 90/ 82 S Manila 88/ 77 0.01 88/ 75 T 86/ 76 T Mumbai 86/ 80 0.03 88/ 81 R 88/ 81 R South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow New Delhi 95/ 79 0 94/ 81 T 92/ 81 T Riyadh 107/ 77 0 106/ 84 PC 107/ 81 PC Seoul 90/ 73 0.07 86/ 77 T 86/ 79 T Shanghai 94/ 82 0 93/ 81 PC 93/ 81 PC Singapore 84/ 75 0.36 88/ 79 T 87/ 78 T Sydney 72/ 49 0.02 64/ 45 PC 65/ 43 PC Taipei 90/ 77 0.29 89/ 77 T 91/ 77 S Tehran 99/ 77 0 94/ 77 S 94/ 79 S Tokyo 93/ 79 0.21 88/ 77 T 88/ 72 PC Amsterdam 81/ 63 0 86/ 66 S 87/ 68 PC Athens 95/ 73 0 91/ 73 S 90/ 76 S Berlin 75/ 59 0 90/ 64 PC 93/ 68 PC Brussels 82/ 64 0 87/ 66 S 90/ 70 S Budapest 82/ 59 0 86/ 59 S 88/ 62 S Copenhagen 73/ 61 0 78/ 66 PC 77/ 62 PC Dublin 68/ 57 0.32 70/ 55 PC 68/ 57 Sh Edinburgh 71/ 57 0.20 70/ 52 PC 70/ 54 Sh Frankfurt 81/ 57 0 89/ 65 S 94/ 73 S Geneva 82/ 55 0 90/ 56 S 90/ 58 S Helsinki 72/ 54 0.03 72/ 55 PC 70/ 50 Sh Istanbul 88/ 70 0 83/ 73 S 80/ 72 PC Kiev 72/ 61 0.02 73/ 57 Sh 75/ 61 PC Lisbon 86/ 64 0 84/ 64 PC 86/ 64 S London 82/ 64 0 82/ 64 PC 84/ 63 Sh Madrid 102/ 66 0 102/ 68 S 100/ 70 S Moscow 68/ 58 0.07 67/ 52 Sh 73/ 58 PC Nice 84/ 72 0 88/ 77 S 88/ 75 S Oslo 72/ 55 0.16 72/ 57 R 78/ 55 Sh Paris 90/ 59 0 92/ 66 PC 95/ 71 S Prague 75/ 54 0 81/ 55 PC 85/ 64 S Rome 86/ 68 0 91/ 68 S 91/ 66 S St. Petersburg 75/ 57 0.01 77/ 55 Sh 71/ 48 Sh Stockholm 75/ 55 0 70/ 57 PC 73/ 52 R Vienna 81/ 66 0 82/ 61 S 84/ 63 S Warsaw 72/ 54 0 75/ 55 PC 80/ 64 PC Acapulco 90/ 78 0.12 91/ 76 T 90/ 75 T Bermuda 86/ 79 0.32 86/ 79 T 86/ 79 T Edmonton 77/ 41 0 85/ 48 S 87/ 50 S Guadalajara 83/ 61 0 81/ 62 T 78/ 63 T Havana 90/ 75 0 93/ 73 T 93/ 73 T Kingston 90/ 79 0 90/ 78 T 89/ 79 T Martinique 90/ 79 0.01 88/ 78 Sh 89/ 78 Sh Mexico City 73/ 56 Tr 75/ 57 T 73/ 55 T Monterrey 96/ 74 0 99/ 73 T 94/ 69 T Montreal 77/ 64 0.04 72/ 55 PC 77/ 59 PC Nassau 90/ 80 0 91/ 80 T 91/ 80 T Panama City 84/ 77 0.16 87/ 75 T 84/ 73 T Quebec City 75/ 63 0.02 72/ 50 PC 75/ 55 PC Santo Domingo 90/ 73 0.04 89/ 72 T 88/ 74 Sh Toronto 75/ 63 0 74/ 57 PC 78/ 55 PC Vancouver 79/ 63 0 82/ 64 PC 76/ 59 C Winnipeg 77/ 46 0 74/ 41 PC 81/ 53 PC Buenos Aires 64/ 55 0.88 63/ 48 R 64/ 52 S Caracas 90/ 77 0.03 91/ 76 T 89/ 77 T Lima 69/ 59 0.01 69/ 56 PC 68/ 56 PC Quito 64/ 46 0.03 68/ 51 R 69/ 48 T Recife 75/ 70 0.47 82/ 72 Sh 82/ 73 Sh Rio de Janeiro 79/ 66 0 79/ 68 S 79/ 67 S Santiago 54/ 48 0.31 61/ 39 S 57/ 43 Sh From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Wind will be from the north at 6-12 knots. Waves will be 2-3 feet on the ocean and 1 foot or less on Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility under 3 miles in showers and thunderstorms. Atlantic City ................... 8:32 a.m. .............. 8:43 p.m. Barnegat Inlet ................ 8:43 a.m. .............. 8:50 p.m. The Battery .................... 9:19 a.m. .............. 9:21 p.m. Beach Haven ............... 10:13 a.m. ............ 10:20 p.m. Bridgeport ................... 12:00 a.m. ............ 12:26 p.m. City Island ................... 12:13 p.m. .......................... --- Fire Island Lt. ................. 9:41 a.m. .............. 9:48 p.m. Montauk Point .............. 10:07 a.m. ............ 10:21 p.m. Northport .................... 12:21 p.m. .......................... --- Port Washington .......... 11:59 a.m. .......................... --- Sandy Hook ................... 8:55 a.m. .............. 9:02 p.m. Shinnecock Inlet ............ 8:16 a.m. .............. 8:23 p.m. Stamford ...................... 12:03 a.m. ............ 12:29 p.m. Tarrytown ..................... 11:08 a.m. ............ 11:10 p.m. Willets Point ................ 12:10 p.m. .......................... --- High Tides New York City 88/ 71 0 Metropolitan Forecast TODAY ..................................Cooler, showers High 80. Cooler air will move in as a cold front pushes through. The front will trigger some showers and thunderstorms before clouds break for some sun. TONIGHT ....................................Partly cloudy Low 65. The night will be dry and cooler as the cold front heads off the coast. The sky will be partly cloudy and there will be just a very light breeze out of the north. TOMORROW ................................Partly sunny High 80. The cooler air will remain over the area. The front will stall just offshore as a wave of low pressure takes shape. While that low could cause showers, the day is more likely to be dry with some sun. MONDAY .............Chance of a thunderstorm The air will remain on the cool side. There can be a shower or thunderstorm as a trough of low pressure approaches from the west. Otherwise there will be a mix of sun and clouds. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY ..........................Clouds and sun A trough of low pressure can cause a shower or thunderstorm either day. but most of the time will be rain-free with peri- odic sunshine. Highs will be 81 on Tues- day and 83 on Wednesday. A cold front moving across the region will trigger a couple of showers and thunder- storms. The thunderstorms can produce torrential downpours and strong wind gusts. The air will be quite humid, but cloud cover will hold down temperatures somewhat. There will be a light to gentle wind with waves around 2 feet. A fall-like air mass will take control of the weather over the Great Lakes and central Appalachians today. Cooler weath- er will also move into western parts of New England. Meanwhile, a slow-moving cold front will cause a few showers from Boston through the Carolinas. Farther to the south, drenching storms will rumble over the Southeast and parts of the central Plains. A couple of slow-moving thunder- storms will fire over the Four Corners re- gion with isolated flash flooding possible. Comfortable air will settle into the Ohio Valley while the northern Plains remain pleasant. The interior West will remain hot and dry while a few storms fire over the Cascades. From Seattle to Portland, the air will begin to come off the Pacific, bring- ing an end to the severe heat. T E NNI S By BEN ROTHENBERG MASON, Ohio — Serena Wil- liams, the Olympic gold medalist and Wimbledon champion,lost her first match since May on Fri- day, falling to the German An- gelique Kerber,6-4, 6-4,in the quarterfinals at the Western & Southern Open in this suburb of Cincinnati. Williams, 30,had won 19 straight matches dating to the start of Wimbledon, and a domi- nant 25 straight sets dating to the third set of the Wimbledon final. But Williams, the winner of 14 Grand Slam singles titles,had played far from her best tennis this past week, looking sluggish and off-balance even during straight-set victories in her first two matches. Kerber, 24,appeared rattled by nerves as she tried to serve out the match, double-faulting on her first match point. But after hit- ting the net with a backhand on her second match point,Kerber fired an ace on her third to finish the upset. Kerber, the tournament’s No. 5 seed,has redefined her career over the last 12 months. In Sep- tember she reached the United States Open semifinals as the 92nd-ranked player in the world, and she has continued her strong play into 2012 with titles in Paris and Copenhagen and a run to the Wimbledon semifinals. She rout- ed the four-time Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters,6-1, 6-1, during that run at Wimbledon, and more recently she defeated Venus Williams in straight sets in the third round of the Olympics. Friday was not an entirely lost day for the Williams sisters. Ve- nus Williams advanced to the semifinals with a 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-4 victory over the Australian Samantha Stosur, who defeated Serena Williams in the United States Open final last year. Venus Williams led for much of the second set, but lost the even- tual tiebreaker and nearly let an- other lead slip in the third set be- fore finishing with a forehand winner and joyously jumping up and down nearly a half-dozen times before finally allowing gravity to keep her on the ground. “I didn’t realize I was going to be that excited when I won,” she said with a laugh. The victory puts Williams into the semifinals of a tournament in singles for the first time since the 2010 United States Open. Wil- liams has the fatigue-causing autoimmune disease Sjogren’s Syndrome, but she said this week that she felt that she was manag- ing her symptoms far more suc- cessfully. “I like to think that this is only the beginning for me,” Williams, 32, said. While excited for her own matches ahead, she acknowl- edged that it was likely in her sis- ter’s best interest to have some time off before the fast-approach- ing United States Open. “She’s played so many match- es since Wimbledon,” Venus Wil- liams said of Serena. “Singles, doubles, and going on to Stan- ford, and then the Olympics sin- gles and doubles. I don’t think anyone has played as many matches and played as success- fully as her. “I think some rest is in order for her,” she concluded. Serena Williams agreed. “Definitely,” she said. “It was probably for the best that I didn’t win today, even though I wanted to win. But maybe my body was, like, telling me not to? I don’t know.” She said that Venus Williams was “playing much better than I am,” and then caught a reporter in the front row nodding in agree- ment. “Why are you nodding your head?” she snapped playfully. “You’re not supposed to agree.” On the men’s side, the 2009 United States Open champion Juan Martín del Potro continued his strong August with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Jérémy Chardy. Del Potro, the No. 6 seed, will face No. 2 Novak Djokovic in Satur- day’s semifinals, a rematch of the bronze medal match at the Lon- don Olympics,which del Potro won in straight sets. “After I beat him was I think my best moment in my life, in my tennis career,” said del Potro, who has struggled with a wrist injury and its aftereffects the last couple of years. “Very close to the U.S.Open tournament or maybe more or less, I don’t know. But was my big moment ever in the tennis life. “I’m still feeling a little differ- ence between the top players and me,” he said. “But I know I’m get- ting closer — very slowly — so that’s important. I’m working for that.” JOHN SOMMERS II/REUTERS Venus Williams beat Samantha Stosur to advance to the semi- finals in singles for the first time since the 2010 U.S. Open. Williams Sisters Split in Cincinnati, Ending One Streak and Another Drought Serena Williams had not lost since May, but her sister moves on.
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