F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Tuesday
October 6, 2009
Midnight in New York
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Pakistan Resists Greater U.S. Influence as job loss rises,
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan —
Steps by the United States to
vastly expand its aid to Pakistan,
as well as the footprint of its em-
bassy and private security con-
tractors here, are aggravating an
already volatile anti-American
mood as Washington pushes for
greater action by the government
against the Taliban.
An aid package of $1.5 billion
a year for the next five years
passed by Congress last week
asks Pakistan to cease supporting
terrorist groups on its soil and to
ensure that the military does not
interfere with civilian politics.
President Asif Ali Zardari, whose
association with the United States
has added to his unpopularity,
agreed to the stipulations in the
aid package.
But many here, especially in
the powerful army, object to the
conditions as interference in
Pakistan’s internal affairs, and
they are interpreting the larger
American footprint in more sin-
ister ways.
American officials say the em-
bassy and its security presence
must expand in order to monitor
how the new money is spent. They
Vaccine Arrives, as Flu Fear Creates a Rush
The fear of swine flu is being
compounded by new worries, this
time among primary care doctors
who say that they are swamped
by calls from patients seeking the
new vaccine, and that they are ill-
prepared to cope with the nation-
wide drive to immunize everyone,
particularly children and chroni-
cally ill adults.
The federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention released
the first doses of vaccine on Mon-
day. But many doctors, especially
pediatricians, say they know little
about the program and have been
deluged with questions.
At the same time, the pediatri-
cians are struggling to figure out
how to administer perhaps thou-
sands of doses quickly in small of-
fices with limited staff, while still
dealing with other illnesses.
Some said they were consider-
ing hiring nurses just for the vac-
obama aides act
also have real security concerns,
which were underscored Monday
to fix safety net
when a suicide bomber, dressed
in the uniform of a Pakistani se-
curity force, killed at least five
people at a U.N. office in the heart
of Islamabad, the capital.
The U.S. Embassy has publi-
cized plans for a vast new build-
ing in Islamabad for about 1,000
people, with security for some
diplomats provided through a
Washington-based private con-
tracting company, DynCorp.
The embassy setup, with Amer-
ican demands for importing more
armored vehicles, is a significant
expansion over the last 15 years. It
comes at a time of intense discus-
sion in Washington over whether
to widen American operations
and aid to Pakistan — a base for
Al Qaeda — as an alternative to
deeper American involvement in
Afghanistan with the addition of
more forces.
The fierce opposition here is
revealing deep strains in the al-
liance. Even at its current levels,
the American presence was fuel-
ing a sense of occupation among
Pakistani politicians and security
officials, said several Pakistani
cinations and setting aside days
when children would be vaccinat-
ed in alphabetical order.
At Westchester Pediatrics, an
office with 6,000 to 8,000 families
in Hartsdale, N.Y., exasperated
doctors have added a new choice
to the office answering machine:
“If you have a question about the
flu vaccine, please dial 6.” Press-
ing 6 produces a further message
saying that the swine flu vaccine
is not yet available, and to keep
checking the CDC.gov Web site
for updates.
For those who are not satisfied,
a sign in the office waiting room
counsels patience.
In Philadelphia, Dr. Shea Cron-
ley of Advocare Society Hill Pedi-
atrics said she was concerned that
emergency rooms were starting
to see a rise in flu cases, but she
did not know when she would be
getting her share of vaccine.
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officials, who did not want to be
named for fear of antagonizing
the United States. The United
States was now seen as behaving
in Pakistan much as it did in Iraq
and Afghanistan, they said.
In particular, the Pakistani mil-
itary and the intelligence agencies
are concerned that DynCorp is be-
ing used by Washington to devel-
op a parallel network of security
and intelligence personnel within
Pakistan, officials and politicians
close to the army said.
The concerns are serious
enough that last month a local
company hired by DynCorp to pro-
vide Pakistani men to be trained
as security guards for American
diplomats was raided by the Is-
lamabad police. The owner of the
company, the Inter-Risk Security
Co., Capt. Syed Ali Ja Zaidi, was
later arrested.
The tensions are erupting as the
United States is pressing Pakistan
to take on not only those Taliban
groups that have threatened their
government, but also the Taliban
leadership that uses Pakistan as a
base to organize and conduct their
insurgency in Afghanistan.
 JANE PERLEZ
“We’re waiting,” she said.
The Centers for Disease Control
has embarked on an extensive
immunization drive with a goal of
producing 195 million to 250 mil-
lion doses of vaccine.
The vaccine is being distributed
free to local jurisdictions, like city
and state health departments,
which are responsible for taking
orders from doctors, hospitals,
school systems and the like. Nor-
mally, doctors order vaccines di-
rectly from manufacturers.
As of Monday, 62 states or local-
ities had put in orders for a total of
more than 1.7 million doses.
Actual delivery will lag, howev-
er, adding to the confusion about
when doctors will get their share.
The New York City Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene said
Friday that it expected to get only
68,800 doses by early this week.
 ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
WASHINGTON — With unem-
ployment expected to rise well
into next year even as the econo-
my slowly recovers, the Obama
administration and Democratic
leaders in Congress are discuss-
ing extending several safety net
programs as well as proposing
new tax incentives for businesses
to renew hiring.
President Obama’s economic
team discussed a wide range of
ideas at a meeting on Monday,
following his Saturday radio ad-
dress in which he said it would
“explore additional options to
promote job creation.” But offi-
cials emphasized that a decision
was still far off, and that the ef-
fort would not add up to a second
economic stimulus package, only
an extension of the first.
“We’re thinking through all ad-
ditional potential strategies for
accelerating job creation,” said
Obama’s senior adviser, David
Axelrod.
The latest deliberations oc-
curred against a backdrop of
worsening joblessness. While
some economists and policy mak-
ers say the recession is easing, a
report on Friday showed unem-
ployment in September inched up
to 9.8 percent, a 26-year high.
Among the options for addi-
tional steps is some variation
on Obama’s proposal during the
stimulus debate to give employ-
ers a $3,000 tax credit for each
new hire, which Congress reject-
ed last winter. Another option
would allow more businesses to
deduct their net operating losses
going back five years instead of
the usual two.
The search for further rem-
edies is part of a two-track effort
in the White House and Congress.
Democrats are also considering
plans to continue through 2010 the
extra unemployment assistance
and health benefits available to
people who are out of work for
long periods.
 JACKIE CALMES
International
In Guinea Violence, Soldiers Prey on Women
CONAKRY, Guinea — Cell-
phone snapshots, ugly and hard
to refute, are circulating here
and feeding rage: they show
that women were the particular
targets of the Guinean soldiers
who suppressed a political dem-
onstration at a stadium here last
week, with victims and witnesses
describing rapes, beatings and
acts of intentional humiliation.
“I can’t sleep at night, after
what I saw,’’ said one middle-
aged woman from an established
family here, who said she had
been beaten and sexually molest-
ed. “And I am afraid. I saw lots of
women raped, and lots of dead.”
One photograph shows a naked
woman lying on muddy ground,
her legs up in the air, a man in
military fatigues in front of her.
In a second picture a soldier in
a red beret is pulling the clothes
off a distraught-looking woman
half-lying, half-sitting on muddy
ground. In a third a mostly nude
woman lying on the ground is
Search for Survivors Continues in Indonesia Towns
LUBUK LAWEK, Indonesia —
The arrival of heavy machinery
in this tiny village on Monday
allowed search teams to reach
deeper into a region devastated
by a series of landslides caused
by the earthquake last Wednes-
day. But the delicate search for
survivors gave way to large ma-
chines clawing away at wrecked
buildings, twisted trees and mud-
covered debris to find the dead.
After heavy overnight rain,
the Indonesian military and
the police spent the day march-
ing through thick mud, placing
stakes wherever they could smell
decomposing flesh. Several back-
hoes, provided by a local Indone-
State Forces Are Accused of Abuses in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
— Rosamaria Valeriano Flores
was returning home from a visit
to a public health clinic and found
herself in a crowd of people dis-
persing from a demonstration in
support of the ousted president,
Manuel Zelaya. As she crossed
the central square of the Hondu-
ran capital, a group of soldiers
and police officers pushed her to
the ground and beat her with their
truncheons.
pulling on her trousers.
The cellphone pictures are cir-
culating anonymously, but mul-
tiple witnesses corroborated the
events depicted.
The attacks were part of a vio-
lent outburst on Sept. 28 in which
soldiers shot and killed dozens of
unarmed demonstrators at the
main stadium here, where per-
haps 50,000 had assembled. Local
human rights organizations say
at least 157 were killed; the gov-
ernment puts the figure at 56.
But even more than the shoot-
ings, the attacks on women — hor-
rific anywhere, but viewed with
particular revulsion in Muslim
countries like this one — appear
to have traumatized the citizenry
and hardened the opposition’s
determination to force out the
leader of the military junta, Capt.
Moussa Dadis Camara.
Diplomats said the violence
had irreversibly undermined
Camara’s standing with other
countries.
sian business, managed to make
their way to some of the most
remote villages in the district of
Padang Pariaman, like this one,
about 50 miles from Padang, the
provincial capital of West Suma-
tra.
In the late morning, one crew
here unearthed the bodies of a
pregnant woman and her two
young daughters. Others began
digging out the bodies of about 40
people swept away as they were
celebrating a wedding.
The earthquake, with a magni-
tude of 7.6, struck the western In-
donesian island of Sumatra last
Wednesday evening, devastating
Padang, a city of 900,000, and set-
She said the men kicked out
most of her top teeth, broke her
ribs and split open her head. “A
policeman spit in my face and
said, ‘You will die,’ ” she said.
Valeriano, 39, was sitting in the
office of a Tegucigalpa human
rights group last week, speak-
ing about the assault, which took
place on Aug. 12.
Since Zelaya was removed in
a June 28 coup, security forces
have tried to halt opposition with
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
If internal opposition continues
to grow, Camara may be forced
either to leave power or to tighten
his grip with an even more au-
thoritarian government.
Bernard Kouchner, the foreign
minister of France, the former
colonial power here, urged “in-
ternational intervention.’’
The exact number of women
who were abused is not known.
Because of the shame associated
with sexual violence in this West
African country, victims are re-
luctant to speak, and local doctors
refuse to do so. Victims who told
of the attacks would not provide
their names because they were
afraid of retribution.
But the witnesses were ada-
mant. “I affirm, in categorical
fashion, that women were raped,
not just one woman,’’ said Mama-
dou Mouctar Diallo, 34, an opposi-
tion leader who said he had been
severely beaten himself. “I saw
many rapes.’’
 ADAM NOSSITER
ting off landslides to its north.
Emergency workers have so
far focused most of their efforts
on Padang, where hundreds of
large buildings collapsed, trap-
ping many people inside. The
Indonesian government said it
had counted more than 600 bod-
ies, and that some 1,000 people
were still missing. The death toll
is certain to rise as workers pen-
etrate the villages.
An official with the Indonesian
Health Ministry estimated that
more than 600 people could have
been buried by the landslides,
raising the potential toll beyond
the United Nations’ estimate of
1,100. PETER GELLING
beatings and mass arrests, hu-
man rights groups say. Eleven
people have been killed since the
coup, according to the Committee
for Families of the Disappeared
and Detainees in Honduras.
The number of violations and
their intensity has increased
since Zelaya secretly returned to
Honduras two weeks ago, taking
refuge at the Brazilian Embassy,
human rights groups say.
 ELISABETH MALKIN
2
in brief
Pakistan Bombing
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A
suicide bomber dressed in the
uniform of one of Pakistan’s se-
curity forces struck the U.N.
World Food Program offices in
Islamabad on Monday, killing
at least five people in what the
police said was a serious breach
in a building tightly guarded by
private security officers. There
was no immediate claim of re-
sponsibility for the attack. The
bombing was the first direct at-
tack against a U.N. agency here
in the Pakistani capital, and the
agency immediately closed its
offices in Pakistan. (NYT)
Deadly Storm in India
NEW DELHI — More than
240 people have died, and hun-
dreds of thousands have been
left homeless in southern India
after four days of heavy rainfall
at the end of the monsoon sea-
son, the government said Mon-
day. The sudden rains, com-
ing after a severe drought, de-
luged villages and caused wide-
spread disruption in the states
of Andhra Pradesh and Kar-
nataka. Floodwaters are now
thought to be receding, officials
said. (NYT)
Deaths in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A suicide
bomber detonated himself
among mourners at a funeral in
western Iraq on Monday, killing
6 people and wounding 16 in An-
bar Province, a region that has
grown increasingly violent dur-
ing the past few months. The fu-
neral’s mourners included po-
lice officers, tribal sheiks and
members of Awakening Coun-
cils, the Sunni militias that fight
insurgents.  (NYT)
Failed N. Korea Deals
North Korea has received
the equivalent of about $2.2 bil-
lion under deals starting in
1994 aimed at persuading it to
dismantle its nuclear facili-
ties, a South Korean lawmaker
said Monday, in what his office
said was the first accounting of
the cost of the failed strategy.
North Korea abandoned its nu-
clear disablement process last
year.  (AP)
national
In Debate on Health, It’s Coverage Vs. Cost
WASHINGTON — As Demo-
crats prepare to take up health
care legislation on the floor of the
Senate and the House, they are
facing tough choices about two
competing priorities. They want
people to pay affordable prices
for health insurance policies, but
they want those policies to offer
comprehensive health benefits.
These goals collide in the bills
moving through Congress. The
different versions of the legisla-
tion would all require insurance
companies to provide coverage
more generous than many poli-
cies sold in the individual market
today. That is good for consum-
ers, Democrats say.
But Republicans say the new
requirements would mean added
costs for some consumers and
for the government, which would
help pay premiums for millions of
low- and middle-income people.
That tension between keeping
costs low and improving cov-
erage is just one of many chal-
3 Americans Share Nobel for Work in Cell Biology
The Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine was awarded Mon-
day to three American scientists
who solved a problem of cell biol-
ogy with deep relevance to cancer
and aging. The three will receive
equal shares of a prize worth
around $1.4 million.
The recipients solved a long-
standing puzzle involving the
ends of chromosomes, the giant
molecules of DNA that embody
the genetic information. These
ends, called telomeres, get short-
er each time a cell divides and
so serve as a kind of clock that
counts off the cell’s allotted span
of life.
The three winners are Elizabeth
After Failed Execution, Ohio Postpones Two Others
CINCINNATI — In continuing
fallout from a failed execution
last month, Gov. Ted Strickland
on Monday postponed two other
executions to give corrections of-
ficials more time to revise lethal
injection procedures.
The announcement came just
hours after a federal appeals
court indefinitely delayed one of
those executions, which had been
scheduled for Thursday, because
of similar concerns about proce-
lenges facing Congress and the
Obama administration as they
head toward the final stages of
the effort to pass health care leg-
islation.
Under the legislation, the gov-
ernment would not only require
insurers to accept all applicants.
It would also define the accept-
able levels of coverage.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.,
said the federal government had
to specify coverage levels be-
cause the benefits under many
existing insurance policies were
inadequate.
“We have more than 46 mil-
lion people who are uninsured,”
Bingaman said. “We also have
a substantial number who are
under-insured. Although they
have coverage, it is so bad or so
inadequate that if they really get
sick, they find they cannot afford
the health care they need.”
But the No. 2 Republican in the
Senate, Jon Kyl of Arizona, said
it was “an act of hubris” for Con-
H. Blackburn of the University of
California, San Francisco; Carol
W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine;
and Jack W. Szostak of Massachu-
setts General Hospital.
The discoveries were made
some 20 years ago in pursuit of
a purely scientific problem that
seemingly had no practical rele-
vance. But telomeres have turned
out to play a role in two medical
areas of vast importance, those
of aging and cancer, because of
their role in limiting the number
of times a cell can divide.
“I am thrilled that the basic sci-
ence can be celebrated,” Greider
said in an interview Monday.
dures.
The state is looking into backup
procedures in case the standard
execution techniques fail, as
they did on Sept. 15, when tech-
nicians at the state prison in Lu-
casville tried for over two hours
to maintain an intravenous con-
nection in order to inject Romell
Broom with lethal drugs for the
abduction, rape and murder of
a teenage girl in 1984. A hearing
to consider whether Broom can
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
gress to prescribe the permis-
sible coverage.
The Senate Finance Com-
mittee had been scheduled to
meet Tuesday to finish work on
a sweeping health care bill that
it put together over the last two
weeks. But it postponed the ses-
sion while it waits for a cost es-
timate from the Congressional
Budget Office.
Under the committee’s bill,
there would be four levels of
benefits — bronze, silver, gold
and platinum — and all insurers
would be required to offer, at a
minimum, coverage in the silver
and gold categories.
Most employer-sponsored
health plans already meet the
proposed federal standards. But
insurers and actuaries say that
one-third to one-half of policies
bought by individuals and fami-
lies fall short. About 17 million
people buy insurance on their
own, in this individual market.
 ROBERT PEAR
Only eight women had won
the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine. Asked how she felt
about becoming No. 9, Blackburn
replied, “Very excited, and hop-
ing that nine will quickly become
a larger number.”
Thomas Cech, a Nobel Prize
winner at the University of Colo-
rado, said the discovery had had
a broad impact on several fields
of biology and medicine and had
also provided a “fascinating in-
sight” into the transition between
the DNA world and the RNA
world that preceded it in the ori-
gin of life. RNA is a close chemi-
cal cousin of DNA.
 NICHOLAS WADE
be executed in conformity with
constitutional requirements is
scheduled for Nov. 30.
“More research and evaluation
of backup or alternative proce-
dures is necessary before one or
more can be selected,” Strickland
said in his order.
The state expects to have back-
up procedures in place in time to
execute another inmate, Kenneth
Biros, on Dec. 8, he said.
 BOB DRIEHAUS
3
in brief
Cocaine Vaccine
Scientists say they have de-
veloped a vaccine that can pre-
vent cocaine addicts from get-
ting high by blocking the drug’s
effect on the brain, though it
does not blunt cravings for the
drug. Although the vaccine had
only limited success, it created
enough of an immune response
in some subjects that many of
them cut their drug use by half,
researchers reported in a study
to be published in Tuesday’s Ar-
chives of General Psychiatry.
The vaccine stimulates pro-
duction of antibodies that bind
to cocaine and hold it in the
bloodstream, preventing it from
reaching the brain and other or-
gans.
The trial’s success is signifi-
cant because some of the same
principles are being used by
other scientists in trying to cre-
ate an antinicotine vaccine,
which could have even broader
appeal. (NYT)
Florida Gun Scare
TAMPA, Fla. — The Univer-
sity of South Florida was locked
down on Monday after someone
reported a man with a gun and
a bomb near the library. The
police had one person in custo-
dy. No one reported shots being
fired or injuries. Students were
told to return to their normal
routine about three hours af-
ter the lockdown began. Vincent
T. McCoy, 23, a student at the
university, was arrested and
charged with making a false
report. The Tampa Police De-
partment’s bomb squad exam-
ined McCoy’s backpack and de-
termined it was safe, the police
said.  (AP)
High Court Refuses
2,000 Cases
WASHINGTON — The Su-
preme Court on Monday re-
fused to hear appeals concern-
ing the Pledge of Allegiance,
the Confederate flag and li-
cense plates bearing the words
“Choose Life.” In those and
some 2,000 other cases that ac-
cumulated during the court’s
summer break, the court let
stand rulings from lower courts
without comment.  (NYT)
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The Hidden Costs of Prepaid Debit Cards
Buying a prepaid debit card
these days is just about as easy
as picking up a bottle of shampoo
or a candy bar. Walk into a Wal-
Mart or almost any major drug
store, and rows of plastic worth
$25, $100, and even $500 beckon
from kiosks alongside prepaid
phone cards and gift cards for
retailers.
“No Credit Check. Safer Than
Cash. No Bank Account Needed,”
says the Green Dot Visa Prepaid
Card: Just pay at the register and
the card is ready for A.T.M. with-
drawals, store purchases and on-
line shopping.
For many people who don’t
have bank accounts, or can’t get
a credit card, the appeal is irre-
sistible, making the reloadable
cards among the consumer bank-
ing industry’s fastest-growing
Airlines Forge Global Ties to Expand Reach
The sharp falloff in passenger
traffic in the months after the 2001
terrorist attacks forced many
airlines to file for bankruptcy or
cut deeply into operations. When
oil prices soared in recent years,
carriers piled on new fees for
baggage and fuel, and shut down
unprofitable flights.
Now airlines are thinking of
ways to grow again — this time,
by teaming up with global part-
ners to expand their international
reach.
That is one reason a bidding war
has broken out among airlines
wanting to unite with troubled
Japan Airlines, which is under
orders from the Japanese govern-
A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health
The national health care debate
right now is all about giving more
people affordable access to doc-
tors and hospitals. Yet the vast
majority of health care decisions
are really made by individuals,
instead of medical professionals,
whether choices are about diet
and exercise or ways of manag-
ing chronic conditions like diabe-
tes and heart disease.
The long-term answer to im-
proving the health of the nation’s
population and curbing costs,
experts agree, is to help people
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products. But their convenience
comes with a catch: fees, often
hidden in the fine print.
The MiCash Prepaid Master-
Card docks cardholders a $9.95
activation fee. Like many com-
petitors, it then charges numer-
ous recurring fees, including
$1.75 for each A.T.M. withdrawal,
$1 for each A.T.M. balance inqui-
ry, 50 cents for each purchase, $4
for monthly maintenance, $2 for
inactivity after 60 days and $1 for
a call to customer service.
“It’s a very expensive way to
bank,” said Jean Ann Fox, direc-
tor of financial services at the Con-
sumer Federation of America.
A cottage industry only 10
years ago, reloadable prepaid
cards have tapped into the vast
pool of about 80 million consum-
ers who have little or no access to
ment to develop a survival plan.
In another time, JAL might
draw little interest from Ameri-
can players. But all are looking to
find international partners, since
the domestic market shows little
sign of rebounding sharply, at
least in the next few quarters. Wall
Street, optimistic that the airlines
have moved to fix their structural
problems, is willing to provide new
capital to pursue partnerships —
not just as a growth strategy, but
also in self-defense.
American Airlines, which has
long been in an alliance with JAL
linking their flight systems, re-
portedly has recruited two other
alliance members, Qantas and
make smarter decisions day
in and day out about their own
health. And the most powerful po-
tential tool in the march toward
intelligent consumerism in health
care may be the Web.
That is why on Tuesday, a start-
up company led by Adam Bos-
worth, former head of the Google
Health team, plans to become the
newest entrant to the online con-
sumer health business.
Already, surveys show that a
majority of adults in America
routinely scour the Internet for
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bank accounts.
Industry officials say the cards
are a good deal for consumers
who have been shut out of tra-
ditional banking, and that fees
are starting to come down as the
market grows.
Because it is a relatively new
industry, prepaid cards have
not undergone the Congressio-
nal and regulatory scrutiny that
credit and debit cards have. In the
spring, lawmakers restricted in-
terest rate increases and hidden
fees on credit cards, and regula-
tors are now examining stricter
rules on overdraft fees on check-
ing accounts.
Congress has asked regulators
to determine if prepaid cards
warrant the same protections ex-
tended to debit and credit cards.
 ANDREW MARTIN
British Airways, to help rescue
the Japanese airline and fend off
a competing offer from Delta.
American has been waiting
more than a year for federal ap-
proval of a proposed flight-shar-
ing deal with British Airways and
the Spanish airline Iberia. United
and Continental struck a mar-
keting agreement more than a
year ago after their merger talks
failed.
“You want to be friends with as
many people so they don’t crush
you or try to buy you,” said Philip
A. Baggaley, an airline analyst
with Standard & Poor’s Ratings
Services.
 MICHELINE MAYNARD
health information. But the Web
is still mainly a vast trove of gen-
eralized health information. The
ideal, health experts say, would
be to combine personal data with
health information to deliver tai-
lored health plans for individuals.
That is what Bosworth and his
San Francisco-based company,
Keas (pronounced KEE-ahs)
Inc., mean to do.
Although success is far from
certain, Keas has some big part-
ners, including Google Health and
Microsoft HealthVault.  (NYT)
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Shake-Up at Disney
The Walt Disney Co. has hired
one of its star TV executives to
overhaul its struggling motion pic-
ture studio. Rich Ross, president of
Disney Channels Worldwide, will
immediately take over the top job
at Walt Disney Studios, according
to people briefed on the matter but
who asked for anonymity because
they were not authorized to speak
to the news media.  (NYT)
business
Will Health Insurance Exchanges Work?
It is the sleeper issue in the cur-
rent health care debate.
Despite all the disagreement in
Washington, every proposal now
before Congress to overhaul the
nation’s health care system in-
cludes creation of an insurance
“exchange” — a marketplace
that would operate something
like a Travelocity Web site for in-
surance policies.
In theory, the exchange would
fix a fundamental flaw in the
present system by giving small
businesses and individuals a
broad choice of insurance poli-
cies at competitive prices. Right
now, such buyers typically have
few affordable options.
The idea of an exchange has
support from the White House
and many in Congress — from
people who also advocate includ-
ing a government-run insurance
plan in the marketplace and from
those who oppose letting the gov-
ernment compete with commer-
cial insurers.
But policy experts say few law-
makers have yet paid enough
attention to what that new mar-
ketplace should look like — and
whether it would actually work
as promised.
Without careful design and
adequate rules of fair play, and
without letting enough buyers
participate to create a robust
market, the exchange might not
actually stimulate new competi-
tion among the nation’s health
insurers. In other words: What
happens if you build an exchange
and insurers do not flock to it with
new, well-priced wares?
The risk is that many local
markets could end up looking
much as they do today — with
small businesses and individuals
at the mercy of too few insurers
wielding too much power in their
regions.
“We may not be able to im-
prove competition in the short
run through the exchange,” said
Len Nichols, a health economist
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
at the New America Foundation,
a Washington research group
that supports an overhaul of the
insurance market.
So far, the House proposal calls
for the creation of a national ex-
change where someone in Iowa,
for example, may have the same
choice of health plans as buyers
in Maine and California. Because
insurance is now a state-by-state
patchwork, such an approach
would conceivably enhance com-
petition by creating an interstate
market.
But critics worry that the re-
sult may be a few big providers of
one-size-fits-all plans, still leav-
ing many small businesses and
consumers with products that do
not meet their needs or budgets.
Both Senate proposals, mean-
while, favor the creation of state-
based exchanges, where a state
may have the choice of deciding
whether its residents can also
buy from a national or regional
exchange.  REED ABELSON
5
in brief
New Blogger Rules
On Monday, the F.T.C. said
it would revise rules about en-
dorsements and testimonials
in advertising that had been in
place since 1980. The new regu-
lations are aimed at the rapidly
shifting new-media world and
how advertisers are using blog-
gers and social media sites like
Facebook and Twitter to pitch
their wares.
The F.T.C. said that beginning
on Dec. 1, bloggers who review
products must disclose any con-
nection with advertisers, includ-
ing, in most cases, the receipt
of free products and whether or
not they were paid in any way
by advertisers, as occurs fre-
quently. The new rules also take
aim at celebrities, who will now
need to disclose any ties to com-
panies, should they promote
products on a talk show or on
Twitter.  (NYT)
journal Tuesday, October 6, 2009 6

In Overcrowded Moscow, Even the Dead Can’t Find a Resting Place

MOSCOW — Aleksei Orlov’s grandfather “Mama was a Christian and wanted to be over property deeds are common — and
was buried in Moscow’s Danilovskoe Cem- buried according to Christian tradition,” Or- sometimes end in bloodshed.
etery in 1946. His grandmother was laid to rest lov, a Moscow business analyst, said. “On the But, for the families of the 120,000 people
there four decades later. And, about 11 years other hand, it wasn’t possible to bury her. New who die annually in Moscow, the search for an
ago, Orlov buried his father there. plots are either far away, expensive or both.” afterlife dwelling is a singular challenge.
But when his mother died unexpectedly last Much of a Muscovite’s life is spent jockey- The 18th century Danilovskoe Cemetery
August, he found there was no room for her in ing for space. Officially, some 10.5 million in southern Moscow, where Orlov’s family
the family plot. Or almost anywhere else. people live in the capital, though unofficial plot is located, is a tightly-packed jumble of
Moscow, it turns out, is largely closed to the estimates, which include the city’s undocu- headstones and monuments. The graves’
dead. Of the 71 cemeteries in the Russian capi- mented immigrants, put the figure at millions occupants stare out ghostlike from portraits
tal, only one is open to new burials. The deficit more. engraved on headstones, a Russian custom.
has left relatives without room in family plots On the roads, drivers become knotted Small plots can be crammed with relatives —
to choose between burial far from the city and in enormous traffic jams, while masses of mothers, fathers, children, their spouses.
cremation, a practice that is frowned upon by people twist and tumble through the metro Even in the prestigious Novodevichy Cem-
the Russian Orthodox Church. at rush hour. Housing is so sparse that feuds etery, the likes of Nikita Khrushchev, Anton
Chekhov and the composer Dmitri Shosta-
crossword Edited By Will Shortz kovich seem to jostle with generals, actors
and the relatives of czars for a slice of eternal
PUZZLE BY MATT GINSBERG
ACROSS 42 “Comin’ ___ the
ground to rest on.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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in “The Phantom 43 Actress Winona 14 15 16 no more room for cemeteries in Moscow, and
of the Opera” 45 Captain for 40 many citizens believe it is unwilling to free
5 Onetime science days and nights 17 18 19
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up valuable land that could be used for other
47 “___ approved”
9 Philosopher with (motel sign)
20 21 22 23 purposes.
a “razor” 48 … KSG …
Russian attitudes toward burial also com-
24 25 26 27
14 “___ Lama Ding 52 “I don’t want to plicate the search for cemetery space. Un-
Dong,” 1961 hit hear about it!” 28 29 30 like many Americans, who tend to approach
for the Edsels
15 Paper purchase
55 Perform really cemetery real estate as they would, say, a new
badly 31 32 33 34 35 36
condo, many Russians still believe funerary
16 Best-selling 56 Golfer Isao
author Bret 37 38 39 40 41 42 arrangements to be the government’s respon-
57 Escape clauses,
Easton ___
e.g. sibility, as it was in Soviet-era times, and often
17 “The Lord ___ 43 44 45 46 47
fail to plan ahead, said Anton Avdeyev, direc-
60 Pair of lenses
shepherd …”
18 Only common
62 … ZKR … 48 49 50 51 tor of the Union of Funeral Agency Workers.
word in the 65 Cheese sold in “Our people are not ready for a market-
English red paraffin 52 53 54 55
based funerary industry,” he said.
language with 66 Cowboy star
the consecutive Lash, who taught 56 57 58 59 60 61 With the fall of the Soviet Union, the govern-
letters MPG Harrison Ford ment deregulated and privatized much of the
20 Wild animal track how to use a 62 63 64 65
funerary business in Russia. This has led to an
22 Command to a
bullwhip explosion of private funeral agencies. Funer-
66 67 68
person holding a 67 Boat in “Jaws”
ary agents largely operate free of oversight,
deck of cards 68 Trick
23 ___ lily 69 Rub out
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and can easily take advantage of grieving
24 What colors may 70 Butterfly 10/6/09 (No. 1006)
families desperately seeking a burial plot.
do in hot water catchers’ needs 4 Walloped but What Evita asked
27 49 Crazedly
“The number of agents, licensed and not,
26 Moves back, as 71 German admiral good Argentina not to 50 One of about
exceed the number of people who die daily
a hairline Maximilian von do for her in Moscow,” said Aleksandr V. Yegorov, the
5 “The Lord of the 100 billion in the
28 … ADQ … ___ Rings” baddie 28 Fur human brain general director of Ritual, the quasi-govern-
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editorials of the timeS
Salvaging Immigration Detention
The Obama administration is unveiling
on Tuesday an ambitious plan to repair the
immigration detention system, a scandal-
plagued mix of federal, state and local lock-
ups that grew vastly and rotted under the en-
forcement crusade led by former President
George W. Bush.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napol-
itano and John Morton, the director of Immi-
gration and Customs Enforcement, or I.C.E.,
deserve credit for proposing to clean up a sys-
tem notorious for shabby and abusive condi-
tions, poor or nonexistent medical treatment
and a trail of preventable injuries and deaths.
The reforms, if they work and are maintained,
would be a necessary corrective to years of
willful neglect.
Napolitano and Morton say that they want
to make the system more efficient, more ac-
countable and less costly. The whole point of
detaining immigrants, after all, is to quickly
figure out which ones should be deported and
to deport them, not to let them languish and
certainly not to inflict punishment or undue
suffering.
But immigration detention has strayed far
from that basic mission. Today’s announce-
ment includes statements of “core principles”
so fundamental that you have to wonder what
they are replacing. Consider these:
• “I.C.E. will detain aliens in settings com-
mensurate with the risk of flight and danger
they present.” That means the government has
finally come to understand that detainees are
not all violent criminals. They include young
Animal Cruelty and Free Speech
The First Amendment protects even dis-
turbing speech, a point the Supreme Court
should keep in mind on Tuesday when it hears
arguments in the case of a man convicted of
selling videos of dogfighting and other animal
cruelty. A federal appeals court reversed his
conviction, ruling that the federal law under
which he was prosecuted is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court should uphold that well-
reasoned decision.
Robert Stevens, who ran a business called
“Dogs of Velvet and Steel,” sold videos of pit
bulls engaging in dogfights and attacking
other animals. He did not participate in the at-
tacks personally, but he was charged under a
federal law that makes it illegal to sell depic-
tions of acts of animal cruelty that are them-
selves illegal in the state where the depiction
is sold.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit, based in Philadelphia, reversed
Stevens’s conviction. The Supreme Court
has created narrow exceptions to the First
Amendment for a few kinds of speech, includ-
ing obscenity and, more recently, child por-
nography. The appeals court rightly declined
to create another category for depictions of
mothers and their children, asylum seekers,
upright members of communities who, but for
a lapsed visa or bureaucratic snafu, would not
be in trouble with the law. Those who can make
no case for staying here should be deported.
But it’s gratifying to hear Napolitano and Mor-
ton acknowledge that nonviolent noncriminals
should not be warehoused behind bars.
• “I.C.E. will provide sound medical care.”
This fundamental government responsibil-
ity has been shamefully neglected in centers
around the country. The reform plan refers
vaguely to a new “medical classification sys-
tem” for detainees that should improve treat-
ment and reduce unnecessary and disruptive
medical transfers.
Perhaps the most important principle be-
hind these reforms is the reassertion of cen-
tral control over the sprawling, subcontract-
ed system. The new plan asserts that central
control is not only smarter and more efficient
but also cheaper. “Each of these reforms,”
the agency says, “are expected to be budget-
neutral or result in cost savings through re-
duced reliance on contractors to perform key
federal duties.”
Immigration detention is a prime example
of things going bad when the government sub-
contracts a vital mission to poorly supervised
outsiders. The Obama administration, like its
predecessor, is under ferocious political pres-
sure to be seen as tough on people who have
been unfairly depicted as a fundamentally
criminal, dangerous crowd. It is pushing back
with an effort to be sane and proportionate.
animal cruelty.
This is not the only deeply offensive speech
protected by the Constitution. Nazis are al-
lowed to march, and racists are allowed to
spew racism. If legislatures have the power
to disapprove certain categories of unpopu-
lar speech, a lot of expression could become
illegal. The government seems to think it is
enough that the harm caused by the animal-
cruelty depictions outweighs their social
value, but the First Amendment does not say
that Congress can restrict speech if it fails a
balancing test.
It is also extraordinarily difficult to carve
out free-speech exceptions. Animal cruelty is
often depicted in videos and on Web sites that
seek to call attention to the problem of animal
abuse. The law makes an exception for certain
depictions that have serious political, journal-
istic or other value, but there is no clear way
to sort through all of the covered expression
to determine who should be held criminally li-
able and who should not.
All 50 states have laws against animal
abuse. The best way to fight animal cruelty is
to enforce these laws more vigorously and to
increase the penalties.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 7
BOB HERBERT
Does Obama Get It?
The big question on the domestic front right
now is whether President Obama understands
the gravity of the employment crisis facing
the country. Does he get it? The signals com-
ing out of the White House have not been en-
couraging.
The Beltway crowd and the Einsteins of
high finance who never saw this economic
collapse coming are now telling us with their
usual breezy arrogance that the Great Reces-
sion is probably over. Their focus, of course, is
on data, abstractions like the gross domestic
product, not the continued suffering of living,
breathing human beings struggling with the
nightmare of joblessness.
Even Obama, in an interview with The
Times, gave short shrift to the idea of an ad-
ditional economic stimulus package, telling
John Harwood a few weeks ago that the econo-
my had likely turned a corner. “As you know,”
the president said, “jobs tend to be a lagging
indicator; they come last.”
The view of most American families is
somewhat less blasé. Faced with the relentless
monthly costs of housing, transportation, food,
clothing, education and so forth, they have pre-
cious little time to wait for this lagging indica-
tor to come creeping across the finish line.
Americans need jobs now, and if the econ-
omy on its own is incapable of putting people
back to work — which appears to be the case
— then the government needs to step in with
aggressive job-creation efforts.
We’re running on a treadmill that is carry-
ing us backward. Something approaching 10
million new jobs would have to be created just
to get back to where we were when the reces-
sion began in December 2007. There is nothing
currently in the works to jump-start job cre-
ation on that scale.
We seem to be waiting for some mythical re-
bound to come rolling in, magically equipped
with robust jobs creation, a long-term bull
market and paradise regained for consum-
ers.
It ain’t happening.
While the data mavens were talking about
green shoots in September, employers in the
real world were letting another 263,000 of their
workers go, bringing the jobless rate to 9.8
percent, the highest in more than a quarter
of a century. The number of people officially
unemployed, including those who dropped out
of the labor market — 15.1 million — is, as The
Wall Street Journal noted, greater than the
population of 46 of the 50 states.
The Obama administration seems ham-
strung by the unemployment crisis. No big
ideas have emerged. No dramatically creative
initiatives. If that does not change, these stag-
gering levels of joblessness have the potential
to cripple not just the well-being of millions of
American families, but any real prospects for
sustained economic recovery and the political
prospects of the president as well. An unem-
ployed electorate is an unhappy electorate.
sports Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8

Torre’s Steady Hand Points Way to Playoffs in brief

LOS ANGELES — Adjacent to
a clubhouse where Bob Marley’s
“Redemption Song’’ pulsated and
grown men in ski goggles, swim
goggles and scuba masks drank
and doused one another with beer
and Champagne, a more serene
acknowledgment of the Dodgers’
National League West division
championship took place.
Inside Manager Joe Torre’s of-
fice the host poured Champagne
into glass flutes that had been
passed around the crowded room.
They celebrated with a toast and
firm embraces.
It was the celebration of some-
one who had been there before,
which, of course, Torre had, many
times. After taking the Yankees
to the playoffs in each of his 12
seasons as their manager, he has
led the Dodgers to the postseason
in his two years in Los Angeles.
The 14 consecutive playoff ap-
N.B.A. Players Make Their Way Back to College
As the N.B.A. opens its pre-
season, about 45 players — 10 per-
cent of the league — had traded
gym bags for backpacks in the
off-season.
The N.B.A. union began track-
ing the classroom migration this
year. Debbie Rothstein Murman,
the director for career develop-
ment for the union, said the num-
ber was much higher than in the
past, although she does not have
earlier numbers. For elite ath-
letes, who command seven-figure
salaries, returning to college is
both an investment and a hedge
against what can be an uncertain
future. Chris Paul of the New Or-
pearances equal the record set
by Atlanta Manager Bobby Cox.
Just as impressive is that only 2 of
those 14 Torre clubs made it to the
postseason as a wild-card team.
For Torre, there was a connois-
seur’s appreciation of a six-month
grind and a grueling final week in
which the Dodgers, who were as-
sured of a playoff berth, needed
seven days to win the game that
clinched the division title.
If Torre’s work was ultimately
taken for granted in New York,
or diminished because he did not
win a World Series in his final
seven seasons, that has not yet
happened in Los Angeles, where
the team’s $100 million payroll to
start the season was baseball’s
ninth highest, or less than half of
the Yankees’.
The Dodgers led the division
from April 15, but they had to
make do with a suspended, then
leans Hornets resumed classes
at Wake Forest, and Westbrook’s
teammate Kevin Durant contin-
ued working toward his degree at
Texas.
A league rule change in 2006
mandates that players be at least
one year removed from high
school and at least 19 years old
to be drafted. For many players,
that meant attending at least one
year of college. The rule stopped
the influx of players who entered
the league directly from high
school. But it might have had an
inadvertent consequence: some
are attempting to finish what
they started.
diminished, Manny Ramirez;
endured three injuries to their
opening-day starter, Hiroki
Kuroda; coped with an incon-
sistent offense; and had to repel
late-season charges by the San
Francisco Giants and the Colo-
rado Rockies.
“They’re the familiar finger-
prints of being very, very steady,’’
Frank McCourt, the Dodgers’
owner, said of Torre’s influence.
“Joe provides a certain leveling
ingredient that prevents the team
from getting too carried away in
one direction or the other.’’
If the Dodgers do their part,
then end up beating the Yankees,
it is easy to picture a reprise of the
scene from Saturday night. Not
the celebration in the manager’s
office, but the one next door, where
the soundtrack — to Torre’s ears
— would be a redemption song, in-
deed.  BILLY WITZ
“I had classes with regular stu-
dents and went to study hall and
caught the school bus to the gym,”
Durant said. “It was everything I
did when I was there before.”
The average annual salary in
the N.B.A. is $5.85 million, and
players are generally secure in the
near term. Their retirement years
can be completely different. An es-
timated 60 percent of N.B.A. play-
ers are broke within five years
of retiring, according to a report
by Sports Illustrated in March.
Professional sports leagues and
unions have emphasized educa-
tion as one way of helping athletes
prepare.  JONATHAN ABRAMS
Manning Injured
Eli Manning was found to
have plantar fasciitis in his
right foot on Monday, which
means he will probably be able
to continue playing, but it is go-
ing to be painful. Manning sus-
tained the injury during the Gi-
ants’ 27-16 victory Sunday at
Kansas City. He arrived at Gi-
ants Stadium on Monday wear-
ing no protective boot or using
crutches and said he was not
worried about it as he headed
for a magnetic resonance imag-
ing test. That test revealed the
extent of the inflammation in
his foot.  (NYT)
Rangers Over Devils
The Rangers came out flat in
the opening minute against the
New Jersey Devils, and Coach
John Tortorella had seen more
than enough. He burned his lone
timeout 1:24 in and chewed
out his club. The message got
through, and New York gut-
ted out a 3-2 victory on Monday
night. (AP)
Vikings Top Packers
A Minnesota Vikings defense
that had 8 sacks, helped Brett
Farve beat his old team the
Green Bay Packers on Mon-
day night, 30-23, in Minnesota.
Favre threw for 271 yards and
three touchdowns.  (NYT)
NFL scores
SUNDAY’S LATE GAME
Pittsburgh 38, San Diego 28
MONDAY
Minnesota 30, Green Bay 23

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Denver 59/ 42 0 59/ 36 S 74/ 34 S
Detroit 59/ 45 0 65/ 49 Sh 60/ 50 C
Houston
Kansas City
83/ 71
69/ 46
0.52
0
93/ 76 PC
63/ 59 PC
87/ 75 PC
70/ 38 S
Los Angeles 70/ 57 0 73/ 57 S 73/ 59 S
Miami 91/ 81 0 92/ 79 PC 91/ 78 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 52/ 39 0 49/ 43 R 60/ 40 PC
New York City 67/ 53 0 70/ 52 S 70/ 57 Sh
Orlando 88/ 72 0 88/ 74 PC 92/ 75 PC
Philadelphia 67/ 50 0 70/ 48 S 68/ 55 Sh
Phoenix 79/ 66 0 86/ 61 S 84/ 69 S
Salt Lake City 49/ 36 0.13 56/ 34 S 60/ 37 S
San Francisco 69/ 48 0 71/ 49 S 71/ 51 S
Seattle 64/ 44 0 65/ 43 PC 61/ 47 S
St. Louis 69/ 45 0 68/ 54 Sh 70/ 44 S
Washington 70/ 54 0 72/ 52 PC 74/ 60 PC
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 94/ 79 0 88/ 77 T 86/ 77 T
Athens 79/ 59 0 81/ 63 S 81/ 63 S
Beijing 79/ 46 0 66/ 52 S 54/ 46 PC
Berlin 59/ 45 0 64/ 48 PC 72/ 63 C
Buenos Aires 77/ 63 0.28 61/ 50 PC 57/ 43 S
Cairo 90/ 68 0 86/ 73 S 86/ 72 S
Cape Town
Dublin
68/ 59
60/ 41
0
Tr
70/ 54 S
63/ 45 R
64/ 50 R
55/ 43 PC
Geneva 72/ 43 0 73/ 63 C 81/ 66 C
Hong Kong 90/ 79 0 82/ 75 PC 86/ 73 PC
Kingston 89/ 75 1.02 90/ 81 T 90/ 79 S
Lima 67/ 61 Tr 70/ 61 C 70/ 62 C
London 58/ 54 0 72/ 55 C 66/ 52 R
Madrid 84/ 52 0 79/ 64 PC 73/ 63 Sh
Mexico City 78/ 57 0 81/ 56 PC 82/ 56 Sh
Montreal 59/ 52 0.03 59/ 45 C 59/ 46 R
Moscow 55/ 48 0.03 43/ 39 PC 46/ 36 C
Nassau 91/ 79 0.16 93/ 81 PC 93/ 81 S
Paris 69/ 55 0.01 77/ 63 PC 77/ 64 T
Prague 62/ 48 0.02 66/ 50 C 73/ 56 PC
Rio de Janeiro 80/ 72 0 95/ 61 PC 95/ 66 PC
Rome 77/ 61 0 75/ 59 S 77/ 59 S
Santiago 66/ 41 0 73/ 45 C 75/ 45 C
Stockholm 50/ 36 0 55/ 36 PC 61/ 43 Sh
Sydney 67/ 55 0.08 66/ 56 R 63/ 50 R
Tokyo 70/ 66 Tr 70/ 64 R 72/ 64 R
Toronto 63/ 46 0.04 61/ 46 PC 57/ 46 C
Vancouver 60/ 43 0 64/ 46 PC 64/ 48 PC
Warsaw 57/ 46 0.04 57/ 43 PC 64/ 48 C
sports journal
Drugs and the Derby Favorite Are Exposed
Five months after the Ken-
tucky Derby favorite I Want Re-
venge was scratched the morning
of the race with a bad ankle, his
owners are embroiled in a lawsuit
that has exposed the fault lines
of administering legal drugs to
America’s thoroughbreds.
IEAH Stables, which bought
50 percent of the horse in March,
asserts that I Want Revenge was
ailing as early as April 7 and that
the co-owner David Lanzman,
who managed the colt’s racing
activities, failed to disclose the
injuries to IEAH. Lawyers for
Lanzman deny the charge and
say an injury to a ligament in I
Want Revenge’s right front ankle
was discovered for the first time
on the day of the Derby.
On two occasions, veterinar-
ians have testified, I Want Re-
venge’s ankle was injected with
what amounted to new transmis-
sion fluid. The second time was
just four days before the Derby
and was done at the request of his
trainer, Jeff Mullins.
Regardless of the outcome of
the dispute, the treatments are a
striking example of how the use,
and overuse, of legal medications
have placed America’s thorough-
bred population at ever greater
risk of injury, and, in some cases,
catastrophic breakdown.
After Defeat, Jets Focus on Looking Ahead
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — On
the plane ride back from New Or-
leans, the Jets mostly stewed in
silence. But for those who remem-
bered the collapse last season,
when the team lost four of its final
five games, this defeat, and the
Jets’ reaction to it, felt different.
“Last year when we lost, the
expectations seemed so high,”
cornerback Dwight Lowery said.
“I mean, expectations are always
high. But last year, everybody
walked around on eggshells, re-
ally unsure how to react.”
Perhaps no one exhibited the
changed mentality better than
the man who changed it. During
the flight, Coach Rex Ryan sat
briefly next to Mark Sanchez, the
rookie quarterback, hours after
he posted the franchise’s worst
passer rating (27.0) in nearly
three years. Can’t get much
worse, kid, Ryan reminded him
as they shared a laugh.
The Jets’ first loss of the sea-
There is a growing concern
within the veterinary commu-
nity that overmedication — with
drugs like corticosteroids, anti-
inflammatories that can have
dangerous consequences — and
lax oversight are part of the
reason the United States has the
world’s worst mortality rate for
thoroughbreds.
In the weeks that I Want Re-
venge was being injected, The
New York Times asked the owner
or trainer of every horse running
in the Kentucky Derby to share
their veterinary records. Only 3
of the 20 produced the records.
Mullins declined to provide the
records. But according to veteri-
narian bills and the sworn depo-
sitions of Dr. Foster Northrop
and Dr. Larry Bramlage. I Want
Revenge was being treated with
antibiotics, synthetic joint fluid
and corticosteroids.
While many in the industry
have called for more transpar-
ency with the public and greater
communication among veterinar-
ians, trainers and owners, the tes-
timony in the depositions shows
that the good intentions have not
always been followed by action.
Northrop, who declined to com-
ment, is the vice chairman of the
American Association of Equine
Practitioners’ Racing Commit-
son, 24-10 to the Saints, served to
highlight the difference between
this team and the one that stum-
bled the year before. Because as
poorly as Sanchez played Sunday,
the Jets (3-1) believe they have
established an identity.
Players also believe that that
identity, built on Ryan’s tough,
attacking, boastful brand of foot-
ball, will better prepare them to
rebound after losses.
“We’re not going to change who
we are,” Lowery said. “That’s
huge, to be able to say, this is who
we are, this is how we play, this is
what we do. The mood is different.
The personality is different. Our
expectations haven’t changed at
all.”
Whether that theory translates
losses into victories — after all,
the Jets were 8-3 last season —
will be proved or dismissed over
the next three months. But after
their first four games under Ryan,
the Jets stand tied with New Eng-
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
tee, a group that has advocated
taking the mystery out of what
comes out of its members’ black
bags.
Still, when IEAH’s lawyer, An-
dre Regard, asked, “What do you
think about the fact that one of
the advertised issues of the Ken-
tucky Horse Racing Commission
is greater transparency and dis-
closure?”
“I’m all for it,” he answered.
Northrop also testified that he
had not spoken with Lanzman or
Michael Iavarone of IEAH before
the morning of the Derby when I
Want Revenge was scratched.
Regard asked him who he be-
lieved was his client — the owner
or the trainer.
“The trainer,” he said.
“Do you bill the trainer?” Re-
gard asked.
“No,” Northrop said. “Bill the
owners. The trainer is the agent
of the owners is my understand-
ing of it, but with that said, I wel-
come all owners to communicate
directly with me.”
I Want Revenge, meanwhile,
is convalescing at a farm outside
Louisville, Ky. It is doubtful that
he will ever return to the race-
track. This lawsuit, rather than a
Derby victory, may end up being
his greatest legacy.
 JOE DRAPE
land for first place in the Ameri-
can Football Conference East and
have already beaten the Patriots.
The Jets have weathered what
at the season’s outset appeared to
be one of the most difficult parts
of their schedule. Their next four
games — at Miami, Buffalo, at
Oakland, Miami — come against
teams with losing records.
And Ryan, nicknamed the Mad
Scientist by his former charges
in Baltimore, gains use of anoth-
er key element with linebacker
Calvin Pace returning from a
suspension.
“I wasn’t going to kiss him on
the lips, but I thought about it,”
Ryan quipped.
No one at Jets headquarters
seemed concerned about San-
chez. Instead, teammates said he
impressed them with the instant
recognition of his mistakes, and
with the way he stepped in front
of reporters and placed the blame
squarely on his shoulders. (NYT)
9
n.h.l. standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Phila. 2 0 0 4 7 2
Pittsburgh 2 0 0 4 7 5
Rangers 2 1 0 4 10 7
Islanders 0 0 1 1 3 4
Devils 0 2 0 0 4 8
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Montreal 2 0 0 4 6 4
Boston 1 1 0 2 8 6
Buffalo 0 0 1 1 1 2
Toronto 0 1 1 1 7 10
Ottawa 0 1 0 0 2 5
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Wash. 2 0 0 4 10 5
Atlanta 1 0 0 2 6 3
Florida 1 1 0 2 4 7
Tampa 0 1 0 0 3 6
Carolina 0 2 0 0 2 9
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
St. Louis 2 0 0 4 9 6
Chicago 1 0 1 3 7 4
Columbus 1 0 0 2 2 1
Nashville 1 0 0 2 3 2
Detroit 0 2 0 0 6 9
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Calgary 2 0 0 4 9 6
Colorado 2 0 0 4 8 2
Edmonton 0 1 0 0 3 4
Minnesota 0 1 0 0 1 2
Vancou. 0 2 0 0 3 8
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
Phoenix 1 0 0 2 6 3
San Jose 1 1 0 2 6 6
Dallas 0 0 1 1 2 3
Anaheim 0 1 0 0 1 4
L.A. 0 1 0 0 3 6
Trial in Slaying
A judge has ruled that the
man accused of killing a leg-
endary Iowa high school coach
is mentally competent to stand
trial. Judge Stephen Carroll of
Butler County District Court
filed an order that said the man,
Mark D. Becker, 24, could ap-
preciate the charges against
him, understand the proceed-
ings and assist with his defense.
Becker is accused in the June
shooting death of Aplington-
Parkersburg Coach Ed Thom-
as. Experts agreed that Becker
hallucinates and suffers from
paranoid schizophrenia, but
offered different opinions on
whether he was mentally fit to
stand trial.  (AP)
Tebow Isn’t Cleared
Florida Coach Urban Meyer
said quarterback Tim Tebow
had not been cleared to practice
or to play against L.S.U.  (AP)