F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Tuesday
October 13, 2009
Midnight in New York
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Europe’s New Front in Pipeline Politics congress split
MOSCOW — With a new pipe-
line planned to run along the bed
of the Baltic Sea, the Russian nat-
ural gas giant Gazprom is driving
a political wedge between East-
ern and Western Europe.
While the Russian-German
pipeline offers clear energy ben-
efits to Western Europe, Central
and Eastern European leaders
fear it could lead to a new era of
gas-leveraged Russian domina-
tion of the former Soviet bloc.
Russian gas now has to be piped
through Eastern Europe to reach
Western Europe. If Russia shuts
off the gas to pressure a neighbor
in the east, it is felt in the more
powerful countries to the west.
The new Nord Stream pipeline
will change that equation. By
traveling more than 750 miles un-
derwater, from Vyborg, Russia,
to Greifswald, Germany, it will
give Russia a separate supply
line to the west.
As a result, many security ex-
perts and Eastern European of-
ficials say, Russia will be more
likely to play pipeline politics
with its neighbors.
“Yesterday tanks, today oil,”
said Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, a
Disney’s Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores
LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney
Co., with the help of Steven P. Jobs
and his retailing team at Apple,
intends to drastically overhaul its
approach to the shopping mall.
At a time when many retailers
are cutting back or approaching
strategic shifts with extreme
caution, Disney is going the other
way, getting more aggressive and
putting into motion an expensive
and ambitious floor-to-ceiling re-
boot of its 340 stores in the United
States and Europe — as well as
opening new ones, including a po-
tential flagship in Times Square.
Disney Stores, which the media
giant is considering rebranding
Imagination Park, will become
more akin to cozy entertainment
hubs. The chain’s traditional ap-
proach of displaying row after
row of toys and apparel geared
to Disney franchises will be given
a high-tech makeover and incor-
on a health tax
former head of Poland’s security
service.
on costly plans
That is not the way the Rus-
sians present it. Gazprom, which
supplies Europe with 28 percent
of its natural gas, says the $10.7
billion project is commercial,
not strategic. The European
Commission and European Par-
liament endorsed the pipeline
as early as 2000 and both recon-
firmed their commitments as re-
cently as 2006.
But officials in Central and
Eastern Europe fear that while
profits from the pipeline, a joint
venture between Gazprom and a
trio of German and Dutch compa-
nies, will flow to Russian suppli-
ers and German utilities, the long
trod-upon countries once under
the Soviet umbrella will become
more vulnerable to energy black-
mail.
A Swedish Defense Ministry-
affiliated research organiza-
tion has identified 55 politically
linked disruptions in the energy
supply of Eastern Europe since
the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Last January, Russia shut down
a pipeline that crossed Ukraine,
leaving hundreds of thousands of
porated into a new array of rec-
reational activities. The goal is to
make children clamor to visit the
stores and stay longer, perhaps
bolstering sales as a result. Over
the next five years, analysts esti-
mate that Disney will spend about
$1 million a store to redecorate,
reorganize and install interactive
technology.
“The world does not need an-
other place to sell Disney mer-
chandise — this only works if it’s
an experience,” said Jim Field-
ing, president of Disney Stores
Worldwide. The company plans
to unveil the new look in May in
Southern California, Long Island
and Madrid, and is close to sign-
ing a lease for the Times Square
flagship.
Theaters will allow children
to watch film clips of their own
selection, participate in karaoke
contests or chat live with Disney
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homes in southeastern Europe
without heat.
The new pipeline and a similar
project in southern Europe called
South Stream, to run under the
Black Sea, will insulate Western
Europe from such actions and
limit the political and financial
costs to Russia.
The ability to shut off one pipe-
line or the other “depending on
whim” makes shutoffs to East-
ern Europe more likely, said
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national
security adviser in the Carter ad-
ministration.
But the alarm rising in the East
has hardly been heard in the West.
A web of oil and gas interests in
the West, as well as corporations
and influential figures with ties to
Russia, have greased the process
of engagement with Russia.
Most visibly, a former German
chancellor, Gerhard Schröder,
has embraced commerce as a
means to integrate Russia with
Europe. Schröder was the deal’s
“power broker,” says Zeyno Ba-
ran, an authority on Eurasian
energy at the Hudson Institute in
New York.
 ANDREW E. KRAMER
Channel stars via satellite. Com-
puter chips embedded in packag-
ing will activate hidden features.
Walk by a “magic mirror” while
holding a Princess tiara, for in-
stance, and Cinderella might ap-
pear and say something to you.
It’s your birthday? With the
push of a button, eight 13-foot-
tall Lucite trees will crackle with
video-projected fireworks and
sound. There will be a scent com-
ponent; if a clip from Disney’s
coming “A Christmas Carol” is
playing in the theater, the whole
store might suddenly be made to
smell like a Christmas tree.
The involvement of Jobs, who
joined the Disney board in 2006,
is particularly notable. While he
did not personally work on the
Imagination Park concept, he
pushed Disney to move far past a
refurbishment.
BROOKS BARNES
WASHINGTON — A proposed
tax on high-cost, or “Cadillac,”
health insurance plans has
touched off a clash between the
Senate and the House as they
wrestle over how to pay for legis-
lation that would provide health
benefits to millions of uninsured
Americans.
Supporters, including many
senators, say that the tax is es-
sential to tamping down medical
spending and that over 10 years
it would generate more than $200
billion, nearly a fourth of what is
needed to pay for the bill.
Critics, including House mem-
bers and labor unions, said the tax
would spiral out of control and hit
middle-class workers.
The tax, a provision of the bill to
be voted on Tuesday by the Senate
Finance Committee, is one of the
few remaining proposals under
consideration by Congress that
budget experts say could lead
directly to a reduction in health
care spending over the long term,
by prompting employers and em-
ployees to buy cheaper insurance.
Whether it remains in the bill is
emerging as a test of the commit-
ment by President Obama and
his party to slowing the steep rise
of medical expenses.
Under the Finance Commit-
tee bill, the tax would be imposed
beginning in 2013 on health plans
with premiums exceeding $8,000
for individuals and $21,000 for
families. It would be paid by in-
surers, who would be expected to
pass along the cost to customers.
Critics said that would mean an
increase in premiums or in out-
of-pocket expenses for employ-
ees, raising costs for individuals
and families. Supporters say the
more likely prospect is that em-
ployers would bargain-hunt or
take other steps to avoid the tax,
putting pressure on insurers to
offer cheaper coverage and slow-
ing the rise in medical costs.
DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
and ROBERT PEAR
International
U.S. Hits a Raw Nerve in Conditions for Aid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The
new aid package for Pakistan
passed by Congress last month —
a promise of $7.5 billion for civil-
ian needs over the next five years
— has thrust the United States
into the center of the perenni-
ally uneasy relationship between
Pakistan’s military and its weak
civilian governments.
In this case, the United States
stepped into the middle of what
politicians describe as a deterio-
rating relationship between the
head of the army, Gen. Ashfaq
Parvez Kayani, and President
Asif Ali Zardari, by insisting on
greater civilian oversight of the
military as a condition of the aid.
With its economy in tatters,
Pakistan would seem more in
need than ever of the kind of as-
sistance Washington is offering.
Instead, on Monday, virtually
on orders from the military, the
foreign minister, Shah Mehmood
Qureshi, was sent to Washington
to tell U.S. officials that Pakistan
Pakistani Militants Kill 41 in Suicide Bombing
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Mil-
itants on Monday launched their
fourth assault in a week on strate-
gic targets across Pakistan, this
time with a suicide car bombing
against a military vehicle in a
market in the northwest, killing
41 people and wounding dozens
more.
The bombing took place in the
Shangla District, an area within
the Swat Valley. The Pakistani
military had declared the val-
ley cleared of militants after an
offensive this summer and an-
nounced that the Taliban were a
shattered force.
Since the Swat campaign and
the death of the Pakistani Tali-
6 Sentenced to Death for Roles in Xinjiang Rioting
BEIJING — A Chinese court
sentenced six men to death and a
seventh to life in prison on Mon-
day for their roles in the deadly
ethnic rioting that convulsed
the western regional capital of
Urumqi in July, according to Xin-
hua, the state news agency.
All seven had names that sug-
gested they were Uighurs, the
largest ethnic group in the vast
region of Xinjiang. All were con-
victed of murder, and some were
would not stand for being micro-
managed.
Now it appears that the aid bill
threatens to undermine Zardari
and lay bare the troubles at the
heart of the alliance. In support-
ing Zardari at what appeared to
be the expense of the military, the
Americans hit a raw nerve, sev-
eral Pakistani politicians said.
Kayani has asserted that he
supports democracy, Pakistani
politicians said. But what ap-
pears to be his distaste for the
Zardari government is now
barely disguised. On Saturday, in
the middle of a siege of the mili-
tary headquarters by militants,
the general took a helicopter to
the presidential palace to meet
with the president, his foreign
minister and the prime minister,
Yousaf Raza Gillani.
Afterward, Qureshi was sent
to Washington to tell the Obama
administration that Pakistan
had deep reservations about U.S.
intentions.
ban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, in
a U.S. drone strike in August, the
militants have been relatively
quiet. But the attack on Monday
showed they could still shake the
country with serious terrorist
attacks over a wide geographic
spread.
It was the latest in a series
clearly intended to prove the Tali-
ban’s resilience, to exact revenge,
and to discourage the military
from expanding its campaign
into South Waziristan, the heart-
land of the Taliban in Pakistan.
The Pakistani Air Force has
been pounding areas of South Wa-
ziristan in the last day, a prelude
to a possible ground campaign,
also found guilty of arson and rob-
bery, Xinhua reported.
The sentences were the first to
be handed down by a court in re-
sponse to the rioting of July 5, in
which enraged Uighurs went on a
rampage against Han, the domi-
nant ethnic group in China, in the
streets of Urumqi, the capital of
Xinjiang.
At least 197 people were killed,
most of them Han civilians, and
1,600 injured, the government an-
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
“The army is saying privately
that despite everything, the army
remains the one rigorous, merit-
based institution in Pakistan, and
if the politicians get their hands
on promotions, that will be the
end of it,” said a member of Par-
liament.
U.S. and Pakistani officials who
support the aid package voice
increasing concern that critics
of the bill are manufacturing a
crisis to undermine the civilian
government.
The stipulations in the aid bill,
they note, are no more onerous
than those of past aid packages,
including those on aid given dur-
ing the eight-year rule of the pre-
vious government under Gen.
Pervez Musharraf. At that time,
the military raised no objections.
What is more, the new aid for
civilian needs is in addition to the
more than $1 billion a year the
United States already gives the
Pakistani Army.
JANE PERLEZ
military officials said.
On Saturday, in one of their
boldest attacks, 10 militants
dressed in army fatigues
breached the perimeter of the ar-
my headquarters in Rawalpindi
in a raid that left 23 people dead
and set off a 20-hour siege.
The standoff ended Sunday
morning with the rescue of 39
hostages by commandoes, but
showed that even a building of the
intelligence wing of the army was
vulnerable to Taliban attacks.
A Taliban spokesman said
Monday that the Rawalpindi as-
sault was to avenge Mehsud’s
death.  PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
and JANE PERLEZ
nounced. The ethnic rioting was
the worst in decades in China and
prompted cycles of retaliation as
well as protests against the re-
gional government.
Uighurs in Xinjiang have long
complained of discrimination
against them and of mass migra-
tions to Xinjiang by the Han that
have changed the society in parts
of the region they once clearly
dominated.
EDWARD WONG
2
in brief
Iraq Drawdown
By the end of October, U.S.
troop strength in Iraq will be
120,000, a decrease of 23,000
since January, the top military
spokesman in Baghdad, Brig.
Gen. Stephen R. Lanza, said
Monday. The next big reduction
will not come until well after na-
tional elections in January, he
added. Lanza released statistics
showing a large reduction in
war-related violence since June
30, with civilian and military
deaths down by 80 to 90 percent
compared with the same period
in 2008.  (NYT)
Korean Missile Test
North Korea launched a bar-
rage of five short-range mis-
siles off its east coast on Mon-
day in its first missile tests
in three months, in an appar-
ent provocation as the United
States weighs whether to start
bilateral talks, South Korean
news media reported.  (NYT)
Brown to Repay
Home Expenses
The British Parliament’s
expense-account scandal has
reached into the checkbook of
Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Officials said Brown had re-
ceived a letter demanding
that he repay £12,415 — about
$19,670, at current exchange
rates — for cleaning, garden-
ing and maintenance expenses
at a London apartment and a
home in Scotland. Sir Thomas
Legg, an auditor, was appoint-
ed by Brown to review expense
claims submitted by every law-
maker elected to the 645-seat
House of Commons in the past
five years.  (NYT)
Clinton in N. Ireland
Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton addressed law-
makers at Northern Ireland’s
Stormont assembly on Monday,
exhorting them to stick with the
peace process. A standoff be-
tween Catholic and Protestant
leaders over transferring au-
thority over the police and the
courts to Belfast from London
could stall the process of de-
volving power to Northern Ire-
land. (NYT)
national
Strange Reversal in the Price of Chicken Parts
Just in time for football season,
the Lion’s Head Tavern in New
York City stopped selling 25-cent
chicken wings on Monday nights.
In Tucson, a sports bar called
O’Malleys on Fourth scrapped
its fall special of a dozen wings on
Monday nights for $4.
And in restaurants from Sara-
sota to Seattle, an improbable
poultry part is showing up on
menus: a little chunk of chicken
breast that is fried and sauced
and sold, with marketer’s brio, as
a “boneless wing.”
All this is happening because
wholesale chicken prices have
turned upside down. The once-
lowly wing is selling at a premi-
um over what has long been the
gold standard of poultry parts,
the skinless boneless chicken
breast.
Like the tail that wags the dog,
the wings are now flapping the
chicken.
Mike Bell knows chicken pric-
es. The logistics and purchasing
California Working on Long-Term Water Deal
LOS ANGELES — In a sign
that a deal addressing Califor-
nia’s longstanding water supply
problems may be near, Gov. Ar-
nold Schwarzenegger convened a
special session of the Legislature
on Monday to revisit a package of
water bills.
A three-year drought, fed-
eral environmental regulations
restricting water flows and
Schwarzenegger’s fixation on
the problem have heightened the
urgency for an agreement.
Schwarzenegger had threat-
ened to veto some 700 bills if law-
makers did not reach a water deal
by Sunday, the end of the regular
legislative session. But he backed
Door Opens to More Agent Orange Health Claims
Under rules to be proposed this
week, the Department of Veter-
ans Affairs plans to add Parkin-
son’s disease, ischemic heart
disease and hairy-cell leukemia
to the growing list of illnesses
that are presumed to have been
caused by Agent Orange, the
toxic defoliant used widely in
Vietnam.
The proposal will make it sub-
stantially easier for thousands of
veterans to claim that those ail-
manager for Buffalo Wild Wings,
a national chain with about 600
restaurants, Bell will buy 57 mil-
lion pounds of chicken wings this
year. Describing recent conver-
sations with poultry processors,
he said: “Basically a whole bunch
of them are throwing their hands
in the air and saying, ‘I don’t know
what’s going on. We’ve never seen
it this way.’ ”
In seven of the last 11 months,
wholesale wing prices have been
higher than breast prices, a re-
versal in a market where breasts
usually reign supreme. In Sep-
tember, the average wholesale
price for whole chicken wings in
the Northeast was $1.48 a pound,
according to the Agriculture De-
partment. Yet skinless boneless
breasts were $1.21 a pound.
A year earlier, wings sold for
94 cents and breasts for $1.15, and
as recently as May 2008, skinless
boneless breasts were selling for
57 cents more than wings.
The wholesale price shift has
off that threat on Monday, cit-
ing progress as lawmakers and
members of his staff worked on
the issue.
The negotiations are focused on
repairing the state’s fragile water
ecosystem, unleashing new water
supplies and increasing water
conservation. Negotiators hope
to seal a deal that would make
equal the goals of restoring the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River
Delta — a collection of channels,
natural habitats and islands at
the confluence of the Sacramento
and San Joaquin Rivers that is a
major source of the state’s drink-
ing water — and increasing the
supply of water to residents, busi-
ments were the direct result of
their service in Vietnam, thereby
smoothing the way for them to re-
ceive monthly disability checks.
The new policy will apply to
some 2.1 million veterans who set
foot in Vietnam during the war,
including those who came after
the military stopped using Agent
Orange in 1970. It will not apply
to sailors on deep-water ships,
though the department plans to
study the effects of Agent Orange
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
generally not been reflected in
supermarkets, where grocers ap-
pear to be trying to preserve their
margins on breast meat. Nation-
ally on average, breasts are $2.80
a pound at retail, still 83 cents
more than wings. However, some
grocers are exploiting the whole-
sale price drop to run aggressive
sales on breasts.
The recession is the cause of
the price flip-flop.
Restaurants, normally big buy-
ers of breast meat, slashed orders
as millions of people cut back on
eating out. But demand for wings
has remained strong.
Adding to the demand: the
brisk growth of chains focus-
ing on wings, like Atomic Wings,
Wingstop and Wing Zone. Several
chains have been remarking this
year about how much business is
up. The major public company in
this group, Buffalo Wild Wings,
reported a 27 percent earnings
jump in the first half of the year.
WILLIAM NEUMAN
nesses and farms.
State officials say the restora-
tion of the delta, as envisioned
in the negotiations, would be the
largest environmental restora-
tion project in the United States,
surpassing the effort now under
way in the Florida Everglades.
What remains to be worked
out is whether any money would
be set aside to build a peripheral
canal that would transport wa-
ter from the Sacramento River
around the delta to federal and
state aqueducts for use in the
southern part of the state. The ca-
nal is favored by Schwarzenegger
and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
JENNIFER STEINHAUER
on the Navy.
The shift underscores efforts
by the secretary of veterans af-
fairs, Eric K. Shinseki, a retired
Army chief of staff and a Vietnam
veteran, to reduce obstacles to
sick or disabled veterans receiv-
ing benefits.
The department has come un-
der sharp criticism from Con-
gress and veterans groups for
long delays in processing disabil-
ity claims. JAMES DAO
3
in brief
Meat Plant Manager
To Go on Trial
The former chief executive
of an Iowa slaughterhouse that
was at the center of one of na-
tion’s largest immigration raids
is scheduled to stand trial in
federal court beginning Tues-
day on a number of charges in-
cluding money laundering and
bank fraud. The defendant, Sho-
lom Rubashkin, 49, was a top
manager and part of the fam-
ily ownership at Agriproces-
sors Inc., a meatpacking plant
in Postville, Iowa, that was one
of the largest kosher slaughter-
houses in the country.  (NYT)
Rape Accusation
Prosecutors are investigat-
ing accusations that two former
state employees at the Oklaho-
ma governor’s mansion raped
three female prison inmates as-
signed to work on the mansion’s
grounds. Neither man has been
charged, but the Department of
Central Services fired both of
them on Sept. 29. Department
of Corrections officials believe
the state workers who super-
vised the inmates committed
sexual battery, forcible sodomy
and rape against inmates from
the Hillside Community Cor-
rections Center, a department
spokesman said Monday.  (AP)
Harvey Milk Honor
In a reversal of his veto of the
same bill last year, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger has signed a
bill to set aside a day of recog-
nition for Harvey Milk, the gay
San Francisco politician who
was assassinated in 1978. The
law designates Milk’s birth-
day, May 22, as a day of “spe-
cial significance” and encourag-
es schools to “conduct suitable
commemorative exercises.”
 (NYT)
Amtrak Decline
Amtrak said its ridership
dropped by more than one mil-
lion passengers during the past
year, but was still the second
highest in the railroad’s his-
tory. Amtrak carried 27.2 mil-
lion passengers during the 12
months ending Sept. 30. (AP)
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NASDAQ 2,139.14 D 0.14
Deal Advice on Merrill Merger to Be Released
Facing mounting pressure
from multiple investigations,
Bank of America’s board has vot-
ed to reveal the legal advice that
the bank received late last year in
its merger with Merrill Lynch.
The stunning reversal, ap-
proved by the board Friday, re-
moves a major hurdle in resolv-
ing a number of cases that have
been brought against the bank,
and may be part of the bank’s
strategy to try to exonerate sev-
eral executives, including its re-
tiring chief, Kenneth D. Lewis.
Alternatively, it could provide
fresh evidence of the role that the
bank’s lawyers and executives
played in failing to reveal losses
at Merrill Lynch and bonuses
Merrill paid out before the firms
sealed their ill-fated merger.
The bank notified the office of
Bank Losses Are Still Rising, but Pace Is Slowing
Just a year ago, many of the
nation’s biggest banks were in
such bad shape that their losses
threatened to topple the financial
system.
Today, by all appearances,
their vast problems seem to be
easing: a seven-month rally in
financial stocks has driven the
shares of Citigroup and other
troubled behemoths up sharply.
And the economy has shown mod-
est improvement, slowing losses
that only recently threatened the
survival of some big banks.
As banks prepare to reveal this
week how they performed in the
third quarter, earnings are still
expected to be down sharply, by
Offshore Tax Evaders Facing a Choice: Pay or Pray
Many Americans dread April
15, the deadline for filing their in-
come tax returns. But some well-
heeled people are trembling over
another looming tax day: Oct. 15.
Thursday is the deadline for
Americans to come clean about
the money they have hidden off-
shore, in places like Swiss bank
accounts. No one can say with
certainty how much money is out
there — the accounts are secret
— but the hoard may be tens of
billions of dollars.
Several thousand wealthy peo-
Dollar/YEN 89.84 unch.
10-yr treasury 3.38% unch.
Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney
general of New York, of its deci-
sion in a letter that was reviewed
by The New York Times.
The disclosures may reveal
the advice the bank received on
the merger from its longtime
law firm, Wachtell, Lipton Rosen
& Katz, as well as two general
counsels: Timothy Mayopoulos,
who was unexpectedly dismissed
late last year, and Brian Moyni-
han, a senior executive who has
emerged as one of the leading
contenders to replace Lewis.
Several state attorneys gen-
eral, Congressional lawmakers
and regulators have been press-
ing the bank to reveal how its law-
yers advised executives to deal
with the disclosure of the losses
and bonuses. Bank of America
has faced intense scrutiny since
about 30 percent from the previ-
ous year. And about 40 percent
of lenders could post a quarterly
loss, according to a recent report
from Sandler O’Neill & Partners.
The recovery that picked up
pace last quarter has also pre-
vented bank loan losses from
growing much worse.
Losses on home mortgages, for
example, now look as if they will
be postponed for several months,
in part because of the federal
mortgage modification program
and statewide efforts to tempo-
rarily halt foreclosures.
Even the gargantuan losses on
credit card and other consumer
loans, while still high, are grow-
ple have come forward, hoping
to avoid large fines or possibly
even prison. But many others are
still weighing their options. The
choice is stark: They can confess
and pay the penalties, or gamble
that they will not get caught. With
the deadline only days away, tax
lawyers say they are being inun-
dated by anxious clients.
“We’re seeing a flood of peo-
ple,” said Scott D. Michel, a tax
lawyer in Washington. His firm,
Caplin & Drysdale, has 350 clients
who are preparing to report their
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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crude oil $73.27 U 1.50
receiving a $45 billion taxpayer
lifeline.
The bank dug in its heels for six
months, citing the privacy rules
that govern conversations be-
tween clients and their lawyers,
even as pressure to turn over
documents grew.
The board reached a tipping
point after bank executives held
conversations over the last two
weeks with the office of New
York’s attorney general, said the
people briefed on the matter.
Cuomo’s office threatened
to charge individual bank ex-
ecutives, including Lewis, with
wrongdoing, these people said.
The bank also faced a deadline
this week to provide a log of its pri-
vate legal documents to a House
committee. LOUISE STORY
 and ERIC DASH
ing at a slower pace than previous
quarters.
“There is more pain to come,
but they have enough Band-Aids
and tourniquets to slow or cut off
the bleeding,” said David A. Hen-
dler, a financial services analyst
at CreditSights in New York.
After several quarters of mul-
tibillion-dollar write-offs, the
troubles for many of the big banks
may be starting to ease and even
show signs of improvement. It is
a stark contrast to last fall, when
concerns about their financial
condition forced the government
to rush in with capital injections
and other forms of emergency
aid.  ERIC DASH
offshore accounts to the Internal
Revenue Service.
The deadline is part of a broad
crackdown on Americans who
use offshore accounts to evade
federal taxes. As part of the ef-
fort, U.S. authorities have chal-
lenged the long tradition of bank-
ing secrecy in Switzerland, and,
in particular at UBS, that nation’s
largest bank.
The I.R.S. is offering tax dodg-
ers some leniency. Penalties will
be reduced for people who come
forward by Oct. 15.  (NYT)
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Kosmos Sells Oil Assets
Kosmos Energy, an oil explorer
backed by private equity firms,
confirmed Monday that it had
agreed to sell assets in Ghana to
the Exxon Mobil Corp. Greg Dun-
levy, the chief financial officer
of Kosmos, confirmed the agree-
ment. He declined to disclose the
price, but a person familiar with
the matter said last week that the
price was $4 billion. ( Bloomberg)
business
Credit Vise Tightens for Small Businesses
Many small and midsize Amer-
ican businesses are still strug-
gling to secure bank loans, im-
peding their expansion plans and
constraining overall economic
growth, even as the country ten-
tatively rises from its recession-
ary depths.
Most banks expect their lend-
ing standards to remain tighter
than the levels of the last decade
until at least the middle of 2010,
according to a survey of senior
loan officers conducted by the
Federal Reserve Board.
The enduring credit squeeze
appears to reflect an aversion to
risk among lenders confronting
great uncertainty about the econ-
omy rather than any lingering
effects of the panic that gripped
financial markets last fall, after
the collapse of the investment
banking giant Lehman Brothers.
Bankers worry about the ex-
tent of losses on credit card busi-
nesses as high unemployment
sends cardholders into trouble.
They are also reckoning with
anticipated failures in commer-
cial real estate. Until the scope of
these losses is known, many lend-
ers are inclined to hang on to their
dollars rather than risk them on
loans to businesses in a weak
economy, say economists and fi-
nancial industry executives.
“The banks are just deathly
afraid,” said Sam Thacker, a
partner at Business Finance
Solutions in Austin, Tex., which
helps small businesses line up fi-
nancing. “I don’t see commercial
banks coming back to the market
anytime soon.”
In the long view, tighter loan
standards seem healthy after a
terrible crisis attributed in part
to years of recklessly lenient lend-
ing. But some economists worry
that bankers have overshot the
boundaries of a healthy reaction,
as even strong companies are
finding it difficult to borrow.
“The banks are still very risk
averse,” said Robert J. Barbera,
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
chief economist of the research
and trading firm I.T.G. “Regional
banks are in a particularly tough
spot, because they’re choking on
commercial and residential real
estate.”
Bankers acknowledge that
loans are harder to secure than
in years past, but they say this
attests to the weakness of many
borrowers rather than a reluc-
tance to lend.
As the financial crisis has
largely eased in recent months,
big companies have found credit
increasingly abundant.
But for many smaller compa-
nies, borrowing remains tough.
Some 14 percent of small busi-
nesses found loans harder to
secure in August than in July,
according to the most recent sur-
vey by the National Federation
of Independent Business. Among
companies borrowing regularly,
less than one-third reported that
all their credit needs were being
met.  PETER S. GOODMAN
5
in brief
Americans Win Nobel
The Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences was award-
ed Monday to two American so-
cial scientists for their work in
describing the numerous rela-
tionships within a company or
among companies and individu-
als that shape market behav-
ior. The prize committee cited
Elinor Ostrom, 76, at Indiana
University, and Oliver E. Wil-
liamson, 77, at the University of
California, Berkeley, for work
done over long careers.  (NYT)
Hog Import Dispute
Ratcheting up a trade dispute
with the Obama administra-
tion, Canada is asking the World
Trade Organization to rule
against an American food-label-
ing law that it claims is helping
to destroy much of its hog-farm-
ing industry.  (NYT)
journal Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6

Deciding a Matter When a Question of Honesty Becomes Criminal

WASHINGTON —In February, Justice “How can the public be expected to know system that doled out jobs based on patron-
Antonin Scalia wrote that federal prosecutors what the statute means when the judges and age and nepotism rather than merit. Such a
had developed an unseemly crush on a partic- prosecutors themselves do not know, or must system is neither ideal nor unusual, and the
ularly vague law, one that had “been invoked make it up as they go along?” Judge Dennis defendants were not accused of violating state
to impose criminal penalties upon a stagger- Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the criminal laws or of lining their own pockets in
ingly broad swath of behavior.” Second Circuit, in New York, asked in a 2003 the process.
Scalia was writing to protest the Supreme dissent. Scalia’s dissent, which was vigorous even
Court’s decision not to hear an appeal from The “honest services” law, Scalia ex- by his own muscular standards, seems to
three city officials in Chicago who had been plained, says that “officeholders and employ- have had an impact. In the following months,
convicted of violating the law, which makes it ees owe a duty to act only in the best interests the Supreme Court agreed to hear not one but
a crime “to deprive another of the intangible of their constituents and employers.” Carried two cases exploring the scope of the honest
right of honest services.” to its logical extreme, he said, “it would seem- services law.
If you can make sense of that phrase, you ingly cover a salaried employee’s phoning in One involves Conrad M. Black, the news-
have achieved something that has so far sick to go to a ballgame.” paper executive convicted of defrauding his
eluded the nation’s appeals courts. The Chicago officials had overseen a media company, Hollinger International. The
law, as interpreted by many courts, makes it
crossword Edited By Will Shortz a crime for officials of private companies to
put their own interests ahead of those of their
PUZZLE BY SHARON DELORME
ACROSS 43 One signatory to
employers.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 Pop music’s Nafta The second case concerns a former Alaska
Cass Elliot and 46 Belmont Park 13 14 15 16 legislator named Bruce Weyhrauch, who
Michelle Phillips action failed to disclose that he was soliciting work
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6 Wander aimlessly 47 Moon jumper of from a company with business before the Leg-
(about) rhyme
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9 ___ America 49 Claiborne of
fashion may not have been pretty, but it did not violate
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competitor 50 Cramped spot, a state criminal law.
14 Debuts on the
slangily 27 28 29 30 Critics of the honest services law say it has
N.Y.S.E. 53 Soil: Prefix two essential flaws. It allows federal prosecu-
31 32 33 34
16 Court records 54 Fire up tors vast discretion “to go after people they
17 Member of 55 Five Nations tribe 35 36 37 38 39 40 don’t like or people they disagree with politi-
Sherwood 57 Blacktop, e.g. cally,” said Julie Rose O’Sullivan, who teach-
Forest’s “merry 58 Poker player’s 41 42
es criminal law at Georgetown. The second
band” dream … and a
19 Existing hint to the ends 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 problem, said George D. Brown, a specialist
20 First pro team to
of 17-, 25-, 35- in government ethics at Boston College Law
play on artificial and 50-Across 50 51 52 53
School, is that prosecutions of state officials
turf 62 ___-European under the federal law may violate fundamen-
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languages
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figure
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a federal judgment that you can’t trust the
25 Company
64 Elzie ___, 62 63 64 states,” Professor Brown said.
stationery Popeye’s creator The Justice Department, of course, sees the
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65 66 67
matter entirely differently. In its Supreme
28 Old console using for two
Game Paks, 10/13/09 (No. 1013)
Court brief in Black’s case, the government
66 Take a shot
briefly said the honest services law has an impor-
67 Snacks often 5 Margarita
go-with 22 Gallery event 40 Automaker
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6 Action figures for
30 Turkish title boys author Sholem 43 Log-on name not involve the loss of money or property but
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33 Humiliate 1 Prefix with ware as” or “dumb as” “Leaving Las 45 Skee-Ball site
Weyhrauch’s case, the government said that
or content 8 Cry
Vegas” requiring proof of a violation of a state law
35 Prince Charles, 47 One who sings to
26 “Hamlet”
beginning in 1952
2 Bordeaux buddy accompanying a
soliloquy starter the cops would result in a patchwork of legal standards
head slap
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opinion
editorials of the timeS
How to Flunk Test-Giving
Millions of Americans are trapped at the
margins of the economy because they lack the
basic skills that come with a high-school edu-
cation. This year, more than 600,000 of these
people will try to improve their prospects by
studying for the rigorous, seven-hour exami-
nation known as the General Educational De-
velopment test, or G.E.D., which should end
in a credential that employers and colleges
recognize as the equivalent of a diploma.
The most fortunate live in states — such
as Delaware, Kansas and Iowa — that have
well-managed programs in which 90 percent
or more of the test-takers pass.
The least fortunate live in New York State,
which has the lowest pass rate in the nation,
just behind Mississippi. Worse off still are
the G.E.D.-seekers of New York City, which
has a shameful pass rate — lower than that of
the District of Columbia. This bodes ill for the
city, where at least one in five adult workers
lacks a diploma.
The scope of this problem is laid out in an
alarming new study by the Community Ser-
vice Society, a 160-year-old advocacy group
that focuses on policies affecting the city’s
poor. Unless the state and city strengthen
and better pay for the G.E.D. programs, the
authors say, a growing number of underedu-
cated New Yorkers will be shut out of the labor
force and will become a permanent burden to
their fellow taxpayers.
G.E.D.-seekers in New York City learn right
away that classes are difficult to find, thanks
to poor programming by the city and state,
Truth in Advertising, Offline or Online
With so many advertising dollars flowing
onto blogs, Facebook and Twitter, it is not sur-
prising that the Federal Trade Commission,
which is charged with protecting consumers
from sneaky advertising, has turned its eye on
this new medium.
Spending on consumer-generated and
social-networking sites reached $1.01 billion
in 2008, up 25 percent from 2007, according
to PQ Media, a research firm. It is expected
to grow about 20 percent this year. Much of
this advertising is clearly labeled. But a lot of
it is paid advertising masquerading as bona
fide endorsements by celebrities, well-known
bloggers and even ordinary people.
Companies have been known to make up
fake people to blog about their products, such
as the two “boys” concocted by Sony to pine
over its PSP gaming unit in 2006. This year,
a representative from Belkin offered to pay
people to write positive online reviews of its
products. Commercial services put market-
ers in contact with bloggers who will tout
products for a fee.
Deceiving consumers has long been illegal,
and guidelines demanding that people who
endorse a product for money disclose their
which pay for them. In general, the report
notes, the G.E.D. “has become a second-class
education system serving low-income people
of color who were failed by our K-12 school
system.”
The courses are often of questionable qual-
ity. The teachers are poorly paid and most of-
ten marginally qualified. And according to the
report, the state and city spend about $1,000
per student, less than a tenth of what’s spent
per student in the public school system.
According to the GED Testing Service in
Washington, New Yorkers have so much trou-
ble accessing the system and getting testing
appointments that they often take the test in
Georgia, which welcomes out-of-state test-
takers for a modest fee.
New York drives up its failure rate on this
costly test and wastes precious resources by
allowing people to take it without first taking
preparation courses. States with the highest
success rates often require a diagnostic pre-
test, followed by instruction as needed and
then an official practice test. That’s the case
in Iowa, where 99 percent of the test-takers
passed the exam in 2008.
Iowa also has made the G.E.D. an integral
part of its educational system. Those who do
not pass the diagnostic test are funneled into
literacy courses.
To emulate this model, New York will need
to invest a great deal more than it spends at
the moment. But the costs of doing nothing
clearly outweigh those of remaking a chaotic
and ineffectual system.
connections with advertisers date back to
1980. In 1968, an F.T.C. advisory demanded
that advertorials disclose that they were ad-
vertising, not editorial. The F.T.C. amended
these guidelines recently to clarify that they
also apply on blogs, Twitter and other forms
of online communication.
The rules offline should clearly apply on-
line. This is a matter of principle, not medium,
and the new rules are not an excessive burden.
The guidelines state that endorsers must dis-
close payments in cash or in kind from com-
panies whose products they endorse. Telling
a commentator flogging a product online to
disclose commercial ties does not constitute
a challenge to free speech.
Still, regulators should tread carefully.
They should focus enforcement on the adver-
tising companies rather than on the bloggers.
Advertisers are the drivers of this new trend.
The onus should be on them to ensure that
blogs pitching their stuff warn readers about
the commercial motivation of the endorse-
ments.
But disclosure is a reasonable demand. It
protects consumers and bolsters the bonds of
trust between writers and their audience.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7
bob herbert
Behind the Laughter
The late-night host Conan O’Brien has been
making some pretty rough jokes about New-
ark, which has led to a (mostly) mock feud be-
tween him and Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
O’Brien joked that the mayor was estab-
lishing a program to improve the health of
the city’s residents, then deadpanned: “The
health care program would consist of a bus
ticket out of Newark.”
He did a video bit in which he praised the
city’s “thriving arts scene” (while showing a
graffiti-scarred wall); its “four-star lodging”
(shots of abandoned, gutted vehicles); and its
“world-class live theater” (a peep show).
The mayor came up with his own YouTube
videos in response and, believe it or not, Secre-
tary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed
in at one point as a mock peace negotiator.
Conan seems like a nice fellow, but he and
his audience are having fun taunting a city
that, like many others across the U.S., is in a
desperately tragic situation: poverty-strick-
en, run down, often unsafe, its children and
teenagers in too many instances going no-
where fast.
Whether it’s Newark, Detroit, parts of Chi-
cago, South-Central Los Angeles, Camden,
N.J. — take your pick — we’ve looked the oth-
er way for decades as the residents of hard-
core inner-city neighborhoods struggled with
overwhelming, life-threatening problems and
a chronic shortage of resources.
We’re having a national debate over wheth-
er to continue protecting the population in Ka-
bul and Kandahar while all but ignoring the
violence that is consuming the lives of boys
and girls in Chicago.
Dozens of boys and girls are murdered in
Chicago every year. The blood of the young is
spattered daily on the streets of cities, and we
won’t even take notice unless, for example, we
can watch the murder played over and over
on video.
In Newark, the unemployment rate is 14.7
percent. Keeping kids in high school long
enough to graduate is difficult. Drug dealing
is a fallback employment option.
Other cities have the same problems. So
what are we doing? While mulling the pros-
pect of sending 40,000 more troops to Afghani-
stan, we’ve stood idly by as school districts
have bounced 40,000 teachers out of their jobs
over the past year. That should tell you all you
need to know about twisted priorities.
Conan was just trying to be funny, but the
reality behind his humor is horrifying. I re-
member driving around Camden on a rainy
afternoon. Young people with nothing to do
were gathered on porches, staring the hours
away. I had on a suit and was driving a nice
car. More than one person that I approached
thought I was either buying or selling drugs.
Conan’s jokes would carry a silver lining if
they could somehow prompt more people to
think more seriously about what’s really go-
ing on in cities like Newark.
sports Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8

Phillies’ Rally in 9th Tops Rockies’ in the 8th in brief

DENVER — The Philadelphia
Phillies were on a smooth track
to Los Angeles, just a couple of
innings away from reaching the
National League Championship
Series against the Dodgers.
They got there. But they took
the long way.
Coors Field is where late-
inning leads go to die, and the
Colorado Rockies were already
this season’s most improbable
turnaround artists. In a matter of
moments, a pitcher’s duel went
haywire Monday night and the
Phillies’ plans for the near future
were waylaid.
The Phillies suddenly found
their gamelong lead extinguished
by the Rockies in Game 4 of the
best-of-five division series, and it
looked likely that the teams would
trudge back to Philadelphia for
the deciding Game 5.
“Everybody in the dugout was
Defense Is Driving a Turnaround in Denver
Here is something the N.F.L.
hasn’t seen much of in the last de-
cade: Tom Brady turning the ball
over late in a game with a chance
to win it.
The fact that the turnover was
forced by the Denver Broncos,
whose mockery of a defense cost
them a near-certain division title
last season, felt like something
more than just the impetus for the
Broncos’ stunning 20-17 overtime
upset of the New England Patri-
ots on Sunday. It felt as if it might
be the start of a new era, one in
which the Patriots do not domi-
nate again the way they have in
the past, and in which the Broncos
calm,” Jayson Werth said of the
Phillies, who trailed by two runs
with three outs to go. “It wasn’t
like a scared calm. It was like:
We’ve got a job to do. Let’s get it
done.”
Then Ryan Howard doubled in
two runs to tie the score. Werth
followed with a run-scoring sin-
gle. The Phillies had their lead
back. Now all they had to do was
finish the game.
Brad Lidge entered the game
with two outs in the bottom of the
ninth, runners on first and second
and Troy Tulowitzki at the plate.
Lidge struck him out with an
86-mile-an-hour slider.
Finally, feverishly, a taut and
thrilling game came to an end.
The Phillies had a 5-4 victory and
firm plans to head to Los Angeles
for the start of the best-of-seven
series on Thursday.
It will be a rematch of last
have shoved their way into the
conversation based on something
Patriots Coach Bill Belichick ap-
preciates most of all: defense.
The unbeaten Broncos have al-
lowed only 43 points in five games,
the fewest in the N.F.L. (the aver-
age is 99) and two touchdowns
fewer than the Jets allowed in
their first four games (before the
Monday night game against the
Dolphins). No longer do the Bron-
cos have to win shootouts, which
is why Jay Cutler’s absence isn’t
so noticeable. It gives them an
edge as they go into a game Mon-
day night against San Diego that
could come close to deciding the
year’s fight for the N.L. pennant.
The Phillies, with home-field
advantage a year ago, beat the
Dodgers in that series, 4-1, and
went on to win the World Series.
For most of Monday’s game,
the Rockies were being beaten
again by Cliff Lee, the complete-
game winner from Game 1, and
the end of a remarkable turn-
around season felt as close as the
looming dusk.
But the Rockies did not give up
when they began 18-28 this sea-
son and Manager Clint Hurdle
was fired. And they did not give
up when Lee was headed toward
another complete-game victory.
Trailing by 2-1, the Rockies
finally chased Lee from the ball-
game in the eighth inning. Re-
liever Ryan Madson could not
stop the unfolding chaos, allowing
three runs.
 JOHN BRANCH
A.F.C. West.
The turnaround points out just
how critical making the right
move at defensive coordinator
is. The Broncos hired Mike No-
lan, who shored up the defensive
personnel, signing, among oth-
ers, safety Brian Dawkins and
defensive end Vonnie Holliday.
When Josh McDaniels and Nolan
arrived, they discovered a ros-
ter that wasn’t entirely suited to
playing a 4-3, so they immediate-
ly made the move to the 3-4. And
many of the players they signed
already had experience in the 3-4,
a critical element to the team’s
quick success.JUDY BATTISTA
Rangers Win Again
The winless Toronto Maple
Leafs (0-4-1) hung around un-
til early in the third period on
Monday before falling under a
barrage of New York Rangers
goals and losing, 7-2, at Madi-
son Square Garden. The Rang-
ers (5-1) won their fifth straight
game, and defenseman Dan
Girardi had his first two-goal
game; Sean Avery had his first
two goals of the season; Mar-
ian Gaborik scored to extend
his point-scoring streak to six.
 (NYT)
Dolphins Beat Jets
The Miami Dolphins rallied
Monday night to beat the New
York Jets, 31-27, with a 70-yard
drive that ended with a touch-
down with 6 seconds left in the
game. The Dolphins quarter-
back Chad Henne was 20 of 26
for 241 yards and 2 touchdowns.
 (NYT)
NFL scores
SUNDAY’S LATE GAMES
Indianapolis 31, Tennessee 9
MONDAY
Miami 31, New York Jets 27
NHL scores
SUNDAY’S LATE GAMES
Rangers 3, Anaheim 0
Vancouver 4, Dallas 3, SO
MONDAY
Colorado 4, Boston 3
Los Angeles 2, Islanders 1
Rangers 7, Toronto 2
Devils 3, Washington 2, SO
Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 1
Tampa Bay 3, Florida 2
Edmonton 6, Nashville 1
Chicago 6, Calgary 5, OT

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Albuquerque 70/ 46 0 72/ 51 PC 76/ 51 S
Boise 57/ 33 0 61/ 43 C 62/ 50 Sh
Boston 54/ 42 0 57/ 44 Sh 53/ 39 S
Buffalo 47/ 32 0 46/ 40 C 44/ 33 PC
Charlotte 61/ 55 0.17 77/ 49 PC 54/ 52 R
Chicago 48/ 39 0 47/ 36 PC 46/ 40 C
Cleveland 53/ 43 0.03 52/ 42 C 50/ 37 C
Dallas-Ft. Worth 63/ 54 0.25 67/ 60 Sh 82/ 67 C
Denver 47/ 27 0 50/ 30 C 56/ 35 PC
Detroit 50/ 37 0 50/ 39 PC 50/ 37 C
Houston
Kansas City
83/ 63
53/ 41
0.38
0
85/ 73 Sh
48/ 39 Sh
90/ 76 T
51/ 40 C
Los Angeles 67/ 57 0 69/ 58 Sh 68/ 61 Sh
Miami 90/ 82 0 91/ 80 S 92/ 79 S
Mpls.-St. Paul 36/ 30 0.24 40/ 28 PC 43/ 33 C
New York City 53/ 43 0 63/ 50 PC 54/ 43 PC
Orlando 90/ 73 0 91/ 73 PC 90/ 73 PC
Philadelphia 54/ 46 0 68/ 49 PC 57/ 42 PC
Phoenix 88/ 67 0 85/ 67 PC 88/ 65 PC
Salt Lake City 70/ 39 0 67/ 52 C 63/ 50 Sh
San Francisco 65/ 57 0 65/ 57 R 69/ 58 Sh
Seattle 50/ 43 0 57/ 45 R 61/ 48 R
St. Louis 57/ 43 0.05 54/ 43 C 55/ 43 C
Washington 57/ 49 0 71/ 49 PC 56/ 45 PC
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 93/ 77 0 90/ 75 PC 88/ 77 PC
Athens 77/ 63 0 81/ 54 PC 72/ 52 S
Beijing 73/ 50 Tr 66/ 55 S 68/ 54 S
Berlin 50/ 46 0.35 46/ 37 Sh 41/ 37 C
Buenos Aires 66/ 50 0 75/ 52 PC 59/ 45 PC
Cairo 89/ 72 0 90/ 72 S 91/ 75 PC
Cape Town
Dublin
66/ 57
59/ 37
0.79
0.04
81/ 57 PC
61/ 46 C
66/ 57 PC
61/ 45 C
Geneva 56/ 52 0.08 52/ 39 PC 50/ 36 PC
Hong Kong 85/ 77 0.16 86/ 77 R 81/ 73 Sh
Kingston 86/ 79 2.05 88/ 79 S 88/ 77 S
Lima 68/ 57 0 68/ 61 C 68/ 60 C
London 61/ 46 0.02 63/ 41 PC 63/ 50 PC
Madrid 82/ 52 0 72/ 54 PC 73/ 54 S
Mexico City 73/ 57 0 79/ 56 Sh 79/ 52 PC
Montreal 49/ 32 Tr 45/ 32 Sh 39/ 28 C
Moscow 50/ 37 0.20 54/ 46 Sh 59/ 54 C
Nassau 91/ 77 0 93/ 81 S 93/ 79 PC
Paris 62/ 50 0.02 63/ 48 PC 59/ 43 PC
Prague 50/ 46 0.20 43/ 37 Sh 41/ 34 Sh
Rio de Janeiro 92/ 68 0 95/ 67 C 90/ 65 PC
Rome 73/ 59 0.01 72/ 50 S 68/ 48 Sh
Santiago 75/ 39 0 72/ 43 C 70/ 43 PC
Stockholm 44/ 36 – 43/ 36 Sh 45/ 36 PC
Sydney 74/ 52 0.02 73/ 55 S 70/ 55 PC
Tokyo 71/ 61 0 75/ 61 PC 72/ 59 PC
Toronto 44/ 30 0 48/ 36 C 43/ 30 PC
Vancouver 46/ 34 0 50/ 39 Sh 57/ 45 R
Warsaw 54/ 45 0.09 43/ 34 C 34/ 32 Sn
sports journal
Angels Can Win in Many Ways, and Have
MINNEAPOLIS — The Yan-
kees have never played the Los
Angeles Angels in a best-of-
seven series, and baseball has
been poorer for it. There may be
no matchup with such
intense play and oppo- Baseball
nents who are more re- Analysis
spectful of each other’s Tyler
strengths. It has been Kepner
this way for more than
a decade, and now, at last, a pen-
nant is at stake.
“We are going to have a nasty
series,” Andy Pettitte said Sun-
day night after his 4-1 victory,
which clinched a division series
sweep of the Minnesota Twins.
“It’s going to be a war with us
and the Angels, but we are look-
ing forward to it.”
The Angels clinched a spot in
the American League Cham-
pionship Series on Sunday by
completing their sweep of the
Red Sox in Boston before the
Yankees took batting practice
at the Metrodome. Some of the
Yankees watched the game in
their clubhouse, impressed but
not surprised at the Angels’
ninth-inning comeback.
“There’s no quit in the Angels,” the Yankees well but lost to them
Johnny Damon said. “We see
that when we play them.”
The Yankees, who host the
Angels in Game 1 on Friday,
Revived Hero Helps Argentina’s Faint Cup Hopes
The hero of Argentina’s sputter-
ing World Cup campaign, Martín
Palermo, owns an ignominious
place in Guinness World Records.
And now, Palermo, known as El
Loco (the Crazy One), has staked
his place in Argentine soccer his-
tory.
Many will long remember the
final five minutes or so of Satur-
day’s tumultuous South Ameri-
can World Cup qualifying match
between a desperate Argentina
and a desolate Peru at Estadio
Monumental in Buenos Aires.
Desperate for a victory and 3
points, the enigmatic coach Diego
Maradona ended the night sliding
across the turf on his stomach be-
cause of Palermo, a 35-year-old
striker. Palermo had recently
been recalled to the national team
after a 10-year absence, and he
scored the winning goal in second-
half stoppage time against Peru.
Perhaps out of desperation,
Maradona went with Palermo as
have a deep appreciation for the
Angels’ style of play. They have
lost two division series to the An-
gels this decade, in 2002 and 2005,
chased from Anaheim by more
than ThunderStix and
Rally Monkeys.
The Angels blud-
geoned the Yankees in
the first series, swinging
early, often and with
devastating force. The Angels hit
.376 across four games, coming
from behind in all of their victo-
ries. They had three more come-
back wins in 2005, suffocating the
Yankees with their bullpen.
The names are different now,
and the Angels’ relievers are
not as intimidating. Francisco
Rodriguez, Troy Percival, Scot
Shields, Kelvim Escobar and
others who stifled the Yankees
in past Octobers are gone or
injured.
But in their last nine and a
third innings against the Yan-
kees, Angels relievers have al-
lowed one earned run. They have
a deep rotation that includes
Scott Kazmir, the former Tampa
Bay left-hander who has handled
last month.
“What makes them tough is
they hit, they pitch, they run,
they steal, they play defense,
Argentina, one of the powers of
world soccer, struggled to qualify
for the 2010 World Cup in South
Africa. With the Argentines’ 2-1
victory in a torrential downpour,
they moved up to fourth place in
the standings, a point ahead of
Uruguay. Argentina crosses the
Rio de la Plata for Wednesday’s
game against Uruguay in Monte-
video, needing only a draw to nail
down the last automatic qualify-
ing berth from the region. But a
Uruguay win, coupled with an Ec-
uador win at Chile (which has al-
ready qualified), would eliminate
Argentina.
Palermo, a tall, predatory strik-
er who has scored more than 200
goals in the top Argentine league,
entered the match at the start
of the second half of a scoreless
game.
“At the interval. I told him to go
out and win the game, though we
never imagined it would happen
like this,” Maradona told report-
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
good bullpen, good closer, good
manager,” Derek Jeter said. “I
think that pretty much wraps it
up.”
The Angels were the only A.L.
team to have a winning record
against the Yankees in Joe
Torre’s tenure as the manager,
from 1996 to 2007. They won 7 of
10 against Joe Girardi’s team
last season and split 10 games
this year. The Yankees won
three of four in September, but
Jeter said that would not matter.
The Yankees will start C.C. Sa-
bathia in Game 1, and with Joba
Chamberlain entrenched in short
relief, they could bring back Sa-
bathia on short rest for Game 4.
Because of scheduled days off be-
tween Games 4, 5 and 6, Sabathia
could then pitch on regular rest in
a potential Game 7.
But Sabathia lost both of his
starts against the Angels this
season. He is 5-7 with a 4.72
earned run average in 14 career
starts against the Angels.
“They’ve got great balance,”
Sabathia said. “They’ve got
speed and they’ve got power.
They’ve got Chone Figgins at the
top; when he gets on base and
he’s running around, you’re wor-
ried about him. We’ve just got to
go out and keep those guys off the
bases.”
ers after the game. “It was yet an-
other miracle by St. Palermo.”
Gonzalo Higuaín gave Argen-
tina a 1-0 lead in the 48th minute,
a goal that stood up until Peru’s
Hernán Rengifo scored in the 89th
minute. But deep into stoppage
time, an unmarked Palermo side-
footed a skittering ball into the net.
The goal set off a wild celebration,
which included the rotund Mara-
dona launching into a belly flop on
the sodden stadium turf.
“To be honest, I never thought
I’d experience something like this
again,” Palermo told reporters.
He added: “This is a reward for
all of my hard work; it’s one of the
happiest days of my life.”
Palermo’s claim to Guinness
fame? During a game against Co-
lombia (a 3-0 loss) in the 1999 Copa
América, the left-footed Palermo
missed three penalty kicks, which
ended his international career un-
til the recall by Maradona.
 JACK BELL
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n.h.l. standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Rangers 5 1 0 10 24 12
Pittsburgh 5 1 0 10 21 15
Phila. 3 1 1 7 19 15
Devils 3 2 0 6 14 15
Islanders 0 1 3 3 9 13
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Ottawa 3 2 0 6 12 14
Buffalo 2 0 1 5 4 3
Boston 2 3 0 4 16 19
Montreal 2 3 0 4 12 18
Toronto 0 4 1 1 12 24
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Tampa 2 1 2 6 15 16
Wash. 2 2 2 6 22 21
Atlanta 2 1 0 4 12 9
Carolina 2 3 0 4 13 17
Florida 1 4 0 2 10 20
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 3 1 1 7 19 15
Columbus 3 1 0 6 12 10
Nashville 2 2 0 4 7 11
Detroit 2 2 0 4 12 13
St. Louis 2 2 0 4 12 12
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Calgary 4 1 1 9 24 23
Colorado 3 1 1 7 17 12
Edmonton 3 1 1 7 20 15
Vancou. 2 3 0 4 17 17
Minnesota 1 3 0 2 10 15
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
L.A. 4 1 0 8 19 15
San Jose 3 2 0 6 20 17
Anaheim 2 2 1 5 13 13
Dallas 1 0 3 5 14 14
Phoenix 2 2 0 4 10 7
Sharpton Opposes
Limbaugh’s Bid
Al Sharpton urged the N.F.L.
in a letter released Monday to
reject the conservative radio
host Rush Limbaugh’s potential
bid to buy the St. Louis Rams.
He also asked for a meeting
with N.F.L. Commissioner Rog-
er Goodell.
It was the latest indication
of the controversy Limbaugh’s
involvement in the bid has
caused, months before N.F.L.
owners are expected to consider
a new ownership group for the
Rams.
Limbaugh, a Missouri native
who lives in Palm Beach, Fla.,
is an avid sports fan. He has
teamed with Dave Checketts,
the principal owner of the St.
Louis Blues hockey team and a
former Madison Square Garden
executive, in making the bid for
the Rams. There is no guaran-
tee that their bid would prevail
for the 60 percent of the team
that is for sale. (NYT)