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CAMPAIGNS MINE PERSONAL LIVES TO GET OUT VOTE

EXTENSIVE USE OF DATA
Subtle Techniques Try to Influence Habits on Election Day
By CHARLES DUHIGG
LIBYA STRUGGLES TO CURB MILITIAS, THE ONLY POLICE

A SECURITY CONUNDRUM
Amid G.O.P. Criticism, U.S. Risks Backlash if It Takes Action
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined. And they are using that data to try to influence voting habits in effect, to train voters to go to the polls through subtle cues, rewards and threats in a manner akin to the marketing efforts of credit card companies and big-box retailers. In the weeks before Election Day, millions of voters will hear from callers with surprisingly detailed knowledge of their lives. These callers friends of friends or long-lost work colleagues will identify themselves as volunteers for the campaigns or independent political groups. The callers will be guided by scripts and call lists compiled by people or computers with access to details like whether voters may have visited pornography Web sites, have homes in foreclosure, are more prone to drink Michelob Ultra than Corona or have gay friends or enjoy expensive vacations. The callers are likely to ask detailed questions about how the voters plan to spend Election Day, according to professionals with both presidential campaigns. What time will they vote? What route will they drive to the polls? Simply asking such questions, experiments show, is likely to increase turnout. After these conversations, when those targeted voters open Continued on Page 18
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NICOLE BENGIVENO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Donnas Diner is in a brick building dating to the 1880s in Elyria, Ohio. Freight trains clatter day and night through the city.
At the Corner of Hope and Worry

A Small Cafe, and a Small City, Are Put to the Test by a Tough Economy
ELYRIA, Ohio Another day begins with a sound softer than a finger-snap, in an Ohio place called Elyria. In the central square of this small city, the gushing water fountain applauds the early-morning chorus of sparrows. A car clears its throat. A door slams. And then: click. The faint sound comes as 7:00 flashes on the clock of the Lorain National Bank buildTHIS ing, looming over the square. LAND The pull of a string click has sent life pulsing through a neon sign, announcing to all of Elyria that, once more, against the odds, Donnas Diner is open. Its proprietor, Donna Dove, 57, ignites the grill that she seems to have just turned off, so seamlessly do her workdays blend into one endless shift. She wears her blond hair in a ponytail and frames her hazel eyes with black-rimmed glasses that tend to get smudged with grill grease. She sees the world through the blur of her work. A dozen years ago, Donna found a scrap of serendipity on the sidewalk: a notice that a local mom-and-pop restaurant was for sale. After cooking for her broken family as a child, after cooking for county inmates at one of her many jobs, she had come to see food as lifes binding agent, and a diner as her calling. She maxed out her credit cards, cashed in her 401(k) and opened a business to call her own. Donnas Diner. Donnas. You know this place: It is Elyrias equivalent to that diner, that coffee shop, that McDonalds. From the vantage point of these booths and Formica countertops, the past improves with distance, the present keeps piling on, and a promising future is
DAN BARRY
Juvenile Killers And Life Terms: A Case in Point

By ETHAN BRONNER
Donna Dove opened her diner in 2000. Her days blend into one endless shift.
DONNAS DINER First of five articles.
LA BELLE, Pa. To this day, Maurice Bailey goes to sleep trying to understand what happened on Nov. 6, 1993, when as a 15year-old high school student he killed his 15-year-old girlfriend, Kristina Grill, a classmate who was pregnant with his child. I go over it pretty much every night, said Mr. Bailey, now 34, sitting in his brown jumpsuit here at the Fayette State Correctional Institution in western Pennsylvania, where he is serving a sentence of life without parole for first-degree murder. I dont want to make excuses. Its a horrible act I committed. But as you get older, your conscience and insight develop. Im not the same person. Every night, Bobbi Jamriska tries to avoid going over that same event. Ms. Jamriska, Kristinas sister, was a 22-year-old out for a drink with friends when she got the news. Ten months later, their inconsolable mother died of complications from pneumonia. Weeks later, their grandmother died. During that year, I buried four generations of my family, Ms. Continued on Page 24
practically willed by the resilient patrons. It is where the recession and other issues of the day are lived as much as discussed. Where expectations for a certain lifestyle have been lowered and hopes for salvation through education and technology have been raised. Where the presidential nominees Barack Obama and Mitt Romney each hope that his plan for a way
back will resonate with the Donna Doves, who try to get by in places like Elyria where the American dream they talk about can sometimes seem like a tease. But for now, at least, the door to Donnas is open. So take a seat. Have a cup of coffee. Maybe some eggs. This morning, as usual, Pete Aldrich is helping Donna through the new-dawn isolation, turning on the coffee and being compensated by food and tips from the occasional delivery. In his early 50s, well-eduContinued on Page 20
BENGHAZI, Libya A month after the killing of the American ambassador ignited a public outcry for civilian control of Libyas fractious militias, that hope has been all but lost in a tangle of grudges, rivalries and egos. Scores of disparate militias remain Libyas only effective police force but have stubbornly resisted government control, a dynamic that is making it difficult for either the Libyan authorities or the United States to catch the attackers who killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Shocked by that assault, tens of thousands of people filled the streets last month to demand the dismantling of all the militias. But the countrys interim president, Mohamed Magariaf, warned them to back off as leaders of the largest brigades threatened to cut off the vital services they provide, like patrolling the borders and putting out fires. We feel hurt, we feel underappreciated, said Ismail el-Salabi, one of several brigade leaders who warned that public security had deteriorated because their forces had pulled back. Taming the militias has been the threshold test of Libyas attempt to build a democracy after four decades of dictatorship under Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. But how to bring them to heel while depending on them for security has eluded the weak transitional government, trapping Libya in a state of lawlessness. Now that problem has become entangled in the American presidential race as well, with Republicans arguing that the Obama administrations failure to protect Mr. Stevens illustrates the breakdown of its policy in the region. Mounting pressure on the administration to act against the perpetrators carries its own risks: an American strike on Libyan soil could produce a popular and potentially violent backlash in the only Arab country whose people largely have warm feelings toward Washington. The militias power is evident. In one of Tripolis finest hotels, the Waddan, about two dozen militiamen from the western city of Misurata continue to help themContinued on Page 12
Strauss-Kahn Says Sex Parties Went Too Far, but Lust Is No Crime
By DOREEN CARVAJAL and MAA de la BAUME
PARIS More than a year after resigning in disgrace as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seeking redemption with a new consulting company, the lecture circuit and a uniquely French legal defense to settle a criminal inquiry that exposed his hidden life as a libertine. Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 63, a silverhaired economist, is seeking to
throw out criminal charges in an inquiry into ties to a prostitution ring in northern France with the legal argument that the authorities are unfairly Strausstrying to crimi- Kahn nalize lust. That defense and the investigation, which is facing a critical judicial hearing in late November, have offered a keyhole view into a clandestine practice in certain powerful cir-
cles of French society: secret soirees with lawyers, judges, police officials, journalists and musicians that start with a fine meal and end with naked guests and public sex with multiple partners. In France, Libertinage has a long history in the culture, dating from a 16th-century religious sect of libertines. But the most perplexing question in the StraussKahn affair is how a career politician with ambition to lead one of Europes most powerful nations was blinded to the possibility that his zest for sex parties could present a liability, or risk black-
mail. The exclusive orgies called parties fines lavish Champagne affairs costing around $13,000 each were organized as a roving international circuit from Paris to Washington by businessmen seeking to ingratiate themselves with Mr. StraussKahn. Some of that money, according to a lawyer for the main host, ultimately paid for prostitutes because of a shortage of women at the mixed soirees orchestrated largely for the benefit of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who someContinued on Page 4
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16 Killed in Pakistan
A body was carried away after a suicide bombing at an arms market in a government-controlled frontier town. Page 12.
INTERNATIONAL 6-13
NATIONAL 22-25
SUNDAY BUSINESS
OPINION IN SUNDAY REVIEW
Iran Suspected in Cyberattacks

American intelligence officials believe Iran was behind attacks on computers of the Saudi oil industry and financial institutions in the United States. PAGE 11
Fading Hopes in South Africa

A wave of labor unrest in South Africa has underlined the unfulfilled dreams of many who have yearned for better lives in the years after apartheid. PAGE 6
Californias War on Emissions

On Jan 1., California will become the first state to charge industries across the economy for the greenhouse gases they emit. PAGE 22
Romney Camps Economist

R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, has helped shape Mitt Romneys policy plans and is often a cheerleader for them. PAGE 1
Maureen Dowd
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012
Inside The Times

INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL SPORTS SUNDAY BUSINESS
Afghan Boys Eke Living Amid Peril at Gorge

The war economy touches everybody in Afghanistan and will leave a desperate hole when it is gone not least for the Pepsi bottle boys, who direct traffic and keep contractor trucks flowing along one of Afghanistans deadliest stretches of road.
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Romney Was Often Away When He Was Governor

During Mitt Romneys four-year term in Massachusetts, he cumulatively spent more than a year part or all of 417 days out of the state, according to a review of his schedule and other records. PAGE 16
New York Marathon Grows Under Controversial Chief

Under Mary Wittenberg, chief executive of New York Road Runners, the field for the New York City Marathon has become the largest in the world. But such growth has led to a collision of ideals. PAGE 1
A Bank Bailout Witness Asks Big Questions

Sheila C. Bair, the former chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and author of a new book on the financial crisis, is well positioned to challenge the dogma of bank bailouts. Fair Game, Gretchen Morgenson. PAGE 1
Registering Students to Vote

Every four years, volunteers swarm university campuses to register newly eligible voters for what is often the only presidential election of their undergraduate careers. This year they found that large numbers were already registered. PAGE 18
Jets Look to Cromartie

With the All-Pro Darrelle Revis out for the season, Antonio Cromartie has become the Jets most reliable player on defense and effectively taken on the role as his teams shutdown cornerback. PAGE 4
Spains Housing Fire Sale

Spanish banks are beginning to slash prices for real estate assets, and while some experts worry that they are repeating mistakes of the past by handing out 100 percent mortgages again, giddy Spaniards those who still have jobs are lining up to get in on the bargains.
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Two-Step Verification
An A.T.M. requires the presentation of both a physical card and a correct PIN. Web sites can and should follow this general principle of requiring two dissimilar things before access is granted. Requiring a password and a text-message code for entering Web sites would make hacking much more difficult.
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Division on Marijuana Use

Efforts to legalize marijuana possession have generally run aground in the face of unified opposition in Washington State. But as a measure that would legalize possession of small amounts heads toward a vote next month, the opposition forces have been divided, raising hopes by marijuana advocates of a breakthrough. PAGE 18
Learning to Share as a Net

Joe Johnson, acquired by the Nets from Atlanta, is eager to shed his reputation for commanding the basketball and be the complementary player he was with Phoenix.
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Church Changes Georgia

As sharply contested parliamentary voting approached in Georgia, the countrys Orthodox patriarch began his own peculiar pre-election ritual with revealing gestures that exert a profound but mostly behind-thescenes influence on politics. PAGE 10
Fighting Do Not Track

Advertisers are girding for battle against browser mechanisms intended to offer more online privacy. At stake is nothing less than the future of the surveillance economy. Slipstream, Natasha Singer. PAGE 3
Notre Dame Edges Stanford

No. 7 Notre Dames defense had allowed only three touchdowns all season, and it did not relent as the Fighting Irish continued their resurgence by beating No. 17 Stanford.
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Sex Scandal at BBC

The cancellation of a news segment on allegations that television personality Jimmy Savile sexually abused underage girls has led to an examination of practices at the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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School Cheating Scandal

Administrators in El Paso, Tex., are accused of keeping low-performing students out of classrooms by improperly holding some back, accelerating others and preventing many from showing up for the tests or enrolling in school at all. PAGE 23
Prism for Valuing Stock

Stock valuation can be more accurate when averaged over 10 years, but significant anomalies, like the great recession, can throw off the numbers. A tool known as the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, or CAPE, can determine whether stocks are cheap or expensive, but some strategists argue that it may not be as accurate in gauging valuations today as it was in the past. PAGE 6
OBITUARIES
William C. Friday, 92
Mr. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina from 1956 to 1986, oversaw vast growth and a response to federal desegregation orders. PAGE 27
Turkey Faults U.N. Inaction

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, lashed out at the United Nations inaction in Syria with some of his strongest comments yet, saying world powers are repeating the mistakes they made in Bosnia in the 1990s. PAGE 12
METROPOLITAN
Students Boycott Tests, With Parental Consent

Some parents have banded together to show their displeasure with the emphasis on standardized exams in New York City schools by having their children refuse to take field tests. PAGE 1
Roy Bates, 91
Mr. Bates commandeered a former British military outpost in the North Sea in 1966 and declared a sovereign nation that his family still lays claim to. PAGE 26
AUTOMOBILES
Chinas Exports Rise

Chinas exports to the United States and Southeast Asia rose last month while the countrys money supply expanded faster than expected, government agencies announced, in the first signs that the countrys economy might be starting to bottom out. PAGE 13
With a Different Engine, Acura RDX Gets Better

The new 2013 Acura RDX uses a V-6 engine instead of the turbocharged 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine from its past models. The result is a more handsome and tightly tailored machine that is an easier-going instrument of family utility. Review by John Pearley Huffman. PAGE 1
Battle to Clean an Avenue

On Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, illicit activities like prostitution remain a stubborn presence, shifting and adapting despite police efforts to drive them out. PAGE 1
Ulrich Franzen, 91
Mr. Franzen was a German-born architect whose fortresslike buildings seemed to buttress the interior landscape of New York City during the shaky 1970s, and gave it some buoyancy, too, with skywalks. PAGE 26
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
Im just going in circles and circles and circles, and not getting anyplace.
DONNA DOVE, who owns a struggling diner in Elyria, Ohio. [20]
OP-ED
Maureen Dowd
The vice-presidential debate brought to mind an Irish Catholic family holiday. The loser of that debate was, of course, Barack Obama.
SUNDAY REVIEW, PAGE 1
Nicholas D. Kristof
SAMUELE PELLECCHIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Many of the sights in Siena, Italy, have not changed much in 800 years. Above, visitors in the 13th-century main square, the Piazza del Campo. TRAVEL, PAGE 10
LIFE IN THE SQUARE
MAGAZINE
BOOK REVIEW
ARTS & LEISURE
The story of a seriously ill friend who quit his job and had no insurance shows why we need Obamacare. With it, he might have gone to a doctor in time.
Heavenly Farmland In Central Valley

Californias expansive Central Valley is the worlds largest patch of Class 1 soil, the best there is. It is the greatest food resource in the United States, but for the last century or so, the nation has been exploiting its water, mineral resources, land, air, people and animals. PAGE 50
End of a Dystopian Series For Young Readers

A young woman fights her community to try to find her child in Son, the conclusion to Lois Lowrys dystopian Giver quartet. Heroes and fates collide in a final struggle.Review by Robin Wasserman. PAGE 1
Bending Time and Minds In Making Cloud Atlas

The directors jiggered puzzles and confronted challenges in bringing David Mitchells novel to the screen.
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Ross Douthat
Why did the White House fumble the aftermath of the Libya attack?
Frank Bruni
A Minnesota congresswomans stepsister beholds her moral crusades with puzzlement, and with a very personal sorrow.
EDITORIAL
A Potato Famine History

In The Graves Are Walking, John Kelly has produced a moving account of the Irish famine, which killed more than a million people in the middle of the 19th century. The book argues that British blundering, prejudice and hostility lay behind the Irish potato famine. Review by Isaac Chotiner. PAGE 11
Quest for Mozzarella

Buffalo mozzarella from Italy is perhaps the most difficult cheese to replicate. Is the Silicon Valley consultant-turned-dairy-farmer Craig Ramini in over his head? PAGE 74
Time for the United States To Leave Afghanistan

After more than a decade of having American blood spilled in Afghanistan, it is time for our forces to leave on a schedule dictated only by the security of the troops. It should not take more than a year.
Public Editor
Just who is it that the United States is killing with strikes by unmanned aircraft in Yemen and Pakistan?
Vote for the Dinner Party

Californias Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified foods carry a label, has the potential to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.PAGE 62
Salman Rushdie in Hiding

Salman Rushdie invented a new self, Joseph Anton, as he hid from a murderous fatwa. Review by Donna Rifkind. PAGE 10
Saints From New York

When new Catholic saints are canonized next Sunday, the total American tally will be 12. And New York is well represented.
Crossword MAGAZINE, 132 Obituaries 26-27 TV Listings METROPOLITAN, 10 Weather SPORTS, 12
Corrections
BUSINESS DAY
An article on Oct. 4 about Hewlett-Packards business performance forecast misstated projections for revenue declines at the company. The company projected declines in revenue of 11 to 13 percent and operating margins of 0 to 3 percent for its Enterprise Services division, which is Errors and Comments: nytnews@nytimes.com or call 1-888-NYT-NEWS (1-888-698-6397). Editorials: letters@nytimes.com or fax (212) 556-3622. Public Editor: Readers dissatisfied
among the hardest hit parts of the business, not for the company over all. (H.P. has not projected specific declines in revenue or operating margins for the company over all.) The Tool Kit article on Thursday about managing iCloud for iPhones and iPads described inwith a response or concerned about the papers journalistic integrity can reach the public editor, Margaret Sullivan, at public@nytimes.com. Newspaper Delivery: customercare@nytimes.com or call 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637).
correctly how to keep iCloud space from being consumed by e-mail. E-mail sent through an Apple account (@icloud.com, @me.com and @mac.com) is automatically sent to iCloud and must be manually deleted; there is no control on the iPad or iPhone to prevent messages from being sent to iCloud. (While delivery of e-mail to the device itself can be turned off, the e-mail will still be sent to iCloud. To avoid filling iCloud storage with e-mail, use a third-party e-mail provider such as Gmail rather than Apple.)
SPORTS
Wednesday about the San Francisco Giants 2-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in a National League division series described incorrectly the play that caused Buster Posey and Hunter Pence to move up a base in the 10th inning. It was a passed ball, not a wild pitch. An article on Thursday about the N.H.L. owners risking the leagues positive momentum by having another lockout misstated when the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim joined the league. They joined in 1993; they were not set to join the league at the time of the 1994-95 lockout.
An article in some editions on
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Strauss-Kahns Defense: Lust Is No Crime

From Page 1 times sought sex with three or four women. On Thursday, Mr. StraussKahn broke a long silence to acknowledge that perhaps his double life as an unrestrained libertine was a little outr. I long thought that I could lead my life as I wanted, he said in an interview with the French magazine Le Point. And that includes free behavior between consenting adults. There are numerous parties that exist like this in Paris, and you would be surprised to encounter certain people. I was nave. I was too out of step with French society, he added. I was wrong. But whether his downfall will have a lasting impact on the culture of sexual privilege and impunity for powerful men in France remains uncertain. He declined to be interviewed for this article. This month Mr. Strauss-Kahn won a major legal battle after a French prosecutor dropped part of the investigation into an alleged sexual assault at a hotel in Washington. A Belgian prostitute recanted her earlier accusation, saying the encounter was just rough sex play, but Mr. StraussKhan is still a suspect for involvement in a prostitution ring. Buoyed by that first victory, Mr. Strauss-Kahns lawyers predict he will triumph in France, where having sex with prostitutes is not illegal, although soliciting and pimping are. In essence, they argue, there is nothing criminal about the sexual life of a libertine, according to Mr. Strauss-Kahns lead lawyer, Henri Leclerc. That defense may not satisfy the charges in a New York civil lawsuit filed by Nafissatou Diallo, who accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault last year in a New York hotel where she was a chambermaid. Lawyers representing both sides deny there are financial negotiations under way. His travels will eventually bring him to a courthouse in the Bronx, where he will face justice, Kenneth Thompson, the lawyer representing Ms. Diallo, said in an interview. All of Mr. Strauss-Kahns current legal woes in New York and France mixed together last year, with devastating results. Mr. Strauss-Kahns name first surfaced in the French inquiry by chance, in May 2011. French investigators were tapping the telephones of Dominique Alderweireld, an owner of Belgian sex clubs who is also a suspect in the prostitution ring. In one conversation between Mr. Alderweireld and a longtime childhood friend, Ren Kojfer, who worked at the Carlton Hotel in Lille, the men were gossiping about Mr. Strauss-Kahns recent New York arrest, according to lawyers involved in the case. They then recalled a freewheeling luncheon in 2009 at a Paris restaurant called LAventure, and Mr. Kojfer discussed whether they could make money by offering information about that day to Ms. Diallos lawyer, Mr. Thompson, who was never called, the lawyers said. At LAventure, Mr. StraussKahn and a few friends gathered in a private basement club, carpeted in purple and black tiger
CORENTIN FOHLEN
An economist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has started consulting and traveling the lecture circuit.
stripes, with a female Belgian escort and Mr. Alderweirelds companion, Batrice Legrain, who recalled that lunch in an interview. She said that Mr. StraussKahn, energized by Viagra, had sex with the escort and then followed Ms. Legrain to the bathroom, grabbing her and demanding sex. But she said she rebuffed him and it wasnt a big deal. Mr. Strauss-Kahns lawyer declined to comment. In his own interview, Mr. Alderweireld made light of the petit episode at LAventure. His lawyer, Sorin Margulis, took a more scornful view: Its more an act of Louis XIV. The investigation into the prostitution ring in Lille ultimately swept up 10 suspects, including Mr. Strauss-Kahn. They knew each other largely through their membership as French Freemasons, according to Karl Vandamme, a defense lawyer who represents Fabrice Paszkowski, the owner of a medical supply company who played a crucial role in organizing the sex parties. Libertines are people like you and me: people who have a normal life, said Mr. Vandamme, who said his client invested around $65,000 in party expenses, betting on the political rise of Mr. Strauss-Kahn. The banker, he said, would typically arrive late for the more than a dozen parties, held over a period of about five years. There was a rhythm to the gatherings, with everyone dressed for a sitdown dinner, he said. Then over time, couples separated, kisses were exchanged between one woman and another and between a husband and the wife of a friend until the guests all ended up nude. Hubert Delarue, the lawyer for Mr. Kojfer, also accused of involvement in the prostitution ring, predicted that most of the suspects would be cleared. Mr. Strauss-Kahns lawyers argue that he was unaware that some of the women were prostitutes because they were all naked by the time he arrived late, and the paroften complicit when it can guarantee them a job. While Mr. Strauss-Kahn awaits the outcome of his legal cases, he is shaping a new role for himself after being disowned by his Socialist party. In the last two months he registered Parnasse, a consulting firm named for the Left Bank neighborhood of Montparnasse, where he moved after separating from his wife, Anne Sinclair, in August. He has delivered lectures in South Korea, Morocco, England and Ukraine, offering a euro zone rescue plan for wealthy countries to share some gains from favorable interest rate spreads with poorer nations. Hes a man of incredible moral strength, said Michel Taubmann, his biographer. I saw this man resisting, avoiding a fall. Never have I have seen him desperate. He knows he is innocent and wants to move forward. Mr. Strauss-Kahn has pleaded publicly for the media to leave me in peace, but he cannot escape his notoriety. In the works is a French play, Suite 2806 inspired by the episode in the New York hotel room with the housekeeper and, separately, a movie directed by Abel Ferrara with Grard Depardieu. And in a tribute to the whole affair, two French entrepreneurs are promoting a saffron-flavored soda to mix for cocktails at fashionable Paris bars. They are branding it as an aphrodisiac with a memorable label: Mr. Strauss-Kahns initials, DSK.
I was too out of step with French society. I was wrong.

ty hosts contend they reaped no profits. Prostitution was more regulated before, Mr. Delarue said, but it was for a certain type of population. Today among all those women, there are occasional prostitutes, and sometimes theyre top models who try to make ends meet. They arent miserable women on the sidewalk. Mr. Strauss-Kahns double life is not surprising to some Parisians. Hes not the only libertine man in the political world, said Olivia Cattan, who leads an antisexism association called Words of Women and believes the case reflects a code of silence. It is linked to power, and women are
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012
Unfulfilled Promises Are Replacing Prospects of a Better Life in South Africa

By LYDIA POLGREEN
TEMBISA, South Africa When Morris Sello arrived in Johannesburg from his home province of Limpopo in 1994, his horizons seemed limitless. Apartheid, the oppressive hand that smothered opportunity for black people for decades, was gone. He dreamed of a slice of the life white South Africans had enjoyed for years: a good job, a house, a car, good schools for his children. He found a job as a truck driver. But nothing else has worked out the way he planned. Instead of a house, he lives with his wife and four children in a fetid shack in this sprawling township. A car is unthinkable. The local schools are abysmal, and his faith that his children will do better in life is ebbing. I hope they can do better, he said, a mix of resignation and despair in his voice. I hope. Mr. Sello was among tens of thousands of workers to walk off the job in the biggest wave of labor unrest to hit South Africa since the end of apartheid. Wildcat strikes by gold, platinum and iron ore miners have crippled one of South Africas most important industries, prompting the nations first credit rating downgrade in nearly two decades and a slide in the countrys currency, the rand, to a three-year low. And the troubles are far from over. The truck drivers have ended their
nearly three-week strike, but not before causing food and fuel shortages that sent shudders through an already struggling economy. The mine strikes have dragged on, and some municipal workers have announced plans to join the picket lines as well. South Africas economy was already ailing. The crisis in Europe, its largest trading partner, has taken a grim toll. Amid the slump, hundreds of thousands of jobs have disappeared. Economists are cutting their already anemic growth forecasts for South Africa, the continents biggest economy. Infighting among leaders of the ruling African National Congress has all but paralyzed the governments response. Much of South Africas political elite are focusing on whether President Jacob Zumas deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, or another rival will challenge him as head of the party and president of the country. In explaining its downgrade of South Africa, Moodys said that it acted in part because of increased concerns about South Africas future political stability. South African employers and unions have long had rancorous relations, and strikes are a common feature of life here. But this time seems to be different. While the unrest is specifically about pay, it has tapped a deep well of anger among the employed, who are
frustrated with the African National Congress, which came to power in 1994 at the end of white rule promising a better life for all. Nowadays, the party is increasingly seen as interested mainly in self-enrichment, an impression underscored by reports that the government is paying for $27 million in renovations to Mr. Zumas private village home, ostensibly for security reasons. The project is the
A strike by miners and a credit downgrade have hobbled the economy.

subject of multiple investigations. Altogether, the labor unrest, broad disillusionment, dimming economic prospects and political inertia represent perhaps the most serious crisis South Africas young democracy has faced. In 1994 there were massive problems, but there was also a massive amount of hope, said William Gumede, a political analyst. Now people feel hopeless. People have lost confidence in all of these institutions they trusted will make a difference, like the unions and
the A.N.C. The new institutions of democracy Parliament, the courts people have also lost confidence that those can protect them and help them. That is why they go for violence and take law into own hands. South Africas peaceful transformation from brutal white rule to a nonracial democracy has been called a miracle, but in reality it was something more pragmatic and, its architects hoped, more durable: a grand bargain. Full voting rights for all would end white political rule. White-dominated capitalism remained in place, but aggressive programs to include blacks were created. Workers were given the right to strike, but unions linked arms with the A.N.C. Now the terms of that bargain are increasingly unacceptable to South Africas poor, threatening to unravel the fragile consensus that kept Africas richest economy going through a tumultuous transition. According to the Afrobarometer, a survey completed last year, 47 percent of South Africans rated the countrys economic condition as very bad or fairly bad. The survey found that 41 percent said their living conditions were at least fairly bad. Asked whether the country was headed in the right direction, 46 percent said yes, and the same percentage said no.
These frustrations have boiled into violence in the past two months as illegal strikes have roiled the mining industry. It began when rock drill operators at a platinum mine in Marikana walked off the job in August, and spiraled out of control when the police opened fire on them, killing 34. The workers ultimately won a hefty pay increase, and other miners have adopted their tactics. Reuters reported that about 1,000 protesters were dispersed by police using tear gas and rubber bullets near Rustenburg on Friday night. No injuries were reported. Carrying traditional weapons like clubs, spears and machetes, the workers have provided a menacing spectacle on the news and frightened international investors. Most of the strikers were not members of the National Union of Mineworkers, the countrys largest union and part of the trade union group that is allied with the A.N.C. They had left the union for more radical upstarts, painting the old-line unions as too complacent with power and wealth. The crisis has prompted mainstream unions to take a tougher line. We dont want cowards in the struggle, comrades, declared one transport union leader at a rally in Johannesburg. The A.N.C.s actions since the end of apartheid are notable. A government program to give houses to the poor has Continued on Page 13
Afghan Boys Eke Living Amid Peril At Gorge

By GRAHAM BOWLEY
MAHI PAR PASS, Afghanistan Beneath the soaring faces of rock, on a treacherous road flanked by gaping drops, lines of trucks crawled up from the Pakistani border, groaning under impossible loads of house-size metal containers and boxes tottering under tarps. Past them and between them nudged cars, vans and other trucks carrying furniture, women in burqas, open loads of cows and donkeys. Amid the tidal wave of traffic, piercing the cacophony with their yelps and whistles, stood the Pepsi bottle boys. They earn their meager living by keeping the contractor trucks flowing on this section of the Jalalabad road, one of the main NATO supply routes to Kabul and one of Afghanistans deadliest stretches of road. I dont like it, but I have to work and make some money, said one of the boys, Samiullah, a grimy-faced 12-yearold wearing a red baseball cap. He was guiding traffic at one of the scariest hairpin bends, where cars
The war economy holds a risky and meager livelihood for the hardy.
rushed two abreast down from a tunnel through the mountain and three rusted tankers lay upside down in the gorge below. I can get killed at any time. Like all of the children on this road, Samiullah waved a flattened plastic soft drink bottle, the only tool of trade for these self-appointed traffic police. The bottle was a symbol of his poverty; these children possess almost nothing else in the world. And it was also a signal to the truck drivers that they might want to toss a few afghanis down to him in return. Without us there would be a car crashed every day, he said. The war economy touches everybody in Afghanistan and will leave a desperate hole when it is gone not least for the Pepsi bottle boys, a prime example of how Afghans have fit their lives around Americas military presence here. These children flock from the bazaars of Pul-i-Charkhi in the poor eastern suburbs of Kabul to work for a few infernal hours on the Mahi Par Pass, but it is better than anything else they could have. Late last year, they began to experience what life may be like after the Americans leave in 2014. When Pakistan closed the border to NATO supply trucks in November, the trucks stopped coming, and business for these children slowed to almost nothing. Suddenly, they were out of jobs. Business was very low at the time, said one young man, Ziaullah, who did not know his age but looked about 20. He cut a lonely figure in a dirty green tunic amid billowing fumes on the edge of the cracked road. It hurt our business a lot, because usually the drivers of the trucks are paying us money, not the small cars; they usually pay 10 to 20 Pakistani rupees, or 10 or 20 cents, he said. At that time I was earning 100 to 150 afghanis a Sangar Rahimi contributed reporting.
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DANGER AHEAD At the Mahi Par Pass, overloaded military vehicles compete
with cars on hairpin turns that cut through high mountains. Mohammedullah, 70, is among the Pepsi bottle boys who help guide traffic, equipped with bright plastic bottles to flash at drivers. Video: nytimes.com/world.
But not Ihsanullah, 10, another boy who stood on a high arc of road so steep the trucks struggled to a standstill and looked as though they were about to tumble backward. A small, plump boy with a beaming face, wearing dirty sandals and a dirty gray tunic, he sported a luminous green traffic policemans vest and gave himself the name Traffic. He said he had been working on the same spot since he was 6. Every day, he arrives here at 5 a.m., leaves for school at 8 a.m., and then returns in the afternoon, though sometimes his head is twisting from the fumes and noise, he said. He pays 10 afghanis for a bus from his house in Pul-i-Charkhi to the Jalalabad station and then jumped a ride with the truckers. His father, a watchmaker, died two years ago from diabetes. He gives the money he earns to his mother, who divides it among his four sisters and three brothers. American military vehicles drive this road, but he said they usually do not give him money, only Pepsi, cookies and chocolates. It is the bigger commercial trucks that give him cash, though on this day he had gotten nothing. When a truck nosed around the corner, Ihsanullah grew excited, striding out between the cars, waving his green plastic bottle, whistling the traffic around it. Go, go, go! he cried. But the cars sped by without stopping. Then a minibus driver held a note from a window. Another truck driver tossed a 10 Pakistani rupee note into the air with a wave. Ihsanullah scuttled and swept it up. He strode back, his chubby face lighted up. If I am not here for a few minutes or one or two or three days, then I miss being here. I enjoy being with my friends, he said, turning back as another brightly painted truck growled over the hill. I love it.
day, $2 to $3, so I was dividing the money for different things: 50 for bread, 50 for sugar. Pakistan reopened the border in July, and the NATO supply convoys, driven by Pakistani and Afghan contractors, have resumed. I am happy if the road is open, Ziaullah said. It is good for my business and my family. Ziaullah is the only person in his family who has a job, and he works so that his five brothers can go to school. All of the boys up and down this fivemile stretch of winding switchback about 45 minutes east of Kabul tell life stories of deprivation and crushing pov10 Miles 10 Miles Mi il
erty. Samiullah has worked here every day for five years since his father was paralyzed and a family enemy killed his elder brother. His friend Jan Agha, 13, a quiet boy with a sad, dirty face, lost both his mother and father. Not all of the Pepsi bottle boys are actually children. Mohammedullah, 70, whose face is as craggy as the mountain rock looming above him, lost a leg in a mine blast during the Talibans rule. Now he perches by one of the curving tunnels for six days a week, taking only Fridays off. He said the drivers are crazy, and if they ignore his advice and the road gets
blocked, even for a short time, it is like the end of the world here. The small cars occasionally give me money, but sometime if I am lucky to catch a good and rich businessman or governor or a big military officer, then I am calling my home and telling them to cook meat soup, he said. That day my luck is flying in the sky. Two months ago he did not come to the road for 10 days because he had to take a family member to the hospital, and when he returned someone had taken his spot. With the help of some soldiers and a local stall keeper, he persuaded the interloper to go farther down the mountain. It is like a chain, he said. Everyone gets his part of the chain. Most of the traffic shunters, old and young, seemed to resent their hard existence.
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The Jalalabad road is a main NATO supply route to Kabul, and the section that passes through the gorge is one of the deadliest in Afghanistan.
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has been trying to sell 48 luxury condominiums in its Alminar de Marbella complex for four years. But it remains completely empty, even with a 35 percent discount. We dont get credit from the bank, said Rafael Torres Claros, an engineer and salesman for Inmobiliaria del Sur, which built the complex in the upmarket Golf Valley area. They dont give it to our customers. For us, it is a constant struggle. Bank officials acknowledge that their ability to give out mortgages does help them make sales. But they say they have gotten more discerning about whom they lend to. Even if some customers end up defaulting on loans, they say, the bank will still have benefited from the sales, trading a large mortgage to a bankrupt developer for many small ones, the majority of which will be paid. Even if they dont all pay, said Carlos Bode Vallespn, the director of Banco Sabadells real estate division, Solvia, many of them will pay. And they will pay
In Spains Housing Bust, Sell-Off Brings Bargains

Buyers Giddy as Banks Slash Prices
By SUZANNE DALEY
CANET DE BERENGUER, Spain For years, the Mar de Canet apartment complex in this beach town south of Barcelona stood empty, another casualty of a real estate crash that left this country littered with ghost towns and half-finished developments no one would buy. But recently, the communal pool at Mar de Canet was full of giggling children, and bright beach towels flapped from virtually every balcony. Mar de Canets 308 units were sold in less than 30 days last spring, mostly gobbled up by eager Spaniards finally getting a deal they could not resist: choice holiday homes for less than half the price of similar properties on the market. Banks, which have been sitting on a pile of real estate assets or listing them at only slight discounts, are beginning to slash prices, eager to get out of the business of being landlords. Some experts worry that they are simply repeating mistakes of the past by handing out 100 percent mortgages again. But giddy Spaniards those who still have jobs are lining up to get in on the bargains. No one expects Spains housing backlog to disappear soon. The country has more than 1.2 million unsold new homes. And Spain is still far from getting its financial house in order. But to the surprise of many, Spaniards have not lost their passion for buying property, at the right price, and some prefer to put their savings in bricks and mortar rather than one of the countrys shaky banks. So many people showed up on the first day the Canet apartments went on sale here that Jess Martnez and his wife, who were at work and planning to look the next day, called their parents to rush over and lay a claim for them. The couple bought a two-bedroom unit with a terrace and a parking place for $92,000. I think a lot of people didnt Rachel Chaundler contributed reporting.
manage to buy a flat, said Mr. Martnez, who still sounded a bit breathless and excited over his purchase. We had never seen prices like this. It all happened in two days. Many experts see the fire sale prices as the beginning of what will probably be a long untangling of Spains real estate excesses. In the heady days of the construction boom, banks lent liberally to developers and homeowners alike and ended up with billions in bad loans when the economic crisis hit in 2008. At first, experts say, the banks did everything they could to play down the losses, including keeping property off the market so that its diminishing value could not be recorded. Even after numerous audits, many experts say the true extent of the bad loans remains unclear, and the recession here continues to pile on. The Bank of Spain said last month that 9.9 percent of the countrys bank loans were in arrears, up from 9.4 a month before. But in recent months many of the banks have been forced to write down losses, clearing the way for discount sales. The imminent creation of a bad bank for toxic assets, experts say, will set off even more bargain sales. Most of these discounts are for apartments in huge developments in overbuilt tourist destinations or distant suburbs. Outside Madrid, Sesea, one of the countrys most famous ghost towns, had stood virtually empty since the crash of 2008. But a few months ago, Santander, which owned 500 units, started to slash the prices. By January, the bank was advertising the last remaining units at a third of their original price. More recently, the bank Banesto listed 1,800 units last month on its Web site, Casaktua .com, at discounts of up to 80 percent, promising homes at prices not seen for two decades. The housing was scattered nationwide. This is the year that reality sets in, said Fernando Encinar, one of the owners of the real estate company Idealista.com. The good news is that there is a strong demand for low prices.
Beach towels and laughter at formerly empty resorts.

the taxes and maintain the asset. Everyone agrees that there are still Spaniards willing to invest in real estate, including as a way to safeguard their money. The very rich have taken their money out of the country, but the average person still feels that property is a safe thing, said Rafael Valderrbano of the Web site Basicohomes.com. To some degree, the fire sales are a reflection of growing expertise within some banks, which had little familiarity with owning and selling property before. For a while, too, the banks were immobilized by a series of mergers that created administrative havoc in the sector. But as the dust settles on those mergers, some banks have developed savvy real estate divisions like Solvia, the one that successfully sold the Mar de Canet complex and its sister complex, Faro de Canet, with 289 units here. Mr. Bode says Sabadell is eager to move quickly because its officials believe other banks will soon follow, competing for buyers in hard times. We need to be the first, Mr. Bode said, because demand is limited.
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Carlos Bode Vallespn, top, of Banco Sabadells real estate division, which sold the Mar de Canet complex in Canet de Berenguer, where Spanish families snatched up units at very low prices.
Despite Spains empty properties, official prices have dropped only 23 percent since 2007. Mr. Encinar says that is unrealistic. If banks want to sell, they will have to double that discount, he says, though the ability to sell varies from region to region. The number of new mortgages remains about the same as last year. But experts say the banks offering deep discounts are doing most of the business. Eduardo Mendiluce, the director of the CatalunyaCaixa banks real estate division, said the bank was now offering an average 40 percent discount on its properties. After selling 7, 400 units last year, it unloaded 6,200 in just the first half of 2012. Not everyone sees the discount bonanzas as good news, however. Some experts are suggesting that banks may be heading for more trouble as they try to sell property cheaply and quickly. In many cases, they say, the banks are offering easy mortgages to customers wanting to buy bank property, with little regard to their financial state. In addition, they say the banking sectors ability to dole out credit is putting private property developers who are not bankrupt and the average Spaniard trying to sell his property at a severe disadvantage. In the hills behind the resort town of Marbella, a construction company, Inmobiliaria del Sur,
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Churchs Muscle Helped Propel Presidents Rivals to Victory in Georgia

By ELLEN BARRY
TBILISI, Georgia As sharply contested parliamentary voting approached in Georgia last week, the countrys Orthodox patriarch implemented his own peculiar pre-election ritual: He arranged for an airplane carrying icons and holy relics to circle over Georgian airspace while priests prayed over the countrys future, in an updated version of an ancient practice employed ahead of enemy invasions and other calamities. It was a revealing gesture from Georgias church, which exerts a profound but mostly behind the scenes influence on political life. The elections brought an end to the eight-year dominance of President Mikheil Saakashvili and his team as well as their sometimes aggressive push to introduce Western ways to this conservative society. That quest drove Mr. Saakashvilis government into occasional conflicts with the church, which worsened as the country approached a highly competitive election. They hoped, I think, that in the critical moment the patriarch would back them, which apparently was wrong, said Levan Abashidze, a religious scholar. Instead the church repeatedly stated its neutrality in the race, he said, sending a signal to voters that it was not endorsing the government. It was, he added, a very active and antigovernmental neutrality. Last week, Tbilisi hurriedly rearranged itself to make way for a new government. The cabinet formed by the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, along with a coalition of opposition groups called Georgian Dream, will be in place later this month. A top aide to Patriarch Ilia II was clearly pleased about the political change, saying in an interview that he could not recall seeing such joyful faces on the street in many years. Metropolitan Gerasim, chairman of the churchs foreign relations department, was particularly optimistic about the prospect of improving ties with Russia, a goal the patriarch has long promoted and which was central to Mr. Ivanishvilis campaign. He said the flight with icons and relics had had its intended effect, because God heard the peoples prayer and everything was peaceful. Many people now say that everything happened this way be-
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A portrait of Patriarch Ilia II in Tbilisi. Below, President Mikheil Saakashvili, left, and the opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili.
government protests turned chaotic. At times, however, their agendas seemed contradictory: The patriarch warned Georgians that they morally damaged their children by sending them abroad for education, while Mr. Saakashvili used state funds to place foreigners in village schools across the country, in part to free them from Soviet-era mores. Hard-line church activists hated Mr. Saakashvili, whom they associated with lax Western values and sexual freedom. When the government proposed a new electronic identification card, orthodox groups contended that the letters ID, written in English, stood for I, Devil, prompting the churchs Holy Synod to issue a statement saying the card does not represent a Seal of the Antichrist according to theological and ecclesiastical teachings. The most serious disagreement came when Mr. Saakashvilis government rushed through legal amendments granting other religions equal legal status to the church. The patriarch warned in a sermon that those who have ever humiliated the church are punished and they will definitely be punished. As last weeks vote approached, every bit of support counted. Mr. Ivanishvili had his own deep connections with the church, and in some localities priests and bishops actively campaigned against the government. In July, the patriarch convened an unusual meeting of the Holy Synod, at which he sternly warned clerics against promoting either party. Eka Beselia, a lawmaker who was swept into office last week as part of Georgian Dream, Mr. Ivanishvilis coalition, said that message emboldened voters, who, she said, understood that they needed to make the decision themselves.
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cause Gods blessing was on it, he said. So this is more proof that God reigns. At 79, the patriarch is by far the countrys most popular public figure, and he does not hesitate to weigh in on national problems. In 2008, he promised to serve as godfather to every baby born to a family with two or more children,
a policy that, his aide said, has resulted in 12,000 new births. He performs mass baptisms of newborns in batches of 400 and 500. His partnership with Mr. Saakashvili has been a pragmatic one. The government subsidized the church lavishly, and the patriarch stepped in several times to support the president when anti-
In the interview, Metropolitan Gerasim said the church could not interfere with the new governments work, but would give advice, since what is going on in the state may be a source of joy for the church or a source of sadness. He said the patriarch has proposed a meeting between the churchs synod and Mr. Ivanishvilis cabinet, to discuss what we should do from our side from the ecclesiastical side and what they should do as state officials. Though he was careful not to criticize outgoing officials directly, he said he believed Mr. Ivanishvilis government would create jobs, luring back Georgians who have moved overseas to work. There have never been so many people abroad in Georgian history, he said, noting that the patriarch has commented on such spheres as agriculture, demography, and the economy in his sermons. The church saw that something was wrong the interest rate on loans should not be so high, there should not be such relations with business, there should not be such relations with other spheres, he said. He said that the church supported an amnesty for thousands of prisoners incarcerated under Mr. Saakashvili, whose zero-tolerance policy quadrupled the countrys prison population, and that it would try to deter both sides from acts of revenge. All these issues should be solved in the courts, he said. If a person is accused of high treason or massive embezzlement, or murder, the court must pass the ruling, not an individual. Metropolitan Gerasim expressed great optimism about Mr. Ivanishvilis plan to engage with Russia, saying he hoped it would result in the return to Georgian control of the separatist enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, now under the control of Russian forces. He was, however, unyielding in his support of Georgias plan to join NATO, a major irritant to Russia. This was a decision of the Georgian people, this was not something Saakashvili or his team decided, he said. No one can influence the will, the desire, of the Georgian people. Even a whole country cannot influence it, if the people of Georgia want to be in NATO.
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Irans Hand Is Suspected In Computer Attacks

U.S. Describes an Emerging Shadow War
By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States, episodes that contributed to a warning last week from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta that the United States was at risk of a cyber-Pearl Harbor. After Mr. Panettas remarks on Thursday night, American officials described an emerging shadow war of attacks and counterattacks already under way between the United States and Iran in cyberspace. Among American officials, suspicion has focused on the cybercorps that Irans military created in 2011 partly in response to American and Israeli cyberattacks on the Iranian nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz though there is no hard evidence that the attacks were sanctioned by the Iranian government. The attacks emanating from Iran have inflicted only modest damage. Irans cyberwarfare capabilities are considerably weaker than those in China and Russia, which intelligence officials believe are the sources of a significant number of probes, thefts of intellectual property and attacks on American companies and government agencies. The attack under closest scrutiny hit Saudi Aramco, the worlds largest oil company, in August. Saudi Arabia is Irans main rival in the region and is
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned Thursday of the risk of a cyber-Pearl Harbor.
among the Arab states that have argued privately for the toughest actions against Iran. Aramco, the Saudi state oil company, has been bolstering supplies to customers who can no longer obtain oil from Iran because of Western sanctions. The virus that hit Aramco is called Shamoon and spread through computers linked over a network to erase files on about 30,000 computers by overwriting them. Mr. Panetta, while not directly attributing the strike to Iran in his speech, called it probably the most destructive attack that the private sector has seen to date. Until the attack on Aramco, most of the cybersabotage coming out of Iran appeared to be what the industry calls denial of service attacks, relatively crude efforts to send a nearly endless stream of computer-generated requests aimed at overwhelming networks. But as one consultant to the United States government on the attacks put it several days ago: What the Iranians want to do now is make it clear they can disrupt our economy, just as we are disrupting theirs. And they are quite serious about it. The revelation that Iran may have been the source of the computer attacks was reported earlier by The Washington Post and The Associated Press. The attacks on American financial institutions, which prevented some bank customers from gaining access to their accounts online but did not involve any theft of money, seemed to come from various spots around the world, and so their origins are not certain. There is some question about whether those attacks may have involved outside programming help, perhaps from Russia. Mr. Panetta spoke only in broad terms, stating that Iran had undertaken a concerted effort to use cyberspace to its advantage. Almost immediately, experts in cybersecurity rushed to fill in the blanks. Nicole Perlroth contributed reporting from San Francisco.
His speech laid the dots alongside each other without connecting them, James A. Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote Friday in an essay for ForeignPolicy.com. Iran has discovered a new way to harass much sooner than expected, and the United States is ill-prepared to deal with it. Iran has a motive, to retaliate for both the American-led financial sanctions that have cut its oil exports nearly in half, and for the cybercampaign by the United States and Israel against Irans nuclear enrichment complex at Natanz. That campaign started in the Bush administration, when the United States and Israel first began experimenting with an entirely new generation of weapon: a cyberworm that could infiltrate another states computers and then cause havoc on computercontrolled machinery. In this case, it resulted in the destruction of roughly a fifth of the nuclear centrifuges that Iran uses to enrich uranium, though the centrifuges were eventually replaced, and Irans production capability has recovered. Iran became aware of the attacks in the summer of 2010, when the computer worm escaped from the Natanz plant and was replicated across the globe. The computer industry soon named the escaped weapon Stuxnet. Iran announced last year that it had begun its own military cyberunit, and Brig. Gen. Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Irans Passive Defense Organization, said the Iranian military was prepared to fight our enemies in cyberspace and Internet warfare. Little is known about how that group is organized, or where it has bought or developed its expertise. The United States has never acknowledged its role in creating the Stuxnet virus, nor has it said anything about the huge covert program that created it, codenamed Olympic Games, which was first revealed earlier this year by The New York Times. President Obama drastically expanded the program as a way to buy time for sanctions to affect Iran, and to stave off a military attack on the Iranian facilities by Israel, which he feared could quickly escalate into a broader war. In advance of Mr. Panettas speech in New York on Thursday, senior officials debated how much to talk about the United Statess offensive capabilities, assessing whether such an acknowledgment could help create a deterrent for countries contemplating attacks on the country But Mr. Panetta carefully
Targeting the Saudi oil industry and American financial institutions.

avoided using the words offense or offensive in the context of American cyberwarfare, instead defining the Pentagons capabilities as action to defend the nation. We wont succeed in preventing a cyber attack through improved defenses alone, Mr. Panetta said. If we detect an imminent threat of attack that will cause significant, physical destruction in the United States or kill American citizens, we need to have the option to take action against those who would attack us to defend this nation when directed by the president. For these kinds of scenarios, the department has developed that capability to conduct effective operations to counter threats to our national interests in cyberspace. The comments indicated that the United States might redefine defense in cyberspace as requiring the capacity to reach forward over computer networks if an attack was detected or anticipated, and take pre-emptive action. These same offensive measures also could be used in a punishing retaliation for a first-strike cyberattack on an American target, senior officials said. One senior intelligence official described a debate inside the Obama administration over the pros and cons of openly admitting that the United States has deployed a new cyber weapon, and could use it in response to an attack, or pre-emptively. For now, officials have decided to hold back. The countries who need to know we have it already know, the senior intelligence official said.
Other points of view on the Op-Ed page seven days a week. The New York Times
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Libyan Government Struggles to Curb Militias, the Only Police

From Page 1 selves to rooms without paying, just as they have for more than a year; the interim interior minister, also from Misurata, protects them. In Benghazi, independent brigades are using tapped telephones to hunt down suspected loyalists of Colonel Qaddafi, with the help of his former intelligence services. Even the huge anti-militia protest here last month became cover for a group of armed men to attack one of the largest brigades, possibly for revenge. Nothing changes, shrugged Fathi al-Obeidi, the militia commander who led a contingent of fighters that helped rescue the Americans in the besieged diplomatic mission here last month. Some Benghazi residents even say that the militia seen carrying out the attack, Ansar al-Shariah, did a better job than the paralytic government at providing security and even some social services. They are very nice people, said Ashraf Bujwary, 40, an administrator at a hospital where Ansar al-Shariah men had served as guards. Security has been on shaky ground since the militia fled, he said. In some ways Ansar al-Shariah exemplifies the twilight world of post-Qaddafi Libya, in which residents with looted weapons have organized themselves into regional, tribal or Islamist brigades to keep the peace and defend differing visions of Libya. In Bani Walid, near Misurata, the dominant militia is made up of former Qaddafi loyalists who have embraced a local strongman and rejected the new government. Some brigades provide public security or services; others oppose democracy as contrary to Islam. Ansar al-Shariah did both. In a Congressional hearing last week, Eric A. Nordstrom, the former chief of security at the American Embassy in Libya, said that he had tracked Ansar al-Shariah as a potential threat for quite some time. He characterized the brigade as both extremist and, in his view, an informal arm of the Libyan government. Wissam Bin Hamid, the 35year-old leader of a major Benghazi militia, Libya Shield, said he considered Ansar al-Shariah more of an Islamic social club than a fighting brigade. Families come to them when they have a Suliman Ali Zway contributed reporting.
Turkey Faults U.N. Inaction Over Syria

By SEBNEM ARSU and HWAIDA SAAD
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A Libyan soldier checked weapons handed in by rebel fighters and civilians, at a military compound in Tripoli last month.
problem with a son, he said, like drug use or bad behavior. Like other Benghazi militia leaders, he said he wanted to see evidence before blaming Ansar al-Shariah for the attack. Organizers of the march against the militias nonetheless insisted they had achieved at least a subtle change. The big turnout showed that supporters of a civilian government were in fact the force on the ground, insisted Abu Janash Mohamed Abu Janash, 26, one of the organizers. But he also acknowledged that Ansar al-Shariah was not chased from its headquarters, as had been reported. He said the protest organizers had given Ansar al-Shariah a warning to evacuate. They were friendly, Mr. Abu Janash said. We had lunch together. Only after the fact did Mr. Abu Janash learn that armed men had led the march several miles away to attack a larger militia known for defending the government. The march was hijacked, said Mr. Salabi, the brigade leader, who was wounded in the attack. The civilian government responded to the outcry by assigning military officers to help oversee the biggest militias. But the brigade leaders said that they, not the government, would choose their new officers, and that the current commanders would not yet give up control. The militia leaders say they refuse to submit to the national army or the police because so many of the officers used to work for Colonel Qaddafi. Some fought with us, some fought against us, some stayed in their homes, Mr. Bin Hamid of Libya Shield said. The whole government is infiltrated, Mr. Salabi said. Others say egos are also at play. You have militia commanders who love the prestige, who have more power than they could ever imagine, said Zeidoun bin Hamid, the director of operations for Libya Shield. People like the glorification, and it is hard to take it away from them. Even Benghazi militias that work with the government are aligned with rival power bases within it, like the defense minister, military chief of staff and the interior minister. The interim interior minister, Fawzi Abdel Aali, formerly of the Misurata militia, organized a militia with national pretensions, the Supreme Security Committee. But in an interview at its headquarters in Tripoli, a militia spokesman criticized his ostensible boss. I will be frank, said the spokesman, Abdel Moneim al-Hur, He is not doing his job. Mr. Hur accused the interior minister of failing to pay the militias fighters, who had policed Benghazi, leading them to walk out months ago. And he accused the minister of using the militia as a pressure group to squeeze the Parliament by asking its fighters to stop their police work. As for the militiamen in the luxury hotel, the spokesman noted that the freeloaders and the interior minister were all from Misurata. He turns a blind eye to what his cousins do, Mr. Hur said. Some militias are eagerly rounding up suspected Qaddafi loyalists. A few weeks ago, fighters from Benghazis Feb. 17 Brigade detained a dental student, Firas Ali el-Warfalli, whose father had been on one of Colonel Qaddafis revolutionary committees. When Mr. Warfallis family and fellow students put up billboards calling for his release, an ally of the militia posted to the Internet a recording of a telephone call on which Mr. Warfalli referred to supporters of Colonel Qaddafis green flag as seaweed like us. A brigade officer confirmed that the recording came from the Intelligence Ministry. Telephone surveillance in the hands of independent militias suggests a lack of oversight and raises concerns about eavesdropping on political rivals, said Anwar Fekini, a prominent lawyer. No government that is worthy of being called a government would allow this, he said. But we have a government that exists only on paper.
Silence on Abuse Reports Plunges BBC Into Scandal

By SARAH LYALL
LONDON As host of the television programs Jimll Fix It and Top of the Pops, Jimmy Savile was one of the British Broadcasting Corporations bestknown figures in a four-decade career spanning the 1960s to the mid-1990s. But now he is the subject of numerous posthumous investigations into whether he sexually abused perhaps dozens of underage girls, some of them on BBC property. The scandal has engulfed the corporation, which failed to investigate rumors or take seriously accusations about his behavior at the time. Perhaps even more damningly, it canceled a segment about the allegations that was scheduled to be broadcast last December on Newsnight, an influential evening current-affairs program. About the same time, the corporation broadcast three tributes to Mr. Savile, who died last year at 84. The BBC has said that the Newsnight segment was canceled not out of concern about the corporations reputation, but for editorial reasons, because the accusations could not be substantiated. But on Friday, its new director general, George Entwistle, announced that an independent panel would investigate whether any BBC executives improperly pressured Newsnight. The director general of the BBC at the time the segment was canceled was Mark Thompson, the incoming president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. In a letter sent to members of Parliament on Friday, a BBC spokeswoman said neither Mr. Thompson nor Mr. Entwistle was involved in the Newsnight decision. I was not notified or briefed about the Newsnight investigation, nor was I involved in any way in the decision not to complete and air the investigation, Mr. Thompson said on Saturday. I have no reason to doubt the public statement by the programs editor, Peter Rippon, that the decision not to pursue the investigation was entirely his, and that it was made solely for journalistic reasons. He added: During my time as director general of the BBC, I never heard any allegations or received any complaints about Jimmy Savile. The allegations have been
around for years, but they were publicly aired this month when ITV, a commercial television station, broadcast a documentary in which five women said they had been molested or raped by Mr. Savile when they were teenagers. Top of the Pops featured the chart-topping singles of the day, and in Jimll Fix It he granted Britons, mostly children, their wishes, like meeting Muhammad Ali. Before the ITV program was broadcast, the BBC pre-emptively released a statement saying it had looked into the matter and found no evidence to support the accusations. But that changed in recent days. Issuing a profound and heartfelt apology to possible victims, Mr. Entwistle also said a second independent investigation would look into the culture and practices of the corporation during Mr. Saviles tenure and afterward, examining whether the current policies on sexual harassment and child protection were adequate. The ITV documentary led Scotland Yard to open its own criminal investigation. On Friday, it said that it had received 12 formal allegations of sexual abuse not just at the BBC, but also at charities, schools and hospitals where Mr. Savile volunteered.
ISTANBUL In a sign of escalating frustration in Turkey after days of cross-border shelling with Syria, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at the United Nations inaction in Syria with some of his strongest comments yet, saying world powers are repeating the mistakes they made in Bosnia in the 1990s. This negligence 20 years ago was explained by the international community being caught unprepared in dealing with the issues of the post-cold-war era, Mr. Erdogan said at an international conference in Istanbul. Well, how can the injustice and weakness displayed in the Syrian issue be explained today? He also called for a change in the structure of the Security Council, where reluctance by any member in this case, China and Russia can stymie action. Tensions between Turkey and Syria, a former ally, have been rising for months, as Turkey has sheltered leaders of the armed opposition to the government of President Bashar al-Assad, and refugees from the fighting. But the bad feelings have intensified in recent days as shells from Syria began landing in Turkey, prompting retaliation, and as Turkish officials said they found Russian munitions on a Moscowto-Damascus civilian jet they forced to land for an inspection. Russia has denied that weapons were onboard, saying the plane was instead carrying electronic components for a radar station and did not violate any international agreements. The United States has said relatively little on the shipment, though Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, said Friday that we have no doubt that this was serious military equipment. On Saturday, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that the cargo had been sent by a company based in the Russian city of Tula that produces antitank, antiaircraft and anti-artillery systems, as well as radar equipment. The company, KBP Tula, was accused by the United States in 2003 of providing weapons and sophisticated military equipment to the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in violation of United Nations sanctions. Later in the day, Syrias staterun news agency, SANA, said Syria had banned Turkish Airlines flights through its airspace. On the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, fighting continued Saturday in Idlib Province, with human rights activists saying that the rebels had made further progress in the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an antigovernment group, said rebels reported shooting down a Syrian fighter jet on Saturday near Aleppo. Neither the report nor a video of wreckage could be confirmed. Human Rights Watch said Saturday that video images and interviews with residents of two towns suggested that the Syrian Air Force used cluster munitions in attacks last week. The group, based in New York, said videos posted online by Syrian activists showed what weapons experts identified as cluster munitions remnants. The munitions, which release deadly fragments when they explode, are banned by most countries, but not Syria, according to Human Rights Watch. The group noted that similar munitions were identified in videos posted in July and August. Other reports of the munitions being dropped by helicopters have not been independently verified. Sebnem Arsu reported from Istanbul, and Hwaida Saad from Beirut, Lebanon. Anne Barnard contributed reporting from Beirut, and Ellen Barry from Moscow.
16 Killed in Suicide Attack in Pakistan

By The New York Times
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at an arms bazaar in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing 16 people and wounding 15, a senior government official said. Azam Khan, the top government official for home and tribal affairs for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, said the explosion at the Firdous Arms Market killed mostly local tribesmen. The market is in the semitribal frontier town of Darra Adam Khel, south of Peshawar, the provincial capital. The target of the attack was not immediately known, Mr. Khan said, but it is generally believed that the bomber was aiming at pro-government Afridi tribesmen who have been fighting Taliban-affiliated groups in the area. Darra Adam Khel fell under militant control about three years ago and was cleared by an army
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The bombing on Saturday took place at an arms bazaar in Darra Adam Khel.
operation in 2010. But militants affiliated with Tehrik-i-Taliban, known as the Pakistani Taliban, continue to target government officials and their allies, and have also attacked minority sects. Districts near Peshawar have seen a spate of bombings in recent weeks.
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Unfulfilled Promises Lead To Cynicism in South Africa

From Page 6 put roofs over the heads of 2.5 million families. More than 15 million South Africans get small but essential welfare grants to stay afloat. Electricity and running water have become available to millions of black South Africans for the first time. But schools in townships and rural areas are a shambles. Hunger and disease still gnaw at the poorest. Unemployment is rife. And the misery is not equally shared: South Africa also has one of the worlds highest levels of income inequality. A tiny, wealthy black elite has emerged, while millions more remain in poverty. Workers like Mr. Sello are supposed to be the lucky ones. They have jobs, unlike more than a quarter of their fellow citizens (the jobless rate is even higher among young black people). Still, Mr. Sello struggles to live on his take-home pay of about $650 a month. There are the usual expenses rent and food plus many costs resulting from the governments failure to provide basic services. The schools in Tembisa, a black township that dates to apartheid, are so bad that he sends his children to distant suburban schools. With no reliable public transportation there, Mr. Sello spends as Mukelwa Hlatshwayo contributed reporting.
Labor unrest taps a deep well of anger and frustration.

much as a quarter of his salary on minibus fares for his children. His younger brother is unemployed and has a child, and his mother depends on him, too. Crime is a constant worry three times his cellphone was stolen; his house was broken into and all of his clothing taken. The money I get is never enough, Mr. Sello said. His salary is too high to qualify for a free government house, too low to qualify for a mortgage. His eldest son, Kgomotso, hopes to become a doctor, but Mr. Sello said he had nothing saved for tuition. I tell him, study hard, dont end up like me, Mr. Sello said. But I dont know where the money for varsity will come from. His early hopes have disappeared. He voted in 1994s euphoric election, and again in 1999. But he did not vote in the last election, in 2008, and has no plans to do so in the next presidential election, in 2014. I am very disappointed in this government, Mr. Sello said. I lost faith in them. They are stealing too much and leaving us with nothing.
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Molten iron pours into a furnace at a steelmaking plant in Hefei, China. The countrys exports rose 9.9 percent last month.
China Exports Rise, Hinting at a Glimmer of Revival

By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG Chinas exports to the United States and Southeast Asia rose last month while the countrys money supply expanded faster than expected, Chinese government agencies said on Saturday, in the first signs that the Chinese economy might be starting to bottom out. But strengthening exports to the United States up 5.5 percent in September compared with the same month a year ago could also increase trade frictions at a politically touchy time for both countries. Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, and President Obama have competed this autumn to present themselves as more willing to confront China on trade issues. Chinas own Communist Party leadership has been wary of appearing too conciliatory toward the United States ahead of their Hilda Wang contributed reporting.
Party Congress, which starts two days after the presidential election in the United States on Nov. 6 and is expected to produce a new slate of members of the ruling Standing Committee of the Politburo. After months of gloom, Chinese exporters are starting to voice hope about demand in the United States. We are beginning to see some improvement in the U.S. market the second half of this year is looking better than the first half, with our U.S. orders up by roughly 8 to 10 percent, said Dora Zhao, the sales manager at the Zhuhai Xiangrui Safety Home Appliance Company, which manufactures air purifiers in Zhuhai, in southeastern China. Rising imports often coincide with a strengthening economy, as more prosperous and confident consumers buy more foreign goods. By that measure, the United States economy may be faring better, but the European Union is struggling Chinas exports to Europe dropped 10.7 percent last
month from a year ago. Strong Chinese exports to the United States in September also tend to be a sign that American retailers expect fairly robust sales at Christmas, as goods for late autumn sales tend to leave Chinese docks in September and October. China has exported more to the United States than to the European Union every month since February, and September showed the biggest gap yet between the two markets, data from Chinas General Administration of Customs showed. By contrast, the European Union had bought more Chinese goods than the United States every month for the preceding four and a half years. Chinas exports to all countries rose 9.9 percent in September from a year earlier, led by especially strong exports to Southeast Asia. Imports rose 2.4 percent, after shrinking in August. Sun Junwei, a China economist at HSBC, wrote in a research note, The stronger than expect-
ed rebound of September exports growth is helpful to alleviate concerns of a sharper slowdown of the Chinese economy. But she noted that the increase in imports mostly consisted of goods needed by export industries, suggesting that domestic demand in China remained weak. The composition of Chinese exports to all countries continued to shift toward higher-value products, with China posting sharp increases in exports of consumer electronics, electric motors and steel. Economists had anticipated some increase in Chinese exports last month as Apple began importing huge quantities of the iPhone 5 to the United States. Chinas central bank announced separately that the countrys broadly measured money supply grew 14.8 percent in September from a year earlier, higher than the 13.7 percent expected. The growth is an indication that the government is starting to have at least some success in relieving a credit squeeze that has hurt many businesses.
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Continuing labor unrest has frightened international investors.
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A MUSICAL START TO THE WEEK
President Obama at a concert in San Francisco on Monday that raised money for the Obama Victory Fund, which benefits his campaign and the Democratic Party. More photographs from the week on the campaign trail are at nytimes.com/politics.
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Romneys Bounce Isnt Helping in Senate Races, Polls Show

By NATE SILVER
Mitt Romney has had a pronounced change of fortunes since the first presidential debate in Denver. After trailing President Obama by four or five points in the polls on Oct. 1 a position that very few candidates have come back from he now holds ties or small leads in many national polls and has cut the advantage Mr. Obama had in swing states to a razor-thin margin. There is little sign, however, that Mr. Romneys rebound has translated into races for the Senate. Although Republicans have made modest gains in a few Senate races, the polls have been poor for them on the whole. Some races have already gotten away from them, while others are on the verge of being lost. The FiveThirtyEight forecast model now gives Republicans just about a 16 percent chance of winning control of the Senate. This is a precipitous drop from just two months ago. On Aug. 19, the forecast put their odds at close to 62 per-
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cent. Emblematic of Republicans problems is Florida, a state where Mr. Romney has made considerable gains in the polls and where their Senate candidate, Representative Connie Mack, had drawn nearly even this summer with the Democratic incumbent, Bill Nelson. But Mr. Mack fell behind in the polls in September, and two of the four polls published since the presidential debate had Mr. Nelson with a double-digit lead. Another poll showed Mr. Mack down by five points, despite giving Mr. Romney a seven-point lead in the presidential race. The Republican candidate in Ohio, State Treasurer Josh Mandel, has followed a similar trajectory to Mr. Mack, with most surveys showing the Democratic incumbent, Sherrod Brown, with a solid lead. In Michigan, the Republican candidate, former Representative Peter Hoekstra, fell behind in the race early and now lags by double digits. Three other races remain highly competitive but are showing the Democratic candidate with a more consistent lead in the polls. One case is Massachusetts, where the Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, has led in four of five polls since the presidential debate. In Wisconsin, the Democrat, Representative Tammy Baldwin, has led in all post-de-
bate surveys. The polling has been more varied in Virginia, a battle between a Democratic former governor, Tim Kaine, and a Republican former senator, George Allen. But Mr. Kaine pulled slightly ahead in the polls in September and has continued to lead in a majority of post-debate polls. There have been no polls of Missouri
Republicans have made gains in some states but have slipped over all.
taken since the debate, but two conducted just before it had the incumbent, Claire McCaskill, with a six-point lead over her Republican challenger, Representative Todd Akin. Republican candidates are also struggling to hold their ground in other races that once appeared to be likely wins for them. The most recent poll of North Dakota showed an exact tie between the Democrat, Heidi Heitkamp, and the Republican, Representative Rick Berg. There have been few high-quality
polls of the Senate race in Arizona, but the available ones suggest an extremely close race, even though the Republican, Representative Jeff Flake, was once favored to beat the Democrat, Richard Carmona. The FiveThirtyEight Senate forecasts still list the Republicans as favorites in Arizona and North Dakota given the states history of voting Republican. But it has a third red-leaning state, Indiana, as a dead heat between the Republican, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, and the Democrat, Representative Joe Donnelly. Republicans have gotten better news in a few Senate races. In Nevada, Senator Dean Heller continues to hold the lead over the Democrat, Representative Shelley Berkley. In Connecticut, Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate, has remained competitive against the Democrat, Representative Christopher S. Murphy, although Mr. Murphy led in the only post-debate poll. The best news for Republicans, however, may be Mr. Romneys gains. If he wins the Electoral College, they would be able to control the Senate with a net gain of three seats since the new vice president, Paul D. Ryan, would then cast the tiebreaking vote. Republicans best route to pick up three seats would be in Nebraska,
where they are nearly assured of a win, and North Dakota and Montana, where the FiveThirtyEight model has the Democratic incumbent, Jon Tester, as a slight underdog to his Republican challenger, Representative Denny Rehberg. But Republicans are likely to lose a seat in Maine, where the independent candidate, former Gov. Angus King, remains well ahead in the polls and is likely to caucus with Democrats if he wins. And in Massachusetts, the Republican senator, Scott P. Brown, is now the underdog to Ms. Warren. Even if Republicans avoided taking any other losses and even if Mr. Romney won the presidency they would then need to find two more Democratic seats. Connecticut, Virginia and Wisconsin remain the most likely possibilities, but the Republicans are modest underdogs in each race. And if Democrats win the tossup races, they could actually gain Senate seats. Only Nebraska looks like a sure loss for them, while Arizona, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada are all potential pickups. That could bolster Democratic prospects for 2014, when Democrats will again have more incumbents up for reelection and will face a challenging climate in states like Alaska and Louisiana.
As Massachusetts Governor, Romney Was Often Away

By DANNY HAKIM
BOSTON When the ceiling collapsed in the Big Dig tunnel here, Gov. Mitt Romney was at his vacation home in New Hampshire. When the Bush administration warned that the nation was at high risk of a terror attack in December 2003, he was at his Utah retreat. And for much of the time the legislature was negotiating changes to his landmark health care bill, he was on the road. During Mr. Romneys four-year term as governor of Massachusetts, he cumulatively spent more than a year part or all of 417 days out of the state, according to a review of his schedule and other records. More than 70 percent of that time was spent on personal or political trips unrelated to his job, a New York Times analysis found. Mr. Romney, now the Republican presidential nominee, took lengthy vacations and weekend getaways. But
much of his travel was to lay the groundwork for the presidential ambitions he would pursue in the 2008 election, two years after leaving office. During his last year as governor, he was largely an absentee chief executive. In October 2006, for example, he was out of the state all or part of 25 days. His public schedules said he was spending personal time in Utah or attending political events in California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin. He went to a fund-raiser on Oct. 6 in Georgia for the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, stumped on Oct. 12 for a candidate for governor in Pennsylvania and appeared on Oct. 31 in Idaho on behalf of another candidate. In December, his last month in office, he took a swing through Asia before vacationing in Utah. No one points to any lapses from his absences. But some former constituents, particularly Democrats, say Mr.
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Mitt Romney, then the governor of Massachusetts, and his sons Craig, left, and Josh, talking to reporters in 2003 in Wolfeboro, N.H., where Mr. Romney has a lake house. They had helped rescue a vacationing New Jersey family from a sinking boat.
Romneys travels suggest that he was more interested in attaining the governors post than in doing the job. They argue that his focus on his political rise limited his achievements, and they point to President Obamas double-digit lead in polls in Massachusetts as evidence of a bad taste left by Mr. Romneys single term. I thought he gave up on his job, said Phil Johnston, the chairman of the state Democratic Party while Mr. Romney was in office. Romney was quite popular at the beginning of his tenure. The relationship between him and the Massachusetts electorate really soured. But Republicans and Mr. Romneys campaign said his travels had no bearing on his job performance. Mr. Romney defended his absences while he was in office, once saying, according to The Continued on Page 19
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EL ECTION 2012
Colleges Take a Leap Into Voter Registration

By STEVEN YACCINO
EVANSTON, Ill. Every four years, volunteers swarm university campuses, clipboards in hand, to register newly eligible voters for what is generally the only presidential election of their undergraduate careers. This year they found large numbers were already registered. Dozens of colleges have begun their own voting registration drives in orientation programs, class registration, intranet Web sites and other interactions crucial to campus life, institutionalizing services that had often been left to outside efforts. As a result, thousands of students registered to vote, updated their addresses or requested absentee ballots from their home states within days of arriving to campus this fall, officials at several universities said. University-sponsored attempts to make voting easier for students are being tested in at least 60 colleges across the country amid the outbreak of battles over new voting laws. The voter registration process has become more cumbersome and difficult as theres been a competition to define who is eligible to vote, said Dan A. Lewis, director of Northwestern Univer-
sitys Center for Civic Engagement, which started incorporating voter registration into its freshman orientation last year. You almost have to have a Ph.D. now to figure out how to do it if youre not sitting in the same house for the past 20 years. Northwestern officials who developed the new program, UVote Project, said their intent was not to critique voting rules across the country, but to help students navigate them more easily. Were not always going to have the incredible excitement among 18- to 22-year-olds that you did in 2008, so I think its an obligation, said Morton Schapiro, the president of Northwestern. Were supposed to teach citizenship. Northwestern, just north of Chicago, began a drive to register voters last year, with incoming students signing up when they picked up their campus IDs. University-trained staff and volunteers provided absentee ballot request forms from all 50 states, scanned students drivers licenses or other identification, and offered to mail in the paperwork. By the first day of class, 89 percent of the universitys freshmen had been registered to vote, in 37
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Voter registration on Oct. 4 at Northwestern University, which has institutionalized the process.
states. Northwestern repeated the effort this year, registering almost 95 percent of eligible freshmen, and expanded the model to eight other colleges. Stanford University used the method around campus, including on its bicycle registration line, netting more than 700 new voters in two weeks. Roughly 11 million eligible voters ages 18 to 24 are in college, about a quarter of all eligible young voters, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. The federal Higher Education Amendments of 1998 require colleges to make a good faith effort to distribute registration materials to transient students, who have the option to establish residency in their home community or where they go to school. Students who prefer to vote absentee must first traverse an array of varied rules. Some states, like Michigan and Tennessee, make voters who register by mail cast a ballot in person for their first election. North Carolina requires that ballot requests be handwritten. Other states, like Delaware and Wyoming, require a notary. Complicating matters more this election have been partisan fights over restrictions on registration drives and new laws requiring state-issued IDs for voting, though many have been
overturned or blocked this year. Harvard University, which holds a competition among dormitories to register the most voters, is one of a growing number of schools expanding efforts by purchasing access to the Web site of TurboVote, a nonprofit effort that provides complete online registration and automated vote-bymail services. Founded in 2010, TurboVote is working with 58 colleges this year. It now helps more than 100,000 individuals get absentee ballots, find voting locations and track coming elections, sending out text reminders for important deadlines. We single-handedly registered more people in a couple of hours than several organizations that have been doing this for months, said Shelby Taylor, a spokeswoman for the University of Florida, which promoted TurboVote on the colleges intranet home page and in an e-mail from the universitys president. The school, which registered more than 3,000 students this year, also flashed ads for TurboVote on the football stadiums GatorVision screen during the opening home game last month. We alone cannot do this, said Heather Smith, president of Rock the Vote, which has been registering voters on campuses for two decades. If we could get every university engaged and invested in the work of asking every one of their students to register to vote, wed have a very different democracy.
Campaigns Are Mining Personal Lives for Data to Help Get Out the Vote
From Page 1 their mailboxes or check their Facebook profiles, they may find that someone has divulged specifics about how frequently they and their neighbors have voted in the past. Calling out people for not voting, what experts term public shaming, can prod someone to cast a ballot. Even as campaigns embrace this ability to know so much more about voters, they recognize the risks associated with intruding into the lives of people who have long expected that the privacy of the voting booth extends to their homes. You dont want your analytical efforts to be obvious because voters get creeped out, said a Romney campaign official who was not authorized to speak to a reporter. A lot of what were doing is behind the scenes. In statements, both campaigns emphasized their dedication to voters privacy. We are committed to protecting individual privacy at every turn adhering to industry best practices on privacy and going above and beyond whats required by law, said Adam Fetcher, an Obama campaign spokesman. Ryan Williams, a spokesman for the Romney campaign, said: The Romney campaign respects the privacy rights of all Americans. We are committed to ensuring that all of our voter outreach is governed by the highest ethical standards. In interviews, however, consultants to both campaigns said they had bought demographic data from companies that study details like voters shopping histories, gambling tendencies, interest in get-rich-quick schemes, dating preferences and financial Jo Craven McGinty contributed reporting. problems. The campaigns themselves, according to campaign employees, have examined voters online exchanges and social networks to see what they care about and whom they know. They have also authorized tests to see if, say, a phone call from a distant cousin or a new friend would be more likely to prompt the urge to cast a ballot. The campaigns have planted software known as cookies on voters computers to see if they frequent evangelical or erotic Web sites for clues to their moral perspectives. Voters who visit religious Web sites might be greeted with religion-friendly messages when they return to mitt romney.com or barackobama .com. The campaigns consultants have run experiments to determine if embarrassing someone for not voting by sending letters to their neighbors or posting their voting histories online is effective. Ive had half-a-dozen conversations with third parties who are wondering if this is the year to start shaming, said one consultant who works closely with Democratic organizations. Obama cant do it. But the super PACs are anonymous. They dont have to put anything on the flier to let the voter know who to blame. While the campaigns say they do not buy data that they consider intrusive, the Democratic and Republican National Committees combined have spent at least $13 million this year on data acquisition and related services. The parties have paid companies like Acxiom, Experian or Equifax, which are currently subjects of Congressional scrutiny over privacy concerns. Vendors affiliated with the presidential campaigns or the parties said in interviews that their businesses had bought data from Rapleaf or Intelius, companies that have been sued over alunimportant. Rather, simply forcing voters to think through the logistics of voting has been shown, in multiple experiments, to increase the odds that someone will actually cast a ballot. Voting is habit-forming, said David W. Nickerson, a professor at the University of Notre Dame and a co-author of a study of such tactics. Dr. Nickerson is currently engaged in electoral work, though he would not specify for which campaigns or party. When someone is asked to form a mental image of the act of voting, it helps trigger that habit. It is difficult to gauge which campaign is using data more effectively. Though both parties use similar data sets, the Obama campaign and the Democratic Party conduct most analysis and experiments in house and have drawn on a deep pool of data from four years ago. The Romney campaign, by contrast, has relied on outside analytic firms and has focused more on using data to create persuasive messages and slightly less on pushing voters to the polls. Officials for both campaigns acknowledge that many of their consultants and vendors draw data from an array of sources including some the campaigns themselves have not fully scrutinized. And as the race enters its final month, campaign officials increasingly sound like executives from retailers like Target and credit card companies like Capital One, both of which extensively use data to model customers habits. Target anticipates your habits, which direction you automatically turn when you walk through the doors, what you automatically put in your shopping cart, said Rich Beeson, Mr. Romneys political director. Were doing the same thing with how people vote.
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Nicole Rigano with Jason Kaseman at a union local in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. Ms. Rigano contacted a co-worker to urge him to vote after a computer sifted through her Facebook contacts.
leged privacy or consumer protection violations. Officials at both campaigns say the most insightful data remains the basics: a voters party affiliation, voting history, basic information like age and race, and preferences gleaned from oneon-one conversations with volunteers. But more subtle data mining has helped the Obama campaign learn that their supporters often eat at Red Lobster, shop at Burlington Coat Factory and listen to smooth jazz. Romney backers are more likely to drink Samuel Adams beer, eat at Olive Garden and watch college football. The preoccupation with influencing voters habits stems from the fact that many close elections were ultimately decided by people who almost did not vote. Each campaign has identified millions of low-propensity voters. Persuading such voters is difficult, political professionals say, because direct appeals have already failed. So campaigns must enlist more subtle methods. In particular, according to campaign officials from both parties, two tactics will be employed this year for the first time in a widespread manner. The first builds upon research into the power of social habits. The Obama and Romney campaigns, as well as affiliated groups, have asked their supporters to provide access to their profiles on Facebook and other social networks to chart connections to low-propensity voters in battleground states like Colorado, North Carolina and Ohio. When one union volunteer in Ohio recently visited the A.F.L.C.I.O.s election Web site, for instance, she was asked to log on with her Facebook profile. Computers quickly crawled through her list of friends, compared it to voter data files and suggested a work colleague to contact in Columbus. She had never spoken to the suggested person about politics, and he told her that he did not usually vote because he did not see the point. We talked about how if you dont vote, youre letting other people make choices for you, said the union volunteer, Nicole Rigano, a grocery store employee. He said he had never thought about it like that, and hes going to vote this year. It made a big difference to know ahead of time what we have in common. Its natural to trust someone when you already have a connection to them. Another tactic that will be used this year, political operatives say, is asking voters whether they plan to walk or drive to the polls, what time of day they will vote and what they plan to do afterward. The answers themselves are
Marijuana Referendum Divides Both Sides

By KIRK JOHNSON
SEATTLE Most efforts to legalize marijuana possession have generally run aground in the face of unified opposition. Mothers Against Drunk Driving led the charge in helping to defeat a ballot measure in California in 2010. Law enforcement groups, not too surprisingly, have also been largely opposed in the past. But in Washington State, as a measure that would legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana heads toward a vote next month, the opposition forces have been divided, raising hopes by marijuana advocates of a breakthrough. A poll conducted last month by Elway Research showed that 50 percent of voters either definitely or probably were in favor of legalizing the possession of an ounce of marijuana or less. Some former law enforcement officials have appeared in television ads in favor of the legalization. Safety concerns about drugged driving have been muted by a provision of the measure, called Initiative 502, that would create a standard to measure impairment. A promised flood of tax
money to drug and alcohol treatment programs from legal marijuana sales has also kept some antidrug groups on the sidelines. But if opponents are in disarray or disagreement, supporters of legalization are as well. And that is making the outcome hard to predict, both sides say. In fact, some of the most vehement opposition to the initiative is coming from what might seem the least likely corner of all: medical marijuana users. Organized through a group called No on I-502, they say the plan, especially the new legal standard of impairment while driving, creates a new legal risk for regular users because THC, marijuanas primary psychoactive ingredient, can stay in the bloodstream for days after consumption, and thus be measurable by a blood test whether a person is impaired or not. At a recent debate at the University of Washington here in Seattle, a medical marijuana provider and the leader of the No on I-501, group, Steve Sarich, brought out a marijuana plant as a prop, but spoke to the mostly student crowd as if he were trying to scare them straight.
They can take you to the hospital, they can take your blood, Mr. Sarich said about the driving provisions. And if they find any trace of THC in your system, there goes your Pell grant, there goes your college. On the opposite side of the debate, speaking on behalf of the measure, sat the Seattle city attorney, Pete Holmes, whose office prosecutes misdemeanor cases. Asked by an audience member why the initiatives authors had seen the need for a crackdown on drugged driving after years of marijuana use in society, Mr. Holmes said the language was at least, in part, a political calculation. Skeptics in California, he said, united around the lack of a provision about driving under the influence, and a ballot measure in Colorado this year appears to be facing the same headwinds. An initiative that doesnt pass is a worthless initiative, Mr. Holmes said. Part of the complication in Washingtons debate is that although at least 23 states have laws that address driving under the influence of drugs, they were all passed by legislatures rather
Rick Steves of the advocacy group Norml speaking in Olympia on Friday in support of a ballot initiative that would legalize the possession of an ounce of marijuana or less.
will be a blizzard of details to address in the Legislature once the voters have spoken, he said. Everybody anticipates if this passes, within a year or so afterwards it will be fixed, he said. Drug treatment centers are also caught in uncertainty. Under the proposals language, they would get additional money from marijuana taxes. But at the Recovery Centers of King County, a spokesman said he thought it would probably be a wash in the end. Greater availability of any drug the end of alcohol prohibition in the 1930s being a case in point, he said leads to more abuse of it. Legalization will increase the rate of addiction to that substance, said Rome Doherty, an outpatient coordinator. He said the organization as a whole had taken no position on Initiative 502. But as a person, as long as theres a limit and a roadside test for marijuana, Im O.K. with it, he said.
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than voters, according to the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, or Norml, a nonprofit advocacy group. That has introduced in Washington, supporters and opponents say, a complexity into the discussion that goes beyond the general question of whether marijuana should be regulated rather than being banned entirely. But the infighting itself is proving to be its own political circus. Last month, for example, Mr. Sarich and his allies lodged a complaint with the state attorney generals office of illegal campaign activities by Norml and
scurrilous smear campaigns against those that oppose the Norml party line. The executive director of Norml, Allen St. Pierre, called the complaint goofy. They seem so half-witted that maybe they have filed the lawsuit against the wrong entity, Mr. St. Pierre said. We havent sent any money, we havent raised any money. All weve done is the board voted unanimously to endorse an initiative. As for the concerns about drugged-driving provisions, Mr. St. Pierre agreed that the language was not ideal. But there
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EL ECTION 2012
Running Massachusetts, An Obama Stalwart Returns to Campaign in Swing States Romney Was Often Away
By HELENE COOPER
From Page 16 Boston Herald, Even when you are on vacation, when youve been elected as governor, you keep thinking and working on issues that are important to you. Certainly, Mr. Romney was not the first Massachusetts governor with his eye on another prize. Two of his Republican predecessors resigned for ambassadorships, though one of them, William F. Weld, had his appointment as the envoy to Mexico blocked in the Senate. And much of Michael S. Dukakiss third term, when he was the Democratic presidential nominee, was spent on the road. Like Mr. Dukakis, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton ran for president as sitting governors and faced grousing about their time on the campaign trail. (As president, Mr. Bush also drew criticism for his lengthy summer vacations at his Texas ranch.) Some politicians, though, are wary of leaving home. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, who has been talked about as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, rarely ventures out of state and vacations in the Hamptons or the Adirondacks. Mr. Obama spent about two weeks on Marthas Vineyard during each of the first three years of his term, but not this year. A trip to Hawaii around Christmas has also been a routine. Much of Mr. Romneys time on the road when he was governor was spent barnstorming the nation traveling to at least 38 states as he positioned himself for his first presidential run. He also sought to build up his foreign policy credentials, visiting Af-
On vacation or preparing for a presidential run.

ghanistan, Iraq and Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, as well as Greece, the Vatican, China, Japan and South Korea. He attended fund-raisers for local legislators in swing states like Iowa and Michigan and raised money nationwide for his political action committee. Some travel to Washington was tied to state business. He attended meetings of the National Governors Association, lobbied Pentagon officials to keep a military base open and met with White House officials about domestic security and health care policy. But it was not uncommon for Mr. Romney to spend a week or more vacationing. During the summer, he frequently spent weekends at his retreat on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, about two hours north of Boston, and in 2005 he stayed for almost all of a two-week stretch. He took a weeklong vacation to the Virgin Islands at the end of 2004 and typically spent well over a week during the Christmas holidays at his Utah home, which he has since sold. He was a regular attendee at Super Bowls. The Times compiled an itinerary of Mr. Romneys travels by analyzing the governors public schedules, reviewing news accounts of his travels and the responses to public records requests made during his time in office by news organizations including The Boston Globe, The Herald and The Associated Press that were available at the Massachusetts State Archives. The figure is probably higher than 417 days because Mr. Romneys vacations were often not recorded on his public schedules. As his term progressed, the press corps took note of the governors travels and the ill will they generated. The Herald reported that an anonymous group distributed pictures of Mr. Romney on the back of a milk carton, with the caption Have You Seen Me? One headline from The Herald was blunt: Mitts Mass Denial. A Globe analysis of the costs of his travel Mr. Romney took no salary and paid for his
personal and political trips, but the state paid for his security detail found that taxpayers had paid more than $100,000 in the 2006 fiscal year and $63,874 the year before. Mr. Romneys frustrations in his home state, where he was often thwarted by an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature, became a common theme when he was on the road. He told audiences in Missouri and South Carolina in 2005 that being a Republican in Massachusetts was like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention. He told the Heritage Foundation that he was like a red speck in a blue state. His comments irked some in Massachusetts. He would make punch lines making fun of Massachusetts, and that was not widely appreciated, said Michael J. Widmer, the president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-backed public policy group. He was traveling so much the last two years, his most active period was really just two years. Its tough enough for governors to get something done in four years, let alone two. Mr. Widmer said that while the administration focused on passing health care legislation in the second half of Mr. Romneys term, the rest of his agenda just went by the wayside. Brian P. Lees, a former Republican minority leader of the State Senate, defended Mr. Romney. It really didnt affect anything that much, he said of the absences. When we were in formal sessions or doing the budget or anything major, he was there. He was always a phone call away, and his house in New Hampshire was closer to Boston than my house in Western Massachusetts, Mr. Lees added. Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior aide to Mr. Romney, cited Mr. Romneys chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association in 2006 as among the reasons that he was on the road frequently that year. This did not interfere with the job that Mitt Romney did for the people of Massachusetts, he said. Democrats who are carping about Mitt Romneys travels also defended Mike Dukakis when he campaigned for president as a sitting governor. Their complaints come across as more than a bit hypocritical. He did miss some significant events. One night in July 2006, Mr. Romney was in New Hampshire when a 38-year-old woman was killed by falling concrete from the roof of the Big Dig tunnel in Boston. (Its closing would result in traffic gridlock for months to come.) When the governor arrived at the scene the next morning, he was visibly frustrated with Matthew J. Amorello, the head of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and a longtime irritant, and a tense exchange was captured by news cameras. Despite that rocky start, Mr. Romney would eventually win praise for his handling of the crisis and oust Mr. Amorello. The legislature also finally came to its own deal on a version of Mr. Romneys proposed overhaul of the states health care system. The final version passed by the legislature included provisions that the governor had vetoed, including a $295-per-worker fee for employers that did not provide insurance. The governor was traveling in April when the House overrode his vetoes. Mr. Romneys visits to New Hampshire became so frequent that The Manchester Union Leader, the states largest paper, wrote an editorial complaining about attempts by his security detail to cordon off a section of the lake around his home. The Massachusetts State Police have no jurisdiction over Lake Winnipesaukee, it said, adding that troopers from a neighboring state should not be allowed to harass and intimidate people who are out to enjoy that section of the lake. The paper endorsed Senator John McCain in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries and Newt Gingrich this time around.
WASHINGTON S O S to Bruuuuuuce. Bruce Springsteen had said he planned to stay out of the 2012 election, but these are worrying times and the race is getting closer. So the Boss will be coming back to rally support for President Obama, his campaign announced Saturday. Mr. Springsteen will join former President Bill Clinton at an appearance in Parma, in the swing state of Ohio, on Thursday. An Obama campaign news release said Mr. Clinton would lay out a clear picture of the economic choice Americans face in this election. And the Boss? His appearance will help with our get-out-the-vote effort in these critical swing states, and we are thrilled with his ongoing support, said Jim Messina, the presidents campaign manager. After the Parma appearance, Mr. Springsteen will head to Ames, Iowa, for another rally/concert for the president. Iowa is also considered a crucial state for Mr. Obama to win.
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Bruce Springsteen, campaigning in Ohio in 2008, had said he would sit out 2012.
Mr. Springsteen campaigned for Senator John Kerry during his presidential bid in 2004, and he came out again for Mr. Obama in 2008. But he said afterward that he would stay out of the 2012 cycle. Few people believed him, not only because Mr. Springsteen performed during the inauguration festivities for Mr. Obama in 2009, but also because his presence has been felt this year at every single Obama campaign rally. The tunes of the rock hero, who cut his teeth with odes to working Americans and the power of redemption, are a staple on the Obama playlist, and We Take Care of Our Own, from the latest Springsteen album, Wrecking Ball, greets the end of every Obama campaign speech. Lately, another Springsteen song has been played at campaign rallies he can be heard belting out meet me in a land of hope and dreams while Mr. Obama works the rope line after his speeches. Now rallygoers, at least in Ohio and Iowa, will be able to hear Mr. Springsteen do it in person.
On the Road
An analysis of Mitt Romneys schedules from his years as governor of Massachusetts shows that was out of the state more than a quarter of the days. This is how he spent his time when travel could be confirmed: Personal Political 40% 32
State business 18 State business and political Unclear 2 9

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Sources: Massachusetts State Archives; local news reports
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A CRAMPED KITCHEN
Since childhood, Donna Dove has found solace and control in the kitchen. Center, photos taken by a Breakfast Club member, Dale Price, hang above the diners coat rack.
A Small Cafe at the Corner of Hope and Worry

From Page 1 cated and from regional royalty, he has hit some hard times, and may or may not have slept in his car last night, cocooned by his bundled possessions. Pete tries, though, he tries. He often leaves straight from Donnas for a job interview, hustling out with purpose, no matter that his thick-lensed eyeglasses are missing one arm. Something will turn up. That is the communal hope. Donna, for example, is dogged by the days anxieties. Why are her receipts going down? What lunch special can she offer to clean out the refrigerator? Should she buy less perch for her Friday fish fry? Can she slide a month on her electric bill? Since she already doesnt have health insurance, what else can she cut? Im just going in circles and circles and circles, Donna says one day, gazing through smudged glasses. And not getting anyplace. The fresh aroma of coffee face-slaps the air. Soon the Breakfast Club regulars, that gaggle of Elyrian past and present, will be here to renew their continuing discussion of what was, is and isnt in this city of 55,000. The presidential election sometimes serves as a conversation starter, like a curio placed between the salt and pepper shakers. The talk will continue as yolk stains harden and refills turn tepid. Their Ohio is a swing state, after all, and their Elyria sits precariously on that swing. More Democratic than Republican, it has several global companies and the memory of many more; an embattled middle class and encroaching poverty; and the faint sense that the Next Big Thing better arrive before even its beloved park fountain, visible from the diners front window, gets shut off. Of course, the friendly political quarrel between the regulars Speedy Amos, 86, Republican, and Jim Dall, 89, Democrat, dates back to I Like Ike and All The Way With Adlai. And John Haynes, lawyer, Democrat, and Jack Baird, councilman, Republican, will debate without ever changing minds. It will be others, the quiet, still-undecided ones, who will help to make the big decision, Obama or Romney. The diner waits. Pete sips coffee and reads The Chronicle-Telegram through the damaged glasses he hopes to replace someday. Donna stands by the front door, near her Friday fish fry sign, peering through the plate-glass window with expectation. If it were only about location well, she has it. Her diner, in an 1880s brick building at the corner of Middle Avenue and Second Street, sits along the central park, Ely Square, where the fountains mist blesses those who linger and a statue of a Union soldier rises from slab memorials for every American conflict from the War of Independence (1775-1783) to the War on Terrorism (2001- ). The diner is near the majestic old courthouse, circa 1881, now mostly empty, in some disrepair and too costly to renovate. It is a short walk from the sleek new courthouse, where the Judge, a regular customer (grilled chicken, cottage cheese, fruit), ruminates in his chambers with an unlit cigar in his mouth and a portrait of Che Guevara on his wall. It is a few storefronts away from a temp agency, where a large man in an Ohio State cap (cheeseburger, fries) dispatches the work-hungry to fleeting jobs, and a short walk from Loomis Camera, 62 years on the square, where the nonagenarian owner displays a decades-old portrait of his wife, before her arthritis, back when she was a beautiful trapeze artist, an airborne ballerina. Finally, the diner faces City Hall,
Ive got to figure out what Im doing. When I get myself to this point, I cant see a way out.
DONNA DOVE, the owner of Donnas Diner in Elyria, Ohio
where the new mayor (bacon-lettuce-tomato-and-fried-egg sandwich and a side salad) confronts the challenges of a postindustrial, recession-haunted American city. A fourth-generation Elyrian, Mayor Holly Brinda takes hope in the citys entrepreneurial hothouse of a community college and in northeastern Ohios can-do DNA. But some nights she cannot sleep. Donna also knows what it means to lose sleep in Elyria, as she stands beside her closed cash register, a diners miscellany spread out before her: a jar of 25-cent mints that certain people think are free; a spill of business cards for Vinnies Collision Center and LePue Drain Cleaning; a box of minted toothpicks favored by the Judge; a small Southern Comfort bottle half-filled with the maple syrup that sweetens Mr. Dalls pancakes. When the diners door is open, Donna can hear the aching thrum of another one of the Norfolk Southern freight trains that clatter day and night through the city. Bound for Cleveland or Chicago with endless containers of goods made across the country and overseas, they slice through Elyria, once more prominent as a maker of things. The familiar freight-train siren can conjure memories of the writer Sherwood Anderson, who once ran a mail-order and paint business down by the railroad line. One Thanksgiving Day, he said goodbye to his secretary, walked
out the door and followed the tracks east, out of Elyria. A breakdown, apparently, one that led to his fictional classic Winesburg, Ohio, whose inhabitants, including some with distinctly Elyrian traits, ache for fulfillment. Yes, Donna hears it. She also hears the Judge James M. Burge, the meticulously dressed administrative judge of the Lorain County Court of Common Pleas as he sits at the table reserved for him in the back and dines on that same health-conscious grilled-chicken lunch, day after day. Donna, youre working yourself to death. Donna, youre not making any money. Donna, you have a heart feeding people who dont have money, raising money for good causes but theres no room for heart in capitalism. Donna, how about this? Close up the diner, come across the street to the new courthouse and run the cafeteria: five days a week, a steady stream of customers and no worries about utilities. If youre interested, I can try to make this happen. The Judges words linger. Imagine: no electric bill, no heating bill, no worries about security, air-conditioning. . . . Imagine, too: no Donnas Diner, open to all of Elyria. . . . Donna has told the Judge that shell think about it. Maybe one of these days shell drive to Lake Erie. Sit on one of the benches. Gaze into the undulating
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blue. Clear her head. These are big decisions.
Kitchen Salvation
Cooking is vital to Donna. You can lose yourself in the stirring of sauce. You can nourish others and make things seem better, if only for a little while. This she discovered early on, as the turbulent marriage of her parents was upending her childhood. Born on Flag Day 1955, Donna was the first child of a Navy man, Jerry Jacobson, and his Bay Village bride, Jean. But he refused to give up his beer and Black Velvet or his saloon romance with a woman named Sophie. Leaving a bar in Elyria one night, he drove into a telephone pole. When he awoke weeks later, he called out for Sophie. With her households cash being slapped on bar counters instead of the kitchen counter, Jean raised extra money between shifts at some factory or office by making sweetheart soap arrangements for her children to sell door-to-door. Meanwhile, as the oldest, Donna tried to fill the parental void. One day, holding her baby brother in her arms, Donna followed her mother into a Cleveland saloon to confront her father as he sat beside a new girlfriend,
Donnas Diner
Articles in this series will examine the expectations, disappointments and challenges that shape the lives of Donna Dove, her customers and the city they know intimately, Elyria, Ohio. Tomorrow: Holly Brinda, Elyrias new mayor, imagines her citys revival.
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For the diners regulars, the presidential election in this swing state can be a conversation starter.
this one with a beehive hairdo. The mother said the family needed money for food. The oldest child seconded the plea. The father said get lost. After the inevitable divorce, Jean moved her four children to a government-subsidized house in Elyria, where Donna found solace, or control, in the kitchen. She began having dinner ready by the time her mother came home from work. Shed always put a tablecloth out, and in the summer thered always be fresh flowers on the table, recalls Jean, 78. Dessert would be pudding, or fruit cocktail. Donna clearly preferred the kitchen to Elyria High School, which she found to be too big another way of saying integrated. She had spent most of her young life in the all-white bubble of Bay Village, 15 miles to the northeast, and now she was in a city high school with a healthy enrollment of black students. She was intimidated by the unfamiliar, so she cut school. She became pregnant, so she got married, at 16. In the wedding photos, she and her husband look like children playing dress-up. To say the pregnancy ended Donnas childhood is not quite accurate. In some ways, it had ended years before; in other ways, it continued. She tried to be a loving mother of two baby daughters, a doting housewife to a possessive husband, and a fun-loving young woman fond of the bar life all at once. Not possible. Divorce. Temporary loss of custody. A second marriage. Two more children. A third marriage. But Donna caught her breath, summoning the resolve that had once empowered her to confront her negligent father. She earned her general equivalency diploma. She tended bar and cooked at Stans Villa in Elyria, across the street from the General Motors plant. She fed inmates at the Lorain County jail. She worked in marketing for the county blood bank. One day in 2000, when she was ready for a change, Donna picked up a newspaper notice on the sidewalk that said the Lunch Break Cafe on Broad Street was for sale. Destiny. She somehow scratched up the $35,000, and spent that Mothers Day stripping the restaurant clean, even throwing out its toaster. Driving through Elyria to her own grand opening, she thought, Im going to make them remember me. The diner did well at first, with its 1950s dcor and sandwiches named after iconic cars. It became the headquarters for Donnas annual classic-car charity event, her community project to bake cookies for soldiers overseas, her Christmas toy drive for poor children. She walks the walk, the Judge says. This does not include all the food that Donna gave away to this event, to that person in need, to her father. Yes, Jerry Jacobson was back on the scene, a
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A LONG DAY BEGINS
The neon sign at Donnas Diner goes on at 7 a.m. Soon, the regulars will pour in to the dining room, as narrow as a railroad car. Donna knows her customers so well that sometimes a mere handwritten name on an order will do. Ken means pork chops. She knows their preferences, food allergies, moods, joys and sorrows.
disabled alcoholic living above a bar in Elyria. But Donna took care of him; he was still her dad. One day, he would be the charming Jerry, cadging beer money Two bucks, darlin, cmon, two bucks or ordering hamburgers that he would sell for a shot and a beer down at Pudges Place or Boomers. The next day, he would be awful Jerry, telling Donnas customers that they would be better off at McDonalds. Father and daughter had a contentious relationship right to the end. When he died of a heart attack in 2004, what could Donna do but place $2 in his coffin, along with a cigarette and a beer? As downtown Elyria declined, like so many other American downtowns, so did Donnas business. By late 2009, she was preparing to turn the diners neon off for good, but then she sensed a second chance: an ancient storefront on Middle Avenue had opened up that was larger, closer to the courts and offered a view not of Bugsys strip joint but of verdant Ely Square. Over several generations, many had used the three-story brick building at 148 Middle Avenue, in a stretch once called Cheapside, as their claim stake not to prosperity, but to the chance of it. The Candyland store, with sweets to cut the Depressions bitter taste. The H. W. Guthrie store, selling a dozen honeydipped doughnuts for a quarter. The Roy E. Hultz store, for the supplies necessary to protect your barn. The Jack and Jill childrens store. Crandalls drugstore. Hess Pharmacy, for sick room supplies, surgical belts and trusses. A real estate company, a title company, a law firm. The headquarters for local Democrats one year and for Republicans another year. Selentis Pizza. Naples Pizza. Village Sub and Pizza. In 1996, a proposal to demolish the building for a parking lot went nowhere. Two years later came Stackers Deli and Pizza. Then the Court Street Cafe. Then the Pulse Cafe. Now here was another aspirant, staking her claim in the Elyrian concrete.
Diner Regulars
The unseen sparrows of Ely Square continue to dominate the morning conversation, save for the occasional beckoning of another passing train. A parks employee lost in his headset hunts for overnight litter. Coins tossed for luck tremble at the bottom of the fountains animated waters. Inside the diner, the sole customer eats scrambled eggs, while Donna and Pete have the kind of meandering conversation that effortlessly links a new
casino in Cleveland to the diners broken dishwasher. Some guy at the Polish Club supposedly hit for 130 grand, Pete says of the casino. Its never-ending, Donna says of her own gamble. The dining room is as narrow as a railroad car, with the Breakfast Clubs front table and the Judges back table bracketing six booths and three small tables in the middle, all adorned with sprays of artificial flowers. Along the wall protrudes a coffee counter stocked with customer-donated mugs: John Deere beside Cabo San Lucas beside Jesus Saves. In the cramped other half of the bifurcated space, the kitchen competes for room with a freezer and two large refrigerators and cases of food and foam to-go containers and ripe bananas and a tub of Country Crock spread and the latest soda delivery and stacks of mismatched plates and a bucket filled with stale bread saved for a customer who feeds the crumbs to ducks. At the center of it all sits the squat grill, the sizzling altar guarded by Donna with raised spatula. Orders scribbled out by her harried waitresses her daughter Kristy, 38, and her granddaughter, Bridgette, just short of 21 are tucked into the grills hood. But Donna knows her customers so well that sometimes a mere handwritten name will do. Ken means pork chops. Donna knows their preferences, food allergies, moods, joys, sorrows. She knows to save some perch on Fridays for the Bullocks couple, Gloria and Forrest, who was born into a sharecropping family and is now a prominent civic leader. She knows to give turkey bacon to the retired judge who loves bacon but has heart problems, and to cut a distracting slice of lemon meringue pie for the cranky woman who bangs on the door with her walker and wants to know whats so good about the morning. Even the people Donna doesnt know, she knows. Like that elfin man who comes in every Wednesday before going to the county sheriffs auction to bid for some law firm on the foreclosed properties that riddle Lorain County. He always orders coffee and plain wheat toast, always. Hence, his diner name: Wheat Toast. Donna knows how to handle the people who come in asking for a job. First thing, she escorts them to the grill to see if they can flip a frying egg. If not, the job interview ends. She also knows how to handle Ike Maxwell when he wanders in, looking for money or food. Still built like a piston-powerful running back, he has not been the same since he was beaten on
the head with a baseball bat 30 years ago. Once a high school football superstar who carried Elyrias Friday night hopes, he now loops its streets shouting Golden Helmet, They killed my brother and other phrases that only a few Elyrians can decode. But sometimes Ikes shouting becomes disruptive, even unnerving, and Donna has to order him to leave. He may protest by shouting a few names President Obama! Mitt Romney! Les Miles! but as he heads for the door, Ike often says something else, softly: O.K., Donna, O.K., Donna, O.K., Donna. In this way, Donnas Diner has become a living thing, humming with the flow of the human condition, alternating between harried motion and fleeting rest. When lunchtime comes, an orderly chaos takes hold in the back, as the diners telephone beckons with a Theres no place like home ringtone and denizens communicate in a shorthand language rooted in the immediate. Thats to go! Thats to go! Put it in a box! O.K., her Reuben went out. Are the tenders done? This is a crap microwave. This ones lettuce and mayo. I just spilled ranch all over the counter. I told Ryan Id be there about 1:30. This have cheese-lettuce-tomato? How much is French toast with scrambled eggs? Four-seventy-nine. How come I only have two sausage links? Hello, Donnas Diner? It can get to be too much, like the smell of toast burning. An unanticipated trigger a forgotten order, a returned meal, a splatter of ranch dressing can set Donna off, and her tirades will spill into the dining room like scalding coffee. Is she O.K.? a customer asks one difficult day. My mom? asks Kristy, the waitress. Yes, the customer replies. No. Sometimes you can see why, as Donna hunches into the desk space she has carved from the back-room clutter and works through the mound of mail. Im looking for shut-off notices, she says, half-joking. She also examines the income and expense figures she keeps in a brown spiral notebook. Last year, the daily receipts, in terms of hundreds of dollars, were in the threes, fours and fives; this year, they are in the twos, threes and occasional fours. Meanwhile, the expenses keep coming. Rent, $650 a month. Electric, $1,416 a month. My bug guy, my pop guy, my towel guy, my window washer, she says. Ca-
ble. Orlando Bread. Port Clinton Fish. She tries to lower expenses. When her vexing electric bill shot up a while back, she sold off several appliances and bought a cheaper, more energy-efficient freezer. She spent Mothers Day shopping for wholesale bargains on eggs and dish soap. She bounces from Rural King to Sams Club to Giant Eagle, looking for the cheapest coffee. She cannot afford health insurance, she says; it would be $1,500 a month for her and her out-of-work husband, Tim, who has congestive heart failure at 57. A while back, she tore something in her left shoulder while pulling a heavy box of bleach down from a shelf at Sams Club. Never had it fixed. Life has become cyclical. Every night, Donna returns to her modest two-story house in Elyria, with its untidy backyard that she never has the time or the
ing to strike the proper balance between fair profit and customer contentment. She is making her daughter and granddaughter occasionally pay for what they eat. She is holding on for better days, amid news that a new Taco Bell is replacing a downtown apartment building once occupied by Sherwood Anderson. A Taco Bell. All the while, the Judges suggestion that she consider moving to the courthouse cafeteria preys on Donnas mind. All youre doing is, youre working hard and youre entertaining your customers, she says he tells her. But the diners people matter to her: Pete, Speedy, the Judge, Gloria and Forrest, Ike, even that unpleasant woman who bangs her walker against the door. The diner matters. It all matters. Ive got to figure out what Im doing, she says. When I get myself to this point, I cant see a way out.
Haunted by Fears
The Elyrian morning is now fullthroated. Birds chirping, waters rushing, trains calling, music pounding from the cars stopped for the light just outside the diner. Sunlight paints the treetops of Ely Square. Gazing at the park through her plateglass window, Donna is reminded of a recurring image that she just cant shake: that of a short woman with unruly gray hair, hunting through the parks garbage for redeemable cans. Twenty years ago, Donna worked with this woman at a nursing home on East Avenue. She knew her to say hello. The woman, Anna Hallman, redeems aluminum cans to pay a mortgage and make ends meet, getting about 50 cents for every 26 cans that she methodically crushes with her heel. She is 69, and other scavengers have kindly ceded to her the treasures to be found in the garbage bins downtown. And when she has had a good day, she sometimes treats herself to a meal at Donnas something that sticks to the ribs, like meatloaf. Annas situation haunts Donna. Too close. Too possible. How she needs to step away from the grill and take that drive to Lake Erie. No breakfast orders being shouted at her. No bills demanding her attention. Just Donna alone, sitting on a bench and staring into the infinite waters that calm her, help her think. Big decisions. But now she has customers. The first two members of the Breakfast Club take their seats at the front table. Coffee for both. No breakfast for one, eggs over medium, wheat toast for the other. Orders taken, the owner of Donnas Diner disappears into the kitchen.
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Im just going in circles and circles and circles, Donna says.

energy to reclaim, and stares at the television until sleep comes. Every morning, she awakens to worries, beginning with what to offer for lunch. Every day, after expenses, there is not much left though, now and then, she peels off $20 to gamble at a videolottery place she calls the joint. And every week, after lunch, here comes Mark Ondrejech, the affable salesman for US Foods, a wholesale supplier, to provide counsel. He sits with her at a back table, opens his laptop and goes down his list. All your dressings are good this week? Meat broth, chicken broth, French fries? Onion rings, sauerkraut? Ketchup packets, crackers, chip bags? Foam containers are good? Dinner napkins, straws grape tomatoes. Steak fries, cinnamon rolls. But Donna is ordering less and less from US Foods. She has raised her prices ever so slightly two eggs and toast went from $1.99 to $2.39 in try-
SCENES OF ELYRIA
From left, sunset in Elyria; a statue of a Union soldier in Ely Square Park; and the annual Memorial Day Parade winding its way through the city.
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EL ECTION 2012
G.O.P. Ticket Focuses On Crucial Ohio Votes

By TRIP GABRIEL and THOMAS KAPLAN
A battleground state where the race has become closer.

year had a plant there, and adding that he had visited several times. Its a great town, he said, and it reminds me so much of where I come from. It really does. Afterward, Mr. Ryan stopped with his wife and children at a nearby soup kitchen. The family put on aprons and washed several large pans, though they did not appear to need washing, according to a pool reporter. There also was no one to serve at the soup kitchen, as breakfast had ended. Meanwhile, the Romney campaign took aim at another local issue in a radio ad that said the administration wanted to to take away one of the most vital weapons in our arsenal made right here in Ohio. The ad aired in northwest Ohio, around Lima, home of the plant that makes the M-1 tank. At the vice-presidential debate on Thursday, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said that the Army was not seeking any more M-1s; instead, he said, what we need is more U.A.V.s, or drones. Mr. Ryan and Mr. Romney appeared together on Friday evening in Lancaster, a picturesque community in central Ohio, where their outdoor rally took place as the sun set and thousands amassed downtown. It turned out there was a very local angle as well. Its good to be back, Mr. Romney said. And you may say, I dont remember seeing you here before. But I was here a long time ago. He explained my very first assignment at my first job as a consultant fresh out of Harvard Business School was to work with a local company, Anchor Hocking, which makes glass tableware. He recalled standing next to those big glass furnaces and learning about triple gob machines at the glassworks. Its good to be back, he said, acknowledging the timeless truth that all politics M-1 tanks or glass casseroles is local.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio The Republican ticket has all but taken up residence in vital Ohio: Mitt Romney spent four days in the state this week and Representative Paul D. Ryan two, with plans to return Monday. Ohio, which two weeks ago seemed to be slipping from Mr. Romneys grasp, has become a tighter contest, according to polls released late last week. The Republicans barnstorming was in response to state leaders who pressed Mr. Romney to help turn out voters. As Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan charted separate paths on Saturday, they tailored messages to each region Mr. Ryan promising a return of manufacturing in the industrial northeast, Mr. Romney defending coal jobs on the banks of the Ohio River in the south. Mr. Romney, who has never drawn the throngs typical of President Obamas 15,000 turned out to hear the president at Ohio State University early last week has seen his crowds swell to some of the largest of his campaign, and he aimed an offhand barb at Mr. Obama on Saturday. His campaign is about smaller and smaller things and our campaign is about bigger and bigger crowds, Mr. Romney said at an outdoor rally on the campus of Shawnee State University. In Portsmouth, on the western edge of Ohio coal country, Mr. Romney raised an attack that the Obama administration threatens jobs and energy independence by excessive environmental regulation. Weve got 250 years of coal; it could be burned cleanly, he said. This president, when he was running for office, said if you want to build a new coal plant you can but if you do, youll go bankrupt. In the same speech, he atTrip Gabriel reported from Portsmouth, and Thomas Kaplan from Youngstown, Ohio.
tacked the president for directing $90 billion in government support to green energy companies, but called for a local uranium enrichment plant to have the most modern technology. The plant, American Centrifuge, has sought a $2 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, which has balked, although it provided $88 million this year. Mr. Ryan appeared in Youngstown, an industrial city once known for its steel mills, where he focused on how a Romney White House would help support manufacturing. He said the country had lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs since Mr. Obama was elected. You know, we come from similar areas, Mr. Ryan said. Please know we want to get these manufacturing jobs back here. We want to make sure that this is a country and society where we are the envy of the world, where were No. 1 in manufacturing again, not second to China like we are right now. (Although it is true there are fewer manufacturing jobs since the president took office, more than 500,000 have been added since February 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a reversal of decades of slow decline.) Mr. Ryan, who spoke to supporters at Youngstown State University, used a PowerPoint presentation to lament the rising national debt and ticked off a list of manufacturing plants that had closed in his home state of Wisconsin, including a General Motors plant in Janesville, his hometown. We know what its like to lose manufacturing jobs, Mr. Ryan said. We know what its like when the factories that provided great livelihoods for generations are gone. Mr. Ryan has been criticized by fact-checkers for suggesting Mr. Obama was somehow responsible for the plants closing, since it largely shut down in December 2008, before the presi-
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Representative Paul D. Ryan and his family stopped by a soup kitchen in Youngstown, Ohio.
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President Obama met supporters in Williamsburg, Va., where he went for debate preparation.
dent took office. During his campaign that year, Mr. Obama promised to pursue policies to save plants like Janesville. Although he bailed out the auto industry, over Mr. Romneys objections, the plant in Mr. Ryans hometown remains closed. Mr. Ryan missed no opportunity to emphasize his local ties. When a college student told him that he had risen at 5 a.m. to drive to Youngstown from Akron, Mr. Ryan responded that he also attended college in Ohio, at Miami University. The mention of the college drew an enthusiastic cheer from the crowd. Mr. Ryan then told the student that one of his best friends was from Akron, noting that Good-
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A Grand Experiment To Rein In Climate Change

By FELICITY BARRINGER
Robert Hrubes, above, measures the circumference of trees to determine how much carbon they can store, one approach to reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
called allowances will be allocated to utilities, manufacturers and others; the remainder will be auctioned off. Over time, the number of allowances issued by the state will be reduced, which should force a reduction in emissions. To obtain the allowances needed to account for their emissions, companies can buy them at auction or on the carbon market. They can secure offset credits, as they are known, either by buying leftover allowances from emitters that have met their targets or by purchasing them from projects that reContinued on Page 25
LEGGETT, Calif. Braced against a steep slope, Robert Hrubes cinched his measuring tape around the trunk of one tree after another, barking out diameters like an auctioneer announcing bids. Twelve point two! Fourteen point one! Mr. Hrubess task, a far cry from forestry of the past, was to calculate how much carbon could be stored within the tanoak, madrone and redwood trees in that plot. Every year or so, other foresters will return to make sure the trees are still standing and doing their job.
SO CALIFORNIA GOES The First Line of Defense
Such audits will be crucial as California embarks on its grand experiment in reining in climate change. On Jan. 1, it will become the first state in the nation to charge industries across the economy for the greenhouse gases they emit. Under the system, known as cap and trade, the state will set an overall ceiling on those emissions and assign allowable emission amounts for individual polluters. A portion of these so-
El Paso Schools Confront Scandal of Students Who Disappeared at Test Time

By MANNY FERNANDEZ
EL PASO It sounded at first like a familiar story: school administrators, seeking to meet state and federal standards, fraudulently raised students scores on crucial exams. But in the cheating scandal that has shaken the 64,000-student school district in this border city, administrators manipulated more than numbers. They are accused of keeping low-performing students out of classrooms altogether by improperly holding some back, accelerating others and preventing many from showing up for the tests or enrolling in school at all. It led to a dramatic moment at the federal courthouse this month, when a former schools superintendent, Lorenzo Garcia, was sentenced to prison for his Lorenzo Garcia, the role in orchesex-superintendent. trating the testing scandal. But for students and parents, the case did not end there. A federal investigation continues, with the likelihood of more arrests of administrators who helped Mr. Garcia. Federal prosecutors charged Mr. Garcia, 57, with devising an elaborate program to inflate test scores to improve the performance of struggling schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act and to allow him to collect annual bonuses for meeting district goals. The scheme, elements of which were carried out for most of Mr. Garcias nearly six-year tenure, centered on a state-mandated test taken by sophomores. Known as the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, it measures performance in reading, mathematics and other subjects. The schemes objective was to keep low-performing students out of the classroom so they would not take the test and drag scores down, according to prosecutors, former principals and school advocates. Students identified as low-performing
were transferred to charter schools, discouraged from enrolling in school or were visited at home by truant officers and told not to go to school on the test day. For some, credits were deleted from transcripts or grades were changed from passing to failing or from failing to passing so they could be reclassified as freshmen or juniors. Others intentionally held back were allowed to catch up before graduation with turbo-mesters, in which students earned a semesters worth of credit for a few hours of computer work. A former high school principal said in an interview and in court that one student earned two semester credits in three hours on the last day of school. Still other students who transferred to the district from Mexico were automatically put in the ninth grade, even if they had earned credits for the 10th grade, to keep them from taking the test. He essentially treated these students as pawns in a scheme to make it look as though he was achieving the thresholds he needed for his bonuses, said Robert Pitman, the United States attorney for the Western District of Texas, whose office prosecuted Mr. Garcia. Another former principal, Lionel Rubio, said he knew of six students who had been pushed out of high school and had not pursued an education since. In 2008, Linda Hernandez-Romeros daughter repeated her freshman year at Bowie High School after administrators told her she was not allowed to return as a sophomore. Ms. HernandezRomero said administrators told her that her daughter was not doing well academically and was not likely to perform well on the test. Ms. Hernandez-Romero protested the decision, but she said her daughter never followed through with her education, never received a diploma or a G.E.D. and now, at age 21, has three children, is jobless and survives on welfare. Her decisions have been very negative after this, her mother said. She always tells me: Mom, I got kicked out of school because I wasnt smart. I guess Im not, Mom, look at me. Theres not a way of expressing how bad it feels, because its so bad. Seeing one of your children fail and knowing that it was not all her doing is worse.
The program was known as the Bowie model, and Mr. Garcia had boasted of his success in raising test scores, particularly in 2008, when all of the districts eligible campuses earned a rating of academically acceptable or better from the state. But parents and students had another name for what was happening: los desaparecidos, or the disappeared. State education data showed that 381 students were enrolled as freshmen at Bowie in the fall of 2007. The following fall, the sophomore class was 170 students. Dozens of the missing students had disappeared through Mr. Garcias program, said Eliot Shapleigh, a lawyer and former state senator who began his own investigation into testing misconduct and was credited with bringing the case to light. Mr. Shapleigh said he believed that hundreds of stu-
dents were affected and that district leaders had failed to do enough to locate and help them. Desaparecidos is by far the worst education scandal in the country, Mr. Shapleigh said. In Atlanta, the students were helped on tests by teachers. The next day, the students were in class. Here, the students were disappeared right out of the classroom. Court documents list six unindicted co-conspirators who assisted Mr. Garcia, but they have not been publicly identified. Parents and educators believe that several of those involved in the scandal continue to work in the system or have taken jobs at nearby districts. The El Paso district, meanwhile, has had trouble maintaining its leadership, with the board of trustees appointing three interim superintendents since Mr. Garcias arrest last year.
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Roger Avalos, a former El Paso student, with his mother, Grisel. He says his principal urged him to drop out and suspects an effort to improve test scores.
Mr. Garcias program led to an inquiry involving three federal entities: the F.B.I., Mr. Pitmans office and the Education Departments inspector general. The states education agency penalized the district in August by lowering its accreditation status, assigning a monitor and requiring it to hire outside companies to oversee testing and identify the structural defects that allowed the scheme to go unchecked. On Wednesday, the newly appointed commissioner of the Texas Education Agency, Michael L. Williams, came to El Paso to speak with parents and administrators, telling them he had the power to take other steps, including installing a new board of trustees. Im outraged by what happened, Mr. Williams said after the meeting. Were going to give the district an opportunity to right the ship. And if that doesnt happen, then obviously there are several options available to the commissioner of education, and Ill look very, very carefully at those options. Former El Paso educators have criticized state officials and the local board as failing to hold Mr. Garcia accountable. In 2010, the Texas Education Agency issued letters clearing Mr. Garcia of wrongdoing, finding insufficient evidence on accusations of disappeared students and testing misconduct. Mr. Garcia was the first superintendent in the country to be charged with manipulating data used to assess compliance with No Child Left Behind for financial gain, the authorities said. Before he was hired in 2006, Mr. Garcia was a deputy superintendent in Dallas and received a doctorate from the University of Houston. His annual salary was $280,314 when he resigned last November, three months after his arrest. In June, Mr. Garcia pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. One charge was connected to the scandal, and the other involved his efforts to secure a $450,000 no-bid contract for a consulting firm run by his former mistress. He was sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $180,000 in restitution to the district. He was also fined $56,500, the amount of testing-related bonuses he had received.
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A Final, Earthbound Journey

The shuttle Endeavour inching down Manchester Boulevard in Los Angeles on Friday on its way to retirement at the California Science Center, a 12-mile journey at decidedly subsonic speeds.
Juvenile Killers and Mandatory Life Terms Without Parole: A Case in Point
From Page 1 Jamriska said at the dining room table of her Pittsburgh house, taking note of her sisters unborn child. This wrecked my whole life. It completely changed the person I was. When the Supreme Court in June banned life sentences without parole for those under age 18 convicted of murder, it offered rare hope to more than 2,000 juvenile offenders like Mr. Bailey. But it threw Ms. Jamriska and thousands like her into anguished turmoil at the prospect that the killers of their loved ones might walk the streets again. The ruling did not specify whether it applied retroactively to those in prison or to future juvenile felons. As state legislatures and courts struggle for answers, the clash of the two perspectives represented by Mr. Bailey and Ms. Jamriska is shaping the debate. Resentencing hearings have begun in a few places, but very slowly. The governor of Iowa commuted the mandatory life sentences of his states juvenile offenders but said they had to stay in jail for 60 years before seeking parole, which critics said amounted to life in prison. Some Iowa resentencing is starting in courts despite that proclamation. In Florida, a few hearings are in early stages even though an intermediate court ruled that juveniles serving mandatory life terms did not have the right to be resentenced. In North Carolina, life without parole has been changed from a requirement to an option, with a 25-year minimum sentence for those seeking parole. Here in Pennsylvania, which has the most juvenile offenders serving life terms about 480 the State Supreme Court is examining retroactivity while the legislature works on a bill that would put felons like Mr. Bailey behind bars for a minimum of 35 years. The United States Supreme Court decision said that sentences of life without parole for juveniles failed to take account of the role of the offender in the crime (killer or accomplice), the family background (stable or abusive) and the incomplete brain development of the young. Recent research has found that youths are prone to miscalculate risks and consequences, and that their moral compasses are not fully developed. They can change as they get older. Mr. Bailey was a good student with no criminal record. He is black and Ms. Grill was white, and many classmates thought of them as a chic couple. Reese was someone everyone wanted to be friends with, and so was Krissy, said Shavera Maxwell, a former classmate, using the couples nicknames. They were deeply in love, and she wanted to keep the baby. He didnt. Kristinas father, who did not live at home, was known for a bigoted attitude, so Kristina kept her relationship with Maurice secret from him. Maurices father, an electrical engineer who had tensions with white co-workers, also disapproved of the interracial romance. One day when he came home early, he caught the couple in bed. He threw her out and beat Maurice, knocking his head into a wall. Maurices mother, Debra Bailey, felt differently. She welcomed Kristina into her home. Krissys 15th birthday was celebrated with a barbecue in our backyard, said Ms. Bailey, a database coordinator at Carnegie Mellon University, who is now divorced from Maurices father. Her family didnt come. Those two were too young to be doing what they were doing, but I told her that if she got pregnant, we would deal with it. Kristina told a friend, Pamela Cheeks, the night before she was killed that she was about to tell her family about her pregnancy and that she was meeting Maurice the next day to discuss their future, Ms. Cheeks said in an interview. In her diary, Kristina wrote that Maurice better show up at their agreed time and place. Maurice did meet Kristina that Saturday afternoon at an elementary school playground. He came with a knife, stabbed her repeatedly in the neck and upper body and left her on the ground. Before leaving, he told the police at the time, he zipped up her jacket in a vain effort to stem the bleeding. He hid the knife in the woods and went home. In the prison interview, he said he remembered very little of the event except that right after stabbing Kristina, her mother, whom he had never met, suddenly came into his mind. When he returned home, the first person he saw was his father. He said he felt an odd sense of relief that the source of tension between them was gone. Neighborhood youngsters came upon Kristinas body. Police officers went to her home, where they found her diary with detailed entries of her relationship with Maurice. When the police went to the Bailey home in the middle of that night and woke up Maurice, his mother recalls that he said to them, I figured youd come. Maurices legal defense was built around the pressures he had faced. His father testified in court that he had told Maurice that if Kristina got pregnant, he would kill him. Maurices grades were declining as he spent more time with Kristina; he was trying unsuccessfully to break up with her, losing control, growing afraid. His petition for a new hearing will argue that the pressures he felt as a 15-year-old a violent father, a pregnant girlfriend are unique to youth and therefore covered by the Supreme Court ruling. An adult, his lawyers will argue, would have reacted differently. But Kristinas sister, Ms. Jamriska, said there was no escaping the brutality of the crime and its premeditation. As she put it: There are many ways of dealing with pressure. You can run away. I dont care if youre 5 or 50, you know that killing is wrong. If you murder your girlfriend and unborn baby, I dont know if you can come back from that. She added that she felt that much discussion of juvenile crime shied away from the horrors of the acts. They often show pictures of the killers looking like kids who could be trick-or-treating, she said. Ms. Jamriska, 41, who works in marketing for medical equipment, is active in a group of families of victims, the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Lifers. She said that such offenders received almost no rehabilitation in prison and that letting them out was not only unfair to victims families but also posed a risk. In the two-hour conversation in prison, Mr. Bailey did not entirely dispute that. Like others serving life sentences, he has not been allowed to take classes or vocational training because it is viewed as a waste of resources. He has taken an interest in cooking and prepares inmates meals from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day. He has a good record of behavior in prison. Since the Supreme Court ruling, Mr. Bailey and other juvenile offenders have begun talking about the decision and themselves. We discuss it while working out in the yard, Mr. Bailey said, his bulked-up arms evidence of his two-hour daily exercise routine. We are having the same debates on it as you are outside. Years ago, Id have said, Just let us out. But if the wrong juvenile lifer is let out and he goes off and kills again, it could ruin it for the rest of us. I know that I would never commit such an act again. Ms. Jamriska said there was no way to predict that. There are thousands of family members who cant deal with it at all, she said. They thought this was behind them and now discover that they may have to relive the horrors again, return to the court again. Whatever sense of closure they had is gone. We were stripped of finality by five people in Washington.
Kristina Grill, above, was 15 and pregnant when her boyfriend, Maurice Bailey, killed her in 1993. Her sister, Bobbi Jamriska, right, is now active in the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Lifers.
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Maurices mother, Debra, left, said Kristina had been welcome in her home. Her husband, though, did not approve. More photographs are at nytimes.com/national.
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California Embarks on a Grand Experiment to Rein In Climate Change

From Page 23 move carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, like the woods where Mr. Hrubes was working. Dozens of verifiers from different fields, from chemists to accountants to foresters, will be the first line of defense in making sure the benefits are real. Mr. Hrubes said his goal in any audit was to ensure that the forests owner was being conservative whenever a judgment call has to be made in calculating greenhouse gas reductions. The outsize goals of Californias new law, known as A.B. 32, are to lower Californias emissions to what they were in 1990 by 2020 a reduction of roughly 30 percent and, more broadly, to show that the system works and can be replicated. The risks for California are enormous. Opponents and supporters alike worry that the program could hurt the states fragile economy by driving out refineries, cement makers, glass factories and other businesses. Some are concerned that companies will find a way to outmaneuver the system, causing the state to fall short of its emission reduction targets. The worst possible thing to happen is if it fails, said Robert N. Stavins, a Harvard economist. Just three years ago, Californias plan was viewed as a trial run for a national carbon market that one day might tie into existing markets in Europe and elsewhere. President Obamas first budget proposal included a cap-and-trade program to cut national greenhouse gas emissions 14 percent by 2020; the House later passed an energy and climate bill that incorporated such a program. But in 2010, political forces backed by the biggest emitters, oil and coal companies, blocked the plan in the Senate. In that years midterm elections, conservative Republicans disavowed their partys role in creating similar programs; they continue to deride it as cap and tax. California air regulators are proud of their record in leading the nation to new auto emissions standards in the 1960s and efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s. And so the pressure is on the states Air Resources Board to get this right. At first, only four means of carbon reduction will be approved for offset credits: timber management, the destruction of coolant gases, cuts in methane emissions from livestock waste and tree planting projects in urban areas. Already, developers of offset projects in more than 20 states are preparing to enter the new market, which for now accepts only credits generated in the United States. Some projects send coolant gases to be destroyed at an incinerator in Arkansas; others, tied to dairies in states like Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin, will capture methane from livestock waste. Most of these projects already sell offset credits in other markets like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-andtrade program covering utilities in the Northeast. But offsets can be prone to misuse; some have generated significant private profits while producing questionable environmental benefits. The European Unions eight-year-old carbon trading market has been tarnished by fake credits and audits that failed to meet minimum standards. Californias offsets have already been challenged in court by environmentalists who argue that offset developers will earn money for actions that they would have taken even if the program did not exist. If there is a loss of confidence tons of carbon dioxide emitted annually from its gas-fired power plant possibly by buying 200,000 credits annually. Utility officials made it clear during the call that the more measurable and reliable the offset, the more valuable it would be. The administrators of Californias program have set a floor price for allowances at $10 per metric ton of emissions during the first auction in November. Once the program gets going, the actual value of allowances will fluctuate as they are traded. The Redwood Forest Foundation, created to promote sustainable forestry but also to keep timber jobs in Mendocino County, is considering selling offset credits. Its biggest asset is the 50,000acre Usal Redwood Forest, where Mr. Hrubes was working, which the foundation acquired in 2007 with a $65 million bank loan. The foundation needs to pay down its debt. It reaped $19.5 million selling a conservation easement last year, but the idea of a new revenue source is alluring. When you need an economic return, one way is to maximize timber harvest, said Tom Tuchmann, the groups acting executive director. The other way is to look at nontraditional value streams. But making strategic decisions about how many trees to harvest and how many to use to lock up carbon is an uncertain business. Other carbon markets have generally not done well by investors, and some brokerages have closed their carbon desks. There are so many people who are disappointed, said Thaddeus Huetteman, the president of Power and Energy Analytic Resources of Atlanta. What they are really looking for is for California to show we can create a new market of significance in the worlds ninth-largest economy.
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Robert Hrubes, left, and Tom Tuchmann with a map of the Usal Redwood Forest. The foundation that owns the forest is considering selling credits under Californias new cap and trade law.
fered their instructors sharp critiques on the 111 pages of rules. One even challenged the algorithms central to the forest benefit calculations. If they dont get the equations right, there could be a real problem, said Terese Walters, a forester from Oregon. She is hoping that having California credentials will lead to lucrative opportunities. Ms. Walters and Caitlin Sellers, a forester from Florida in the class, both work for Environmental Services of Jacksonville, Fla., one of the countrys largest environmental consulting firms. David Bubser, another student, is a Minnesota forester and a regional manager for the nonprofit Rainforest Alliance. There are several basic requirements for a forest offset. Credits cannot be granted for preserving trees that were going to be left standing anyway. The change must be long-lasting: trees must be left intact for a century. And owners must hire accredited verifiers to audit their claims. The offset marketplace is already beginning to hum as companies gear up for Californias rollout. Independent verifiers can make $800 to $1,200 a day, according to Mr. Bubser. Scientific Certification Systems, Mr. Hrubess employer, which verified 4.2 million tons of carbon offsets around the world last year, added two foresters this summer, for a total of six. Sacramentos municipal utility recently held a conference call with potential vendors of credits to offset some of the 1.2 million
So California Goes
Articles in this series will examine the states new carbon trading law. because there is a sense that people have been cheating and the offsets are not real, that will be a problem, said Kevin Kennedy, an economist with the World Resources Institute in Washington. That is why there is such a need for qualified verifiers. This summer, four foresters from around the country gathered in a Los Angeles suburb for a $2,900 test-preparation course to master the new system in advance of a required state test. All had experience in verification in other carbon trading systems so much so that they of-
7 More Cancer Scientists Quit The Game Gets a Moment Texas Institute Over Grants
CHESS
In Pop Cultures Spotlight

By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
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Is chess cool? Judging by a new movie, Vogue magazine, a book and a pop stars comments, it is. The movie, a documentary called Brooklyn Castle about a Brooklyn schools chess team that has won more than 20 national championships, opens on Friday. To promote the film, the actor Adrian Grenier, who became a fan of the movie after seeing an early screening, played a match of three blitz games in Washington Square Park against Pobo Efekoro, one of the teams members. (Pobo won all three games.) Then there is the singer Carly Rae Jepsen, whose song Call Me Maybe has been the biggest hit of the year. In a recent interview with The San Francisco Examiner, she said that she loved chess but that no one in her band could play and her assistant is not very good. She said she had asked her stepfather to teach her the game so she could impress a boy when she was in high school. The August issue of Vogue included a photographic spread that featured Alexandra Kosteniuk, 28, the former womens world champion. It was not an unusual assignment for Kosteniuk, who has been modeling for years. And finally, articles about the historic 1997 match in which the I.B.M. computer Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov have appeared in The Washington Post
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and Wired magazine, inspired by a book by Nate Silver, who also writes the FiveThirtyEight column on politics for The New York Times. In the book, The Signal and the Noise, which is about the science of predictions, Silver writes that Deep Blues crucial move in the match might have been caused by a computer bug. It is not the first time that chess has bridged cultural divides. In August, an unusual blitz game in New York pitted Magnus Carlsen, 21, a Norwegian who is ranked No. 1 in the world, against Kenneth Rogoff, 49, a Harvard economist who is considered one of the worlds leading authorities on government debt. Rogoff is also a grandmaster, but even he was surprised when the game ended in a draw. In an e-mail last week, Rogoff said he was nervous because he had not played in over 30 years, not even for fun. He said he calmed down a bit when Carlsen played the Breyer Defense in the Ruy Lopez, an opening that Rogoff remembered from his youth. He said that he was surprised Carlsen let him play 22 Qh5 and that he thought Carlsens 25 . . . f6 was a mistake because it let him force trades of pieces. In the end, Rogoff said in the e-mail, I understand better than anyone that this was a total freak occurrence, even taking into account that it was a friendly blitz game.
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) At least seven more scientists have resigned in protest from Texas embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming that the agency in charge of it is charting a politically driven path that puts commercial interests before science. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, created with the backing of Gov. Rick Perry and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor, has awarded nearly $700 million in grants since 2009; only the National Institutes of Health offers a bigger pot of cancer-research money. Scrutiny of how the state agency selects projects has intensified since May, when its chief scientific officer, Dr. Alfred G. Gilman, a Nobel laureate, resigned in protest after it approved a $20 million commercialization project without scientific review. Phillip A. Sharp, another Nobel laureate, was among seven scientists who resigned last week, writing in his resignation letter that the agencys decisions have
carried a suspicion of favoritism in how the state is handing out taxpayer dollars. Brian Dynlacht, another scientist who is leaving, warned that the agency was headed down a path of systematic abuses. You may find that it was not worth subverting the entire scientific enterprise and my understanding was that the intended goal of C.P.R.I.T. was to fund the best cancer research in Texas on account of this ostensibly new, politically driven, commercialization-based mission, Dr. Dynlacht wrote in his letter. Commercialization projects focus on turning research into drugs or other products that can be sold rather than financing research itself. Dr. Sharp is a professor at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Dr. Dynlacht is at the New York University School of Medicine. In a statement, the executive director of the Texas institute, Bill Gimson, called the accusations false and misinformed.
Two Are Fatally Shot at Bronx Motel

A gunman approached a man and a woman outside a Bronx motel early Saturday, then fatally shot both of them before fleeing, the police and witnesses said. The authorities said the man, Wayne Hamilton, 50, a reggae musician from Milwaukee, and the woman, Tracy Bennett, 38, of Long Island, were dead when the police arrived. As of Saturday evening, no suspect had been arrested, the police said. The police did not speculate about a motive and did not indicate whether Mr. Hamilton and Ms. Bennett were acquainted. Natchelous Demus, 37, a reggae musician who said he had been friends with Mr. Hamilton for 20 years, said Ms. Bennett and Mr. Hamilton had been companions. He was a very joyful dude, Mr. Demus said of Mr. Hamilton, whose stage name was Captain Barkey. The killing occurred at the Holiday Motel, a two-story building next to the New England Thruway, in a lightly populated pocket of the borough close to the Westchester County border. Keshia Barrett said she was at the motel when she was awoken by gunshots and screams. I heard the lady screaming and it sounded like she said, Please! or No! Ms. Barrett, 36, said. It was a begging for the life.
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Ulrich Franzen, 91, Designer of Brutalist Buildings, Dies

By PAUL VITELLO
Ulrich Franzen, a Germanborn architect whose fortresslike buildings seemed to buttress the interior landscape of New York City during the shaky 1970s, and who gave it some buoyance, too, with skywalks, died on Oct. 6 in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his wife, Josephine. Not everyone liked the skywalks, which connect buildings Mr. Franzen designed at Hunter College on Lexington Avenue. Neighbors lamented the loss of sunlight. But Mr. Franzen, a Modernist subscriber to the form-follows-function credo, considered them the functional equivalent of ivy-covered walkways for urban students. It would become the college communitys main street, he wrote of the skywalk plan in 1972 in the colleges student newspaper, well above rush-hour traffic at street level. Mr. Franzen was part of a generation of prominent American architects, including Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph and I. M. Pei, to emerge from the Harvard School of Design after World War II. The group was deeply influenced by the Bauhaus architecture masters Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, who taught at Harvard after fleeing the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. Mr. Franzens early worksare exemplars of the Modernist style, among them his first designs for private residences, most of them clean-lined, single-level structures perched on waterfronts and rock ledges, wrapped in sliding glass and flooded with light. He also helped design the firstgeneration shopping mall Roosevelt Field, on Long Island, working with Mr. Pei and Henry N. Cobb, another graduate of the Harvard program. The mall, which opened on a former air
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The Modernist architect Ulrich Franzen in 1968.
His concrete fortress for Philip Morris reflected the mood of a bankrupt city.
field in 1956, is a vast duplex in an ocean of parking space. Mr. Franzens first major solo project was the fortresslike Alley Theater in Houston, which opened in 1968 for the citys resident theater company. Critics praised it as a triumph of the Brutalist style, characterized by the use of rough exterior materials like concrete. But many Houston residents hated it. One letter in The Houston Chronicle condemned the buildings totalitarian aura. Mr. Franzen applied Brutalism again in designing two 17-story concrete and glass towers for Hunter College, a branch of the City University of New York. Be-
gun in 1972 and finished in 1984 after a long hiatus caused by the citys financial crisis the buildings stand on opposite sides of Lexington Avenue between 67th and 68th Streets. Many Upper East Side residents were surprised by the skywalks, connecting the buildings at the third and eighth floors. A third walkway links buildings over 68th Street. Its the one at the third-story level thats most oppressive, I think, because its low, said Margot Wellington, the executive director of the Municipal Art Society, in an interview for the 2006 book New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium, by the architect Robert A. M. Stern. The two together, she said, take out more sky than you think. But as Mr. Franzen had hoped, the walkways became the central arteries of college life. Mr. Stern, who is also dean of the Yale School of Architecture, said in an interview on Wednesday that people had grown more comfortable with Mr. Franzens work at Hunter College. It wasnt everybodys idea of a charming college campus experience, but it was interesting, he said. And it widened the public perception about urban space. Mr. Franzens most high-profile project in New York was the world headquarters for the Philip Morris Companies, across from Grand Central Terminal at Park Avenue and 42nd Street. The tower, begun in the late 1970s and completed in 1982, carried symbolic importance. It was about the citys viability as a corporate center, said William J. Higgins, a landmarks preservation consultant. The city had not fully emerged from its brush with bankruptcy when Philip Morris undertook
the project. It was considered risky, and Mr. Franzens design reflected the mood of both his client and the city. He built a concrete fortress, Mr. Higgins said, that sort of summed up the emotional landscape of New York in the 70s. The building, rising 26 stories, featured a novel form of public space: an enclosed sculpture gallery on the ground floor, with works from the Whitney Museum of American Art. (Philip Morris, now the Altria Group, sold the building in 2008, and the gallery closed as well.) Mr. Franzen, who served on the citys Landmarks Preservation Commission in the 1990s, was known for his self-assurance and forceful opinions. Yet he was modest about the architects role in making cityscapes. Architecture is the servant of its time, he said in an interview with the critic Peter Blake for a 1999 book about Mr. Franzens work, and significant designs are experiments of an era. The buildings that are designed become footprints of our own sociocultural history, reflections of the ideas and concerns of an era, and not those of an individual. Ulrich Joseph Franzen was born in Dsseldorf, Germany, on Jan. 15, 1921. His father, Eric, was a writer and a translator of Shakespeare, his mother, the former Lisbeth Hellersberg, a psychologist. The family left Germany in 1936 and settled in New York. After his parents divorced, Mr. Franzen lived with his mother and a younger brother, Wolfgang, in New Jersey until he entered Williams College in Massachusetts. After receiving his bachelors degree there, he spent a semester at Harvards architecture school before joining the Army and serving in the Office of Stra-
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Mr. Franzens design for Hunter Colleges campus on Lexington Avenue included skywalks meant to be students main street.
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A 1950s pavilion house Mr. Franzen designed for his family with a double-diamond roof in Rye, in Westchester County.
tegic Services. He returned to Harvard after the war and received his masters degree in 1950. Among his other notable designs are the Harpers Ferry Center (1969) in West Virginia, designed for the National Park Service; the Harlem School of the Arts (1978) in New York; University Center, at the University of Michigan (1981) in Flint, Mich.; and the Champion International headquarters (1985) in Stamford, Conn. He and his wife lived for many years in Rye, N.Y., in a house he designed, before retiring to Santa Fe. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Peter and David; a daughter, April; and three grandchildren.
Roy Bates, 91, Bigger-Than-Life Founder of a Micronation

By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Roy Bates, who commandeered a former British military outpost in the North Sea nearly 50 years ago and declared it a sovereign nation, died on Tuesday in Essex, England. He was 91. He had had Alzheimers disease for several years, his son Michael said in announcing the death. Make that Prince Michael. Members of the Bates family still claim dynastic dominion over what they call the Principality of Sealand, a rudimentary platform of concrete and steel rising out of the water seven miles southeast of the main British island. And they are looking to expand the royal family. Even if you never get the chance to visit the trip requires a helicopter ride or a willingness to be hoisted by crane from a boat you, too, can join the royal court of one of the worlds most enduring and entrepreneurial micronations. The official Sealand Web site sells titles (the Count/Countess Title Pack: about $320), identity cards, stamps, wristbands and e-mail addresses ( just under $10 for six months). It helps pay for the whole Sealand thing, Michael Bates said. A country does need an economy, and the effort to sustain Sealand with Internet commerce is at least somewhat consistent with why Roy Bates arrived there in the first place. In the 1960s, Mr. Bates, a former major in the British Army,
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was among a group of disc jockeys who tried to avoid Englands restrictive broadcasting regulations by setting up pirate radio stations on some of the countrys abandoned offshore outposts, which had been used to fire ground artillery at German aircraft during World War II. Mr. Bates began broadcasting from one outpost within the three-mile limit of Englands territorial waters, and when he was driven from there in 1966 he planned to start a station at Her Majestys Fort Roughs, which was in international waters. Instead, he founded Sealand. On Sept. 2, 1967, Mr. Bates declared it an independent nation, himself its royal overseer and his wife, Joan, its princess. It was her birthday. They had a huge love affair, Michael Bates said. He really worshiped her. Mr. Bates was emboldened the next year when, after he faced weapons charges for firing warning shots at an approaching British vessel, a British court ruled that it had no jurisdiction over the case because the exchange had occurred in international waters. A decade later, a greater drama ensued when a group of Germans with plans to build a luxury casino on the platform tried to take control of Sealand while Mr. Bates and his wife were away. They held Michael Bates hostage for several days before Roy Bates stormed Sealand and retook it in a dramatic helicopter raid. He imprisoned one of the men there. When the German government sought Britains help in freeing
him, Britain declined to intervene, citing the 1968 ruling. Germany sent a diplomat, the man was eventually freed, and Mr. Bates asserted that Germany had effectively recognized Sealand as a sovereign nation. Even after Britain expanded its territorial waters to 12 miles from shore, it mostly left Sealand and the Bateses alone. The family has explored various means of economic development, including housing an Internet company that wanted to create a financial haven without government oversight. It is still considering playing host to an online casino. WikiLeaks is said to have considered moving its servers there. For now, most of Sealands trade is driven by Roy Batess grandson James Prince Royal James who oversees the Sealand Web site. The history of Sealand is a story of a struggle for liberty, the Web site says. Sealand was founded on the principle that any group of people dissatisfied with the oppressive laws and restrictions of existing nation-states may declare independence in any place not claimed to be under the jurisdiction of another sovereign entity. Paddy Roy Bates was born on Aug. 29, 1921, in London. His father served in the Royal Artillery in World War I and suffered lung damage from being gassed. The family moved to Essex with the goal of improving his health. According to an account on the Sealand Web site, Roy Bates was the only one of five siblings who sur-
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Roy Bates and his wife, Joan, in 1966. Before seizing Sealand, he ran a pirate radio station in defiance of British regulations.
vived childhood, and he barely survived his 20s, suffering several war wounds as a British soldier. He once said that despite the paradox of him breaking away from the U.K. with Sealand, he would do it all again if his mother country needed him, the account said. Besides his son, his wife and his grandson, Mr. Batess survivors include a daughter, Penelope Hawker, who has not been especially involved with Sealand, and a granddaughter. Roy Bates was not just a selfmade prince, he was a self-made man. After the war, he imported beef and ran butcher shops. He built fishing boats in Essex, and some family members still fish commercially for cockles, mussels, oysters and other seafood. None of the Bateses live on Sealand, though they do visit and provide upkeep. A caretaker usually occupies the place, which includes modest living quarters, a kitchen, a chapel and an exercise area. Sealand was abandoned briefly after a fire in 2006 but later repaired. Michael Bates has said in recent years that the family would consider selling the place or, given the complications of selling a supposedly sovereign nation, leasing it but he said on Thursday that no sale was planned. He expects his descendants to preside over Sealand for many generations to come. The family, he said, plans to continue the legacy.
Sven Hassel, 95, Novelist Who Depicted Nazi Soldiers Lives

By PAUL VITELLO
Gary Collins, 74, Pageant Host

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Sven Hassel, a Danish-born writer whose pulp novels depicting soldiers lives in the German Army during World War II drawn, he said, from his own combat experiences sold millions of copies worldwide, died on Sept. 21 in Barcelona, Spain. He was 95. His death was announced by family members on his official Web site. Mr. Hassels 14 novels portrayed German trench soldiers in a misfits brigade of convicts and deserters a Third Reich version of the Dirty Dozen who, like soldiers in all wars, eat badly, sleep little, live with death and struggle to retain their humanity. Mr. Hassels soldiers also detest Hitler, occasionally kill their own superior officers and engage
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in steamy sex with consenting local women. For the most part, though, they follow orders and kill enemy soldiers, mainly Russians on the Eastern front. Mr. Hassels publishers say the books were translated from Danish into 15 languages, and have sold about 53 million copies worldwide since the first, The Legion of the Damned, was published in 1953. His novels were pulp fiction staples in the 1960s and 70s to a male cohort that may have its equivalent today in those who sustain a billion-dollar industry in war-themed video games. Mr. Hassels novel Wheels of Terror was made into a 1987 feature film, The Misfit Brigade, starring Oliver Reed. Mr. Hassel contended that all his books were based on personal experience: starting in 1937, when he joined the German armed forces at 20 because there were no jobs in Denmark, and ending in 1945, when Russian soldiers took him prisoner. During his Wehrmacht service,
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he said, he deserted, was recaptured and then assigned to a penal brigade in a Panzer division, like the one he describes in his books. War buffs complained about inaccuracies in Mr. Hassels military and weapons terminology. Some questioned battlefield scenarios in which his soldiers fought Russians in the morning and Free French in the afternoon, when such encounters would have meant a 1,000-mile march during lunch.
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A Danish journalist claimed to have evidence that Mr. Hassel had spent the war in Copenhagen working for Nazi occupation forces. But Mr. Hassel said he had served on every front of the war and had the battle scars and two Iron Cross medals to prove it. We were trained to become the worlds best soldiers through the use of Prussian methods that surpassed any evil and terror you can imagine, he said. After the war, he was determined to write books, he said, hoping that I could contribute to never letting history repeat itself, and to show the horrors that war entails. He was born Sven Pedersen in Fredensborg, Denmark, on April 19, 1917, and grew up in a working-class family. He joined the Danish merchant navy at 14 and served a mandatory stretch in the Danish military before joining the German Army. He adopted his mothers maiden name, Hassel, when he began writing. My books are strictly antimilitary, he said in a 2002 interview with Contemporary Authors Online. They correspond to my personal view of what I experienced. I write to warn the youth of today against war. I am writing the story of the small soldiers, the men who neither plan nor cause wars but have to fight them. War is the last arm of bad politicians.
Gary Collins, a prolific actor, a television host and a master of ceremonies for the Miss America pageant, died in Mississippi, on Saturday. He was 74 and lived in Biloxi. Mr. Collins died of natural causes at a hospital, according to the Harrison County deputy coroner, Brian Switzer. In a performing career that spanned more than four decades, Mr. Collins made guest appearances on dozens of television shows, including The Virginian, Love, American Style, Charlies Angels and JAG. In 1974, he starred in a shortlived TV version of Born Free. Mr. Collins became a familiar face in American living rooms in the 1980s as the congenial host of the syndicated afternoon talk show Hour Magazine, for which he won an Emmy, and, later, as the Miss America M.C. Born in Venice, Calif., in 1938, Mr. Collins became interested in acting while in the Army, where he performed on the Armed Forces Network. He had his first break in 1965 with a supporting role on the NBC series The Wackiest Ship in the Army. In 1967, he married Mary Ann Mobley, Miss America of 1959. The couple separated last year. Information on survivors was not
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Gary Collins was a prolific actor and a Miss America host.

immediately available. In recent years, Mr. Collins had legal troubles, including two convictions for drunken driving and an arrest after being accused of leaving a restaurant without paying the bill. With a cheerful smile and good looks, he was known for his warm, welcoming style. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 1989, he said he was unsuited for the edgier talk show format that was emerging: Thats basically not a part of my character.
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William C. Friday, University of North Carolina Leader, Dies at 92

By DOUGLAS MARTIN
William C. Friday, a politically deft lawyer who, with scant scholarly qualifications, steered the University of North Carolina through three decades of tumultuous growth and helped scale back federal desegregation demands, died on Friday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 92. Thomas W. Ross, the universitys president, announced the death. Mr. Friday, who retired as president in 1986, molded the states public colleges and universities into a single system, increased its student body more than eightfold and was a force behind the creation of Research Triangle Park, a university-corporate collaboration that fired North Carolinas economy by attracting high-tech industries to the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. His biggest challenge was in addressing federal orders to desegregate the systems 16 universities five overwhelmingly black and 11 white. He advised moderation rather than the immediate introduction of the large changes demanded by Washington, even if he was portrayed, he said, as a redneck hero. Many in the 1970s regarded the
desegregation of higher education as a logical next step after the Supreme Courts 1954 order to integrate public schools. Mr. Friday called desegregation the greatest social issue we have faced in generations. The question was how to desegregate and how fast. Mr. Friday said he and other Southern university administrators fighting Washington were defending academic freedom. The fight began when the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund sued in 1970, alleging that North Carolina and other states maintained illegally segregated public universities. A federal judge ordered the states to devise integration plans. The fund called North Carolinas cautious response denial and defiance. The discussion intensified in 1977 when President Jimmy Carter brought in a tough new team of civil rights enforcers. As the goal was educational equality for blacks not just integration there were two areas to address. The first was integrating the traditionally white universities. The second was improving the quality of the traditionally black universities, which had been created in Southern states as part of the old Jim Crow system of racial segregation.
Over the years, blacks themselves had embraced them as an engine of upward mobility. The federal government proposed that predominantly white and predominantly black universities, particularly those close to one another, stop offering similar programs. It reasoned that students would voluntarily integrate if the only way they could get the course of instruction they wanted was by attending a university
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that had historically been identified with the other race. Mr. Friday saw the plan as heavy-handed. The government should set goals, he said, not dictate remedies. North Carolina now provides a college education for a greater percentage of its blacks than most states, he said. Washington is wrong on this one. North Carolinas resistance led to years of legal delays. Finally, in 1981, the Reagan administration, showing more sympathy to
the universitys position, dropped many of the Carter administrations demands, particularly the one against program duplication. North Carolina agreed to raise black enrollment at white universities to 10.6 percent from 7.4 percent, and whites at black universities to 15 percent from 11.3 percent. It also promised to increase financing for predominantly black schools. Joseph L. Rauh Jr., a lawyer for the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund, derided the agreement as a travesty. Mr. Friday called it honorable. Julius L. Chambers, a civil rights leader, resigned from the university systems board of governors over the deal. He said in an oral history interview that he believed Mr. Friday had shrunk from his own convictions. I thought he knew we were moving too slow, he said. William Clyde Friday was born on July 13, 1920, in Raphine, Va., and grew up poor in a North Carolina mill town. He was high school class president all four years. A $50 scholarship half the annual tuition at the time allowed him to attend Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University). After a year there, he transferred to North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engi-
neering, now North Carolina State University, where he studied textile engineering and graduated in 1941. Mr. Friday soon joined the Navy and managed an ammunitions depot. In interviews he said he had been shocked to see blacks given the most dangerous tasks and had started to hate segregation. After earning a law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1948 he was asked to be U.N.C.s assistant dean of students. He became a favorite of the university president. In 1955, he rose to secretary of what was then called the Consolidated University of North Carolina, consisting of U.N.C., State College and the Womans College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). He was chosen to be president in 1956 from among 144 candidates, most with doctorates and teaching experience. In 1971, to save money, the legislature decreed that all 16 state-supported colleges and universities be brought under a single administration. This meant that the five traditionally black schools and the 11 white ones were for the first time a single entity. Had the consolidation not
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William C. Friday was the University of North Carolina president from 1956 to 1986.
been enacted, the federal integration effort would have had to target individual universities. During his long presidency, Mr. Friday served as co-chairman of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, which examined abuses in college sports. It recommended that university presidents exert more control over their athletic departments. Mr. Friday is survived by his wife of 70 years, the former Ida Howell, and his daughters Frances and Mary.
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BABBBernard, a legal scholFlesch, Elizabeth Babb, Bernard Perryman, Nancy ar, philanthropist, educator, COLWELLPhoebe Ann Tal- CYKERMarvin Meyer. Geneen, June Rosenfeld, Harry and humanitarian passed bot Peterson, 79, departed this High Ridge Country Club ac- Block, Larry away October 3rd, 2012 while world October 2, 2012 in knowledges with sorrow the Blum, Barbara Glaser, Herbert Shenkman, Phyllis vacationing in Holland. He Boise, ID, with family at her passing of our esteemed Christmas, Joyce Goldfarb, Aron Stern, Francine member, Marvin Meyer Cykwas 81 years of age and is side. She died peacefully and Gunther, Edward Tiedemann, Mary survived by his beloved wife with dignity, after enduring a er. We extend our deepest Cochrane, Priscilla sympathy to his beloved wife of 36 years, Frances Babb, his long struggle with Jenny and their family. Colwell, Phoebe Kargman, Douglas Vandeveer, Bette two sons from a previous Alzheimer's. Her journey beStuart Albrecht, President Curatola, Mildred Kunin, Norman Vineburgh, Mary Jane marriage, John and Christo- gins anew, a daisy blooming H. Lawrence Fein, Secretary pher Babb, and his two grand- in the fresh morning light. Cyker, Marvin Lachman, Gerard Vissell, Ralph children, Xavier and Dorothy. Phoebe was born on April 4, Watson, William Eberhart, Elizabeth Martinson, Frances Mr. Babb attended St. Peter 1933 in Berlin, Germany to Claver School and Cathedral American banker Arthur T. EBERHARTElizabeth Nadworny, Madeline Wilheim, Denise Sophie Lidda, passed away at Einstein, Gilbert Preparatory Seminary. Gradu- Peterson and his wife, Obernauer, Marne ate of St. John's University Phoebe. Her early childhood home on October 1, 2012, af- Esposito, Ronald where he received his under- was spent primarily in Eu- ter a short illness, one week Feng, Kuo Chen Parnell, Sol graduate degree in 1953, rope, relocating from Ger- after her 92nd birthday. She served two years in the Unit- many to London, and then to was the beloved wife of the ed States Army, and returned the US during World War II. late Walter Mark Eberhart, to St. John's School of Law She returned to Europe after Sr., for 48 years. She was receiving his Juris Doctorate the war ended, attended high dearly loved by her daughter GLASERHerbert L., 88, died GUNTHEREdward, age 91, in 1958. He was an avid sup- school in Switzerland, and re- Nancy Eberhart Rothe; her peacefully September 2, 2012. passed away October 12, 2012. porter of the Vincentian val- turned to the US as a young granddaughter Caroline Eber- Beloved and adored husband Born in Brookline, MA. Mr. ues and carried this through- adult. She spent time in Cali- hart Grubb; her grandsons of Muriel for 56 years, devot- Gunter was a resident of Conout his lifetime. He began his fornia before marrying and Alden and Whitney Rothe, ed brother of Alice and Ed- vent Station, New Jersey for great-grandchildren mund and special uncle of 43 years and Fellowship Vilcareer with the Legal Aid So- settling in Grand View-on- and ciety to serve the underprivi- Hudson, New York, where she Olivia and James Grubb, all many nieces and nephews. lage in Basking Ridge since leged. He then served for 15 raised a family, obtained un- of whom survive her. Prede- Herb served his country hon- 2005. He was a graduate of years as a trial attorney and dergraduate and graduate de- ceasing her were her daugh- orably in active combat in the Clark University in Wooster, subsequently as the Assistant grees, and managed a long ter, Susan Elizabeth; her son Army during WWII. He had a Mass majoring in Chemistry Chief of the Civil Division for and productive professional Walter Mark Eberhart, Jr.; special sense of humor which and Physics. Upon graduation the United States Justice De- career. She devoted many and her granddaughter Julie endeared him to all who he entered the U.S. Navy. He Eberhart. Mrs. knew him. He was a success- was on active duty in both partment. After retiring from years of service to Nyack Elizabeth Public Service, Mr. Babb went Hospital and the Nyack Hos- Eberhart spent most of her ful businessman and was the Atlantic and Pacific Theinto private practice specializ- pital Foundation. She was life in Manhattan and greatly known for his honesty and in- aters on a mine sweeper and ing in International Customs very active in her communi- loved New York City. She was tegrity. He will be remem- an attack cargo ship, retiring accomplished painter, bered for his burning passion as a Lieutenant. He was an Trade Law and became a ty, and touched and influ- an partner with Wasserman, enced many people. Phoebe opera lover, avid patron of and love of fishing, at which executive in marketing and Schneider, Babb, and Reed. lived her final years in the the arts, and loved to dance. he excelled. Herbert attended new product development for Currently, he was of Counsel presence of loving and com- A memorial service will be City College, took numerous 25 years with Vick Chemical, to Simons and Wiskin and passionate care provided by held at 11am on Thursday, courses in New York and Lever Brothers and Warner was serving as a Court Evalu- the Staff and Volunteers at October 18th, at The Church Florida, was an avid reader, Lambert. He then turned his ator for the Appellate Divi- Willow Park Assisted Living of the Holy Trinity, 316 East had a thirst for knowledge brilliant marketing skills and sion, 2nd Judicial Department. Center/Kingswood Manor in 88th Street. In lieu of flowers, and never stopped learning. his love of horses into a new Mr. Babb was a member of Boise, ID. Phoebe lived a full contributions to The Yorkville He was a warm, loving, sensi- career becoming a Vice Presthe McCallen Society at St. life. She was funny, sponta- Community Association at tive and caring man who will ident at Beval Saddlery and John's University, served as neous, creative, witty, tena- P.O. Box. 226, Dennis, MA. be missed by all who with then Miller Harness Co., rean Adjunct Professor of Law, cious, at times feisty, and 02638, or The Church of the whom he had contact. ceiving recognition from the and was the recipient of the fiercely independent. She was Holy Trinity would be greatly Intercollegiate Horse Show Pietas Medal, one of the high- a woman of many diverse appreciated. Association. He was known est Honors conferred by St. roles: for his smart conversation, mother, homemaker, John's University. He will be writer, traveler, photographer, dry humor, ship model buildwaked at Terregrossa's Fu- master cook, home econo- EINSTEINGilbert Warren, ing, athleticism and striking neral Home in Brooklyn on mist, fund-raiser, and much (1942-2012). The Board of Di- GOLDFARBAron. Holocaust good looks. He is survived by October 13th and 14th, 2012. A more. Phoebe was an avid rectors and Members of the Survivor and Founder of the his wife and love of his life Funeral Mass will be held on gardener, always rescuing the International Fine Print Deal- G-III Apparel Group, beloved for 65 years, Corinne, daughMonday, October 15th, 2012 at least-worthy plant, and nurtur- ers Association sadly note the husband, father, grandfather ter Stephanie Shnay and her 10:00am at the Assumption of ing it back to life. She also passing of our esteemed col- and great-grandfather passed husband Abram, granddaughthe Blessed Virgin Mary in loved her animals. Having league and dear friend Gilbert away after a long illness on ter Kate and grandson Scott Brooklyn Heights. grown up in many differing Warren Einstein on Septem- October 8, 2012, at the age of (Haesther). Services will be she valued ber 21, 2012. The founder of 88. Born February 10, 1924, in private. The family requests BLOCKLarry, proud father, geographies, Bialobrzegi, Poland, Aron was actor, and poet, passed roots, family and community. New York-based gallery, G.W. a Holocaust survivor who that memorial donations be away on October 7, 2012, at It was in Grand View where Einstein Company, and a overcame seemingly insur- made to the Fellowship Vilthe age of 69. Survived by her roots were firmly planted, member since 1991, Gil will be mountable odds and founded lage Legacy fund, 3000 Felremembered for his erudite lowship Rd., Basking Ridge, wife Jolly (nee King); chil- surrounded by her magnifia successful apparel business dren Zachary and Zoe cent gardens, which survive knowledge of twentieth centu- known as the G-III Apparel NJ 07920. For more informa(Daniel); brother Kenneth today. Phoebe lives on in our ry art as well as his wry wit Group. The son of Moshe and tion, please call J.L. Apter (Ruth); and nieces Hilary hearts, minds, souls, and in and candor. We extend con- Sarah Goldfarb, he was one Memorial Chapels of Maplewood at (973)376-2600. (Andrew) and Meryl (Philip). the gardens of friends and dolences to his wife and partIn lieu of flowers, donations family, where her plants re- ner, Anne MacDougall, and to of seven children and one of may be made in Larry's mind us all of her. She is sur- his family. A memorial ser- three to survive the Holocaust. When the Germans vived by her brother, Sterrett vice will be held in New York name to The Actors Fund. on Saturday, November 3 at took Aron from his father, the BLUMBarbara. The staff C. Peterson of Glenside, 9am at the Park Avenue Ar- last words his father said to daughter Evan, and volunteers of the March Pennsylvania, him were "go, my son...maybe KARGMANDouglas mory. of Dimes mourn the passing Megan G. Colwell (Bonnie you will survive". Those words MD MS passed away unexof our honored former Board Stewart) of Oakland, Califorwould stay with him for the pectedly on October 9, 2012. member Barbara Blum. Mrs. nia, sons Douglas T. Colwell rest of his life and eventually Douglas was a beloved and Ph.D. Blum was a dear friend and (Carol) of Boise, Idaho, Lin- ESPOSITORonald, husband would become the title of a wonderful son to his parents Loved and cherished loyal supporter of the March coln Colwell of Sparkill, New and soul-mate of Paula Jaye book he wrote about his Milton and Gloria, a loving of Dimes for many years. York, Joshua Colwell (Kai) of and adored and devoted fa- struggle. Aron's family was and loyal brother to Jeffrey, King George, Virginia, and Jonathan, and Steven, a deShe first became a volunteer ther of Sara Jaye-Esposito. sent to the Treblinka concenin 1985, and was Chair of the daughter Honor Colwell (Ken Beloved son-in-law, brother, tration camp in 1941, while voted brother-in-law to Robin, of Binghamton, and a doting uncle to Brooke Program Development Com- Hazucha) New York. She is survived by uncle, cousin and friend. Es- Aron and his older brothers and Tyler. As a neurologist mittee of the Greater New teemed professor at NYU and Itzhak and Abraham were York Chapter before joining six grandchildren, Mario and talented consultant. You have sent to the Pionki labor camp. with a specialization in stroke, Douglas Bruzzone of Califorthe national Board of touched and changed our Another brother, Jacob, would Douglas was a consummate Trustees in 1989. After serving nia, Drew and Claire Colwell lives forever. survive the war by escaping professional: caring, compastwo full terms, including as of Boise, Idaho, and Max and to Russia. In 1944, Aron with sionate and humane, someChair of the Program and Heidi Colwell of King George, his brothers and a friend Zis- one who brought the utmost Virginia. A memorial service dedication and commitment Bioethics Committee, Mrs. will be held at Grace Episco- FENGKuo Chen. Age 94, man Birman escaped from to treatment of his patients, Blum was elected to the napal Church in Nyack, New passed away October 8 2012. the camp and fought for sur- and an expert clinician and tional Honorary Board of vival in the forests of Poland. retired physician who researcher with encyclopedic Trustees. Mrs. Blum was York at 2pm on Saturday, No- A Thoughts, worked on Long Island, she His brother Itzhak and Zisman knowledge and mastery of his deeply concerned about the vember 3, 2012. Birman were caught while in health of mothers and chil- testimonials, and words of will be missed by her chil- hiding and executed. Aron field who was held in the sympathy can be emailed to dren and grandchildren, and dren. She retired as a Senior phoebememories@gmail.com. and Abraham would survive highest regard by his peers many relatives and Fellow of Child and Family Donations in her memory can her the war by living in a bunker and colleagues. He was extraPolicy at Columbia University be made to The Alzheimer's friends. A memorial service they built not far from a Ger- ordinarily kind, generous and National Center for Children Association of America or will be held Saturday, Octo- man gunnery position near thoughtful to all who came in in Poverty. She directed the your local regional office ber 27 at 1pm, at the their hometown. Armed with contact with him, and he nevEdwards-Dowdle Funeral er hesitated to help anyone at Research Forum on Children, www.alz.org Home, 70 Ashford Ave., only their familiarity with the any time of the day who Families and the New FederDobbs Ferry, NY 10522. To landscape and their courage sought his advice or guidance. alism. Formerly, she was they would break into the honor her in lieu of flowers, Douglas received his MD at President of the Foundation a donation can be made "In German outpost not far from Stony Brook University for Child Development in memory of Dr. Kuo-Chen their hiding spot and steal School of Medicine and his New York and was appointed CURATOLAMildred T., 88, Wang" and mailed to the food and supplies through the MS in Epidemiology from Commissioner of the New Chinese American Medical winter of 1944. In 1978, the Columbia University School of York State Department of SoSociety (CAMS), 41 Elizabeth brothers returned to Poland Public Health, and he comcial Services. She also was a St., Suite 60, New York, NY to retrieve the remains of pleted his residency in neurolmember of the National ComItzhak and Zisman and 10013. mission on Children. Our brought them to be buried in ogy at NYU School of Medideepest condolences to her Israel. While in a Displaced cine and his fellowship in son Tom Blum, former Chief Persons camp in Germany stroke and neuroepidemioloFLESCHElizabeth Salomon, following the end of the war, gy at the Neurological Instiof Staff in the Office of the age 102, died peacefully at Aron saw Esther Disman and tute of Columbia University. President, and the entire famhome on September 14, 2012. immediately asked her to a He conducted pathbreaking ily. With great sadness, we movie. They were soon mar- research on stroke under Jennifer L. Howse, Ph.D. mourn the matriarch of our ried and moved to Israel grants he received from NIH, President family. Wife of the late Irving where Aron was a farmer was selected to present his March of Dimes James Flesch, Mother of the while serving in the Israeli research at leading internaCHRISTMASJoyce, passed late Emily Jane Bauer, Army. Their son Morris was tional neurology conferences away on October 7. She was Grandmother of Victoria born in Israel and the family at a very young age, pubthe author of more than 20 Nadler (Mark) and David came to the United States in lished numerous influential novels, including the Lady Bauer (Alison), Great Grand- 1956 where Aron, Abraham articles in major peer-reMargaret Priam and Betty passed away on October 8, mother of Audrey, Stephen, and Jacob were reunited. viewed medical journals, adTrenka mystery series, and 2012 in Holmdel, NJ. Family Benjamin, Matthew, and vised international and nonhad been a national board matriarch and beloved wife Daniel. Her energy, spirit, and Aron and Esther's second son profit organizations on public member of Mystery Writers of the late Vincent J. Cura- zest for life will be missed by Ira was born soon after. Aron health issues, and served on of America. Joyce was also tola, President of the Curato- all who knew her. Donations used his skills learned in the faculty of the Columbia Vice President of a consult- la Bros Trucking Co., loving in her memory can be made Poland as an apprentice to a University College of Physiing firm specializing in hotel mother to Dominick A. Cura- to Temple Shaaray Tefila, 250 shoe maker to start in 1956 cians and Surgeons. Douglas what is today known as the technology. A native of Con- tola, M.D. and his wife, Va- E. 79th St. NY, NY 10075. G-III Apparel Group. What was a brilliant young man necticut, Joyce attended lerie, of Los Altos Hills, CA, started out as a small leather who had a huge heart and unRadcliffe College. She was Gerald P. Curatola, D.D.S. limited compassion for othpre-deceased by partner and his wife, Georgia, of GENEENJune H., born in company is still thriving. Aron ers. He was a magnificent huLarry Chervenak. Donations NY, NY and East Hampton, Berlin, New Hampshire, has is survived by his wife Esther; man being who was loved may be sent to First Book NY, and LuAnne M. Curato- died at the age of 91, in his son Morris and daughter- and admired deeply by all of in-law Arlene and son Ira; his (www.firstbook.org). la, D.D.S. and her husband, Boston Massachusetts. Mrs. grandchildren Laura, Jeffrey, his family and friends, and we COCHRANEPriscilla Scott, Joseph A. Zagami, D.D.S. of Geneen was preceded in Scott, Samantha and Brett; will miss him dearly for the 69, born in Lincoln, MA, Holmdel, NJ., and nine lov- death by her husband, Harold great-grandchildren Joshua, rest of our lives. Funeral serpassed away October 9th at ing grandchildren. A dedicat- S. Geneen, the Former Chair- Matthew, Amanda, Ryan, vices will be held graveside the Smilow Cancer Hospital ed supporter of education man and Chief Executive Sabrina and Tristan. Aron will on Sunday, October 14 at Yale-New Haven. Survived and the health professions, Officer of ITT Corporation, be missed but his memory, 12:45 pm, Old Montefiore by her husband of 40 years, serving President of the who passed away in 1997. lessons and legacy will be Cemetery, 121-83 Springfield William H. Cochrane Jr., and Women's Auxiliary at NYU Mrs. Geneen's family resided carried on by all those who Boulevard, Springfield Gardaughters Sarah Ballantine College of Dentistry, for a in Needham, Massachusetts, loved him and all the lives he dens, Queens, NY 11413. providing scholar- for several years. She is sur- touched. Cochrane and Elizabeth decade Cochrane Marinello, she was ships. Also of Chaminade HS vived by a sister, Mrs. Lois a loving wife and mother CAPA on L.I., and Yale Uni- Ross, in California, one niece, and a dear friend to many. versity, Colgate University Stephanie Hjelm, in Needham, She was an avid gardener and Wellesley College, in ad- Massachusetts, five nephews, KUNINNormanA., on Octoand had a keen eye for de- dition to NYU where her four grandnephews and one ber 5, 2012, suddenly, after a Family and sign and decor. Her mother, three children received their grandniece. brief illness. Devoted father, Eleanor, was a English medical and dental degrees. Friends are invited to Visitagrandfather, loving brother. Wednesday and tion in the Eaton Funeral teacher. Her father, Hermon, Wake: Mourned by extended family invented sound detection cir- Thursday, Funeral: Friday at Home, 1351 Highland Ave, and numerous friends. Please cuits that made Sonar possi- 10am, all info at: evergreen- Needham on Friday, October consider an honorary contri19 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm ble. He was founder and memorialfuneralhome.com. bution to the Visiting Nurse & president of H.H. Scott Inc.. In lieu of flowers, charitable concluding with a Memorial Hospice Care of Santa BarService Tuesday, October contributions can be made Service at 7:30pm. Her rebara, 222 E. Canon Perdido 16th, 11:30am, Greenfield Hill to NYU.edu/giving (College mains will be interred in the St., Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Congregational Church, Fair- of Dentistry) memory of family plot in Berlin, New Mildred T. Curatola. Hampshire. field, CT.
LACHMANGerard, 88, died TIEDEMANNMary on October 12, 2012 of pul- Cumming. monary fibrosis. Husband of Nadya for 67 years, father of Andrew (Ruth Messinger), Harlan (Linnea), Dan (Lynn Simon), grandfather of Jake, Benjamin and Rachel Lachman. New York City real estate entrepreneur, compassionate landlord, committed skier and intrepid sailor. Funeral, Plaza Memorial, 630 Amsterdam Ave., October 15, 9:30am. MARTINSONFrances Sirota. The Trustees and Staff of the American Folk Art Museum mourn the passing of esteemed executive vice president and chairman emeritus, Frances Sirota Martinson, who joined the board in 1976. In addition to her work as a dedicated officer of the Museum, Frances was energetically committed to the renovations to the galleries at the Museum's 2 Lincoln Square headquarters. Frances was predeceased by her husband Paul Martinson, who was a cousin of one of the museum's founders, Joseph B. Martinson (who died in 1970). Frances and Paul administrated a memorial fund established in their cousin's name, the proceeds of which directly benefited the Museum including the purchase of major works from the renowned Lipman collection, which then formed the core of the Museum's holdings in traditional folk art. These remain among the most treasured works of art in the collection. Frances was able to share the love of music, among her other interests, through concerts she hosted at the Museum. She will be missed for her intelligence, energy, undeterred enthusiasm. We express our deepest condolences to the Martinson family. Laura Parsons, Chairwoman Edward V. Blanchard, Jr., President Board of Trustees Dr. Anne-Imelda Marino Radice, Director MARTINSONFrances Steyer Sirota, an attorney, October 7. Survived by son John S. Martinson (Suzanne) of Paradise Valley, AZ, daughter, Linda Martinson Mayer (Chris) of New York, and grandchildren Jillian, Johanna, and CJ Mayer of New York, and Neo and Eco Martinson of Paradise Valley, AZ. Tributes to Frances S. Martinson Scholarship Fund at Columbia University Law School, American Folk Art Museum, and Shakespeare & Co., (Lennox, MA). NADWORNYMadeline Siegel. October 2, 1916-October 6, 2012. Mother of Laura and Nina. Her sweetness, her heart, her good humor will be forever missed. Thank you Mom. OBERNAUERMarne. We mourn the death of our cherished member and extend deepest sympathies to his family. Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
PARNELLSol, 94, on October 11. Veteran of WWII who served in Italy. A former textile export executive for H. Warshow & Sons, he left the world with the quiet grace with which he inhabited it. He is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Pearl, his son Peter, son-inlaw Justin, and granddaughter Gemma.
Mary Cumming Tiedemann, age 77, died peacefully on Sunday, October 7th, 2012 surrounded by her loving family at Stony Brook Hospital in Stony Brook, NY. Born in 1935 and raised in Summit New Jersey, she was the oldest daughter of Elizabeth Lord Cumming and Robert William Cumming, Jr. She graduated from Kent Place School in Summit, NJ and attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Mary was a loving and devoted mother and grandmother. She married Carl Hans Tiedemann in 1959 and they had four children. They lived in New York City and raised their children, three boys and one girl. Love of nature and the outdoors brought them to East Hampton, Long Island where they bought their family home that BROWNHelen Gurley. Mary lived in until her death. Mary loved the arts and enjoyed painting, photography and collecting craft from around the world. In the 1980's she was a partner in the Elements Gallery, a craft gallery on Madison Avenue. She also loved to use her artistic sensibility in designing gardens. Every residence of hers had beautiful gardens that she had designed and implemented. Later in life she became very involved in the Exuma Foundation on the Island of Exuma where she had a home. The foundation helped A special gathering to rememstart a learning center for Ba- ber and celebrate the life of hamian children providing Helen Gurley Brown will be held them with essential educa- on Thursday, October 18 at 4 tional materials, and Mary p.m. at Alice Tully Hall at Linfelt very connected to this coln Center (65th St. and Broadcause. She helped design the way) in New York City. Recepgarden outside of the Center, tion to follow. Memorial is by inconverting it from a dry, arid vitation. Attendees must RSVP patch of soil and rubble into a to hearstrsvp@hearst.com or beautiful lush oasis. The gar- 212-649-2148 prior to the service. den was dedicated to her in Helen Brown, legendary editor2007 and is called "Mary's garin-chief of Cosmopolitan magaden". Mary was involved with zine for more than three several charitable organiza- decades and recently editor of tions. Among the few were Cosmopolitan's 64 international the Garden Conservancy and editions, passed away August the Garden Club of East 13. She was 90. Widely heralded Hampton. She was also a big as a legend, Helen Brown put supporter of the Arts in what- her personal stamp on the ever form, having a particular brand in a way rarely replicated passion for music. Mary is by editors. She joined the magasurvived by her four children, zine in 1965, after her bestseller Hans Tiedemann of Santa Sex and the Single Girl, and reinMonica, CA; Mark Tiedemann vented Cosmopolitan to speak of Los Angeles, CA; Leigh to a new generation of working Tiedemann of Lexington, MA; women. Under Helen Brown's Michael Tiedemann of New reign, Cosmopolitan became York, NY, and their respec- the bible of "single girls" worldtive spouses. She is also sur- wide and remains the best sellvived by her much adored 10 ing young women's magazine grandchildren and her two today. Donations may be made sisters Elizabeth Dartt and to The Pussycat Foundation, c/o Jean Fordyce of Marion, MA. Karen Sanborn, Hearst Corp., A memorial service is being 300 W. 57th Street, New York, held on October 20th at NY 10019, to benefit U.S. women 10:30am at Saint Luke's entering the workforce, while Church, 18 James Lane, East pursuing their career and creHampton, New York, and a ative potential. remembrance service will be held in New York City on Oc- GREENBERGMarilyn tober 22nd at 5pm. The fami- Hoffner. A Memorial Service ly request that in lieu of flow- for Marilyn Hoffner Greenberg ers, contributions may be will be held Monday, October 15 made in Mary's memory to at NOON in the Great Hall of her favorite cause: The Exu- Cooper Union, 30 Cooper Sq, ma Foundation, 5885 Lander- NYC. Reception to follow. brook Drive, Suite 300, Mayfield Heights, OH 44124.
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VANDEVEERBette, 92, died PERRYMANNancy Bowne July 25, 2012. Memorial serHubbard, of Webster, NY, on vice Thursday, October 25 at October 5, 2012. Contributions 11 0'clock. St. John's on the in her memory may be made Mountain, Bernardsville, NJ. to Cornell University College VINEBURGHMary Jane, of of Human Ecology. New York City and East Hampton, died October 12, ROSENFELDHarry A., 102. 2012. She will be missed terriDied peacefully at home on bly. MJ was known for her October 7, 2012. Harry was a laughter, passion, energy, unbusiness owner, accomplished deterred enthusiasm, and musician and a skilled most of all her generous painter. He had five children, heart. As a good friend wrote Benita, William David (who of MJ "No words. Only tears predeceased him), Estelle, and an enormous hole in the Steven and Sandi, eight fabric of our lives. Hard to grandchildren and six great- accept a world without MJ." grandchildren. MJ is survived by her loving partner Laurie Hall, her brother James SHENKMANPhyllis, passed beloved wife Nancy, away on October 10 at home Vineburgh, in New York City after her nephew Scooter, Scooter's third bout with cancer in family-Maggie, Victoria and twenty years. She was the James, and nephew PT. daughter of Nathan and VISSELLRalph. After a long Bessie Weiss; the loving wife illness Ralph left us on Sepof the late Sidney Shenkman, tember 19th. He was our best and the beloved mother of friend for more than 65 years. Randi, and Rick and his husMurray & Marvin band, John Stucky. She read The New York Times at breakfast every day. She will always be missed. STERNFrancine Martin, at home on October 12, 2012 at age 68 after a long, brave battle with multiple sclerosis. Beloved mother of Remy and Mariel; sister of Laura; mother-in-law of Karen and Matthew; grandmother of Madelyn. A renowned pediatric physical therapist, she will be remembered for her kindness, strength, positive spirit and dedication to family. Services Sunday 1pm at "The Riverside," 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.
In Memoriam
KENNEYMarina G. Born July 3, 1946 died October 14, 2011. Marina was the beloved wife of Jim and devoted mother to Stephen. Marina, heavy are our hearts today, memory brings you back once more to the time when you were with us, to the happy days we shared. We will remember you always. Family and Friends KIZILAYDogan, MD. We love you and we miss you. We will always remember you with love. Pat, Lerzan and Juan, Lisa and Dave, Rebecca , Schylar , David and Peyton ROSENTHALJerome C. June 14, 1926 - October 14, 2010. Always in our hearts. We will love you forever. Your Family SATINGene. 1927 - 2006 Our 6th year without you, but loving thoughts and cherished memories helped to sustain us... Not a day goes by. Elly, Jon, Doreen and Joel, Mike and Matt
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Bending Time, Bending Minds

How the Three Directors Of Cloud Atlas Set Out To Crack the Code Of an Unfilmable Novel
By CHARLES McGRATH
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Mindy Kaling in The Mindy Project does not fret about weight.
ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Female Stars Step Off The Scale
N her new show, The Mindy Project, Mindy Kaling plays a single doctor who is irked but not undone by a male colleague telling her she should lose 15 pounds. Neither is Hannah, the character Lena Dunham plays on her HBO comedy, Girls. When a boyfriend asked her about her tummy flab, Hannah replied: No, I have not tried a lot to lose weight. Because I decided I was going to have some other concerns in my life. On the MTV show Awkward its the high school bully, Sadie (Molly Tarlov), who is a little overweight, not her victims, and her avoirdupois doesnt diminish Sadies power or confidence. Self-acceptance has become a new form of defiance on television, especially among younger female comedians. Partly thats because its refreshingly unusual. Theres little comic shock value left in profanity, obscenity or intolerance, but its still quite rare and surprising to see a woman not obsess about her waistline. And gaining weight, it turns out, is the most outrageous stunt Lady Gaga has pulled to date. Instead of wearing raw animal flesh at a public event this summer, she wore her own the one metamorphosis that even Madonna wouldnt dare undertake. I am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny, the singer stated after admitting she gained 25 pounds. This is who I am. And I am proud at any size. Lady Gaga isnt the first to fill out; if Continued on Page 20
T might be possible to write a novel more unfilmable than David Mitchells Cloud Atlas, but you would have to work at it. Cloud Atlas, which was published to great critical acclaim and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004, is really six interlocking novellas nestled inside one another. In chronological order, there are the stories of a 19th-century American notary traveling home by ship from Australia; a young bisexual British composer who is an amanuensis to an elderly musician (modeled on Delius) in Flanders, Belgium, in the 1930s; a muckraking journalist investigating a sinister energy company in 1970s California; a cheesy book publisher imprisoned in a rest home in contemporary London; a genetically engineered Korean restaurant worker in 2144; and a goatherd living in Hawaii, or what used to be Hawaii, in a postapocalyptic future. But the novel doesnt unfold chronologically. Except for the goatherds story, which remains in the center, like a hub, the other narratives are interrupted halfway through and then pick up again in reverse order, so that the book rewinds itself like a palindrome. And oh, yes, for good measure the goatherds narrative is written in a kind of pidgin English that the author invented just for the occasion. Mr. Mitchell has written four other novels, including one, Black Swan Green, that couldnt be more straightforward and traditional. All of them have been optioned for the movies, though as he pointed out recently, they have yet to stagger out of development hell. His only book that has made it to the screen is what he called the most unfilmable one; the movie version of Cloud Atlas, written and directed by Tom Tykwer (who also wrote the music) and the siblings Lana and Andy Wachowski, and starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant (who, like many of the other actors, each play six parts), opens on Oct. 26. In all honesty, Im amazed that of all my books, this is the one that filmmakers of that caliber and reputation would want to make, Mr. Mitchell said on the Continued on Page 12
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Cloud Atlas, with actors like Tom Hanks (once with Jim Broadbent), left, and Halle Berry, above, in multiple roles in different eras.
Whos That Man in the Iron Lung?

By MARGY ROCHLIN
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EXTREME THEATER Thomas Bradshaws no-holds-barred plays somehow prompt both laughter and outrage.
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LOS ANGELES ARLY last year the director Ben Lewin was looking for an actor to play the lead in The Sessions, a film he wrote based on the true story of Mark OBrien, a journalist and poet who had contracted polio as a young boy and spent most of his life in an iron lung. The casting director, Ronnie Yeskel, mentioned John Hawkes. This is your man, she assured him. Unfamiliar with his work, Mr. Lewin watched Winters Bone, the drug thriller set in the Ozarks that won Mr. Hawkes an Oscar nomination. In it he plays a hard-mouthed meth dealer named Teardrop, a far cry from the severely disabled man of Mr. Lewins film, who with equal parts terror and courage seeks out a professional sex surrogate in order to lose his virginity. What? Mr. Lewin remembered thinking. That creepy guy? Only after Mr. Lewin decided to check out some of the actors other films did he catch John Hawkes fever. I thought, this guys incredible, just the diversity of what he can do. Mr. Lewin wouldnt be the only one to have
spent years seeing Mr. Hawkes in untold film and television appearances without being able to put a name to his thin, expressive face. Mr. Hawkes has worked steadily since the mid-80s (his TV credits include Wings, 24 and Deadwood), yet when he received his dark-horse supporting-actor Oscar nomination in 2011, one headline seemed to sum it up: Who Is John Hawkes, Anyway? Today its a different story: on the many blogs and Web sites devoted to predicting the winners of the 2013 Academy Awards, Mr. Hawkess name comes up frequently in conversations about best-actor nominations along with gold-star competition like Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) and Daniel DayLewis (Lincoln). Mr. Hawkes likes to think of himself as an overpreparer, and he certainly went the distance for The Sessions, in which his character spends much of the film encased in a huge metal apparatus with only his head showing. To approximate Mr. OBriens condition he had feeling in his body but was paralyzed except for one muscle in his right foot, Continued on Page 9
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QUOTABLE I dont think this dance is suitable for weddings. This is not a formal dance, this is a cheesy dance!
THE KOREAN SINGER PSY ON HIS VIRAL GANGNAM STYLE DANCE MOVES, PAGE 22.
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Ellie Goulding
The Morbid And the Worldly, Merging Anew

ECENTLY the British singer Ellie Goulding was in Paris, watching the city pass by outside a car window. I never get to enjoy this stuff, she said. But its beautiful. Ms. Goulding, 25, has seen a lot of scenery go by since the 2010 British release of Lights (Polydor), the glossy, synthpoporiented debut that made her a star in her native England. Ms. Goulding collected new-artist plaudits from the BBC and the Brit Awards and even performed for Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, at their royal wedding reception, Now, after that albums eponymous single spent nearly a year and half ascending the Billboard Hot 100, Ms. Goulding is enjoying the stateside spotlight and even appearing in the tabloids after beginning a relationship with the American dubstep producer Skrillex. Her new album, Halcyon (Cherrytree/Interscope), was mostly recorded in a barn near Lyonshall, the village where she grew up. Halcyon is nostalgic and frequently very sad a deeply felt swirl of synthesizers, piano and slowly building crescendos. The lyrics dwell on pain Letting darkness grow, as she puts it on the albums first single, Anything Could Happen and redemption in equal measure. Ms. Goulding recently spoke with Zach Baron by phone from Paris about her unlikely writing idols and singing Christmas carols with the first family. These are excerpts from their conversation. Q. Your father comes from a family of undertakers, which makes it sound like you grew up in a Victorian novel. A. My great-granddad, whom I never met, had an undertaking business. And everyone got involved my dad, his dad. I think my mom even helped out with embalming. I have always had very morbid fascinations, and my dad does too. Im not afraid of singing about something quite dark. Q. Your single Lights was on your 2010 debut, wasnt released in this country until 2011, and only reached the Top 5 here this past summer. Were you watching the songs slow climb? A. I didnt have a bloody clue. When I was writing Halcyon out in the countryside, I was isolated. Every so often I would check my e-mail, and there would be people say-
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ing Lights had been added to this station and that station, and its become really popular. Im like: This is quite cool. But its a bit late! Q. Last year you performed at the White House for a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. What was that like? A. I turned around and I was just singing a song next to the presidents daughters, and I thought, this is quite mental. This is quite surreal. Q. Did the president say anything to you? A. He said he liked my coat. I was wearing quite a special coat. I looked a bit like a polar bear. Q. Were you ever self-conscious about your interest in running, which is not exactly a cool rock star thing to do? A. Not really, because one of my writing idols is Haruki Murakami, who writes some of the darkest things Ive ever read in my life. He runs pretty much every day. And I figured that the best way to interact with fans, that isnt weird or awkward, is by going out running with them. I dont like the idea of being better than anyone, so I liked that we were all in the same sweaty mess. Q. Youve said that Halcyon is a breakup record. A. Basically Id already started writing the record, but it annoyingly, tragically came alive when Id broken up with someone. I was sort of lost and all over the place, and thats where a lot of these songs came from. But you know, then I wrote Anything Could Happen because suddenly my life changed again, and I met someone new. Q. That someone new was Skrillex. Is he a romantic guy? A. I suppose hes flown quite a long way to see me once. Q. Thats it? A. [Laughter.] He was supposed to be flying back from Ireland straight to L.A. And he took a diversion and flew to Spain. It was pretty extreme.
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CORRECTIONS
An article last Sunday about the director Ava DuVernay, whose new film is Middle of Nowhere, misidentified an award she won for Nowhere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. She received an award for best director of a drama; Nowhere did not win best dramatic film.
A picture caption on Sept. 30 with an article about the Palestinian flutist Dalia Moukarker misidentified the location of the Church of the Nativity, where Ms. Moukarker was photographed. It is in Bethlehem, not Jerusalem.
An article on Sept. 30 about the singer-songwriter Beth Orton misstated part of the name of a song from her new album, Sugaring Season. It is Dawn Chorus, not Dawn Patrol.
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At press time, thats the number of artists performing at the 33rd annual CMJ Music Marathon, a five-day festival devoted to up-and-coming bands. More than 30 countries are represented in the lineup, which includes the rapper Angel Haze and Ben Gibbard (right), the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie, whos playing at the HiFi Bar in the East Village on Tuesday to celebrate his debut solo album, Former Lives (Barsuk). The space has sentimental value for Mr. Gibbard: Back in 2000 Death Cab for Cutie played a CMJ showcase there when it was a club called Brownies, and he was so sick that he performed in a chair.
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THEATER Jason Zinoman COMING ATTRACTIONS
N the 1992 film version of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS Jack Lemmon found the pathos of the over-the-hill salesman Shelly Levene in a heartbreaking, almost sentimental performance. In the 2005 Broadway revival, Alan Alda delivered a harder-edged interpretation, making that desperate man more difficult to sympathize with. What Al Pacino will do with the role is one of the more interesting questions of the new revival of this David Mamet classic, which begins preview performances on Friday. Hes starring in an excellent cast that includes Bobby Cannavale as Ricky Roma, the part Mr. Pacino played in the movie.
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Mr. Pacino has a reputation as a scenery-chewer, Al Pacino, back but that stands out less onstage than on screen, and on Broadway he showed restraint as with Glengarry Shylock in the majestic reGlen Ross. cent production of The Merchant of Venice. In an interview before that show opened he offered a clue to his coming performance. On the subject of acting Mr. Mamets language, Mr. Pacino recalled a lesson from a production of that playwrights American Buffalo: He moved onstage less and less the more he performed. Excess was not necessary, Mr. Pacino said. The economy took over. In those performances, I was exhausted much more, but I moved much less. Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, 236 West 45th Street, Manhattan; (212) 239-6200, telecharge.com.
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HE jazz pianist JACKY TERRASSON has a fine touch, a clear conception with roots in Ahmad Jamal and Keith Jarrett, and an old interest in taking apart all kinds of songs to get at their potential for improvisers. He also has a pretty spectacular taste in rhythm sections: if you want to know which young bassists and drummers to follow, see who is working in his new band. His latest trio includes the bassJacky Terrasson, a ist Burniss Earl Travis, whos been pianist with a playing with Gretchen Parlato and good eye for with Jamire Williamss band Erimaj; and the drummer Justin Faulkner, up-and-coming whos been part of Branford Marsaliss bassists and quartet since he was 18, which was drummers. three years ago. Mr. Terrasson has a new album, Gouache, released by Universal in France. This is the first chance to hear some of that material, which might include Erik Saties Je Te Veux, Justin Biebers Baby and Sonny Rollinss Valse Hot. Sets at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, with an 11:30 p.m. set Friday and Saturday, Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan; (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard .net; $25-$30.
DANCE Gia Kourlas
LINK and youll miss it. AMERICAN BALLET THEATERS engagement at City Center may be short, but its packed with ballets worth watching. Along with the return of Mark Morriss Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes and Twyla Tharps In the Upper Room, the highlight is Symphony No. 9, a premiere by the companys artist in residence otherwise known as the sav-
Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on Nov. 18, promises a sweeping overview of that citys robust art scene during a transformative period. With more than 200 works on display, including Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, above, by the graphic designer Yokoo Tadanori, the show is bound to be packed with surprises. (moma.org)
ior of ballet Alexei Ratmansky. (An interview with Mr. Ratmansky is on Page 7.) The new dance is part of a trilogy of Shostakovich works that will be shown at the Metropolitan Opera House this spring. Shostakovich was the first composer Mr. Ratmansky discovered on his own, and his music has been a continual source of inspiration. During an interview at the Guggenheim Museum, Mr. Ratmansky called the commission the riskiest project he ever planned, asking, How would you sell three symphonies of Shostakovich at the Met? With Mr. Ratmanskys choreographic wizardry, its a snap. Tuesday through Saturday, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan; (212) 581-1212, abt.org; $20-$145.
The American Ballet Theater performing Twyla Tharps In the Upper Room.
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NY parent whose child is found to have a rare, debilitating medical condition embarks on a quest to learn as much as possible about it. But Dorey and Yolanda Nezs journey was particularly profound, serving not just as a lesson in genetics but also as a case study in how the broad events of history can have very personal consequences, even many generations later.
The Nez familys story is told in SUN KISSED, an installment of PBSs POV series that has
its premiere on Thursday night. (Check local listings.) The couple, who are Navajo, had two children with a severe form of xeroderma pigmentosum, or X.P., a genetic disorder, and then met other Navajo parents whose children had it as well. In the course of the documentary they learn that the relatively high prevalence of X.P. among Navajo children appears to stem from the Long Walk of 1864, a 450-mile forced relocation of the Navajo by the Army that killed many and restricted the tribes gene pool. The film, by Maya Stark and Adi Lavy, is built from an unusual mix of history, science and traditional Navajo culture, and its emotional climax pulls no punches.
HAT happens when you drop hothouse flowers from Andy Warhols Factory into sleepy, conservative San Diego? A surf movie, of course, though one with almost no surfing. (Only one Factory member, Tom Hompertz of Lonesome Cowboys, could actually surf.) Shot by Warhol and Paul Morrissey in 1968, SAN DIEGO SURF was only partly edited before being tucked away in the archives. Completed by Mr. Morrissey, it will have its premiere in the Museum of Modern Arts To Save and Project festival.
ART Karen Rosenberg
VERY portrait by douard Manet is, in some way, a comment on Parisian modernity. Perhaps thats why its rare to see his portraits isolated from his other works, as they are in MANET: PORTRAYING LIFE at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. Toledo is the only United States stop for the exhibition, which was organized with the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will appear there in 2013. The 40 paintings on view include mile Zola from the Muse dOrsay, Le Repos (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Toledo Museums own Portrait of M. Antonin Proust (a childhood friend of the artist, not to be confused with Marcel Proust). But not everything here sits as squarely in the portrait category: in The Railway, for instance, a little girl peers out at the Gare St.-Lazare through the bars of a tall iron fence. She is thought to be the daughter of Manets neighbor; the woman with her is Victorine Meurent, who modeled for Olympia and Le Djeuner sur lHerbe. And Manet seems less interested in them as individuals than as the eyes and ears of a changing city. Through Jan. 1; (419) 2558000, toledomuseum.org.
Part home movie, part slightly demented comedy of manners, this improvisatory film has a loose-to-nonexistent plot involving Viva (a scene stealer) and Taylor ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH Mead as a divorcing couple with social aspirations: Sepp Donahower, they want to leave behind the secondclass world of golfers to join the wonleft, and Tom derful world of surfers. Mostly the Hompertz in San movie listens in as people talk in that Diego Surf Warhol-Morrissey way: the banal (1968), at MoMAs seems hilariously subversive and the To Save and outr disarmingly frank, as in the endProject festival. ing here, a climactic burst of comic homoeroticism, featuring Mr. Mead, who will introduce the film at MoMA. (Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Modern Art; moma.org, 212-708-9400.)
CL ASSICAL Daniel J. Wakin

IFE is not complete without hearing a Handel tune played by a ukulele accompanying sequential, then simultaneous, renditions of Fly Me to the Moon, Love Story (Where Do I Begin), Killing Me Softly With His Song, Hotel California and I Will Survive. It is not complete without listening to an ensemble of ukuleles strumming the funky theme from Shaft as a man looking like an assistant bank manager in provincial Britain pronounces the lyric Whos the black private dick whos a hit with all the chicks? It is not complete without experiencing the desolate up-and-down whistled theme from The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly accompanied by a band of ukuleles. For the uninitiated, were talking about the UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN, which is not really an orchestra but eight people in formal wear playing differentsize versions of the humble four-stringed instrument. For the rest, you know what were talking about: performances full of wit, musical polish and sheer loopiness. After selling out Carnegies Zankel Hall in 2010 (their YouTube hits number in the millions), the Ukulele Orchestra has been given an upgrade and will perform in Carnegies main auditorium at 8 p.m. on Wednesday. Ticket holders are invited to bring their ukuleles to join along on one piece, but first see the score on Carnegies Web site. (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $12.50-$60.
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The Railway is one of the works in an exhibition of Manet portraits at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.
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Savoring the Rewards Of Button Pushing T

HE work of the playwright Thomas Bradshaw has been described as depicting life with all the boring parts taken out. It might also be described as life with all the ghastly extremes incest, pedophilia, rape, racially motivated murder added back in, and depicted in a deadpan style that has prompted both big laughs and angry walkouts. In Job, which runs at the Flea Theater through Nov. 3, Mr. Bradshaw, 32, takes on that biblical story in a production Ben Brantley of The New York Times called a jolting treat. Speaking with Jennifer Schuessler by phone from Evanston, Ill., where he teaches at Northwestern University, Mr. Bradshaw talked about the play and the philosophy behind his buttonpushing work. Here are excerpts from the conversation.
Q. What attracted you to the Job story?
The playwright Thomas Bradshaw, far right, has created works that have impressed some critics and outraged others. His Job (near right, with Marie-Claire Roussel and Sean McIntyre) is now at the Flea Theater.
And why did you decide to stage it with so much graphic violence? A. Saying I grew up in the Baptist church would be a stretch, but I was baptized and sat through a lot of sermons. Part of me wanted to present a biblical story without any interpretation spun into it. As for the violence, the Bible is full of sex and violence. God said to Satan, I allow you to visit unspeakable horrors on my faithful servant Job. I wanted to play that out, to see what Job had to experience, or a version of what Job had to experience.
Q. At the show I saw, people started laugh-
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A. Those scenes werent played for laughs,
and that is the thing Im most adamant about in my work: that actors not tip their hand. It would be O.K. if an audience laughed all the way through, or no one laughed at all.
brother and sister who were suing the German government for the right to marry. These may not be everyday occurrences, but they are things that real people are doing. I think what disturbs people about my work is that I dont demonize any of my characters. Theres something very interesting about humanizing characters we dont want to identify with. People can have different ideas of what it means to be an ethical person. I want to explore that.
Q. Youve spoken of the limits of psycho-
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A. You would never know from the reviews
Q. Youre often described as a provocateur,
a label you dislike. Do you aim to shock?
logical realism, and say you write plays without subtext. Whats wrong with subtext?
A. When I first started writing, I didnt
think there was anything shocking about my material. But I learned very quickly that there was. I view my work as being about reality a hyper-reality, but reality. People were really outraged by my subject matter. But I was depicting things that really happen, more than people would like to believe. Q. What are some of the real-world incidents that have inspired you? A. Purity [about two professors who travel to Ecuador to have sex with a 9-year-old girl, an event depicted onstage] was partly inspired by a newspaper article I read about the North American Man-Boy Love Association. The incestuous relationship in Burning was partly inspired by a
A. Theres nothing wrong with it. But I find that in real life people dont talk the way they do in most plays. In New Jersey, where I grew up, people often said exactly what they were thinking. They didnt try to soften the blow. But then again, now I live in the Midwest, and I find theres a lot more subtext out here. You have to interpret more what people are saying. Q. When Mary about a contemporary
that people were laughing the whole time. About 200 people would stay for the talkbacks afterward the audience really wanted to talk about the play. My work puts people in that place of questioning their own reactions. I think the critical reaction was a bit like that too. People asked themselves: Do I really want to say good things about this play?
Q. Your treatment of race is often described as politically incorrect. As a black playwright, do you feel an expectation to write a certain kind of play? A. I think its lessening somewhat. None of
Southern couple who essentially keep a slave was produced at the Goodman Theater in Chicago last year, the critics were pretty direct, with one asking if the play wasnt a complete and total hoax designed to see just how much hokum and bunkum todays theater audiences might be willing to tolerate. Did the hostility of
my explorations of race are traditional. Cleansed was about a biracial girl who finds out her grandfather was a grand wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and starts to identify with that part of her heritage. It was presented on a bill with Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist, which showed Thurmond as a good father to the daughter he had with his black maid. His behavior is something that is unexplainable from the outside, and I dont try to explain it. I just
wanted to show the man in all his fullness. Q. Youre working on a screenplay version of Uncle Toms Cabin. How straight do you play it? A. Im sticking very close to the story. One of the things Im interested in is how the term Uncle Tom got subverted into something negative. His downfall was caused by his super-ethical behavior. It was the opposite of trying to help his white masters out. Does he deserve the judgment hes received? You might decide he does. But without a faithful adaptation, its hard to do that. Q. In a recent round-table discussion with other playwrights, you said New York theater needed to push more boundaries. Can you elaborate? A. When I lived in New York, I was at the theater seven nights a week, and 85 percent of the time I was bored. That should not be the case ever. Theater should always be immediate, in the moment and allconsuming. Playwrights like Miller and ONeill were pushing the boundaries for their time. We should be pushing them for our time. Why be an artist otherwise?
Congos Pain, Told by Those Who Lived It

By ERIC GRODE
HE thought of Kambale Syaghuswa performing on a Manhattan stage is all but unimaginable. Just a few years ago he fled the Democratic Republic of Congo, having escaped a training camp for child soldiers on farmland that had once belonged to his father. And just one month ago he was a truck driver in Syracuse, N.Y., where he was part of that citys robust Congolese population. But when Mr. Syaghuswa and four other members of that Syracuse community take the stage of La MaMas Ellen Stewart Theater on Thursday to perform Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo, he will join a rich and wide-ranging chorus, one that over 20 years has included Native
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Top, from left, Cyprien Mihigo, Beatrice Neema, Emmanuel Ndeze, Kambale Syaghuswa and Mona de Vestel in Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo, in front of an image of Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Left, Ping Chong, standing, with Mr. Mihigo.
Americans from Kansas, Hmong women from Minnesota and disabled people from New Mexico. Its a group that includes not a single actor, or at least none playing the part of anyone but themselves. That is the central tenet of Undesirable Elements, an ambitious series that the theater troupe Ping Chong & Company has conducted for 20 years. What began as an offshoot of an art exhibition now consists of more than 40 original performances of what Mr. Chong calls seated opera of the spoken word, each made up of marginalized voices telling their stories in a theatrical context. The sets are bare with the exception of chairs, music stands and often video pro-
jections that contextualize the stories of neglect, resilience and outsiderdom. La MaMa, which has a long history with Mr. Chong and his company, will feature three Undesirable Elements productions over the next three weeks. After Cry for Peace, which was performed last month in Syracuse, will be Silent Survivors, made up of adults who were victims of sexual abuse as children, and Inside/Out . . . voices from the disability community. Each piece is about giving voice to the disempowered, said Mr. Chong, 66, whose involvement ranges from assembling the final text from a series of interviews to honing the efforts of his collaborators. (Ping Chong & Company also produces other, unrelated theater pieces.) Its about a communion between a community and a group they might consider other. While each work looks at a different region or population, all of them tend to take shape in a similar way. Ping Chong & Company nearly always pairs with another organization typically a theater, but sometimes a charitable organization that brings together two dozen or so members of the population in question; after interviews the final cast is narrowed to between five and seven cast members. The initial encounters provide the groundwork for up to six hours of additional interviews. Once those are completed, Ping Chong and his collaborators Sara Zatz on all three La MaMa shows as well as Kyle Bass on Cry for Peace turn the individual stories into a cohesive theater piece, often augmenting them with historical background. For example, Cry for Peace balances its five participants tales with a sobering
timeline of Congos history, from the nightmarish conditions under King Leopold II of Belgium to the kleptocracy of Mobutu Sese Seko to the current corruption that stems from the production of the mineral coltan, a crucial ingredient in making smartphones and laptops. At each step the subjects are involved so that they continue having ownership of their stories, Mr. Chong said. Given the Congos history as a colonized and raped nation, he added, we were really careful about not coming in and taking their stories and selling tickets. The companys partner for Cry for Peace is Syracuse University. In 2010 Cyprien Mihigo, a local Congolese community leader who had written a narrative play about his nations history, approached Mr. Bass, the dramaturge at the university-affiliated Syracuse Stage, about producing the work. Instead, Mr. Bass had the idea of inviting back Mr. Chong, who had done an earlier Undesirable Elements project with him. This time he would work with Congolese residents and explore how and why so many had made their way to snowy Syracuse. After interviewing about everyone in the community, according to Mr. Syaghuswa, Mr. Chong and Mr. Bass chose five representative members, including Mr. Mihigo, Mr. Syaghuswa and a biracial woman whose Belgian father was a link to Congos Western colonizers. The stories, filled with sexual enslavement, abandoned families and murdered babies, are often harrowing to hear. Mr. Bass said they were even harder to tell: We always have a box of Kleenex at the table for our interviews.
Many Undesirable Elements productions have had a short run of a few weeks or even a few days, although some have been staged subsequently in other theaters. One piece, Twin Cities, which charted the stories of some Minnesota residents, was staged sporadically for a decade, outliving one of its performers; the mans daughter stepped into the role to read her fathers words. The essence of Undesirable Elements, said Ms. Zatz, the associate director of the program, is that its always real people telling the story of their lives. The casts of Silent Survivors and Inside/Out are largely based in New York, Ms. Zatz said, so they were relatively easy to reassemble for the LaMaMa run. The Ping Chong company insists on microphones for all performances of Undesirable Elements pieces, she said, because these are nonprofessional speakers and the words are so important. An anthology of four productions, Undesirable Elements: Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater, will be published on Oct. 30 by TCG Books. It will include Inside/Out and the first piece, which Mr. Chong created in conjunction with his 1992 art installation A Facility for the Channeling and Containment of Undesirable Elements. But the narratives in Cry for Peace are too fluid, too embedded within Congos current miseries, to be contained in print. The story I told them in 2010 is not my story today, Mr. Syaghuswa said. My father was alive in 2010, and then he was killed. So they had to change it. I hope that the next time we do it, they dont have to change it again.
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For the Love Of Shostakovich, The Destroyer

LEXEI RATMANSKY, the artist in residence at American Ballet Theater since 2009 and one of the most sought-after choreographers in ballet, has made at least seven works to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. That list is about to grow significantly longer. On Thursday at City Center, Ballet Theater will present the debut of Symphony No. 9, the first in a trilogy of dances to Shostakovich symphonies that will be brought together during the companys 2013 season at the Metropolitan Opera House. A work for 21 dancers, Symphony No. 9 is, in Mr. Ratmanskys words, storyless but not abstract. It was, in a sense, a Shostakovich work that gained the St. Petersburg-born Russian choreographer the artistic directorship of the Bolshoi Ballet in 2004, turning heads in the West. The Bright Stream a comic ballet set on a collective farm, which Mr. Ratmansky rechoreographed had not been performed as a ballet since its 1935 premiere, when Soviet authorities expressed their potentially lethal disapproval. Russian themes and composers are core preoccupations for Mr. Ratmansky, as evidenced this year by his version of Stravinskys Firebird. But in his Shostakovich pieces especially, he seems to be grappling, often gently and subtly, with the system under which he lived the first two decades of his life. Recently the ever-busy choreographer, 44, discussed the composer and the new project with Brian Seibert at American Ballet Theaters offices in Manhattan. Mr. Ratmansky, who is always springing to his feet in rehearsal, retains some of that steady energy in talk. He chooses his words carefully, and not just because English is not his first language. He has the self-deprecating humor of the justifiably confident. Here are excerpts from their conversation.
Q. What draws you to Shostakovichs mu-
Q. About what? A. He was the child of the Russian avantgarde, super brave and grotesque, almost evil. And then in the 30s he went through such pressure, it crushed his self-importance. He expected arrest every night. His friends and relatives were arrested and killed. It changed his ideas of what the artist should be. It was the fate of most of the sensitive people in Russia in the 20th century: They went inward. But I think he also felt a responsibility to be the voice of many people. Q. Do you? A. No. Well, we dont know about the future, but for now its comfortable. What our grandparents went through, though, its terrible. My grandmother still lives with my parents in Kiev. She was born in 1908, with Nicholas II and Tolstoy and Petipa still alive. She lived through all of it, so its not so far back. This music speaks important things to me. Q. More than other composers work? A. Yeah. Q. Has it always? A. I was listening from a very early age. It taught me a lot. Especially his grotesque stuff. He was doing absolutely crazy things. Im not as courageous. Things like The Nose its hooliganism. He did whatever he wanted. Q. You mean humor? A. Its much stronger than humor. Its nihilism. He destroys things. He takes something very seriously, and then he crushes it with the most vulgar melody from the street. He plays with the expectations of the listener. He started playing for silent movies, so he learned the correspondence between action and sound.
Q. Why the Ninth Symphony in particular? A. When I was 13 or 14 I got a stipend as a
good student: 30 rubles, a huge amount. I spent it on records, and Symphony No. 9 was one of the first. Since then Ive been waiting for the right moment.
but there is no useful system to write it down, so I need to have it in my head, and then Im rushing to give it to the dancers. As soon as they have it, we can shape it together.
Q. Are you thinking of particular dancers when you listen? A: Yes. I cant really separate the dancers from the steps. I dont think it works. If I can pull the personality from the dancer, thats best. Q. And youre trying to connect that to the music? A. The process starts with the music, then
Q. What about it appeals to you? A. It has very danceable pages, just running or sailing with the wind to your face. But its full of contrasts, and theres something underneath the surface. After the political success of Symphonies No. 7 and 8, everyone was expecting Shostakovich to give the triumphal celebration of victory this was 1945. But he didnt. There is everything in it: melancholy, romance, grotesque, heroic, banal very strong contrasting colors. Q. The range is whats important? A. Also that its short. You cant really sustain the interest of the audience with just dancing for more than 20 minutes, 30 maximum for me. Then you need some special effect or story. Q. Can you describe how you listen to the
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A. Hes very Russian. You can learn the
history of the country from his music. He was very sensitive, very true, even if he had to have a mask on. Like Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, on that level of diving deep into the soul and the time. His music answers so many questions.
Top left, Alexei Ratmansky at the American Ballet Theater studios, and right, dancing there as he prepares a new piece to music by Dmitri Shostakovich, working with the dancer Luciana Paris. Above, Shostakovich, around 1942.
shifts more to the dancers. This dance will reference Shostakovichs life, the Russian realities of that time not literally, just colors. But I also hope the trilogy will be a portrait of the company. By now I see what they are and where they can go.
Q. The trilogy is supposed to work as a
whole?
music?
A. When I hear the music I think steps, try-
ing different steps like different gloves. It feels like a crossword puzzle: it exists, you just need to find the right words. I prepare,
ny will probably work on its own. These dancers even with nothing, theyll do something. But as a whole its hard to predict. This is a crazy project. People listen to a few symphonies of the same composer in a concert, right? So in any case, you can close your eyes and listen.
A. This is the trickiest part. Each sympho-
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From Page 1 a muscle in his neck and one in his jaw Mr. Hawkes did everything from studying Jessica Yus Oscar-winning documentary short (Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O Brien) to devoting a week stretched out on a couch teaching himself to punch in a phone number using a stick held in his mouth. Then there was the actual shoot, which required spending long days completely still with his neck craned at a 90-degree angle while co-stars like Helen Hunt and William H. Macy hovered over him. Lying down and literally not having movement below your neck? Mr. Hawkes said. It was a particular challenge. Mr. Hawkes did not see a finished version of The Sessions (a Fox Searchlight release) until its premiere at this years Sundance Film Festival, where audience members leapt to their feet at the end. But Mr. Hawkes said he was most moved by what followed the applause: the sight of Mr. Lewin, who also had survived polio, coming to the front of the house for a postscreening discussion. Sundance is about the wunderkind in their 20s wowing the world with their first feature, Mr. Hawkes said. He added that, to watch Mr. Lewin, who is 66, make his way on his crutches with a large smile on his face to the stage that made me so happy. Mr. OBrien, the subject of the film, died in 1999 at the age of 49. Early reviews for The Sessions, which opens Friday in a limited release, have echoed the reaction at the screening. Hawkes works some kind of miracle despite the self-evident physical limitations of the role, wrote Peter DeBruge in Variety, adding later, His face is an open book to the mans innermost hopes and fears. The Sessions is a turning point for Mr. Hawkes not just because it is one of his largest roles but also because, in Mr. Lewins view, it is atypical for Mr. Hawkes, a big-eyed, soft-spoken 53-year-old, to play someone whose temperament is so similar to his own. I dont want to be presumptuous, but there was much less difference between John and Mark OBrien than between John and Teardrop, Mr. Lewin said, rattling off a few other qualities. Hes very wry, funny and sweet. Like Mark OBrien, John loves women. He loves to flirt and to joke. I felt that he was using his own personality a lot of the time. For much of his 26-year film career, Mr. Hawkes has specialized in playing men who are rumpled, rough around the edges and often their own worst enemies. Ive played a lot of people who you walk across the street to avoid, said Mr. Hawkes, who thinks of his dramatic niche as underdogs, guys who arent equipped to solve their problems but gamely and blithely keep punching I find that interesting. Sitting in a strip-mall deli here, Mr. Hawkes didnt much resemble the kind of person who frightens pedestrians. Dressed in a collared shirt and bluejeans, he came off as earnest, unaffected and a bit nervous about now being in the spotlight rather than being a nearly invisible ensemble member. At one point he pulled out a pad of paper and scribbled notes to himself. If we run out of things to talk about, theres a zillion more things I can say about preparation, he said when asked what he was writing. When his potato pancakes arrived, he cut them into neat slices, then paused before putting a piece in his mouth, asking, Do you want a bite? So how did this polite, gentle man end up playing lowlifes and hoodlums? Mr. Hawkes traced his emotional connection with outsiders to his small-town upbringing in Alexandria, Minn. I wasnt the golden boy when I was growing up, said Mr. Hawkes, who discovered the joys of acting in high school when he was cast in Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown. I was physically small. I was teased as a kid about having a big nose, too skinny, things like that. I have an innocence about me that people often have laughed at. None of this broke me down. But those feelings, theyre of use to me. After graduation he moved to Austin, Tex., and soon became a respected fixture in that citys theater scene. Technically, his first film appearance was in Future-Kill,
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From top, Mr. Hawkes in New York recently; with Helen Hunt in The Sessions; with Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene; and in Winters Bone.
grown. In Me and You and Everyone We Know he played a romantic lead, a hapless shoe salesman; in Martha Marcy May Marlene, a disturbing drama written and directed by Sean Durkin, he had the key role of an entrancing, guitar-strumming leader of an upstate New York cult. The offer to appear in Steven Spielbergs Lincoln, in which Mr. Hawkes plays a lobbyist (along with James Spader and Tim Blake Nelson) trying to win votes to abolish slavery, came after The Sessions. What I found out was that Id be asleep through the only scene Id have with Daniel Day-Lewis, Mr. Hawkes said of the movies star. But that was before revisions by the screenwriter, Tony Kushner. Luck-
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An actor with a familiar face moves decisively beyond obscurity and premature death on screen.
ily, Tony woke us up and I got to actually be present with him. Once Mr. Hawkes was on board for The Sessions, Mr. Lewin asked him for casting suggestions. Because of this, Mr. Hawkes has so many mini-reunions in The Sessions that it could be the basis of a trivia game. Theres Robin Weigert as the love interest. She was Calamity Jane in Deadwood, the HBO western that featured Mr. Hawkes as Sol Star. Theres W. Earl Brown, also from Deadwood, as a caregiver. The grouchy nurse? Thats Rusty Schwimmer. She played a causticbarfly wooed by Mr. Hawkess lonely fishermanin The Perfect Storm. Ms. Schwimmer said that Mr. Hawkes made it sound as if she were doing him a favor by taking the part. He needed someone that he didnt have to baby-sit, someone who could just go with the flow, Ms. Schwimmer said as her rasping voice filled with warmth. Hes that kind of guy who takes care of other actors. Hes the dude.
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a 1985 slasher he would rather forget. He prefers to think of his role three years later as a snoozing student in the thriller D.O.A. as his feature debut. I remember drooling a little bit and they didnt like that and the director made me stop, said Mr. Hawkes, adding that the films star, Dennis Quaid, told him: Youre a good actor. You should be in New York or L.A. He finally moved here in 1990 and began working steadily. For a stretch he seemed well on his way to becoming Hollywoods go-to guy for big, early death scenes. He was bumped off in Sweet Poison, Congo, From Dusk Till Dawn, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Boogie Boy; in Miami Vice he was a hopped-up informant who committed suicide by stepping in front of a speeding semi. More than once he discovered his characters dark fate only after accepting the role. Seconds after the scene you auditioned with, you find out youre dead and not knowing it was coming, Mr. Hawkes said with an uncomfortable shrug. Its kind of embarrassing when people say, You die in every movie, when you dont. From movie to movie the number of lines Mr. Hawkes gets and the importance of his characters to the story have slowly
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The Sad Beauty in Schuberts Last Sonatas

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
HEN reading articles about him in the British press, the pianist Paul Lewis said, his parents have been annoyed by comments that exaggerate the familys background. We werent destitute, he said. It wasnt Billy Elliot, just a normal working-class upbringing. But Mr. Lewis, a soft-spoken, touslehaired native of Liverpool, England, acknowledged during a recent interview in a borrowed Upper West Side apartment that he did have an unconventional introduction to classical music. The son of a dockworker, he was not exposed to the genre at home, and he became hooked after discovering classical records as a child in his local library. The librarian encouraged his budding passion, although his family did not share his newfound enthusiasm for Beethoven. Beethoven has been an important element in the career of Mr. Lewis, 40. So has Schubert, whose music he has been playing on international tours in recent years. On Saturday at Alice Tully Hall he is to offer a recital of Schuberts final three piano sonatas as part of Lincoln Centers White Light Festival. In recent performances in New York and on his excellent recordings for the Harmonia Mundi label, Mr. Lewis has proved himself a masterly interpreter. In particular, his admirable blend of poise, passion and intimacy reveals the melancholy beauty of Schuberts piano repertory. Mr. Lewis completed a major Schubert
His repertory next season will include Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition, late works by Liszt and a sonata by the obscure Julius Reubke, a pupil of Liszts. He is pondering whether to revisit Mily Balakirevs fiendishly difficult Islamey, before I get too old to play it. Its very physical stuff, he said. Although Mr. Lewis could play the piano by ear from a young age, there was no piano teacher at his school, so at 8 he began studying cello. His parents, wanting to support his talent, sent him to audition for Chethams School of Music, in Manchester. That revealed a naivety on their part, he said, because he was woefully underprepared. But a teacher there offered to instruct him privately, and a few years later, at 14, he reapplied and was accepted. Everything has happened for me at the right pace, Mr. Lewis said. I would have never been able to handle 100 concerts a year at 18 or 19. It would have destroyed me. Its only because its happened step by step that I have been able to do it. You have to grow into it and learn how to handle it along the way and make mistakes and musically find where your abilities lie. The pianist Alfred Brendel had a similar career trajectory, he added. Mr. Brendel has been one of Mr. Lewiss primary men-
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tors and was the first pianist whose recordings he heard at the Liverpool library. The two first met when Mr. Lewis played Haydns Sonata in E flat (Hob. XVI:52) in a master class led by Mr. Brendel at the Guildhall School in London, where Mr. Lewis was an undergraduate. He was terrified, he said. Mr. Brendel, a legendary interpreter of Schubert and Beethoven who has now retired from the concert stage, praised his protgs gifts in a telephone interview from London and said he had immediately sensed in Mr. Lewis a musical affinity which I can still hear. I felt that he has understood better than most people what I want to do, but not as an imitator, Mr. Brendel added. I am grateful that I could hear myself without having the impression that I had been stolen. Mr. Lewis may have been a relatively late bloomer, but he now performs around 100 times a year, and he enjoys the life of a touring concert pianist. I get excited to play anywhere, said Mr. Lewis, who lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with his wife, Bjorg Lewis, a cellist, and three young children. Im still like a little boy about traveling. But he felt ambivalent about New York on his first visit in 2001. I had the same reaction as when I went to Tokyo for the first time, he said. I just didnt get it. I thought, Its all too much. Then you go back and it finally clicks what a place is about. New York and Tokyo, he added, are now the cities he most looks forward to visiting. As with music, it takes me time to settle into something, to work out what it is about something I like, he said. That unhurried approach has rendered his Schubert interpretations richly rewarding.
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The last three sonatas by a dying Schubert contain turbulence, nostalgia and acceptance, said the pianist Paul Lewis, top and above, who will play them on Saturday at Alice Tully Hall.
tour a decade ago; this time around, he said, it feels like picking up unfinished business in a way. The program on Saturday comprises the Sonatas in C minor (D. 958), A (D. 959) and B flat (D. 960), all written in 1828 during the last months of Schuberts life, when he knew he was dying. Schubert asks the performer to speak softly, Mr. Lewis said, which renders the music more powerful. If someone shouts at you its a shock, he said. But if someone gives you awful news in a softly spoken way its sinister. With Beethoven, he said, there is a sense of rising above or resolution, but with Schubert you end up with more questions, a sense of something hanging in the air. That changes in the last Schubert sonatas, he continued. The turbulence of the C minor sonata, through the nostalgia of the A major sonata, to the final sense of acceptance in the B flat sonata, take us on one of the most moving and rewarding musical journeys of the 19th century, he said. There is something that represents the past, present and future about these three works, which have a kind of emotional logic to them.
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The Conductor With an Ear For Peace

By HARVEY SACHS
HEN the 25-year-old Gyorgy Solti stood on the podium of the Hungarian National Opera in Budapest on March 11, 1938, to lead a single performance of Mozarts Nozze di Figaro, he was the first unconverted Jew to conduct in that house since World War I. But a few hours after the young mans debut, Hitlers armies marched unopposed into Austria. Hungarians in general, and Jews in Hungary especially, worried about what was in store for them: the Austrian border was only a short drive away. Solti was lucky to be in Switzerland when World War II broke out in September 1939. But for the next six years he lived precariously, at first on a series of temporary visas and with few sources of income, and always with the knowledge that if Germany won the war, Switzerland would be invaded and he would probably perish. Jump to London in 1992. Gyorgy Solti was now Georg Solti, an 80-year-old eminence in the music world, former music director of the Munich Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Royal Opera in London and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and still much sought after as a guest conductor around the globe. At a surprise birthday event, hosted at Buckingham Palace by Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, famous singers and instrumentalists performed for him, and leading players from 15 orchestras that he had recently conducted formed a chamber ensemble to serenade him with Wagners Siegfried Idyll. In thanking everyone afterward, Solti wondered aloud why musicians from many different countries and backgrounds could play together in harmony, whereas international diplomats could not manage to agree on the crucial issue of world peace. Sometime afterward, his wife, Valerie Solti, had lunch with the wife of the United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and the two women conceived the idea of an orchestra made up of players from all over the world to perform on the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in 1995. In July of that year, at the Victoria Hall in Geneva which had been home to the League of Nations, predecessor to the United Nations Solti conducted 79 musicians from 24 countries in a program of music by Rossini, Bartok and Beethoven. There had been some doubt as to whether an ensemble made up of so many disparate strands could function properly, but at the first rehearsal Solti turned to the few
Georg Solti in an undated photo. He would have turned 100 this month.
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Right, Valery Gergiev with the World Orchestra for Peace in Beijing in 2005; below right, Solti with Richard Strauss at a rehearsal in 1949; and below left, the recording of Wagners Gtterdmmerung, conducted by Solti, in 1964.
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people seated in the auditorium and shouted, It works! The World Orchestra for Peace was born. The orchestra was to reassemble at Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1998 for a second performance under Soltis baton, but he died six months before the concert. Valery Gergiev, who knew Solti well and sympathized with the orchestras intentions, agreed to take over. Because the project had become so close to Soltis heart, Mrs. Solti and Charles Kaye, the conductors administrative assistant for 20 years, wanted it to live on, and like the phoenix that periodically rises from its own ashes, the World Orchestra for Peace rematerializes whenever conditions permit. Mr. Gergiev has conducted all of the ensembles subsequent performances: 16 of them between 2000 and 2011, in 12 countries. Although neither Mr. Gergiev nor the players are paid for these performances, travel expenses are reimbursed, scheduling and logistical problems are enormous, and Mr. Kaye has to find money each time to meet the costs, which rise easily into seven figures. This years two concerts, the ensembles first appearances in the United States, commemorate the 100th anniversary of Soltis birth, next Sunday. The first concert, on Friday, is at Carnegie Hall; the second, next Sunday, is at the Symphony Center in Chicago, which was Soltis main American musical home. In both Mr. Gergiev and the orchestra will perform the Nozze di Figaro Overture, Strausss Don Juan, the Adagietto from Mahlers Fifth Symphony and Bartoks Concerto for Orchestra. In the middle, the soprano Angela Gheorghiu and the bass Ren Pape, both of whom were helped greatly by Solti early in their careers, will each perform an aria, and four youngsters from the Georg Solti Accademia in Castiglione della Pescaia, the Tuscan town where Solti had his summer home, will perform the quartet from Verdis Rigoletto, conducted by Cristian Macelaru, a recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Conductor Award. The composers are all among those Solti loved. He knew Strauss personally late in that composers life, and he was among the conductors responsible for the great surge
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of interest in Mahlers music a half-century ago. Solti studied piano for a time with Bartok at the music academy in Budapest, and according to his wife, Bartok was his great hero, because he was a man of great courage, integrity and humanistic values. She added, My husband thought that one should try to live ones life as Bartk lived his. Solti knew well that a World Orchestra for Peace, no matter how noble its intentions, could do little to make world peace a reality. But he was a musician, not a diplomat; he could contribute only through his music-making, and he viewed this orchestra as a symbol of how the world could change if the mentality of enough people could be turned around. He told me once that when he was a boy, prejudice against Romanians and Czechoslovakians was inculcated into Hungarian children because of territorial disputes among the nations, and that he still found it hard not to think, Beat the bastards, when Hungarys national soccer team played against one of its neighbors. It was terribly important, he said, to eradicate national, racial and religious prejudices everywhere.
I got to know Solti personally only during the last three years of his life, when I helped him write his book Memoirs, but even then, in his mid-80s, he was a dynamo. I remember him doing laps in his swimming pool in Italy, whacking tennis balls determinedly at younger opponents, struggling not to doze off during late-night bridge games, racing my 12-year-old son on bike rides, rushing up and down the stairs at his North London home and clambering through the snow near his chalet in the Swiss Alps. He was completely impractical outside his field; he relied on his wife and various assistants to do virtually everything for him. And he was the worst driver I have ever had the uncomfortable, not to say frightening, experience of sitting next to. I was told by a reliable source that the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov once asked Solti for a ride from Heathrow Airport in London but, having gone a few hundred feet, got out of the car and hitchhiked into town. A fundamentally sweet, generous man, Solti absolutely doted on his daughters, Gabrielle and Claudia, who were born when I was old enough to be a grandfather, he said. He had a lively, sometimes wicked, sense of humor, and the first thing he would ask me over the phone or in person after an absence would be, Any new jokes? He often made fun of himself, especially of his notoriously idiosyncratic way with the English language. But remember, he said once, my French is much worse. Yet where music was concerned he was dead serious, not only because the music itself demanded his devotion but also because he would have considered himself lacking in respect toward his musicians had he come ill-prepared to a rehearsal. He was anything but a quick study: he told me his visual memory was poor and that he had to learn every piece slowly and painfully, and his scores were covered in multicolored annotations in pencil and crayon. As a conductor, Solti had absorbed the influence of diverse older maestros like Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwngler and many more, but his artistic personality was entirely his own. Although textural clarity and rhythmic incisiveness were the hallmarks of his interpretations, he delighted in the ample, brilliant orchestral sonorities of the sort that his beloved Chicago Symphony produced so magnificently. Many of Soltis recordings of Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Strauss and Bartok have just been reissued by Decca, his label for 50 years, in a 100-CD centennial edition that includes a deluxe repackaging of Wagners Ring: the first complete studio recording of the cycle, made between 1958 and 1965. It is a fitting tribute to a man who worked so hard decade after decade to bring this music to life. When the musicians of the World Orchestra for Peace walk onto the Carnegie Hall stage on Friday, audience members might take a moment to think about that evening in 1938 when the young Solti stood on the podium in Budapest as Hitlers armies prepared to march to the Hungarian border, and of why and how the idea of putting an end to prejudice and hatred became so central to Soltis way of being.
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Bending Time, Bending Minds

From Page 1 phone from Ireland, where he lives. Mr. Wachowski, in New York this month, said: We actually werent sure it could be done. We were skeptical going into the writing process. That was a sort of exploration, just to see if it was even possible. A lot of skeptics are waiting to see the same thing. The Wachowskis, whose three Matrix movies earned well over a billion dollars worldwide, used to have tremendous credibility in Hollywood, but their most recent movie, Speed Racer, was a big-budget dud, and not everyone who read the Cloud Atlas script was convinced that audiences would spend close to three hours trying to follow it. The project came about because the Wachowskis and Mr. Tykwer, close friends, were looking for something complicated enough that they could work on it together. In 2005, on the set of V for Vendetta, which the Wachowskis wrote and produced, Ms. Wachowski heard about Cloud Atlas from Natalie Portman, one of that films stars. Ms. Wachowski read it and gave it to her brother, and then they urged Mr. Tykwer to take a look. Who better, if you think about it? Mr. Tykwer, 47, a German filmmaker, is probably best known for Run Lola Run, a movie that doesnt tell multiple stories, exactly, but rather the same story, with subtle variations, over and over again. The Wachowskis (she is 47; he, 44), in the Matrix movies, posit that reality itself is just a story. Squeezed around a hotel coffee table in New York, they could have been characters in each others films. Mr. Tykwer is wiry, intense and intellectual. Lana Wachowski, who until 2002 was Larry Wachowski and now has a mop of red, Raggedy Ann dreadlocks, is earnest and thoughtful. Her brother, Andy, is blunt and down to earth. With his broad frame and large shaved head, you could mistake him for a bouncer in a Russian bar. From the beginning the filmmakers ruled out the idea of telling the novels six stories sequentially. They didnt think audiences would sit still for it. Try to imagine, youre sitting there in the theater for 90 minutes, and then a whole new story starts, Ms. Wachowski said, shaking her head. So instead they broke the novel down into hundreds of scenes, transcribed them onto color-coded index cards and shuffled them around, looking for patterns and parallels and a way to splice them together. Eventually they began to see certain similarities between characters in the different narratives and hit upon the movies most distinctive feature: having a single actor play multiple roles. In effect they took what is a relatively minor motif in the novel the idea of eternal recurrence and turned it into a major one. They also laid on top of it a plot of moral or karmic progression, so that Mr. Hanks, the lead, goes from being the movies worst character, a doctor trying to poison the 19th-century notary, to its best, the futuristic goatherd, Zachry, who saves humanity, or what remains of it. Mr. Grant, on the other hand, goes in the opposite direction, starting out bad as a racist missionary in the 19th-century story and winding up worse as a slobbering cannibal in the postapocalyptic one. Some actors even play members of the opposite sex. In a way all of our movies are about interconnectivity and about truth beneath the surface, Ms. Wachowski said. There are parts of me and parts of Andy in all of
Turning a novel with six stories spanning several centuries into a film was not an easy sell.
them, and now there are parts of Tom. A constant theme is the transformational and transcendental power of love. She turned to her collaborators and added, Their acceptance of me has certainly been transformational in my own life. Strictly speaking, the filmmakers were under no obligation to seek Mr. Mitchells approval. They had bought the rights and could do whatever they liked. But after Alan Moore, the author of the graphic novel on which V for Vendetta is based, complained bitterly about that movie, the Wachowskis determined not to make Cloud Atlas unless Mr. Mitchell gave his blessing. Mr. Mitchell recalled that they met in a hotel in Cork, and then he and Ms. Wachowski spent a couple of hours in a pub over pints of Murphys discussing narrative theory. I felt as if Id been in a creative writing course, he said. Mr. Mitchell happily approved all their ideas, including such departures from the book as trans-
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From top, James DArcy, left, and Ben Whishaw in Cloud Atlas; the directors, from left, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer; Halle Berry, center, facing Mr. Tykwer during filming; and from left, Ms. Berry, Tom Hanks and Hugh Grant in the movie.
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porting part of the action to another planet. (Mr. Mitchell even has a cameo. Graduate students will one day write theses about his presence at the execution of one of his characters.) I felt that if its in the spirit of the book and works for the film, then go for it, he said, adding: The way the characters evolve is sort of like Pilgrims Progress. Thats how I like to think of it. Its a matrix no pun intended of Pilgrims Progress. Another early reader of the script was Mr. Hanks, who declared it bodacious. Screenplays often really lay it all out for you, but this was like the blueprint for some complicated piece of architecture, Mr. Hanks said. They voluntarily made a dense, complicated screenplay in which nothing seems to make any sense, and then the scenes start to match up. It was a clean, pure, artistic enterprise. Very few studio executives shared Mr. Hankss enthusiasm. They were put off by the multiple narratives, with their different tones and different themes, Ms. Wachowski explained. In movies now theres this rigidity of concept, she said. And its enforced by a lot of the people who talk about movies. In a serious movie you cant have comedy, and if theres romance in there, you cant be philosophical. So Cloud Atlas, with a budget that reached $100 million and distribution by Warner Brothers, had to be financed independently through private investors, many in Asia. As Mr. Wachowski pointed out, a little sardonically, Sometimes the making of the movie was more interesting than the story of the movie itself. Backers kept dropping in and then dropping out, even after contracts had been signed, forcing the filmmakers to keep whittling the budget. It was a constant beating down, Mr.
Tykwer said. A couple of times the movie fell apart even as we were shooting it. Mr. Hanks said that the way the industry works now, they dont give money for independent films like this. He went on: The Wachowskis sank a lot of their own money into it. They were like Walt Disney mortgaging the house to make Snow White. He laughed and added: They should have sold it as a sequel. Call it Cloud Atlas II, and you can have all the money you want. For reasons of logistics and economy, much of the film was shot on adjoining soundstages at the Babelsberg studio, near Berlin. Mr. Tykwer supervised the composers sequence, the journalists story and that of the publisher trapped in the rest home. The Wachowskis took the shipboard narrative and, no surprise, the two futuristic ones. But all three filmmakers, who believe strongly in the collaborative, social nature of filmmaking, insisted that they were in constant communication and worked together on everything. The actors, meanwhile, found themselves walking between sets, playing different roles in different centuries, sometimes on the same day. Youd get to the set in the morning, and it was like, Who am I today? Mr. Hanks said, adding that he particularly enjoyed all the prostheses false teeth and cauliflower ears he got to wear. The process of coming up with all the characters was long and physical, he said, but the actual playing was as much fun as being in a repertory company. Talking about the Wachowskis way of working, he said: What you have to realize is that they have been talking in their own secret language for years prior to the set. Lana lines up the shots, and Andy says, Sounds good to me, or Lets give it a shot; lets do this thing. We would shoot a lot, talk a lot, shoot some more. They were always massaging it verbally and physically, but they never double-teamed you. On the other hand, with Mr. Tykwer, Mr. Hanks said, the whole process was: Lets be on the same page going into this. So youd get to the set, talk for an hour, an hour and a half, then shoot, and then youd be done. I remember thinking, Am I doing something wrong here? But in almost no time, Mr. Hanks added, the process of crossing over from set to set, character to character, century to century, director to director became second nature. Theyre gentle souls, he said of all three filmmakers. It was extremely challenging in every way, shape and form. They should have been panicked, but there was no panic.
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Pursuing 3-Ds Full Dimensions
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Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcocks Dial M for Murder, which suggests 3-Ds dramatic potential.
N the early 1950s Hollywood faced unexpected competition from a popular new medium television that was encouraging the audience to stay at home, parked before tiny screens, rather than venture out to the local movie palace. The industrys response was to offer something bigger and better: new technologies that made those small home screens seem even smaller. The 1952 This Is Cinerama, which miraculously reappeared in a restored, Blu-ray edition a few weeks ago, led the way with an overwhelming widescreen image that used three projectors and a curved screen to engulf the audience. The second volley came in the form of 3-D. A principle that had been around since the days of the magic lantern was revised to accommodate a dual-projector system that yielded a novel sense of depth. After Arch Obolers independently produced Bwana Devil turned into a runaway hit in 1952 the advertising promised A lion in your lap! A lover in your arms! the major studios jumped on the new process. Columbias Harry Cohn went so far as to announce that henceforth all of his studios films would be released in 3-D. But just as the format was making its way up from exploitation films and into prestige productions including Columbias Miss Sadie Thompson, starring Rita Hayworth, and the MGM musical Kiss Me Kate the bottom dropped out of the market. Viewers had suddenly grown tired of the cumbersome glasses and occasional technical glitches that the two-projector system entailed, and turned en masse to 20th Century Foxs new Cinema Scope format, which produced a wide image with a single projector. See it without glasses! proclaimed Foxs publicity, and the public was only too happy to go along. In the last five or six years much of this history has repeated itself, as Hollywood, now threatened by competition from the Internet and other new media, has eagerly embraced 3-D in its new, digital form. Though the glasses remain, digital 3-D requires only one projector and is infinitely easier to present than the old version. But once again it appears that the format has failed to make the transition from novelty to normative use. By and large, 3-D remains restricted to animated films and genre pictures, particularly of the fantasy and horror variety. That Steven Spielberg would make The Adventures of Tintin in 3-D is virtually a given;
that he would make Lincoln in the same process is unthinkable. It has become difficult to see golden-age 3-D, as its many fans refer to the old two-projector process, in its original form. Few theaters have the necessary (and antique) equipment, and as the original prints from the 1950s have become shrunken, scratched and choppy, they no longer produce the vivid illusion they once did. This is where digital technology rides to the rescue. With 3-D now a reality for home viewing, thanks to properly equipped Bluray players and HDTVs, and digital processes available to clean up and color-correct the 1950s negatives, the golden-age experience can largely be recaptured in your living room. The first two golden-age films to appear on Blu-ray come out this month, and they make a nicely contrasting pair. Jack Arnolds 1954 Creature From the Black
Dial M for Murder showed what could be done with 3-D in straight drama.
Lagoon, which makes its debut in digital 3-D as part of Universals impressively engineered Blu-ray collection Classic Monsters, remains a rousing example of 3-D in its initial, sensationalistic phase. (For those without home 3-D equipment, this version can be seen through Thursday at Film Forum in Manhattan.) And Warner Home Video has released a stand-alone disc of Alfred Hitchcocks 1954 Dial M for Murder, notable for its precisely calculated, restrained use of the format (3 Dimension in the Hitchcock Manner, as the original advertisements put it), and one that might have served as a template for an everyday, normalized use of 3-D had not the boom suddenly collapsed. (As it happened, Dial M was shown in 3-D in only a handful of theaters.) Its a coincidence, but a suggestive one, that the most memorable 3-D effect in both films represents a hand reaching out toward the audience. In Creature the hand is a webbed, clawlike thing that belongs to the title character a missing link man-fish discovered by a team of scientists in a backwater of the Amazon and the director (repeatedly) deploys it aggressively. The claw seems to extend beyond the surface of the screen and into the audiences personal space, violating our ingrained sense of se-
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A costumed Ben Chapman and Julie Adams in Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), made in 3-Ds sensationalistic phase.
curity (its only a movie, and as such it will stay on the screen) and causing a palpable shock (which must have enlivened a lot of date nights at the time). In Dial M the hand belongs to Grace Kelly, playing the object of an intended murder. As her assailant (Anthony Dawson) forces her on her back over a desk, trying to strangle her, she extends her right arm out and over the audience, in a gesture of supplication that suggests someone drowning. The effect is the opposite of the shots in Creature: instead of crossing over into our space, the film seems, in a disturbing, almost literal way, to be trying to pull us in. For Hitchcock the moment is a supreme example of one of his favorite devices: the sudden reversal that shakes the viewer out of a state of passive, perhaps even pleasurable voyeurism, and into a realization of our moral position as spectators. So far the film has led us to assume that Kelly as an adulteress betraying her meticulous, well-spoken husband (Ray Milland) for an affair with a brash, shallow crime writer (Robert Cummings) somehow deserves to be murdered for our entertainment. That outstretched hand is a plea for mercy, a moment that has its parallel in Hitchcocks other film of 1954, Rear Window, when the murderer (Raymond Burr) suddenly appears on the doorstep of the photographer (James Stewart) who has been spying on him and judging him. Burrs character, too, has left his assigned space his apartment across the courtyard and entered the privileged, protected territory of the spectator (Stewart). What do you want from me? whimpers the suddenly helpless monster, and Stewart has no answer. There are no pure villains and there are no pure victims, only hopelessly flawed human beings. For a capable genre craftsman like Jack Arnold, 3-D was an engaging gimmick, as Creature amply demonstrates. But for an artist like Hitchcock, that same gimmick could become wonderfully, sublimely expressive. Almost 60 years later its potential remains to be fully explored. (Universal Classic Monsters, Universal, Blu-ray 3-D/Blu-ray combo, $159.98, not rated; Dial M for Murder, Warner Home Video, Blu-ray 3-D/Blu-ray combo, $35.99, not rated)
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THE HOLE A teenage boy (Chris Mas-
soglia) and his 10-year-old brother (Nathan Gamble) find distraction from the tedium of small-town life when they learn that a trapdoor in their basement covers a seemingly bottomless hole. Joe Dante (Gremlins) directed. (Big Air, Blu-ray/DVD combo $20.99, DVD $14.99, PG-13) 2016: OBAMAS AMERICA The author Dinesh DSouza (The Roots of Obamas Rage) offers his views on the nature and origins of Barack Obamas anticolonial political beliefs, in what has become one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. Mr. DSouza and John Sullivan directed. (Lionsgate, $19.98, PG) AVATAR Previously available only as a promotional exclusive for Panasonic televisions, the Blu-ray 3-D version of James Camerons 2009 science-fiction blockbuster finally enters general release. The movie is a song to the natural world that was largely produced with software, an Emersonian exploration of the invisible world of the spirit filled with Cameronian rock em, sock em pulpy action, Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in 2009. (Fox, 3-D Blu-ray/ Blu-ray combo $39.99, previously released three-disc extended collectors edition Blu-ray $54.99, DVD $34.64, PG-13)
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way home to Central Park, a band of zoo animals with the voices of Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Sacha Baron Cohen make a side trip through Europe as members of a traveling circus. Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon directed. Where the movie soars is in its visuals: A Monte Carlo chase is vertiginously madcap; a Cirque du Soleil-style spectacle dazzles with rich pastels; the 3-D effects have wit and invention, Andy Webster wrote in The Times in June. (DreamWorks, 3-D Blu-ray/Blu-ray/DVD combo $54.99, Blu-ray/DVD combo $39.99, DVD $29.98, also available through Movies on Demand, PG) MOONRISE KINGDOM In an island community near the New England coast in the 1960s, a boy (Jared Gilman) and a girl (Kara Hayward) run away together, setting off a desperate search led by the sheriff (Bruce Willis). Wes Anderson directed; with Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton. Like all of Mr. Andersons films, though, theres a deep, pervasive melancholia here, Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in May. (Focus/Universal, Blu-ray/DVD combo $34.98, DVD $29.98, also available through Movies on Demand, PG-13)
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A Farewell To Celluloid With a Tribute
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Left, Edith Scob in Holy Motors, directed by Leos Carax, above. The film makes references to Georges Franju (Eyes Without a Face), King Vidor and Mr. Caraxs earlier work.
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PARIS HERE is a scene in Holy Motors, the new film by Leos Carax, in which two long-lost characters are reunited. One of them tells the other, We have 20 minutes to catch up on 20 years. This is a filmmaker who knows from lost time. Ive done 10, maybe 12, hours of film in 30 years, Mr. Carax said one recent afternoon, in an interview at a tea shop in his Belleville neighborhood here. He did not sugarcoat his conclusion: Im not a cineaste. Ive made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one. Mr. Caraxs remark sums up his curious supernova trajectory: three features in his 20s, and only two since. (He is now 51.) But it also describes the delirious energy and daredevil bravado of his movies, which could be said to capture the intensity of first sensations or the urgency of last gasps. He burst onto a moribund post-New Wave scene in the 80s, inspiring comparisons to Rimbaud with the flamboyant expressions of amour fou Boy Meets Girl (1984) and Mauvais Sang (1986). The wildly romantic, hugely overbudget Lovers on the Bridge (1991) stalled his career for nearly a decade. Pola X (1999), an ambitious, eccentric Herman Melville adaptation, failed to revive it. There was an even longer gap before Holy Motors, which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and opens in New York on Wednesday. Mr. Carax has often kept the press at arms length. (He did not grant interviews at Cannes this year.) But seated at a sidewalk table here, sipping mint tea and chain-smoking Camels, his dog curled up at his feet, this maker of unapologetically personal films spoke about his life and work and their interrelation with matter-of-fact candor. Im not only my films, he said at one point, but Im pretty much my films. Holy Motors follows a professional shape-shifter, Monsieur Oscar (Denis Lavant), as he is chauffeured around Paris in a stretch limousine on a series of mysterious appointments. Each one calls for him to play a preassigned role: a hunched bag lady, a rabid leprechaun, an assassin (and his doppelgnger victim), an old man on his deathbed. In a movie that suggests by turns commedia dellarte, performance art and a video game, every costume change occasions a dalliance with a new genre: film noir, monster movie, domestic drama, musical. Holy Motors plays at times like a love letter (or an elegy) to the cinema, with nods to Georges Franju and King Vidor and echoes of Mr. Caraxs earlier work. But for Mr. Carax spotting references is beside the point. The film speaks the language of cinema, but its not a film about cinema, he said. I created a world not our world exactly but not that far, either and I tried to show the experience of being alive in this world. In an interview at Cannes Mr. Lavant, who has starred in four of Mr. Caraxs five features, described Holy Motors as the apotheosis of their long collaboration. Its the work of a mature man, he said. Leoss way of looking at things in this film makes me think of Pier Paolo Pasolini, another great filmmaker who once said that he was like
a bird in flight, which sees everything but doesnt forgive everything. The singer Kylie Minogue, who has a small but crucial role, said she sees it as a film about the slipperiness of identity. It brings up questions about the potential of a human being and what particular cosmic frisson makes us the person we are, she said. Mr. Carax recalled that the starting points were powerful but vague. He was fascinated by the wedding limousines creeping through his neighborhood on weekends: They say, Look at me but dont see me. He was also struck by the stooped beggars camped out near the Seine, in plain view of passers-by yet routinely ignored. I thought about how you approach someone from another world, he said. Thats when I had the idea of a character who would go from life to life, experience all the states of life. What began as an exercise in imaginative empathy evolved into an open-ended riff on metaphysical themes: the lines between acting and being, the loss of experience in a virtual age. The virtual world is something theyre trying to sell us, Mr. Carax said. Its not the same as the invisible world, which is what lives inside us. He came to Holy Motors after a long period of trying to work outside France. He tried to make Scars, a retelling of the Faust legend set in Russia and the United States; wrote an adaptation of Henry Jamess Beast in the Jungle; and toyed with the idea of a documentary about the female voice (I would travel all over the world and record lullabies). But nothing came to pass. When he finally got Holy Motors off the ground he surrounded himself with a mostly young crew, which created the potential of discovering cinema together again and helped keep energy levels high for a quick, challenging shoot. There were lastminute casting switches: Ms. Minogue filled the part written for Juliette Binoche, a former muse and girlfriend, after Mr. Carax and Ms. Binoche had a falling out. Permission to shoot in the Samaritaine, a grand former department store, was denied by the new owners and only granted after some string-pulling from Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, an old flame. Mr. Carax has always been prone to morbid romanticism, but Holy Motors, the first movie of his middle age, is even more palpably death-haunted than usual. The most obvious demise in question is that of celluloid: this is Mr. Caraxs first digital feature. Video is freeing but also lazier, he said. You have to recreate the love of the moment. The industrywide shift to digital reminds me of the way the pharmaceutical companies invent medicine. He added, It makes me feel, what is this supposed to cure? But Holy Motors, which attests to the persistence of cinema in the absence of film, is not entirely gloomy. While it was partly born of what Mr. Carax called the fatigue of being oneself, its very premise, with the perpetual promise of rebirth, counters that weariness. All my films originated from this fear of life, fear of loss, and also a childish hope of being born again, he said. Before Holy Motors the plots of Mr. Caraxs features could all be described by the title of his deContinued on Page 18
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The Grace, And the Glee, Of a Clown

By NICOLAS RAPOLD
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Left, Pierre taix in 2009; center, Mr. taix and Nicole Calfan in Le Grand Amour (1969); and Mr. taix holding Laurence Lignires in The Suitor (1963). After years when Mr. taixs work was not available, Film Forum is celebrating it.
OT many comics can claim effusive praise from both Jerry Lewis and Franois Truffaut, much less a close partnership with a screenwriter of Luis Buuel movies and a role in a Robert Bresson film. Yet the French performer Pierre taix, one of cinemas finest physical comedians after the silent era, is little known even to fans of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Perhaps Mr. taixs focus on wordless physical comedy came at a strange moment: the 1960s, just as the French New Wave was making a splash. But over the course of several features and shorts, the slight, liltingly graceful Mr. taix developed his own gently melancholic style. With and without dialogue, he charted simple stories and routines with a practical elegance rarely seen since the silent era. The comic scenarios, usually starring a neatly dressed Mr. taix, are fanciful yet grounded in emotional predicaments. His protagonists are kin to the hapless figures of Keaton (whom Mr. taix admires), but they move cautiously through a recognizable bourgeois world. In The Suitor a sheltered young man fecklessly imitates the courtship rituals he observes in the streets. In Le Grand Amour a bored factory owner fantasizes about driving a bed-on-wheels with his secretary, passing other autobeds on the road. Mr. taix is both director and star, like his first moviemaking mentor, Jacques Tati, known for comedies filled with sight gags. Mr. taixs collaborator was the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire, perhaps better known for being co-writer of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, among other Buuel films. Tangled rights issues have kept Mr. taixs work out of exhibition at home and abroad for more than 20 years, until now. On Friday a 12-day celebration of that multitalented French performer, showcasing the fruits of an extensive restoration, begins at Film Forum, and Mr. taix, 83, couldnt be more pleased. I made my first film 50 years ago, and to think that today there are still people who enjoy what I have made is most exalting for me, said Mr. taix, who has presented the restorations to festival audiences at Cannes in 2010 and Telluride last year, speaking French via phone from Paris with a translator on the line. For him, cinema started with the circus. As a child in the Provenal village of Roanne he marveled at the skillful feats performed in the ring, and Keaton and Chaplin reminded him of the circus artists he respected. In his late teens Mr. taix pursued his calling with the blessing of his parents. He learned everything from acrobatics to concertinaplaying and joined an amateur theater troupe. If I didnt have a background in the circus, I would have never done film, because I learned my trade in front of an audience, Mr. taix said. But the young artist made ends meet as an illustrator, and on a trip to Paris he met with Tati. He performed in cabarets and music halls and became Tatis assistant on Mon Oncle (1958), a gadgetfilled satire on keeping up with the Joneses (or the Duboises). In one scene he hid behind a wall to help with a gag set in a glitchy ultramodern kitchen. When a producer offered him the chance to make his own short, Mr. taix was ready. He created Le Rupture with Mr. Carrire, whom he had met in Tatis office. Playing a nervous young man, Mr. taix tries to answer a Dear John letter but can barely get a handle on his desk and pen. Major recognition came soon.
Their next short, Happy Anniversary (1962), about a young husband derailed by urban mishaps, garnered an Academy Award for best live-action short subject. Three features soon followed The Suitor (1963); Yoyo (1965, the often surreal story of a bankrupt millionaire whose son becomes a clown); and Le Grand Amour (1969) as well as a collection of sketches under the title As Long as Youre Healthy (1966). They share permutations on jokes and a preference for smooth execution over fast knockabout stunts. Visually they impress with choreographed camerawork and eyecatching framing. Mr. taix spoke of the preparation that goes into making what he calls le gag. If it stems from observation and something authentic, it can lead to something utterly fantastic, Mr. taix said. The bed-cars of Le Grand Amour, for example, came from a friends joke about living on a noisy avenue off the Arc de Triomphe. Mr. taix shared a love of American slapstick with Mr. Carrire. Shooting scripts were precise, and to work them out, the men, both illustrators, would sometimes exchange drawings and notes across the table (or, when Mr. Carrire was drafted into military service in Algeria, across the sea). With Pierre, there was something special, Mr. Carrire said by phone from Paris. I had in front of me the main actor. That was quite useful. Sometimes Mr. Carrire was working with the Surrealist filmmaker Buuel at the same time. Every time I used to go at
Pierre taix, in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

work with Buuel, when I was coming back, Pierre used to say: You are not the same. You have changed a little bit. Which was very good for both of us, Mr. Carrire said. Mr. taixs run hit a disastrous bump with a commission to make a documentary after the upheaval of May 1968. The result, Land of Milk and Honey, was a satirical but affectionate look at the French people, composed of candid interviews and observational humor edited from extensive footage. But it was pulled soon after release in 1971 and critically lambasted. The experience made it hard for Mr. taix to attract new producers. Undeterred, he started a school for circus artists with his wife, Annie Fratellini, who came from a line of big-top performers. Mr. taix published several books and continued to perform but never made another feature. The rights problem surrounding his films and shorts stems from an unfavorable early contract and was not resolved until 2010. An out-of-court agreement was reached with help from the Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema, which finances and promotes restorations, among other things, and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage. Pierre is a complete artist, Svrine Wemaere, managing director of the Technicolor Foundation, said, noting his multiple talents. He is a very important figure in the 1960s cinema. The agreement was signed mere weeks before the first restoration was to have its premiere at Cannes. As Ms. Wemaere recalled with a laugh, Mr. taix couldnt help but express his satisfaction. He signed every one of the contracts hundreds of pages with a personalized smiley face symbol.
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From Page 16 but: boy meets girl. Not just any boy most of them starred Mr. Lavant as a character named Alex (Mr. Caraxs given name) and not just any girl. Mr. Carax was romantically involved with the lead actresses of his previous films: Mireille Perrier, Ms. Binoche, Yekaterina Golubeva. Very few people have filmed their lovers so many times, he said. It does affect life. Its beautiful but its also destructive. Mr. Carax said he never rewatches his films, but it is not hard to detect a sense of mourning when he talks about them, given the degree to which they now stand for old relationships and lost friends. Jean-Yves Escoffier, his first cinematographer, died in 2003. Ms. Golubeva, the mother of his 7-year-old daughter, died last year, as did one of his longtime producers, Albert Prvost. You make films for the dead, Mr. Carax said, but theyre seen by the living. Mr. Carax said he lived a largely solitary existence and felt more separate than ever from the Paris film industry. Theyre fed up with me and Im fed up with them, he said, adding: I cannot complain. I found my strength in being alone, and then I felt too alone. He keeps up with the work of his favorite filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Alexander Sokurov and sometimes sees a new movie he likes (the recent sci-fi teenage thriller Chronicle, for one). But hes far from a cinephile. Im afraid to see the films I loved when I was younger, but theyre still with me, he said. A paradox seems to emerge as Mr. Carax discusses his current relationship with film. How can a man who barely makes and rarely watches movies claim to be always in cinema? He shrugged, as if the answer was obvious. Cinema is a territory, he said. It exists outside of movies. Its a place I live in. Its a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, thats supposed to be a profession.
Denis Lavant and Kylie Minogue in Holy Motors, directed by Leos Carax.
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From left at top, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key in Los Angeles. Below, Mr. Peele and Mr. Key in a sketch from the new season of their Comedy Central show.
HEN Keegan-Michael Key recently stumbled on a YouTube tribute to a sketch from Key & Peele, the Comedy Central show he created and stars in with Jordan Peele, he needed a minute to figure out what he was seeing. The short ostensibly recreated, shot for shot, Das Negros, a sketch from the shows first season. In it, the actor Ty Burrell (Modern Family) plays a gullible Nazi who banters with Mr. Key and Mr. Peele about hunting down African-Americans, unaware that he is speaking to two such people because theyve slapped on some white face powder. Though the tribute on YouTube was poorly lighted, Mr. Key could just make out how two teenage girls, one white and one Asian, were playing his and Mr. Peeles original roles. They put brown makeup all over their face, then white makeup over the brown makeup, he said. And you can tell these kids werent thinking racist. They werent thinking blackface. They just loved the scene. The image might make other performers uneasy, but of the dozens of online tributes inspired by the show that he has seen, that video makes me the happiest, Mr. Key said. He and Mr. Peele dont treat social issues with kid gloves. And with Key & Peele now in its second season, they have created a sketch show that sends up race, class and culture while holding the attention of a young, diverse demographic. Jordan and I are biracial, Mr. Key told the premiere audience (before seguing into a bit about lying), and that has been a pervasive part of the shows identity. It was, Heres the frame, folks, Mr. Key explained from Los Angeles in a recent phone interview. The acknowledgment also served as a starting-line gunshot; it gave the pair Mr. Key is 41, tall and lanky with a gleaming bald head, and Mr. Peele is 33, scruffy and usually bespectacled off-camera license to skewer black and white characters alike. They met while acting on the Fox sketch series MADtv but had never written together before Key & Peele, and the show has given a home to ideas they had been setting aside for years, believing they would never work on a network.
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Season 1s gallery of characters included a jailed Lil Wayne (writing in The New York Times, Jason Zinoman called it the driest sendup of hip-hop bravado since Black Sheeps hilarious, satirical song U Mean Im Not); a biracial man urged by his date to tap into his black side; and a Tea Party spokesman who happens to be African-American. Perhaps the first sea-
sons most notable sketch was Auction Block, in which two slaves become more and more insecure as plantation owners choose not to bid on them. What can he pick? A cotton plant is like this tall! Mr. Keys character exclaims when another slave is sold before he is. Such topics are rarely broached without backlash, and Key & Peele certainly ex-
perienced that. On Salon.com, the headline of a review by Kartina Richardson called the show an edgeless, postracial lie. We set off some peoples politically correct sensors, Mr. Peele said, but he added that furthering the conversation is going to anger some people. Viewers werent put off, however. The premiere was Comedy Centrals biggest series debut in years, drawing 2.1 million viewers and dominating the young male demographic. I think the network was thinking, Fingers crossed, this could reawaken the Chappelles Show audience, Mr. Peele said. But in our audiences, we see every single race, every single age, sitting together. Comedy Centrals head of original programming and production, Kent Alterman, said he always expected the shows appeal to extend beyond the so-called urban demographic. I mean, look, there is an underserving of the African-American audience, and I really like that they explore racial issues, he said by phone. Equally admiring of the pairs race-inspired comedic scrutiny: the white actors who have appeared as guests in some of their potentially diciest works. In an e-mail, Mr. Burrell who met Mr. Key when both were graduate students at Penn State said he had no qualms about playing the Nazi in the Das Negros sketch. Continued on Page 24
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Female Stars Step Off the Scale

From Page 1 anything she is a follower in the sudden rise of the unapologetically not-thin. A few performers have flouted convention by flaunting a curvy figure, notably Kat Dennings, a star of 2 Broke Girls, Christina Hendricks of Mad Men and Christina Aguilera on The Voice. But its most evident in female comedians like Ms. Dunham and Ms. Kaling, who have more power to break rules: by writing their own material and creating shows inspired by their lives, they can set their own standards of beauty and defy the dictate of stylists and casting directors in a way that other actresses cannot. A lot of rules are being broken in romantic comedy. It used to be that plain, stocky fellows like Seth Rogen surprised everyone and got the gorgeous girl. Now Rebel Wilson, an Australian actress and comedy writer, is the plus-size bride who gets a dashing, adoring groom in Bachelorette. And in that sense this license to eat marks a generational shift from comedians in their 40s like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who made their mark by being funny and also more feminine and pretty than comedy pioneers like Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers. Ms. Fey has said she lost some 30 pounds to make the move from Saturday Night Live writer to performer. Ms. Dunham and her cohorts a generation raised on Tyra Banks dont-judge-me rants and after-school programs about anorexia are rebelling against the ever more exacting standard of beauty in show business. They dont go on diets or have liposuction to fit into red-carpet outfits; they let out a seam. (Ms. Dunham actually did one better: in a skit for the Emmy Awards last month, she posed unclothed on top of a toilet seat, eating an entire cake.) Ms. Tarlov said in Seventeen magazine that Sadie is interesting because she isnt defined by her figure or hampered by it socially: When people talk about characters who struggle with their weight or with food they go to either end of the extreme; there are rarely characters who are just a little bit heavy. Thats what I think is really incredible about this show; its not like Sadie is in danger or anything. Theirs is a celebration of moderate immoderation that clashes with the prevailing tendency to go always to the furthest edge of excess, especially when the subject is weight. Fat is perhaps the most overexamined problem in America, where there is no right or wrong, just yo-yo extremes. One second women are encouraged to embrace their fuller selves in ads for Ponds and in talk shows, womens magazines and reality series like Curvy Girls, which follows a group of plus-size models. And the next, talk show hosts, womens magazines, Hollywood, health experts, the first lady and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sound the alarm about the obesity epidemic. Fashion has it both ways: models and actresses are stick-thin on runways and red carpets, but department stores have entire sections dedicated to plus-size designer clothes by the likes of Michael Kors and Calvin Klein. Accordingly, society makes a show of supporting people who make peace with their extra pounds, but we really celebrate those who declare war on their bodies. Jennifer Livingston, a news anchor in Wisconsin, went on the air to publicly scold a viewer who wrote her an e-mail suggestinto a politically palatable spectacle, shaping what could look like a freak show into a self-help manifesto. There was always room in comedy for a fat friend, but its only recently that overweight women started being cast as romantic heroines or sexual temptresses. Donna on Parks and Recreation, who is played by the actress and comedian Retta, has an active love life and a naughty streak. (She reads 50 Shades of Grey at the office.) Ms. Wilson of Bachelorette also has a star turn in the movie Pitch Perfect as a plump and uninhibited college a cappella singer who cheerfully calls herself Fat Amy so others wont have to behind her back. Society is beginning to be more honest about the price some women pay to stay thin, helped along by celebrities who almost daily confess to eating disorders like bulimia, most recently Nicole Scherzinger, former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls. On the recent USA channel mini-series Political Animals, the beautiful, perfect and petite fiance Anne (Brittany Ishibashi) leaves her engagement dinner to slip into the ladies room and put her fingers down her throat to toss up her meal. Drop Dead Diva was a breakthrough hit for Lifetime when it began in 2009, because the lead character, Jane Bingum, played by Brooke Elliott, was plus-size. But fat was still a touchy subject; writers posited a woman who is obese only because of a twist of fate: a slim, bubbleheaded blonde dies and comes back to life switched into the physique of a smart, Rubenesque lawyer. Mike & Molly (CBS), which co-stars Melissa McCarthy, is a comedy about very overweight lovers, but the joke isnt really about flab, its about the odd-couple romance of people who met at Overeaters Anonymous. These characters reflect a changing American norm: just as many designers chose in the 1990s to deregulate dress sizes (a Size 8 is now a 10, adjusted for body inflation),entertainment producers have had to find room for women in sizes that are familiar to most of America then double them for comic or dramatic effect. And that is whats so seditious about comedians like Ms. Dunham and Ms. Kaling: Their weight is no big deal. They can be a little defensive when people ask about their extra few pounds, but they dont let it deter or define them. To prepare for a blind date Mindy changes her outfit, not her dress size. Ms. Dunham has Hannah prance around her apartment in her underwear, unself-conscious. Ms. Dunhams success has made her a literary it girl, and her proposal for a book about life, love and sex, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What Shes Learned, sold to Random House for over $3.5 million last week. In one episode of Girls, Hannah tells her parents that she thinks she may be a voice of her generation. Turns out she may actually be its body type.
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ing that her excess weight made her a poor role model, and she became a cause clbre. But on its daily news crawl, CNN gives the same breaking-news urgency to an item about the death toll in Syria and a comedian who underwent gastric surgery (Lisa Lampanelli loses 80 pounds). Somewhere in between there are women coming forward to claim the category none of the above. But it still requires some explaining. In a collection of essays, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Ms. Kaling put it this way: Since I am not model-skinny, but also not superfat and fabulously owning my hugeness, I fall into that nebulous Normal American Woman Size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, Im a Size 8 (this week, anyway). Many stylists hate that size because, I think, to them, I lack the self-discipline to be an aesthetic, or the sassy confidence to be a total fatty hedonist. Theyre like Pick a lane. And that Manichaean scale is all too evident on the screen. Actresses and realityshow stars are either whippet thin or startlingly large, especially after The Biggest Loser turned massive displays of weight
Clockwise from far left: Lady Gaga defended a weight gain online; Lena Dunham doesnt sweat a few pounds in HBOs Girls; Rebel Wilson, right, with Kirsten Dunst, is the bride in the film Bachelorette; Jennifer Livingston, a Wisconsin news anchor, scolded a viewer who criticized her weight.
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Dance Stars Evolve For Pop Fame

HE 23-year-old Swedish DJ and producer Avicii has one world-killing hit, Levels, to his name, and has opened for Madonna at Yankee Stadium on top of playing countless dance-music festivals the world over. But he is not made of magic. He could not uproot the seats from the floor of Radio City Music Hall. Last month he headlined a pair of nights at that storied building, DJing from atop a huge, smooth head, amid the usual rainbow lights and lasers, while several thousand neon-accented fans danced more like shimmied in the small space between the seat they paid for and the one in front of it. It was exuberant, but also awkward. Only toward the end of his set, when he built a swell with Greyhound and Dont You Worry Childby Swedish House Mafia (featuring John Martin), David Guettas raucous She Wolf (featuring Sia), and then, of course, Levels, did members of the crowd finally figure out that if there was no moving front or back or left or right, then at least they could go up. Several hundred celebrants ended the night standing on armrests, doing their best impression of a party where movement was less constrained. As problems go, this is a fine one to have for a performer like Avicii (pronounced uhVEE-chee), who is quickly becoming better known beyond dance-music circles. (Lets ignore the oft-used term E.D.M., which is a needless shorthand for electronic dance music, and somewhat redundant.) He belongs to a generation of stars raised on one rule book and now, as their profiles increase and change due to success, they are figuring out if they can also play by the other rule book, the one that governs more traditional pop acts. Playing more conventional stages, as opposed to nightclubs or dance festivals or raves, is part of that shift. Aviciis Radio City stint actually pales next to the ambition of Swedish House Mafia, which headlined Madison Square Garden last December. There is also the issue of albums, and of chasing chart hits. In the United States, unlike in Europe, it is the rare song that begins in the dance-music world and ends up a pop hit. The higher tempos and digital chill of dance music are in evidence on the pop charts, but usually in borrowed form by bandwagoneering mainstream stars like the Black Eyed Peas or Pitbull. But as younger fans raised on dance music age and dance-music producers sense a bigger opportunity on the horizon, those worlds are likely to meld far more than they have before. The past few weeks have seen the release of numerous albums by some of the scenes most powerful players, each telling a different story about how dance music is evolving: Deadmau5s >album title goes here< (Ultra), Martin Solveigs Smash (Big Beat) and Zedds Clarity (Interscope). Swedish House Mafias Until Now (Astralwerks) and Calvin Harriss 18 Months (Roc Nation/Ultra/Columbia) will be released later this month. This may be the first wave of this generations dance-music albums to exist under the shadow of theoretically possible American pop success; electronic and dance musicians of all stripes have been making full-length albums for years, but their impact on the pop mainstream has been temporary or minimal. These artists have taken widely varied approaches to that possibility, insomuch as it has informed their approaches at all. The most surprising choices are by Deadmau5, simply for being the least conciliatory. A star of the dance-music Internet who has become one of the scenes biggest draws, Deadmau5 (pronounced dead mouse) often prizes spectacle over creativity. Whats notable about >album title goes here<, though, is that it appears to be an argument for his inclusion in the dancemusic pantheon. Theres progressive house, big beat, glitchy almost-hip-hop and more. The convincing trackOctober even suggests, in places, a fluency with vintage Detroit techno. Of all the genres stars, Deadmau5 would probably have the easiest time recruiting famous collaborators, but he has largely resisted that. The most prominent guest is Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, on Professional Griefers, and as craven pairings go, its a sharp one. Mr. Way is a theatrical vocalist, not humbled by Deadmau5s wall of sound, even if its foreign to him. By and large these artists avoid namebrand collaborations altogether. None has taken the route of, say, a David Guetta, who has made serious pop inroads by collaborating with well-known singers, particularly R&B stars like Kelly Rowland and Kelis. A more typical path is mapped out by Mr. Solveig, who on Smash works with lesser-known singers. The dominant voice on the album, which is full of the easy cheer and reliable thump of car commercials, is that of Martina Sorbara, lead singer of the Canadian band Dragonette. She has a thin voice that leaves an impression, but doesnt disrupt the balance of Mr. Solveigs grand-scale songs. (In an indication of how far the United States lags when it comes to dance music, note that Smash was released in Europe and Japan more than a year ago.)
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Top, Matthew Koma, and above, Zedd collaborated on Spectrum, a rare example of a dance-music song in which vocals mirror the shape of the music.
Until Now, the new compilation album by Swedish House Mafia the supergroup of Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso also relies heavily on vocals, but engages with them more forcefully. Its songs begin at epic and only become larger from there, which is why a vocalist like John Martin is doomed to fail. Mr. Martins voice on Dont You Worry Child is washed out and uncentered and is mere dressing for Swedish House Mafias highenergy clangor. Much of this collection consists of remixes and reworkings of well-known songs, and in these cases the group is more respectful of its source material, particularly on Ushers Euphoria (Swedish House Mafia Extended Dub) and a remix of Coldplays Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall. Even though Swedish House Mafia has scale on its side, it can feel almost obstinate. It makes big songs, but they are like meteors dropping from the sky, acceptable only on their own terms. Soon, there will come a generation of dance-music producers interested in making some concessions, and Zedd, a protg of Skrillex, the dubstep mainstreamer, may well pave the way for them. Clarity is his debut full-length album, and its the most musically sophisticated of this batch. Occasionally, as on Codec, hes happy to stick with neck-snapping electro-house, but mainly he appears interested in finding common ground with vocalists. One of the best songs on any of these albums is Zedds Spectrum, which features vocals by the rising singer-songwriter Matthew Koma. Its the rare example of a singer delivering lyrics in a manner that is parallel to the production, swelling and receding in the same way. It mirrors the shape, and also the ambition. Mr. Koma, who is in a relationship with Carly Rae Jepsen and wrote songs on her new album, has been flirting with this territory for a while. There are hints of it on the Parachute EP (Interscope) that he released this summer, which mostly was redolent of the polyglot approach of Bruno Mars. He is an example of what still remains something of a holy grail: the arrival of an American vocalist steeped in the traditions of dance music who has enough ambition for the pop charts. There have been abortive attempts so far. Take Dev, who was first noticed on the left-field Far East Movement dance-rap hit Like a G6 but who has an ineffectual voice and has largely failed to make a mark of her own. She does appear on Mr. Solveigs album, on We Came to Smash (In a Black Tuxedo), a generic, sassy thumper. Plenty of well-known singers have partnered with well-known producers for dance-pop tracks, and the dance songs that have performed the best by the old metrics chart impact, which remains relevant and desirable are the ones with
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From top, the DJs Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Deadmau5 and Martin Solveig, heavyweights of electronic dance music making inroads into the mainstream.
signature vocal performances. But for the most part theres a disconnect between singers who are stars on their own terms humbling themselves a touch to work with dance music producers, who are also liveact draws, unlike, say, the producers in hip-hop or even megapop. What happens when the balance of power is upended, and the producer isnt just a worker for hire, a mere part of the pop-star ecosystem? That will be the case for Mr. Harriss 18
Months, which will feature appearances by Rihanna, Ne-Yo, Kelis, Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, Ellie Goulding and others. Its probably a glance at the model of the future, though it is worth remembering that when We Found Love, Rihannas collaboration with Mr. Harris, won video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards last month, Rihanna neglected to thank him during her acceptance speech.
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His Style Is Gangnam, And Viral Too
A. [laughs] I dont think this dance is suitable for weddings. This is not a formal dance, this is a cheesy dance! But still, I appreciate that. Q. How did you come up with the dance
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spent like a month to find the horse dance. We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.
Q. Do you listen to much American music? A. Every musician in Korea, we learn from your pop we get inspired. I was at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas and when I walked down the hallway someone
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HERE are global cultural phenomena, and then there is Gangnam Style. The viral video for that Korean pop song has racked up over 400 million views on YouTube, becoming the most-liked video in the sites history. Its flashy style and galloping, invisiblehorse dance have inspired hundreds of tributes, from West Point cadets to Filipino prisoners. The man behind the hit, the 34-year-old South Korean artist known as Psy (short for psycho; he was born Park Jae-sang), has been a star for years in Korea: Gangnam Style, named for an expensive neighborhood in Seoul, appears on his sixth album, Psys Best 6th Part 1 (YG Entertainment). But even Psy was unprepared for the worldwide response to his latest single. Ive only done this for 12 years, only for Korea, not for overseas at all, he said by phone from Seoul. I didnt expect anything like this. So what can I say? Everything moves way too fast. Gangnam Style has reached No. 1 on the charts in Britain and No. 2 so far in the United States, and it also topped the download list in China. After posting compliments on Twitter about the song, Justin Biebers manager, Scooter Braun, signed Psy, and an English-language track may be their first collaboration. But Psy also
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The Korean pop star Psy, above left, gets inspiration from plenty of American and British musicians: clockwise from above, Axl Rose of Guns N Roses, Freddie Mercury, Tupac Shakur, Jon Bon Jovi and the Notorious B.I.G.
aims to represent his country, and his genre, K-pop. Theres a lot of variety of musicians in Korea, he said. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on. If I have a chance I want to introduce some of my friends. After a brief tour of the United States, Psy performed a welcome-home concert in Seoul earlier this month, which drew nearly 80,000 fans and shut down the city center. Its like the World Cup right now, he told Melena Ryzik, when they spoke a few hours before the show. Months into it, Gangnam mania shows no signs of slowing down, spawning Saturday Night Live sketches and workout routines. Psy, though, has even bigger rock n roll ambitions. To the U.S. and the world, Im just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy, he said. But in Korea Im doing one of the biggest concerts; its not a dance music concert. Im playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song. Im going to do some concerts later so youre going to see that. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. Q. When did you get a sense that Gangnam Style would hit differently? A. I released the song on July 15 and I didnt see anything for 10 days. After 10 days I saw some ripples on YouTube in other languages. A lot of celebrities celebrated my video on Twitter. At that time I realized this was happening. Q. Its also become quite a popular wedding dance.
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stopped me and said, Are you Psy? And he said, Im Jon Bon Jovi. I grew up listening to Bon Jovi since You Give Love a Bad Name, so this was a really touching moment. We took a picture and he uploaded it on his Facebook. Its unbelievable.
Q. You studied at Boston University and
a singer. I cannot learn creation from other people, Ive got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying I dont know about harmonies, or anything, so if Im composing a song, its really hard. growing up?
Q. What kind of music did you listen to A. My lifetime role model and hero is
Berklee College of Music. Did you graduate?
Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos. Im No. 1 in the U.K. right now, so if I have any chance to go there, I want to meet Queen and to tell them how much I got inspired by their music. Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N Roses I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.
Q. How did you transition from that to your
sound?
A. I tried to compose a song I was in the
United States and it was all about hip-hop at the time, 99-2000. I got inspiration from that kind of music: Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg. But my spirit and my agenda is play its a mixture right now, Im doing rockable dance, or danceable rock. forming?
Q. What do you do when youre not perA. Im drinking. Its my biggest hobby.
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HERE are times when Daniel Brush appears to be a modern-day version of Melvilles naysaying Bartleby the Scrivener: Usually he would prefer not to do any of the things that a contemporary artist normally does. Mr. Brush, 65, has been making art for more than four decades but he does not have a dealer never has. Collectors occasionally come to see him, but its often no sale because he requires a personal connection and a sense that buyers will be sensitive caretakers of his art. And hes never done a straight commission. Theres no making the rounds of openings and parties for Mr. Brush, either. Sometimes months or even years will pass when he barely leaves his huge loft on West 24th Street in the Flatiron neighborhood, which is filled with the equipment (an 18th-century lathe, blowtorches, milling machines) he uses to make small but elaborately worked precious objects like Wave (1993-96). A carved steel sculpture no longer than a smartphone, it has an underside of pure gold that throws a warm halo on whatever is behind or under it. In the 1970s, after a one-man show at the Phillips Collection of his abstract paintings when he was 23, he found himself selling lots of his work, but his popularity didnt sit well with him. As he recalled last month, seated in his
What He Prefers: Staying at Home To Spin Gold T

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loft next to his wife and one-woman support system, Olivia, I was so unnerved that I bought every single thing back from every person and I destroyed all the work. More recently, when one of the worlds most prestigious museums (he wont reveal which one) wanted to acquire his work, he declined, ever the Bartleby. I didnt want it sitting in the basement, he said. But the parallel ends there, because Mr. Brush has said an emphatic yes to the first wide survey of his work, Daniel Brush: Blue Steel Gold Light, which opens on Tuesday at the Museum of Arts and Design. The exhibition will feature Wave as well as works that seem to have been made by a different artist, including delicate line paintings inspired by Japanese Noh theater. Also on display will be his unorthodox jewelry which really isnt meant to be
DANIEL BRUSH/PHOTOGRAPHS BY TAKAAKI MATSUMOTO
Making jewelry not meant to be worn and sold only reluctantly.

worn, he said including a brooch-size diamond-encrusted camel and butterflies made of gold. The most complex piece is a 176-part installation called Loose Threads, made up of pieces of stainless steel studded by diamonds. It was inspired by a hanging thread he saw on his wifes sweater. I would prefer them to be called objets de vertu, even though thats a term not used that much now, Mr. Brush said of his hard-to-categorize works. Despite his hermitlike existence, Mr. Brush has a quick sense of humor and shows a warm personality to those he lets into his inner sanctum. He has a deeply philosophical and iconoclastic bent he can talk for 20 minutes about the difference between price and value, and does and its a badge of pride that his work challenges museum categories. I write on steel, and I write on canvas and paper, Mr. Brush said. I write about what Ive been thinking about all these years. And when the pressure becomes too great, I make objects and jewelry. His versatility and range attracted Holly Hotchner, the Museum of Arts and Designs director, and David McFadden, the curator who organized the show. He crosses boundaries certainly more than anyone I can think of, Ms. Hotchner said. She also praised the technical mastery of Mr. Brush, who buys, melts and granulates his own gold granulation is considered the most complex goldsmithing technique and has never employed assistants. Hes pushed his exploration of materials to the limit, Ms. Hotchner said, noting
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the way he engraves steel with thousands of lines. I dont know another artist who carves steel with that kind of detail, or at all. Franois Curiel, president of Christies Asia and a jewelry expert at that auction house, is a longtime admirer of Mr. Brush. In terms of technical proficiency, on a scale of 10 hes an 11, Mr. Curiel said. The closest thing I can think of to a Brush piece, though his work is not in that style, is a Faberg egg. That enthusiasm is shared by the devoted collectors who have kept Mr. Brush and his wife, who is also an artist, afloat, since there was no dealer around to make sales. His fans include several boldface names, including the author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, a regular visitor at the loft for a dozen years who made introductions to other collectors. One of those is Marsha Garces Williams, a San Francisco-based collector and philanthropist who used to be married to the actor Robin Williams. I was sort of stunned, Ms. Williams said of her reaction to entering the loft for the first time and seeing Mr. Brushs cabi-
Top, Daniel Brush in his studio; above, two views of his Palm Piece (1995), and an ink drawing from the series Compilation of an Edifying Journey (2011). Left, The Dream of Cerro Pelon, made of gold, steel and magnets.
net of curiosities. She now owns more than 10 pieces and considers herself a close friend of the Brushes. You wont find a more studied being than Daniel, she said. What he knows, he knows on a cellular level. Mr. Brush estimated that from 1978 to 1996 no more than a dozen people, all repeat customers, purchased his work partly because of his reclusive nature and partly because of his particular views on art commerce. I still like the idea of a warm hand to warm hand, he said of selling a piece. Somebody sees, somebody asks questions, and maybe they agree to take care of a piece its a very romantic approach. Mr. Brushs interest in metalwork and the decorative arts started early. I could draw the armor at the Cleveland Museum of Art pretty well, he said of taking art classes while growing up in Cleveland, where his parents owned a childrens clothing store. When I was 13 years old my mother took me to London and I stood in the jewel vault at the Victoria and Albert Museum, he said. I didnt know what granulation was then, but I saw a gold bowl with a bunch of tiny balls on it. I thought, I have to make something like that in my lifetime. After attending art school at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he met his wife, he eventually got a job teaching studio art at Georgetown University and had a spate of early success with museum shows in Washington. After he rejected his early paintings as unworthy, the Brushes moved to New York in 1978, eventually buying the loft (for $25,000) where they have lived (including raising a son, Silla) and worked ever since. The dcor was sparse. We didnt have any furniture for years, he said. Mr. Brush started to work in gold and other metals, and didnt get out much, relying on Ms. Brush as his contact with the outside world. I closed the door for a decade, he said. Nobody saw the work. Much of it didnt even make the cut he melted down many early pieces and started over. In 1998 his tight circle of fans widened a bit when Abrams published a book of his work and there was a simultaneous show of his gold pieces at the Renwick Gallery, part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. But the Museum of Arts and Design exhibition is the widest survey yet because it includes his work across different mediums. But Mr. Brush said that the exposure would not lead him to change his methods or his lifestyle any time soon. His advice to young artists who want to make good work? Stay inside.
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combat that restlessness. Key & Peele episodes are shot far ahead of their broadcast date, so current events are off the table. They combat that disadvantage by being ruthlessly selective. The 67 sketches that will make the show this season were plucked from 300 written by the hosts and their staff of nine. And the early taping has its advantages: While Saturday Night Live scrambles to riff on President Obamas doings, Mr. Key and Mr. Peele invented Luther, the spittingmad alter ego of the president and his cool demeanor. This season they imagined Mr. Obama in college, telling stoners that getting a variety of women to their party was imperative. That sketch which showcases Mr. Peeles strong Obama impression nods to a slight shift for Key & Peele in Season 2. The silly factor has been raised, Mr. Key said. I think its a worthwhile endeavor to challenge young people intellectually, but sometimes we feel the need to write a sketch with farts in it. Mr. Peele added that racial material will appear with less frequency. Part of that is because weve gotten out a lot of what we had to say, he said. That will probably lead to decreased criticism, too, a prospect that sounds good to Mr. Key and Mr. Peele not because they cant take it, but because they would love more people of any color to enjoy their hard work. Were all humans, Mr. Key said, so can you please just watch the scene and laugh?
These Comics Play the Race Card

From Page 19 Keegan has always been the funniest, most positive person I and many others know, he said. Those guys are just so heady, I really didnt have any doubts. Mark Moses (Mad Men, Desperate Housewives), who stepped in to play a Civil War re-enactor in a Season 2 bit, faced a trickier task. I had to say the n word, which is verboten, he said by phone. I did think a little bit about how that was going to turn out. But Mr. Moses, who became familiar with reenactments while shooting the movie Gettysburg, decided that the practice was worth skewering because its offensive to certain people. (Mr. Key and Mr. Peele are uninvited re-enactors, playing slaves.) Besides, Mr. Moses said: My kids said, You gotta do it. I think theres an aspect of this show young people find refreshing because theyve grown up in such an oppressively politically correct environment. Still, prejudices past and present are not the only things Mr. Peele and Mr. Key tap for material. We encourage them to aim in every direction, Mr. Alterman said. But their sketch poking fun at judges self-serious speeches on TV cooking contests is not likely to raise bloggers eyebrows as much as a sketch about white people trying to be cool with black people. And equally overlooked is another aspect of their success: the show thrives in a tough time for the form. Sketch series are a tough sell; they often swing too far from mainstream comedy, and their inherent quick changes mean audiences have no characters that hook them. The host segments in each Key & Peele episode, which put the pair in front of viewers as themselves, were intended to
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP Da Trombicche, in Siena, Italy; Fjallnas, a wilderness retreat in Sweden; at Art et Vgtal, a florist shop in Paris; bar at Sacha in Madrid.
Beyond the must-see sites there are layers of secrets to be discovered, from the kitchens of Paris to the shops of Rome.
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HIDDEN EUROPE POSTCARDS
For Tourists, Some Good News With the Bad

A trip to Europe, long a safe bet, seems less predictable these days. The sovereign debt crisis has led to strikes and the closings of the type of small restaurants and boutiques that tourists count on. So what can you expect if you make it across the ocean? Contributors in some of the hardest hit countries Ireland, Greece and Spain give an indication.
Letters
HITTING THE HOBBIT TRAIL
To the Editor: Regarding New Zealands Hobbit Trail (Oct. 7), as a Lord of the Rings fan, I visited New Zealand in 2004 and again in 2007, initially drawn by the beautiful scenery shown in the films, and ended up falling in love with everything about the country, especially its smaller cities Wellington, Christchurch ALICIA LLOYD and Dunedin. Taipei, Taiwan To the Editor: I have long wondered why classic movie sets are not preserved more often as a boon to local tourism. A classic example: the half-ship model of the Titanic, built at a studio in Baja California. That seemed like a natural and obvious opportunity to allow fans to experience the movie in person. Im just glad theres something left of Hobbiton.
MIKE MATTHEWS
PARKNASILLA RESORT & SPA
Irelands Zombie Hotels Beckon Visitors With Prices

Whoever coined the term zombie hotels probably wont win any prizes for marketing. But the hotels, relics of the Celtic Tiger era in Ireland, are probably the biggest real benefit for any visitor to Irish shores. Hundreds of them opened during the boom years, from 1997 to 2007, fueled by lavish tax breaks and the expectation of increased demand from home and abroad. The snag was that if they ceased renting rooms, they would have to return government money: tax breaks and, for some, loans that had been private but became public when the banks were bailed out. So despite the economic nose-dive, many have kept their doors open even if they are making little or no profit, forcing prices down across the sector. What is bad news for hoteliers is good news for everyone else. Thanks to these so-called zombies, whose occupancy rates hover around 62 percent, tourists can now expect to pay a fraction of the cost for lodging that they might have a few years ago. In recent studies, hotel prices in Ireland rank among the cheapest in Europe, with average rooms in Dublin now costing about 80 euros (about $100 at $1.26 to the euro); 70 euros ($89) elsewhere in the country. In 2013, the Irish government is hosting an initiative called The Gathering, in an attempt to encourage everyone to invite friends and relatives to visit. Because of the zombies, there has probably never been a better time to go.
DOUGLAS DALBY
Colorado Springs
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In Greece: Lower Prices Are Luring Tourists Back

The sign on a clothing shop on Ermou Street in Athens reads 10 euro crisis special. All along this main shopping drag near Parliament, similar discount signs abound. As Greeces economic troubles deepen, many prices are declining, including those for hotels. That seems to be drawing tourists back, just as concerns that Greece could abandon the euro kept many away during the summer. The marble streets of Plaka and shops in the winding Monastiraki tourism areas near the Acropolis were startlingly empty a month ago, but they have snapped back to life. Restaurants and bars were bustling on a recent Saturday night; shoppers browsed jewelry stores and the streets were dense with crowds. But step on to any side street, and every third store is closed for business, covered by a thicket of graffiti. Still, Greeks are going about their lives, settling into a rhythm occasionally interrupted by strikes against a government austerity plan and transportation slowdowns. Like the shuttered stores, the inconveniences are merely something for tourists to figure their way around, although there may be more to come.
LIZ ALDERMAN
CORRECTIONS
An answer in the Q&A column on Sept. 30 about Bertram van Munster, executive producer of The Amazing Race, and his travels in the Andes, misstated the altitude of a drive he took over the mountains from Lima to Huancayo in Peru. The pass over which one would drive reaches about 16,000 feet, not 18,000. It also misstated the elevation of La Paz, Bolivia. It is about 12,000 feet, not 11,000. An article on Sept. 23 about the breakaway Southern Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakhomittedthe most recent safety advice from the State Department about traveling in the region.The departments Web site advisestravelers from the United States to avoid the region,noting thatbecause of the existing state of hostilities, we cannot offer consular services to U.S. citizens in Nagorno-Karabakh.
In Spain, Empty Tables And Canceled Bullfights
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One sign of spains economic woes intruded late this summer at a flamenco club in El Puerto de Santa Mara, a beach town in the south. The dancer was stomping his feet and circling his arms on the stage. Then he reached for the microphone and started to sing. It was weird that he was singing, and it wasnt right. Flamenco dancers arent supposed to sing. It ruins their rhythm. It destroys their mystery. Between songs, the dancer addressed the crowd. He is sorry for his singing, my friend translated for me. He says that he is dancer, but with the crisis he is a singer, too. As the dancer did double duty, it
brought to mind other signs that Spains economy seemed worse than the year before. Bullfights were canceled; bullrings were half-empty. Or take the chiringuito (beachside restaurant) at Redes. The place, perched on a bluff overlooking the crowded beaches on the Bay of Cdiz, was so mobbed last summer that the wait for a table was an hour or more. This year, there was no wait on many days, which was great until the grilled fish and sauted clams came and the realization kicked in: its not much fun to eat on a beach in Spain all alone.
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Rooms With Charm Off the Radar

Small hotels are tucked into almost every country. The trick is to find them.
Aix-en-Provence, France
La Maison dAix
This four-room hideaway is the kind you might wish for in every tourist-worthy town. Though it is in the heart of the historic center, it is small enough to feel as if you are at a chic friends home. Its rooms, impeccably designed by the owner, the architect Laura Juhen, feature comfortable soaking tubs, huge windows, and interiors that are the perfect mix of contemporary and Provenal. Step outside your door and youll find amenities like a hammam, hot tub and small spa in the former wine cellar. And add in the quintessential French breakfast: freshly baked bread and delicate croissants, perfectly ripe fruit, local cheese, daily squeezed juice and a caf au lait. The honor code policy only adds to the feeling of being left alone in the very best way but being pampered, too. Doubles from 320 euros, or $400 at $1.26 to the euro; 25, rue du 4 Septembre, (33-4) 42-53-78-95, lamaisondaix ONDINE COHANE .com. modern interiors, and the lodge an expansive wood barnlike building looks like something out of a Wes Anderson film, with a menacing stuffed bear at the entrance, lots of old books in the library and a restaurant lined with windows that look out on the pictureperfect mountain lake rimmed with old crooked trees. The interiors with details like Missoni towels, arrangements of vintage ceramic vases in the rooms, natural wood saunas at the spa reflect the sensibility. Its the ideal retreat to return to after the long hikes, dog sledding adventures or cross-country skiing trips at this end-of-the-world destination in the wild Swedish highlands. Rates start at 325 euros a night, including breakfast and a daily guided mountain excursion; (46-684) 23030, GISELA WILLIAMS fjallnasreserve.com.
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Monastery Hopping In Spain
HOTEL KRANZBACH
Oletta, Corsica
U Palazzu Serenu
Much like Corsica itself, this secluded nineroom property above the Gulf of St. Florent remains a well-kept insiders secret. It is also clearly a labor of love. The owner, the former rose magnate Georges Barthes, filled it with art from the likes of Anish Kapoor, and wellthought-out design details like huge beds with soft linens, pale stone bathrooms with large tubs and plenty of counter space, and floor-toceiling windows, some looking straight to the sea. (Opt for one of the rooms on the second floor.) A destination restaurant that features the seafood for which the island is famous (and an excellent truffle tasting menu in the fall) and a little lap pool are other notable amenities. The resort is a great launchpad for exploring the wild beaches of Cap Corse and the well-known town of St. Florent. Corsica has its share of more formal hotels and farmstyle properties, but U Palazzu brings new intimacy and new style to one of the most gorgeous islands in Europe. Doubles from 190 euros; Lieu-dit Paganacce, (33-4) 9538-3939, upalazzuserenu.com. ONDINE COHANE
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Das Kranzbach
Perched over a private toll road originally created for King Ludwig IIs royal hunting lodge, this 131-room complex is surrounded by thick pine forests just outside the popular Bavarian Alpine town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The property, centered around a British Arts and Crafts-style stone mansion built during the turn of the 20th century by a British heiress for her artist friends, has gotten new life in the last five years, with several new buildings. Now it is a contemporary spa retreat with interiors by the British designer Ilse Crawford, who incorporated a provocative mix of Dutch design furniture with Studio Job papier-mch chandeliers, floating George Nelson lanterns, silver patterned wallpaper and purple velvet armchairs. But wherever you might be eating dinner in the welcoming restaurant or getting cozy in the hotels stand-alone treehouse suite you never lose sight of your natural surroundings. Almost every room has enormous windows with the awesome view of the encircling jagged peaks of the nearby mountains. Double rooms start at 136 euros a person, including breakfast, light lunch, tea and dinner; (49-8823) 928-000, daskranzbach.de. GISELA WILLIAMS
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RICHARD STARKS
Miriam Murcutt is an author of A Room With a Pew, about staying in Spanish monasteries.
ATHENA MALPAS
Puglia, Italy
Il Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli
This former convent turned small retreat defines hidden gem. There is no Web site or local phone number. Its entrance is behind imposing doors in a small Pugliese village. Once you enter the cloistered courtyard, you feel as if you are off the map, in a rarefied world that has its own rhythms. That difference is this places great charm it is the kind of intimate and unapologetically eccentric place with real character that is a dying breed in an age of corporate resort chains. The eight-room property is filled with the fine antiques and books of its owners Alistair McAlpine, the former treasurer of the Conservative party under Margaret Thatcher, and his wife, Athena, who are avid art collectors. The gardens are home to rare plants and cactuses, and breakfast and other meals are based on seasonal and local ingredients, served in an informal but romantic atmosphere. And it is only a short drive to treasures like Lecce and Otranto. Doubles from 350 euros, including breakfast, lunch, wine and laundry service; Via Convento, Marittima di Diso, (44-7736) 362-328.
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HILE walking the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage route to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela, in 2005, Miriam Murcutt stopped in a few tucked-away monasteries, many built as early as the 12th century. Inside them, she said, Youre surrounded by massive stone walls and soaring roofs that were already 450 years old when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, she said. You can feel the weight of the centuries. Ms. Murcutt returned to Spain in 2009, staying only in monasteries. With her writing partner, Richard Starks, she documented her experiences in a new book A Room With a Pew. Below are edited excerpts from a conversation with Ms. Murcutt on how to visit Spains many monasteries.
EMILY BRENNAN
Q. How do you find monasteries that are open to guests? A. The Spanish government runs a number of monas-
MONACI DELLE TERRE NERE
Istanbul
Witt
When the former investment banker Tuncel Toprak dreamed up this passion project more than five years ago, he smartly turned to another local upstart, the innovative design team Autoban, for design expertise. The team created 18 loftlike contemporary suites with kitchenettes using a bold global palette of materials: bathrooms of gray Italian marble, walls of mirrored French tile and laser-cut floral motif headboard panels. Just as chic as the interiors is the hotels location: far from the tourist crowds in the cozy neighborhood of Cihangir, the West Village of Istanbul. The Witt isnt a hotel or an apartment; its the cool Istanbul pied-terre youve always wanted, with a Turkish breakfast spread and casual, friendly service included. And if you book one of the back suites on the top two floors, youll also have a mesmerizing view of minarets and the Bosporus. Rates are from 169 to 389 euros; Defterdar Yokusu No. 26, (90-212) 293-1500, GISELA WILLIAMS wittistanbul.com.
ROLAND PERSSON
FROM TOP Das Kranzbach, Number
Sixteen, Il Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli, Monaci delle Terre Nere, Fjallnas.
ing fireplace in the chic but comfortable drawing room. The rooms are charming, linked through three landmark Victorian town houses with exemplary beds. That it is set in South Kensington, a chic neighborhood with a mix of residences and shops and close to many museums adds to the appeal. Doubles from 185, or $292 at $1.58 to the pound; 16 Sumner Place, (44-207) 589-5232, firmdalehotels.com. ONDINE COHANE
teries, along with castles and fortresses, that have been converted into hotels (paradorsofspain.com). Richard and I were interested in staying in functioning monastic communities, which are harder to find. To do that, a very good resource is GuiasMonasterios .com, which lists monasteries across Spain according to town and region. Its in Spanish, but even if you dont speak the language, you can look for the words hospedera, hospedaje or residencia to figure out which ones offer accommodations. I would also look on Top-Tour-of-Spain.com, which despite its package-toursounding name has two dozen monastic listings. Most monasteries are about $50 to $70 a night per person, but some are free or ask only for a donation. From there, I would visit the monasteries individual Web sites nearly all of them have one; theyre not Luddites and e-mail them to get a feel for their community, their expectations and the experience they offer.
Q. Does one need to participate in religious life? A. Each community is different. The nuns of the Con-
Zafferana Etnea, Sicily

Monaci delle Terre Nere
The new Monaci delle Terre Nere, whose six rooms are housed in and around a beautiful red villa that was once part of a nobles familys estate, provides views of Mount Etna and the Mediterranean, along with a network of trails crossing 40 acres of organic farmland. These fields are the source of much of its kitchens delicious ingredients, including its olive oil. The owners, Guido Alessandro Coffa and Ada Calabrese, spent years restoring the place, creating a mix of modern interiors within a 17th-century landmark that is especially striking in the two suites and common areas where you can relax with a glass of wine. And the secluded property makes a great base from which to explore the up-and-coming Etna region, from the red hot wine scene (try the Etna Rosso from Girolamo Russo) to lost-intime villages to the volcano on Mount Etna itself. Doubles from 160 euros; Via Monaci, 39095-708-3638, monacidelleterrenere.it.
ONDINE COHANE
Malmagen, Sweden
Fjallnas
In 1882 an intrepid entrepreneur, Jonas Aslund, built Fjallnas, one of Swedens first mountain hotels. It soon became the wilderness retreat of choice for Swedens and Norways royal circle, but over the years sank into disrepair and neglect. Now, another entrepreneur, the former financier Lars Bertmar and his wife, Christina, have reinvented the resort for a new generation using a team of architects and talents that include the Iranian-born interior designer Shideh Shaygan. The result is a balance of rustic and luxury. Old folk-style buildings now have clean,
London
Number Sixteen
The Firmdale group, helmed by its owners, the designers Kit and Tim Kemp, is known for the luxury service and upscale amenities that its properties (like the Covent Garden, also in London, and Crosby Street in New York) all have in common. But Number Sixteen represents a different sort of British hospitality, a more discreet, cozy and make-yourself-at-home kind, with an honesty bar, tree-filled garden and roar-
vento de la Pursima Concepcin in Marchena, for example, are happy to let you use their community as a base for exploring they say so on their Web site. Officially theyre a cloistered order, but theyre quite lively. Theyre so young, almost all from Kenya or Ethiopia, and they support themselves by making little marzipan sweets and running a restaurant. On the other hand, you have the Monasterio de Santa Mara de las Escalonias, which as a Trappist monastery is devoted to work and prayer. They dont expect you to go to every prayer service, but some of them. The first prayer starts at 3 in the morning, and its actually quite beautiful: the stars are out, and you listen to their chanting. The monastery itself is a beautiful old farmhouse, and the church a converted cow barn, surrounded by orange and walnut and fig groves in the Crdoba region. Youre expected to set and clear the table, and the meals were delicious. Q. What are the accommodations like? A. Theres usually a twin bed, a desk, a Bible, a place to hang your clothes, and some rooms have en suite bathrooms. Not all monasteries take both male and female guests, so check beforehand. One room I particularly loved was in the Real Monasterio de Santa Mara in Vallbona, Catalonia. It had beautiful floor-to-ceiling windows that opened up on the yellow roofs of the village.
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CHOICE TABLES
Where Madrid Chefs Go for the Real Thing
By LISA ABEND
EAR the start of each year, prominent chefs and culinary journalists from around the globe descend on Spain for Madrid Fusin, a conference devoted to avant-garde cuisine. While many of them will use their time in Madrid to visit its temples of modernist cooking the high wire fusion of Diverxo, the rococo excess of Ramn Freixa, the extravagant elegance of Sergi Arola some will inevitably crave something simpler, more traditional. It is then that they will turn to their Spanish friends in the food world for suggestions. With the reluctance of someone revealing a secret, those friends will respond, more often than not, with the name of an unfancy tavern most tourists never visit: Asturianos. Asturianos is one of a handful of places where Madrids chefs and food writers, its wine vendors and restaurant owners go for real Spanish food. Most of these places hardly ever appear in English-language guidebooks. They are not places where anyone gets blown away by the latest theatrics of some hot young chef or, heaven forbid, has an experience. Rather, they are places where the atmosphere is convivial, the wine list is always good, and the food, simply prepared, is made with the finest ingredients. Here are four favorites.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES RAJOTTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
FROM LEFT Sardines at Asturianos; bar at Sacha; Ivan Morales, in suit, and Alvaro Castellanos, in apron, co-owners of Arzbal; Laredos new expanded bar.
Asturianos
Asturianos, situated on an unremarkable street of offices and overbright bars in a working-class part of Madrid, is the kind of place that jaded foodies fantasize about after studying one too many minimalist menus that identify dishes only by their top three ingredients and the farms that grew them. There are no such menus here. And there is no celebrity chef either, just Doa Julia, her graying hair caught up in a white cap. Nor are there complicated dishes involving fantastical combinations; instead the straightforward menu includes filling bean stews, long-braised meats and fish lightly roasted in cider. There is certainly no sharply designed dining room demanding attention. Still, regulars love the place all the more for its homeliness. There are, however, fat sardines, lightly briny and swimming in concentric circles of tomato concass and bright green olive oil. In season, there are boletus mushrooms, their deep musk complicated only with a bit of garlic and a quick sear. There are plump cockles, barely cooked to retain their
full sweetness. A darkly rich bit of beef shank, braised to velvetiness, is served with nothing more than a few fried potatoes to absorb the delicious wine sauce. The fabada, that most typical of Asturian dishes, is exemplary here the big white beans tender and vibrating with flavor from chorizo and blood sausage. And a luscious cheese flan makes converts of those otherwise bored with this most Spanish of desserts. And then there is the family that runs the place. Doa Julia has been doing all the cooking herself in a kitchen the size of a bathmat since the death of her husband, who started the restaurant in 1966. Her sons, Belarmino and Alberto Fernndez, run the front of the house, with Alberto holding down the jobs of both sommelier (working with a vineyard in Mntrida, he produces the house wine, Tres Patas) and all-around good guy. With his easy warmth and startling command of both the finer points of Spanish cuisine and popular American television series, he is one reason that meals here tend to push unusually late into the night, even by Spanish standards. Asturianos, Vallehermoso, 94; (34-91) 533-5947. Average dinner for two with wine, about 100 euros, $126 at $1.26 to the euro.
Sacha
Sacha is another family-run establishment dear to the hearts of Madrids food cognoscenti. In 1972, a couple he Basque, she Gallegan opened this restaurant in a neighborhood just north of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. They named it after their son, Sacha Hormaechea, who, after attending culinary school in Catalonia, took over the restaurant, infusing his mothers classic bistro-style menu with modern sparks
that lead him, on occasion, to add such travesties to the classic canon as a guacamole salad. On a warm night, there may be no more pleasant place to sit in Madrid than on Sachas leafy terrace. Service can be formal, but somehow that seems fitting for food that deserves to be taken seriously. Order from the right side of the menu was the advice I received from one restaurant critic, and once there, I quickly realized why: that list changes according to the seasons, yes, but also to the chefs whims. Sacha is known for his way with powerful meats his beef with bone marrow is legendary but on a recent night he was in a lighter mood. Tiny mussels, no bigger than a childs thumb, were the most delicious I had ever tried, their brininess infused with a little herbal spice from a sauce of stewed fennel. Equally tiny and sweet baby squid came skewered and grilled, their oily ink the only accompaniment. A false lasagna of spider crab the shreds of meat topped with a light bchamel and a single handkerchief of pasta was creamily tender. And grilled scallops, served in the shell with their roe intact, were like little bonbons of the sea, thanks to a drizzle of butter. Sacha, Calle de Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 11; (34 91)345-5952. Average dinner for two with wine, about 120 euros.
No theatrics here, just the finest ingredients, simply prepared.

cluding those of the ironically named house wine, Terrible (its actually quite good), constitutes the primary design feature. Arzbal, in both its incarnations, is so cozily warm that the minimalist setting seems like mere backdrop to a scene of intense conviviality. Meals start with a wooden tub of good butter (a rarity in Spain) brought to the table to be scooped out with tiny knives and spread across decent bread (ditto). There are two menus, one purportedly for the bar and the other for tables, but most diners ignore the distinction and order from both. A plate of croquetas, their crust light and crisp, their bchamel redolent with Ibrico ham, are among the citys best, as is the salmorejo, the gazpacho-like emulsion made here from the ripest tomatoes. This is not innovative food, just traditional tapas made modern by the quality of their ingredients and the light hand brought to their preparations. Many dishes are pushed toward extraordinary by the addition of a single, unexpected ingredient. A skillet of fried eggs, for example the most basic of Madrid tapas is made memorable by a shower of black truffle. The same goes for the amusingly named Self-Important Potatoes, a dish of simple fried spuds that get a boost and a jolt of deliciousness from the addition of tiny prawns. And roasted cod, which comes to the table with a golden gratine, gets an infusion of serious earthiness from a black olive tapenade. Arzbal, Doctor Castelo, 2, and Aveni-
da Menendez Pelayo, 13; (34-91) 5572691; arzabal.com. Average dinner for two with wine, about 70 euros.
Laredo
The equally popular Laredo recently underwent its own expansion, moving this summer into a larger and more modern space (the old one was adorned with ship wheels) just up the street from the two Arzbals. The new design includes a sleek dining area, but the better part of the space is given over to the bar, which is a good thing considering the crowds who flock there nightly. Here, too, raw materials come first a huge display case offers a peek at them as you move from bar to dining room. And here as well, the preparations are mostly simple, though the chef, David Laredo, gives more free rein to his imagination than others do. That does not mean liquid nitrogen and spherified squid ink; with the exception of some pizza croquetas that taste like a Spanish version of a Hot Pocket, his innovations are subtle. Plump steamed clams get a hit of nuttiness from a sauce made from amontillado sherry, instead of the usual white wine. With the simple addition of grilled wild asparagus, cut into beads and showered, along with a good dose of Parmesan, a simple tomato salad becomes something memorable. The unlikely prawn and onion tempura comes in a crisp, translucent tangle, the best fried shrimp and onion rings youve ever had. Even the revuelto the standby of scrambled eggs usually mixed with mushrooms or ham turns exciting when it contains creamy sea urchins and tiny fava beans. Laredo, Doctor Castelo, 30; (34-91) 573-3061. Average dinner for two with wine, 70 euros.
Arzbal
The first Arzbal, all six tables of it, became so popular after its opening in 2009 on the far side of the Retiro Park, that its owners, Ivan Morales and Alvaro Castellanos, decided to expand by opening a second restaurant, bigger but otherwise alike in look and feel to the first, one building down from the original. In both, a wall of wine bottles, in-
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The terrace provides sweeping views without the vertigo, plus a restaurant.
Cool brands, good restaurant, even friendly salespeople.
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Hidden Gems of Europe

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take a modern, conscientious approach to sourcing their materials, scouring local markets for tattered, broken furniture that they then restore or repurpose to create cool, imaginative pieces with a back story. Every few months local artists are invited to exhibit works in the shop a melding of creative genres that transpires as, Mr. Sol said, the art combines with our furniture. The couple, who live above the studio, plan to expand their business later this year by opening a second shop and studio space in the Grcia neighborhood (at Carrer del Perill 39). For a limited time during the expansion theyll open their store by appointment only, so check the Web site. Then snake through Raval and ring their bell to discover this charming (and well-hidden) gem.
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Athens
Kalamiotou Street, at night
Its been three years since Greece became the epicenter of Europes debt crisis, but youd hardly know it strolling the center of Athens at night. Eclectic restaurants and crackling night life animate a maze of streets steps from the Acropolis and the Greek Parliament. Instead of tucking into a heavy taverna dinner, head to Melilotos 19 Kalamiotou Street, (30-210) 32-22-458 hidden in the fabric district off Ermou Street. Its family-run kitchen specializes in fusion cuisine, using produce from the Greek islands. Here, Athenians in the know linger over fried Creten feta laced with ouzo and watermelon; a tangerine-infused pasta from Chios Island; and squidink tagliatelle flecked with smoked trout. Around 10:30, the area morphs into a booming bar scene, starting when the Dude bar across the street, a paen to The Big Lebowski, opens its nondescript doors. Around the corner, facing St. Eirini church, throngs of young Greeks crowd the outdoor tables at Tailor Made Plateia Agias Eirinis 2, (30-213) 004-9645 a micro-coffee roaster by day, drinking spot by night, with drinks like the Porn Star Martini, made with passion fruit. Many Greeks are not spending money on vaca-
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A mural by the Italian street artist Blu in Berlin.

tion or even gas, but they will pay to nurse a drink for 8 euros (about $10, at $1.26 to the euro) in a lively setting rather than sitting home and moping. If youre in town, you may as well join them.
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Barcelona, Spain
Amato Sole
In Barcelona, its all too easy to simply shop the multistory outposts of Zara or Mango. Or to weave through racks of psychedelic-print tunics from the label Custo Barcelona. Or to wander around the
sprawling home-design emporium Vinon. But those who value craftsmanship over massproduced goods should make the effort instead to explore the narrow streets in the southern part of the Raval neighborhood. Its a new part of the Raval thats growing with new shops, said Ramn Sol, a Barcelona native and a co-owner of Amato Sole, a housewares and furniture shop that opened in the area in December 2010. At Amato Sole (amatosole.com), many of the items for sale, from mirrors fitted within old window frames to wooden chairs inlaid with iron, are handmade in the second-floor studio by Mr. Sol, an industrial designer, and his partner, Annamaria Amato, an architect from Sicily. The couple
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From Preceding Page the tourist trail, in the middle of Treptower Park, which runs along the Spree River in the former East Berlin. Built after World War II to commemorate the thousands of Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin, the huge Soviet War Memorial is at once a moving work of midcentury political art and a ludicrous piece of Stalinist pomp. The central axis leads from a statue of a grieving Mother Russia across a long, landscaped plaza to a 70-ton bronze statue of a soldier brandishing a rescued German child and standing triumphantly atop a crushed swastika. Lining the plaza, which is an actual burial plot for some 7,000 Red Army soldiers, are 16 raised stone sarcophagi, each bearing a quote by Stalin and a frieze depicting some act of Soviet heroism. The compositions machine gun-toting soldiers stacked like sardines, children throwing grenades are vaguely classical, like social realist tableaus as conceived by a Hellenistic artisan. To lighten the impact, venture down the street to the former Western district Kreuzberg, where youll find another kind of historical remnant, albeit newer in origin: several murals by the Italian street artist Blu, whose work here dates from 2006 to 2009. In one, a giant pink figure made of hundreds of tiny, writhing men looks out with hollow white eyes. In a city where public art can feel like history having an argument with itself, the murals act as an oversize color-blocked rejoinder to the monumental Soviet severity you just left behind.
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Treptower Park in Berlin.
Copenhagen
Bakken amusement park
Be careful as you step from Central Station and plan your big outing in the Danish capital. Across the street, the Tivoli Gardens are like a verdant vortex that sucks in all passing travelers, luring them with flashing lights, old-time rides and openair concerts. Fortunately, a folksier, cheaper, larger and more historical alternative is tucked away to the north of the city. In a forested area known for revelry and entertainments since the late 1500s, Dyrehavsbakken, known as Bakken, bills itself as the worlds oldest amusement park. True or not, Bakken (bakken.dk) certainly has more Old World bona fides than its inner-city cousin, to say nothing of a more bucolic setting: some 2,700 acres of woodland filled with hiking paths, green fields and free-ranging deer. Better still, the price tag to enter Bakken is far lower: admission is free for all ages. Once inside, youll find everything from Bakkens Hvile, said to be the oldest remaining music hall in Denmark, to Scandinavias only 5D cinema, where moving seats and special effects like wind, water and mist create a full sensory experience. But the marquee attraction is the vintage 80year-old wooden roller coaster, one of the 30-plus rides spread across the grounds. The solidly middle-class park also draws some unusual characters each year. To celebrate Bakkens opening day, generally in March, and the last day of its season, typically around the end of August, motorcyclists by the hundreds converge for a mass rally. For people who prefer to arrive by sleigh, Bakken has hosted the World Santa Claus Congress every summer since 1957. So, when the high-price, high-gloss, highly crowded Tivoli seems like too much, Bakken is indeed a gift.
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Bakken amusement park in Copenhagen.
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Rumeli fortress in Istanbul.
Hidden Gem
Istanbul
Rumeli Castle
Rumeli Castles spires arent as heavily touted as those jutting from the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia, but this 560-year-old Ottoman fortress across town from Galata, where tourists flock to buy spices at the Grand Bazaar is no less spectacular. Nestled in Sariyer, a neighborhood on the European side of the city, the majestic, well-preserved fort, which is now a museum (entrance, 5 Turkish lira, or about $2.70 at 1.83 lira to the dollar), was built at the narrowest point of the Bosporus by Sultan Mehmed II, who originally positioned hundreds of soldiers at its gates and used it to control river traffic. Today, its location away from the citys tourist centers usually keeps crowds at a minimum. Which is one of the reasons in addition to the winding, woodsy paths inside and the unparalleled views of Istanbul to go there. Rumelis canonical, tiered Halil Pasha Tower and its satellite watchtowers stand guard over a bench-lined maze of trees, steep staircases and crumbling steel doors. Catch a glimpse of the gloomy dungeon, then hike to the highest points and enjoy the spectacular view. The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge sparkles to the left, while the green hills of Asia frame the sailboats, ferries and tanker ships chugging the Bosporus. Giant Turkish flags flutter proudly across the water, a beautiful sight at sunset. End the day with a 15-minute stroll down the water to Bebek, Istanbuls chicest neighborhood, for a Turkish coffee or a raki, the cloudy liquor whose local popularity, much like Rumelis, has survived the ages. KAREN LEIGH
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Works by Tomek Baran at the Bunkier Sztuki gallery in Krakow, Poland.
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Krakow, Poland
Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery
Visitors to Krakow might easily spend their entire trip within the confines of the Old Towns medieval main square, where theyll find the Gothic spires of St. Marys Basilica, the tiny early-Romanesque Church of St. Adalbert, and the Renaissance-style Cloth Hall, which today houses the National Museums Gallery of 19th-century Polish Art. For sustenance, its simple to land at one of the many restaurants and cafes that ring the square; most offer outstanding views and, predictably, overpriced food and drinks.
Instead, walk two blocks down Plac Szczepanski to the edge of the Old Town, where a blocky complex houses the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery (bunkier.art.pl; admission 10 zloty, or about $3 at 3.25 zloty to the dollar). The structure is not dissimilar to a war bunker hence, the name and is one of the best places to track down contemporary art and cultural events in the city. Inside, you might see a simulation of the world after the fall of capitalism, or a site-specific Dada collage accessed through a long, dark hallway. Outside, the museums adjoining Bunkier Caf is a pleasant place for a light lunch or postgallery coffee break. With sandboxes for the children and Polish beers for their parents, it is a local favorite and a much cooler alternative to the crowded main-square spots. The mismatched tables set on a wide patio enclosed and heated in the winter, open-air in the summer provide ideal perches for people-watching as strollers cross the leafy Planty Park, which encircles the Old Town.
INGRID K. WILLIAMS
Lisbon
Its Not Just Fado
For generations, Lisbons reputation has been wrapped up in fado, the centuries-old folk music that drifts like teary, windblown tissue from the citys timeworn fado houses, which are de rigueur stops for travelers. Anyone who has spent an
evening listening to those softly plucked guitars, lovelorn lyrics and wailing female vocalists will probably think that the Portuguese capital is a haven of heartbroken fishwives pining away for distant sailors. Banish those notions. Lisbon has a diverse live playlist that features everything from jazz to African music if you know where to look. Right now there are some really cool things happening in Lisbon, said Lus Filipe Rodriuges, music editor of Time Out Lisbon. We also have an amazing free jazz scene. For instance, the venerable, well-respected Clube de Portugal (hcp.pt) has a densely packed program of Portuguese jazz bands, touring acts, jam sessions and performances by the house orchestra. For a lively night of percussive beats and dancing, there is the newly reopened B. Leza, (blogdibleza.blogspot.fr), an African club in a warehouse near the Tagus River. Live music from the Cape Verde islands is a particular specialty, along with singers and bands from Angola, Mozambique and Brazil. The spirited soundtrack is the perfect antidote to fado-induced melancholy.
SETH SHERWOOD
London
Rochelle Canteen
Redchurch Street, a hub for the gentrification that has swept Londons East End in recent years,
is usually filled with people who are browsing bou tiques and enjoying flutes of vintage Champagne or gourmet coffee. Nearby, restaurants tout the oc casional Michelin star and food to match anything youd find in the traditionally tonier West End. Bu just off the main thoroughfare, on a peaceful circu lar plaza amid red-brick Victorian apartmen blocks, is a restaurant that offers a brief glimpse a the unvarnished character of the areas renais sance. The Rochelle Canteen is part of a former schoo that now houses a gallery, studio and event spaces (arnoldandhenderson.com). A locked green gate and a confusing panel of buzzers greet visitors in trepid enough to track it down. On a recent af ternoon, a reporter had to wait for a delivery man to follow inside. Beyond the gate is a schoolyard and a modern European kitchen installed, along with a handfu of tables, in a former bicycle shed. The bicycles are now locked up in the open, amid more tables occupied by a decidedly eccentric-looking group o diners. At 2 oclock on a recent afternoon, a pair o dandies in full evening dress, down to bow ties and white scarves, devoured plaice with tomatoes and a green sauce, and roast partridge with pearl bar ley and artichokes, with every sign of enjoyment At another table, a professorial-looking lady in black-framed glasses delivered a treatise on the history of flat-pack furniture. The menu, as much hearty as it is arty, changes regularly. But on that afternoon it featured a per fectly spiced North African lamb stew, a delicate
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The Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.
Ravenna, on the countrys eastern coast just a two-hour drive from Florence was the seat of Byzantine power in Italy until the eighth century. Today, this handsome city attracts a relative trickle of tourists compared with the crowds that descend upon Florence. Yet hidden within Ravennas ancient structures are breathtaking mosaics, the most impressive of which can be found in the Basilica of San Vitale. Built in the sixth century, the Basilica of San Vitale (ravennamosaici.it; admission, 9.50 euros) is one of the finest examples of early Byzantine architecture. Although its small dome and unadorned facade are sober in comparison to Florences showy Duomo, its interior is awash in exquisite mosaics. In fact, the dazzling mosaics housed inside the church are regarded as among the most important Byzantine artworks that exist outside what is now Istanbul. Gaze upon the bold hues enlivening the early Christian iconography, which incorporates styles from both ancient Rome and medieval Europe (see depictions of Christ both bearded and beardless). Admire the glittering tiles of green and gold that depict the Byzantine emperor Justinian; his wife, Theodora; and their considerable entourage. And above all, savor the delicious calm over which these figures now rule. INGRID K. WILLIAMS
Regensburg, Germany
Armin-Wolf baseball stadium
Regensburg, at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers in eastern Bavaria, survived World War II largely intact a lucky break, considering that it was the site of a Messerschmidt bomber factory. Today its one of Germanys top tourist destinations, with a perfectly preserved medieval town center; the cathedral where Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, served as cardinal; a ruined Roman fort; and a famed cafe called Wurstkchen, beside the Danube, thats been serving bratwurst and beer since 1320. But why not take a break from Regensburgs antiquities and travel 10 minutes beyond the city center to a very different sort of attraction: a baseball stadium. Opened in 1998 on the site of a former limestone quarry, the Armin-Wolf Arena, named after a local sportswriter and baseball booster, reflects Germanys burgeoning fascination with Americas pastime. This 4,500-seat stadium, with its groomed infield and outfield, red-clay base paths and 400-foot center-field wall, could hold its own with any Double-A minor league ballpark in the United States. And the level of play, while hardly up to American standards, is rapidly improving. The Regensburg Legionre (named after the Roman emperor Marcus Aureliuss third legionnaires, stationed in this distant outpost of the Roman Empire beginning in the second century) won the German championships for the third year in a row in 2012. Several of their alumni have signed United States Major League contracts, including the outfielder Max Kepler, an $850,000 bonus baby now playing in the Minnesota Twins farm system. The 2013 baseball season begins next April. JOSHUA HAMMER
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Baseball in Regensburg, Germany.
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DOP, a fashion boutique in Rome.
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If Via Condotti, with its big-name labels, is not your style (or your price point), there are lots of smaller boutiques clustered on a few choice streets in the historic center, where they share space with antiques dealersand plenty of cafes to stop in for a coffee. The streets around the Pantheon, and Via Urbana in the Monti neighborhood of Rome near Santa Maria Maggiore, are lined with small boutiques with offbeat Made in Italy brands like a. b., Malloni and Reset,as well as upscale Spanish brands like Hoss. On Via Urbana, try DOP, at Via Urbana 25, (3906) 4890-6412, and LOL (lolmodartedesign.com), both warm yet minimalist boutiques with everyday wear in muted colors. Near the Pantheon, Spazio Espanso, at Via dei Bergamaschi 59/60, (39-06) 9784-2793, and its nearby sister shops Sempre, at Piazza della Pigna 7, (39-06) 679-2879, and Mam, at Via delle Coppelle 73/A, (39-0668) 13-6168, feature slightly offbeat cashmeres, wools, silks RACHEL DONADIO and cottons.
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a former school in London.
Pouic Pouic, a sliver of a bistro in Paris.
Truls Melins Mental Togetherness (2009) outside Magasin 3 in Stockholm.
rabbit terrine and a rich honeycomb ice cream. All were priced at a maximum of 6.50 (about $10.25 at $1.58 to the pound) for appetizers and desserts, and 17.50 for entrees. RAVI SOMAIYA
Moscow
The All-Russian Exhibition Center
The hectic, honky-tonk Soviet fairground now called the All-Russian Exhibition Center north of the city center and originally known as V.D.N.Kh., or the Exhibit of the Achievements of he National Economy is peppered with monumental sculptures that brag of the glory of the Soviets. In the ecstatic sculpture Worker and Collective Farm Worker, two figures, seemingly bursting with strength and promise, reach skyward, he with a hammer, she with a sickle. Look for gorgeous details from the Stalin era, ike rows of streetlights built in the shape of stalks of wheat, and the gilded dazzle of the Friendship of Nations Fountain. A fat stack of grain gleams in he middle of it, ringed by golden maidens in naive dress, holding their products aloft and celebrating their luck at being born Soviet. But what I especially like about the center (vvcentre.ru/eng) is how it has been reborn renvented, again and again, as Russia struggled for survival after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In he 1990s, small merchants moved into the cavern-
ous spaces built as showcases for shipbuilding or electrification and set up stands selling homeopathic honey, and sugar-frosted deep-fried doughnuts, and televisions, and gem-encrusted silver jewelry from the Caucasus. Many of my favorite afternoons in Moscow have been spent in the pavilion built to celebrate Armenia, where the light slants through windows onto inlaid tables. Couples drink thick sweet coffee while a single violinist plays, and you pause and pause, and pause again, before venturing back outside. ELLEN BARRY
Paris
Pouic Pouic
Paris at daybreak has little to offer creatures of the night. But starting at 5 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings, Pouic Pouic, a sliver of a bistro that opened last June in the St.-Germaindes-Prs neighborhood, serves serious food to post-party-goers with big appetites. Diners craving breakfast may go for ham-and-cheese omelets or maybe spaghetti carbonara (which is, after all, eggs and bacon with pasta instead of toast); meat lovers can opt for veal chops, cheeseburgers, steak tartare and entrectes. Pouic Pouic 9, rue Lobineau; (33-1) 43-26-71-95 offers a larger selection at lunch and dinner, including starters like chicken and foie gras terrine, and main courses like squid ink pasta with mus-
sels and wild chanterelle mushrooms, and pig cheek with creamy pured potatoes. The dcor is simple, with dark wood walls and bright posters, and the atmosphere just noisy enough. From the round table near the kitchen you can watch the 25-year-old Romanian-born chef Michael Pascale make magic from his open kitchen. Jacques Damitio, the owner (and an ex-notary public and ex-winemaker) or Anne-Sophie, his English-speaking daughter, may join you for a chat. Expect to pay 35 to 45 euros for a threecourse meal (a deal for Paris); the wine list is small, but creative and reasonably priced. A welcome alternative to familiar bistros overrun with Anglophone tourists. ELAINE SCIOLINO
Stockholm
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This year, Stockholms top must-see art event was not held at the stately Nationalmuseum or at the citys well-regarded modern art museum, Moderna Museet. Instead, those cognoscenti flocked to a pier on the outskirts of the city to see a solo exhibition from the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei at Magasin 3 (magasin3.com; admission, 60 Swedish kronor, about $8.85 at 6.8 krona to the dollar), a gallery in an industrial warehouse near the ferry terminal where cruise ships arrive from Riga and St. Petersburg. Its in this out-of-the-way location that Magasin 3 has been staging exhibitions from significant contemporary artists for 25 years. Past shows have featured international art-world luminaries, including Walter De Maria, Juan Muoz and Bruce Nauman. Currently, the gallery is hosting an exhibition of works by the German artist Anton Henning, who dabbles freely in stylistic imitation and voyeurism. It is called Too Much Skin, Taste & Turpentine (through Dec. 9). After admiring the art, visitors can browse the shelves in the gallerys library, sip espresso and nibble on homemade cakes in the cafe, or contemplate the appropriateness of scaling the celadon monkey bars actually, a sculpture by the Swedish artist Truls Melin that are outside.
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For all of the magnificence exhibited on the exterior of Florences Duomo Brunelleschis dome, Giottos campanile, the ornate marble facade, the grand bronze doors its interior is comparatively dull. After shuffling inside with swarms of tour groups, one discovers a hollow, cavernous hall with little of the artistic splendor that is displayed outside. So, why not leave this Renaissance masterpiece to its throngs of admirers and instead seek out a church with an interior as impressive as the Duomos exterior?
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TS common enough to get lost in European cities, with their narrow, winding streets that seem to have been traced by dazed sheep long before mass tourism; those confusing signs in strange languages; and locals who sometimes make a point of pretending not to understand, even when they do. But wandering aimlessly can be a goal in itself. How else would one stumble upon that extraordinary bakery, that antiques shop full of peculiar dolls, that amazing bistro and the occasional memorable scene a real Italian drug deal, a couple deep in the shadows, the perfect round Chinese face aglow in front of a poster of the Mona Lisa? Ive been fortunate enough to have been a foreign correspondent for most of the last 30 years in Europe, Southeast Asia, Russia, the Middle East, and back to Europe again, where I am now the chief of the Paris bureau. Ive always tried to find a few spots of respite and contemplation that I can think of as my own. No one ever really stops being a tourist, Im convinced, looking for that unique memory or connection that makes an iconic city seem personal, at least for a little while. In cities like Paris, Berlin and Prague, I have been happy to find places where the urban buzz and crush of big crowds fades slowly away. Places where I can lose myself, that is. That can happen in a park or garden, and in the middle of a city, too. But usually, for me, these moments of connection come from a confrontation with the past that produces a shock of comprehension, a sense of what an earlier world called the great chain of being. A fond memory: wandering around Versailles at closing time well, past it, actually, with the sun setting over the extraordinary gardens and stumbling upon the Hameau de la Reine, the bizarrely beautiful hamlet Marie Antoinette had built for herself. It was also a working farm, a place where she could pretend to be an ordinary milkmaid. At the time, I wasnt sure where I was, and there was no one around. It felt both private and stolen: the beauty of the gardens; the absurdity of these mock-humble buildings in such rarefied surroundings; the tragedy of the queen, dressed as a peasant, with her milk buckets of Svres porcelain painted with her coat of arms. Its hard enough, no matter how much one has read, to get ones mind into the habits and patterns of someone so distant, so privileged and so thoroughly despised by history, her head cut off in the Place de la Rvolution, which was renamed Concorde only as a gesture of reconciliation. I have found a similar sense of peace and history in the Basilica of St.-Denis, in a busy, noisy, multiethnic northern suburb of Paris far from the embellishments, tourist crowds and hawkers of Notre-Dame. The church dates from the 12th century, and its beauty stems
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ster to protect the Jews of Prague is buried. Prague is an eerie place, a Jewish city without Jews, with ghosts and golems emerging from behind the now brightly painted facades of what is Europes most beautiful and haunted city. In Berlin, another haunted city, which I first visited in 1981, there is the muchcriticized memorial to the Holocaust by Peter Eisenman, the stones at odd angles like the cemetery in Prague. The memorial is wrongly criticized; one simply has to go there and see how Berliners, not just tourists, use the place. Sitting on the stone slabs, no one can forget what they represent. Even amid so many visitors, deep in the maze of those slabs, some of which rise far above your head as the earth tips away, you can feel very lost, very alone, and grateful to experience a different Europe, a different Germany. One of my favorite places in Berlin is far more obscure an unassuming building that lies deep in eastern Berlin. The building, once the officers mess for the German Army, was where the Soviet Army established its headquarters in April 1945 and accepted Nazi Germanys capitulation, on the night of May 8. The surrender marked the real end of the European war in which so many millions died. Until 1994, the building was maintained by the Soviets, with a tank outside, some exhibits and a plaque. Now it sits forlornly, a kind of Ozymandias relic, a testament, Martha Kuhlman of Bryant University once wrote, to a Germany that no longer exists, owned by a Russia that no longer exists. But it is also a reminder of what the Soviet Union sacrificed to defeat the Nazis, as one form of fascism finally devoured another, and the hot war became the cold war that divided Europe and marked so much of my early career. With the awkward rapprochement with Moscow, the name has been changed from the Museum of Unconditional Surrender a name that provoked one fine writer, the Croatian Dubravka Ugresic, into using it as a title for a moving novel of exile and history to the distinctly unimaginative German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.
Searching for places where my memories and history collide.

from the transition of the Romanesque to the Gothic. But my attraction is not to the architecture, but to the collection of royal tombs. This is where nearly all the kings of France and their families are buried, and where the headless corpses of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette also, finally, came to rest. The tombs and sarcophagi are beautiful, in their way, but also serve as a kind of memento mori in the largest sense. These all-powerful individuals, who were thought to have been invested by God, were in death treated worse than peasants. During the revolution, the corpses were dug up, buried in mass graves and covered with lime. Napoleon reopened the church but left the bones where they were; only in 1817 were the pits opened and the bits of royal skeletons, all jumbled together, moved to an ossuary in the church. And only in 2004 was the mummified heart of the dauphin who was to have been Louis XVII, but was imprisoned from the age of 7 until his death at 10 brought to rest in a crypt in the church. During the revolution, the tombs themselves were saved in the name of art, while the bodies were desecrated in the name of equality, fraternity and liberty. Worth a thought, perhaps, and worth a visit, especially when one emerges to see a more realistic contemporary Paris: poorer, more ethnically diverse, more Muslim and in most ways more vivid than what one encounters on the Rue de Rivoli or in St.-Germain. There are similar spots all over Europe where my memories and history collide. On a winter evening in Prague, after months covering the Kosovo war, I wandered through the crammed, broken-toothed headstones of the Jewish cemetery, where the rabbi who is said to have created the Golem a clay monSTEVEN ERLANGER is chief of the Paris bureau of The Times.
MSTERDAM is one of Europes oddities the beauty of the canals, the bicyclists shooting along like rockets, the steady reminder of the power of water and wind. Its narrow streets and bridges can be packed with tourists, but there is at least one small area of respite. The Begijnhof is one of the few remaining interior courtyards of AmsterJOEL SAGET/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE--GETTY IMAGES dam and contains the citys oldest house, Het Houten Huys (the wooden house), believed to date from 1420 or so. It has a timber front, one of only two such timber houses remaining in Amsterdam. It reminds me of one of Vermeers most unusual paintings, a street scene called The Little Street, visible today in Amsterdams incomparable Rijksmuseum. The courtyard was reserved for the Bguines, an order of Roman Catholic lay sisters, who were not nuns but vowed chastity. Today, the courtyard is a shock of quiet, with ATLANTIDE PHOTOTRAVEL/CORBIS SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES pretty houses around a large patch of lawn. Near the low entrance are two facing churches, one Roman Catholic and one English Reformed. Both hold services and small concerts. But in a reflection of the religious wars that once ripped across Europe (and that, inevitably, remind me of the Middle East today), the English church was once the Catholic one, handed over to the Protestants. The Catholic chapel was founded later, in secret. A grave just off the brick path contains the remains of one Bguine (Begijn in Dutch), Cornelia Arens, who died in 1654. Rather than be laid to rest in the original Catholic church, which she considered desecrated by Presbyterians, she chose to be buried in the gutter of the courtyard. I admire her fierceness, her conviction, her self-abnegation and, yes, her contempt. JENS KALAENE, VIA NEWSCOM But historic sites arent the only places where I have lost myself. A wellrun restaurant can do the trick. Given this theme of history and beauty, I would suggest taking a long wander through the gardens of Pariss PalaisRoyal, where Napoleon was said to have had his first sexual experience, with one of the prostitutes who frequented the spot. Then leave the world behind and have lunch with a loved one at Le Grand Vfour, at the northwestern edge of the Palais-Royal. One of the capitals oldest restaurants said to date from 1784 its walls are fashioned of boiserie, mirrors and lush paintings of game, fish and flowers under glass. It is not only among the capitals prettiest restaurants, it also has two Michelin stars and is run with discretion, elegance and even some charm. Have something extraordinary like turbot or St.-Pierre (John Dory), or the restaurants famous foie gras ravioli with a truffled cream sauce. Of course there will be a bill to pay, and as in all expensive Paris restauED ALCOCK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES rants, your neighbors may speak your CLOCKWISE FROM TOP The Hameau de la Reine in Versailles, where Marie Antoinette played milkmaid; royal own language. But for a few hours, you tombs in the Basilica of St.-Denis outside Paris; the Begijnhof, in Amsterdam, with its competing churches and can happily lose yourself in an utterly gutter grave; a display at the German-Russian Museum Karlshorst (formerly the Museum of Unconditional Surartificial world that also marks a morender) in Berlin; Le Grand Vfour, in Paris; the Holocaust memorial in Berlin; the Jewish cemetery in Prague. ment of high civilization.
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FROM LEFT Plovdivs Roman Stadium, now restored; at the Nedkovich House, built in 1863, and its courtyard; at the Balabanov House; door detail at the church of St. Constantine and Helena.
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N a warm day in Plovdiv (Philippopolis in Roman times, or the City of Seven Hills to those who walk them today), I took respite in a park where a chunk of ancient colonnade served as a bench on which to eat greasy, cheesy banitza, the local pastry special. Along for the journey was my friend Mia Agova, daughter of Assen Agov, the Bulgarian politician famous for his role in the democratic movement that helped free the country from Communism. Mia had come down from Sofia hoping to find the spot where her greatgrandfather had been shot and killed in 1925 by the government operatives who considered him a fascist. Hers is not the only Bulgarian family with history in Plovdiv. One of Europes oldest continuously inhabited cities, Plovdiv, on the banks of the Maritsa River, was at one time or another a Neolithic settlement, a Thracian hub and a Roman cultural and economic center complete with a glittering hillside theater. Liberated from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, Plovdiv became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, before being folded into modernday Bulgaria. Today, Plovdiv is a city of more than 400,000 people, many of whom work in tourism and the arts. Plovdivs residents are proud of their history, which is good: they could scarcely avoid it if they tried. Walking from dinner to drinks, you may, as Mia and I did, pass under the remnants of a Roman aqueduct and amphitheater. If youre looking for a bit of ancient Roman grandeur east of Italys tourist
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The Hebros Hotel (51-A Constantin Stoilov Street; 359-32-260180, hebros-hotel.com), about a 10-minute walk to the City Gallery in Old Town, is the citys best. It has traditional Bulgarian architecture and renovated spa-style bathrooms. Book ahead: its seven standard rooms and two apartments are very popular. A bonus is the cozy courtyard restaurant, serving continental fare. Rooms from 168 Bulgarian leva, or $113 at 1.48 leva to the dollar. The Belle Ville Hotel (24-26 PR Slaveykov Street; 359-32-623-931), in the heart of Old Town, is the best value in Plovdiv. We had a large room with two comfortable beds, air-conditioning, free Wi-Fi and two walls of windows looking onto trees. Breakfast is included but leaves something to be desired. The staff is friendly. Rooms from 88 leva.
Sifting through history and art in the town of Plovdiv.

hordes, you would do well to come here. Nearly all the historical attractions are tucked into the quiet back streets in and around Old Town, a tree-lined maze of cobblestone streets, antiques stores, Roman ruins, restaurants and museums that is closed in many places to cars; its possible to spend two or three days exploring, as we did. In two and a half hours here, you can take a walk from the prehistoric times to now, said Antoinetta Perdikatseva, the curator at the Nedkovich House. On a sunny afternoon, she was sitting in its courtyard, under vines bearing heavy clusters of ripe green grapes. Built in 1863 and partly restored in 1969, the house belonged to a famous local merchant, Nikola Nedkovich, who incorporated classic Bulgarian architectural touches particularly the ornate carved ceilings, a different pattern in every room and traditional European design. Its one of many handsome homes in Plovdiv that once belonged to a prominent family and have been converted into museums. Everything is on display, down to the familys silk nightgowns, dining-table sets and frescoes of the wealthy owners travels. Down the road, Hindlian House, the most opulent of Plovdivs mini-museums, features the most luxurious marble bathroom anyone of that era (think of a small Turkish bath) had seen. You can excavate anywhere in this city, and the museum wont have a place to show everything, Ms. Perdikatseva said. We certainly werent her highest-profile visitors. Plovdiv is popular with royals passing through Bulgaria. Ms. Perdikatseva said she has guided Prince Charles, the Queens of Spain and Denmark and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, whom she escorted to dinner at a continental Old Town restaurant called Philippopolis. A 10-minute walk later, we were climbing the steep white marble stairs at the amphitheater, one of the bestpreserved testaments to the splendor of ancient Rome. Dating from A.D. 98, its the citys biggest tourist draw, with most visitors Bulgarians looking to explore their heritage. The theater, with rows of shiny white benches arranged in the traditional U-shape, was discovered by chance, after a mudslide in the 1970s, and restored by the Bulgarian Conservation School in what many here consider its finest hour. Its perched on a hill overlooking the concrete sprawl of todays Plovdiv, with the green backdrop of the Rodopi Mountains. Swigging from bottles of ayran (a salty, watery yogurt drink popular in Bulgaria and neighboring Turkey), Mia and I, history fanatics, followed in the steps of ancient actors and spectators.
Every September the gallery hosts a monthlong Festival of Art, featuring the top up-and-coming names in Bulgaria. Plovdivs (and the countrys) art community remains insular, having spent the last decade finding an identity after years behind the Iron Curtain. In 1989, when the pancake flipped, artists were left like: What do we do now? What do we do when theres nothing to rebel against? Mr. Linkov told us, referring to the year when Communist rule ended. The state used to buy and finance a lot of art, he said. And suddenly there was a free market and artists had to go out there and battle it out. Now artists like Danko Baypyanov and the woodcarver Nicolay Savov my personal favorites at the airy, spacious gallery, with whimsical paintings and carvings depicting Bulgarian life are slowly crossing borders and opening Bulgarian art to the world. Taking our leave, we headed to the citys main street, renovated three years ago and built over ruins of a Roman street. A stretch of those ruins has been beautifully restored and is easily accessible. Its steps from the Djumaya Mosque, one of the most beautiful mosques Ive seen outside the Middle East, surrounded by palm trees and built in the 1300s. Instead of a lunchtime beer, we chose a combined six flavors of gelato from Affredo, a good Bulgarian chain, and more banitza, eaten outside on the grass next to a fountain where all of Plovdiv, it seemed, had come to escape the heat. F course, there is more to Bulgarian cuisine than gelato and heavy pastries. For the citys best and most reasonably priced food, you can try, as we did, the Hotel Alafrangite in Old Town. It was nearly empty on a hot weekday night, and we were joined in a lovely open courtyard by a fashionable local couple and a creaky violin-andpiano combo, clad in animal prints, who regaled us with show tunes and Cline Dion. If the music made us smile, the food made us want to come back for more. Bulgarian cuisine is largely Mediterranean, featuring giant stuffed dolmas; a feta-like white cheese; salads of cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers and parsley, generously doused with vinaigrette; and tarator, a soup of creamy Bulgarian yogurt, cucumber chunks, olive oil and garlic. We ordered all of the above, weighing our table down with plates of breaded peppers and white cheese topped with a yogurt dressing, and the pice de rsistance: a polenta dish Mia insisted we try, served in a large pot with a thick layer of Bulgarian yellow cheese that melted all the way to the bottom. The next day, on our way out, we finally found the site of Mias ancestors murder, on a street near the train station, commemorated by a plaque covered in thick dirt. Mr. Linkov, a fan of Mias father, had asked a local historian friend to aid us in tracking it down. Later that week, he called, wanting to know if we had found the plaque, assuring us that he would have it restored.
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We enjoyed the same freedoms they did like most historic sites in Plovdiv, security is sparse and you can run, jump and touch almost anything. The wood stage has been reconstructed, and exiting from the backstage dressing area, with columns towering above, we had a birds-eye view of the modern city and far-off mountains, apart from the snaphappy Russian tourists doing supermodel thrusts below the statues.
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F theater was the cultural staple of the old Plovdiv, art is what drives it today. There are more than 40 galleries here, most of them featuring classical and contemporary Bulgarian artists, a group rarely showcased on the international scene. The grande dame of the art scene is the nonprofit City Gallery of Fine Arts, in the center of Old Town in a beautiful multistory building surrounded by gardens. Traditionally, this is a place that breeds artists, its where artists come to
live and work, said Krasimir Linkov, its director, as we sat in his office, surrounded by tall shelves stuffed with what must have been every book ever published on Bulgarian art. Its at a crossroads between North, South, East and West. So many people throughout history have come by for various reasons. Ethnic groups here are very tolerant of one another and always have been, so its great grounds for cul-
ture to develop. It was just after 11 a.m., and the amiable silver-haired Mr. Linkov made like any good Plovdiv host and poured us generous glasses of Champagne, left over from an opening and now perched precariously on art books stacked on the table. The City Gallery, he told us, has offshoots throughout Old Town and strives to promote little-seen Bulgarian work.
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N many ways Siena hasnt changed much in 800 years. And thats a good thing. The towns gorgeous 13th-century main square, the Piazza del Campo, is still the citys symbolic and physical heart. The twicea-summer bareback horse race, Il Palio, is still the most anticipated event, and the contrade, or neighborhood associations, still inspire a loyalty as deep as they did in medieval times. At the same time the ancient university here continues to deliver important research while imbuing the town with a youthful spirit. Florence, Sienas biggest rival to the north, may have won the battle in terms of historical significance and blockbuster art over the centuries, but Siena is decidedly less touristy and more livable. In the past few years, new boutiques and wine bars (not to mention updated restaurants) have been sprinkled in among some newly restored treasures.
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Siena has always held itself up as a model city. Nowhere is that sense of identity more on display than at the citys Museo Civico (Piazza Il Campo, 1; 39-0577-292-615; comune.siena.it; 8 euros admission for the museum, or $10 at $1.26 to the euro; 13 with the tower) in the Piazza del Campo. Here youll find beautiful frescoes, like the collection painted by Simone Martini, but of special note is Ambrogio Lorenzettis Sala della Pace and his Allegory of Good and Bad Government. Commissioned by the city council in the 14th century, at the height of the city-states power, the frescoes depict on one side a city at peace, and on the other a tyrantruled Siena in ruins, with armies descending on one another. If you climb to the top of the adjacent tower, the Torre Mangia, you can see that even today
Few dishes are more Tuscan than bistecca Fiorentina, the succulent grilled steak from the prized Chianina breed. At Enoteca I Terzi (Via dei Termini, 7; 39-0577-443-29; enotecaiterzi.it; entrees from 9 euros), the juicy meat is carved on the restaurants marble counter before being taken to the table with daily pastas. The wine list is also a huge draw with classics from Tuscany as well as an excellent selection from all over the world. Housed in a former pharmacy (with a beautiful open kitchen), Osteria le Logge (Via del Porrione, 33; 39-0577-480-13; giannibrunelli.it; entrees from 22 euros) sits just off the campo and epitomizes a seasonal and local approach, with daily specials like porcini mushroom salad, taglierini al tartufo and pumpkin-stuffed ravioli among the autumnal treats. Be sure to ask for a table in the ground-floor sala with its painted ceilings and armoires lined with wine bottles.
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Though the culinary scene here may be better known for its meaty fare, Tre Cristi (Vicolo di Provenzano, 1/7; 390577-280-608; trecristi.com; entrees from 12 euros) is a fantastic seafood find thanks to its fresh selection from the Tuscan coast, about 45 minutes away. The restaurant has been around since 1830, but the younger owners have made it more inventive. The calamari eggplant Parmesan has crispy strips of calamari battered with cheese sitting on chunks of aubergine, and the catch of the day includes options like amberjack baked with potatoes, zucchini and olives.
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Siena isnt particularly well known for its night life, which is why locals are excited about the arrival of Un Tubo (Via del Luparello, 2; 39-0577-271-312; untubo.it), a club with live music that ranges from classical to rock. It also has a showpiece of a wine cantina, with the original tufo, to keep the bottles cool. The spot is a members club but visitors can gain access with a 12-euro entrance fee.
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Piazza del Campo is the ideal Italian piazza, a huge, gorgeous space reached by winding streets that suddenly converge in front of the citys exquisite town hall. The tables at Bar Il Palio (Piazza del Campo, 47; 39-0577-282-055) have one of the best views of the piazza; try an after-dinner drink like a grappa or vin santo.
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Campo Regio Relais (Via della Sapienza, 25; 39-0577-222-073; camporegio.com; doubles from 150 euros, or $190) has an excellent location outside the main tourist fray but is within walking distance of the major sites. The panorama of the Duomo is matched by the friendly service. Less than 10 miles away, Borgo Scopeto (Strada Comunale 14; 390577-320-001; borgoscopetorelais.it; double rooms from 240 euros) has a rural feel with two pools, a spa and tennis courts. The view of Siena in the distance, especially at night, is lovely.
Sienese sweets are not particularly well known, but you cant leave before trying the two staples panforte and ricciarelli. The former, with its spices and dry fruit, is reminiscent of a slightly hard Christmas cake. The ricciarelli are a crowd pleaser: soft almond-based cookies with a crunchy top and hints of honey and vanilla. At Nannini (Via Banchi di Sopra, 24; 39-0577-303-080; grupponannini.it) sample a couple at the stand-up bar with a cappuccino.
markable structure built as a hospital in the 11th century has been transformed into an extraordinary complex, which includes the painstakingly restored pilgrims halls and chapel of the Madonna, alongside new additions like an archaeological museum, a childrens museum, a modern bar and a bookshop. The Museo dellOpera del Duomo (Piazza Duomo, 8; 39-0577-286-300; operaduomo.siena.it; museum admission, 6 euros) occupies part of Sienas unfinished cathedral, in what would have been its nave, and showcases some of the centerpieces for the proposed building. These include the Maest, a spectacular two-sided altarpiece designed by the great Sienese artist Duccio, a work considered by many scholars as the worlds most important late medieval artwork in existence.
brothers where sausage, local meats like prosciutto and salami, panzanella, meatballs and different types of fresh frittata are accompanied by carafes of house wine. Vinyl album covers from the likes of Lou Reed, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones are mounted alongside posters of palios past (there is even a stuffed porcupine to represent their contrada). If you dont make it for lunch, stop by for aperitivo time the 1-euro spritzes are one of the best deals in town.
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Sunday is the day when locals like to head to a quaint hill town or crumbling abbey for a secluded picnic. Follow this lead and pick out some essentials before you head out. Tucked into Palazzo della Chigiana, Antica Pizzicheria (Via di Citta, 93/95; 39-0577-289-164) is an atmospheric deli with prosciutto haunches, sausages and hot peppers hanging from the ceiling. Local wines, fresh bread, wild boar sausages and pecorino are among the offerings.
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One of the citys draws is its recent push to restore older structures with modern elements. At the Santa Maria della Scala (Piazza Duomo, 1; 39-0577534-571; santamariadellascala.com; admission 3.50 euros), for example, a re-
Osteria-style lunches tend to be simple affairs with tables crammed with friends, and plates that dont stop coming. Da Trombicche (Via del Terme; 390577-288-089; trombicche.it; small plates from 6 euros) exemplifies the type, a seven-table spot run by two
Unfortunately Sienas clothing store choices have mostly been taken over by big brands that you can find almost anywhere in the world. But two shops have a more carefully curated selection. Dolci Trame (Via del Moro, 4; 390577-461-68; dolcitrame.it) has a wonderful, if pricey, collection including Roberto del Carlo shoes, Golden Goose coats and featherweight cashmere sweaters from Luna Bi, in a jewel box of a space. Mag (Via dei Termini, 49; 390577-410-43; magboutique.it) is another fashion lovers must, with Marni, Maria Calderara and Pucci among the pickings.
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In Paris, Where Artisanship Becomes Art
By ANN MAH
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NY search for Parisian chic leads almost inescapably to the glossy boutiques that line the Rue du Faubourg St.Honor or to the Michelinstarred temples of gastronomy that anchor the capitals grand avenues. But such addresses are only part of what makes Paris so elegant. The citys true lifeblood of luxury can be found in the small neighborhood shops some of them virtually unknown even among Parisians owned by members of an elite group of professionals called the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, or Best Craftsmen of France. These artisans represent more than 200 professions throughout the country, including those devoted to food, like fromagers, chocolatiers and butchers; others that deal with the decorative, like hairdressers, florists and corset-makers; and even fields like Web design and taxidermy. Each member of the group has passed a rigorous competition to obtain the lifelong title of Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, which the Ministry of Labor awards to about 2 percent of applicants every three to four years. Created in 1924, the group has as its goal the recognition of exceptional French craftsmanship, and ensuring the survival of traditional know-how. Recipients become ambassadors of their mtier, and must pledge to pass along their knowledge to members of the next generation. The group has about 4,000 members, about 200 of them based in Paris. We must protect these mtiers. If we lose all the brains in our country, we are lost, said Jean-Franois Girardin, former chef de cuisine at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, and the vice president and treasurer of the Socit Nationale des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, a professional organization. Some members of the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France are famous, like the chef Jol Robuchon and the New York chocolatier Jacques Torres, but most of them are artisanmerchants little known outside their profession or neighborhood. Market competition means that most of their exquisitely created products are affordable, putting small everyday luxuries within the reach of most consumers. I recently visited the Parisian shops of five members of the group, and found the timeless craftsmanship that is a hallmark of French life on full display.
Small shops are home to many of the winners of the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition. Mickal Morieux visits artisanal mills to create his own blends of flour. Jacques Castagn buys flowers from local producers. Michel Fouchereau talks to his cheesemakers weekly. Franck Kestener began a chocolatier apprenticeship at age 16 with his father, Robert (shown). And Franois Tamarin fashions custom-made corsets because he wanted to discover a forgotten art.
The Baker
Shelves of bread are stacked up along the walls of the Boulangerie Morieux: dense, dark loaves of rye; rustic sourdough rounds made with whole wheat and spelt; butter-rich, yeast-puffed croissants; golden-crusted baguettes with a honeycombed interior. In 2011, the shops owner, Mickal Morieux, was among six bakers awarded the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France, chosen from a field of more than 100 finalists. For the competition, he produced more than 200 baked goods in 13 hours (baguettes, whole wheat loaves, croissants and small cakes among them) with each piece meeting precise standards of size, weight and quality. His final project was a towering edible sculpture of bread devoted to the theme of Blaise Pascal. It depicted key elements in the life of the French mathematician and philosopher, including a Pascaline calculator and a prie-dieu prayer desk. The judges require perfection, Mr. Morieux said. I strive to replicate this level. At his bakery in Boulogne-Billancourt, a Paris suburb, Mr. Morieux selects all ingredients himself, visiting artisanal mills to create his own blends of flours. The ingredients of a baguette are not expensive, he said. Whats expensive is the transformation. The savoir faire is priceless. Boulangerie Morieux, 35, rue dAguesseau; Boulogne-Billancourt; (33-1) 41-1094-36. A baguette is 1.22 euros, or $1.55 at $1.26 to the euro; bread from 5.65 euros per kilogram.
While many Parisian flower shops bring in blooms from across Europe, Mr. Castagn stocks his store, Art et Vgtal, with flowers grown by local producers. He considers color, life span and geographic origin when composing his mixed bouquets. Each flower has an identity, an association, Mr. Castagn said. I make sure my arrangements emphasize each bloom. Every time you glance at the bouquet, it should be a discovery. Art et Vgtal, 192, rue de Tolbiac, 13th Arrondissement; (33-1) 45-81-27-22; art -vegetal-fleuriste.fr. A medium-size bouquet is 30 euros.
The Chocolatier
Descended from four generations of bakers and pastry chefs, Franck Kestener began a patisserie apprenticeship at age 16 with his father, Robert, and discovered the allure of chocolate. Its a very simple product, completely natural, he said. But artistically its very complex. You can do many things: mold it, melt it, form it. In Mr. Kesteners boutique near the Luxembourg Gardens, his creations combine intense flavors caramelized
pear and saffron, for example, or a chocolate bar embedded with passion fruit praline and candied orange peel combinations he develops at his workshop in Sarreguemines, in Lorraine. When I create, I visualize the taste in my head. I have a mental library of flavors of chocolate and spices, he said. This attention to detail, along with his technical savvy, helped Mr. Kestener attain the title of best craftsman in 2004, at the age of 28. (According to Mr. Girardin from the groups professional organization, most successful candidates are between 30 and 40.) My shop doesnt offer everything I prepared for the competition its not practical, he said. But my approach remains the same. Franck Kestener, 7, rue Gay-Lussac, Fifth Arrondissement; (33-1) 43-26-40-91. An 18-piece box of chocolates is 14.95 euros, chocolate bars from 5 euros.
clothing racks lined with corsets, and dress forms clad in low-bodiced gowns that could have been worn in another century. Corsets are like an umbrella: very structured and rigid, Mr. Tamarin said. They sculpt the silhouette and design the body. His creations, which include ball gowns, period costumes, the occasional wedding dress, as well as corsets de lamour, as he discreetly called them, are made to measure, with the prices to match. Mr. Tamarin (who is 90 percent self-taught, he said) attained the distinction of best craftsman in 2004 with his final project of a short pink and black dress structured by a velvetribbed corset as exquisitely detailed on the interior as on the exterior. Corsets are not instruments of torture, he said. They are tools to play with. Franois Tamarin, 1, rue Marcel Sembat, 18th Arrondissement; (33-6) 72-7792-41; corset-paris.fr. Corsets start at 800 euros and take two to four weeks, depending on the level of complexity.
The Florist
After more than two decades of entering a range of professional florist competitions, Jacques Castagn was finally awarded the distinction of Meilleur Ouvrier de France in 2004. All those other competitions gave me the time to establish my own style, he said.
reau, fromager and owner of La Fromagerie dAuteuil, maintains weekly contact with cheesemakers across France. They call to take my order and we chat. I support and advise them. Several times a year, I make trips to visit them. The bond between fromager and producer is very traditional, said Mr. Fouchereau, who earned the title of best craftsman in 2004. At his gleaming boutique, glass cases display cheeses that are lighted from above like jewels, each at the peak of ripeness. They are aged in a basementlevel cave daffinage, or aging chamber, where Mr. Fouchereau carefully monitors their exposure to mold. Each fromager has his own personal taste, he said, citing several variables of ripening, like temperature and time. The affinage of his cheeses represents his palate. Our job is to develop each product until it becomes sublime. La Fromagerie dAuteuil, 58, rue dAuteuil, 16th Arrondissement; (33-1) 45-2507-10; lafromageriedauteuil.fr. Three approximately half-pound cheeses cost about 20 euros, depending on the cheese.
The Corset-Maker
Franois Tamarin became a corsetmaker because he wanted to discover a forgotten art. I love belle poque glamour, he said. His atelier bursts with swaths of fabric and scraps of lace,
The Fromager
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By DAVID SEGAL
HOPE youre sitting down for this, said Ali Velshi, the CNN anchor, staring into the camera, his voice booming with incredulity about a campaign promise issued by Mitt Romney: that, if elected, Mr. Romney would create 12 million jobs in four years. Having framed this idea as preposterous, Mr. Velshi introduced R. Glenn Hubbard, the dean of Columbia Business School, a Romney campaign adviser and a very smart man, as the host put it. So smart, Mr. Velshi told Mr. Hubbard, that you couldnt have been involved in the writing of that policy. Why? Because you would know that that is just not possible. Wearing a dark suit and projecting an air of geeky, avuncular calm, Mr. Hubbard appeared before a blue backdrop festooned with the words Columbia Business School. If he was supposed to be cowed or disarmed by the bluster or flattery, he did not show it. It is absolutely possible, Ali, both in terms of models of policy effects on the recovery and historical experience, he said, in a tone that was professorial but not
As an author of policy, Glenn Hubbard is often its cheerleader, too.

patronizing, If you look at the recovery from 74, 75, or 81, 82, you can easily get job growth in this range. We have the wrong policy mix. Weve had a nasty shock, were in a different situation, but we could do a lot better. Succinct, authoritative and unabashedly partisan. Leave aside that most economists see a vast difference between the recessions of the 70s and 80s and the crisis that began in 2008. This was exactly the sort of performance Mr. Hubbard has been delivering for the Republican candidate, both on television and in op-ed articles, for more than a year. Straddling the occasionally uncomfortable line between academia and politics, Mr.
Hubbard is playing a role now familiar in modern campaigns: the in-house economist. Mr. Hubbard has helped to draft many of Mr. Romneys economic and tax policies, and, at least implicitly, lent his imprimatur to others he did not conceive. The benefits are potentially mutual. If Mr. Romney is elected, Mr. Hubbard is considered a strong candidate for the job of Treasury secretary and even, after Ben S. Bernankes term expires, chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Robert Zoellick, former president of the World Bank, is another possible contender for the Treasury job.) To the job of in-house economist, Mr. Hubbard brings a rare ability to translate complex policy into plain English, as well as a conservatives love for small government and a faith that cutting taxes will spur growth. During a stint as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2003, Mr. Hubbard was known as the principal architect of the Bush tax cuts. Mr. Hubbard also brings to this job a certain amount of baggage. He appeared briefly in Inside Job, Continued on Page 4
GRETCHEN MORGENSON
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Big Questions From a Bailout Eyewitness
T has become almost unpatriotic to question the many and munificent bank rescues of 2008 and beyond. If you have the temerity to do so, youre likely to hear that the bailouts were the only thing standing between us and financial obliteration. You will also be told that, four years on, many of the bailouts have made money. Its hard to argue against this narrative, not knowing what would have happened had cooler heads prevailed. But Sheila C. Bair, former chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, is well positioned to question the dogma of the bailout brigade. And she does so repeatedly in Bull by the Horns, her new book about the crisis. As one of the main participants in the battles surrounding the rescues, and perhaps the coolest head in attendance, Ms. Bair provides some straight talk that represents an important piece of history and a rebuttal to the conventional wisdom. As described by Ms. Bair, the events of
the fall of 2008 showed that many financial regulators were desperate to make anyone but those who created the crisis pay for its devastation. For example, taxpayers and the many smaller banks that pay into the F.D.I.C. fund that insures bank deposits were those most likely to be assigned responsibility for the bailout costs, Ms. Bair writes. Needless to say, these people had no seats at the rescue tables. Even more troubling, Ms. Bair and the F.D.I.C. were repeatedly shot down when urging regulators to replace a flailing banks management or require that a rescue operation force an institution to make fresh loans with the money it received. When the F.D.I.C. staff suggested barring Citigroup from paying bonuses to executives if the government took losses on assets it had guaranteed, other regulators refused to go along. But perhaps the most telling anecdote is from early October 2008, when Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary,
summoned Ms. Bair to his office. No reason was given for the meeting. When she arrived, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, was already there. Timothy F. Geithner, then the president of the New York Fed, was on the phone. Handed a piece of paper, Ms. Bair saw that she had been ambushed. It was a script, prepared for her by the Treasury and the Fed, stating that the F.D.I.C. was moving to guarantee all the liabilities in the financial system. Astonishingly, the guarantee would cover all bank depositors and even protect unsecured claims against institutions. In short, the F.D.I.C. was being asked to back everybody against everything in the $13 trillion banking system, Ms. Bair writes. Dumbfounded, she told the men she had to discuss the plan with the F.D.I.C. board. Over a few days, they came up with a better, less costly plan. If she had gone along, Ms. Bair said in Continued on Page 6
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The Signs of Supper

Russ and Melody Stein, who are deaf, own Mozzeria, a restaurant in San Francisco. Workers use sign language, pen and paper, bulletin boards and the Web to communicate. Preoccupations, Page 7.
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BY ADAM BRYANT
Its good work if you can get it.

Thomas P. DiNapoli, the New York State comptroller, who announced that the average pay package of securities industry employees in the state last year was $362,950, up 16.6 percent over the last two years.
On a Busy Road, A Company Needs Some Guardrails

challenges you tackled at Hilton. A. Over the last several years, we have focused on transforming the culture and the priorities of the company. We have over 300,000 people, and what I discovered when I joined the company five years ago is that we had a lot of segments of the company that operated very independently, and we had massive amounts of duplication and fragmentation. We needed alignment. We needed people to understand who we were, what we stood for and the key priorities of the company. And we needed them, once they understood that, to get their oars in the water and head in a common direction. I have spent most of my time in the last five years around building that culture, and getting that alignment. Q. Give me more of a sense of the problems you discovered. A. I would ask people, what are the three or four key strategic priorities? But as many people as I asked, I got a different answer. We always had good values, but I just dont think people understood what they really were. In those first months when I traveled around the world, I stopped counting when I got to 30 different value statements at our offices. So we tried to simplify everything. I think of culture as guardrails. The culture of a company is what you stand for, essentially the ground rules so that people know how to operate. You give them a direction and boundaries. The trick is having an intense alignment around vision, mission, values and the key strategic priorities. My job as C.E.O., simply stated, is to create the right culture, set the tone, the high-level strategy. Q. What sort of exercise did you go through to figure out the values? A. We did a lot of work with teams around the world, and asked people to look at all their values statements and boil them down. Then we took all those ideas with us on a two-day offsite with about 12 of us. There was a lot of overlap, and we tried to consolidate it. What I ended up saying to them was, lets use some of our own skills and brand it, not because I want to be cute This interview has been edited and condensed.
Q. Tell me about some of the leadership
ous world, with so many things going on around you, you have to know who you are, what you stand for and where you are going, and keep everyone pointed in the same direction and have the discipline to stick with it.
Q. Lets shift to hiring. What questions do
you ask?
A. The one thing I am always trying to fig-
Like so many other things in health care, the amount of accomplishment is well short of the amount of cheerleading.
Mark V. Pauly, professor of health care management at the Wharton School, talking about electronic medical records. He said the health I.T. industry was moving in the right direction but it had a long way to go before it would save real money.
ure out first and foremost with people is what makes them tick, and what motivates them. And are they good communicators? Even the smartest people in the world, if they cant communicate in what is a very big matrix organization like ours that requires collaboration, they are not going to be able to persuade and motivate people, and that is going to be a problem. Another thing I am always looking for is humility. Im not looking for big egos.
Q. And how do you get a sense of that? A. You ask them about all they have done,
then listen for whether its all about me, me, me, or about teams theyve worked on. Ill say: Tell me some of the more interesting projects you have been involved with, and how did they go? Tell me about some of the more difficult things you have done, and how did you resolve them?
Q. And if you could ask somebody only a few questions in an interview? A. I would probably just ask them
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Daniel Kim, chief executive of Lit Motors, a start-up company that is developing an electric motorcycle encased in a metal shell. The motorcycle is controlled like a car, with a steering wheel and foot pedals.
straight-up questions because I am pretty good at reading people. I would probably say: How do you think about operating in a matrix organization? And would people around you those youve worked with side-by-side, above and below think you have a big ego? How would people judge your ego?
Q. Dont people know the right answer and simply say: No. I dont have a big ego?
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Christopher J. Nassetta, president and C.E.O. of Hilton Worldwide, initially counted at least 30 different value statements at its sites worldwide. He says he has spent much of his time seeking to align its vision, boundaries and priorities.
about it, but because people will remember it. I started looking around the room and at the letters and they came together as HILTON H for hospitality, I for integrity, L for leadership, T for teamwork, O for ownership and N for now. To reinforce them, we are constantly referring to the letters in newsletters, in town halls almost to the point where we are driving people crazy. But it works.
Q. Ive heard a lot of leaders talk about the
Correction
An article in the Mutual Funds Report, Part 2 of this section last Sunday, about mutual fund fees misspelled the surname of the chief economist of the Investment Company Institute. He is Brian Reid, not Reed.
hearing it. And so you might alter how you say it, or shorthand it, because you have literally said it so many times that you think nobody else on earth could want to hear this. But you cant stop. In my case, there are 300,000 people who need to hear it, and I cant say it enough. So what might sound mundane and like old news to me isnt for a lot of other people. That is an important lesson I learned as I worked in bigger organizations.
Q. What are some of your other approach-
A. It depends on how they say it. They might give that answer, but do they um and er and do their eyes wander? If you watch body language, you can tell a lot. You would be amazed at some of the answers you get. Some people just admit it. I have had more than one in 10 people say, yeah, Im strong-willed, and sometimes my peers will think I am arrogant or have a little too much ego. Q. Is that a deal-breaker for you? A. Generally, yes. Q. But at least theyre somewhat selfaware. A. I love the self-aware part. But, unfortunately, its hard to make it work in an organization like ours, where big egos get in the way. Im not saying that occasionally we dont have some egos, and you have to manage them. But you certainly cant have a lot of them and still accomplish your goals.
importance of repetition.
A. You have to be careful as a leader, par-
es to leadership?
ticularly of a big organization. You can find yourself communicating the same thing so many times that you get tired of
er of a big organization is to have really steady hands on the wheel. In a tumultu-
A. One simple philosophy I have as a lead-
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NATASHA SINGER
Do Not Track? Advertisers Say Dont Tread on Us

HE campaign to defang the Do Not Track movement began late last month. Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers like Mozillas Firefox that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies to stop collecting information about their online activities for purposes of targeted advertising. First came a stern letter from nine members of the House of Representatives to the Federal Trade Commission, questioning its involvement with an international group called the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, which is trying to work out global standards for the dont-track-me features. The legislators said they were concerned that these options for consumers might restrict the flow of data at the heart of the Internets success. Next came an incensed open letter from the board of the Association of National Advertisers to Steve Ballmer, the C.E.O. of Microsoft, and two other company officials. Microsoft had committed a grievous infraction, wrote executives from Dell, I.B.M., Intel, Visa, Verizon, Wal-Mart and other major corporations, by making Do Not Track the default option in the companys forthcoming Internet Explorer 10 browser. If consumers chose to stay with that option, the letter warned, they could prevent companies from collecting data on up to 43 percent of browsers used by Americans. Microsofts action is wrong. The entire media ecosystem has condemned this action, the letter said. In the face of this opposition and the reality of the harm that your actions could create, it is time to realign with the broader business community by providing choice through a default of off on your browsers do not track setting. So far, Microsoft has shrugged off advertisers complaints. In an e-mailed statement, Brendon Lynch, Microsofts chief privacy officer, said a recent company study of computer users in the United States and Europe concluded that 75 percent wanted Microsoft to turn on the Do Not Track mechanism. Consumers want and expect strong privacy protection to be built into Microsoft products and services, Mr. Lynch wrote. The tone of the industry offensive may seem a bit strident, given that the W3C has yet to decide how to implement the dont-track-me mechanisms or even what they signify. For the moment, that means the browser buttons are little more than digital bumper stickers whose sentiments companies are free to embrace or entirely ignore. But what is really at stake here is the future of the surveillance economy. The advent of Do Not Track threatens the barter system wherein consumers allow sites and third-party ad networks to collect information about their online activities in exchange for open access to maps, e-mail, games, music, social networks and whatnot. Marketers have been fighting to preserve this arrangement, saying that collecting consumer data powers effective advertising tailored to a users tastes. In turn, according to this argument, those tailored ads
There is a strong concern that the W3C is not the right forum to be making this decision, says Rachel Thomas, the vice president of government affairs at the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group based in Manhattan. The attempt to set public policy is entirely outside their area of expertise. During the Amsterdam meeting, Ms. Thomas proposed that Do Not Track signals should actually permit data collection for advertising purposes, the very thing the mechanisms were designed to control. That provocative idea went over with European privacy advocates about as well as a smoker lighting up in a no-smoking zone full of asthmatics. Indeed, some prominent consumer advocates have interpreted the industrys proposal as an act of bad faith. While many advertisers do support privacy, there is clearly a rogue element of advertising networks that wants to subvert the process, says Jon D. Leibowitz, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Or so it seems to me. Earlier this year at a White House event, the Digital Advertising Alliance, or D.A.A., an industry consortium, pledged to honor dont-track-me signals so long as the systems required consumers to make an affirmative choice. But last Tuesday, the consortium published guidelines saying that it viewed Microsofts latest browser setting as an automatic, machine-driven choice preselected by a company not a choice actively made by an individual consumer. During the installment process, Microsofts new software actually does give users a choice of whether to keep the mechanism on, or to turn it off. Nevertheless, the consortium said it would not require members to honor the forthcoming browsers dont-track-me signals. Besides, the D.A.A. has already established its own program for consumers who want to opt out of receiving ads tailored to their online behavior, says Mr. Zaneis, whose own group is a member of that consortium. The consortium remains committed to incorporating browser signals into its program, he says, provided that the systems require consumers to make affirmative choices and give them information on the potential effects of eschewing tailored ads. We have self-regulation. Its working very well, he says. Why dont we give that a chance to succeed?
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enable smaller sites to thrive and provide rich content. If we do away with this relevant advertising, we are going to make the Internet less diverse, less economically successful, and frankly, less interesting, says Mike Zaneis, the general counsel for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry group. But privacy advocates argue that in a digital ecosystem where there may be dozens of third-party entities on an individual Web page, compiling and storing
information about what a user reads, searches for, clicks on or buys, consumers should understand data minings potential costs to them and have the ability to opt out. If you are looking up the word cancer on a health site, says Dan Auerbach, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group in San Francisco, theres a high probability that you have cancer or are interested in that. This is the sort of data that can be collected. He adds:
Consumers absolutely have a right to know how their information is being used and to opt out of having their information used in ways they dont like. But the two sides seem to have reached an impasse. When the W3C met recently in Amsterdam to hammer out Do Not Track standards, as my colleague Kevin J. OBrien reported in an article earlier this month, advertising industry executives and privacy advocates accused each other of trying to stymie the process.
OME government officials vehemently disagree. In a letter to the F.T.C. earlier this month, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, called the industry program an ineffective regime riddled with exceptions. To date, self-regulation for the purposes of consumer privacy protection has failed, Mr. Rockefeller wrote. Now regulators are warning that opposition to Do Not Track could backfire on advertisers, by giving browsers more incentive to empower frustrated users.We might see a technology arms race with browsers racing to see by letting consumers block ads who can be the most privacy-protective, says Mr. Leibowitz of the F.T.C. Maybe thats not a bad thing.
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RANDALL STROSS
Doing the Two-Step, Beyond the A.T.M.

ANK A.T.M.s embody decadesold technology. A four-digit PIN? What a seemingly crude security system. Where are the uppercase and lowercase letters and the random punctuation that we are continually told are crucial to hacker-resistant passwords? In fact, though, the four-digit numbers required to use cash machines are one element of an extremely strong security model that most of todays Web sites fall well short of matching. Think about it: An A.T.M. requires the presentation of both a physical card and a correct PIN. Web sites can and should follow this general principle of requiring two dissimilar things before access is granted. After supplying the password, that second thing could be a code that arrives as a text message on ones phone. A thief would find that stealing your password for a Web site was useless without also having your phone in hand. The technical term for requiring something you know and something you have when trying to log into an online account is two-factor authentication. Its also known as two-step verification. If this system, using passwords and smartphones, were used on all limitedaccess Web sites, the passwords wouldnt have to be long and complex. But many Web users have easy-to-guess passwords in just one-step verification, which is highly imprudent.
Randall Stross, a professor of business at San Jose State University, is the author of The Launch Pad, published last month.
Nick Berry, president of DataGenetics, a consulting firm in Seattle, has analyzed the large password databases that hackers who have broken into various Web sites have publicly released. Among 30.3 million passwords he has found 3.4 million consisting of nothing but four digits. (Its astounding that there are still Web sites that permit these. I always encounter password requirements that force me to choose ever longer, more complex strings of characters, numbers and punctuation marks.) Some four-digit passwords are far more popular than others: 1234 alone accounts for almost 11 percent of these passwords; 1111, an additional 6 percent. Repetitive patterns occupy many of the other spots among the 20 most frequent numbers. Lower on the list are numbers that are likely to be a year of birth or the four-digit rendering of the month and day of a birthday. We can speculate that some of the four-digit passwords found in Web sites databases were first conceived as PINs for A.T.M.s. They may also be serving as the users PINs for unlocking smartphones. Mr. Berry says he also saw a number of instances of what he calls finger walking on a keypad, in which the sequence comes from a geometric pattern, like 2580 moving from top to bottom in the keypads center. The bank customer who chooses the year of her birth as her cash-machine PIN isnt putting her savings in great jeopardy. The thief who picks up a lost wallet with an A.T.M. card in it would have to guess the PIN correctly in just the first few tries, or the system would shut down the account. Even if successful, the thief would be limited by the
context of the online world is unwise, says Marty Jost, a product marketing manager at Symantec, the computer security company. Using an easy-to-remember PIN is even more unwise because its easy to guess. Mr. Jost says Web sites should use multiple layers of security so that the password is not the only authentication mechanism. Users of Gmail and other Google services, for example, can elect to have a two-step verification system to protect their accounts. When the system is activated, the user fills in the boxes for user name and password, as usual, but then is sent to another page where a verification code must be typed in. Users may choose to have this arrive as a text message, or they can obtain it by using an app on their smartphone. Theres a backup method, too, in case their smartphone is lost or stolen. PayPal and Dropbox also offer their users the option of requiring two-step verification for added peace of mind. Many corporate networks have long used this security model, too.
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ceiling on daily A.T.M. withdrawals. And, in cases of theft, the customer would be made whole by the bank for the loss. When that short PIN is used as a
password on the Web, however, without a second form of verification, it is just about the worst possible choice, almost as bad as choosing password as ones password. Using an A.T.M. PIN in the
ES, its a bit cumbersome. Jeff Atwood, a software developer, author, and co-founder of the programming question-and-answer site Stack Overflow, acknowledged this when he urged readers of his blog in April to use Gmails two-step verification option. But, he wrote, this process is inconvenient in the same way that bank vaults and door locks are. The upside is that once you enable this, your e-mail becomes extremely secure. That feeling of security originates not with a long master password, which may fall into the hands of a bad actor, but with the elegantly simple two-step verification. The designers of A.T.M.s were on to something. Two-step verification for Gmail or other Web services cant work for us, however, unless we set it up. And theres no better time than the present to do so. Not tomorrow. Not next week, Mr. Atwood wrote. Now.
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R. Glenn Hubbard, the dean of the Columbia Business School and adviser to Mitt Romney, has been straddling the sometimes shaky line between academia and politics.
Romneys Go-To Economist

From Page 1 a scathing and Oscar-winning 2010 documentary about the financial crisis. The film has a segment about high-profile professors who blessed many of the financial instruments that led to the fiasco. Enter Mr. Hubbard, who is presented as a leading thinker far too cozy with industries he ought to be assessing at a critical distance. You have three more minutes, he tells an interviewer who is pressing for the names of his consulting clients. And then, as his face contorts with rage, he adds, Give it your best shot. R. HUBBARD is hardly the only marquee economist to parlay his experience and stature into millions of dollars, for speeches, papers and expert witness testimony. Lawrence H. Summers, once the Obama administrations top economic adviser, pocketed about $5.2 million in compensation for giving advice to a hedge fund. But in Mr. Hubbards case, some of his amply compensated work takes policy stands that buttress the viewpoints of the corporate interests that are paying him. Thats been true of the mutual fund industry, which has paid him more than $1 million over the years. In an academic paper and a book, he took a strong position favoring the industrys approach to fees, which critics say hurt everyday investors. He was paid what he called an honorarium of $150,000 for the academic paper by the insurance arm of the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry trade and lobbying group. Dean Hubbard is a mercenary, says John P. Freeman, emeritus professor of business and professional ethics at the University of South Carolina School of Law, who has accused the mutual fund industry of profiteering, out to protect fund managers who are taking advantage of investors. Mr. Hubbard says the source of funding is irrelevant because his academic writing stands on its own. Some of Mr. Hubbards extracurricular activities have also made faculty members at his Columbia Business School unhappy, because, they say, they reflect poorly on the institution. Others complain that he has run the school with a somewhat autocratic hand and feel that they have been buffaloed into casting votes and rallying behind causes that they havent necessarily supported. One of those causes was Mr. Hubbard himself. Its been a well-kept secret, but faculty members say that in 2008, the president of Columbia, Lee C. Bollinger, wanted to bounce Mr. Hubbard from his job. Why? Nobody has offered an explanation, not even to the senior faculty members who were asked at a meeting to rally behind their leader by signing a petition of support. Neither Mr. Hubbard nor Mr. Bollinger would answer questions on the subject. Mr. Hubbards friends and fans note that he is a conservative leading an institution dominated by liberals, and that some friction is inevitable. As for calling Mr. Hubbard a mercenary that suggests that he will fight for causes he doesnt believe in. Which, one former colleague says, is not so. Glenn is ideologically conservative, says Ron Miller, a former economics professor at Columbia who now works for NERA, an economic consulting firm. Nobody has to pay him to say this stuff. Thats what he believes. Mr. Hubbard declined to be interviewed for this article, citing a busy schedule. He agreed to answer questions via e-mail, though many seemed the answers of a man striving to come across as nothing-to-see-here bland. He star of the chess team and a stellar stualso provided the names of some dent who graduated at the top of his friends, many of whom wanted to unclass. He scored high enough on College derscore the same idea: the guy is not Level Examination Program tests to enbland. ter the University of Central Florida Did you know, for instance, that he with enough credits so he could graduhas a brother who is a country music ate with two degrees in three years. star? asked Kevin A. Hassett, a friend At the age of 8 or 9, we both began and scholar at the conservative Americollecting coins, says Nelson Smith, a can Enterprise Institute. childhood friend and now a physician. Hubbards younger brother, Gregg That led to questions about currenknown to fans as Hobie is a member cies: how the concept of money evolved of Sawyer Brown, a country rock band over the centuries, how systems of fithat gained fame via Star Search, a nance are set up. He never said, Im gosort of precursor to American Idol. ing to be an economist, but Hes always had a great you could see thats where sense of humor, says his mind was headed. Gregg Hubbard, speaking Mr. Hubbard received his by telephone before a flight masters and Ph.D. at Harto a concert. He recounts Unabashedly vard and became a hugely celebrating his 40th birthproductive scholar with a day in New York City and partisan, and wide range of interests. Felsharing a gift he had just a strong low conservatives view his been given, a Razor scooter, work with pure reverence. with his brother. We were candidate From the left, you hear with my older nephew, he grudging caveats like, says, and we took turns, for Treasury Hell never win the Nobel the three of us, riding up secretary. Prize. He is best known for and down Broadway on a research in tax policy and scooter. government spending proGlenn Hubbard was grams. One influential raised in Apopka, Fla., a study quantified the major role that suburb of Orlando known as the Indoor cash flow plays in driving corporations Foliage Capital of the World, because of to invest. its many greenhouses. His father taught The lesson, says James Poterba, an at a community college, and his mother economist at the Massachusetts Institaught at the high school he attended. tute of Technology and an admirer of She is remembered by her students as Mr. Hubbard, is that if someone is lookboth pleasant and exacting, a formidaing for policy instruments that might ble presence whom Mr. Hubbards raise investment, then lower corporate friends regard as the wellspring of her sons discipline and ambition. rates could do it because you change the current availability of cash for firms. I write a column for a local paper, says Bryan Nelson, a state representaOn behalf of the Romney campaign, tive and a onetime pupil of Ms. HubMr. Hubbard has argued that the Obabards, and to this day, when I run into ma administration has stuck the econher she has no qualms about telling me omy in a slow growth trap, as it was what I got wrong the grammar, the put in a recent position paper, The spelling. Romney Program for Economic RecovGlenn Hubbard was an Eagle scout, a ery, Growth and Jobs, of which he was a co-author. The way out of this trap, he and his co-authors wrote, is to reduce federal spending, cut marginal income tax rates by 20 percent across the board and gradually reduce the growth in Social Security and Medicare benefits for more affluent seniors. He would also like to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial legislation and the Affordable Care Act. That paper, of course, is a campaign document, but if Mr. Hubbard has any differences with Mr. Romney on economic matters, he wont name them. I support Governor Romneys economic program, he wrote when asked if his candidate had any taken positions he does not support. If Mr. Hubbard becomes Treasury secretary, cutting taxes would very likely be his highest priority. Altering the tax code to encourage savings and bolster investment has been one of his favorite causes. While serving under President Bush as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, he pushed to reduce dividend taxes to zero. (Ultimately, the top tax rate on dividends was cut by more than half, to 15 percent.) In that job, he also demonstrated great skills as political player. He turned the council, which had existed until then mainly to rah-rah administration policy, into a force in Washington. Glenn usurped the Treasury Department on tax policy, says Leonard E. Burman, a professor of public affairs at Syracuse University who worked at the Treasury Department during the Clinton administration. I had friends who worked at the department after I left, and they said that Glenn shifted the balance of power dramatically. As Mr. Hubbard has moved seamlessly through the Republican upper echelons of Washington, he has also cultivated relationships in corporate suites. He serves on three corporate boards, which collectively paid him $785,000 last year. One of those is the board of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm of which Henry R. Kravis was a co-founder. In 2010, Mr. Kravis pledged $100 million to the Columbia Business School, his alma mater, for the construction of a new building. It was the largest gift in the schools history.
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Mr. Hubbard appeared briefly in the 2010 documentary Inside Job, a scathing look at the financial crisis.
URING his eight years as dean, Mr. Hubbard has charmed some faculty members and alienated others. A few say that despite his buttoned-up appearance, he is approachable and is always up for some banter. He was teaching a class across the hall and I would complain to him, Glenn, why is my classroom such a sauna? says Jonathan Levav, a former member of the faculty who is now an associate professor of marketing at Stanford. And he would say: Thats funny. The temperature in my classroom is perfect. When the person in power can have fun with you like that, it puts you at ease. It puts a human face on your boss. Mr. Hubbard can take a bit of needling, too, says Raymond Horton, a professor of ethics and corporate governance at Columbia Business School. When Romney made his 47 percent boo-boo, I went to the deans office and said Way to go, Glenn, Professor Horton says. He diplomatically declined to put Mr. Hubbards response on the record. There is another, more prickly side to Mr. Hubbard, though it is not a side he has shown very often. One faculty member who saw it is Noel Capon, a tenured professor in the schools marketing department. In October 2010, he received a letter from Christopher J. Mayer, a professor in the finance and economics division who was then the senior vice dean, accusing him of violating a number of Columbia University rules on outside commercial ventures. The letter had what Mr. Capon considered an aggressive tone; it took him aback. After a few months and a conversation with a fellow professor, Mr. Capon concluded that Mr. Hubbard was behind what he regarded as a carefully orchestrated campaign against him. The point, he believes, was to bully him into line. There were situations in the past where I might have made statements that challenged Glenn, says Mr. Capon, who acknowledges that he has a hard time keeping his opinion to himself. One opinion he couldnt keep to himself concerned a decision, in May 2010, to offer tenure to a professor from another university a decision he opposed. He wrote a letter saying so, copying the provost, and stating that the process had not allowed him to air his dissenting views. (The issue went away when the outside professor turned down the job.) Eventually, Mr. Capon met with Mr. Hubbard to discuss the issues raised in Mr. Mayers October letter. Mr. Capon says Mr. Hubbard told him that youve given me crap from the day I started and that youve been abusive from Day 1. Mr. Hubbard says that he never said those words. I would not speak in that manner to anyone, let alone a faculty colleague, he wrote. Mr. Mayer did not reply to e-mails requesting comment. The dispute ultimately fizzled away. But Mr. Capon is no longer buying Mr. Hubbards placid exterior. If hes crossed, Mr. Capon said, he can be brutal. As dean, Mr. Hubbard has made some high-profile hires, including Patrick Bolton, a specialist in contract theory who was lured away from Princeton, and twice revamped the curriculum, to give students more flexibility in choosing classes and to shorten the

time it takes to complete required courses. Neither change was controversial, but the way some decisions have been made at the school was described as Brezhnevian by one professor, who like many interviewed for this article requested anonymity in order to preserve relationships with the school. In one vote, faculty members were asked to raise a hand if they were in favor of a particular change. There were no dissenters, several attendees recalled. The most memorable vote came in the fall of 2008, when Mr. Mayer gathered senior faculty members and made a surprising announcement: Dean Hubbards job was in peril. President Bollinger was balking at appointing him to a second five-year term. According to several participants, Mr. Mayer urged professors to demonstrate their support for Mr. Hubbard with a petition, which attendees were asked to sign on the spot. Several current and former faculty members used the identical word to describe the experience: bizarre. It wasnt just that some professors, even fans of Mr. Hubbards, felt a little coerced. It was that nobody had any idea why President Bollinger wanted to jettison him. I was not happy, one faculty member says. There was no way to have a view on the subject. It was like signing a contract that you havent read. Mr. Mayer did not reply to e-mails seeking comment. In an e-mail, Mr. Hubbard kept his thoughts on this subject to an anodyne minimum. I am honored that President Bollinger gave me the opportunity to be dean, he wrote. Mr. Bollinger declined to discuss this episode or respond to written questions about it. He sent an e-mail that described Mr. Hubbard as adistinguished academic economist who as dean has maintained an active, engaged voice in the public debate. In absence of any official word, faculty members have been left to speculate about why Mr. Hubbard nearly lost his job. Nor does anyone know why Mr. Bollinger decided to reappoint him, though current and former faculty members have a pet theory: that Mr. Bollinger was worried about losing the financial support of Mr. Hubbards friends, most notably Mr. Kravis. As several faculty members pointed out, a little acidly, Mr. Hubbard had helped to cut taxes for people like Mr. Kravis. They owed him, one professor said.
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researchers charged Fidelity. A federal judge in Missouri ultimately found that ABB and Fidelity had breached a number of their fiduciary duties and in March of this year ordered ABB to pay $35.2 million and Fidelity to pay $1.7 million for losses. But Professor Freeman at the University of South Carolina says he believes that Mr. Hubbards scholarship on this subject particularly the paper he co-wrote was shoddy and did genuine damage. What Hubbard and Coates have done is pour holy water on the Investment Company Institutes hopelessly stupid defense of fees charged by mutual funds, he said in a telephone interview. That Mr. Hubbard took money for the paper casts doubts on his motives, Professor Freeman says. Mr. Hubbard wrote that he did not worry that the money might appear to influence his findings. Any work of scholarship rises or falls on its ideas, empirical support, and argument, he wrote. Readers can then make whatever judgment they wish.
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In Apopka, Fla., where Mr. Hubbard grew up, Mitt Romney cast a shadow on a banner as he spoke during a recent campaign rally. Mr. Hubbard has said President Obamas policies have left the nation in a slow-growth trap.
eryone had to go on a diet. Others question whether it is wise for Mr. Hubbard to take on certain clients. For instance, he served as an expert witness in the defense of two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of defrauding investors in 2009. Both men were ultimately acquitted, and in a recent interview, one of their lawyers, Edward Little, praised Mr. Hubbards testimony as absolutely critical. Some at the school wonder whether it served the institutions interests for its leader to be publicly linked with people accused in one of the only Wall Street cases to stem from the great recession. Asked whether he was concerned about connecting the school to matters like the Bear Stearns prosecution, Mr. Hubbard wrote, I am comfortable that I balance my scholarship and teaching, deanship, and outside activities very well. That balance has included work for many corporations that have generated unflattering headlines in recent years. On his rsum, in the category of consulting or advisory relationships, Mr. Hubbard lists Freddie Mac, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. He was co-author of a paper with William C. Dudley, then the chief economist of Goldman Sachs, titled How Capital Markets Enhance Economic Performance and Facilitate Job that $150,000 honorarium for the paper, Creation, which praised derivatives Professor Coates said in an interview and the housing boom in 2004, as both that he had not taken any money from were inflating into an epic bubble. the Investment Company Institute and that as a matter of personal policy did Credit derivative obligations have not accept money in such circumbecome an important element that has stances for academic work. helped protect bank lending portfolios against loss, Mr. Hubbard earned he and Mr. Dudley wrote. much more making the same pro-industry point in The mutual fund industry several court appearances, has been a major source of At Columbia, as an expert witness on beincome for Mr. Hubbard, Business half of corporations and and through that work he mutual fund interests. One has taken a solidly pro-inSchool, the of those cases was a lawsuit dustry stand on a muchby employees of ABB, a debated and much-litigated deans outside power generation products question: Do mutual fund manufacturer, against the advisers gouge clients by work has company and Fidelity, the charging excessive fees? raised some mutual fund giant, over acNo, Mr. Hubbard argued in cusations that ABB paid exa paper he wrote with John eyebrows. cessive fees, at the employC. Coates IV of Harvard ees expense, to manage Law School, titled Comthe companys 401(k) plan. petition in the Mutual Fund Industry. During a cross-examination, Mr. Hubbard said Fidelity had paid In the paper, the authors argued that him $420,000 for his participation in the it was essentially impossible for mutual case. About $200,000 of that was direct fund advisers to overcharge on fees bebillings he charged $1,200 an hour cause the mutual fund business was so competitive. As the authors wrote, and the rest came from a company fund investors may fire advisers at called the Analysis Group, which proany time by redeeming shares and vides teams of experts for research switching to other investments. projects. Mr. Hubbard earned 7.5 perUnlike Mr. Hubbard, who was paid cent of the amount that Analysis Group
N conversations with Columbia Business School faculty members, you hear occasional hints of irritation with Mr. Hubbard over his cameo in Inside Job and the embarrassment they say it visited on the school. Part of the reason is that the fallout led to new and more stringent conflict-of-interest and disclosure rules and that those forced many professors to drop lucrative side projects. Its as though Mr. Hubbard was caught overeating, so ev-
F Mr. Hubbard becomes the Treasury secretary, the job will surely mean a drastic cut in pay. What it would mean for the rest of the country is not easy to divine; the Romney campaign has been vague on many details, particularly how it would offset a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut without adding to the deficit. But you can get a pretty good sense from looking at the economic priorities of the George W. Bush administration, says Martin N. Baily, who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Baily was a critic of the Bush tax cuts because, he says, they left the country without the wherewithal to battle the great recession. When I read the Romney economic plan, he wrote in an e-mail, it seemed to me that it was basically the Bush plan. There are plenty of centrist and rightof-center economists who think that Mr. Hubbard would make a fine Treasury secretary. They are impressed by his intellect, trust his instincts and commend his leadership during previous stints in Washington. Some right-leaning economists, though, have reservations. Their worry is that Mr. Hubbard is not enough of a deficit hawk, and that if he follows through with tax cuts as articulated in the Romney plan, the results could be a disaster. Cutting taxes in 2001 wasnt a crime, says Luigi Zingales, an economist at the University of Chicago, who was one of the co-authors of an op-ed article with Mr. Hubbard. Not fixing the deficit today is. If you think hes a guy wholl go ahead and play the same strategy, which I have to say most people do, then well ultimately wind up with an even bigger deficit. I trust hes smart enough not to play the same strategy.
THE HAGGLER
DAVID SEGAL
Running in Place, Before the Treadmill Ever Arrived

ND now a tale that seems preapproved by the gods of metaphor. Its about a man who takes an exhausting journey that ultimately leaves him in exactly the same place where he started as he tries to buy a treadmill. Q. On Aug. 27, I ordered a Sole F80 treadmill from Sears.com and arranged for delivery and assembly. So far, Sears has scheduled four deliveries each of which required that I move furniture, each of which required me to get up early and/or hang around for hours and wait. Each attempted delivery has failed. Once, the treadmill arrived dented, and was promptly loaded back onto the truck. Next, the two-man team refused to go up a flight of stairs without two more helpers. Twice Sears didnt show up at all. Since Sept. 23, Sears has robocalled me every morning at 8:04 and 8:34 to tell me to call it at once about my failed delivery. When I call, I get a foreign call center. It tells me that my treadmill is back-ordered and that it has no idea when it will be in. On IhateSears.com, I learn of the Sears Social Media Support Team. I e-mail it, and a woman named Stephanie becomes my case manager and says she will ask for the robocalls to stop. After much back and forth, Stephanie offers me the new version of the F80 for about the price I paid originally. I accept. But in a subsequent call, she says that theres a hitch that I can scarcely believe qualifies as a hitch. Normally, Sears replaces a nonworking item with a new item. I dont have anything to replace. Resolving this, Stephanie says, could take some time. As for the daily double robo phone calls, Stephanie has sent in a request to make them stop. And she seems very confident that stop they will. In 30 days. The bottom line: I have a new robocalling phone pal but no idea if and when I will get my treadmill. A little help? MICHAEL FROOMKIN Coral Gables, Fla. A. If youre in the mood for some depressing reading, head over to ihatesears.com and dip a toe into the pool of rage on that site. Its tales of dysfunction can make you think that Sears has a serious service problem. The Haggler e-mailed Sears and the next day received this from a spokesman, Larry Costello: We apologize for the inconvenience caused to Mr. Froomkin. The original treadmill came into the warehouse damaged and upon reordering it again, we were advised that it is not available. In the in-
terim, Sears has offered an upgraded treadmill which is coming into the warehouse Saturday, Oct. 6. We are delivering it to the customer Monday, Oct. 8. Here is what is vexing about all of this. At the heart of this issue is a fairly modest hiccup: a dented treadmill, a delay because a certain model is no longer in stock. No biggie. But robocalls, lots of e-mails, unproductive phone calls, further compli-
cations? Biggie. The systems that Sears has in place when things go a little haywire simply dont work. During this debacle, Sears sent Mr. Froomkin a letter trying to sell him a warranty for the treadmill that he didnt yet have. A Master Protection Agreement gives you comprehensive benefits you can count on nothing else comes close, the letter read. Want to know what else has only come
close? Mr. Froomkin replied on his blog, discourse.net. The treadmill. Theres more. His detailed online account of his unhappy transaction prompted a member of the Sears social media team to leave a comment on his blog. When Mr. Froomkin explained that Stephanie was already on the case, Dianne D. replied with a message addressed to someone named Ashley. I am not Ashley, Mr. Froomkin replied. My apologies, Mark, Ashley wrote. Mr. Froomkins first name is Michael. His wife, Caroline Bradley, summed up nicely the crux of the Sears problem in an e-mail he forwarded: The people we can manage to speak to are limited by the scripts they are required to follow they have almost no agency in any of this by design. The only people we may be asked to evaluate in any of this are the people who perform the scripts and not the people who write them. The people without power are made accountable rather than the people with power. But if you only choose to ask customers how they were treated by the script-followers you wont get real feedback about the consumer experience. The systems may be designed that way on purpose, but if that is so its a pretty sad state of affairs. Sears, we should note in closing, did indeed deliver the treadmill on Oct. 8.
PEAKING of retail dysfunction, the Haggler would like to close with a direct plea to Dorvin Lively, interim chief executive of another American retail institution, Radio Shack. Dear Mr. Lively: Hello. How are you? I know you assumed this role in late September and hope youre settling in all right. Lots of stuff on your plate, huh? Hey, quick favor to ask: I was corresponding with a member of your media relations team, about an irate Radio Shack customer, and after a few somewhat contentious though perfectly civil e-mails, your spokesman has stopped communicating. Zippo. Silence. Crickets. This hurts the Hagglers feelings. And it suggests that Radio Shack isnt all that concerned about its public image. Which is surely not the case. Can you get in touch, please? My e-mail is just to the left, at the bottom of the page. Warmly, THE HAGGLER
E-mail: haggler@nytimes.com. Keep it brief and family-friendly, include your hometown and go easy on the caps-lock key. Letters may be edited for clarity and length.
CHRISTOPH HITZ
P.S. Anyone whod like to help make sure this note reaches Mr. Lively is invited to send an e-mail to media.relations@radioshack.com, the address of the department that is giving the Haggler the cold shoulder. Who knows? Perhaps ignoring the Hagglers readers, if enough of them write, may be harder than ignoring the Haggler.
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SUNDAY MONEY
Questions From an Eyewitness

From Page 1 an interview last week, everyone who held bank debt would have immediately gotten a windfall profit, as their bonds and other bank securities rose in value on the F.D.I.C. backing. Of course, I wasnt going to do that, she adds, and we ended up with a program that only guaranteed the renewal of expiring debt, which is where the problem was. And we charged a fee. Ms. Bair didnt know it at the time, but this was the first of many situations when the Treasury and the Fed hoped to leave the F.D.I.C. holding the bag. She objected as often as she could, viewing these moves as attempts to assign responsibility for egregious behavior to hundreds of smaller institutions that did nothing to bring about the crisis. The other disturbing theme in Ms. Bairs book involves favored treatment given to Citibank and its parent by top regulators. Even as the bank racked up billions in losses on its mortgage and derivatives businesses in 2007 and 2008, Ms. Bair writes, no meaningful supervisory measures were taken against Citi by either the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the New York Fed, its main regulators. A smaller bank with those types of problems would have been subject to a supervisory order to take immediate corrective action, and it would have been put on the troubled bank list, Ms. Bair writes. Instead the O.C.C. and the New York Fed stood by
KEITH NEGLEY
ECONOMIC VIEW
TYLER COWEN
That Blurry Line Between Makers and Takers

ITT ROMNEY has apologized for his depiction of 47 percent of America as wealth takers rather than wealth makers. But his blunder touched inadvertently on some discomforting truths about the importance of politics in income distribution in the United States. If Mr. Romneys points were to be reformulated in a more defensible direction, the outline might look something like this:
OF MAKING AND TAKING The
story about lobbying and the relative power of different interest groups? It isnt easy to measure whether politics is less publicspirited these days, and we should resist the tendency to idealize the past. Still, job creation, median income and other measures of economic well-being have done poorly since the late 1990s. That suggests that America isnt paying enough attention to creating wealth and increasing general prosperity.
FOLLOW THE MONEY Seven of
cause they attract educated, government-oriented professionals, but also because their zoning and building codes limit the supply of low-cost housing. Thats a significant government intervention that hurts lowerincome people, who must pay more. Privilege-seeking through government is often most pernicious when it has a tidy front and a well-manicured green lawn.
UNEQUAL INFLUENCE Politics
fective reforms. Fundamental improvements to education would involve more challenging changes to residential zoning, teacher unions and certification systems, and might also take some educational finance and control out of the hands of local municipalities. It is no surprise that well-off families want to keep a system that has done very well by them, and that the poor often lose political battles over education.
EVERYONE FEELS ENTITLED Peo-
fits, so few individuals are consistently opposed to all government transfers. It becomes difficult for a politician to articulate exactly what is wrong with this arrangement when the audience itself is in on the game and perhaps does not want to hear about its own takings.
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE The
correct distinction is not makers versus takers. The problem is that taking, rather than making wealth, appears to be growing in relative influence. Most of us are actually both makers and takers. Consider farmers who produce food and favor agricultural subsidies. The question is whether the role of wealth maker has more influence over our politics, at any given time, than does the taker role. Is public policy being adjudicated on grounds of ethics and efficiency, or is the real
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
the 10 most affluent counties in the nation are near Washington, D.C. That means a growing number of educated people are making a very good living advising, lobbying and otherwise influencing the federal government. This is a talent drain. Its far from obvious that we are getting better policy as a result, and true wealth creation has not kept pace. As Matthew Yglesias, a columnist for the online magazine Slate, has pointed out, there is also a subtler point about those wealthy Virginia and Maryland counties. They have high per capita incomes, not only be-
based on lobbying stacks the deck against lower-income groups, who are often outmaneuvered. For instance, one of the biggest problems faced by the poor today is inadequate K-12 education. They need improved public schools, more school choice, or some mix of both. Over time, such improvements would help deal with many other social and economic issues, including global competitiveness, domestic unemployment, public health and the budget deficit, because quality education has many beneficial effects. Instead, the current system of transfers offers to the poor various sops in place of more ef-
ple tend to think that they have justice on their side, whether it comes to making or taking. For example, millions of homeowners have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the premise that the tax deduction for mortgages will be continued. If they support a continuation of that deduction they hardly feel like brigands, even though a bipartisan consensus of economists doubts the efficiency of this tax break. As years and decades pass, recipients of this deduction and other benefits start to see them as deeply and richly deserved. Furthermore, almost all of us reap one or more of these bene-
Founding Fathers were extremely worried about the threat to society posed by corruption and privilege-seeking. Drawing on examples going back to antiquity, they understood how unmitigated wealthtaking could create a negative and cumulatively self-reinforcing political dynamic. They also understood that the Constitution or any constitution would be an extremely imperfect remedy for this problem. It is therefore correct to reject Mr. Romneys depiction as off-base and misleading. Yet the fact that he didnt present the truth is an indication that the problem is actually worse than many of us realize.
FUNDAMENTALLY
PAUL J. LIM
Dueling Prisms For Valuing Stocks

FTER the tech crash a decade ago, investors started giving closer attention to the prices they pay for stocks. Some have turned to a tool known as the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, or CAPE, to determine whether stocks are cheap or expensive. Yet while this version of the P/E ratio, popularized by the Yale economist Robert J. Shiller, correctly signaled frothy markets in 1929, 1999 and 2008, some strategists argue that it may not be as accurate in gauging valuations today as it was in the past. There are distortions in this period of time that make it a less useful tool, says Jeremy Siegel, a finance professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Stocks for the Long Run. Traditional P/E ratios compare stock prices with one years worth of historical or projected earnings. CAPE, on the other hand, looks at 10 years of averaged, or normalized, profits. Because this method tends to smooth out earnings anomalies that arise at the peak of a profit cycle or the depths of a recession, CAPE is considered a more conservative gauge. Sometimes, the differences between traditional and normalized P/Es can lead investors to drastically different conclusions. Based on the past 12 months
of earnings, for example, the Standard & Poors 500-stock index has a trailing P/E of around 15, which would make the market attractively priced based on historical levels, according to market strategists. By contrast, the markets CAPE reading is nearly 22. Although thats not as elevated as in 1929 or 99, it is significantly higher than the markets longrun average of around 16. The basic idea of smoothing out earnings over time is excellent, Mr. Siegel says. But he points out that the current CAPE for domestic stocks includes a 90 percent annual earnings decline in the first quarter of 2009. Youre averaging in an unbelievable hole in profits, he says.
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Jeremy Siegel sees problems with basing stock values today on 10 years of earnings, given the recent decades events. Youre averaging in an unbelievable hole in profits, he says.
notes that the true valuation picture may have been distorted, as corporations used the past decades recessions as an opportunity to cleanse their balance sheets by writing off all nonperforming parts of their businesses. Mr. Shiller, who is widely credited with having warned investors about the tech crash and the more recent housing bubble, concedes that corporate earnings have been unusually volatile in the past decade. But he argues that this is more reason not less to use normalized earnings in calculating the markets P/E. What alternatives do people have? he asked in an interview. For instance, he says, if volatile swings in profits affect 10-year averages, surely they would distort P/Es based on 12 months of profits even more. (Mr. Shiller is a regular contributor to the Economic View column in Sunday Business.) Robert D. Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates, agrees. He notes that based on the last 12 months of profits, the Russell 1000 index which, like the S.& P. 500, tracks blue-chip domestic stocks was trading at a modest P/E ratio of around 16. But those were peak earnings, he said., adding that his firm prefers to use CAPE to remove the effects of earnings peaks and troughs. What about the fact that the past 10 years include two major earnings anomalies that skew the markets CAPE? Im grateful that there are people who believe that, who can be on the other side of my trades, Mr. Arnott says. He points out that the past decade has also been witness to much monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, artificially bolstering corporate profits. Moreover, he says, corporate
earnings are the largest share of gross domestic product since 1929, while wages are the smallest share of G.D.P. since 1937. Those trends are unlikely to continue forever, he says, adding that profit margins will eventually come down as the economy improves and companies start hiring more aggressively. This isnt to say that CAPE is telling investors that its necessarily time to sell domestic stocks. To be sure, the CAPE of the S.& P. 500 is high by historical standards. But if ones choice is between investing in domestic stocks or in 10-year Treasury notes, the equities probably still seem the better bet, Mr. Arnott says. Mr. Shiller adds that based on more than 140 years of history, the markets CAPE would indicate that investors should expect annualized gains of just under 4 percent a year, accounting for the effects of inflation. Thats worse than the long-run average of real annual returns of more than 6 percent for bluechip stocks. But its not extremely low, either, he says. OR his part, Mr. Siegel has a more bullish outlook. He argues that the market is attractively priced, considering how low interest rates are. And he says he thinks that investors will soon be willing to pay more for each dollar of corporate earnings than they are right now. Given that, he adds, domestic stocks could return 10 to 12 percent a year over the next several years especially if the economy begins to pick up speed. Mr. Siegel and Mr. Shiller are old friends who have periodically disagreed about market valuations. Again, let me just say how much I respect my good friend Robert Shiller, Mr. Siegel said. His basic idea is excellent, but you have to consider todays circumstances.
as that sick bank continued to pay major dividends and pretended that it was healthy. Over the course of the three bailouts that Citigroup ultimately received, Ms. Bair watched as regulators showered the company with benefits and tried to stick the F.D.I.C. with the bill. The larger issue was the fundamental unfairness of the vast lengths the government went to, to protect this institution and its management, shareholders and bondholders, Ms. Bair writes. What of the claim that all the rescues were profitable? Ms. Bair contended in the interview that none of the arithmetic used to arrive at these gains takes into account the subsidies banks received in cheap capital, low-interest-rate loans and debt guarantees. N her book, Ms. Bair lists 13 actions that she thinks would make financial institutions stronger, and regulators more effective. Even just a few of these like breaking up megabanks, raising capital requirements and ending the revolving door between the industry and its overseers would have immediate and extensive benefits. In the meantime, Ms. Bair says, she is discouraged by a lack of will among regulators to protect the nation from future financial crises. I wish that the regulators had a more singular focus on making sure the bailouts never happen again, she told me. Yet, outside the F.D.I.C., I dont sense a real commitment to making sure the government will never have to step in. That failure is having a genuine impact on our economy, in Ms. Bairs view. Our bailout strategies didnt clean out bad mortgage assets, and we didnt force banks to take losses, she says. We imposed no accountability and did no fundamental restructuring. We were Japan, and I think we have a Japan-like recovery because of it. Having left the F.D.I.C. in 2011, Ms. Bair now works on financial policy issues at the Pew Charitable Trusts and heads the Systemic Risk Council, a private-sector organization that the Pew Trusts helped form, which is working on financial system fixes. The balance of power has shifted too far in favor of large financial interests in Washington, she said in the interview. The bailouts, and the quantitative easing that continues, have overwhelmingly benefited the upper classes. Workers, homeowners, small businesses have by and large been left to fend for themselves.
Paul J. Lim is a senior editor at Money magazine. E-mail: fund @nytimes.com.
AMES STACK, president of InvesTech Research, adds that the current 10-year look back is unusual because it includes not just one but two of the worst profit recessions in history. In addition to the earnings decline stemming from the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, the bursting of the tech bubble weighed down corporate profits from 2000 through early 2003. Normalized earnings are fine to use if the periods youre looking at are going to be more normal, Mr. Stack says. But anyone looking at 10-year P/Es today has to realize that the past decade has been anything but normal. Based on CAPE, domestic stocks today look ultraexpensive, Mr. Stack says. Yet he
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PREOCCUPATIONS
MELODY STEIN
THE BOSS
Deaf, Determined And Sold on Mozzarella

Y parents have owned restaurants in Hong Kong and San Francisco throughout my life. So it was reasonable that I dreamed of running my own someday. I wasnt going to let the fact that I was born deaf deter me from realizing that dream. My route to becoming a restaurateur was circuitous. Owning any restaurant is risky. Its even more treacherous in San Francisco, a foodie mecca where restaurants come and go faster than the fog rolls in and out. My husband, Russ Stein, is also deaf, and as deaf restaurateurs our goal could have been even more daunting. But we approached it systematically, with a vision to serve both the deaf and the hearing. My journey began in Hong Kong, where I was born in 1973. My brother, Joseph, is also deaf and my parents did not feel that Hong Kong accommodated deaf people adequately. We moved to the Bay Area when I was 7 and Joseph was 2 so we could attend the California School for the Deaf. My parents always emphasized that education would be even more important for us to make our way through life. Taking their cue, after high school I went to the Rochester Institute of Technology; it has a good hospitality and tourism management department. After two years, I transferred to Gallaudet University for deaf and hard-of-hearing students; Joseph was already enrolled there. It didnt have a hospitality management major so I majored in business administration, even though I hated numbers. Thats where I met Russ. After he received his degree in business administration, we moved to San Francisco in 1995. I transferred to San Francisco State University, majoring in hospitality management and graduating in 1998. My personal goal was postponed when Russ was offered a job at the Communication Service for the Deaf in
Going Far, Without Regrets

WAS born and raised Thailand and China for in Singapore. When I a sugar company to help was 12, I told my mothwith a joint venture. er, Im going to work in Then PepsiCo Internathe Big Apple one day. tional recruited me to She said she wasnt surhelp with foreign-exprised, because as a change currency swap young child I had held my programs. I then ran my chopsticks far away from own business strategy my food. In the Chinese consulting company for culture that means youre three years before the going to live far from Dial Corporation rehome. cruited me. My parents always told In 2002, I entered the me I could do whatever I skin care industry, STRIVECTIN wanted. My mother manwhich was exploding. JUE WONG aged an I.T. department For the next seven in an oil company. At 16, I years, I worked for C.E.O. of StriVectin, worked at her company three skin care compaa skin care company as a receptionist during nies, including ZO Skin in New York school vacations and disHealth, created by Dr. covered the value of soZein Obagi, in New AGE cial skills. If someone beYork. 45 came impatient waiting in In 2009, I moved to AtFAVORITE CITY the reception area, I lanta after being recruitParis found ways to divert their ed as C.E.O. of another ON WEEKENDS attention to calm them skin care company, Asdown. My mom had lunch tral Health and Beauty. Sometimes watches with me every day, which Three weeks after I a Criminal Minds made me feel grown up. started, my husband marathon. I wanted to attend coldied of a heart attack. lege in another country, Going to work every so I made a deal with my day helped me cope mother: if she let me study overseas, Id with his death.He had supported me return to Singapore after college. I in the move, and I didnt want his death chose the Australian National Universito be in vain. I also decided to become ty in Canberra, partly because Australia involved with the American Heart Assohad a British school system like Singaciation. I believed that my personal situpores. I received a scholarship to spend ation might be a benefit in raising a year at U.C.L.A. as an exchange stuawareness for the cause. Although I dent, and I graduated from A.N.U. in was new to Atlanta, I raised $350,000 1987 with a degree in political science. with many of my contacts outside the When I returned to Singapore, I city. thought Id work for the diplomatic This summer, I joined the StriVectin corps and travel, but a friend in governOperating Company, which makes and ment advised me that I would have to sells anti-aging skin care products, as be a graduate of a local university even C.E.O. The challenge of this industry is to get an interview. When I couldnt get to be believable, and to do that, compainto government, I got a job at Cargill in nies have to be truthful about what commodity trading and worked in Sinproducts can do. Women in their 40s are gapore, Hong Kong and Geneva for the smarter than to think a product can next seven years. I met my husband, make them look like a 20-year-old, but Robert Fidler, while working there. they still want to look their best. The company fast-tracked me; when My husband and I coordinated our I left I was managing global teams of career moves according to each others traders and a trading portfolio of $2.5 jobs. I have always worked. He helped billion. While there, I applied to the Lonmy career immensely. Our son and don School of Economics and was acdaughter are in their 20s now. To me, recepted, but I deferred attending for a grets are not about failures; theyre year, then chose a different path. about things you wanted to try and In 1994, I left Cargill and worked in didnt. Because I never felt guilty about my choices and my husband was behind As told to Patricia R. Olsen. me, I was able to do my best.
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Melody Stein, who is deaf, uses an iPad app that lets her confirm reservations via a translation service for her restaurant, Mozzeria in San Francisco.
Sioux Falls, S.D. Though a detour from my dream, it was too good an opportunity for him to refuse. I also got a job there, in marketing. We stayed 10 years. Those years would serve us well when we returned to San Francisco and felt ready to open a restaurant. Russ agreed, only if it could be a pizzeria. Being from New York, he is a pizza fanatic. Mozzarella is his weakness. Thats how Mozzeria was born. We opened last December in the Mission District. But the preparation started two years earlier. Immersing myself in Italian cooking, I went to Italy and took pizzaand pasta-making classes in Rome, Sorrento and Positano. I brought along my mother, who signs, to interpret for me. Back in San Francisco, Russ and I built a small wood-burning oven in our backyard and I practiced making pies. We decided on serving Neapolitan pizza; it felt more authentic to us. I developed our menu including a pizza topped with roast duck and hoisin sauce, a gesture to my Chinese roots. The space we chose had been a restaurant previously, but it had not been accessible for people in wheelchairs. We made that accommodation right away; naturally I am a strong advocate of the Americans With Disabilities Act. There were little glitches from the outset. We encountered certain people who themselves would become speechless, as they had never met deaf people before, much less done business with them. We had to educate government and business reps that they had to arrange for American Sign Language interpreters to communicate with us. We became more used to writing notes back and forth and using the iPad. Almost everything in the restaurant was designed or built by deaf people, as is all the artwork on the walls. We hired deaf and A.S.L. signers. For many, working in a restaurant was a new experience. We learned a lot together and improvised over time. Everyone now carries paper and pen to communicate with hearing guests. Our kitchen has lots of bulletin boards for the staff to write on, to avoid any mistakes.
As told to Perry Garfinkel.
HE rise of social media and new technology has been an unexpected boon for the deaf, making it much easier to communicate with hearing people in ways like simple text messaging and video relay services. Twitter and Facebook put us on par with other restaurants. Hearing guests may notice that instead of just picking up the phone and calling, they need to rely more on the Internet to reach us or make reservations. I also started blogging on our Web site. Ive been approached to write a book, but I think that juggling the restaurant and our two children is quite enough for now. These days, I wear a few hats. I still make dough and create pizza recipes. Russ trains the pizza makers. Our chef, Bryan Baker, oversees small plates, pasta and desserts. Im trying to look more at big-picture issues, like marketing and public relations. And my husband keeps the books I still hate numbers.
LETTERS
Those Long Hours Arent Everything
To the Editor: Re They Work Long Hours, but What About Results? in which Robert C. Pozen described how many employers confuse face time in the office with strong productivity: The heavy weight on presenteeism impacts many workers, including people with disabilities. These workers often simply cannot be in an office for 60 hours a week because of those disabilities or the need for medical care. They cant dawdle on YouTube or chat over extended coffee breaks they need to get their work done so they can deal with everything else. They may also need to be absent at varying times of the day, rather than in the office from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. This makes any upward career movement difficult or impossible, regardless of diversity policies. A demand for long hours in a job description will often prevent people with disabilities from applying at all. Even when medical status is considered, the face-time bias creates the expectation that disabled employees will devote all of their healthy hours to working, neglecting all other aspects of life. JAMES POLICHAK Allston, Mass., Oct. 7
To the Editor: The article mentioned how hourly billing for services can punish people who work quickly and efficiently. But heres the basic problem: Hourly-based fees reward their providers for sloth. A client is best served by rapid resolutions, whether in law, consulting, design, accounting or whatever the professional service. Yet hourly fees put the provider in conflict with the clients best interests because the provider benefits best from long hours. Hourly billing results when you attempt to put value on time because you dont know how to correlate it with results. ALAN WEISS East Greenwich, R.I., Oct. 8 The writer is the author of Value-Based Fees: How to Charge and Get What Youre Worth. Letters for Sunday Business may be sent to sunbiz@nytimes.com.
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Accountant JPMorgan Chase & Co. has an opening for an Accountant Investment Bank (VP) position in New York, NY. Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of risk weighted assets related to Basel III - the third of the Basel accords comprising global regulatory standards on bank capital adequacy. Employer will accept Master's degree in Business, Accounting or related quantitative field; and 2 years of work experience in job offered or 2 years of work experience in a business, finance or accountant related occupation. Experience must include: 1. analyzing and preparing reports to maintain record of financial information in relation to risk weighted assets and client profitability and other related financial activities within an organization; 2. preparing, examining, or analyzing accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards; 3. Establishing tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts; 4. reporting to management regarding the financial results of establishment; 5. providing support for internal and external reporting and auditing teams related to the reported financial information; 6. developing, implementing, modifying, and documenting business requirements for internal financial reporting management system and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology; and 7. investment bank businesses and products (including derivatives, structured products, and equities).Apply online at www.jpmorganchase.com Click "Careers" Click "Search & apply" Search for Job Number 120059057 Click "Apply Now." JPMorgan Chase & Co. supports workforce diversity. Accountants & Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP has an opportunity for the following position in New York, NY. Manager. Resp to help acquirers evaluate targets, improve their M&A process & set post-close priorities. Assist w/assessing how a company generates cash & performs on nonfinancial measures. Travel req. 20-40%. Reqs. incl. Master's deg in Acctg, Bus Admin or rel & 3 yrs recent exp. Mail resume to Attn: HR SSC/Talent Mgt, 3109 W. MLK Jr. Blvd., Tampa, FL 33607, Ref #NYDRA. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. w/out sponsorship. EOE Accountant- New York, NY. For Construction/Construction Materials industry: Analyze Financial Statements Ratio Analysis, Prepare: Project Cost Accounting & Budgeting, Cash Flows & Internal Audits. Use Visual Dolhin/ Deltek. Send resume to: hr@haks.net Accounting/Auditing: McGladrey LLP seeks Assurance Manager for its Financial Svcs Group in NY, NY to supervise & review all sections of compilations, reviews & audit engagements for hedge funds & private equity funds. Advise clients on various complex accounting issues. Resolve complex accounting issues by applying technical skills. Document, validate, test & assess processes, internal controls, systems &/or programs. Responsibilities also include networking w/ potential clients & other business development activities. Requires BS degree in Accounting & 5 yrs of progressively responsible exp. providing audit & attest services to hedge funds & private equity funds w/in a public accounting environment. Exp. must include at least 2 yrs supervisory exp. providing audit services to hedge funds & private equity funds. Requirements include: Knowledge of GAAS, GAAP & FASB; must be CPA or chartered accountant. To apply, please visit McGladrey's careers pages at http://www.mcgladrey.com (Reference #NGMC9353). Accounting: Fund Accountant, F/T (New York, NY). Fund acctg incl journal entries, consolidations & capital allocations. Prepare quarterly & annual Fund Financial Statements, incl Partner Capital Statements together w/general partner book preparations incl quarterly capital statements. Must have Bachelor's deg w/concentration in Acctg. Must have 2 yrs exp in job offd or 2 yrs exp w/private equity & Big 4 Public Acctg firms. CPA or CPA candidate reqd. Send resume to: Ashley Davis, Global Mobility & Immigration Specialist, Invesco Group Services, Inc., 1555 Peachtree St N.E., Atlanta, GA 30309. ACCOUNTING-FSO Assurance Senior Asset Management (Multiple Positions), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, New York, NY. Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel and assess clients' satisfaction. Proactively maintain contact with the client throughout the year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply, go to ey.com/us/jobsearch (Job # NEW0061E). Accounting: Systems Accountant needed by Dipna RX, Inc. dba Fuller Drug Store (Bronx, NY) to document bus. transactions & fin'l records, implmt & maintain comp. based acctg system, forecast revenues, prep. reports & manage budget to minimize expense, eval. stock turnover for profitability. Email resume fullerdrugs@gmail.com
Architects Gensler seeks Job Captain in New York, NY to assist in all phases of the interior architectural design of large commercial projects using Revit and 3DAutoCad. Submit resume on www.gensler.com/careers NY office. Must reference job code GNE01. Architectural Designer, NY, NY: Under dir of dsgn principals, rsrch, plan & admin bldg properties for lge, complex public & private projs; Eng in all phases of dsgn incl. concept/schematic dsgn, dsgn dvlp, & constr docs; Plan & prep scopes for bldg ext/int dsgn; Rsrch & dsgn bldg sys appropriate to part of proj assigned; Coord w/eng & specialty conslts to intgrt eng, tech & specialty dsgn aspects into unified arch dsgn solutions. Req: M. Arch or a rel field plus min 2 yrs exp on lge-scale, mixed-use comm high-rises projs, curtain wall dsgn & specs & urban scale dsgn approach & sustainable dsgn. Prof in Revits, AutoCAD, Rhino, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Creative Ste. Fluent in imperial & metric sys to assist w/intl esp China projs; Exp w/China projs & knowl of local bldg codes pref; Bilingual(Eng/Mandarin) a+. Send CV + wk smpls to P. Cheung, Ennead Architect at 320 W. 13th St. NY NY 10014. Ennead Architects is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital or veteran status. Associate: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks Associate, Commodities Trademart IT Developer, Commodities Product Group, ISG Technology in Purchase, NY to design, dvlp, deploy, support & maintain strategic centralized trade repository/warehouse for high volume commodities trade & sales facts/data known as Trademart, an advanced sys supporting trading desks in Commodities Group. Req'ts: Master's in CS, Eng'g or rel. field or equiv, & 3 yrs exp dvlpg & maintaining lrg repository sys's on behalf of global fin'l srvcs institution. Prior exp must incl working w/ cross-functional IT teams to determine bus. req'ts & implementing those into tech solutions; designing srvc oriented fin'l apps req'g multi-tier sys's architecture applying object oriented concepts & design patterns; using Java, Shell/Perl; monitoring dbases backing fin'l apps such as DB2 & Sybase sys's; & configuring & deploying sys's incl sales data repository to production environ using UNIX & Perl based scripts. Please e-mail resume to: nyt112453@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V Associate: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks Associate, Developer, ISG Technology Division in NY, NY to design & implement client & server components for Morgan Stanley's Matrix app, a multi-tier web-based portal app that supports trading & provides portfolio analytics, compliance reporting & decisionmaking tools for prime brokerage clients. Req'ts: Master's in Eng'g, CS, Info Sys's, or rel. field or equiv, & 3 yrs exp dvlpg & enhancing client/server apps in Java to support trading & reporting on behalf of investmt banking sector. Prior exp must incl dvlpg & implementing web-based fin'l sys's; object-oriented dvlpmt; providing production support on multi-tier fin'l apps during all stages of SDLC; working w/ compliance reporting & req'ts; & utilizing technologies incl SQL, RDBMS, UNIX/LINUX, Shell Scripts, Eclipse IDE, Java-Multithreading, SOAP, XML, Spring framework, JUnit, Perl, & DB Artisan. Employer will also accept Bachelor's & 5 yrs exp in above-listed areas. Please e-mail resume to: nyt112290@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V Associate: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC seeks Associate, GWMG Technology Division, NAO Application Delivery, Web Accounts in Jersey City, NJ to design, dvlp, analyze, & maintain webbased Enhanced Due Diligence app, incl trouble shooting w/ resolution, & participating in full SDLC. Req'ts: Bachelor's in CS, Eng'g, Info Sys's, or rel. field or equiv, & 5 yrs exp designing, dvlpg, & troubleshooting web-based JavaJavaEE apps during complete SDLC phase using OO Design Development concept. Prior exp must incl using flowchart & UML diagrams, incl class & sequence; bldg & deploying code; working w/ bus. units & global technology teams to translate req'ts into tech specs; generating dynamic PDF; & utilizing WebServices, Websphere Application server, IDE tools, Servlets, JSP, Java Script, POJO, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, AJAX, XML, JSTL, MQ, XSL, XSLT, JAXB, JUNIT, ANT, LOG4J, SQL & Stored Procedures. Please e-mail resume to: nyt112546@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V Associate - (NYC) - Analyze & oversee cash & derivative profit & loss (P&L) generated by structured credit business. Perform monthly credit valuation & reserves rebalancing. Utilize knowledge of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs), Indices, Tranches, swaptions, & First-To-Default Credit Default Swaps (FTD CDSs) to complete deal reviews for complex structures. Oversee prep of monthly accounting close. Manage queries re: P&L production & reporting, & train on processes to ensure quality of work product. Partner w/ technology & operations teams to drive process efficiencies & scalable infrastructure. Req's: Bachelor's in Economics or Finance, & 2 yrs of exp in position offered or as Senior Analyst. Full 2 yrs of req'd exp must have incl CDOs, CLOs, Indices, Tranches, swaptions, & FTD CDs. Send resumes to: R. Ortiz, Nomura Holding America Inc., 2 World Financial Center, Building B, NY, NY 10281. Ref. #0121.
Associate: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC seeks Associate, Senior Software JAVA Developer, GWMG Technology in Jersey City, NJ to analyze, design, integrate, & support SAPPHIRE app as part of Stock Plan System to perform stock plan admin & record keeping for external clients. Req'ts: Master's in CS, Eng'g, Info Sys's, or rel. field or equiv, & 1 yr exp working as part of team to dvlp, test, & impl high volume internet/intranet app softw in support of equity compensation bus. domain on behalf of global fin'l srvcs institution. Prior exp must incl dvlpg & maintaining sys's/tech documentation on projects thruout full softw dvlpmt lifecycle; communicating w/project/teamleadsre:ongoingstatus, milestones, & successes; resolving vulnerability assessment issues; impl'g network security using authentication protocols & tools; utilizing Java technologies incl Java Script, JDK, J2EE, Servlets, JSTL, JDBC, EJB, Threads, Spring, & iBatis on Windows, UNIX, Mainframe platforms, Synergy, RAD, Eclipse, Autosys, Attachmate Extra! Xtreme, Actuate, DB2 dbase design, performance tuning, stored procedures, & Agile & Scrum methodologies. Employ will also accept Bachelor's & 5 yrs exp in above-listed areas. Pls e-mail resume to: nyt112294@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V
Deloitte & Touche LLP Audit Manager position available in New York, NY & various unanticipated Deloitte office locations & client sites nationally. Oversee day-to-day operations of audit engagements. Involved w/ legal, regulatory, & acctg issues that arise during audit engagement. Resp for supervision of staff & mgmt of svcs to clients, incl preparation of audit strategy & bus plans, setting & monitoring budgets, scheduling audits, selecting staff & assigning workloads, & fin'l reporting. Position reqs Bach deg or equiv in Bus Admin, Fin, Acctg, Econ or rel field + 4 years of exp in job offered or as Audit Senior, Audit Senior Executive or rel position. Employer will accept 3 years university-level study + membership in The Institute of Chartered Accts of India in meeting Bach deg req. 4 years exp must incl: Determining materiality thresholds & performing analytics of fin'l statements & fin'l ratios; Conducting analyses of employee bnft plans, incl contribution, participant loan, bnft payments, forfeiture & participation & individual testing; Conducting acctg research & advising clients regarding Fin'l Acctg Standard Board (FASB) standards & Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations; Performing external audits of fin'l statements in accordance w/ Generally Accepted Acctg Principles (GAAP) & Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS); Participating in fin'l statements reporting in accordance w/ U.S. GAAP, U.S. GAAS & Public Acctg audit practices & procedures; Supervising field audit engagements & designing audit approaches w/in Real Estate & Fin'l Svcs industries; Conducting audit tests to support professional opinions regarding fair representation of client fin'l statements; & Performing acctg estimates, incl fair value acctg estimates & rel disclosure audits. 80% travel req. Any suitable combo of edu, training or exp is acceptable. M-F, 40 hrs/wk. Competitive sal & bnfts packages. To apply, visit us at http://careers.deloitte.com/ jobs/eng-US. Scroll down & enter XTSI13FA1012NYC3 as Keyword & click Search jobs. No calls please. Deloitte LLP & its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. About Deloitte Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, & its network of member firms, each of which islegallyseparate&independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for detailed description of legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited & its member firms.
Associate: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks Associate, Client Processing Projects Group, ISG Product Operations Division, Project Manager in NY, NY to execute a variety of project delivery roles w/in Securities Ops Projects space, focusing on improving global operational efficiency, trade execution, trade capture,tradeconfirms&settlementexceptions & issues. Req'ts: Bachelor's in Bus. Admin, Econ, Fin, or rel. field or equiv, & three (3) yrs exp supporting trading ops on behalf of global fin'l srvcs institution. Prior exp must incl defining & translating bus. req'ts into tech solutions; performing proj mgmt functions rel. to bus. dvlpmt, identifying, minimizing & mitigating risks to avoid fin'l impact; liaising w/ internal & external clients; dvlpg analytics; prep position reports; handling settlements of trades; documenting sys rel. procedures; & utilizing proj mgmt tools such as Microsoft Project & SharePoint. Please e-mail resume to: nyt113222@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V
Audit Deloitte & Touche LLP Audit In Charge position available in New York, NY & various unanticipated Deloitte office locations & client sites nationally. Facilitate external audit engagements, design audit approaches & perform complex acctg & auditing of balance sheets & income statements. Evaluate clients' internal controls, incl outlining extent of sampling req, performing walkthroughs of clients internal control sys's & documenting results. Oversee completion of clients' annual reports & interact w/ clients to discuss field audit issues. Position reqs Bach deg or foreign equiv in Acctg, Mgmt, Econ, Bus Admin or rel field + 1 year exp in job offered or as Audit Senior or rel position. 1 year exp must incl: Determining materiality thresholds & performing analytics of fin'l statements; Evaluating clients' internal controls, incl outlining extent of sampling req, performing walkthroughs of clients' internal control sys's & documenting results; Evaluating external audits of consolidated fin'l statements for domestic & multinational entities; Conducting external audits of investment portfolios, incl debt securities, equity securities, partnership interests & stocks; Performing analytic & detailed substantive testing of fin'l accounts, incl cash, investment valuation, fin'l highlights, equity rollforward, dividends, income, expense, intercompany eliminations, deferred revenue, compensation, property, plant & equipment & evaluating & reporting testing results; Conducting acctg research on implementation of new fin'l acctg standards & FASB ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements & Disclosures (Formerly FAS 157); Preparing & managing external audit engagement budgets; Auditing internal & 3rd party-prepared valuations of fair value of investments & investments rollforwards, incl recalculation of unrealized & realized gain; & Conducting testing, incl analytical & detail testing, revenue, payroll, bnfts, fixed assets & operating expenses balances in fin'l statements. 75% travel req. Any suitable combination of edu, training or exp is acceptable. M-F, 40 hrs/wk. Competitive sal & bnfts packages. To apply, visit us at http://careers.deloitte.com/ jobs/eng-US Scroll down & enter XTSI13FA1012NYC2 as Keyword & click Search jobs. No calls please. Deloitte LLP & its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. About Deloitte Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, UK private company limited by guarantee & its network of member firms, each of which is legally separate & independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for detailed description of legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited & its member firms.
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Banking: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. seeks a Vice President, Capital Markets & Treasury Solutions in New York, NY to draft responses to requests for proposals for excess reserve financing solutions for major life insurance companies. Requires Bachelor's degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent, and 4 years of experience in the financial services industry working with structured products and insurance transactions; and creating detailed models of complex structured transactions. Experience must also include at least 1 year working with insurance regulations XXX and AXXX; and valuating impact of bespoke financial transactions on balance sheets, focusing on regulatory and capital requirements. Series 7 and Series 63 licenses required. Apply to www.db.com/careers and search by professionals, keyword GC1207. BOOKKEEPER FC needed for estab Mason Contractor Bx/Westchester Line. Ext. knowledge of QB req Sal comm w/exp. Email:masoncon2012@gmail.com Business Analyst (CrossAsset) (NY, NY) sought by Numerix LLC to work w/in Client Solutions Group to dvlp next generation pricing & risk mgmt products for fin'l mkts industry. Master's in Math. of Fin., Quant. Fin., Fin. or rltd + 1 yr exp dvlpg pricing & risk mgmt products in fin'l srvcs industry. 10-15% nat'l/int'l travel. Refer to www.numerix.com/careers for complete details. Submit CV to careers@numerix.com & must refer. "Business Analyst (CrossAsset) Req# 023-028" in subject heading. CHEMIST Chemist (work in Newburgh, NY area) - Supervise lab; conduct and supervise all development projects; research & develop automotive paint & clears based on new emerging technology & market need; perform dispersion of organic & inorganic pigments; optimize & construct the paint formula using Sage PFW ERP software; perform quality control using Minolta spectrophotometer, viscosity measurement using brookfield, stormer viscometer & Zahn cup as well as measurement of PH using PH meter; spray finished paint; & support paint manufacturing processes & implement cost saving programs. Reqs. Masters (or foreign educ. equiv.) in related field of study + 12 mos. relev. exp. Will accept equally suitable comb. of educ. training &/or exp. qualifying applicant to perform job duties. Send resume to: Matthew Panuska, VP, Coventry Coatings Corp., 89 Taft Ave., Newburgh, NY 12550. EOE Clinical Dietitian/ Nutritionist - Provide medical nutrition therapy to all age groups, in particular to OB & pediatric. Conduct food demonstrations. BA in Nutrition/ Dietetics, CDN/RD required. Bilingual (English/Spanish) required. Fax resume to 718-991-1268 or email jobs@urbanhealthplan.org EOE Communications: EVP, Communications for GCK Partners in Manh oversee mktg, communications, branding & promotions for luxury brands & fashion; manage strategy dvlpmt,; create product launches, placement campaigns & press opps; dvlp communication programs; oversee budgets; pursue new business 4 yrs exp in job off'd & HS degree or Bachelor's Degree in Communications + 2 yrs exp in job off'd req'd Respond LG/GCK Partners PO Bx 4241 NYC 10163 Computer: Interested candidates send resume to: Google Inc., PO Box 26184 San Francisco, CA 94126 attn: Lisa Harrington. Please reference job # below: Test Engineer; (NY, NY); #1615.924; Design, develop, modify, and/or test software needed for various internet search engine company projects. Exp incl: test automation in C++, Java or Python; test tech; scenario plan; & troubleshoot. Enterprise Program Mgr; (NY,NY); 1615.1126; Promote and support Google enterprise products. Exp incl: Java prog; script in Python or Bash; CA SiteMinder, Tivoli Access Mgr, or Sun Access Mgr security syst; encrypt & security protocols, such as SSL, security shell (SSH), & certificate mgmnt; web appl dvlpmnt, high availability design, & web security implement; Lotus Notes appl dvlpmnt; SharePoint, Documentum, Livelink, or IBM content mgmnt syst; proj mgmnt; leadership of global tech solutions implement; & mgmt strategic bus partners. SW Eng Positions (NY, NY): Design, develop, modify, and/or test sw needed for various internet search engine co. projects. Exp. incl: #1615.3925; distrib syst design; perf analysis; data model & analysis; & large scale sw eng'g. #1615.1016: multi-thread C++ dvlpmnt; analysis & optimize distrib syst perf; ntwrk security, incl cryptograph algorithms; & DNS &/or IP version 6 ntwrkng.
COMPUTER- Sr Analyst / Dvlpr w/Goldman Sachs & Co. in NY, NY. Design, dvlp & sup all trade booking & trade proc apps used by the Securities Lending trading desks globally. Pos reqs: Mstrs deg (US or foreign equiv) or Bach deg (US or foreign equiv) in Comp Sci or Comp Engg. 3yrs of exp (for Mstrs candidates) or 5yrs of exp (for Bach candidates) in the job offered or a s/ware dvlpmnt role. Must have 3yrs: exp utilize C# to dvlp client server apps; exp w/Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server; hands-on coding exp in all tiers of a multi-tiered app; exp debugging & reverse-engg apps written in obj oriented langs ; & exp w/ distributed syst architectures & design patterns. Must have 2yrs exp : wrking w/legacy s/ware & exp testing black-box legacy code; mng multi concurrent s/ware dvlpmnt projs; wrking in a fast paced environment req incremental enhancements w/a quick turn around time that provide immed commercl bnfit; communic w/clients/users to gather reqs for tech systs. These interacts must incl: defining funct reqs for new tech systs or substantial changes to existing tech sys; sup user accept testing of new systs or systs changes; ongoing prod user supp of tech systs or apps. At least 1yr exp design algorithms based on Artificial-Intell & machine learning patterns. Any suitable combin of edu, training &/or exp is acceptable. Job Code: TECH100312SADDS. Qual Applicants: Apply at: https://careers.gs.com If New User, Click on Register Now. Upon completion, an email w/a link will be sent to you. Click or paste link into browser & log-in. On Welcome screen, enter job code into Keywords: field and click on Search. Click on the job from the results to apply. Complete application tabs, then click Submit. If already registered, log-in & follow above instructions to submit an application. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. COMPUTER-Sr Analyst / Dvlpr w/Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY, NY. Design, dvlp, test & supp s/ware as part of a global team for Fixed Inc Cred Trading. Pos reqs: Mstrs deg (US or foreign equiv) or Bach deg (US or foreign equiv) in Comp Sci, Math, or Elect Engg. 3yrs of exp (w/Mstrs deg) or 5yrs of exp (w/Bach deg) in the job offered or in a rel trading App Dvlpr role. Prior wrk exp to incl at least 2 yrs: realtime supp & dvlpmnt of systs used by Trading Desks or Fin Ops & Cntrlrs; dvlpng using obj or relational dbases & Java or C++; exp w/data structures & algorithms in impl efficient & scalable procs; app dvlpmnt proj exp w/fixed inc prods, incl bonds & cred default swaps. Prior wrk exp to incl at least 1yr: exp as a lead dvlpr on lge (30+ users) voice & electronic trading flow s/ware dvlpmnt projs. Any suitable combin of edu, training &/or exp is acceptable. Job Code: TECH100112SADVT. Qual Applicants: Apply at: https://careers.gs.com If New User, Click on "Register Now". Upon completion, an email w/a link will be sent to you. Click or paste link into browser & log-in. On Welcome screen, enter job code into Keywords: field & click on Search. Click on the job from the results to apply. Complete application tabs, then click "Submit". If already registered, log-in & follow above instructions to submit an application. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Computer Software Developers, Applications (Bachelor's + 5 yrs. Exp or Master's + 3 yrs. Exp) - Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation for enterprise applications. Analyzing user requirements, procedures and problems to automate processing or improve existing computer systems. Translating complicated business rules and procedures into appropriate business logic. 3 positions- Downtown NYC Expertise in design, development & testing using VB6, ASP, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, C#, Visual Studio, Web Services, IIS, VBScript, JavaScript, CSS, Access, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server. 1 Position - Downtown NYC. Expertise in design, development & testing using PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Sybase, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, SQL Server. 1 Position - Brooklyn, NY Expertise. using Rational Tools, Java (J2EE), Microsoft SharePoint, Blaze Rules Engine, Relational Databases and reporting tools: Crytsal, Cognos. Send resumes to HR, GCOM Software Inc., 24 Madison Avenue Extension, Albany NY 12203 COMPUTER-Sr Analyst/Dvlpr w/Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY, NY. Act as sr dvlpr for deriv trade proc tech projs, covering key bus &/or op inititivs. Pos reqs: Mstrs deg (US or foreign equiv) or Bach deg (US or foreign equiv) in Comp Sci, Info Tech, or Elect Engg. 3 yrs (for Mstrs candidates) or 5yrs (for Bach candidates) of exp in the job offered or in a s/ware analys, dvlpmnt & maint role. Must have 3 yrs of exp w/: obj oriented analys & design; & Java or C/C++. Must have 1yr of exp w/: UNIX; XSL; & SQL. Must have 6mos of exp w/: XML Schema. Any suitable combin of edu, training &/or exp is acceptable. 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COMPUTER-Sr Analyst / Dvlpr w/ Goldman Sachs & Co. in NY, NY. Apply hands-on know of over-the-counter (OTC) derivs tech to drive design, impl & further dvlpmnt of a prime brokerage/derives clearing platform. Pos reqs: Mstrs deg (US or foreign equiv) in Comp Sci &/or Comp Engg + 3yrs of exp in the job offered or s/ware dvlpr/sr s/ware dvlpr role or Bach (US or foreign equiv) in Comp Sci &/or Comp Engg + 5yrs of exp in the job offered or s/ware dvlpr/sr s/ware dvlpr role. Prior wrk exp must incl 3yrs: s/ware dvlpmnt incl dvlpng apps to supp trading of listed or OTC derivs; design & develop real time, fault tolerant & robust apps, using algorithms & opt techniques while adhering to best practices; dvlpg apps in clustered comp environments; & prog in obj oriented langs & wrking w/ obj-oriented/graph dbases. Prior wrk exp must also incl 1yr exp in a proj mgmt role. Any suitable combin of edu, training &/or wrk exp is acceptable. Job Code: TECH100412SADKS. Qual Applicants: Apply at: https://careers.gs.com If New User, Click on Register Now. Upon completion, an email w/a link will be sent to you. Click or paste link into browser & log-in. On Welcome screen, enter job code into Keywords: field & click on Search. Click on the job from the results to apply. Complete application tabs, then click Submit. If already registered, log-in & follow above instructions to submit an application. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Computer Systems Analysts
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP has an opportunity for the following position in New York, NY. Sr. Associate. Reqs. exp w/in the following: Exp analyzing large & complex data sets, incl. demonstration & proven record success of a thorough aptitude for conducting quantitative & qualitative analyses. Travel req. 80-100%. Reqs. incl. Master's Deg in Ops Rsrch, Info Sys, Bus Info Sys, Bus Admin or rel & 3 yrs recent exp. Mail resume to Attn: HR SSC/Talent Mgt, 3109 W. MLK Jr. Blvd., Tampa, FL 33607, Ref #NYSJA. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. w/out sponsorship. EOE Computer Systems Analysts
Computers: Senior Software Architect (New York, NY). Plan & anlyze s/w strategies & solutions & dsign systm architctre & framewrks usng OOAD & SOA methodologies. Gther buss reqrmnts & dev functional specs fr capital mrkts indstry. Architect, dsign & documnt techncl dsign specs. Utilize: messagng middleware, integration technlgies, app srvers (WebLogic/JBoss/Tomcat), source code contrl systms (CVS/subversion), build mngmnt tools (ant/maven), & core Java & J2EE. Write SQL queries, or stored procedures, usng Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server. Prform CPU & Memory profiling & performance tuning of apps & /troubleshootng. Write unit tests to test progrm modules & create, execute & documnt tests of technical, functional & user interface performance. Perfrm code reviews. Coordinate UAT with end users & manage applications' deployments. Req: Bach's dgree in IT/Comp Sc/Math/Engg (Electrical/Electronics/Telecomm/Civil/Comp) or related + 5 yrs exp in duties. Contact HR, Gravitas Technology Services, LLC, 475 Park Ave South, 32nd Fl, New York, NY 10016.
Computers: Principal Apps Dvlpr (Islandia, NY). Eval appl perf. Write scripts. Dvlp objects in IDQ. Config & optimize ETL executions. REQS: Bachelor's or foreign equiv in CIS, CS, Math, Engg (any field), + 5 yrs prog exp in job &/or a rel occ or Master's or foreign equiv in CIS, CS, Math, Engg (any field), + 2 yrs exp in job &/or rltd occ. Must have Informatica certification. Must have exp w/ Informatica 8.6 or higher; Business Objects 3.1 or higher; Leading dvlpmnt teams; Dsng & dvlp Bus. Intelligence solutions in Data Warehousing; Extracting data from SQL, Oracle, flat files, Relational D/bases, SAP, Salesforce, Excel; Performance tuning sources, targets, mappings, sessions, & SQLs; Star & Snowflake Schema, Dimensional Modeling, Relational Data Modeling & Slowly Changing Dimensions; Data Warehouse architecture; Publish coding standards, define Best Practices for Informatica & adhere to best practices working on ETL solutions. Send resume to: Althea Wilson, CA Technologies, 1 CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11749, Refer to Requisition #29508.
Computers: Software Project Manager needed w/Masters deg or foreign equivalent in Comp Engg or Comp Sci or Engg & 1 yr exp in job offd OR Bachelors deg or foreign equiv in Comp Engg or Comp Sci or Engg & 5 yrs progressive work exp in the following job duties: Plan, organize & interact w/dvlpmt team, gather reqmts, dsgn & dvlp s/ware applics using .NET Framework, C#, Javascript, SQL Server, Web Services, IIS Web Server. Prepare prgmg specs, flow charts, detailed dsgn diagrams for projects using MS Visio UML. Dvlp, maintain & track comprehensive project plans. Manage day to day onsite client relationship. Exp as Delivery Project Lead is acceptable. Mail res to: Open Systems Technologies, 462 7th Ave, 15th Fl, NY, NY 10018 Job Loc.: NYC Computers: Project Manager needed w/Masters* deg or Foreign Equiv in Info Tech or Comp Sci or Engg + 1 yr exp in job off'd OR Bachelors deg or Foreign Equiv in Info Tech or Comp Sci or Engg + 5 yrs of progressive work exp in following job duties: Organize, direct & coord applic dvlpmt using industry standard techniques & S/wre Dsgn Patterns. Dvlp, dsgn, code & test projects using Core Java, JSP, J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Weblogic, JBoss, SQL & Oracle, Eclipse, Junit, log4j, Ant. Perform integration testing, code refactoring & performance tuning applics. Exp in any IT Profession is acceptable. Exp prior to completion of education is acceptable. Mail res to: Open Systems Technologies 462 7th Ave, 15th Fl, NY, NY 10018. Job Loc: NYC
Computers: Project Manager needed w/Masters degree or foreign equivalent in Biotechnology & Entrepreneurship or Comp Sci or Engg & 1 yr exp in the following job duties: Manage & analyze client business processes, gather & analyze reqmts to dvlp CRM & retail applics. Manage product life cycle from product reqmts through delivery. Elicit reqmts & reengineer applics using Apex, Visualforce, Javascript, J-query, SOQL, SOSL & Force.com. Manage projects for schedule & quality adherence. 1 yr exp as Sr. Business Analyst is acceptable. Mail res to: Darisi Inc. d/b/a Myotcstore.com, 1935 Hazen St, East Elmhurst, NY 11370 Job Loc: East Elmhurst, NY Computers: Services Consultant (Islandia NY & locs throughout US). Understand client's bus. needs & collaborate w/ architect to prep dsgn docs. Dvlp, implmt & config CA Clarity PPM solution. REQS: Bachelor's or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Math, Engg (any field), Bus. (any field) or rel + 2 yrs exp in job &/or rel occup; must have exp w/ Implmntg & configuring CA Clarity PPM solution; Engaging in customer-facing prof services consulting; Certified as CA Clarity PPM Bus. Analyst &/or CA Clarity PPM Professional; Frequent travel reqd; Work from home benefit available. Send resume to: Althea Wilson, CA Technologies, One CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11749, Refer to Requisition #29522
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP has an opportunity for the following position in New York, NY. Manager. Reqs. exp w/in the following: Exp w/info tech general controls concepts in the areas of sys development, change mgt, computer ops & access to programs & data. Travel req. 40-60%. Reqs. incl. Bachelor's deg in Acctg Info Sys, Info Sys, Mgt Info Sys, Sys Eng, Eng(any) or rel & 5 yrs recent exp. Mail resume to Attn: HR SSC/Talent Mgt, 3109 W. MLK Jr. Blvd., Tampa, FL 33607, Ref #NYCSI. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. w/out sponsorship. EOE Computer Systems Analysts PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP has an opportunity for the following position in New York, NY. Sr. Associate. Resp. to help companies anticipate, create & manage change, respond to crises, improve business processes, & transform their business by assessing client needs & reqs. Travel req. up to 100%. Reqs. incl. Bachelor's deg in Comp Sci, Info Tech or rel & 3 yrs recent exp. Mail resume to Attn: HR SSC/Talent Mgt, 3109 W. MLK Jr. Blvd., Tampa, FL 33607, Ref #NYGSA. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. w/out sponsorship. EOE Computer Programmer (Brentwood, NY)(1po): convert specifically dsgnd algorithms into comp language; troubleshoot problems w/in the applics; maintain & expand existing comp s/ware; dvlp specifications for s/ware interfaces for P.O.S. system; identify P.O.S. s/ware users' needs & improve P.O.S. s/ware & system; program Internet applics for implmtn designated on Apache Web server, php & mySQL; participate in the dvlpmt of smart phone applics to interlock w/ P.O.S. system & the products located in a remote store. BS in Comp Sci & 5 yr exp in Comp Prgmg req'd. 35hr/wk. M-F 9-5p. Mail res: J & A USA, Inc., 335 Crooked Hill Rd., Brentwood, NY 11717 Computer WebMD LLC currently has openings in our New York, New York location for a Senior Database Administrator. Provide physical and logical database design and modeling, Oracle and SQL Server database administration and support for critical data driven business web applications in Linux/Unix and Windows server environments. Apply online at: https://careers-webmd.icims.com/ jobs/9555/sr-databaseadministrator/job Computer System Engineer (College Point, NY) Assist in rsch, dsgn & dvp s/ware prgms for integrated modeling project & provide IT support to terminals users. Req. BS in Comp Engg or related field. Send resume to Dasny Mechanical Inc., 112-20 14th Ave., College Point, NY 11356
Computers: Associate, Quantitative Developer, BlackRock Solutions Group, sought by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. in NY, NY to perform quantitative s/ware dvlpmt w/in front office systems under sophisticated enterprise investment mgmt platform. Req's: Master's deg or equiv in Comp Sci, Math., Engg or rltd field & 5 yrs exp performing quantitative s/ware dvlpmt w/in front office systems on behalf of a global fin'l services institution. Prior exp must incl: gathering bus. reqmts; implmtg features to match client needs; proposing solutions to fin'l problems across various segments incl interest rates, credit, foreign exchange, & equity derivatives using mathematical & algorithmic concepts such as Calculus, Linear Algebra, Stats. & Comp Algorithms; & dsgng & dvlpg programs utilizing C/C++, UNIX/LINUX Operating Systems & tools, Perl, & Object Oriented Prgmg. Apply directly through: https://blackrock.taleo.net/careersecti on/BR Exec CS/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en &job=122702 by clicking "Apply Online". Computers: Database Administrator Team Lead (NY, NY) wanted by support services for a company that provides diversified employee benefits. Lead a team of database admins (dvlprs & prgmrs) in WageWorks projects incl dvlpmt & testing of system features using Data Models, along w/Data Integrity testing; manage data warehouse servers & assist w/auditing of d/base, user roles & system security; manage projects involving dvlpmt, Production (OLTP) & Data Warehouse (OLAP) envrmts; training of dvlprs & junior Database Admins; define standards & data architecture guidelines; w/use of Java, JSP, DHTML & VB SCRIPT, analyze & optimize applic performance & perform dsgn integration, reconciliation, & create test plans. Req: Bachelor's deg in Comp Sci & 3 yrs in position of Prgmr or Prgmr Analyst. Send resume to: WageWorks Commuter Services, HR, 1065 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10018 Computers: Sr SW Dvlpr sought by Barclays Capital Services Inc. for its Jersey City, NJ loc. to dsgn, dvlp, test, deploy, mod & maintain PrimeDB Loader App & Perl scripts to maintain Prime-Broker sol for post-trade & real time data. Reqs: Bach's deg or for'n equiv in Com Sci, Com Eng or closely rltd field & 5 yrs post-bac, prog exp as SW Eng, Dvlpr, SW Prgrmr, Tech Analyst, or closely rltd occ. Dem exp must incl perf data storage & manip util Sybase, MS SQL Server, Oracle & Weblogic; gathering & converting user reqs into tech specs for impl in rprting for trade capture, clring, settlement, & data warehousing; & util Java & J2EE to read files & convert XML objects into Java objs for code dvlpment. To apply, please visit http://www.barcap.com/jobsearch & enter ref. #54439. Barclays is an EEO/AA employer.
Banking: Deutsche Bank New York Branch, a global investment bank, seeks a Vice President, Credit Risk Analyst, Credit Risk Management, Latin America in New York, NY to identify, aggregate, evaluate and mitigate risk for credit transactions with Latin American counterparties. Requires Master's degree in Business Administration, or related field or equivalent and 4 years of experience evaluating credit risk for Latin American companies for a global financial institution. Prior experience must include analyzing financial statements, preparing financial forecasts, analyzing market environment and industry drivers, and preparing peer comparison for counterparties, including corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns, domiciled in Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Prior experience must include working with local regulatory requirements to determine effects on credit. Experience must also include working with derivative transactions, syndicated loans, capital market transactions and structured trade finance products. Apply to www.db.com/careers and search by professionals, keyword DP0903.
Computers: Apps Dev Tech Specialist sought by Citibank, N.A. (Long Island City, NY), to lead dvlpmt tms dvlpng systm dsgn prgrms & qlty stndrds for Citi's Concierge s/w app. Reqs: Bach (or frgn equiv) in Elec Eng, Computer Sci or cls rltd fld & 3 yrs exp in pos or as Prog Anlyst or rltd. Exp must incl utlzng PeopleTools & PeopleSoft pltfrms to cstmz & prog rtl bnkng s/w apps; usng XML & Java to anlyz, dsgn, & implmt tech enhncmnts. Mst possess knwlg of bnkng or fin bsd on edu or exp. Resumes to: Citigroup Recruiting Dept., 14000 Citicards Way, Jacksonville, FL 32258. Ref PF/ADTS/KR. Direct apps only. Computers: Specialist Platform sought by Sapient (NY, NY) to manage IT projs. Req BS in Engrg, Math, CS, Biz, Finc, rltd + 6 yrs exp. Req hands-on implntn exp w/ WCM pkgs incl Day CQ, Autonomy Interwoven TeamSite & Drupal; strng ldrshp & cmctn skls to effctvly mg clnt accts & mult-tsk teams; exp w/ Java, Perl, JSON/Web 2.0 dvlp & Oracle DB. Reqs trvl to Sapient sites & client sites. In lieu of BS, ER w/ accept educ equiv eval by qual eval svc or in accord w/ 8 CFR Section 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(D). Req perm US wrk auth. Apply @ www.jobpostingtoday.com ref 1560 Computers: Senior Programmer Analyst sought by Thomson Reuters (Markets) LLC (NY, NY) to design & develop .NET windows services that read data from multiple data sources & generate XML files that could be delivered to archivers/customers. Req. Bachelor's degree (or foreign equvt) in Comp Sci, Inform System, Physics or related + 3 yrs software development & application software design exp to include other special requirements indicated in the job posting on our company website. To Apply go to http://careers.thomsonreuters.com and Ref to: REQ TEC00025147. No calls. Computers: Programmer Analyst. Openwave Computing, LLC (New York, NY and various unanticipated locations throughout U.S.) For a full description of the job opportunity, including the job description, related occupation, education and experience requirements please refer to job posting @ www.openwavecomp.com/company careers.html. Must have proof of legal authorization to work in U.S. Email resume & salary history/reqmts to hr@openwavecomp.com.
Banking: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. seeks an Assistant Vice President, Options Bookrunner in New York, NY to perform risk and trade valuation of Global Rates products. Requires Master's degree in Accountancy or a related field, or foreign equivalent, and 2 years work experience in financial services industry performing balance sheet analysis, and Profit & Loss and risk calculations; and using Excel VBA to automate processes. Experience must include working with Fixed Income and Derivatives financial products; producing financial reports; implementing internal financial controls; performing interest rate derivative valuation utilizing models; and providing ad hoc management reporting. Experience must also include at least one year of experience providing P&L attribution to satisfy Federal Reserve regulations for mediation. Apply to www.db.com/careers and search by professionals, keyword GC1223.
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Computers: Sr. Software Developer (NY, NY) Analyze, dsgn, dvlp, implmt & troubleshoot risk analysis & calculation, system for hedge fund industry using Java, J2EE, & PL/SQL. Implmt Geneva & Paladyne Fund Accounting system, & port historical data to new system. Dvlp data warehouse (Data Access Layer) for reporting purpose that fetches data from multiple sub systems into a single call. Perform optimizing (use of system optimization techniques), performance monitoring, & tuning of applics. Create Relational Data models for proposed applics. Dsgn, dvlp & code: (1) multiple replication d/base servers; & (2) concurrency control & referential integrity constraints for migrated data sources. Prep time & cost estimates for new projects. Document system reqmts & system dsgn as per SDF/CMM level 5 stds. Req: Bachelor's or equiv deg in IT/IS/Comp Sc/Engg (Mech/Comp/ Electrical/Electronics/Telecomm) or related + 5 yrs progressive exp in duties. Contact: HR, Gravitas Technology Services LLC, 475 Park Ave South, 32nd Fl, NY, NY 10016.
Computers: System Architect, Identity Mgmt (AVP) for Barclays Capital Services Inc, Jersey City, NJ. Req Bach. in Comp Sci, Comp Eng or rltd & 5yrs exp. Must have exp w/ Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, Informatica, Adobe Flex & financial svcs. Apply www.barcap.com/jobsearch (Ref#54558). Barclays is an EEO/AA employer.
Executive Director (Head of LatAm Equity Syndicate Desk), (Manh, NY) Santander Investment Securities, Inc seeks Exec. Dir. to head Lat Am equity syndicate desk. Collaborate w/parties w/in & outside firm to ensure timely origination & execution of equity transactions in Lat Am region. Set up effective internal procedures at firm, legal/compliance, create & maintain business plans & manage junior resources. Strategize &/or alignment w/ corp. goals. Manage staff of 4. Req. MBA plus 7 yrs exp. in Finance, or Inv. Banking w/ 4 yrs exp. structuring equity offerings for Lat Am clients. NASD Series 63 & 7. Email resume to sfernandez@santander.us
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP Associate, Bus Valuation position available in New York, NY. Test acctg issues, including goodwill impairment analyses & perform valuations of bus entities, intangible assets & common & preferred stock in accordance w/ Fin'l Acctg Standards Board (FASB) guidance. Determine whether tangible or intangible assets & goodwill have been impaired in accordance w/ Fin'l Acctg Standard (FAS) 142 & Acctg Standard Codification (ASC) 350 Intangibles Goodwill & Other. Assist clients w/ mergers, acquisitions & dispositions, tax planning & compliance, fin'l reporting & strategic planning. Position req Bach deg or foreign equiv in Bus Admin, Econ, Fin, Acctg or related field + 1 year of exp in job offered or as Audit Senior or related position. 1 year of exp must include: Assisting w/ SEC fin'l reporting for Annual & Quarterly filings & quarterly fin'l supplement; Performing audits of fin'l statements in accordance w/ Generally Accepted Acctg Principles (GAAP); Determining whether tangible or intangible assets & goodwill have been impaired in accordance w/ Fin'l Acctg Standard (FAS) 142 & Acctg Standard Codification (ASC) 350 IntangiblesGoodwill & Other; Performing analytics of fin'l statements & fin'l ratios, including IRR calculations & analysis of cash flow statements; Testing acctg issues, including goodwill impairment analyses & performing valuations of bus entities, intangible assets & common & preferred stock in accordance w/ Fin'l Acctg Standards Board (FASB) guidance; Evaluating annual & quarterly valuations of investments, including Income Approach & Mkt Approach in accordance w/ Acctg Standard Codification (ASC) 820, Fair Value Measurements & Disclosures; Utilizing Capital IQ to analyze & evaluate fin'l metrics in selecting guideline companies considered in Mkt Approaches; Performing acctg estimates, including fairvalueacctg estimates&relateddisclosure audits; & Assisting w/ drafting scoping & findings memos, including preparing tables, exhibits, charts & conclusions drawn from fin'l, operational & industry analyses. Any suitable combination of edu, training or exp is acceptable. M-F, 40 hrs/wk. Competitive sal & bnfts packages. To apply, visit us at http://careers.deloitte.com/ jobs/eng-US. Scroll down & enter XTSI13FA1012NYC1 as Keyword & click Search jobs. No calls please. Deloitte LLP & its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. About Deloitte Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, UK private company limited by guarantee & its network of member firms, each of which is legally separate & independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for detailed description of legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited & its member firms. Finance-Quantitative Strategist (New York, NY): Formulate & apply mathematical modeling & other optimizing methods to design pricing algorithms for derivatives traded by commodities business. Build commodities & commodities index quantitative models & trading tools. Develop & maintain quantitative infrastructure for commodities & commodities index. Support commodities & index trading & structuring desks in deal pricing & risk analysis. Perform functional programming utilizing C++ & F#. Req's PhD degr plus 1 yr exp. Please forward your resume, including salary history to Credit Suisse, P.O. Box MT-90, 71 Fifth Ave, 5 Fl, New York, NY 10003. No phone calls. Finance HEAD OF CIB USA REGULATORY RELATIONS (Manhattan, NY): Resp. for overseeing/directing Reg. Relations area for Corp. & Invest. Banking USA for U.S. branch of foreign bank, FDIC ins. bank & Sec. 20 broker dealer, & serving as primary point of contact on operational, bus. and reg. risk and policy matters. U.S. and int'l travel. Req.: MBA or Master's in Banking or Finance & 2 yrs. Exp., Series 7 license. Please apply to Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. directly online through https://careers-bbvany.icims.com/ jobs/64572/job
Financial: Vice President, Commercial Real Estate-Hospitality sought by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in NY, NY to be responsible for asset-managing and ultimately resolving and/or liquidating a diverse portfolio of hospitality real estate assets, including debt and equity positions Req: Master's degree or equivalent in Finance or a related field and two (2) years of experience performing advanced financial analysis and modeling for the hospitality industry, including investment analysis for both debt and equity positions, valuation of hospitality real estate including conducting leveraged DCF analyses, performing hospitality operations and performance analysis, and forecasting as well as establishing group-wide financial models and procedures for valuation and investment analysis. Prior experience must include strategic planning for both debt and equity positions, management of third party service providers, contract negotiation, presenting investment analysis and strategic plans to senior management, utilizing MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, supervising and/or managing junior co-worker(s), as well as day to day asset management, including operations and capital expenditure oversight. Submit resumes by email to LBHIrecruiting@lehmanholdings.com and indicate job code SG12NYT. EOE/M/F/D/V.
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Computers: Solutions Analyst (NYC & client sites in US). Condct bus analysis & identify s/ware solutions/rqmts, test & documnt for benefits admin dvlpd in Java/JSP. MS + exp. Resume to HR Dept, Vitech Systems Group, 401 Park Ave So, NY, NY 10016. Computers: Email Strategy Manager (NY, NY) develop email strategies & implement design; reqs: BS Comp Sci or Elec Eng + 5 yrs post-BA progressively responsible experience. Mail resume to Attn: HR, XL Marketing Corp., 185 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10016 Computers/IT: Sr. Project Manager, Delivery Effectiveness (Moody's Shared Services, Inc., NY, NY) Coordinate process management & delivery of IT projects to improve systems supporting Moody's financial ratings & information services. Analyze user requirements, procedures & problems to identify changes to current IT systems & processes. Gather requirements, review computer system capabilities, workflow & scheduling limitations to define scope of IT projects & deliverables in accordance with the Unified Process. Formulate metrics to analyze performance using project portfolio management tools such as Quest Software Stat for PeopleSoft, MKS Integrity, & IBM Rational ClearQuest. Coordinate on- & off-site development teams & prepare service level agreements & objectives to support key business processes & tools. Report project performance & metrics to senior management & stakeholders. Design, implement, & monitor project tracking processes & tools using Oracle Primavera P6, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, & Microsoft SQL Server software. Rqmts: Master's degree in Technology, Telecommunications Management or a related field & 3 yrs. of exp. as Associate Project Manager, Business Analyst, or in a related occupation involving IT process management. Full term of exp. must include Oracle Primavera P6, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server, & MKS Integrity; & project management & requirements analysis using the Unified Process. Project Management Professional certification required. Please submit resume through www.moodys.jobs, Job Ref. 12372 or by mail to Moody's Shared Services, Inc., Attn: HR Box 28 - 12372, 7 World Trade Center at 250 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10007. EOE M/F/D/V. Construction: GC seeks Super & PM for gov't work. Min 10 yr exp. Excl. salary & benefits Fax res 347-462-4001 Email careers@lanmarkgc.com Creative Director (NY, NY) - Manage the end to end web design & online branding process for multiple consumer travel brands. Research, design, plan, wire-frame, develop & evaluate new products by translating requirements or strategic business objectives into deliverables. Consult w/product managers/owners & marketing team to identify opportunities for new products/services & enhancements. Conduct A/B testing for various design. Use various technologies such as Microsoft Project and Visio, C++, .net, Visual Sudio Team System/Scrum process, XHTML/HTML5, Creative Suite, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, XML, SQL-MS SQL, Google Analytics, Omniture, ClickTale, Enterprise Marketing Management. Req's supervision of team members. To apply, mail resume to: Fareportal, Inc., 213 West 35th St., Ste. 1301, NY, NY 10001. ATTN: HRM-CD Credit Strategy Analyst for Barclays Bank PLC (LIC, NY). Perf adv quant mdling & anls util SAS & SQL prgrmming to facil dvlp of anti-fraud strats for credit card ptflos. Reqs: Master's in Stats/ Math/Econ/rltd quant fld & 1 yr exp in credit risk or fraud analytics. Full term of exp to incl perf adv mdling & anls using decision tree mdling & adv SAS/SQL prgrmming; perf risk anls incl Risk & Reward anls; & dvlp & automating perf tracking reports using SAS/SQL & VBA prgrmming. Visit http://www. joinbarclays.com, click on More Openings' & search for Job #79333. Direct apps only. DENTIST- Progressive Community Heath Center seeking a NYS Lic. Dentist to provide routine preventive/general dental care. Competitive Salary. Benefits package. Bilingual (English/ Spanish) preferred. Fax resume to: 718-991-1268 or email jobs@urbanhealthplan.org EOE Dentist PEDIATRIC DENTIST P/T & F/T. Northern Westchester, Busy Managed Care Office, high compensation & travel reimburse. email: tmontegutti@aadentalmail.com
Designer: Concept Designer sought by LF USA in NY, NY to execute seasonal sweater & knit dsgn dvlpmt process from concept to delivery for a major retailer by creating & executing trend, yarn & color research & appropriate dsgn concepts that meet the retailer's needs & drive sales, ensuring timely execution of each stage in the process. Reqs: Bachelor's deg in Fashion Design. 4 yrs exp in apparel dsgn incl sweater construction, knitting techniques, gauges, stitch, yarns/fabrics/trims, silhouettes & color ways, manufacturing & print. Exp using PLM tools, Microsoft Office, Adobe products, CAD. Mail resumes to: Kinga Marcjanik, HR, Attn: Job Code: KSCD, LF USA, 1359 Broadway, NY, NY 10018.
ENGINEER Opening at Search Retargeting firm in Manhattan for Senior Analytics Engineer to: 1. Use Natural Language Processing techniques to clean, normalize, disambiguate, paraphrase and synonymize search data. 2. Use Machine Learning and Data Mining supervised learning algorithms and techniques to classify search data into a hierarchy of industry specific vertical categories and to identify segments with greatest expected value for improving effectiveness of online advertising campaigns. 3. Use Machine Learning and Data Mining unsupervised learning algorithms and techniques to cluster search data into segments by the expected value of search keywords to improve effectiveness of online advertising campaigns. 4. Use Machine Learning to create general predictive models for the expected value of search data based on attributes such as keyword phrase, data source and time of search. 5. Use Hadoop to implement largescale Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms including the Max Entropy Model and the Conditional Random Field model in order to efficiently handle 100 million unique keyword phrases and billions of monthly search and ad serving events. 6. Use C++, Java, Python, SciPy and NumPy to implement Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms making certain to choose correct technologies based on performance requirements. 7.Tune performance of computationally intensive code operating over billions of data elements. 8. Use Pig and Hive to build processing pipelines in Hadoop for log files and semi-structured data sources such as log files and web pages. 9. Use Hive to perform ad-hoc queries in Hadoop on semi-structured datasuch as log files and web pages. 10. Use regular expressions in Perl to extract structural information from semi-structured data such as log files and web pages. 11. Use A/B testing to evaluate the performance of Machine Learning models. 12. Maintain operational robustness of systems with increasing scale to internet level. Requires Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and one year experience. Forward resume to Code RB78, Magnetic Media Online, 311 W. 43rd Street, Suite 1406, New York, NY 10036 Engineer II Mechanical/HVAC needed by AECOM Technical Services in New York, New York, responsible for collecting facilities, operations, utilities, and other data needed to develop energy projects and/or make efficiency improvements or to prepare energy analysis of facilities or systems. Requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in mechanical engineering and 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience preparing and executing project studies and reports for capital improvement projects, energy conservation projects and water conservation projects. Experience therein to include: developing detailed models for cycle evaluation and optimization for cogeneration plants, HVAC systems, boiler plants, chiller plants and control systems, considering both financial and technical aspects, and industry relevant project procurement, scheduling, construction management and supervision experience. To apply, mail resume to Dajuanna Doss, HR Specialist, AECOM, 4840 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA 23060. Refer to Job #405-N. Engineer, Sr. Software: Design, code, refractor, script & test for Java/J2EE s/w & design & dev. enhancements to our Java-based Merchant Accounting Sys. Worksite: Long Beach, NY. Resume to Planet Payment, Inc., HR, 100 W. Commons Blvd, #200, New Castle, DE 19720 'EOE M/F/D/V' Engineering Actimize Inc. New York, NY. Presales Engineer: Perform sales engineering to explain features & benefits of Actimize SW solutions products in comparison to competitive products, using technical knowledge & expertise in products. Master's degree in Comp. Sci., Eng., Info. Systems Technology, or rel. (incl. Bus. Admin. w/ concentration in Info. Systems/ Technology) + 3 years eng. or marketing exp. in financial crime industry and/or Bus. Intelligence/ Data Warehousing industry. Will accept Bachelor's + 5 yrs. Travel w/ sales team to visit potential customers for tech-product demonstrations & meetings 40%-50%. Send resume to Kathy Quigley, HR Manager, Kathy.Quigley@actimize.com Attn: PENY-12. No phone calls. Engineering Application Specialist (Clifton Park, NY) to provide technical support on AcuSolve & AcuConsole. MSME & 6 mo.exp asAppSpecialist/TechSupport Eng incl CFD, testing & validation of AcuSolve & AcuConsole. Send resume & salary reqs. to Altair Engineering at: jobs@altair.com (Ref. code AS-NY). No calls. EOE.
Family Engagement Specialist Spring Valley Training/technical assistance. Telecommuting position w/travel, in support of OCFS initiatives through the Research Foundation of SUNY. Valid NY State Driver license. EEO/AA- Full listing: www.bsc-cdhs.org. By 10/19/12.
Finance: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC seeks International Country Market Specialist (Korea) in NY, NY to work as partner w/ sophisticated fixed income team to provide wide variety of fin'l & investmt advisory srvcs to clients investing in US & other global mkts w/ emphasis on Korean prospects & clients. Req'ts: Bachelor's in Bus. Admin, Econ, Fin, Commerce, Acctg, Math orrel.fieldorequiv,&2yrsexpproviding fin'l mgmt, strategic, & investmt advisory srvcs to clients in US & in Korea w/ respect to local & global mkt variables on behalf of fin'l srvcs institution; assessing bus. models & strategic positions & dvlpg corporate strategies; bldg & maintaining long-term client relationships; & performing economic analyses incl comparison, gap, sensitivity, & fin'l statementanalysis,&fin'lmodeling. Prior exp must incl 1 yr performing fundamental credit analysis of fixed income securities; conducting issue level & issuer level valuation of High Yield fixed income products; applying acctg standards to eval. income statements, cash flow statements & balance sheets to model & analyze cash flows, leverage, interest coverage & trading multiple metrics; & analyzing capital structure impact & pro-forma fin'l statements of ad-hoc co. announcements, such as debt exchanges & M&A. Series 7 & 63 licenses req'd. Please email your resume to: nyt112750@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V
Designer/Planner (NY, NY) for planning/programming, design/construction of healthcare projects, incl. medical equipment planning/healthcare codes/interior dsgn, using Word/Excel/Powerpoint, Sketch Up, 3D Max, Illustrator & Indesign and Adobe Photoshop. F/T, M-F, 9a-5p. Reqt: Master's or equiv in Architecture & 1 yr exp in job or related jobs. Resume to: Donald Blair Architects, Attn: Helen Mui at dba@dbarch.net Director, Global Strategy & Bus. Dev. (Reed Elsevier, Inc. (LexisNexis Div.), New York, NY). Must hold a Master's or the foreign equiv. deg. in Bus. Admin. or a related field and 3 yrs., of exp. in a consulting or corporate role performing strategic planning & bus. dev., at least 1 yr. of which must have been in the info. svcs. industry creating & implementing bus. strategies & performing M&A to achieve short- & long-term bus. goals. Also req. is 3 yrs. of exp. working with Clevel executives & preparing executive board-level presentations. Must also possess exp. developing & utilizing analytical tools, including Excel, Powerpoint, & Valuation. Domestic & int'l travel of up to 35% is also req. Apply w/resume to: Cleta Greene, Reed Elsevier, Inc. (LexisNexis Div.), 9443 Springboro Pike, Miamisburg, OH 45342. No relo. available. No 3rd party responses. EOE. DRAFTSPERSON FT Exp Draftsman EXPERIENCE IN WOODWORK DRAWINGS, AutoCAD 2009, interpret arch drawings, create shop drawings. Nurit@triestecorp.com Editor, Regulatory Responsibilities: PLC US is looking for an Editor who will: *Use advanced legal and regulatory agency expertise to draft legal updates, practice notes, annotated standardform documents and checklists covering legal developments, regulatory issues, transactions and legal practice. *Analyst current market issues in US and NY state banking/financial services laws and regulations. * Manage direction of regulatory section including developing future publishing schedules and resources. *Assist sales team by participating in sales calls and demonstrating services to potential subscribers. *Assist marketing team by participating in webinars and creation of educational programs. *Quickly and accurately draft and edit articles for Practical Law, The Journal. *Manager and train editors and legal staff as required. Qualifications: Candidates should have at least the following skills and experience: * J.D., LL.B., or foreign equivalent *New York State Bar Admission *6 years experience in the position offered or as a Bank Regulatory Attorney Please apply at: https://uscareerspracticallaw.icims.com/jobs/ intro?hashed=0
Finance: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks Executive Director, US Investment Grade Trading, Fixed Income in NY, NY to trade debt of investmt grade industrial corporations. Trade both bonds & credit derivatives of such co s w/in various sectors, incl Metals, Mining, Paper, Chemicals & investmt grade builders. Req'ts: Bachelor's in Bus. Admin, Fin, Econ, Eng'g, or rel. field or equiv, & 6 yrs credit trading desk exp trading debt, bonds, & CDS & continuously managing risk caused by numerous line items & exposure to various co's for traded co's, incl investmt grade, hedge funds, insurance co's, & mutual funds, on behalf of global fin'l srvcs institution. Prior exp must incl working closely w/ desk research analysts on review of fin'l statements, earnings releases, & forecasts on future plans; analyzing bond inventory, derivative risk, & aggregate positions utilizing quote sheets; analyzing credit risk; & assessing impact of credit news on credit quality of co's. 3 of 6 yrs exp must incl mkt making for clients, incl meeting regularly to discuss investmt options & pitch ideas. Series 7 & 63 licenses req'd. Please e-mail resume to: nyt109686@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V Finance: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks Executive Director, Senior US Interest Rates Swaps Trader, Fixed Income & Commodities in NY, NY to manage mkt-making on dollar interest-rate swaps for pension funds, insurance co's, corporations, banks & hedge fund clients in US, Europe & Asia regions. Provide liquidity, pricing, & execution in Dollar Interest-Rate swaps. Req'ts: Master's in Fin, Math, Eng'g or rel. field or equiv, & 4 yrs exp making markets on Dollar Interest-Rate Swaps for pension funds, insurance co's, corporations, banks, & hedge funds clients to cover US, Europe, & Asia regions, & risk-managing using US government bonds, Eurodollar Futures & Treasury Futures on behalf of a global fin'l srvcs institution. Prior exp must incl hedging interest rate swaps book, dvlpg interest rate swaps trading models, enhancing interest rate swaps technology & risk sys's, & utilizing Excel, Bloomberg, & Reuters. Series 7 & 63 req'd. Please e-mail resume to: nyt112455@msresumes.com. NO CALLS PLEASE. EOE/M/F/D/V Finance- Sr. Quantitative Researcher (NY, NY): Formulate & apply mathematical & quant methods & modeling to develop & implement quant strategies to be used in fund-of-fund portfolios, including idea generation, research & back-testing, optimization & execution. Create, monitor, evaluate & improve quant model-based strategies to manage & hedge risks. Develop & implement macro timing strategies using economic & market variables, financial reports & other databases. Req's Master's degr + 3 yrs exp developing & implementing quant models & quant strategies to be used to construct equity and mutual fund trading strategies & using Matlab, SAS, Morningstar mutual fund databases, hedge fund databases, COMPUSTAT & IBES. Please forward your resume, including salary history, to HR, Permal Asset Management, Inc., 900 3rd Ave., New York, NY 10022. Ref# Y202SQRPAM. No phone calls. Equal Opportunity Employer. Finance-Equity Research Associate (New York, NY): Formulate & apply mathematical modeling & other optimizing methods to identify differentiated data points impacting global automotive industry & publicly traded stocks within that sector. Develop & write equity research reports on specific automotive industry stocks covered, applying knowledge of key variables affecting automotive companies & how stocks trade. Create financial models for automotive companies under coverage, including customized models to meet specific client requests. Develop financial models to calculate market-implied profit expectations through both discounted cash flow & multiples analytical methods. Req's Bachelor's degr plus 3 yrs exp & FINRA Series 7, 63, 86 & 87 licenses. Please forward your resume, including salary history to Credit Suisse, P.O. Box MT-84, 71 Fifth Ave, 5 Fl., New York, NY 10003. No phone calls.
Financial: Associate Director, Senior Financial Engineer (Moody's Analytics, NY, NY). Independently develop, implement & support suite of analytical tools & products utilized by external customers & internal ratings analysts to analyze structured finance securities. Independently design, integrate & test new product features, functions, & performance. Manage cash flow modeling projects to support structured finance securitization teams, including designing custom VBA macros to automate cash flow modeling runs, scripting cash flow waterfalls & conducting quality assurance of financial models for analysis of RMBS, CMBS, Auto ABS, CRE CDOs & CLOs. Rqmts: Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Finance, or Engineering (any field) & 3 yrs. of exp. as Financial Engineer, Financial Modeling Analyst, or in a related occupation. Will also accept a Bachelor's degree in listed fields & 5 yrs. of progressive post-baccalaureate exp. Full term of exp. must include developing analytical tools, scripting cash flow waterfalls, & conducting quality assurance testing of financial models for RMBS, CMBS, Auto ABS, CRE CDO & CLO analysis. Please submit resume through www.moodys.jobs, Job Ref. 12374 or by mail to Moody's Analytics, Inc., Attn: HR Box28 - 12374, 7 World Trade Center at 250 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10007. EOE M/F/D/V. Financial: Associate, Global Account Management (Merrill Lynch-A Bank of America Co.- NY, NY) Optimize Research resource allocation through analysis of revenue & resource consumption data. Reqts: Bachelor's deg or foreign equiv in Bus Admin, Fin., Econ or rel. + 5 yrs exp in job off'd or rel. Must have exp: working w/ Equity Sales & Research in devising global account mgmt & servicing strategies for high impact clients; client & account mgmt incl Broker Votes analytics & the Account review process; resource consumption metrics; advanced Excel modeling; Research Data Warehouse (RDW); working w/ large data sets. Send resume to Merrill Lynch-HR (A Bank of America Co.) 1500 Merrill Lynch Drive (01) Box HRSC-01, Pennington, NJ 08534-4121. Must specify Ref code 8WDMC2. No phone calls. EOE. Financial: Director, Capital & Liquidity Management sought by Barclays Bank PLC for its NY, NY loc. Mng Firm's countrprty cred rsk & client franchs. Utlz knwl of bal sheet mgmt proc to anlyz pricng/rsk proc, build strtgic reprtng infrstrctr & dvlp sol for optimz use of Firm's bal sheet w/in Captl & Liqdty constrnts. Req BA or for. equiv in Econ, Fin or rltd & 7yr exp in pos offd or rltd anlyt role sup deriv trad or struct for glob finl svcs firm. Demonstr exp must incl: Pric valuatn adjmnts for deriv tradng to eval & mng countrprty cred rsk; Utlz knwl of risk mitigtn tech to mng cred rsk exposur; Work w/pric/incent struct; Calc, mng & anlyz VaR; Utilize C#, VBA, SQL & rsk & pric tools to dvlp pric sys to eval cred rsk for Trad desk. To apply visit www.barcap.com/ jobsearch & enter Ref #54179. Barclays is an EEO/AA employer. FINANCIAL Garden City, NY
Financial Quality Assurance Engineer, Structured Analytics & Valuation (Moody's Analytics, Inc., NY, NY). Design & perform comprehensive QA testing for Moody's structured finance portfolio & credit risk analysis software. Investigate, troubleshoot & maintain software performance & usability, & verify underlying financial models & mathematical calculations. Write QA tests in Matlab & C++, verify & debug C++ programs, & design & maintain systems for automated testing of various software functions. Collect, analyze, & organize financial data utilizing Excel, SQL & database tools. Rqmts: Master's degree in Financial Engineering or Mathematical Finance & 1 yr. of exp. as Financial Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer or in a related occupation. Full term of exp. must include verifying structured finance & credit risk models, writing QA tests in Matlab & C++, & processing financial data utilizing SQL & Excel. Please submit resume through www.moodys.jobs, Job Ref. 12373 or by mail to Moody's Analytics, Inc., Attn: HR Box28 - 12373, 7 World Trade Center at 250 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10007. EOE M/F/D/V. Financial: BNP Paribas seeks Vice President (Job Code S126) in New York, NY to help build Wealth Solutions franchise. Identify arbitrage opps & generate trade ideas w/in Equity & Commodity option markets. Requires Master's or equivalent in Finance, Econ or Math & experience in analysis, structuring, marketing & selling of structured products. Email cover letter & resume w/Job Code in subject line to: careers@americas.bnpparibas.com. BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer fully committed to workplace diversity.
Financial: Markit North America, Inc. seeks a VP, Sr. Bond Evaluator for its NYC office to assist in managing the daily bond evaluation desk & evaluate corporate bonds. Master degree in Economics, Finance or related with 1 yr. bond evaluation experience. Send resume with cover letter to K. Drummond at resumes@markit.com Ref #rqrd: Vice President, Senior Bond Evaluator 49337-054.
IT-VP (New York, NY): Establish Program Management Office function across IT organization for DoddFrank/OTC Derivatives Regulatory Reform initiative. Define & establish governance structure across program, covering all IT & business stakeholders. Translate existing regulatory requirements into IT system specifications. Monitor regulatory space & assess impact of new regulations on Fixed Income division's technology platform. Define book-of-work for program & initiate & execute underlying IT projects. Analyze business management function & establish new projects including scope, plans, resourcing, budget & business allocations. Oversee Dodd Frank Swap Dealer & Major Swap Participant Designation & Registration program workstream. Develop & manage end-to-end, cross-product line workstream IT delivery plan. Req's Master's degr plus 5 yrs exp or Bachelor's degr plus 7 yrs exp. Please forward your resume, including salary history to Credit Suisse, P.O. Box MT-74, 71 Fifth Ave, 5 Fl., New York, NY 10003. No phone calls.
IT-AVP (New York, NY): Perform technical analysis, development & implementation of application software & components for accrual calculation engine used to calculate debit, credit & short credit interest based on settlement cash balances in client accounts. Participate in quality assurance & code reviews. Provide second level production support. Design & develop functional and system enhancements. Utilize advanced .NET technologies (C#, remoting & ADO.NET) & relational databases (Sybase & Oracle). Req's Master's degr plus 2 yrs exp or Bachelor's degr plus 5 yrs exp. Please forward your resume, including salary history to Credit Suisse, P.O. Box MT-107, 71 Fifth Ave, 5 Fl, New York, NY 10003. No phone calls.
IT Manager (Manh) - Engage in overall systems analysis and systems specification, preparation, and documentation. Formulate designs, implement, maintain applications, and design and develop new database files, using Tessitura Software in an SQL Server environment. Resumes (no calls) to Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center, 129 W. 67th Street, New York, NY 10023 ATTN: HR. Lead Developer req'd with McKinsey Solutions in NY, NY. Design tech solutions based on proprietary .Net based platform component portfolio & complemented by custom dvlopmts to deliver SL service req's. Identify & tackle critical tech feasibility topics to reduce overall tech risk for project. Assist Program Mgrs. to estimate &/or inform about impl cost of req's at high level. Drive SCRUM process for project execution. Collaborate w/ IT portfolio leadership to org staffing, drive tech choices, leverage best practices. Collaborate w/ infrastructure team to org infrastructure & deployment req's fulfillment. Req's Master's in Comp Science. Minimum 2 yrs application dvlpmt exp either in the job offered or as Sr. Sftw Eng, Sftw Dvlpr. Exp must include: advanced knowledge of .Net framework; corporate webcommerce-level multi-tier & service oriented architectures; Silverlight, WCF, SQL Server, & C#; managing & coordinating dvlopmt teams for B2B, eCommerce, & Publishing WEB projects; SCRUM methodology; object oriented analysis & design. Email your resume to CO@mckinsey.com reference Job # NYT1014. No agencies or phone calls please. An EOE. Legal: Counsel for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP (NY, NY) Dvlp firm business plans, bring in new business, & create, build, manage & maintain client relationships. Represent states & companies in investment & commercial arbitration cases. Handle cross-border arbitrations & dispute resolutions. Req Juris Doctor deg or equiv & license to practice in NY, + at least 8 yrs exp as an Associate in the dispute resolution group of a global law firm working w/ int'l disputes involving Latin America. Reqs exp w/ preparing complex pleadings, submissions & correspondence & providing advice to clients in large int'l litigation & arbitration cases involving Latin America in the areas of oil & gas, telecommunication, shipping, insurance, reinsurance, banking & int'l trade. Qualified applicants should send resumes to usahr@freshfields.com & reference Job ID# NM2012.
Legal: Associate Attorney, Banking & Credit (NY, NY). Provide legal services in connection w/ banking & credit matters. Juris Doctor deg or foreign equiv. 4 yrs exp as attorney representing lenders & borrowers in the negotiation & implmtn of bilateral & syndicated domestic & multi-jurisdictional secured & unsecured credit agreements for US & int'l borrowers, incl term & revolving credit facilities, acquisition fin, project fin, asset-based loans & securitizations. Exp must incl representing multinat'l private equity firms in connection w/ Japanese credit deals. Must be licensed to practice law in NY. Send resume to Amy Claydon at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Ave., NY, NY 10017 or AttorneyRecruiting@stblaw.com. LEGAL: Foreign Legal Specialist, New York, NY: assist attorneys in the area of banking & finance law with an emphasis on cross-border legal matters involving France, research French law governing securities & banking sectors, review French regulations, assist with negotiating filings & securities with French authorities, draft & negotiate agreements, work with various B&M offices globally. Must have LLM or foreign equiv + (i) 1 yr (concurrent) exp with cross-border transactions between France & U.S., (ii) 1 yr (concurrent) exp drafting, negotiating, & performing due diligence for agreements related to those cross-border transactions, & (iii) academic or work exp with U.S. securities & financial regulations. Please apply online at www.bakermckenzie.com/careers.
Fund Accounting Associate (State Street Bank and Trust Company; New York, NY): Perform first level reviews of official accounting books & records for funds. Min. req's: Master's in Account., Fin., Econ. or rel + 1 yr exp. in accounting or rel. field. Will accept Bach. in fields listed + 5 yr exp. in accounting or rel. field. Exp. must incl. 1 yr in hedge fund auditing & hedge fund admin. State Street Job ID: 65992. To view full job description & to apply to this position, visit statestreet.com/careers. Enter Job ID in KEYWORD search field. An EOE. IT: MarkitSERV, LLC seeks an AVP, Application Support Engineer for New York City office to be part of the Engng Srvcs global team that provides technical support across the suite of MarkitSERV products. Must have a BD in Comp. Sci, Sci/Eng. or equiv. or rel. and 2 yrs of exp. Exp. in appl. support and raising development bugs. Exp.with SQL spec. on Oracle, incl. stored procedures and complex joins, and UNIX skills, incl. good scripting exp. Send resume w/co. ltr to K. Drummond at resumes@markit.com. Ref. # rqd when responding: AVP, Application Support Engineer 49337-151 IT: The Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America seeks a User Acceptance Test Analyst in NYC to participate in all softw. testing; work w/Ops. Devel. & Testing Specialists to ensure accuracy of test plans; identify test strategies & ensure test coverage; assist Devel. Specialists in estimating efforts for scheduling tests; create & review test plans & facilitate test design, devel. & execution. Reqs. BS or equiv. in CS, CIS, Engg., Math or Physics +5 yrs of user acceptance testing exp. or MS + 3 yrs same exp. Apply online: https://jobs-guardianlife.icims.com/ jobs/7106/user-acceptance-testanalyst/job.
IT Constratus LLC seeks full-time IT Implementation Analysts in Basking Ridge, New Jersey to implement strategic & tactical telecom projects. Require Master's in IS, CS or directly related tech field & 1 yr prof IT consulting exp driving cross-functional teams incl business & systems analysis in wireless telecom industry incl work w/ Microsoft Suite, IT risk management & proj mgmt. Resumes: Constratus, L. Donahue, 1 Huntington Quadrangle, # 1S02, Melville, NY 11747
KPMG LLP invites you to explore the following dynamic career opportunities available in New York, New York. We are seeking candidates for manager positions. This position requires a master's degree from an accredited college or university or foreign equivalent in engineering (any), telecommunications and network management, computer science, information systems, business administration, finance, accounting or a related field plus two years of experience in the offered position or in a related occupation or a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent plus five years of experience in lieu of a master's degree plus two years of experience. Qualifications must include two years of experience providing SSAE 16 services including delivery, planning, and day-to-day execution of SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 reports in accordance with AICPA guidelines for a variety of industries; researching and pursuing engagement opportunities related to services of emphasis, and IT areas including information security, business continuity planning, systems integration control, e-business risk management, and project risk management; providing IT attestation and financial statement audit support through identification, evaluation, testing, and documentation of IT application controls, IT dependent manual controls, and GITCs in accordance with audit methodologies and utilizing automated audit tools and software including Microsoft SharePoint, ADT, and Groove Virtual Office to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services; providing AUP services including assisting clients with SIG and coordinating, evaluating, and testing FISAP for global credit card and electronic payment services clients; providing detailed process analysis, data flow diagrams, and risk assessments during information systems business process reviews for a variety of industries with a focus on credit card and electronic payment services and customer loyalty services; and managing audit and attestation engagements in financial services, broker-dealers, banking, credit card and electronic payment services, customer loyalty services, and REITs industries including audit planning, direction and coordination with local and global audit teams, proposal development, budget management, client relationship, and resource requirements. Any suitable combination of education, training, or experience is acceptable. Apply online at http://www.kpmg.apply2jobs.com and type requisition number 33553 in the keyword search box. Should you have any difficulty in applying for this position through our website, please contact us-hrscatsadmin@kpmg.com for assistance in the application process. KPMG offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. No phone calls or agencies please. KPMG Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. KPMG maintains a drug-free workplace. 2012 KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and the U.S. member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (KPMG International), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. Manager of Operations sought by Computech International, Inc. (Great Neck, NY) Supv production, assembly & quality control of all tactical & industrial comp. system projects for clients, incl various US & foreign governmental orgs./ministries, & US & foreign military; manage projects from start to completion; resp. for enterprise resource planning as well as inventory mgmt. Master's deg in Comp Sci & 2 yrs work exp (before or after Master's deg) in managerial pos in operations reqd. Send res. to: Computech International, Ref: EC12, 525 Northern Blvd, Ste 102, Great Neck, NY 11021. Market Research Analyst sought by Pharmacy (Bronx, NY) to gather data on competitors & analyze their prices, sales, and methods of marketing & distribution. Collect & analyze data on customer demographics, preferences & needs to identify potential market & product in high demand. Monitor industry statistics and follow trends in trade literature. Design marketing strategies focusing on healthcare providers & direct consumers by maximizing the ROI for each particular marketing campaign. Mail resumes to Dipna Rx Inc., 2688 Third Ave., Bronx, NY 10454 MARKETING Seeking Data Programmer & Analyst to program/ manage online surveys & analyze market research data. newyork@b2binternational.com
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EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF LONG ISLAND Reports directly to the CEO. CPA and high-level financial prof'l w/supervisory exp & working knowl of excel. Among other responsibilities, the CFO will maintain relationships with banking vendors and supervise IT staff. Exp working with not-for-profit preferred; OPWDD & OMH a plus. Please send resume, with "CFO" in subject to:
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or Fax: 516-908-6161 www.EFLI.org EOE Financial Controller sought by Barclays Services Corp. for its NY, NY location. Duties: Analyze accting records & financial info for various entities, incl real est & comm lend entities. Reqs: Bach deg (3 or 4 yr) or for'n equiv in Accting, Finance, or rltd field, & 5 yrs of prog, post- bac exp as a Controller, Finance Mgr, Audit Mgr, Acctant, Auditor, Audit Assoc, or rltd. Dem exp must incl prep'ing/reviewing fin stmnts, eval'ing trans, & reviewing proper recording of mjr trans in accord with US GAAP & IFRS; ensuring data integ & flows from sub ldgrs using SAP; & recruiting, mnging & training subord team mmbrs. To apply, please visit http://www.barcap.com/jobsearch & enter ref. #54279. Barclays is an EEO/AA employer. Financial: Vice President (NY, NY): Plan, org & monitor mid-sized & lrg projects rel to corp change initiatives that impact major bus & funct, qual & timeliness of prods & svcs & finl perf. Reqts: Master's degree or foreign equiv in Fin, Bus Admin or rel + 3 yrs exp in job offd or rel. Will accept pre-or post- Master's deg exp. Must have exp w/counterparty risk or assoc risk mgmt in cap mrkts; working in lrg & complex finl institutions; dealing w/cap mrkts & risk mgmt; US & Int'l bkng, incl. cap mrkts & counterparty regulatory reqts, incl. Basel II & Basel III. Send res to Bank of America N.A.; 1500 Merrill Lynch Drive (01) Box HRSC-01, Pennington, NJ 08534-4121. Must specify Ref code: #8E6SX7. No phone calls. EOE. Financial: BNP Paribas seeks Vice President (Job Code S127) in New York, NY to support senior team members w/structuring, execution & closing process for non-recourse debt financings for energy & infrastructure assets across LatAm and Caribbean. Requires Bachelor's or equivalent in Bus Admin, Finance or Econ & experience managing due diligence of project finance transactions in bond or bank markets. Email cover letter & resume w/Job Code in subject line to: careers@americas.bnpparibas.com. BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer fully committed to workplace diversity. Financial: Murex North America, Inc. seeks Senior Financial Consultants in NY, NY to work w/our clients throughout the whole development lifecycle, incl pre-sale, system presentation, installation, implementation, training, updates, etc. Reqs: Bach deg or equiv in Comp Sci, Info Tech, Fin, Engnrng or rltd field + 5 yrs of exp working in global fin'l software. Prior exp must include XML, XSL, Unix & SQL. In the alternative, employer will accept a Master's deg in the above-mentioned fields & 1 yr of exp. Submit resumes to J. Romanillos, Murex North America, Inc., 810 Seventh Ave, NY, NY 10019. Indicate code GRJ9612NYT.
IT TT Technologies Inc. seeks exp'd Masters/Bachelors/foreign equiv. as Programmer Analyst (TTPA12): SQL Server, Teradata, Business Intelligence. Resumes: HR, 43-14 Main St, 3rd Floor, Flushing, NY 11355. Unanticipated worksites thru out U.S. IT SV IT Inc. seeks exp'd Masters/Bachelors/foreign equiv. as Programmer Analyst (SVPA12): SQL Profiler, PL/SQL, SSRS, SSIS. Resumes: HR, 43-06 Main St, 3rd Floor, Flushing, NY 11355. Unanticipated worksites thru out U.S. Information Technology Programmer Analyst - BSCS or equiv. 2 yrs of exp. in Data Modeling, Cognos Suite, Oracle and Informatica. Job Loc: New York, NY. Send resume to: Infosmart Systems Inc, 5850 Town & Country Blvd, Ste # 1102, Frisco , TX 75034 Interior Designer-F/T Plan design of baths, kitchens & other interiors. Confer w/ client. Research / render design ideas as drawings, blueprints using AutoCad & kitch & bth design s/ware . Analyze factors Draw blueprints in 2 & 3 dimensns . Est material reqs, cost, budget. Determ style, color, material, bldg codes. Select plumbing fixtures, cust design wood cabinetry. Coord w/ fabricators/ install team.Bach in Wood Furniture Design or Int. Design. 1yr exp. Res: G.C. Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 12610 89 Ave,Richmond Hill, NY 11418. Interpreter & Translator wanted by medical practice in NY, NY. Must have Bach's deg & speak, read & write in English & Japanese. Works on Sat. instead of Fri. every other week. Resumes to: City Care Family Practice P.C., 160 E. 32nd St, Ste 102, NY, NY 10016, Attn: HR Dept IT-AVP (New York, NY): Develop & maintain structured equity derivatives risk management system for North America & Latin America trading desks to provide valuation, scenario generation & management information systems capability for structured trade management & trade book monitoring. Work on partnering across control & risk workstreams to deliver global regulatory initiatives for Financial Services Authority & Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act across project planning, development, delivery & post-project review phases. Apply knowledge of pricing & risk for structured derivatives & corresponding impact on risk measures & control processes. Utilize quantitative models, Excel, VBA & XML. Req's Master's degr plus 2 yrs exp or Bachelor's degr plus 5 yrs exp. Please forward your resume, including salary history to Credit Suisse, PO Box Y222AVPCSNY, 71 Fifth Ave, 5 Fl, New York, NY 10003. No phone calls.
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In busy Eastside Oncology practice. Exp w/ medical terminology & computer systems including Medical Manager. Benefits & competitive salary provided. Fax CV to: 212-860-3358 Medical Office Looking for MD Internal/family care, Nurse Practitioner, Physiatrist, and Register Nurse. Full time or part time. 917-597-0701
Mortgage Head of Mortgage Credit ResearchPine River Capital Management LP currently has an opening available in our New York City office for a Head of Mortgage Credit Research to develop advanced quantitative models on U.S. residential and commercial mortgage credit performances. Requires Ph.D. or equivalent in mathematics, engineering, or a related field; 3 years related experience; and demonstrated experience with each of the following: mortgage performance modeling experience with a major U.S. financial institution, including mortgage credit performance, home price forecast, and servicer behavior models, and residential mortgage-backed securities valuation systems; in-depth experience with all agency and non-agency mortgage products, their cash flow mechanics and credit performances, and structures of mortgage backed securities and related credit derivatives; and research and writing market commentaries on mortgage credit performance, servicer behaviors, housing market, regulations, and their impact on mortgage products and related trading strategies. Must also have prior work or academic experience with advanced quantitative modeling, including statistical and mathematical modeling, coding algorithm design, and performance optimization. Apply online https://jobs-pineriver. icims.com/jobs/intro No phone calls please. EOE.
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3-5 days. Must be good at C&B & Endo. Medicaid, Insurance & Pvt. Hi earnings. Call 212-569-5300/ Fax 212-544-0435 Designer/Yarn Specialist sought by LF USA in NY, NY to execute seasonal dsgn dvlpmt process, from concept to delivery for a major retailer by creating & executing original, trend-appropriate dsgn concepts that meet the retailer's needs & drive sales, & ensuring timely execution of each stage in the process. Execute dvlpmt of creating & executing yarns to meet the needs of our retailers. Bachelor's deg in Fashion Design. 4 yrs exp in apparel dsgn incl sweater construction, knitting techniques, gauges, stitch, yarns/fabrics/trims, silhouettes & color ways, manufacturing & print. Exp using PLM tools, Microsoft Office, Adobe products, CAD. Mail resumes to: Kinga Marcjanik, HR, Attn: Job Code: LBDYS, LF USA, 1359 Broadway, NY, NY 10018.
Financial: Vice President, Commercial Real Estate Advisory, Financial Markets Advisory Group sought by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. in NY, NY to execute advisory & risk assessment projects for central banks, large fin'l institutions & internal BlackRock clients w/ focus on federal agencies & central banks, assisting them manage optimally through the credit crisis & providing maximum benefits to the tax payer over time. Req's: Master's deg or equiv in Bus. Admin., Fin, Real Estate Dvlpmt or rltd & 3 yrs exp administering int'l commercial real estate debt fin'l transactions. Prior exp must incl: underwriting mortgages, mezzanine loans, B Notes, CMBS B-Pieces & preferred equity in int'l commercial real estate transactions; performing restructuring, modifications, foreclosures & note sales; analyzing CMBS & CRE CDO structuring & loss projections; utilizing Microsoft Office incl Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project & s/ware applics incl, CAS, CAMS, DealFlow, RockPort, Argus, TREPP, & MapPoint. Apply directly through https://blackrock.taleo.net/careersecti on/BR Exec CS/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en &job=122712 by clicking "Apply Online".
Legal: Tax Attorney (NY, NY) wanted to advise clients on corp, partnership & individual tax matters relating to m&a, reorganizations, restructuring, foreign, cross border & other transactions & tax disputes. Monitor changes in tax law. Draft & negotiate corp & partnership agreements & provide rltd planning & structuring advice. Provide estate planning & income tax advice. Draft wills & trusts. Advise executors, trustees & estate administrators. JD + 2 yrs of exp. reqd. Send resume to: N. Gore, Zukerman, Gore, Brandeis & Crossman, LLP, 11 Times Sq, 15th FL, NY, NY 10036. CNC Machinist NYC Area. Exp req Set and up program CNC lathe. 718-728-6800 or cell 516-241-0101 gt@gtmachinetool.com Mgment. Analyst(s) NYC, NY. Provide focus & drive in the execution of all customer service rel. matters to a strategic acct. customer. Identify, inform, & wk w/ the acct. team on sales opportunities. Req. exp. w/ fin. industry, policies, regs. & RSA Adaptive Authentication Prod. May req. travel to various, unanticipated sites throughout the U.S. Mail resume to- ATTN: Job Code 97813BR, EMC Corp, 80 South St., Mailstop 1/C-5, Hopkinton, MA 01748 (Include Job Code 97813BR on resume/cvltr). EOE.
Mrtge Loan Off Trainee for 50-state chartered bank. 1-3 yrs sales exp, exc phone skills, motivated. Bnfts, 401K Call 973-432-0184
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NURSE - Administrative Progressive Community Health Center seeking a NYS Licensed RN to oversee the Risk Management and Safety Dept. Review and rank unexpected events and report data. Bachelor's degree and RN licensed req'd. Bilingual (English/Spanish). Competitive salary and benefits. Fax resume 718-991-1268 email jobs@urbanhealthplan.org EOE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST Expanding UES Orthopedic practice seeking full time Occupational Therapist or CHT.Excellent salary and benefits. Fax CV: 212-486-8334. Pharmaceutical: Analytical Scientists & Analytical Chemist sought by Invagen for its Hauppauge, NY loc. Analytical Scientist: Research & dvlp analytical methods & perform QC testing activities; execute lab experiments to support R&D; dsgn & monitor stability prgms; draft & implmt lab SOPs; draft & prep submissions to FDA; apply knowl of broad variety of analytical techniques, etc. Masters deg reqd. Multi pos. open. (Ref: AS). Analytical Chemist: Dvlp, validate & facilitate inter-lab transfer of analytical methods; responsible for analytical method dvlpmt validation; test drug substances, intermediates & raw materials; work w/ advanced analytical eqpmt, etc. Bachelors deg or equiv & 1 yr relevant work exp reqd. (Ref: AC) Mail resume to HR Manager, Invagen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 7 Oser Ave, Hauppauge, NY 11788
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FT Great opp'ty to work for a wellestab , privately owned Pharmacy in Westchester. Flex schedule, comp sal & bnfts & 401K, plenty of support staff.
Fax Resume: 914-779-3973 or Email: ajcrx@aol.com

PHOTOGRAPHER F/T pos for High End NJ based Family Port Studio. Must have Studio exp. 60-90K + benefits. contact peter@kramerportraits.net
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Scientists, Managers & VP sought by Sciegen for its Hauppauge, NY loc. ANALYTICAL SCIENTIST: Analyze organic & inorganic compounds; perform dvlpmt, validations or inter laboratory transfer of analytical methods; draft SOPs; dsgn, eval & monitor stability prgms; work w/advanced analytical eqpmts etc. Mult pos open. Bachelors deg or equiv & 5 yrs relevant exp reqd. QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER: Manage QC chemists/scientists & personnel; dvlp, implmt & maintain QC systems/activities; interact w/mgmt & regulatory agencies etc. Masters deg or equiv & 3 yrs relevant exp reqd (or Bachelors deg or equiv & 5 yrs exp acceptable). QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER: Plan, manage & direct QA activities; provide leadership in establishing & maintaining quality systems in pharmaceutical R&D, manufacturing & testing activities; ensure compliance w/government regs; dsgn & conduct internal audits, inspections etc. Masters deg or equiv & 3 yrs relevant exp reqd. ANALYTICAL MANAGER: Plan, manage & direct analytical R&D activities; dvlp analytical method validation techniques; prepare SOP; provide technical expertise to sr mgmt; assist in training scientists/chemists; ensure compliance w/cGMP guidelines & FDA regs etc. Masters deg or equiv & 3 yrs relevant exp reqd. VICE PRESIDENT: Plan & direct formulation dvlpmt & analytical method dvlpmt; plan & manage project activities; apply statistical methodologies; provide departmental leadership & strategic direction; effectively manage resources; mitigate all project associated risks etc. Masters deg or equiv & 5 yrs relevant exp reqd. Mail resumes to HR Mgr, Sciegen Pharmaceuticals Inc., 20 Davids Dr., Hauppauge, NY 11788.
Sr. Actuarial Associate (NY, NY): Execute quarterly direct marketing campaign profitability projection & review using macro programming in Excel, extend campaign profitability modeling & measurement to the Life & Travel lines & the U.S. region, & adopt capital management metrics for each line & region. Extend risk-adjusted profitability metrics to individual customer levels through actuarial analysis & statistical & predictive modeling of capital requirements on profit & loss (P&L). Provide guidance & expertise on sponsor business arrangements & assist on work for the direct marketing product pricing model. Reqs Master's degr + 2 yrs exp. Passage of at least four actuarial exams under the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) or Society of Actuaries (SOA) is also required. Mail resume, including salary history to Donna Slaughter, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., Ref# MT-AIG-15, 180 Maiden Lane, NY, NY 10038. No phone calls. SUPERINTENDENT Working superintendent for 50-unit Financial District condo. Must understand plumbing, HVAC, and electrical systems, and have ability to make general repairs. Must supervise renovations and staff. Minimal porter duties. Must be able to communicate with residents, staff and managing agent. Standpipe and boiler licenses, 5 years experience required. Benefits, non-union, no apartment. Fax resume to Chris 212-691-3850 TEACHERS BROOKLYN YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL SEEKS: EXPERIENCED TEACHERS FOR THE 2012-2013 SCHOOL YEAR Algebra (Grade 9) Trigonometry/ Algebra 2 (Grade 11) (PT) Regents Earth Science (PT) Spanish Language (PT) ************************************ Excellent working conditions, competitive salary, benefits, in a college oriented program. Please E-mail resume preferred to: hfeldman@ydeschool.org Or fax to: 718-676-7011 Mr. Harvey Feldman Principal YDE Teachers:Spec Ed & Cert Assts/Subs Lic Clinical Psychologist (PhD/PsyD) See display ad in Sec IV, Careers in Ed sgolub@leaguecenter.org Teachers College, Columbia University is hiring an Associate/Full professor in Intellectual Disability/Autism. www.tc.edu/provost Technical Deloitte Consulting LLP Consultant,Tech,OraclePackageTech - Siebel position available in New York, NY & various unanticipated Deloitte office locations & client sites nationally. Provide full lifecycle Siebel implementation involving all stages of Software Dvlpmnt Life Cycle. Perform process definition, application design, bus requisitions gathering, gap analysis & process mapping. Identify process improvement areas. Position reqs Bach deg or foreign equiv in Engg (any), MIS, CIS, Comp Sci or related field plus 1 year exp in job offered or as Senior Consultant or related position. 1 year exp must include: Analyzing, designing & implementing CRM Sys's including Call Center; Integrating Siebel applications in webMethods & Informatica environments; Preparing bus requisitions document & mapping requisitions to application functionality & as-is & to-be processes using Siebel, MS Word & Excel; Communicating bus requisitions to tech'l teams for application dvlpmnt using MS Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Live Meeting & Word; Preparing functional design documents listing bus rules, application functionality & Siebel Solution, & as-is & to-be process flow using Siebel & MS Visio, PowerPoint, Word & Excel; Performing need analysis involving generation & maintenance of product catalog & creation of functional design templates for products using MS Access; Supporting functional team in product configuration activities including design of simplified conceptual svc & product models to support order mgmt; Preparing project plans & estimating resources & timelines using MS Project Plan & Excel; Documenting test plan, test strategy, use cases, test scenarios & test scripts, & executing sys testing, sys integration & user acceptance test cases using Quality Center, MS Word, Excel & Siebel; Siebel implementation release mgmt activities to manage code releases in different environments using Siebel, MS Word & Excel; Preparing exec-level weekly & monthly status reports using MS Excel, Outlook & Word; & Conducting tech'l & non-tech'l workshops & lectures using MS Word, Excel & Whiteboard. 80% travel req. Any suitable combination of edu, training or exp is acceptable. M-F, 40 hrs/wk. Competitive sal & bnfts packages. To apply, visit us at http://careers.deloitte.com/ jobs/eng-US. Scroll down & enter XTSI13FC1012TSC1 as Keyword & click Search jobs. No calls please. Deloitte LLP & its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. About Deloitte Deloitte refers to 1 or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, UK private company limited by guarantee & its network of member firms, each of which islegallyseparate&independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for detailed description of legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited & its member firms. Technical Leads: Thomson Reuters (Markets) LLC (New York) seeks Technical Leads, SQL Server (multiple positions available). Responsible for accomplishing all tasks at a principlelevel while setting SQL Server administration technical standards for the application database support team. Req. BS (or foreign equiv) in Comp. Sci. or related area plus 5 yrs exp supporting SQL Server (incl. all 4 versions of 2000, 2005, 2008/2008 R2 Enterprise and Datacenter editions) on Windows (incl. all 3 versions of 2003/ 2008/2008 R2) in 24x7 production environment. For other requirements & to apply please visit our website at http://careers.thomsonreuters.com and refer to Req. No.TEC00025099. No calls. TECHNICAL-Globecomm Systems Inc. seeks a Sr. Director Managed Wireless Services (Hauppauge, NY) to plan, direct, coordinate wireless ops, cellular soft-switches, data cores, BSC/RNC, value-added platforms SMSC, MMSC, STPs. Evaluate engineers/technicians. Prepare bdgts & reports incl. Capex/Opex for fiscal year. Reqd: MS comp sci + 1 yr in switch engineer post. or BS comp sci + 5 yrs in switch engineer post. or AS comp sci + 6 yrs in switch engineer post.; GSM & Ericsson MSC/BSC/HLR/VAS; CDMA network engineering; Capex & Opex budgets. Resumes: https://css.globecomm.com. Trading System Specialist: Admn atmtd trdng sys usd to trd eqts, ftrs, FX; Mng/admin trdng dtbs srvrs & rplctns; Mntn/crt PERL scrpts for pst-trd anlys; Updt intrnl procs/doc; Prvd sprt for ovrs trdng. Reqs: MA in Electrl Eng, CS, Mth or Ba in sme + 5 yrs as SW Eng, Dvlpr or sim dvlpng/mntng/oprtng atmtd, prprtry fncl trdng sys for invstmnt mngr or lrg invstmnt bnk. Skls Rq: PERL dvlpmnt/dbgng; Rltnl dtbs/SQL; UNIX/Lnx; C/C++; Real-time prod sprt; Exp in MySQL dtbs admin; NIS, LDAP, NTP; Undrstndng of grd cmptng; Ntwrkng, TCP/IP. WorldQuant, LLC, Old Greenwich, CT Box# D1060 Times 10108 UNDERWRITER Boutique Commerical Title Agency seeks experienced Sr. National Underwriter. J.D. is preferred. 5+ years experience. Fax: 212-499-0600
VP, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks Vice President, Secondary Trading Desk, Securitized Products Group, Fixed Income Division in NY, NY to draft, review & negot. material contracts, investor communications, disclosure & security documentation. Req'ts: JD or LLM or equivt, & 5 yrs exp advising on legal & regulatory issues for complex consumer-backed structured finance & securitization transactions; assisting in structuring of securities transactions; drafting & negotiating legal docs incl material contracts, investor communications, disclosure & security documentation; negot. issues w/ third parties such as Rating Agencies, accountants, trustees, broker-dealers & investmt/ hedge funds; & interpreting & advising on practical implementation of relevant regulation w/ respect to securities listing processes of applicable jurisdictions on behalf of law firm or global fin'l srvcs institution. Exp must also incl working on transactions in following product areas: CMBS, RMBS, Consumer ABS, CRE CDOs, ABS CDOs, CLOs or derivatives. Resume to: nyt110124@msresumes. com. NO CALLS PLS. EOE/M/F/D/V
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Midtown Law office, steno req, 24 hrs per week. Send resume to 212-594-0814
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ORTHO, PMR/ACU, CHIRO/ACU, & PAIN MGMT. P/T- Perform exams in our offices. NYC, LI, & Newburgh - CV to (f)917-720-4971 or mdresume@optonline.net
PHYSICIAN -FAMILY PRACTITIONER /INTERNIST/ PEDIATRICIAN. Progressive Community Health Center is seeking a NYS lic'd BC/BE Physician. We provide competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits pkg incl mal practice insurance. Bi-lingual Spanish/English pref. Fax res. to: 718-9911268. jobs@ urbanhealthplan.org EOE PHYSICIAN ASS'T - Nurse Practitioner Progressive Community Health Center seeking a NYS licensed PA/FNP to provide primary care to pediatric/ adolescent population in school environment. Fax resume to: 718-991-1268. jobs@urbanhealthplan.org EOE
PHYSICIAN - Full-time position in a Nursing Home in Clifton, NJ. Both long term care & subacute care responsibilities. Immediate opening Please send CV and cover letter to: mevans@njpllc.com
PHYSICIAN ASS'T/Nurse Practitioner Progressive Community Health Center seeking a NYS licensed PA/FNP to provide primary care . Spanish/Eng rqud. Fax resume to: 718-991-1268 or email jobs@urbanhealthplan.org EOE Physician - FT/PT Pediatrician/ Physician Assistant/ Family Practice, ASAP in a pediatric office. Good salary & benefits, could sponsor for green card if have H1 Visa. Fax resume: 718-968-0573. PHYSICIAN BC/BE in Emergency Medicine with two years exp. Will consider Int Med/FM with ER exp. Resume to ebower@sshsw.org or fax 914-637-1259 Physician FT Primary Care MD in Bklyn & Brnx, Bilingl. a Plus Exp. in Prim & Occup Health HR@mobilehealth.net PHYSICIAN Urgent Care Center seeking Family Medicine or Emergency Medicine Physician for FT/PT position in the Bronx. Fax CV to 718-445-5495 PHYSICIAN - FT for nursing home in the Bronx. Competitive salary & benefits. Fax resume: 914-574-5149 or email: ssahgal@essenmed.com Prod Devl Mgr, Edison, NJ Res devel of new equip, mater for med facil. Confer w & prep rprts for physicians, techn, purch staff to deter how to tailor mater, equip to needs. Devise test meth to eval & recom materials for reliable perf. Ensure compli w/ govmnt & safety stand. Visit suppli of equip, mater to gather info. Mast Deg in Materials Sci or Materials Engr or Bio plus 2yrs exp in pos or as researcher req'd. Resume to Oak Tree Surgery Center, LLC, attn: Kim Baik, kim.otsc@gmail.com Project Manager-Video/Audio Production (NYC) Work w/directors & technicians to plan & translate abstract concepts into effective visual form for clients in U.S & Europe. Utilize knowl of PAL, NTSC & rltd technologies to research & dsgn prof'l methodologies for video editors. Bachelor or for. equiv in Performing Arts, Film Studies, or rltd fld & rltd exp. Resume: MediaKite Corp., 247 W 30th St., NY, NY 10001. PROPERTY MANAGER RE Co seeking qualified bilingual (Eng/Span) indiv w/college background & 7 yrs min. exp. in overseeing residential developments. Must be knowledgeable in all major bldg systems. Requirements: Drivers lic. & car (allowance given), ability & exp. in supervising building staff, bldg violation removal, computer proficiency. Exp w/both HUD & city agencies a plus. Email: resumes@krausinc.com or Fax: 718-274-5001 Lic Clinical Psychologist (PhD/PsyD) Teachers:Spec Ed & Cert Assts/Subs See display ad in Sec IV, Careers in Ed sgolub@leaguecenter.org Quality Control Specialist (NY, NY). Examine & eval qlty of diamonds & jewelry products purchased from vendors. Identify & doc qlty problems w/ products returned by customers. Dvlp & dsgn QC stds & systems & monitor performance to ensure optimal QC. Implmt updated QC stds & systems. Gather data on customer needs, preferences, & satisfaction regarding qlty & cost. Conduct data mining, run statistical analyses, & organize statistics. Review & interpret results. Must possess a U.S. Bach's deg or foreign deg equiv in Bus. Admin, Commerce or related field. Employer will accept single deg or any combination of degs, dipls, professional credentials &/or exp determined to be equiv by qualified eval service or in accordance w/8 CFR 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(D). Must possess 2 yrs exp in job offd or as QC Mgr in wholesale diamond/jewelry industry. Send resumes to Mr. Shah, Shah Diamonds, Inc., 590 5th Ave., 9th Fl, NY, NY 10036. Quant Research Analyst: Frmlt/implmt trdg strtgs invlvg intrst rte prdcts; Bld intrst rte crv mdls; Prfrm extnsv mrkt rsrch & exct strtgs bsd on rslts; Spclz in trdg shrtg drtn intrst rte swps; Anlyz trd efcncy & dvlp exctn strtgs; Prfrm & aply optml exctn & lqdty rsrch. Req: Bach's in Math, Fnanc & 5 yrs in job or as Mng Drctr, Asct or smlr frmltg & implmtg trdg strtgs for intrst rte prdcts (USD, EUR, GBP) & anlyzg trd efcncy to dvlp optmzd exctn strtgs. Skls: VBA, Blmbrg, Reutrs. MPG Operations LLC, New York, NY. Resumes to box Box# D1058 Times 10108 Real Estate: Turner & Townsend Ferzan Robbins LLC seeks Senior Project Manager in NY, NY to interface w/project teams of techncl & design consultants, vendors & construction professionals. Req's: Master's deg or foreign equiv in Real Estate, Arch, Engnrng or rltd field + 1 yr of exp in Project Mgmnt & representing clients in mnging constr projects related to the hospitality indust; prep complex project sched, budgets, & conducting quant analysis of a given proj, considering city ordinances & global world trade; reviewing & authoring legal real estate docs & technical contracts; reading & executing arch & engnrng drawings; estab relationships in the construction, design, & real estate indust locally & regionally; assembling & executing strategic plans; dvlping cost models & managing ROI perf; making decisions on behalf of clients; understanding & working w/sophisticated building automation, tech & mngmnt sys; utilizing Msft Offc, Msft Excel, Msft Projects, Auto CAD, & Adobe Acrobat. Submit resumes to jobs@ttfr.com. Indicate code AF9512NYT Real Estate Broker req'd with Newmark in NY NY. Solicit & dvlp RE bus w/East Asia, focusing on Japanese institutions & corps doing business in US & headquartered in the NY area. Execute RE transactions such as lease & building acquisitions & dispositions on behalf of Japanese clients including site selection, fin analysis, mrkt surveys & space tours. Provide beginning to end RE solutions to Japanese clients. Bachelor's in Law or Bus Admin & min 5 yrs exp in commercial RE focusing on Japanese clients. Min 5 yrs exp in job offered or as Mgr/Dir. Exp must include: Disposition of excess owned & leased space by Japanese institutions & corps in the US; RE advisory svc for Japanese inst & corps to open, expand &/or relocate ops in US; RE advisory, asset & eval scs for Japanese-owned US RE invest portfolios; appraise commercial property values, assessing income potential for prospective buyers &/or investors. To apply, fax resume to 6464413448. EOE. RESTAURANT GENERAL MANAGER - An immediate opportunity exists for an experienced professional Email resumes to peter@121group.com
Senior Consultant. IBM Corporation. Somers, New York and various client sites throughout the US. Perform advisory and implementation services to address logistiscs, supply chain, and other business needs throughout the enterprise with the full suite of SAP products. Establish and manage the scope and quality of the Supply Chain and/or Logistics. Provide Technology Solution Development and Integration across the Software Development Life Cycle including requirements, functional specs, design, custom development, integration, testing, and deployment. Provide on-site support of live system to end users. Provide expert level technical support for realization & deployment of the SAP solution specifically in the area of Materials Management (MM). Execute & support the deployment of the SAP solution into sites providing overthe-shoulder support to impacted endusers as well as providing a channel for end-user-facing activities and feedback. Use consulting skills, business knowledge, and SAP packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate technology into the clients business. Required Master's degree or equivalent in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science or related and one (1) year experience as a Senior Consultant, SAP Consultant, IT Manager or related. Resumes to IBM, box #F360, 71 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, NY, NY 10003. Sr Associate Portfolio Manager (AllianceBernstein L.P. New York, NY) Initiate, implement & monitor equity, derivative & currency trades. F/T. Reqs a Bach's degr (or foreign equivt) in Finan or Econ & 5 yrs of exp implement'g invstmnt decisions for indv'l equity accts. All stated exp must incl 2 yrs of the follow'g: emerg'g mrkts portfolio (ptfo) mgmt, incl trade build'g, ptfo monitor'g, cashflow mgmt, performance report'g, & compliance monitor'g; analyz'g ptfo positions to identify deviations from the mdl & to explain discrepancies b/t ptfos; perform'g ptfo implementation, incl construct'g general ptfo guidelines & pitchbooks, analyz'g risk/return tradeoff, & explain'g fundamental invstmnt concepts & how they affect ptfo construction, & pre/post trade compliance; &, manag'g currency incl the use of long & short forward contracts to bring ptfo construction to desired target weights. Resumes: T.Correa, AllianceBernstein L.P., 1345 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10105. Job: NEWJMA SVP, Asset Mgmt Coordination Division Americas Dept NY, NY. Mgmt of structured credit investmt portfolio. Managerial coord. betw Tokyo head office & asset mgmt subsidiary as parent division. Comprehensive departmental mgmt second to General Mgr. 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TIM OBRIEN
By JULIET MACUR and KEN BELSON
Mary
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RICK NEALIS,
the race director of the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington
Mary Wittenberg, the chief executive of New York Road Runners, figured it might be a rough day when she headed to Harlem in late August for the Percy Sutton 5K, a race held on a hazy, humid morning on the cusp of the fall marathon season. Because of the timing of it, I had a feeling it wasnt going to be good, she said. Three days earlier, Wittenberg had announced a new policy for the New York City Marathon Road Runners marquee event saying the organization would no longer transport runners belongings from the start on Staten Island to the finish area in Central Park. The decision was met with ire among many of the 60,000 entrants for the race. Calls and e-mails flooded into the clubs headquarters. An online petition against the change was gaining momentum. And Wittenberg was the target of some of their displeasure. When she stepped to the microphone to greet the 3,000plus runners at the start of the 5K in Harlem, the crowd began to grumble. She defended the decision to discontinue the baggage check, saying the No. 1 complaint from marathoners had
been the long line for bag collection at the finish. By the time she was done, boos were raining down on her. Some runners flashed their middle fingers. Less than two weeks later, Road Runners reinstituted the bag drop, with some modifications. But the issue and the reaction from the runners that morning at a race that began in 2009, under Wittenbergs leadership showed how Wittenberg has been a lightning rod at times during her almosteight-year reign at Road Runners. Since she took over as the chief executive in 2005, Road Runners, a nonprofit corporation, has had extraordinary growth in nearly every category, becoming not only the preeminent running organization in the United States but also a global leader in promoting the sport. Wittenberg, a 50-year-old lawyer, has risen to the top of the sports world with it. A wiry blonde whose worn sneakers are proof that she practices what she preaches, Wittenberg has become the face of road running in the United States and is one of the most influential women in sports worldwide, traveling the globe to atContinued on Page 6
Mary
is a visionary, and its good for her to get out there as the face of the organization and tell people what we stand for.
NORMAN GOLUSKIN,
a board member of New York Road Runners
SURVIVORS MEET
The Cardinals and the Giants staged improbable comebacks to reach the National League Championship Series. Page 2.
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SEEKING CHEMISTRY
Joe Johnson, acquired by the Nets from Atlanta, is eager to shed his reputation for commanding the ball. Page 8.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. One day last week, the Giants defensive linemen were discussing money in their meeting room at the teams training center. Several players had watched a television documentary about seemingly flush athletes going broke after their careers ended, and a casual conversation quickly turned more passionate. At one point, defensive tackle Marvin Austin recalled, it was as if Osi Umenyiora were in church. Umenyiora, a veteran defensive end, was confessor and preacher first telling his teammates about all the mistakes he had made over the years, then imploring them to listen closely so they would never suffer the same fate. Umenyiora locked eyes with Austin, a third-year player, to emphasize his point; he turned to
be sure the young star Jason Pierre-Paul could hear him. To outsiders, the scene would appear incongruous. Justin Tuck, the units captain, is the talker on defense. Chris Canty has a raw, unfiltered side to him, too. They are the emotional souls of the line. Umenyiora, a two-time Pro Bowl selection and All-Pro pass rusher, is supposed to be the sullen one, the standoffish one. He is the one who has continually engaged the team in contract disputes the past few seasons to the point that, by his own account, he became known to fans as the guy on the stationary bike because that is how he often spent training camp workouts. But this label, it seems, is lacking. Countless athletes have said they are misunderstood, generally as a Continued on Page 4
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A Stamp on a Set of Division Series to Write Home About

The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series last October, and in quick succession lost their decorated manager, their superstar first baseman and the greatest pitching coach of the last generation. They reached the postseason, anyway as the last National League team to clinch but entered ON BASEBALL the playoffs without two more stars from their championship lineup. Yet as long as the Cardinals have those birds perched on a bat across their jerseys, it seems, something overtakes them. The birds might as well be vampires. The team without Tony La Russa, Albert Pujols, Dave Duncan, Lance Berkman and Rafael Furcal simply cannot be killed. We dont really classify ourselves as one thing or another, said the new manager, Mike Matheny, when asked last Thursday if his team was especially suited to the postseason. What I would like to say about our team is that weve shown a lot of heart this year. Id say, also, they dont quit, and its hard to beat a team that doesnt quit. The Texas Rangers learned that last fall, and the Washington Nationals did so Friday, in hauntingly familiar fashion. The Cardinals 9-7 victory in Game 5 of their division series was a fitting capper to a rollicking set of division series in which, for the first time, all four pairings went the distance. If you wanted to see one round of great playoff baseball, we got to see it, Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said Saturday. Four series go five games, teams coming back, dramatic home runs. Girardi added, This first round was probably as good as it gets. The San Francisco Giants ad-
For the first time, all four pairings went the distance.
Last year, Freese ripped a game-tying triple just beyond the reach of right fielder Nelson Cruz, who was playing too shallow. This time, Freese checked his swing on a 1-2 slider and eventually walked, just as the preceding hitter, Yadier Molina, had done also with two strikes. With the bases loaded, Daniel Descalso followed Freese with a two-run, game-tying single off the glove of the diving shortstop, Ian Desmond. Pete Kozma drove in the go-ahead runs with a clean single to right, and Jason Motte retired the side in the bottom of the ninth. The Cardinals were still alive, advancing in the playoffs as they try to defend their championship. Girardi, whose team might stand in the way, made sure he knew how it had unfolded. I had actually fallen asleep when it was 7-5, but I hadnt shut the TV off, Girardi said. And my eyes opened up, and I saw it was 9-7, so I had to go back. I DVRd to see. I said, What happened? I looked at it, the game was over, and I closed my eyes and went back to bed. The Cardinals headed to San Francisco, having become the first team to overcome a six-run deficit in a winner-take-all postseason game. The Giants, who had stayed an extra day in Cincinnati awaiting the outcome, headed home. The Yankees and the Tigers, by then, were trying to rest quickly for the American League Championship Series opener. But exhausting first-round series and a compressed schedule were no reason to whine. Thats small stuff to me, Tigers Manager Jim Leyland said. At this time of year, if youre playing and youre complaining, theres something wrong with you. Were still playing, and were in the final four.
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vanced first, denying every comeback effort by the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday to win their third consecutive road game. Later that night, the Detroit Tigers Justin Verlander shut down the Athletics in Oakland, 6-0, and the Yankees C. C. Sabathia nearly matched the feat on Friday with a complete game of his own, eliminating Baltimore, 3-1. Verlanders game was the first time in major league history that a pitcher recorded more than 10 strikeouts in a winner-take-all postseason shutout. Sabathia, who was one out shy of a complete game in the series opener, improved to 7-1 for the Yankees in the postseason. Their performances defined the job of an ace, standing as the division-series equivalents of Jack Morriss 10-inning shutout in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series for the Minnesota Twins. I knew C. C. and Justin were going to do what they did, said Morris, who is covering the postseason for MLB.com. Theyre possibly the only two guys that can do that because what they have is their managers support. Joe wasnt going to take out C. C. there was no way. Ninety percent of guys hed have on the mound hed yank at that point, but not C. C. It was his to lose or win. Justin never got to that point because it wasnt close, but thats the mentality when you get that trust from your manager. Davey Johnson, the Nationals manager, did not have that luxury in Game 5. His best pitcher, Stephen Strasburg, reached his innings limit in September and besides, Strasburg has never pitched a complete game in 45 career starts. Johnson did have a 21-game winner, Gio Gonzalez, on the mound against the Cardinals, but Gonzalez faltered. The Nationals gave him a 6-0 lead through three innings, but by the time he left, after five, the Cardinals had cut the lead in half. Even so, Washington took a 7-5 lead into the top of the ninth, putting the series in the right hand of closer Drew Storen. That is when things turned eerie. Incredibly, all of these factors were precisely the same as they were in Game 6 of the last World Series: David Freese was batting, facing elimination, with two outs, two on and two strikes, trailing by a 7-5 score. And he survived.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES PREVIEW
Past Two World Series Champions Duel for a Chance to Return

By TYLER KEPNER
The league championship series has been part of baseball since 1969, but never before has it featured a matchup like this: the last two World Series champions going head-to-head for the pennant. That is how it stands in the National League. The San Francisco Giants won the title in 2010. The St. Louis Cardinals followed in 2011. Both won their rings by beating the Texas Rangers. Now, one team must top the other for the right to return to the stage, where the Rangers will not be waiting. The Rangers bowed to Baltimore in the American League wild-card game. The Cardinals played in the N.L. version, surviving against the Atlanta Braves, and then mounted their latest breathless comeback to beat the Washington Nationals in Game 5 of their division series Friday. The Giants clinched their division series the day before by winning a third consecutive road game in Cincinnati. Comeback victories. Success on the road. Both teams will be fearless as they enter the N.L.C.S., which starts Sunday. In Game 1, the Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner will face the
Cardinals Lance Lynn, who was last seen allowing the home run to Jayson Werth that ended Game 4 in Washington. Yet make no mistake: Lynn is not an accidental starter. He made the All-Star team in July, and although he went winless in August, he finished with victories in his last four starts. Over all, Lynn was 18-7 with a 3.78 earned run average in the regular season, and he had more strikeouts than innings. Bumgarner, just 23, is already a Giants mainstay, with a sixyear contract extension and eight shutout innings in the 2010 World Series on his rsum. Bumgarner was 16-11 with a 3.37 E.R.A. this season before losing his start in the division series. That was in Game 2, when the Giants looked finished, having lost the first two games by a combined score of 14-2. But the Giants offense stirred to life at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, supporting decent starting pitching and a typically stingy bullpen that Manager Bruce Bochy deploys expertly. Mike Matheny, the Cardinals rookie manager, has a similarly wide array of weapons to use from the bullpen, including the
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second-half additions Edward Mujica and Trevor Rosenthal. The Nationals Bryce Harper detected a pattern last week: admiringly, he said, Every pitcher out of their pen throws 100.
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ter, the Cardinals likely starter for Game 2, has had a fascinating decade with St. Louis. In 4 of the last 10 seasons (2003, 2007, 2008 and 2012), he pitched so little that he won no games in the regular season. In each of the other six seasons, he was above .500, winning the Cy Young Award in 2005, the E.R.A. title in 2009 and World Series championships in 2006 and 2011. He is 10-2 with a 2.88 E.R.A. in 16 career postseason starts.
went 30-15 after the All-Star Melky Cabrera was suspended in August for failing a drug test. Catcher Buster Posey led the way, hitting .348 with a .973 on-base plus slugging percentage over that stretch and becoming a strong candidate for the N.L. Most Valuable Player award. Eight of the last 12 N.L. winners have come from the Cardinals or the Giants. Cabrera, incidentally, was eligible to return after the Giants fifth playoff game, but the team has no plans to bring him back.
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5. The more compelling series was in 1987, when the Giants went to St. Louis for Game 6 needing one victory for their first pennant in 25 years. They did not score again, being shut out by John Tudor and two relievers in Game 6 and by Danny Cox in Game 7. Even so, the Giants Jeffrey Leonard who wore No. 00 and whose one flap down home run trot incensed the Cardinals pitchers became the last player from a losing team to win a postseason M.V.P. award.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Roberto Kelly, the San Francisco Giants first-base coach, sustained a concussion and was taken to a hospital after being hit in the back of the head during batting practice Saturday. A ball hit by Buster Posey struck Kelly while he was standing near second base. He walked off the field with assistance and was placed on a stretcher to leave the ballpark. The Giants were holding a workout at AT&T Park a day before opening the National League Championship Series against St. Louis. Kelly was released from the hospital and was expected to be on the field for Game 1, as long as he is cleared by team doctors. Kelly, 48, who has been the Giants first-base coach since 2008, played 14 seasons in the majors. He spent the most time with the Yankees, from 1987 to 1992 and again in 2000.
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serve Matt Carpenter does not wear batting gloves, which is unusual but not as rare as the style the Giants Hunter Pence prefers. Paul Lukas, the sports style expert at Uni-Watch.com, wrote in June that Pence was the only active major leaguer who wore just one batting glove.
ants closer Brian Wilson out after elbow surgery, the bushiest beard for a closer this series belongs to the Cardinals Jason Motte, edging the Giants trimmed-down Sergio Romo. More interesting than Mottes hair, though, is his quirky habit of pumping the ball in his glove as he delivers a pitch. It just kind of happened, Motte, a converted catcher, said in March. I dont know if maybe its part of what I did when I caught. Its just my timing to get my arm up, get everything up where it needs to be. Im sort of a short, quick, boom-boom kind of guy.
POSTSEASON HISTORY The teams
have met twice in the N.L.C.S., more recently in 2002, when the Giants won on a series-ending single by Kenny Lofton in Game
saint of this series is Frankie Frisch, a fleet second baseman who helped each team to two championships in a Hall of Fame career that stretched from 1919 through 1937. Frisch played 1,000 games for the Giants before being traded to St. Louis for another Hall of Fame second baseman, Rogers Hornsby, after the 1926 season. Some 40 years later, the Giants sent another player bound for Cooperstown, Orlando Cepeda, to St. Louis, for pitcher Ray Sadecki. Cepeda, who had won the rookie of the year award for the Giants, helped the Cardinals to a title in 1967. Other alumni include two first basemen with the last name Clark (Jack and Will), Johnny Mize, Ducky Medwick, Steve Carlton, Willie McGee and two prominent current Cardinals: Mike Matheny and right fielder Carlos Beltran.
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A Tiger Is Trying to Move Past His New York Arrest

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Aging Yankees Are Low on Rest

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN
If the Yankees appeared to be in a rush to finish off the Baltimore Orioles in Game 5 of the teams American League division series, uncharacteristically finishing a game in less than three hours, it may have been in hopes of getting some rest before facing the Detroit Tigers the next day. The Yankees went into Game 1 of the A.L. Championship Series on Saturday almost exactly 24 hours after the conclusion of Fridays victory because of this seasons compressed playoff schedule, which has given the team just one day off so far. When Game 2 of the A.L.C.S. starts on Sunday, the Yankees will have played five days in a row and seven of the last eight. (The Tigers had Friday off after eliminating the Oakland Athletics on Thursday.) Zach Schonbrun contributed reporting.
That is a problem because the Yankees feature a 40-year-old starting pitcher, Andy Pettitte; a 38-year-old shortstop, Derek Jeter; and a 38-year-old left fielder, Ichiro Suzuki. The teams top hitter off the bench is Raul Ibanez, 40. The Yankees roster, in terms of players who have appeared in the postseason, is the eighth oldest in postseason history, with an average age of 32.8, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. It has seven players 35 or older. In contrast, the Tigers oldest regular is Gerald Laird, 32, and the teams biggest stars, Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder, are in their 20s. For the most part, the Yankees played down any thoughts that the lack of rest would affect them. We play sometimes 20 games in a row during the regular season, Mark Teixeira, 32, said. Its no problem at all. Were more used to playing five in a row. This is just going to be like our normal schedule.
Curtis Granderson, 31, who collected two hits Friday night, including his first home run of the postseason, said the lack of a day off did not bother him. You take a quick nap; you dont rest up completely, Granderson said. Both teams have momentum right now. It should be another tough series. The Yankees have plenty of experience being the older team. Of the oldest rosters in postseason history, the Yankees 2005 club had the oldest average age at 33.9 and the 2004 team was second at 33.6. Those teams, however, were unable to reach the World Series. The 2005 team was eliminated in the division series, and the 2004 team went out in the A.L.C.S. The current roster has a chance to move up on the list of oldest teams. Depending on how far the Yankees get in the playoffs, they could end up ranked as high as sixth for oldest roster, though they cannot crack the top five, where the teams average 33 years old or older.
After a dominant performance Friday in which he threw a complete game, C. C. Sabathia, 32, will not be available until Game 4 against Detroit. That means that after Pettitte starts Game 1, he will probably be followed by Hiroki Kuroda, 37, before Phil Hughes, the lone Yankees starting pitcher still in his 20s at 26, has a turn. Sabathia, whose win in Game 5 was his first in an elimination game, says that age and experience could actually be a good thing for the Yankees as they get deeper into the postseason. The older I have gotten, the bigger games I have got to pitch in, Sabathia said. I think in 2007, my emotions got the best of me definitely in the playoffs, and I didnt have a good run. But the older I have gotten, the better I have got, I think. With a lineup that certainly does not lack experience, the Yankees will have to hope that the same is true for the rest of the roster and not just Sabathia.
Delmon Young strode to the plate for his first at-bat of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night to a conspicuously silent audience. The reception for Young, Detroits designated hitter, could have been more vitriolic. But the crowd seemed more focused on matters other an ugly incident from five months ago, and Young struck out on five pitches to barely a murmur. In truth, perhaps most fans just forgot this was Youngs first appearance playing in New York since being arrested on April 27 on a second-degree aggravated harassment charge after a confrontation outside the New York Hilton in which the police said an intoxicated Young shouted antiSemitic slurs and attacked a group of tourists. Young was ultimately suspended seven games for the incident, and agreed to anger management counseling and alcohol evaluation. He is due in court in Manhattan on Nov. 7. On Saturday, Young was on the field in the Bronx, and for Manager Jim Leyland, the only concern was how Young and the Tigers would fare against the Yankees. I dont pay attention to the other stuff, Leyland said when asked if he had any concern about how Young might handle a rowdy response. Thats yesterdays breakfast. For Young, 27, the April incident represented another off-field distraction in a career that has not been serene. As a minor leaguer in 2006, while playing for Class AAA Durham, he was suspended 50 games by the International League for flinging a bat at an umpire in disgust after a called third strike. A year earlier, he had been suspended three games for bumping an umpire. After his arrest in Manhattan he issued a statement taking responsibility for his actions. I take this matter very seriously and assure everyone that I will do everything I can to improve myself as a person and player, the statement said. He later told reporters
that he planned to regularly meet with Jewish groups in the Detroit area in an effort to repair his image. Im being branded as a racist and a bigot, and thats not me, Young said. I grew up in a very diverse area and I was raised to always respect everyone around me. On the field, he has also not quite fulfilled the promise he had as a first overall pick by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2003. But the Tigers rely on him as a key contributor in the heart of their order. Batting behind sluggers Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder, Young hit .267 with 18 home runs and 74 runs batted in during the regular season. As the teams designated hitter, he has slugging potential and produced well against left-handers this season batting .308 in 182 at-bats which made him a nuisance against Andy Pettitte and could again against C. C. Sabathia in Game 4. He underscored his importance in the order Saturday when his sixth-inning single to right off Pettitte drove in Cabrera and stretch the Tigers lead to 2-0. He added a solo homer off the righthander Derek Lowe in the eighth. Hes a big key for us, particularly against left-handed pitching, Leyland said. It would be really good if he steps it up a little bit. He is a run-producer. The Yankees witnessed that first hand even before Saturday. Last season, Young hit three home runs and scored four times against them in the divisional series win, including a go-ahead solo homer in the seventh inning of Game 3. He wound up hitting .316 with a 1.170 on-base-plusslugging percentage, better than any other player in the series. Young added two more home runs in the championship series against the Texas Rangers to match a Tigers team record for career home runs in the postseason. He batted .235 with two runs batted in during this years division series against Oakland. We need to get him going, Leyland said. On Saturday, Young did just that.
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Rodriguez Returns to Lineup, but in the Sixth Spot; Kuroda Will Start Game 2
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
Joe Girardi hit the reset button Saturday and put Alex Rodriguez back in the lineup for Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers. But Rodriguez, who was also back at third base, received another demotion of sorts. For only the third time in his career, Rodriguez was batting sixth. The last time he had batted sixth was in 1995, when he was with the Seattle Mariners. With the Tigers scheduled to start four right-handers in the series, there was some speculation about how Girardi would use Rodriguez after he benched him Friday for Game 5 of the Yankees division series against the Baltimore Orioles. This is a guy that we really need to get going, Girardi said. This is a guy that in 2009, think about what he did in the playoffs. I just believe in my heart that hes ready to go. I believe hes going to contribute and were going to put him back in there. Girardi did not commit to Rodriguez for the rest of the series, and said Eric Chavez could still start in his place. Rodriguezs return to the lineup was one of two big decisions Girardi and Yankees manageONLINE: SLIDE SHOW
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ment made for the second round of the playoffs. Girardi also named Hiroki Kuroda his Game 2 starter, meaning that Kuroda will pitch on short rest. Kuroda pitched well Wednesday in Game 3 of the division series, but he has never started on three days rest during his fiveyear major league career or in Japan. This is probably the shortest rest that I have ever had in my baseball career, he said. But at this point in the season we cant really be talking about anything but to win. Girardi also said that C. C. Sabathia, whose brilliant complete game carried the Yankees to a clinching victory against the Orioles, would not pitch until Game 4. Andy Pettitte was scheduled to pitch Game 1 on Saturday night, followed by Kuroda in Game 2 and Phil Hughes in Game 3. Girardi said he and the coaching staff contemplated using David Phelps to start Game 2, but opted for Kuroda instead. They also considered bringing back Sabathia early for Game 3, but he threw 241 pitches over his last two starts and they felt he needed full rest. They checked with Kuroda after Fridays victory, and he assured them he could start Sunday. Someone was possibly going to be off their normal rest, Girardi said, and this way its only one guy. I would rather have C. C. in a Game 4 fully prepared than on short rest in a Game 3. It is a bit of a gamble because
I just believe in my heart that hes ready to go. I believe hes going to contribute and were going to put him back in there.
JOE GIRARDI, Yankees manager, on Alex Rodriguez, left
the Yankees were concerned about Kurodas workload after the regular season, when he had showed signs of fatigue. Giving him extra rest was a reason they had Kuroda start Game 3 of the division series. The Yankees also wanted him to pitch at home, where his numbers are better than on the road, another factor in having him start Game 2 of thee A.L.C.S. at Yankee Stadium. He was pretty good the other
day, Girardi said. We had thought that maybe he had shown some fatigue and we talked about it. Maybe I dont expect him to throw as many pitches, but I feel really good about him going out there. The Yankees also dropped infielder Eduardo Nunez from the roster and replaced him with the right-handed reliever Cody Eppley. The decisions were all made in
a hastily convened meeting 45 minutes after the Yankees celebrated their victory in the division series over the Orioles. Normally, there is a day off between series. But this year, because baseball wanted to fit in the extra wild-card game and still finish the World Series by Nov. 1, some accommodations had to be made. So the Yankees finished their series with the Orioles and immediately started to prepare for the
Tigers. It was really strange, Girardi said at 4:30 p.m., less than four hours before Saturdays scheduled first pitch. And then getting up this morning and going over a ton of things in my head and trying to do as much work as I could. Usually at this point Im done, but Im not done yet. Girardi said he would prefer the schedule had allowed the Yankees, with the best record in the American League, to get at least one day off. But Tigers Manager Jim Leyland had no complaints. The Tigers, who wrapped up their series against the Oakland Athletics on Thursday, did not know whom or where they would be playing until the Yankees defeated the Orioles on Friday night. At that point they flew to New York, arriving in their hotel shortly after 12:30 a.m. Saturday. Thats small stuff to me, Leyland said. At this time of year if you are playing and you are complaining, there is something wrong with you. We are still playing and we are in the final four.
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P R O F O O T B A L L N. F. L . W E E K 6
Cromartie Leading Jets Secondary In Reviss Absence

By BEN SHPIGEL
Colts (2-2) at Jets (2-3)

1 p.m. Eastern, CBS
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. Most cornerbacks in the N.F.L. are not as tall as Antonio Cromartie. Or as fast. Or as strong. Or as long. Or as athletic. And this, in so many words, was Darrelle Reviss point during a recent talk with Cromartie, a conversation they shared before Revis sustained his season-ending knee injury. Revis treats practices like games, refusing to allow a catch in his orbit. But Cromartie would often back off receivers late in their routes, leaving coaches to mutter, as the defensive coordinator Mike Pettine has done: Finish. Just finish the play. Coming from a peer, the plea sounded different. Why not strive to be better? Revis asked Cromartie. With your physical gifts, theres no reason why you cant be the best corner in the league. That anecdote was recounted by Dennis Thurman, the Jets defensive backs coach, who over the last few months has witnessed what he characterized as a transformation of Cromartie. He has, in his third season with the team, become its most reliable player on defense, shedding his reputation as supremely talented but maddeningly inconsistent for a more flattering label: indispensable. Without Darrelle, thank God we still have him, General Manager Mike Tannenbaum said of Cromartie in a recent interview. Because we can still function on defense. In the two full games since Reviss injury, Cromartie has allowed only three receptions (on 10 passes), according to game charting by the statistical Web site ProFootballFocus, while also playing a few snaps at receiver, stimulating an offense devoid of playmakers. On Monday night against Houston, Cromartie neutralized Andre Johnson, one of the leagues top receivers, who was held without a catch, on five passes. Among cornerbacks who have been a target 20 times, Cromartie has been the stingiest, allowing catches on 41.4 percent of the passes. He made the statement, Hey, Im the best corner in the league, Pettine said. I think he realized its put-up-or-shut-up time. In Coach Rex Ryans defensive sets, shutdown cornerbacks are less a luxury than a necessity, a reality reinforced by Peyton Mannings carving of the Jets
secondary in the second half of their 2010 A.F.C. title game loss in Indianapolis. Two months later, the Jets shipped what became a second-round pick to San Diego for Cromartie who re-signed in July 2011, after the teams failed pursuit of Nnamdi Asomugha in what essentially doubled as insurance for a potential loss of Revis. The fastest way to lose games in pro football is not to have corners, Tannenbaum said. Other things you can survive, but if you cant cover on the outside, its dismal. And weve been there. You cant have too many of them. It is a measure of Cromarties improvement that Pettine, who never hid his exasperation with him, has not worried once about bad Cro, as he once called him last season, making an untimely appearance. His lone moment of concern came a few minutes before kickoff Monday night, when Cromartie and the starting defensive backs were introduced. When no one ran out of the tunnel, Pettine said he started to panic, wondering if something happened in the locker room. His stomach settled when he saw the four of them come out together. That was his idea, Pettine said. I think hes kind of taken ownership of that group. In preparation and performance, Cromartie has led by example, assuming a more vocal role. He tutors the teams young cornerbacks Kyle Wilson and Ellis Lankster, dissecting different formations and route combinations. A master at breaking down videotape, Cromartie has shown them how to analyze it more efficiently. He knows every play before its going to happen, Lankster said. Sometimes were watching film, and Cro will tell the coaches something that theyve never seen. Hes so fast hes like a computer. Assessing his weaknesses during the off-season, Cromartie realized that he wanted to focus on two areas: becoming more of a physical presence and working harder in practice practicing with a passion, as he called it. Thurman has harped on that first element for two and a half years, telling Cromartie to start playing like someone 6 feet 2 inches and 210 pounds and not 5-10 and 180. They have worked to force Cromartie out of what Thurman termed his comfort zone, of playing receivers off the line, and using his hands and long arms to disrupt their timing, much as he
Mark Sanchez vs. The World

It seems that way, at least. But seriously, this game could be the defining moment of Sanchezs career, coming with the Jets below .500 and their quarterback situation a national curiosity. He did not play badly last week against Houston, but a shaky performance against Indianapolis after regaining his favorite receiver, Dustin Keller, and another outside threat, Stephen Hill would be a disaster heading into next weeks game at New England.
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Rushing yards gained by the rookie quarterback Andrew Luck. The Jets have been raving about Lucks precociousness, arm strength and savvy. But they must also be wary of his mobility. No A.F.C. quarterback has run for more yards this season than Luck, who is averaging 6.5 yards a carry.
QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
Ive never been a two-quarterback guy. If you have two, you dont have any. Ive been a one-quarterback guy for my whole career, thats just my philosophy. It can work, they can make it work if they chose to do so, and they obviously have.
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Antonio Cromarties assets as a cornerback include speed, athleticism, height and long arms.
did Monday against Johnson. When he walks out there, he looks imposing, Thurman said. Play imposing. Play that way. Play to your physical stature. Hes beginning to do that. Thats whats been so impressive to me. Pettine started sensing a difference in Cromartie the week before the Jets played San Francisco, their first game without Revis. At practice, they needed a scout-team receiver to play some snaps at defensive back, and Royce Pollard, who was simulating Michael Crabtree, volunteered at least until Cromartie intervened. He ordered Pollard to stay behind. I need you fresh for me when youre running routes, Cromartie told him. Pettine said: That showed me something. He wanted to make sure he got the best possible look. Cromarties primary responsibility, as he put it, is being the best corner in the N.F.L., but he spends about 30 to 40 minutes every day studying the offense, preparing for occasional snaps as an emergency receiver. Not that he sees it that way. In training camp, Cromartie called himself the second-best receiver on the team, behind only Santonio Holmes, and with the receiving corps depleted Monday, he received a chance to back up his words. Had Mark Sanchezs pass not drawn him out of bounds, Cromartie, who zipped past Houston cornerback Johnathan Joseph and later told him so, would have had a 40yard catch, if not a touchdown. Shoot, man, he might have sold himself short, Ryan said, referring to Cromarties boast. Cromarties next challenge is containing Reggie Wayne, who in only four games has caught 36 passes while being a target an N.F.L.-high 57 times. The Colts like to move Wayne around the field, lining him up in the slot or
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bunched with another receiver, to prevent cornerbacks from jamming him at the line of scrimmage. On Sunday, Cromartie will prepare for Wayne by warming up on the MetLife Stadium turf to a mix of heavy metal and rap, songs requested by his teammates. Nick Mangold, a Metallica fan, asked for Harvester of Snow. Brandon Moore wanted Church by T-Pain. Cromartie picked almost 10, but one in particular, rapped by Lil Wayne, seemed to reflect the Jets confidence in him, which is greater than ever. The song is called No Worries.
Giants Umenyiora Opens Up and Looks Beyond His Next Sack

Giants (3-2) At 49ers (4-1)
4:25 p.m. Eastern, Fox
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From First Sports Page way to explain mistakes, and several Giants even used that word to describe Umenyiora. The difference is that Umenyiora never did. It isnt misunderstood, he said in a rare extended interview here, drawing out his words. Thats too easy. I think, maybe, its just incomplete. In some ways, that mystery is by design. Umenyioras reticence with the public and the news media is not by accident. While Tuck and quarterback Eli Manning readily make themselves available in the locker room, Umenyiora generally stays away. Typically, he speaks to reporters once a week (on Fridays, when fewer are present) and when he does, he rarely ventures beyond the mundane. Look, it took me a whole year to get to know the guy, Canty said. When I first met him, I couldnt stand him. Ill admit that. But what people dont realize is that he is incredibly smart, incredibly thoughtful and one of the most interesting people you could ever meet. Canty laughed, adding, You just have to get him to talk to you. Umenyiora readily acknowledges his aversion to the spotlight. I wont lie to you, he said. Ive wished that I wasnt in such a big market, that I could have just gone about my business and played football and been in a small corner somewhere where nobody knows anything. Yet his reticence is more philosophical. Umenyiora spent his childhood in London and in his native Nigeria, then moved to the United States as a teenager. He did not play football until 11th grade, then earned a business degree from Troy University in Alabama, and developed an abiding appre-
49ers Aldon Smith vs. Giants offensive line

Eli Manning was knocked down often in the last meeting between these teams, and containing Smith will be the key if the Giants hope to avoid a similarly difficult day for Manning. Smith is a consistent threat on the edge and leads the 49ers with four and a half sacks this season.
NUMBER TO WATCH
1
Thats how many 100-yard rushers the 49ers defense has allowed over the past 43 games, making it a particularly daunting task for Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw. Bradshaw, who carried 30 times last Sunday against Cleveland, has been especially confident this week after totaling a career-high of 200 yards against the Browns.
QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
I just tell my ring to try to hold tight, and I hope another one comes near you, thats all. I try to wipe the dust off of it Ive got it hidden right now.
49ers receiver Mario Manningham, revealing that he speaks to his Giants Super Bowl ring.
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ciation for history, politics and religion. He recently finished reading the Bible and started the Koran. Tuck revealed that he and Umenyiora were in the midst of a long-running discussion comparing Clinton-era economics with the policies of President Obama. Quite simply, Umenyiora said, he does not understand all the fuss about the N.F.L. Thats the thing, he said, pointing two fingers at his own body. Look at what I do. I put on tights and go out there and try to hit someone. Its hard, but is it really important? Does it matter? Why should we get any attention at all? He was not being modest or feigning humility, but simply asking a question. Umenyiora will often raise broader points about a subject, regardless of how universally accepted it is, said Adewale Ogunleye, who retired from the N.F.L. in 2010 and is one of Umenyioras closest friends. The two once spent an inordinate amount of time, Ogunleye said, debating the merits of flying first class when an exit-row seat offered the same leg room. Umenyiora, Ogunleye recalled, was trying to be sure that Ogunleye found some value in the firstclass seat as opposed to simply wanting it because he thought that is where a professional athlete should sit. He just doesnt accept things because they are what everyone else accepts, Ogunleye said. He needs to see the reason behind it. He needs to think about it. Along those lines, Ogunleye added that Umenyiora was seemingly immune to fads and trends. When a visitor recently chided Umenyiora for still having a BlackBerry in a locker room full of iPhones and Androids, he said defiantly: I really love this thing. Why change? Umenyiora also avoids designer clothes. He frequently wears dark gray Crocs sandals to and from team headquarters (to complement his gray
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Osi Umenyiora, center, who has a deep interest in religion and politics, says of his job, Its hard, but is it really important?
sweat pants) and once, when Ogunleye and Umenyiora went out for a night on the town with friends, Umenyiora showed up in full Nigerian dress. Their companions were surprised, but thats just what he does, Ogunleye said. He wears what he wants even if some people thought it was like something out of Coming to America, Ogunleye added. He doesnt care. When Umenyiora bows to public pressure, it rarely goes well. He recently gave in and began reading Fifty Shades of Grey (It was like you couldnt get away from people talking about it, he said) but quit after just a few pages because the writing was just so cheesy I was like, Come on man, you cant do this.He added, I didnt even get to the good parts. Lately, Umenyiora has found himself thinking of the future more. He will be 31 next month. He has struggled along with the rest of the defensive line over the Giants first five games, and he is not signed beyond this season. The notion that he is nearing the end of his career has changed his perspective. That was part of the motivation for his talk in the meeting room, he said, and he acknowledged that he now viewed his contract battles with the Giants differently. The disputes which involved public posturing by each side, occasional name-calling, aborted trade attempts and a holdout, among other tactics dragged on acrimoniously. And when they finally ended, Umenyiora repeatedly said he had no regrets, even though he ultimately secured little in terms of money. Now, though, his opinion has changed. He recalled a moment after the Giants won the Super Bowl last February, when a reporter approached him in the midst of the giddy celebration and wanted to know how he felt about his contract. Umenyioras face fell. It was like a cloud hanging over me, he said. It was terrible. It felt like it would never go away. Of course I regret it, Umenyiora added. Because nothing was really accomplished out of it. I didnt really gain anything. The extra money Im making this
year? Even 10 times that wasnt worth what I had to endure. He laughed. I have a business degree, but Im not a good businessman you could tell that through everything I do, he said. That contract stuff that was the worst thing I ever could have done. That is what Umenyiora told the other defensive linemen, he said, using those exact words. He believed in the principle that N.F.L. teams cut players in the middle of contracts, so players should be free to renegotiate as well, but he never imagined it would get so ugly. It was hard to acknowledge his errors, Umenyiora said, but he is changing. Lately he has talked more about family, particularly with Tuck and Ogunleye. Umenyiora has dated the most attractive women on the face of the Earth, Ogunleye said, and has a 5-year-old son, Tijani, whom he wishes he saw even more than he does. But he has never married, choosing instead to run around, as he described it. For a long time, Umenyiora said, he believed he might never get married. His parents divorced when he was an infant and that made him not very easy to love, he said. He almost never discusses his home life. But for a moment, he opened up. Your mother? Your family? he said. Thats how you learn to love. I used to think I didnt need that, but now I know I do. I want that love someday, too. He smiled then, not sullen or surly or sour at all. Umenyioras public image may never fully recover from the arrows of the past few off-seasons, but that does not mean he should be defined by it. He made sure to remind his teammates of that in the meeting room, too. I told them, It takes a genius to learn from other peoples mistakes, he said. Its true. Most people, they have to learn from their own.
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N.F.L. Matchups: Week 6

By Benjamin Hoffman
Testing Texans Relentless Defense

Packers (2-3) at Texans (5-0)
8:20 p.m. Line: Texans by 5 One player cannot make a defense great by himself. But in some cases, the loss of one player can unravel the tightest of units. Just ask the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have struggled mightily in the absence of the star safety Troy Polamalu. In the case of linebacker Brian Cushing, who is presumably out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, Houston will have to hope that he is not the loadbearing Jenga piece that when removed makes the entire stack tumble. The Texans are off to a 5-0 start for the first time, and their defense has been the heart of the team. J. J. Watt, the teams dominant defensive end, may get most of the headlines, but Cushing is the units emotional core and has led the team with 29 tackles. Houstons first game without Cushing comes against an offense that knows all about struggling to adapt to the loss of a key player, Greg Jennings. His continued absence has hampered a unit that was the key to Green Bays 15-1 performance last season. Added to the Packers troubles is the loss of running back Cedric Benson to a Lisfranc injury, which could end his season. He was placed on injured reserve but was listed as designated to return, meaning he cannot practice for six weeks or return until Week 14. The loss of Cushing will be quite a blow, but Houston should be able to overcome it by unleashing Watt on Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers has been sacked 21 times, including five in a surprising loss to the upstart Indianapolis Colts last week. Watt, who has at least one sack in every game, will be hoping to increase that number.
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Favorable Matchups
ANDY DALTON VS. CLEVELAND
He lit up the Browns for 318 yards and 3 touchdowns a few weeks ago. He will have to deal with their shutdown cornerback Joe Haden this time, but the matchup is enticing enough.
MICHAEL TURNER VS. OAKLAND His yards-per-carry av-
erage fell to 3.7 from 7.6, as expected, in Week 5 against a much tougher Washington run defense, though Turner did score a touchdown. He should post better yardage totals against the Raiders, who have been taken for 128.5 yards a game on the ground.
DeMARCO MURRAY VS. BALTIMORE He has not rushed for
more than 4 yards a carry since Week 1 against the Giants. Poor offensive line play aside, it should be said that Murrays last three opponents rank in the top five at stopping the run this season.
ANDRE ROBERTS VS. BUFFALO
Despite being thrown to 10 times last week against the Rams, Roberts and his quarterback had a hard time getting into a groove for Arizona. He should fare better this week against a generous Bills secondary.
ANDREW HAWKINS VS. CLEVELAND Cornerback Joe
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J. J. Watt, left, is a force on defense, but Brian Cushing, right, who could be out for the season, leads the Texans in tackles.
drive. Many superlatives described Lucks leading a come-from-behind win over the Packers last week, probably raising the hype to an unreasonable level, but against a depleted Jets defense, he could give Indianapolis an unexpected winning PICK: COLTS record. points a game, ranking the unit sixth in the N.F.L., and will look to shut down Griffin. Washington may take a conservative approach with Griffin, who was knocked out of last weeks game with a concussion. That could benefit Minnesota.
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Haden may be returning from suspension, but he will probably shadow A. J. Green most of the day, leaving Hawkins to run routes on the rest of the Browns secondary. Hawkins was thrown to as often as Green was last week against Miami.
Raiders (1-3) at Falcons (5-0)

1 p.m. Line: Falcons by 9 With the Texans facing a depleted Packers offense and the Falcons playing the struggling Raiders, the N.F.L.s last two unbeaten teams should remain that way for at least one more week. The only one who could stand in Atlantas way is Darren McFadden, Oaklands explosive and inconsistent running back. The Falcons have thus far been a welloiled machine in nearly every respect. Quarterback Matt Ryan is playing the best football of his life, the teams running game is helping to control the ball, the pass rush is reaching opposing quarterbacks, and the secondary is taking passes away. The one weakness has been stopping the run; Atlanta allows 142.8 yards a game on the ground and 5.4 yards a carry. McFadden, the fourth pick over all in the 2008 draft, has disappeared for stretches of his career largely because of injuries, but he has occasionally shown the ability to take over games, including one against Denver in 2010 in which he rushed for 165 yards and 3 touchdowns and caught a touchdown pass. That type of effort could spoil the Falcons perfect PICK: FALCONS start.
Giants (3-2) at 49ers (4-1)

4:25 p.m. Line: 49ers by 5 If Larry Ellison, the chief executive of Oracle, were to start using some of his billions to buy swaths of lottery tickets in the week of a major jackpot, it might serve to squash the dreams of the common men and women who had planned to play. The emotion may be similar for the rest of the N.F.L. as San Francisco, with probably the best defense in the league, suddenly looks unstoppable on offense. In their last two games, won by a combined score of 79-3, the 49ers rushed for 558 yards, taking their season average to an N.F.L.-best 196.2 yards a game. Against Buffalo last week, Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick combined for 310 yards passing, making the 49ers the first team to surpass 300 yards rushing and 300 yards passing in the same game. Even a sprained finger for Smith should not be of much concern, as Kaepernick has looked comfortable leading the offense on Wildcat plays, and could play longer stretches if needed. In a rematch of last seasons N.F.C. championship, the Giants are in trouble. PICK: 49ERS
Cowboys (2-2) at Ravens (4-1)

1 p.m. Line: Ravens by 4 In three home games this season, Joe Flacco has thrown six touchdown passes, surpassing 350 yards passing twice. In two road games, he has one touchdown pass and a passer rating of 62.4. Unfortunately for Dallas, this game is in Baltimore. The Ravens have, at times, looked like one of the best teams in the N.F.L., but in a 9-6 road victory over Kansas City last week, it was not just Flacco who struggled. The defense allowed 214 rushing yards, the most Baltimore has given up in a game since 1997, when Ray Lewis was in his second season. The Cowboys, embarrassed on national television by the Bears defense two weeks ago, are still in the mix of a subpar N.F.C. East, but they will need to show something for anyone to take them seriPICK: RAVENS ously.
the ground with Daryl Washington standing over him. But too many times for Arizona, the hit came after a completion. The Rams then continually answered back, sacking Kevin Kolb nine times and keeping the Cardinals in check. Kolb has been sacked 15 times in the past two games, putting enormous pressure on the defense to keep the game close. Buffalo rushes the ball well but is bad at most everything else. With Washingtons wrecking crew harassing Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kolb should not have to do much to win.
PICK: CARDINALS
Unfavorable Matchups
JOE FLACCO VS. DALLAS This
matchup is cause for some concern after he managed 187 yards and no touchdowns against a Kansas City team that had allowed multiple quarterback touchdowns in each game played before Week 5s meeting with Baltimore. Except for last weeks 275-yard, two-touchdown outing from Jay Cutler, the Cowboys have been tough against the pass this season.
Lions (1-3) at Eagles (3-2)

1 p.m. Line: Eagles by 6 At some point this season, Matthew Stafford is going to complete a touchdown pass to Calvin Johnson. It is a safe bet that his failure so far is one of the major reasons Detroit has won only once. Johnson, whose lone touchdown catch was thrown by the backup Shaun Hill, is a force on offense and should be able to make a dent in a Philadelphia defense that is allowing 209.4 passing yards a game. The Lions defense, while stingy with yardage, is one of two in the league yet to record an interception. That, too, could change against Michael Vick, who has thrown six. PICK: LIONS
FRED JACKSON VS. ARIZONA
The outlook for Buffalo backs is not great against the Cardinals, who have held opposing running backs to 3.6 yards a carry and have allowed one rushing touchdown this season. To make matters worse, the Bills backfield has been pretty evenly split in snaps since Jacksons return, limiting his potential and that of C. J. Spiller.
ALFRED MORRIS VS. MINNESOTA The Vikings not allowed
Chiefs (1-4) at Buccaneers (1-3)

1 p.m. Line: Buccaneers by 3 One of these struggling teams is bound to come away with a victory, but that does not mean any of us have to watch. Kansas City running back Jamaal Charles is the best reason to tune in, as he continues a surprising comeback from knee surgery. That Brady Quinn is starting his first game in nearly three years means even that may be ruined because Tampa Bay will probably take advantage and assign an extra defender to stop Charles.
PICK: BUCCANEERS
Patriots (3-2) at Seahawks (3-2)

4:05 p.m. Line: Patriots by 4 In 2010, all four teams in the N.F.C. West had losing records, a combined 14 games under .500. Seattle won the division by default with a 7-9 record, and the rest of the N.F.L. was able to take the week off while visiting teams in the division. Those days are over, with all four teams above .500 and possessing defenses that can ruin anyones day, even Tom Bradys. New England has used a balanced attack on the way to an N.F.L.-best 33 points a game, but the Seahawks are difficult to score against in the best of circumstances, and they are considerably tougher at home. Even if Brady and the Patriots come out on top, they will probably not consider this game the N.F.C. West vacation it used to be. PICK: SEAHAWKS
Colts (2-2) at Jets (2-3)

1 p.m. Line: Jets by 3 Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow have won playoff games as starting quarterbacks, but so far this season, the Jets offense has belonged to Sanchez, though Tebow leads in photo shoots. Tebow has been given almost no chance to throw, with two pass attempts to Sanchezs 159. Unfortunately, Sanchezs Tebow-like completion rate of 48.4 percent accounts for his unacceptable 66.6 quarterback rating. That has kept those questions coming about when Coach Rex Ryan will make a quarterback change. There are no questions for the Colts, who gave Andrew Luck the keys to the car and are enjoying watching him learn to Times are Eastern. Picks are not based on the point spread.
a 100-yard game and have yielded only one rushing touchdown through the first five weeks, presenting Washingtons Morris with his first real challenge this season.
JORDY NELSON VS. HOUSTON
Vikings (4-1) at Redskins (2-3)

4:25 p.m. Line: Redskins by 3 Everyone who saw Robert Griffin III play for Baylor knew he could be special. It took a more discerning eye to see the potential in Christian Ponder, Minnesotas second-year quarterback out of Florida State. With the Vikings off to their best start since 2009, guided largely by Ponder and the re-emergence of Adrian Peterson as a top-flight running back, fans should be proud that Ponder is not looking to celebrate. I know everyone else is surprised that were 4-1, Ponder told reporters last week. What stinks is that we should be 5-0. The Vikings defense has allowed 15.8
He managed only two catches for 29 yards last week against Indianapolis, but Greg Jennings is expected to miss another game for Green Bay.
Bills (2-3) at Cardinals (4-1)

4:05 p.m. Line: Cardinals by 5 The Cardinals finally lost last week, but it was not because they failed to do what they do best. It was because the other team did the same to them. It seemed that every time St. Louis quarterback Sam Bradford dropped back, he wound up on
Rams (3-2) at Dolphins (2-3)

1 p.m. Line: Dolphins by 4
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Fresh off a surprising prime-time win over previously undefeated Arizona, St. Louis is above .500 this late in the season for the first time since 2006. To stay that way, the Rams will have to do exactly what they did last week: beat up the opposing quarterback and hope the offense can do enough to sneak away with a road victory despite having lost their best wide receiver, Danny Amendola, to a dislocated sternoclavicular joint. Ive never been there before, Chris Long, a five-year veteran, said of the teams winning record. Im unfamiliar with the sound of it, but Im liking it.
PICK: RAMS
Brian Hartline faces the Rams.

BRIAN HARTLINE VS. ST. LOUIS
The Rams have allowed two receiving touchdowns this season, and have been one of the better secondaries at limiting big passing plays.
PIERRE GARCON VS. MINNESOTA The Vikings secondary
has been playing well, having not allowed a passing touchdown to Detroit, San Francisco and Tennessee over the last three weeks.
Bengals (3-2) at Browns (0-5)

1 p.m. Line: Bengals by 1 It does not speak highly of Cincinnati that it is favored by only a point over the N.F.L.s only winless team. But Cleveland has shown an uncanny ability to keep games close. That is not to say the Browns have much of a chance of avoiding a 12th consecutive defeat, which would set a PICK: BENGALS franchise record.
catches for 32 yards in his Week 2 meeting with the Browns.

BRANDON PETTIGREW VS. PHILADELPHIA The Eagles
JERMAINE GRESHAM VS. CLEVELAND He had four
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have given up only one touchdown to tight ends this season.
Adrian Peterson, second from left, and quarterback Christian Ponder (7) have the Vikings off to their best start since 2009.
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I think the club is vulnerable. My concern is that Mary will burn out.
VINCE CHIAPPETTA, emeritus board member
Mary Wittenberg sees part of her mission as turning the best American marathoners into stars. We want people turning on the TV to see the stars, so they are inspired to run, she said.
Her Marathon Is Thriving. So Whats the Problem?

From First Sports Page tend events and court elite runners for Road Runners races. Under Wittenberg, the field for the New York City Marathon has grown by nearly 30 percent, to 47,500 from 37,000, and is the largest in the world. The organizations staff has sprouted to about 150 from 60, and its revenue has more than doubled. Road Runners youth programs have grown by more than 10 times, and the clubs money goes to helping more than 130,000 children in and out of New York City and sometimes far outside the city. Last year, the club gave more than $38,000 to a program for young runners in Angola. Such growth has led to a collision of ideals. Local runners say Wittenbergs expanding ambitions have eroded the ethos of Road Runners to serve athletes in New York. She has destroyed the intimacy of what started as a modest grassroots club for like-minded runners, they say. In what seems to be a double-edged victory, more runners than ever are registering for Road Runners races, but some races sell out or are as crowded as the Coney Island boardwalk on a summer day. Rising entry fees have priced out lower-income runners and alienated some longtime Road Runners members. Gary Meltzer, who was voted off the board after Wittenberg became the chief executive, said the club had become way too corporate, with board members chosen for their professional backgrounds rather than love of the sport. In three weeks, nearly 50,000 runners are expected to gather at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island to begin this years New York City Marathon. When Wittenberg took over, the cost to run the 26.2-mile, fiveborough tour of New York was $80 for Road Runners members. This year, it was $216 for members. For nonmembers from the United States, it was $255, more than $100 more than the fee for any of the four other major world marathons and nearly five times the cost of the London Marathon alone. Ten years ago, 12 years ago, we only had serious runners, and it was never an option for me to be the way we were then, Wittenberg said. And its not an option to be the way we are right now. Were not sorry were successful. To our critics, we say, we want you to come along. good mood, said Ben Brill, a stock trader who runs with Wittenberg several times a week. But theres times when you can tell theres a lot on her plate. Sometimes Wittenberg takes calls while training. But at the Fifth Avenue Mile, as at other Road Runners races, Wittenberg put away her iPhone long enough to play ambassador for the organization and for the sport. The role suits her. Wittenberg, a former high school cheerleader, is wired to point out the sunnier side of things, like how running cures many ills obesity, loneliness, stress and how it can be a catalyst for a better life. If we can get everyone in the city to say, Hey, I can run a mile, thats my goal, she said. Wittenberg, who is 5 feet 6 inches and 115 pounds, tries to run in most of the clubs races to stay attuned to the runners experience, and the Fifth Avenue Mile was no exception. She taped prescription anti-inflammatory patches to her knees, pulled compression socks onto each calf, then strapped an air cast on her right ankle. A former elite runner who still runs 40 to 50 miles a week, she recently sprained the ankle while warming up for a casual run with Meb Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the marathon. Keflezighi is among the elite runners Wittenberg has gotten to know because she courts the worlds top marathoners to run the New York City Marathon. Her efforts have stirred debate. She has involved Road Runners in cultivating American runners, with the organization donating $1.3 million since 2006 to running clubs in places like Flagstaff, Ariz., and Mammoth Lakes, Calif., where top American distance runners including Keflezighi train. When I started, people couldnt name one American distance star, and in the United States, American stars are everything, everything, Wittenberg said. We want people turning on the TV to see the stars, so they are inspired to run. She has taken it upon herself to groom the next generation of American marathoners and turn them into heroes on the streets of New York. She wooed Keflezighi to the New York City Marathon in 2009, when he became the first American to win the race in 27 years. She brought Shalane Flanagan to the marathon by inviting her to compete in a Road Runners 8K in 2008, then to ride in the womens pace car in 2009 so she could experience the marathons atmosphere. Only after Wittenberg flew to Houston to watch Flanagans half-marathon debut did Flanagan agree to run New York. After finishing second in 2010, Flanagan fell to the ground in tears, with Wittenberg there to congratulate her and drape an American flag over her shoulders. Yet all that leaves some local runners and coaches, like Mike Barnow, the head of the Westchester Track Club, scratching their heads. Barnow no longer takes his runners to Road Runners races because, he said, they have grown too expensive and too crowded, and the competition for limited prize money is too fierce. Mary is good at certain things, Barnow said. She has connected very well with the high-level U.S. athletes, which is what she wanted to do. She was able to get the Olympic trials marathon into New York. What does that have to do with local membership? Not very much. Wittenberg is known for her travels this month, she went to Bulgaria for the world half-marathon championships and to a meeting with international athletics officials. She tries to keep her trips short so she does not have to be away from her family for long. This summer, for example, she took two twoday trips to Eugene, Ore., for the Olympic track and field trials. She invested time and money persuading Haile Gebrselassie, then the world-record holder in the marathon, to run in New York. She traveled to his native Ethiopia twice to court him. During the second trip, to close his marathon deal in 2010, she drove seven hours to his new resort for a ribbon-cutting event. Yet for all the expense and buildup, Gebrselassie dropped out of the marathon at the 16th mile in his debut in New York in 2010, hobbled by a knee injury. Rick Pascarella, the organizational leader of the Warren Street Social and Athletic Club, said Wittenberg should stay closer to home and let others do the recruiting. He said Wittenbergs goal of broadening the marathons appeal to attract international runners, sponsors, television audiences and recreational runners had hurt the role of local racing clubs. If I were a corporation trying to make money, I would give her kudos, Pascarella said. If I was a running organization trying to promote running as a sport, not physical fitness, I would give her bad marks. Wittenberg said people made too much of her travels. So far this year, she has taken a dozen out-of-town trips over 27 days. She said she did not travel more than Allan Steinfeld, whom she replaced as the chief executive. Mary is a visionary, and its good for her to get out there as the face of the organization and tell people what we stand for, said Norman Goluskin, a board member. Its important for people to know that we are more than just the marathon. We feel that its better for the organization to have her out front, rather than sitting behind a desk. For some, though, that mission diminishes the prominence of local clubs, and their declining status crystallized around the annual Club Night awards ceremony that Road Runners hosts for local runners. For years, a dinner was held at the Hilton New York, but the event was downgraded several years ago to a ceremony at Hard Rock Cafe. Pascarella said that he was told that the dinner had become too costly. In response, he asked why Road Runners was giving so much money to running clubs outside New York. Wittenberg found herself in an awkward spot at the club ceremony in March when a photograph of Girma Tolla, an Ethiopian who runs for the West Side Runners Club, appeared on the screen because he was the 2011 runner of the year. Wittenberg fumbled through papers, unable to find his name. We have 50 or 60 Ethiopians, and they have similar names, said William du Pont Staab Jr., the president of the West Side Runners Club, who was at the ceremony. But she should know the best runners.
The Legacy of Lebow

The way Wittenberg was calling out peoples names at the Fifth Avenue Mile made it seem as if she knew every runner in Manhattan. There was Michael! And Arlene! And Chris! And several women from the Black Girls Run! organization wearing T-shirts that said, Preserve the Sexy. Wittenberg who wore only a little eyeliner despite her staffs suggestion that she wear more makeup on race days because she might be on TV got love back. A New York City police sergeant gave her a hug. A middle-age man touched her shoulder and said, Mary, love what youre doing! At registration outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, several volunteers shouted, Great job, Mary! Before one of the mens races, Wittenberg addressed the runners, saying: This race began 30 years ago with Fred Lebow. We just want to inspire you! Wittenberg acknowledges that she will never be able to replace Lebow, the flamboyant leader who put Road Runners and the marathon on the map. He presided over the first New York City Marathon in 1970, when it was held in Central Park and had only 127 runners, then built it into a five-borough mass race. If you look at what Fred did with the organization, I look like a wallflower, Wittenberg said. After Lebow died of brain cancer in 1994, the organization sputtered. Steinfeld, Lebows successor and a reserved former physics professor, needed help running the rapidly growing organization. Wittenberg, a corporate lawyer specializing in banking transactions, took a pay cut of more than 50 percent when she was brought in to be Steinfelds assistant in 1998. It was her dream job, she said, because she wanted to work more reasonable hours and start a family. She also loved running, a sport she took up later in life. As the eldest of seven children growing up in an IrishCatholic family in a suburb of Buffalo, Wittenberg ne Robertson was not a good athlete. But the family was active in sports because her father, Jim, an accountant, was a coach and scorekeeper, and her mother, Mary Jo, a math teacher, was a huge sports fan. I finally did standing broad jump in middle school, because that was the only thing I could do, Wittenberg said. In high school, she was a cheerleader before joining the West Side Rowing Club and finding the first sport she was good at. One summer, she was on the crew that won the womens lightweight eight at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, an international event. She was the ultimate competitor, but you would never guess that because she also was always friendly, social and funny, said Mary Kane, an assistant United States attorney who was the coxswain for Wittenbergs boat. Shes tougher than she looks. At Canisius College in Buffalo, Wittenberg could not row because there
Growth and Transformation

Mary Wittenbergs tenure as the chief executive of New York Road Runners.
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Living at a Frantic Pace

To come along, it is best to wear sneakers, because Wittenberg sprints through her days. At 8:15 a.m. on Sept. 22, inside her two-bedroom apartment on East 78th Street, she had been up for two hours, tending to her two young sons and answering e-mails, before heading to the Fifth Avenue Mile races. It was not her typical Saturday. She did not hop out of bed before 5 a.m. to meet her running group for an hourlong run around Central Parks bridle path. She did not watch her fellow runners head home to nap while she headed to a spinning class. She is always energetic and in a
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She was the ultimate competitor, but you would never guess that because she also was always friendly, social and funny. Shes tougher than she looks.
MARY KANE, former rowing teammate of Mary Wittenbergs
was no womens crew, so she became the coxswain for the mens team, steering the boat and giving commands. As the scrawny, chatty person at the back of the boat, she led her two-man crew to victory at the Dad Vail Regatta, a large collegiate championship, in Philadelphia. Her running career began on a whim one night when she was out with friends on the cross-country team. They bet that she could not finish a four-mile race the next morning. She finished in first place. During law school at Notre Dame, she ran with the mens cross-country team daily because it helped her relieve stress. What she did was pretty rare because that first year of law school is such a bear, but she was exceptional, Joe Piane, the coach, said. She always put on a good front, even though you knew she had to be working incredibly hard to do both. Wittenberg continued training even after joining the law firm Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va., where one of the partners, Allen Goolsby, let her leave every afternoon to train. She proved it was worth the trouble when she won the Marine Corps Marathon in 1987, finishing in 2 hours 44 minutes to qualify for the Olympic trials. She was pretty helter-skelter back then, pretty much chaos incorporated, and delightfully so, Goolsby said, recalling the time he visited her apartment to find one bottle of ginger ale in an otherwise empty refrigerator. But she always brought this great intensity to what she was doing. Wittenbergs career as an elite runner was fleeting. Knee and back injuries forced her to drop out of the trials after two miles. Talking about it now, she reveals no regret or nostalgia. The great thing about running, she said, is that most people can do it even when they are older. It is something you can do even on a first date, like her first date with Derek Wittenberg. They raced in a Road Runners couples event. That was the day, he said, he knew his future wife was a spitfire. It was a two-mile run, and she crushed him. The two also ran in the Fifth Avenue Mile last month, but their lives are more complicated now. Mary Wittenberg stole away from the event for about 30 minutes to watch their younger son, 9-year-old Cary, play basketball. They returned to the race in time to run the mile. Derek ran a 7:05. Mary finished in 5:59, faster than she had run in years.
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The American Shalane Flanagan, the womens second-place finisher in 2010, was congratulated by Wittenberg after falling to the ground in tears.
up faster and became uncomfortably crowded. Gone was the charm that made Road Runners races so special, he said. Higher entry fees have also scared away some regulars. The Brooklyn Half Marathon this year went to $45 from $25. The marathon which generates about half of Road Runners revenue leapt by $60, partly caused by higher fees charged by the New York Police Department for traffic control. The entry fees for the marathon have more than tripled since Wittenberg took over. Mary is running the Road Runners like a business and turned everything upside down, said Rick Nealis, the race director of the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, which costs $92. But is she just raising the price because she can? Nealis questioned how much profit Road Runners was making from each entry and whether it was ethical to make that profit for the purposes of the clubs larger mission. I guess you could say its ethical until the runners stop coming, he said. You keep raising the price until you find a breaking point, but I dont think thats what we should be doing to the sport. If Mary was able to promote the sport with TV money or better sponsorships, thats one thing, but I dont think they need to do that on the backs of our runners. One way Wittenberg is trying promote the sport is through the World Marathon Majors, a group of five marathons that was created to be the running worlds equivalent to tenniss Grand Slam. When she and other race directors formed the group in 2006, she was eager to make changes to the sport to spur its popularity, said Guy Morse, a former Boston Marathon race director. But the group looked at her with some skepticism. Not only was she a newcomer, but she also had a lot to do. Road Runners organizes dozens of races other than the marathon each year, a workload that the other major marathon organizers were not saddled with. Just listening to her speak Wittenbergs mind races so much that she often fails to complete a sentence before starting a new one left them marveling at her enthusiasm but feeling bombarded by her litany of ideas. Shes very good at bringing up new ideas, sometimes ones that arent feasible or ones that were not ready for yet, Morse said. I guess some people can find it irritating, but I think its better than same old, same old. One of those ideas was to have the World Marathon Majors organize the world half-marathon championships in the United Arab Emirates. The world championships could then move to different cities each year like New York, as part of the New York City Half Marathon, Wittenberg suggested. But her colleagues dismissed the idea. Unlike Wittenberg, most of them wanted to focus on selling their own events to the public, not selling the sport more broadly, said Glenn Latimer, secretary general of the World Marathon Majors. Sometimes we just have different goals, he said. tion on the course. She pushed for the womens elites to start first, so they could receive more publicity. Wittenberg also had a hand in landing a new TV deal. Next months marathon will be the first New York City Marathon shown live nationally since 1993. The club signed a five-year deal with ESPN2 to broadcast for three and a half hours. The broadcast will be branded Marathon Morning Across America. For us, for me, the board, the staff, its more about charity reach, more television, she said. We want the whole nation not just New York to wake up and tune into marathon morning and say, Ive got to run, Ive got to be a part of that. Some current and former sports leaders, including Doug Logan, the former chief executive of USA Track & Field, clearly appreciate her efforts. He said he envisioned Road Runners following the evolution of a sports club like Real Madrid, which started as a membership-driven organization in Spain but now is recognized worldwide. The Road Runners have a brand and it makes sense to exploit it, Logan said. But Wittenbergs seemingly roundthe-clock efforts have called attention to her management style. She can be an engaging leader, but her perfectionism, no matter how wellintentioned, can wear on employees. Two days before a race, she might ask that a finish-line banner be remade in a different color, forcing employees to work late to make expensive changes. Phone calls, e-mails and other correspondence can go days without being answered, and meetings designed to solicit opinions often end with Wittenbergs leaving and making her own decisions later, according to several former employees. Part of the problem is that Wittenberg tries to do it all and there is no chief operating officer who can make executive decisions in her absence, but instead a coterie of executives with different responsibilities. Bob Laufer, the general counsel at Road Runners, said a chief operating officer was unnecessary because managers were empowered to make key decisions. Wittenberg, he added, is involved in every significant issue, even those another leader might leave to others. I suppose there are things that she doesnt need to look at this or that, he said. But everything that comes out from the Road Runners, she feels she wants to be the final word on it. Still, Wittenbergs dominance has prompted questions about what would happen to the organization if she left. She said the club would still thrive because the team beneath her was so strong. Others disagree. I think the club is vulnerable, said Vince Chiappetta, an emeritus board member. My concern is that Mary will burn out. Wittenberg could leave at any time. Last year, she was a candidate to become the chief executive of USA Track & Field. She decided to stay put because no job could trump her current one, which paid her $500,000 in the year that ended in March 2012, nearly double the $260,000 salary she received when she took over. While her critics contend she is overpaid, Wittenbergs salary has grown at the same pace as Road Runners expenses, a common benchmark used to gauge executive pay. Yet no amount of money could lessen the number of duties she must juggle. So Wittenberg recently asked the board of directors for someone to help her with daily tasks so she could focus on more strategic thinking, several board members said. Michael Capiraso, a 50-year-old consultant who has been handling finance, information technology and human resources for the club, might fill that role. But to keep time with Wittenberg, Capiraso must pick up the pace. Literally. He ran the Fifth Avenue Mile and finished one second behind her. She admitted running fast to try to beat him. There isnt a day that goes by where Mary isnt going full speed, he said.
Moving Past the Criticism

Wittenbergs schedule is packed. After watching the professionals run the Fifth Avenue Mile, she joined her sons in the childrens race. She left Fifth Avenue after the very last barricade was hauled onto a truck, finally off to have her first meal since breakfast. She ordered a spinach salad and an edamame salad from a deli, but only picked at them. There was more to do: Stop by Road Runners old headquarters, a town house on East 89th Street that was eclipsed by the clubs new office near Carnegie Hall, to talk to a reporter. Attend a dinner in Washington Heights for elite runners. Watch her 11-year-old son, Alex, play basketball, her familys second game of the day. She can seemingly do everything with ease, but the bag-drop fiasco proved that her life does have hiccups. Darin Soler of Brooklyn wrote on an online petition: NYRR, bigger is not necessarily better dont ruin a great race because you cant handle the growth. Keith Walsh of Brooklyn, on the same petition, wrote that the decision to eliminate the bag drop makes me wonder how effective the current NYRR leadership staff are . . . may be time for a change. Wittenberg was taken aback by the attacks, according to several people with whom she discussed the issue. She said to me, this is awful, said John Korff, the organizer of the New York City Triathlon. I said, no, you have to view these peoples comments as passion. They are as passionate about their precious marathon sweatshirt as they are about the race. You are putting on a wedding, and the bride is passionate about her flowers. To keep both sides of her life afloat, Wittenberg often cannot stop to take a breath. On the day of the Fifth Avenue Mile, she did not stop moving until about 8 p.m., when she watched Alexs team play basketball at a school off Park Avenue. She wrung her hands as he became upset his team was losing. I just wish I could tell him its going to be O.K., she said calmly as other parents shouted at the referee or cheered. Wittenberg knows how kind words can help in a tough situation. Grete Waitz, who won the New York City Marathon a record nine times and died of cancer last year, used to give her encouragement when critics complained about the clubs broader mission. Grete used to whisper in my ear, Fred would like this, keep going in the right direction, keep taking this to more people, Wittenberg said. Wittenberg is doing what she has been told. And, from her perspective at least, the plan is working. On the day of the Fifth Avenue Mile, she picked up her race number for the next days 18-miler, a tuneup for the marathon. The volunteer at registration glanced up and asked: Name? How do you spell that? Uh, and first name? In the past, when Road Runners was a small club, everyone would have known her. But now she can blend in with the mass that keeps growing, just another runner.
Making Changes and Enemies

When Wittenberg arrived at Road Runners, some people in the sport wondered how she would handle the job because she had no background in the business side of sports. She was a relatively unknown quantity, said Nick Bitel, the chief executive of the London Marathon. She came in when New Yorks position was being threatened by Chicago, which was the up-and-coming race that was getting the better athletes and the better sponsorship money. Everybody was watching her closely to see how she would do. Before taking over as the chief executive in 2005, Wittenberg said, she worked closely with Steinfeld to broaden the clubs vision. Already, the popularity of the marathon was soaring, but the club was not adapting to the changing needs of its new constituents, including baby boomers who had taken up running less to race and more to maintain fitness. Tracy Sundlun, the senior vice president for events for the Competitor Group, which puts on the Rock n Roll Marathon series, said that years ago, marathoners ran 90 miles a week, worked full time and tried to break three hours on courses that closed after four hours. Today, you run 20 miles a week, and people think theyve changed their life, he said. These courses are moving restaurants with entertainment directors and more porta-potties than most states. It is a different sport; it is an activity. To expand Road Runners events, Wittenberg stepped forward to start making changes, she said, on behalf of Steinfeld, who never had the support he needed. That included helping land the marathons first title sponsor, the Dutch bank ING. By the time she replaced Steinfeld, critics were saying she was trampling upon the clubs identity. She didnt waste any time once Allan left, said Meltzer, the former board member. She just took over and hired a whole new crew. I was very much against her at this point. Scott Lange, the clubs former marketing chief, said Wittenberg was simply doing what she had to do to match demand. Lange, who left the club in 2000, said Wittenberg should be given credit for the clubs recent growth. Some runners say she should be blamed. The crowds are what drove Ralph Yozzo, a runner and software programmer who lives in Brooklyn, to compete elsewhere. Yozzo, 49, started running in Road Runners races in the late 1990s. New to the city, he enjoyed the events because they were small enough that he could make friends. Yozzo noticed a change about 10 years ago after Road Runners started awarding a berth in the marathon to runners who ran nine club races and volunteered to work at a 10th. The policy was a way to reward loyal runners and expand races that had room to grow. The strategy worked. More than 8,300 runners each year now enter the marathon via this route. But Yozzo and other runners noticed that many races filled
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Wittenberg visiting children in Ethiopia. Road Runners spending on youth and community programs has soared during her tenure. Below, she won the 1987 Marine Corps Marathon in 2 hours 44 minutes.
Expanding the Clubs Exposure

Wittenbergs efforts to change the sport and Road Runners have paid dividends. The clubs revenue grew to $59.3 million in the 2012 fiscal year, a 7.5 percent increase from the previous year and more than double the $28.4 million earned the year Wittenberg took over, largely because of a 30 percent rise in sponsorship revenue and a more than doubling of income from entry fees. On the other side of the ledger, spending on youth and community programs has nearly quadrupled, to $5.6 million, a point of pride for Wittenberg. Wittenberg has also made her mark in other ways. To make room for more competitors in the marathon, she instituted the wave system, having runners start at staggered times to ease conges-
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(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) AMERICAN LEAGUE All games televised by TBS DETROIT VS. YANKEES Saturday: Detroit (Fister 10-10) at Yankees (Pettitte 5-4) Sunday: Detroit (Sanchez (R), 9-14, 3.83) at New York (Kuroda (R), 16-11, 3.28), 4:07 p.m. Tuesday: Yankees (Hughes 16-13) at Detroit (Verlander 17-8), 8:07 p.m. Wednesday: Yankees (Sabathia 15-6) at Detroit (Scherzer 16-7), 8:07 p.m. x-Thursday: at Detroit, 4:07 p.m. x-Saturday, Oct. 20: at Yankees, 8:07 p.m. x-Sunday, Oct. 21: at Yankees, 8:15 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE All games televised by Fox SAN FRANCISCO VS. ST. LOUIS Sunday: St. Louis (Lynn (R), 19-8, 3.86) at San Francisco (Bumgarner (L), 16-12, 3.47), 8:15 p.m. Monday: St. Louis at San Francisco (Vogelsong 14-9), 8:07 p.m. Wednesday: at St. Louis, 4:07 p.m. Thursday: at St. Louis, 8:07 p.m. x-Oct. 19: at St. Louis, 8:07 p.m. x-Oct. 21: at San Francisco, 4:45 p.m. x-Oct. 22: at San Francisco, 8:07 p.m.
As a Net, Johnson Is Relearning to Share

By HOWARD BECK
COLLEGE FOOTBALL A.P. TOP 25

No. 1 Alabama (6-0) beat Missouri 42-10. Next: at Tennessee, Saturday. No. 2 Oregon (6-0) did not play. Next: at Arizona State, Thursday. No. 3 South Carolina (6-1) lost to No. 9 LSU 23-21. Next: at No. 4 Florida, Saturday. No. 4 Florida (6-0) beat Vanderbilt 31-17. Next: vs. No. 3 South Carolina, Saturday. No. 5 West Virginia (5-1) lost to Texas Tech 49-14. Next: vs. No. 6 Kansas State, Saturday. No. 6 Kansas State (6-0) beat Iowa State 27-21. Next: at No. 5 West Virginia, Saturday. No. 7 Notre Dame (6-0) beat No. 17 Stanford 20-13, OT. Next: vs. BYU, Saturday. No. 8 Ohio State (7-0) beat Indiana 52-49. Next: vs. Purdue, Saturday. No. 9 LSU (6-1) beat No. 3 South Carolina 23-21. Next: at No. 22 Texas A&M, Saturday. No. 10 Oregon State (5-0) beat BYU 42-24. Next: vs, Utah, Saturday. No. 11 Southern Cal (5-1) beat Washington 24-14. Next: vs. Colorado, Saturday. No. 12 Florida State (6-1) beat Boston College 51-7. Next: at Miami, Saturday. No. 13 Oklahoma (4-1) beat No. 15 Texas 63-21. Next: vs. Kansas, Saturday. No. 14 Georgia (5-1) did not play. Next: at Kentucky, Saturday. No. 15 Texas (4-2) lost to No. 13 Oklahoma 63-21. Next: vs. Baylor, Saturday. No. 16 Clemson (5-1) did not play. Next: vs. Virginia Tech, Saturday. No. 17 Stanford (4-2) lost to No. 7 Notre Dame 20-13, OT. Next: at California, Saturday. No. 18 Louisville (6-0) beat Pittsburgh 45-35. Next: vs. USF, Saturday. No. 19 Mississippi State (5-0) vs. Tennessee. Next: vs. Middle Tennessee, Saturday. No. 20 Rutgers (6-0) beat Syracuse 23-15. Next: at Temple, Saturday. No. 21 Cincinnati (5-0) beat Fordham 49-17. Next: at Toledo, Saturday. No. 22 Texas A&M (4-1) at No. 23 Louisiana Tech. Next: vs. No. 9 LSU, Saturday. No. 23 Louisiana Tech (5-0) vs. No. 22 Texas A&M. Next: vs. Idaho, Saturday. No. 24 Boise State (5-1) beat Fresno State 20-10. Next: vs. UNLV, Saturday. No. 25 Michigan (4-2) beat Illinois 45-0. Next: vs. Michigan State, Saturday.
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The man called Iso-Joe did not ask for the nickname, or the ball-dominating style that spawned it, or the burdens of a one-man show. The label suggests self-indulgence, and the modest, soft-speaking fellow from Little Rock, Ark., hardly fits the caricature. I dont know where the Iso-Joe comes from, said Joe Johnson, sounding more bemused than annoyed. For most of his seven seasons as an Atlanta Hawk, Johnson was a reluctant solo artist, powering Coach Mike Woodsons isolation-heavy offense while teammates stood and watched. The Hawks won a lot of games and Johnson scored a lot of points until the playoffs, when the simplistic style faltered, leaving Johnson as the scapegoat. It was cool, until I started getting double- and triple-teamed, Johnson said. This was an observation, not a complaint. Like any star, Johnson relished the chance to shine, even if he never viewed himself in such one-dimensional terms. As a scorer? Yes. As an iso-machine? No. The definitions and distinctions matter now that Johnson is in Brooklyn, as half of an All-Star backcourt that is expected to lead the Nets back to the playoffs. The Nets already have a do-everything point guard, Deron Williams, who can shoot, pass, drive and post up with the best of them. Johnson can also do it all and for the last seven years has which prompted obvious questions about compatibility and chemistry. Both players need the ball has been a common refrain since the Nets acquired Johnson from Atlanta in July. Not so, Johnson says. He has the box scores to back him up. In 2004-5, his last season with the Phoenix Suns, Johnson averaged 13.1 points a game while playing alongside Steve Nash, a ball-controlling point guard who also loved to shoot. Johnson was the Suns third-leading scorer, behind Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion, and third in shots a game, with a modest 14.4. The Suns offense was all about tempo, spacing and ball movement the antithesis of isolation play. Given a choice, Johnson prefers an ensemble. When I started in Phoenix, there wasnt no Iso-Joe, Johnson said. I basically played off of Amare and Steve Nash and Shawn and those guys. This is a similar situation for me here in Brooklyn. Indeed, just 14.9 percent of Johnsons possessions in 2004-5 were defined as isolation plays, according to Synergy Sports, which logs every N.B.A. play. The majority of Johnsons scoring chances came as the ballhandler in the pick and roll (22.1 percent), on spot-up jumpers (20.3) and in transition (18.8). It was not until Johnson joined the Hawks who made him their franchise cornerstone with a five-year, $70 million deal in 2005 that he became
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Joe Johnson, with ball at left, and Deron Williams, right, give the Nets an All-Star backcourt. The question is how well they will mesh.
an unabashed ball dominator. Johnsons isolation play leapt to 19.1 percent of his total offense in 2005-6 and to 31.5 in 2008-9. By 2009-10, it was 36.8 5 points higher than LeBron James and just slightly behind Carmelo Anthony. Johnsons isolation play dipped to 26.9 percent in 2010-11, after Woodson was fired. But by then, Iso-Joe had become a permanent part of the N.B.A. lexicon. It was not intended as a compliment. It was the system, said the Nets Josh Childress, who played with Johnson in Atlanta. I think that his iso ability is, its his talent. But he can score in a variety of different ways. Childress added, I think he wants to be able to just play with a bunch of guys who can play well together, and he can showcase his talent but not have to be the focal point and have the ball all the time. The vision in Brooklyn is simple: Johnson and Williams should be virtually interchangeable and complementary. Williams is a point guard who can score (21 points a game last season). Johnson is a shooting guard who can pass (4.4 assists a game in his career). Either one can initiate the offense, run the pick and roll or spot up for a jump shot. (Worth noting: Johnson ranked in the 94th percentile in scoring efficiency on spot-up chances last season, according to Synergy.) Ill get a lot more open shots than what Im accustomed to, Johnson said. I dont think its going to be difficult at all. If I felt it was, I would voice it. But I think this will pay big dividends for us, man. Ideally, the two All-Stars should take pressure off each other. Williams has never had a teammate as talented as Johnson. Johnson has not played with an elite point guard since leaving Phoenix. Defenses will have to think twice now before sending double teams at either one. Im definitely enjoying playing with Joe, Williams said. He has a great feel for the game. Williams also dismissed any notion that he needed the ball, noting that during his years with the Utah Jazz, he often gave up the ball early in possessions. Coach Avery Johnsons offense calls for continual movement and passing, so there is little chance that either guard will dominate the ball. Indeed, Avery Johnson said he was more concerned about overpassing that Williams and Johnson would try too hard to set each other up, rather than take the open shot. Theres some growing pains there, in terms of where theyre going to be, Avery Johnson said, but the main thing is they got great chemistry, they got great respect for each other. If the Los Angeles Lakers have the N.B.A.s premier backcourt, with Kobe Bryant and Nash, then the Nets are a close second. Probably right behind us, Bryant said. The Knicks have demonstrated that similarly skilled stars do not always mesh: Anthony and Stoudemire have been struggling for a year and a half to make their partnership work. But Johnson and Williams have an advantage: both are skilled passers, as well as scorers, which should make it easier to strike a balance. In that sense, the Nets stars are more analogous to James and Dwyane Wade, who also thrived as do-everything stars on their own teams before blending their talents in Miami (albeit after some early hiccups). Establishing chemistry between Johnson and Williams may be the Nets most critical mission in the preseason. Ego, roles and touches should not be an issue. For a six-time All-Star, Johnson is as understated as they come. Zero maintenance, said Mike DAntoni, who coached Johnson in Phoenix. I never try and put the limelight on myself or demand any attention, Johnson said. But Johnson does have a little New York bravado in him. He talked about championships in his first Nets news conference. He was the first to publicly mention 50 victories. He is not exactly Broadway Joe. But he is no Iso-Joe, either. The nickname needs an update. Movement Joe? No-iso Joe? Spot-up Joe? The soft-spoken fellow from Little Rock smiled broadly, as if to say: That would be just fine. Yeah, Johnson said, chuckling. Spot-up Joe.
YANKEES POSTSEASON STATISTICS

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EAST Albany (NY) 36 . . . . . St. Francis (Pa.) 13 Bryant 38 . . . . . . . . . . Robert Morris 35 Butler 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marist 14 CCSU 38. . . . . . . . . . . . . Duquesne 31 Colgate 51 . . . . . . . . . . . Holy Cross 35 Cornell 41 . . . . . . . . . Monmouth (NJ) 38 Georgia St. 41 . . . . . . . . Rhode Island 7 Harvard 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bucknell 7 Kent St. 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Army 17 Lafayette 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yale 10 Lehigh 17 . . . . . . . . . . . Georgetown 14 Louisville 45. . . . . . . . . . . Pittsburgh 35 New Hampshire 44 . . . . . . Richmond 40 Penn 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Columbia 20 Princeton 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brown 0 Rutgers 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . Syracuse 15 Sacred Heart 27 . . . . . . . . Dartmouth 10 Temple 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . UConn 14, OT Towson 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maine 19 SOUTH Alcorn St. 21 . . . . . . . Alabama A&M 20 Appalachian St. 28 . . . . . . . Samford 25 Cent. Arkansas 27 . . . . McNeese St. 26 Charleston Southern 32 . . . . . . . VMI 14 Chattanooga 31 . . . . . . . . . . Furman 10 Delaware St. 31 . . . . . . . . . SC State 17 E. Kentucky 45 . . . . . . . Austin Peay 14 East Carolina 41 . . . . . . . . . . Memphis 7 Florida 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . Vanderbilt 17 Florida A&M 44 . . . . . . . Savannah St. 3 Florida St. 51 . . . . . . . Boston College 7 Gardner-Webb 30 . . Mid-Am Nazarene 28 Georgia Southern 17 . . . . . . . . Wofford 9 Hampton 28 . . . . . . . . . . Norfolk St. 14 Jackson St. 37 . . . . . . . . Alabama St. 34 Jacksonville 34. . . . . . . . . . Davidson 24 James Madison 27 William & Mary 26, 2OT LSU 23 . . . . . . . . . . . South Carolina 21 Liberty 56 . . . . . . . . . . . Presbyterian 7 Louisiana-Monroe 35 . . . . . . . . . FAU 14 MVSU 45 . . . . . . . . . . Grambling St. 21 Maryland 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . Virginia 20 Middle Tennessee 34 . . . . . . . . . FIU 30 Mississippi 41 . . . . . . . . . . . Auburn 20 NC A&T 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Howard 10 NC Central 24 . . . . . . . . . Morgan St. 20 North Carolina 18 . . . . . . . . . . Miami 14 SE Louisiana 27 . . . . Northwestern St. 22 Sam Houston St. 41 . . . . . Nicholls St. 0 Southern U. 34 . . . . . . Texas Southern 7 Stony Brook 27 . . . . Coastal Carolina 21 The Citadel 45 . . . . . . . . W. Carolina 31 Tulane 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SMU 26 UCF 38 . . . . . . . Southern Miss. 31, 2OT UT-Martin 66 . . . . . . . . . . Murray St. 59 Villanova 38 . . . . . . . . . Old Dominion 14 Virginia Tech 41 . . . . . . . . . . . Duke 20 MIDWEST Alabama 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . Missouri 10 Ball St. 30 . . . . . . . . W. Michigan 24, OT Bowling Green 37 . . . . . . Miami (Ohio) 12 Cincinnati 49 . . . . . . . . . . . Fordham 17 Dayton 41 . . . . . . . . . . Morehead St. 27 Drake 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valparaiso 21 E. Illinois 31 . . . . . . . . Jacksonville St. 28 Illinois St. 35 . . . . . . Youngstown St. 28 Indiana St. 17 . . . . . . . N. Dakota St. 14 Iowa 19 . . . . . . . . Michigan St. 16, 2OT Kansas St. 27 . . . . . . . . . . Iowa St. 21 Michigan 45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Illinois 0 Missouri St. 27 . . . . . . . South Dakota 24 N. Arizona 45 . . . . . . . . North Dakota 38 N. Illinois 45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Buffalo 3 Northwestern 21 . . . . . . . . Minnesota 13 Notre Dame 20 . . . . . . Stanford 13, OT Ohio 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Akron 28 Oklahoma St. 20. . . . . . . . . . Kansas 14 S. Dakota St. 31. . . . . . . . . W. Illinois 10 S. Illinois 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. Iowa 31 Tennessee St. 40 . . . . . . SE Missouri 28 Toledo 52 . . . . . . . . . . . E. Michigan 47 Wisconsin 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . Purdue 14 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . Kentucky 7 Arkansas St. 36 . . . . . South Alabama 29 Houston 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UAB 17 Lamar 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . McMurry 21 Oklahoma 63 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Texas 21 Rice 34. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UTSA 14 TCU 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baylor 21 Texas St. 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Idaho 7 Texas Tech 49 . . . . . . . West Virginia 14 FAR WEST Air Force 28 . . . . . . . . . . . Wyoming 27 Boise St. 20 . . . . . . . . . . Fresno St. 10 E. Washington 27 . . . . . . Montana St. 24 Nevada 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UNLV 37 Oregon St. 42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . BYU 24 S. Utah 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . Montana 20 Sacramento St. 19 . . . . . . Weber St. 14 San Diego 44. . . . . . . . . . . Campbell 0 San Diego St. 38 . . . . . . Colorado St. 14 Southern Cal 24 . . . . . . . Washington 14 UC Davis 52 . . . . . . . . . . . Idaho St. 45 UCLA 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Utah 14 Utah St. 49 . . . . . . . . . San Jose St. 27
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Tennessee 26, Pittsburgh 23 Indianapolis at Jets, 1 Giants at San Francisco, 4:25 Oakland at Atlanta, 1 Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 1 Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1 Detroit at Philadelphia, 1 St. Louis at Miami, 1 Dallas at Baltimore, 1 Buffalo at Arizona, 4:05 New England at Seattle, 4:05 Minnesota at Washington, 4:25 Green Bay at Houston, 8:20 Open: Carolina, Chicago, Jacksonville, New Orleans
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N.F.L. INJURY REPORT

INDIANAPOLIS AT JETS COLTS: OUT: LB Pat Angerer (foot), RB Donald Brown (knee), LB Robert Mathis (knee), DE Fili Moala (knee), G Joe Reitz (knee), NT Martin Tevaseu (ankle). DOUBTFUL: CB Vontae Davis (ankle). PROBABLE: LB Dwight Freeney (ankle), RB Mewelde Moore (ankle), C Samson Satele (knee). JETS: DOUBTFUL: RB John Conner (hamstring), DT Kenrick Ellis (knee), WR Clyde Gates (shoulder), DT Sione Po'uha (low back), S Eric Smith (knee). QUESTIONABLE: C Nick Mangold (ankle). PROBABLE: LB Nick Bellore (shoulder), CB Aaron Berry (ribs), CB Antonio Cromartie (shoulder), TE Jeff Cumberland (ribs), LB David Harris (hamstring), WR Stephen Hill (hamstring), T Austin Howard (back), TE Dustin Keller (hamstring), WR Jeremy Kerley (finger, illness), S LaRon Landry (heel), G Brandon Moore (hip), LB Calvin Pace (Achilles), QB Mark Sanchez (low back), LB Bart Scott (toe), G Matt Slauson (knee), LB Bryan Thomas (hamstring). GIANTS AT SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS: OUT: DT Rocky Bernard (quadriceps), RB Andre Brown (concussion), S Kenny Phillips (knee). QUESTIONABLE: T David Diehl (knee), WR Hakeem Nicks (foot, knee), CB Corey Webster (hand, hamstring). PROBABLE: WR Ramses Barden (concussion), TE Martellus Bennett (knee), LB Chase Blackburn (hip), CB Jayron Hosley (hamstring), LB Keith Rivers (hamstring), S Antrel Rolle (knee). 49ERS: QUESTIONABLE: RB Brandon Jacobs (knee). PROBABLE: P Andy Lee (hand), QB Alex Smith (right finger).
GREATER HICKORY CLASSIC

Rock Barn Golf and Spa, Jones Course CONOVER, N.C. Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 7,090; Par: 72 Second Round Fred Funk . . . . . . . . . . . 66-66132 -12 Larry Mize . . . . . . . . . . . 66-67133 -11 Chip Beck . . . . . . . . . . . 69-67136 -8 Duffy Waldorf . . . . . . . . . 69-67136 -8 Mark Wiebe . . . . . . . . . . 67-69136 -8 Gene Sauers. . . . . . . . . . 69-68137 -7 Peter Senior . . . . . . . . . . 68-69137 -7 Dan Forsman . . . . . . . . . 65-72137 -7 David Frost. . . . . . . . . . . 66-71137 -7 Mark O'Meara . . . . . . . . . 70-69139 -5 Bernhard Langer . . . . . . . 70-69139 -5 John Cook . . . . . . . . . . . 68-71139 -5 Jay Don Blake. . . . . . . . . 67-72139 -5
Nets Sharp, And Winners, In Opener

By HOWARD BECK
L.P.G.A. MALAYSIA
Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA Purse: $1.9 million Yardage: 6,246; Par: 71 Third Round Na Yeon Choi . . . . . . . 65-67-68200 -13 Inbee Park . . . . . . . . . 69-68-65202 -11 Karrie Webb . . . . . . . . 65-71-68204 -9 Ai Miyazato. . . . . . . . . 68-69-68205 -8 Suzann Pettersen. . . . . 71-64-70205 -8 Paula Creamer . . . . . . 69-67-70206 -7 Catriona Matthew. . . . . 68-68-70206 -7 Mika Miyazato . . . . . . . 66-69-71206 -7 Brittany Lang . . . . . . . 69-68-70207 -6 a-Ariya Jutanugarn . . . . 69-72-67208 -5 So Yeon Ryu. . . . . . . . 68-73-67208 -5 Lindsey Wright . . . . . . 70-66-72208 -5 Sun Young Yoo . . . . . . 66-70-72208 -5
JETS STATISTICS
PASSING Att Cm Pct Sanchez 159 77 48.4 Tebow 2 1 50.0 TEAM 161 78 48.4 OPPONENTS 149 84 56.4 RUSHING ATT YRDS Greene 76 217 B. Powell 30 117 Tebow 14 57 McKnight 7 19 Sanchez 3 5 TEAM 130 415 OPPONENTS 176 862 RECEIVING NO.YARDS S. Holmes 20 272 Kerley 15 291 Cumberland 13 139 Schilens 10 98 St. Hill 5 89 YdsTd Int Rate 1043 6 6 66.6 9 0 0 62.5 1052 6 6 66.6 1018 6 5 77.0
ATLANTIC CITY The first chants of Brook-lyn came far from the Nets new home, far down the coastline, in a building resemNETS 108 bling an airplane hangar, 76ERS 105 in the middle of Overtime a casino district, in the state they just recently abandoned. It was an odd backdrop to start a new era, but the Nets immediate concerns are more about internal growth than their surroundings. And the result Saturday night was promising enough for a preseason game: a 108105 overtime victory over the undermanned Philadelphia 76ers at Boardwalk Hall. Deron Williams and Joe Johnson played fluidly in their debut as backcourt mates. Brook Lopez was lively and assertive, showing no effects from the foot injury that kept him out almost all of last season. And the Nets reconstructed lineup played with a surprising cohesion, looking like a team that had been together for months, instead of weeks. The ball moved, the offense flowed and everything seemed to fit. I think this could be a special year for us, said Johnson, who scored 13 points in his Nets debut despite some early foul trouble. Lopez and C. J. Watson scored 19 points each, and Gerald Wallace added 18 as the Nets recorded their first victory of any sort under the Brooklyn banner, while a vocal crowd chanted Brooklyn throughout the game. I like that Brooklyn chant, Williams said. Hopefully, thats a motto this year. That was only 2,000 fans. So imagine 18,000. The Nets make their home debut Monday night at Barclays Center against the Washington Wizards. The Nets starting unit pushed the tempo to great effect early, scoring 8
SOCCER M.L.S. STANDINGS

EAST x-Sporting KC x-Chicago D.C. New York Houston Columbus Montreal Philadelphia New England Toronto FC W 17 17 16 15 13 14 12 10 7 5 L 7 10 10 9 8 11 15 15 17 20 T Pts GF GA 8 59 40 26 5 56 45 39 6 54 49 40 8 53 54 46 11 50 45 38 7 49 40 40 5 41 45 50 6 36 35 37 8 29 37 44 7 22 35 60 T Pts GF GA 7 64 69 40 4 55 46 35 10 52 48 31 5 50 56 45 9 42 35 40 11 38 39 42 4 31 40 50 9 30 32 55 8 29 22 54 FC, 11 p.m.
AUTO RACING BANK OF AMERICA 500

Charlotte Motor Speedway CONCORD, N.C. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 334 laps, 112.6 rating, 47 points, $251,389. 2. (9) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 334, 130.7, 43, $220,426. 3. (5) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 334, 121.8, 42, $192,396. 4. (1) Greg Biffle, Ford, 334, 120.8, 41, $189,410. 5. (8) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 334, 110.6, 39, $162,818. 6. (2) Mark Martin, Toyota, 334, 106.6, 39, $109,935. 7. (19) Carl Edwards, Ford, 333, 98.5, 37, $144,701. 8. (10) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 333, 105.2, 36, $99,010. 9. (12) Joey Logano, Toyota, 333, 89.3, 35, $96,385. 10. (6) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 333, 94, 34, $115,649. 11. (20) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 333, 121.4, 35, $151,380. 12. (17) Aric Almirola, Ford, 333, 87.4, 32, $119,146. 13. (32) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 333, 84.3, 31, $134,610. Top 12 in Points: 1. B.Keselowski, 2,214; 2. J.Johnson, 2,207; 3. D.Hamlin, 2,199; 4. C.Bowyer, 2,186; 5. K.Kahne, 2,179; 6. G.Biffle, 2,171; 7. M.Truex Jr., 2,165; 8. T.Stewart, 2,164; 9. J.Gordon, 2,164; 10. K.Harvick, 2,158; 11. M.Kenseth, 2,147; 12. D.Earnhardt Jr., 2,128.
AVG LONG TD 2.9 14 1 3.9 11 0 4.1 22 0 2.7 12 0 1.7 4 0 3.2 22 1 4.9 56t 8 AVG LONG TD 13.6 38 1 19.4 66 2 10.7 27t 1 9.8 22 0 17.8 33t 2
GIANTS STATISTICS
PASSING Att Cm Pct YdsTd Int Rate E. Manning 197 128 65.0 1579 10 5 96.0 D. Carr 2 1 50.0 4 0 0 56.3 TEAM 199 129 64.8 1583 10 5 95.5 OPPONENTS 155 97 62.6 1370 8 8 86.8 RUSHING ATT YRDS AVG LONG TD Bradshaw 65 333 5.1 37 2 And. Brown 38 198 5.2 31 3 D. Wilson 8 52 6.5 40t 1 D. Scott 6 9 1.5 5 0 Hynoski 2 7 3.5 4 0 E. Manning 7 2 0.3 4 0 TEAM 126 601 4.8 40t 6 OPPONENTS 123 557 4.5 48 3 RECEIVING Cruz Ma. Bennett Hixon H. Nicks Barden NO.YARDS 37 438 19 217 15 236 14 237 12 198 AVG LONG TD 11.8 80t 5 11.4 33t 3 15.7 41 0 16.9 50 1 16.5 31 0
WEST W L x-San Jose 19 6 x-Real Salt Lake 17 11 x-Seattle 14 7 x-Los Angeles 15 12 Vancouver 11 12 FC Dallas 9 12 Colorado 9 19 Portland 7 16 Chivas USA 7 17 x- clinched playoff berth Wednesday, Oct. 17 Real Salt Lake at Seattle
2012 U.S. SCHEDULE

All Times EDT (a-World Cup qualifier) (Won 8, Lost 2, Tied 2) Jan. 21 United States 1, Venezuela 0 Jan. 25 United States 1, Panama 0 Feb. 29 United States 1, Italy 0 May 26 United States 5, Scotland 1 May 30 Brazil 4, United States 1 June 3 United States 0, Canada 0, tie a-June 8 United States 3, Antigua and Barbuda 1 a-June 12 United States 1, Guatemala 1 Aug. 15 United States 1, Mexico 0 a-Sept. 7 Jamaica 2, United States 1 a-Sept. 11 United States 1, Jamaica 0 a-Friday United States 2, Antigua 1 a-Tuesday vs. Guatemala at Kansas City, Kan., 7:15 p.m.
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Thaddeus Young, left, with Andray Blatche in Atlantic City. Blatche had 12 points, including a decisive jumper, in the renamed Nets first game.
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fast-break points in the first quarter while racing to a 30-17 lead. The margin was 18 points early in the fourth quarter when the last of the starters went to the bench. They really was utilizing all of our strengths, Coach Avery Johnson said of his starting five. Brook inside, shooting on the perimeter, with all three of our perimeter guys posting up, with Wallace and Joe posting up. Obviously with Brook. Deron doing a little bit of everything. That third quar-
ter was pretty much a snapshot of kind of how wed like to play. From there, it got messy, as the Nets reserves squandered the lead, necessitating overtime. But it set them up for a nice finish. Andray Blatche, who is looking to restart his career after a bumpy tenure in Washington, hit the decisive jump shot with 26.8 seconds left in overtime. Watson followed with two free throws to seal the victory. It felt good, said Blatche, who finished with 12 points and 5 rebounds. I felt confident. Nick Young led Philadelphia with 21 points off the bench, including 15 in the fourth quarter to spark the 76ers late comeback.
COLLEGE HOCKEY SCORES

EAST Boston University 4 . . . . . . Providence 2 Ferris State 2. . . . . . . . Rensselaer 2, OT New Hampshire 4 . . . . St. Cloud State 2 Northeastern 3 . . . . . . Boston College 1 Penn State 4 American International 3, OT Quinnipiac 4 . . . . . . . . . Robert Morris 0 Niagara 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . Mercyhurst 1 SOUTH Minnesota State 2 . Alabama-Huntsville 2, OT MIDWEST Miami (Ohio) 5 . . . . . . . . . . . Colgate 1 Michigan Tech 8. . . . . . Lake Superior 4 Minnesota 7 . . . . . . . . Michigan State 1 Northern Michigan 4 . . . . . . Wisconsin 2 Ohio State 3 . . . . . . Minnesota-Duluth 2 Union (NY) 4 . . . . . . . . Bowling Green 1 Western Michigan 3 . . . . St. Lawrence 2 FAR WEST Colorado College 5 . . . . . . . . Clarkson 4 TOURNAMENT Icebreaker Maine 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Army 3 Notre Dame 3 . . . . . Nebraska-Omaha 2 Kendall Hockey Classic Canisius 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alaska 1
PRO BASKETBALL W.N.B.A. CHAMPIONSHIP

All Times EDT (Best-of-5) (x-if necessary) MINNESOTA VS. INDIANA Sunday: at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Wednesday: at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Friday: at Indiana, 8 p.m. x-Sunday, Oct. 21: at Indiana, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 24: at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
TENNIS SHANGHAI ROLEX MASTERS

Qizhong Tennis Center SHANGHAI, CHINA Singles Semifinals Novak Djokovic (2), Serbia, d. Tomas Berdych (4), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4. Andy Murray (3), Britain, d. Roger Federer (1), Switzerland, 6-4, 6-4.
N.B.A. PRESEASON
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Brooklyn 108, Philadelphia 105, OT Knicks 98, Boston 95, OT Washington 99, Cleveland 95 Minnesota 82, Chicago 75 Milwaukee 108, Detroit 91 Utah at L.A. Lakers
GENERALI LADIES LINZ OPEN

Intersport Arena Linz LINZ, AUSTRIA Singles Semifinals Julia Goerges (5), Germany, d. Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3. Victoria Azarenka (1), Belarus, d. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-2, 6-1.
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A League Outlaw With an Endearing Scowl

By BILL MORRIS
Im not going to sentence you to centuries. It makes no sense for a 68-year-old man. This sentence will put you in prison for the rest of your life.
JUDGE JOHN M. CLELAND,
For me, Alex Karras will always be a pink giant with a towel wrapped around his waist. He will always have a scowl on his face, a cigar in one paw and a cold beer in the other. Thats how I still see him half a century after I, as a wide-eyed kid, slipped into the Detroit Lions locker room after home games. Karras, who died Wednesday at the age of 77, was pink because he had just finished washing away the mud and the blood from a long day in the trenches. He was scowling through the cigar smoke because, more often than not, the Lions had just lost another game. I got into the locker room because my father had season tickets in a little third-deck aerie beside the press box. Our seats were perched above the gridiron that had been painted on the field where the Tigers played baseball during the warm months and where the Lions played a bruising brand of football during the season of rain, sleet and snow. As cold as it was in those stands, Ive got to believe the playing field was as forgiving as a sidewalk. My father had those choice tickets because he worked at Fords, as Detroiters say. Specifically, he worked for the man who bought the Lions in 1963 and still owns the team, William Clay Ford Sr., whose grandfather gave the world the Model T and the $5 workday. Karras, at 6 feet 2 inches and about 250 pounds, looked as big as a building to my boyhood eyes but was considered small for a defensive lineman even then. If you wanted big, you went with Roger Brown, Bill Morris, who grew up in Detroit, is the author of the novels Motor City and All Souls Day.
his neighbor on the Lions Fearsome Foursome defensive line of the 1960s. Brown weighed more than 300 pounds, when 300-pound football players and 7-foot basketball players were anomalies and when domed stadiums, luxury suites and multimillionaire athletes did not exist. But Karras, skinny legs and all, played with a murderous intensity that endeared him to me and many other fans in the bare-knuckle city of Detroit. He was known for hating all quarterbacks, even his own. He dismissed them as milk drinkers. One story has it that after Lions quarterback Milt Plum threw a late interception, turning a 7-6 lead into a 9-7 loss to the despised Green Bay Packers, an infuriated Karras hurled his helmet across the locker room at Plums skull. He missed the target by 10 inches, give or take. As I was to learn later, Karras had another admirable characteristic: an abiding disdain for authority. He got along so poorly with his coach at the University of Iowa, Forest Evashevski, that the two wouldnt speak to each other off the field. Even so, Karras was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in 1957 and a first-round draft pick by
the Lions. He did not have many kind words for the teams front office, and he was furious and unrepentant when, in 1963, N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended him and Packers running back Paul Hornung for gambling on games. I dont like Pete Rozelle, Karras said in a 1977 interview, recalling his one-year suspension for placing half a dozen bets of $50 or $100. Hornung apologized, publicly and profusely. Karras never did. I al-
Alex Karras disliked authority, as well as quarterbacks.

ways admired him for that, for his unwillingness to bow to authority, doubly so because it carried consequences. Hornung was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1986. Despite four Pro Bowl appearances, despite being voted to the All-Decade Team of the 1960s, despite a consensus that he was one of the best defensive linemen ever to play the game, Karras was shunned by the Hall of Fame. Karras played his entire career for Detroit, from 1958 to 1970, missing one game to injury.
During his suspension, he took up pro wrestling, including a hyped bout against Dick the Bruiser. Karras told an interviewer in 2003 that he was paid $17,000 for that night, $4,000 more than he made the previous season playing for a team owned by a man who was then worth millions. It may be fashionable nowadays to moan that athletes make outrageous money and I moan as much as any fan but we tend to forget that before professional athletes became organized and began to assert leverage, the team owners tended to treat players like serfs. After Joe DiMaggio made $17,000 during his second sensational season with the Yankees, he asked for $40,000 in 1938. He eventually caved in and accepted managements offer of $25,000. For this he was booed in the Bronx. Karras played in one playoff game in his career, his last game, a 5-0 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Ive got to believe all that losing ate up a competitor like Karras, the scowling pink giant with the cigar and the beer. But he didnt turn into a bitter old jock. To his credit, he was successful in broadcasting and in acting. And he kept fighting the authorities to the end. He had dementia during the last decade of his life, and in April he joined the more than 3,000 former players who are suing the N.F.L. for failing to protect them from the long-term effects of head injuries. In one of his most memorable movie roles, as the thick-skulled cowpoke Mongo in the 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles, Karras said, Mongo only pawn in game of life. Alex Karras was anything but a pawn, in the game of football or in the game of life.
when sentencing Jerry Sandusky to 30 to 60 years in the Penn State sexual abuse scandal.
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The Armstrong Conundrum

To the Sports Editor: Re Details of Doping Scheme Paint Armstrong as Leader, Oct. 11: As a lifelong athlete and cyclist, I will always remain in awe of Lance Armstrongs efforts and accomplishment, no matter how achieved. Unfortunately, I can never again regard him as a good guy, which is my highest accolade. Getting ones friends and co-workers to engage in behavior that, if discovered, would bar them for life from their profession, is despicable. As for his friends and teammates now telling their version of the truth, they have earned a place in Dantes Ninth Circle of Hell as betrayers of a special relationship. They knew the rules of cycling, and they knew the rules of the United States Postal Service team. They chose, ignoring the dictate of Mark Twain: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. MARC SEIGLE Boston
To the Sports Editor: The United States Anti-Doping Agency damns Lance Armstrong and the professional peloton. But the riders are supporting actors. Usada and other similar organizations must investigate the role played by the interests of entities like the International Cycling Union, television networks, sponsors and races in tolerating, facilitating and promoting the culture of doping. They must share the responsibility and the penalties, which are now borne only by the riders. GREG HOLM Denver To the Sports Editor: Re Report Describes How Armstrong and His Team Eluded Doping Tests, Oct. 12: As a high school wrestler, I sat in a sauna trying to cheat a weight-class determination test. I wanted to lose 13 pounds to compete at a desired weight class, to have a physical advantage. I ate little for two days, practiced hard and drank a load of water. Then, an hour before my urine was tested for hydration, my arm pinched for fat content and my weight measured, I went to that sauna. The water poured out of me. With ingenuity, I passed the test after having failed it a few days before. My fraud, unlike Lance Armstrongs, did not make my season a success. The principles of sport work ethic and fair competition were lost to me. These principles ought to be at the core of our society and its sports. JOE LAUGHTON FIELDS-JOHNSON Roanoke, Va.
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Detroits Voice of Hockey Leaves a Sad Silence

By MICHELINE MAYNARD
DETROIT In the summer, the radio airwaves here once belonged to Ernie Harwell. In the winter, they were under the command of Budd Lynch. Those two voices symbolized sportscasting for generations of Detroiters, and they fit their sports as well. Harwells smooth Southern tones wrapped themselves languidly around baseball, turning plays by the Detroit Tigers into sheer poetry. The Ontario-born Lynch, by contrast, spoke fast, in exclamations, reflecting a collision on the boards and the flash of blades barreling down the ice. When declaring, He shoots, he scores! Lynchs voice soared to the rafters of old Olympia Stadium, where the Red Wings played until 1979, and resounded at Joe Louis Arena, where Lynch worked as the teams public-address announcer. Frank Joseph James Lynch died Tuesday at a nursing home in Dearborn, Mich., at 95, having spent a remarkable 63 years connected with the Red Wings. When I heard the news, I immediately teared up because his death took another piece of my childhood with him, and took away a voice that was part of Detroit sports history. I have no memories of the Red Wings that dont include Lynch. Perhaps because baseball is more popular, Harwell was more widely known. But in Detroit, which calls itself Hockeytown, Lynch was just as treasured. I first became aware of him because of my father, who grew up in Massachusetts and was a rabid hockey fan, regularly planting himself in front of our basement television to watch games. My mother, although a baseball fan, did not have much interest in hockey, and my brother did not follow sports. I figured out that if I wanted quality time with my father, watching hockey was a way to get it. So I sneaked downstairs, first watching quietly, then asking questions: What is icing? Why
was that a penalty? Is he really hurt? My patient father eventually told me, Just pay attention to the announcer. The announcer was Budd Lynch. As soon as the World Series ended, my father and I would decamp to the basement, equipped with pretzels or popcorn, beer for him and soda for me, and we would watch players like Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio from the Wings battle Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita from the Chicago Blackhawks, or take on Phil Esposito and Bobby Orr from the Boston Bruins. (My schoolgirl crush on Orr induced much eye-rolling from my father.) Besides his Canadian accent, which turned Detroit into a three-syllable word (Dee-TROY-it), Lynch was known for his missing arm and shoulder, which were shot off during an attack near Normandy in World War II while he served with the Canadian Armys Essex Scottish Regiment. He worked closely with amputees and called himself the one-armed bandit, a nickname he said he acquired while playing poker on the Queen Mary on the way back from Europe after the war. Others say he also deserved the nickname for his ruthless golf game, which he continued to play nearly to his death.
Lynch was the Wings radio and television broadcaster from 1949 to 1975, when he joined the Red Wings publicrelations team. Although he tried to retire in the 1980s, the clubs owners, the Ilitch family, suggested he return as the public-address announcer, and he never left. Dave LewAllen, a sports anchor and reporter with WXYZ-TV in Detroit, met Lynch in 1979, when he covered
An announcer who was content to let the game unfold before him.
sports for WJR, a local AM radio station. In many ways, Budd was similar to Ernie Harwell, LewAllen wrote in an e-mail. They were always welcoming, friendly and helpful to a new face on the scene especially one who might have looked a little lost trying to find their way in a pro sports setting or locker room. Lynch would probably have been the
Budd Lynch calling a Detroit Red Wings home game in 2002.
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first to say he did not have a face for television, but he became a pioneer when the Red Wings introduced cameras at the Olympia and in the radio booth in 1952. He and his broadcasting partner, Bruce Martyn, became as familiar to Detroiters as Harwell and Ray Lane during the summer. Lynch was remarkable in that he did not clutter his play-by-play with clichs, said Art Regner, a longtime local broadcaster now with ESPN Radio who blogs for FoxSportsDetroit.com. Budd said a lot without saying too much, Regner said. He let the game unfold and let the game come to him. He told me: The game is being played by people whose ability is about equal. It all depends on the bounce of the puck. Regner remembered listening to Lynch call the first appearance in Detroit by Marcel Dionne, the 1970s phenomenon whose N.H.L. career was preceded by the kind of hype that more recently surrounded the Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby. Regner said Lynch refused to be pulled into the hoopla. When Dionne put the puck in the net, Lynch simply declared, The kid scores. He was witty, he was funny, but he also was extremely humble, Regner said. The sound of Lynchs declaring, He shoots, he scores! will always live in my head, along with Harwells reciting a verse from the Song of Solomon at the start of each baseball season. But I realized that fans who had never heard him broadcast a game will instead remember Lynch for his regular publicaddress announcement at Joe Louis Arena, Last minute of play in this period. I asked Regner whether he thought Lynch would mind being known for that instead of his play-by-play. No, Regner said, because Lynch was happy just to be at every game. In all honesty, that was Budd, he said.
To the Sports Editor: Re In Triathlon, Armstrong Finds a Mixed Reception, Oct. 11: Along with several thousand others, and Lance Armstrong, I participated in the Ulman Cancer Funds Half Full Triathlon last Sunday in Columbia, Md. When Armstrong received a hug from a cancer survivor as he crossed the finish line, no one cared about certification. His relentless fight against cancer transcends anything he ever did or didnt do on a bike. CARL R. GOLD Towson, Md.
Unfinished Work in D.C.

To the Sports Editor: Re Fifty Years Ago, Last Outpost of Segregation in N.F.L. Fell, Oct. 7: Thank you for the enlightening story about the first black players to take the field in Washington. I look forward to the article about the Washington team changing its mascot from a racist stereotype that seems to go unquestioned, even in 2012. MICHAEL HAEFLINGER Camden, N.J.
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The five most viewed articles on nytimes.com/sports from Oct. 5 to 11.
1. DOPING CASE AGAINST LANCE ARMSTRONG DETAILED Hundreds of pages
of witness accounts, e-mail correspondence, financial records and laboratory analyses were released by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. (Published Oct. 10)
2. REPORT DESCRIBES HOW ARMSTRONG BEAT DRUG TESTS The most basic tech-
nique was simply running away or hiding, but when the testers could not be avoided, Armstrong and his teammates turned to drug masking, a report said. (Oct. 11) 3. JERRY SANDUSKY SENTENCED The former Penn State football assistant was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys. (Oct. 9)
4. ALEX KARRAS, N.F.L. LINEMAN AND ACTOR, DIES AT 77 The Lions All-Pro defen-
sive tackle had a second career in films like Blazing Saddles and television shows like Webster. (Oct. 10)
5. 1999 TOUR DE FRANCE TAKES DARK TURN
The race was supposed to be one of renewal after a doping scandal engulfed the 1998 Tour but was won by Armstrong, who was also doping, a report said. (Oct. 10)
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L.S.U. and Its Defense Roar Back to Top South Carolina and Quiet Critics
By GREG BISHOP
BATON ROUGE, La. In the fourth quarter, the Louisiana State that surfaced was what was expected in September, before the Tigers season L.S.U. 23 stalled, beS. CAROLINA 21 fore nearly a month of uninspired football led to a loss at Florida. That L.S.U. team looked vulnerable, a notch below national championship caliber. This L.S.U. team, the one that defeated South Carolina, 23-21, on Saturday, did not. The crowd arrived at Tiger Stadium clad almost entirely in yellow, their mood clouded with concern. By late Saturday, those fears had lifted, if only temporarily, because of an elite defense that stifled the Gamecocks (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference), by a kicker whose right leg provided the winning margin, and by an offense that did enough and, save one egregious interception, stayed out of the defenses way. In the fourth quarter, Drew Allemans field goal pulled the Tigers to a point behind. Safety Eric Reid intercepted a pass that sailed on South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw, and Alleman then drilled his third field goal to give L.S.U. the lead. That Tigers defense, stout and formidable and filled with N.F.L. prospects, forced another punt, after which running back Jeremy Hill sprinted for a 50-yard score. The Gamecocks scored again near the end of the fourth quarter, in a rare lapse from the Tigers defense. But the ensuing onside kick bounced out of bounds, and with that, L.S.U. (6-1, 2-1) climbed back into the national championship picture one week after Florida handed the Tigers their first regular-season defeat since 2010. Under Coach Les Miles, L.S.U. is 18-1 in games that follow losses, including a perfect 7-0 at Tiger Stadium, which shook, rattled and roared again Saturday. L.S.U. improved its university record home winning streak to 22 games. The last home defeat came against Tim Tebow and Florida in 2009. In the first half, South Carolina managed very little, except the lead. One play shifted the advantage to the Gamecocks. It came late in
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L.S.U.s Jeremy Hill scoring a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Under Coach Les Miles, the Tigers are 18-1 in games after losses, and 7-0 at Tiger Stadium.
the first quarter, with L.S.U. ahead and on the move. At that point, the Tigers offensive concerns, noticeable on campus and noted throughout the blogosphere, had been, if not abated, then temporarily quelled. Zach Mettenberger, L.S.U.s shaky, stationary quarterback who stumbled in the Tigers two most recent SEC games an ugly win over Auburn and the loss to Florida had moved the offense into prime scoring position early in the first quarter. This despite having two freshmen linemen, guard Trai Turner and tackle Vadal Alexander, who started on the right side of the line. L.S.U. settled for a 23-yard field goal from Alleman on that drive. But compared with recent weeks, those early returns registered an offensive explosion. The play that changed that was more of an implosion. As Mettenberger dropped back, he looked right and looked right and looked right some more. He never took his eyes off that side of the field. Cornerback Jimmy Legree recognized Mettenbergers intentions, stepped in front of the pass and returned an interception 70 yards up the left sideline. When Shaw found receiver Ace Sanders for a 2-yard score, South Carolina led, 7-3, despite its 25 yards of total offense. That was how the first half unfolded. L.S.U. advanced the ball, only for drives to stall. The Tigers gained 178 yards in the first half, but in a performance indicative of their season-long offensive struggles, missed a field goal and turned the ball over. In recent weeks, Miles vouched often for his quarterback. He noted Mettenbergers lack of mobility but said he did not favor a more agile replacement. Then, Miles added, Im not ready to say that were not going to be a really good football team here in the future. The locals did not seem entirely convinced. As the campus filled on Saturday afternoon, the mood ranged from cautious optimism to outright dread. But if anyone feasted, it was L.S.U.s formidable defense. It featured a pair of elite defensive ends in Barkevious Mingo and Sam Montgomery. Combine those two with South Carolinas Jadeveon Clowney three players nearly certain to be selected early in coming N.F.L. drafts and this game was a testament to defense, to defensive line play in particular, to the brutes up front. Clowney and Company did their part, too, at least when it came to the scoreboard. After Alleman missed a second-quarter field-goal attempt, the Tigers had outgained the Gamecocks, 147-25, and yet trailed, 7-3. By halftime, L.S.U. had gone 29 straight possessions without a touchdown. That streak ended immediately. Mettenberger completed a key third-down pass, and the Tigers turned loose their running backs as they approached the red zone. Jeremy Hill scored from 7 yards out for a 10-7 lead. South Carolinas second touchdown, much like its first, was the product of prime field position, in this case a long punt return by Sanders. On the ensuing drive, Shaw threaded a pass, across his body, across the field, between two defenders to tight end Justice Cunningham. Two plays later, Marcus Lattimore shed two defenders for a 14-10 South Carolina lead. Since the Bowl Championship Series started in 1998, only one team reached the title game with two losses. Of course, that team L.S.U. in 2007 won the title.
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West Virginias Offense Stalls in Blowout Loss

By The Associated Press
Irish Make Late Stand To Extend Unbeaten Start

By TIM ROHAN
Seth Doege passed for 6 touchdowns and a season-high 499 yards, and Texas Techs defense shut down Geno Smith and No. 5 West Virginia as the Red Raiders upset the Mountaineers, 49-14, on Saturday. Red Raider fans stormed their home field after the win, Texas Techs most lopsided victory over a team ranked in the top five. Texas Techs defense consistently stymied West Virginias offense. Smith, a Heisman Trophy contender, completed 29 of 55 passes for 275 yards and only 1 touchdown. The Red Raiders offense had no such trouble. Texas Tech (5-1, 2-1 Big 12) had 18 plays of 15 yards or more, including a 61-yard pass to Jace Amaro and a 53-yard touchdown run by SaDale Foster. The Mountaineers (5-1, 2-1) fell short of their scoring average (52) by 38 points and got just one touchdown in the second half, and that came when the game was out of reach.
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Collin Klein ran for 105 yards and 3 touchdowns, and No. 6 Kansas State held off Iowa State for its fifth straight win over the Cyclones. Klein also threw for 187 yards for the visiting Wildcats (6-0, 3-0 Big 12), who held the Cyclones (4-2, 1-2) to 231 yards of offense. OKLAHOMA 63, TEXAS 21 Blake Bell powered his way in for four touchdowns for No. 13 Oklahoma against No. 15 Texas. Landry Jones threw for 321 yards and 2 touchdowns for the Sooners (4-1, 2-1 Big 12) in Dallas, becoming the fourth Sooners quarterback to beat Texas (4-2, 1-2) three times. FLORIDA 31, VANDERBILT 17 The sophomore Jeff Driskel ran for 177 yards and 3 touchdowns. He threw for 77 yards and ran 11 times, setting the Florida record for yards rushing by a quarterback, topping Tim Tebows 166 against Mississippi in 2007. No. 4 Florida (6-0, 5-0) finished its last Southeastern Conference trip outside the state of Florida with its 22nd straight win over Vanderbilt (2-4, 1-3). FLORIDA STATE 51, B.C. 7 E. J. Manuel threw for a career-high 439 yards and 4 touchdowns, and kicker Dustin Hopkins became the Atlantic Coast Conferences career scoring leader as No. 12
Blake Bell of Oklahoma, above, scoring during the Sooners rout of Texas. SaDale Foster also contributed to a blowout, outrunning Eric Kinsey on a 53-yard score against West Virginia.
two 100-yard rushers in the same game for the first time this season, and combined for five scores in a weather-delayed road victory against Missouri (3-4, 0-4).
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Teddy Bridgewater hit DeVante Parker for a 75-yard touchdown pass on the first play of the second half to take the lead, and the No. 18 Cardinals (6-0, 1-0 Big East) escaped at Pitt (2-4, 0-3).
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Florida State (6-1, 3-1) rebounded from its first loss of the season, rolling to a 28-0 lead at home before Boston College (1-5, 0-3) scored. U.S.C. 24, WASHINGTON 14 No. 11 Southern California overcame offensive inconsistency on the road to continue rebuilding after last months loss to Stanford. The Trojans (5-1, 3-1 Pacific-12) were scoreless in the second half but forced four turnovers by Washington (3-3, 1-2).
ton Miller had his third straight 100-yard rushing game as No. 8 Ohio State escaped at Indiana. The victory makes the Buckeyes (7-0, 3-0) the first ranked team with seven wins. Indiana (2-4, 0-3) has lost 21 straight Big Ten games to teams from outside the state and 18 straight to the Buckeyes since 1988. Vaz passed for 332 yards and 3 touchdowns in his first start since high school, and No. 10 Oregon State used a strong start and bigger finish to beat host Brigham Young (4-3).
Deven Drane ran 76 yards for a touchdown after picking up a fumble, and Munchie Legaux threw two touchdown passes to lead the Bearcats (5-0) against visiting Fordham (4-3).
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Harper rushed for 122 yards and a touchdown to lead No. 24 Boise State (5-1, 2-0 Mountain West) at home against Fresno State (4-3, 2-1). Robinson threw two touchdown passes and ran for two scores at home, leading No. 25 Michigan (4-2, 2-0 Big Ten). Illinois (2-5, 0-3) lost quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase because of injury in the second quarter.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. The blue-gray October sky had turned to night after a long, wet and tiresome afternoon. The rain had come and gone. The NOTRE DAME 20 offense STANFORD 13 had, too. But the Overtime defense remained, proud and strong, when Stepfan Taylor ran, four last times, straight into its teeth. On his first two tries, Taylor, the Stanford running back, got to the 1. Notre Dames defense, perhaps the best in the country, had allowed only three touchdowns all season. The Cardinal offense had relied on its power running game to get here. With Stanford behind by 20-13 in overtime, Notre Dames Manti Teo knew it was coming again. On third down, the Notre Dame front created a wall, and Teo pushed Taylor back for no gain. I love you guys, and no matter what happens, everybody stick together, Teo said in the huddle. One last time, Taylor ran at Louis Nix III, Stephon Truit and Teo, the heart of No. 7 Notre Dames defense, and was stopped. He squirmed and charged again, but the officials ruled he fell short. Afterward, the play was reviewed and the call was upheld, although Taylor would swear to his coach, David Shaw, that he had scored. But in the moment when Teo, a senior, saw Taylor down, he turned and pointed to his mother and father in the stands, then ran to his teammates who were celebrating their win over No. 17 Stanford. It required a clutch and poised performance by the backup quarterback (and former starter) Tommy Rees, who led Notre Dame to a tying field goal with 20 seconds left in regulation and a tension-filled touchdown in overtime, before the defenses final stand. The Fighting Irish had not trailed all season, had not had to fight and crawl and come back like this as they moved to 6-0 for the first time since 2002. Early on, the conditions favored neither team, or quarterback. Pressed into passing situations, the first-year starters Everett Golson for Notre Dame and Josh Nunes for Stanford were unimpressive. On his first drive, Golson
fumbled a snap near midfield. Stanford recovered. Nunes underthrew an open receiver in the end zone. The Irish intercepted. Each team sank into a malaise. Notre Dame tried to run the ball with Theo Riddick and Cierre Wood, and Stanford countered with Taylor. The results were often tedious, and both teams uncharacteristically had to rely on their quarterbacks. The results were ugly. The Notre Dame defense pressured Nunes, but most of his errors were unforced. There was no need to hurry late in the first quarter when Nunes threw an interception to Notre Dames Matthias Farley, who weaved down the left sideline for a 39-yard return, the longest play of the game. The Fighting Irish offense advanced only 4 yards and kicked a field goal for a 3-0 lead. Golson scrambled and danced, not always when he had to. He threw off his back foot, on the run, tossing the ball downfield almost carelessly at times. These plays, and the few times he was nearly sacked, elicited gasps from the otherwise subdued crowd. Then, midway through the second quarter, the gasps came again as Golson was blindsided and fumbled in the end zone. The Cardinals Chase Thomas jumped on the ball, and Notre Dame trailed in a game for the first time all season. A sense of urgency began to grow in the crowd. It took nearly eight minutes for either team to gain a first down in the second half. Redeeming himself, Golson threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to tie the score at 10-10 early in the fourth quarter. Nunes steadied, but Stanford relied more on Taylor, who finished with 102 yards on 28 carries, to drive 68 yards on 16 plays to kick a go-ahead field goal. Then, as Golson led Notre Dame on its final drive of regulation, he was knocked out by a helmet-to-helmet hit. Three plays later on third down Rees lofted a pass that drew a 15-yard penalty, setting up the 22-yard field goal that forced overtime. There, again, Rees lofted a third-down pass into the night sky. Riddick twisted and turned and found the ball in time to catch it, and on the next play, Rees fired a touchdown pass to T. J. Jones. Improbably, the Notre Dame offense had given its defense a rightful chance to win.
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SPORTS BRIEFING
CYCLING
Team Director Resigns After Admitting to Doping

Matt White stepped down on Saturday as sports director of the Orica-GreenEdge team after admitting to doping while riding with Lance Armstrongs United States Postal Service team.
(REUTERS)
Lance Armstrongs former manager Johan Bruyneel left the RadioShack-Nissan team after he was portrayed as a central figure in Armstrongs doping program by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Bruyneel said he was leaving to concentrate on his legal defense, having chosen an arbitration hearing to fight charges leveled by Usada. (AP)
AUTO RACING
Bowyer Wins Chase Race

Clint Bowyer picked up his first win in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship on a disastrous night for Brad Keselowski, the points leader. Keselowski dominated the race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., but ran out of gas with 58 laps remaining. He fell a lap down and finished 11th; his lead in the standings was sliced in half. (AP)
PRO FOOTBALL
Bucs Talib Suspended

Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib has been suspended for four games for violating the N.F.L.s policy on performance-enhancing substances. Talib said he took an Adderall pill without a prescription around the beginning of training camp. He will not appeal the ban. (AP)
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Pittsburghs Rushel Shell ran for a 2-yard touchdown in the second quarter against Louisville, but Pitt was defeated, 45-35, by the 18th-ranked Cardinals.
TRIATHLON
Australian Wins Ironman

Pete Jacobs of Australia won the Ironman world championship in Hawaii, beating Andreas Raelert of Germany by more than four minutes. The 31-year-old Jacobs finished the 2.4-mile ocean swim in Kailua Bay, the 112-mile bike ride along the Kohala Coast and the 26.2-mile run through Kailua Village in 8 hours 18 minutes 37 seconds. (AP)
The Days Best

TYLER TETTLETON The junior
Inside the Game

RED RIVER RECORD Damien
Outside the Lines

KILL HAS ANOTHER SEIZURE
Backs Carry Load

BALL MOVES UP LIST The Wisconsin
quarterback threw two touchdown passes, caught another and rushed for 65 yards in a record-setting day, as Ohio beat Akron, 34-28, to open a season with seven wins for the first time since 1968. Tettleton, who came in tied for the career lead in touchdown passes for Ohio with 38, opened the scoring on the receiving end of a 39-yard pass from Landon Smith just over three minutes in.
MARCUS MURPHY The sophomore returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown, setting a Missouri single-season record with four kick returns for scores. Murphy broke John Moseleys 1973 mark (3). BO WALLACE The sophomore scored four total touchdowns receiving, passing and rushing, accounting for 290 of Mississippis 451 total offense yards. Mississippi, with a 17-point blitz in the fourth quarter, beat Auburn, 41-20.
Williams had a 95-yard touchdown run for the longest rush in a Red River Rivalry game as Oklahoma routed Texas, 63-21.
PASSING FRENZY Derek Carr of
Tennessee-Martin threw for seven touchdowns in a 66-59 win, but Murray States Casey Brockman topped Carr in touchdown passes, throwing for eight while completing 45 of 67 passes for 537 yards. Carr completed 42 of 46 passes.
STRONG START Cody Vaz, who had
not taken a snap since 2010 or started a game since he was in high school, passed for 3 touchdowns and 332 yards in Oregon States victory over Brigham Young.
Minnesota Coach Jerry Kills seizure problems returned shortly after he gave his postgame news conference following a 21-13 loss to Northwestern. Kill was taken to a hospital, where he was alert and resting comfortably, according to a news release issued about two hours after the game. IOWA COACH WINS NO. 100 Kirk Ferentz won his 100th game at Iowa when the Hawkeyes outlasted Michigan State, 19-16, in double overtime. Whether it was 100th or 10th, this was a game Ill remember for a while, said Ferentz, who has 112 wins over all.
senior Montee Ball, left, ran for a career-high 247 yards and scored 3 touchdowns to help the Badgers beat Purdue, 38-14. Ball moved past Texas Techs Taurean Henderson and is now alone in third place in N.C.A.A. history with 72 total career touchdowns. FRESHMAN KEY IN COMEBACK J. C. Coleman ran for 183 yards and 2 touchdowns as Virginia Tech fell behind, 20-0, then beat Duke, 41-20. A 45-yard touchdown run by Coleman, a freshman, gave the Hokies their first lead at 24-20. His yardage come on just 13 carries.
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SOCCER
Riot at African Qualifier

Ivory Coast players and fans were escorted by the police out of a stadium in Dakar after Senegal fans rioted as their team was losing a qualifying match in the African Cup of Nations. Didier Drogba had just scored his second goal from the penalty spot for Ivory Coast to lead the second-leg match, 2-0, and 6-2 on aggregate, when violence erupted. (AP) Afriyie Acquahs early goal for Ghana ensured that the Black Stars became the first team to qualify for the 2013 African Cup of Nations as they beat Malawi, 1-0, in Lilongwe. Mali thrashed Botswana, 4-1, in Gaborone to qualify on an aggregate score of 7-1. The defending champion, Zambia, required a penalty shootout to advance at the expense of Uganda, 9-8. (AP) FIFA has asked its disciplinary committee to consider action against the Switzerland coach, Ottmar Hitzfeld, for what appeared to be an offensive gesture toward a referee. The Swiss news media published images of a hand gesture by Hitzfeld during a 1-1 tie in a World Cup qualifier against Norway on Friday. (AP)
The secret is out now. Our punter is one of the fastest guys on the team.
ED LAMB, Southern Utah coach, after Thunderbirds punter Brock Miller ran for 22 yards to set up the go-ahead field goal with 2 minutes 12 seconds left against Montana. Southern Utah won, 30-20.
The junior Venric Mark rushed for 182 yards and 2 touchdowns to carry Northwestern to a 21-13 victory over Minnesota. Mark wasnt touched on scoring runs of 26 and 48 yards as the Wildcats became bowl eligible.
EAST ROUNDUP
Undefeated Rutgers Beats Syracuse in Their Final Big East Meeting

By SETH BERKMAN
PISCATAWAY, N.J. Syracuse, whose football tradition helped shape the Big East Conference since the leagues football beginnings in 1991, lost its final conference game on Saturday, by 23-15 against No. 20 Rutgers. In many ways, the Scarlet Knights (6-0, 3-0) may have overtaken the Orange as the regions premier college football program. Kyle Flood became the first Rutgers coach to win his first six games, and the team became bowl eligible for the seventh time in eight seasons. During that time, Syracuse (2-4, 1-1), which leaves for the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013, played in only one bowl game, the 2010 Pinstripe Bowl. Defense and special teams carried the Scarlet Knights to their sixth victory in their last eight meetings against the Orange. With the score tied, 7-7, Rutgers linebacker Jamal Merrell blocked Ross Krautmans 32-yard fieldgoal attempt in the third quarter, and Duron Harmon returned the ball 75 yards for a touchdown. Last season, Merrell blocked an extra point and a field goal during a 19-16 double-overtime win at the Carrier Dome. Explaining the block, Merrell said that he hit the same gap as last year and that the Orange were not focusing on him. I just used my speed and height and made a play, he said. That was a big momentum changer because they were starting to get rolling. After a first half in which the Rutgers offense struggled at home for the second straight week, gaining 133 total yards, the Scarlet Knights defense caused
five turnovers in the second half, led by Khaseem Greene, who had an interception and helped force three fumbles. Greene also had 14 tackles and 1 sacks. Flood, who called Greenes day an all-American, player-of-theyear-type performance, said: It doesnt surprise me when he has a game like this. Opportunities presented themselves, and he made the plays. The Rutgers run defense, ranked second nationally, was again dominant, holding Syracuse to 62 yards on the ground. Orange quarterback Ryan Nassib was able to move the ball for the majority of the game, though,
throwing for 356 yards. Syracuse used a no-huddle offense for much of the game but had trouble converting in the red zone. With 9 minutes 40 seconds left in the game, Nassib drove the Orange to the Rutgers 10 in less than a minute. But Syracuse did not score on the next eight plays even after a pass-interference call on fourth and goal put the ball on the Rutgers 2. The Orange turned the ball over on downs after Alex Lemon dropped the ball in the end zone. When you get down there, everything happens so fast, so our decision-making needs to be quicker, Nassib said. They did a
good job in the red zone, shutting us down and showing us different looks that we hadnt yet seen. I give them credit. Jawan Jamison, who entered Saturday leading the Big East in rushing with 120.2 yards a game, was held to 64 yards on 28 carries. After the game, Jamison, who scored Rutgerss first touchdown, a 1-yard run in the first quarter, said he thought that the Scarlet Knights offense had yet to play a complete game, but added, The best is yet to come. TEMPLE 17, UCONN 14 Brandon McManus kicked a 29-yard field goal in overtime, giving Temple (3-2, 2-0 Big East) a road victory
over UConn (3-4, 0-2). The Huskies Chad Christen missed four (AP) field-goal attempts.
KENT STATE 31, ARMY 17 Dri
Archer rushed for 222 yards and completed a trick 24-yard touchdown pass as Kent State (5-1) earned a road win over Army (AP) (1-5).
PRINCETON 19, BROWN 0 Allow-
ing only 17 yards rushing and 242 yards in total offense, host Princeton (3-2, 2-0 Ivy League) (AP) beat Brown (3-2, 0-2). Ross caught 8 passes for 105 yards and Ross Scheuerman scored a late rushing touchdown to help Lafayette (4-2) rally past host Yale (1-4). (AP)
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LAFAYETTE 20, YALE 10 Mark
Rematch in Shanghai
Andy Murray beat Roger Federer, 6-4, 6-4, in the Shanghai Masters to set up a rematch Sunday of the United States Open final against Novak Djokovic, who defeated Tomas Berdych, 6-3, 6-4. (AP) Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka reached her ninth final of the season and will play Julia Grges for the Generali Ladies title in Linz, Austria. Azarenka advanced with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Irina-Camelia Begu, and Grges beat Kirsten (AP) Flipkens, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
CORNELL
Chris Amrhein stepped in for the injured quarterback Jeff Mathews and threw for 523 yards to lead the host Big Red (3-2) over (AP) Monmouth (3-3).
PENN 24, COLUMBIA 20 Billy
Ragone threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes, and host Pennsylvania (2-3, 2-0 Ivy) edged (AP) Columbia (1-4, 0-2).
SAC. HEART 27, DARTMOUTH 10
Keshaudas Spence ran for a touchdown in each of the final three quarters as Sacred Heart (2-4) came back on the road to (AP) defeat Dartmouth (3-2).
HARVARD 35, BUCKNELL 7 Colton
GOLF
Mallinger Leads by Two

John Mallinger remained in position for his first PGA Tour victory, shooting a one-under 70 in the Frys.com Open in San Martin, Calif., to take a two-stroke lead into the final round. Jonas Blixt was second after a 66. (AP) The defending champion Nayeon Choi of South Korea posted a three-under 68 to maintain a twoshot lead after the rain-interrupted third round of the L.P.G.A. Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. (AP)
Chapple threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more as Harvard (5-0) routed Bucknell (1-5) at home. (AP)
STONY BROOK 27, C. CAROLINA 21
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Rutgers defensive end KaLial Glaud hitting Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib on Saturday.
Miguel Maysonet ran for a career-high 233 yards and 2 touchdowns to propel Stony Brook (6-1, 2-0 Big South) past host Coastal Carolina (2-4, 0-1). (AP)
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Recreational Forecast
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Boating
From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Small craft advisory warranted. Wind will be from the southwest at 15-20 knots, gusting to 25 knots. Waves will be 4-6 feet on the ocean, 2-4 feet on Long Island Sound and 1-2 feet on New York Harbor. New York Pittsburgh Philadelphia
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High Tides
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A warm front moving north will bring morning rain from New York through much of central New England. Northern New England will probably have some rain throughout the day. A few showers and thunderstorms with damaging winds will move into Ohio during the afternoon. Elsewhere, there will be dry conditions.
Sky Watch: Week of Oct. 14

FACING NORTH
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A lesser version of the famous Perseid meteor shower is scheduled to reach its maximum before sunrise on Oct. 21. This meteor display is called the Orionids, because the meteors seem to originate from a region just north of Orions second-brightest star, the reddish Betelgeuse. This is most definitely an after midnight event. At its best, around 5 a.m., the Orionid shower produces about 20 to 25 very swift meteors per hour, as seen from a dark-sky location. In ECL IPTIC previous years, about half Venus of those Orionids that were observed left trails that lasted longer than other meteors of equivalent brightness. This is undoubtedly connected in some way to the makeup of Halleys comet, since these meteors are, in fact, the offspring of that famous object. All comets eventually disintegrate into meteor swarms, and Halley is well into this process right now; the Orionids are considered the dusty debris shed by Halley from its previous approaches to the Sun.
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overhead, is near the center of the map. The map is accurate for 5 a.m. Sunday; by Saturday it will be accurate for 4:30 a.m.
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The Dowagers Makeover
The Polo Lounge, one of Old Hollywoods lone surviving power hubs, is facing a redesign. Its patrons are worried.
THE BEVERLY HILLS COLLECTION
By BROOKS BARNES
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. HE interior designer Adam D. Tihany, a cappuccino in hand, sat in one of the Polo Lounges fluted banquettes here the other morning and pointed out warts. The lighting is awful well change all that, he said, gesturing to the low ceiling. New carpeting is on the way, he said, along with updated upholstery for the booths, perhaps in a slightly different shade. What color are they now? He peered at the fabric and wrinkled his nose. Moss, he said, like grows in a cave. Oh, dear. Despite Mr. Tihanys promise to maintain the shabby-glamorous feel of the famed Polo Lounge, which is being refreshed as part of a two-and-a-half-year renovation of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Hollywood power players are a little traumatized. When I first heard about the redesign, I was seized up with anxiety and a sense of protectiveness, said Stacey Snider, a partner with Steven Spielberg in DreamWorks Studios and its chief executive. Its one of the only bridges from Old Hollywood to whatever it is that we now have. Yes, the Polo Lounge, with its mirrored wall and grand piano, has a trapped-inamber feeling. Sure, some tables are filled with tourists eating $36 salads. But as one of Continued on Page 14
SACRED GROUND Dorothy Jordan, above, an early star, outside the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1935. Left, the actors Troy Donahue and Peter Brown in 1960 by its pool. Below, the hotels Polo Lounge menu cover and, top left, the hotel in 1995.
A Messenger Who Does the Shooting

By AMY CHOZICK
THIS LIFE
Teaching Respect To the Faithful

By BRUCE FEILER
CHRIS USHER/CBS NEWS, VIA GETTY IMAGES
SPEAKING OUT Stephanie
Cutter on TV in July.
WO days after President Obamas first debate against Mitt Romney, Stephanie Cutter, a deputy campaign manager for the Obama re-election effort, decided to tweak Mr. Romney for his attack on federal funding for PBS. On Twitter, Ms. Cutter, known for her dry sense of humor and sharp edge, circulated a photo of Big Bird outside an Obama rally with the hashtag #ProtectSesameStreetNotWallStreet to her 42,700-plus followers. The Big Bird attacks started to take on a life of their own. The following week, the Obama campaign introduced a tongue-in-cheek ad that compares Big Bird to Bernard L. Madoff and other corporate criminals. Big, yellow, a menace to our economy, the ominous voiceover intoned. It was a typical quick-response effort by Ms. Cutter, doing damage control after an admittedly lackluster performance by the president. She spotted right away that this was something that was trending out there and that was making an impact, David Axelrod, the presidents chief strategist, said of Ms. Cutter, who was not involved in the making of the ad itself. Ms. Cutter, who turns 44 on Oct. 22, has emerged as Mr. Obamas one-woman attack squad. In the process, she has become a popular but polarizing face of a camContinued on Page 8
LIA RAMER, a mother of three from Maplewood, N.J., first noticed the problem when her daughter was just reaching adolescence, the age when many Jewish children celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs. Parents were dropping their children off at the synagogue, and the kids, unchaperoned, were treating the joint like the mall. Girls were hanging out in the bathroom, sitting on the countertops and texting their friends, while boys were playing tag football in the social hall and sneaking brownies from under the plastic wrap. In the sanctuary, she wrote in a rant on the Web site of New Jersey Jewish News, they are prone to talking unabated through the service, save for
MANNERLY At a bar mitzvah, an event where the misbehavior of children has become a source of concern.
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the 30 seconds after theyve just been shushed by people who are wondering where those kids parents are. Even her own did it, she confessed. Continued on Page 2
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THIS LIFE
Teaching Respect to the Faithful

On your table you discover the following: ketchup, sugar, water, a movie-themed centerpiece and a bowl of mini chocolate AcadThe problem got so bad, Ms. Ramer apemy Awards. Do you a) quickly remove the pointed herself a sort of bar mitzvah bouncer, two DVDs from the centerpiece and claim strolling through the hallways and standing them as your own; b) take the glass of water, guard over the babka like a cross between Seadd two parts ketchup, three spoonfuls of verus Snape from Hogwarts and Miss sugar, four Academy Awards, and see if Trunchbull from Matilda. Mickey will drink it; c) arm yourself with the When I was growing up as a Jew in Savanmini chocolates and see if you can hit Jason at nah, Ga., in the 1970s, I watched with Table 5 without his knowing where its ostracized awe at the elaborate coming from; or d) none of the grooming and finishing rituals perabove? formed by my friends in privileged soWhy the need for the new course cial circles. Most of this training hapafter so many years? Should we pened in the late teenage years, when blame it on society? Should we girls would make their debut in the coblame it on parents? Im not sure, tillion and boys, known as stags, Mr. Jasgur said. Todays kids are would chaperon them. just overprogrammed. Their focus The backbone of the process was a isnt there. Many of their parents series of etiquette classes in which are also part of this younger generboys and girls would learn to don ation, so its not their fault. Its the white gloves, wear corsages and bouway they were raised. tonnieres, write thank-you notes, and Rabbi Adam Englander, a princimind their ps and qs (and R-rated pal at the Hillel Day School of Boca hand movements). Jews, of course, Raton in Florida, lectures students were not invited. three or four times a year about These days, the tables have been their behavior at bar and bat mitzturned. Jewish communities around vahs. He believes the new interest the country, horrified by the appalling in decorum represents a larger lack of manners their children display shift in society. at bar and bat mitzvahs, are increasIn my opinion, I dont see it as a ingly turning to more-formalized function of kids being poorly mantraining efforts. FABRIZIO COSTANTINI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES nered, he said. I see it more as a At the Hebrew Academy of the Five function of schools being involved SOCIAL SKILLS Steve Jasgur, right, of Joe Cornell Towns and Rockaway, a Modern Orin much more than education. Entertainment in suburban Detroit. thodox day school in Lawrence, N.Y., Schools are increasingly being the school holds weekly academic asked to take on roles that years classes to prepare boys and girls to ago would have been considered become bar and bat mitzvah scholthe realm of parents. ars. Stressed-out parents have less But administrators added a septime to raise their children, he said. arate, in-school program to rehearse And with synagogues and day the proper etiquette guests should schools competing for customers, display at these events. The highlight the misconduct of students often is a mock service in which teachers reflects poorly on the institutions coach students on how to sit quietly they attend. If one or two of my during prayers and listen attentively kids misbehave, even though its a to remarks made by the rabbi, parweekend, Im going to hear about it ents and grandparents. Members of on Monday, Rabbi Englander said. the school staff even make telephone That wouldnt have happened 20 calls to students cellphones to preor 30 years ago. The inclination pare them for that eventuality. would have been to call the parLike many things in life, said ents. Rabbi Dovid Kupchik, a principal at Not everyone is happy about this the school, if you actually talk to the trend. Ms. Ramer said she believes students about how to behave infamilies should still be responsible stead of just assuming theyre going for teaching their children manto act a certain way, its fresh in their ners. I expect my kids day school heads. For adults, its challenging to reinforce etiquette, she said, enough to sit through 20 or 30 minbut I dont expect my kids day utes of speeches, but for 12- and 13school to be the primary teacher of year-old kids, its especially diffithe etiquette. cult. But she understands she may be The school also offers instruction in the minority. What tips do these on how to behave at the after-party, veterans of the manners wars have teaching students the polite way to for those considering such classes? wait in line at a coat check and how Dont call it a dance class, Mr. to thank and wish mazel tov to the Jasgur said. And certainly dont parents of the celebrant. call it an etiquette class. Instead, At the conclusion of the class, students are nys family is going to be charged. Its $4, $4, make the sessions part of the standard curricasked to sign a contract promising they will $4, and all of a sudden its a lot of money. ulum of your institution, so students wont uphold certain standards of behavior and be a Instructors also talk about grooming. Boys have to be persuaded to attend. Also, include positive reflection on the school. It reminds have to be told to hike up their sagging trou- a D.J. and teach some party games. them that its not a glorified birthday party sers and not show off their boxers. Girls have And as Ms. Ramer pointed out, include the theyre attending, said Rabbi Kupchik, but to be told to pull down their shrinking dresses parents. Im disappointed this is happena religious celebration. and not reveal inappropriate amounts of skin, ing, she said, yet Im resigned. Still, the In Detroit, Joe Cornell Entertainment has and they are also encouraged to sit with their only way to truly solve the problem, she sugbeen offering dance classes for preteens knees together and ankles crossed. gested, is to put children and their parents since the 1950s. The 12-week courses, which Last year, after a deluge of rabbis asked if into the same room and teach them both how this fall will have over 300 students, are often they could visit the classes to warn students to behave. held in synagogues and are made up primari- about their behavior, Mr. Jasgur introduced a ly of Jewish sixth graders entering the bar one-hour course called Mitzvah Circuit 101, and bat mitzvah years, said Steve Jasgur, which he offers free to synagogues and Jewish community centers. The course includes a who bought the company in 1991. Correction Along with teaching ballroom dancing and questionnaire about the proper way to repopular line dances like the Hustle, Wobble spond to an invitation and what to do during The Evening Hours column last Sunday the video montage. The following question misidentified two guests at the Carnegie Hall addresses what Mr. Jasgur says is a common opening-night gala on Oct. 3. They are Robert Bruce Feilers newest book, The Secrets of sore point for parents students dismantling Kraft and Ricki Noel Lander, not Robert Happy Families, will be published in Februthe centerpieces: Jones and Stella Jones. ary. This Life appears monthly. From First Styles Page and Gangnam Style, instructors devote special time to teaching bar and bat mitzvah etiquette. Lessons include how to ask someone to dance and why you shouldnt run off with the decorations. One of the things we tell students is they shouldnt steal the neon-colored cloth napkins and stick them on their heads like bandannas, Mr. Jasgur said. For every napkin that isnt there at the end of the night, John-
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Dazzling Feline
OCO CHANELS love affair with jewelry was hardly a secret. She sprinkled her clothes with all kinds of things that sparkled metallic thread woven through her boucls, jewel-like buttons for her jackets and many of the fine jewelry pieces that she designed have since become house hallmarks. One such piece is the comet necklace she created in 1932, which today, 80 years later, is the anchor for Chanels newest Bijoux de Diamantes collection. Among its 80 pieces is this one-of-a-kind brooch of a lion perched atop that famous falling star. (Coco was a Leo, its worth mentioning.) Set with 1,300 white diamonds totaling more than 14 carats, the pin has an additional 103 fancy-cut yellow diamonds and 43 fancy-cut orange diamonds that make up the coat and mane, respectively. Hear her roar. Chanel lists its Fine Jewelry lion brooch as price on request; (800) 550-0005.
EDWARD BARSAMIAN
A Wider Field of View

encounter independent film director Ry Russo-Young leaves a residue of The product of a much (at a time that ANauthenticity.with the on Twitter), the documented lesbian householdembodies awhenpure was not a trending topic native downtown New Yorker new school of open-minded, ambitious and captivating young women in film who possess a freer sense of sexuality and possibility, and who gracefully swing between roles both behind and in front of the camera. Her third feature film, Nobody Walks, a sensitive, peacefully painful drama starring John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby and a pair of scorpions, will be in theaters Friday. The script, which she wrote with the Girls director and star Lena Dunham, delves into the pitfalls of forbidden attraction and selfish youthful sexuality. (Spoiler alert: it will be a bee sting of realism for anyone who has ever suffered the consequences of cheating, or being cheated on.) I get messages online from people telling me they love the movie and others that say things like, This movie is sending me into a deep depression, she says. And I thought I had finally made a IO TILLETT WRIGHT comedic movie with Lenas wit and charm!
IO TILLETT WRIGHT
Stay Puffed
THREE JACKETS ABOVE, LUCAS ZAREBINSKI
winter, the marshmallowy T HIScomparisonspuffer thatunfortunately) down jacket that often (and draws to Michelin men and certain dough boys got a welcome nod from the fashion world, and with it a number of updates, all long overdue. We wanted to take the puffer away from a sporty feel and make it more fashion forward, said the Helmut Lang co-designer Nicole Colovos, who along with the brands other half, Michael Colovos, made pixel-printed, asymmetrical ones featuring smart extras like detachable wool jersey liners as part of their diffusion line, Helmut. We looked at them just like we look at leather jackets and shearling pieces, Ms. Colovos said. Puffers also appeared in Peter Pilottos fall col-
lection, graphically patterned to match the bodycon dresses (near left), and at Alexander Wang, blacked-out and paired with leather (far left). Meanwhile, at Burberry Brit, down jackets were given youthful, varsity-jacket-type silhouettes. Fit is so important when it comes to puffers because its easy to end up looking like a bulky sleeping bag, says the stylist Kate Young, who recommends Armani Exchanges glossy red one because its so tight and fitted. Above, left to right: Burberry Brit down double-breasted puffer jacket, $750, burberry.com; Helmut black multicrush print puffer, $595, helmutlang.com; A|X Armani Exchange solid glossy puffer, $188, armaniexchange.com.
CHELSEA ZALOPANY
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ON THE STREET
Bill Cunningham
Bubbly
The guests at Rick Owenss Paris show were mostly in black, but the designer tried to wash black out of the scene for spring by showing champagne colors. A waterfall of soap suds was a metaphor for this. By the end, the suds were at the toes of the first-row guests and thats when Mr. Owens smartly stemmed the Tide. Above are Mr. Owens (left) and his wife, Michele Lamy (right). Gray as an alternate to black was presented by Ann Demeulemeester. At Gareth Pughs show, Medieval Gothic headdresses were paraded past an audience of 21th-century goths.
Top half, Rick Owens; bottom left, Ann Demeulemeester; bottom right, Gareth Pugh.
ON THE RUNWAY
Eric Wilson
Shell Bring the Sequins
EMBERS may have come and gone during the original two-decade reign of the Supremes, but the sequins and bugle beads always remained the same. Glamour was our signature, said Mary Wilson, a founding member of the group and, as its longest-running participant, the unofficial historian of the Supremes. Even when we were 15 years old and auditioning for Motown Records, we were wearing pearls we bought from Woolworth. We were totally into dressing up. On Wednesday, the African American Museum in Philadelphia announced
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that it will present a collection of Supremes fashion and memorabilia beginning in January in an exhibition called Come See About Me: The Mary Wilson Supremes Collection. The show includes many gowns that Ms. Wilson has maintained or collected since the beginning of the group in 1959. Ms. Wilson has long sought to protect the legacy of the group and to remind audiences of the significance of their breakthrough in music and on television. Fashion was an important part of that story. Dressing in glamorous gowns was a conscious decision, Ms. Wilson said, to portray themselves as women who had raised themselves from poor backgrounds and succeeded. While many of their costumes were lost over the years, Ms. Wilson maintained a personal collection and said she acquired several pieces when they
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DCOLLET OR NOT Mary Wilson, left, and Cindy Bird-
song of the Supremes with Princess Margaret in 1971.

became available on eBay. The gowns, including the famous Bob Mackie designs and many by the costume designer Michael Travis, belonged to the group, so whenever a member (Florence Ballard, Diana Ross or Jean Terrell) would leave, she had to leave behind her dresses. Eventually I was the only one left, and thats basically how I had the Supremes gowns, Ms. Wilson said. I put the old ones in a box.
Some of them, beaded from head to toe with pearls and rhinestones, weighed around 30 pounds apiece. There was one set of pink dresses that members called their Queen Mother gowns after a performance in London, when, as Ms. Wilson recalled, they were introduced to Princess Margaret. She said, Ooh, is that a wig youre wearing? Ms. Wilson said. And I recall that on the next day, there was a photograph on the cover of one of the newspapers where I was looking at Princess Margaret like I could kill her. It wasnt what she said, it was the way she said it. As noted in her legal battles with Motown Records over the years, Ms. Wilson is very protective of the image of the Supremes. She believes many of their important costumes were lost when the company moved from Detroit to Los Angeles. But she holds out hope that she and those dresses someday will be together. Say, say, say it again, Ms. Wilson. And you should put this in bold print, she said. If anyone knows where they are, I want my gowns back.
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First the Proposal, Then Remodeling
There it was, the man I loved asking me to give up my solitude and choose him over fear.
BRIAN REA
By LINDA CARLSON
VERYTHING was going so well until he proposed. When I found Jim, I was playing Judge Beth Bornstein on the TV series Murder One. He was 44 and a former Marine Corps tank officer who sold I.B.M. midrange computers. I had just turned 50 and was blissfully content in my post-divorce home in the Hollywood Hills. Seven years earlier, with the death of my marriage, I had been racked with loneliness. Then I slowly came to appreciate my own company. I could stay up all night and eat cake for breakfast. I could sing Bonnie Raitts I Cant Make You Love Me at the top of my lungs while hunched over a tumbler of bourbon. I could see people if I wanted or be by myself. Jim was living in his sisters house in the Valley. He owned a place in Oceanside, Calif., but his sister and her husband and son had decamped for the East Coast when the earthquakes of Los Angeles became too much for them. Jim was their designated house sitter until the place was sold. So with him to love, but happily living across town in Sherman Oaks, Calif., I had it all. Then one night, a year after we met, Jim said, What would you say if I asked you to marry me? I was expecting the question. We spent Christmas that year with his family. All the women decided he should propose. Yes, I replied. Id say yes. Good, he said. I just wanted to know what youd say if I asked. Are you kidding? I said. You cant preask me to marry you. I revoke my yes. He laughed and gave me a look that said: You are so adorable. I buried my rancor and we went along our merry, uncommitted way for another month. But on Valentines Day, after the inhome massages he ordered as my gift, Jim leaned across the steak dinner I made and Linda Carlson, an actress who lives in New York and Connecticut, is working on a memoir about her life onstage and in therapy. E-mail: modernlove@nytimes.com
took my hand. Will you marry me? he asked again. Are you serious? I replied. Sorry about last time, he said. I wasnt thinking. It would have been nice if he had made a reservation at a restaurant and bought a bauble chosen with me in mind. As it was, we were in our bathrobes and more than a little greasy. There was no ring. All that seemed nothing compared with the joy of having Jim sitting across from me for the rest of my life. I said yes. That night I woke out of a deep sleep, thinking, Oh, my God, Ill never be alone again. To many this would be good news, but not to me. My first marriage failed after 17 years. Our relationship had been kind but unfulfilling. I didnt have the courage to end it on my own, but on the day he left, I felt as if someone unlocked a door and set me free. Living alone, Id never risk getting lost in a man again. The next morning I told Jim we didnt have to marry. I just needed to know he wanted to. Oh, yes, we do, he said. I want everybody to know we love each other. I want it to be public. Backed into a corner, I asked if he would wait. As long as it takes, he said, but Id like to move in. There it was, the man I loved asking me to give up my solitude and choose him over fear. When I first dated Jim, the sweetness of his character caught me off guard. I had a list, like a lot of women do, of the attributes I wanted in a man. Sweet was not on it. I find that sometimes the thing I need most I dont know about until it shows up. Then its: Oh, yeah: that. I knew Id grieve if I lost him, so I swallowed my trepidation and we made a plan. He would find a sitter for his sisters place and sell his house in Oceanside. It was February, and we were going to New York in June. We decided he could move in after we returned in July. We agreed it would be a long engagement. To absorb some of my angst, I decided to do some remodeling. I was using a small
bedroom for my office, and Jim was happy to take it over for his man cave. For myself, I would make a new office on the lowest floor of the house where the previous owner had created a primitive studio. It was a large space: 40 feet long by 15 feet across, with fluorescent lights and no windows. Id need to hire a contractor to tear out the ugly and make it functional. I contacted some set designers I knew for recommendations about whom to hire. This was before the housing bubble burst, so people all over Los Angeles were adding rooms or doing teardowns. The men I contacted took their time returning my messages, if they answered at all. In frustration, I began to sketch a floor plan. On the north end I drew a picture window. My desk would go in front of it so Id be able to see my garden and the fruit trees beyond. On the south end, where the water was hooked up, I put the bathroom. With space so abundant, there would be room for a tub/shower and a vanity, but even that didnt take up the 15 feet of width. A kitchen seemed like a good idea. Then I could make a snack while I was working. As part of the kitchen I added a breakfast bar, half-fridge and sink. To divide the office from the kitchen and bath, I drew two roomy closets on either side of the breakfast bar and a couch with an entertainment unit. Almost done, I noticed a big hole opposite the door. Thats when I thought of the bed. Knowing Jims sister didnt need all the furniture in the house they were selling, I thought I might buy their sons single bed. That way when guests came, they would have a place to stay away from the main part of the house. Im actually pretty good at this, I told Jim. HILE all this was going on, we went shopping for an engagement ring. I reasoned that it was good Jim waited so we could do it together. Still, Id never had the down-on-one-knee proposal. My first husband and I got engaged during the hippie era, when it was way too square to kneel and ask. Every time there was a scene in a movie or on tele-
vision, even in a commercial, when the man got down and proffered a ring, I complained: Ive never had that. Ill never have that in my whole life. You didnt kneel. Hed smile and kiss me. I finally found a contractor who would do the job. He went to work with a raggedy crew that never showed up before 11 a.m. I pushed him to get it finished. Almost every day I said: You have to have this done by June 7. We leave for New York on the 8th, understand? No problemo, hed say. They completed the work at 4 a.m. on the day we were to fly east. The neighbors were not amused. I have to admit I didnt care. I had my beautiful office. Jim moved in when we got back in July. He decorated his cave with the globe and anchor of the Marine Corps, baby pictures of his son and a framed shot of me so he would have me with him even though I was already there. I got very artsy with my space, bejeweled lamps and velvet curtains. It was a nice womb. An old girlfriend came over to ooh and aah. Honey, she said, This isnt an office. This is a new house. Bath, kitchen, bed, TV, closets. You could live down here. No, no, I said. Its just an office. You know, and a place to put family when they visit . . . and to . . . and to. . . . What have I done? Built yourself an escape hatch from the looks of it, she said, with the compassion of someone who knew me all too well. Did you get what I was doing? I asked Jim later. Pretty much, he said. Its O.K. A girl needs a man whos sane when she goes crazy, so I married him. On Christmas morning, five years after we wed, I found a small present under the tree. I tore off the bow and paper. Jim took it from me and opened it to reveal an emerald in a gold setting. He got down on his knees, took my ring finger in his hand, and said, Will you marry me? The first proposal was for practice. The second was for real. But the third was, in Jims words, Because I thought it would touch your heart. Its possible this might work out.
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A Messenger Who Shoots

WORK LIFE Far
left, Stephanie Cutter with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 2002. Left, Ms. Cutter with Sen. John Kerry in 2004, when she was his presidential campaigns communications chief.
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From First Styles Page paign that until recently had been largely dominated by middle-aged white men. Late last year, Ms. Cutter left her role as deputy senior adviser in the White House to move to Chicago and become one of three deputy campaign managers, overseeing policy, research and communications. In essence, Ms. Cutter has become the chief messenger for the Obama campaign, a loyal soldier who says the things the candidate cant (or wont) say often on YouTube. In a series of straight-talking videos set in front of a bustling campaign office, she rejects point by point Mr. Romneys policies. All Stephanie wants is results, said an Obama administration aide and friend of Ms. Cutters who is not allowed to discuss campaign issues. She is an old-school, take-no-prisoners political operative. Losing is not tolerated. (Ms. Cutter has earned the nickname The Ninja at campaign headquarters, since she stealthily inserts herself into battles.) As Ms. Cutters role in the campaign has become more prominent, she has become a lightning rod of controversy to detractors and a skirt-suited folk hero to supporters.
Both the adoration (Stephanie Cutter is SOOO hot, said one online commenter) and the attacks (Lying liar Stephanie Cutter has hissy fit, the conservative blogger Michelle Malkin recently tweeted) directed at Ms. Cutter are often manifest in ways that a male aide, like Mr. Axelrod or Robert Gibbs, would probably never experience. Rush Limbaugh calls Ms. Cutter Obamas chief campaign babe, and shes also been nicknamed Box Cutter for her sharp attacks. Nicolle Wallace, a White House communications director under George W. Bush, praised Ms. Cutter as the warrior princess of this election cycle. The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago even has a YouTube parody of a drunk Ms. Cutter impersonator holding a flask with charts in the background. Hey, lets look at a graph! the blond comedian slurs before chugging vodka. Ms. Cutter doesnt always stick to the talking points. In a recent CNN interview, she said Mr. Romneys tax cuts stipulated, it wont be near $5 trillion, as the Obama campaign had earlier claimed. The gaffe became fodder for a Romney attack ad three days later and was raised by Representative Paul D. Ryan in the vice-presidential debate on
Thursday night. Ms. Cutters prominence puts her in a contradictory position. Similar to other high-profile female political operatives, like the Republicans Dana Perino, Mary Matalin and Ms. Wallace, Ms. Cutter exposes herself to attacks (and dishes them out). But she also serves as a crucial figure in a campaign that is relying on female voters to win.
An Obama aide with the nickname Box Cutter.

If this president wins, it will be because there is a tremendous gender gap and women will make up the margin of victory, said Neera Tanden, president of the liberal research group Center for American Progress and a former adviser to Mr. Obama and Hillary Clinton. I feel comforted that theres a woman at the table. In an administration not known for its embrace of outsiders, Ms. Cutter managed to become a trusted aide to both Michelle Obama, whom she worked for in 2008 and in the White
House, and Mr. Obama, who pleaded with her to take West Wing and campaign jobs. Ms. Cutter previously worked for President Bill Clinton and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, as well as for Edward M. Kennedy, quickly becoming a trusted Kennedy family confidante. Her bright career was almost derailed in 2004, though, after Senator John Kerrys failed presidential bid. Ms. Cutter, who had been the campaigns communications chief, bore the brunt of criticism in the election post-mortem, a blame that Mr. Kerry said she had to shoulder unfairly. I was frankly appalled at some of the stories and gossip, Mr. Kerry said in an interview. At the end of the day, Im the one responsible. But she came back in a turnaround that speaks as much to Washingtons short memory as to Ms. Cutters gritty perseverance. In her role as Mrs. Obamas chief of staff during the 2008 campaign, Ms. Cutter (who signed on after Mrs. Obamas widely publicized comment that for the first time in my adult lifetime, Im really proud of my country) is largely credited for turning the would-be first lady from a potential liability to an enormous asset. In the Treasury Department, she protected Secretary Timothy F. Geithners fragile reputation and tried to spin unpopular policies like the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the A.I.G. bailout, a mostly thankless task that did not go unnoticed in Washington. In addition, Ms. Cutter helped
develop Lets Move!, Mrs. Obamas childhood-obesity initiative, and prepared Sonia Sotomayor for her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Ms. Cutters prep work involved not only peppering Ms. Sotomayor with sample questions and overseeing media coverage, but also taking on the more delicate task of asking Ms. Sotomayor to tone down her giant dangly earrings. She has an attention to detail that builds huge confidence on the part of the people she works for and, I say this parenthetically, especially women, said Anita Dunn, Mr. Obamas former White House communications director. Ms. Cutters defining political inspiration is Mr. Kennedy (his picture hangs on her office wall in Chicago). But she received a lesson in campaign tactics from Karl Rove. In 2004, a veterans group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, with ties to Mr. Rove, then Mr. Bushs chief political aide, went after Mr. Kerrys record in Vietnam. In attack ads, the Swift Boaters seized on Mr. Kerrys antiwar statements in the 1970s and accused him of fabricating events that led to his war medals. (Mr. Rove has denied any connection to the group.) The post-campaign chatter much of which blamed Ms. Cutter for the Kerry campaigns seeming inability to fight back is said to have devastated her. In reality, she had pushed to respond early to the attacks, but the campaign lacked funds to do so. The experience helped shape Ms. Cutters strategic approach in the current election. She urged the Obama campaign to turn Mr. Romneys greatest strength, his tenure at Bain Capital, into his biggest weakness. In many ways, its the revenge of 2004, the Democratic strategist Phil Singer said. On a call with reporters in July, Ms. Cutter said it seemed possible Mr. Romney had misrepresented his position at Bain to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is a felony. Matt Rhoades, Mr. Romneys campaign manager, called the comment reckless and unsubstantiated and said Mr. Obama ought to apologize for the out-of-control behavior of his staff. But the felony attack stuck, said Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist and a chief adviser to Senator John McCains 2008 presidential campaign. If this were football, she might have had a yellow flag thrown on her, Mr. Schmidt said, but its a tough business and it was a brutal hit.
TEPHANIE CUTTER doesnt like to talk about herself. She declined to be interviewed for this article. I really, really, really dont like profiles, she wrote in an e-mail. Is there any way not to do this? A native of Raynham, Mass., Ms. Cutter is the only daughter of a single schoolteacher mother, Grace, whom she talks to daily. One of her brothers served in the military in Afghanistan, and she often entertains her nieces and nephews by taking them on tours of the White House briefing room and the National Zoo. After graduating from Smith College, Ms. Cutter received her law degree from Georgetown. Early in her career, she worked for the Environmental Protection Agency and in the White House to help restore Mr. Clintons image in the aftermath of impeachment and Monica Lewinsky. She went back to work for Mr. Kennedy after the Kerry campaign. He told her, Your job is waiting for you when youre ready, come home, said Vicki Kennedy, the senators widow. Ms. Cutter sealed her loyalty with the Kennedy clan in the wake of Mr. Kennedys cancer diagnosis in 2008. I called 911, the doctor and Stephanie in that order when Teddy got sick, Mrs. Kennedy said. She gives Ms. Cutter credit for helping to ensure that her husbands legacy is that of legislative accomplishments, not personal foibles, and still counts Ms. Cutter as a confidante. The night before Mrs. Kennedys July appearance on ABCs This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Ms. Cutter called to give some advice.
She said Cheesy scrambled eggs, be sure to eat cheesy scrambled eggs, Mrs. Kennedy said. Thats what Teddy would always eat before going on the Sunday shows. Ms. Cutter became close to the Obama campaign when she orchestrated Mr. Kennedys surprise endorsement of Mr. Obama and Caroline Kennedys pro-Obama Op-Ed column in The Times titled A President Like My Father. Accepting the role as Mrs. Obamas chief of staff could have been seen as a step backward, but it proved to be a deft move that cemented Ms. Cutters place in Obamaland. In 2010, Ms. Cutter was tapped to help the White House sell health care reform, and the next year she stepped into an advisory role in the West Wing, arriving at a time when even the president admitted the administrations message was not being communicated effectively. She quickly developed a reputation as the polished, sometimes scarily organized strategist who gets things done, compared with Mr. Axelrods reputation as a charming but shambling personality who was widely blamed for dropping the ball on White House communication. While working for the president, Ms. Cutter played a key part in developing the We Cant Wait campaign, an effort to pass economic policy by executive order that paints Congressional gridlock as standing in Mr. Obamas way. Ms. Cutter, who is single, lives in a rented apartment on Chicagos Gold Coast with her beaglehound-cocker spaniel mix, Sammy. A longtime friend likened her intense focus and determination to Claire Daness C.I.A. agent in the Showtime series Homeland (minus the bipolar disorder and paranoia). She has a tight-knit group of like-minded friends, including the MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney; Alyssa Mastromonaco, White House deputy chief of staff; and Julianna Smoot, the Democratic fund-raiser and former White House social secretary. Friends said she is as direct in offering relationship and fashion advice as she is in advising Mr. Obama and the other politicians shes worked for. When Ms. Smoot, a fellow Smith graduate who is also a deputy campaign manager, was named White House social secretary, Ms. Cutter helped her buy a new wardrobe. Shed say, Yeah, that color isnt working or Why dont you not wear that shirt anymore?, but shes careful not to hurt peoples feelings, Ms. Smoot said.
S. CUTTER has said that this will be her last presidential campaign and that she does not want to return to the White House after the coming election. Several friends said they would not be surprised if she left Washington and took a job in the private sector or as a wellpaid television pundit. In the last several years, Ms. Cutter has become more TV ready, with straightened, highlighted blond locks and 5 a.m. workouts at a Washington gym, or long walks and jogs with Sammy while in Chicago. Although she has been known to fight Mr. Axelrod over TV appearances, Obama advisers will ask Ms. Cutter, who pores over policy data and writes painstakingly detailed talking points, for advice before being interviewed, according to several people close to the campaign. Ms. Cutter is well aware of the workaholic, control-freak stereotypes that seem to follow her from campaign to campaign. And she does try to let go. She recently hosted a baby shower for Jennifer OMalley Dillon, a deputy campaign manager. In June, Ms. Cutter (a devoted Boston sports fan) took young staff members to a Cubs game against the Red Sox. But during the game, Republicans jumped on a speech about immigration policy Mr. Obama had delivered the previous day, putting Ms. Cutter in campaign defense mode. She spent most of the game on her iPhone.
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The Dresser Behind Ann Romney

By BEE-SHYUAN CHANG
AST Wednesday, on Good Morning America, Ann Romney baked Welsh cakes and talked equine therapy in a red Alfred Fiandaca stretch taffeta shirtdress from his fall 2012 ready-to-wear collection a number she also wore at the farewell victory rally for the Republican National Convention on Aug. 31 in Lakeland, Fla. At the Oct. 3 presidential debate, she earned rave reviews for a cream skirt suit with scalloped hem and intricate American Indian-inspired crisscross stitching from Mr. Fiandacas 2006 collection. And on Jay Lenos show on Sept. 25, she wore a Fiandaca skirt suit in laser-cut, tiered black leather. At 72, Mr. Fiandaca has joined a long line of hometown designers who have received public-relations boosts by dressing the wives of presidential candidates. Sometimes it bestows stardom; sometimes a brief, quickly forgotten fame. In the 2008 election, Michelle Obama wore the Chicago-based Maria Pinto while stumping for her husband. But Mrs. Obama chose to wear Jason Wu to the inaugural ball and, two years later, Ms. Pinto shuttered her business. The Dallas designer Michael Faircloth was once Laura Bushs go-to, but by her husbands second term, Mrs. Bush was better known for wearing Oscar de la Renta. Hillary Rodham Clinton also turned
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STARRING Alfred Fiandaca, in his Palm Beach shop. Ann Romney in his de-
signs, clockwise from right, at the presidential debate Oct. 3; at the Republican National Convention; Wednesday in Tampa, Fla.; with Jay Leno.
cured the Republican primary and said, I might need you I worried about that, he said on Monday. Im really not a public person and I really didnt want to be. And yet he pulled no punches in assessing the opposition. The thing I keep pushing is to not wear a different outfit for every occasion; its frivolous, Mr. Fiandaca said, referring to Mrs. Obama and her revolving closet of designer outfits. Its about investment dressing, he said. You make something clean, perfect, simple with beautiful fabric and nice lines and you wear it forever. And it might be a little bit more expensive than J. Crew or whatever but it doesnt fall apart. Me-ow! Fiandaca dresses currently cost between $650 and $1,200, Mr. Fiandaca said, with a custom-made skirt suit starting at $2,400. Mrs. Romney buys off the rack from his stores in Boston and Palm Beach, Fla., as well as an occasional stop into the brands New York studio in the garment district for special fittings. Mr. Fiandaca is not sure when Mrs. Romney first became a client. But I went to her house for a fitting recently and I saw a closet filled with all my clothes, he said. I thought, Oh my God, we could start a third store out of here. In the spirit of the Nixonian respectable Republican cloth coat, he highlighted the provenance of his designs. All my clothes are made in America, whereas the current first lady may buy labels that are American but theyre made somewhere else, he said.
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For Alfred Fiandaca, a boost toward stardom or fleeting fame?

to Mr. de la Renta after long favoring the little-known Martha Dixon of Little Rock, Ark. Indeed, Mrs. Romney has also flirted with de la Renta, wearing an intensely red silk taffeta dress of his onstage at the Republican National Convention. Daniel Cappello, the fashion director at Quest magazine, which covers high society, called this the fail-safe option. When you are wearing that Oscar red dress, you are that wife baking cookies, Mr. Cappello said. But by Ann wearing Fiandaca, its more her, like shes letting more of herself out and not playing into the political wife mold. Mr. Fiandaca has also been having a coming-out party of sorts, fielding a flurry of interviews this past week, including with this newspaper. When we started work Mrs. Romney reached out a little before Mitt se-
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I dont want to sound political, he said, before adding with some mirth, Ive been a Democrat all my life. Mr. Fiandaca, the third generation of his family working in the garment industry, grew up in Boston. Trained by his father, a tailor, he enrolled briefly at the Fashion Institute of Technology. I was there all of two days, he said. I didnt like it. It was in a different time and F.I.T. was treated as a trade school. He graduated instead from the Traphagen School of Design and studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, which would later host a retrospective of his work. In 1961, a year after founding his own line, he opened a shop on Maverick
Street in Boston. Shortly after, he entered the political dressing arena. It was never what I set out to do; the Kennedys just started walking into the store, Mr. Fiandaca said (he also dressed Lady Bird Johnson and, later, Nancy Reagan). A couple of years later, the store relocated to Newbury Street, before eventually moving to its present location on Albany Street in 2009. There were several Kennedys and then the cousins and ex-wives, he said. My favorite and still closest is Joan Kennedy. Though the Fiandaca look caught on in Washington power circles, the brand made less of an impression on New York editors. I used to show every sea-
son in New York, but I came to the conclusion thats not what I really wanted, said Mr. Fiandaca, who fondly recalled serving private clients, including Anita Baker, Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn. To show, and then have WWD tell me how bad a dress is? I can live with them and I can live very well without them. According to the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Mr. Fiandaca became a member in 1980 but is currently listed as inactive. But he is certainly keeping busy. Ann is not Mrs. Fashionista and she doesnt want to be, Mr. Fiandaca said. Shes more feminine than high fashion.
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Philip Galanes
When Design Burst From Cloth
A Kiddie Kegger?
My husband grabbed our sons lunchbox and filled it with beer as we were leaving for an 11 a.m. birthday party for a 1-year-old (whose family we dont know very well). I told him it was inappropriate to take alcohol to a childrens party. He said he had had a rough week and would take them out only if another father he knew wanted one, too. I said if the hosts wanted alcohol at their party, they would serve it. Then he called me judgmental and boring, and refused to go. Wasnt I right? D. L., New York
Of course you were right. Its sketchy to bring booze (unbidden) to a baby party. But would it have been so terrible to let your husband hang on to his last shreds of cool, letting him play rebel with a lunchbox in front of the other dispirited daddies (and mommies)? Of course not. It doesnt sound as if Hubby proposed turning the party into an ecstasy-fueled rave, and the guest of honor wouldnt have had a clue who was sipping what. Still, I understand your desire to act appropriately and not commandeer other peoples parties. But so many requirements of modern child-rearing, like giving up precious stretches of weekend for strangers children, can be soul-sapping and deeply at odds with our youthful fantasies about adult life. So be flexible and tolerant where possible. This will increase the odds that the next time you have a small existential crisis (say, frosting a cake at midnight for the elementary-school bake sale), your husband will remind you of that awesome time you danced on a bar in fishnets (and possibly flashed the bartender). weddings resemble Lets Make a Deal, but gift-giving is still a byproduct of the occasion, not the main event.) Heres another idea: Have a 40th birthday bash, and enlist a pal to suggest contributions to your Roman Holiday fund as the gift of choice. It feels a millimeter less mercenary, and the party might be fantastico.
MOTIFS From left, Leslie and
D. D. Tillett, whose designs included chrysanthemums bursting like fireworks and the large fish dress pattern, below. Below left, Jacqueline Kennedys bedroom when she was first lady featured a Tillett print on the curtains and elsewhere.
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By CHRISTOPHER PETKANAS
A Trick With Treats

I just started a job I love. But each meeting includes cake, cookies or candy. The social aspect of the job requires that everyone eats the goodies. How can I not eat them, and not seem snobbish or judgmental? I want to lose weight. (Dont tell me to bring fruit. Nobody likes that guy.) Sarah, Texas Fruit? Who am I, the weird neighbor on Halloween? No one cares what youre eating. But thanks to your new-job jitters, Ill never convince you of that. So take whatever sugar product is on offer and place it in front of you. If its cake or a cookie, break it in half. (Looks more plausible that way.) On the off chance someone asks why youre not noshing, say, Im saving this deliciousness for later. Now comes the big challenge: dont eat it later.
HE world of design has produced many celebrated couples: the Eameses, the Toledos . . . the Tilletts? In 1944, the legendary art director Alexey Brodovitch, then working for Harpers Bazaar, heard about beautiful textiles coming out of Cuernavaca, Mexico, and sent D. D. Doctorow to shoot a feature for the magazine. At the time Ms. Doctorow was a gifted 27-year-old draftswoman strongly influenced by Vaclav Vytlacil, the modernist painter she studied under around the same time as Louise Bourgeois. Once in Mexico, it didnt take long for Ms. Doctorow to fall in love with Leslie Tillett, one of the printworks two Britishborn brothers. Almost 60 years later, the lyrical but never-published pictures she took have come to light in an exhibition called The World of D. D. and Leslie Tillett, which opens Tuesday at the Museum of the City of New York. Abandoning her assignment, Ms. Doctorow canceled her return home, married Leslie, learned dye-mixing and silkscreening and joined a circle of artists that
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In their prints and their approach, the Tilletts can be seen as forerunners.
included Diego Rivera and the silversmith Bill Sprawling. Donald Albrecht, the museums curator of architecture and design, said the Tilletts were a precursor to many young designers in places like Williamsburg today, maintaining complete artistic control, producing small runs themselves and selling locally or in their own shop. The Tillets moved to Manhattan in 1946, accruing a level of recognition all but unheard-of in the fabric world. Their bestknown pattern is a luscious, painterly mass of chrysanthemums bursting like fireworks. As first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy had a favorite Tillett sundress freckled with raspberries, a design the decorator Albert Hadley later used on the walls and for the curtains and coverlets in a Palm Beach bedroom, blowing up the berries to the size ofgrapefruits. As Mrs. Onassis, Jackie brought Billy Baldwin and the Tilletts to Skorpios to work on the Greek villa her husband, Aristotle, was building, and furnished the seed money for the couples Manhattan shop, Portmanteau. One note to D. D. from Jackie is illustrated with doodles of cushions to be made up in the Tilletts Josephs coat of many colors stripe . . . Ari loves it. You can imagine what it was like for me
Send Me Away
I am a never-married 39year-old woman. I would like to take myself to Italy for my 40th birthday, and ask my friends and family to donate to the trip rather than give me gifts. I want to make it humorous, like: Youve never had to dress up or fly anywhere to fete me, so heres your chance to fund my single-gal celebration. Ive told this to some friends, and their eyes go wide; others love it. Can I do this and not seem like a beggar? Tracy, Los Angeles I want to go along with you, Tracy. Really. But even as I bend myself into pretzel shapes, I have to admit it might bug me to receive a shakedown like yours. Why should we pay for your vacation just because you havent married yet? (True, many
Tough Mom
For nearly eight years, I have been pleasant to my boyfriends mother when she visits. She has returned the favor by treating me like dirt. When can I throw in the towel and give her a taste of her own medicine? Angie, Queens Never. (Sorry, Angie.) Some folks sow happiness wherever they go. For others, its whenever they go. Focus on her departure. And be as respectful as you can while shes there. At particularly challenging moments, remember that this witch brought your beloved into the world. Also, feel free to make yourself scarce when shes around and nag your beau to speak with Mumsy.
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as a teenager to be handed a bolt of fabric and told to deliver it to 1040 Park, and have Jackie Kennedy open the door, said Seth Tillett, at 57 the youngest of the Tilletts three children, who lives in the Bronx. She wrote very affectionately to my parents, and we stayed with her in Hyannis Port. It was hoped that I would become a friend for John, but when I was 12, he was 7, always a bit too old. Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper and Harry Truman also wore the Tilletts creations, and the American sportswear designer Claire McCardell chose for a dress a wool challis they did for Milliken, the textiles giant. Loulou de la Falaise was 21 and on her way to divorcing Desmond FitzGerald when she was photographed in 1968 for Diana Vreelands Vogue, picnicking wistfully with her impossibly wayward mother, Maxime. The copy described the women as being dressed in the fresh, clean-as-aMaine-breeze prints the Tilletts are famous for. My mother brought a three-dimensional quality to surface design that exploded off the cloth, Mr. Tillett said. Her work has a scattered, Oops, I dropped a bouquet on the floor look. Leslie died in 1992, D. D. in 2008. But since 2004, Tillett and Rauscher, the company Mr. Tillet runs with his wife, Nicole, out of their town house, has made items using archival Tillett patterns produced by his former sister-in-law at Tillett Textiles. For sale at the museum now are scarves, bags and a hand-sewn dress with a large fish motif ($2,700). Phyllis Magidson, the museums curator of costumes and textiles, singled out from the show voile Capri pants and a handkerchief top that had belonged to D. D. If they were put into production today, theyd walk out of the store, Ms. Magidson said. Its a long way from a Mexico City jail to Museum Mile. According to Mr. Tillett, an early backer of his father and uncle in cahoots with a crooked judge took a controlling interest in the firm with bogus contracts. When the brothers fought back, he said, they were tossed in jail. It could have been much worse. They had a protector in prison: Ramn Mercader, Trotskys alleged assassin, whom the
Soviets lavished with liquor, cigars and women. Leslie won his release, his son said, by agreeing to turn over the business to the backer and create a collection for him under virtual house arrest. D. D. helped, and when it was finished, they escaped to New York, having secretly sent ahead strike-offs of each new print. The drama would have ended there if in 1945 Time hadnt published an article suggesting that the Tilletts new partners were so wary about the couples past, they were prevented from writing company checks. The designers sued for libel, and Roy Cohn defended the magazine. The Tilletts won. The proceeds largely paid for the carriage house on East 80th Street where we lived, where the workroom was housed and where two of our tenants were a Mr. Hewlett and a Mr. Packard, Mr. Tillett said. The judgment was for $60,000, quite a lot of money in those days.
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HE Beverly Hills Hotel has long played host to Hollywood royals and their eccentricities. Some tales are chronicled in a new 400page coffee table book, The Beverly Hills Hotel: The First 100 Years, written by Robert S. Anderson, the great-grandson of the hotels founder. A sampling: Howard Hughes (right, with Bette Davis) lived in Bungalow 4 off and on for 30 years. He would stay inside for months at a time, according to Mr. Anderson, and the hotel staff would leave BETTMANN/CORBIS roast beef sandwiches in a tree just outside his door. Hughes once left his Cadillac parked next to the hotel for two years, long enough for the tires to go flat and for plants to begin growing inside. Marlene Dietrich, a frequent guest and onetime resident, forced the Polo Lounge to abandon its no slacks for women dress code by refusing to wear a skirt. Steven Spielberg was a groundbreaker, too, Mr. Anderson said. One day a man is sitting in the Polo Lounge and when he was asked THE BEVERLY HILLS COLLECTION to remove his baseball cap, it turned out to be Steven Spielberg. Ever since, theyve let hats pass. The pool, once bordered by white sand flown in from Arizona, was managed for nearly 45 years by the cabana king, Svend Petersen, a Danish-American pool manager who witnessed a fully clothed Katharine Hepburn do a back flip into the water after a particularly sweaty tennis match. He also taught Faye Dunaway a freestyle crawl for Mommie Dearest. Norma Shearer, lounging by the pool in 1956, spotted a clothing salesman named Robert Evans and turned him into a movie star, convincing Universal to cast him as her deceased husband, Irving BETTMANN/CORBIS Thalberg, in Man of a Thousand Faces. Mr. Evans, right, with Ms. Shearer, went on to run Paramount Pictures and produce Chinatown. Before cellphones, nothing said power more than an attendant arriving at your Polo Lounge table with a pink telephone on a silver tray and news that someone was calling you. Once the phone was plugged into the tableside jack, the hotel operator would patch through the call. People would also page themselves at the pool, even if they werent there, just so the people who were would hear their name being called, Mr. Anderson said.
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Adam Tihany in the grand stairwell of the Beverly Hills Hotel. He has been hired to refresh the hotel, including the venerable Polo Lounge.
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From First Styles Page Old Hollywoods lone surviving power hubs, it still packs in movie titans. As Ms. Snider conducted a meeting over cocktails on one recent evening, Jeffrey Robinov, president of Warner Brothers Pictures Group, huddled in a corner with a writer from The Hollywood Reporter. The super agent Ari Emanuel strode into the dining room, where Denzel Washington would have lunch the next day. The Beverly Hills Hotel, which just turned 100, remains the heart of moviedoms schmoozing scene in part because of its history. Elizabeth Taylor honeymooned with six of her eight husbands in the bungalows. The pool alone is as close to sacred ground as it gets in show business. Its where Raquel Welch was discovered, where Esther Williams swam every morning (a permanent guest pass was written into her MGM contract) and where the Beatles once took an afterhours dip. The Polo Lounge got its name because celebrities like Will Rogers toasted polo victories there in the 1930s (they played in nearby lima bean fields). The dimly lighted room was popular with Marlene Dietrich, who sat on a bar stool with her fur coat. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin engaged in prodigious drinking sessions there. Charlie Chaplin liked Booth No. 1, while Marilyn Monroe preferred a less prominent corner. To Ms. Sniders point, the Polo Lounge has also outlasted most of its competitors. The Brown Derby is long gone, as are Chasens and Le Dome. Twenty years of Orso power lunches ended in 2009. Spago, the Grill on the Alley and Mr. Chows are still chugging along, albeit with an aging clientele, but their influence sharply faded a few years ago, when Creative Artists Agency and International Creative Management decamped to new offices in Century City. The entertainment industrys devotion to the Beverly Hills Hotel also exposes deeper parts of its psyche. The movie capital is a place that routinely razes and re-
builds, but many of its top executives have roots in New York and hunger for hangouts with a timeworn patina. Because film is so ephemeral, there is a tendency to overcompensate and clutch at anything permanent. How else to explain Nate n Al, a dumpy diner that draws an industry crowd for breakfast, or the Chateau Marmonts garden restaurant, popular with TV people despite its out-to-lunch servers and ho-hum menu. Its not exactly that Hollywood thinks the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Polo Lounge cant be touched. After the Sultan of Brunei bought the property in 1987, the pink palace closed in 1992 for a two-and-a-
My job is to enhance without ruffling too many feathers.

half-year transformation. Parts of the dramatic new design, like the lobby slathered in gold leaf, were hard for movie moguls to accept, but they eventually did. Recently, when the Polo Lounges patio, strewed with white wrought-iron tables, lost its partial shade a huge Brazilian pepper tree had to be removed it barely prompted a murmur. (True, the power tables are inside.) Rather, Hollywoods fear specifically reflects the bad plastic surgery that befell two of its cherished haunts, Le Dome and the Hotel Bel-Air. Le Dome, a Sunset Boulevard watering hole popular with music heavyweights, in 2004 underwent an ill-advised renovation, complete with ziggurat motifs, Gothic windows trussed in metal and flames erupting from a flat-screen TV fireplace, according to a review in The Los Angeles Times. Its so edgy, its almost pervy, the newspaper added. Patrons recoiled and Le Dome closed. The newly redesigned Hotel BelAir also came as a shock when it was unveiled last October. Trying
to woo younger guests, it overcorrected in the eyes of many entertainment-industry regulars, who complain about its newly blah color scheme, modern lobby and indoor-outdoor Wolfgang Puck restaurant. The concern: the Londonbased Dorchester Collection, which operates the Bel-Air, also manages the Beverly Hills Hotel. What if the tweaks planned for the Polo Lounge (work has yet to start) are equally startling? Mr. Tihany, perhaps most famous for updating New Yorks somber Palace Hotel in the late 1990s by installing an enormous neon sculpture and a silk circus tent (as part of the now-defunct Le Cirque 2000), said that everyone should relax and take a step back. Taking a sip of cappuccino, he added, Its not like were going to add rhinestones to the piano and put down white shag carpeting. My job is to enhance without ruffling too many feathers. The City of Beverly Hills recently made the hotel its first official landmark, so some features cannot be touched even if Mr. Tihany wanted to change them, which he says he does not. The banana-leaf wallpaper (all five miles of it), added in the 1940s by the designer Don Loper, will be left intact. The signature white and green stripes, which appear on the porte-cochere, are protected, as are the Polo Lounges hunter green walls. The Fountain Coffee Room will keep its curving counter, and the pool will have only a few tweaks, like new landscaping. A property gets tired and you need to re-energize it, said Christopher Cowdray, Dorchesters chief executive. To be competitive you have to stay ahead. At the same time, you must retain the DNA. As for the Hotel Bel-Air, where some tweaks have been made at Mr. Pucks restaurant, Mr. Cowdray said, Some elderly guests dont like change, but it had gone past the point of no repair. He added, We needed to make that hotel more internationally relevant to todays luxury traveler. Edward Mady, Dorchesters West Coast regional director, noted that a lot is going right at the Beverly Hills Hotel, with Virtuoso, a
network of more than 330 upscale travel agencies, in August naming it the years No. 1 luxury property. We are very aware of whats working, and change for changes sake is out of the question, he said. Mr. Mady pointed to Mr. Tihanys completed redesign of the lobby as a signal of whats to come. So far, we have had overwhelmingly positive feedback, said Mr. Mady, who is also the hotels general manager. The new entrance, the only completed part of the restoration, has new Art Deco-inspired furnishings, paintings by California artists and a substantially less-showy chandelier. The green and pink carpeting has been replaced in the center of the lobby with a limestone medallion with an abstract banana-leaf design. I love the new lobby, said Robert S. Anderson, the great-grandson of the hotels founder, Margaret Anderson, and the author of a newly published 400-page coffeetable book on the hotel. I will say, however, that I was very wary at first. They wanted to slate the whole lobby, and I said, Oh, no, absolutely not. I do still have some influence. The renovation of the Polo Lounge will be completed in stages starting in January so it can remain open, said Mr. Tihany, who secured the commission after winning a five-designer competition. The 151 guest rooms will be finished by 2014, with work done on 10 to 15 rooms at a time; touches will include updated bathroom fixtures and lighting, and new ebonized oak and parchment lacquered furniture. The color scheme of the guest rooms will change from light salmon to light creams and taupes, with silvery blues, greens, rose and yellows, Mr. Tihany said. The hotels 24 bungalows, some of which were remodeled as recently as last year, are not included in the upcoming renovation. For anyone worried about this apparently insurmountable task Ive been given, let them consider this, Mr. Tihany said. I love this hotel. In fact, I courted my wife here. She did say yes, by the way, so I feel a special sense of duty. We will keep the connection to the community and enhance it.
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Oct. 10: The NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center held a benefit cabaret at the Park Avenue Armory. The event, which attracted 850 guests, raised $2.5 million for the hospital. 1. From left, ANNA KELLY, ELLEN CORWIN, STEVEN CORWIN, CHARLOTTE FORD and ROBERT KELLY. 2. From left, LAURIE GLIMCHER, SANDY WEILL 3 and JOAN WEILL. 4
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Oct. 9: The New York Stem Cell Foundation held its annual benefit at the Time Warner Center. 17. From left, JULIAN ROBERTSON and CECE CORD with MICHAEL NESTOR, a researcher. 18. The nights honorees were, from left, ALICE SHURE, SEUN ADEBIYI and BONNIE PFEIFER EVANS.
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Oct. 9: The Skin Cancer Foundation had its benefit at the Plaza, with dinner and a program in the Grand Ballroom. 35. From left, ALLISON KELLER, RICK FAIR and LUCY DANZIGER.
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Mardie Millit and Michael Garin

By CARA BUCKLEY
ARDIE MILLIT does not remember what song Michael Garin was singing that spring night in 2005 when they found themselves at the Birdland jazz club in Midtown Manhattan as part of an open-mic night. Ms. Millit, a cabaret singer and actress, had already performed, and he was playing piano and crooning one of his own songs. It was probably something gross, Ms. Millit recalled, alluding to Mr. Garins sense of humor, which might be described as 12-yearold boy meets smart yet vulnerable man. Crude but also sweet. I seriously found him enchanting. Ms. Millit leaned over to the woman next to her, a stranger from Saskatchewan, and after comparing Mr. Garin with a horses backside, added, I think I love him a little bit. Then she sauntered over to introduce herself. The two quickly found themselves swapping musicians jokes, squealing with laughter and annoying everyone else sitting nearby. At the time, Mr. Garin regularly played piano at the Monkey Bar, and invited Ms. Millit to come by sometime to sing, which she did. And there was a chemistry, Mr. Garin said. He also found her very pretty. Ten days after they met, she began to ask in jest: Dont you think its been long enough? Dont you think you should be married to me for a little bit now? Yet serious obstacles loomed most notably their marriages to other people. By then, Ms. Millit said, she was estranged from her husband, who was living in Little Rock, Ark., and Mr. Garin and his wife of nearly three decades were, he said, fighting all the time. It was in shambles, he said. The pair began performing together, with their easy repartee part of the act. They said that they kept things more or less professional for a while, though their friendship deepened, helped along by mutual commiseration. We found we had this marriageending thing in common, she said. We both needed someone that got it. We found that person in each other. Ms. Millit, who is from Shadyside, Ohio, had moved to New York in 1989 seeking Broadway fame, married a theatrical director, moved with him to Missouri, found herself deeply unhappy there and returned to New York, solo, in 2003. She was divorced in 2006.
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MANHATTAN, OCT. 7 Mardie Millit and Michael Garin during their first dance, at the Cutting Room. Below, the couple at the ceremony.
After meeting Mr. Garin, she tried to date other people, but found that her feelings for him were too strong. I could not get him out of my head, she said, to the point where I was dating this one guy and he kissed me and I burst into tears. So she resolved to wait until Mr. Garin was free, though he was torn, wanting at first to stay in his marriage for the sake of his two sons. They did not pinpoint exactly when their relationship tipped romantic. I wouldve preferred to have been single, he said. But by the time I fell in love with somebody else, thats the way things were.
In April 2007, he moved out and embarked on a six-month stint of couch surfing, dragging his maroon suitcase behind him. Not even the kind with wheels, Ms. Millit said. She was in her 11th apartment in five years. Finally, near the end of 2007, they decided to move in together. I said the reality is: Were in love. Im not a kid. Lets get together for real, said Mr. Garin, now 58. They were also broke. Six months before the recession officially started, their jobs playing private parties and events dried up. So they moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Harlem in 2008 and found domestic bliss. All of a sudden, I could relax completely and utterly, he said. It was a huge change but if felt like wed been together forever. Not long after, Mr. Garin, who shared Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for the 1991 Off Broadway musical Song of Singapore, began playing piano at Elaines every Sunday, and Ms. Millit soon began singing by his side. Elaine Kaufman, the restaurants owner, watched their tip jar like a hawk, topping it up from the register if it looked too shallow. It was a heady time for both of them. Were small-town guys, said Mr. Garin, who is from Greenbelt, Md., and Im at Elaines playing when in walks Jack Nicholson. Someone else walked in one Sunday in 2010 and served Mr. Garin with divorce papers while he was at the piano. He immediately segued into
Love and Marriage. Elaines closed in May 2011, five months after Ms. Kaufmans death, and ever since the couple have continued to play elsewhere while Mr. Garin works on a new musical. They decided to marry as soon as his divorce came through. Yet their wedding plans were hampered by their rather dire financial situation, which Mr. Garin described as chewing gum and piano wire.
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Then Steven Walter and Josh Gaspero, old friends from Elaines, stepped in. Both men are owners of the Cutting Room club, which they are planning to reopen on East 32nd Street, and offered Mr. Garin and Ms. Millit a deep discount. On the day Mr. Garins divorce was final, the couple set a date. Ms. Millit already had her dress, bought online last year: a diaphanous Art Nouveau gown by Sue Wong that, she said, happened to be white, and is not from the bridal industrial complex. She also fashioned a headpiece out of a brooch that belonged to Ms. Kaufman.
Mr. Garin had lent his two tuxedos to his sons, ages 19 and 22, who took part in the ceremony. (What are they called best boys? he asked Ms. Millit beforehand. Gaffers, she replied without missing a beat.) So he wore a white double-breasted dinner jacket and black pants with bugle beads. The wedding took place on Oct. 7, as it drizzled in the darkness outside. The 100 or so guests included a large contingent of singers and musicians and at least two men who wore sunglasses even though it was rather dark in the club. Ms. Millit, 46, was attended by three friends whom she called brides crones. (Face it, were not maids, she said.) The ceremony was led by Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld, who could not resist a wisecrack: Of all the Jewish ceremonies I dreamed of performing in the Cutting Room, I never thought it would be a wedding. Afterward, Mr. Garin took over the microphone, saying, I couldnt afford an M.C., but Id like to welcome Michael and Mardie as we have our first dance. The couple swayed to Stevie Wonders Ribbon in the Sky, their arms wrapped around each other and eyes locked, as Ms. Millit sang along. Then they broke apart and began pulling their friends and relatives onto the dance floor. If not for our friends, Mr. Garin said, wed be going to City Hall.
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Laura Krug, Joshua Samuelson

Laura Lund Krug, a daughter of Lund Krug and Robert M. Krug of Manhattan, was married Saturday evening to Joshua David Samuelson, the son of Gail J. Samuelson of Long Island City, Queens, and the late Bruce I. Samuelson. Matthew Gline, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated at Battery Gardens, a restaurant and event space in Manhattan. The bride and groom, both 28, met at Harvard, from which they graduated. Ms. Krug is keeping her name. She works in Manhattan as an advertising account manager for Google. Her father is an assistant professor of management at St. Josephs College in Brooklyn and is on the board of the Society for Business Ethics. Her mother is a systems analyst in the finance department of New York Citys employment retirement system in Brooklyn. Mr. Samuelson is an associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Manhattan, where he helps companies manage foreign-currency and interest-rate risks. His mother retired as an administrative assistant at Colgate-Palmolive in Manhattan. His father was an electrician with Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Manhattan.
Veronica Valdivieso, Brian Perusse
Allyson Collins, Nathaniel Guinn

Allyson Thrse Collins and Nathaniel William Guinn were married Saturday at St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan. The Rev. Vincent Laviano, a parochial vicar at the church, performed the ceremony. Ms. Collins, 29, is keeping her name. She is the deputy Web editor in the public affairs department of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse and received a masters degree in science writing from M.I.T. She is the daughter of Jacquelyn OHearn of Binghamton, N.Y., and the late Stephen Collins, and the stepdaughter of Michael OHearn. Mr. Guinn, 30, is a staff lawyer for the New York City Administration for Childrens Services in New York. He graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego and received a law degree from Whittier College in Whittier, Calif. He is a son of Cynthia A. Guinn and Theodore W. Guinn of Norwich, N.Y.
Caroline Kim, Jason Oh
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Emily Chiswick-Patterson, Matan Shacham
KERRY MCDONNELL
Emily Rachel Chiswick-Patterson and Matan Shacham were married Saturday evening by Rabbi David E. Ostrich at the Boalsburg, Pa., home of Linda and Blake Gall, friends of the brides parents. Ms. Chiswick-Patterson, 29, will keep her name. She is the manager for strategy and performance at Education Pioneers, an organization in Oakland, Calif., that recruits and trains candidates for administration, curriculum development and other jobs in public schools. She graduated cum laude from Princeton, and received a masters in history from Oxford. She is the daughter of Nancy R. Chiswick and Arthur H. Patterson of State College, Pa. Mr. Shacham, also 29, is an associate at the San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest. He graduated with distinction from Stanford, and received a law degree cum laude from Harvard. He is a son of Esther Shacham and Abraham Shacham of Palo Alto, Calif.
Veronica Valdivieso and Brian Kenneth Perusse were married Thursday at the Moultrie Courthouse in Washington. Gerald I. Fisher, an associate judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court, officiated. On Dec. 29, the couple plan to take part in a religious ceremony, led by the Rev. Gerardo Aste, a Roman Catholic priest, at the Nuestra Seora del Pilar Catholic Church in Lima, Peru. The bride, 36, is the deputy health team leader in the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development in Washington. Until April 2011, she worked in Washington as the legislative assistant for health, agriculture and labor for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, the Democrat from New Jersey. She graduated from Princeton and received a law degree cum laude from Georgetown. She also received a masters degree in public health from Johns Hopkins. She is the daughter of Cecilia and Luis M. Valdivieso of Lima. Her father is the president of the Association of Private Pension Fund Managers of Peru. From July 2008 to January 2009 he was the minister of economy and finance of Peru; from February 2009 to July 2011, he was the Peruvian ambassador to the United States. Her mother, who worked in Washington, retired as an economist at the World Bank. The groom, 33, works in Arlington, Va., as a director of business development for the energy storage subsidiary of AES, a power company. From September 2004 to June 2006, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, where he assisted with business development for local artisans. He graduated from Cornell and received an M.B.A. with honors from Georgetown. He is a son of Lucy W. Perusse and Edward J. Perusse of Nazareth, Pa. The grooms parents own Home-Sew, a sewing and craft supply company in Bethlehem, Pa.
Natalie Friedman, Daniel Winston
Caroline Ellen Kim and Jason Il Oh are to be married Sunday evening at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, the restaurant at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. The Rev. Kevin D. Swanson, a minister of the Evangelical Covenant Church, is to officiate. The bride, 33, will take her husbands name. She is a business training and education consultant in New York. She graduated from Yale and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. She is the daughter of Soon-ok Kim and Taeyun Kim of Fort Lee, N.J. The brides parents retired as the owners of Ricasu Jewelry, a jewelry store that was in New York. The groom, 37, is a founder of Mohchi, an online-shopping business he is developing in New York. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and received a masters in computer science from the University of Chicago. He is a son of Dukja Oh and Sunkyu Oh of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. The grooms parents retired as the owners of two strip malls in Los Angeles.
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Rica Mendoza, David Silverman
Michelle Ellwood, Joshua Greenstein
CAROLYN FONG
MEGAN KHICHI
Michelle Elizabeth Ellwood and Joshua Pell Greenstein were married Saturday evening at the Edgartown Lighthouse in Edgartown, Mass. The Rev. Robert Hensley, an Episcopal priest, officiated, with Rabbi Devon Lerner taking part. Ms. Ellwood, 35, is keeping her name. She is a lawyer in New York, working for several law firms. She graduated from Wake Forest University and received a masters degree in humanities from New York University, and a law degree from Boston College. She is a daughter of Dolores J. Ellwood and Robert J. Ellwood, who live and work in Phillipsburg, N.J. The brides father is a lawyer in private practice and a retired municipal court judge. Her mother retired as a reading teacher from AndoverMorris Elementary School. Mr. Greenstein, 33, is pursuing a doctorate in economics at the New School in New York. He graduated from the University of Michigan and received a masters in international affairs from the New School. He is a son of Judy B. Greenstein and Allan D. Greenstein of Port St. Lucie, Fla. The grooms father retired as the owner of the Surf and Stream Campground in Toms River, N.J.
Rica Decena Mendoza and David Oscar Silverman were married Saturday in New York. Msgr. James P. Lisante officiated at the New York Athletic Club. The couple met at Columbia, from which each received an M.B.A. Mrs. Silverman, 30, is an investment associate for the endowment of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She graduated from Georgetown. She is a daughter of Doris and Maynard Mendoza of Piedmont, Calif. Her father retired as an accountant for EdTec, an organization in Emeryville, Calif., that provides business and development support to charter schools. Her mother is a senior vice president for corporate banking at Citigroup, in its San Francisco office. Mr. Silverman, 31, is an analyst for spinoffs, restructurings and bankruptcies at the New York hedge fund Eagle Capital Partners. He graduated from Harvard. He is a son of Susan Mohr Silverman and Dr. Mark L. Silverman of Newton, Mass. The grooms mother is a manager of an apartment building in New York that is owned by her family. His father, an anatomic pathologist, is the chairman of pathology and hospital-based medicine at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Mass.
Natalie Harold Friedman, a daughter of Ann B. Friedman and Thomas L. Friedman of Bethesda, Md., is to be married Sunday to Daniel Abraham Winston, the son of Denise S. Winston and Theodore M. Winston of Wakefield, R.I. Rabbi Jonathan Z. Maltzman is to perform the ceremony at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington. The bride, 24, and groom, 25, met at Williams College, from which they graduated. Mrs. Winston is an editorial assistant in the elections unit of National Public Radio in Washington. The brides father is a columnist for The New York Times who won Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting in 1983 and 1988, and for commentary in 2002. He is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century and other books. Her mother retired as a first-grade reading teacher at Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda and is the chairwoman of the SEED Foundation in Washington, which operates public college-preparatory boarding schools. Mr. Winston is a project analyst with the United States subsidiary of Veolia Transdev, a French public-transportation services company, in its Silver Springs, Md., office. His mother is the assistant to the dean for lower-school admissions at the Moses Brown School, a Quaker school in Providence, R.I. His father works from Wakefield as a senior product design consultant for WorkWise Inc., a Milwaukee company that makes software for manufacturing companies.
Lauren McMillen, Brian Ormsbee
Hannah Meyers, Joseph Abrams
Michelle Hyde, Carlene Jadusingh
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Michelle Wendy Hyde and Carlene Jadusingh are to be married Sunday in Manhattan. State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, who presides in Manhattan, is to officiate at Morans Chelsea, a restaurant. Ms. Hyde (left), 51, is a business analyst for health information technology in Manhattan for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. She graduated from New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury and received a masters in public administration from Baruch College. She is the daughter of Phyllis L. Hyde of Uniondale, N.Y., and the late Owen A. Hyde. Her father retired as a police lieutenant from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; he worked at Kennedy Airport. Her mother retired as an assistant manager from the Westbury, N.Y., branch of European American Bank, and from 1986 to 2002 was a member of the Nassau County Commission on Human Rights. Ms. Jadusingh, 50, is a lawyer in private practice in Manhattan. She graduated cum laude from John Jay College and received a law degree from St. Johns University. She is also the president of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Greater New York. She is the daughter of the late Norma D. Jadusingh of the Bronx, who retired as an office manager from the investment banking unit of JPMorgan Chase. Ms. Hydes previous marriage ended in divorce.
Hannah Elka Meyers and Joseph Abrams are to be married Sunday evening at Park East Synagogue in New York. Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel is to perform the ceremony, with Joshua I. Beraha, a rabbinical student and the grooms brother-in-law, participating. The bride, 31, is an intelligence research specialist with the New York Police Department. She is also a singer and songwriter. She graduated from Dartmouth, and received a masters in international relations from Yale. She is the daughter of Nahma S. Sandrow and William M. Meyers of New York. The brides father works in New York as a photography critic at The Wall Street Journal, and a photographer. His works are in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library, the Museum of the City of New York and the New-York Historical Society. Her mother is the author of Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater. She is on the boards of Artek, an early-music ensemble, and the New Yiddish Rep, both in New York. The groom, 27, is an associate editorial page editor of The New York Post. He graduated from Kenyon College. He is a son of Rachel Abrams and Elliott Abrams of Great Falls, Va. The grooms mother has written blog posts for The Weekly Standard and is an artist whose wood and ceramic carvings have been shown at the Foxhall Gallery in Washington. She is on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel in Washington. His father is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. From 2005 to 2009, he was a deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush. The groom is a maternal grandson of Midge Decter of New York, the author and social critic, and a step-grandson of Norman Podhoretz, the author and former editor of Commentary. The couple met in the summer of 2011, when a mutual friend brought Mr. Abrams to a party Ms. Meyers was having a few days before moving out of her apartment. She described it as a housecooling party. This mutual friend thought she would be perfect for me and showed me her music videos on YouTube, he said. I thought she was unbelievably clever, and charming, sweet and beautiful. When he actually saw her, his first impression was more than confirmed. Walking into the apartment, he said, I was struck with the feeling: Ah, Im done. Shes the one. It was a good party to attend.
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Lauren Amy McMillen and Brian Anthony Ormsbee were married Saturday evening at Del Posto, a restaurant in Manhattan. Judge Colleen McMahon of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York officiated. The bride, 37, is a senior counsel at the Manhattan law firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, where she specializes in securities litigation. She graduated from Duke and received a law degree cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Loretta McMillen and Harlow McMillen of Castleton Corners, Staten Island. The brides parents retired as teachers at I.S. 75 Paulo Intermediate School in Huguenot, Staten Island, he in social studies and she in English. The brides paternal grandfather, Loring McMillen, was Staten Islands official historian from 1934 until his death in 1991. The groom, 43, is the director of social and community platforms at Cond Nast in Manhattan, where he oversees the Web sites and social media for the companys publications. He graduated from Boston University. He is the son of Magda Gisela Ormsbee and William H. Ormsbee Jr. of Panama. The grooms father retired as the public information and press officer for the United States Southern Command, the United States militarys operational headquarters for South and Central America, in Panama. The couple were introduced online in September 2008, and agreed to go on a date on Oct. 2. But when Ms. McMillen realized that it would coincide with the vice-presidential debate between Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Gov. Sarah Palin that night, she decided to postpone their appointment. Im a lifelong Democrat, she said. They rescheduled, but on the night they were to meet, she showed up late to our first date, Mr. Ormsbee said. (Ms. McMillen said she misjudged the amount of time to get downtown from her office.) But Im marrying her, so there you go, he added. ZACH JOHNK
Gloria Franke, Edward Shaw
Gloria Charlon Franke and Edward Peter Shaw were married Saturday at the Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Rev. Edward M. Perkinson, an Episcopal priest, officiated. Mrs. Shaw, 32, is a senior associate in the Los Angeles office of the law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a law degree from the University of Southern California. She is a daughter of Charlon M. Franke and Richard E. Franke of Clinton Township, Mich. Mr. Shaw, 31, is a senior associate at Entertainment and Culture Advisors, a sports and entertainment consultancy in Los Angeles, where he manages economic and business planning for clients. He graduated from Yale and received a masters in sports business from New York University. He is the son of Martha G. W. Shaw and John A. Shaw of Boston.
Corrections
A report on Sept. 30 about the marriage of Paul Poux and David Pfingstler misidentified them in the accompanying photograph. Mr. Pfingstler was on the left, Mr. Poux at the right.
A report last Sunday about the marriage of Brian Kates and Jonathan Cohen misstated the name of the institution where the couples officiant, Amichai Lau-Lavie, is a rabbinical student. It is the Jewish Theological Seminary, not the Jewish Theological Society.
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Nora Kenworthy, Ethan Abeles

Nora Jane Kenworthy and Ethan Mark Abeles were married Saturday at the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls, an event space in Beacon, N.Y. Catherine L. Bordeau, a leader of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, officiated. The bride, 30, is keeping her name. She is a Ph.D. candidate in sociomedical sciences at Columbia, from which she received a Master of Arts in the same subject. She graduated cum laude from Williams College. She is the daughter of Nancy W. Kenworthy and Tom Kenworthy of Golden, Colo., where her father is a senior fellow in environmental and renewable energy policy at the Center for American Progress, a progressive policy center based in Washington. Her mother is an independent consultant in corporate training and learning design for the financial services industry. The bride is the paternal granddaughter of the late E. W. Kenworthy, a former Washington correspondent for The New York Times. The groom, 31, works in Redmond, Wash., as a producer of video games for Microsoft. He graduated cum laude from Skidmore College. He is a son of Jonnet S. Abeles and Peter L. Abeles of New York. His mother retired as an assistant dean of the Columbia Journalism School. Until 2008, she was the director of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards for broadcast and digital journalism. His father is a court-appointed mediator for the State of New Jersey.
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Leslie Dougherty, Matthew Parker
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LL that nasty gossip notwithstanding, Teresa Giudice, resolute as ever on the recent Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion, apparently has not dissolved her stormy marriage. Which squares with the latest Census Bureau figures on divorce in the Garden State. According to the 2011 American Community Survey released last month by the Census Bureau, New Jersey ranks last among the states in the percentage of residents 18 and older who are divorced. Just 9 percent of New Jersey adults are divorced, compared with nearly 52 percent of whom are now married. The composition of New Jersey married individuals is quite favorable across several indicators, providing some evidence for the low divorce rate, said Susan L. Brown, a sociology professor and codirector of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. These factors include education, race-ethnicity, age, and age at first marriage. On paper, at least, Ms. Giudice personifies those demographic factors that, compared with the rest of the country, make the state such a paradigm of marital durability if not necessarily bliss. She has a college degree. She was past 25 when she married. She is white. And she and her husband were apparently wealthy enough to have piled up millions of dollars in debts. Marriages are more likely to last for longer periods of time when people marry at an older age, have a higher education and earn more, and New Jersey scores high on these three criteria, said Naomi Cahn, a professor at George Washington University Law School and an author of Red Families v. Blue Families. New Jerseyans are more likely than residents of most states to delay marriage until after they complete college and graduate school, she said. There are fewer divorces in New Jersey because there are fewer risk factors. Her co-author, June Carbone, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said the protective factor is now reflected among couples marrying later and later. What is taking place is not necessarily age per se in sense of maturity, she said, but that people who tend to marry later tend to be wealthier and better educated and are more likely to marry someone wealthier and better educated. Nationally, 23 percent of the people who married within the previous year, according to the 2008-10 American Community Survey, were 18- to 24-year-olds. In New Jersey, only 13 percent were. Among all Americans who married in the preceding year, 31 percent had a bachelors degree or higher. In New Jersey, 42 percent did. The median age at first marriage in the nation in 2011 was 28.9 for men and 26.9 for women. In New Jersey, the comparable figures were 30.2 and 28.5. They tend to delay marriage until an age when theyre emotionally and financially ready, said Deborah Carr, a sociology professor at Rutgers. Higher education and high age at marriage are two of the most important factors that protect against divorce risk. And the current recession not withstanding, New Jersey is among the wealthier states in the nation, and economic stability also contributes to marital stability. Those factors also place New York and Massachusetts among the states with the lowest share of divorced people. This is the classic blue-state divorce pattern, said W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. (Hawaii and North Dakota ranked low,
too, but thats attributed to relatively low unemployment in those states.) In general, the northeastern states have lower divorce rates because their citizens are more highly educated and marry at older ages than do people in other regions, said Andrew J. Cherlin, a professor of public policy at Johns Hopkins. There is an odd and interesting relationship between states where people hold conservative values at higher levels, like the South, and higher divorce rates in those regions, said Rose McDermott, a political scientist at Brown. (New Jersey also had a much lower marriage rate than southern states, perhaps bolstering a credo of Raoul Lionel Felder, a prominent divorce lawyer in New York, that marriage is the first step on the road to divorce.) The impact of the recession appears to have been mixed so far. DVera Cohn, a senior writer at the Pew Research Center, said: Perhaps couples cannot afford to get divorced during hard times. It may be too costly to live separately, one spouse may lose health benefits, divorce itself can be expensive, and so forth. But its also possible that stress caused by job loss, foreclosure or other economic injury may raise the risk of divorce. Other experts speculated that New Jerseys
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Stacy Marie Green and Edward Droctov Martinet III are to be married Sunday in Key West, Fla. Ethan M. Riegelhaupt, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister to officiate, is to perform the ceremony at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. The bride, 29, will take her husbands name. She is the chief marketing officer at Mashable, a news Web site in New York. She graduated from Towson University in Towson, Md. She is a daughter of Margaret S. Lanham of Scaggsville, Md., and Joseph A. Green of Fulton, Md. The brides father is a mechanic at EuroMotorcars, a dealership in Bethesda, Md. Her mother is a manager overseeing the delivery of telecommunications services for Verizon in Hunt Valley, Md. The groom, 28, is known as Drake. He is the social editor of NowThis News, a company in New York that provides news video to mobile devices and social networks. He graduated from the University of California, Davis, and received a masters degree in journalism from Stanford. He is the son of Rosanne M. Martinet and Mr. Martinet II of Key West. The grooms mother retired as a special-education teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Oceanside, Calif., and is a volunteer mentor in Key West for Take Stock in Children, a mentoring organization in Florida that provides scholarships and support for schoolchildren from low-income families who hope to go to college. His father, who works in Key West, is the chief executive of Lima Solutions, a consultancy on construction defect litigation.
In a state where couples delay marriage, better relationships may be a result.

low share of divorced people results from a range of factors, from the relatively large foreign-born population (immigrants have lower odds of divorce than the native-born population) to costly alimony provisions. Perhaps the New Jersey divorce rate is related to the unemployment rate or the low quotient of happiness people who live in New Jersey require, said Mr. Felder. A study of other data by Philip N. Cohen, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland, found that Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and North Dakota had the lowest rate of divorces the previous year compared with their populations only 6 or 7 per 1,000, compared with 31 states that recorded more than 10 divorces per 1,000 residents, and Oklahoma, where nearly 14 per 1,000 said they were divorced. The rate for men was 6.3 in New Jersey and 9.4 nationally, and for women, 7.1 and 9.7. Over all, divorce rates peaked in the 1980s, but appear to be experiencing an uptick in the last few years. Janet Montgomery, the English actress who stars as Martina Garretti in the new CBS series Made in Jersey, drew a contrast between her character, a lawyer from a working-class background, and another young television lawyer, Ally McBeal, who in the 1990s was worried about turning 30 while she was still single. In New Jersey now, thats almost the new normal. Women dont stress about that any more, Ms. Montgomery told TV Guide. I mean, Im 26, and I think that what I love about this character is shes not trying to find a boyfriend. That is not that important to her. What is important to her is the people she loves in her life. Which I think we can all relate to, whether it be family, friends or your dog.
Leslie Julia Dougherty, the daughter of Cynthia C. Dougherty and Charles W. Dougherty of Washington, was married Saturday to Matthew Hayes Parker, a son of Dr. Virginia S. Parker and David L. Parker of East Greenwich, R.I. The Rev. Percival DSilva, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Aldrich Mansion in Warwick, R.I. The couple met at Boston College, from which each received a law degree. Mrs. Parker, 27, is an associate at Adler Pollock & Sheehan, a law firm in Providence, R.I. She graduated from the University of Michigan. Her father retired from the Navy as a captain and was last stationed at the Pentagon as a surface warfare officer. He is now the administrative officer for the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington. Her mother retired as the director of groundwater and drinking water at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. Mr. Parker, 30, is an associate at Whelan & Siket, a Providence law firm. He graduated cum laude from Connecticut College. His mother is a rheumatologist in private practice in Warwick. His father retired as the administrator-in-charge of the Rhode Island Department of Health Emergency Medical Services for Children Program in Providence.
Jaclyn Garfinkel, Andrew Sousa
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Jeanie Chu, Harris Wang
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Jeanie Shin Chu and Harris He Wang were married Saturday evening in the Ferry Administration Building at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The Rev. Robert Cox, a Presbyterian minister, officiated. The bride, 29, is keeping her name. She is an art teacher at Attleboro High School in Attleboro, Mass. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received a masters in art education from Tufts. She is a daughter of Evelyn E. Chu of Alpharetta, Ga., and Karl K. Chu of Los Angeles. Her father is a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker in Los Angeles. Her mother is a wholesale department manager in Alpharetta for HMart, a chain of Korean grocery stores headquartered in New York. The groom, also 29, is a research fellow in Boston at the Wyss Institute, part of Harvard. He graduated from M.I.T. and received a doctorate in biophysics from Harvard. He is the son of Kathleen P. Lee and Xingfa Wang of Worcester, Mass. His mother, a mechanical engineer, works at the Package Machinery Company, a packaging company in West Springfield, Mass. His father owns 3W Consulting, a company in Worcester that provides cardiovascular diagnostics for hospitals and medical practices.
Jaclyn Sarah Garfinkel and Andrew William Sousa were married Saturday evening at Gotham Hall, an event space in New York. Rabbi Rene Feller officiated. The bride and groom, both 28, met at Syracuse, from which they graduated. Ms. Garfinkel is the senior social media editor in New York for NickMom, a Web site and television programming aimed at adult mothers recently started by the Nickelodeon cable television networks. She is a daughter of Shelley G. Garfinkel and Lee D. Garfinkel of Pound Ridge, N.Y. The brides father is the chairman and chief creative officer of global brands of the New York office of Havas Worldwide, a French marketing and advertising agency. Mr. Sousa is an operations specialist in Pearl River, N.Y., at Pfizer, working in the manufacture of cancer drugs. He is the son of Mary Beth Sousa and William A. Sousa Jr. of Nashua, N.H. The grooms mother is a marketing database manager in Billerica, Mass., for the Brady Corporation, which makes security technologies and other components. His father is a divisional manager in Wilbraham, Mass., for the Friendlys restaurant chain.
Robyn Mar, Ra Tabacco
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Melissa Mazzucco, Sean McDonald

Melissa Jane Mazzucco and Sean Edward McDonald were married Saturday evening at Bridgewaters, an event space in Manhattan. Stephen P. Kramer, a retired New York City civil court judge, officiated. Mrs. McDonald, 30, works in Manhattan as a sales account executive at Technorati Media, a San Francisco-based online media company and advertising network. She graduated from Indiana University Bloomington. She is a daughter of Kathleen A. Mazzucco of Brooklyn and the late Robert G. Mazzucco. The brides father, who worked in Long Island City, Queens, retired as a planner for the New York City Department of City Planning. Her mother retired as a reading teacher at Public School 94, an elementary school in Brooklyn. Mr. McDonald, 34, trades stocks at Quad Capital, a brokerage firm in Manhattan. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. He is a son of Mary E. McDonald and Edward A. McDonald of Brooklyn. The grooms mother is an educational consultant in Brooklyn. His father is a partner in the New York office of the law firm Dechert.
Robyn Mei Ping Colbert Mar and Ra Anne Tabacco were married Saturday at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Manhattan. Judge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York officiated. The couple, both 30, met at New York University, from which they received law degrees, Ms. Tabacco cum laude Ms. Mar (left) is a lawyer in the criminal defense practice of Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal representation. She is also responsible for training and supervising new lawyers. She graduated cum laude from Columbia. She is the daughter of Louise Colbert-Mar and Jeffrey Mar of Clovis, Calif. Her mother is the director of library services at Alliant International University in Fresno, Calif. Her father is a clinical psychologist in private practice there. Ms. Tabacco is an assistant counsel in the economic justice group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Manhattan. From 2010 to 2011, she was a law clerk to Judge Marrero. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. She is the daughter of Lucy Tabacco of Manhattan. Her mother is an administrative law judge in the Bronx for the New York City Environmental Control Board in the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. She is also a social worker with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in Manhattan.
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Hilary Schaffner, Christopher Child

Hilary Van Allen Schaffner and Christopher Warren Child were married Saturday at the Wlffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack, N.Y. David Nichtern, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. Mrs. Child, 34, is the co-owner and director of the Halsey Mckay art gallery in East Hampton, N.Y. She graduated from Wheaton College and received a masters in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is the daughter of Cynthia Van Allen Schaffner and Robert T. Schaffner of New York. The brides father retired as a vice president at Goldman Sachs in New York, working with private investors. Her mother is a researcher in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is an author, with Susan Klein, of American Painted Furniture, 1790-1880. The brides maternal grandfather, the late James A. Van Allen, was an astrophysicist who, in 1958, discovered belts of intense radiation circling the earth that became known as the Van Allen radiation belts. Mr. Child, 37, is a composer and musician in New York. His music was featured on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live and the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. He has also recorded two albums of electronic music under the stage name Kodomo. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music. He is a son of Sandra Hardwicke Child of Chapel Hill, N.C., and the late W. John Child. The grooms mother retired as a third-grade teacher at Tyler Heights Elementary School in Annapolis, Md. His father was a minister-counselor of agriculture for the State Department in Tokyo, where he worked on commercial and agricultural policy.
Laura Boucai, Jason Segal
Alanna Hynes, Philip DeGisi

Alanna Marie Hynes and Philip Anthony DeGisi were married Saturday. The Rev. Joseph P. Tierney, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan. The couple met at Dartmouth, from which they received M.B.A. degrees. The bride, 29, is keeping her name. Later this month, she is to become the vice president for operations and technology in the resources group at American Securities, a private investment firm in Manhattan. She graduated from Brown. She is a daughter of Anne Marie and James Hynes of Riverside, Conn. The brides parents manage the familys investments. The brides father is also a founder and the chairman of Inteliquent, a telecommunications networking company in Chicago, and is the chairman of the board of Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. Her mother is the vice chairwoman of the Academy of Mount St. Ursula, a Roman Catholic school for girls in the Bronx. The groom, 32, is the director for merchandising at AfterSchool.com, a childrens sports and activities retailer in Jersey City, that is operated by Quidsi, a subsidiary of Amazon.com. He graduated from Vassar. He is the son of the late Cathryn Biedermann DeGisi, who lived with the grooms father in Rye Brook, N.Y., and the late Anthony L. DeGisi Jr., who lived in Hillsborough, N.J. The grooms mother was a teacher in the Scotch Plains, N.J., public schools. His father was the president for sales and operations in the Hightstown, N.J., office of Kronos Worldwide, a manufacturer of titanium dioxide pigments. The groom is the stepson of Jeanne Romano DeGisi of Hillsborough.
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Patricia Baptiste and Calvin Gene Sims were married Saturday at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York. The Rev. Kirsty DePree, an associate pastor at the church, performed the ceremony. The bride, 35, is taking her husbands name. She is a portfolio administrator at Neuberger Berman, a New York asset management company, where she analyzes institutional accounts and mutual funds. She graduated from St. Johns University and is pursuing an M.B.A. at New York University. She is a daughter of Nicole E. Baptiste and Eric Baptiste of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The brides father is the president of Les Entreprises Commerciales de Leon O. Baptiste, a family owned coffee exporter in Port-au-Prince. Her mother is a customs broker at Universal Motors, a Nissan dealership in Ptionville, Haiti. The groom, 48, is a program officer for the Ford Foundation in New York, where he manages a portfolio of grants for the news media and journalism. Until 2007, he was a director of development in the video and television department at The New York Times. From 1994 to 2003, he was a foreign correspondent for the newspaper in Buenos Aires; Tokyo; and Jakarta, Indonesia. He graduated from Yale. He is a chairman of the board of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, which provides college access to disadvantaged students in New York. He is also a trustee of the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization in New York that sponsors public and educational programs and administers the National Book Awards. The groom is a son of Calvina O. Sims of Compton, Calif., and the late Lonnie G. Sims. The grooms father was an industrial engineer at Beckman Instruments, a manufacturer of scientific and forensic instruments in Fullerton, Calif. His mother is a trustee of Gospel Light Fellowship, a philanthropic organization in Lynwood, Calif. The brides previous marriage ended in divorce.
Candida Higgins, Steven Martin
Sarah Matthews, Joseph Pietrangelo
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Dr. Sarah Pierrepont Matthews and Dr. Joseph Pietrangelo were married on Saturday evening at the country home of the brides parents in Barretville, Tenn. The Rev. Peter Katzaroff, a Roman Catholic priest, officiated. The couple met at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, where each received a medical degree. The bride, 29, is taking her husbands name. She is a pediatric resident at Le Bonheur Childrens Hospital in Memphis. She graduated from Princeton. She is a daughter of Roberta Bartow Matthews and Paul A. Matthews of Memphis. Her father is a partner in the Memphis law firm Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews. He also is the vice chairman of the Tennessee Historical Commission in Nashville. Her mother, also a lawyer, is the director of gift planning at Le Bonheur Childrens Hospital. The groom, 36, is a dermatology resident at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame, where he also received a masters degree in education summa cum laude. He is a son of Nina M. Pietrangelo and Michael A. Pietrangelo of Germantown, Tenn. His father is of counsel to the Memphis law firm Pietrangelo Cook. He is also a director of the American Parkinson Disease Association in New York.
Sarah Nelson, Daniel McAvoy
Sarah Abigail Nelson and Daniel Larocque McAvoy are to be married Sunday evening in Naples, Fla. Rabbi Adam Miller is to officiate. Ms. Nelson, 37, will keep her name. She is a tax and structured-finance counsel at the New York office of the Dallas law firm Locke Lord. She graduated from Stanford and received a law degree and a masters in taxation from New York University. She is a daughter of Vicki Goldberg Nelson and John L. Nelson of Oakton, Va. The brides father retired as an information systems manager in Fairfax, Va., for ExxonMobil, where he managed the companys databases. Mr. McAvoy, 33, is a corporate associate at the New York office of the Boston law firm Nixon Peabody. He graduated from the University of South Florida and received a law degree from New York University. He is a son of Joyce E. Larocque and George Larocque of Pinellas Park, Fla. The grooms mother retired as a special-needs teacher in Clearwater, Fla., for the Teenage Parent Program, a program run through Floridas public schools that helps teenage parents. His father retired as a truck driver for Pinch-a-Penny, a swimming pool company in Largo, Fla. The brides previous marriage ended in divorce.
Candida Gay Higgins and Steven Rohn Martin were married Saturday evening at Mohonk Mountain House, a resort in New Paltz, N.Y. The Rev. Puja A. J. Thomson, a minister affiliated with the Healing Light Center Church of Sierra Madre, Calif., officiated. Ms. Higgins, 46, is keeping her name. She works from Shore Acres, Staten Island, as a music and publishing sales and marketing consultant. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal. She is the daughter of the late Pamela R. Higgins and the late Edgar F. Higgins, who lived in Toronto. Mr. Martin, 56, is the president for North America of the Agency Group, a London music and literary agency. He works in Manhattan. He graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a son of the late Anne Wald of Riverhead, N.Y., and a stepson of the late Donald Wald, who lived in Southampton, N.Y. The brides previous marriage ended in divorce, as did the grooms. Ms. Higgins and Mr. Martin were introduced by a mutual colleague in December 2000 when Mr. Martin went to Toronto for his companys holiday party. She was working in Toronto for Warner Music. I was fairly enraptured by her, said Mr. Martin, who was then separated from his first wife. I was supposed to be circulating and wanted to talk to her and nobody else. An hour later, after talking about some of the challenges of women in the music business, they exchanged business cards. I dont think either of us at that moment knew how connected we felt, she said. Two months later she e-mailed him suggesting they have coffee the next time he was in Toronto. He immediately wrote back and within weeks they were e-mailing and talking on the telephone daily. In May, when Mr. Martin was there on business, they met for dinner and began a long-distance relationship. We definitely had a wonderful chemistry, he said. We kind of tried to make a long-distance thing work. Ms. Higgins, who was divorced in 1998, saw advantages to living far apart. I was readjusting and really in love with my job, she said. By fall, though, distance came between them. What I thought was going to be the best of both worlds was very frustrating, Ms. Higgins said. I was settled in my job and committed to my life in Toronto. I was never going to move to New York. Mr. Martin, who was in the final stages of a divorce and had two young children and a job in New York, was not about to move to Toronto. They broke up, and over the years heard about each other through colleagues. They came into contact again in 2008, after Ms. Higginss mother died and he offered his sympathies. We started speaking, she said. I wasnt in any mind to consider romance. He was a friend. They began corresponding again, and in February, Ms. Higgins said, she went to New York, ostensibly to stay with a friend, but really to see if she still cared for Mr. Martin. They met for dinner, she said, and it was just this instant connection. They began what she described as a frequent-flier relationship, and last year she agreed to move to New York by Christmas.
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Dr. Laura Boucai and Jason Andrew Segal were married Friday at Castle on the Hudson, an event site in Tarrytown, N.Y. Rabbi Joshua Strom officiated. The bride, 35, is an endocrinologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. Until July, she was an assistant professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She received a medical degree with honors from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is a daughter of Silvia Boucai and Victor Boucai of Buenos Aires. The brides father, a chemist, retired as a chemical consultant there for companies making perfumes and beauty products. Her mother is an independent residential architect in Buenos Aires. The groom, 39, is the managing director of the Manhattan office of Sustainable Development Capital, a London-based investment bank specializing in resource efficiency, including renewable energy and water treatment. He helps finance environmental projects. He graduated from Wesleyan University and received an M.B.A. from University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Winifred L. Segal and James H. Segal of Hartsdale, N.Y. The grooms mother is a service coordinator at Westchester Jewish Community Services in White Plains, making home visits to developmentally disabled individuals. His father is the controller of Excel Security Corporation, a provider of security services in Manhattan. The couple met at a mutual friends party in February 2010, while they were casually dating other people. A couple of weeks later, Mr. Segal asked her out to his favorite tapas restaurant in Manhattan, where they listened to a flamenco guitarist. I knew the guitarist, said Mr. Segal, who also plays flamenco guitar. Almost anytime I go to a party, someone sticks a guitar in my hand. Dr. Boucai quickly got into the spirit of things. We were listening to amazing music, she said, and she ordered a typical Spanish dish. Im Argentinian, she said. I ordered Serrano ham. Then, she said to him, Try this, its awesome, and could not understand why he kept smiling. I was a little uncomfortable to tell this nice girl Im out on a date with that Im vegetarian, he said, but they had a good laugh when he did tell her. They enjoyed the remainder of evening, during which they learned that they loved many of the same things, travel in particular. But when he asked her out again, Dr. Boucai told him she just wanted to be friends, which Mr. Segal reluctantly accepted. They became travel buddies instead, journeying together that year to Spain, Belize, Mexico and Jamaica. We would have an amazing time, she said, but we were having a platonic friendship. Undaunted, Mr. Segal tried to kiss her a few times, he said, but she turned me away. I wasnt ready for a formal relationship, she said. I wanted to get to know him. Although her parents gave him rave reviews, Dr. Boucai continued to keep romance at bay. All I know is that multiple times when my parents came to New York, they loved him, she said, and she met his parents and accompanied him to his grandmothers 96th birthday party that October. By March 2011, she convinced herself that maybe romance could work. This is perfect, she recalled telling herself. Why would you not want this? She was not disappointed. It was great, she said. It was phenomenal. It was beautiful. My parents were happy. His parents were happy. We had a long friendship. Things just got much, much better.
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Suzanne Kling, Barry Langman
Suzanne Beth Kling and Barry Langman are to be married Sunday at Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Rabbi Adam Feldman is to perform the ceremony. The bride, 43, is the director of operations and administration in New York at the North American headquarters of the Shalom Hartman Institute, an Israeli educational organization. She graduated from Barnard College and from the Jewish Theological Seminary, from which she also received a masters degree in Jewish literature. She is a daughter of Ruth Glaser of Brookline, Mass., and Milton Kling of Canton, Mass. She is a stepdaughter of the late Max Glaser. The groom, 44, is a counsel in the real estate department of the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He graduated from Princeton and received a law degree from Harvard. He is the son of Allan Langman of Monroe, N.J., and the late Ruth Langman. He is the stepson of Helene Langman.
Andrea Gorkin, Kirk Wilson

Andrea Jill Gorkin, the daughter of Eileen L. Gorkin and Stefan S. Gorkin of East Meadow, N.Y., was married Saturday evening to Kirk Matthew Wilson, the son of Judith Piazza of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Michael Wilson of New York. Rabbi Michael Ehrlich officiated at the Tribeca Rooftop, an event space in New York. Mrs. Wilson, 33, is a vice president in the beauty division at DeVries Public Relations in New York. She graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan. The brides father retired as the vice president of global labor relations from Colgate-Palmolive in New York. He is an instructor in the labor relations study program at Cornell. Her mother is a teaching assistant at Turtle Hook Middle School in Uniondale, N.Y. Mr. Wilson, also 33, is a vice president and the director of sales at First Eagle Investment Management in New York. He graduated cum laude from the State University at Albany. The grooms father is an artist in New York known professionally as Michael Mars. His pen and ink drawings have been displayed at the ICO Gallery and the Orchard Windows Gallery, both in New York. He retired as a senior loan officer from TCRM Commercial Corporation, a commercial lender, in New York.
Nora Gomez, David Strauss
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Nora Alexandra Gomez and David Jay Strauss are to be married Sunday at the Metropolitan Building in Long Island City, Queens. The grooms father, Sidney Strauss, a New York State Supreme Court justice in Jamaica, Queens, is to officiate. The bride, 28, will be known as Ms. GomezStrauss. She is the communications and online media manager for the Public Art Fund, a nonprofit arts organization in New York. She graduated from the State University of New York College at New Paltz and received a masters degree in arts and cultural management from Pratt Institute. She is a daughter of Noralba Gomez and Rey Gomez of Whitestone, Queens. Her father is an owner of the Rojas Agency, insurance brokers in Elmhurst, Queens. Her mother is a community associate in the social work department of Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica, Queens. The groom, 39, is the director of external affairs at the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where he oversees the museums marketing and public relations and works on its expansion projects. He graduated from the State University at Albany and received a masters degree in visual arts administration from New York University. He is a son of Naomi Strauss; his parents live in Forest Hills, Queens. His mother retired as a merchandising coordinator in the boys division of Polo Ralph Lauren in Manhattan.
Michelle LaBlanc, Gregory Lukianoff

Michelle Aline LaBlanc and Gregory Christopher Lukianoff were married Friday at the Green Building, an events space in Brooklyn. Robert E. LaBlanc Jr., a brother of the bride who became a Universal Life minister to perform the ceremony, officiated. Ms. LaBlanc, 35, is keeping her name. She is a candidate for a masters degree in speech-language pathology at Brooklyn College. She graduated from the University of Rochester. She is a daughter of Elizabeth A. LaBlanc and Mr. LaBlanc Sr. of Manhattan. The brides father retired as a telecommunications consultant in a firm bearing his name in Ridgewood, N.J., and now is a docent at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Her mother is a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the American Museum of Natural History. Mr. Lukianoff, 38, is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an organization in Philadelphia that promotes civil liberties in academia; he works from Brooklyn. He graduated from American University in Washington and received a law degree from Stanford. He is a son of Joanna Dalton Lukianoff of New Milford, Conn., and of Basil Lukianoff of Clearwater, Fla. The grooms mother retired as a geriatric nurse at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. His father retired as an interpreter for the State Department on the negotiations for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties in Geneva.
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MAKING IT LAST
A Love Strengthened by 8-Mile Bike Rides

By MICHAEL WINERIP
RONYA and NEIL STROSNIDER are baby boomers who live in Zelienople, Pa., a small town north of Pittsburgh. They have been married 40 years. He is a partner in a trucking company that has 300 18wheelers and 450 workers; she is a homemaker. A condensed and edited version of our conversation follows.
HOW DID YOU MEET?
Bronya: We met on a bus on the way to a swim meet in eighth grade. He tapped me on my shoulder and asked if he could borrow my comb. My girlfriend said, That means he likes you. I said, No, were just friends. She said, No, he likes you. By the end of ninth grade, we were a couple and never split up. Neil: She was a cheerleader, and I was shy. I didnt play sports. My family lived out in the country. I was baling hay, always working on farms. I had a job at a golf course picking up golf balls, cutting grass, putting plants in. She was my first girlfriend, and Ive never had one since then. I pretty much make up my mind about something and stick with it.
WHAT ATTRACTED YOU?
but I got tired of doctors. They could never be your friend. They were always better than you. Then I took a job with a trucking company. There was a union. The company threatened to close if there was a strike, and they did. I was devastated. Bronya: He left his job to start his own business. There were a few years of turmoil, the kids were little, it was very tough on us. Neil: I started with four tractors and four trailers. Ive been in business 25 years now, and I still have the same partners. In that time, Ive only had to fire one person.
ONE PERSON?
Neil: I have a partner who likes to fire people. I let him do it.
HER GOOD TRAITS?
Shes well read. Theres always lots to keep the conversation lively. Shes such a good person. I dont think shes ever told a lie.
HIS GOOD TRAITS? SURVIVING THE STORMS At left, Bronya and Neil Strosnider on their wedding day in 1972,
undampened by Hurricane Agnes. At right, the couple today, 40 years later.

wasnt that they had so much, but to my mother they seemed like a big deal, like they thought we were below them.
BRONYAS FAMILY?
Neil: She was the best in the whole high school, the prettiest. All the guys liked her. Everyone wanted to be with her. I was always fighting off five or six guys. Bronya: Neil looked like the Beaver in Leave It to Beaver. His father gave him haircuts, and he had this little chopped-up hair. At first, I didnt think he was my type. A little nerdy. Even in his graduation picture, he had black-rimmed glasses and short hair. He looked like Buddy Holly.
WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS THINK OF BEING SO SERIOUS SO YOUNG?
Bronya: Neils mother never liked me. Our time dating was fraught with her fighting us and fighting Neil. He couldnt use the phone to call me. Even though it was only eight miles away, it was a toll call. He used to walk a mile to a pay phone outside the drive-in and call me from there. Until he got a car, he rode his bicycle eight miles to my house. Neils mother has Alzheimers now, and since she got sick, she forgot that she didnt like me all those years. I walk in the nursing home, she hugs me. Neil: My mother and father werent with the program. They thought I should have more dates. But I didnt see any reason to. It wasnt just Bronya. My mother didnt like anybody. She had a very hard life. She was one of 10, and at 8 years old she was taking care of babies. Then she had six kids of her own. I dont know what she was thinking. She thought of Bronyas family as the rich people on the hill. Bronyas dad was an eye doctor. It
Neil: They were great to me. Bronya: My mother loved Neil like a son. He was very persevering. Hed get on his bike and ride the eight miles to my house, and my mom would make pizza for him. Neil: There are a lot of hills in western Pennsylvania. Bronya: My mothers best friend died of cancer at 38. Neil sent Mom a handwritten sympathy card. She kept that card in a box. When she died at 83, we opened the box and she still had it. She couldnt get over that a boy that age would write a letter like that.
DID GROWING UP IN THE 60S AFFECT YOU?
friend. Hes still the only person I want to be with. We were never engaged. There was no engagement ring. We bought our little wedding bands in a hometown jewelry store. It was about $50 for the two of them. Neil: The wedding bands were the simplest we could find. The only time Ive ever taken it off is to play golf.
THE WEDDING?
I love that he treats everybody the same, the guy parking his car or someone hes signing a million-dollar contract with. He makes me laugh. He has this way of saying malapropisms they just come out. If hes hungry, hell say hes male-nourished.
TRICKS TO MAKING IT WORK?
Neil: To keep the marriage upright, every Saturday night weve gone out, just the two of us. Even if it was just an hour and a half when our girls were babies. Bronya: We tried never to make it routine. Not chicken and mashed potatoes all the time.
WHATS FOR DINNER TONIGHT?
Bronya: He went to Grove City College. I went to Westminster. Our schools were 17 miles apart. They were very conservative schools, and it was the Vietnam years. It changed us we were both politically liberal. My parents were Republicans and Neils parents were Republicans, and we voted for McGovern. We would lead these very small campus protests with maybe nine people there. Neil: The college was so conservative, everyone had to take R.O.T.C. I got a D. Thats what you get if you dont wear your uniform.
HOW DID HE PROPOSE?
Bronya: It was during Hurricane Agnes. Half the people couldnt get there. The Pennsylvania Turnpike was closed. Over 100 people died. My parents had planned an outdoor wedding, but the ground was so saturated, the tent fell down three times. Afterward my mother-in-law came back to church. She says, Weddings that happen in the rain end in tears. I found out later, its not true. Weddings in the rain are good luck. Neil: It would have been fun if we werent getting married. Roads were closed, rivers were rushing, trees were blown over. I would have loved to be driving around looking at everything.
THE HONEYMOON?
Bronya: Im making quesadillas.
Booming
Bronya: Short. Neil: We were supposed to go for five nights to Washington, D.C., but the roads were closed. So we drove to Cleveland. It was so depressing, we went home after one night.
WHAT WERE THE HARDEST TIMES?
Bronya: We got married the Saturday after we graduated from college. There was no proposal; we knew we were getting married. He was my
Bronya: We had our fights. He had to travel a lot for work, and I was home with two little babies in rental houses without great heat. Neil: I was a salesman for an optical company,
Making It Last looks at marriages of at least 25 years. More of these profiles, including one on Beverly and Ron Riddick (above), and other articles about baby boomers are found on the new Booming blog:
nytimes.com/booming
Emily Hood, Timothy Ferrin
Karen Vock, John Scheinfeld

Karen Elaine Vock and John Stephen Scheinfeld were married Thursday at their home in Los Angeles. Barbara Laughray, a minister of the Church of Religious Science, officiated. The bride, 51, is keeping her name. She is an independent entertainment marketer in Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Central Florida. She is a daughter of Carol G. Luntz and Bernhard Vock of Melbourne, Fla. The groom, 59, is a documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles. He wrote and directed Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everyone Talkin About Him?), which was released in 2010, and was a writer and a director for The U.S. vs. John Lennon, released in 2006. He graduated from Oberlin College and received a masters degree in radiotelevision-film from Northwestern. He is a son of Audrey Mann of Milwaukee and the late James D. Scheinfeld. The grooms previous marriage ended in divorce.
Tasha Green, William Spice
Liore Milgrom-Elcott, David Gartner

Liore Milgrom-Elcott, a daughter of Rabbi Shira Milgrom and David Elcott of White Plains, is to be married Sunday in Ben Lomond, Calif., to David Andrew Gartner, the son of Toni Gartner and John Gartner of Sarasota, Fla. The brides mother, a rabbi at Congregation Kol Ami in White Plains, is to perform the ceremony at the Sequoia Retreat Center of Northern California. The bride, 29, develops and manages programs for the Department of Environment of the City and County of San Francisco aimed at encouraging city employees to use ride-sharing, bicycling and other more-efficient forms of transportation. She graduated from Cornell, from which she also received a masters degree in environmental economics. Her father is the Henry and Marilyn Taub professor of practice in public service and leadership at New York University. The groom, 41, is a marketing consultant in San Francisco. He graduated from Colgate. His mother, who is retired, was the administrator for AIDS Family Services, an organization in Buffalo that provides counseling and medical care for patients with H.I.V./AIDS. His father, who is also retired, owned a marketing firm bearing his name in East Amherst, N.Y.
Emily Auer Hood and Timothy Joseph Ferrin were married Saturday at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest, Ill. The Rev. Richard H. Downes performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Jay Sidebotham, the churchs rector, taking part. Dr. Ferrin, 31, is a freelance writer and editor, working in Chicago, for online education providers. She graduated from Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vt., and received a doctoral degree in biochemistry from Dartmouth. She is a daughter of Louise Tate Hood and E. Murray Hood of New York. The brides father is a portfolio manager at Mariner Investment Group in New York. Her mother is the assistant vice president for fund-raising at Barnard College. Mr. Ferrin, 31, is a freelance television producer and editor in Chicago, whose recent work includes corporate and industrial videos. He graduated from the University of Iowa. He is a son of Kathleen Karnes Ferrin and Joel H. Ferrin of Lake Forest. The bridegrooms mother is a private voice teacher. His father is a lawyer in the legal department of the building technologies division of Siemens, the German electronics and electrical engineering company; he works in Buffalo Grove, Ill.
Emily Giarelli, Luke Kozumbo
Tasha Marie Green and William Thomas Spice were married Saturday evening at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York. Eileen Regan, a Humanist celebrant, officiated. The bride, 29, works in New York as the senior style editor at Departures magazine. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the daughter of Charlotte Green and Michael Green of Portland, Ore. The brides father owns a handbag design and leather company in Portland that bears his name. Her mother owns Cotton Caboodle and Sucre Soir, which design and manufacture clothing in Seattle. The groom, 25, is an operations project manager for MKG, an event marketing firm in New York. He graduated from Montclair State University. He is a son of Norma Valentina Spice and William J. Spice Sr. of Seaside Park, N.J. The grooms mother is the assistant principal at East Dover Elementary School in Toms River, N.J. His father is a mathematics and science special-education teacher at Toms River High School East.
Megan Walsh, Christopher Soper
Whitney Vogler, Robert Whipple
Whitney Catherine Vogler and Robert William Whipple were married Saturday evening at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. The Rev. Dr. Scott Black Johnston, the churchs senior pastor, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Whipple, 30, is a brand manager for Oreo cookies at Kraft Foods in East Hanover, N.J. She graduated from Davidson College and received an M.B.A. from Duke. She is the daughter of Janet C. Vogler of Charlotte, N.C., and the late Lawrence J. Vogler. Mr. Whipple, 32, works in the New York office of Apax Partners, a London investment firm, investing in retail and consumer-product companies. He graduated from Pomona College and received an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Anne K. Whipple and William W. Whipple of Lake Forest, Ill.
Emily Jane Archer Giarelli, the daughter of Ellen Giarelli and James M. Giarelli of Lawrenceville, N.J., was married Saturday to James Lukasz Kozumbo, the son of Jamie and Walter Kozumbo of Baltimore. Judge Stephen H. Glickman of the District of Columbia Appeals Court officiated at the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Mrs. Kozumbo, 26, is to join the legal staff of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington in October; she will evaluate mergers in the pharmaceutical, medicaldevice and consumer-products sectors. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received a law degree cum laude from Georgetown. Her father is the chairman of the educational theory, policy and administration department at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers in New Brunswick, N.J., and is a philosophy professor there. Her mother is an associate professor in the doctoral program at the College of Nursing and Health Professions of Drexel University in Philadelphia. Mr. Kozumbo, 28, known as Luke, is a business development manager at Development Alternatives International, a consultancy in Bethesda, Md. He graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins and is a candidate for a masters degree in economics. His mother is the coordinator of the parents programs at Johns Hopkins. His father retired as a program manager in the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research; he developed and managed basic biological research relevant to national defense, and worked in Arlington, Va.
Wisam Hirzalla, John Sallay
PERSON + KILLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Wisam Hirzalla and John McClean Sallay were married Saturday evening at the Great House at Castle Hill on the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Mass. The Rev. Gary D. Fine, a Universal Brotherhood Movement minister, officiated. The bride, 32, is a business development and strategy manager in Redmond, Wash., for Microsoft. She graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. She is also a chartered financial analyst. She is the daughter of Salam and Dr. Osama Hirzalla of Amman, Jordan. Her father is a vascular surgeon in private practice in Amman. The groom, 31, works in Seattle as a senior vendor manager in the Kindle group of Amazon .com. He graduated magna cum laude from Bates College and received an M.B.A. from Harvard. He is a son of Ann and John Sallay of Weston, Mass. His father, who worked in Framingham, Mass., retired as a senior executive overseeing growth strategy at Avery Dennison, the labeling and office products company in Pasadena, Calif.
Megan Mary Walsh and Christopher Day Soper were married Saturday in Oak Park, Ill. The Rev. Lawrence R. McNally, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at Ascension Church, where he is the pastor. Ms. Walsh, 34, is keeping her name. She is a member of the Minneapolis law firm Greene Espel, and works on corporate litigation. She graduated cum laude from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., and received a law degree from Duke. She is a daughter of Therese L. Walsh and Christopher G. Walsh Jr. of Oak Park. Ms. Walshs father is a lawyer in private practice in Chicago. Her mother is a nurse in the employee health department at Rush Oak Park Hospital, in Oak Park. Mr. Soper, 32, is a managing associate at the law firm SNR Denton. He is assigned to the Chicago office, and works from Minneapolis. He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts and received a law degree magna cum laude from Cornell. He is the son of Katharine B. Soper and E. Philip Soper of Ann Arbor, Mich. The grooms mother retired as the director of a program at the University of Michigan Medical School and the College of Engineering, both in Ann Arbor, that finds jobs for the spouses of university employees. His father is an emeritus professor of law at the University of Michigan.
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OPINION MAR K BIT TMAN
EDITORIAL
Why is there never a blue-collar candidate? PAGE 4

MAUREEN DOWD
Heres my fantasy of a food label that works. PAGE 6
Time to pack up and leave Afghanistan. PAGE 10
An Irish Catholic Wake-Up
WASHINGTON OW you know what Thanksgiving with my family is like. A donnybrook with Irish Catholic uncles and nephews interrupting one another, mocking one another, arguing over one another, bombastically denouncing every political opinion except their own as malarkey. The loser of the vice-presidential debate was, of course, Barack Obama. In contrast to the pair on the undercard slugging it out, the presidents limp performance the other night was even more inexplicable and inexcusable. The president was no doubt warned not to sigh, but his entire demeanor was a sigh. The fact that one diffident debate by the president could throw his whole race into crisis shows that nobody madly loves Obama anymore. With his aloof presidency, he shook off the deep attachments from 2008, and now his support lacks intensity. Even if he comes out in the town-
The usual: Bidens Vesuvian verbosity, Ryans math malarkey.

hall debate on Tuesday with Ben Affleck charm, he has a Mitt Romney problem. Will it be the real Obama or will he just be doing what the media suggest and the base demands? In Thursday nights hockey game of a debate, the odd semiotics were not Gore-y sighs but grins. Its hard to imagine a politician getting penalized for smiling too much, but Joe Biden managed it, breaking out in smiles and laughter 92 times by the count of ABC News. Ever since Obama tapped him, Biden has felt that his role is to warm up Barrys Brother From Another Planet affect. In this debate, making up for his bosss Spockiness was critically important, so Biden overcompensated with a volcano of verbosity and gesticulating. Biden was trying to do what Romney did well: come across as a senior partner chastising a junior associate who screwed up. For this vice president, though, less is never more. He mugged condescension as if he were the star of a silent movie. But who ever accused Uncle Joe of subtlety? Not Sarah Palin, who told Fox News that Biden reminded her of watching a musk ox run across the tundra with somebody underfoot. Still, in a political world where most leaders are so marketed and poll-tested that they show little temperament, why begrudge Joltin Joe an excess of it especially when hes confronted with such whoppers? Besides, he offered a tour de force on facts that brought the playing field to life again. Ryan, who was a toddler when Biden first came to the Senate, seemed a little green and shaky at moments not showing the goofy cockiness captured in Times photos of his dumbbell workouts. Talking budget blarney, the Tea Partys boy wonder once more proved that he can come up with a number for any purpose. Ryan explained Romneys embarrassing secret tape to fat cats with this snide put-down to Joe, as he chummily called his elder: I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words dont come out of your mouth the right way. Biden shot back: But I always say what I mean. If Obama needed Biden on the ticket to add a little humanity, Romney needed Ryan as a modular conviction unit, as one Obama adviser joked. Romney, a say-anything salesman used to buying whatever he wants, hired his ideology. Ryan is a true believer, and thats a Continued on Page 11
DANIEL STOLLE
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
A Possibly Fatal Mistake

An old college friend is fighting for his life. His story underscores why this election matters.
Y wife and I attended my 30-year college reunion a couple of weekends ago, but the partying was bittersweet. My freshman roommate, Scott Androes, was in a Seattle hospital bed, a victim in part of a broken health care system. Strip away the sound and fury of campaign ads and rival spinmeisters, and whats at stake in this presidential election is, in part, lives like Scotts. Scott and I were both Oregon farm boys, friends through the Future Farmers of America, when Harvard sent us thick envelopes. We were exhilarated but nervous, for neither of us had ever actually visited Harvard, and we asked to room together for moral support among all those city slickers. We were the country bumpkins of Harvard Yard. Yet if we amused our classmates more than we intended, we had our private jokes as well. We let slip (falsely) that we kept deer rifles under our beds and smiled as our friends gave them a wide berth. Scott was there when I limped back from the Worst Date in History (quite regularly), and he and I together worked our way onto the Crimson, the student newspaper. He had an omnivorous mind: Scott may be the only champion judge of dairy cattle who enjoyed quoting Thomas Macaulay, the 19thcentury British historian. Scott topped off his erudition with a crackling wit to deflate pretentiousness (which, at Harvard,
kept him busy). By nature, Scott was even-keeled, prudent and cautious, and he always looked like the mild-mannered financial consultant that he became. He never lost his temper, never drove too fast, never got drunk, never smoked marijuana. Well, not that I remember. I dont want to discredit his youth. Yet for all his innate prudence, Scott now, at age 52, is suffering from Stage 4 prostate cancer, in part because he didnt have health insurance. President Obamas health care reform came just a bit too late to help Scott, but it will protect others like him unless Mitt Romney repeals it. If you favor gutting Obamacare, please listen to Scotts story. He is willing to recount his embarrassing tale in part so that readers can learn from it. Ill let Scott take over the narrative: It all started in December 2003 when I quit my job as a pension consultant in a fit of midlife crisis. For the next year I did little besides read books Id always wanted to read and play poker in the local card rooms. I didnt buy health insurance because I knew it would be really expensive in the individual policy market, because many Continued on Page 6
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Surely Mr. Goyal sees the irony in demanding that his affluent Long Island suburban school district, Syosset, be adequately funded and its teachers well paid. Public schools in low-income communities and many of our urban areas havent fulfilled their promise of a basic education in decades. Our system of school funding primarily through property taxes does a disservice to the students whose only crime is to live in a less wealthy district. In March 2011, an editorial in this paper (Rich District, Poor District) detailed this disparity by comparing the Syosset district with that of Ilion, in an economically depressed area of New York. Until we commit to a truly level playing field, in which our public schools are funded solely on a national scale, students like Mr. Goyal will always have an unfair advantage over those in Ilion. JONATHAN CAREY San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2012
My Phone Numbers Other Woman

Adrian Harris Forman is a writer.
Long before my iPhone 4 introduced me to Siri, it brought Sharlene into my life. Sharlene is an elusive woman who has unwittingly redefined my idea of relationships. It was March 2011 when I bought the phone, and even before Id given out my new number, I started getting calls. All were for Sharlene. ME: Hello? CALLER: Hey Sharlene. ME: This is not Sharlenes number. [Pause.] CALLER: Oh. [Pause.] Do you have her new number? ME: Nope. CALLER: Do you know where I can reach her? ME: No. Dont know her. Never met her. This is her old number. If you do reach her, will you tell her that people are still
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Sunday Dialogue: Transforming Our Schools

Readers react to a students ideas for a learning revolution.
TO THE EDITOR:
When President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind into law, few would have predicted that the next decade of education policy would unfold into a disaster of epic proportions. The law was based on a flawed concept of a good education high scores on standardized tests. As a result, the curriculum was narrowed, shaving instruction time in the arts, music, science and history. Schools were transformed into test-preparation factories with a stress on drill, kill, bubble-fill methods. And ruthless accountability measures were enacted, with bribes and threats at their core. Its safe to say that the law has failed miserably. Yet when President Obama came into office, he enacted Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion competition that dished out money to states that adopted the presidents policies. In effect, it was No Child Left Behind on steroids. The pressure to garner high test scores has gone haywire, the number of cheating scandals has mushroomed and the teaching profession has been dehumanized. Enough is enough. In this election cycle, both Mitt Romney and President Obama have largely ducked the issue. Instead of proposing a bold, game-changing plan to transform schools for the 21st century, they remain stubbornly fixed on the status quo. We cannot afford to lose yet another decade of precious time and resources. Reforms are not enough; only a revolution will suffice. As a student, I want to be taught how to think and create and explore. Im not a number in a spreadsheet; Im a creative and motivated human being. I want my teachers to be paid well, given autonomy and treated like professionals. I want my school to be adequately funded. Is that too much to ask? If either candidate called for the repeal of No Child Left Behind and the abolition of Race to the Top, and pushed schools to allow students to become the captains of their learning, he would find millions of teachers, parents and young people at his side. NIKHIL GOYAL Syosset, N.Y., Oct. 8, 2012 The writer is a high school senior and the author of the book One Size Does Not Fit All: A Students Assessment of School.
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versation away from the real needs of American schools. It is much easier to talk about test scores than it is to advocate adequate and equitable school funding, strong early intervention programs, and a highly qualified, professionalized and well-paid teaching force. Perhaps this explains bipartisan support for an educational system of, by and for tests. For politicians who wish to avoid accountability for the state of our schools, the accountability movement is the right answer. STEVEN K. WOJCIKIEWICZ Monmouth, Ore., Oct. 10, 2012 The writer is an associate professor of teacher education at the Western Oregon University College of Education and a former high school teacher.
I agree with the concern over the very poor results we get for the billions of dollars spent on education. The attempt by the government to impose some standards was well intended, but as Mr. Goyal pointed out, did not work, twice. The fundamental problem with education is the governments involvement, and consequently no market dynamic. Give parents and students a choice, as private schools always do, and voucher systems tend to do, and education thrives because there is real accountability. Bad schools, like bad businesses, go away, because they have no customers and are unable to compete. Technical colleges, community colleges, universities and other forms of education that are market-based are doing just fine. Find a way to bring choice and competition into grade school and high school education, as some communities have done with voucher programs, and the market will solve the education problem. BILL FOTSCH Villa Hills, Ky., Oct. 10, 2012
Mr. Goyal does not speak for all students. I am a high school senior and was involved in protesting Connecticuts education reform bill on the principle that the way it approached testing was wrong something I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Goyal on. But not every student believes that standardized testing is the devil or that the American education system is designed to suppress us. The answer, as I see it, is not to eliminate testing. Nor is it to eliminate federal standardization of curriculums or objective evaluation of schools all things Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind strive to do. Lets fix whats broken our tests by pushing for better, smarter tests, not eliminating them. ANDREW BOWLES Westport, Conn., Oct. 10, 2012
Reading A Students Call to Arms shocked and saddened me. When my sons were starting school over 30 years ago, we specifically chose a school that was run on Mr. Goyals vision, to educate children rather than to test them. Mr. Goyals letter certainly describes a backward slide of mammoth proportions. Education is too important to leave to lazy politicians who would quantify it in order to proclaim success. SIDNEY S. STARK New York, Oct. 10, 2012
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Mr. Goyal points out an essential and alarming feature of the politics of education: Its the one place where Democrats and Republicans have been willing, even eager, to embrace the same ideas. For all the talk of the benefits of bipartisanship, this signature effort has been an unmitigated disaster for American schools. If anything, Mr. Goyal understates the extent of the damage. The greatest danger of the accountability movement is that it shifts the con-
I dont need to look at Mr. Goyals English language arts test score, or how he fared on his Regents exams, to know that he is a smart and critical thinker, that he is a creative and motivated human being. This is glaringly obvious even from his short letter. So why is it that many policy makers and education wonks believe that they need to? What these policy makers should be doing is looking to students like Mr. Goyal to figure out new ways to solve our most pressing education policy problems. Organizations like Urban Youth Collaborative in New York City harness the power, and insider school knowledge, of local students to challenge the educational status quo. Rather than seeing students as a statistic or a test score, they understand them as valuable sources of policy insight. Lets stop patronizing young people with lackluster standardized testing and start treating them as a source of expertise in education that could shed some light on how to fix this mess we created. TARA BAHL New York, Oct. 10, 2012 The writer is an adjunct professor of education at Mercy College.
I agree with Mr. Bowles that we need better ways of measuring students. However, testing isnt one. Assessment is. Theres a difference. A test is used to tell whether a student memorized and regurgitated enough material. Interestingly, the man who invented the multiple choice test, which is now ubiquitous, later denounced it as a test of lower order thinking for the lower orders. An assessment, on the other hand, is an ongoing process of describing, gathering, recording and reflecting. Schools like High Tech High in San Diego and Brightworks in San Francisco are leveraging the power of assessments, using digital portfolios to reflect students work blog posts, essays, podcasts, presentations. This is in line with Ms. Bahls argument. When we begin to shift the way we assess students, then we will witness true learning and creativity. To address accountability, which Mr. Wojcikiewicz stressed, we should sample rather than assess every single student, similar to what Gallup does with public opinion surveys. If were going to bring about a learning revolution in America, we need to do a lot more to change the conversation. Lets push our politicians with commonsense ideas: finance schools adequately, evaluate students and teachers appropriately, treat students like adults, allow student-centered, project-based learning to flourish, and invigorate the gush of creativity and curiosity within us all. President Obama, Mitt Romney, are you listening? NIKHIL GOYAL Syosset, N.Y., Oct. 12, 2012
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More than once, I thought of twisted replies: Not her number. She died. Or maybe: Not her number right now, but shell be out in 10 years with good behavior. Or the most tempting: She told me she doesnt want to talk to you. Ever. Sure, these made me laugh, but I never used them; these people could call back. I soon found out the source of most calls: Sharlene had posted our phone number on CareerBuilder.com. Apparently she was (or had been) looking for a job. ME: Hello? CALLER: Hello. I am calling for Sharlene. I saw her rsum on CareerBuilder.com, and I would like to set up an interview. ME: Thats nice, but this is not her number. CALLER: Do you have her new number? Much to my surprise, I began to worry about Sharlene. We were coming out of a recession. Was she unemployed and looking for work? Was her inability to fill out Continued on Page 3
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The credits for two photographs with an opinion essay last Sunday about the Republican Partys orientation toward cities were transposed. The image of the Lower East Side in 1905 was from the Hulton Archive, via Getty Images, and the image of Times Square in 1944 was taken by Andreas Feininger for Time & Life Pictures, also via Getty Images.
An expanded version of the Sunday Dialogue about educational reform.

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Because of a production error, the biographical note accompanying an opinion article last Sunday, about the emerging field of public-interest design, misstated the surname of one of the writers. As the byline noted, she is Courtney E. Martin not CourtneyTools.
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Kate Murphy is a journalist based in Houston who writes frequently for The New York Times.
Billy Currington is a country singer and songwriter working on his fifth album. His four previous albums produced 11 hits, 6 of which reached No. 1 on Billboards charts, including People Are Crazy and Good Directions.
READING Ive been reading Swamp LISTENING To be honest the music I listen to the most, whether its in my truck or in the house, is songwriter demos. Demos are when a songwriter makes a recording of a song just to pitch it to an artist. I get hundreds a year. Ill put them on an iPod or my computer and listen to them over and over and file away the ones I like the most, and those are usually the songs I end up putting on an album a year or two or 10 later. Some of my favorite songs are from one gal named Karyn Rochelle. Shes a magnificent writer in Nashville. Ive wanted to record every one of her songs but for various rhymes and reasons I havent been able to yet. WATCHING I pulled up on YouTube
Water and Wiregrass: Historical Sketches of Coastal Georgia, by George A. Rogers and R. Frank Saunders. I want to get to know more about where Im from. I was born in Savannah but raised on Tybee Island. But I moved away to Nashville when I was 18. Reading this book Ive learned Blackbeard may have buried treasure on Tybee Island. And two or three islands down from Tybee, there are wild horses that came with the Spaniards in the 1600s. I also read a few pages of Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James. I know it was written by a woman but from what I could tell, its like a dirty man wrote that.
Sweet Brown Aint Nobody Got Time For That. Its this clip of a lady who was on the news one night that people have remixed. Its kind of funny. I dont want to spoil it. Ill let you watch it. Also, I kept hearing about this girl
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named Honey Boo Boo Child whos got a reality television show. Shes this little kid way back in the country and her mom lets her run crazy. I heard her ratings tied our former presidents speech at the Democratic convention. So I finally saw it or enough of it that I needed to see. Its almost scary. FOLLOWING Surfline.com tells me about tide predictions; speed and direction of the wind and how big the waves are at any tidal break in the world. My goal and dream is to keep moving up in terms of size of waves. Right now Im on 10-foot waves but I want to get up to 50footers. EATING I had the opportunity to go to Ocean City, Md., recently. Have you ever heard of it? They hooked me up with the biggest blue crabs you have ever seen. We feasted on those things for days. I grew up catching and eating seafood but theres something about crabs up there that is very special.
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From Page 2 a form with her current phone number all that stood between her and a new job? But after the 15th or so call from a potential employer, I stopped worrying. Instead, I began to question the recession itself. Could jobs really be that scarce? From robo-call voice mail messages, I learned that Sharlene had student loans and a car. It seemed like she might have been behind in her payments, on one or both. But I knew she was actively using her bank, because it always texted a confirmation for payments. I suspected she had arthritis, because I once received an automated reminder from a joint and bone specialist about an upcoming 8:45 a.m. appointment. I considered this good news: perhaps Sharlene
Long before Siri, my iPhone 4 introduced me to Sharlene.

had finally landed a job (so she needed an early appointment) and got health insurance (how else could anyone afford a specialist?). Mostly, I was feeling insecure; Sharlene got almost as many calls as I did, and not just from potential employers. Why was she so popular, and why was she so hard to reach? I decided to take a stand. I changed my voice mail greeting: Hi; this is Adrian. I cant come to the phone right now. This is not Sharlene. I dont know Sharlene. Sharlene posted the wrong phone number on CareerBuilder.com. If you are calling for Sharlene, dont leave your number, because I wont call you back. It was an effective tool for managing Sharlenes impressive fan base, and for entertaining my family and friends. I started getting messages like these: Hey A, this is your sister. Would you or Sharlene call me back? and Hi Sharlene. Tell Adrian to call me back. As helpful as the new greeting was, it couldnt stop the texts. Over the summer, someone sent a photo: a bikiniclad woman, her hip jutting out to one side, under blue skies and towering palm trees. The text said parte. It made me wonder: how well can this person really know Sharlene? Have they even talked in the last year and a half? Does she actually wish Sharlene were there to party with her? Then, in September, someone texted Sharlene: Where are you? For some reason, the idea of Sharlene going missing upset me. I hoped she was O.K., just out of touch. She had to be out there somewhere. All this time, I had expected that eventually Sharlene might call me herself. Maybe just a voice mail message from her apologizing for all the calls, or an offer to hire me as her secretary. I felt I needed to find out more about her. But typing her name and my number into Google and Facebook found nothing. Finally, one day, when someone called for Sharlene, after explaining that no, this wasnt Sharlenes number, I asked: Can you tell me one thing? How do you spell her full name? C-h-e-r-l-i-n-e . . . The caller spelled her last name, too, but I was barely listening. Of all the variations of Sharlene that I had tried, I had never once thought of Cherline. Armed with this information, I could finally put an end to the insanity.I headed straight for Facebook and Google. Both searches returned quite a bit an employer, a photo, an approximate address. Suddenly, I basically knew who Cherline was. I could have friended her in a second, or called her companys directory, and set everything straight. But . . . I didnt. Im not a detective or a stalker. Just a writer in the middle of a crazy story, getting the chance to glimpse into a strangers life. Besides, this is Cherlines story, too. I decided to let her choose the ending. Shes got my number; this time she can call me.
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FRANK BRUNI
Bachmann Family Values

MINNEAPOLIS HERE are many people who are hurt by Michele Bachmanns divisive brand of politics, but perhaps none in quite the way that Helen LaFave is. The two women once shared confidences. Theyre family. Some 40 years ago, Micheles mother married Helens father, and when Michele was in college, the house she returned to in the summer was the one where Helen, then finishing high school, lived. Helen craved that time together. I remember laughing with her a lot, she told me in an interview on Thursday in her home here. She remembers Micheles charisma and confidence, too. I looked up to Michele. As the years passed they saw much less of each other, but when their paths crossed, at large family gatherings, there were always hugs. Helen was at Micheles wedding to Marcus Bachmann and got to know him. And Michele got to know Nia, the woman who has been Helens partner for almost 25 years. Helen never had a conversation about her sexual orientation with Michele and knew that Micheles evangelical Christianity was deeply felt. Still she couldnt believe it when, about a decade ago, Michele began to use her position as a state senator in Minnesota to call out gays and lesbians as sick and evil and to push for an amendment to the Minnesota constitution that would prohibit same-sex marriage: precisely the kind of amendment that Minnesotans will vote on in a referendum on Election Day. It felt so divorced from having known me, from having known somebody whos gay, said Helen, a softspoken woman with a gentle air. I was just stunned. And while she never doubted that Michele was being true to her private convictions, she couldnt comprehend Micheles need to make those convictions so public, to put them in the foreground of her political career, and to drive a wedge into their family. She told Michele as much, in a letter dated Nov. 23, 2003. She sent copies to her four siblings, her father and one of Micheles brothers, and kept one herself. In the letter she described her hurt and disappointment that my stepsister is leading this charge. Youve taken aim at me, Helen wrote to Michele. Referring to Nia, she
added: Youve taken aim at my family. Michele, she said, never acknowledged the letter in any way. Helen has spoken with journalists only a few times in the past and never at length. During the Republican presidential primaries this year, she got caller ID to screen all the entreaties from reporters looking for nasty quotes about Michele. She didnt want to play that game or upset her family, which has been divided on same-sex marriage. But the imminent referendum, which she described as Micheles very, very sad legacy, compelled her to speak out for fairness for those of us who are being judged and told our lives and relationships are somehow less, she said. Im encountering her kind of newfound boldness more frequently than I expected and writing about same-sex marriage more than I anticipated, as surprising voices weigh in, like the professional football players who took up the cause last month. Helen lives a quieter life than Michele. Shes 52 and works as a communications manager for a Minneapolis suburb. Nia, 55, is a physical therapist. They never hid their relationship from their families, Nia said, though they also didnt force long-winded discussions about homosexuality. Their philosophy, she said, was simply to put it out there, show em who we are and love em where theyre at, and everything will fall into place. Their goal was one of killing them with kindness. They thought that was happening. At get-togethers, Nia received hugs from Michele, who traded an I love you with Helen, as the two always had.
ed only by mutual caring and respect and that marriage, if legal, would grant couples like them the rights, responsibilities and financial protections that foster stability. Some people, you included, feel like you know the truth about my relationship, she wrote, adding: I think you also believe you know what God thinks of it. Neither you nor I know, she went on to say. I suspect that were both certain in our minds, but we dont know. When Michele spoke at a State Sen-
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ate hearing in 2006 about her desire for a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, Helen showed up, along with several relatives who supported her. I wasnt looking to make a public statement, she told me. I just thought: Im going to go there and sit there so she has to look at me. So she has to look at Nia. I wanted her to see: this is who youre doing this to. Its not some anonymous group of people. Its not scary people. Its me. Its Nia. She paused, because shed begun to sob. I just wanted her to see me, she said, because it just feels, through the whole thing, like she hasnt. Michele, now waging an unexpectedly tight re-election campaign for her House seat, didnt respond to a request for an interview for this column. She and Helen have seen each other at family events twice in the last year or so, Helen said, but Helen hasnt insisted on a talk, because it seems pointless to her. On one of those occasions, she recalled, Michele said I love you, and Helen said it back. But Helens more confused by that than ever. As a congresswoman, Michele got tickets to President Obamas inauguration and gave a pair to Helen and Nia, knowing theyre Democrats and had rooted for him. Helen thought that was kind, if not necessarily encouraging. She hopes to marry Nia in Minnesota someday. I asked if she would invite Michele to the ceremony. She fell silent a few seconds, then shook her head. I dont think it would be a very good fit, she said.
UT in between Micheles election to the State Senate in 2000 and her upgrade to the United States House of Representatives in 2006, she nabbed attention and amassed a fan base among religious extremists with her homophobic pronouncements. She publicly described homosexuality as personal enslavement, referred to the heartache of having a member of our family who was gay and suggested that gays and lesbians wanted to recruit impressionable youngsters, saying: It is our children that is the prize for this community. In her letter Helen appealed to Michele to rethink what she was doing, explaining that she and Nia were motivat-
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like businesspeople, former lawyers tend to think like lawyers, and (the few) former blue-collar workers tend to think like blue-collar workers. Edward Beard, a house painter from Providence, R.I., who was elected to Congress in 1974, always carried a paintbrush with him and tacked one to the wall outside of his Washington office as a symbol of who I am and where Im from, the working people. Former house painters are the exception in Congress, of course. And although there are many white-collar lawmakers with good intentions, with so few leaders with experience in working-class jobs (from 1999 to 2008, the average member of Congress had spent 1.5 percent of his or her adult life in workingclass jobs), economic policy routinely tilts toward outcomes that help whitecollar professionals at the expense of the working class. Social safety net programs are stingier, business regulations are flimsier, tax policies are more regressive, and protections for workers are weaker than they would be if our lawmakers came from the same mix of classes as the people they represent. The key is finding more lawmakers like Mr. Beard, politically adept workingclass Americans. Or people like Repre-
Very few politicians, even at the local level, worked at blue-collar jobs.
sentative Stephen Lynch, who worked as an ironworker in Boston for nearly two decades before attending law school and becoming a legal advocate for workers politicians who worked their way up to white-collar jobs but who still remember what its like to push a broom. My experience suggests that finding them will be the easy part. The hard part will be persuading the people with resources to help them. Many political gatekeepers still cling to myths about how theres something the matter with Kansas, how workers are too backward to know whats best for themselves politically. And people who value political equality already have their hands full with big challenges: mainly, the explosion of money and interest groups in Washington, and the large social class gaps in routine forms of political participation, including voting. Even if we somehow stem the tide of money in Washington, even if we guarantee equal participation on Election Day, millionaires will still get to set the tax rate for millionaires. White-collar professionals will still get to set the minimum wage for blue-collar workers. People who have always had health insurance will still get to decide whether to help people without it. If we want government for the people, weve got to start working toward government by the people. The 2012 election offers us a stark choice between two very different approaches to economic policy. But its still a choice between two Harvard-educated millionaires. Even in an election that is supposed to be about the future of our economy, we dont have a working-class option in the voting booth. Its time for citizens who care about political equality to start investing in working-class candidates. We know how to do this. In 1945, the House and the Senate were each 98 percent men. In the decades since, party leaders and interest groups have deliberately recruited many female candidates, and today women make up 17 percent of Congress. If the old boys club isnt invincible, the Millionaires Party probably isnt, either. Changes like these arent rocket science. They just take a little hard work.
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An assistant professor of public policy at Duke University and author of the forthcoming book White-Collar Government: How Class-Imbalanced Legislatures Distort Economic Policy-Making in the United States.
LECTIONS are supposed to give us choices. We can reward incumbents or we can throw the bums out. We can choose Republicans or Democrats. We can choose conservative policies or progressive ones. In most elections, however, we dont get a say in something important: whether were governed by the rich. By Election Day, that choice has usually been made for us. Would you like to be represented by a millionaire lawyer or a millionaire businessman? Even in our great democracy, we rarely have the option to put someone in office who isnt part of the elite. Of course, many white-collar candidates care deeply about working-class Americans, those who earn a living in manual labor or service-industry jobs. Many are only a generation or two removed from relatives who worked in those fields. But why do so few elections feature candidates who have worked in blue-collar jobs themselves, at least for part of their lives? The working class is the backbone of our society, a majority of our labor force and 90 million people strong. Could it really be that not one former blue-collar worker is qualified to be president? My research examines how the short-
age of working-class people in public office affects our democracy and why there are so few former blue-collar workers in government in the first place. The data Ive studied suggest that the working class itself probably isnt the problem. Its true that workers tend to score a little lower on standard measures of political knowledge and civic engagement. But there are many more workers than there are, say, lawyers so many more, in fact, that there are probably more bluecollar Americans with the qualities we might want in our candidates than there are lawyers with those traits. If even only half a percent of blue-collar workers have what it takes to govern, there would still be enough of them to fill every seat in Congress and in every state legislature more than 40 times with enough left over to run thousands of City Councils. Something other than qualifications seems to be screening out people with serious experience in the working class long before Election Day. Scholars havent yet confirmed exactly what that is. (Campaign money? Free time? Party gatekeepers?) But were starting to appreciate the seriousness of the problem. If millionaires were a political party, that party would make up roughly 3 percent of American families, but it would
have a super-majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, a majority on the Supreme Court and a man in the White House. If working-class Americans were a political party, that party would have made up more than half the country since the start of the 20th century. But legislators from that party (those who last worked in blue-collar jobs before entering politics) would never have held more than 2 percent of the seats in Congress. And these trends dont stop at the federal level. Since the 1980s, the number of state legislators whose primary occupations are working-class jobs has fallen from 5 percent to 3 percent. In City Councils, fewer than 10 percent of members have blue-collar day jobs. Everywhere we look in government, almost no one with personal experience in workingclass jobs has a seat at the table. Their absence, moreover, has real consequences. Lawmakers from different classes tend to bring different perspectives to public office. John Boehner is fond of saying that hes a small-business man at heart and that It gave me a perspective on our country that Ive carried with me throughout my time in public service. And hes right. Former businesspeople in government tend to think
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Rethinking Affirmative Action

David Leonhardt is the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.
WASHINGTON HE founding principle of affirmative action was fairness. After years of oppression, it seemed folly to judge blacks by the same measures as whites. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in a 1965 speech that laid the groundwork for affirmative action, and then say, You are free to compete with all the others, and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Given this history, it was striking to watch the 80 minutes of Supreme Court oral arguments about affirmative action on Wednesday. With the courtroom overflowing, filled with people who have
Preference could be based on socioeconomic status rather than race.

spent their careers fighting for or against affirmative action, only one side talked about fairness. And it was not the side defending affirmative action. The lawyer for Abigail Fisher, a young white woman rejected by the University of Texas, argued that she had been denied equal treatment. The conservative justices, sympathetic to Ms. Fishers case, expressed particular concern that affluent black students were receiving preferential treatment. Nobody on the other side not the universitys lawyer, not the Obama administrations, not the liberal justices responded by talking about the obstacles that black and Latino students must overcome. The defenders of affirmative action spoke instead about the value of diversity. Without diverse college classes, they argued, students will learn less and society will lack for future leaders. The decision to emphasize diversity over fairness is one that affirmativeaction proponents made long before
Wednesday, and it is a big reason they find themselves in such a vulnerable position today. Americans value diversity. But they value fairness more. Most people oppose a colleges or employers rejecting an applicant who appears qualified for the sake of creating a group that demographically resembles the country. With affirmative action boiled down to a diversity program, it finds itself in retreat. Five of the six states that have held referendums on racial preferences have banned them, including California and Florida. The Supreme Court limited the legal forms of preferences in 2003 and suggested that they had only 25 years left. Based on last weeks oral arguments, and the fact that Justice Anthony Kennedy has never voted to uphold preferences, the court may restrict them further or forbid them. Yet supporters of affirmative action do not necessarily need to despair. They still have a path open to them, one that remains legal and popular. It involves resurrecting Johnsons vision of an affirmative action program based on fairness, which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also favored. The crucial choice that affirmativeaction proponents made long ago was to focus the program on race rather than more broadly on disadvantage. There were some obvious reasons to do so. Americans have never been comfortable talking about class. It reeks of the social order the country rejected at its founding (Britains) and of the economic system the country spent decades fighting (communism). But race was an undeniably American problem, from slavery to civil rights to the discrimination that, according to voluminous socialscience research, lingers. By forgoing a broader view of disadvantage, colleges lost the ability to claim that their overriding goal was meritocracy. That was the key moment, when they forfeited fairness, Richard D. Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation, who
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has written a book about affirmative action, told me. Institutions using affirmative action could not claim to be bringing everybody rich and poor, white and black, native and immigrant up to the same starting line, in Mr. Johnsons formulation. They instead were creating a system that depended on racial categories. From a legal perspective, the decision made the supporters task harder. The very laws intended to address the countrys racial history set a high bar for any race-based system. In its first major affirmative-action ruling, the Bakke case of 1978, the Supreme Court rejected the notion that society-wide discrimination justified preferences for individuals. The court reaffirmed that finding in 2003, while also reaffirming that diversity was a legitimate rationale.
It is impossible to know whether affirmative action could have had a more enduring foundation were it based on a broader equal-opportunity approach. Proponents never tried this alternative. Courts, however, have consistently upheld socioeconomic preferences. Had black and Latino students been benefiting from those preferences, as many would, at least some portion of affirmative action might be in less peril. But the liberals behind the great successes of the civil rights and womens movements never showed as much interest in economic diversity. On college campuses, administrators have insisted for years that they care about disadvantage, beyond race, but they have done relatively little about it. They have preferred a version of diversity focused on Continued on Page 12
President Lyndon B. Johnson, who laid the groundwork for affirmative action, with Martin Luther King Jr., left, Whitney M. Young Jr. and James Farmer in 1964.
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The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent

struction. And it is the danger America faces today, as the 1 percent pulls away from everyone else and pursues an economic, political and social agenda that will increase that gap even further ultimately destroying the open system that made America rich and allowed its 1 percent to thrive in the first place. You can see Americas creeping Serrata in the growing social and, especially, educational chasm between those at the top and everyone else. At the bottom and in the middle, American society is fraying, and the children
Like Venices oligarchs, Americas super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.
of these struggling families are lagging the rest of the world at school. Economists point out that the woes of the middle class are in large part a consequence of globalization and technological change. Culture may also play a role. In his recent book on the white working class, the libertarian writer Charles Murray blames the hollowed-out middle for straying from the traditional family values and old-fashioned work ethic that he says prevail among the rich (whom he castigates, but only for allowing cultural relativism to prevail). There is some truth in both arguments. But the 1 percent cannot evade its share of responsibility for the growing gulf in American society. Economic forces may be behind the rising inequality, but as Peter R. Orszag, President Obamas former budget chief, told me, public policy has exacerbated rather than mitigated these trends. Even as the winner-take-all economy has enriched those at the very top, their tax burden has lightened. Tolerance for high executive compensation has increased, even as the legal powers of unions have been weakened and an intellectual case against them has been relentlessly advanced by plutocrat-financed think tanks. In the 1950s, the marginal income tax rate for those at the top of the distribution soared above 90 percent, a figure that today makes even Democrats flinch. Meanwhile, of the 400 richest taxpayers in 2009, 6 paid no federal income tax at all, and 27 paid 10 percent or less. None paid more than 35 percent. Historically, the United States has enjoyed higher social mobility than Europe, and both left and right have identified this economic openness as an essential source of the nations economic vigor. But several recent studies have shown that in America today it is harder to escape the social class of your birth than it is in Europe. The Canadian economist Miles Corak has found that as income inequality increases, social mobility falls a phenomenon Alan B. Krueger, the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has called the Great Gatsby Curve. Educational attainment, which created the American middle class, is no longer rising. The super-elite lavishes unlimited resources on its children, while public schools are starved of funding. This is the new Serrata. An elite education is increasingly available only to those already at the top. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama enrolled their daughters in an exclusive private school; Ive done the same with mine. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year, I interviewed Ruth Simmons, then the Continued on Page 9
A painting of 17th-century Venice, with a view of the banks of the Grand Canal and the Doges Palace, by Leandro Bassano.
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OPINION BY CHRYSTIA FREELAND
The editor of Thomson Reuters Digital and the author of Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, from which this essay is adapted.
N the early 14th century, Venice was one of the richest cities in Europe. At the heart of its economy was the colleganza, a basic form of joint-stock company created to finance a single trade expedition. The brilliance of the colleganza was that it opened the economy to new entrants, allowing risk-taking entrepreneurs to share in the financial upside with the established businessmen who financed their merchant voyages. Venices elites were the chief beneficiaries. Like all open economies, theirs was turbulent. Today, we think of social mobility as a good thing. But if you are on top, mobility also means competition. In 1315, when the Venetian city-state was at the height of its economic powers, the upper class acted to lock in its privileges, putting a formal stop to social mobility with the publication of the Libro dOro, or Book of Gold, an official register of the nobility. If you werent on it, you couldnt join the ruling oligarchy. The political shift, which had begun nearly two decades earlier, was so striking a change that the Venetians gave it a name: La Serrata, or the closure. It wasnt long before the political Serrata became an economic one, too. Under the control of the oligarchs, Venice gradually cut off commercial opportunities for new entrants. Eventually, the colleganza was banned. The reigning
elites were acting in their immediate self-interest, but in the longer term, La Serrata was the beginning of the end for them, and for Venetian prosperity more generally. By 1500, Venices population was smaller than it had been in 1330. In the 17th and 18th centuries, as the rest of Europe grew, the city continued to shrink. The story of Venices rise and fall is told by the scholars Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, in their book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, as an illustration of their thesis that what separates successful states from failed ones is whether their governing institutions are inclusive or extractive. Extractive states are controlled by ruling elites whose objective is to extract as much wealth as they can from the rest of society. Inclusive states give everyone access to economic opportunity; often, greater inclusiveness creates more prosperity, which creates an incentive for ever greater inclusiveness. The history of the United States can be read as one such virtuous circle. But as the story of Venice shows, virtuous circles can be broken. Elites that have prospered from inclusive systems can be tempted to pull up the ladder they climbed to the top. Eventually, their societies become extractive and their economies languish. That was the future predicted by Karl Marx, who wrote that capitalism contained the seeds of its own de-
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OPINION BY JON METHVEN
The author of the novel This Is Your Captain Speaking.
ROWING up in the 80s, my brother and I sold pumpkins door to door every October. Whenever 4-foot children selling Halloween squash ring your doorbell, youre hamstrung into purchasing one, or risk being labeled the local curmudgeon. But it bears mentioning that we were the only children in Corning, N.Y., our small town upstate, with our very own pumpkin supplier and that we had a virtual monopoly on the market. Each spring, Grandpa Charlie planted a pumpkin patch with the sole purpose of providing us with a crop. As far as pumpkin connections went, he was exactly what you would want green thumb, hard worker, uncomplaining about the sowing and the toiling and the harvesting and the battling of wildlife that dined on our fruit. While our grandfather was breaking his back with meaningful work, my brother and I were going door to door with a notebook and a capitalist pout, convincing neighbors that our product was better than anything they would find at the local grocery store and that they ought to order ahead. We targeted homes with children. Youll want at least three jack-o-lanterns on the porch, we told them. All the neighbors are doing it. We were constantly soliciting neighbors for donations for our Boy Scout troops, school walkathons, sports teams but when it came to the annual pumpkin sale, we were raising money only to have money to spend. The day of the sale, Grandpa Charlie would load all the pumpkins into his old red Ford pickup, and then let us ride atop the bounty like conquering entrepreneurs. We stopped at each house, allowing our paying cus-
tomers to rub the ectoderm and work the stem, choosing the one they wanted. A small pumpkin went for a buck, medium for two. A perfectly shaped large pumpkin went for $3. At the time, it must have been a lot of money for children. But Grandpa Charlie never asked for his cut, and we never thought to offer it. For him it was about the ritual of spending time with his grandsons and finding out the essentials: How many pumpkins had we actually sold and how many were we giving away to friends? What was our favorite chocolate bar? How was school? Where were we planning to eat lunch? Once at lunch always fish sandwiches from McDonalds in the bed of that old pickup hed ask what were we planning to do with the money, whether we had remembered to save the best pumpkins for ourselves, and who we thought would win the pennant that year, the Yankees or the Red Sox? We went home with our cash, Grandpa Charlie with his memories. Our father, on the other hand, was left with a backyard full of defective pumpkins. Every year, the dozens of misshapen and wart-ridden gourds that could not be turned into proper Jack-o-lanterns ended up sitting on our lawn until January. We always gave our word that we would sell them all, always meant to follow through and always ended up unloading our failed surplus from the pickup. We knew it was winter by the snow on the ground and the sight of our dad ax in hand slashing rotten, frozen pumpkins into portions suitable to be placed into bags and carted to the curb. For every pumpkin mogul, there is someone who has to stand in a dusty field, watering the seedlings,
and someone who has to stand in six inches of snow, carving apart the undesirables. Why did we do it each year? Our grandfather was a farmer. Our father was a businessman. As children we brought those trades together. The evidence points to one conclusion: We did it for the money. And yet, I dont recall any significance about the cash. I vaguely remember collecting it, counting it, making plans for it,
My brother and I did it for the money, but the money isnt what lasted.
but have no lasting memories of actually spending the haul that which today is my most beneficial result of labor. Instead, I remember the old Ford truck. Dirt everywhere. Piles of leaves. The smell of autumn. That my grandfather put ketchup on his fish sandwich. Him telling us to lift the pumpkins not by the stem, but by the base, the stem not a handle but a life force. I remember my dad in the snow, executing the leftovers before they got their second wind and pushed their roots in the direction of our basement. I remember standing atop a mound of pumpkins in the back end of that Ford which would be forbidden in todays cautionary environment as Grandpa Charlie drove us down the street, and feeling invincible. Those were perfect days. I think of them whenever I see a pumpkin.
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MARK BITTMAN
My Dream Food Label
What We Have: Information Overload

THE STATUS QUO This appears in an out-of-the-way spot on every package, and even if youre inclined to look at it its not easy to decipher. Below, the label for Multi Grain Cheerios.
HAT would an ideal food label look like? By ideal, I mean from the perspective of consumers, not market-
ers. Right now, the labels required on food give us loads of information, much of it useful. What they dont do is tell us whether something is really beneficial, in every sense of the word. With a different set of criteria and some clear graphics, food packages could tell us much more. Even the simplest information a red, yellow or green traffic light, for example would encourage consumers to make healthier choices. That might help counter obesity, a problem all but the most cynical agree is closely related to the consumption of junk food. Of course, labeling changes like this would bring cries of hysteria from the food producers who argue that all foods are fine, although some should be eaten in moderation. To them, a red traffic-light
I want something that allows me to make a fast but enlightened choice.

symbol on chips and soda might as well be a skull and crossbones. But traffic lights could work: indeed, in one study, sales of red-lighted soda fell by 16.5 percent in three months. A mandate to improve compulsory food labels is unlikely any time soon. Front-of-package labeling is sacred to big food companies, a marketing tool of the highest order, a way to encourage purchasing decisions based not on the truth but on what manufacturers would have consumers believe. So think of the creation of a new food label as an exercise. Even if some might call it a fantasy, the world is moving this way. Traffic-light labeling came close to passing in Britain, and our own Institute of Medicine is proposing something similar. The basic question is, how might we augment current food labeling (which, in its arcane detail, serves many uses, including alerting allergic people to every specific ingredient) to best serve not only consumers but all contributors to the food cycle? As desirable as the traffic light might be, its merely a first step toward allowing consumers to make truly enlightened decisions about foods. Choices based on dietary guidelines are all well and good our health is certainly an important consideration but they dont go nearly far enough. We need to consider the well-being of the earth (and all that that means, like climate, and soil, water and air quality), the people who grow and prepare our food, the animals we eat, the overall wholesomeness of the food what you might call its foodness (once the word natural might have served, but thats been completely co-opted), as opposed to its fakeness. (Foodness is a tricky, perhaps even silly word, but it expresses what it should. Think about the spectrum from fruit to Froot Loops or from chicken to Chicken McNuggets and you understand it.) These are considerations that even the organic label fails to take into account. Beyond honest and accurate nutrition and ingredient information, it would serve us well to know at a glance whether food contains trans fats; residues from hormones, antibiotics, pesticides or other chemicals; genetically modified ingredients; or indeed any ingredients not naturally occurring in the food. It would also be nice to be able to quickly discern how the production of the food affected the welfare of the workers and the animals involved and the environment. Even better, it could tell us about its carbon footprint and its origins.
A little of this is covered by the label required for organic food. Some information is voluntarily being provided by producers though theyre most often small ones and retailers like Whole Foods. But only when this kind of information is required will consumers be able to express preferences for health, sustainability and fairness through our buying patterns. Still, one can hardly propose covering the front of packages with 500-word treatises about the products provenance. On the other hand, allowing junk food to be marketed as healthy is unacceptable, or at least would be in a society that valued the rights of consumers over those of the corporation. (The low-fat claim is the most egregious plenty of high-calorie, nutritionally worthless foods are in fact fat-free but its not alone.) All of this may sound like its asking a lot from a label, but creating a model wasnt that difficult. Over the last few months, Ive worked with Werner Design Werks of St. Paul to devise a food label that, at perhaps little more than a glance (certainly in less than 10 seconds), can tell a story about three key elements of any packaged food and can provide an overall traffic-light-style recommendation or warning. How such a labeling system could be improved, which agency would administer it (its now the domain of the F.D.A.), which producers would be required to use it, whether foods should carry quickresponse codes that let your phone read the package and link to a Web site all of those questions can be debated freely. Suffice it to say we went through numerous iterations to arrive at the label we are proposing. We put it out here not as an end but as a beginning. Every packaged food label would feature a color-coded bar with a 15-point scale so that almost instantly the consumer could determine whether the products overall rating fell between 11 and 15 (green), 6 and 10 (yellow) or 0 and 5 (red). This alone could be enough for a fair snap decision. (Weve also got a box to indicate the presence or absence of G.M.O.s.) We arrive at the score by rating three key factors, each of which comprises numerous subfactors. The first is the obvious Nutrition, about which little needs to be said. High sugar, trans fats, the presence of micronutrients and fiber, and so on would all be taken into account. Thus soda would rate a zero and frozen broccoli might rate a five. (Its hard to imagine labeling fresh vegetables.) The second is Foodness. This assesses just how close the product is to real food. White bread made with bleached flour, yeast conditioners and preservatives would get a zero or one; so would soda; a candy bar high in sugar but made with real ingredients would presumably score low on nutrition but could get a higher score on foodness; here, frozen broccoli would rate a four. The third is the broadest (and trickiest); were calling it Welfare. This would include the treatment of workers, animals and the earth. Are workers treated like animals? Are animals produced like widgets? Is environmental damage significant? If the answer to those three questions is yes as it might be, for example, with industrially produced chickens then the score would be zero, or close to it. If the labor force is treated fairly and animals well, and waste is insignificant or recycled, the score would be higher. These are not simple calculations, but neither can one honestly say that theyre impossible to perform. It may well be that there are wiser ways to sort through this information and get it across. The main point here is: lets get started.
LIST OF INGREDIENTS The most useful information currently on packaged foods. A quick but crude way to figure out whether something is actually worth eating: if the list of ingredients spans an entire paragraph, chances are you dont need it.
A Possibly Fatal Mistake

From Page 1 of the people in this market are high risk. I would have bought insurance if there had been any kind of fair-risk pooling. In 2005 I started working seasonally for H&R Block doing tax returns. As seasonal work it of course doesnt provide health benefits, but then lots of full-time jobs dont either. I knew I was taking a big risk without insurance, but I was foolish. In 2011 I began having greater difficulty peeing. I didnt go see the doctor because that would have been several hundred dollars out of pocket just enough disincentive to get me to make a bad decision. Early this year, I began seeing blood in my urine, and then I got scared. I Googled blood in urine and turned up several possible explanations. I remember sitting at my computer and thinking, Well, I can afford the cost of an infection, but cancer would probably bust my bank and take everything in my I.R.A. So Im just going to bet on this being an infection. I was extremely busy at work since it was peak tax season, so I figured Id go after April 15. Then I developed a 102degree fever and went to one of those urgent care clinics in a strip mall. (I didnt have a regular physician and hadnt been getting annual physicals.) The doctor there gave me a diagnosis of prostate infection and prescribed antibiotics. That seemed to help, but by April 15 it seemed to be getting worse again. On May 3 I saw a urologist, and he drew blood for tests, but the results werent back yet that weekend when my health degenerated rapidly. A friend took me to the Swedish Med-
ical Center Emergency Room near my home. Doctors ran blood labs immediately. A normal P.S.A. test for prostate cancer is below 4, and mine was 1,100. They also did a CT scan, which turned up possible signs of cancerous bone lesions. Prostate cancer likes to spread to bones. I also had a blood disorder called disseminated intravascular coagulation, which is sometimes brought on by prostate cancer. It basically causes you to destroy your own blood cells, and its abbreviated as D.I.C. Medical students joke that it stands for death is close. Lets just stipulate up front that Scott blew it. Other people are sometimes too poor to buy health insurance or unschooled about the risks. Scott had no excuse. He could have afforded insurance, and while working in the pension
industry he became expert on actuarial statistics; he knew precisely what risks he was taking. Hes the first to admit that he screwed up catastrophically and may die as a result. Yet remember also that while Scott was foolish, mostly he was unlucky. He is a bachelor, so he didnt have a spouse whose insurance he could fall back on in his midlife crisis. In any case, we all take risks, and usually we get away with them. Scott is a usually prudent guy who took a chance, and then everything went wrong. The Mitt Romney philosophy, as I understand it, is that this is a tragic but necessary byproduct of requiring Americans to take personal responsibility for their lives. They need to understand that mistakes have consequences. Thats why Romney would re-
peal Obamacare and leave people like Scott to pay the price for their irresponsibility. To me, that seems ineffably harsh. We all make mistakes, and a humane government tries to compensate for our misjudgments. Thats why highways have guardrails, why drivers must wear seat belts, why police officers pull over speeders, why we have fire codes. In other modern countries, Scott would have been insured, and his cancer would have been much more likely to be detected in time for effective treatment. Is that a nanny state? No, its a civilized one. President Obamas care plan addresses this problem inelegantly, by forcing people like Scott to buy insurance beginning in 2014. Some will grumble about the mandate and the insurance cost, but it will save lives. Already, Obamacare is slowly reducing the number of people without health insurance, as young adults can now stay on their parents plans. But the Census Bureau reported last month that 48.6 million Americans are still uninsured a travesty in a wealthy country. The Urban Institute calculated in 2008 that some 27,000 Americans between the ages of 25 and 65 die prematurely each year because they dont have health insurance. Another estimate is even higher. You want to put a face on those numbers? Look at Scotts picture. One American like him dies every 20 minutes for lack of health insurance. Back to Scott: For seven weeks they kept me alive with daily blood transfusions. They also gave me chemotherapy, suppressing the cancer so that my blood could return to normal. I was released June 29, and since then have had more chemo and also hormone therapy to limit the cancer
Scott Androes in May 1979, when he and Nicholas D. Kristof were freshman roommates at Harvard. Scott today, in the hospital with cancer.
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The Proposed Addition: A Quick Read, Out Front
Heres how the new label would work.

NUTRITION This new scale is essentially a summary of the nutrition facts box into one easy-to-understand rating, on a scale of 0 to 5. FOODNESS
RATING BARS
COLOR CODE
Top score per category: 5. Bottom score: 0.
A visual representation of the total score: eat green-coded food freely; yellow food with restraint or consideration; and red food rarely or never. Of course if youre more concerned about Welfare than Nutrition, or Foodness than either, you can make your own judgments.
11-15 points 6-10 0-5
A measure of how close a product is to being real, unadulterated food. (You might think of it as naturalness.) A piece of fruit gets 5 points, whereas fruit-flavored candy gets 0.
TOTAL SCORE When you take all three criteria Nutrition, Foodness and Welfare into account, the highest potential high score is 15. Some nonfoods sold in supermarkets soda, for example might score 0. G.M.O.S Provided for those consumers (90 percent of Americans, according to polls) who wish to know whether their food contains genetically modified organisms.
WELFARE A measure of the impact of the foods production on the overall welfare of everything involved: laborers, animals, land, water, air, etc. This rating also accounts for carbon footprint and chemical (pesticide, for example) and drug (like antibiotic) residues.
Labels on Four Made-Up Products
MAMA CS ORGANIC TOMATO SAUCE This contains organic tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, and fresh herbs; its even refrigerated, so it contains no preservatives.
Since Mama C runs an organic operation with a full-time labor force receiving benefits, the score here is superhigh all around, and the label is green.
BERTS BERRIES FROZEN BLUEBERRIES Barely processed fruit is something we can eat as often as we like, which would give this a Nutrition score of 5. On the other hand, its not fresh: 4 for Foodness.
Although the blueberries are organic, theyre sourced from Chile, where the workers are being paid a dollar a day and little attention is paid to soil quality: 2 for Welfare. Because of those issues, this barely squeaks into the green.
HAPPY FARMS FRESH WHOLE CHICKEN Nutrition is good, but saturated fat pulls the score down to 4. Foodness is also high: you cant argue with the fact that its chicken.
But the birds are raised in cages and fed processed food; theres runoff from the barns; and the working conditions in the processing plant are abysmal. The score of 1 on Welfare pulls the overall score down to the yellow range.
CHOCOLATE FROSTED SUPER KRISPY KRUNCHIES Fifty percent sugar; almost all nutrients come from additives. But it does contain 10 percent of the daily allowance of fiber.
Its barely recognizable as food in any near-natural form, and its made from hyper-processed commodity crops. However, workers in the plant are full time and receive benefits (and no animals are harmed), so a couple of points there (environmentally, however, the welfare is negative, so these points are mitigated): 2. Thus, red.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND LABELS BY WERNER DESIGN WERKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
growth. But the cancer has kept growing, and I went to the E.R. again on Sept. 17 when I found that I was losing all strength in my legs. They did an M.R.I. and saw that there were tumors pressing on my spinal cord. They have been treating me with radiation for three weeks now to shrink those tumors and will continue to do so for another week. I submitted an application to the hospital for charity care and was approved. The bill is already north of $550,000. Based on the low income on my tax return they knocked it down to $1,339. Swedish Medical Center has treated me better than I ever deserved. Some doctor bills are not covered by the charity application, and I expect to spend all of my I.R.A. assets before Im done. Some doctors have been generously treating me without sending bills, and I am humbled by their ethic of service to the patient. Some things I have to pay for, like $1,700 for the Lupron hormone therapy and $1,400 for an ambulance trip. Its an arbitrary and haphazard system, and Im just lucky to live in a city with a highly competent and generous hospital like Swedish. In this respect, Scott is very lucky, and the system is now responding superbly and compassionately. But of course, his care is not exactly free were all paying the bill. Romney argues that Obamacare is economically inefficient. But where is the efficiency in a system that neglects routine physicals and preventive care, and then pays $550,000 in bills as a result? To me, this is repugnant economically as well as morally. In the Romney system, people like Scott would remain uninsured. And they would be unable to buy insurance because of their cancer history.
Obamacare does address these problems, albeit in a complex and intrusive way, forcing people by a mandate to get insurance. Some will certainly fall through the cracks, and in any case the Obama plan does little to address the underlying problem of rising health costs. But do we really prefer the previous system in which one American in six was uninsured like Scott, all walking the tightrope, and sometimes falling off? As my classmates and I celebrated our reunion and relived our triumphs like spiking the punch during a visit by the governor I kept thinking of Scott in his hospital bed. No amount of nostalgic laughter could fill the void of his absence. Back to Scott: This whole experience has made me feel like such a fool. I blew one that I really should have gotten right. You probably remember that my mother died of breast cancer the July before we started college. She watched my high school graduation from the back of an ambulance on the football field at our outdoor graduation. Six weeks later she was dead, and six weeks after that I was on an airplane that took me east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life. Her death at 53 permanently darkened my view of life. It also made me feel that I was at high risk for cancer because in my amateur opinion I was genetically very similar to her, just based on appearance and personality. And much of my career has been in actuarial work, where the whole point is to identify risks. I read Nassim Talebs book The Black Swan and imbibed his idea that you should keep an eye out for lowprobability events that have potentially big consequences, both positive and negative. You insure against the potentially negative ones, like prostate cancer.
So why didnt I get physicals? Why didnt I get P.S.A. tests? Why didnt I get examined when I started having trouble urinating? Partly because of the traditional male delinquency about seeing doctors. I had no regular family doctor; typical bachelor guy behavior. I had plenty of warning signs, and thats why I feel like a damned fool. I would give anything to have gone to a doctor in, say, October 2011. It fills me with regret. Now Im struggling with all my might to walk 30 feet down the hallway with the physical therapists holding on to me so I dont fall. Ive got all my chips bet on the hope that the radiation treatments that Im getting daily are going to shrink the tumors that are pressing on my spinal cord so that someday soon I can be back out on the sidewalk enjoying a walk in my neighborhood. That would be the height of joy for me. When I make mistakes, my wife and friends forgive me. We need a health care system that is equally forgiving. That means getting all Americans insured, and then emphasizing preventive care like cancer screenings. Presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt have sought to create universal health insurance, and Obama finally saw it achieved in his first term. It will gradually come into effect, with 2014 the pivotal year if Romney does not repeal it. In some ways, of course, Americas health care system is superb. It is masterly in pioneering new techniques, and its top-level care for those with insurance is unrivaled. Sometimes even those without insurance, like Scott, get superb care as charity cases, and I salute the doctors at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle for their professionalism and compassion toward my old friend. But it would have made more sense to provide Scott with insurance and regular physicals. Catching the cancer ear-
ly might have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in radiation and chemo expenses and maybe a life as well. So as you watch the presidential debates, as you listen to those campaign ads, remember that what is at stake is not so much the success of one politician or another. The real impact of the
My friend didnt buy health insurance. Should that cost him his life?
election will be felt in the lives of men and women around the country, in spheres as intimate as our gut-wrenching fear when we spot blood in our urine. Our choices this election come too late for Scott, although I hope that my friend from tiny Silverton, Ore., who somehow beat the odds so many times already in his life, will also beat this cancer. The election has the potential to help save the lives of many others who dont have insurance. In his hospital room, my old pal is gallantly fighting his cancer and battling a gnawing uncertainty that he should never have had to face, that no American should so needlessly endure. This is all heartbreakingly unnecessary. Ill give Scott the final word. From my 12th floor room I have a panoramic view looking east from downtown Seattle toward the suburbs to the Cascade Mountains. My visitors are often struck by the view. Through my window I watch a succession of gloriously sunny days and I wonder if this will be my last Indian summer on earth. I still have hope and I tell myself that medical science has come a long way in the 34 years since my mother died, but I cant help feeling that Im walking in her footsteps.
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Cracking the Quantum Safe

OPINION BY ADAM FRANK
A professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester and the author of About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.
ROCHESTER HIS summer, physicists celebrated a triumph that many consider fundamental to our understanding of the physical world: the discovery, after a multibillion-dollar effort, of the Higgs boson. Given its importance, many of us in the physics community expected the event to earn this years Nobel Prize in Physics. Instead, the award went to achievements in a field far less well known and vastly less expensive: quantum information. It may not catch as many headlines as the hunt for elusive particles, but the field of quantum information may soon answer questions even more fundamental and upsetting than the ones that drove the search for the Higgs. It could well usher in a radical
ticle. For decades such mysteries were debated but never pushed toward resolution, in part because no resolution seemed possible and, in part, because useful work could go on without resolving them (an attitude sometimes called shut up and calculate). Scientists could attract money and press with ever larger supercolliders while ignoring such pesky questions. But as this years Nobel recognizes, thats starting to change. Increasingly clever experiments are exploiting advances in cheap, high-precision lasers
The Nobel went to work that could revolutionize technology.
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new era of technology, one that makes todays fastest computers look like hand-cranked adding machines. The basis for both the work behind the Higgs search and quantum information theory is quantum physics, the most accurate and powerful theory in all of science. With it we created remarkable technologies like the transistor and the laser, which, in time, were transformed into devices computers and iPhones that reshaped human culture. But the very usefulness of quantum physics masked a disturbing dissonance at its core. There are mysteries summed up neatly in Werner Heisenbergs famous adage atoms are not things lurking at the heart of quantum physics suggesting that our everyday assumptions about reality are no more than illusions. Take the principle of superposition, which holds that things at the subatomic level can be literally two places at once. Worse, it means they can be two things at once. This superposition animates the famous parable of Schrdingers cat, whereby a wee kitty is left both living and dead at the same time because its fate depends on a superposed quantum par-
and atomic-scale transistors. Quantum information studies often require nothing more than some equipment on a table and a few graduate students. In this way, quantum informations progress has come not by bludgeoning nature into submission but by subtly tricking it to step into the light. Take the superposition debate. One camp claims that a deeper level of reality lies hidden beneath all the quantum weirdness. Once the so-called hidden variables controlling reality are exposed, they say, the strangeness of superposition will evaporate. Another camp claims that superposition shows us that potential realities matter just as much as the single, fully manifested one we experience. But what collapses the potential electrons in their two locations into the one electron we actually see? According to this interpretation, it is the very act of looking; the measurement process collapses an ethereal world of potentials into the one real world we experience. And a third major camp argues that particles can be two places at once only because the universe itself splits into parallel realities at the moment of
measurement, one universe for each particle location and thus an infinite number of ever splitting parallel versions of the universe (and us) are all evolving alongside one another. These fundamental questions might have lived forever at the intersection of physics and philosophy. Then, in the 1980s, a steady advance of low-cost, high-precision lasers and other quantum optical technologies began to appear. With these new devices, researchers, including this years Nobel laureates, David J. Wineland and Serge Haroche, could trap and subtly manipulate individual atoms or light particles. Such exquisite control of the nano-world allowed them to design subtle experiments probing the meaning of quantum weirdness. Soon at least one interpretation, the most common sense version of hidden variables, was completely ruled out. At the same time new and even more exciting possibilities opened up as scientists began thinking of quantum physics in terms of information, rather than just matter in other words, asking if physics fundamentally tells us more about our interaction with the world (i.e., our information) than the nature of the world by itself (i.e., matter). And so the field of quantum information theory was born, with very real new possibilities in the very real world of technology. What does this all mean in practice? Take one area where quantum information theory holds promise, that of quantum computing. Classical computers use bits of information that can be either 0 or 1. But quantum-information technologies let scientists consider qubits, quantum bits of information that are both 0 and 1 at the same time. Logic circuits, made of qubits directly harnessing the weirdness of superpositions, allow a quantum computer to calculate vastly faster than anything existing today. A quantum machine using no more than 300 qubits would be a million, trillion, trillion, trillion times faster than the most modern supercomputer. Going even further is the seemingly science-fiction possibility of quantum teleportation. Based on experiments going on today with simple quantum systems, it is at least a theoretical possibility that one day objects could be reconstituted beamed across a space without ever crossing the distance. When a revolution in science yields powerful new technologies, its effect on human culture is multiplied exponentially. Think of the relation between thermodynamics, steam engines and the onset of the industrial era. Quantum information could well be the thermodynamics of the next technological revolution. The discovery of the Higgs the confirming stroke of a grand, overarching theory of matter will, eventually, yield a Nobel Prize, and when it comes the award will be justly deserved. But the discoverys impact on human society will most likely be dwarfed by the consequences of quantum information theory. The steady advances at its frontiers are turning us into safecrackers, nimbly manipulating the tumblers guarding the deepest secrets of nature and our own place within it. What we find when the locks snap open on the quantum world will surely be something far richer and far greater than our imaginations today can conceive.
TOWNIES CATHERINE CHUNG
Novel Neighborhoods
Catherine Chung is the author of the novel Forgotten Country.
Two years ago, when a magazine named me one of five Brooklyn writers to look out for, I was thrilled and gratified, but troubled by just one thing: I didnt live in Brooklyn, and never had. These days if youre a writer, especially a youngish writer, people assume you live in one of four or five Brooklyn neighborhoods. And I did spend a lot of time in the borough, visiting friends and co-hosting a reading series in Park Slope. But I had never meant to mislead anyone! I wondered how quickly I could move out of Manhattan before anyone learned the truth. I told a friend about my predicament, and he laughed, pointing out Heights, and even before Id finished unpacking, well-meaning New Yorkers began telling me Id established myself in the wrong place. Id arrived in Manhattan too many blocks north, and decades too late. Id missed the heyday of the literati had missed the West Village, the Upper West Side, the East Village, the Lower East Side. Id missed the dirty 80s, and the glamorous 90s the yachts, the salons, the outlaw parties. Manhattan, a friend declared, is dead. All the writers had long since left for Brooklyn, in search of cheaper rents. Nearly every reading and book party I attended happened in Brooklyn. So it makes sense that my first big break came to me in Brooklyn, too at a reading I gave to a group of 20-somethings in an overheated gallery after hours. In the audience was a sweet stranger who e-mailed me the next day asking for the story, and who later sneaked a copy of it onto the desk of a magazine editor who worked in his building. The editor published the story, and then someone else who would soon become the editor of my first novel wrote to me, asking if I had anything in the works. Thats the kind of story I moved here to find. It was rumored that Park Slope had the highest number of writers per capita of anywhere else in the country, and inevitably, I became one of them. After moving to the neighborhood, I found the perfect cafe and worked there nearly every day. In the evenings I sat on my stoop, eating frozen yogurt. I got to know the babies in our building. I got to know the dogs. And then I moved again. Even before my lease was up, I was back in Manhattan. I hadnt planned it, wasnt looking, but when a rent-stabilized one-bedroom came up, I pounced. I agonized a little, but made the decision New Yorkers have always made, the reason Brooklyn became what it is: I chose the place I could both live in and afford. So in another comic reversal, I found myself explaining to my horrified Brooklyn friends who couldnt understand how I could ever choose to move away from the action that I actually loved Manhattan. There were plenty of bookstores, great food, and it would take me less time to get to many parts of Brooklyn than when I actually lived in the borough. Finally, I reminded them of what the editor of the five Brooklyn writers article said back in 2010, when I sent word that while I loved being included, the truth was I lived in Manhattan. He responded that it was all right, that my corporeal presence when running the reading series was enough. Besides, he knew Id live in Brooklyn one day soon. He was right then, and someday I may prove him right again. For now, Im happy where I am. Besides, I heard a rumor last week that all the fancy young writers are now moving to a new neighborhood: Morningside Heights. This is an excerpt from Townies, a series about New York and occasionally other cities at nytimes.com/opinionator.
I was a Brooklyn writer to look out for. Trouble was, I lived in Manhattan.
what a reversal it was from the contempt Manhattanites used to have for the unfortunates who lived elsewhere, how they once looked down their noses at Brooklyn, and still turned them up at Queens. I was new to all this interborough politicking because I was new to New York. Id moved here the year before to be a writer, in that dazed way that I imagine aspiring actors go to Hollywood. James Baldwin and Edna St. Vincent Millay had lived here, and I would live here, too, and hope some of the magic would rub off on me. Except Id miscalculated: Id taken a sublet uptown in Morningside
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From Page 5 president of Brown. She was the first African-American to lead an Ivy League university and has served on the board of Goldman Sachs. Dr. Simmons, a Harvard-trained literature scholar, worked hard to make Brown more accessible to poor students, but when I asked whether it was time to abolish legacy admissions, the Ivy Leagues own Book of Gold, she shrugged me off with a laugh: No, I have a granddaughter. Its not time yet. Americas Serrata also takes a more explicit form: the tilting of the economic rules in favor of those at the top. The crony capitalism of todays oligarchs is far subtler than Venices. It works in two main ways. The first is to channel the states scarce resources in their own direction. This is the absurdity of Mitt Romneys comment about the 47 percent who are dependent upon government. The reality is that it is those at the top, particularly the tippy-top, of the economic pyramid who have been most effective at capturing government support and at getting others to pay for it. Exhibit A is the bipartisan, $700 billion rescue of Wall Street in 2008. Exhibit B is the crony recovery. The economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty found that 93 percent of the income gains from the 2009-10 recovery went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. The top 0.01 percent captured 37 percent of these additional earnings, gaining an average of $4.2 million per household. The second manifestation of crony capitalism is more direct: the tax perks, trade protections and government subsidies that companies and sectors secure for themselves. Corporate pork is a truly bipartisan dish: green energy companies and the health insurers have been winners in this administration, as oil and steel companies were under George W. Bushs. The impulse of the powerful to make themselves even more so should come as no surprise. Competition and a level playing field are good for us collectively, but they are a hardship for individual
FIXES TINA ROSENBERG
The Avon Ladies of Africa

Tina Rosenberg is the author of Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World.
Every week someone comes up with an ingenious product for the worlds poor: a new water filter, vitamin packet, solar lamp, efficient cookstove, fortified food. But these great ideas often fail, or simply dont reach many people. There are often no distribution chains that can reach these customers, no stores near potential buyers, no way for them to learn about the product and they cant afford it anyway. What the poor need more urgently than new products is new business models. Living Goods, which operates in Uganda, may have one. It brings products that the poor need to their doorsteps, at below-market prices. Most important, Living Goods is building a business with the potential to sustain itself and to help vast numbers of people. Though Living Goods began selling only four years ago, its business model is a familiar one: its the Avon Lady. Avon is famous for its door-to-door representatives, who succeed because they are microfranchisees. Franchises support one in eight jobs in America, and they are very successful. Its not hard to see why. A franchise is a business that has been tested over and over. It has an assured supply chain, low-
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A door-to-door model is delivering products and better health in Uganda.

cost inputs (because the franchiser can buy in bulk), training for managers and a trusted brand. Microfranchisees get the same things on a smaller scale. Living Goods uses the Avon model to sell many items that improve or maintain health, like sanitary pads, soap, deworming pills, iodized salt, condoms, fortified foods, kits for clean delivery of babies, malaria treatments and bed nets. Its main focus is not on creating businesses but on improving the health of customers its goal is a 15 percent drop in child mortality. Living Goods was founded by Chuck Slaughter, who made his money by starting TravelSmith, a clothing and gear company; he is still Living Goods president. Its representatives are mainly village women with between 6 and 10 years of schooling more schooling, and they tend not to stay. Living Goods began as a joint venture with BRAC, the giant antipoverty organization from Bangladesh that is now also the largest development organization in Uganda. The partnership allows Living Goods to extend its reach and BRAC to experiment with ways to make its network of community health promoters more sustainable. About 600 of Living Goods 850 sales reps are women from BRACs microfi-
As the rich climb to the top, they draw up the ladder behind them.
businesses. Warren E. Buffett knows this. A truly great business must have an enduring moat that protects excellent returns on invested capital, he explained in his 2007 annual letter to investors. Though capitalisms creative destruction is highly beneficial for society, it precludes investment certainty. Microsoft attempted to dig its own moat by simply shutting out its competitors, until it was stopped by the courts. Even Apple, a huge beneficiary of the openplatform economy, couldnt resist trying to impose its own inferior map app on buyers of the iPhone 5. Businessmen like to style themselves as the defenders of the free market economy, but as Luigi Zingales, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, argued, Most lobbying is pro-business, in the sense that it promotes the interests of existing businesses, not pro-market in the sense of fostering truly free and open competition.
nance groups. The sales reps essentially become village doctors. They get two weeks training in basic health care: preventive measures, and also how to diagnose and cure the most common diseases malaria, childhood pneumonia, diarrhea. They learn when to refer a patient to the health clinic. Then they spend two weeks in the field. They first follow a working sales rep. Then they go back to their communities and go door to door asking questions about each familys health in the process introducing themselves and the Living Goods brand. The representatives get blue T-shirts and other marketing materials free and are lent a bag of about $60 worth of merchandise. They pay back that loan over 48 weeks from their earnings they get 15 to 20 percent of whatever they sell. After that, they pay cash for stock at the branch headquarters. Every month all the reps in a district some 50 people gather for a half day to update their training and share their victories and defeats. Why do health promoters sell body lotion or laundry detergent? It helps them stay in business sustainability is key here and it attracts customers who then might get interested in health products like deworming pills. It also allows Living Goods to tweak prices it charges near-market prices for sanitary pads or detergent so it can subsidize products with a bigger health impact, like oral rehydration salts or a baby delivery kit, at 30 percent below market. The malaria medicine is subsidized by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and costs 75 cents in a drugstore it would be as high as $7.80, said Anita Owakunda, Living Goods branch manager and health trainer in the Mpigi
district. Living Goods experiments in the districts it operates in. Sales reps now use texting to log their sales and track inventory. Most customers have cellphones, so Living Goods can target them with direct messages promotions and sales, but also health messages. Someone who buys malaria medicine will get a text a day later that says you may be feeling better, but please take ALL your medicine. Pregnant women get health advice. A randomized controlled trial is going on to see whether the program is actually improving health. Sales figures for health products indicate it is meeting most of the targets necessary to bring down child mortality by 15 percent. For an organization aiming for a grand scale, Living Goods is still quite small. But Mr. Slaughter argues that its more important to get the model right before expanding. Living Goods is now beginning work in Kenya, but its real growth will come from larger organizations adopting its model. Replication will be 100 times what we can do ourselves, Mr. Slaughter said. Some of Living Goods branches are now self-financing which is remarkable but at a country level the organization does not yet make money and is still reliant on donors. Tax and philanthropic dollars are big, but they are dwarfed by investment dollars, Mr. Slaughter said. We want to start generating a market rate of return on capital thats when it gets interesting to investors. A sustainable distribution platform that can meet the needs of the poor thats the holy grail. This is an excerpt from Fixes, a series at nytimes.com/opinionator.
A Living Goods agent, Sarah Nakyambadde, left, visited her client Olivia Nakazzi, right, and child at their home in the Kawempe area of Kampala, Uganda, in April 2011.
Until Justice Is Served

Crawley, an assistant. Mr. Blackburn was later disbarred for embezzlement, among other things. Why should I believe the prosecution over Jimmy Britt? I dont, and heres why. Helena Stoeckley was in Raleigh for Mr. MacDonalds trial, from Aug. 14, 1979, through Aug. 23, 1979. During that time, she confessed to at least four people. This is on top of the prior statements she had made to many other people about her involvement in the murders. Why not confess to Mr. Britt, as well? There are photographs and film footage of them together at federal court. It would be more unusual if she had not confessed to him. Now one more name can be added to the list: Jerry Leonard. Mr. Leonard had been appointed Ms. Stoeckleys attorney a few days after her testimony in 1979. Now he was waiting in a witness room day after day to testify. Ms. Stoeckley had repeatedly asked for immunity and was never given it. Her communications with Mr. Leonard were the only instances where she could speak freely without risking prosecution. But attorney-client privilege extends even after death unless a judge decides otherwise. At the hearing, Judge Fox allowed Mr. Leonard to testify. On a Monday morning, a week after the start of the hearing, Mr. Leonard took the stand and
N the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet. We have no paupers, Thomas Jefferson boasted in an 1814 letter. The great mass of our population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. For Jefferson, this equality was at the heart of American exceptionalism: Can any condition of society be more desirable than this? That all changed with industrialization. As Franklin D. Roosevelt argued in a 1932 address to the Commonwealth Club, the industrial revolution was accomplished thanks to a group of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care, and who were honored in proportion as they produced the results, irrespective of the means they used. America may have needed its robber barons; Roosevelt said the United States was right to accept the bitter with the sweet. But as these titans amassed wealth and power, and as America ran out of free land on its frontier, the country faced the threat of a Serrata. As Roosevelt put it, equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists. Instead, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already. It is no accident that in America today the gap between the very rich and everyone else is wider than at any time since the Gilded Age. Now, as then, the titans are seeking an even greater political voice to match their economic power. Now, as then, the inevitable danger is that they will confuse their own selfinterest with the common good. The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venices oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
Jeffrey MacDonald in 1970, after the Army dismissed charges against him in the murder of his family. He was later convicted of the killings in a separate federal trial.
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OPINION BY ERROL MORRIS
A contributing opinion writer, a filmmaker and the author, most recently, of A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald.
WILMINGTON, N.C. HE defendant, Jeffrey MacDonald, is 68 years old. Hes sitting on the left. He looks gaunt, and hes shackled at the ankles. The prosecutor, Brian Murtagh, is sitting on the right. He has devoted a significant portion of his adult life to keeping Mr. MacDonald in prison, and at 66, he has come out of retirement to assist here. Judge James Fox, 83, is presiding. He slumps in his seat, interrupting only to ask a rare question. But hes wired to the clock. Click. Twelve noon. Time for recess. He might interrupt a witness midsentence. Click. Three oclock. Mr. MacDonald is once again challenging his conviction for the 1970 murders of his wife and two young daughters. It is now almost 43 years since his family died. Guilty or innocent, his life has been destroyed. I was in the courtroom because I had just published a book arguing that Mr. MacDonalds 1979 conviction was a terrible miscarriage of justice. Why? Because crucial evidence was withheld by the prosecution: files, lab notes and particularly evidence concerning the one witness who could corroborate Mr. MacDonalds version of what happened. One of the first responders, Ken Mica, had seen a girl standing alone in a deserted area blocks from the crime scene in Fort Bragg, N.C. Mr. Mica was responding to Mr. MacDonalds emergency call and didnt stop to question her. But he soon made a connection between Mr. MacDonalds description and the girl he had seen: the two closely matched. Hours later, Prince Beasley, a narcotics cop, had heard Mr. MacDonalds description broadcast on the radio and im-
mediately suspected one of his drug informants, Helena Stoeckley, the 18-yearold daughter of a lieutenant colonel. It wasnt long before Ms. Stoeckley began confessing that she had been in the house the night of the murders. But at the trial in 1979, Helena Stoeckley said that she didnt remember that night. Why had Ms. Stoeckley changed her story? In 2005 Jimmy Britt, a retired deputy United States marshal, came forward and provided an explanation. He said that he had heard Ms. Stoeckley confess to being in the MacDonald house during the murders and that he later heard prosecutors threaten to indict her if she repeated her story on the stand. After years of delays and appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit had ordered this hearing so that Mr. Britts claim could be considered in light of the evidence as a whole. That means everything. The totality of the evidence: The confessions of Ms. Stoeckley and her then-boyfriend, Gregory Mitchell, about their part in the murders; physical evidence in the MacDonald house that supported their story; unexplained DNA evidence all of it could finally be heard. But in Wilmington, various federal marshals claimed that Mr. Britt was lying. They disparaged his character. He was a womanizer, an alcoholic, a cheat, an ingrate who even refused to accept a retirement party. It got pettier and pettier. But the prosecution couldnt prove that Mr. Britt didnt hear what he said he heard. The government also called to testify two of the prosecutors from the 1979 trial: Jim Blackburn, who, Mr. Britt alleged, had threatened Ms. Stoeckley, and Jack
There is new evidence debunking the case against Jeffrey MacDonald.

recounted what Ms. Stoeckley had told him on Aug. 20, 1979. (Mr. Leonards affidavit and other case material are available online.) He recalled that Ms. Stoeckley had eventually confessed that she was at the MacDonald house at the time of the murders. That she belonged to a cult. That Mr. MacDonald had been targeted because he discriminated against drug users in his medical practice, that Mr. MacDonalds wife was pregnant and that the cult associated newborn babies with the devil. They broke into the house, things got out of hand and the men she was with committed the murders. Four decades of accumulated evidence, including evidence once suppressed by prosecutors, has cast serious doubt on Mr. MacDonalds guilt. Mr. MacDonald, who turned 69 on Friday, has always insisted on his innocence. Now there is a mountain of evidence supporting Mr. MacDonald and debunking the case against him. This case may have gone on for four decades, but it should go on until justice is served.
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It should not take two more years for the United States to leave Afghanistan
After more than a decade of having American blood spilled in Afghanistan, with nearly six years lost to President George W. Bushs disastrous indifference, it is time for United States forces to leave Afghanistan on a schedule dictated only by the security of the troops. It should not take more than a year. The United States will not achieve even President Obamas narrowing goals, and prolonging the war will only do more harm. Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. said on Friday that we are leaving Afghanistan in 2014, period. There is no ifs, ands or buts. Mr. Obama indicated earlier that this could mean the end of 2014. Either way, two more years of combat, two more years of sending the 1 percent of Americans serving in uniform to die and be wounded, is too long. Administration officials say they will not consider a secure logistical withdrawal, but they offer no hope of achieving broad governance and security goals. And the only final mission we know of, to provide security for a 2014 Afghan election, seems dubious at best and more likely will only lend American approval to a thoroughly corrupt political system. This conclusion represents a change on our part. The war in Afghanistan had powerful support at the outset, including ours, after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. After Mr. Bushs years of neglect, we believed that a new president, Barack Obama, was doing the right thing by at least making an effort. He set goals that made sense: first, a counterinsurgency campaign, stepped-up attacks on Al Qaeda, then an attempt to demolish the Talibans military power, promote democratic governance in Kabul and build an Afghan Army capable of exerting control over the country. But it is now clear that if there ever was a chance of victory in Afghanistan, it evaporated when American troops went off to fight the pointless war in Iraq. While some progress has been made, the idea of fully realizing broader democratic and security aims simply grows more elusive. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 American troops have died in this war, more than 50 of them recently in growing attacks by Afghan forces, and many thousands more have been maimed. The war has now cost upward of $500 billion. Representative Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said at the debate on Thursday: We dont want to lose the gains weve gotten. We want to make sure that the Taliban doesnt come back in. More fighting will not consolidate the modest gains made by this war, and there seems little chance of guaranteeing that the Taliban do not come back in, at least in the provinces where they have never truly been dislodged. Last month, militants struck a heavily fortified NATO base. Officials say the Pakistan-based Haqqani network is behind many of the attacks on Americans. Americans are desperate to see the war end and the 68,000 remaining troops come home. President Obama has not tasked military commanders with recommending a pace for the withdrawal until after the election. He and the coalition partners have committed to remain engaged in Afghanistan after 2014 at reduced levels, which could involve 15,000 or more American troops to carry out specialized training and special operations. Mr. Obama, or Mitt Romney if he wins, will have a hard time convincing Americans that makes sense let alone Afghans. The military may yet ask for tens of thousands more troops, which would be a serious mistake. To increase the odds for a more manageable transition and avert an economic collapse, the United States and other major donors have pledged $16 billion in economic aid through 2015. That is a commitment worth keeping, but the United States and its allies have tried nation building in Afghanistan, at least for the last four years. It is not working. The task is to pack up without leaving behind arms that terrorists want and cannot easily find elsewhere (like Stinger missiles) or high-tech equipment (like Predator drones) that can be reverse engineered by Pakistan or other potential foes. The military can blow those things up if it must. It is hard to be exact about a timetable since the Pentagon and NATO refuse to discuss it. The secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, told us last week that decisions about the timetable would be made after the military command reported to Mr. Obama in December. He would not say much of anything beyond that whether the withdrawal would be front-loaded, or back-loaded, or how many troops would be needed to secure the election. Some experts say a secure withdrawal would take at least six months, and possibly a year. But one year is a huge improvement over two. It would be one less year of having soldiers die or come home with wounds that are terrifying, physically and mentally. Suicides among veterans and those in active service reached unacceptable levels long ago. A recent article by The Associated Press quoted studies estimating that 45 percent of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are claiming disability benefits. A quarter of those veterans 300,000 to 400,000, depending on the study say they suffer from some form of post-traumatic stress disorder. This is far too high a price to go on asking of troops and their families. Four years ago, Mr. Obama called Afghanistan a war we have to win. His strategy relied on a newly trained Afghan Army and police force that could take over fighting the Taliban; a government competent to deliver basic services; and Pakistans cooperation. Here is what happened:
AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES NATO and the Pentagon built an Afghan Army and police force of nearly 352,000 that is now nominally in the lead for providing security in most of the country. Attrition rates are high and morale is low; the
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attacks on coalition forces have eroded trust and slowed the training. Afghan leaders have to work harder with Washington to weed out corrupt troops and Taliban infiltrators, but the nation cannot hang its hopes on that happening. There is an agreement to finance the army to 2017 with Kabul paying $500 million, Washington about $2.5 billion and other donors about $1.3 billion. If Kabul keeps its commitments, the donors should make good on theirs. The Taliban have not retaken territory they lost to coalition forces, but Kandahar and Helmand Provinces, the Taliban base and the main focus of the 2010 surge, remain heavily contested. A Pentagon report in May said Taliban attacks in Kandahar from last October through March rose by 13 percent over the same period a year earlier. William Byrd, an Afghan expert at the United States Institute of Peace, said, The most that probably can be hoped is that the army continues to hold Kabul and other major cities. It is not likely to ever become an effective counterinsurgency force.
EFFECTIVE, CREDIBLE GOVERNANCE President Hamid Karzais weak and corrupt government, awash in billions of dollars, continues to alienate Afghans and make the Taliban an attractive alternative. Mr. Karzai recently chose Asadullah Khalid, a man accused of torture and drug trafficking, to take over the countrys main intelligence agency. Dozens of Karzai family members and allies have taken government jobs, pursued business interests or worked as contractors to the United States government. A recent report by Afghanistans central bank said the Afghan political elite had been using Kabul Bank as a piggy bank. In 2010, word that the bank had lost $300 million caused a panic, and the number later tripled. To win pledges of continued aid at an international donors conference in July, President Karzai promised to crack down on corruption and make political reforms, but he has done little. The aid sustaining his government is at risk if he fails. We doubt that he will exercise real leadership. For now, he has proved himself to be not only unreliable, but a force undermining American goals and Afghans interests. In 2009 and 2010, Mr. Karzais supporters tried to defraud the national elections. With elections scheduled for 2014, the question is whether Mr. Karzai will keep his vow to abide by the Constitution and leave when his term is up. He needs to make sure the Parliament and the government put in place an electoral system that encourages competent candidates to run and enables a broadly accepted election with international monitors. All sides are lagging. (There has been even less progress in restoring local governance, the bedrock of Afghan society, where the Taliban exert enduring influence.) Mr. Obama wants to use American troops to provide logistical assistance and security at the elections. There were real threats to voters lives in the first post-Taliban elections, but the real threat to democracy is from corruption, not bombs. Mr. Karzai stole the last election, and he got away with it with American forces in place. After giving him 10 years and lots of money, things keep going in the wrong direction. Why would this now change? RELATIONS WITH PAKISTAN After some bitter disputes, Pakistan began cooperating with the United States again in June by reopening a critical supply route to Afghanistan. American officials say the Pakistanis may have decided that sowing chaos in Afghanistan by supporting Taliban proxies is not in their interest after all. This could be wishful thinking. Last week, the Pentagon blamed the Pakistani-backed Haqqani network for some of the recent green on blue attacks. Islamabads collusion with the Taliban and other extremist groups is the biggest threat to Afghan stability. The United States has a huge interest in a less destructive Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country of 170 million that supports jihad in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Indian cities. But there is reason to argue that Americas leverage with Pakistan on security matters is limited by its need for Pakistani bases, border crossings and intelligence on the Taliban. If tens of thousands of American troops were removed from landlocked Afghanistan, that might actually allow the United States to hang tougher with Islamabad. Pakistan officials might not listen, but at least the United States could be more honest about what the Pakistanis were doing to worsen the threat of terrorism and insurgency.
Two More Saints From a State of Grace

When Pope Benedict XVI canonizes seven Catholic saints in Rome next Sunday, two Americans will be among them, bringing the total of American saints to an even dozen. That may seem surprisingly few after 500 years of Christianity in the New World, but the United States is still a relative newcomer in the Catholic Church, and these things take time. Whats more remarkable, even astounding, is that seven of the 12 are New Yorkers either native-born or with some other strong connection to the state, including the two newest, Kateri Tekakwitha and Marianne Cope. Pennsylvania and Hawaii have two saints each. Indiana has one. For whatever reason whether its something in the water or blowing down from French Canada, or welling up in the alluvial soil New York is on its way to an All-Saints baseball team. Its even more impressive when you add the players in the pipeline, like Dorothy Day, Pierre Toussaint, Cardinal Terence Cooke and Archbishop Fulton Sheen. You could even add Thomas Merton, who is not on the saint track yet but is thought by many to be on deck. (Yes, his monastery was in Kentucky, but hes a son of Queens, Greenwich Village and Columbia University.) In Catholic tradition, sainthood is not limited to the canonized few, of course. Heaven surely abounds in other sainted New Yorkers Im certain my Uncle Jack, long of Whitestone, Queens, arrived a few weeks ago but for our purposes lets stick to the official list: the folks who get feast days, parish names and stained-glass windows. There is no single route to that honor. New Yorks first three saints, Jesuit missionaries in the 1640s, did it the hard way. Isaac Joguess flesh was torn from his body by Mohawks. Jean de la Lande was tomahawked. So was Ren Goupil, with a blow to the head; today he is the patron saint of anesthetists. (Catholic worship can be literal like that; my namesake saint, roasted on a griddle, is the patron of short-order cooks). The more recent saints led more sedate but no less accomplished lives. Elizabeth Ann Seton was born in New York City in 1774 and founded the Sisters of Charity, the first Ameri-
Mother Marianne Cope, though known for her work with leprosy patients in Hawaii, has roots in upstate New York.
SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS OF THE NEUMANN COMMUNITIES
We are not arguing that everything will work out well after the United States leaves Afghanistan. It will not. The Taliban will take over parts of the Pashtun south, where they will brutalize women and trample their rights. Warlords will go on stealing. Afghanistan will still be the worlds second-poorest country. Al Qaeda may make inroads, but since 9/11 it has established itself in Yemen and many other countries. Americas global interests suffer when it is mired in unwinnable wars in distant regions. Dwight Eisenhower helped the countrys position in the world by leaving Korea; Richard Nixon by leaving Vietnam; President Obama by leaving Iraq. None of these places became Jeffersonian democracies. But the United States was better off for leaving. Post-American Afghanistan is likely to be more presentable than North Korea, less presentable than Iraq and perhaps about the same as Vietnam. But it fits the same pattern of damaging stalemate. We need to exit as soon as we safely can.
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can order of religious sisters. Frances Cabrini worked with sick, hungry and orphaned Italian immigrants in New York in the 1890s. Kateri Tekakwitha was a Mohawk from Auriesville, N.Y., who converted to Catholicism in 1676 and led a life of piety. Marianne Cope was a Catholic sister and hospital administrator. She worked with leprosy patients in Molokai, Hawaii, where she died in 1918. Hawaii claims her, but Im counting her a New Yorker because she was raised in Utica and her order, the Sisters of St. Francis, is based in Syracuse, where her shrine is. The sisters pushed hard for Mariannes cause, to the point of having her remains dug up on Molokai and taken back to Syracuse. This broke hearts in Hawaii, but the sisters New Yorky attitude was: you gotta do what you gotta do. I asked the Rev. James Martin, the Jesuit author and editor in New York who wrote My Life With the Saints, what might explain the New York phenomenon. The church here is longstanding, he said. In the U.S. its a rather ancient see the seat of a bishops authority and the confluence of the native peoples and the missionaries created a rich ground for saints and martyrs. He supposed strength of character, too, probably had something to do with it. Take Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks, a statue of whom he keeps on his dresser. To be able to choose Christianity, when all of her community would have been against that, is heroic in the extreme, Father Martin said. Its difficult enough to be a Christian in a Christian society. Theres a mental and spiritual toughness that people dont recognize in the saints, he said particularly in women who founded religious orders. They are seen as simpering, dopey and unctuous, when really theyre tough. Theyre more like C.E.O.s. Frances Cabrini, who was Italian-born, told Pope Leo XIII she wanted to be a missionary in China. He told her to go west instead, to work with unchurched Italians in New York. The bishop here decided he didnt want her. In America I stay, she said, and did. You can visit her shrine on Fort Washington Avenue, a few blocks north of the George Washington Bridge. To be fair to other faiths, New York has forever been a caldron of conviction, especially upstate, from which flowed the Mormons and the Shakers. And if you count secular creeds, it is also the original home of the womens rights and abolitionist movements, and the American civic religion, baseball. Of course, New York has a long, historic list of sinners and the unholy, too. But thank God, that list is private and unofficial. The official A-list, as in among the angels, just keeps growing. LAWRENCE DOWNES
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Irish Catholic Wake-Up

From Page 1 little awkward now that Romney is making strides by showing that he truly believes nothing running away from, rather than toward, the hard-right stances that won him the nomination. Convictions arent helpful at the moment, said David Axelrod, the Obama strategist. The game right now is to try to obfuscate. Romneys audacity in the debate was in hiding their plans. And Ryan actually believes this stuff. He argued for a Social Security privatization plan so radical that even the Bush administration called it irresponsible. The 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman kept gulping water, and once, when Biden nailed Ryan for twice soliciting the very stimulus money he condemns, he may have actually gulped. Unlike Palin, who also had to cram before her debate, Ryan did not need to memorize chunks. He actually tried to learn about all the parts of the world he had never followed closely. On Afghanistan, he spouted so many obscure geographical references, from Zabul to Kunar to the treacherous eastern provinces, he sounded like Google maps. Ryan had intensive coaching from Dan Senor, the senior adviser, to debate Biden, the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But he still clearly knew far less about the globe than both Biden and the moderator, Martha Raddatz, ABC Newss senior foreign affairs correspondent. (I knew Raddatz would be tough because I once saw her dress down a male clerk at a Marriott hotel in Saudi Arabia who told her that women were not allowed to use the gym.) Ryan ended up simply parroting Senor, who made his name as spokesman for the botched Iraq occupation. Thats a scary thing unless you want to go
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The Mystery of Benghazi

video slip quietly out of its public rhetoric, and refocused on terrorism instead. But everything else thats come out about Benghazi has seemed much more damning because the administration practiced a strange denial at the outset. The missed warnings, the weaknesses in security, the drip-drip of detail unspigoted by reporting and Congressional hearings all of it would have been received differently if the White House hadnt spent a week acting as if it had something big to lose by calling terrorism terrorism. What explains this self-defeating strategy? One possibility is that Romneys oft-repeated apology tour charge is bottabad order so he could finish the job? Perhaps, then, the real explanation for the White Houses anxiety about calling the embassy attack an act of terror has less to do with the who than with the where. This wasnt Al Qaeda striking just anywhere: it was Al Qaeda striking in Libya, a country where the Obama White House launched a not-preciselyconstitutional military intervention with a not-precisely-clear connection to the national interest. In a long profile of President Obama published last month by Vanity Fair, Michael Lewis suggested that the president feared the consequences of even a single casualty during the Libyan incursion, lest it create a narrative about how a president elected to extract us from a war in one Arab country got Americans killed in another. How much more, then, might the president fear a narrative about how our Libyan intervention helped create a power vacuum in which terrorists groups can operate with impunity? Thats clearly happened in nearby Mali, where the ripple effects from Muammar el-Qaddafis overthrow have helped empower a Qaeda affiliate. In this context, its easy to see why the administration would hope that the Benghazi attack were just spontaneous mob violence rather than a sign of Al Qaedas growing presence in postintervention Libya as well. The only good news for Obama in this mess is the fact that Romney, always intent on projecting toughness, hasnt attacked the original decision to go to war in Libya, or tied the intervention itself to Al Qaedas North African advances. If the Republican nominee were less reflexively hawkish, the White House might be facing the more comprehensive critique that it deserves and the story wouldnt be about just the specifics of Benghazi, but also the possibility that Obamas entire policy in the region has put American interests and lives at risk.
Bring on the turkey: When Irish eyes are smiling and mouths are running.
back to the messianic mind-set of imprinting our values in the Islamic world, an attitude that brought us interminable wars and trillion-dollar deficits. Ryan echoed the bankrupt neocon philosophy of going to war to prevent war. With Iran, he said, the best thing to do is threaten war. The key is to do this peacefully, he said, sounding as woolly as Paul Wolfowitz. Ryan didnt seem to understand what much of the world does: The administration has worked with allies to strengthen sanctions, which have turned Iran into an economic basket case. Biden also boxed Ryan into looking as though he wants to send more American troops to Afghanistan and to intervene in Syria, which isnt so appealing to war-weary America. Ronald Reagan knew how to bluster for peace. Neocons do not. When they run the show, threatening a war is followed by going to war and that is followed by bollixing up the war and that is followed by our troops dying at war and money-pit nation-building to end the war, and that is followed by economic disaster for America. Amped to make up for all of Obamas missed shots, Biden went on a oneminute scream-of-consciousness about the 47 percent cited by Romney as moochers, the 30 percent cited by Ryan as takers, Scranton, his parents, the Buffett rule, Social Security, veterans, the 47 percent again, Grover Norquist, the middle class, a fair shot, Wall Street vs. Main street, and $500 billion in additional tax cuts for 120,000 wealthy families. Practically in one breath. Whew. Bidens weakest moment was on Libya, where he stumbled as he claimed that the White House didnt know about requests for more security for diplomats there. It is likely true that such an appeal never made it through the Foggy Bottom bureaucracy to the West Wing. But the vice president should have been prepared to answer questions about a blunder that has scuffed the administrations national security luster. Certainly, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been doing a good imitation of her predecessor James Baker in keeping a distance from trouble. On Friday, she finally spoke up. Diplomacy, by its nature, has to often be practiced in dangerous places, she said at a forum here. We will never prevent every act of violence or terrorism or achieve perfect security. The presidents advisers now realize they will need a much better explanation by Tuesday, when Romney is certain to press Obama on the issue. Mittens has been doing better with women since the first debate. Raddatz didnt dwell on womens issues, which denied Biden a chance to home in on Ryans chillingly retro positions. Ryan, who has long opposed abortion even in cases of rape and incest, said, The policy of a Romney administration will be to oppose abortion with the exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. When Raddatz asked Ryan if those who believe abortion should remain legal should be worried if the Republican team wins, Ryan basically said yes. We dont think that unelected judges should make this decision, he said, though he and other Republicans for decades have pined for a Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade. He added, People, through their elected representatives and reaching a consensus in society through the democratic process, should make this determination. Biden, for once, wasnt smiling.
WENTY-FOUR hours after the American compound in Benghazi was attacked and our ambassador murdered, the tragedy seemed more likely to help President Obamas re-election campaign than to damage it. The White House already enjoyed more public credibility on foreign policy than on almost any other issue. When Mitt Romney reacted to the attack with a partisan broadside, portraying a news release sent out by the Cairo embassy before any violence began as a White House apology to the attackers, the presidents path forward seemed clear. He would be disciplined and careful, show anger and steel but also coolness under pressure, and let the rally-round-the-flag effect do its natural work. What happened instead was very strange. Having first repudiated the embassys apology to Muslims offended by a movie impugning their prophet, the Obama administration decided to embrace that apologys premise, and insist that the movie was the crucial ingredient in the Sept. 11 anniversary violence. For days after the attack, as it became clearer that the Benghazi violence was a Qaeda operation rather than a protest, White House officials continued to stress the importance of the hateful and disgusting video, and its supposed role as a catalyst for what Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, insisted was a spontaneous attack. This narrative was pushed on Sunday morning programs, on late-night talk shows and at news conferences, by everyone from Rice to Hillary Clinton to the president himself. When Obama spoke at the United Nations shortly after the attacks, the video was referenced six times in the text; Al Qaeda was referenced only once. Eventually, the White House let the
The American compound in Benghazi, Libya, during the attack on Sept. 11.
Why did the White House fumble the aftermath of the Libya attack?
right, and this White House cant resist the urge to appease our enemies when America comes under attack. But Romneys portrait of Obama as Neville Chamberlain has always been just a caricature, and nobody who watched the Democratic convention should doubt Obamas comfort wrapping himself in the mantle of the war on terror. Another, more plausible possibility is that precisely because this White House wants to be seen as tough on terrorism, its loath to acknowledge the possibility that it doesnt have Al Qaeda completely on the run. But even this seems insufficient to explain the White Houses Benghazi blundering. Surely acknowledging the persistence of Al Qaeda wouldnt undercut the administrations (justifiable) boasts about having taken out its leader. Indeed, if Bin Ladens organization is still with us, why wouldnt Americans want to keep the president who gave the Ab-
Thomas L. Friedman is off today.
TIMOTHY EGAN
Lawmen Against the Law

SEATTLE AST November, the former chief federal prosecutor from Washington State took the stage before a hall full of cops and tried to persuade the people who enforce the drug laws to change them specifically, to get aboard what will most likely turn out to be the nations first successful campaign to legalize marijuana. The sheriffs and police chiefs listened politely to John McKay, a silver-haired, Jesuit-educated lawyer who had been appointed prosecutor by President George
In three states, police and prosecutors are backing legalization of marijuana.

W. Bush. The marijuana laws giving us the right to come to your home and take away your personal liberty for something that much of the community thinks is not a crime are a travesty, a farce and a crime generator, he said. Afterward, the cops voted not to support the ideas that became Washingtons Initiative 502, which would legalize recreational use of marijuana for adults. But many officers pulled McKay aside and quietly cheered him on. They came up to me and said, We know youre right we just cant say so, McKay recalled in an interview last week in Seattle. Voters in three states Washington, Oregon and Colorado will decide on Election Day whether to take marijuana out of the black market shadows and put it under the daylight of state licensing and supervision. Each proposal has problems and pluses. But Washingtons is the one most likely to pass, judging from the polls. In a twist of time that any aging baby boomer can appreciate, this measure has the full backing of what used to be called the Establishment.
And if, on Nov. 6, a state finally says no to one of the most counterproductive prohibitions in the nations history, it will be because the two sides in this continuing sham of Wile E. Coyote versus Road Runner have essentially switched. Thats right: those on the front lines of the endless drug war, the police and prosecutors, are now citing futility and common sense on behalf of legalization at least in this state. And many of those who now profit from the unregulated medical marijuana industry, and the larger, organized crime gangs that control the illegal wholesale scene, are against legalization. The opposition to accessible pot in this state is led by a medical marijuana clinic. Go figure. Not all cops back legalization, of course. But here in Washington, the former top F.B.I. agent for the region, Charles Mandingo, a 27-year veteran of the drug wars, has come out in favor of legal pot. He cited the racial disparity that far more blacks are locked up for dope than whites among many reasons for the evolution of his view. And the two candidates for sheriff in King County, the states most populous, are practically tripping over themselves in their advocacy for doing away with marijuana possession crime. By contrast, presenting a fine historic irony, the only organized opposition to legalization in this state is coming from longtime marijuana advocates the dispensary-quackery complex, which has turned medical marijuana into a money-grubbing sham, as The News Tribune newspaper of South Puget Sound memorably put it. These pot retailers, peddling weed under a tolerance policy to anyone with an easy-to-get prescription, are backing the status quo because they make so much money off it. For the same reason, violent gangsters from Mexico to Canada are afraid of what Washington is on the verge of doing.
The dispensaries would have to give up a freewheeling business for a controlled retail environment licensed, regulated and taxed (at 25 percent) by the state. When California voters faced the same issue two years ago, it was also the drug cartels and the medical pot shops that fought it, and prevailed. This time, the pillars of the community have the upper hand. McKay, now a law professor at Seattle University, has no love for pot. He knows, and has seen firsthand, how chronic use can have consequences. I dont think smoking marijuana is a good thing, he said. And I dont think its a healthy thing. But as the chief federal law enforcement officer in this region I became convinced that our policy on marijuana is just plain wrong. Its a waste of young lives, and certainly police resources, to arrest 10,000 people a year in Washington for marijuana, he says. His sentiments are backed by leading newspapers and a number of other prosecutors, ministers and cops. Under the Washington initiative, anyone over 21 could buy up to an ounce at a time. The proposal would also have a driving-while-stoned provision, with a maximum legal limit for THC in the blood. And, for locavores, it would require that all pot would have to be grown and processed in the state of Washington. Will it work? The hurdles include the federal government, which still classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 illegal drug like heroin and cocaine. It could move against the states. But that sort of conflict, says McKay, needs to play out for American society to finally move on. In the United States almost 30 million people have used marijuana in the last year. Most of them are not criminals by any stretch, he says. History has taught us that social change begins with rebellion among the states, he said. And in this case, when drug warriors switch sides.
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Rethinking Affirmative Action

From Page 4 elites from every race. Black and Latino college applicants, as well as athletes and so-called legacies, receive large preferences the equivalent of 150 to 300 SAT points. Lowincome students, controlling for race, receive either no preference or a modest one, depending on which study you believe. At the countrys 200 most selective colleges, a mere 5 percent of students come from the bottom 25 percent of the income spectrum, according to Anthony P. Carnevale of Georgetown. In court on Wednesday, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. attacked the political underbelly of this system. The University of Texas argued that diversity within racial groups was also important, citing the African-American or Hispanic child of successful professionals in Dallas. Skeptically, Justice Alito asked the universitys lawyer,
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GRAY MATTER ARTHUR A. STONE
Mondays Arent As Blue as We Think
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Arthur A. Stone is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stony Brook University and a senior scientist at the Gallup Organization.
ESPITE the beating that Mondays have taken in pop songs Fats Domino crooned Blue Monday, how I hate blue Monday the day does not deserve its gloomy reputation. Two colleagues and I recently published an analysis of a remarkable yearlong survey by the Gallup Organization, which conducted 1,000 live interviews a day, asking people across the United States to recall their mood in the prior day. We scoured the data for evidence that Monday was bluer than Tuesday or Wednesday. We couldnt find any. Mood was evaluated with several adjectives measuring positive or negative feelings. Spanish-only speakers were queried in Spanish. Interviewers spoke
Why do we give that plain old ordinary weekday such a bum rap?
to people in every state on cellphones and land lines. The data unequivocally showed that Mondays are as pleasant to Americans as the three days that follow, and only a trifle less joyful than Fridays. Perhaps no surprise, people generally felt good on the weekend though for retirees, the distinction between weekend and weekdays was only modest. Likewise, day-of-the-week mood was gender-blind. Over all, women assessed their daily moods more negatively than men did, but relative changes from day to day were similar for both sexes. And yet still, the belief in blue Mondays persists. Several years ago, in another study, I examined expectations about mood and day of the week: two-thirds of the sample nominated Monday as the worst day of the week. Other research has confirmed
that this sentiment is widespread, despite the fact that, well, we dont really feel any gloomier on that day. The question is, why? Why do we believe something that our own immediate experience indicates simply isnt true? As it turns out, the blue Monday mystery highlights a phenomenon familiar to behavioral scientists: that beliefs or judgments about experience can be at odds with actual experience. Indeed, the disconnection between beliefs and experience is common. Vacations, for example, are viewed more pleasantly after they are over compared with how they were experienced at the time. And motorists who drive fancy cars report having more fun driving than those who own more modest vehicles, though in-car monitoring shows this isnt the case. The same is often true in reverse as well: we remember pain or symptoms of illness at higher levels than real-time experience suggests, in part because we ignore symptom-free periods in between our aches and pains. OW do we make sense of these findings? The human brain has vast, but limited, capacities to store, retrieve and process information. Yet we are often confronted with questions that challenge these capacities. And this is often when the disconnect between belief and experience occurs. When information isnt available for answering a question say, when it did not make it into our memories in the first place we use whatever information is available, even if it isnt particularly relevant to the question at hand. When asked about pain for the last week, most people cannot completely remember all of its ups and downs over seven days. However, we are likely to remember it at its worst and may use that
as a way of summarizing pain for the entire week. When asked about our current satisfaction with life, we may focus on the first things that come to mind a recent spat with a spouse or maybe a compliment from the boss at work. Several mental processes like these have been identified and are called cognitive heuristics. The so-called peak-end heuristic is particularly well researched and is the tendency to emphasize peaks and recent experience when one summarizes over a period of time. In the case of the blue Monday belief, it is likely that heuristics are at work. Thinking that Monday is the worst day of the week may be based on our innate attention to change: the shift from pleasant Sundays to ordinary Mondays constitutes the largest change in mood over a week for a person working a typical weekday shift. So, when thinking about mood on different days of the week, we react to change rather than the absolute levels of daily mood a so-called contrast effect. In doing so we get it wrong, at least in terms of representing the actual mood experience in memory. That we can so readily distort what happened in the past has far-ranging implications. Decision-making often draws on knowledge from our experiences, yet given that the memories of these can be flawed, so may be the decisions. And there is evidence that this happens. Memories of an uncomfortable medical test, like a colonoscopy, influence whether or not such procedures are repeated in a timely manner. In the same way, faulty memory can hamper the development of pain medications. A new drug may in fact be effective in reducing daily pain levels, yet if the evaluation of the treatment is based on retrospective measures, this effect could go undetected as memories of pain-free moments are subsumed by memories of pain. So although debunking blue Mondays provides a clearer view of daily life experience, the real value of this work comes from understanding the psychological processes that create our memories and the impact this has on our decisions.
Returning to Lyndon B. Johnsons conception of fairness.

They deserve a leg up against, lets say, an Asian or a white applicant whose parents are absolutely average? Justice Kennedy followed up by telling the lawyer, in one of the most quoted lines of the day, So what youre saying is that what counts is race above all. Even in California, which has banned racial preferences, race can still dominate the debate. Richard H. Sander, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has found some hardto-explain patterns in U.C.L.A.s undergraduate admissions. The college has accepted a significantly higher percentage of blacks and Latinos than whites and
Abigail Fisher claims that underqualified students of color were admitted to the University of Texas and she was not.
THE PUBLIC EDITOR MARGARET SULLIVAN
Questions on Drones, Unanswered Still
NDERSTANDING American drone strikes is like a deadly version of the old telephone game: I whisper to you and you whisper to someone else, and eventually all meaning is lost. You start with uncertain information from dubious sources. Pass it along, run it through the media blender, add pundits, and youve got something that may or may not be close to the truth. How many people have been killed by these unmanned aircraft in the Central Intelligence Agencys strikes in Yemen and Pakistan? How many of the dead identified as militants are really civilians? How many are children? The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in Britain has estimated that, in the first three years after President Obama took office, between 282 and 535 civilians were credibly reported killed by drone strikes including more than 60 children. The United States government says the number of civilians killed has been far lower. Accurate information is hard to come by. The Obama administration and the C.I.A. are secretive about the fast-growing drone program. The strikes in Pakistan are taking place in areas where reporters cant go, or would be in extreme danger if they did. And it is all happening at a time when the American public seems tired of hearing about this part of the world anyway. How does The New York Times fit into this hazy picture? Some of the most important reporting on drone strikes has been done at The Times, particularly the kill list article by Scott Shane and Jo Becker last May. Those stories, based on administration leaks, detailed President Obamas personal role in approving whom drones should set out to kill. Groundbreaking as that article was, it left a host of unanswered questions. The Times and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed Freedom of Information requests to learn more about the drone program, so far in vain. The
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Times and the A.C.L.U. also want to know more about the drone killing of an American teenager in Yemen, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, also shrouded in secrecy. But The Times has not been without fault. Since the article in May, its reporting has not aggressively challenged the administrations description of those killed as militants itself an undefined term. And it has been criticized for giving administration officials the cover of anonymity when they suggest that critics of drones are terrorist sympathizers. Americans, according to polls, have a positive view of drones, but critics say thats because the news media have not informed them well. The use of drones is deepening the resentment of the United States in volatile parts of the world and potentially undermining fragile democracies, said Naureen Shah, who directs the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Universitys law school. Its portrayed as picking off the bad guys from a plane, she said. But its actually surveilling entire communities, locating behavior that might be suspicious and striking groups of unknown individuals based on video data that may or may not be corroborated by eyeballing it on the ground. On Sunday, Ms. Shahs organization will release a report that raises important questions about media accuracy on drone strikes. But accuracy is only one of the concerns that have been raised about coverage of the issue. Its very narrow, said David Rohde, a columnist for Reuters who was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008 when he was a Times reporter. Whats missing is the human cost and the big strategic picture. Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer who has written extensively on this subject for Salon and now for The Guardian, told me he sees a Western media aversion to focusing on the victims of U.S. militarism. As long as you keep the victims dehumanized its somehow all right. Mr. Rohde raised another objection: If a Republican president had been car-
rying out this many drone strikes in such a secretive way, it would get much more scrutiny, he said. Scott Shane, the Times reporter, finds the topic knotty and the secrecy hard to penetrate. This is a category of public yet classified information, he told me. Its impossible to keep the strikes themselves secret, but youve
Militants? Civilians? Just who is it that the United States is killing?

never had a serious public debate by Congress on it. Last month, ProPublica admirably framed the issue in an article titled How the Government Talks About a Drone Problem It Wont Acknowledge Exists. As for the human cost, Sarah Knuckey, a veteran human rights investigator now at New York University School of Law, says she got a strong sense of everyday fear while spending 10 days in Pakistan last spring. I was struck by how afraid people are of the constant presence of drones, said Ms. Knuckey, a co-author of a recent Stanford/N.Y.U. report on the drone campaigns impact on Pakistanis. They had the sense that they could be struck as collateral damage at any time. She is also troubled by the governments lack of transparency. The U.S. is creating a precedent by carrying out strikes in secrecy without accountability to anyone, Ms. Knuckey said. What if all countries did what the U.S. is doing? The Taliban and Al Qaeda are much worse problems for the Pakistani and Yemeni people than American drone strikes are. But acknowledging that doesnt answer the moral and ethical questions of this push-button combat conducted without public accountability. With its vast talent and resources, The Times has a responsibility to lead the way in covering this topic as aggressively and as forcefully as possible, and to keep pushing for transparency so that Americans can understand just what their government is doing.
Asians with the same holistic score, a number the admissions office gives to every applicant, based on test scores, grades, extracurricular activities and obstacles overcome. U.C.L.A. officials say that the holistic scores do not fully capture the obstacles some students face. Back in the 1960s, Dr. King understood the vulnerability of todays affirmative action. Many white workers whose economic condition is not too far removed from the economic condition of his black brother will find it difficult to accept, he wrote in a private letter, special consideration to the Negro in the context of unemployment, joblessness, etc. and does not take into sufficient account their plight (that of the white worker). If the courts and voters continue to restrict racial preferences, supporters will have three options. They can give up, which is unlikely. They can quietly subvert the law, as some critics, like Mr. Sander, believe is happening in California. Or they can attempt an overhaul of affirmative action. The economic argument for a different version has only become stronger over time. Outright racism certainly exists, and colleges would have a hard time taking it into account if race-based affirmative action became illegal. But simple discrimination seems to have become a relatively smaller obstacle over the last few decades, while socioeconomic disadvantage has become a larger one. The title of a recent paper by Roland G. Fryer Jr., a Harvard economist, summarizes the trends: Racial inequality in the 21st century: The declining significance of discrimination. Racial gaps remain large enough that colleges would struggle to recruit as many black and Latino students without explicitly taking race into account. But some experts, like Mr. Kahlenberg, think they could come close. To do so, they would need to consider not just income, but also wealth, family structure and neighborhood poverty. Those factors disproportionately afflict black and Latino students and hold back children from lifes starting line. Mr. Kahlenberg argues that wealth is especially defensible, because it can capture discriminations intergenerational effects. Some universities in states where racial preferences are banned, including California, have begun taking small steps to consider class more fully. Until the Supreme Court rules, sometime next year, the focus will be on its decision. And its decision matters. Yet the choices that universities make matter, too. You wouldnt have known it from sitting in the courtroom, but there is a version of affirmative action legal, generally popular and arguably more meritocratic that higher education has not yet even tried.
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Special: Manhattan Real Estate Offerings
Board to Buyer: Nah. Not at That Price.

Buyers like deals, but co-op boards dont. After all, one mans price break is anothers lowered property value.
By MICHELLE HIGGINS
UYING or selling a Manhattan co-op has long presented unexpected pitfalls and moments of unique drama. But as real estate prices continue relatively flat, one obstacle has become more prevalent: Co-op boards are rejecting sales outright if they deem the price of the apartment to be too low. Some boards are so determined to hold the line on prices that they are unswayed by buyers offers to place years of maintenance fees in escrow, to increase the down payment and even to pay in cash. Co-op boards arent required to disclose the reasons they reject applications, which makes it difficult to determine just how often buyers are being turned down because the offer isnt as high as the board might like. But interviews with more than a dozen Manhattan real estate experts, including brokers, board members and real estate lawyers, suggest that boards are saying no more often as they seek to maintain the value of the apartments in their buildings amid a sea of price-conscious buyers. In the last month, said Aaron Shmulewitz, a real estate lawyer, I must have had 5 to 10 questions about that from various boards that have turned down or have contemplated turning down purchases for price, as well as various purchasers who contacted us for being turned down. Mr. Shmulewitz oversees the co-op/condo practice at the Manhattan law firm Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman. I dont know if prices have gone down, or if boards are expecting the price to go up, he added. But the incidence of board rejections because Continued on Page 8
ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTOPH HITZ
ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
BIG DEAL
INSIDE
In Miami, Wondering About a Bubble
HANS DERYK/REUTERS
DOZEN years ago, I lived through the hype machine of the energy trading industry in Houston. Enron and other firms were transforming themselves into investment banks for traders of natural gas and electricity. They sometimes booked profits today on revenues not expected for another decade. Companies showed off their state-of-the-art trading floors. One hired Ray Charles to sing at a dinner for analysts. We all know how that story ended. There have been other bubbles, of course particularly in the technology sector but these days, Im having flashbacks to my Houston days when I visit Miami and learn more about its high-end real estate market. Demand for expensive waterfront properties, much of it coming from South Americans and other foreigners looking to park their cash, has the industry punch-drunk with enthusiasm. Miami agents are putting off vacations (lest they miss a big sale), and some are regularly flying to South America on Continued on Page 6
Derek Jeter has sold his apartment at Trump World Tower, on the East Side of Manhattan, for
$15,500,000.
It was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records. Big Ticket, by Robin Finn.
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The former Gianni Versace mansion in South Beach is on the market for $125 million.
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EXCLUSIVE/ 730 Park Avenue
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARILYNN K. YEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
ARCHED The living room of the Mike Wallace duplex has a raised conservatory, right.
A Newsmans Muse
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By ROBIN FINN
HE dignified prewar duplex at 730 Park Avenue that belonged to Mike Wallace, the trailblazing broadcast journalist whose esteemed and intermittently turbulent career at 60 Minutes spanned four decades, and his fourth wife, Mary Yates, has been put on the market by their heirs at an asking price of $20 million. Mr. Wallace died in April at 93; Ms. Yates continued to live in the apartment, decorated with exotic artifacts and textiles from their travels, until her death at 83 in September. Graciously appointed, No. 15-16A was carved from a 12-room apartment and retains ample architectural detail and charm: the ceilings are high, the grand staircase is curving, French doors connect the library and the master bedroom to terraces on both levels, and elaborate variegated plaster moldings and wood floors accentuate all the principal rooms except the eat-in kitchen, which is floored in vintage cork. Unlike some other grand spaces at this address,
Westward vistas above the Frick Collection and across Central Park treetops.
the apartment has seen preservation take precedence over renovation. Modernization has largely been limited to the four and a half baths and the installation of air-conditioning. The monthly maintenance fee is $8,822. The 40-foot-long living room and the master bedroom have wood-burning fireplaces sheathed in marble, and the floor of the foyer, which has Doric columns in relief on its plaster walls, is undulating black-and-white marble tile that would have pride of place in a Hitchcock film. At the western end of the living room, a raised conservatory with the feel of an outdoor space has a stone floor and a wall of windows with distant Central Park views. Designed as a luxury apartment building in 1929 by Lafayette A. Goldstone and F. Burrall Hoffman Jr. and still like its larger siblings at 720 and 740 Park considered one of the most prestigious addresses on the Upper East Side, 730 Park is at the peak of the avenue below 79th Street. Apartments on the higher floors, like No. 15-16A, have the distinction, rare among Park Avenue prewars, of westward vistas above the Frick Collection and across park treetops to the Upper West Side. Three of the upstairs bedrooms have views of the park as well. As if to harness those tranquil western views as
UNDULATING Black-and-white marble tile lines
the foyer, which has plaster walls.

a muse, Mr. Wallace, who won his 21st Emmy Award for an interview with the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shortly after his official retirement in 2006, positioned his desk directly in front of the windows in the second master bedroom, designated as his study. Mr. Wallace didnt even need to leave home to get a perspective on an unusual postscript to the demise of Yugoslavia. Since 1975, when it bought a 14-room duplex on the 16th and 17th floors of No. 730 to house its diplomats in style, the country has, in some form, been a shareholder at 730 Park. But the last of the resident United Nations ambassadors from Yugoslavia made an abrupt exit from the duplex in 1992 in the wake of the countrys dissolution, and for two decades there has been no neighbor sharing the private elevator landing on the 16th floor. (The Wallace apartment uses the 15th-floor landing as its main entrance.) Although Serbia still covers the maintenance fee, the former Yugoslav republics continue to squabble over which United States real estate firm will market the lavish duplex and for how much. John Burger and Fritzi Kallop of Brown Harris Stevens are the listing brokers for the apartment shared by Mr. Wallace and Ms. Yates, who married in 1986.
BIG TICKET $15,500,000

SKY-HIGH bachelor pad near the apex of Trump World Tower at 845 United Nations Plaza, the spot the ever-eligible Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter designated as his urban man-cave after Donald Trump personally made him a deal he couldnt refuse, has sold for $15.5 million, the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records. Mr. Jeter bought the highly customized unit, No. 88B, in 2001 for around $12.7 million, and had the numeral from his Yankees jersey No. 2 emblazoned into the woodwork of the foyer floor. The views from the 5,425-squarefoot aerie encompass, but are not limited to, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the East River, and the ocean presumably the Atlantic as opposed to the Pacific, which would be a stretch even for the persuasiveness and celebrity heft of a Trump/Jeter combo pitch. Mr. Jeter attempted to part with his pad once before. It was listed for $20 million in September 2010, withdrawn the following August, and relisted this April with a $2 million
By ROBIN FINN
reduction, to $17.95 million, that evidently reinvigorated buyer interest. The unit is technically on the 70th floor of the black glass tower (Mr. Trump has a weakness for finagling floor numbers). It has four bedrooms, five and a half baths, 16-foot windows complemented by 16-foot walls of Ultrasuede (the pattern is not pinstripes) and, to warm it all up, a large slate fireplace. There is also, needless to say, a gaming and billiards room included in the expansive entertainment space. But Mr. Jeter has indicated a wish to downsize his residential footprint in New York City now that construction on his 30,000-square-foot primary residence in Tampa, Fla., has concluded. The listing broker, Carrie Chiang of the Corcoran Group, was unavailable for comment; the new owner bought the trophy condo through Sara Rs, a freshly registered limitedliability company linked to a Scarsdale address and a name, Silvio Luiz Reichert, that seems to have ties to Anheuser-Busch, Germany, and Brazilian-made beer. Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
ONLINE: AT NYTIMES.COM/REALESTATE
Q&A
Q I live in a rent-stabilized apartment in Harlem. When we moved here in June, we were told there
were strict limits on the pets we could have in the building (no dogs over a certain weight) and were assessed a $500 pet deposit for our dog before we were able to move in. We have since learned that such deposits may not be allowed in rent-stabilized buildings. Was it legal for the building to require this pet deposit? The answer to this question and two others, on a condo renters wish to see board-meeting minutes and the rules for renting out storage space in a co-op, can be found online.
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ON THE MARKET
MICHELLE HIGGINS With Jill P. Capuzzo, Marcelle S. Fischler and Suzanne Hamlin
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NADAV NEUHAUS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Chatham Cape Cod
$445,000
TAXES: $7,188 a year
NEW JERSEY: 12 Cedar Lane
A four-bedroom one-and-a-half-bath Cape Cod-style house with a one-car attached garage, built in 1937 on a 0.12-acre corner lot. Annette Marucci, Keller Williams Realty (973) 376-0033; kw.com
Chelsea Duplex Co-op
PROS: The house has an updated kitchen, a newly tiled bathroom and an enclosed front porch. Large arched doorways connect the first-floor rooms. The fenced yard is neatly landscaped. CONS: Wood floors need refinishing. The master bedroom has a low ceiling and limited light.
$2,295,000
MANHATTAN: 260 West 22nd Street
(between Seventh and Eighth Avenues), #4R A three-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath walk-up with two fireplaces and three outdoor spaces in a reconstructed 1960s row house. Steve Millhollon, Corcoran Group (212) 444-7822; corcoran.com
MAINTENANCE: $2,335 a month PROS: Two double-height living areas with
saw-tooth brickwork and industrial windows act as bookends to a nicely renovated kitchen.
CONS: The layout is a bit quirky. Two staircases lead to the bedrooms and full baths, which could be
challenging for small children. The master bedroom has a low ceiling.
Old Westbury Stables
$1,798,000
NASSAU: 22 Old Westbury
Road A five-bedroom five-and-a-halfbath converted barn with a family room, a bar, an office, a screened porch, a gym and spa wing, a playroom, an in-ground pool and pool house, a screened gazebo, and five-car garage on 2.02 acres. Robin Kapner (516) 521-6707, Kerry T. Doyaga (516) 241-9608, Automatic Real Estate Associates; automaticre.com
TAXES: $42,823 a year PROS: Eight original stable doors impart a distinctive character. The interior is roomy and filled with modern amenities. The screened porch across the back of the house overlooks perennial gardens. The large family room has a beamed and vaulted ceiling, a floor-to-ceiling double-sided stone fireplace, a wet bar, a billiards area and an office. CONS: The five-car garage is not
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TINA FINEBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sunset Park Co-op
$299,000
BROOKLYN: 671 47th Street (near Sixth Avenue), #3B
A two-bedroom one-bath co-op in a 16-unit early 1900s building. John Wescott, Corcoran Group (917) 701-9542, corcoran.com Open house Sunday, 2:30 to 4 p.m.
MAINTENANCE: $574 a month PROS: Three blocks from Sunset Park, this expansive southand east-facing unit has prewar details and a graceful flow, with the two bedrooms on either end of the living space. The unusually large renovated kitchen has floor-to-ceiling cabinets, a breakfast bar and built-in office space. CONS: One bedroom is small and has no closet. The unit is a
one-flight walk-up.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATHY KMONICEK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
attached. The basement is not finished.
Stuyvesant Square Co-op
$749,000
MANHATTAN: 224 East 17th
Street (Rutherford Place), #1F A one-bedroom one-bath in a prewar town house with a free laundry room. Jennifer Roberts, Halstead Property (212) 381-4229; halstead.com Open house Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
MAINTENANCE: $1,270.94 a month PROS: Oversize casement windows in the living room open onto Stuyvesant Square Park. CONS: Some buyers might feel too exposed by the first-floor location of this corner unit.
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DEBRIEFING
To Bricks and Mortar, Add Harmony and Luck

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By MICHELLE HIGGINS
HREE stories beneath West 53rd Street, four crystals are buried in the recently poured foundation walls of the Baccarat Hotel and Residences, a 46-story tower across from the Museum of Modern Art. Dotted with red resin fingerprints a mixture of high-proof alcohol, cinnabar and realgar to impart well-being and good intentions, the crystals were placed at the four corners under the direction of a feng shui consultant, Judith Wendell. Her firm, Sacred Currents, started out working with small businesses and apartment dwellers and is now taking on major corporations, as real estate developers and designers embrace feng shui, the Asian belief system, at least in part to attract foreign buyers. With the influx of the Asian market, she said, Ive been getting larger projects. At the Baccarat, Ms. Wendell was hired to work with the architects and designers to ensure that chi, or cosmic energy, flows freely and brings good fortune to the residents, developers and investors alike. To ensure that the structure is being built in the most harmonious way possible from the ground up, she chose an auspicious date in late July to perform a ground-blessing ceremony. At that time, wearing an embroidered green tunic and a red beaded necklace, and neatly coiffed in a French twist, she scurried around the rubble and rebar of the construction pit lighting candles, burning sage, wafting incense, ringing bells and chanting blessings in Sanskrit while the builder, a designer and a gaggle of publicists looked on. She didnt miss an opportunity to lighten the mood. I guess you didnt get the memo about the shoes, she whispered to a reporter who showed up at the construction pit in heels. Sure, Ms. Wendell can wax mystical about the bagua and the number 9 the auspicious number of completion. And she certainly takes her work seriously, returning to a site several times to meditate. But her irreverent wit lends some welcome levity to what can be an intimidating discipline. Im not holier than thou, said Ms. Wendell, who grew up in a Jewish family in Queens. Some people get very serious. Ms. Wendells parents, an accountant and stay-at-home mother, instilled in her an appreciation for other cultures. Starting in the mid-1960s, she said, they traveled to Europe, Russia, India, Japan, China, which many middle-class suburbanites werent doing at that time. It was the beginning of me experiencing how exotic the world was. Remember, we only had the World Book Encyclopedia then. She became aware of her penchant for design as a teenager when she took an aptitude test and learned she had a talent for architecture and design. I dont have an ear for music, she said, but I understand space. Though she attended temple on High Holy Days growing up, she is not religious. My real seeking came, as it did for many of us in the 70s, from the desire to heal personally and from our
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WELL-WISHER Judith Wendell, a feng shui practitioner, performs a blessing at the construction
site of the Baccarat Hotel and Residences, a 46-story tower going up at 20 West 53rd Street. A well-designed building, she says, really emulates the idea of prosperity and success and health.
idealistic longings for peace, connection and truth, she said. As a college student in the 70s, Ms. Wendell was introduced to transcendental meditation. In the 80s she attended Green Gulch Farm Zen Center near San Francisco, and later the School of Practical Philosophy in New York for 16 years, with a focus on meditation and spiritual traditions.
But it wasnt until she had had a prosperous career in marketing and product development, as she describes it, that she discovered feng shui and immersed herself in a three-year feng shui masters training program, studying the philosophy of Lin Yun, a well-known practitioner. She founded Sacred Currents in 1998. Blessings and so-called smudging or space
clearing rituals, which include meditation, chanting and the burning of herbs to purify the space and help promote good psychic and spiritual energy, are a major focus of her work. But she also draws on the design courses she has taken and looks for ways to introduce the five elements of feng shui water, wood, fire, earth and metal into a room or building, to create a harmonious environment in subtle but effective ways. Say you wanted to add wood, she said. You dont have to just use a tree. A striped wallpaper with green accents or tall wooden bookcases that reflect the dimensionality, the rectangular shape of wood, could work, she explained. Furniture placed in the command position like a chair that provides the sitter with a view of the door lends authority and a sense of control over the room, she said. Sharp, angular lines, which can promote bad energy, can be diffused with rounded moldings or billowing curtains to create a more comfortable environment. You wouldnt build anything in most parts of Asia without having a really serious consultant come in and help you, said Neil Jacobs, the president of global hotel operations for Starwood Capital, who is in charge of the Baccarats development and brought Ms. Wendell to the project. Is there a commercial element to it? Sure, its part of it, he said. But from a design perspective, its hugely practical. Ms. Wendells Web site, sacredcurrents.com, lists testimonials from clients including the actress Amy Stiller, the spa at the Mandarin Oriental New York and Robert D. Henry Architects, which hired her for a number of hotel and residential projects. When consulting for his firm at the Setai Wall Street, Mr. Henry said, Ms. Wendell recommended a strong presence of wood for expansion and growth, fire for recognition, and stone for harmonious relationships. On the rooftop, he continued, Judith worked with her compass and geomancy and suggested a water element in the northern corner of the plan, and a fire element in the southern portion of the solarium, culminating in a dramatic 12-foot fireplace. Mr. Henry added that potential Asian condo buyers instantly recognized the feng shui elements upon their visit to the property, which he said gave the Setai an advantage over other condos in the Wall Street area. The real art of this, Ms. Wendell said, is how to meet with the best designers of the world and have their concepts also translate the principles of feng shui so the atmosphere is not just absolutely exquisite, but really emulates the idea of prosperity and success and health. Not long ago, she was asked to weigh in on a casino designed around an atrium with a sculpture in the center that included flaming pots. It seems beautiful and dramatic, she said, but its not good feng shui. The fire in the center is just a symbol for burning up your money and would be so wrong. In the end, the casino was not built. Ms. Wendell is well aware that not everyone recognizes the value of feng shui. She put it this way: It takes an enlightened point of view.
STREETSCAPES/Seventh Regiment Armory
Old Battle Ax Gets a Face-Lift

HE Seventh Regiment Armory, completed in 1877 at Park Avenue and 66th Street, is one of the oldest buildings on the Upper East Side. The huge full-block fortress, now often called the Park Avenue Armory, was recently released from construction netting after a yearlong exterior repair, and although forbidding and martial in character, it is the only original fragment left of the giant campus of charities and public benefit organizations that carpeted post-Civil War Lenox Hill. After the Revolutionary War, title to any lands belonging to the crown passed to the City of New York, and this included a large swath of the Upper East Side. Gradually streets were cut and land sold off, but the city retained ownership of the six-square-block area running from 66th to 69th Street, from Park Avenue over to Third. At first the property was meant to be Hamilton Square, a park, and the foundation for a monument to George Washington was laid there in 1847. But after the Civil War, the city leased the lands to institutions that provided public services. It was clearly a coordinated plan, for which authorship is unclear. First to build was Mount Sinai Hospital, begun in 1868 on the east side of Lexington, from 66th to 67th. One block north, the New York Foundling Hospital, a Catholic charity, took the entire block from Lexington to Third, from 68th to 69th Street. Despairing mothers were given the privacy of a cradle in a sheltered location near the front door where they could surrender a child in anonymity. The Normal College, later named for its founder, Thomas Hunter, opened in 1873 to train teachers on the block it still occupies, from Park to Lexington, from 68th to 69th Street. Its original building, a vertical Gothic-style structure, was designed with assistance from Hunter himself, but burned in the 1930s. Gradually the plots were given over to hospitals, schools and other nonprofit enterprises an acre of empathy. Into this pacific mix soon came a most warlike presence, the armory of the Seventh Regiment, the most prestigious militia unit of the period. Spreading out over the block E-mail: streetscapes@nytimes.com
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
from Park to Lexington, from 66th to 67th, the fortress in red brick and granite was designed by Charles W. Clinton. Its battlements were meant to resist not foreign invaders but an enemy within: organized labor and other agents of urban unrest. When the armory was completed in 1880, Scribners Monthly recounted that the Seventh had served in putting down the abolition riots of 1834, the stevedore riots of 1836, the flour riots of 1837, the Croton water riots of 1840 and the Astor Place riots of 1849, in which 30 demonstrators were killed and 141 of the 200 soldiers called out were injured. The New York Times noted that the new armory could at any time be defended by 50 men and two or three Gatling guns could be mounted in the tower and sweep the avenue. The facade was pierced with loopholes for rifles, capable of protecting the approaches to the armory with raking fire. These could be brought to bear against potential attackers like those on the north side of 67th Street: Hahnemann Hospital, the Baptist Home for the Aged and the Institute for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes.
A fortress meant to resist the enemy within.

The defenders were backed up by the most ambitious program of high-style decoration ever seen in New York City. Individual units hired Stanford White, John LaFarge, Candace Wheeler, Louis Comfort Tiffany and other artists and architects to create an astonishing series of interiors with stenciling, ironwork, leather, ceramics, woodwork and glass, a sumptuous feast of the American Aesthetic Movement. Although the images are now painted out, even the drill hall was treated as a canvas, with painted decoration by Jasper Cropsey. The Times reported that some thought the choice of gaily colored foliage for certain finials and borders is not quite in keeping with the purposes of the hall, but defended it on the basis that
they destroy the monotony of the huge room. The Seventh Regiment, after 1917 the 107th Infantry, escaped boredom as well as assault, and the armory saw modest change until the 1910s, when the tower was removed. Except for Hunter College, the original institutions left. Besides the armory, only the string of later buildings on the north side of 67th Street east of Lexington, including police and fire stations from the 1880s, remain as built. The armory is now home to the 53rd Army Liaison Team, a 30-person unit.In 2004 and 2009 it was deployed to Baghdad; on Sept. 11, 2001, the armory was the headquarters for National Guard units responding to the terrorist attacks. Space not used for military purposes is leased to the Park Avenue Armory, an arts group that has an extensive series of programs, including Shakespeare, dance, performance art and music. The recent exterior renovation replaced the roofing, rebuilt the copper mansard and made fence and masonry repairs. Gatling guns would probably still hold off a mob, but now the goal is not to keep people out, but get them in.
STOCKADE
A 19th-century woodcut looking across Park Avenue at 66th Street, with Lexington Avenue in the distance, shows the Seventh Regiment Armory with flags flying. Its neighbors are, from far left: Hunter College, with square tower; Hahnemann Hospital, with mansard; and Mount Sinai Hospital, behind the armory with mansard.
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Residential Sales Around the Region

In the following reports, the listed at price is the asking price when negotiations began. The time on the market is from the most recent listing to the sales agreement.
*Sale in this price category not available.
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Number of bedrooms
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Number of half bathrooms
Time on the market
Less Than $400,000

Manhattan
Upper East Side . . . . . . . $339,000 444 East 87th Street r 1 f 1 h 0 o 27 weeks 650-sq.-ft. postwar co-op; elevator, kitchen window, h/w floors, north exposure, laundry room in building; maintenance $978, 56% tax deductible; listed at $349,000. Brokers: Corcoran Group; Citi Habitats.
$400,000 to $699,999
Morningside Heights . . . $451,000 501 West 123rd Street r 2 f 1 h 0 o 104 weeks 1,100-sq.-ft. postwar co-op; elevator, eat-in kitchen w/window, h/w floors, terrace, 2 exposures; maintenance $1,328, 40% tax deductible; listed at $440,000 (multiple bids). Brokers: Klara Madlin; Corcoran Group.
$700,000 to $899,999
East Midtown . . . . . . . . $745,000 400 East 56th Street, Plaza 400 r 1 f 1 h 1 o 10 weeks 950-sq.-ft. postwar co-op; 24-hr. doormen, concierge, dining area, 81/2-ft. ceilings, h/w floors, c/a; maintenance $1,673; 51% tax deductible; listed at $780,000. Broker: Kathy Matson.
$900,000 or More
y Flatiron District . . . $2.8 million 889 Broadway (19th St.) r 2 f 2 h 1 o 23 weeks 2,000-sq.-ft. prewar loft co-op; keyed elevator, oversize windows, office, steam shower, c/a, washer/dryer; maintenance $1,500, 50% tax deductible; listed at $2.85 million. Brokers: Corcoran Group; Citi Habitats.
Four Boroughs
Pelham Parkway Area . . $135,000 1874 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx r 1 f 1 h 0 o 34 weeks 700-sq.-ft. postwar co-op; elevator, dining alcove, upgraded appliances, renovated bath, walk-in closet; maintenance $449, 50% tax deductible; listed at $145,000. Brokers: Houlihan Lawrence; Robert E. Hill. St. George . . . . . . . . . $356,000* 85 Sherman Avenue, Staten Island r 6 f 2 h 1 o 2 weeks 117-year-old wood 3-story; renovated kitchen, fireplace, pocket doors, parquet floors, 3 stained-glass windows, basement, 50-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $2,599; listed for $359,000. Brokers: Gateway Arms; Neuhaus.
y Flushing . . . . . . . . . . $811,200 47-02 Parsons Boulevard, Queens r 4 f 2 h 0 o 7 weeks 87-year-old brick colonial; fireplace, den, refinished floors, family room in basement, upgraded heating system, 44-by-115-ft. lot; taxes $6,531; listed at $778,888 (multiple bids). Broker: Energized Realty Group.
Park Slope . . . . . . . . $1.31 million 30 Garfield Place, Brooklyn r 4 f 2 h 0 o 37 weeks 1,490-sq.-ft. 8-year-old condo; skyline view, terrace, black granite counters, 14 windows, 3 exposures; common charge $798; taxes $1,224 (abated); listed at $1.365 million. Broker: Corcoran Group.
Long Island
Miller Place . . . . . . . . . . $330,000 17 Woodland Road r 4 f 2 h 0 o 9 weeks 43-year-old Cape Cod; dining area, eat-in kitchen, family room, fireplace, h/w floors, new vinyl siding and gutters, full basement, 2-car garage, 0.34-acre lot; taxes $10,755; listed at $334,000. Broker: Manzoni. Huntington . . . . . . . . . . $637,500 65 Fort Hill Road r 3 f 2 h 2 o 11 weeks 65-year-old traditional rebuilt in 2005; fireplace, family room, radiant heat, c/a, garage, 0.33-acre lot; taxes $13,698; listed at $659,000. Brokers: Coldwell Banker Residential; Long Island Village Realty. Port Washington . . . . . . $748,000 60 Bogart Avenue r 3 f 2 h 1 o 6 weeks 57-year-old wood split-level; eat-in kitchen, sunken family room, fireplace, h/w floors, partial basement, 2-car garage, 85-by-100-ft. lot; taxes $13,219; listed at $789,000. Broker: Prudential Douglas Elliman.
y Muttontown . . . . . . $1.7 million 1 Earle Drive r 5 f 6 h 1 o 16 weeks 5-year-old stone and stucco colonial in a gated development; elevator, breakfast and family rooms, office, 2 fireplaces, c/a, 0.59-acre lot; taxes $46,552; listed at $1.845 million. Broker: Daniel Gale Sothebys.
Westchester/Putnam
y Montrose . . . . . . . . . $350,000 7 Kings Lane, Westchester r 4 f 2 h 0 o 39 weeks 57-year-old split-level; vinyl siding, study, walk-in closet, family room in basement, deck, 0.42-acre lot; taxes $8,541; listed at $379,000. Brokers: Prudential River Towns; Coldwell Banker Residential.
Bronxville P . . . . . . . . $680,000 .O. 22 Crawford Street, Westchester r 3 f 2 h 1 o 14 weeks 56-year-old wood ranch in Tuckahoe; granite counters, fireplace, office, upgraded hall bath, deck, 2-car garage, 0.24-acre lot; taxes $20,826; listed at $715,000. Brokers: Houlihan & OMalley; William Raveis. Dobbs Ferry . . . . . . . . . $801,000 18 Appleton Place, Westchester r 3 f 2 h 1 o 18 weeks 74-year-old wood colonial; butlers pantry, library, 2 fireplaces, terrace, h/w floors, side porch, 2-car garage, 0.28-acre lot; estimated taxes $22,000; listed at $775,000 (multiple bids). Broker: Houlihan Lawrence. Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . $2.5 million 225 Mooney Hill Road, Putnam r 6 f 6 h 2 o 68 weeks 13-year-old wood colonial; elevator, library, 4 fireplaces, greenhouse, 2-car and 4-car garages, guesthouse, tennis court, stable, 66.46 acres; taxes $42,742; listed at $2.65 million. Broker: Houlihan Lawrence.
Rockland/Orange
Middletown . . . . . . . . . . $237,000 315 Derby Road, Orange r 4 f 2 h 0 o 27 weeks 25-year-old colonial; vinyl siding, front porch, upgraded appliances, brick wall and fireplace in living room, whirlpool bath, deck, 8-acre lot; taxes $8,300; listed at $269,000. Broker: Weichert. Suffern . . . . . . . . . . . . . $465,000 21 Cragmere Road, Rockland r 4 f 3 h 0 o 19 weeks 46-year-old high ranch; stucco and vinyl siding, granite counters, family room, art studio, guest suite, whirlpool tub, 2-car garage, 130-by-200ft. lot; taxes $11,993; listed at $479,000. Broker: Weichert.
y Balmville . . . . . . . . $675,000* 20 Strawberry Lane, Orange r 4 f 4 h 1 o 18 weeks 14-year-old stone and stucco ranch; river view, fireplace, family room, den, office, rec room, pool, tennis court, 5-acre lot; estimated taxes $40,000; listed at $900,000. Broker: Better Homes and Gardens Rand.
West Nyack . . . . . . . . . $885,000* 493 Strawtown Road, Rockland r 5 f 4 h 1 o 9 weeks 34-year-old stucco ranch; vaulted ceiling and stone fireplace in living room, family room, pool, cabana, 0.95-acre lot; taxes $17,775; listed at $949,000. Brokers: Better Homes and Gardens Rand; Keller Williams.
New Jersey
Kenilworth . . . . . . . . . . $295,000 618 Bloomingdale Avenue r 3 f 1 h 1 o 2 weeks 72-year-old colonial renovated last year; aluminum siding, enclosed front porch, granite counters, family room. h/w floors, finished basement, 0.13acre lot; taxes $6,003; listed at $305,000. Broker: Weichert. Waldwick . . . . . . . . . . . $561,000 38 Durante Road r 4 f 2 h 1 o 2 weeks 52-year-old wood split-level; oak kitchen cabinets, granite counters, fireplace, sunroom, family room, pool, 2-car garage, 107-by-146-ft. lot; taxes $12,543; listed at $567,500. Broker: Coldwell Banker Residential.
y Bridgewater . . . . . . . $805,000 1 McNab Court r 5 f 3 h 1 o 17 weeks 21-year-old brick colonial; 2-story entry, renovated kitchen, family room w/fireplace, library, covered deck, 0.64-acre lot; taxes $13,621; listed at $829,000. Brokers: Re/Max Premier; Prudential New Jersey Properties.
Mahwah . . . . . . . . . . $1.45 million 39 Walsh Drive r 5 f 5 h 1 o 27 weeks 17-year-old brick colonial; 2-story living room w/balcony, cherry-paneled library, 2 fireplaces, gym and rec room in basement, pool, 0.95-acre lot; taxes $22,680; listed at $1,599,900. Broker: Coldwell Banker Residential.
Connecticut
Stamford . . . . . . . . . . . $320,000 46 Valley Road r 3 f 1 h 0 o 43 weeks 89-year-old wood colonial; fireplace, office, walk-up attic, renovated bath, new furnace and electric panel, 1-car garage, 0.18-acre lot; taxes $6,805; listed at $330,000. Brokers: Milligan; Prudential Connecticut. Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . $505,000 8 Heavenly Lane r 5 f 4 h 1 o 20 weeks 6-year-old colonial; vinyl siding, double oven, family room, arched doorways, basement, c/a, deck, 2-car garage, 1.79-acre lot; taxes $8,005; listed at $524,900. Brokers: William Raveis; Prudential Connecticut. Wilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . $825,000 13 Silvermine Woods r 3 f 2 h 1 o 13 weeks 2,785-sq.-ft 28-year-old 2-story condo; family room, 2 fireplaces; common charge $565 includes golf cart and membership at 9-hole course; taxes $14,913; listed at $860,000. Broker: Coldwell Banker Wilton.
y Riverside . . . . . . . $3.25 million 5 Gilliam Lane r 6 f 5 h 1 o 8 weeks New wood colonial; breakfast and family rooms, library w/bay window, marble baths, terrace, c/a, 0.29-acre lot; taxes not yet assessed; listed at $3.395 million. Brokers: Shore & Country Properties; William Raveis.
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THE HUNT
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AST year Tim Graham bought a business. In the process, he and his wife, Duval Hopkins Graham, acquired a car, a garage space and an E-ZPass. His new office in Clifton, N.J., was a half-hour drive from the familys two-bedroom co-op on West 100th Street. The trip home, with congestion at the George Washington Bridge, often took even longer. With their daughters, Elle and Cate, approaching school age, the couple decided to list their co-op and hunt for a house in New Jersey. People get a little brainwashed when they have a baby, Ms. Graham said. There is some force that they have to leave the city. She didnt feel it herself. But she had left her job in public relations, and the city felt increasingly expensive, as well as inconvenient. The Grahams sought good public schools and a location no more than 30 minutes from Mr. Grahams office. His company, Payrolling Partners, provides payroll and human-resources services for small businesses. Their price range was $700,000 to around $850,000. Mr. Graham was especially looking forward to central air-conditioning. Ive had 20 years of window units in Manhattan, he said. Id rather just grow up and get central air, and not have to deal with turning the thing on and off. As for the neighborhood, I desperately wanted to maintain some kind of pedestrian lifestyle, Ms. Graham said. I wanted a town, something that had some life and some activity, and the kind of neighborhood where the children could trick-ortreat door-to-door. What they didnt seek was a great commute to Manhattan, or a house within walking distance of a train station. I dont want to pay a premium for housing because it is on a direct route to Manhattan, Mr. Graham said. The Grahams canvassed friends and colleagues for suggestions. They rattled off a bunch of towns, most of which had similar, vaguely nature-themed names, Mr. Graham said. Many mentioned Ridgewood. The Grahams found the village walkable and beautiful. They especially liked a Dutch colonial on Wastena Terrace. It was the most immaculate house Ive ever been in, Ms. Graham said. You could eat off the basement floor. The listing price was $799,000. They considered making an offer, but felt they had seen too few houses. And they hesitated at the distance from Mr. Grahams office. The point of moving was to shorten his commute. With traffic, the drive from Ridgewood could stretch to 45 minutes. A friend told Ms. Graham about the Suburban Jungle Realty Group, which helps people make the move from New York. Ms. Graham spoke with the founder, Alison Bernstein, who thought the family
A house in Ridgewood, N.J., came close, but was too far from the office.
A side-hall Tudor in Glen Ridge was too much house and too much yard.
The verdict on another Glen Ridge house, a colonial with five bedrooms, was bingo!
might prefer a smaller municipality. Our model is making sure people arent house-driven, Ms. Bernstein said. It is easier to upgrade a house than to upgrade a town. She suggested Glen Ridge, and connected the Grahams with Amy Owens of Rhodes, Van Note & Company Realtors in Upper Montclair. Glen Ridge didnt have much of a commercial center. But it did have the kind of neighborhood I didnt think existed, Ms. Graham said, with distinguished houses, graceful streets and mature
Duval Hopkins Graham and Tim Graham and their daughters settled in quickly.
trees. Most of the borough is in the Glen Ridge Historic District. To maintain the areas picturesque quality, household trash isnt collected from the curb, but from rear yards, Ms. Owens said. Mr. Grahams sisters college roommate lived in Glen Ridge, so the Grahams grilled her, trying to find out what she disliked about the area. But there was nothing to speak of. They bypassed a house on Sherman Avenue for around $700,000. They didnt like having bed-
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rooms on the ground floor, and were leery of the backyard swimming pool. They didnt need something else to take care of, Ms. Owens said. The Grahams checked out a side-hall Tudor on Ridgewood Avenue with a price of $1.1 million. It was over their budget, but it also wasnt for them. That buys you a bigger house, a bigger yard and more maintenance, Ms. Graham said. Then they heard through the grapevine that a house on Forest Avenue was going on the market. The 1928 brick Georgian center-hall colonial, with a dogwood tree blooming in the yard, was listed at $759,000. The house was just the right size, with five bedrooms, central air-conditioning, a finished basement and a one-car garage. The elementary school was less than two blocks away. The train station wasnt within walking distance, though the borough does run a jitney. The sealed bidding process, which required them to give their highest and best offer, was stressful, Ms. Graham said. You are bidding against the unknown. The couple feared losing by a minuscule amount. They offered $730,000, and ended up meeting the seller in the middle, buying the house for $745,000. Taxes are around $21,000 a year. There were other people circling, Ms. Owens said, but no one made a bid. The couple closed in the summer. With an old house, there are so many more things to think about, Ms. Graham said. They had the outdated wood paneling in the basement removed and some termite damage repaired. The roof will need replacing at some point. The family revels in the additional space. Particularly childrens toys, they explode, Ms. Graham said. I was very proud of myself that I managed to keep our toys in check in the apartment. Now, theyre everywhere. We are trying to establish areas in the house for the toys. They had to acquire a second car. Mr. Grahams 10-minute drive to work makes it easy for planning our days and our meals and the kids bedtime, he said. He is eagerly exploring options for takeout food. After a couple of weeks, I was jonesing for Indian, he said. Theyre all there, all our major international food groups, Ms. Graham said. We just have to find them. The family quickly felt at home. In the city, I dont ever imagine having the kids next door or upstairs just dropping by anytime, Ms. Graham said. But thats what happens in Glen Ridge. As for Halloween, a three-block stretch of their street is blocked off for trick-or-treating. Everyone says you cant imagine what Halloween is like on this street until youve lived it, Ms. Graham said. The family is armed with 1,500 pieces of candy. Elle and Cate, who previously trick-or-treated in a big condominium building where a family friend lived, will dress up, respectively, as a Venetian princess and a pompom witch. They are overthe-moon excited, Mr. Graham said.
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BIG DEAL
In Miami, Wondering About a Bubble

From Page 1 sales missions. Its a roller coaster that has a lot of people shaking their heads in disbelief. After all, as recently as two years ago, Miami was the poster child for distressed real estate. Now it is redefining itself through luxury real estate, said Jonathan J. Miller, president of Miller Samuel, an appraiser that produces a quarterly report on Miami for Douglas Elliman Florida. It is like it got rebranded, he added. But is it a bubble? Or, to frame the question more specifically, just how sustainable and healthy is this recent boomlet? The truth is that Miami, more than any big city in the country, has two very different real estate realities somehow coexisting, at least for now. On the one hand, there are the nondistressed properties along the water, where sales activity is climbing, prices are on the rise, and some record sales this year have captured the industrys imagination. A penthouse on South Beach sold to an Italian for $25 million. A single-family home in Indian Creek sold to a Russian for $47 million. And the telecom mogul Peter Loftin listed the former Gianni Versace mansion on Ocean Drive (where Mr. Versace was murdered) for $125 million. Foreign purchases which analysts estimate make up a third of all sales in Miami and very likely more than half of sales over $1 million are driving much of the sales activity. New Yorkers have also played a big role, brokers say. And cash is king: nearly 73 percent of nondistressed condo sales, and 76 percent of distressed condo sales, were allcash in the third quarter of this year, Miller Samuel said in its most recent Miami report, released in the last week. As in New York, real estate agents gripe about the scarcity of luxury properties to sink their clients millions into. There are not a lot of amazing $10 million or $20 million homes out there that dont need a whole lot of renovations or have land on the waterfront, said Vanessa Grout, the chief executive of Douglas Elliman Florida. Brokers are going nuts because their clients are seeking something really special. The picture is starkly different in the distressed market, where sales dipped by 21.5 percent in the third quarter, compared with an increase of 27.3 percent for nondistressed real estate. Properties going through foreclosure and short sales still make up 41 percent of the overall market in the 18 Miami coastal communities that Miller Samuel tracks. The average third-quarter sales price of nondistressed properties ($528,705) was more than three times that of distressed properties ($161,777). The prices of distressed real estate in Miami have been rising, perhaps in part because of the enthusiasm generated by the big sales near the beach. But analysts caution against putting too much faith in the higher prices. The market is still suffering the effects of the robosigning scandal of late 2010 in which lenders were processing foreclosure documents without verifying their accuracy and the courts are clogged with cases that could further depress prices. There were 56,911 foreclosure cases pending in the Miami-Dade County Court at the end of August, the court said. That number was down 11 percent from the previous August, but filings are on the rise again. They nearly doubled from January to August compared to the same eight months of 2011. We are waiting for the other shoe to drop as these new foreclosures come online and potentially create another drag on the market going forward, said Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac, which monitors foreclosures nationwide. For a while the foreclosure picture was improving. Then about 10 months ago the outlook darkened. Miami-Dade ranked 10th in the country in foreclosure activity in August among the 212 metropolitan areas studied by RealtyTrac, up from 26th in August 2011. Mr. Blomquist estimates that distressed properties will weigh down the Miami market for at least the next year and a half. It takes an average of 858 days to complete a foreclosure in Florida, more than twice the national average. Only New Jersey and New York at 1,072 days take longer, according to RealtyTrac. The high concentration of distressed cases, coupled with so many all-cash transactions, has dissuaded most lenders from getting back into the Miami market, analysts say. In Homestead, a working-class Miami suburb hit hard by the housing downturn, Larry Roth, a real estate agent, says all-cash buyers are scooping up properties almost the same day they hit the market. Most are out-oftown investors, many from out of the
PHOTOGRAPHS BY OSCAR HIDALGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, BELOW LEFT; PLATINUM PROPERTIES, BELOW RIGHT.
A house on Indian Creek, above, recently sold for $47 million, and a penthouse at the Continuum in South Beach, below right, went for $25 million. But at the lower end of the Miami market, foreclosure is common.
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country, he said. It has been challenging for end users to purchase properties as they have to compete with investors, said Mr. Roth, who works for Keyes Realtors. He has no doubt that a flood of new foreclosures, after they exit the courts, will eventually push prices down again. I am sure it will, he said. And some people out there hope it does, the investors that are just waiting to pick these
properties up. Credit remains tough but not impossible to come by for first-time buyers, Mr. Roth said. Yet across Miami, Mr. Miller doesnt see credit easing much, something that needs to happen for the market to return to a more normal, sustainable state. What I get concerned about not now but a few years down the road is,
does Miami have all its eggs in one basket? Mr. Miller said. Is it at the mercy of the foreign buyer, the all-cash buyer? If the dollar changes direction and foreign buyers slow their participation, what carries the torch are more traditional transactions, with people getting a mortgage, he said. Right now that isnt happening. Yet the hype goes on.
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LIVING IN/Murray Hill, Queens
Another Place Named for Those Murrays

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MULTIPLE CHOICE
HE Murray Hill on the East Side of Manhattan isnt the only neighborhood of that name in the city; another one, in Queens, is just east of downtown Flushing. It took its name from members of the same Murray family, which at one time owned a vast plant nursery there, as well as houses on both sides of the East River. But history alone, it seems, is not enough to keep a New York neighborhood firmly on the map. The area has become home in the last decade to large numbers of new immigrants. As a result, many residents dont know the name; they may even say with conviction that its across the river. One longtime resident whose memories of the neighborhood validate its history is John C. Liu, the city comptroller but he acknowledges that that history has more or less faded from the collective consciousness. I feel both privileged and disturbed that I might be one of the last remaining links to the history of Murray Hill, said Mr. Liu, who lived here for several years as a child and lives about eight blocks away today. In his eyes, the neighborhoods center is the Murray Hill station of the Long Island Rail Road; from there it stretches in all directions about three to five blocks. By this definition, it would cover about two-tenths of a square mile. But the areas perimeter provokes broad disagreement which itself can perhaps be seen as a sign of declining neighborhood awareness. The most expansive definition, covering almost 1.5 square miles and encompassing about 36,000 people, has the western boundary at Parsons Boulevard, the southern edge along Sanford Avenue and Northern Boulevard, the northern border on Bayside Avenue and the eastern along Utopia Parkway. But some put the eastern border about halfway that far east, at 154th or 155th Street. For them Murray Hill makes up only the southwestern quadrant of the more inclusive map, and at least historically this view has traction, as this quadrant was the site of the Murray familys original land. Still others, among them area real estate brokers, consider Murray Hill as consisting only of the Broadway-Flushing Historic District and Bowne Park area not even the Murray Hill Long Island Rail Road station. That area is also often called North Flushing. For Mr. Liu, its not that the buildings have really changed there are still the same apartment buildings, laundromat and candy store but that the residents have. Decades ago Murray Hill was populated largely by Irish, Italian and some Greek immigrants; todays immigrants are Korean and Chinese. Northern Boulevard, a commercial thoroughfare, reflects that population change in much of its signage, which is in Korean as well as English. Between 149th and 154th Streets, it is home to some of the areas most popular Korean barbecue restaurants. The Korean businesses really took over Northern Boulevard, said Nancy Comerford, a broker/owner of American Heritage Real Estate, who lives and works in the area, and the Chinese businesses took over Main Street in Flushing. Eventually the two streets intersect. Murray Hill can be congested at times, and it can be hard to find parking. But it generally has a slower pace than downtown Flushing. This area is in high demand, Ms. Comerford said, because youre so close to the railroad, to the buses, to the shopping.
HMart, a Korean grocery on Northern Boulevard, typifies shops in this area near downtown Flushing, which has signage in many languages. The population has changed so fast that many residents dont know the name Murray Hill. They may even say with conviction that its across the East River.
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Murray Hill has come back quicker than some other neighborhoods since the 2008 global financial crisis; prices on co-ops and houses are strong, said Judy Markowitz, a broker and owner of the Energized Realty Group, who lives and works in the area. But there has been quite a bit of condo development in the neighborhood around the station, so condo prices have been falling. The median price for a condo is about $337,000, down from about $381,000 in 2007. The range for a one-bedroom co-op is $145,000 to $150,000; for a two-bedroom co-op, $150,000 to $200,000, Ms. Markowitz said. The average sale price of a house with 20 sold so far in 2012, and another 15 to 20 in contract, she said is just over $710,000. There are roughly 22 single- and twofamily houses for sale, along with 22 condos and 25 co-ops, Ms. Markowitz said, citing the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island. Prices can be high for the houses in the historic district around Bowne Park, many of which were built in the early to mid-20th century and include Tudors, colonials and ranches, agents said. A single-family attached or semi-attached house would sell in the mid$400,000s, while a two-family would start at $750,000, said Vincent J. Gianelli, a broker and owner of Re/Max Energy the Du-Rite Group, which has operated in Flushing for 60 years. At the top of the range, larger single-family detached houses can reach $2 million to $3 million, he said. One-bedrooms rent for about $1,100, two-bedrooms for $1,500, and three- or four-bedrooms for $1,800 and up.
The Commute
The Long Island Rail Road has stops at Broadway and Murray Hill; the trip to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown takes about 20 minutes. The FlushingMain Street station of the 7 subway in downtown Flushing is less than a mile from most points in Murray Hill, and the Nos. 12, 13 and 28 buses are among several that go from parts of Murray Hill to downtown Flushing. There is also the QM3 express bus to Manhattan. The drive into Midtown takes about 20 minutes with minimal traffic, Ms. Markowitz said.
Fields (also called Memorial Field), which has a track and tennis courts, and Margaret I. Carman Green-Weeping Beech Park, where the Queens Historical Society is housed in the historic Kingsland homestead. It originally stood in Murray Hill, at about 155th Street and Northern Boulevard.
The Schools
Part of School District 25, Murray Hill has strong elementary and middle schools, as well as a broad selection of parochial schools like Holy Cross High School and St. Andrew Avellino School. Among the public schools are No. 22 Thomas Jefferson, which got an A on its most recent progress report, with 71.6 percent of tested students showing mastery in English, 84.6 in math. SAT averages in 2011 at the Flushing International High School in Murray Hill were 312 in reading, 416 in math and 315 in writing, versus 436, 460 and 431 citywide.
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Hong Xia Ge, who moved from downtown Flushing about two years ago after buying a 1925 three-bedroom colonial, particularly appreciates Murray Hills tranquillity. She learned about the area through her real estate agent, Jessica Huang of the Energized Realty Group. Ms. Ges house, on a 40-by-100foot lot on 150th Place, is a few blocks from Bowne Park, where she likes to jog, but it also gives her good access to the commerce in downtown Flushing. She declined to say what she had paid for the house, but the asking price on record for that listing was $699,000. I like the Murray Hill neighborhood its very quiet, Ms. Ge, who is originally from China, said through an interpreter. Were close to the park, and also, I can go to the downtown Flushing supermarket, and its very convenient. The area around the Murray Hill train station has mainly multifamily buildings, with rentals, co-ops and condos. The historic district around Bowne Park has primarily single-family homes, with a few multifamilies here and there. One of the areas strongest attributes is the ease with which residents can get to neighboring points of interest, like Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Kissena Park, said Huang L. Kuo, a sales associate at Re/Max Team in Jackson Heights. Theres so much around you, he said. You could hop in the car, and in 10 minutes youre close by the larger parks, and the Queens Botanical Garden and other places.
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One of the largest shopping centers in the area is Murray Hill Plaza, on Northern Boulevard at 156th and 157th Streets, which has the popular Korean market HMart and other shops, as well as dining options like Sukarak, a casual Korean restaurant. Another small niche of excellent Korean barbecues is by the Murray Hill train station, around 41st Avenue between 149th Place and 149th Street, Ms. Markowitz said. Bowne Park has almost 12 acres, shaded by American elms, oaks and weeping willows, with a small pond used seasonally as a boating area and ice-skating rink. The park also has a playground and basketball courts. Bocce ball courts are frequently used by the Italian-American families of Murray Hill, said Marion Bommarito, who has lived here 26 years, citing a nephew as a participant. Other parks in the general area include Flushing
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The History
The Murrays nursery stretched south of Northern Boulevard to Roosevelt Avenue, covering almost 110 acres, said Richard Hourahan, a collections manager for the Queens Historical Society. It was a downhill trip to what is today Flushing Creek, where products were loaded onto barges to float into Manhattan. The nursery, along with others in the area, left its legacy in a number of avenues with names like Jasmine, Quince and Laburnum.
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A two-family detached house with a total of six bedrooms and three baths, listed at $974,000. (718) 359-5800
A three-bedroom three-bath detached house with a finished basement, listed at $698,888. (718) 353-6000
A Tudor-style two-family attached house with a total of three bedrooms and two baths, listed at $635,000. (718) 352-4200
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ORTGAGES guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs surged by 50 percent in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, as tighter credit standards on conventional financing made these programs all the more attractive to current and former military members. The department guaranteed almost 540,000 loans in fiscal year 2012, the most since 1994, according to Mike Frueh, the director of loan guarantee service. Compared with five years ago, volume is up some 300 percent. Low interest rates were part of the draw about 338,000 of the V.A. loans were for the purpose of refinancing. Borrowers who already have a V.A.-backed mortgage can get an interest-rate reduction relatively easily. The departments streamlined refinance program doesnt require these borrowers to reprove that they qualify, said Nathan Long, the chief executive of Veterans United Home Loans, an online broker of V.A. loans. Its a great benefit not to have to go through all the hoops that you would otherwise have to, Mr. Long said. V.A. loans for purchases were up almost 10 percent over the previous fiscal year. For military members who qualify, these
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home loans offer a financing option that has largely disappeared since the subprime meltdown: no down payment. Regardless of where home prices are, Mr. Long said, 100 percent financing can be a great option for people. Weve seen 9 in 10 of our borrowers use the full 100 percent. Borrowers also benefit in that they dont have to pay for mortgage insurance. The department does place limits on loan amounts it will guarantee. These range from $417,000 to $1.094 million, de-
pending on the propertys location. In the New York metropolitan area, the limit is $777,500. The department doesnt finance its loan programs, but makes them attractive to lenders by guaranteeing a portion of each loan. Individual lenders set the closing costs and the interest rates, which are currently comparable to those on conventional fixed-rate loans.The minimum credit score required to qualify for a V.A. loan is about 620. Borrowers must also demonstrate that they will have enough
monthly income left over after paying personal debts and housing costs to meet levels set by the department for residual income. In the Northeast, for loan amounts exceeding $80,000, the residual income level for a family of four is $1,025. These underwriting standards, while exclusive to the Department of Veterans Affairs, have helped keep the foreclosure rate on its loans much lower than on other loan types, Mr. Long said. Grant Moon, an Army Reserves captain who served in
Iraq, used a V.A. loan to buy his first home, a three-family in Massachusetts, in 2008. He put no money down, and used the rental income to help cover his mortgage. I moved in and I was only paying about $300 a month to have my own home, he said. Mr. Moon (who has since bought another V.A.-backed house in New Jersey) is now the president of VA Loan Captain, an online service that allows veterans to compare interest rates and terms among lenders. We prescreen the lenders and make sure they arent trying to take advantage of veterans, he said. While V.A. loans can be beneficial to military members with few assets, they are not always the best option. Although the V.A. doesnt require mortgage insurance, it does charge a funding fee, which can cost more than 3 percent of the loan amount. Paying that fee might not be prudent for a borrower who plans to be in the home for a short period of time, Mr. Moon said. Disabled veterans may be exempt from the fee. Given the growing popularity of V.A. loans, the department expects to hit a major milestone this month, when it will very likely guarantee its 20 millionth veteran.
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Board to Buyer: Nah. Not at That Price.

From Page 1 of low sales prices has been markedly increasing. Outside of New York, such impediments to homeownership are largely unheard of, because co-ops are so rare. But they account for 75 percent of the housing stock for sale in Manhattan, according to Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the Miller Samuel appraisal firm. And although some condos now also ask buyers to submit financial information when they apply, co-op boards subject potential shareholders to more rigorous scrutiny, often requiring reams of financial and personal information, right down to references for pets. Many buyers are willing to undergo the anxiety-inducing process to get into the Manhattan market, where inventory has become particularly tight. But few are willing to overpay. At the same time, some sellers who lack equity or the economic stability to trade up to a new apartment have decided to cut their losses and list their apartments for prices lower than they had hoped. If youre desperate to get out because youve been waiting for two years, Mr. Miller said, you sell for what you think you can get. Evelyne Luest hasnt quite reached the desperation level, but her patience is running thin. Ms. Luest, a professional pianist, listed the Hudson Heights one-bedroom apartment that she uses as a practice studio for about $300,000 in 2009, just as the market was beginning to plunge. Earlier this year, after repeatedly lowering the asking price, she was pleased to receive an all-cash offer for $225,000 slightly less than 6 percent below the asking price of $239,000 from a fellow musician, Thomas Bergeron of South Hadley, Mass. They went into contract in the summer. Mr. Bergeron made plans to move. Everything seemed to be falling into place until the board rejected his application. Ms. Luest said she had spoken with two board members and the buildings sponsor, who all confirmed that price had been a deciding factor. Its a business problem, she said. Its not good business for them to sell apartments for a low price. After he was turned down, Mr. Bergeron, who recently began a two-year teaching fellowship, offered to put a years worth of maintenance in escrow upfront and to have his mother sign as a guarantor even though he was paying the $225,000 in cash. But he drew the line at paying a higher price, which was suggested by Ms. Luest and her broker as well as Mr. Bergerons broker, Kelly Cole of the Corcoran Group. In my opinion, Mr. Bergeron said, the price we went into contract on was the market price. In the end, Ms. Luest decided not to pursue the offer. Mr. Bergeron is now renting, and she has relisted her apartment at the slightly higher price of $259,000. The board, reached via the buildings management company, declined to discuss its decision. For all anyone knows, there may have been other reasons Mr. Bergeron was turned down. His profession as a trumpet player could have raised at closing receive a credit of $30,000 in the form of a check from the seller to be used for renovations or other improvements. That way, the buyer would pay no more than previously agreed, the seller would be able to sell the apartment, albeit at a cost, and the transaction would be recorded at a price that pleased the co-op board. Such deals are completely legal, as long as the marked-up sales price is disclosed in the transaction documents and all parties understand and agree to it, said Mr. Shmulewitz of Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman. But Barry Weidenbaum, a New York real estate lawyer, pointed out that some banks and co-ops may not view such an arrangement as proper. Some banks, for example, limit sellers concessions or credits, often capping them at 6 percent, he said. While secrecy is typical in cases of rejection involving price, some co-op boards are taking a more direct approach. Steven R. Wagner, a real estate lawyer who is on the board of Southgate, a five-building co-op complex in the East 50s near the East River, said sales price had not been an issue there until earlier this year. Suddenly, there were three or four apartments that came up, all of which were significantly lower than where the apartments had been previously selling for, he said. But rather than flat-out rejecting applicants who otherwise would have passed muster with the board, he said, we actually took a chance and raised the issue with the broker and individuals and said, Listen, before we say no to this application, we want you to know its because of this, and if you wanted to submit a different contract price, very likely no would be yes. And people did in fact come back. Still, even with the best intentions, boards that try to control ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTOPH HITZ sales prices may end up hurting themselves. The irony, Mr. apartments. Miller said, is that by being too aggressive in poIf the only thing holding up a sale is the price on licing transfers of property in your co-op, you can paper, brokers say there are ways to get around actually make it worse. When apartment deals the problem. Earlier this summer June L. Gottlieb, are repeatedly turned down because the board a broker at Warburg Realty, encountered a seller wants a higher price, the properties end up lingerwho would not accept her buyers $690,000 cash ofing on the market. The inference, he pointed out, fer for a Midtown East pied--terre listed at is they are overpriced when theyre not. $700,000 for fear the board would consider it too The board unwilling to approve a lower price for low and not approve the sale. The buyer refused to an apartment may also be missing a signal from a increase his offer because the apartment, which seller who is experiencing financial distress and was part of an estate sale, needed a total renovacould end up defaulting on maintenance if unable tion. to sell. And co-ops that repeatedly turn down appliThe only way to get the deal done was to agree cants for price reasons also run the risk of gaining to split the flip tax, Ms. Gottlieb said. The buyer a reputation as a tough building which could ultipaid more for the apartment in the contract, but at mately backfire. the closing the seller wrote him a check for part of This always says something to me about the the flip tax, so the contract read at a price that board in the building, said Ms. Cole, the broker would be acceptable at the board, she said. who represented Mr. Bergeron, the trumpet player, Another creative solution, brokers say, is to inand it sends a really bad message. Now, when crease the purchase price on paper and create an working with a buyer, I say: By the way, just know offsetting credit, or a sellers concession. A buyer there was a board turndown here with a cash buywilling to pay, say, $770,000 for an apartment listed er, and they pulled the rug out from everyone. So buyer beware. at $800,000, would assent to the $800,000 price, then
the issue of a potential noise threat. I dont understand how it can be legal for them to deny people without giving any reason, he said. It really surprised me that that was O.K. to do. As long as it does not discriminate illegally, a coop can turn down a sale for practically any reason. And recent court decisions have held that a boards decision to reject apartment sales because of a low price falls within its business judgment. Compared with just three years ago, a boards price-based rejection of an apartment transfer is much more likely to be protected and insulated from challenge in 2012, said Eva Talel, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in charge of the co-op/ condominium board representation group. In January she co-wrote an article in The New York Law Journal about co-op rejections based on pricing. I think courts began to feel a greater comfort level in addressing the issue of the scope of the boards business judgment to deal with what is a legitimate concern for buildings, she said. If prices are not sustained at a certain level, then it would likely have a negative impact on the values of other
Downtown Feel Turns Up in Midtown

T one time a primarily industrial area that turned derelict at nightfall, the area north of 34th Street and west of Eighth Avenue, which is included in the citys Hudson Yards redevelopment plan, is already transforming into a comfortable residential neighborhood with a slightly downtown feel. One block in particular, 39th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, is taking on a decidedly high-end gloss. In the last few years, several hotels have opened, including the Element New York Times Square West. The well-reviewed Italian trattoria Mercato also opened, followed by an upscale Irish pub and the boutique chocolatier Kees Chocolates. Now a 199-unit luxury rental building called Crystal Green has begun leasing, with monthly rents starting at $3,000 for a studio apartment, $3,525 for a onebedroom, and $4,625 for a two-bedroom. Four years ago there was really nothing here, said Nancy Albertson, the director of leasing for Crystal Green. There was an adult entertainment store on the corner one of those open 24 hours a day with the blinking lights which is thankfully gone now. She said a similar establishment on the corner of 37th Street and Eighth Avenue had been reborn as a Cohens Fashion Optical. Julie Oh, who rented a one-bedroom apartment in Midtown West almost two years ago, says she has owned her own fashion business and worked in the area for three decades. She describes the neighborhood, which is also part of the garment district, as having been completely transformed in recent years. I wasnt comfortable walking through the streets in the evening, Ms. Oh said, because I felt it was dangerous with the drug dealers and prostitution. There were a lot of Dumpsters, and it smelled really bad. But now, its like night and day. While hotel guests were obviously a catalyst for the transformation, retailers moving to the area now are hoping
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to tap into its burgeoning residential market, said Scott Galin, a principal of Handler Real Estate Organization, which owns 315 West 39th Street, where the new Irish pub Tir Na Nog and Kees Chocolates have opened. Theyre really looking across the street and west to the high-end residential customers, Mr. Galin said. Bill Harnett, an owner of Tir Na Nog, said he became familiar with the area while operating a pub nearby. Four years ago, he would not have considHIGHER END
Businesses like Mercato, above, and Tir Na Nog tap into an expanding market on far West 39th.
37th, which opened in 2010. Hudson Crossing is owned by Equity Residential, one of the countrys largest publicly traded apartment owners. Equity Residential also recently bought Mantena, a high-end building at 431 West 37th Street with 97 apartments on 12 floors, which has one-bedrooms renting just under $4,000 a month, said Clifford Finn, the president for new development marketing of the brokerage Citi Habitats. In coming months Brooklyn Fare, the upmarket grocer with a Michelin three-star restaurant in its Downtown Brooklyn location, will be adding another branch in Mantena, which opened in the spring and has fewer than a dozen apartments remaining, he said. Many of the residents moving into the area come from Chelsea seeking lower rents for new apartments, Mr. Finn said. On average, a studio in a doorman building in the area would rent for about $2,413 a month, a one-bedroom for about $3,397, and a two-bedroom for about $4,625, according to data from the Corcoran Group. A lot of people like to think of it as North Chelsea, or NoChe, Mr. Finn said. Certain more established neighborhoods, like Chelsea, have gotten
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ered it as a site for a pub. I probably wouldnt have gone near the place, said Mr. Harnett. His pub, with its architectural pieces and ornate furniture from Irish churches and castles, along with stained-glass windows, rich textiles and carved dark wood, has a markedly haute ambience. But now with all the new construction, I said, You know what, Im going to take a chance on this, and I think its going to pay off. Developers and residents appear willing to take the same chance. In 2009 the Glenwood Management Corporation, the real estate development and
management company that owns Crystal Green, also developed Emerald Green, one block south at 320 West 38th Street. Its 568 apartments were rented in less than a year. That building was the fastest building to lease of our last seven buildings, Ms. Albertson said. The response was pretty amazing. Other rental buildings in the neighborhood include the pioneering Hudson Crossing, a 15-story red-brick building with 259 units at 400 West 37th, which opened in 2003, and the 30-story Townsend, with 207 apartments at 350 West
very expensive for people who want new-development-type products, so theyve migrated up to this area of the West 30s, which was basically the last frontier of new development in Manhattan, where you had all these potential building sites concentrated in one area. Work has begun again on a 12-story condo-hotel project formerly called Galerie at 515 Ninth Avenue, at 39th Street, which stalled in the global financial crisis of 2008; it will be completed in November 2013, according to the Web site of its construction manager, New Line Structures. In most emerging neighborhoods, property developers test the waters with rental projects, and the fact that developers are now putting in condos is significant, Mr. Finn said. Prior to Galerie, he said, the only real larger-scale condo development was up on 42nd Street, or you had to go south to the high 20s. Once you approached Chelsea, there were a few that popped up, but they were very small and nondescript. Besides the new rental apartments, the mixed-use loft buildings favored by the garment makers are also attracting buyers, said Paul Gavriani, a senior vice president of Corcoran. There are all these great loft spaces that in some cases mirror or are better than lofts youd find in TriBeCa or SoHo, but theyre closer to a part of the city that has tremendous vitality, he said. So heres this downtown loft district thats sort of wedged into Midtown, where you have fantastic transportation options. Mr. Gavriani said that some apartment-hunters start their search in Hells Kitchen, as the area north of 42nd Street is called, but end up renting a block or two south of 42nd Street, where prices are lower. A few years ago, he said, there was very little in the neighborhood, so it was a hard sell to say you could live there and have a life like every other New Yorker. But now, Id say 42nd and Ninth Avenue has become a hub for that neighborhood, and you can say its really not that far from everything.
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PREMIER OFFICE SPACE 650-9,500 SF

Indoor Parking, Restaurant & Door man Easy Access to LIE, RR & NS Hospital Tenants: Merrill Lynch & Morgan Stnly 516-466-0460 www.schmergel.com GN . EXECUTIVE SUITE. Elegant large furn 2 rm suite avl, incl:: recept, confer rm, answering svce, util, cleaning, gar parkg, fax, phones, copier. Free WiFi & internet. fr $1150 /mo 516-487-4992
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SOHO 580 Broadway JERICHO: Elegant office complex in 900 sf & 1700 sf offices; wood flrs, high prime location on Jericho Tpke. 861sf, ceilings. Lobby attended 24/7. Excellent 1681sf, 2052sf . Exclnt pkng. Build to suit trans. & views. Call Steve, 212-334-5589 Greater Jericho Corp. , 516-681-8660
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Coops & Condos Manhattan Eastside
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30s to 50s East GVW 16 W.9th St Landmark Block 1850's Italianate 5sty Multi-FamTH, 4th Floor Occupied. So Garden, 3 Terrs $8M LaurieBrantRealty.com 212.685.4810 240 E 35 #9B. Sun 11-12. Sunny 1 br, wnd kit, dm, rfdk. $399K. Kathy 917-670-3542 HARLEM - Mint 3 fam, completely ren-
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ovated, sprinkler, separate meters, flexible terms, great loc near 8th Ave. For sale by owner, 917-689-5643
115 E 36, Grdn. Sun by appt. 2 br, 2 ba p/w, pvt grdn. $1.495M. Kathy 917-670-3542
West 150s/Off Broadway User/Investor 415 E 37, #23L. Sun 1-2. Spac 2 br, 2 bth, 8 renovated apts. Garden unit vacant. N/W expo, dm, pets. Debby 917-715-3250 Rogovin 646-658-7326 300 E 40, #27KL. By appt. Cnv 4 br, 3 ba, Eastern Consolidated wndw kit/bth. $1.995M. Geri 917-969-2579
Manhattan Houses for Rent
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25 Tudor City, #1215. Sun 12-1:30. Stu, f/s coop, rfdk. $235K. Lew 917-885-4502 25 Tudor City. Sun by appt. Brite stu, f/s coop, nds work. $230K. Lew 917-885-4502 221 E 50, #1D. Sun 12-1:30. Price drop! Lg stu, clsts, lo mt. $247K. Bruce 917-545-6653 300 E 59, #2603. Sun 12-1:30. Huge 1 br, vu, wic, dm, rfdk. $579K. Nutan 917-815-5661 40's EAST TUDOR CITY APTS. AVAILABLE FOR SALE Call 212-813-3064 For Details Visit www.TudorRealty.com for Open House Sched. & Current Listings TUDOR REALTY SERVICES CORP. Licensed Real Estate Broker 40th St, 305 E. #11G Web#2464307/ 2.5rm
178 East 95th St WEB ID: 0136333 Old world chrm meets modern day lux. 4 stry 4 bed TH w. fab flr plan great fam living/entertaining. $23,000/month. Karen Heyman 212.810.4990 sothebyshomes.com/nyc
COOPS & CONDOS MANHATTAN EASTSIDE

(820)
1st-River
OPEN HSE-ALCOVE STUDIO

Sun 12-1:30PM. Spacious w/view of Empire State bldg,renovated kitchen & bth,Mt. 709,lux bldg,roofdeck,gar, $425K. Nicole Hatoun 212-836-1082 Corcoran 42nd St, 320 E, #1409 *** Sunday, 1-3pm RENO HUGE STUDIO, FAB VUS..$364K www.segallisre.com (212)808-9171
50's E/UN Plaza 3,000 sqft , 7 Rms
MUST SELL-HUGE CONDO

Super Views, Mint Condition. 12' hi Ceilings. Priced to Perfection. Call + Email MStraussCassel@Elliman.com Michael Strauss-Cassel 212-702-4027 PRUDENTIAL DOUGLAS ELLIMAN 55 St, 420 E Sutton Gardens SUNDAY 10/14 OPEN HOUSE 12-2pm #2A $499K 1BR w/grdn vus 1-3pm #9P $655KConv 2BR;So xpo Exclu. On-Site Broker: 212-371-0477 57th Street #110 Off Par k web: 0018515
110 East 57th St. Apt 10A, 2:30pm-4pm Lrg, mint renov 1 BR 1 Bth, moldings, So. expos, DM, low mt! $785k, 50% fin. Michele Llewelyn, 212.606.7716 SOTHEBY'S INT'L REALTY WWW.SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM/NYC 57St, 153 East #2D OH Sun 10/14 1-2PM Full Size 1BR, Lux Drmn Bldg, So Light, Great Clos & Updated Kitchen & Bath. On-Site Laundry & Garage. Asks $419K Andrew@eRudd .com 212-319-2500 x228
59th St, 300 E. #601 Sun, Oct 14, 1-2:30pm
820
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UPPER EAST SIDE
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PRICED TO SELL! 80'sEast Spacious Conv 2 BR, 1.5 BA corner coop, approx. 1,230 SF, 2 balcs, WIC, oversized wall to wall windows, open City views, laundry rm on each floor. Pets OK, F/S, garage. Excl. $825,000. Maint: $2,021 Web# 3198721 L. Hoerrner 212-452-4435
5th AVE - PARK VIEWS

* Perfect Pied-a-terre Exec/Couple * Pre-War Co-Op in mid-70's * Prestigious doorman building * One of only 3 units on 18th floor * Unique layout with huge windows * Penthouse feel N, E, and W views * Door & Elevators staffed 24/7 * Fabulous wood burning FP * LR, DR, 1 BR, 2 Baths * Convenient, walk to everything * Mt $2,750 includes ALL utilities * Gym, laundry, storage. No pets * Brokers considered. $2.95 Mil * Call 917-635-7776
86th East, 425 #6C 2 BR/2 Bth
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120 E 87 St, P28A OPEN HOUSE
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Beautiful triple mint convertible 3 BR, 2 bath in prestigious UES condo with spectacular Park views. Ask $2.999M Sandra Papale 917-513-8812 200 E 89 St, 12F OPEN HOUSE
JUST LISTED - $799K Amazing bright, gut renov., corner 1 BR Sun 12:30-2. Newly renov, low mt. with spectacular open views. Full serWeb#289975. Colleen............917-459-2933 vice buildin,g pool, DM, gym. $749,000 Sandra Papale 917-513-8812
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COOPS & CONDOS MANHATTAN WESTSIDE

(830)
54th St, 200 West THE ADLON
1725 York Avenue Sun, 1:00-2:30pm
TRIPLE MINT
Apt 21H: Jr 4 w/ open city vus. LR, DR (conv 2nd br) kit, 1.5 bths. 950sf. $775K, mt. $1,463. Web#0017865 Apt 12G: New to mrkt. 3.5 rms, open city vus facing West. Lrg LR/DR (conv to 2br) renov kit & bth, mbr w/ home off. 900 +/- sf. $725k, mt. 1,279 web#0018534 Apt 10A: 3 rm apt facing W/N. LR/DR, new kit & bth, lrg MBR, maple flrs, 750 +/- sf. $560k Mt. $944 #0017948 Building is pet friendly with garage, gym, tennis and playroom. PHYLLIS GALLAWAY, 212.606.7678 SOTHEBY'S INT'L REALTY WWW.SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM/NYC
90's East
BUYERS AND SELLERS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON.
FINAL OPPORTUNITY OVER 90% SOLD

High Floor 2-3 BRs from $2,900,000 Studios from $850,000 Financing Available 12,000 sf of Amenities 421a Tax Abatement On-Site Parking LEED Certified
SPACIOUS 3 BEDROOM
SUNDAY, OCT 14, 1:00-3:00PM Lrg sponsor units w/no board approval required for sale in full svc drmn bldg. W/D allowed & all original detail intact. 5L: $699K. Conv 3 bed 5 room apt. Opportunity to design your own kitch. 10F: $775K. East facing 4.5 rm sprawling 2 bed, huge closets, large windows facing 7th Avenue. Estate condition. 6B: $495K. Quiet renovated large one bedroom with new kitchen and bath. Gorgeous 1912 Blum Building, renovated lobby, hallways & facade. Call Jude Dayani: 917-446-4269 www.OrsidR.com 212-484-0248 3BR+ 57th Street 322 West
Huge 1,810sf 3 BR, 3 bath in full service luxury doorman bldg w/ 10' ceilings, spectacular views from floor-to-ceiling windows. Great closet space. Kitchen features Caesarstone countertops with Viking appliances. Marble baths, washer & dryer & 6,300sf of amenity space including roof deck, fitness center & children's playroom. List $1,795,000 Ammanda Espinal 212-828-4848 Equal Housing Opportunity
90's East 4BR $3,579,000
Shefeld Style
SPACE! SPACE! SPACE!

Huge 2,573 sf 4 bedroom, 4 bath features floor-to-ceiling windows with East River views and 10 ft ceilings. Gourmet eat-in kitchen with Viking appliances , washer & dryer in a full service luxury building with fitness center, roof deck, lounge and concierge services! David Greczek 212-828-4848 Equal Housing Opportunity 91St 2BR $1,195,000
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SPACIOUS 2 BEDROOM
1,441sf 2 BR, 2 bath home features floorto-ceiling windows, 9'6 ceilings, kitchen w/ Viking appliances, washer & dryer and walk-in closets. Full service luxury building with 6,300sf of amenity space including a fitness center, children's playroom, game room & roof deck! Ammanda Espinal 212-828-4848 Equal Housing Opportunity
93rd St, 150 East, Apt 10C SUNDAY, OCT 14th, 3:30-5:00pm Sunny 2 bd in FS drmn bldg. Sponsor unit, no bd approval req. In estate cond. Brand new wndws thruout, hw flrs,lrg 150 E 61,#11A. Sun 12-1:30. Spac, sunny vu, lrg alc stu. $345K. Regina 508-330-7174 eat in kit, new electrical box. Ask $625K Call Jude Dayani: 917-446-4269 212-484-0248 301 E 62, #12K. Sun 1:30-3. Price drop! www.OrsidR.com 1 br, vu, grntrs. $499K. Susan 646-942-8582
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Over BILLION dollars in Lincoln Towers sales by our Resident Broker. 100 W 39, #37D. Sun 3-4. Mint, lux, cond, big stu, vu. $698K. Angela 917-617-0479 107 W 70, #Ph1. Sun 2:30-4. Brnst charm! Dplx 1br+terr! $569K. Alan 874-0100 x209 444 CPW, #PHD. Sun 12-1:30. Amaz PH, prkvu,3terr.$3.295M.S.Choi917-974-9523
440 E 62, #3C. Sun 12:30-2. 950+sf 1br, 1 ba, f/s, grntrs. $499K. Deanne 917-734-6007 301 E 64, #11K. Sun 1:30-3:30. 1 br, f/s dm, sun, grg, pet. $399K. Richard 917-304-3702 301 E 64, #15C. Sun 11:30-1:30. 1 br, 800+sf, tot reno, f/s. $550K. Richard 917-304-3702 27 E 65, #6A. Sun 1-4. Pied/foreign buyr ok,convt 2br.$845K. Richard 917-656-6095 363 E 76, #14A. Lrg 1 br, terr, f/s dm, vu, grg, rfdk. $565K. Madeline 917-583-3133 55 EEA, #3F. Sun 12:30-2. 1br, w/alc, mint, vu, luxe coop. $625K. Diane 917-405-0122 445 E 86, #9I. Sun 11:30-1. Cnv 2br, f/s, lrg din/den, rfdk. $539K. Fred 917-923-7666 235 E 87, #4K. Sun 1:15-2:30. NBA! Cnv 3 br, tot reno, terr. $999K. Fred 917-923-7666
103 St
1635 Lexington Ave

SUNDAY, 11:30- 1:00 PM
NEW 8 STORY CONDO 1 BR fr $480K 2 BR fr $628K Very Low Maint Costs

Common charges from $398 mo 10' ceils. Stunning custom interiors State of the art kitchen w/Swiss quartzite countertops & baths w/Italian Perlino Bianco slab marble. Very convenient loc, steps fr #6 train New supermarket on ground floor
OH Wknds 12-4, Wkdys 12-3 917.569.8850 347.628.8818 NEWLY RENOVATED HOME
Offering by Prospectus only CD12-0014 www.lexingtonhillcondo.com 402 E 90, #12E. Sun 10:30-12. 2 br, 1 bth condo, appx 860sf, brite. Jay 917-224-9410 East 72nd 1BD/NBA 200 E 90, #20D. Sun 12-2. 1 br condop,riv vu, opn kit. $579K. Nutan 917-815-5661 Newly renovated prewar 1 BD w/ 3 exposures. All new windowed bath & kit. 16 E 96, #1B. Sun 12:30-2:30. Maisonette No Board Approval. Asking $535K. 775sf 1 br+den. $449K. Shelly 917-209-1269 ClassicMktg.com 212.794.3500 61 St,167 E-Apt 10/11C SUN 1-2:30 OFFERING BY PROSPECTUS ONLY Listing ID #930 NEW PRICE UES DUPLEX Elegant renovated 3200sf 3 bed/3.5 bath w/light & open views. Spacious rooms & closets. 2 balconies. Luxury Doorman co-op. $2,495,000. Web #1219435. Courtney Gibson 212-434-7080
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Newly renov w/ granite kitchen, 936 sf, 500 W 111, #5D. Sun 1-2. Fab 2 br, 1.5 ba, 5 closets w/ 2 WIC, southern exposure mds rm, vu. $995K. Vanessa 917-518-9485 Web #20013 $659K Apt. 2M 205 WEA 301 W 118, #7E. Sun 11:30-12:30. Condo 1br. Abated tx. $515K. Allan 917-757-7872 SUNDAY, 2:00-3:00 PM
7 ROOMS 1ST OH Gorgeous full 1 BR in super mint 79th ST, 118 WEST #4A cond, granite kit, new ba, crown moldings , great closets (including WIC) Web #60043 $565K Apt. 7U 160 WEA THURS 5-6PM, SUNDAY 12-1:30PM Emery Roth Prewar On Museum Block, BY APPOINTMENT Completely Renovated 4 BR, 3 Bath, W/D, 24hr Elevator Operator. $2.675M SHOWING AT 1:15 PM SUNDAY Regina Knight 646.265. 2126 Corcoran Good orig. cond, 897 sf, beaut, peaceful tree-top vus, 5 closets w/ huge WIC 85th St, 310 W, #8D NO Board Approval Web #70068 $649K Apt. 4H 170 WEA
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Sun, 1-2. Gut renov'd prewar 2BR, 1.5bth w/ S&E exposure. Windowed kitchen w/granite countertops, stainless steel appliances & W/D. Brand new baths & more. $1,095,000. Maint. $1,455. Sunny Open hi flr Alcove Stu, WIC, good original cond, PARKING SPACE AVAIL Terry/Eva @ M.Bassett RE 212-222-2155 www.margaretbassett.com #1581 Web #65023 $335K Apt. 28G 165 WEA See offering plan for full terms 212-246-9500 Sunny hi flr Alcove Stu 570+ sf, southern exposure, WIC, good orig condition Web #80035 $369K Apt. 29J 180 WEA
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33 East End Ave (81st St) 6FE, 3-4:30pm Elegant prwr 3 BR, 2 bth w/balc, beamed ciels, herringbone flrs windowed EIK , DA. pets ok. FS bldg w/ gym. $1.495M. Phyllis Gallaway,212.606.7678 SOTHEBY'S INT'L REALTY 63rd St., 405 East No Board Approval WWW.SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM/NYC EEA/60, Apt 10A Sunday 12-2 Newly reno'd 1BR w/granite kitchen & newly tiled bath, 706 sq.ft. Asking $495K. BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Call 212-787-5500. Brokers are welcome. Huge Loft-Like apt. 3 MBR, 3 BTH, Offering by Prospectus only EIK. Web #3280328. Asking $2,475,000 *6 months maintenance rebate Call Margie Goldin, 212-472-8775 72 St, 165 E. #8J Web#2476532 Corner 2/2
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Newly renovated, spacious, low floor 1 BR with dining L, granite kitchen and newly tiled bath. Approximately 840sf.
59th St. bet 6th & 7th. 120 Central Park 845 UNP web:0018155 South. 1 BR/1 BA, art deco, prewar, drmn, high flr, southern exposure, Sun.12-2: Big Space, LOW $1681 mtc lite, City views, $675K. Bkrs ok (917) 734-3738 stellar bldng! Crner 2BR/2BA, lg din-L, Jr 4 line on a high flr w/ great vus. F/S Good cndtn.Pets OK. $1.449M! 60's W/61 W 62 St,Apt17M OH SUN 1-2:30 Fern Budow 212-893-1415 Corcoran bldg with many amenities. Owner will put up a wall for a 2nd BR. 7,500/mo. 75th St, 333 East #4-F Web#2221903 MintConv 3BR, 2 Baths, LR, DR, Gym W. Hilliard, D. Senko, Claire Ratusch 212-891-7703/H744-1094 212.844.9987/917.940.0595 PRUDENTIAL DOUGLAS ELLIMAN SOTHEBY'S INT'L REALTY Priced to sell! Location!Spacious 1bdrm WWW.SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM/NYC 1bth, 800 SF, F/S 24 hr drmn bldg. South SUN 1-2:30 facing on quiet tree lined St, pe tOK, roof SPS/36, Apt 5F deck, garage. A Buy! $450,000 Nena Marlo 212-605-9388 /917-783-2041 SUTTON MINT 2-BED THE CORCORAN GROUP New Listing. Magnif renov of 2BR/2Bth 79th St, 301 East Web#2476391 3RMS w/wndwd kit & bth. Sunny NWS opn vus w/ovrszd dining & custom clsts. FS DM coop. $1.549M. Mt. $2,269. Web #3424825 Continental Towers,Hi flr south facing Excl Joan Sacks 917-656-0208 1 BR condo, balcony, low cc & taxes, Irene Grassi 917-929-6945 $749K.Shown Sunday by appointment. Nicole Hatoun 212-836-1082 Corcoran
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30 West 63rd Street
The complete offering terms are in an Offering Plan available from Sponsor. File No. CD 06-0751
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BEST 2 BR, FAB VIEWS
OPEN HOUSE 12-2
BACK ON MARKET STUDIO WITH RIVER VIEW

Top floor, newly reno'd alcove studio w/granite kitchen, newly tiled bath and a fabulous view. Approximately 542sf. Visit on-site ofc/call 212-787-5500. Bkrs welcome. Offering by Prospectus only. 68W Exclu Conv 3 + Terrace COPLEY CONDOMINIUM & CLUB OPEN TODAY BY APPT ONLY One of a kind! Mint move in! Corner Lrg 2br/ 2bth, Atrium FDR & Lrg Terrace. Grt layout! 9' cls, wash/dry, HC, Pool, Patio & Stor inc. Garage. Conc & DM. $2.2M Susan D. Fine, Bkr 212-247-5375
1BR CONDO-BALC-$749K
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Downtown/61 Irving Pl, #6C SUN 1:30-3 GRAMERCY PARK LOFT Rare & Unique Pre-War duplex. 2BR, 2BTH. Open flr plan, hi flr, grt vus & light. A must see! $2,675,000. Web #3468261 Excl: Steven A. Sumser 646-613-2741
72nd & Columbus, high floor, newly renovated large studio. Walk to work and Central Park. No broker fee $1,950/mo. 516-796-6300
89 St 40 E, 2BR, 2BTH
Steps to Central Park, PS 6 school dist Lrg rooms, great closets, $4995, NO FEE See Doorman 9am - 5pm
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All new renovated home w/ balcony overlooking garden. Views and quiet in 1st to River FSB. Good space w/ lux. kitchen & baths. No Board Approval. Asking $1.295M. ClassicMktg.com 212.794.3500 OFFERING BY PROSPECTUS ONLY Listing ID # 936 GV, 25 Fifth Ave. 3BD/ Prewar Condo
Manhattan Apts. Unfurnished Three, Four & Five Rms. 878

Immediate Occupancy
OPEN HOUSE 1-5 PM

Totally Renovated, Spacious, high ceilings 3 Bdrm, 2 Bath loft style w/ lux finishes. Marble wnd baths, open wnd kitchen-granite,SS, W/D in FS bldg w/private garden & gym. Asking $2.45M ClassicMktg.com 212. 674.2500 OFFERING BY PROSPECTUS ONLY Listing ID # 872 LaGuardia Place, 542, Unit 4-B Public Auction of Condominium Unit (approx 1500 sq. ft. condo apartment) pursuant to Foreclosure Judgment to be held on October 17, at 2:00 PM in Room 130 of the NY County Supreme Court Building, 60 Centre St., NY, NY. 10% deposit req at the sale by certified or official bank check or money order payable to Alica Kaplow, Esq. as Referee. No personal checks, cash or endorsed checks or money orders accepted. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index Number 106241/11. LoHo/LES #1 for Co-op Village! Exclu Walking Tours (or make an appt.): Studios&1bdrms @11am&1pm $309Ks+ 2 bdrms @ 12noon & 2pm $469Ks+ 3 bdrms @ 10am & 3pm $675Ks+ We also have subleases! Meet @ LoHo Realty563 Grand St. LoHoRealty.com/ info@lohorealty.com 212-388-1115x100
401 East 80th Street

FULL SERVICE LUXURY BLDG, panoramic views, abundant closet space, 24-hour attended lobby, on-site garage and NEW health club with pool, gym, children's playroom, lounge and sundecks.
Conv 4BR, 3.5 bths......$11,500 1BR w/open kitchen...$ 3,400 Leasing Office Open Mon-Fri
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70th/Broadway Nevada Towers 700 SF 1 BR facing west & north w/great light & open city views. Windowed kit & bth, F/S co-op w/24 hour drmn & spectac roof garden. Avail immed. SPONSOR APT NO BOARD APPROVAL. $2,950 1 Month Fee Broker 212-877-9800
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Carnegie Mews
1st to River
Manhattan Apts. Furnished One & Two Rooms 850

E. 54th St. Park/ Lex Ave. 24h DM lrg designer's studio, Dressing room DW, many closets, new bamboo flr $2,100. owner 347-665-8513/347-267-9152
Lux Doorman Building 3rd Av, gut Celebrated Neighborhood 70's W ofking-sizelux 24 H drm,mblreno 1500 sf 3 BR home, 2 bth, Steps to Central Park & sbwy sep wind kit, hrd wd flr, trpl expos c/a/c, tons of clsts. $7,700. Bkr 917.450.8178 Studio $1,995 Manhattan Apts. Unfurnished Manhattan Apts. Unfurnished 71st/2nd Ave *330east71*Sunday 2:30-5 Three, Four & Five Rms. 878 Three, Four & Five Rms. 878 1 Bedroom $2,795 3rd Ave. 42nd St/West/MiMA No Fee PDE, (212) 541-4708 ****Beautiful Elevator building***** 95th St. East No Fee ArtDecoPrewar1Bed$2595 Visit 10am-6pm 900sqfdine foyer,grtworkspace sunken
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110 East 57th St. Apt 8DE 2:30pm-4pm Spacious, 3 BR, 3Bth (3rd bth has w/d) moldings, DM, ganite kit. $9,500/mo. Michele Llewelyn, 212.606.7716 STUDIOS.................................. from$1750 SOTHEBY'S INT'L REALTY 1 BEDROOMS......................... from$2200 WWW.SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM/NYC 2 BEDROOMS......................... from$2800 Call Our Rental Office: 60's WEST
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1200sqft graniteEIK large dine foyer sunken livingroom 2 large bedrooms under complete reno. JMG917-353-3161 79thWest Under complete Renovation * Fantastic 2 Bedroom 2 bath Eat in Kit* 24hour elevator operator 1300+sqft Huge foyer Large reno Designer Eat in Kit w/S.S. Granite,window. large living room, beamed ciels 2 master suites2 italian tile bathrooms, great corner apt on hi floor S/W expo great schools $5975 exclusive broker**** JMG 917 353-3161
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50s E. By appt. South facing 1br, 1bth, balc! Share/live/work! Bijan 917-378-7500 57th St E. By appt. Fully furnished stu in F/S dm bld. $2,000. Daniele 517-9100 x332 1619 3rd Ave, #11F. Sun 12-1:30. Cnv3, vu. F/S dm bldg w/gym. Galina 203-554-6728 165 Christopher St, #6J. Sun 2-4. Stu, chef kit, nu ba. $2,495. Charlie 917-376-1648 40th St, East Web#2464420 4 Rms
1BR from $3495 JR4 from $4250 2BR from $6895 NO FEE
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ELEGANT CORNER 2BR

Phenomenal 2BR with panoramic riv and city vus. LR w/FTC solarium windows, 9ft ceilings, granite windowed pass-thru kit, stainless appls, 2 marble bths, W/D, plus swim & squash club, children's playroom, 24hr concierge, doorman, valet and garage. $6,595. Immed. occup. (212) 650-1600. No fee!
80's W 200 W 84th St @ Amsterdam Ave
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42nd West No Fee
Lincoln Center 82nd St., 405 East, Apt. 4B Open House Sun. 1-3. Pre-war 1 BR, new kit, elevator, laundry, security sys, well maintained. No pets. No fee. $1975. Call 862-571-5145. 87th St, 201 E 3rd Ave
360 to 1450 sq ft
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Hi-flr 1BR with phenomenal Central Park vus. Sep dining area, open kit, spacious LR. 24hr concierge, doorman, pool & hc, terrace, garage. $4,995. Avail . (212) 268-1214. No fee! Fifth Ave/CP No Fee
Crown Jewel Penthouse

Private, exclusive, 3BR/3BTH hi-floor stunner. Breathtaking panoramic views. Express elevator. Lux lifestyle. Subzero & Wolf appls. Private Equinox on-site. One of kind. $19,500. Call for appt. ( 212) 691-6462. No fee. www.1mimatower.com
Midtown West No Fee
Wow!
Hi-flr Jr1BR w/stunning Central Park & River views. Spacious LR w/FTC windows & phenom light. 24hr concierge, doorman, pool & hc, sun terr, garage. $3,550. (212) 268-1214. Immed. Occup. No fee!
80s No Fee 502 Amsterdam Ave
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SPECTACULAR ROOFTOP HEALTHCLUB w/POOL
EPIC CITY & RIVER VISTAS

Phenomenal hi-flr 2BR/2BTH. Panoramic views. South expos. Private Equinox on-site. Subzero & Wolf appls. Tons of amenities. $8,425. Call to rent. ( 212) 691-6462. No fee! www.1mimatower.com 68th St E/#210 (3rd Ave) Best UES Loc Old world charm meets modern luxury Huge Penthouse home over 3100 sf. Outdoor space over 2200 sf. Top of the line appls, custom cabinetry, formal din rm, maids qtrs w/sep entrance, 3 master suites w/en suite bthrms. 2 WBFP, playrm, library, tremendous LR. $28,750 Call for Appt Terri 646.484.1931 (on-site)
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Amazing JR1BR on 54th flr. Phenomenal views. Private Equinox on-site. Subzero & Wolf appls. Tons of amenities. $4,395. Call to rent. ( 212) 691-6462. No fee! www.1mimatower.com October Occupancy 70's W/Fully furnished, exceptionally 50's West bright, 1 bdrm. Landmark building, penthouse floor, contemp furnishings. $3500. Turf NYC 917-969-0231 BPC
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55th Floor Gem

Fabulous 1BR with phenomenal vus. Private Equinox on-site. Subzero & Wolf appls.Tons of amenities. $5,095. Call to rent. ( 212) 691-6462. No fee! www.1mimatower.com
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Open city views from every room, large LR, windowed dining area, 3 BRs, 3 BTHs,W/D,Lux bldg, garage,$8,000 mo. Nicole Hatoun 212-836-1082 Corcoran
66th St, West
Park & River Views

FIFTH AVENUE
Hi-flr 2BR/2BTH with double expos, Central Park & river vus. Split BRs. Plenty of closets. 24hr concierge, doorman, pool & hc, sun terr, garage. $6,895. Avail . (212) 268-1214. No fee!
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SPECTACULAR ROOFTOP HEALTHCLUB w/POOL

STEPS AWAY FROM LINCOLN CENTER /CENTRAL PARK
93rd St East/Yorkville/UES No Fee 1 BR duplex, 2 full Baths, hdwd floors. Gas, heat & ht wtr. Bell/buzzer intercom. MIDTOWN / EAST - Furnished one bed- 54th St. East #250 No pets. Asking $2,700. Call 718-720-5776 WEB:0018446 room apt for rent. Cable, phone, high speed internet , flat screens. Call 646-465-5902 ww.nyctemphouses.com 900 +/- sq ft 1 BR, 1.5 marble bth, w/d in pristine cond. facing N/E. flr to ceil wndws, open city vus. Brazilian cherry Manhattan Unfurnished flrs. Equinox gym in bldg. $4,600 mo. One & Two Rooms 874 Phyllis Gallaway,212.606.7678 SOTHEBY'S INT'L REALTY 30's No Fee 155 E. 37th WWW.SOTHEBYSHOMES.COM/NYC 55 St, 420 E Sutton Gardens Granite Kitchenette w/Maple Cabinets, OPEN HOUSE Sun,10/14 1-2:30 SUNDAY. Bright, Hi Ceils, Walk-in Closets, HW Flr #2M. Lrg 1BR w/grdn vu, new kit.....$3300 Thomas Caponegro 917-658-7867 OPEN Sunday 2:30-3:30 #2A On-Site Broker: 212-371-0477 tcaponegro@bhsusa.com 212-206-6036 timeequities.com lic re bkr 68th St E/#210 (3rd Ave) Best UES Loc 40th St. E. / 2nd Highpoint . Hi-flr / balc, newly reno, granite & SS kit, new floors, DM / concierge. Health club, pool, launOld world charm meets modern luxury dry room, $2300 By owner 732-761-9979 1 Bed/1 Bath...................... starting at $3150 Loft-like PH/pvt wrap around terr. $4700 50th/2nd ** 311east 50th** Sunday 11-2 4 Bed/3 Bth washer/dryer in unit.. $11,900 Herringbone Flrs, High Beamed Ceils, WBFP, Marble Bths, Gourmet SS Kits, FT Doorman/Concierge, Complimentary State-of-the-Art Gym, Large LR, 12ft window entry foyer granite kithen itilian tile bath 3 lg closets Landscaped Roofdeck great building laundry JMG 917 -353-3161 Call for Appt Terri 646.484.1931 (on-site)
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BATTERY PARK CITY Waterfront-lux 2 BD, 2 BA, corner unit with balc., windows ceiling to floor, all amenities, with health spa. $7000 Call owner 973-540-0220 CPN-#217 LOW FEE Reno 2BR, 1bth, spectac views, granite counters/flr, d/w, micro, laundry. $2200 C all Broker: Cesar 646-734-2020 Visit us at: www.mynewapt.com Fifth Ave/CP No Fee
1BR from $3550 JR4 from $5875

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CENTRAL PARK STUNNER

Gracious hi-flr 3BR/3BTH with S & W expos, stunning Central Parkvus. Great WIC. 24hr concierge, doorman, pool & hc, sun terr, garage. $9,195. Avail . (212) 268-1214. No fee!
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HIGH ABOVE CENTRAL PARK

Hi-flr 1BR + home office with double expos & phenomenal Central Park vus. Tons of closets. 24hr concierge, doorman, pool & hc, sun terr, garage. $5,895. Avail . (212) 268-1214. No fee!
High Above It All

Deluxe 1BR/1.5 BTH on 55th flr with breathtaking vus. Private Equinox on-site. Subzero & Wolf appls. Tons of amenities. $6,395. Call to rent. ( 212) 691-6462. No fee! www.1mimatower.com
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RE NJ
Riverdale Apts. Unfurnished
1095
Brooklyn Coops & Condos
1125
256 ST/RIVERDALE AVE Riverdale Gardens

10Building Elevator Complex Rentals: Studio $950 ; 1 BR, $1,150. 718-549-7766 914-725-5590
Nassau/Suffolk Houses for Sale
Westchester County Coops & Condos 1405

Tuckahoe Village
1625
Luxury Condos
New Jersey Houses for Sale

ALPINE & VICINITY
1905
Bay Shore 2.5Acre Waterfrnt Estate In O-Co'Nee Assoc 5BR, 3.55Bth, FLR, FR, Lib, Billard, IGP w/Poolhse, 215 ft Bulkhd w/Deep Dock 631-300-7393 See WebID NS12100816952
BROOKLYN
(1100)
Garden City
Best Location
Beautiful Estate Home in the most desirable location in Garden City. Excellent opportunity to purchase at a price selected by Zillow.com. Great family home in country setting but near all conveniences. Call 516 742-5597 for more details. Serious inquiries only. 516-742-5597
Brooklyn Houses for Sale

Bay Ridge Sun 12-3pm
1105
634 88th St.
Sunfilled, mod'n brk home. 5 rms, 2 BRs, 2 bths, compl fin bsmt, pvt prk'g & yrd. Nr 86th St shops & trans. Price slashed! ONLY $545K Alpine Rlty 718-238-1788 BAY RIDGE 87th St. off Colonial Rd. 1 fam detached w/ pvt drive, 3 BR, 3 BA, fin bsmt, many upgrades, Must see Asking $899,000. Executive R.E. 718-344-1993 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS EXCLUSIVES Gdn Place 4 Story - Elegant & Stately! Recently reno'd, orig'l arch'l details, fpls, pocket drs, chef's SS kit, wine cellar, C/A, lndry, lush grdn & patio. $6.25M 2 Fam, 6 BRs, 3.5 bths + rental, wonderful oppty on great family block! $4,250,000
Take a 28 Minute Train Ride & Enjoy Rivervue's Scenic Riverwalk In Lower Westchester
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Knickerbocker/Lantana $389,000-Reduced Well cared for 4BR, 2-1/2 bth Colonial in desirable Manor section, renov Kitchen, new wIndows, newer roof, 1st flr BR and bath, enclosed porch., finshed basement. A must see!
OPEN TODAY 2-4PM ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS NORTH 519 E. PALISADE AVE

$1,295,000-Must Be Seen! Young lovely 4BR, 4-1/2 bath stucco colonial, high ceiIings, light and airy, many amenities, finished basement. Desirable location. ELEVATOR ON 3 FLOORS
PORT WASHINGTON
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ALPINE-RIO VISTA
LAND-One of the few lots left. Beautiful 2 acre lot on cul-de-sac. Call for info.
CRESSKILL
LAND-Tammy Brook Hills. Gorgeous high acre w/spectac sunset vws. Ready to build your dream house. $1,849,000
Kevin J Carberry 718.875.0033

kevincarberry.com CARROLL GARDENS 4 Story Brownstone on Carroll Street near Clinton - delivered vacant in short time. Premiere Properties 718-646-5656 Clinton Hills 4 story 3 family brownstone fireplaces and exposed brick select your own granite and colors central HVAC, 13ft ceilings 646-872-5600 See WebID NS12100923649 Windsor Terrace 11215, 561 16 st. 2 FA Brick Palatial house 3040 sq', 5 bedrms. ,4 baths. Principals only! Open house 10/14/12 1 to 4 718-600-6186 See WebID KENSINGTON - 370 Ocean Pkwy #9K NS12101016335 OPEN HOUSE 10/14 &10/21, 2-3:30pm 3 BR/2 B, 1980sf, DM, huge terr, $615K 917-435-4500 See WebID NS12081417062 Brooklyn
Nassau/Suffolk Coops & Condos

Jericho Hamlet E Mint Doral $759,000 View ONLY 10/13,14 Call 516-902-6613
1425
914.961.9003 RivervueCondo.com
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ENGLEWOOD
$1,049,000 East Hill. New Listing. Renovated 4BR , 2-1/2 bth brick & stone ranch on beautiful deep lot, Lg rooms, hrdwd floors, wrap around deck perfect for entertaining, fin bsmnt, move in condition!
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS NORTH

$1,100,000-100 x 120' lot for sale in excellent North Cliffs location. Ready to go! $2,295,000- Incredibly customized 6BR, 5.5Bth Brick Manor Exquisite finishes, built-ins, materials and details. Home Theatre. Huge Finished Basement. $2,545,000 -New Listing. Newer 7BR, 7- bth brick Colonial. Dramatic layout with floating staircase. 1st flr BR/bth. Huge fin lower level w/2BRs, 2bths, Rec Rm, Billiard Rm, Media Rm, w/outside access. Soaring ceils & skylts, generator, many updates. Wonderful cul-de-sac loc $2,995,000-Spectacular 8BR, 8- bath brick Colonial. High ceilings, moldings, great details, 3 fireplaces, heated floors, 2 staircases, wonderful finished lower level/theater. The ultimate in family living and entertaining. Top location. Lease for $14,000/month. Please call for lots in Englewood Cliffs
DUTCHESS COUNTY
(1710)
Coops & Condos
1125
DUMBO WEB ID: 0136025 Clocktower Condo across iconic Brklyn Bridge Prk. Convertible 2 bd, 1.5 bth, chef's kit, rfdeck, gym, 24hr concierge. Asking $1,475,000 Karen Heyman 212.810.4990 sothebyshomes.com/nyc BAY RIDGE 9902 Third Avenue
Brooklyn Apts. Unfurnished
WESTCHESTER COUNTY
(1600)
Dutchess County Houses for Rent
1713
1145 Westchester County Houses for Sale
BAY RIDGE: Verrazano Narrows 101 St. 1 Bdrm, wood floors, new windows, A/C, mint condition, 1st floor. By owner. $850/ month. Call 561-445-0398.
1605
Millbrook Area Charming Country Cottage on 8 acres, tastefully furnished, 3 BR, 2 baths, EIK, sat. TV, wi-fi, A/C, near TSP. $2500 p.m. References required. 845-266-3505
Hamilton Gardens Beaut 1BRs & Spacious 2 BR

with Water Vus & Renov Kitchens Resales Also Avail. On-Site Prkg Avail 718-630-5844 Main office: 212-686-9400 Offering by prospectus only Brooklyn Heights 360 Furman St, #1213 SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12-3PM WATERFRONT & PARK LIVING 1432 sf 2 BR/2 Bath Penthouse. Private terrace & wood burning fireplace. Full service bldg w/game rooms, gym, yoga studio & much more. Located in Brooklyn Bridge Park................$1,400,000 718.330.0030 Exclusive Sales: MNS Terms from sponsor. File #CD06-0770 Brooklyn Heights 360 Furman St, #842 OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN 12-3PM LIVE IN THE PARK 822sf 1BR with sunny Eastern exposure. Very spacious with chef's kitchen. Full service building located in BK Bridge Park. Gym, game room, yoga room, screening room, 24 hr attended lobby. Only $655K. 718.330.0030. Exclusive Sales: MNS. Terms from sponsor. File #CD06-0770 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS EXCLUSIVE Sweeping vus in prestigious 2500sf 3BR, 3 bth Co-op. 2 maid's rms, hi ceils, library, fpl, lndry rm, shared gdn. $2.75M
ORANGE Visit www.GINNEL.com COUNTY Kevin J Carberry 718.875.0033 For All MLS Listings & Our kevincarberry.com (1740) Oct. 14 Public Open Houses PARK SLOPE NO FEE Ginnel Real Estate 914-234-9234 Orange County ALL APARTMENTS RENOVATED
3 Rms(1bed) PPW vic 16 St. $1800 SUNSET PARK 4 Rms(2bed) 40 St vic 4/5 Ave $1725 3 Rms(1bed) 40 St vic 4/5 Ave $1425 718-788-7359 SLOPE REALTY 342-7 AVE Call Sun 10am-4pm or Mon-Fri 9am-4pm Equal Housing Opportunity
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS EXCLUSIVE 5 flr brownstone on the Promenade w/ Bedford & Vic . priceless vus & classic elegance. 8BRs, 7 bths, chef's kit. 18 mo lease. $14K/mo
FORT LEE
$535,000-Reduced. Side by side Townhouse, 3BR, 3-1/2 brick light & airy Lg Rooms, fin bsmt, sit across from park.
Houses for Sale
1741
RYE BROOK- 4 BR, 2.5 BA, Lg Family Rm w/ frplc, spacious, exc. schls, 3 zone ht, cent AC, sprinkler & alarm sys, full stand-up attic, 2 car lrg att gar, views. By owner, 914-934- 0599 $649K
MONROE 4BR/3BA spacious/secluded house w/ 38 private acres, 55min commute to NYC, stunning view of Catskills, reduced price $439,900. 845-782-9654 See WebID NS12100824510
TENAFLY EAST HILL

$3,395,000-Young beautiful brick classic Center Hall Colonial on gorgeous acre. 6 BRs, 5-1/2 Bth offers spacious layout w/high quality finishes, dramatic 2 story Great Rm, library, Grmt Kitchen, Garden Rm. Lower level offers Game Rm/Bar, theater, gym, spa. A very desirable loc. Also for rent $15,000/month
Park Slope 1,400 square foot commercial loft for office, artist, studio space, 14ft ceilings, skylights. $3,500/mo plus half oil bill. 718-788-2409 See WebID NS1103201358
Westchester County Coops & Condos
1625
GREENE COUNTY
(1770)
QUEENS
(1300)
MT. VERNON 625 N. Gramatan Ave. #6K. $125,900. Junior 4 1 BR, hrwd flrs throughout, parking space included. Open House Sun. 2-4pm. Call Tony 914262-2234 or Tony@anchornr.com
Greene County Houses for Sale
1771
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Bergen County/Fort Lee
Queens Apts. Unfurnished
1345
New Rochelle $544K OPEN HOUSE SUN 1-4 Renov. top flr, 3 BR /2 BA w/ 2 terr. Dir: 1273 North Ave. Ent. 6, Apt. 6AB.
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FOREST HILLS - Top flr studio,
Kevin J Carberry 718.875.0033
NO FEE. Sunny, great location, spaReal oppty! Remsen St L-shaped studio cious, sep kit, $949; Call Liz 516-922-1722 w/gorgeous vus, D/M, storage, common roof deck, steps to Montague St. $325K KEW GARDENS - Large 3 BR, 2 bath, w/d, renovated; parquet floors; Heat & HW inc.; Backyd; Near All. Credit Check. kevincarberry.com No Smoking. $2250. 718-578-5097
NEW YORK STATE

(1790)

ALPINE $5,688,000 Estate on 2+ manicured acres, dramatic entry foyer, gourmet kit, mahogany library, extensive millwork, radiant heating, 6 fplcs, hardwood flrs, walkout lower level, pool and spa. 6BR/7.5 Bths Cresskill/Tamcrest Estates $3,378,000 Classic CH Col, o'sized rms, all detailed flr & ceil mldgs, vaulted & barrel ceils, huge chef's kit, fam rm w/cathedral ceil, grt rm w/20' ceils, cherry paneled lib, billiard rm, theatre, gym, rec room, 1 ac. Priced below market. 6BR 6.5Bths CRESSKILL/Tammybrook $2,998,000
1905
Sun, 1-4pm
New York State Houses for Sale
SHORT HILLS
1791
Caverns Road Cobleskill Circa 1800s House, Several Outbuildings, Pond, 5 Fertile Acres, 200K OBO. Other land available. 518-287-1133 518-287-1102 See WebID NS12101023117 Howes Cave Homestead Circa 1800 house, several out buildings, pond, 5 fertile acres, $200K /obo. Other land avail. 518-287-1102 Lk Luzerne NY- Great House For Sale 237 Lk Av. Beautiful 2 story in quaint Adirondack town walk to lake! $229,000.00. 518 696-6038
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BEHIND THE WHEEL/2013 Acura RDX
Now Less Interesting, And All the Better for It

By JOHN PEARLEY HUFFMAN
HE most interesting thing about the 2007 Acura RDX compact crossover was that, unlike most of its luxury competitors, it didnt have a 6-cylinder engine. Instead, it used a turbocharged 2.3-liter 4-cylinder engine. The most interesting thing about its successor, the new 2013 RDX, is that the turbo 4 has been dropped in favor of a V-6. The 240-horsepower turbo engine made the first RDX quick but not all that fuel-efficient. Inside Line, the online enthusiasts magazine of Edmunds.com, clocked an 07 RDX ripping from 0 to 60 in 6.8 seconds. But calculated with todays methodology, the E.P.A. rating of that all-wheeldrive RDX was just 17 miles per gallon in town and 22 on the highway. (A front-drive version was added for 2010.) Owners who regularly revved the engine hard enough to keep the turbocharger spooled up could experience considerably worse fuel economy. The old RDX had the dumpy body of a grocery cart and the frantic heart of a sports car. In contrast, the new RDX and its 273-horsepower 3.5-liter V-6 are perfectly matched. Its a more handsome and tightly tailored machine than the departed model, but not so hand-
some or tailored that anyone would notice it in a sea of crossovers. And its now a better, easier-going instrument of family utility. The V-6 is a version of a silken, effortlessly athletic, single-overhead-cam engine found in several Honda products, including the Odyssey minivan and the
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SIX SHOOTER The RDX shares its body structure and assembly line with the Honda CR-V, but has two extra cylinders.
Acura TL and TSX sedans. It is mated to a new 6-speed automatic transmission (an upgrade from the old RDXs 5-speed) and includes a cylinder-management system that lets two or three cylinders loaf when engine loads are light during, say, highway cruising. The new all-wheel-drive model is rated at 19 m.p.g. in town and 27 on the highway and the front-drive RDX at 20/28. The five-seat crossover is based on the same unibody structure that under-
pins the immensely popular Honda CR-V which comes only with 4 cylinders and assembled alongside the CR-V in East Liberty, Ohio. The engineering is strictly conventional. The engine sits crosswise in the nose, the suspension has MacPherson struts in front and a multilink independent system in back. An antilock disc brake sits behind every wheel, and the rack-and-pinion steering has an electric assist. At 182.5 inches over a 104.3-inch wheelbase, the RDX is nearly four inches longer than the CR-V on a wheelbase thats 1.2 inches longer. Every 2013 RDX will be, from the outside at least, virtually indistinguishable
from any other. The $35,215 front-drive model includes perforated leather upholstery, power front seats, a rear backup camera and several ways to jack personal electronics into the sound system. Adding all-wheel drive lifts the price to $36,615. Adding a technology package which includes a power tailgate, navigation system, a wicked loud stereo and high-intensity headlamps, among other things pushes the front-drivers price to $38,915 and the all-wheel-drive machines to $40,315. Other options are dealer-installed items. The RDX performed flawlessly on a Huffman family trip from the District of Columbia to New York City. The V-6 was
powerful when it had to be and transitioned seamlessly to 4- and 3-cylinder operation. The transmission shifted almost without notice, and the deep overdrive sixth gear let the engine run at barely more than an idle while cruising at 65 m.p.h. Theres an avalanche of buttons and knobs to master in the cockpit, but the learning curve is shallow and each operates with precision. The instrumentation is straightforward and easy to scan. In fact the RDX drives so similarly to its big brother, the seven-passenger MDX, that its hard to come up with a Continued on Page 4 travel on land and water. In an interview at the companys Auburn Hills, Mich., headquarters, Mr. Jenkins said the Quadski was the first sports amphibian capable of being driven at high speed whether on its wheels or as a watercraft. The Quadski concept was developed in 2003, but the companys involvement in amphibious vehicles dates to its 1996 founding by a New Zealand entrepreneur, Alan Gibbs. Mr. Jenkins, a fifthgeneration engineer with a broad rsum that includes experience at British Aerospace and Leyland Vehicles, joined the company as a partner in 1998. The first Quadski prototype was built in 2005, and assembly-line production is scheduled to begin this month. Production estimates for the first year are projected at 1,000 vehicles, with models scheduled to arrive at retailers in November. The price will be around $40,000, the company says. Producing vehicles capable of traveling on water as well as land has been the goal of many companies including military contractors and some highly specialized vehicles are currently available. But the best known are the German-built Amphicars of the 1960s, of which fewer than 4,000 were made. Although capable of reaching highway speeds, they could chug along in the water at just 8 miles per hour or so. According to Mr. Jenkins, the Quadski takes a different approach. With modern technology, it was possible to create a vehicle that could do well on land and break free of the plane in water, Mr. Jenkins said. The key is to get it out of displacement mode, where its plowing through water, and up on the plane. To achieve that, the Quadski employs Continued on Page 4
After Romping in the Mud, You Can Take It for a Bath

By PAUL STENQUIST
OXFORD, Mich. IDING high on the saddle of the Gibbs Quadski a machine easily mistaken for an all-terrain vehicle but built to go places A.T.V.s wont I easily powered through the patch of soft sand. After a few minutes of tentatively feathering the throttle, I started to get a feel for the controls, gaining confidence in the Quadskis crisp responses and off-road prowess over the bumps and boulders of an unpaved trail. Hustling up a rocky embankment here at the testing grounds of the Quadskis maker, I cranked the handlebars left, downshifted to first gear and cautiously fed some gas with my right thumb while repeatedly poking the upshift button with my left. The speedometer swept past 40 m.p.h. as a cloud of dust rose behind me from the gravel road. So far, no major surprises from the Quadski, a new off-roader set to be introduced Monday by Gibbs Sports Amphibians. The Quadski is equipped with engineering delights like retractable wheels and a BMW motorcycle engine. What separates the Quadski from similar-looking machines lay just ahead: a small lake, where several Gibbs employees were waiting for me to
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arrive. Applying the disc brakes with a squeeze of the lever on the left handlebar, I rolled to a halt. The Gibbs crew swapped out my helmet for a flotation device and made sure I understood the vehicles simple controls.
After getting a thumbs-up from Gibbss chairman, Neil G. Jenkins, I accelerated to walking speed and drove into the lake. A few moments later, I felt the wheels lose contact; the Quadski drifted lazily. With a push of a dashboard switch the wheels retracted, and I opened the throttle wide. The Quadski rose up, most of its body out of the water plan-
ing, as boaters would say and quickly eclipsed that 40 m.p.h. mark again. Rushing toward the opposite shore, I turned the handlebars and the craft leaned predictably into a sweeping turn as a curtain of water played accompaniment. The Quadski is produced by Gibbs , a privately held company devoted solely to the development of vehicles that can
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A discontinued nameplate reappears on an Audi wagon, though it lacks all the off-road tricks of its predecessor. By Jerry Garrett. Page 2.
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Between Auto Show and Showroom, a Supercars Mettle Is Tested

By RONALD AHRENS
LAS VEGAS HEN a troupe of Porsche engineers arrived here on a Monday afternoon early this month, the flamboyant graphic designs covering their cars prototypes of the 918 Spyder, a supercar that is more than a year from its market debut barely distracted tourists from their preoccupations. Instead of stopping the show, the two otherworldly supercars slipped unobtrusively into a hotel driveway. The engineers were jubilant: a twoweek shakedown run, which started in Denver and proceeded through Phoenix on a meandering, blazing-hot route to San Francisco, revealed nothing to imperil the 918 Spyders scheduled production start-up of Sept. 18, 2013. A plug-in hybrid that combines electric drive and a midmounted gasoline V-8, the 918 Spyder is capable of highly efficient travel (when relying exclusively on battery power) or heroic feats (when the gas and electric power plants fully combine for 795 horsepower). Only 918 examples will be made; delivery to United States customers who have made a $200,000 deposit begins in January 2014, with each car priced at $854,000, not including shipping. While Porsche is experienced in creating ultrafast cars and knows its way around hybrid powertrains and the production of carbon-fiber chassis, the 918s complexity presents new challenges. The Western road test was intended to verify hot-weather performance, which was reported as satisfactory. The project director, Frank Walliser, and his colleagues also worked on harmonizing
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the cars myriad systems. The engineers looked for hiccups in drivability that would signal a need for further development of the cars software. The biggest job today is the integration of the car, Mr. Walliser, 43, said during a ride-along session held later that 97-degree afternoon in the Beehives section of the Valley of Fire State Park, northeast of here. The parks landscape of odd sandstone formations, eroded in the 150 million years since the Jurassic period, provided a contrasting setting for the futuristic Porsche. Against a low sun, with the rocks changing hues to sometimes match Mr. Wallisers orange T-shirt, it seemed as if a John Ford western might break out. Those who found the 918 Spyder design study so mesmerizing when it was introduced at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show would not be disappointed with the prototypes. Spattered and smudged from the journey up and down mountains and across searing basins, the cars closely resembled that sparkling concept. Key aspects that remain true include the huge wheels, 20 inches in front and 21 inches at the rear, and a signature swooping line that starts just behind each front wheel. The line continues rearward, opening up to intake scoops that supply radiators, one on each side, that cool the midmounted powertrain. The 918 Spyder has removable roof panels, similar to those of past 911 Targa models. The roofs pronounced doublebubble contours draw straight into a similarly undulant rear cowling. The Geneva cars electric-lime exterior and interior accents survive. And by standing directly in back and staring, as an early critic observed, you can still see
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the face of Donald Duck. Evolving to meet practical considerations like crashworthiness, the 918 Spyder has grown by six inches, to an overall length of roughly 183 inches. The gasoline engine has expanded, to 4.6 liters (580 horsepower) from the concept cars 3.4 liters. There are three electric motors, one at each front corner and a third integrated with the engine and transmission. A 7-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission regulates all this might. To lower the cars center of gravity, the transmission has been flipped upside down, placing the weighty gear clusters closer to the road. One notable change from the concept
car is the deletion of exhaust pipes that emerged through the bodywork just ahead of each rear wheel. Hot gases now exit upward through the rear cowl, with the two pipes looking like ships funnels. The temperature problem in back is very challenging, a powertrain engineer, Christian Hauck, said. We decided to get the heat as soon as possible out of the back. According to Mr. Walliser, the project is on target to meet its three main goals, which include delivering an evocative design, excelling at hotlaps around the Nrburgring and realizing a fuel economy equivalent of 70 m.p.g. when the car runs in electric mode. (As an E.V., it can go up to 15 miles on power from the 6.8-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery with a top speed of 90 m.p.h.) Glancing through the windshield at the square-crowned fenders and the desert shrubs beyond, I buckled into the passenger seat as Mr. Walliser demonstrated the small knob on the steering
wheel used to select the driving mode settings: electric, hybrid, sport and race. He took off forcefully with the car in its electric mode; aside from the lack of a clanging bell, it sounded and felt like an old-fashioned streetcar, grumpily urging us forward. Hybrid mode wakes the gas engine for variable assist between the two systems. Sport mode, with added assistance from the electric drive, knocked off my hat as I shot backward against the headrest. Race-mode acceleration was something else entirely, with all the raucous sounds of a cattle drive compressed into three surf-guitar seconds about how long it takes to go from 0 to 60 m.p.h. Abrupt crests and random whoop-de-dos on the park road did not flummox the suspension. But because of the dusty interior and the swarm of cables and electrical boxes, I kept thinking of the 918 Spyder prototype as a kit car instead of the state-of-the-art machine that will cost as much as four Bentley Continental GTs with enough left over to buy a Panamera S. Undoubtedly, this perception will recede as the 918 takes on its final polished form. Putting aside these subjective responses, though, questions linger about Porsches special sports car. Foremost is the daunting task of finishing development work in less than a year. Both prototypes balked at times, and the gray one was momentarily stilled at the side of the road during one ride-along. The second question is about the necessity of the hybrid electric drive system. Are the benefits really worth the cost and complication? Once its removed from the gaudy surroundings of the Las Vegas Strip, though, the 918 Spyder showed incomparable zing. Michael Hlscher, project manager for research at Porsche, said people had reacted generously throughout the teams journey. Ive never had such positive feedback, Mr. Hlscher said. Everybodys happy we made the car. I think we did the right thing.
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ON-ROADER The new Allroad lacks the adjustable air suspension of its more rugged namesake.
An Allroad Without Ups and Downs

By JERRY GARRETT
UDI says the introduction of a new Allroad wagon for the American market, after an eight-year absence, signifies the return of the icon. When the original model was withdrawn from the United States after the 2005 model year, it seemed less like an icon than a sales disappointment some 26,000 were sold over four years, well below initial estimates. But Audi now considers the first Allroad quite the success, for its day, for not being an S.U.V., a company spokesman, Mark Dahncke, said last week. Audi wagons are quite popular in Europe, and the Allroad continued to sell well there even after it became an orphan over here. Surviving Allroads still have a devoted following in the United States, selling even now at five-figure prices.
The original cars $40,000 sticker price seemed steep in the early 2000s, and that is surely one reason it didnt sell better. The handsome new Allroad is still around $40,000 $39,600 and a $875 delivery fee, to be exact. At a glance, given the inflation in German luxury cars of late, such a price seems more palatable than it did a decade ago. But unlike its predecessor, which came pretty well equipped in basic trim, the new Allroads window sticker can easily zoom higher. The top-line Prestige trim package adds $9,200 by itself, and Audi offers many, many more options. But one deal-making feature is not available, even as an option: a height-adjustable pneumatic suspension that raised the original model 2.6 inches for additional ground clearance when off-roading or storming through snow drifts. The air suspension is one of the features that made the Allroad more than a station wagon. So the new Allroads ground clearance is a rather modest 7.1 inches, just 1.5 inches more than the A4 Avant wagon it replaces. For comparisons sake, a Subaru Outback offers 8.7 inches. The Allroad does have a stainless steel skid plate, ostensibly to protect the underside from rocks, underbrush and other debris, but it seems more ornamental than utilitarian. Most measurements are either the same, or about a half-inch greater, than the A4 Avants. The dimensions are also similar to the 2001-5 Allroad,
even though that wagon was based on the A6 of the time. Put simply, the A4 has a larger footprint now, as does the A6. The Allroad offers the same 50 cubic feet of cargo capacity, with the rear seat folded, as the outgoing A4 Avant, but Audi says the space is more usable. The interior is thoroughly updated and quite plush; standard leather seating is an advantage over rivals like the Volvo XC70 or the BMW 328i xDrive Sports Wagon. The Allroad shares the A4 Avants 2-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, which makes 211 horsepower and 256 pound-feet of peak torque. Mileage is rated 20 m.p.g. in the city and 27 on the highway on premium fuel (compared with 21/29 for the outgoing Avant). Audi says the Allroad will accelerate from a stop to 60 m.p.h. in a sprightly 6.6 seconds. On the road, the Allroads ride height, extra weight and big 18-inch wheels and tires make it handle more like an S.U.V. and less like an Audi sedan. And while the ride is as butter-smooth as the Avants, the Allroad can tackle a broader spectrum of light-duty driving challenges. Still, its no off-roader. Most disappointingly, despite the capable quattro all-wheel-drive system, the Allroad is no longer equipped to scramble up rocky hillsides or bound through deeply rutted trails, or pull itself out of mud-bog gumbo like the original model. Audi does not even list performance measures like the towing capacity or the approach and departure angles matters of interest to off-roaders for the Allroad. For more diabolical on- and off-road conditions, the far less expensive Outback may be a more capable choice. When merely crunching numbers, there is a temptation to dismiss the Allroad as little more than an A4 Avant with skid plates, plastic cladding on the wheel arches and a $3,000 price bump. But beyond the specifications, on a purely subjective basis, the well-proportioned, generally pleasing Allroad falls somewhere between the Avant station wagon and Audis quite capable, less expensive Q5 sport utility. In that regard, it fills a niche in the lineup rather handsomely.
OYOTA announced on Wednesday that it was recalling 7.4 million vehicles worldwide, including 2.5 million in the United States, to repair power-window switches that can break down and pose a fire risk. The recall, the companys largest for a single part, could set back its efforts to recover from previous safety issues and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year. The vehicles affected in the United States include about a million Camrys. Eight months ago, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into reports of smoke and fire coming from drivers side doors. The safety agency collected reports of 161 fires and nine injuries. Toyota said it had traced the fire hazard to the master switch for controlling the power windows in the drivers door. Some of those switches may have a notchy or sticky feeling because the switch supplier did not apply grease evenly. The automaker said if commercially available lubricants were used to fix the problem, the switch could melt and lead to a fire under some circumstances. Toyota said there were no crashes related to the recall, but
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did not mention fires or injuries. These are the affected vehicles identified by Toyota: 2007-8 Yaris (covers about 110,300 vehicles) 2007-9 RAV4 (covers about 336,400 vehicles) 2007-9 Tundra (about 337,100 vehicles) 2007-9 Camry (about 938,100 vehicles) 2007-9 Camry Hybrid (about 116,800 vehicles) 2008-9 Scion xD (about 34,400 vehicles) 2008-9 Scion xB (about 77,500 vehicles ) 2008-9 Sequoia (about 38,500 vehicles) 2008 Highlander (about 135,400 vehicles)
2008 Highlander Hybrid (about 23,200 vehicles) 2009 Corolla (about 270,900 vehicles) 2009 Matrix (about 53,800 vehicles) Toyota said it would begin notifying owners by mail of the recall at the end of the month. Technicians will inspect, disassemble and apply grease to the switch free of charge. In 2009 and 2010, the company recalled more than 11 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles worldwide to replace floor mats and sticky accelerator pedals. The automaker has been seeking to reassure consumers about the quality of its vehicles since then.
Agency Warns Against Fake Air Bags

T a news conference Wednesday morning in Washington, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the Transportation Department, said it had learned that counterfeit air bags were being used as replacement parts in vehicles involved in crashes. The safety agency said it was not a pervasive problem, affecting less than 0.1 percent of the national fleet, but it identified a number of vehicles for which the counterfeit air bags were known to be available. While these air bags look nearly identical to certified, original equipment parts, including bearing the insignia and branding of major automakers, N.H.T.S.A. testing showed consistent malfunctioning ranging from nondeployment of the air bag to
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the expulsion of metal shrapnel during deployment, the agency said in a statement. Though the agency said it was not aware of any injuries related to the counterfeit products, it urged consumers to take immediate action if they thought their cars might fit the risk criteria. N.H.T.S.A. said that drivers who had an air bag replaced within the last three years at a
shop other than a new-car dealership should call a hot line maintained by the vehicles manufacturer to arrange an inspection. The inspection and any costs relating to an air bag replacement would be borne by the owner of the vehicle, the agency said. It did not identify a source for the counterfeit products, but noted that immigration and customs agents, as well as border protection authorities, were tracking what the agency called organized criminals. Among the vehicles for which counterfeit air bags have been available were recent model years of popular cars like the Toyota Camry and Prius, Chevrolet Cruze, Honda Accord and Civic, Nissan Altima, Ford Focus and Volkswagen Jetta.
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Amphibious Car Is Still Waiting To Catch a Wave

By PAUL STENQUIST
2013 Acura RDX: Less Interesting, And Better for It

From Page 1 reason, other than the MDXs third row of seats, to buy the larger, more expensive crossover. The ride is controlled, the 18-inch Michelin Pilot tires are quiet if not particularly grippy, and the seats are about as ergonomically accommodating as those in any vehicle not made by Gulfstream Aerospace. The RSX isnt exciting to drive, but its reassuring, confident and a bit muscular. Inside Line timed it at 6.5 seconds from 0 to 60 m.p.h. 0.3 second quicker than the old model, with less turbo drama. The old RDX had one of the best all-wheeldrive systems, which Acura calls Super Handling All Wheel Drive. First used on the flagship RL sedan, the system is truly full-time and features torque vectoring that sends power to the wheels with the most traction, improving handling through corners. The system made the original RDX a great-handling crossover, but few crossover customers seemed to crave it.
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F all goes according to plan, the 2013 Quadski will be the first amphibious vehicle from the Gibbs companies to make it into the sales distribution chain. But it wont be the first introduced as ready-for-market. In 2003 Gibbs launched the Aquada, an amphibious three-seat sports car. Aside from placing the driver in the center position, the Aquada looked like a normal roadgoing automobile and was said to be capable of speeds faster than 100 m.p.h. on pavement and 30 m.p.h. in the water. Although it didnt meet United States environmental and safety standards, the Aquada did meet European requirements, according to Neil G. Jenkins, chairman of Gibbs. The Aquada was, for the most part, well received. In Britain, the magazine Auto Express said it was more fun to drive than a lot of saloons, using the British term for sedans. Time Magazine named it to a list of the best inventions of 2003. In 2004, Richard Branson crossed the English Channel in an Aquada, setting a record and generating media attention. The Aquada was built around the V-6 engine of the Land Rover Freelander. But by the time Aquadas rolled off the assembly line, future availability of the Rover engines was in doubt. Accord-
SCUTTLED Production plans for the Aquada amphibious sports car were shelved in 2004.
ing to Mr. Jenkins, the company had made almost 50 vehicles when the decision was made to shut down. Mr. Jenkins said the company still owned those vehicles but would not sell them because it could not provide proper customer support. He added that the Aquada program had not been canceled; it was on the back burner until a new engine supplier was chosen and United States regulatory hurdles could be cleared. Those hurdles are significant. According to Mr. Jenkins, the company is no longer interested in a market plan that would not include North America, but to meet federal safety standards the Aquada must be equipped with air bags and sensor systems able to withstand a saltwater environment. Those are not off-the-shelf components. Thats not all: while a catalytic converter is
necessary to meet emission requirements for landbased vehicles, the heat generated by that device could exceed Coast Guard standards. Other problems remain to be solved, but Mr. Jenkins said that federal agencies and the Coast Guard were working with the company to resolve them. Since the Aquada project was shelved in 2004, its reincarnation was announced at least once. In 2007, according to news reports, Gibbs said that the Aquada would be introduced in 2009 and priced at $85,000. Annual sales of 100,000 vehicles were projected. In addition to Aquada and Quadski, Gibbs has developed two large vehicles for military and emergency first-responder use: the Humdinga and the Phibian. Mr. Jenkins said that both were ready for the marketplace and that the company was seeking a partner to produce them.
After Romps in the Mud, You Can Take It for a Bath

From Page 1 a lightweight hull of fiberglass composite. The components of the double-wishbone suspension mount on the outside of the hull, and the wheels are raised for marine duty by electric motors. The Quadski is powered by a 175-horsepower 1.3-liter 4-cylinder that Gibbs buys from BMW. Its nearly identical to the engine in the BMW K1300S HP motorcycle and is backed by a 6-speed transmission. On the motorcycle, the engine is equipped with a manual clutch; here, an automatic clutch releases when necessary. Upshifts are made with the push of a button. Manual downshifts can be achieved similarly, but if the rider neglects to downshift, an electronic control unit will do it when speed drops below a preset limit. Power is directed to a limited-slip differential that drives the rear wheels by means of conventional axles. In the water, the vehicle is propelled by a water-pump thrust system like that of a Jet Ski watercraft, but, according to Mr. Jenkins, lighter and more compact. Although the water jet provides motive power only in water, it is always operating. When the Quadski is driven on land, the engines output is restricted to limit top speed to 45 m.p.h. In water, the engines full power is available. At the helm of the Quadski, I found that once a spurt of acceleration pulled the hull out of the water it would continue to ride that way even after backing off the throttle. Cruising at a leisurely pace was pleasant and relaxing. Ripping over the water at full throttle didnt seem to require any special skills, and the sensation of speed magnified by the proximity of the water and the blast of waterAccording to Mr. Jenkins, Gibbs has been working on amphibious vehicles for 15 years and has produced eight platforms, including the carlike Aquada of 2003, which was shelved after the loss of an engine supplier, and several large amphibious vehicles meant for military and first-responder use. Mr. Jenkins said the companys investment in amphibious vehicles amounts to about two million man-hours and $200 million. Much of that financing came from Mr. Gibbs, the companys chief strategy officer. He helped develop the technology for the amphibians, Mr. Jenkins said. Mr. Gibbs is still actively managing the companys projects and travels regularly to offices in New Zealand, London and Michigan. According to a Gibbs spokesman, Graham Jenkins, Mr. Gibbs and Neil Jenkins are the companys only stakeholders. The company has about 100 employees. When I visited the Michigan headquarters last month, many of them were busy transporting assemblyline equipment and parts from an engineering facility in Lake Orion, Mich., to the plant in Auburn Hills where the Quadskis will be assembled. We are finally committing ourselves to the discipline of the market, Mr. Jenkins said. Have we developed something the market wants? The answer should come soon.
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VERSATILE A BMW motorcycle engine powers
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cooled air was thrilling. To return to dry land, the driver lowers the wheels where the water is at least two feet deep. The driving wheels turn and the jet unit adds propulsion, enabling the craft to climb briskly onto shore.
The new system is simpler. Most of the time the RDX operates in front-wheel drive, but when the system senses wheel slippage, up to half the torque can be diverted to the rear wheels. During a cloudburst in Maryland I think I felt the system kicking in, but I cant be sure. For how most people use their crossovers, allwheel drive may be irrelevant. Almost all new vehicles have electronic traction and stability controls, and these have been refined to the point that they can keep almost anyone out of trouble when the weather turns slushy. All-wheel drive adds about 120 pounds to the weight and $1,400 to the sticker price. It also shaves the fuel economy ratings. And while it might be a desirable asset for an RDX that will spend its life in Alaska, Vermont or North Dakota, it could be harder to justify where the winters are milder. Up against excellent competition like the BMW X3, Audi Q5 and Infiniti EX35, the RDX stands out by blending in. It has a low-key, unpretentious personality that works for it. Interesting, it turns out, isnt for everyone.
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An Avenue of Vice
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By SARAH MASLIN NIR
HEN the Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to get rid of a colony of pigeons that roosted under the elevated subway that runs down the middle of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens several years ago, it installed anti-pigeon spikes and sound machines to drive the birds off. The birds decamped, but only to the trees next to the tracks, where they continued to befoul the street below, according to local residents. When the parks department pruned the trees, the birds headed back to the tracks to another spot. Now, the transit agency continues to power-wash the caked-on debris away. Thats what the fight against vice is like on Roosevelt Avenue, where efforts by the city to clean up a street that is home not only to pigeons, but also to a host of criminal activities, often play out like the carnival game Whac-AMole: go after one form of wrongdoing and it will re-emerge somewhere else in a slightly different form. A common refrain about Roosevelt, which
On Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, illicit activities remain a stubborn presence, shifting and adapting despite efforts to drive them out.
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COMMON SIGHT A man passed out on Roose-
velt Avenue. The Corona neighborhood, where bars are plentiful, has one of the highest number of liquor licenses in the city.
blocks off Roosevelt, ignored by pedestrians who thought he had passed out after a late night. When you walk up and down Roosevelt Avenue, youll see the dirt, said State Senator Jos R. Peralta, a Democrat whose district includes Corona and Jackson Heights. Its a walk past street hawkers who offer fake Social Security cards with a whisper, Social, social, and past men palming cards emblazoned with pictures of near-naked women and a phone number to passers-by. They mutter, Chica, chica. They are mixed in with folks that are just doing the regular foot traffic, Mr. Peralta said. For decades, extraordinary policing efforts have been applied to the problems on this avenue, including a citywide task force and, more recently, a designation as a New York Police DeContinued on Page 6
slices across Queens from Queens Boulevard to Northern Boulevard, is that the seediness pushed out of Times Square merely re-established itself there, finding a new home especially in the Corona and Jackson Heights neighborhoods, according to residents, advocates and law enforcement officials. Today, prostitution and counterfeiting industries are tucked alongside the Mexican restaurants, Dominican baker-
ies, Colombian boutiques and the nightclubs where men many of them new immigrants working to feed families left behind in their homelands can buy the company of a woman by paying $2 for a dance. Late at night, the sight of drunken men slumped on the streets outside bars is so common that in September, a young man who was stabbed bled to death on the pavement a few
Dear Teacher, Johnny Is Skipping the Test

By SONI SANGHA
ATER this month, children at 169 New York City elementary and middle schools will, for the second time in a calendar year, take a 40minute field test in math and English language arts to determine which questions will go on future state standardized exams. Lori Chajets daughter will not be among them, though the tests are scheduled to be given at her school, Public School 321, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Nor will many students at Public School 261 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, or children at schools across District 6 in northern Manhattan. Ms. Chajets objection is not to testing itself, but to the way tests are being used to evaluate schools and teachers. I want my school to use tests to help instruction, to help find out if kids dont know fractions, she said. I dont want my child to feel like her score will decide if her teacher has a job or not. Ms. Chajet is one of a small but growing number of parent activists in New York City opposed to the systems emphasis on high-stakes testing. Many of them took part in a boycott of the field tests in June, when parents at 47 public elementary and middle schools of the 1,029 tested had their children sit them out. In their eyes, it was a win-win situation: Children who skipped the field tests did not risk punitive action or potential harm to their schools grade on the citys progress reports, while their parents could make a statement against the tests.
Gift, and a Tragedy, Born of a Car Culture

It is a common refrain of some parents in New York City that the considerable burdens of raising children here financial, logistical, emotional are outweighed by the considerable benefits of living in a place where driving is neither necessary nor consecrated. The 17-year-old living on the Upper West Side suffers no status wounds without a car; in a sense, a dismissal of driving is its own mark of neurotic urbanity. Many of us can easily summon the names of friends natives who at 38 have still never bothered to get a license and, thus, deBIG pend on sisters, husbands, neighbors, in-laws to CITY take them to Costco or Montauk. As with so many generalizations about the city originating among the upper middle class, this one that teenagers live at a welcome remove from car culture begins to disintegrate once we find ourselves beyond Manhattan and the various moneyed enclaves of Brooklyn. This became tragically apparent last week, after an accident on the Southern State Parkway involving five teenage boys from Queens, four of whom had been classmates at Richmond Hill High School. All but the driver, Joseph Beer, were killed after the car lost course in Malverne, N.Y., shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Monday. It is an odd facet of modern life that while we demand helmets for 3-year-olds riding two feet above ground on their scooters, we allow children to drive before they can vote. Mr. Beer is 17 and had only a learners permit, which New York State issues with various restrictions that he violated, including the requireContinued on Page 7
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PROTESTING Andrea Mata, second from left, back row, and other parents have banded together to oppose a focus on tests.
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At Home in the Apollo Theater

Billy Mitchell, the resident historian and official tour guide for the Apollo Theater in Harlem, started working at the famous music hall in 1965, when he was 15. As he tells the story, his mother sent him from their home in the Bronx to borrow money from his Aunt Essie, who lived across the street from the theater. His aunt wasnt home, so he hung around the stage door and wound up fetching coffee for that evenings acts a simple errand that over time led to a larger career. These days, Mr. Mitchell, 62, leads several tours a month, usually on Sunday, then spends the rest of the day exploring places in the city where black history runs deep and relaxing with his wife, Barbara, their daughter, Brittney, 23, and the rest of his extended family at home in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
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After my tours are done, I make my way down the West Side to the African Burial Ground. Its at the Chambers Street exit on the highway. I go to Broadway and park my car somewhere and then head toward the monument. I walk around for a while and just kind of meditate and say a prayer for my ancestors. Its something I do every week, usually around 4 p.m.
FAMILY AWAITS After that, I
cross the Brooklyn Bridge and head home. I go up Atlantic Avenue and then up Vanderbilt to Eastern Parkway. Usually, my in-laws are there by the time I get back: my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Its like after 4:30 now, and theyre all talking, blah, blah, blah. So I go into the bedroom and just relax for a few minutes.
DINNERS ON Then my wife says,
THE GIG Normally on a Sunday,
I give my first tour at 11 a.m., so I jump in the shower and Im out the door by 9. Ill get to the theater early, grab a little coffee and find out the name of the group thats coming in that day. I always have the schedule, but I never know how many people its going to be. The tours are scheduled to last an hour, but theyre always longer, like an hour and a half. I really get into them, and people love them, too. Most people dont know the history of the theater, but I paint a picture of the Apollo and how it fits into the history of Harlem.
You ready to eat? The food she makes varies. My wife watches all these cooking programs and experiments on me and my daughter. She cooks up fried chicken, or macaroni and greens. Its all delicious.
CHILLING OUT After I eat, I go
back to my room and chill out a little more because I dont want to be in the living room with the ladies talking. When its time for them to go, they take out all the plastic containers they brought and fill them with the food my wife cooked. She cooks enough stuff to last us all, all week.
CLEANING UP Once they pack
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segment is the best. People love getting up onstage. Theyll sing a song, or dance, or tell a joke. Pictures are allowed, so they can brag to their friends that they performed at the Apollo. We visit the dressing rooms and see the wall of signatures. Anyone whos been to or performed at the Apollo in the last 20 years has their name on the wall from Pee-wee Herman to the president of the United
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their food, I walk them to their car. I say, You ladies get home safe, blah, blah. Then I help my wife clean up from the mess she made. My wife makes a mess. She cooks very good, but, man, she makes a mess. I empty the garbage and then go back to the bedroom or lay in the living room and watch some sports. Thats around 8:30. At 11, I take a shower and its back in bed for the night. Nothing extravagant.
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Q. Someone told me that Dale
Carnegie, the expert on salesmanship and public speaking, was named after Carnegie Hall. True?
A. True. Dale Carnegie, the au-
thor of the perennial best seller How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), was born Dale Carnagay on a Missouri farm in 1888, according to the Encyclopedia of New York City. A salesman and failed actor, he moved to New York and began teaching public speaking at the Young Mens Christian Association. In time, Carnagay opened his own office. It was in the Carnegie Hall Building, next to the E-mail: fyi@nytimes.com
concert hall on West 57th Street, and the teacher adopted its name. Dale Carnegie died in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, in 1955. Today, Dale Carnegie Training programs offer courses in 25 languages and in 80 countries. His 1936 classic has sold more than 15 million copies, according to Amazon.com. Dale Carnegie was not the only famous person believed to have taken the name of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who financed the construction of Carnegie Hall and whose mansion on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue is now the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Henrietta Kanengeiser (1886-
apparently after Andrew, according to the Encyclopedia of New York City. She moved to the Lower East Side before 1900 to join her immigrant father, and began her career as a teenage messenger girl at Macys with a wardrobe of three blouses and a skirt. Later, her own retail shop was at 42 East 49th Street. She also made millinery, jewelry, perfume and cosmetics. With their rags-to-riches stories, their personASSOCIATED PRESS alities and, in Hatties case, her own fashion ap1956), who moved to New York from Vienna and became one of pearances, Hattie Carnegie and the countrys foremost fashion Dale Carnegie were their busidesigners in the 1930s and 40s, nesses own best advertiseMICHAEL POLLAK took the name Hattie Carnegie, ments.
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Pampering For Mothers Who Nurse

By JESSICA GROSE
NDERNEATH Yummy Mummys cheerful purple awning on Lexington Avenue between 81st and 82nd Streets, a mannequin wearing a Boob brand striped nursing top has one breast peeking out. The cheeky tableau announces the shops mission as clearly as the slogan stenciled on the door: Happy breastfeeding. Equal parts upscale boutique and Duane Reade, the bright, well-organized space offers new and expectant mothers practical nursing necessities and a little necessary pampering for their breasts. And with products like Nummies brand nursing bras, goats rue herbal supplements (to increase breast milk production) and Earth Mama nipple butter, it can be hard to tell which is which. The stores pumps, mostly made by Medela, camouflage their medical-equipment origins in smooth molded plastic and
rubber-duckie yellow. A pump in style rig if a backpack counts as stylish on the Upper East Side runs the new mother $299; the freestyle, which clips onto her belt like an engorged BlackBerry, costs $379. Hospital-grade pumps are available for rental, as well. On a recent early Thursday afternoon, a woman sat on a plush couch in the back to nurse her infant daughter while early Michael Jackson played in the background. She had just bought some nipple shields small pieces of silicone that can make breast-feeding easier for infants. The stores owner, Amanda Cole, lent her a hot-pink patterned pillow to strap around her waist to support the baby. Soon, her daughter was happily sucking away, and the woman was chatting with Ms. Cole about how her older son was adjusting to the new addition to the family. In the Manhattan work-life ballet, doing what comes naturally can get pretty complicated. So when Ms. Cole, 36, opened the store in 2009, the idea was to offer nursing mothers both products and instruction: breast-feeding classes, prenatal yoga and events like doula speed dating, in which expectant parents can meet and choose a labor coach. When I first had to use my breast pump, Ms. Cole recalled, I called my sister, who luckily lived across the street, and I was like, Get over here, I have no idea what to do, this apparatus is so scary. The shop serves local professionals and stay-at-home moms and receives a steady stream of business from women visiting obstetricians affiliated with Lenox
Hill Hospital nearby. On this Thursday, one woman arrived with her husband and baby in tow. The man stood uncomfortably amid the maternal miscellany while the woman tried on a series of nursing-friendly nightgowns in blue and black. They always feel like theyre the first dad thats ever come in here, Ms. Cole observed. By 6 p.m., most of the shoppers had drifted out, and the women attending the evenings prenatal breast-feeding class started to trickle in. Wendy Schwartz, who lives on the Upper West Side, was expecting her second child in two weeks and had come for a refresher. We didnt think wed have another, she said. So we threw everything out and forgot everything. The classs teacher, Kate Sharp, has been a lactation consultant for 24 years, and she projected a tidy and confident air. She wore very sensible shoes. She put in a DVD, and the screen displayed a newborn scooting toward her mothers breast without any help. Ms. Sharp turned off the sound (goofy childbirth music, she sniffed), but told the class to watch how the baby instinctively made her way to the food source. Ms. Sharp had a baby doll dressed in a red onesie that she used to show the class proper positioning. She leaned back against her chair with the doll propped against her chest to show how easily a baby could be supported. Just do this, she said, offering advice as old as motherhood itself, and youll feel like a magician.
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The Operas Wardrobe Diva
ITH 15 minutes before curtain at the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday, Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, 51, was still waiting outside the dressing room of the renowned Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. It was Ms. Gomez-Pizzos job to squeeze the singer into a peasant gown and get her corseted and onstage to sing the lead role of Adina in Donizettis LElisir dAmore. With the orchestra warming up and the house filling, Ms. Netrebko yelled for Ms. Gomez-Pizzo, but it was for something much more important than some costume. The diva wanted chocolate. Ms. Gomez-Pizzos duties, as wardrobe supervisor for the female leads, do not officially include chocolate runs. But she disappeared, returning moments later with an armful of varieties. Another meltdown averted. How much of this job is about keeping them happy? All of it, she said outside the lead singers dressing rooms, listening to powerful voices being warmed up. The singers are not put into their elaborate dresses until eight minutes before curtain, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo said otherwise theyd be sitting around ruining their clothes. Finally, she put Ms. Netrebko into the red peasant dress and laced up the leather waist cincher. Ready? she warned, and gave a final yank, yoking the singers midsection and forcing a fortissimo yelp from the star. Then they headed through the busy backstage area, past huge sets for Carmen and The Tempest, weaving through soldiers, peasants, stagehands and opera executives. The sea of choreographed chaos parted for Ms. Netrebko as though she were a tribal queen, with Ms. Gomez-Pizzo keeping her ladys dress off the floor. When an earring broke, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo dashed back for a replacement and fixed things just as the star took the stage. Staying with the singer to the end is as much about maintaining her confidence as her costume, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo said. They know that if they blow a note, the whole world hears it, and that youre the only constant they have, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo said, now back in her office, where dozens of period gowns hang for the weeks performances and afternoon rehearsals. Ms. Gomez-Pizzos duties include maintaining, cleaning, altering and pressing the dresses, she said, giving a playful swing to the long gown that the singer Rene Fleming wore in the previous nights perform-
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DINER ACOLYTES From left: Elise Minter, Dovie F. Wingard,
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A Toast, and a Last Hurrah

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CINCH Suzi Gomez-Pizzo dresses the soprano Anna Netrebko.
ance as Desdemona in Verdis Otello. Ms. Gomez-Pizzo is unflappable as a pit stop mechanic, and she keeps a variety of tools, like sewing supplies, clips and tape, in the pockets of her oversize vest. Now in her sixth season at the Met Opera, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo grew up in the Manhattanville housing project in Harlem and now lives a short walk from Lincoln Center on West 55th Street. When a new performer arrives, it is often Ms. Gomez-Pizzo who becomes her first confidante. They come to the Met and its, Hi, Im your dresser, now get naked, she said. Its the most vulnerable way you can meet someone. That intimacy has led to strong friendships with many of the biggest sopranos in
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NAME Suzi Gomez-Pizzo AGE 51 WHERE SHES FROM Harlem WHAT SHE IS Diva dresser TELLING DETAIL Ms. Gomez-Pizzo has what her colleagues call the perfect approach to dealing with temperamental performers. Ive had singers with food poisoning, she said. I come in, give them some tea and say, Lets go, and push them out there.
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the business, said Anne-Carolyn Bird, who was singing Giannetta on Wednesday night. Ms. Gomez-Pizzo winds up hearing much of the singers gossip. Suzi gets let in on all the soprano pregnancies, she said. Ms. Gomez-Pizzo added, Also whos getting married, engaged and divorced. As for the pregnancies, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo said, I can usually figure it out. Ms. Gomez-Pizzo is especially close with Ms. Netrebko, with whom she banters constantly. For the wedding scene Wednesday night, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo changed the singer into a white dress, and then warned her to be careful while eating roast chicken onstage. If she gets grease on a white wedding dress, you will hear me cursing her out in Spanish, said Ms. Gomez-Pizzo, who, after studying costume design in college, began working in the Mets costume shop. Then she became a wardrobe supervisor with the Alvin Ailey dance company, and then a dresser on Broadway, tending to stars including Julie Andrews and Liza Minnelli. While in the darkened backstage area, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo pulled over a burly worker. It was her husband, James Pizzo, an assistant carpenter. She had her eye on him back when he was a curtain operator, so she told the French singer Natalie Dessay to look him over during a curtain call after a performance of La Fille du Rgiment. Ms. Dessay gave him the thumbs up. Thats all it took, Ms. Gomez-Pizzo said.
There is no chocolate pudding at this museum cafeteria. But there is blood pudding, beef cheek stroganoff and maple pie at M. Wells Dinette. The Montreal chef Hugue Dufour and his wife, Sarah Obraitis, earned foodie fame for their short-lived M. Wells Diner in Long Island City, Queens. Their new venture opened three weeks ago inside nearby MoMA P.S. 1, blending a schoolroom motif (desks and chalkboards) with diner accents (chrome and stools). Early this month, they doused controversy by striking a planned dish of horse meat tartare from the menu, but they still offer plenty of adventure to the loyalists, neighborhood workers and unsuspecting museumgoers LIZ ROBBINS who stream inside for lunch.
IN THE SEATS Elise Minter, 27, and her aunt, Dovie F. Wingard, 61, sharing a communal table, and dessert, on Thursday with Ramona Ponce, 53, her husband, Eric Mueller, 50, and Paul Soulellis, 44. WHY THEY CAME Ms. Wingard, a retired lawyer, was treating her niece before she starts in the profession on Monday. They were Diner acolytes, as were their tablemates, artists having a monthly reunion. ON THE PLATES To start, Ms. Wingard and Ms. Minter shared the smoked herring Caesar salad ($8) and rabbit terrine ($13). Then they ordered cod brandade, with mashed potatoes, black olive oil and ovendried tomatoes ($10); and beef cheek stroganoff ($16). They had glasses of petit syrah ($10) and cabernet franc ($10). For dessert, Ms. Minter ordered the Paris-Brest, a pastry wheel filled with hazelnut butter cream ($15); and pumpkin tres leches ($10). Mr. Soulellis started with the M. Wells version of French onion soup ($9), as did Mr. Mueller, who called the cheese, rosemary and bacon mlange voluptuous. Ms. Ponce was agog over her escargot and bone marrow ($12). For entrees, Mr. Soulellis had the stroganoff. Ms. Ponce and Mr. Mueller ordered bibimbap with raw tuna, poached egg, oyster and marinated raw scallops over rice with red wine vinegar and maple sauce and (the M. Wells signature) shaved foie gras ($22). The five diners compared notes. I saw you soldiering on, one dish after another, Ms. Ponce joked to the other women, who donated their leftover Paris-Brest, while Mr. Mueller ordered maple pie ($7). WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT Ms. Wingard was sharing work-life balance tips with her niece. Im not sure she can have a life for a while, Ms. Wingard said. Ms. Minter agreed: This is a last hurrah. There were toasts, meanwhile, to Ms. Ponces and Mr. Muellers coming wedding anniversary on Halloween. Whenever we get together, its a celebration, Mr. Soulellis, a book artist, said. None at the table were troubled by the horse meat hullabaloo. Ms. Wingard had eaten horse in France. Ms. Minter had just had foal carpaccio in Iceland. And Mr. Mueller might have tried it at M. Wells, where, he said, ordering an odd menu item reliably changes from a risk to a good investment.
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From Page 1 partment Operation Impact Zone, which means the area is flooded with patrols. And yet, even as overall crime in the city and along Roosevelt Avenue has fallen, certain crimes have stubbornly resisted stifling. The long-running battle for Roosevelt Avenue reveals the adaptive abilities of certain criminal industries that fly off, only to come back. And it shows, community members and political leaders say, how various solutions to crime have created their own problems, like residents deep mistrust of the police. Its like a balloon, said Anthony M. Communiello, a Queens assistant district attorney and chief of the Special Proceedings Bureau, which tackles crimes like sex-trafficking and promoting prostitution, problems that flourish on Roosevelt Avenue. If you squeeze it at one point, its going to expand in another point. OOSEVELT AVENUE thrums at any hour of the day. In the morning, its bright with children hustling to school. At dusk, shoppers arrive in droves to stock up on groceries at busy bodegas. At all hours, the 7 train hurtles overhead. Where it passes at night between 69th Street and 112th Street, above parts of Jackson Heights and Corona, the street heats up. Women lean against the doorways of bars that throb even on a Wednesday night; street vendors hawk South and Central American specialties until dawn, and clusters of police officers pad endlessly down the street. On a gray afternoon recently, a 40year-old woman who was forced to work in the brothels and did not want her name used because her children dont know about her past, walked down Roosevelt, pointing out the houses of prostitution that once operated openly here. These were places she once worked after being brought here by a sex trafficker from her native Venezuela in the early 90s. Until 1996, she had sex with men for money here, often in second-story offices subdivided into cubicles with mattresses on the floor. (She now cleans houses for a living and is also an activist against the sex trade.) On this afternoon, she paused often, racked with sobs. The storefront brothels are gone and a glossy medical building now stands at the spot where one of the most notorious houses once thrived largely because of the Roosevelt Avenue Task Force convened in 1991; it drew from the Police, Fire, Buildings Departments and other agencies. In four years, it closed more than 85 brothels, according to the office of the Queens borough president, Helen M. Marshall. The task force was so successful that it was allowed to lapse after 1996, seemingly with little left to fight. But today, the 115th Precinct, which covers much of Roosevelt Avenue, again makes among the most prostitution arrests in the city: 255 last year, according to the State Division of Criminal Justice Services. The traditional method of fighting prostitution here 20 years ago was to arrest prostitutes and brothel employees, but the true ringleaders would remain at large, Mr. Communiello, the Queens assistant district attorney, said. The woman trafficked from Venezuela was arrested five times back then. But each time she was released, one of her pimps flunkies collected her. After the task force cracked down, the industry merely adapted. Instead of working in houses, the women started operating out of cars. Livery-cab drivers acted as a delivery service, taking women and girls to clients, according to Dorchen A. Leidholdt, the director of the Center for Battered Womens Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families, which provides services to victims of gender-based crimes. A 25-year-old woman who was trafficked from Mexico testified before the City Council last year after she was prostituted for 14 months from Roosevelt. She said the drivers were more than mere delivery men; they printed up and distributed business cards advertising the women for hire. Clients then called the drivers, who arranged to deliver the goods at a set time and place, she said. The driver would organize the route so that we could hit as many different clients as possible in one shift, the woman continued. On a weekend shift, she might be forced to have sex with 30 men. For that, the driver took half of the money, and the other half went to her pimp. I kept none of it, she said. This summer, the City Council passed legislation to add steep penalties for drivers convicted of being involved in the sex trade. The bill was introduced by Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras, a Democrat whose district includes the Corona neighborhood, and modeled in part after a bill that Mr. Peralta introduced in the State Senate. And still, it evolves. Recently, a former colleague told the woman from Venezuela how he stayed in business: His brothels are now on wheels; women sit in a parked van all day, waiting to be ferried to their customers.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
NIGHT LIFE A woman outside a nightclub on Roosevelt Avenue last month. Locals say the seediness pushed out of Times Square re-established itself here.
An Avenue of Vice
An illegal immigrant fears being caught up in a police dragnet against crime in the neighborhood.
IMMIGRANT Vicente, electrician from Ecuador. SEX-TRAFFICKING VICTIM Now an advocate.
A woman revisits the sites of former brothels where she was forced into the sex trade in the 1990s.
110th Precinct, which covers the south side of the avenue, has gone down 30 percent, according to Inspector Royster; on the north side, the 115th Precinct has seen it fall further, by 35 percent. (The impact officers are deployed out of the 115th Precinct, but work in both precincts.) In this dragnet for violent crime, lowlevel offenders are also being swept up. The Corona neighborhood, where the $2 dance bars proliferate on Roosevelt, has one of the highest number of liquor licenses in the city, according to the State Liquor Authority. The sheer number of bars has contributed to the more than 5,000 criminal court summonses the police have issued so far this year, according to Inspector Royster, for violations like open containers and urinating in public. If you have officers deployed in an area for violent crime, you cant ignore those quality-of-life issues, too, she said. But many residents like Felipe, 42, an Ecuadorean immigrant, who like others interviewed spoke only on the condition that he not be fully identified because he was working here illegally, said the influx of officers meant that many residents felt they were being stopped and searched by the police without cause. Indeed, while officers working out of the 115th Precinct stopped people 18,156 times last year (in 13,058 of those stops, people were also frisked), more than 91 percent of the time no summons were issued and no arrests were made, according to a separate analysis of police data by The Times. There is a need for tools like stopand-frisk, Mr. Peralta said. It is a problem, he said, when it goes above and beyond, when it becomes everybody is suspicious. Stories of aggressive police tactics are common. The 115th is also one of the top 3 precincts in the city where force is used in stop-and-frisk procedures, according to the police data. I should feel happy that they are protecting my neighborhood and my streets, said Felipe, who said he was stopped in March two blocks from his home. But what I felt was fear. Stops are so frequent, said Vicente, 38, an electrician, that many people alter their lives for fear of them. Vicente
IDs because they fear being arrested if they are stopped by the police without any identification, several community advocates said. Many local organizations have recently begun to issue their own IDs. Vicente, the electrician, carries one issued by New Immigrant Community Empowerment; Felipes battered card is from his local church. In September 2011, the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, charged 18 people in connection with supplying fake government identification documents, a ring that operated out of Jackson Heights. But Mr. Jimenez said the production mills were highly mobile, moving from shop to shop and constantly changing phone numbers to avoid arrest. Theyre never going to get rid of it as long as people need papers, he said.
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folk saints Jesus Malverde, center, and Santa Muerte, right, are sold on the avenue alongside Christian idols.
said he had stayed home nearly every night after he was stopped a block from his house four months ago. Like others, he avoids carrying the pliers and screwdrivers that are the tools of his trade, lest he be suspected of carrying weapons or a burglars gear. Vicente fears a stop may ultimately lead to deportation, he said, but the police say they do not ask if a person is in the country legally. The immigration status of an individual is not something that we are interested in, Inspector Royster said. Our enforcement is not based upon a persons immigration status; it is based upon the actual criminal activity that is being exhibited. Roosevelt is also a popular gathering spot for gay and transgender people, some of whom, like Marlon Castro, 23, a student at the Professional Business College in Manhattan, say the police stop them and automatically assume they are prostitutes. There is this notion that if police are present in our community, and if there is over-policing, the crime will be reduced, said Karina Claudio-Betan-
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court, an organizer for Make the Road New York, a nonprofit organization that works to empower Latinos. In reality, she said, people get falsely profiled, falsely arrested, and it affects the trust that the community has with the police. The result, Ms. Claudio-Betancourt said, is if a crime happens, people are not going to report it, because they dont trust the police. N the back of barber shops, tucked away in 99-cent stores and in the recesses of office buildings, another shady industry booms on Roosevelt Avenue: the production of counterfeit identification. Green cards, Social Security cards, drivers licenses and phony licenses to do contracting, plumbing and even asbestos removal are for sale, said Mauricio Jimenez, 40. An immigrant from Ecuador who is a legal resident, Mr. Jimenez said he had helped several friends procure IDs. For less than $100, the documents can be obtained within a halfhour from the avenues many corner hustlers, he added. In fact, documents are so readily accessible on Roosevelt that it is nicknamed La Embajada, Spanish for the Embassy. A significant portion of the areas Hispanic population is undocumented and needs ID to work, said Valeria Treves, the executive director of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, an advocacy group. Some turn to the fake
VERY day at 2 p.m., phalanxes of rookie police officers flood Roosevelt Avenue, patrolling the streets until 6 a.m., Inspector Kim Y. Royster, a spokeswoman for the department, said. They are the foot soldiers of the Police Departments Operation Impact Zone, which puts officers out in force in troubled areas to fight violent and serious crime. But the rate of violent crime in the 115th Precinct is notably low about 4.4 percent per 1,000 people, according to an analysis of police data by The New York Times. It is slightly lower than the citys average, which is among the lowest of any big city in the country. Over the past 10 years, overall crime in the
SEEKING CLEANUP State Senator Jos R. Peralta represents the area.
Ray Rivera contributed reporting.
F Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs long-held plan to develop Willets Point, the industrial area near Roosevelts eastern terminus, into a residential neighborhood comes to fruition, the avenue will become a tributary to that community. Mr. Peralta said he hoped that vision of the future would draw bigger stores and national chains to the area, which will replace disreputable industries the way anchor tenants in Times Square helped revitalize that area. He is also calling for a task force, similar to the one that decimated crime there in the 90s, to be reconvened. And plans are afoot to add cameras and better lighting along the underside of the looming train tracks. This summer, a blighted corner at 103rd Street was paved and made into a plaza. During the day, it is always filled with children. There is some crime that has continued, but can families walk on Roosevelt Avenue safely? Absolutely, Councilwoman Ferreras said. I think we are in transition now. Crime fighting itself has evolved: While prostitution is still illegal in New York, prostitutes are now viewed, at least in part, as victims by law enforcement, said Mr. Communiello, the assistant district attorney. Law enforcement now puts a deeper focus on finding the industrys puppet masters. The Venezuelan woman who was trafficked on Roosevelt traveled with others to Albany in 2007 to lobby lawmakers to crack down on the ringleaders by holding traffickers accountable. Later that same year, the state passed legislation that made coercing a person into prostitution sex trafficking a felony. My life has changed, she said. Im happy. Last week, she stood near 93rd Street on Roosevelt Avenue at the site where she was arrested on prostitution charges for the first time in 1993, in a brothel next to Candelaria Botanica, which sells candles and religious icons. Behind her, in one of Botanicas windows stood figurines of Santa Muerte, an idol shaped like the Grim Reaper venerated by those who do dark deeds, the shop manager said. In the other window stood a figure of the Virgin Mary. On Roosevelt Avenue, the manager said, both of the items sell equally well.
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Gift, and a Tragedy, Born of a Car Culture
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AFTERMATH Ian Ramdas, near right, and Sha Husanini outside
the wake in Queens on Thursday for one of four 18-year-olds killed in a car accident, above, on the Southern State Parkway.
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From Page 1 ment to have a licensed driver over 21 in the car and prohibitions on driving between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. or with more than one passenger under age 21. Whether drugs or alcohol might have been involved in the crash is not yet known, but it seems that Mr. Beer was driving a 2012 Subaru Impreza that friends and relatives of the victims told the news media he had been given by his parents for performing well academically. As it happens, in the large Guyanese communities of Richmond Hill and neighboring Ozone Park, where Mr. Beer and his friends came of age, cars figure prominently, almost obsessively, in the lives of young people. In Queens last year, according to data from the Department of Motor Vehicles, more than one in three teenagers received a driving permit or license, higher than the rate in Brooklyn and nearly twice that in Manhattan. When I visited Richmond Hill
High School last week, several teenagers I spoke to quickly recalled other accidents involving friends and friends of friends. The current horror evoked memories, in particular, of an accident involving a group of Guyanese teenagers from South Ozone Park who ran into a guardrail on the Van Wyck Expressway five years ago. Similarly, the driver had been given the car as a gift from his parents. This tradition is not atypical for families of modest means. As Ian Ramdas, an acquaintance of some of the victims of Mondays accident, explained it to me, he had been a car enthusiast since at least age 14. When he graduated from John Adams High School in Ozone Park two and a half years ago, his parents, both nurses, bought him an Infiniti G37. My car from the factory, no bragging, is $53,000 after taxes, he told me. The car scene has always been big in the Guyanese community, he continued. These kids arent getting Hondas. Mr.
Ramdas, who attends Kingsborough Community College and has worked at both a flower shop and a CVS, was forever ratcheting up the impressiveness of his vehicle. When you modify a car to your standards, youre expressing yourself; its our art, he said. Some people invest $3,000 in a car. Thats what I paid for the rims. Thats what makes me different from everyone else. This area of Queens bears wit-
ness to rival car scenes: a streetracing universe and a world that calls itself Lowered Congress, which arranges meet-ups for owners to show off the enhancements theyve made to their expensive cars. Lowered Congress cars often sit low, and members of the group advocate a mature approach to the road. At an Auto Zone on Atlantic Avenue and 112th Street, I met Lenny Raghunanan behind the cash register;
he is a 20-year-old Lowered Congress zealot and accounting student who saved up enough money doing moving work in high school to buy a MercedesBenz C Class AMG. The car, though, is not simply a male affliction. Across the street from Richmond Hill High School on Wednesday afternoon, I met a group of ninth-grade girls, two of them cousins who talked about the vital importance of getting
rides to parties, even though Richmond Hill is served fairly well by public transportation. One girl, Kaveena Billar, also of Guyanese descent, explained that her parents had promised her a car if she did well in school. What did she consider doing well? A minimum of 75, she said. Eighty and above would be good. I want to be a lawyer. E-mail: bigcity@nytimes.com
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Letting Movers Bid To Haul Your Stuff

By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
Sharone Ben-Harosh, a longtime veteran of the moving industry, has no illusions about his ability to make people actually enjoy the experience of packing their lives into boxes and relocating. You have a big headache, and go through this whole process, and thats when its done properly, said Mr. Ben-Harosh, the founder of Unpakt. The company, which he started this summer, is one of two young local start-ups looking to use the Internet to upend the moving industry. Their goals may fall short of making moving pleasurable, but their leaders think they can make it less of an ordeal by forcing moving companies to compete openly. Strangely, this has never quite happened. In order to get a moving company to estimate how
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much it will charge to take a job, customers have to itemize all of their possessions, often by arranging a face-to-face meeting with an agent from a mover. If the customers want to compare this estimate with another companys rates, they will have to repeat the process with someone else. This does not encourage comparison shopping. Kelly Eidson founded Moveline to operate like Kayak, the travel Web site where users see several companies rates for airline flights, hotel rooms and other services. Moveline helps customers itemize their possessions one time, and companies bid for their business. Moveline vets movers for quality, Have a favorite New York City app? Send tips via e-mail to appcity@nytimes.com or via Twitter to @joshuabrustein.
and the customer can choose based on price. But there was one problem, said Ms. Eidson: people are no good at giving a realistic description of all their worldly possessions, which makes it hard for moving companies to provide realistic price quotes. You never really know how much stuff you have, she said. The solution is Movelines iPhone app, which was released last month. The app coaches customers on how to use the phone to make a video of their possession-filled apartments. Customers can also use FaceTime, the video chat feature, to give a Moveline representative a virtual tour. The company then makes an inventory itself, telling you things like, no, you cant fit that walk-in closet full of winter coats into a single cardboard box. (The app is for iPhones only; Ms. Eidson said the video chat features on Android phones were not as good.) The process takes three to four minutes per room, Ms. Eidson said. Instead of using estimates, Moveline requires movers to guarantee the price of their bids. Eliminating the uncertainty of an estimate is also a basic goal of Unpakt. Before Mr. Ben-Harosh started the company, he founded a company called FlatRate Moving, which offered a similar guarantee by breaking each job into dozens of variables and pricing each one. With Unpakt, Mr. BenHarosh essentially offers other movers access to this system. Each mover sets its price for various aspects of a move, and when Unpakt gets a detailed inventory from a customer through its Web site, it automatically generates a bid from each of its movers. (There are currently 12 in the New York area.) FlatRate Moving is one of the companies bidding on the business generated by Unpakt, but Mr. Ben-Harosh said that the automated system did not steer business his way. He acknowledged that other moving companies were initially reluctant to participate. But he argued that the existence of a freely available online standard was incentive enough for small moving companies that did not necessarily want to build their own software platforms. In a way, we are introducing them to the online world, he said.
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Johnny Is Skipping The Field Test

From Page 1 partment. But trying out a large number of questions requires multiple versions of an exam, and New York, to save money, printed a limited number of versions of the actual test in the last goround. To try out enough sample questions would have required lengthening the exams substantially. The solution, officials said, is to use stand-alone field tests. The tests are not cheap: Pearson, the company that creates the standardized exams and the field tests, charged the state about $7 million for testing services for the 2012 calendar year 30 percent of that budget went toward field testing. The urgency to create new questions is heightened because the state has adopted a new core curriculum. The existing standardized tests no longer reflect what New Yorks children are learning and do not accurately assess instruction, according to Adina Lopatin, deputy chief academic officer in the New York City Education Department. To change the exam, the state needs to change the questions. We think the testing will have a positive impact in instruction across the city this year, Ms. Lopatin said. HE anti-testing activists are not so sure. Last spring, Martha Foote remembers, her son, an avid Yankees fan, would come home looking sullen after taking standardized tests in school. He was not allowed to play or read if he finished an exam early, so he would hold imaginary ballgames in his head, he said. Ms. Foote stopped asking about school and started asking about the games. Occasionally, he would shake his head dejectedly and say: Not so good. The Yankees lost. She became convinced that the emphasis on standardized tests was ruining her sons experience at school. Other parents at P.S. 321, and schools like it, felt the same way. They talked about their concerns on the sidelines of soccer fields and during dance classes. And they came together in groups like Parent Voices, New York, to which Ms. Foote belongs, to make themselves heard. Anti-testing activists say their movement is not geared exclusively at politicians or school officials, though they have gotten Assemblyman James F. Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat, to sponsor amendments to buy the state time to reconsider whether tests should be used to evaluate teachers. They have also gotten a resolution in front of the City Council that, if passed, would call for the state to re-examine school accountability and testing policies. That is not enough, testing opponents say. They want to bring parents from across the city into their movement. While they do not expect to get a critical mass of boycotters this fall, their progress can be seen in the outcropping of new committees at city schools parent associations with the words community or action in their names. Jen Nessel leads the newly formed Community Action Committee of the P.A. at the East Village Community School in Manhattan. The group came together after the field tests in June, when nearly all parents in the school signed a letter, delivered to the principal, stating that they would decline to have their children take the test. We had this overwhelming sense that we need to do something, Ms. Nessel said. Like many of the schools that have been centers for this movement, East Village Community routinely does well in its annual progress report and is in no danger of being shut down because of poor performance on the standardized tests. Most of the schools with activist
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From left, Lori Chajet, Abby Subak and Martha Foote outside Public School 321 in Brooklyn. Below, Diana Zavalas son Jackson during a protest in Washington this year that marched on the White House.
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Families objecting to high-stakes exams used to rate teachers.

parents have more white children and are more likely to be middle-class than the system as a whole. Their goal, the activists say, is to make common cause with parents at struggling schools, with populations that are more likely to be black and Hispanic and poor, and where any opposition to standardized testing if it exists has been far less vocal. I think there is an opportunity to have more lower-income parents being more visible and more active, said Andrea Mata, a parent activist who works with a group called Change the Stakes that is opposed to high-stakes testing. Change the Stakes, which has members in northern Manhattan, said it
mailed outreach packets last week to each New York City school being tested. In the packet are informational materials in English and Spanish, including a form that parents can sign and deliver to their principal indicating their intention to opt out of the exam. Diana Zavala, whose son sat out the field tests at his school in Manhattan in June, worked on the Spanish materials and said her experience in her largely Dominican neighborhood indicated that the battle to sway parents would be hard. Other parents, for cultural reasons, say, Im putting a kid in my schools hands, and its O.K., she said. Its a testing acceptance, and so you have to change those hearts. When the latest round of field tests was announced, the parent board at P.S. 321 immediately called for parents to opt out about 90 percent did last June and Ms. Foote joked that the school was looking for the list of students who would take the test rather than who would not. Boycotting a field test, Ms. Foote said, is a safe outlet for anger to be heard. Few parents are likely to boycott the actual tests when they are given in the spring, though some activists have called for that. I just dont know at this point whether we can go any further, Ms. Foote said. Sitting out the real exams can have serious consequences. Andrea Matas son opted out of the third-grade English-language exam in the spring. His advancement to the next grade hinged on a portfolio of his work gathered by his teacher that demonstrated skills tested on the state exam, including examples of reading accuracy, comprehension and writing. In addition, he had to take an exam that was much shorter
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than the state standardized test and included written responses and multiplechoice questions. Ms. Mata said his teacher recommended he be allowed to move on to fourth grade, but the community superintendent disagreed. The Matas were told that he had two options: go through a month of preparatory work and then take the standardized tests when they were re-offered in July, or appeal. They appealed. Their principal advocated on their behalf, and in August, Ms. Matas son was promoted. She said that the family had discussed the risk with their son before collectively deciding what to do. But this year, the exam will help determine where he goes to middle school, and how they will handle the test and how their son will feel about skipping it is less certain. I dont know what our position on opt-out is going to be this year, Ms. Mata said, emphasizing that
her son would be a major voice in the conversation. Were going to have to make this decision as we get closer to the date. Officials said they werent concerned that large numbers of children would skip the field tests this month. The numbers of the people who were boycotting in June were small, Ms. Lopatin, of the city Education Department, said. But activists say that the boycott is just one step in changing the way schools approach testing and how parents and families fit into the conversation. Certainly, at 321 its a way to say these are your rights as parents, Ms. Chajet said. If you dont want them to sit for this and you want to do one of the many other enriching things that they can do in school, you have that right. And thats as important as anything right now.
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PALL BEARERS The funeral of Sze Yu Chen, a World War II veteran.
Italian Brass For Chinatown Goodbyes
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALAN CHIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
N a stretch of Mulberry Street last month, squeezed between Columbus Park and the Wah Lai Funeral Home, a snare drum rolled, and dignified brass horns answered. The cacophony of Chinatown rose around them as the notes echoed off tenement brick and mingled with noise from the street. Here they come, here they come, Louise Acampora, the white-gloved leader of the Red Mike Festival Band announced. A coffin, draped with an American flag, emerged through the funeral homes doors. The Italian ensemble began a new song while funeral attendees filed into the street. Eight men in black suits loaded the coffin containing Sze Yu Chen, a World War II veteran who had died at age 101, into a hearse. The tradition of Italian brass bands playing at Chinese funerals on Mulberry Street arose out of the proximity of the Chinese and Italian communities in Manhattan. As Chinatown stretched into Little Italy, Italian funeral parlors were taken over by Chinese owners. Because it was traditional for Chinese dignitaries to have brass at their funerals, the Italian bands remained a staple. Mrs. Acampora succeeded her husband, Michael Acampora, known as Red Mike, who died in 2004, as the band leader, and she now pilots the ensemble through about 150 Chinese funerals a year, as well as other events and festivals. As the Cadillac flower car pulled away, the rest of the procession lined up to follow; and the Red Mike band members hoisted their instruments and made their way around the corner. They waited for the cars to circle back into view before beginning their final song, a lofty, mournful number. When the cars were out of sight, the horns shot a final blast, and the drum rolled to a conclusion. Were going to No. 2, Mrs. Acampora said. The rest of the band was already en route back to the funeral home for another performance. LESLYE DAVIS
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The trumpet player Joe Schufle, above. Funerals of Chinese dignitaries often used brass bands, so when Chinatown expanded into Little Italy and funeral parlors were taken over by Chinese owners, Italian bands remained a staple of the funerals.
FLOWER CAR
A portrait of the deceased being affixed for the procession. Below, a passer-by stopped to watch the spectacle.
FLIGHTS OF TRUMPETS The Red Mike Festival Band, led by
Louise Acampora, plays about 150 Chinese funerals a year, and at other events like street fairs and weddings.
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