F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Saturday
October 24, 2009
Midnight in New York
Nine pages © 2009 The New York Times
State May Put Prisons in Private Hands nato ministers
FLORENCE, Ariz. — One of
the newest residents on Arizona’s
death row, a serial killer named
Dale Hausner, poked his head up
from his television to look at sev-
eral visitors strolling by. They
wore masks and vests to protect
against the sharp homemade
objects that often are propelled
from the cells of the condemned.
It is a dangerous place to patrol,
and Arizona spends $4.7 million
each year to house inmates like
Hausner in a super-maximum-
security prison. But in a first in
the criminal justice world, the
state’s death row inmates could
become the responsibility of a
private company.
State officials will soon seek
bids from private companies
for 9 of the state’s 10 prison com-
plexes that house roughly 40,000
inmates, including the 127 here on
death row. It is the first attempt
by a state to put its entire prison
system under private control.
The privatization effort dem-
onstrates what states around the
country — broke, desperate and
burdened with prisoners and their
associated costs — are willing to
do to balance the books. Officials
Mayor’s Political Quest Is the Costliest Ever
NEW YORK — Michael R.
Bloomberg, the Wall Street mo-
gul whose fortune catapulted him
into New York’s City Hall, has now
spent more of his own money than
any individual in U.S. history in the
pursuit of public office.
Newly released campaign re-
cords show the mayor, as of Fri-
day, had spent $85 million on his
latest re-election campaign, and
is on pace to spend between $110
million and $140 million before the
election on Nov. 3.
That means Bloomberg, in his
three bids for mayor, will have
easily burned through more than
$250 million — the equivalent of
what Warner Bros. spent on the
latest Harry Potter movie.
The sum easily surpasses what
his fellow billionaires have spent
to seek state or federal office.
New Jersey’s Jon S. Corzine has
plunked down a total of $130 mil-
support general
here hope the effort will put a $100
million dent in the state’s $2 bil-
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lion budget shortfall.
Private prison companies gen-
erally build facilities for a state,
then charge them per prisoner to
run them. But under the Arizona
legislation, a vendor would pay
$100 million up front to operate
one or more prison complexes.
Assuming the company could op-
erate the prisons more cheaply
or efficiently than the state, any
savings would be equally divided
between the state and the private
firm.
The privatization move has
raised questions about the ability
of the private sector to handle the
state’s most hardened criminals.
While executions would still be
performed by the state, officials
said, the Department of Correc-
tions would relinquish all other
day-to-day operations to the pri-
vate operator and pay a per-diem
fee for each prisoner.
“I would not want to be the
warden of death row,” said Todd
Thomas, the warden of a prison
in Eloy, Ariz., run by the Cor-
rections Corp. of America. The
company, the country’s largest
lion in two races for governor and
one for U.S. Senate. Steve Forbes
poured $80 million into his bid for
president. And Ross Perot spent
$65 million in his quest for the
White House in 1992 and $8 million
four years later.
“I have never seen anything like
this — it’s off the charts,” said Jen-
nifer A. Steen, a lecturer in politi-
cal science at Yale who has stud-
ied self-financed candidates for
the last decade. “He’s in a league
of his own.”
Bloomberg has used his wealth,
estimated at $16 billion, to estab-
lish what appears to be insur-
mountable financial dominance
in the race.
He has spent at least 14 times
what his Democratic rival in the
race, William C. Thompson Jr.,
has: $6 million. A Thompson cam-
paign spokeswoman on Friday
called the mayor’s spending “ob-
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private prison operator, has six
prisons in Arizona with inmates
from other states.
“That’s not to say we couldn’t,”
Thomas said. “But the liability
is too great. I don’t think any pri-
vate entity would ever want to do
that.”
Arizona is no stranger to pri-
vate prisons or, for that matter,
aggressive privatization efforts
(recently, the state put up for
sale several government build-
ings housing executive branch
offices in Phoenix). Nearly 30
percent of the state’s prisoners
are being held in prisons operat-
ed by private companies outside
the state’s 10 complexes. Other
states, including Alaska and Ha-
waii, have contracts with private
companies to house their prison-
ers in Arizona.
Under the legislation, any bid-
der would have to take an entire
complex — many of them mazes
of multiple levels of risks and
complexity — and would not be
permitted to pick off the cheapest
or easiest buildings and inmates.
The state also wants to privatize
prisoners’ medical care.
JENNIFER STEINHAUER
scene.”
Bloomberg is now spending
nearly $1 million a day.
The bulk of the money is devoted
to advertising on television, radio
and the Web, but much of it bank-
rolls a first-class approach to par-
ties, snacks and transportation.
His lavish spending has con-
founded political consultants and
campaign finance experts, who
said that his popularity with New
Yorkers, and his built-in advan-
tages as a two-term incumbent,
should be sufficient to win him re-
election.
“The main thing money does
is allow you to get name recogni-
tion,” said Meredith McGeehee,
policy director of the Campaign
Legal Center, a watchdog group
in Washington. “But in this case,
with Bloomberg, because he’s so
well known, it’s more like, he can
do it, so why not?”  (NYT)
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — De-
fense ministers from NATO on
Friday endorsed the ambitious
counterinsurgency strategy for
Afghanistan proposed by Gen.
Stanley A. McChrystal, giving
new impetus to his recommenda-
tion to pour more troops into the
eight-year-old war.
McChrystal, the senior U.S. and
allied commander in Afghani-
stan, made an unannounced ap-
pearance here on Friday to brief
the defense ministers on his stra-
tegic review of a war in which
the U.S.-led campaign has lost
momentum to the Taliban insur-
gency.
“What we did today was to dis-
cuss General McChrystal’s over-
all assessment, his overall ap-
proach, and I have noted a broad
support from all ministers of this
overall counterinsurgency ap-
proach,” said NATO’s secretary
general, Anders Fogh Rasmus-
sen.
The acceptance by NATO de-
fense ministers of McChrystal’s
approach did not include a deci-
sion on new troops, and it was not
clear that their judgment would
translate into increased willing-
ness by their governments, many
of which have been seeking to re-
duce their military presence in
Afghanistan, to contribute fur-
ther forces to the war.
But it was another in a series
of judgments that success there
could not be achieved by a nar-
rower effort that did not increase
troop levels in Afghanistan sub-
stantially and focused more on
terrorists linked to Al Qaeda — a
counterterrorism strategy iden-
tified with Vice President Joseph
R. Biden Jr.
The briefing thrusts McChrys-
tal back into the debate over
what President Obama should do
about Afghanistan — a role that
has raised tensions between the
general and the White House in
the past. THOM SHANKER
and MARK LANDLER
International
Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns
BERLIN — As thousands lined
up to catch a glimpse of Nefer-
titi at the newly reopened Neues
Museum here, another skirmish
erupted in the culture wars.
Egypt’s chief archaeologist, Zahi
Hawass, said his country wanted
its queen handed back forthwith,
unless Germany can prove that
the 3,500-year-old bust wasn’t
spirited illegally out of Egypt
nearly a century ago.
Hawass also recently fired
a shot at France, demanding
the Louvre return five fresco
fragments that belonged to a
3,200-year-old tomb near Luxor.
Egypt suspended the Louvre’s
long-term excavation at Saqqara,
near Cairo, and said it would stop
collaborating on Louvre exhibi-
tions.
France got the message and
promised to send the fragments
back tout de suite.
It didn’t go unnoticed in Paris,
Berlin or Cairo that Hawass
pressed his case about Nefertiti
Iran Delays a Decision on Nuclear Fuel Stockpile
WASHINGTON — Iran missed
its deadline on Friday to declare
whether it would accept a nuclear
deal that would ship much of its
uranium to Russia for process-
ing, but said a decision would be
announced next week.
The International Atomic En-
ergy Agency said that Iran had
suggested in discussions with
the agency’s director general,
Mohamed ElBaradei, that “it is
considering the proposal in depth
and in a favorable light.”
But all day Iranian state televi-
sion beamed the opposite mes-
sage to its domestic audience,
insisting that it was waiting for
Russia and France to sell it new
Reports Press Sri Lanka on Possible War Atrocities
NEW DELHI — Pressure is
mounting on Sri Lanka’s govern-
ment to investigate atrocities
that may have been committed
during the final stages of its war
with the Tamil Tiger insurgency.
Two new reports from the Eu-
ropean Union and the State De-
partment, detailing abuses, were
released this week. The reports
come as Sri Lanka also faces
intensifying criticism for its de-
cision to keep more than 250,000
and suspended the excavations
just after his country’s culture
minister, Farouk Hosny, lost a
bid to become director general of
Unesco. The U.N. post went to a
Bulgarian diplomat instead.
Hosny would have been the first
Arab to land the job, and Egypt’s
president, Hosni Mubarak, had
banked his own prestige on the
minister’s getting it. But Jewish
groups and prominent French
and German intellectuals cam-
paigned against Hosny.
When asked in Egypt’s Parlia-
ment last year about the presence
of Israeli books in Alexandria’s
library, Hosny said, “Let’s burn
these books. If there are any, I
will burn them myself before
you.” That prompted Elie Wiesel,
Claude Lanzmann and Bernard-
Henri Lévy to urge that he not be
selected.
In fact, what may have ulti-
mately done Hosny in was his sus-
pected role, as a diplomat in 1985,
in protecting the perpetrators of
nuclear fuel for a reactor in Teh-
ran that makes medical isotopes.
Iran’s answer may well deter-
mine the course of the Obama ad-
ministration’s effort — through
negotiations, and perhaps ulti-
mately through harsh sanctions
— to force the country to give up
the material it would need to pro-
duce a nuclear weapon.
Under a plan put forth this
week by the agency, Iran would
ship about three-quarters of its
known stockpile of nuclear fuel,
about 2,600 pounds, to Russia for
further processing so that it could
refuel the Tehran reactor.
President Obama and ElBara-
dei say they have a common ob-
Tamils who were displaced by
the fighting in closed camps that
critics have likened to internment
camps. The government says it
plans to allow 80 percent of these
people to return to their homes
by the end of January, but insists
that it must first weed out any re-
maining Tamil Tiger rebels.
The European Union report
could lead to the withdrawal of
trade concessions worth tens of
millions of dollars to Sri Lankan
Saturday, October 24, 2009
a terrorist attack on the Achille
Lauro, during which a Jewish
tourist in a wheelchair was shot
and pushed into the sea. In any
case, days after the Unesco deci-
sion, Hawass went after France
and Germany.
For the Egyptian public, Hos-
ny’s defeat was another condem-
nation of the country’s leader-
ship. “Defeat and failure and re-
gression will keep following this
regime, whose members’ policy
is to stay in office forever,” said
Muhsin Radi, a Muslim Brother-
hood member of Parliament.
The country’s only potent
weapon left may be antiquities. It
plays to popular sentiment. While
the art world likes to ponder the
merits or misfortunes of seeing
art from one place in another
place or the inequities that have
resulted from centuries of impe-
rialist collecting, the real issue
behind the Egyptian claims, as
with so many others, is national-
ism.  MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
jective of making sure that Iran
does not have the fuel on hand to
threaten to manufacture a nucle-
ar weapon. But the deal would
offer only a temporary solution
because Iran has the capacity to
replace the 2,600 pounds of nucle-
ar fuel within a year.
Negotiations concluded in Vi-
enna on Wednesday between Ali
Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s per-
manent envoy to the atomic en-
ergy agency, and officials from
the United States, France and
Russia. Soltanieh cautioned on
Wednesday that although he had
finished negotiations, the deal
was subject to approval by Iran’s
leadership. DAVID E. SANGER
garment and fisheries industries.
It represents the first threat of a
serious sanction against the Sri
Lankan government as a result
of its conduct of the war.
Economists said the loss of the
concessions, known as GSP-plus,
could be a serious blow. Sri Lan-
ka’s garment industry will prob-
ably bear the brunt of the impact
because as much as 60 percent of
the country’s apparel exports go
to the European Union.  (NYT)
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in brief
China Executions
A Tibetan exile group in India
says that the Chinese authori-
ties have executed four people
convicted for their roles in the
riots in Tibet last year. Accord-
ing to the Tibetan Center for Hu-
man Rights and Democracy, the
four were put to death on Tues-
day, more than six months after
they were tried and convicted
of starting fires in the Tibetan
capital, Lhasa, that killed seven
people. At least 18 people died in
March 2008 during violence that
was directed at Han Chinese mi-
grants.  (NYT)
Iranian Arrests
Iranian authorities arrested
the wives and family members
of a number of high-profile polit-
ical detainees at a religious cer-
emony in Tehran, reformist Web
sites reported Friday. A rela-
tive of some who were arrested
said 60 people had been arrested,
which would make it the largest
mass arrest in recent months.
Grand ayatollahs Hussein Ali
Montazeri and Yousef Sanei de-
nounced the raid.  (NYT)
Pakistan Bombing
A suicide bombing at Paki-
stan’s premier aeronautical
manufacturing complex killed
seven people on Friday. The
bomber blew himself up at the
checkpoint at the entrance to the
complex, 40 miles northwest of
Islamabad, said a police official,
Fakhur Sultan. Two guards and
five civilians died. The Pakistan
Aeronautical Complex at Kamra
is the country’s main air force
maintenance and research hub,
where engineers and workers
build and overhaul fighter jets
and radar systems.  (NYT)
Aristocrat Freed
Thomas Cholmondeley, a
white aristocrat, was released
from prison on Friday after
more than three years in jail for
killing a black poacher on his es-
tate in Kenya. The judge had re-
duced the charge from murder,
saying he believed that Chol-
mondeley’s attempts to give the
man first aid helped prove that
the shooting was accidental.
 (AP)
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Disney Offers Refunds on ‘Einstein’ Videos
Parent alert: Walt Disney Co. is
now offering refunds for all those
Baby Einstein videos that did not
make children into geniuses.
The unusual refunds appear to
be a tacit admission that they did
not boost infant intellect.
“We see it as an acknowledg-
ment by the leading baby video
company that baby videos are
not educational, and we hope
other baby media companies will
follow suit by offering refunds,”
said Susan Linn, director of the
Campaign for a Commercial-
Free Childhood.
Baby Einstein, founded in 1997,
was one of the earliest players
in what has become a huge elec-
tronic media market for babies
and toddlers. Acquired by Disney
in 2001, the company expanded
to a full line of books, toys, flash-
cards and apparel, along with
DVDs including “Baby Mozart,”
“Baby Shakespeare” and “Baby
Galileo.”
The videos — simple produc-
Pilot Denies Sleeping as Jet Missed Minneapolis
Safety investigators are skilled
at solving the mystery of plane
crashes. But with Northwest
Flight 118, which landed safely,
they are tackling a different puz-
zle: what went on in the cockpit to
cause it to fly for 500 miles with-
out radio contact and well beyond
its destination?
On Friday, investigators sought
to explain why the two pilots,
bound from San Diego to Min-
neapolis, did not begin a normal
descent when they should have on
Wednesday night.
The pilots Capt. Timothy B.
Cheney, 53, of Gig Harbor, Wash.,
and First Officer Richard I. Cole,
54, of Salem, Ore., said they had
Pelosi Pushes for Public Option in Health Care Bill
WASHINGTON — Speaker
Nancy Pelosi stepped up the
pressure on House Democrats on
Friday to support her preferred
version of legislation that would
require the federal government
to sell health insurance in compe-
tition with private insurers.
Her action came amid indi-
cations that she had not locked
down the votes for the proposal,
the most contentious element in
a bill that would provide health
tions featuring music, puppets,
bright colors, and not many
words — quickly became a staple
of baby life: According to a 2003
study, a third of all American ba-
bies from 6 months to 2 years old
had at least one “Baby Einstein”
video.
Despite their ubiquity, and the
fact that many babies are trans-
fixed by the videos, the American
Academy of Pediatrics recom-
mends no screen time at all for
children under 2.
In 2006, Linn’s group went to
the Federal Trade Commission
to complain about the education-
al claims made by Disney and an-
other company, Brainy Baby. As
a result, the companies dropped
the word “educational” from
their marketing. But the group
didn’t think that was enough.
“Disney was never held ac-
countable, and parents were
never given any compensation.
So we shared our information
and research with a team of pub-
been involved in a heated discus-
sion about airline policy and lost
track of where they were.
Skepticism about the explana-
tion resounded through airline
and aviation safety circles, which
wondered whether the pair had
fallen asleep.
Cole denied that the two had
been asleep but declined to elabo-
rate.
Aviation officials said that
Wednesday’s flight was the first
of the day for both pilots, who had
had a layover of approximately
17 hours.
Instead of landing the Airbus
A320, with 144 passengers aboard,
the pilots flew past Minneapolis to
insurance to more than 35 million
people, at cost of nearly $900 bil-
lion over 10 years.
At a meeting with Pelosi on
Thursday night, liberal Demo-
crats spoke forcefully for a robust
public option.
Pelosi told them that she had
well over 200 votes, but that it was
proving difficult to reach the goal
of 218.
The Senate majority leader,
Harry Reid, D-Nev., is going
Saturday, October 24, 2009
lic health lawyers,” Linn said.
The Baby Einstein Web site still
describes its videos with phrases
like “reinforces number recog-
nition” or “introduces circles,
ovals, triangles, squares and
rectangles.”
Last year, those lawyers threat-
ened to file a class action lawsuit
for deceptive practices unless
Disney agreed to refund the full
purchase price to all those who
bought the videos since 2004.
The lawyers noted that Baby
Einstein controls 90 percent of
the baby media market, and sells
$200 million worth of products
annually. They described studies
showing that television exposure
at ages 1 through 3 is associated
with attention problems at age 7.
In response, the Baby Einstein
company will refund $15.99 for
up to four “Baby Einstein” vid-
eos per household, purchased
between June 5, 2004 and Sept. 5,
2009, and returned to the compa-
ny.  TAMAR LEWIN
the skies above Eau Claire, Wis.,
despite repeated radio calls from
controllers and other pilots in the
area. Finally, when the plane was
110 miles past the airport, they
responded, according to a report
from the airport police depart-
ment. The plane turned around
and returned for a safe landing.
The pilots have have been sus-
pended by Delta Air Lines, which
merged with Northwest last year
and operates its flights, pending
the outcome of investigations.
Both passed breath analysis tests
to check for alcohol, according to
a police report.
MICHELINE MAYNARD
and MATTHEW L. WALD
through a similar exercise.
In a shift, Reid told colleagues
on Thursday that he was inclined
to include a government-run in-
surance program in the bill he
will take soon to the Senate floor.
States would be allowed to opt out
if they wanted.
Asked about Reid’s idea,
Pelosi said, “I don’t think there’s
much problem with that.”
 ROBERT PEAR and
 DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
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in brief
Alaska Corruption
Documents filed in feder-
al court directly link Rep. Don
Young to a wide-ranging inves-
tigation of corruption in Alaska
for the first time. Young is iden-
tified as “United States Repre-
sentative A” in the documents
filed in connection with the sen-
tencing next week of Bill Allen,
a key figure in the corruption in-
vestigations of state lawmakers
and former Sen. Ted Stevens.
The filing says Young, a Repub-
lican first elected in 1973, ille-
gally received gifts totaling up
to nearly $200,000 over 13 years
from Allen’s oil field services
company.  (AP)
Lawmakers’ Deals
After resisting for weeks,
Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y.,
chairman of the House over-
sight committee, said on Friday
that he would subpoena docu-
ments from Countrywide Finan-
cial about its program to offer
special mortgage deals to pre-
ferred customers — including
members of Congress. Aides
to Towns have said that he re-
ceived a mortgage from Coun-
trywide, and Sens. Christopher
Dodd of Connecticut and Kent
Conrad of North Dakota admit-
ted earlier that they had been in
the V.I.P. program.  (NYT)
Shipboard Crash
An Army Black Hawk heli-
copter crashed on a Navy ship
during training, killing one ser-
vice member and injuring eight,
the Navy said. Service mem-
bers were rappelling down a
rope from the helicopter to the
combat support ship Arctic
around 8 p.m. Thursday off the
Virginia coast near Fort Sto-
ry when the crash happened, a
Navy spokeswoman said.  (AP)
Hawaii Protest
Angry parents protested on
the first day of Hawaii’s state-
wide public school closings on
Friday. The parents rallied at
the Capitol in Honolulu as 256
schools shut down to help bal-
ance the state budget. In all, 17
furlough days are planned for
this year and next, cutting the
school year to 163 days.  (AP)
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Seniors Are Struggling in the Job Market
It is well known that during
the nation’s gale-force reces-
sion, many older Americans who
dreamed of retirement contin-
ued to work, often because their
401(k)s had plunged in value.
In fact, there are more Ameri-
cans 65 and older in the job mar-
ket today than at any time in his-
tory, 6.6 million, compared with
4.1 million in 2001.
Less well known, though, is that
nearly half a million workers 65
and older want to work but cannot
find a job — more than five times
the level early this decade and this
group’s highest unemployment
level since the Great Depression.
The situation is more dire be-
cause of numerous trends: Many
people over 65 have lost their jobs
as seniority protections have
weakened, and like most other
Witness Has 10-Year History of Tips to Galleon
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. —
The central witness of a federal
insider trading case against Raj
Rajaratnam, founder of the Gal-
leon hedge fund, has a more than
10-year history of passing on priv-
ileged information to the large
hedge fund, according to federal
court documents.
Roomy Khan, the witness,
faxed confidential sales and pric-
ing information for computer
chips sold by Intel to Galleon in
1998, according to documents in
U.S. District Court in San Jose,
Calif.
At the time, Khan worked at In-
tel and had responded to requests
for the information from a repre-
Food Industry Backpedals on ‘Smart Choices’ Program
After intense pressure from
state and federal authorities who
feared it could mislead consum-
ers, the food industry on Friday
started backing away from a ma-
jor nutrition labeling campaign
that proclaimed health benefits
of various products.
PepsiCo said that it was cutting
its ties with the troubled program,
called Smart Choices, which fea-
tures a green checkmark on the
front of products that meet its nu-
tritional criteria.
Kellogg’s, which makes Froot
Dollar/YEN 92.10 U 0.81
10-yr treasury 3.49% U 0.08
Americans, a higher percentage
of them took on debt than in previ-
ous generations.
This financial squeeze is one
reason President Barack Obama
has proposed a special $250 one-
time payment to all Social Secu-
rity recipients. Many out-of-work
older Americans complain that
they face foreclosure or have had
to give up their car.
Another force pushing Ameri-
cans to delay retirement is that
the percentage of companies
that provide health coverage to
retirees is half what it was two
decades ago. Moreover, the age
to obtain full Social Security ben-
efits has increased to at least 66
for people born after 1942, from
its traditional 65.
The unemployment rate for
older Americans is still much bet-
sentative of Galleon, left uniden-
tified in the documents.
Little more can be learned
about the case because it was
sealed by a federal court.
The San Jose Mercury News
reported the links between Khan,
Intel and Galleon on Friday. It re-
ported that she pleaded guilty to
wire fraud and that in 2002 a fed-
eral judge ordered Khan to serve
six months of home detention and
to pay $150,000 in fines and resti-
tution.
Khan has been identified as
“Tipper A” or the cooperating
witness in the government’s
case that accuses Rajaratnam
of insider trading. Federal pros-
Loops and other sugary cereals
that received the program’s seal
of approval, said that it would be-
gin phasing out packaging bear-
ing the program logo as its inven-
tories run out.
Officials with the program said
that Smart Choices would sus-
pend most of its operations while
they waited for the Food and Drug
Administration to devise regula-
tions for package-front nutrition
labeling. Those rules could differ
from the program’s criteria.
“I regard it as a partial vic-
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ter than for other workers — 6.7
percent compared to 9.8 percent
in the general population. But 6.7
percent is more than double the
level of two years ago — and far
higher than the 1.9 percent rate
early this decade.
Patricia Warmhold, 67, of Beth-
page, N.Y., would love to retire
but says that is out of the question.
A year ago she was laid off from
a job as an interpreter for a law
firm. “I’ve been looking for jobs
ever since. In a month’s time, I
sent out 101 job applications,” she
said, to no avail.
Many older job seekers say
they are losing out because
of age discrimination. Last
year, nearly 25,000 filed age
discrimination complaints,
a 29 percent jump over 2007.
 STEVEN GREENHOUSE
ecutors said Khan provided them
with taped conversations she had
with Rajaratnam and admitted
to passing on inside information
tied to Google and other compa-
nies. Khan has agreed to plead
guilty to conspiracy and securi-
ties fraud in order to receive a
lighter sentence, according to a
criminal complaint.
Court filings in the most recent
case say that Khan first met Ra-
jaratnam in 1996, while she was
still at Intel and he was at the in-
vestment bank Needham & Co.
She worked at Galleon for a time
in the late 1990s following the Intel
incident. ASHLEE VANCE and
 MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED
tory,” said Richard Blumenthal,
the Connecticut attorney general,
who recently began an investiga-
tion into the program, to see if the
labeling campaign violated his
state’s consumer protection law,
which bars deceptive advertis-
ing. He called on more companies
to pull out of the program.
The Smart Choices logo began
appearing on food packages this
summer but immediately met
with criticism from some nutri-
tionists who felt its criteria were
too lax.  WILLIAM NEUMAN
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Lilly Settles With State
South Carolina’s attorney gen-
eral, Henry McMaster, said the
state had reached a $45 million
settlement with the drug maker
Eli Lilly & Co. over the company’s
marketing of an antipsychotic
drug, Zyprexa. McMaster’s of-
fice said on Friday that the agree-
ment was the second-largest
settlement deal in state history.
 (AP)
business
Lord of Bunny Lair Considers His Legacy
HOLMBY HILLS, Calif. —
Hugh Hefner leaned back on a
red loveseat and interlocked his
fingers behind his head. A visitor
had asked — more like shouted,
since he has trouble hearing — a
question about mortality.
At 83, does he think about it?
In a word, no. Hefner, the leg-
endarily libidinous founder of
Playboy, does not believe that his
denouement is at hand.
He doesn’t act like it, either.
He still works full days on his
magazine, flies to Europe and
Las Vegas, pops Viagra, visits
nightclubs with his three live-in
girlfriends — each young enough
to be his great-granddaughter —
and is working with the producer
Brian Grazer on a film.
“This is one of the very best
times of my life,” he said, grin-
ning in pajamas and slippers.
“It’s even better, richer than peo-
ple know.”
You want to believe him, but it
is hard to ignore realities of his
business. Playboy Enterprises,
hobbled by a shifting media land-
scape, is in need of heart paddles.
On Tuesday, the magazine said
it would cut the circulation num-
bers it guarantees to advertisers
to 1.5 million from 2.6 million. The
company has lost money for sev-
en consecutive quarters.
And perhaps most shockingly,
the company said earlier this
year that it would consider acqui-
sition offers, something that was
believed to be unthinkable while
Hefner was still alive.
In interviews over the years,
Hefner has talked about how life
wouldn’t be worth living without
the magazine. “If I sold it, my life
would be over,” he has said. But he
may be coming around: “I’m tak-
ing more seriously the fact that
I’m not 30 years old anymore. I
need to think about the continuity
of the magazine.”
As a cultural force, Hefner still
divides the country — 56 years
after Playboy’s first issue. To his
Saturday, October 24, 2009
supporters, he is the great sexual
liberator who helped free Ameri-
cans from Puritanism and neu-
rosis. To his detractors, includ-
ing many feminists and social
conservatives, he helped set in
motion a revolution in sexual at-
titudes that have objectified and
victimized countless women and
promoted an immoral, whatever-
feels-good approach to life.
Hefner will concede that there
are dark consequences of what
he helped set into motion, but said
“it’s a small price to pay for per-
sonal freedom.”
“People don’t always make
good decisions. The real obsceni-
ties on this planet have very little
to do with sex,” he said, adding
that “it’s not as romantic a time.”
Despite his chipper attitude,
Hefner clearly has legacy on his
mind. “We just literally live in a
very different world and I played
a part in making it that way,” he
said. “Young people have no idea
about that.”  BROOKS BARNES
5
in brief
Oversight Urged
The Federal Reserve chair-
man, Ben S. Bernanke, prodded
Congress on Friday to enact
legislation overhauling the na-
tion’s financial regulatory sys-
tem to prevent a repeat of the
banking and credit debacles.
“With the financial turmoil
abating, now is the time for pol-
icy makers to take action to re-
duce the probability and sever-
ity of any future crises,” Ber-
nanke said at a Fed conference
in Chatham, Mass.  (AP)
Microsoft Profits
Microsoft reported on Friday
net income of $3.57 billion, or
40 cents a share, for the quar-
ter, which ended Sept. 30. Wall
Street had expected Microsoft
to earn 32 cents a share, accord-
ing to a Thomson Reuters sur-
vey.  (NYT)
journal Saturday, October 24, 2009 6

Shortages, Rumors and Confusion Reign in Fight Against the Flu

A month ago, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the it was ready first; vaccine companies The conservative commentators Glenn
director of the Centers for Disease Control started making it in February, and swine flu Beck and Rush Limbaugh and the liberal
and Prevention, warned that the flu vacci- emerged in April. commentator Bill Maher have advised their
nation drive soon to begin would be “a little Many doctors complain that they cannot listeners not to get the new vaccine, sug-
bumpy.” get either vaccine at the same time, while gesting it could be deadly or part of a plot by
Good and bad news have alternated in supermarkets offer 10 percent off groceries the Obama administration to dictate Ameri-
the twice-weekly briefings from Frieden’s to customers buying seasonal shots. Aver- cans’ health.
agency, and confusion has reigned across age Americans seem baffled by the choices: “If somebody had the swine flu right now,
the country. Vaccinations started earlier Nasal spray or needle? Thimerosal-free or I would have them cough on me,” Beck said
than planned, then supplies began running not? No shot for my toddler, or just one, or last month. “I’d do the exact opposite of
short. two? what the homeland security says.”
The only flu circulating now is swine flu All sorts of false rumors appear on the Planners at the C.D.C., the National In-
— seasonal flu is not expected to emerge for Internet — that the swine flu vaccine is un- stitutes of Health and the Food and Drug
another month — but most of the vaccine tested, or that it is made from African green Administration are caught in a no-win situ-
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editorials of the timeS bob herbert

For Mayor of New York City The Way It Was

The real test of any mayor is how well the
city works. In his eight years in office, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg has managed to make the
unpredictable city of New York work aston-
ishingly well.
Bloomberg has been a first-rate steady
hand during unsteady times. He guided the
city out of the post-9/11 recession, then tucked
away money during the boom years that fol-
lowed. That foresight has helped New Yorkers
weather one of the worst economic downturns
in 80 years.
The Democratic nominee, William Thomp-
son, is a worthy opponent. Thompson has
been a competent comptroller in a turbulent
period and is a quiet, conciliatory man. But he
has spent too much of his campaign attack-
ing Bloomberg rather than explaining how he
would manage the city, and Bloomberg is sim-
ply the stronger candidate. He has run the $60
billion government with a keen attention to
accountability and efficiency. He has chosen
some of the best people in the country to work
for him, and he has mostly let them do their
jobs. As a result, many city services operate
better than they have for years. The garbage
mostly disappears on time. The police and fire
departments respond quickly. The 311 phone
line allows New Yorkers to complain to a live
human being. Often, they even see tangible
results.
Public education is better over all. Crime is
down under Raymond Kelly, the police com-
missioner, although there is concern again
about stop-and-frisk actions, which seem to
More Iranian Justice
The journalist Maziar Bahari joined his
pregnant wife in London this week after be-
ing freed from an Iranian prison where he had
been held for five months. That is welcome
news, but it would be a mistake to think that
the mullahs who run the government have
been seized with humanitarian spirit. If any-
thing, they seem more determined to shift the
blame for the unrest that followed the fraudu-
lent June 12 election to “foreigners.”
The Iranian-American scholar Kian
Tajbakhsh, an urban planner with a doctor-
ate from Columbia University, was arrested
in July. He was prosecuted with more than 100
other defendants in show trials after the elec-
tion. An Iranian court on Sunday convicted
him of fomenting unrest and sentenced him to
15 years in prison. His offense? Working with
George Soros’s Open Society Institute, which
finances democracy-building programs, and
hooking into a Gulf region Web site run by
Gary Sick, a professor at Columbia. Experts
say that Tajbakhsh has not been politically
active for more than two years and was not
involved in postelection unrest.
We hope this outrageous verdict is reversed.
Indeed, Tehran may be using him as a pawn
focus too heavily on Hispanics and African-
Americans. Bloomberg also has been a na-
tional leader in gun control.
The mayor’s environmental efforts —
stalled in Albany — show admirable concern
about the city’s future. And he has worked
hard to improve the city’s health — most ef-
fectively with the smoking ban.
Most New Yorkers are concerned about
Bloomberg’s spending $85 million — so far
— to win re-election. In his first campaign
in 2001, he argued that he was spending so
much to introduce himself. Now a nationally
recognized figure, he argues that as a candi-
date running on Republican and Independent
Party lines, he needs to fight for votes in a city
that is so predominantly Democratic.
We think Bloomberg exaggerates his vul-
nerability. New York City’s campaign finance
system is one of the best in the country. He
does everyone a disservice by not complying
with the system’s limits on spending.
Thompson also argues that the mayor un-
fairly worked to get rid of term limits so that
he could run this third time. We supported his
efforts to do so because term limits unfairly
limit voters’ choices. But the mayor has sent
signals that once he is elected, he will set up a
charter commission to try to restore the lim-
its. That is a bad call.
Finally, like others, we worry about his dif-
ficulty brooking dissent. He should not allow
that trait to spoil a third term. But those are
small blemishes. We enthusiastically endorse
Mayor Michael Bloomberg for re-election.
for negotiations with the United States on its
nuclear program. But the new judiciary chief,
Sadeq Larijani, will fail if he cannot direct a
judiciary that is fair and consistent.
The mullahs are twisting themselves into
knots trying to prove that outside forces are
at work when they are actually facing home-
grown outrage. They also think they can solve
the crisis with force, despite the refusal of
many elites to condone the crackdown.
On Friday, a leading opposition leader, Me-
hdi Karroubi, was attacked at a media fair.
One day earlier, authorities stormed a prayer
service at a private home and arrested 60
reformists. Many Iranians detained after
the election protests linger in prison without
charges. Two weeks ago, authorities sen-
tenced four to death.
Since July 31, Iran has been holding three
American hikers who were seized along the
Iran-Iraq border. Robert Levinson, a former
F.B.I. agent, has been missing since 2007.
These victims of Iran’s autocratic leaders
must be released. Iran may sit at the negoti-
ating table with the United States, but it will
never earn the respect it craves if it continues
these kinds of human rights abuses.
One of the successes of Mike Bloomberg’s
tenure as mayor is that he has helped lower
the racial temperature of New York. He has
not tried to divide people along racial, ethnic
or religious lines. The city has benefited from
this. So it was truly disheartening to have the
mayor turn his back on all that last Sunday
during an appearance with Rudy Giuliani be-
fore an Orthodox Jewish group in Brooklyn.
Giuliani, campaigning on Bloomberg’s be-
half, warned that if the mayor is not elected
to a third term, the city could become unsafe
— a place of escalating crime and heightened
fear.
Giuliani suggested that an environment
filled with danger might be right there on
the next horizon if the voters were to elect
“the wrong political leadership,” in this case
Bloomberg’s opponent, City Comptroller Wil-
liam Thompson, who is black.
Giuliani said he worries daily that the city
might revert “to the way it was before 1993,”
the year he was elected mayor. He then point-
edly added, so that no one could mistake his
not-so-coded meaning: “And you know exact-
ly what I’m talking about.”
It was vintage Giuliani, as subtle as a heart
attack. And Bloomberg sat there, allowing
that lousy message to be delivered on his be-
half.
Bloomberg has had many opportunities to
disavow Giuliani’s remarks, but he has chosen
not to. He chose instead, later that same day,
to raise the specter of one of the worst big-city
tragedies in American history: Detroit, which
was laid low by every ill you can imagine, in-
cluding a catastrophic race riot in 1967.
Detroit, said Bloomberg, “went from a
great city with lots of good-paying jobs to a
city that’s basically holding on for dear life.”
Well, that’s true. But what’s that got to do with
New York City, or this year’s election?
This had all the appearance of Bloomberg
piggybacking on Giuliani’s fear-mongering.
He picked the worst-case urban scenario
available, a crime-ridden, destitute city from
which most whites have long since fled, and
offered it as a suggestion of what might be
in store for New York, a thriving metropolis
filled with people from virtually every ethnic
group on the planet.
Open a window, please. Some fresh air is in
order.
The Mike Bloomberg that New Yorkers
came to know during his first two terms as
mayor was not the same man who remained
shamefully silent last Sunday, willing to ben-
efit politically from Giuliani’s toxic remarks.
One of the ironies at work here is that it is
during the toughest economic times that a
city, more than ever, needs a mayor who is
committed to bringing people together, not
playing them off against one another for
short-term political gain. This is absolutely
the worst time for that point to have slipped
Michael Bloomberg’s mind.
sports Saturday, October 24, 2009 8

N.F.L. Data Reinforces Dementia Links in brief

When a survey commissioned
by the National Football League
recently indicated that dementia
or similar memory-related dis-
eases had been diagnosed in its
retired players vastly more often
than in the national population,
the league claimed the study was
unreliable.
But confidential data from the
N.F.L.’s dementia assistance plan
strongly corroborates claims of a
link between football and later-life
cognitive impairment. Records
indicate that pro football’s retir-
ees are experiencing moderate to
advanced early-onset dementia
at rates several times higher than
the general population.
As the House Judiciary Com-
mittee prepares to hold a hear-
ing on Wednesday on the issue of
brain injuries in football, this lat-
est data further underscores the
possible safety risks of the mod-
Rain Could Affect Rotation of Angels’ Sciosia
After several days of sunshine,
the American League Champion-
ship Series returns to New York
this weekend, and with it comes
the obligatory forecast of gloom.
Substantial rainfall is predict-
ed throughout the day Saturday,
and it could last well past the
scheduled first pitch time of 7:57
p.m., soaking the field at Yankee
Stadium and threatening to post-
pone Game 6 until Sunday, when
the weather is expected to clear.
The Penn State Department
of Meteorology expects between
one and two inches of rain in New
York and said the storm may not
pass through until after 10 p.m.
ern game at all levels, from the
N.F.L. to youth leagues.
The new information was col-
lected by a lawyer for the 88 Plan,
which the league and its players
union began in 2007 to reimburse
medical expenses of retirees be-
ing treated for dementia, and
was presented to the union in a
memorandum, which was ob-
tained by The New York Times.
The lawyer, Douglas W. Ell of the
Groom Law Group, compared
the age distribution of 88 Plan
members with several published
studies regarding dementia rates
around the world, and wrote that
“the numbers seem to refute any
claim that playing N.F.L. football
substantially increases” later
risk for dementia.
But the outside data on which he
primarily based this conclusion
was not only mishandled — the
wrong numbers were taken from
There were weather-related
concerns about Games 1 and
2 last weekend, and both those
games proceeded without delay,
despite chilly temperatures and
some rain Saturday night. But at
that time there was more pres-
sure to play through adverse con-
ditions because of concern the
games might start to back up.
Now, with the World Series not
scheduled to begin until Wednes-
day, Major League Baseball
has more flexibility to postpone
Game 6 until Sunday, play a po-
tential Game 7 on Monday and
still not create any havoc with the
overall schedule.
one published study, grossly over-
stating worldwide dementia rates
— but the analysis also included
several faulty assumptions, ex-
perts said in later interviews. Cor-
recting for these errors indicated
rates of dementia among N.F.L.
retirees about four to five times
the expected rate.
“This was a preliminary effort
at the request of the union to un-
derstand the facts,” said Ell, add-
ing that he was acting as a lawyer
for the union. “I understand now
that it was flawed.”
Joe Browne, an N.F.L. spokes-
man, said in an e-mail message,
“We have not seen this analysis in
our office and, if it was done, it ob-
viously was written for the N.F.L.
player union’s own self-promo-
tional and lobbying purposes in
anticipation of next week’s Con-
gressional hearing.”
 ALAN SCHWARZ
Should Game 6 be pushed back
a day, it would provide the Yan-
kees and the Angels additional
options. Angels Manager Mike
Scioscia said Friday that if Game
6 were delayed, he would consid-
er bringing back Game 5 starter
John Lackey, the Angels’ ace, for
a Game 7 on Monday, since he
would then be pitching on three
days’ rest.
Yankees Manager Joe Girardi
took a different approach, say-
ing he had no plans to swap the
scheduled Game 6 starter Andy
Pettitte with C.C. Sabathia, the
starter for a potential Game 7.
 DAVID WALDSTEIN
Gators Hurting
Second-ranked Florida could
be without three defensive
starters Saturday at Mississip-
pi State.
Linebacker Brandon Spikes
and defensive tackles Jaye
Howard and Lawrence Marsh
practiced sparingly this week,
and Coach Urban Meyer said
he did not know if any of them
would play.
Spikes reinjured his left groin
last week against Arkansas and
sat out much of the game.
Meyer says Howard, who has
an injured knee, and Marsh,
who hurt his ankle, were doubt-
ful. (AP)
Jamison Out a While
The Washington Wizards
have revised their estimated re-
covery time for Antawn Jami-
son, announcing that his shoul-
der injury will take much lon-
ger to heal than expected. The
team said Jamison would prob-
ably miss 8 to 13 games in the
regular season. Jamison part-
ly dislocated his shoulder Oct.
14, when he tried to block a shot
in a preseason game against
Cleveland. The Wizards origi-
nally said he would miss the
rest of the preseason.  (AP)
NHL scores
THURSDAY’S LATE GAMES
Edmonton 6, Columbus 4
Phoenix 3, Detroit 2, OT
Los Angeles 5, Dallas 4, OT
FRIDAY
Pittsburgh 3, Florida 2, SO
St. Louis 3, Minnesota 1
Colorado 5, Carolina 4

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Atlanta 72/ 64 0.04 64/ 53 PC 71/ 43 S
Albuquerque 60/ 39 0 69/ 41 PC 67/ 44 PC
Boise 64/ 46 0 55/ 47 PC 55/ 37 PC
Boston 57/ 39 0 65/ 46 Sh 61/ 53 S
Buffalo 47/ 39 0.08 58/ 50 Sh 52/ 41 PC
Charlotte 79/ 57 0 72/ 63 Sh 66/ 43 S
Chicago 61/ 48 1.52 48/ 37 C 57/ 41 C
Cleveland 62/ 54 0.15 52/ 50 C 53/ 38 PC
Dallas-Ft. Worth 65/ 48 0 73/ 44 S 72/ 60 PC
Denver 54/ 34 0 63/ 34 PC 44/ 33 C
Detroit 56/ 44 0.63 50/ 46 Sh 55/ 38 PC
Houston
Kansas City
70/ 50
45/ 41
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0
76/ 48 S
62/ 34 S
80/ 58 PC
57/ 47 C
Los Angeles 84/ 59 0 78/ 60 S 82/ 60 PC
Miami 88/ 75 0 86/ 76 T 88/ 76 T
Mpls.-St. Paul 40/ 33 0.17 50/ 31 PC 49/ 41 C
New York City 64/ 51 0 68/ 52 R 62/ 52 S
Orlando 88/ 66 0 88/ 70 PC 87/ 69 PC
Philadelphia 64/ 54 0 70/ 57 T 65/ 50 S
Phoenix 87/ 62 0 89/ 62 S 89/ 62 S
Salt Lake City 60/ 39 0 60/ 46 PC 54/ 40 PC
San Francisco 72/ 55 0 70/ 56 PC 73/ 54 S
Seattle 58/ 48 0.36 55/ 48 C 54/ 47 Sh
St. Louis 62/ 49 1.39 58/ 41 PC 62/ 47 C
Washington 66/ 54 0 72/ 59 T 63/ 50 S
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 93/ 79 0 88/ 75 PC 86/ 75 T
Athens 75/ 57 0 75/ 61 T 75/ 61 T
Beijing 70/ 48 0 72/ 50 S 73/ 54 PC
Berlin 45/ 43 0.04 54/ 39 PC 55/ 46 C
Buenos Aires 86/ 63 0 66/ 46 PC 72/ 48 PC
Cairo 80/ 68 0 84/ 63 S 90/ 70 PC
Cape Town
Dublin
72/ 55 0
57/ 45 0.09
75/ 57 PC
63/ 52 R
70/ 55 PC
57/ 50 C
Geneva 57/ 48 0.24 63/ 41 C 61/ 48 Sh
Hong Kong 87/ 73 0 82/ 73 S 82/ 72 S
Kingston 89/ 77 Tr 88/ 77 T 84/ 77 T
Lima 69/ 60 0 72/ 66 C 70/ 66 C
London 62/ 48 0.02 66/ 54 R 63/ 54 PC
Madrid 68/ 45 0 72/ 55 PC 70/ 55 PC
Mexico City 70/ 55 0 73/ 55 Sh 75/ 52 T
Montreal 39/ 28 0.47 57/ 37 R 50/ 32 PC
Moscow 49/ 46 0.63 43/ 37 C 39/ 34 C
Nassau 86/ 75 0.08 89/ 79 T 89/ 77 T
Paris 58/ 50 0.08 66/ 54 R 64/ 52 S
Prague 50/ 43 0.12 54/ 46 C 61/ 45 PC
Rio de Janeiro 80/ 72 0.12 88/ 64 PC 93/ 72 PC
Rome 68/ 57 1.22 68/ 55 PC 72/ 57 PC
Santiago 65/ 53 0 75/ 41 PC 81/ 43 PC
Stockholm 42/ 41 0 45/ 36 C 45/ 39 C
Sydney 80/ 64 0 75/ 57 S 79/ 57 Sh
Tokyo 69/ 61 0 70/ 61 Sh 70/ 63 C
Toronto 43/ 37 0.08 59/ 43 C 50/ 37 PC
Vancouver 51/ 48 0.67 55/ 43 PC 52/ 45 Sh
Warsaw 46/ 39 0.02 50/ 45 Sh 52/ 41 PC
sports journal
Jets Executive Finds His Balance in Running
Cancer did not slow Matt Hig-
gins. If anything, it affirmed the
depth of his resolve. He took one
day off for surgery and plunged
back into work, crying only when
he had to tell his bosses.
Cancer did not enlighten Hig-
gins with fresh perspective. He
treated it like another obstacle
on his meteoric rise to the Jets’
executive vice president for busi-
ness operations.
Cancer did not change Higgins.
Running did.
As he prepares for the New
York City Marathon, raising
money for Lance Armstrong’s
foundation, Higgins has lost 55
pounds and gained the balance
that his success didn’t provide.
“Running forces you to slow
down,” Higgins said. “Because
the only way you can finish is to
allow time to elapse. That was im-
portant because I had never lived
my life that way. I could always
accelerate everything through
the sheer force of will.”
Higgins, 34, always achieved
by pushing, pushing, pushing,
never slowing down, never con-
sidering the consequences. He
started working at age 14 and
dropped out of high school two
years later to care for his ailing
mother, Linda.
He spent what seemed like half
A Player’s Success Came From Dropping the Ball
SUGAR LAND, Tex. — As a run-
ning back his senior season here
at Stephen F. Austin High, a school
of 2,400 about 30 miles southwest
of Houston, Jerry Hughes rushed
for 1,412 yards and 19 touchdowns
in 2005. He was also an all-district
kick returner who played some
defensive end.
“He was their offensive threat,”
Mike Ferrell, who coached
against Hughes in high school,
said in a telephone interview. “He
could break it and go the distance
on you. He was hard to tackle.”
Despite Hughes’s offensive
pedigree, universities recruited
him to play different positions.
Arizona State and Central Flor-
ida wanted him at running back,
but Iowa State pursued him as a
linebacker, while Texas Tech en-
visioned him as a linebacker and
potentially a wide receiver.
Although Texas Christian (6-
0, 2-0 Mountain West) recruited
Hughes as a defensive end, which
his life wheeling his mother into
emergency rooms, where he sat
outside on curbs studying for ex-
ams at Fordham Law School. He
became president of the debate
team and made law review, but
his life was filled with contradic-
tions, his career and his mother’s
health spiraling in opposite direc-
tions.
On the day he started as press
secretary for New York Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani — at age 26,
he was the youngest person to
hold that job in New York — his
mother died from congestive
heart failure.
His career continued upward.
After he joined the Jets in 2004,
Higgins received two promotions
in the next four years. Crain’s
New York tabbed him as a rising
young business star in its 40 un-
der 40 rankings.
“Matt is the kind of guy who
never appears like he’s strug-
gling,” said Woody Johnson, the
Jets’ owner.
Or so it seemed. Three months
after the birth of his first child,
Matthew Jr., Higgins and his
wife, Michele, went to Rhode Is-
land. Higgins felt a nagging pain
in his right testicle, and he went
to the doctor only at his wife’s in-
sistence, in April 2007.
The exam took place on a Mon-
he and his parents did not think
was a good idea, he chose the
Horned Frogs because Coach
Gary Patterson was open to giv-
ing him a chance to play running
back.
That never happened, but
Hughes is hardly complaining.
Entering his 10th-ranked team’s
game Saturday at No. 16 Brigham
Young (6-1, 3-0) in a Mountain
West matchup that has important
Bowl Championship Series impli-
cations, Hughes has developed in-
to perhaps college football’s best
defensive end. The Horned Frogs’
best N.F.L. prospect since tail-
back LaDainian Tomlinson, he is
fourth in the Football Bowl Subdi-
vision with eight sacks this season
and is projected to be a first-round
pick in the N.F.L. draft.
“No way, in a million years,
could I have ever pictured any-
thing like this,” said Hughes, a
6-foot-3-inch, 257-pound senior.
Although other coaches pro-
Saturday, October 24, 2009
day. On Tuesday, he received the
diagnosis of testicular cancer.
On Wednesday, he had surgery.
Shortly after, he went back to
work.
“I saw cancer as something
that could derail everything I’d
worked toward,” Higgins said.
“I was proud of my response. But
it’s ridiculous to be sideswiped by
a potentially fatal disease and not
learn anything.”
But when his weight ballooned
to 250 pounds, causing his feet to
ache, Higgins discovered that he
had “misread the tea leaves.”
Instead of viewing cancer as an-
other opportunity to conquer ad-
versity, it should have served as
an impetus for change.
He met with a trainer, start-
ed running, shedding pounds.
He changed his eating habits,
switching to grilled foods, more
vegetables.
Through running, Higgins was
committing to life beyond his
grand ambitions.
By running the marathon, Hig-
gins hopes his story reminds men
to be tested, to go to the doctor, to
listen to their wives. He is cancer
free, but is still tested every six
months.
In all aspects of his life,
he has found new balance.
 GREG BISHOP
jected Hughes all over the field,
Patterson knew he would be a de-
fensive end the first time that he
saw him during a visit to his high
school in the spring of 2005.
When Hughes lined up at de-
fensive end and caught a running
back from behind on a counter
play in seven-on-seven drills,
Patterson turned to his assistant
head coach, Eddie Williamson,
and asked, “Who’s that guy?”
“What he did,” Patterson said in
a telephone interview, “was very
hard to do.”
Hughes was one of only four
true freshmen who played for
T.C.U. in 2006. He played in every
game in 2007 before his breakout
season in 2008, when he registered
F.B.S. bests in sacks (15) and
forced fumbles (6).
“That guy’s the real deal,”
Southern Methodist Coach
June Jones said in a telephone
interview. “He’s big time.”
 THAYER EVANS
9
n.h.l. standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 9 1 0 18 36 21
Rangers 7 3 0 14 37 26
Devils 5 3 0 10 22 21
Phila. 4 2 1 9 25 22
Islanders 1 4 3 5 18 31
Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Buffalo 5 1 1 11 23 14
Ottawa 5 2 1 11 27 22
Boston 4 4 1 9 26 29
Montreal 4 5 0 8 22 26
Toronto 0 6 1 1 14 32
Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
Wash. 5 2 2 12 34 28
Atlanta 4 2 1 9 25 20
Tampa 3 3 2 8 22 29
Carolina 2 5 2 6 22 31
Florida 2 5 1 5 18 30
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 5 3 1 11 31 26
Columbus 5 3 0 10 25 24
St. Louis 4 3 1 9 23 21
Detroit 3 3 2 8 24 28
Nashville 3 5 1 7 18 31
Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
Colorado 7 1 2 16 35 25
Calgary 6 2 1 13 36 31
Edmonton 6 2 1 13 36 26
Vancou. 4 5 0 8 26 27
Minnesota 2 7 0 4 19 30
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
Phoenix 6 2 0 12 21 12
L.A. 6 4 0 12 33 33
Dallas 4 2 4 12 33 31
San Jose 5 4 1 11 34 31
Anaheim 3 4 1 7 18 25
Experience Required
After several calls were
shown to be inaccurate by tele-
vision replays during the play-
offs, Major League Baseball
will assign only experienced
umpires to the World Series.
Usually baseball assigns one
or two umpires to the World Se-
ries who have never worked at
that level before. But according
to a person in baseball familiar
with the situation, this year’s
World Series will feature only
umpires with at least one World
Series on their resume.
As first reported by The As-
sociated Press, the crew chiefs
Joe West, Dana DeMuth and
Gerry Davis, along with Brian
Gorman, Jeff Nelson, and Mike
Everitt, have been assigned.
In baseball’s normal protocol,
none of the umpires from the
league championship series, in-
cluding several who made obvi-
ous blunders, would have been
assigned anyway.  (NYT)