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October 12, 2009
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Afghanistan Proving Hard to Rebuild U.S. Can’t Trace
WASHINGTON—Even as
President Obama leads an in-
tense debate over whether to
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send more troops to Afghanistan,
administration officials said that
the United States is falling far
on expired visas
short of his goals to fight the coun-
try’s endemic corruption, create
a functioning government and
legal system and train a police
force riddled with incompetence.
Interviews with senior admin-
istration and military officials
and recent reports assessing
Afghanistan’s progress show
that nearly seven months after
Obama announced a stepped-
up civilian effort to bolster his
deployment of 17,000 additional
American troops, many civil in-
stitutions are deteriorating as
much as the country’s security.
The officials said that the
daunting problem of civilian as-
sistance is a major part of the
Afghanistan debate at the White
House.
Administration officials de-
scribe Obama, who set forth a
series of far-reaching goals for
good governance and economic
development when he announced
a new strategy for Afghanistan
Gubernatorial Races May Offer Gauge of Obama
LEESBURG, Va.— When
President Obama captured the
White House nearly a year ago,
his victory in Virginia was, for
many Democrats, one of the most
heartening moments of the night.
He was the first Democratic presi-
dential candidate to win this state
since 1964, assembling a coalition
— independent voters, economi-
cally distressed rural Democrats
and blacks — that his party saw
as evidence that it could take and
hold Republican-leaning areas
across the nation.
But things are different today.
At a time when Obama’s national
approval ratings have declined, a
Democratic candidate for gover-
nor, R. Creigh Deeds, is struggling
to keep Virginia in the Democratic
column. The strong sentiment
against George W. Bush that re-
verberated throughout this state
one year ago has dissipated;
in March, as impatient with the
civilian progress so far. “The
president is not satisfied on any
of this,” said a senior adminis-
tration official, who asked for
anonymity so that he could more
freely discuss internal delibera-
tions at the White House.
Administration officials said
that Afghanistan is now so dan-
gerous that many aid workers
cannot travel outside Kabul to
advise farmers on crops, a key
part of Obama’s announcement
in March that he was deploying
hundreds of additional civilians
to work in the country. The ju-
diciary is so weak that Afghans
increasingly turn to a shadow
Taliban court system because,
a senior military official said,
“a lot of the rural people see the
Taliban justice as at least some-
thing.”
The disputed Aug. 20 Afghan
presidential election has laid
bare the ineffectiveness of the
government of President Hamid
Karzai, administration officials
said, and frozen any steps to-
ward reform.
Even before the election, a
January 2009 Defense Depart-
Obama’s policies have become a
flash point for Deeds’s Republican
opponent, Robert McDonnell, who
has used it to draw independents
to his camp.
There are two big elections in
2009 — the contest for governor
here and one in New Jersey were
Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, is
struggling to survive in a spirited
three-way race. Off-year elections
are prone to over-interpretation,
and governor’s races tend to be
determined by the quality of the
candidates and local issues rather
than national politics.
For all that, Virginia is looming
as an early if imprecise test of this
president and his policies.
A White House that has shown
no hesitation to delve into state
race across the country — he is
planning to make at least one
more trip to New Jersey on behalf
of Corzine, aides said — has been
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ment report assessing progress
in Afghanistan concluded that
“building a fully competent and
independent Afghan government
will be a lengthy process that will
last, at a minimum, decades.”
Administration officials
blamed the election for many of
the setbacks and said a a reso-
lution to the vote — which some
fear will not happen until next
spring — would put them in a
better position to move forward
on civil reforms.
Administration officials said
there has been progress on edu-
cation and access to health care.
But Henry Crumpton, a for-
mer top central intelligence
and State Department official,
called those stepped-up efforts
inadequate.
“Right now, the overwhelm-
ing majority of civilians are in
Kabul, and the overwhelming
majority never leave their com-
pounds,” said Crumpton, who
recently returned from a trip to
Afghanistan. “Our entire system
of delivering aid is broken, and
very little of the aid is getting to
the Afghan people.”
 ELISABETH BUMILLER
struggling to figure out how to deal
with Virginia. Deeds’ aides have
pleaded with the White House to
send Obama into the state; they
have yet to agree.
Nick Ayres, the executive direc-
tor of the Republican Governors
Association, which has spent over
$5 million here to try to bring Vir-
ginia back into the Republican col-
umn, said that Obama and his par-
ty would certainly suffer damage
should Deeds lose. “This is a state
that Obama won by seven points,”
he said, adding: “They don’t want
this to be their Olympics Part II.’
In New Jersey, Corzine is strug-
gling in his bid for re-election
against Christopher J. Christie.
However, because of Corzine’s
deep unpopularity in that state, it
is not as clear that a Democratic
defeat there would offer lessons
that go beyond New Jersey.
 ADAM NAGOURNEY
DALLAS — Eight years after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and
despite repeated mandates from
Congress, the United States still
has no reliable system for deter-
mining whether millions of for-
eign visitors leave the country
after their visas expire.
New concern was focused on
that security loophole last week,
when Hosam Maher Husein Sma-
di, a 19-year-old Jordanian who
had overstayed his tourist visa,
was accused in court of plotting
to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.
Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign
visitors on temporary visas like
Smadi’s checked in to the country
but never officially checked out,
immigration officials said. While
officials say they have no way to
confirm it, they suspect that sev-
eral hundred thousand of them
overstayed their visas.
Over all, the officials said, about 
40 percent of the estimated 11
million illegal immigrants in the
United States came on legal visas
and overstay.
Smadi’s case has brought re-
newed calls from both parties
in Congress for Department of
Homeland Security officials to
complete a universal electronic
exit monitoring system.
Immigration analysts said that
given the difficulties of enforcing
the country’s vast borders, it re-
mains primarily up to law enforce-
ment officials to thwart suspected
terrorists who do not have records
that would draw scrutiny before
they enter the United States.
“You can’t ask the immigration
system to do everything,” said
Doris Meissner, a senior fellow
at the Migration Policy Institute,
a research center in Washington,
and a former commissioner of the
immigration service. “This is an
example of how changes in law
enforcement priorities and tech-
niques since Sept. 11 actually got
to where they should be.”
 JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
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Business of Kidnapping Grows in Nairobi
NAIROBI, Kenya — Little Em-
manuel Aguer was one of the most
recent victims.
A month ago, he was snatched
on the way to his grandmother’s
house. Four days later, after his
middle-class family received
calls asking for $70 or else. his
uncle found his corpse stuffed in
a sugar sack. His head had been
bludgeoned and his eyes were
gouged out. Emmanuel was six
years old.
“These people knew what they
were doing,” said his uncle, Mar-
iak Aguek. “What they did was so
traumatizing, I can’t even express
it.”
Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is a
teeming city of have-nots and
have-lots, so notorious for violent
crime that it is often called “Nai-
robbery.” But there is a new prob-
lem, or at least one that is causing
new fear — kidnapping, and sev-
eral recent attacks have been on
children and Western women.
Parents in the slums that ring
Pakistani Police Had Warned Army About Raid
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The
mastermind of the militant as-
sault on Saturday that shook the
heart of the Pakistani military
was behind two other major at-
tacks in the last two years, and the
police had specifically warned the
military in July that such an auda-
cious raid was being planned, po-
lice and intelligence officials said
Sunday.
The revelation of prior warn-
ing was sure to intensify scru-
tiny of Pakistan’s ability to fight
militants, after nine men wear-
ing army uniforms breached the
military headquarters complex
in Rawalpindi and held dozens
hostage for 20 hours until a com-
U.N. Official in Afghanistan Acknowledges Fraud
KABUL, Afghanistan — The
United Nations acknowledged
publicly for the first time on Sun-
day that the country’s presiden-
tial election had been marred by
“widespread fraud.”
Flanked by the ambassadors
to Afghanistan from the United
States, Britain, France and Ger-
many at a news conference, Kai
Eide, the top United Nations offi-
cial here, affirmed that the elec-
tion was tainted.
downtown Nairobi are now walk-
ing hand and hand with their chil-
dren, even short distances. In the
enclaves where the diplomats
live, security is being beefed up
at schools and e-mail kidnapping
alerts are spreading faster than a
computer virus.
More than 100 Nairobi residents
have been abducted for ransom
this year, security consultants
say, a huge increase over years
past. Big chunks of money are
changing hands. And as the secu-
rity experts say, the minute you
start paying ransom, kidnapping
goes from a crime to a business.
Just ask those in Mexico City,
Baghdad or Bogotá, Colombia.
The kidnappings are highly or-
ganized and often ruthless. One
Belgian woman who was held for
more than a week was stripped
naked, according to security con-
sultants who worked on her case.
Many people here are beginning
to wonder if the Kenyan thugs may
have been inspired by their Soma-
mando raid ended the siege.
The surviving militant, who
was captured early Sunday morn-
ing, was identified as Muhammad
Aqeel, who officials said was a
former soldier and the planner
of this attack and others. Aqeel,
who is also known as Dr. Usman
because he had once worked with
the Army Medical Corps before
dropping out about four years
ago, is believed to be a member
of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a militant
group affiliated with Al Qaeda and
the Pakistani Taliban.
The attack on the headquarters
was a signal that the Taliban in-
surgency had penetrated deeply
into Punjab Province, where the
“There was widespread fraud,
but any specific figure would be
pure speculation,” he said.
While extensive fraud in the
Aug. 20 presidential election
has been widely documented,
including by the United Nations-
backed agency that is overseeing
the vote, the comment by Eide
seemed intended to rebut allega-
tions by his former deputy that
he was covering up fraud to ben-
efit President Hamid Karzai.
Monday, October 12, 2009
li brethren next door, who have
made millions snatching foreign-
ers on land and sea.
“Their appetite is growing,”
said Charles Owino, a Kenyan po-
lice spokesman. “And if we don’t
manage it, it can grow to be big.”
But it is not just the haves who
are getting hit. Take Emmanuel’s
family. They have enough money
for a stereo and a fridge and cold
sodas for the occasional guest. But
they are hardly rich. They are ref-
ugees from southern Sudan who
have been through hell and back —
civil war, squalid camps, persecu-
tion. Now they have to worry about
their children getting chopped up
when they step outside.
“My son was really intelligent,
he was really honest, when I sent
him to the store to fetch some-
thing, he always came back with
the right change,” said Emman-
uel’s father, Ater Aguek. “Some-
times, I still have dreams I’m
playing with him.”
 JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
military headquarters are lo-
cated, and was no longer confined
to the wild tribal areas that serve
as the operational center for the
Pakistani Taliban.
In a warning to authorities in
July, the criminal investigation
department of the police in Punjab
said the militants who attacked the
Sri Lankan cricket team in March
would make a similar kind of as-
sault on military headquarters.
The warning, contained in a letter
to the leading intelligence agen-
cies, was published in the Oct. 5
editions of a leading newspaper,
and were conirmed Sunday by a
senior official of the criminal in-
vestigation department.  (NYT)
The deputy, the American
diplomat Peter W. Galbraith,
was fired two weeks ago after
deciding to make his accusation
public.
Eide, who is Norwegian, in-
sisted Sunday that he had pur-
sued all claims of fraud that he
was able to verify and that some
reports from polling stations “of-
ten could not be verified.”
 SABRINA TAVERNISE and
 ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
2
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Death Sentences
SHANGHAI — China sen-
tenced one man to death and
another to life in prison on Sat-
urday for their roles in a dead-
ly toy factory brawl that was
blamed for setting off riots in
western China’s Xinjiang region
last summer, according to the
official Xinhua news agency.
 (NYT)
Turkey Targets Israel
ISTANBUL — A multination-
al air force drill that was sup-
posed to take place in Turkey
has been postponed indefinitely
after the Turks asked Israel not
to participate, officials said Sun-
day, in a sign of the strained re-
lations between the two allies.
The 11-day exercise in inter-
national aerial cooperation,
which takes place every few
years, was supposed to start on
Monday.  (NYT)
Power Plant Closed
MEXICO CITY — The gov-
ernment, in the midst of a fierce
labor dispute with electri-
cal workers, said Sunday that
it was disbanding a state-run
company that supplies power to
Mexico City and the surround-
ing region after ordering hun-
dreds of police officers to occu-
py the company’s installations.
The government said it was
closing down the company, Luz
y Fuerza del Centro, because it
wastes large amounts of elec-
tricity through inefficient oper-
ations.  (NYT)
Bomb Attacks in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A series of ap-
parently coordinated bombings
aimed at a meeting for national
reconciliation killed 23 people
and wounded 65 others in west-
ern Iraq on Sunday, but they did
not injure the officials who were
at the gathering, the authori-
ties said.
The bombings, which oc-
curred in Ramadi, the capital of
Anbar Province, were the latest
in a string of deadly attacks in
the province during the past few
months that have focused on
tribal leaders and members of
Iraqi security forces and Awak-
ening Councils.  (NYT)
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Grievous Choice on Risky Path to Parenthood
The birth of octuplets in Califor-
nia in January placed the onus for
large multiple births on in vitro
fertilization, a treatment in which
eggs are joined with sperm in a pe-
tri dish and returned to the womb.
But the the major cause of qua-
druplets, quintuplets and sextu-
plets — the most dangerous preg-
nancies — is intrauterine insemi-
nation. While less effective than
IVF, IUI is used at least twice as
frequently because it is less inva-
sive, cheaper and more likely to be
covered by insurance, interviews
and data show.
Multiples can occur when the
high-potency hormones frequent-
ly used with the procedure over-
stimulate the ovaries and produce
large numbers of eggs. Parents
are then left with tough choices:
whether to eliminate some of the
fetuses or keep them and face ex-
traordinary risks.
“I think and so many of my col-
leagues think it’s a primitive ap-
proach,” said Dr. Sherman Silber,
Boy, 6, Sees a Utensil; His School Sees a Weapon
NEWARK, Del. — Finding
character witnesses when you are
6 years old is not easy. But there
was Zachary Christie last week at
a school disciplinary committee
hearing with his karate instructor
and his mother’s fiancé by his side
to vouch for him.
His offense? Taking a Cub Scout
utensil that can serve as a knife,
fork and spoon to school. School
officials said he had violated their
zero-tolerance policy on weapons,
and Zachary faces 45 days in the
district’s reform school.
“It just seems unfair,” Zachary
said.
Sweat Lodge Deaths Bring Soul-Searching to an Area Deep in Seekers
SEDONA, Ariz. — The deaths
of two people in a sweat lodge last
week at Angel Valley, a New Age
spiritual retreat about six miles
south of West Sedona, is causing
soul-searching among New Age
practitioners and concern among
town leaders.
“We need to get to the bottom
of what happened,” said Sedona’s
mayor, Rob Adams.
Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown,
N.Y., and James Shore, 40, of Mil-
waukee, died on Thursday after
collapsing inside the Angel Valley
sweat lodge. Three other people
a fertility doctor in St. Louis. “The
pregnancy rate is lower than IVF,
and you don’t have control over
multiples.”
In treating women who are hav-
ing trouble getting pregnant, most
doctors try low-potency fertility
pills first, then IUI and IVF as a
last resort. Some insurance plans
require women to have several
rounds of IUI before they will pay
for IVF. Because of the cost, other
plans cover IUI but not IVF.
But a recent study led by Dart-
mouth Medical School suggested
that because IUI often requires
repeated tries, it would ultimately
lower both costs and the risk of
large multiple births if many pa-
tients avoided the procedure and
moved straight to IVF.
There are no official statistics
on how many pregnancies result
from IUI. But other studies and
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention have found that
IUI and similar treatments cause
more large multiple births than
Spurred in part by the Colum-
bine and Virginia Tech shootings,
many school districts adopted
zero-tolerance policies on posses-
sion of weapons on school grounds.
More recently, there has been
growing debate over whether the
policies have gone too far.
But, based on the code of conduct
for the Christina School District,
where Zachary is a first grader,
school officials had no choice.
They had to suspend him because,
“regardless of possessor’s intent,”
knives are banned. But the ques-
tion on the minds of residents here
is: Why do school officials not have
were airlifted in critical condition
to Flagstaff Medical Center.
At least seven other people have
died in ceremonial sweat lodges
since 1993 in the United States,
England and Australia, according
to news accounts compiled by Al-
ton Carroll, an adjunct professor
of history at San Antonio College
who also moderates a Web site
called Newagefraud.org.
James Arthur Ray, a self-help
expert from Carlsbad, Calif., led
what was billed as five-day “spiri-
tual warrior” experience at Angel
Valley, which concluded with a
Monday, October 12, 2009
IVF.
Experts agree that at least 20
percent of the pregnancies are
multiples. Most are twins, but one
1999 study found that 8 percent of
the pregnancies with injectable
hormones and insemination were
triplets and quadruplets.
Dr. Richard P. Dickey, a spe-
cialist in the New Orleans area
who has conducted research on
hormone use in reproductive
medicine, said that IUI is normal-
ly safe. But, he said, some doctors
prescribed excessive doses of the
hormone injections.
Or they use the injections be-
fore trying a cheaper oral drug
that produces fewer multiples, he
said. The drug is less successful
than the injections.
“There’s a money factor, un-
fortunately, in this,” Dickey said.
“There is a factor of not paying
enough attention, and doctors
aren’t sufficiently aware of the
dangers of multiple pregnancy.”
 STEPHANIE SAUL
more discretion in such cases?
Some school administrators ar-
gue that it is difficult to distinguish
innocent pranks and mistakes
from more serious threats.
“There is no parent who wants
to get a phone call where they hear
that their child no longer has two
good seeing eyes because there
was a scuffle and someone pulled
out a knife,” said George Evans,
the president of the Christina dis-
trict’s school board. He defended
the board’s decision, but added
that the board might adjust the
rules when it comes to younger
children.  IAN URBINA
sweat lodge ceremony. Partici-
pants paid about $9,000 each for
the weeklong retreat, which in-
cluded seminars, a 36-hour fast
and solo experiences in the forest.
The authorities say that at any
one time 55 to 65 people were
packed for a two-hour period into a
415 square-foot structure that was
53 inches high at the center and
30 inches high on the perimeter.
Ray’s employees built the wood-
frame lodge, which was wrapped
in blankets and plastic tarps. Hot
rocks were brought into the lodge
and doused with water. Ray, who
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Gay Rights March
Discouraged by what they
see as detachment by Presi-
dent Obama on their issues, gay
rights supporters took to the
streets of the capital on Sunday
in the largest demonstration for
gay rights here in nearly a de-
cade. The organizers rated the
march a success, saying that at
least 150,000 people had attend-
ed, though authorities gave no
official estimate of the crowd
size. Most of the demonstra-
tors were in their 20s and 30s.
 (NYT)
Democrats Drop Ad
At Dole’s Request
At the request of former Sen.
Bob Dole, Democrats are scrap-
ping plans to broadcast a televi-
sion commercial with Republi-
cans like Dole speaking in sup-
port of a health care overhaul.
“The ad makes it appear Sen.
Dole is supporting the Demo-
cratic version of health care
reform,” Michael Marshall, a
spokesman for Dole, said Sun-
day morning. “That is patently
false. He is not supporting any
bill out there.” (NYT)
Landslide in Wash.
A massive and growing land-
slide Sunday morning blocked
State Route 420, diverted the
Naches River in Washington
and heavily damaged one home.
No injuries were reported, but
the authorities said residents
near the sparsely populated
community of Nile were being
evacuated.  (AP)
conducted the ceremony, left the
area on Thursday after declining
to give a statement to the police.
Sheriff Steve Waugh of Yava-
pai County said an investigation
would continue for several weeks.
Carroll, who has a doctorate in
history from Arizona State Uni-
versity and is partly of Mescalero
Apache descent, said the Angel
Valley sweat lodge was the “best
example I have seen, sadly, in a
long time of why it is extremely
dangerous to conduct sweat lodge
ceremonies without proper train-
ing.”  JOHN DOUGHERTY
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Fox’s Volley With Obama Is Intensifying
Attacking the news media is a
time-honored White House tac-
tic. But to an unusual degree, the
Obama administration has nar-
rowed its sights on one specific
organization, the Fox News Chan-
nel.
“We’re going to treat them the
way we would treat an opponent,”
said Anita Dunn, the White House
communications director, in a
telephone interview on Sunday.
“As they are undertaking a war
against Barack Obama and the
White House, we don’t need to
pretend that this is the way that
legitimate news organizations
behave.”
Her comments are only the
latest in the volatile exchange
between the administration and
the network, which is owned by
the News Corp., controlled by Ru-
pert Murdoch. Last month, Roger
Ailes, the chairman of Fox News,
and David Axelrod, a senior ad-
viser to President Obama, met for
coffee in New York.
Debating Whether Leno’s Show Is Good for NBC
Two weeks into a new season,
the talk of television is the Leno
effect — and whether it is hazard-
ous to NBC’s health.
It is not just a question of how
the new “Jay Leno Show” itself
is faring in the ratings, but also
what the show’s occupation of the
10 p.m. hour on NBC means to the
network as a whole.
Shows seem to have suffered
because they have been displaced
to new time periods, like “Law &
Order SVU,” which was the lead-
ing drama when it played at 10
p.m. on Tuesdays, but now is fin-
ishing last after moving to 9 on
Google and I.B.M. Teach Students to Sift Through Mountains of Data
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — It
is a rare criticism of elite Ameri-
can university students that they
do not think big enough. But that is
exactly the complaint from some
of the largest technology compa-
nies and the federal government.
The next generation of comput-
er scientists has to think in terms
of what could be described as In-
ternet scale. Facebook, for exam-
ple, uses more than 1 petabyte of
space to manage its users’ 40 bil-
lion photos. (A petabyte is about
1,000 times as large as a terabyte.)
In short order, DNA sequencing
While neither party has said
what was discussed, some have
speculated that a truce, or at least
an adjustment in tone, was at is-
sue. But shots are still being fired,
which propels the idea that both
sides see benefits in the feud.
Fox’s senior vice president for
programming, Bill Shine, says
of the criticism from the White
House, “Every time they do it,
our ratings go up.” Obama’s first
year is on track to be the Fox News
Channel’s highest rated.
But controversial comments
by the host Glenn Beck have also
prompted an ad boycott. And the
perception of Fox News as part
of the opposition has affected its
news correspondents, including
Major Garrett, its chief White
House correspondent, who Dunn
says is a fair reporter.
Without citing Fox by name,
Obama has commented repeated-
ly about his critics on cable news.
“I’ve got one television station
that is entirely devoted to attack-
Wednesdays.
Late newscasts on local stations
affiliated with NBC are reporting
significant ratings declines, at
least partly because of a ratings
drop-off in the 10:30 half-hour that
precedes them. And the late-night
programs, led by “The Tonight
Show,” that have been a perennial
source of strength for NBC are
no longer the automatic winners
against their CBS competition.
NBC rightly points out that both
its late-night stars Conan O’Brien
and Jimmy Fallon, remain more
popular with younger viewers
who are more valuable in sell-
systems will generate many peta-
bytes of information a year.
“It sounds like science fiction,
but soon enough, you’ll hand a ma-
chine a strand of hair, and a DNA
sequence will come out the other
side,” said Jimmy Lin, an associ-
ate professor at the University of
Maryland, during a technology
conference held here last week.
The big question is whether the
person running that machine will
have the wherewithal to do some-
thing interesting with an almost
limitless supply of information.
Two years ago, I.B.M. and
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ing my administration,” he said
in June, adding, “you’d be hard
pressed if you watched the entire
day to find a positive story about
me on that front.”
Dunn stressed that adminis-
tration officials would still talk to
Fox, and that Obama was likely to
be interviewed on the network in
the future. But, she added, “we’re
not going to legitimize them as a
news organization.”
Fox argues that its news hours
— 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on
weekdays — are objective.
The administration’s aggres-
sive stance suggests that it does
not view Fox’s audience as one
that can be persuaded. During the
presidential campaign, Dunn said,
it booked campaign representa-
tives on Fox to try to reach unde-
cided voters, but by mid-October,
the campaign had mostly pulled
them.
“It was beyond diminishing
returns,” she said. “It was no re-
turns.”  BRIAN STELTER
ing to advertisers, but in the past
NBC’s late-night hours were dom-
inant across the board.
The rationale for the move of
Leno was simple: the network
could not endure his likely move
to ABC. But NBC is justifying the
move by citing both the savings
Leno’s show represents over ex-
pensive 10 p.m. scripted dramas
and the apparent disintegration of
the 10 p.m. hour across the board.
“Jay is doing fine,” said Jeff
Gaspin, the chairman of NBC Uni-
versal Entertainment. “We’re go-
ing to look at our average over the
full year.”  BILL CARTER
Google gave students broad ac-
cess to some of the largest com-
puters on the planet, outfitted with
software that Internet companies
use to tackle their toughest data
analysis jobs. This year, the Na-
tional Science Foundation issued
a vote of confidence for the proj-
ect by splitting $5 million among
14 universities.
Of course, it’s not all good will
backing these gestures. I.B.M. is
looking for experts that can com-
plement its consulting in areas like
health care and financial services.
Meanwhile, Google promotes just
4
in brief
Sidekick Glitch
The cellphone provider T-Mo-
bile and Danger, a subsidiary
of Microsoft and one of its part-
ners, said over the weekend that
a technical glitch in their com-
puter systems would likely re-
sult in some customers losing
data.
T-Mobile and Danger oper-
ate what has become known as
a cloud computing service to
store information for users.
Last week, T-Mobile and Dan-
ger, which manages the data
services, began grappling with
a host of technical issues affect-
ing the Sidekick smartphone.
Most notably, customers who
had removed the batteries from
their phones or had let them
run out could permanently lose
their contact, calendar, photo
and to-do list information.
“Our teams continue to work
around-the-clock in hopes of dis-
covering some way to recover
this information,” T-Mobile said
in a statement on its Web site.
“However, the likelihood of a
successful outcome is extreme-
ly low.”  (NYT)
Pincus, 78, Dies
Lionel Irwin Pincus, who built
Warburg Pincus into a leading
Wall Street firm and played a
role in changing federal regu-
lations on investing, died at his
home in Manhattan on Satur-
day. He was 78.
Pincus’s death was confirmed
by his son Matthew, who said
his father had been suffering
from cancer and its aftereffects
for the last three years.  (NYT)
about anything that creates more
information to index and search.
Nonetheless, the universities
and the government benefit from
I.B.M. and Google providing ac-
cess to big data sets.
“Historically, it has been tough
to get the type of data these re-
searchers need out of industry,”
said James C. French, a research
director at the National Science
Foundation. “But we’re at this
point where a biologist needs to
see these types of volumes of in-
formation to begin to think about
what is possible.”  (NYT)
business
The Big Tests for Letterman Are Still Ahead
David Letterman walked onto
the stage to a swell of welcome
Friday night, just as he has for
more than 27 years. He sheep-
ishly basked in the adoration, but
then asked: “Are you sure you
want to be seen with me?”
They do. Since he acknowl-
edged more than a week ago that
he had had sexual relationships
with women who worked for him
and had been the target of an
extortion attempt, his ratings
are up, his advertisers have re-
mained stalwart, and the court of
public opinion has been kind.
So it would appear that Letter-
man and his network, CBS, have
built a ledge above a pit of roiling
accusations and embarrass-
ing revelations that could have
threatened “The Late Show.”
Or have they?
Letterman’s hero Johnny Car-
son thrived at the same time that
he worked his way through three
divorces. But Carson lived in a
very different media epoch, when
Closing the Deal at the Virtual Checkout Counter
Shoppers rarely drive to the
mall, load up their carts and then
abandon them in the store. On the
Web, it happens all the time.
Many shoppers fill their carts
just to keep track of things they
like or to check shipping rates and
taxes, with little intention to buy.
Zappos.com and Overstock.
com inject urgency by alerting
customers when an item they
have put it in their shopping cart
is almost sold out.
Other sites have developed a
new version of limited-time sales.
A Reporter With a ‘Tom Sawyer Business Plan’ Buys a Newspaper
SANTA ROSA, N.M. — Between
pleading with an advertiser, fend-
ing off a complaining reader and
taking a break to watch a scorpi-
on scuttle down the sidewalk, M.
E. Sprengelmeyer gives a visitor
to his office this advice: “Watch
out for the hole in the floor.”
He isn’t joking. Eight months
ago, Sprengelmeyer, 42, worked
as the sole Washington corre-
spondent for the Rocky Mountain
News, the Denver newspaper that
went out of business in February,
but his job these days is a far cry
from the Senate press gallery.
In August, he embarked on a
there was no Gawker, the tabloids
were tamer and TMZ were just
three letters of the alphabet.
None of Carson’s foibles led
to criminal courts, or more ger-
mane, to a lawyer named Gerald
Shargel. Shargel is representing
Robert Joel Halderman, the man
accused of trying to extort $2 mil-
lion from Letterman.
Shargel said last week, “to
think that David Letterman
gave the entire story and there’s
nothing more to be said is simply
wrong.”
And the media are on call.
Already, there have been stories
about Letterman’s in-studio
“bunker” where he allegedly had
sexual encounters.
Even if the news remains man-
ageable, the ultimate effects of
the revelations on his abilities as
an entertainer are tough to know.
Letterman’s self-loathing is part
of the act: hisregular-guy, Mid-
western affect has always been a
kind of weapon.
Neiman Marcus runs two-hour,
online-only sales.
Customer reviews can also
nudge would-be shoppers. A com-
pany called Bazaarvoice helps
e-commerce customers publish
user reviews on their sites.
Sites have lost billions in sales
because customers run into prob-
lems while checking out, accord-
ing to Tealeaf, a company that
makes software for e-commerce
sites.
A month ago, the clothing re-
tailer Bluefly realized that some
new life in this isolated little town
as owner, publisher, editor, pri-
mary writer and sometime ad
salesman, photographer and de-
liverer of the weekly Guadalupe
County Communicator, circula-
tion about 2,000.
“I covered the war in Iraq and
the presidential campaign, and
I knew I was never going to top
that, even if I found another re-
porting job,” he said. “I just want-
ed a completely new direction.”
While bringing some big-city
professionalism to a distinctly
small-time operation, Spren-
gelmeyer says he is making
Monday, October 12, 2009
Then again, there is nothing
more show biz than sleeping with
underlings. Hypocrisy and infi-
delity, primary colors in the co-
medic palette, will now require a
different skill from Letterman’s.
Even seemingly innocuous jokes
must be filtered through what
the audience now knows about
Letterman and what he knows
they know about him.
Peter W. Kaplan, who wrote
a profile of Letterman for New
York magazine in September,
says Letterman will prevail, but
not before some nervous nights in
the CBS corporate suites.
“A gelded Dave isn’t going
to work. He knows that,” said
Kaplan, adding, “The one thing
Letterman didn’t do here is
compromise that — which is
consistent with everything good
he’s done.
“I thought Steve Martin’s line
was good: ‘It shows you are hu-
man. We weren’t sure before.’ ”
 DAVID CARR
international shoppers were un-
able to check out. Using Tealeaf’s
software, Bluefly discovered
that the glitch had been there for
a year.
Matt Raines, Bluefly’s vice
president for technology, esti-
mated that the fix would result in
$1.1 million in additional revenue
this year.
“When customers are trying
to purchase something, we need
to do everything in our power to
make sure they can do it,” Raines
said.  CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
enough money to support him-
self, and he has been able to as-
sign some freelance work to a few
former colleagues.
“It’s the Tom Sawyer business
plan: I’m trying to convince all
my friends how much fun it would
be to help me,” Sprengelmeyer
said.
Sprengelmeyer gave up Wash-
ington for a town of 2,600 people,
with a per capita income about
half the national average, where
the biggest political dispute is
what to do with a giant water slide
the local council bought from an
amusement park.
5
Music of ‘Glee’
Is a Hit With Fans
When Fox Broadcasting an-
nounced this spring that it was
adding to its prime-time television
schedule a musical comedy about
a high school glee club, there was
plenty of reason to doubt it would
succeed. One can go back to “The
Monkees” and “The Partridge
Family” before finding a hit show
in that format.
“Glee” might be changing that,
drawing an average audience of
about 7.8 million viewers, accord-
ing to the Nielsen Co.
What is more, the show’s musi-
cal performances are as much —
if not more — of a hit as the televi-
sion episodes. Last week, “Glee”
cast recordings accounted for 10
spots on the iTunes list of top 200
downloaded songs and four plac-
es on the Billboard Hot 100 for the
week.
The music on “Glee” this season
has included almost all genres,
including country (Carrie Under-
wood’s “Last Name”), hip-hop
(Kanye West’s “Gold Digger”),
contemporary pop (Rihanna’s
“Take a Bow”), show tunes
(“Maybe This Time” from “Cab-
aret”) and rock oldies (Queen’s
“Somebody to Love”).
Ryan Murphy, the creator of the
series, said in May that the search
for music has been an integral
part of the script development.
Clearing the rights to the music
for the series has not been a prob-
lem, he added. “I can’t think of one
artist we’ve gone after or a song I
wanted that has been denied.”
On Nov. 3, Columbia Records
and 20th Century Fox Television
will release “Glee: The Music,
Volume 1.”  EDWARD WYATT
The experience has made him
an evangelist for small-town pa-
pers, which he says offer a hid-
den opportunity for unemployed
journalists, but he acknowledges
it isn’t for everybody. He works
to the brink of exhaustion, fueling
late-night production sessions
with nicotine and caffeine. After
a few hours’ sleep, he makes a
three-hour, round-trip drive to
pick up his press run in Clovis,
where the paper is printed.
“I couldn’t do this if I had a
family,” he said. “But it feels like
it matters, and I’m having fun.”
 RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
journal Monday, October 12, 2009 6

A Neighborhood in Tokyo Fights to Maintain Its View of Mount Fuji

TOKYO — Growing up in prewar Tokyo, and preeminent national symbol, has been jimizaka, which Kaneko chairs.
Makoto Kaneko recalls that the perfectly increasingly blocked by skyscrapers and The group has approached developers,
shaped, snow-capped cone of Mt. Fuji was smog. landowners and local governments, but
like a constant companion, visible on the Kaneko said he and other residents did not their efforts have collided with a preserva-
horizon from the narrow streets of his hilly mind because they still had the vista from tion problem: Protecting a building or a
working-class neighborhood. The most Fujimizaka, which has become a minor park may be one thing, but how do you pro-
majestic view was from a steep hillside af- tourist attraction. tect a view?
fectionately named Fujimizaka, “the slope Then, one day a decade ago, they learned Saving the view from Nippori’s Fujimiza-
for seeing Mt. Fuji.” of plans for a 14-story apartment building a ka would require capping building heights
Today, Kaneko’s cramped 80-year-old mile away that would partly obstruct that within an elongated fan-shaped corridor
shop selling foods cooked in soy sauce is one view. stretching three miles long and up to 1,000
of several old wooden stores and Buddhist “That is when we realized what we were feet wide across densely populated neigh-
temples that still stand here, making Nip- losing,” said Kaneko, 83. borhoods.
pori neighborhood a rare oasis of medieval With the help of a university professor, the So far, the society has met stiff resistance
charm in Tokyo’s concrete sprawl. But neighborhood’s mostly graying residents from city officials and developers in Tokyo,
the distant volcano, Japan’s tallest peak formed the Society to Protect Nippori’s Fu- which rose rapidly from the postwar ashes
in part by allowing unrestrained develop-
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opinion
editorials of the timeS
Just Say No
Indian nuclear scientists are trying to
bully their government into testing a nuclear
weapon. That would be a huge setback — for
India’s relations with Washington, for the bat-
tle against terrorists, and for global efforts to
halt the spread of nuclear weapons.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is resist-
ing. He must continue to resist.
If India tests, the United States is bound by
a 2008 agreement to cut off all sales of nuclear
fuel and technology. That would be a huge
setback to India’s plans to expand its nuclear
power generation and its economy.
We fear that if India tests, Pakistan will de-
cide that it has to test. That would raise ten-
sions between the two long-time rivals, and
it would further distract Islamabad and its
generals from the far more important battle
against the Taliban and other extremists in-
side their country and along their border with
Afghanistan.
Congress recently approved a five-year $7.5
billion aid package to strengthen civilian rule
in Pakistan and encourage the fight against
extremists. There would be strong pressure
to cut that funding if Pakistan tests. And if
India and Pakistan test (China also may be
unable to resist), it could make it even harder
for President Obama to persuade the Senate
to ratify the Test Ban Treaty.
India (followed by Pakistan) last conducted
nuclear tests in 1998. Since then, there have
been hints it might test again. In recent weeks,
the debate took on a new urgency when some
former top nuclear scientists made the case
Wrong Paths to Immigration Reform
All last week the people of Phoenix wit-
nessed public outbursts by their sheriff, Joe
Arpaio, as he railed against the Department
of Homeland Security for supposedly try-
ing to limit his ability to enforce federal im-
migration laws. He vowed to keep scouring
Maricopa County for people whose clothing,
accents and behavior betrayed them as likely
illegal immigrants. He said he had already
nabbed more than 32,000 people that way, and
announced his next immigrant sweep for Oct.
16. The spectacle raises two critical questions
that the Obama administration is in danger of
getting wrong.
One is the specific question of whether the
federal government should keep Arpaio in its
287(g) program, which deputizes local law
enforcement to act as immigration agents in
street patrols and in jails. The answer is ab-
solutely not. Arpaio has a long, ugly record of
abusing and humiliating inmates.
To the broader question of whether federal
immigration enforcement should be out-
sourced en masse in the first place, the an-
swer again is no.
It was only days ago that Homeland Secu-
rity Secretary Janet Napolitano unveiled a
publicly. S. Santhanam, a director for the 1998
test-site preparations, claimed those tests
did not yield the desired results and were a
“fizzle.”
One has to wonder why he waited 11 years to
raise the alarm. We suspect that Santhanam
and his colleagues are worried that if Wash-
ington finally ratifies the treaty India may
feel compelled to sign on.
The treaty’s appeal is undeniable. Some 181
nations have signed it and 150 have ratified it.
It limits the ability of nuclear states to field
fancier warheads and makes it harder for
nuclear wannabes to develop weapons.
But it cannot enter into force until nine key
states — including the United States, China
and India — also ratify. Obama has pledged
to work for Senate ratification and urged all
other holdouts to do so.
So far, New Delhi does not seem to be taking
Santhanam’s bait. “India does not need to car-
ry any more nuclear tests,” Atomic Energy
Commission chief Anil Kakodkar said in The
Hindu newspaper.
He insisted that his agency has confidence
in its ability to get the weapons data it needs
by conducting simulated tests. He should keep
insisting.
The United States should make clear that
India has more to gain by focusing on econom-
ic growth and expanding global cooperation
than on developing more nuclear weapons.
And it should leave no doubt about how much
India and the rest of the world have to lose if
New Delhi makes the wrong choice.
plan to repair the rotting immigration deten-
tion system. The Bush administration had
outsourced the job to state, local and private
jailers, with terrible results.
Napolitano wants to centralize federal con-
trol over the system that handles detainees.
But she insists on continuing to outsource and
expand the flawed machinery that catches
them, including 287(g) and a system of jail-
house fingerprint checks called Secure Com-
munities, which increase the likelihood that
local enforcers will abuse their authority and
undermine the law.
Rather than broadening the reach of law
enforcement, using local police can cause im-
migrant crime victims to fear the police and
divert the police from fighting crime.
Programs like 287(g) rest on the dishonest
premise that illegal immigrants are a vast
criminal threat. But only a small percentage
are dangerous felons. The vast majority are
those whom Obama has vowed to help get
right with the law, by paying fines and earn-
ing citizenship. Treating the majority of ille-
gal immigrants as potential Americans, not
a criminal horde, is the right response to the
problem.
Monday, October 12, 2009 7
Paul krugman
Bad Economic Ideas
The economic historian Peter Temin has
argued that a key cause of the Depression was
what he calls the “gold-standard mentality.”
By this he means not just belief in the sacred
importance of maintaining the gold value of
one’s currency, but a set of associated atti-
tudes: obsessive fear of inflation even in the
face of deflation; opposition to easy credit,
even when the economy desperately needs
it, on the grounds that it would be somehow
corrupting; assertions that even if the gov-
ernment can create jobs it shouldn’t, because
this would only be an “artificial” recovery.
In the early 1930s this mentality led govern-
ments to raise interest rates and slash spend-
ing, despite mass unemployment, in an at-
tempt to defend their gold reserves. And even
when countries went off gold, the prevailing
mentality made them reluctant to cut rates
and create jobs.
But we’re past all that now. Or are we?
Consider first the current uproar over the
declining international value of the dollar.
The truth is that the falling dollar is good
news. For one thing, it’s mainly the result of
rising confidence. And a lower dollar is good
for U.S. exporters.
But if you get your opinions from, say, The
Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, you’re
told that the falling dollar is a terrible thing.
And in practice the dollar’s decline has be-
come a stick with which conservative mem-
bers of Congress beat the Federal Reserve,
pressuring the Fed to scale back its efforts to
support the economy.
We can only hope that the Fed stands up to
this pressure. But there are worrying signs of
a misguided monetary mentality within the
Federal Reserve system itself.
In recent weeks there have been a num-
ber of statements from Fed officials, mainly
but not only presidents of regional Federal
Reserve banks, calling for an early return
to tighter money, including higher interest
rates.
The unemployment rate is a horrifying 9.8
percent and still rising, while inflation is run-
ning well below the Fed’s long-term target.
This suggests that the Fed should be in no
hurry to tighten interest rates until the unem-
ployment rate has fallen to around 7 percent.
Yet some Fed officials want to pull the trig-
ger on rates much sooner.
I don’t know what analysis lies behind these
itchy trigger fingers. But it probably isn’t
about analysis, anyway — it’s about mental-
ity, the sense that central banks are supposed
to act tough, not provide easy credit.
And it’s crucial that we don’t let this men-
tality guide policy. We do seem to have avoid-
ed a second Great Depression.
But giving in to a modern version of our
grandfather’s prejudices would be a very
good way to ensure the next worst thing: a
prolonged era of sluggish growth and very
high unemployment.
sports Monday, October 12, 2009 8

Yankees Sweep Twins; Red Sox Eliminated in brief

MINNEAPOLIS — It took five
years of wandering, five years
of wild spending and first-round
heartbreak and changes both
awkward and grand. But the Yan-
kees are back in the American
League Championship Series,
back where it all went off course
in 2004, back with the World Series
within reach.
They got there by sweeping the
Minnesota Twins in the division
series with a 4-1 victory in Game 3
on Sunday, closing the Metrodome
for baseball. Alex Rodriguez, as
dangerous now as he was lost in
past Octobers, slammed a tying
home run for the second game in a
row, driving in six runs while bat-
ting .455 in the sweep.
The homer came with one out in
the seventh inning off the former
Yankee Carl Pavano, just after
the Twins had taken a lead for the
third game in a row. Two batters
Manning Stars in Limited Action in Giants’ Romp
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
— The Giants’ 44-7 victory over
the Oakland Raiders on Sunday
felt like it was decided in the
first eight minutes, when the Gi-
ants took the ball on the opening
kickoff and drove 77 yards for a
touchdown.
After a while, with Eli Man-
ning healthy and playing well, the
greatest competition in sunny Gi-
ants Stadium seemed to be among
the Giants players as they raised
their record to 5-0 and dropped
the Raiders to 1-4.
Who could be the next defender
to hit JaMarcus Russell, the hap-
less Raiders’ quarterback? Who
later, Jorge Posada drove another
homer off Pavano to put the Yan-
kees ahead.
The Yankees will host the Los
Angeles Angels in Game 1 of the
A.L.C.S. on Friday at Yankee Sta-
dium. The Angels came back Sun-
day and defeated the Boston Red
Sox, 7-6.
They were clearly the better
team and they advanced to the
A.L.C.S. for the first time since
2005. To get there, they swept a
Red Sox team that had emphati-
cally knocked them out of the
playoffs three times in the previ-
ous five years. They beat Boston’s
three best pitchers — Jon Lester,
Josh Beckett and Papelbon, who
had not given up a run in 26 previ-
ous postseason innings.
The Angels were trailing, 6-4,
with two outs and nobody on base
in the ninth inning, but Vladimir
Guerrero, who went into his at-
would recover the ball if and when
he fumbled? And who on offense
would score again on the ensuing
drive?
Such questions sharpen con-
versational skills. “When we start
swarming, it’s a great feeling,”
defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka
said, “coming off the field, laugh-
ing and jawing about who got the
sack.”
The defense managed six of
them, three causing fumbles that
the Giants recovered to set up
more scoring. The offense pro-
duced five touchdowns, and Law-
rence Tynes made all three of his
field-goal attempts.
bat against Jonathan Papelbon
with only 2 hits in 12 career at-bats
against him, lined a bases-loaded
single into center that drove in the
tying and winning runs.
“There’s no excuses,” a deject-
ed Red Sox first baseman Kevin
Youkilis said. “They beat us in this
series because they played better
baseball.”
On the Yankees’ last trip to Los
Angeles, they blew a three-games-
to-none lead against Boston, the
low point of the Joe Torre era. Now
the Yankees have a new manager,
Joe Girardi, a new ballpark and
new stars like C. C. Sabathia. He
can start Game 1 against the An-
gels on normal rest.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles
Dodgers will play either Colorado
or Philadelphia who were tied at
one game apiece going into last
night’s game, which started late in
Colorado in freezing cold . (NYT)
One of the touchdowns came on
an ad-lib run of 12 yards by David
Carr, the backup quarterback,
who vacated the pocket under
pressure and pranced into the
end zone holding the ball in front
of him and then spiking it.
That Carr played so much, so
early and so well was a relief to
Manning and everyone who was
worried about the plantar fascii-
tis injury to Manning’s right foot
that caused him to miss most of
last week’s practices.
Manning left the game late in
the second quarter after complet-
ing 8 of 10 passes for 173 yards and
2 touchdowns.  JOE LAPOINTE
U.S. Team Retains
President’s Cup
About two hours before the fi-
nal putt fell, the United States
clinched the Presidents Cup by
sweeping the first five singles
points. They finished with a
19.5 to 14.5 victory at the Hard-
ing Park Golf Club to retain the
Cup.
The victory ran the U.S. re-
cord to 6-1-1 in the competi-
tion, and Tiger Woods provided
the coup de grâce with a 9-foot
putt on the 13th green. With six
matches still out on the course,
Woods hit the clincher that
fpushed the United States past
the 17.5 points required for vic-
tory.  (NYT)
Johnson Pulls Ahead
Jimmie Johnson, the three-
time Sprint Cup champion, eas-
ily pulled away from Jeff Gor-
don after a restart with three
laps remaining Sunday to win
the Pepsi 500 at Auto Club
Speedway.  (NYT)
nfL Scores
Sunday
Pittsburgh 28, Detroit 20
Giants 44, Oakland 7
Cleveland 6, Buffalo 3
Dallas 26, Kansas City 20, OT
Minnesota 38, St. Louis 10
Cincinnati 17, Baltimore 14
Carolina 20, Washington 17
Philadelphia 33, Tampa Bay 14
Atlanta 45, San Francisco 10
Seattle 41, Jacksonville 0
Arizona 28, Houston 21
Denver 20, New England 17, OT
Indianapolis at Tennessee, late
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sports journal
Florida Gators Fall Back on Their Defense
Florida Coach Urban Meyer is
often credited for the proliferation
of the spread offense in college
football. He is perhaps the most
influential offensive coach of the
past decade, as his innovations
have helped level the playing field
across the sport.
But as Meyer’s top-ranked Ga-
tors approach the halfway point
of their 2009 season, the identity
of this Florida team is radically
different from the one on which
Meyer and the Gators built their
recent reputations.
As the Gators showed in their
13-3 victory over No. 4 Louisiana
State on Saturday night, the of-
fensive flash and fireworks typi-
cally entwined in Florida football
have given way to a new reality.
If Florida is to win back-to-back
Bowl Championship Series titles,
the backbone of the team will be
its stingy defense, which has given
up only two touchdowns through
five games.
“I think that’s what we are right
now,” Meyer said in a conference
call Sunday. “I’m an offensive
coach, and this is not my first ro-
deo, this is not the first year that
the defense keeps you in games.”
The star quarterback Tim
Tebow just returned from a con-
cussion, and the Gators are thin at
wide receiver and still searching
for a playmaker to replace Percy
Harvin. At least by reputation,
the Gators have undergone an ex-
treme makeover in how they win.
Florida is No. 1 in the country,
in large part because of a defense
that ranks No. 1 in the Football
With Elway-Like Drive, Broncos Defeat Patriots
Kyle Orton moved Denver from
its 2 to the end zone to tie the score
Sunday, and Matt Prater kicked
a 41-yard field goal in overtime to
give the Broncos a 20-17 victory
over the New England Patriots
and make the rookie coach Josh
McDaniels a winner over his for-
mer boss Bill Belichick.
Narrow Escapes on Road
Carson Palmer threw a
20-yard touchdown pass to An-
dre Caldwell with 22 seconds left
to cap an 80-yard drive fueled by
three Baltimore penalties, and
the Bengals escaped with a 17-14
victory over the Ravens.
¶ With thousands of black-and-
gold-clad fans chanting “De-
fense!” and twirling Terrible
Bowl Subdivision in total defense,
scoring defense and pass efficien-
cy defense. Florida’s offense has
sputtered in spots, but the defen-
sive coordinator Charlie Strong’s
unit has lived up to every iota of its
preseason hype. Florida returned
its entire two-deep defensive ros-
ter from last season’s title team,
which considerably slowed down
Oklahoma’s pinball offense in the
B.C.S. title game.
But heading into this season, the
focus on the Gators naturally ze-
roed in on Tebow and his place in
college football history.
“We’ve got a Heisman winner
on the team and all those great
athletes on offense, so it’s easy
to overlook the defense,” Florida
safety Will Hill said.
That should change after Flor-
ida suffocated L.S.U.’s already
languid offense, which entered the
game ranked No. 99 in the country.
The Tigers seemingly never had a
chance moving the ball. They fin-
ished 1 for 9 on third-down conver-
sions and gained 162 total yards.
Their only points came on a drive
in which Florida gave away 25
yards on penalties.
Florida’s most dynamic de-
fensive player was the senior
linebacker Brandon Spikes, who
has been hobbled by an Achilles’
injury and been inconsistent at
times. He put up the night’s most
dominant defensive line, finish-
ing with 11 tackles, 2 of Florida’s 5
sacks and a forced fumble.
Spikes anchors a solid line-
backer corps, but Florida’s most
dominant units are its secondary
Towels, Pittsburgh had four of
its seven sacks on Detroit’s final
drive and the Steelers held off the
Lions, 28-20.
¶ Miles Austin’s tackle-break-
ing 59-yard catch-and-run from
Tony Romo gave Dallas a short-
lived lead in the fourth quarter,
and he later got free on a 60-yard
scoring play in overtime to give
the Cowboys a 26-20 win over the
Chiefs. Kansas City, which had
tied the score on Dwayne Bowe’s
16-yard catch with 24 second left,
dropped to 0-5. Dallas is 3-2.
McNabb Sharp in Return
It did not take long for Dono-
van McNabb to show he was re-
covered from a rib injury in the
Eagles’ 33-14 victory over the
Monday, October 12, 2009
and its defensive line. Joe Haden
intercepted a pass against L.S.U.
and is half of what could be consid-
ered the most intimidating cover
tandem in college football. Meyer
said Haden and the sophomore Ja-
noris Jenkins are among the more
dominant cover cornerbacks he
has been around.
L.S.U. Coach Les Miles said of
the secondary, “They came out of
the sky.”
Miles also marveled at how
Florida’s defensive front pres-
sured the Tigers, as Carlos Dun-
lap and Jermaine Cunningham
could be considered the country’s
top tandem at end. Dunlap and
Cunningham are the prototype
ends to defend modern offenses,
as they are fast, versatile and can
pressure the quarterback as eas-
ily as they drop into coverage.
All that adds up to a defense
that has given up only 6.4 points
a game, well below the 11.4 points
the Gators’ solid defense gave up
last season. “We could go down as
one of the greatest defenses and
greatest teams in college foot-
ball,” Hill said.
All of this bodes well for Strong,
whose inability to get a head
coaching job remains one of col-
lege football’s great mysteries.
Strong is often a candidate for
top jobs, but he has never been
able to break through. This may
be the season that changes.
“That’s one that will be asked
over and over,” Meyer said of why
Strong has not been able to land a
head coaching job.
 PETE THAMEL
visiting Buccaneers.
¶ Matt Hasselbeck returned
from broken ribs to throw four
touchdown passes, and the Sea-
hawks routed the visiting Jag-
uars, 41-0. He completed 18 of 30
passes for 241 yards before rest-
ing in the fourth quarter.
Falcons and Vikings Coast
Roddy White caught two
touchdown passes — including a
90-yard catch-and-run — and Mi-
chael Turner ran for three scores
as the Falcons flattened the 49ers,
45-10.
¶ A day after turning 40, Brett
Favre improved to 5-0 for the first
time in his career as the Vikings
beat the winless Rams, 38-10.
 (AP)
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nfl STANDINGS
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PA
Jets 3 1 0 .750 74 57
N. England 3 2 0 .600 104 91
Miami 1 3 0 .250 81 79
Buffalo 1 4 0 .200 77 116
South W L T Pct PF PA
Indianapolis 4 0 0 1.000 106 62
Jacksonville 2 3 0 .400 97 127
Houston 2 3 0 .400 115 120
Tennessee 0 4 0 .000 75 108
North W L T Pct PF PA
Cincinnati 4 1 0 .800 101 90
Baltimore 3 2 0 .600 138 97
Pittsburgh 3 2 0 .600 113 98
Cleveland 1 4 0 .200 55 121
West W L T Pct PF PA
Denver 5 0 0 1.000 99 43
San Diego 2 2 0 .500 101 102
Oakland 1 4 0 .200 49 130
Kansas City 0 5 0 .000 84 138
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PA
Giants 5 0 0 1.000 151 71
Phila. 3 1 0 .750 127 86
Dallas 3 2 0 .600 122 98
Washington 2 3 0 .400 73 82
South W L T Pct PF PA
New Orleans 4 0 0 1.000 144 66
Atlanta 3 1 0 .750 102 63
Carolina 1 3 0 .250 57 104
Tampa Bay 0 5 0 .000 68 140
North W L T Pct PF PA
Minnesota 5 0 0 1.000 156 90
Chicago 3 1 0 .750 105 78
Green Bay 2 2 0 .500 104 93
Detroit 1 4 0 .200 103 162
West W L T Pct PF PA
San Fran. 3 2 0 .600 112 98
Arizona 2 2 0 .500 85 89
Seattle 2 3 0 .400 115 82
St. Louis 0 5 0 .000 34 146
Chicago Marathon
CHICAGO — Sammy Wan-
jiru of Kenya, the 2008 Olym-
pic champion, won the Chicago
Marathon on Sunday. He set an-
other course record.
With one second to spare,
Wanjiru ran the fastest mara-
thon on American soil — 2 hours
5 minutes 41 seconds, breaking
Khalid Khannouchi’s 1999 Chi-
cago record.
Wanjiru, who turns 23 next
month, has won four of the five
marathons he has run since
moving from the half-marathon
in 2007. And he has set course
records in all of them: his de-
but in Fukuoka, Japan; the Bei-
jing Olympics, a record by al-
most three minutes; the London
race in April, a personal-best
2:05:10; and Chicago.
All that is left is the world re-
cord, 2:03:59, set by Haile Ge-
brselassie of Ethiopia.  (NYT)