F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
Tuesday
November 3, 2009
Midnight in New York
Nine pages © 2009 The New York Times
Gore’s Cause Is Also an Investment
WASHINGTON — Former Vice
President Al Gore thought he had
spotted a winner last year when
a small California firm sought
financing for an energy-saving
technology from the venture cap-
ital firm where he is a partner.
The company, Silver Spring
Networks, produces hardware
and software to make the electric-
ity grid more efficient. It came
to Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon
Valley’s top venture capital pro-
viders, looking for $75 million to
expand its partnerships with util-
ities seeking to install millions of
so-called smart meters in homes
and businesses.
Gore and his partners backed
the company, and Silver Spring
retained him and John Doerr, an-
other Kleiner Perkins partner, as
unpaid corporate advisers.
The deal appeared to pay off in
a big way last week, when the En-
ergy Department announced $3.4
billion in smart grid grants. Of
the total, more than $560 million
went to utilities with which Silver
Spring has contracts.
Silver Spring is a foot soldier in
the global green energy revolu-
In a Comeback, Ford Surprises With a Profit
DETROIT — While its cross-
town rivals stumbled through
bankruptcy this summer, Ford
Motor Co. pressed its advantage,
and delivered surprising news
Monday that its cost-cutting ef-
forts and improving sales helped
it earn nearly $1 billion in the
third quarter.
Now its faces new challenges
in maintaining that lead. Both
General Motors and Chrysler
are moving ahead with their own
comeback plans.
G.M. is marketing a 60-day
money-back guarantee on its
vehicles that most likely will re-
sult in market share gains. And
Chrysler and its new partner,
Fiat, on Wednesday will disclose
a five-year plan to streamline
its product lineup and introduce
more fuel-efficient models.
Ford is also running into resis-
tance from its unionized work
tion Gore hopes to lead. Few peo-
ple have been as vocal about the
urgency of global warming and
the need to reinvent the way the
world produces and consumes en-
ergy. And few have put as much
money behind their advocacy as
Gore and are as well positioned to
profit from this green transfor-
mation, if and when it comes.
Critics, mostly on the political
right and among global warm-
ing skeptics, say Gore is poised to
become the world’s first “carbon
billionaire,” profiteering from
government policies he sup-
ports.
Gore says that he is simply put-
ting his money where his mouth
is.
“Do you think there is some-
thing wrong with being active in
business in this country?” Gore
said. “I am proud of it. I am proud
of it.”
He said his investment activi-
ties were consistent with his pub-
lic advocacy over decades.
“I have advocated policies to
promote renewable energy and
accelerate reductions in global
warming pollution for decades,
including all of the time I was in
force as it tries to cut costs fur-
ther. Its improving fortunes
were the main reason cited by
the United Automobile Workers
on Monday for rejecting another
round of labor concessions that
would have roughly matched con-
cessions that workers at Chrysler
and General Motors approved in
the spring.
The U.A.W.’s president, Ron
Gettelfinger, and its vice presi-
dent in charge of the Ford unit,
Bob King, said that the carmak-
er’s third-quarter profit was “ev-
idence of the contributions that
Ford workers have made.”
Ford, which earned $997 mil-
lion in the third quarter and made
money in North America for the
first time since 2005, has turned
itself around largely by cutting
costs and introducing cars that
consumers want to buy, rather
than resorting to deep discounts
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public service,” Gore wrote. “As
a private citizen, I have continued
to advocate the same policies.
Even though the vast majority of
my business career has been in
areas that do not involve renew-
able energy or global warming
pollution reductions, I absolutely
believe in investing in ways that
are consistent with my values
and beliefs. I encourage others to
invest in the same way.”
Gore has invested a significant
portion of the tens of millions
of dollars he has earned since
leaving government in 2001 in a
broad array of environmentally
friendly energy and technology
business ventures, like carbon
trading markets, solar cells and
waterless urinals.
He has also given away millions
more to finance the nonprofit he
founded, the Alliance for Climate
Protection, and to another group,
the Climate Project, which trains
people to present the slide show
that was the basis of his documen-
tary “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Royalties from his new book on
climate change, “Our Choice,”
will go to the alliance, an aide
said.  JOHN M. BRODER
to lure shoppers into showrooms.
Ford also took advantage of
the unfavorable perception that
many consumers had of G.M.
and Chrysler, which have needed
huge infusions of federal aid to
survive. Even Toyota has been
losing money and, after signifi-
cant recalls, been forced to de-
fend its quality.
Toyota, like G.M. and Chrysler,
is plotting its own turnaround ef-
fort, with a new president, Akio
Toyoda, focused on restoring its
once-pristine reputation.
Ford’s chief executive, Alan R.
Mulally, joined the automaker
three years ago from Boeing
and has been the rare outsider to
achieve success in Detroit.
“This is not so much a turning
point as it is a proof point of the
value of the plan and the strategy
we’ve been following for three
years,” he said. BILL VLASIC
Obama Presses
afghan leader
on corruption
WASHINGTON — President
Obama on Monday admonished
President Hamid Karzai of Af-
ghanistan that he must take on
what U.S. officials have said he
avoided during his first term:
the rampant corruption and drug
trade that has fueled the resur-
gence of the Taliban.
As Karzai was officially de-
clared the winner of his country’s
disputed presidential election,
Obama placed a congratulatory
call in which he asked for a “new
chapter” in the legitimacy of the
Afghan government.
What he is seeking, Obama told
reporters afterward, is “a sense
on the part of President Karzai
that, after some difficult years in
which there has been some drift,
that in fact he’s going to move
boldly and forcefully forward
and take advantage of the inter-
national community’s interest
in his country to initiate reforms
internally.”
The administration wants
Karzai and the Afghan govern-
ment to put into place an anticor-
ruption commission to establish
strict accountability for officials
at the national and provincial lev-
els, administration officials said.
In addition, some U.S. officials
and their European counterparts
would like at least a few arrests
of what one administration of-
ficial called “the more blatantly
corrupt” people in the Afghan
government.
The international communi-
ty’s wish list of potential defen-
dants includes Karzai’s brother,
Ahmed Wali Karzai, a suspected
player in the country’s opium
trade; Gen. Abdul Rashid Dos-
tum, who is accused of involve-
ment in the killings of thousands
of Taliban prisoners of war; and
one of Karzai’s running mates,
Marshal Muhammad Qasim Fa-
him, a former defense minister
who is also suspected of drug traf-
ficking.  HELENE COOPER
 and JEFF ZELENY
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Politics Hampers Iran on Nuclear Fuel Deal in brief

CAIRO — Iran’s leadership The announced agreement lems is President Mahmoud Ah-
has once again equivocated after headed off efforts to impose madinejad, who has said recently Pakistan Bombings
agreeing to a deal that would ease tough new sanctions on Iran, that Iran should accept the deal,
its nuclear standoff with the West. yet patience may be waning. On saying that his tough stance in Suicide bombers on Monday
But this time, that may be Monday, Secretary of past years had finally forced the attacked Rawalpindi and La-
hore as the Pakistani army
as much a product of the News State Hillary Rodham West to implicitly accept Iran’s
claimed control of two strong-
nation’s political crisis as Analysis Clinton said that Tehran right to enrich uranium.
holds of Uzbek militants in
it is a negotiating tactic, had to accept the deal However, Ahmadinejad has
political analysts and Iran ex- in full, with no changes. And the deeply alienated both reformist South Waziristan, officials said.
perts said. British foreign minister, David and conservative political lead- The Rawalpindi bomber struck
Tehran has yet to state why Miliband, emerged from a meet- ers since his disputed re-election. a few hundred yards from the
it objects to the deal, in which it ing in Moscow with his Russian Neither side is eager to see him headquarters of the army and
would ship its low-enriched urani- counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, and his nuclear negotiator, Saad outside a branch office of the
um out the country for additional to declare, “We both want to see a Jalili, take credit for resolving National Bank of Pakistan,
processing and eventual return prompt response.” But that may the nuclear issue. where soldiers and civilians had
as fuel rods. But Iran experts say not be forthcoming. Reformers led by Mir Hussein gathered to collect their month-
the caustic nature of the debate “It is the worst-case scenario Moussavi, the former presiden- ly salaries and pension pay-
suggests that the divisions ce- because it can leave people with tial candidate, have been looking ments. At least 35 people were
mented by the disputed presiden- the impression diplomacy has to take a page from Ahmadine- killed. In the evening, an explo-
tial election have complicated, if been tried and failed, whereas jad’s own playbook. “To have an sives-laden vehicle blew up at a
not undermined, Iran’s ability to in reality it came at a point when opportunity to go at Ahmadinejad police checkpoint near the en-
resolve such a major issue. Iran is too politically divided and for not being nationalist enough, trance to Lahore, the city’s po-
“Since the 1979 revolution it is incapable of making decisions of it looks like an opportunity for lice chief said. The two bombers
rare for the political elite to dis- this magnitude,” said Trita Parsi, someone like Moussavi,” said Mi- were killed and 15 people were
agree so openly with an issue of president of the National Iranian chael Axworthy, an Iran expert wounded, most of them police
this significance,” said Mehrzad American Association, an advo- who lectures at the University of officers. (NYT)
Boroujerdi, a political scientist at cacy group based in Washington. Exeter in England.
Syracuse University. At the center of Iran’s prob-  MICHAEL SLACKMAN War Crimes Trial
Radovan Karadzic was absent

Beefeaters Accused of Bullying Female Guard
LONDON — For centuries, the
jailers at the Tower of London
known as Beefeaters had a grim
reputation. Guarding three Tu-
dor queens who were beheaded
and dispatching numerous others
to the gallows or the scaffold, they
helped make the tower’s blood-
stained history.
After 524 years of service, the
last century as a ceremonial
yeomanry, that bill of attainder
must now be expanded to include
the more modern offense of mi-
sogyny, according to a report
published in the Sun newspaper
on Monday.
The paper reported that three
of the tower’s guard of male Beef-
Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Its Rapid Retreat
The ice atop Mount Kiliman-
jaro in Tanzania has continued to
retreat rapidly, declining 26 per-
cent since 2000, scientists say in a
new report. Yet the authors of the
study, in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences,
reached no consensus on wheth-
er the melting could be attrib-
uted mainly to humanity’s role in
warming the global climate.
Eighty-five percent of the ice
cover that was present in 1912 has
eaters are under investigation for
bullying Moira Cameron, the first
woman named to their ranks.
The Sun said her uniform had
been defaced, “nasty” notes left
in her locker and her entry in
Wikipedia tampered with. Of-
ficials confirmed that two Beef-
eaters had been suspended and
a third investigated by Scotland
Yard, where a spokesman said “a
56-year-old man” had received a
formal caution for “inappropri-
ate use of the Internet.”
Cameron, a 44-year-old retired
army warrant officer from Scot-
land, became the first woman
named to the tower’s guard in
2007. She had qualified like all
vanished, the scientists said.
To measure the recent pace of
the retreat, researchers relied
on data from aerial photographs
and from stakes and instruments
installed on the mountaintop in
2000, said Douglas R. Hardy, a ge-
ologist at the University of Mas-
sachusetts and one of the study’s
authors.
The lead author, Lonnie G.
Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio
State University, has concluded
candidates by serving a stipulat-
ed 22 years in the British forces,
and won her position in competi-
tion with five male candidates
In interviews, the new Beefeat-
er, one woman alongside 34 men,
described the job as “magical”
and said: “It’s just a wonderful
job and I’m very, very lucky to
have it.” She added: “You wake
up in the morning and you know
you’re going to have a good day.”
The Beefeaters’ privileges in-
clude subsidized apartments in
the tower. Their duties include
guarding the crown jewels, per-
forming the daily Ceremony of
the Keys and giving tours.
 JOHN F. BURNS
that the melting of recent years
is unique. But Georg Kaser, a
glaciologist at the Institute for
Geography of the University of
Innsbruck in Austria, said that
the ice measured was only a few
hundred years old and that it had
come and gone over centuries.
He suggested that the recent
melting had more to do with a de-
cline in moisture levels than with
a warming atmosphere.
 SINDYA N. BHANOO
again on Monday, the third day
of his trial, but he sent a letter
to the chief judge of the interna-
tional tribunal saying he would
be “pleased” to come on Tues-
day. Karadzic, the former Bos-
nian Serb leader, is on trial in
The Hague on charges of geno-
cide, war crimes and crimes
against humanity. (NYT)
Moscow Shooting
Gunmen shot dead on Monday
a former K.G.B. agent turned
basketball entrepreneur while
he was riding in his car a few
hundred yards from the office
of Prime Minister Vladimir V.
Putin in Moscow, law enforce-
ment officials said. The for-
mer agent, Shabtai von Kal-
manovic, organized a Michael
Jackson concert in Moscow, and
he helped two basketball clubs
win Europe’s top championship.
 (Reuters)
Minister Dismissed
Facing rising criticism over
the quality of schools and a
crush of jobless college gradu-
ates, China’s legislature an-
nounced Monday that it had re-
moved the minister of educa-
tion, Zhou Ji, after six years on
the job and replaced him with a
deputy. (NYT)
national
Urban Hospitals Fearful of Medicare Cuts
As Congress struggles to rein
in health care costs, hospitals in
New York City and other urban
areas that provide some of the
most expensive care are among
the primary targets.
The issue pits hospitals in more
rural states like Iowa and Minne-
sota, where spending tends to be
lower, against those in areas like
New York and Los Angeles, and
revolves around a question that
has bedeviled the medical estab-
lishment for decades: How much
money do hospitals need to pro-
vide adequate care for patients,
especially poor people who have
not had regular access to health
care?
A provision in the House health
care bill, included over the objec-
tions of city hospitals, would or-
der a neutral group, the Institute
of Medicine, to conduct a two-
year study of regional variations
in Medicare spending. The bill re-
quires the institute to recommend
changes that would reward “qual-
Police Were Told of Violence at Home of Rapist
The police in Cleveland were
notified repeatedly about vio-
lence in the house of Anthony
Sowell, a convicted rapist, where
six decomposed bodies were
found, a neighbor said Monday.
Sowell was arrested Saturday
night after the bodies were found.
The neighbor, Fawcett Bess, 57,
the owner of Bess Chicken and
Pizza, across the street from the
house, said that about two weeks
ago he found Sowell, in the bushes
alongside Sowell’s house, naked
and standing over a woman who
was bloodied, beaten and na-
ked. Bess said he called 911, and
an ambulance took the woman
away. But the police showed up
Bright Billboards on the Ballot in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — Can neon
save a neighborhood? On Tues-
day, voters here will take up a
proposition that, if passed, would
allow a down-and-out two-block
area of a central city thorough-
fare to be ringed with a variety
of electronic marquees, bringing
a touch of Times Square to a city
better known for its Victorians.
Proposition D, sponsored by
a developer, David Addington,
would create an “arts revital-
ity and value,” and those changes
would take effect automatically
unless Congress objected by May
31, 2012.
Proponents say the institute’s
findings could prove crucial to
efforts to slow costs. They cite
researchers at Dartmouth Medi-
cal School, who contend that
Medicare could save $1.42 trillion
by 2023, and eliminate a loom-
ing deficit, by reducing annual
growth in per patient spending to
2.4 percent from the national av-
erage of 3.5 percent.
The recommendation that New
York hospitals fear most is that
Medicare should reduce pay-
ments to areas where costs grow
fastest and increase payments
to those who are best at control-
ling them. They argue that some
of the most efficient hospitals are
in affluent and rural areas that do
not face the same challenges.
“This line of inquiry is destruc-
tive to urban centers,” said Dr.
Kenneth L. Davis, chief executive
two hours later and never inter-
viewed him, Bess said.
“Nobody did anything because
she is a girl walking around the
streets,” Bess said.
Bess said that a month earlier,
he had been approached by an-
other woman who showed him
bruises and blood on her neck
that she claimed were from an at-
tack by Sowell. That woman told
Bess that the police took a report
but appeared to do little investi-
gation.
Bess added, “If people had
come to tell us about this guy’s
history, then maybe we would
have paid more attention.”
The claims were supported by
ization and tourism special sign
district” along part of Market
Street, which runs from the San
Francisco Bay to the hills west of
the Castro district. The bill would
exempt 52 buildings from a ban
on new billboard advertising. It
would also allow building owners
to lease the signs.
Addington, who owns two of the
52 buildings on that strip, known
as Mid-Market, including the
Warfield Theater, says he came
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
at Mount Sinai Medical Center in
New York. “Unless we deal with
the problems of poverty in under-
served areas, health care will be
expensive in urban areas.”
The study was so important to
the Blue Dog Democrats that they
made it a condition of their sup-
port for the public option health
insurance plan. House members
from the West and Midwest ar-
gued that they had been histori-
cally shortchanged by Medicare.
“This agreement rewards
states like Iowa who have put pa-
tients and their care first,” Rep.
Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa.
Two weeks ago, hospitals from
New York and other urban areas
succeeded in adding language
that prevents the institute’s rec-
ommendations from reducing
payments for medical education,
or from reducing so-called dis-
proportionate share payments
for hospitals that serve large
numbers of low-income patients.
 ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
police records that indicate Sow-
ell was accused by one woman
of choking and raping her in his
house on Sept. 22. It was after this
accusation that the police decid-
ed to conduct the search, in which
they found the decaying bodies.
Police records indicate it took
several weeks to assign an officer
to the case and to obtain a search
warrant.
Police records also show that
on Dec. 8, 2008, another woman
filed a report accusing Sowell of
stopping her on the street in front
of his house and forcing her to
the back door where he punched,
choked and tried to rape her.
 IAN URBINA
up with the idea while looking at
old photos of the area, which con-
nects the shopping friendly Union
Square district with the area sur-
rounding City Hall.
“We’re just looking for some-
thing to make it look like an arts
and theater district,” he said.
Opponents say the plan opens
the door for gaudy rooftop sig-
nage, potentially blunting future
restoration efforts.
 JESSE McKINLEY
3
in brief
Health Estimate
As the House moved toward
votes on legislation to remake
the health care system, the Con-
gressional Budget Office said
Monday that middle-income
families might be required to
pay 15 percent to 18 percent of
their income on premiums and
co-payments under the propos-
al. Democrats cited the figures
as evidence that the legislation
would reduce premiums for
many low and middle-income
families who currently lack af-
fordable coverage. Democrat-
ic leaders were drawing up
ground rules for House floor de-
bate on their bill, expected to
begin late this week. (NYT)
E. Coli Kills 2
Two people, one from New
Hampshire and another from
upstate New York, have died af-
ter eating ground beef that may
be responsible for an E. coli out-
break linked to illness in more
than two dozen people. The beef
was produced by a company in
western New York State, Fair-
bank Farms, which issued a re-
call Saturday for 545,699 pounds
of ground beef products. The
products, stamped “EST 492,”
went to retailers in eight states:
Connecticut, Maryland, Mas-
sachusetts, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina, Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia.  (NYT)
Vaccine Dosages
One dose of swine flu vac-
cine protects pregnant women
against the flu, but children un-
der 10 still need two doses, fed-
eral officials said Monday, an-
nouncing further results of clini-
cal trials of the vaccine. The of-
ficials also announced the for-
mation of a panel of experts to
watch for any rare or unexpect-
ed side effects. As of Monday,
30 million doses of vaccine were
available. (NYT)
College President
Lynn Pasquerella, the provost
of the University of Hartford,
will become the 18th president
of Mount Holyoke College this
summer, succeeding Joanne
Creighton, who has held the post
since 1996.  (NYT)
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Credit Monitoring Services Raise Concerns
On television it’s hard to miss
the wildly popular band of slack-
ers singing ruefully from a shab-
by apartment or while waiting
tables in pirate regalia. The ru-
ined credit that led to their finan-
cial misfortune might have been
sparkling if only they’d tracked
their status on FreeCreditReport.
com.
The Federal Trade Commis-
sion is not amused. It has long
believed that the company that
owns FreeCreditReport.com is
deliberately diverting people
from a government-mandated
site where consumers can get
free credit reports by law, and
using the reports as a lure for a
$14.95 monthly service that alerts
subscribers to important changes
in their credit status.
In an unusual salvo, the govern-
Stanley to Buy Black & Decker for $3.5 Billion
For nearly three decades, Stan-
ley Works and Black & Decker,
two of the most recognizable
names in home improvement,
have talked about hammering
out a merger.
On Monday afternoon, the two
finally succeeded. Stanley agreed
to buy Black & Decker for about
$3.5 billion in an all-stock transac-
tion, creating a global tool maker
worth about $8.4 billion.
The combined business, to be
called Stanley Black & Decker,
will own many names familiar
to do-it-yourself types, including
the companies’ eponymous lines,
Stanley’s FatMax and Bostitch
and Black & Decker’s DeWalt and
Amount Insurers Spend on Care Called Into Question
The health insurance industry
likes to cite figures showing that
87 cents of every dollar in premi-
ums is spent on medical claims.
But a new Senate analysis sug-
gests that for-profit insurance
companies are spending much
less than that, especially for poli-
cies sold to individuals and small
businesses. Instead, as little as
66 cents of each dollar paid in
premiums goes toward doctor
and hospital bills, while the rest
covers administrative expenses,
marketing and company profits,
Dollar/YEN 90.35 U 0.37
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ment has even produced its own
spoof videos featuring a trio re-
markably similar to the gang in
the earlier commercials, singing
a warning: “Other sites may turn
your head; they say they’re free,
don’t be misled. Once you’re in
their tangled web, they’ll sell you
something else instead.”
But while the government
has taken issue with the ads, it
has had little to say about credit
monitoring services themselves,
a rapidly expanding niche ap-
proaching $1 billion in sales for
which millions of people have
signed up, often unwittingly. The
problem, say critics, is that most
people really don’t need it.
Credit monitoring provides
customers with real-time up-
dates about changes to their
credit files that might affect how
Porter-Cable offerings. The two
companies have little overlap in
their products, with Stanley best
known for hand tools and con-
struction equipment and Black &
Decker for power tools.
Combining the two companies
made enough sense that talks
about a potential merger stretch
back 28 years. But successive
generations of leaders raised the
idea again and again, only to meet
several obstacles, including who
would run the merged entity.
Then six months ago, the com-
panies’ current chief executives
— John F. Lundgren of Stanley
and Nolan D. Archibold of Black
& Decker, a 24-year veteran —
according to the analysis.
The data come from an analysis
of regulatory filings by the Sen-
ate Commerce Committee from
the largest for-profit companies,
including WellPoint, the United-
Health Group, Aetna and Cigna.
They spent as little as 74 cents out
of every dollar on medical care in
the individual market, according
to the information released by
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, the
West Virginia Democrat, who is
chairman of the commerce com-
mittee.
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lenders see them. These services
can be useful for identity theft
victims, for example, who want
e-mail alerts about new accounts
that thieves might have opened in
their name.
Yet for the vast majority of
consumers whose credit status
doesn’t change quickly or dras-
tically, a monitoring service is a
waste of money, these critics say.
Keeping a close eye on your bills
and checking your credit report
several times a year is sufficient.
And that can be done without
spending a penny because the
government requires that the
three major credit bureaus —
Experian (which owns FreeCred-
itReport.com), Equifax and
TransUnion — provide one free
report annually to consumers.
 RON LIEBER
met over lunch to once again pon-
der a merger. The two had known
each other casually, but had spo-
ken to each other only three or
four times, Lundgren said in an
interview.
“The more we looked at it, the
more it made sense,” Archibold
said in an interview, adding that
they almost immediately recog-
nized some $350 million in cost
savings achievable within three
years.
“The synergies in this deal were
so great that we thought both sets
of shareholders should share in
that,” Lundgren said.
 MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
 and ZACHERY KOUWE
The question of how much mon-
ey insurers should spend paying
medical claims is part of the
health care debate in Congress.
The legislation that may reach
the House floor later this week
would initially require insurers
to spend at least 85 cents of ev-
ery dollar in premiums on medi-
cal claims. Rockefeller said he
planned to push for similar stan-
dards in the final legislation the
Senate was now trying to merge
from two separate bills.
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Clorox Profit Rises
Higher prices and germ-wary
shoppers who rushed to stock up
on disinfectants helped the Clo-
rox Co. post a 23 percent increase
in quarterly earnings, the com-
pany said Monday. Clorox said
its profit rose to $157 million, or
$1.11 a share, from $128 million,
or 90 cents a share, a year earlier.
Revenue declined less than 1 per-
cent, to $1.37 billion. (AP)
business
Coughing, Sneezing and Caring for the Public
Public health experts worried
about the spread of the H1N1 flu
are raising concerns that work-
ers who deal with the public, like
waiters and child care employ-
ees, are jeopardizing others by
reporting to work sick because
they do not get paid for days they
miss for illness.
Tens of millions of people, or
about 40 percent of all private-
sector workers, do not receive
paid sick days, and as a result
many of them cannot afford to
stay home when they are ill. Even
some companies that provide
paid sick days have policies that
make it difficult to call in sick,
like giving demerits each time
someone misses a day.
Public health experts say poli-
cies like these encourage many
people with H1N1, commonly
called swine flu, to report to work
despite official warnings from the
government and most companies
that they should stay home.
“For people who are really
caught on a weekly income, if they
can’t make a go of it, they might
say, ‘I’m desperate. I’m going to
do what I have to do, and I’m going
into work even though I’m sick,’ ”
said Robert Blendon, a professor
of health policy at Harvard.
He warned that this might
spread disease, and that these
financially squeezed workers
might send their flu-stricken chil-
dren to school, infecting others.
Well before President Obama
declared H1N1 a national emer-
gency, the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
was emphasizing that businesses
should adopt “flexible leave poli-
cies” to allow workers with the
flu to stay home. In one advisory,
the C.D.C. encouraged employ-
ers “to develop nonpunitive leave
policies.”
Despite such recommendations,
some employees say they have no
choice but to go to work sick.
Georges C. Benjamin, execu-
tive director of the American
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Public Health Association, a
group of 30,000 public health pro-
fessionals, said, “Providing work-
ers with paid sick days is essential
if we’re going to get serious about
the public health recommenda-
tions for swine flu — stay home
until 24 hours after your fever is
broken. That usually takes about
five days.”
For many businesses, H1N1
has created a dilemma. “This
is a very difficult issue for com-
panies,” said Nina G. Stillman,
a lawyer with Morgan, Lewis &
Bockius who advises companies
on sick-leave policy. “Employers
who do not offer sick days are not
prepared to offer them now, and
they recognize that this may re-
sult in not achieving what they
say they would like, which is that
people who are sick stay home.”
The C.D.C. says that swine flu is
widespread in 48 of the 50 states
and has already hit as many as 5.7
million Americans.
 STEVEN GREENHOUSE
5
in brief
Enron Sentencing
Kevin Howard, Enron’s
former broadband finance
chief, has received one year’s
probation, including nine
months’ home confinement, for
falsifying company books. His
sentence on Monday came under
a deal with prosecutors for his
June 1 guilty plea to falsifying
books and records. He could
have received up to 12 months’
home confinement. Prosecutors
had counseled leniency,
stipulating that Howard didn’t
benefit personally from any
fraud committed at Enron,
which collapsed in December
2001 under the weight of faked
accounting. Howard had been
tried twice, first in 2005 in a
proceeding that ended in a hung
jury, then in a 2006 trial that
ended in a conviction that was
later tossed out. (AP)
journal Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6

For Mexicans, a National Conversation in Words That Wound

MEXICO CITY — Two teenage girls girls also dipped into a well-stocked arsenal tone employed.
slurped iced coffee drinks at a sidewalk café of more potent curse words, most of which Consulta Mitofsky, a polling firm, asked
the other day and chatted away about boys, referred in one way or another to sex. Even 1,000 Mexicans about their use of groserías,
clothes, weekend plans, whatever seemed those were uttered so casually, however, that as curse words are known in Spanish, and
to pop into their heads. They were clearly they did not seem to carry much sting. found that respondents estimated they used
friends, repeatedly referring to each other Mexicans, despite their reputation in Latin an average of 20 bad words a day. Those
with a Spanish word meaning “ox” or “steer” America for ultra politeness and formality, swearing the most, not surprisingly, were
or “stupid.” curse like sailors, a recent survey found. people younger than 30.
The word — güey, also spelled buey — They use profanity when speaking with Geographically, the worst offenders were
makes most lists of Mexican profanities, but their friends, with their co-workers, with in the north, near the border with the United
it has been co-opted by the cool, young set as their spouses and even with their bosses and States, and in the center of the country.
a term of endearment. One hears it constant- parents. On Independence Day, the thing Men were generally more foul mouthed
ly, as often as “dude” comes up in an English to shout above all else is “Viva Mexico, Ca- than women, though not by much. People of
conversation. brones!” a patriotic exhortation directed at higher socioeconomic levels were also more
Like many Mexicans, though, the teenage either bastards or buddies, depending on the profane, the survey found, than those suppos-
edly lower down the scale of success.
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editorials of the timeS
President Karzai’s Second Term
We regret the decision by Afghanistan’s op-
position leader, Abdullah Abdullah, to with-
draw from this week’s runoff election for the
presidency. After President Hamid Karzai’s
supporters tried to steal the first-round vote,
Abdullah had strong reason to mistrust the
process. But Afghan voters deserved another
chance. And Afghanistan’s government des-
perately needed the legitimacy of a cleaner
vote.
Now that Karzai has been re-elected by de-
fault, he is going to have to do everything in his
power to persuade his people, and the rest of
the world, that he is deserving of their trust.
The Obama administration, which had to
twist Karzai’s arm to get him to agree to a run-
off, is going to have to twist even harder to get
him to build a viable government. President
Obama’s characterization Monday of the Af-
ghan election as “messy” was, to say the least,
an understatement. We hope that he and his
aides are talking a lot tougher in private.
To start, Karzai must appoint a new group
of ministers and provincial governors who
are committed to rebuilding their country,
not enriching themselves. (We hope rumors
that he plans to fire the competent governor
of Helmand Province, Gulab Mangal, are
false.) The Interior Ministry, which oversees
the corruption-plagued national police, must
be reformed. The agriculture, energy and
private development agencies all need better
leadership.
The Afghan people need to see their govern-
ment working to protect them and improve
Freedom of the Press
The Obama administration and Congress
appear to be moving toward agreement on
a federal shield law, which would protect
reporters who refuse to reveal confidential
sources. The bill that is emerging is not per-
fect, but it would help ensure that Americans
get the information they need about the work-
ings of government, business and other insti-
tutions that affect their lives.
Senate Democrats and the administration
have tentatively agreed on a bill that would, in
some cases, allow judges to quash subpoenas
asking reporters for information on confiden-
tial sources. Parties who want to force report-
ers to testify about sources would have to
show that the information is essential to their
case. Judges would then balance the desire to
reveal a source against the public interest in
newsgathering.
In civil cases, the burden would be on the
party that wants the information to show that
the interest in disclosing it clearly outweighs
the interest in protecting it. In criminal cases,
the test would be tilted more toward disclo-
sure. Reporters would have to answer a sub-
poena unless they could make a “clear and
convincing” case that the public interest in the
their lives if they are going to risk their lives
and resist the Taliban.
Karzai must also reach out to members of
the opposition, choosing competent techno-
crats for senior jobs. The government would
be stronger if some of Abdullah’s supporters
decided to participate.
Karzai must break ties with his most unsa-
vory cronies. During the campaign, he allied
himself with Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a
notorious warlord. Justice demands that Dos-
tum stand trial for his crimes.
And Karzai must finally cut his ties with
Ahmed Wali Karzai, his brother who U.S. of-
ficials say is a big player in the opium trade.
Washington must also cut its ties with the
younger Karzai, a member of the Kandahar
provincial council and the most powerful fig-
ure in an area where the Taliban insurgency is
the strongest. The Times reported that he has
received regular payments from the C.I.A. for
the past eight years. That must end.
Getting a credible government in place is
only a first step. The list of problems that have
been ignored or mismanaged is depressingly
long. Karzai needs to work with the Ameri-
cans to come up with a strategy to try to woo
midlevel Taliban leaders in from the cold. The
two governments need to develop a plan to ac-
celerate training of the security forces.
Karzai and the Obama administration
don’t have much time to get this right. The
Taliban’s strength is growing by the day, and
Americans’ appetite for the war is evaporat-
ing nearly as quickly.
free flow of information argued against it.
Cases involving classified information
would generally work the same way. But a
judge would not be able to quash a subpoena if
prosecutors could show that the information
they wanted would help prevent a terrorist at-
tack or other acts likely to cause significant
harm to national security.
It is gratifying that the Obama adminis-
tration, which had been wavering, agreed
to the compromise. Sen. Charles Schumer,
Democrat of New York, deserves credit for
helping get the deal done. Sen. Arlen Spec-
ter, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and Patrick
Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, also provided
support.
Among the weakest points of the compro-
mise is the standard for criminal cases, which
puts too heavy a burden of proof on reporters.
It is also unfortunate that the agreement does
not protect nonconfidential material, such as
information in reporters’ notes that does not
make it into a newspaper article.
Over all, however, the bill would be a clear
improvement on the status quo. The House
has already passed its shield bill. The Senate
should pass this compromise bill quickly.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7
bob herbert
Glimpse of the Future
President Obama made an appearance
in Florida last week that should have gotten
more attention. Speaking at the opening of a
solar energy center run by the Florida Power
& Light near Arcadia in DeSoto County, the
president touted his administration’s $3.4 bil-
lion investment in the smart grid, a potential-
ly revolutionary advance in the way electric
power is produced and delivered in the U.S.
Obama said that the plant will produce
enough power to serve all 6,000 residents of
Arcadia. It was one of dozens of projects re-
ceiving grants from the government and pri-
vate industry for the development of smart-
grid technology.
“Just imagine,” he said, “what transporta-
tion was like in this country back in the 1920s
and 1930s, before the Interstate Highway Sys-
tem was built. It was a tangled maze of poorly
maintained back roads that were rarely the
fastest or the most efficient way to get from
point A to point B. Fortunately, President
Eisenhower made an investment that revolu-
tionized the way we travel — an investment
that made our lives easier and our economy
grow.
“Now it’s time to make the same kind of in-
vestment in the way our energy travels — to
build a clean energy superhighway that can
take the renewable power generated in plac-
es like DeSoto and deliver it directly to the
American people in the most affordable and
efficient way possible. Such an investment
won’t just create new pathways for energy
— it’s expected to create tens of thousands of
new jobs all across America.”
The president then made the conceptual
leap to a bold new landscape of energy for
all of America. “We can imagine the day,” he
said, “when you’ll be able to charge the bat-
tery on your plug-in hybrid car at night, be-
cause your smart meter reminded you that
nighttime electricity is cheapest. In the day-
time, when the sun is at its strongest, solar
panels like these and electricity stored in car
batteries will be able to power the grid with
affordable, emission-free energy.
“The stronger, more efficient grid would be
able to transport power generated at dams
and wind turbines from the smallest towns to
the biggest cities. And, above all, we can see all
this work that would be created for millions of
Americans who need it and who want it, here
in Florida and all across the country.”
They were stirring words. On the same day,
Vice President Biden announced in Wilming-
ton, Del., that a G.M. plant that had been shut
down would be reopened by a company that
plans to manufacture long-range, plug-in,
electric hybrid vehicles.
What was missing from these appearances
was the feeling of excitement that should ac-
company the early stages of an important
national mission. Obama’s vision, briefly
glimpsed, seemed to vanish in an ocean of
other concerns.
sports Tuesday, November 3, 2009 8

Phillies Send Series Back to the Bronx in brief

PHILADELPHIA — The
championship was in the Yan-
kees’ grasp on Monday, and a re-
minder loomed over their heads
at Citizens Bank Park before
Game 5 of the World Series. As
they lounged in their clubhouse,
rolls of protective plastic wrap
hung above their lockers.
As party planners, the Yankees
were prepared for a celebra-
tion. But the Philadelphia Phil-
lies did not let it happen. They
overwhelmed A.J. Burnett and
survived a late Yankees charge
for an 8-6 victory, sending the
World Series back to the Bronx
for Game 6 on Wednesday.
Cliff Lee won and Chase Utley
homered twice, exactly the for-
mula the Phillies had used to win
Game 1 at Yankee Stadium. Lee
pitched nine innings that night,
though, and he could not get an
out in the eighth on Monday.
Slumping Giants Are Struggling to Communicate
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. —
Giants defensive end Justin Tuck
was blunt Monday when he ex-
panded on comments made Sun-
day by middle linebacker Antonio
Pierce about how the defense had
a communication problem dur-
ing a 40-17 loss to the Philadelphia
Eagles.
Pierce refused to elaborate,
but Tuck said he knew it was true
“when a guy scores a touchdown
and guys are looking at each other
like ‘I thought this’ and ‘I thought
that.’ ”
This seemed to suggest, in part,
the positioning of the defensive
backs, who did not always seem
That was a problem for the
Phillies, who trusted a three-run
lead to Ryan Madson, not Brad
Lidge, who had allowed three
runs in the ninth to lose Game 4.
Jorge Posada greeted Madson
with a double off the right field
wall, and Hideki Matsui singled to
left. Derek Jeter came up as the
tying run and Madson fell behind,
2-1, before inducing a double-play
grounder to short. A run scored,
but the Phillies happily took the
trade-off.
Johnny Damon fell behind, 0-2,
then fouled off two pitches and
ran the count to 2-2. He singled
up the middle, bringing Mark
Teixeira to the plate. A home run
would tie it, but Madson struck
out Teixeira on a changeup.
Teixeira is 2 for 19 in the World
Series.
The Phillies had twice before
faced a fifth game at home with
sure of whom to cover as Donovan
McNabb threw three touchdown
passes. Tuck’s words also hinted
that players were not always
quick to follow the instructions of
Bill Sheridan, the defensive coor-
dinator who sends in the plays, or
the adjustments of Pierce, who
can revise a play before the snap
of the ball.
“We’re out there thinking too
much,” Tuck said. “We do so
many checks.” The checks are
revisions made by Pierce off
Sheridan’s calls once Pierce sees
offensive alignments.
Someone asked Tuck if it would
help to simplify things. “Who
the visitors trying to clinch. In
1993, they held off elimination
when Curt Schilling shut out To-
ronto. Ten years earlier, they
were blanked by Scott McGregor
of the Baltimore Orioles.
That World Series began on the
same path as this one. The 1983
Phillies won Game 1 on the road,
lost Game 2, and then dropped
three at home to end their sea-
son. These Phillies, at least, will
not go down so ingloriously.
Burnett was no McGregor. For
the second time this postseason,
he was blitzed in the first inning
on the road in a possible clinch-
er.
Whatever the cause of Bur-
nett’s struggle, it was epic. Only
twice before had a starter al-
lowed at least six runs and four
walks while working no more
than two innings in the postsea-
son.  TYLER KEPNER
knows?” Tuck replied. “It doesn’t
matter what I think. I don’t know.
Maybe I’ll have to think about it
and see what happens.”
Coach Tom Coughlin last week
groused that Eli Manning’s of-
fense took too much time with
“the chess game” before the
snap.
The return of Michael Boley
and Chris Canty could help. Bo-
ley, a linebacker, has missed four
games after having knee surgery.
Canty, a defensive lineman, has
missed seven games with a calf
injury. Coughlin said Boley and
Canty should practice Wednes-
day.  JOE LAPOINTE
Record for Serena
Serena Williams has set a
single-season record for prize
money in women’s tennis with
$6.5 million. She broke the WTA
mark of slightly under $5.5 mil-
lion, set by Justine Henin in
2007. Williams’s career prize
money is now a record $28.5
million.  (AP)
Saints Beat Falcons
New Orleans withstood a fu-
rious Atlanta rally, then nailed
down a 35-27 victory on Monday
night. The Saints are now 7-0.
 (NYT)
Golfer Suspended
Doug Barron has been sus-
pended from the PGA Tour for
one year for using a perfor-
mance-enhancing drug. He is
the first player to violate the
doping policy since testing be-
gan in July 2008. Barron, 40,
has not played a full PGA Tour
schedule since 2006 and com-
peted only four times on the Na-
tionwide Tour this year.  (AP)
NBa scores
SUNDAY’S LATE GAME
L.A. Lakers 118, Atlanta 110
MONDAY
Charlotte 79, New Jersey 68
New York 117, New Orleans 111
Houston vs. Utah, late
NHL scores
SUNDAY’S LATE GAME
Vancouver 3, Colorado 0
MONDAY
Philadelphia 6, Tampa Bay 2
N.Y. Islanders 3, Edmonton 1

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Chicago 59/ 43 0.01 46/ 30 S 45/ 34 C
Cleveland 55/ 30 0 46/ 40 PC 46/ 31 C
Dallas-Ft. Worth 75/ 48 0 74/ 50 S 75/ 54 S
Denver 42/ 34 0 64/ 30 S 61/ 33 S
Detroit 52/ 36 0 46/ 35 PC 47/ 31 C
Houston
Kansas City
75/ 52
63/ 48
0
0
77/ 53 S
55/ 37 PC
77/ 52 S
57/ 42 S
Los Angeles 83/ 55 0 83/ 55 S 80/ 55 S
Miami 88/ 73 0 87/ 73 PC 85/ 73 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 50/ 36 0 47/ 27 PC 44/ 35 C
New York City 55/ 47 0 58/ 44 PC 52/ 38 S
Orlando 82/ 68 0 79/ 64 PC 83/ 64 PC
Philadelphia 57/ 48 0 63/ 44 PC 53/ 39 S
Phoenix 88/ 57 0 94/ 59 S 92/ 60 S
Salt Lake City 60/ 37 0 65/ 40 S 69/ 40 S
San Francisco 78/ 56 0 74/ 54 S 67/ 53 PC
Seattle 54/ 39 0 54/ 42 PC 62/ 44 PC
St. Louis 69/ 46 0 54/ 40 S 57/ 44 PC
Washington 60/ 51 0 62/ 45 PC 54/ 40 S
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 91/ 75 0 88/ 75 T 91/ 77 PC
Athens 57/ 46 0 72/ 48 Sh 72/ 54 PC
Beijing 36/ 25 0 48/ 28 S 55/ 36 S
Berlin 42/ 34 0 41/ 37 R 46/ 37 R
Buenos Aires 72/ 64 0.55 66/ 55 PC 68/ 52 PC
Cairo 75/ 63 0 72/ 64 PC 77/ 63 S
Cape Town
Dublin
86/ 55
49/ 41
0
0.43
86/ 59 PC
55/ 43 Sh
79/ 59 PC
52/ 45 PC
Geneva 53/ 52 0.51 50/ 39 R 52/ 43 R
Hong Kong 83/ 72 0 73/ 61 PC 79/ 63 PC
Kingston 89/ 75 Tr 86/ 79 C 86/ 77 Sh
Lima 71/ 61 0 70/ 63 PC 72/ 61 C
London 55/ 43 0.55 59/ 46 R 55/ 45 PC
Madrid 65/ 54 0 66/ 48 S 63/ 46 PC
Mexico City 75/ 50 0 68/ 46 C 68/ 46 C
Montreal 49/ 32 0 46/ 30 Sh 41/ 28 PC
Moscow 34/ 23 Tr 32/ 27 PC 32/ 25 PC
Nassau 88/ 72 0 90/ 77 S 88/ 77 S
Paris 53/ 46 0.55 59/ 46 R 52/ 48 R
Prague 38/ 32 0 43/ 37 Sh 48/ 39 R
Rio de Janeiro 85/ 72 0.39 90/ 72 T 90/ 72 T
Rome 62/ 43 0 64/ 50 Sh 68/ 48 PC
Santiago 60/ 54 0 70/ 37 PC 68/ 34 PC
Stockholm 43/ 37 0 43/ 36 S 37/ 32 PC
Sydney 75/ 64 0 95/ 64 C 72/ 63 Sh
Tokyo 61/ 55 0.43 55/ 45 S 64/ 45 PC
Toronto 51/ 34 0 45/ 37 C 43/ 36 PC
Vancouver 47/ 41 0 52/ 41 C 57/ 41 C
Warsaw 41/ 27 0 36/ 28 S 37/ 28 PC
sports journal Tuesday, November 3, 2009 9

A Lesson for Redemption in the Steroid Era n.h.l. standings

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Aided by his bat and an astute Roger Clemens have chosen, or White House,” the former base- Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA
apology, Alex Rodriguez is end- remain silent as McGwire has. ball commissioner Fay Vincent Pittsburgh 11 3 0 22 48 31
ing the baseball season not as But beginning with the admis- said. “McGwire got terrible Rangers 9 5 1 19 50 39
a former steroids user but as a sion last season by Pettitte that advice, and I think coming back Devils 8 4 0 16 31 28
home run hero. In the process, he he had used human growth hor- almost certainly leads to him Phila. 7 4 1 15 45 34
may be clearing a path mone, a third option has handling this better. But with Islanders 5 4 5 15 37 42
forward for himself Analysis emerged: quickly apolo- this issue, it’s so obvious what to Northeast W L OT Pts GF GA
and his much-maligned Harvey gize and move on. do now that maybe it even leads Buffalo 8 2 1 17 33 24
sport. Araton “Obviously, success on to Bonds and Clemens waking Montreal 7 7 0 14 38 45
This may go down as the field has helped, but up, too.” Ottawa 6 4 2 14 37 37
the season that the fans isn’t it something how Partisanship often plays a role Boston 6 6 1 13 33 35
forgave baseball — or perhaps they beautifully and effectively in the steroid discussion, one Toronto 1 7 4 6 30 50
just grew tired of worrying about transcended their humiliation?” city’s hero being another city’s Southeast W L OT Pts GF GA
performance-enhancing drugs. said Richard Emery, one of the target of abuse. But across a Wash. 8 2 4 20 52 44
Rodriguez and Andy Pettitte, lawyers representing Brian fairly wide spectrum, Rodriguez Tampa 4 4 4 12 32 42
two high-profile Yankees stars McNamee, the physical trainer has already drawn, beyond leni- Atlanta 5 4 1 11 34 29
who were exposed as past users, who cited Pettitte and Clemens ency, a standing ovation from Florida 4 7 1 9 32 44
are shining in the 2009 World in George J. Mitchell’s investi- the court of public opinion. Carolina 2 8 3 7 28 50
Series. gation into steroids for Major “I never thought Alex Rodri- WESTERN CONFERENCE
The St. Louis Cardinals recent- League Baseball. guez was very interesting, but
ly announced they were hiring Emery added: “Watching when a sports hero is forced into Central W L OT Pts GF GA
Mark McGwire, who went into the way all this has unfolded this admission of wrongdoing, Chicago 8 4 1 17 39 31
seclusion for much of this decade makes me believe that it was the it humanizes him,” said Orin Columbus 7 5 1 15 42 46
after refusing to answer ques- stark juxtaposition of Clemens Starn, the cultural anthropology Nashville 6 6 1 13 28 38
tions about steroids, as their hit- and Pettitte that changed the department chairman at Duke Detroit 5 4 3 13 38 42
ting coach. And although neither game. Alex had an easy road University. “We want these ath- St. Louis 5 6 1 11 29 33
has shown much repentance, because Pettitte showed you letes to astonish us, but we also Northwest W L OT Pts GF GA
David Ortiz of the Boston Red exactly what you do when you’re want to imagine them as some- Colorado 10 3 2 22 45 34
Sox and Manny Ramirez of the caught.” one like us.” Vancou. 8 7 0 16 42 41
Los Angeles Dodgers continued Will others who made a less Flawed and accountable is Calgary 7 4 1 15 44 39
to play to adoring crowds even judicious choice when they came what he meant. And although Edmonton 7 7 1 15 45 46
Minnesota 5 9 0 10 31 42
after both were implicated this to a fork in the road learn from Starn said he was not sure Rodri-
summer as past or present users. Rodriguez? guez’s remorse and confessional Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA
Until recently, players ac- “There has always been a version of drug consumption San Jose 10 4 1 21 52 38
L.A. 9 4 2 20 51 45
cused of cheating selected from tremendous compulsion in the were as sincere and thorough as
Phoenix 9 5 0 18 38 30
two popular options: vehement- American DNA to cover up, and they might have been, “he made
Dallas 6 3 5 17 48 45
ly deny, as Barry Bonds and lie, going all the way up to the the gesture.” Anaheim 4 6 2 10 34 42

To Some, American Winner Not American Enough Agassi Fallout

As soon as Mebrahtom Ke-
flezighi, better known as Meb,
won the New York City Marathon
on Sunday, an uncommon sports
dispute erupted online, fraught
with racial and nationalistic
components: Should Keflezighi’s
triumph count as an American
victory?
He was widely celebrated as
the first American to win the New
York race since 1982. Having im-
migrated to the United States at
age 12, he is an American citizen
and a product of American dis-
tance running programs at the
youth, college and professional
levels.
But, some said, because he was
born in Eritrea, he is not really an
American runner.
The debate reveals what some
academics say are common as-
sumptions and stereotypes about
race and sports and athletic
achievement in the United States.
Its dimensions, they add, go be-
yond the particulars of Keflezighi
and bear on undercurrents of na-
tionalism and racism that are not
often voiced.
“Race is still extremely impor-
tant when you think about athlet-
ics,” said David Wiggins, a profes-
sor at George Mason University
who studies blacks and sports.
“There is this notion about innate
physiological gifts that certain
races presumably possess. Quite
frankly, I think it feeds into deep-
seated stereotypes. The more bla-
tant forms of racial discrimina-
tion and illegal forms have been
eliminated, but more subtle forms
of discrimination still exist.”
There are few cases parallel to
Keflezighi’s in American sports.
Some are noteworthy because of
how little discussion, by compari-
son, they generated over the ath-
lete’s nationality. For example,
the Hall of Fame basketball player
Patrick Ewing (Jamaica) and the
gold medal gymnast Nastia Liukin
(Russia) were born abroad, but
when they represented the United
States in competition, they seem-
ingly did not encounter the same
skepticism that Keflezighi has.
Richard Lapchick, the director
of the Institute for Diversity and
Ethics in Sport at the University
of Central Florida, said the argu-
ment about Keflezighi “tells us
there are people that still have ra-
cial red flags go up when certain
things happen.”
He added: “Many people think
that with an African-American
president, we are in a postracial
society. Clearly, we are not.”
The online postings about Ke-
flezighi were anonymous. A com-
ment on The New York Times’s
site said: “Keflezighi is really
another elite African runner by
birth, upbringing, and training.
Americans are kidding them-
selves if they say he represents a
resurgence of American distance
prowess!”  GINA KOLADA
The World Anti-Doping Agen-
cy has asked the ATP to inves-
tigate Andre Agassi’s admis-
sion that he took crystal meth in
1997. Agassi wrote in his soon-
to-be-released autobiography,
“Open,” that he ingested crystal
meth, then lied to the governing
body of men’s tennis to avoid a
suspension after failing a dop-
ing test.Tennis and doping au-
thorities expressed disappoint-
ment when Agassi admitted to
the drug use but said it was too
late for sanctions because of an
eight-year limitation rule.  (AP)
Surgery for Met
Jeff Francoeur had surgery
to repair a torn ligament in his
left thumb on Monday but is ex-
pected to be ready for spring
training. Francoeur, acquired
by the Mets from Atlanta on
July 10, was injured while mak-
ing a diving catch July 23. (AP)