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The number of Americans living below the poverty line roseto a record 46 million last year, the government said, under-scoring the challenges facing President Barack Obama andCongress as they try to tackle high unemployment and a

moribund economy. Photo: A man eats lunch at the CapuchinSoup Kitchen, where hundreds of people receive food and sup-plies everyday, in Detroit, Michigan.

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DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 20112 � � � � �

NYPD OFFICER DIES DURING ACADEMY RUN

The New York City Police Depart-ment is mourning the death of an

officer who collapsed after a train-ing run with his academy classMonday.Officer Sherman Abrams, 28, had

been a correction officer for fouryears before joining the NYPD inJuly.Abrams had just finished run-

ning along the East River in LowerManhattan when he collapsed.Mayor Michael Bloomberg and

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly metwith the officer’s family at the hos-pital and offered their condolences.The medical examiner will deter-

mine the exact cause of death.

COLUMBIA RATED NUMBERONE AMONG CITY’S COLLEGESColumbia University has come

out on top in the city on U.S. Newsand World Report’s list of the bestuniversities in the nation.Columbia ranked fourth behind

Harvard, Princeton and Yale on the2012 list.Two other city schools — NYU

and Yeshiva — were ranked in thetop 50 nationally.The rankings are decided based

on a school’s reputation, selectivityand freshmen rate of return.Columbia, at $45,000 a year in

tuition, accepts only 9.5 percent ofapplicants.The full guide of schools hits

newsstands September 20.

OFF-DUTY NYPD OFFICER KILLED BY

ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVERAn off-duty New York City Police

Department officer was killed Sun-day after investigators say a drunkdriver crashed into his car on LongIsland.Kevin Jessup, 25, was driving on

the Southern State Parkway around5:30 a.m. when he was rear-ended.The driver, Jonathan Lopez, 20,

was arrested and charged withvehicular manslaughter and DWI.Bail for Lopez was set at $100,000

bond or $50,000 cash.Jessup, who joined the force in

2008, was assigned to the 106thprecinct in Queens.

NNEEWWSS BBRRIIEEFFSSBy MARK HOSENBALL

WASHINGTON — Intelligencethat militants were plotting an immi-nent attack on the United Statesremained uncorroborated on Mon-day after the tenth anniversary ofthe September 11 2001 attacks onNew York and Washington passedwithout incident.U.S. counter-terrorism and law

enforcement officials said they hadnot completely dismissed or discred-ited intelligence received last weekabout a possible attack.And because the intelligence

reporting had said a strike couldoccur either on the 9/11 anniversaryor within days of it, leads are stillbeing chased and travel records arestill being examined, they said.However, three officials familiar

with the threat reporting said thatdespite intense efforts by U.S. agen-cies to find concrete backup for theintelligence tip-off — from a sourcedeemed “credible” and containingspecific plot details — it remainsunconfirmed.One of the officials said that U.S.

agencies had been unable so far todetermine if two or three potentialsuspects mentioned in the tip-offreally exist.Had the tip not surfaced on the eve

of the anniversary and alleged thepossibility of an attack timed to coin-cide with it, it is unlikely the matterwould have received as much atten-tion as it did from the U.S. govern-ment and the media, the official said.The information was “specific” in

that it talked about how two or three

militants traveling to the UnitedStates from the Afghan-Pakistaniborder area intended to launchanniversary attacks on New Yorkand Washington, possibly, but notdefinitely, using car bombs, officialssaid.The information was deemed cred-

ible at least in part because it fit withearlier information about al Qaedaintentions and methods.The officials said the intelligence

information included a suggestionthat al Qaeda leader Ayman alZawahiri might be associated withthe plot.U.S. officials said that in its origi-

nal form, the intelligence reportingcontained no information — such asnames — identifying suspects,although there was some indicationthat two of the suspects might beU.S. citizens.Using this sketchy but raw infor-

mation, U.S. agencies spent severaldays combing records of internation-al travelers and other databases forsuspects who might fit the pattern.But officials noted that no sus-

pects had been arrested, and saidsome of the extraordinary securityand surveillance measures whichhad been instituted over the weekendwould be scaled back.

U.S. attack threat remains uncorroborated

A police officer stands at a security check-point outside St. Paul’s Chapelon Broadway in preparation for the 10th anniversary of the September11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

By SCOTT DISAVINO

Major blackouts like the one thataffected 5 million people in the U.S.Southwest and Mexico last week arerare, but occur more often in the Unit-ed States than in some other developednations because U.S. electric compa-nies keep excess power capacity, andconsumer costs, to a minimum.U.S. utilities could shore up relia-

bility, but experts are divided overwhether customers would be willingto spend the billions needed to hardenthe grid to significantly reduce outagerisks.“The fact that the power went out

for about 12 hours (in San Diego) doesnot justify doubling electric rates forthe whole rest of the year,” said JayApt, Executive Director of CarnegieMellon’s Electricity Industry Center.Although most outages are rela-

tively small, blackouts andbrownouts, including those due tohurricanes and other storms, do costAmericans an estimated $150 billion ayear in spoiled food, lost productivityand other costs, according to datafrom the Galvin Electricity Initiative.“The U.S. does not have the excess

generation some other nations have.We don’t have two of everything andwe shouldn’t - you would not want topay for it,” Apt said, noting U.S. elec-tric rates are about half of some Euro-pean rates because the United States

runs an efficient power system.And still the electric grid in the

United States remains one of the mostdependable in the world.“We are 99.99 percent reliable. But

you still have that (0.01) percent ofthe time something is going to hap-pen. Nobody is perfect,” said AndrewPhillips, Director of Transmission andSubstations at the Electric PowerResearch Institute (EPRI).Preliminary estimates of the cost of

last week’s blackout in the greater SanDiego region were $97-$118 million,including spoiled food ($12-$18 mil-lion), government overtime ($10-$20million) and lost productivity ($70million), according to a report by theNational University System Institutefor Policy Research, which conductsresearch in the San Diego area. Thestudy did not include costs from theblackout outside of the San Diegoarea.The Sept 8-9 power outage affected

Southern California, Arizona and BajaCalifornia in Mexico. Its cause wasrelated to work in a substation inwestern Arizona that tripped a giant500-kilovolt power line carrying elec-tricity to the San Diego area.That outage ultimately knocked

out more than 4,000 megawatts ofgeneration, including the San Onofrenuclear plant in California. Onemegawatt powers about 1,000 homes.Pinnacle West Capital’s Arizona

Public Service power company, which

owns the Arizona substation, said itwas investigating the outage because“operating and protection protocolstypically would have isolated theresulting outage” to the area aroundthe substation in Arizona.Roughly 500,000 Americans spend

at least two hours each day withoutpower. But that is only a small frac-tion of the 312 million U.S. power con-sumers and big blackouts like SanDiego are extremely rare.The majority of outages are failures

at the local level where most invest-ment needs to happen, said JohnKelly, Executive Director at theGalvin Electricity Initiative. His groupseeks regulatory and market reformsto encourage power companies toinvest in the modernization of thegrid.To modernize the grid, Kelly said

power companies would have to spend$500 billion to $1 trillion over thenext 10 to 15 years on new cleanergeneration, transmission and distrib-ution systems, including smartmeters, automation equipment andsoftware at consumers’ homes andbusinesses.That’s a lot of money, but Kelly esti-

mated Americans could save two tothree times that amount (up to $3 tril-lion) over the same 10 to 15 years ifregulators require power companiesto commit to reliability improvementsto recover their investments, amongother things.

Power reliability will cost Americans more

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By DAVID MORGAN

WASHINGTON — The number ofAmericans living below the povertyline rose to a record 46 million lastyear, the government said on Tues-day, underscoring the challenges fac-ing President Barack Obama andCongress as they try to tackle highunemployment and a moribund econ-omy.

The Census Bureau’s annualreport on income, poverty and healthinsurance coverage said the nationalpoverty rate climbed for a third con-secutive year to 15.1 percent in 2010as the economy struggled to recoverfrom the recession that began in

December 2007 and ended in June2009.

That marked a 0.8 percentincrease from 2009, when there were43.6 million Americans living inpoverty.

The number of poor Americans in2010 was the largest in the 52 yearsthat the Census Bureau has been pub-lishing poverty estimates, the reportsaid, while the poverty rate was thehighest since 1993.

The specter of economic deteriora-tion also afflicted working Americanswho saw their median income decline2.3 percent to an annual $49,445.

About 1.5 million fewer Americanswere covered by employer-sponsoredhealth insurance plans, while the

number of people covered by govern-ment health insurance increased bynearly 2 million.

All told, the number of Americanswith no health insurance hovered at49.9 million, up slightly from 49 mil-lion in 2010.

The economic deterioration depict-ed by the figures is likely to have con-tinued into 2011 as economic growthdiminished, unemployment remainedstuck above 9 percent and fears grewof a possible double-dip recession.

The report of rising poverty coin-cides with Obama’s push for a $450billion job creation package, anddeliberations by a congressional“super committee” tasked with cut-ting at least $1.2 trillion from the

budget deficit over 10 years.Faced with deteriorating job

approval ratings, the president is try-ing to convince Republicans in Con-gress to support his package.

Analysts said poverty-relatedissues have relatively little hold onpoliticians in Washington but hopedthe new figures would encourage thebipartisan super committee to avoiddeficit cuts that would hurt the poor.

The United States has long had oneof the highest poverty rates in thedeveloped world. Among 34 coun-tries tracked by the Paris-based Orga-nization for Economic Cooperationand Development, only Chile, Israeland Mexico have higher rates ofpoverty.

Number of poor hit record 46 million in 2010

By JESSE J. HOLLAND

WASHINGTON — PresidentBarack Obama is moving at a his-toric pace to try to diversify thenation’s federal judiciary: Nearlythree of every four people he has got-ten confirmed to the federal benchare women or minorities. He is thefirst president who hasn’t selected amajority of white males for lifetimejudgeships.

More than 70 percent of Obama’sconfirmed judicial nominees duringhis first two years were “non-tradi-tional,” or nominees who were notwhite males. That far exceeds thepercentages in the two-term admin-istrations of Bill Clinton (48.1 per-cent) and George W. Bush (32.9 per-cent), according to Sheldon Gold-man, author of the authoritativebook “Picking Federal Judges.”

“It is an absolutely remarkablediversity achievement,” said Gold-man, a political science professor atthe University of Massachusetts atAmherst, who is only countingjudges once, even if they fit morethan one category.

The White House recently hasbeen touting its efforts to diversifythe federal bench during Obama’stenure, now approaching three yearsin office.

The president won Senate confir-mation of the first Latina to theSupreme Court, Justice SoniaSotomayor. And with the confirma-tion of Justice Elena Kagan, heincreased the number of women onthe high court to three for the firsttime. The Obama administration alsonominated and won confirmation ofthe first openly gay man to a federaljudgeship: former Clinton adminis-tration official J. Paul Oetken, to anopening in New York City.

“All of us can be proud of Presi-dent Obama for taking this criticalstep to break down another barrierand increase diversity in the federaljudiciary,” Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,chairman of the Senate JudiciaryCommittee, said upon Oetken’s con-firmation.

The first openly homosexual fed-eral judge was Deborah A. Batts inNew York City, a lesbian nominatedby Clinton in 1994.

Of the 98 Obama nominees con-

firmed to date, the administrationsays 21 percent are African-Ameri-can, 11 percent are Hispanic, 7 per-cent are Asian-American and almosthalf — 47 percent — are women. Bycomparison, of the 322 judges con-firmed during George W. Bush’spresidency, 18 percent were minori-ties and 22 percent were female. Ofthe 372 judges confirmed duringClinton’s terms, 25 percent wereminorities and 29 percent werewomen. In these figures, somejudges fit into more than one catego-ry.

Last week, the Senate confirmedthe first African-American woman tosit on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals in Cincinnati, Bernice Don-ald. Earlier, she was the firstAfrican-American woman elected asa judge in Tennessee, the firstappointed as federal bankruptcyjudge in the nation and first con-firmed as a U.S. district judge in Ten-nessee.

Obama also has doubled the num-ber of Asian-Americans sitting onthe federal bench, including addingDenny Chin to the 2nd U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals in New York as theonly active Asian federal appealscourt judge. There currently are 14Asian-American federal judges onthe 810-judge roster.

“It’s really amazing,” said CarlTobias, a law professor at the Uni-versity of Richmond who wroteabout the increasing diversity on thefederal bench during Obama’sadministration in an article in theWashington University Law Review.“Obama has nominated as many aswere sitting on the bench when hewas inaugurated.”

For more than 140 years, therewere no females or minorities amongthe nation’s federal judges.

The first female federal appellatejudge was Florence Allen, whogained her seat on the 6th U.S. Cir-cuit Court of Appeals in 1934. Thefirst female U.S. District Court judgewas Burnita Shelton Matthews, whotook the bench in Washington, D.C.,in 1950. William Henry Hastie Jr.was the first African-American U.S.District Court judge, sitting in theVirgin Islands in 1937 before beingelevated to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Courtof Appeals in 1949.

Reynaldo G. Garza became thefirst Hispanic federal judge when hewas appointed to the U.S. DistrictCourt in Texas in 1961, and HerbertChoy became the first Asian-Ameri-can federal judge when he wasappointed to the 9th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals in 1971.

Thurgood Marshall became thefirst African-American to serve onthe Supreme Court in 1967, and San-dra Day O’Connor was the firstwoman to be elevated to the nation’shighest court in 1981.

“I think it’s always good to havediverse perspectives, whether it’sgender, sexuality or ideology,”Tobias said.

Those who track diversity on thefederal bench are pleased with Oba-ma’s progress so far but want morevoices from all of America’s commu-nities in the federal courts. Obamahas nominated three other openlygay judicial nominees, as well aswhat would be the only active NativeAmerican on the federal bench, ifArvo Mikkanen is confirmed to a fed-eral judgeship in Oklahoma.

“The more diverse the courts, themore confidence people have in ourjudicial system,” said Nan Aron ofthe liberal Alliance for Justice. “Hav-ing a diverse judiciary also enrichesthe decision-making process.”

The makeup of the federal benchcould be a major issue during the

Senate, House and presidential elec-tions in 2012.

Obama basically has until the endof this year to get as many of hisjudicial nominees confirmed as pos-sible, because it is unlikely that ahighly partisan Senate will confirmmany judges with a presidential elec-tion looming in November 2012.

According to the Federal JudicialCenter, there are 94 vacancies in thefederal courts, with 55 nomineesawaiting Senate action.

Former Detroit Mayor KwameKilpatrick says he is innocent of tak-ing bribes.

In an interview with The DetroitNews, Kilpatrick apologized forwhat he called “the dumbestmoment in my life” and a “cowardicemoment.” That was his false testi-mony in a lawsuit that led to publicrevelations of his affair with hischief of staff and his guilty plea toperjury.

But he absolutely denied the cor-ruption detailed in a federal indict-ment. He is scheduled to go on trialnext year.

“I’ve never accepted a bribe. I’venever fixed a contract,” he said. “Idon’t even know how you would dothat in the city of Detroit. And I

don’t think they (federal prosecu-tors) do, either. I’ve never taken apayoff.”

Kilpatrick spoke to the News byphone for about 90 minutes from hishome in Texas several days ago.Since the interview, Derrick Miller,a former Kilpatrick aide, has plead-ed guilty to federal corruptioncharges, saying the gave Kilpatrickmoney.

The former mayor was scheduledto appear Tuesday night at theCitadel of Praise Church in Detroit.His book, “Surrendered! The Riseand Fall and Revelation of KwameKilpatrick,” was recently published,although a judge has ordered pro-ceeds to be used to pay the restitu-tion Kilpatrick still owes Detroit.

Kwame Kilpatrick denies taking bribes

Obama increases number of female, minority judges

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By REV. DR.HERBERTDAUGHTRY

Part ThreeThe one hour and 45-minute

Memorial Ceremony consistedof prayers; music by Ms. Mari-lyn Oliver accompanied by hersister, Mrs. Carolyn Oliver-Fair; and, remarks and reflec-tions made by communitymembers. The most movingpresentation was presented byMs. Tamara Kittrell, Deron’saunt. I thought it would be

helpful to others, who aregoing through the same valley,to share her presentation.

My name is Tamara Kittrell,and Deron Kittrell is mynephew. The event of his deathdeeply disturbs me because Iknow he did not deserve to dielike this. The reality of hisdeath destroys my heartbecause right before he wastragically killed, we were outcelebrating with family andfriends. Deron’s mannerismsthat night were of joy, happi-ness, and love. He danced, min-gled, and joked throughout thenight.

When the event was over, wemet up outside. As usual, hewas concerned about me get-ting home safely. After arriv-ing home, I received a phonecall that he was shot. I immedi-ately panicked because I wasjust with him, and the entiresituation seemed surreal.

After calling his phone sev-eral times and getting noanswer, I notified several otherfamily members of the emer-gency. Initially, we thoughthis injuries were not life-threatening, but we rushed tothe hospital anyway. Once wearrived, people started gather-ing outside, and I knew some-

thing was drastically wrong.As our family waited for hoursto know of Deron’s condition,the police officers at the hospi-tal were totally unsympatheticto our concerns. Four and ahalf hours later, we wereinformed that Deron did passaway due to fatal gunshotwounds.

Anyone familiar with Deronknows that he was a kind-hearted, funny, generous, andfamily-oriented young man. Atthe tender age of 28, he waslooking forward to enrollinginto school and changing hislifestyle to benefit himself andhis children.

The week before he passed,he bought a BMW, and for themoment, this was his DREAMCAR!!! He was sickening aboutthis car. Every time I would goto my mother’s house, hewould be there on the comput-er doing research about thevehicle, interfering with myFacebook time.

I fondly remember jokingwith him and saying BMWstands for “Black Man Walk-ing,” and I told him he neededto do research on getting aNew Jersey Transit Bus Pass

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JOURNAL OF THE PEOPLE’S PASTOR‘WRITING THE HISTORY I’VE LIVED, LIVING THE HISTORY I WRITE!’

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5DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

By LINDATARRANT-REID

Special to the NNPA from The Westchester County Press

We traveled to Cleveland, Ohio thispast Labor Day to attend numerousevents celebrating family and friendsand my husband’s 45th high schoolreunion. When he was growing up inCleveland, it was known as “The BestLocation in the Nation.” Times havechanged and although that sloganisn’t used much anymore, Cleveland isstill alright. I’ve been to Clevelandabout five times in the last 15 yearsand have witnessed the changinglandscape of an urban city trying to berelevant in a 21st century world. ButI never really knew its history.

On my first visit in 1996, the urbandecay was overwhelming, especiallyon the eastside of Cleveland where theAfrican American community resides.Abandoned houses that were ghosts oftheir former arts & craft architecturalglory were falling apart, slopingroofs, peeling paint and crumblingexteriors. Two-family wooden-framedhouses with porches that graced thefaçade of the formerly elegant homeslonged for a happier time. Trash-strewn vacant lots connected barrenlandscapes where empty buildingsstood in defiance of their certaindemise. Small businesses that ser-viced neighborhoods – the mom andpop grocery stores, drugstores, barbe-cue joints, liquor stores – had died aslow retail death. The Haltnorth The-atre, a neighborhood movie house atWoodland Avenue and East 55th, oncea place where young Black kids fromthe Outhwaite Projects, across thestreet, wiled away countless hourswatching grade B double features likeThe Blob was no longer there.

African Americans have been inCleveland since the early 1800s. Set-tling mainly on the eastside, theyworked as unskilled laborers anddomestics, but several of these newarrivals became successful business-men and political leaders, like Madi-

son Tilley. A former slave, Tilley was“an excavating contractor with 20wagons, 40 horses and an integratedworkforce [that] at times numbered100,” according the Encyclopedia ofCleveland History. Tilley became oneof the five African Americans owningproperty in 1840 and when he died hisestate was valued between $25,000and $30,000.

More Blacks passed through Cleve-land from the 1830s to the 1860s onthe Under Ground Railroad (UGRR)on their way to Canada. UniversityCircle, now a thriving cultural andacademic center, was at the heart ofthe Abolitionist activities in Cleveland.John Bell, a Black barber, owned abarber shop that became known as thelast stop on the UGRR for many fugi-tive slaves escaping by boat acrossLake Erie to freedom in Canada.There were some whites who weresympathetic to the plight of fugitiveslaves and assisted Blacks travelingon the Under Ground Railroad. Oneprominent abolitionist at the time wasRev. Charles Storrs, president of CaseWestern Reserve. The college is locat-ed at University Circle among otherCleveland institutions including theCleveland Museum of Art, the Botani-cal Garden, the Cleveland Museum ofNatural History, Severance Hall, theCleveland Institute of Art, and theCleveland Institute of Music.

During my visit to Cleveland thistime, I noticed that something was dif-ferent. As we toured the eastside look-ing up old addresses of grandmothersand tracking down familiar haunts ofdays gone by, the trash-strewn lotswere now empty green spaces. Gonewere many of the boarded up struc-tures. Although the areas we visitedhad not been redeveloped, they lookedexpectant, like something was goingto happen. Traveling down KinsmanRoad into Shaker Heights, I noticedthat construction on a strip mall hadbeen completed since the last time wewere in town in 2006, leaving the orig-inal retail stores across the streetempty.

Shaker Square, the historic gate-

way to the Shaker Heights Communi-ty with its quaint Colonial-Georgianbrick buildings accented in whitewooden facades arranged around anoctagonal town center, has seen betterdays, but it is surviving. The ColonyTheatre is still there, but its name haschanged to Shaker Square Cinemas,and has expanded to six screens. NowCVS, keeping up with the times, hastaken up residence in the retail hub.The surrounding community of beau-tiful old apartment buildings on tree-line streets is still well-kept. The dif-ference is young African Americanscan be seen strolling the streets andeating ice cream and snacks from thelocal boutique shops around thesquare.

Cleveland has a lot to be proud ofbecause of the contributions that somany African Americans have madeto science, technology, sports, politics,and the arts. Garrett A. Morgan,inventor of the gas mask and trafficsignal, moved to Cleveland in his early20s and worked as a sewing machinerepairman. He received nationalattention in 1916 when his gas maskswere used to rescue workers trappedin the tunnels under Lake Erie. Mor-gan also started the Cleveland Call in1916, a Black newspaper that mergedwith the Cleveland Post in 1929 creat-ing the Call and Post. Jesse Owens,another Clevelander, was an amazingtrack star who attended East TechHigh School and won 4 gold medals atthe 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

Carl Stokes, the first African Amer-ican Mayor of a major U.S. city, andhis brother Louis Stokes, a member ofthe U.S. House of Representatives,grew up in the Outhwaite Projects.Their contributions to local andnational politics were immeasurableand occurred when African Ameri-cans were seeking their equal rightsas Americans. The Phillis WheatleyAssociation, named for the first pub-lished African American poet in Amer-ica, opened in 1927 in Cleveland; itwas originally an agency that provid-ed safe housing for Black women relo-cating to the North during the Black

Migration and is now a multi-serviceorganization serving the Black com-munity. Eliza Simmons Bryant spear-headed the founding of the ClevelandHome for Aged Colored in 1896 afterdiscovering that many of the elderlyBlacks who migrated to Clevelandneeded a place to live.

Karamu House, a settlement housefounded in 1915 by two Oberlin stu-dents, is still in effect today as an artscenter focusing on the arts and cul-ture and has historically been a “mag-net for African American artists.”Author Chester Himes, who wrotemysteries and crime novels, grew upin Cleveland and used his experiencesas the basis of many of his books.Himes’ two Harlem Detectives – CoffinEd Johnson and Grave Digger Jones –made famous by Raymond St. Jacquesand Godfrey Cambridge in the film,Cotton Comes to Harlem were charac-ters from his novel. Directed by OssieDavis, the film is a perennial favorite.Actresses Ruby Dee and Halle Berryare from Cleveland and LangstonHughes lived on the eastside in 1917while attending Central High Schoolwhere his budding writing career wasencouraged with the publication of hisworks in the school’s magazine.

Looking at Cleveland through ahistoric lens this time around has beenextremely helpful for me as an observ-er of people, places and events. I havea greater understanding of the chal-lenges that Black Clevelanders had toovercome in their pursuit of a betterlife, which on some level is a story thateveryone can relate to. So, it is true,you can go home again, even if it issomeone else’s home.

— Linda Tarrant-Reid is anauthor, historian and photographer.Her book Discovering Black Ameri-ca: From the Age of Exploration tothe Twenty-First Century will bepublished in 2012. Visit her blog at,www.discoverblackus.wordpress.com. Send your comments to LindaTarrant-Reid, c/o The WestchesterCounty Press, P.O. Box 152, WhitePlains, NY 10602.

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rather than purchasing anothercar. The look on his face was price-less.

I am sure we all have memorablestories about Deron, and thosemoments will be etched in ourhearts forever. However, we need topreserve his legacy and adopt thequalities he exhibited during hisshort time here on earth. When Ilook at his mother, Robyn, I seewhere his loving and Christianqualities originated. When I look athis brother, Chad, I see the humor-ous, joking, and prankster qualitiesof Deron. When I look at my moth-er, I see Deron’s temperament andgenerous qualities. Basically, Deronis and always will be a part of us.

Speaking as the family represen-tative, this is not the first tragedywe encountered. Approximately twoyears ago, my twenty-year-oldcousin, Justin McNeil, was gunneddown on Ocean and BayviewAvenues by unknown assailantsand was fatally killed. This was myfamily’s first bout with violence, andwe are still trying to heal. Justinand Deron were extremely closewhen they both were living, and Iknow they are even closer in theKingdom of Heaven.

As a community, we need to makea change. Within the past month,five black men were murdered inJersey City as a result of violence.We simply cannot afford to lose anymore. I am asking everyone in thischurch to take action. I would hate

for anyone of you to be standinghere in my place, representing a lostloved one.

Finally, I ask that you keep theKittrell and Henry families in yourprayers during this difficult time.

The End.

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By DOUG PALMER

WASHINGTON — Trade Repre-sentative Ron Kirk said on Mondayhe was hopeful the Congress wouldpass long-delayed trade deals withSouth Korea, Panama and Colombiabefore the United States hosts anannual summit meeting for Asia-Pacific leaders in November.“Our goal has always been to get

them done as soon as possible andthat hasn’t changed,” Kirk toldreporters after remarks to the Con-gressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.He declined to give a more precise

timetable, saying that depended onhow quickly the White House andCongress reached agreement on leg-islation known as Trade AdjustmentAssistance (TAA) to help workersdisplaced by foreign competition.But asked if it would be embar-

rassing for the United States if thedeals weren’t approved by Nov 12-13Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC) summit meeting in PresidentBarack Obama’s home state ofHawaii, Kirk replied: “Well, we’regoing to be more optimistic thanthat.”South Korea is a member of APEC

along with the United States. Allthree of the pending trade deals weresigned more than four years ago butstill have not been approved.Obama, in recent months, has

repeatedly called on Congress to passthe agreements. However, Republi-cans complain that he first needs tosend them to Congress.“Unfortunately we’re still waiting

for the president to submit these freetrade agreements. If he does that,they’ll pass,” Senator Orrin Hatch,the top Republican on the Senate

Finance Committee, said at a hearingon Monday.Obama mentioned the trade deals

again last week in a speech to Con-gress on his proposals for creatingjobs.The following day, House Republi-

can leaders urged him to “immedi-ately” submit the agreements to Con-gress for votes.However, the deals are still on

Obama’s desk, awaiting furtherassurances that Congress will passTAA, which provides retraining andother assistance for workers whohave lost their jobs because ofimports or their workplace movingabroad.Senate Majority Harry Reid, a

Democrat, has said he would not

schedule votes on the agreementsuntil the House — which is con-trolled by Republicans — passesTAA.The next step in the process

appears to be for the Senate to take

up a developing country trade billpassed last week by the House andattach a bipartisan TAA compromisebill crafted by White House and keymembers of Congress.A Senate Democratic aide said

Reid would like the Senate to pass theTAA bill in September and send it tothe House for approval. But thecrowded legislative agenda coulddelay action on the measure untilOctober, he said.If Obama waits for the House to

take up and pass the TAA bill beforesubmitting the trade pacts, therecould be just a few weeks for Con-gress to act before the APEC meeting.Hatch, who opposes the TAA pro-

gram, tried on Monday to persuadeObama to submit the agreementsnow.“I have every reason to believe that

TAA will pass the Senate and I believeit will pass the House as well,” hesaid.Meanwhile, Senate Finance Com-

mittee Chairman Max Baucus, aMontana Democrat, said he was“quite confident” Congress wouldpass TAA and the three trade dealsthis year.He said there was “trust” on both

sides to get that done.

USTR Kirk hopes trade deals passed by November APEC meet

Trade Representative Ron Kirk makes opening remarks at a trade min-ister and small and medium size enterprise ministers meeting at theAsia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Big Sky, Montana.

By LAIRD HARRISON

OAKLAND, Calif. — San Franciscoarts officials are embracing whatthey say is a digital-age solution tothe decades-old problem of graffiti:An iPhone application that allows“virtual” tagging instead of the realthing.The app, Graff City, uses augment-

ed reality — software in which digitalinformation can be added to a photo-graph — to create the appearancethat the user is finger-painting orspray-painting on any surface withinview.The user can then take a picture of

his creation and upload it to Facebookor e-mail it to another user. Otherusers who visit a tagged location cansee what previous users have done.“The goal is to give young people

who might be tempted to tag or van-dalize property an alternative,” TyraFennell, arts education programmanager for the San Francisco ArtsCommission, told Reuters.The app was created by the mar-

keting firm McCann Worldgroup,which offers it free through theiTunes store.“It encourages the actual art form

rather than defacing public proper-ty,” McCann account supervisor BenStender said.Fennell said Graff City is an exten-

sion of the city’s StreetSmARTS pro-gram, in which graffiti artists com-pete for $3,000 grants to paint

murals on walls made available byproperty owners.But artists must fill out applica-

tions, submit portfolios and be select-ed by a panel of judges in order toparticipate in StreetSmARTS, and sofar only 30 walls have been offeredup.By contrast, Graff City is available

to anyone with an iPhone, and in thefuture the application may be adaptedto iPads and other brands of smartphone, Stender said.While no one has surveyed graffiti

arts to see how many have iPhones,Fennell believes a significant numberwill be able to take advantage of theprogram.“The presumption is that people

who tag are lowlifes or thugs,” shesaid. “That’s not true. There are peo-ple in private school who tag. And Ihave a sense that most people havecell phones, and a large number haveiPhones.”But Bob Van Gelder, president of

Graffiti Specialists graffiti removalcompany in San Francisco, was skep-tical of the iPhone app’s ability todeter taggers.Some are motivated to mark their

territory in real as opposed to virtualspace, while others want to causemalicious mischief, he said, addingthat some might even use the app toplan their vandalism.“My first thought is they could use

it as a sketch which they would thentransfer to a wall” with real paint, hesaid.

By KEITH COFFMAN

DENVER — A routine Coloradotraffic stop led to the discovery of220 pounds of cocaine with a streetvalue of $10 million in the rental carof a California couple, police said onMonday.Mark Bailey and Lisa Calderon,

both of Sylmar, California, werearrested on Sunday in the southernColorado city of Pueblo on suspicionof cocaine possession, Pueblo DeputyPolice Chief Andrew McLachlansaid.“This is definitely the largest

cocaine seizure in our department’shistory,” McLachlan told Reuters.McLachlan said a patrol officer

was tipped off by an off-duty detec-tive to a car making an illegal lanechange on Interstate 25, about 115miles south of Denver.The north-south highway has

long been a drug-smuggling corri-dor, he said. When the officer pulled

over the rented Chevrolet Malibu, hediscovered that Bailey’s Californiadriver’s license had been revoked.Bailey, 37, told the officer he

owned an auto body shop in Califor-nia, and was en route to Iowa to lookat a 1955 Chevy, police said.The officer became suspicious

because when Calderon, 35, wasquestioned she appeared nervous.She said the pair were going to visither brother in Iowa but couldn’t saywhere, police said.When the officer noticed that the

back of the car appeared to beweighed down, he summoned adrug-sniffing dog and its handler tothe scene. The dog, name Raleigh,“alerted on the rear of the Chevy,”McLachlan said.A search of the trunk uncovered

four black duffel bags stuffed withbricks of cocaine, and the pair wasarrested, he said.Bailey was also cited for driving

with a suspended license, and noproof of insurance.

Routine Colorado traffic stopturns up $10 million in cocaine

San Francisco hopes graffitivandals will go virtual

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AFRICAN SCENE8

Police: Sect members kill 4 in Nigeria beer parlor

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Authorities saymembers of a radical Muslim sect shot andkilled four people at a beer parlor inNigeria’s restive northeast.

Borno state police commissioner SimeoneMidena told The Associated Press on Tuesday theshooting happened Monday night in Maiduguri,home to the sect known locally as Boko Haram. Awitness said two gunmen carrying Kalashnikovrifles under their traditional robes attacked the bar.

Midena said no arrests have been made.Boko Haram, whose name means “Western edu-

cation is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language,wants the strict implementation of Shariah law inNigeria. The sect claimed responsibility for theAug. 26 car bombing of the United Nations head-quarters in Nigeria that killed at least 23 peopleand wounded 81.

South Africa’s Madikizela-Mandela hospitalized

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’sAfrican National Congress says thatWinnie Madikizela-Mandela has under-gone a minor foot operation.

Madikizela-Mandela, among South Africa’s bestknown politicians and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela,went to a Johannesburg hospital Saturday com-plaining of ankle pain, the governing party saidTuesday, adding the surgery was successful andshe was recuperating well Tuesday.

Madikizela-Mandela, 76, was elected to parlia-ment as an ANC member in 2009. She is particu-larly popular among younger South Africans forher fiery style and calls for more to be done to liftthe black majority out of poverty 17 years afterwhite rule ended.

She and Nelson Mandela divorced in 1996. Butin recent years she has joined him at family eventsalongside his current wife, Graca Machel.

Tuaregs: Niger shouldgrant Libyans refugee status

NIAMEY, Niger - A Niger rebel leaderwho became a member of MoammarGadhafi’s inner circle says three ofGadhafi’s generals who arrived overnightin Niger’s capital are seeking refugee sta-tus for members of the toppled ruler’sregime.

If Niger grants the request, the West Africannation would be defying the new Libyan govern-ment, which wants regime loyalists to be turnedover.

Rebel leader Aghaly Alambo said Tuesday in anexclusive interview with the Associated Press thatthe three include Gen. Ali Kana, as well as thecountry’s air force chief and the commander ofMurzuq. Alambo, who like Kana is an ethnicTuareg, is part of the negotiations. The Tuaregs inNiger as well as in neighboring Mali are pushingthe government to give them asylum.

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AFRICAN SCENE

By JOSHUA HOWATBERGER

South African PresidentJacob Zuma offered anolive branch Tuesday to hisparty’s embattled youthleader Julius Malema, whorisks expulsion from theruling ANC this week.

Malema, whose singing of ananti-apartheid anthem called“shoot the white farmer” wasdeemed hate speech by a civilcourt on Monday, has roiled theruling party with his calls tonationalise mines and expropri-ate white-owned farms.

He and five other top officialsof the African NationalCongress’ youth wing have beenhauled before party disciplinaryhearings, accused of sowingdivisions in the party and bring-ing it into disrepute.

At issue are a series of com-ments by Malema and the YouthLeague, including their call forregime change in neighbouringBotswana and branding whitesas thieves.

The hearings opened twoweeks ago with an explosion ofviolence, as thousands of angrysupporters threw rocks at jour-nalists and police and burnedpictures of Zuma.

But in his first commentssince the disciplinary hearingsbegan, Zuma struck a conciliato-ry tone, calling Malema a “verygood” young man and a goodcommunicator.

Zuma said the youth leader’sneed to be in the spotlight putshim “on the border of sayingthings that are radical and prob-lematic”, but denied the partywas trying to silence him.

“No, I don’t think that shouldbe the objective. I think theobjective is how do you helpMalema? Because Malema has alot of elements that are good inhim,” Zuma told The Star news-paper.

Pressed later Tuesday in par-liament to condemn Malema’scomments, Zuma declined to bedrawn out, telling the legislator:“The honorable member is awareof what the ruling party hassaid on this matter.”

Zuma’s comments came asdisciplinary hearings resumedTuesday for Malema’s fivedeputies.

The unrest last monthprompted the ANC to move thehearings from party headquar-ters in downtown Johannesburg

to a recreation centre on thesouthern outskirts of the city.

Police were tightly control-ling access to the area, withjournalists kept several hundredmetres (yards) away. Officerswere stopping and searchingpublic transport vehicles thattried to enter the area.

Malema attended the proceed-ings, but his own hearing wasset to resume only on Thursday.

ANC spokesman Keith Khozasaid the process, which has cap-tured national attention despitethe tight lid the ruling party haskept on the proceedings, wasexpected to wrap up Saturday.

With his racially chargedrhetoric and calls to redistributewealth to impoverished blacks,Malema has shown a talent forgrabbing the spotlight sincebecoming president of the Youth

League in 2008.On Monday he was found

guilty of hate speech for his pub-lic singing of an anti-apartheidstruggle song whose Zulu cho-rus, “dubula ibhunu”, roughlytranslates as “shoot the whitefarmer.”

A civil court judge bannedfurther singing of the song andordered Malema to pay a portionof the costs for the case. Khozasaid the ANC will likely appealthe ruling.

Malema’s radical rhetoric andhigh profile have also put him atodds with Zuma.

The president rose to powerwith Malema’s backing, but hassince lost the support of theYouth League, which is frustrat-ed over his failure to embraceMalema’s economic policy pro-posals.

S. Africa’s Zuma offersolive branch to Malema

The youth leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC)Julius Malema addresses a party rally in Johannesburg. SouthAfrican President Jacob Zuma has offered an olive branch toMalema, who risks expulsion from the ruling ANC this week.

Supporters of African National Congress (ANC) Youth Leagueleader Julius Malema sing outside the court in Johannesburgon September 12. South African President Jacob Zuma hasoffered an olive branch to the embattled Malema.


AFRICAN SCENED

ByMALKHADIRM. MUHUMED

NAIROBI, Kenya- A Kenyan activistsaid Tuesday hemay sue the FBIover their part ininterrogating himwhile he was heldwithout trial for ayear in Uganda onterror charges.

Al-Amin Kimathi ofthe Kenya-basedMuslim Human RightsForum said he saw FBIagents “many times” inhis cell and thatUgandan intelligenceagents told him theyhad received writtenquestions from the FBIand were sharing infor-mation with them.

“Since I stronglybelieve in their involve-ment and have primafacie evidence of thatinvolvement, I will beconsulting with mylawyers...to see if I cansue them,” he told TheAssociated Press in theKenyan capital a dayafter his release.

Kimathi was arrest-ed last year after travel-ing to Uganda toobserve court hearingsof Kenyan suspects inthe July 2010 bombingsin Uganda’s capital,Kampala, that killed 76people.

Somalia’s militants

have claimed responsi-bility for the attacksand said they did it toavenge Somali civilianskilled by Ugandanpeacekeepers inMogadishu.

Ugandan authoritiesjailed Kimathi andcharged him with ter-rorism, murder andattempted murder, butfailed to disclose the fullevidence against himand another 18 defen-dants. The detentiondrew fire from interna-tional rights groupslike Human RightsWatch and AmnestyInternational, whocalled for Kimathi’srelease. Kimathi said

often he was only givenone meal a day.

A Ugandan judgefinally dropped chargesagainst Kimathi onMonday. Thespokesman for theUgandan judiciary,Erias Kisawuzi, saidTuesday that the judgewas following instruc-tions from Uganda’sdirector of public prose-cution.

“The Ugandan courthas shown great sensein dropping terrorismcharges againstKimathi,” said RonaPeligal, deputy directorof the Africa division atHuman Rights Watch.“The rights of the other

suspects, many ofwhom still do not havelegal representation,must not be forgottenas their case proceeds totrial.”

In a written state-ment, Kimathi said hewas “greatly relieved tohave been vindicated.”

Kimathi said the FBIdidn’t personally inter-rogate him becausethey “knew of the impli-cations” of doing that,but “they controlledthings from next doorand set up gadgets forlistening in.”

Activists have previ-ously said that theybelieve Uganda is beingused as a base to inter-

rogate people of interestto the Kenyan securityforces and the FBI.

Rights lawyerMbugua Mureithi, whohad also been detainedin Uganda along withKimathi, but was thenreleased, said that hewas interrogated in thepresence of an FBIagent and that three ofthe Kenyans he wasrepresenting told himthat they were interro-gated five times by for-eigners who introducedthemselves as FBIagents.

Days after theKampala bombings, theFBI’s New York officeand the New YorkPolice Department saidthat a team of investiga-tors, including forensicexperts, from the city’sJoint Terrorism TaskForce was en route toUganda to assistauthorities with theprobe.

A U.S. governmentspokesman denied atthe time charges thatany FBI agents were

present when Mureithiwas questioned. TheU.S. embassy in Kenyadid not have an immedi-ate response when con-tacted for commentMonday.

Kimathi’s Kenya-based Muslim HumanRights Forum has doc-umented and publiclychallenged arbitrarydetentions and illegalrenditions - when sus-pects are taken toanother country forinterrogation withoutthe proper extraditionprocess - in East Africa.

In 2007, Kimathiuncovered the arrest ofdozens of terror sus-pects in Kenya after thefall of an Islamistadministration inSomalia. An investiga-tion by The AssociatedPress found those sus-pects were flown toEthiopia and some werequestioned byAmerican agents. Mosthave since beenreleased withoutcharge.

Kenyan activist may sue FBI over year in prison

Residents of a shantee in Nairobi stand among debris following a fircefire on September 12, after the explosion of a fuel pipeline in a slum areaof Nairobi. Rescue teams searched through the smoking ashes of theslum razed when a pipeline burst into flames, with 92 charred bodiesalready found and the death toll still rising.

By KAOUTHER LARBI

Rached Ghannouchi, whose Islamist move-ment Ennahda is considered Tunisia’s most pop-ular party, pleaded on Tuesday for the country’sfirst post-revolution elections in October to betransparent.

“The most important thing in our view is thatthe elections be clean. Some players still refuse torecognise our legitimacy,” Ghannouchi told AFPin an interview.

The north African country is set to elect a con-stituent assembly tasked with drafting a newconstitution in October 23 polls, the country’sfirst elections since the January toppling of long-time dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

Some of Ghannouchi’s adversaries have raisedquestions over Ennahda’s financing, accusingthe Islamist movement of receiving largeamounts of money from Gulf countries.

Ghannouchi returned from 20 years of Britishexile in January, in the immediate aftermath ofBen Ali’s shock departure under pressure fromthe street, and his party was legalised on March1.

Echoing fears expressed by many Tunisianssince the collapse of the Ben Ali regime tipped thefirst domino of an “Arab Spring” still sweepingthe region, Ghannouchi warned that the upris-ing’s achievements could yet be rolled back.

“Everything is possible in Tunisia. The losersand anti-revolutionary forces are capable of any-thing to thwart the will of the people,” he said.

“Our score is of little import,” Ghannouchisaid, sitting in his office in the brand new head-quarters of the Ennahda (Renaissance) party inTunis’ modern Montplaisir neighbourhood.

Tunisia’s Islamist frontrunnerurges ‘clean’ election

Senegal andCongo-Brazzavilleon Tuesday deniedallegations madeby an influentialFrench politicaladviser that theypaid large sums ofmoney in cash tothe French presi-dency.

Robert Bourgi, along-time unofficialpoint man betweenFrance’s Elysee palaceand the regimes in for-mer African colonies,has rocked French pol-itics with a raft of alle-gations on illicit cashhandouts.

Bourgi, insisting hewas coming forwardnow because he wanteda “clean France”, said

he took part in kick-back paymentsbetween 1995 and 2005involving former presi-dent Jacques Chirac,potential presidentialcandidate Dominiquede Villepin and evenretired far-right iconJean-Marie Le Pen.

Among the Africanofficials alleged to havepaid cash to the Frenchpresidency is KarimWade — the son ofSenegalese PresidentAbdoulaye Wade —who denied the accusa-tions and vowed to sueBourgi for defamation.

“I vehemently denythese astonishingclaims, which are noth-ing but a figment of hisimagination,” the pres-ident’s son said in astatement issued late

Monday.Karim Wade added

that he had asked hislawyers to immediatelylodge a complaint withthe competent courtsfor slander anddefamation.

Bourgi said in aninterview to theSenegalese dailyL’Observateur pub-lished on Monday thatKarim Wade had“handed over 500 mil-lion CFA francs(760,000 euros, onemillion dollars) toVillepin in front ofme.”

Villepin was thenpresident JacquesChirac’s top aide.

Among the string ofAfrican leaders allegedby Bourgi to have cometo Villepin’s office with

cash-stuffed briefcasesis Congolese PresidentDenis Sassou Nguesso.

“We reject with theutmost energy the alle-gations made by Mr.Robert Bourgi,”Congolese governmentspokesman BienvenuOkiemy told publicradio Tuesday.

“Some like to thinkof Africa as an entitystill under influence,which takes its ordersfrom abroad and occa-sionally opens its cof-fers to feed cherry-picked politiciansabroad,” he said.

Opposition figuresin Congo-Brazzaville —which Sassou Nguessohas ruled for close tothree decades —demanded a probe intoBourgi’s accusations.

Senegal, Congo deny Chirac-era kickbacks


CARIBBEAN NEWS1

By KENTON X.CHANCE

KINGSTOWN, StVincent — Despite hispublic rants against theUnited States, StVincent and theGrenadines PrimeMinister Dr RalphGonsalves in 2009struck a positive notewith US diplomats inBarbados, a stark con-trast to oppositionleader Arnhim Eustace,who generally seems tocare what Washingtonthinks about develop-ments in St Vincent andthe Grenadines (SVG).

In a diplomatic cablepublished byWikiLeaks, US officialsin Bridgetown compileda leadership profile onGonsalves in whichthey told Washingtonthat the Unity LabourParty (ULP) head was“easily the most intelli-gent and charismatic ofthe Eastern Caribbeanleaders”.

In other cables, theofficials said that, whileEustace was “undeni-able intelligent andacutely aware of theproblems facing thecountry”, he was “a sin-gularly uncharismaticand uninspiring figure,who is unable to trans-late his technocraticexpertise into any kindof viable or sustainedpolitical activity”.

“Without a strongerleader, the NDP’s [NewDemocratic Party]influence will bemuted,” the Americanssaid of party that gov-erned from 1984 to2001 and last Decembercame one seat short ofthe left side ofParliament.

On the other hand,they felt that Gonsalveshad “the charisma andpolitical savvy neededto keep himself inpower for years tocome, though his popu-larity is gradually erod-ing”.

The profile notedthat while Gonsalveswas “politically rootedin 1970s leftist move-ment” he was “a prag-matic ideologue with astrong populist bent”.

The prime minister’srelationship withCaracas, Havana, andALBA were “close andbuilt on both pragmaticeconomic interest and ahealthy measure of pop-ulist spirit and socialistideology,” the cablesaid, adding that thenblossoming relationswith Iran appeared “tobe more mercenary, butnevertheless bearscrutiny”.

US officials told theirsuperiors thatGonsalves could beexpected to work withWashington on com-mon issues of concern

even as he took “whileat the same time takingpublic “potshots” at thesuperpower “to high-light his leftist creden-tials and rile up hisdomestic base”.

“Despite his affectionfor Chavez, fears thathe could be in danger ofbecoming a Chavez pup-pet are overblown,” thecable said.

The documentargued that Gonsalveshad “moved methodical-ly to establish a vertical-ly-oriented governmentin which virtually alldecision making comesto his desk and oppos-ing viewpoints are notwarmly embraced.”

According to thecable, opposition andcivil society elementssaw Gonsalves “moredarkly, as the head of acentralized political sys-tem exercising near-

dictatorial control overall aspects ofVincentian politics andeconomy”.

US officials, however,told Washington thatsome of these state-ments were “overblownrhetoric born of frustra-tion with the inabilityof the opposition tomount any real chal-lenge to the ULP.

The cable said, how-ever, that there were“kernels of truth”,adding that SVG was“littered with relativesand former closefriends of Gonsalves’who have lost positionsin government or‘kitchen cabinet’ jobsfor disagreeing withhim on economic policyissues”.

The profile said thatthe prime minister had“effectively secured afirm grip on the press

by intimidating mediaoutlets that challengehim in any waythrough litigation”.

Noting thatGonsalves had suedsuccessfully at least onesuch outlet, the cableclaimed, “[T]repidationamongst Vincentianmedia professionals hasresulted in a measure ofself-censorship”.

The profile also com-mented on the coun-try’s constitutionalreform efforts, sayingthat Gonsalves’ pursu-ing such far-reachingchanges and puttinghis political capital onthe line reflected one ofdichotomies:

“[A]t one level he isambitious and selfinterested, while atanother level, he is adisinterested academicand theorist willing torisk a short-term politi-cal loss for what he seesas fundamental politi-cal change in theregion.”

The officials notedthat the constitutionshanded to EasternCaribbean nations atIndependence hadserved the region wellbut could benefit fromchange.

The cable said that ofEastern Caribbean lead-ers, Gonsalves was “theone most closelyaligned philosophicallywith the leftist-populist

‘Chavista’ crowd” andclaimed that he hadegged his Dominicancolleague RooseveltSkerrit to join ALBA togauge regional reactionbefore Kingstownsigned on to the bloc.

Gonsalves and for-eign relations

The cable said thatdespite Gonsalves’ per-sonal political leaningshe was “eminently prac-tical” regarding foreignrelations.

“He knows his coun-try needs money, andhe knows his partyneeds money to supportthe public infrastruc-ture programs thatbring jobs and buyvotes.”

The profile notedthat Gonsalves was notshy about reaching outto “non-traditional”sources of fundingsuch as Iran and Libya,adding that he had“expressed his ownreservations aboutVenezuela and thePetroCaribe arrange-ment”.

US officials saidGonsalves had toldthem in August 2009that he suspected thatVenezuelan oil subsi-dies would not last for-ever, noting aPetroCaribe price hike,and “hinted that hewould attempt to stock-pile reserves in case thesituation worsened”.

US officials drew stark contrasts betweenSt Vincent PM and opposition leader

Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves (L) andopposition leader Arnhim Eustace

BASSETERRE,St Kitts — St Kittsand Nevis PrimeMinister Dr DenzilDouglas says theanti-crime unit cre-ated in the Office ofthe Prime Ministerwill see four mem-bers of the Cabinetdirectly involved inthe management ofthis unit in thefight against crime.

“It will continue toinvolve the deputyprime minister, SamCondor, who was

recently the minister ofnational security; theattorney general,Patrice Nisbett; it willalso involve Dr EarlAsim Martin, the minis-ter of public utilitiesand public works, whohas been actingwhether for DwyerAstaphan or for myselfwhen we were minis-ters of national securi-ty,” said Douglas dur-ing his weekly radioprogramme “Ask thePrime Minister.”

Douglas, in responseto a caller, said therestructuring of what

was the ministry ofnational security “wasto take the ministerialcommand from beingunder one minister tobeing under four minis-ters and to provide ateam effort in this fightagainst crime.”

He said it was appro-priate that for him tohave responsibilitiesand the authority as thechairman of the TaskForce on Crime, it wasnecessary to have thegovernor general passto him the portfoliosthat will deal with thepolice and defence

force, which are the twomain agencies of thegovernment in lawenforcement.

“All the other depart-ments that were of theministry of nationalsecurity remain direct-ly under the ministerialcontrol work and guid-ance as the deputyprime minister, Hon.Sam Condor,” saidDouglas.

“That is the way it is.That is how my cabinetwishes it to be at thistime as we fight crime.We are taking it fromthe responsibility of

one minister to fourministers as a teamapproach and we havecreated in the Office ofthe Prime Minister, thenecessary unit — theAnti-Crime Unit — andit is going to be man-aged jointly with fourministers of govern-ment with me as thechairman as the TaskForce and to ensurethat we can be effectivein our fighting ofcrime,” Douglas reiter-ated.

“There are some peo-ple who do not like thisnew development and

are using what hashappened to furthercause mischief and dis-traction, as the callersaid,” respondedDouglas.

He said there hasbeen adequate dialoguewhen this matter wasdiscussed.

St Kitts-Nevis PM reiterates purpose of anti-crime unit

St Kitts and NevisPrime Minister,Denzil Douglas

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ByMALKHADIRM. MUHUMED

NAIROBI, Kenya- A Kenyan activistsaid Tuesday hemay sue the FBIover their part ininterrogating himwhile he was heldwithout trial for ayear in Uganda onterror charges.

Al-Amin Kimathi ofthe Kenya-basedMuslim Human RightsForum said he saw FBIagents “many times” inhis cell and thatUgandan intelligenceagents told him theyhad received writtenquestions from the FBIand were sharing infor-mation with them.

“Since I stronglybelieve in their involve-ment and have primafacie evidence of thatinvolvement, I will beconsulting with mylawyers...to see if I cansue them,” he told TheAssociated Press in theKenyan capital a dayafter his release.

Kimathi was arrest-ed last year after travel-ing to Uganda to

observe court hearingsof Kenyan suspects inthe July 2010 bombingsin Uganda’s capital,Kampala, that killed 76people.

Somalia’s militantshave claimed responsi-bility for the attacksand said they did it toavenge Somali civilianskilled by Ugandanpeacekeepers inMogadishu.

Ugandan authoritiesjailed Kimathi andcharged him with ter-rorism, murder andattempted murder, butfailed to disclose the fullevidence against himand another 18 defen-dants. The detentiondrew fire from interna-tional rights groupslike Human RightsWatch and AmnestyInternational, whocalled for Kimathi’srelease. Kimathi saidoften he was only givenone meal a day.

A Ugandan judgefinally dropped chargesagainst Kimathi onMonday. Thespokesman for theUgandan judiciary,Erias Kisawuzi, saidTuesday that the judgewas following instruc-tions from Uganda’s

director of public prose-cution.

“The Ugandan courthas shown great sensein dropping terrorismcharges againstKimathi,” said RonaPeligal, deputy directorof the Africa division atHuman Rights Watch.“The rights of the othersuspects, many ofwhom still do not havelegal representation,must not be forgottenas their case proceeds totrial.”

In a written state-ment, Kimathi said hewas “greatly relieved tohave been vindicated.”

Kimathi said the FBIdidn’t personally inter-rogate him becausethey “knew of the impli-cations” of doing that,but “they controlledthings from next doorand set up gadgets forlistening in.”

Activists have previ-ously said that theybelieve Uganda is beingused as a base to inter-rogate people of interestto the Kenyan securityforces and the FBI.

Rights lawyerMbugua Mureithi, whohad also been detainedin Uganda along withKimathi, but was then

released, said that hewas interrogated in thepresence of an FBIagent and that three ofthe Kenyans he wasrepresenting told himthat they were interro-gated five times by for-eigners who introducedthemselves as FBIagents.

Days after theKampala bombings, theFBI’s New York officeand the New YorkPolice Department saidthat a team of investiga-tors, including forensicexperts, from the city’sJoint Terrorism TaskForce was en route toUganda to assistauthorities with theprobe.

A U.S. governmentspokesman denied atthe time charges thatany FBI agents werepresent when Mureithiwas questioned. TheU.S. embassy in Kenyadid not have an immedi-ate response when con-tacted for commentMonday.

Kimathi’s Kenya-based Muslim HumanRights Forum has doc-umented and publiclychallenged arbitrarydetentions and illegalrenditions - when sus-

pects are taken toanother country forinterrogation withoutthe proper extraditionprocess - in East Africa.

In 2007, Kimathiuncovered the arrest ofdozens of terror sus-pects in Kenya after thefall of an Islamistadministration in

Somalia. An investiga-tion by The AssociatedPress found those sus-pects were flown toEthiopia and some werequestioned byAmerican agents. Mosthave since beenreleased withoutcharge.

Kenyan activist may sue FBI over year in prison

Kenya Muslim human rights director Al AminKimathi speaks to journalist in Nairobi,Kenya, Tuesday Sept. 13, 2011. Kenyan activistAl Amin Kimathi says he may sue the FBI overtheir part in interrogating him while he washeld without trial for a year in Uganda on ter-ror charges.

Photo/Khalil Senosi

By BRADLEYBROOKS

SAO PAULO -Newly crownedMiss Universe LeilaLopes wants to helpher native Angolafurther escape a his-tory of war andimpoverishmentand said she plansto focus on combat-ing HIV around theglobe.

Speaking in a timidvoice early Tuesdayshortly after taking thecrown in SouthAmerica’s largest city,the 25-year-old Lopessaid that “as MissAngola I’ve already donea lot to help my people.”

“I’ve worked with var-ious social causes. Iwork with poor kids, Iwork in the fight

against HIV. I work toprotect the elderly and Ihave to do everythingthat my country needs,”she said. “I think now asMiss Universe I will beable to do much more.”

Responding to ques-tions, Lopes said thatshe has never had cos-metic surgery of anykind and that her threetips for beauty were toget a lot of sleep, usesunblock even when it’snot sunny and to drinklots of water. She saidher smile was her bestweapon in the competi-tion.

Asked about racismin light of the fact thatshe’s one of the fewblacks ever crownedMiss Universe, Lopessaid that “any racistneeds to seek help.”

“It’s not normal in the21st century to think inthat way.”

Miss Angola Leila Lopes reacts after being named Miss Universe 2011, before being crowned atthe Miss Universe pageant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday Sept. 12, 2011.

Photo/Andre Penner

Leila Lopes of Angola iscrowned Miss Universe

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The-Dream willmake his dedicatedfans very happy thismonth. The producer-singer-songwriter willrelease a free 10-trackLP, entitled ‘TeriusNash Est. 1977,’ priorto dropping his fourthstudio album ‘The Love,IV: Diary of a Madman’later this year. Accord-ing to The-Dream,‘Terius Nash Est. 1977’

will be released to thepublic free on August31. “LP4 is Underway ITHE-DREAM havedecided to go forwardwith Diary Of A Mad-man LP it almost didn’thappen. So ill be in myDef Jam uniform for atleast one More Season!”he tweeted. “Also a free10 song Internet albumwill be released by Aug31st. LP 4 because ofthe Contract negotia-tions does not have adate but it will bereleased 4th quarterbut I will give a 10song Internet LP whileyou guys wait!!!! LOVEYOU.”

Chante Moore madean announcement thatshe and her hubby ofnine years Kenny Latti-more are officially awrap. The singer post-ed the following “pri-vate announcement” onher Facebook page. Inthe meantime Chante’has her hands full asthe host of an upcom-ing Sporty Girl Fitness90 Day Transformationreality show. MichaelJai White, Vivica Foxand Tamyra Gray arealso involved with theproject.

“Can’t Be Friends”producer MarioWinans is finalizinghis new album withplans to release theproject by the end ofthe year. Winans’ thirdalbum, entitled ‘MyPurpose,’ is a follow-upto his 2004 platinumeffort ‘Hurt No More.’During his hiatus fromreleasing solo material,Winans told YKIGS “Iproduced some stufffor the Diddy and DirtyMoney [album] andwith different artistslike Rick Ross and allthe Bad Boy artists.”With urge to continuehis solo career, he wasinspired to record newmaterial: “I had beenliving a little different-ly than what my pur-pose is, and that is real-ly just to humbly serveothers to pray for oth-ers and to really be agood person and live

the way I believe. Fromthat, I was inspired totitle my album thatbecause those changeswere going on in mylife while I was work-ing on the album.” Inaddition to his forth-coming album, Winansis grooming Hip Hopartist Superstar Piper,who is credited for pro-ducing Carl Thomas’new single “It Ain’tFair.”

Beyonce’s publicisttold Today.com thatBeyonce has no plansfor a cookbook. “This isuntrue,” she said.Rumors started thatBeyonce Knowlesplanned to publish asoul food cookbook, a“source” told the DailyMirror. The singer wasallegedly inspired byher mother, who pre-pares a spread of col-lard greens, cornbread,macaroni and cheeseand fried chicken nomatter where in theworld they were. Theonly problem is thatBeyonce has previouslyadmitted that she isn’tsuch a great cook, andthat she doesn’t reallyenjoy it. In fact, Bey-once says she’s a disas-ter in the kitchen.

Will.i.am has signedup to perform a specialconcert in China toencourage Americanstudents to studyabroad and expandtheir cultural bound-aries. The Black EyedPeas star met with offi-cials at the U.S. StateDepartment in Wash-ington, D.C. andagreed to headline agig for the 100,000Strong Initiative, amotion made by Presi-dent Barack Obama tomatch the rising num-ber of Chinese studentswho travel to Americato learn. The singer’sshow will benefit Amer-icans Promoting StudyAbroad, a non-profitorganization whichprovides financial sup-port to low-income stu-dents partaking inexchange programs inthe Asian country.

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By CHRIS WITHERSPOON

The twin sisters best known fortheir hit ‘90s sitcom Sister, Sisterare back again. Tia Mowry Hardrictand Tamera Mowry-Housley haveteamed up with the Style Networkfor a behind the scenes look intotheir major life transformations.Their new docu-series Tia & Tamera,premieres Monday, August 8 at9:00pm ET/PT.

Last summer Tia and Tameraaired a successful preview to theirseries on The Style Network, andthis summer they are giving a morein-depth look into their lives as sis-ters and friends. Throughout theseries they learn how to balancetheir successful acting careers along

with the pressures of their personalrelationships and responsibilities.During the series, viewers get to seeTia preparing for the birth of herfirst child and Tamera planning thewedding of her dreams.

In an interview, Tia and Tameraopened up about their new show,obstacles of parenting, balancingtheir relationships and careers, andhow they were able to break the teenstar curse.

What made you want to do thisshow?

Tia: This is the time... the timingis right. Tamera and I have suchloyal fans that have stuck with usthroughout the years and wethought it would be nice to openthem to our world and let themknow who we really are.

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Tia and Tamera get realwith new TV series

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By JOSHUA L.WEINSTEIN

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Hous-ton is negotiating to return to the bigscreen in Sony’s remake of the 1976film “Sparkle,” TheWrap has con-firmed.

Jordin Sparks will make her fea-ture film debut in the movie. MikeEpps also stars.

Houston hasn’t been in a moviesince she traveled to Portland, Maineto make Penny Marshall’s 1996 “ThePreacher’s Wife.” She starred oppo-site Denzel Washington in that film.

“Sparkle” focuses on three sisterswho form a musical group and thenhave to contend with the ups anddowns of stardom. Think theSupremes.

Mara Brock Akil wrote the scriptand her husband, Salim Akil isdirecting. The latter worked withEpps on Sony’s “Jumping theBroom.”

Debra Martin Chase is producingthe Sony project. Production isscheduled to begin next month.

Tri-Star Pictures is distributing inassociation with Stage 6 Films.

Rihanna is reportedly set toserve as a guest judge on “The XFactor” sometime this season.

According to TMZ, the singerenjoyed her U.K. “X Factor” finaleperformance so much, that she —and series creator/star Simon Cow-ell — wants to hook up a secondtime. It helps that Rihanna is alsosigned to Island Def Jam, the Uni-versal Music Group label that “XFactor” judge L.A. Reid ran from2004 until March of this year.

Rihanna’s reps won’t confirm abooking, but in speaking with TheHollywood Reporter for an Augustcover story, Cowell emphasizedthat Reid is “expected to bring instars.”

Reid is currently chairman andCEO of Sony-owned Epic LabelGroup, which counts Shakira andSara Bareilles among its artists.Says Cowell: “L.A. is the most pow-erful music executive in the worldright now. He brings star powerwith him.”

It was reported last month thatCarey was scheduled to shoot herguest segments but was groundedin New York due to HurricaneIrene. Says an “X Factor” source,“It was disappointing, but they’llwork something out.”

Fox has not commented on anyguest judge rumors insisting thatviewers will find out soon enough.The show premieres on Sept. 21.

Report:Rihanna toguest judgeon ‘X Factor’

Whitney Houston, Jordin Sparks in ‘Sparkle’ remake

By ALICIA QUARLES

Naomi Campbell has made plentyof headlines for her bad behavior,but next month, the spotlight is setto shine on the model for somethingpositive — her charitable work.

Campbell and her boyfriend,Russian billionaire VladislavDoronin, are going to be honored atthe annual Angel Ball, which sup-ports cancer research.

“She really is amazing womanand she does a lot for charity. Shehas her own charity. She raised a lotof money this summer for Haiti andfor AIDS relief,” said Denise Rich,the songwriter who started theAngel Foundation after her daugh-

ter, Gabrielle, died of leukemia.Rich spoke about Campbell dur-

ing a party hosted at her home Sat-urday night. It was co-hosted byJade Jagger. Tina and SolangeKnowles were also in attendance, aswas Rich’s best friend, singer Natal-ie Cole.

Cole said people should not beshocked that Campbell, who haspleaded guilty several times toassault, is being honored, and thatthe model is misunderstood: “Shehas been behaving herself. She is agood girl. I think there are just cer-tain people who get on her nervesand I understand that.”

The Angel Ball will be held onOctober 17 and will feature perfor-mances by Patti LaBelle and Eve.

Naomi Campbell to be honored for charity work

LOS ANGELES — In case “Men inBlack 3” wasn’t big enough, Sony’smaking it even bigger: The studio willrelease its big-budget 3D feature inIMAX, it announced Monday.

In a written statement, Sony Pic-tures president of worldwide distribu-tion Rory Bruer said that releasingthe movie in IMAX 3D “signals anevent release.”

It’s the first “Men in Black” film tobe released on IMAX. “Men in Black3,” starring Will Smith and TommyLee Jones will be released May 25,2012.

Barry Sonnenfeld is directing themovie, which Etan Cohen wrote. “Menin Black 3” also stars Josh Brolin, Jer-

maine Clement and Emma Thompson.Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDon-ald are producing.

The movie has a budget estimatedat more than $200 million and hasbeen beset by delays and other issues.

The film was supposed to beginshooting last October, but that datewas postponed by about a month. Soonafter, producers announced theywould film the movie in two segments— the first would begin in Novemberand be finished before Christmas andthe second would begin in mid-Febru-ary. Instead, shooting began again onMarch 28.

— Joshua L. Weinstein

‘Men in Black 3’ to be released in IMAX 3D


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By JOSHUAROSENAU

TRENTON - The presidentof the city Board ofEducation apologized lastnight for the district’s failureto properly prepare JeffersonSchool for the arrival of near-ly 450 students of TrentonCommunity Charter School,which closed last month.

“If I had shown up to aschool that was in the condi-tion that Jefferson was in onThursday with my son, whohas allergies ... I would havebeen very upset,” TobySanders said. “And I amgoing to say as board presi-dent that I apologize.”

Sanders said the districtwas at fault for the lax secu-rity and poor levels of staffand supervision at the schoolon Thursday and Friday, andhe thanked parents for hold-ing the board’s feet to thefire.

But he urged parents toallow their children toremain at Jefferson.

“Give us 30 days. Trust usfor 30 days,” he said. “Wewill do better for your chil-dren than anywhere you cantake them, because we havethe people, the teachers whocare.”

Sanders’ apology cameafter a barrage of questionsand comments from irateparents deploring the state ofthe newly reopened JeffersonSchool on StuyvesantAvenue, which they said wasbroken, dirty and moldy.

Quianna Jennings-Meanssaid her first-grade daugh-ter, who was rushed toRobert Wood JohnsonUniversity HospitalHamilton on her first day ofclass, was sickened by theschool.

“The building looked likeit needed to be condemned,”said April Ross who has two

children attending theschool. “I saw a lot of dust, alot of mold, faucets not work-ing, water fountains notworking. I just want to knowwhy they can’t just put ourchildren in a different build-ing?”

Explaining the district’sprocess in opening the shut-tered Jefferson School,Superintendent RaymondBroach said he and the dis-trict did the best they couldover a two-week period tocomply with their responsi-bilities to the additional stu-dents and to the law.

Communications betweenthe two schools concerningthe possible closure of theTrenton Community CharterSchool began Aug. 1, but theTrenton board did not receiveword of the charter school’sofficial closing until the Aug.19, Sanders said.

“Is it ideal? No. But I thinkit’s important to realize that

we have a facilities problemacross this district,” boardmember Missy Balmer said,noting the state of disrepairat Mott School and TrentonCentral High.

Sanders explained that theair quality at Jefferson actu-ally counted in the school’sfavor because an environ-mental study concluded thatspore counts in the facilitywere relatively low comparedwith other schools in the dis-trict.

“That report comes backcleaner than it does at thehigh school, than at Mott,than at many of our facili-ties,” he said.

Skeptical of the short timeperiod with which the dis-trict was expected to absorbthe influx of students afterthe closure, former schoolboard member Joyce Kerseywondered what optionsTrenton had in making roomfor so many new students.

State of school spurs apologyfrom Trenton board chief

By ALEX ZDAN

TRENTON - Five daysbefore layoffs are slated totake away one-third ofTrenton’s police force, MayorTony Mack unveiled a por-trait wall featuring picturesof himself and his predeces-sors in City Hall yesterdayafternoon.

The 46 mayors and onechief burgess who haveserved Trenton throughoutthe past 250 years are nowimmortalized in the City Hallatrium at a cost to taxpayersof $4,000, Mack said.

The president of the PoliceBenevolent Associationunion local objected to theexpenditure, but Mackargued that the woodplaques and brass titles, dis-played prominently on thebuilding’s first floor, had notimpacted this year’s budget.

“The cost for this displaywas allocated in last year’sappropriations,” Mack said,adding that allowancesshould be made for preserv-ing history.

Mack’s office said hewould “create history” byunveiling what they calledthe Mayors’ Wall, but PBAPresident George Dzurkocargued the mayor is creatingonly more wasteful spend-ing.

Dzurkoc said the wallreminds him of the 11“Welcome to Trenton” signsMack began unveiling inJune, about a month after heannounced plans for morethan 100 police officer lay-offs.

“For that part of it I don’tthink money has to be spenton signs,” Dzurkoc said. “Ijust wonder how much hasbeen spent on signs at thispoint.”

Councilwoman MargeCaldwell-Wilson, who attend-ed the unveiling yesterday,said she first learned aboutthe Mayors’ Wall when shesaw maintenance employeesfastening the plaques lastweek. She said she feltuneasy about the display.

“I have mixed emotionsabout the timing of it all,”she said.

Caldwell-Wilson said citycouncil was never consultedabout the expenditure, butnoted the cost fell under the$17,500 threshold thatrequires public bidding.

“I haven’t even processedit yet,” she said. “I mean, Ithink under normal circum-stances, that’s nice. But itjust kind of took me by sur-prise, so that’s why I wentover there to check this out.”

Though Mack said themoney for the project wasallocated last year, the com-pany that made the plaques,Creative Arts Trophies inTrenton, did not come onboard until this past July,owner Jim Gennello said.Mayoral aide Paul Harriscontacted him and “theykind of gave us the idea,”Gennello said yesterday.

Mack argued that more“professionally” doneplaques could have cost$20,000, meaning the $4,000he spent represents a$16,000 savings for the city.

Gennello’s company wasgiven a disk containing pic-tures of the 42 leaders whoseimages were available, culledfrom the Trentoniana collec-tion at the public library.Creative Arts then made thecity emblem that dominatesthe interior of the exhibits,mounted the images on theplaques and engraved thetitles, Gennello said.

While the pictures of exec-utives from 18th-centuryChief Burgess ThomasCadwalader to Mack prede-cessor Douglas H. Palmer arein black and white and sur-rounded by a large whiteoval, Mack’s photo is in fullcolor and fills the squareframe. His spokespersonsays it is displayed that waybecause Mack is the currentmayor.

Gennello said his companyusually makes awards andtrophies for city LittleLeagues or other kids’sports.

“Most of our things, Iguess, are for the youth - tro-phies, awards - but nothingas big as this, I guess,” hesaid.

The company has alreadyreceived a couple calls frompeople who attended the cer-emony asking about thework they do, Gennello said.

Mack’s office said the wallwill show residents that“Trenton has had a long lineof accomplished chief execu-tives, before and after theyentered office,” including aU.S. senator, freeholders,lawyers, physicians, and twostate Supreme Court justices.

Rev. Toby Sanders, president of the Trenton Board ofEducation

ByMICHAELANGELO

CONTE

A Jersey City Heights manwas stabbed early Fridaymorning after he was accost-ed for a cigarette, reports

said.Officers at Christ Hospital

spoke to the victim, who saidhe left a bar at WebsterAvenue and Congress Streetabout 3 a.m. and was walkinghome when two men askedhim for a cigarette at BowersStreet and Webster Avenue,

reports said.He said he was getting a

cigarette out when one of themen punched him in the face,reports said, adding that ashe struggled with that man,the second man stabbed himin the stomach with whatlooked like a kitchen knife.

Some say Mack’s unveilingMayors’ Wall in Trenton

comes at a bad time

Jersey City Heights man tells police 2 men stabbedhim on street as he walked home from bar

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By DEBRA SHERMAN

CHICAGO — Hospital employeesspend 10 percent more on healthcare,consume more medical services, andare generally sicker than the rest ofthe U.S. workforce, according to astudy released on Monday.

The cost difference was evengreater when dependents were takeninto account, with healthcare costs13 percent higher, including medicalcare and prescription drugs.

The study, conducted by ThomsonReuters Healthcare, analyzed thehealth risk and utilization of 1.1 mil-lion hospital workers and comparedthem with 17.8 million health planmembers across all industries aroundthe country.

Researchers did not look at thecauses for the disparity.

Healthcare workers and theirdependents were more likely to bediagnosed and hospitalized to treatasthma, diabetes, congestive heart

failure, HIV, hypertension and men-tal illness.

It found that the average cost ofhealthcare for hospital employeesand their dependents was $4,662 peryear — $538 higher than that of thegeneral population.

Hospital employees and theirdependents saw their doctors lessoften, but were 22 percent more like-ly to visit an emergency room andspent 18 percent more time hospital-ized, the study found.

Kreg Sherbine, co-author of thestudy, speculated that easy access toexpensive care may play a role.

“When they’re right down the hallfrom the emergency room, it mightjust be easier to go there than tomake an appointment with a physi-cian,” Sherbine said.

The stressful environment of ahospital and the irregular hours thatmany hospital employees work,which together make it difficult tomaintain a healthy lifestyle, may beanother contributing factor, he said.

Sherbine said he doubted the rea-son was more exposure to disease inthe workplace since there was dispar-ity in numerous noncommunicablediseases, such as diabetes and obesi-ty.

“Awareness could be a factor. Weknow that chronic conditions areoften undiagnosed. One might rea-sonably conclude that professionalsare more aware of their symptomsand consequently more likely to seektreatment. However, that doesn’texplain the inordinate difference inutilization,” he said.

Researchers concluded that a hos-pital or health system with 16,000

employees would save an estimated$1.5 million annually in medical andpharmacy costs for each 1 percentreduction in health risk.

“There are industries with higherrisks. The manufacturing sector, forexample, is typically older and has aneven less healthy population,” Sher-bine noted.

But with increasing financial pres-sure on hospitals, hospital adminis-trators need to pay attention to theirbottom lines, he said.

“Salaries and benefits are theirbiggest costs. We think it’s reallyimportant for hospitals to addressthis,” he said.

Hospital workers outspend others on medical care

Narcissists’ too-high opinion ofthemselves means they don’t makegood business or political leaders,according to a new study.

Traits such as high self-esteem,confidence and dominance oftenhelp narcissists rise to the top, butonce they take over, their self-involvement and authoritarianismget in the way, the researchersexplained.

The researchers’ study of 150 peo-ple who were asked to make deci-sions in groups of three showed thatnarcissists’ self-centeredness imped-ed the free and creative exchange ofideas, which is a crucial part of effec-tive group decision-making and per-formance.

In the study, each group wasasked to choose a job candidate.Some information about the candi-dates was available to all three mem-bers of the group, while certain keypieces of information were onlyavailable to one of the participants.Afterwards, group members wereasked to check off all the pieces ofinformation available to them aboutthe candidates and rate the qualityof the exchange and the groupleader.

Although the groups led by themost narcissistic individuals ratedtheir leaders as the most effective,they were incorrect. The groupswith the most narcissistic “bosses”invariably chose the worst candi-date.

“The narcissistic leaders had avery negative effect on their perfor-mance. They inhibited the communi-cation because of self-centerednessand authoritarianism,” study authorBarbora Nevicka, a Ph.D. candidatein organizational psychology, saidin a journal news release.

The study appears in an upcom-ing issue of the journal Psychologi-

cal Science.In the workplace, “communica-

tion — sharing of information, per-spectives, and knowledge — is essen-tial to making good decisions,” saidNevicka. “In brainstorming groups,project teams, government commit-tees, each person brings somethingnew. That’s the benefit of teams.That’s what creates a good outcome.”

The findings also apply to politics,she added.

“Narcissists are very convincing,”she said. “They do tend to be pickedas leaders. There’s the danger: thatpeople can be so wrong based on howothers project themselves. You haveto ask: Are the competencies theyproject valid, or are they merely inthe eyes of the beholder?”

Narcissists make horrible bossesBy GENEVRA PITTMAN

Many people believe that drugsgiven the okay by the Food and DrugAdministration are safer and moreeffective than they have to be to winapproval, according to a new study.

Especially in the first few yearsafter a drug becomes available,researchers note, there are still ques-tions about how well it will work andwhether it will have any serious sideeffects.

In one well-known example, theFDA-approved painkiller Vioxx waspulled off the market in 2004 afterlonger-term evidence showed that itmay increase the risk of heart attackand stroke.

In the new web-based survey ofclose to 3,000 people across the U.S.,one quarter said they believed theFDA only approves drugs withoutserious side effects, and another 39percent believed that only “extremelyeffective” drugs get approval.

In reality, approval “just meansthat the benefits are judged to begreater than the harms. It doesn’tmean that they’re big and important,”said Dr. Steven Woloshin, one of thestudy’s authors from White RiverJunction VA Medical Center in Ver-mont.

After that, it’s up to doctors — andpatients — to make drug decisions forspecific cases.

The researchers also questionedsurvey participants on two specificscenarios to see if educating patientsabout drug options could changetheir views on which drugs are safestand most effective.

In one scenario, patients had tochoose between a hypothetical choles-terol drug that had been shown tolower cholesterol and another thatdecreased the risk of a heart attack.All other things being equal, pickingthe drug with a clear effect on a “badoutcome” — heart attacks — is theway to go, the authors said. However,only 59 percent of people made thatchoice.

In the other case, participants

could choose between a newer or olderheartburn drug that worked equallywell and had the same side effects.Just 34 percent picked the olderheartburn drug.

The authors then gave participantsa short statement including the ideathat newer isn’t always better,because researchers may not havehad enough time to investigate safetyissues.

“New often just means we knowless about it... because it takes timefor a drug to establish its trackrecord,” Woloshin said.

After hearing that, the participantsdid better. Seventy-one percent tookthe cholesterol drug with clear clini-cal benefit, and 53 percent picked theolder, thoroughly vetted heartburndrug, the researchers report inArchives of Internal Medicine.

“We were happy that these verysimple statements had an effect,”Woloshin said.

But while that’s an improvement,the researchers say, a simple expla-nation may still not be enough formany patients to make informedchoices.

Woloshin suggested a few thingsthat could help educate patients.First, he said that the FDA could cre-ate a one-page fact sheet clearly stat-ing the harms and benefits of eachdrug, including the reminder that“new is not necessarily better.” Thosereminders, in abbreviated form, couldalso go on all drug advertisements forthe public and on drug labels, headded.

An FDA spokesperson said in anemail that the organization had notreviewed the study and so could notcomment on it, but added that theFDA has publicly available informa-tion on “new and emerging drug safe-ty issues.”

Dr. Michael Steinman from the SanFrancisco VA Medical Center, whowrote a commentary accompanyingthe study, said that patients should beencouraged to talk with their doctorsabout treatment options, and to not beintimidated about bringing up theirconcerns.

Study: Misunderstandingof drug approval common

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By JULIESTEENHUYSEN

CHICAGO — About 28 million ofthe nearly 36 million people livingwith Alzheimer’s and other demen-tias have not been diagnosed, rob-bing them from the benefit of treat-ments and the chance to have a sayin their future care, according to areport released Tuesday.

It found that many people are notdiagnosed with dementia until thedisease is well advanced.

“Failure to diagnose Alzheimer’sin a timely manner represents atragic missed opportunity toimprove the quality of life for mil-lions of people,” said Dr. DaisyAcosta, chairman of Alzheimer’sDisease International, a patientadvocacy group that sponsored thestudy.

The group last year estimatedthat Alzheimer’s and other demen-tias cost $604 billion globally totreat, a figure that will soar as thenumber of sufferers triples by2050.

Its latest report, which makes thecase for early diagnosis ofAlzheimer’s, comes just days beforea United Nations meeting onAlzheimer’s and is aimed at getting

the disease on the agenda of worldleaders.

The group is pushing for allcountries to develop a nationaldementia strategy that promotesearly diagnosis and offers a rangeof care from primary care doctors,specialists, and community-basedtreatment centers.

Recent studies suggest the dis-ease starts developing at least adecade before symptoms appear.

Many scientists and patient advo-cates believe earlier testing willplay an important role in getting

people treated and in preparingfamilies for the burden ahead.

“The report is really mainlyabout the estimated 28 million outof 36 million people worldwide withdementia who don’t have a diagno-sis,” said Professor Martin Princeof King’s College London Instituteof Psychiatry, who led the study.

Among the study’s main find-ings, he said it shows that whilecurrent Alzheimer’s treatments —Aricept from Eisai Co and PfizerInc, Reminyl from Shire, andExelon from Novartis Exelon — areno cure for the disease, they canimprove symptoms in somepatients. That could allow some todelay a nursing home stay, forexample.

Prince said early diagnosis couldsave high-income countries asmuch as $10,000 per patient. While

that might not mean much to indi-vidual families taking care of aloved one with a disease that canspan several years, those savingscould make a significant differenceon a global scale.

And there are other reasons todiagnose patients.

“Earlier diagnosis can also trans-form the design and execution ofclinical trials to test new treat-ments,” Marc Wortmann, executivedirector of ADI, said in a statement.

Researchers increasingly believethat many drugs being tested forAlzheimer’s have been tried on peo-ple who are already too far gone.Earlier diagnosis will help coun-tries develop infrastructure fortreating people in the earlieststages of the disease, when drugshave the most chance of doing somegood.

Dr. Sam Gandy of the MountSinai Alzheimer’s Disease ResearchCenter in New York said existingdrugs are only modestly effective,and they always wear off.

“Eighteen months after you starta drug, they are in the same place,”he said in a telephone interview.

But Robert Egge, vice presidentof public policy at the U.S.-basedAlzheimer’s Association, said theburden of Alzheimer’s is so greatthat even modest benefits are worthpursuing.

“We certainly need to push formore effective disease-modifyingtreatments that can slow or stop thedisease, and at the same time we seethe treatment value that can followfrom early diagnosis,” he said.

Report: Most cases of dementia are not diagnosed

A split-view image showing PET scans of a normal brain (L) and abrain with Alzheimer’s disease.

A treatment currently being stud-ied may prevent progression of ath-erosclerosis, a condition caused bythe build-up of plaque in artery wallsthat can lead to heart attack, accord-ing to new research.

In conducting the study, pub-lished in the Sept. 12 issue of TheLancet, researchers followed 130patients with atherosclerosis whowere randomly assigned to be treat-ed with either the experimentalheart drug dalcetrapib, or an inac-tive placebo over the course of twoyears. In the double-blind study, nei-ther the researchers nor the patientsknew who was taking the heart drugand who was taking the placebo.

While statin drugs are commonlyused to lower LDL or “bad” choles-terol to reduce the risk of coronaryartery disease, dalcetrapib raisesHDL or “good” cholesterol in order toreduce the risk, the researchersexplained.

To determine the efficacy of dal-cetrapib, the researchers used non-invasive imaging technology.Through MRI, the researchers foundthe patients on dalcetrapib had a 31percent increase in “good” HDL cho-lesterol levels. Additional PET/CTscans showed that inflammation lev-els in the carotid artery of patientswere significantly reduced onlyamong those taking dalcetrapib. The

carotid arteries are responsible forsupplying oxygenated blood to thehead and neck.

In a different study, a drug in thesame class designed to raise HDLlevels was tied to an increase indeath linked to vascular inflamma-tion, but the researchers did not findan increase in such inflammationwith dalcetrapib.

“This milestone study shows thatMRI and PET/CT are highly useful inassessing the safety and efficacy ofdalcetrapib, and that this novel ther-apy may address a significantlyunmet need in cardiovascular dis-ease,” said lead study author Zahi A.Fayad, a professor of radiology andmedicine in the cardiology divisionat Mount Sinai School of Medicineand the director of its Translationaland Molecular Imaging Institute, ina Mt. Sinai news release.

“We are excited about the resultsobtained in this trial, which couldhave a great impact on the treatmentof patients with cardiovascular dis-ease,” said Fayad, who disclosedreceiving financial compensation asa scientific advisory board memberfrom the study’s sponsor, Hoffmann-La Roche, whose holding companymakes dalcetrapib.

Fayad noted imaging technologycould be a vital tool for evaluatingother treatments for heart disease.

By CHARLES ABBOTT

WASHINGTON — The U.S. gov-ernment will ban the sale of groundbeef contaminated with six types ofthe E coli bacteria that can cause seri-ous cases of food-borne illness, afood-safety watchdog group and aU.S. meat industry group said onMonday.

The Center for Foodborne IllnessResearch and Prevention (CFI) hadcampaigned for the ban and said itwould be “a huge preventative step”to keep pathogens out of the foodsupply.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vil-sack was expected to announce thestep on Tuesday. So far, one type ofE. coli, 0157:H7, is banned as anadulterant, the result of an outbreakof illness in 1944 from undercookedhamburgers.

The other types of E. coli, 026, 011,045, 0121, 0103 and 0145, known asthe “big six” for their role in causingillness, would also be banned fromground beef under USDA’s plan.

The American Meat Institute,which represents beef packers, alsosaid USDA would announce themove. It opposed the action and saidfew U.S. illnesses are attributed to thesix bacteria.

USDA would be wiser to focus ontechnology to reduce occurrence ofthe bacteria, an effective tacticagainst 0157:H7, rather than tospend millions of dollars to test for it,AMI said in a statement.

“Imposing this new regulatoryprogram on ground beef will costtens of millions of federal and indus-try dollars — cost that will likely beborne by taxpayers and consumers,”AMI said.

The six bacteria have been cited inoutbreaks of illness linked to pro-duce. USDA has weighed an expan-sion of the banned bacteria since2007.

“The impact this decision will haveon public health is enormous andshould result in fewer recalls, fewerillnesses and fewer deaths from food-borne illness,” said Barbara Kowal-cyk of CFI.

Groups: Government to ban sixtypes of E coli from ground beef

New drug boosts ‘good’ cholesterol in study patients


By LINDASTERN

WASHINGTON —U.S. retirement pro-grams could look differ-ent if a grand deficit-cut-ting bargain is struck inupcoming negotiations.

Last Thursday, thepowerful Senate FinanceCommittee will explore“Tax Reform Options:Promoting RetirementSecurity.” Despite thesleepy title, the hearingwill be one of the firstoutward signs of some-thing that’s been activelydiscussed privately allover this city in recentweeks and months: Howto tweak retirement tomake 401(k) plans moreefficient, keep SocialSecurity afloat and savesome money for the fed-eral Treasury.

Among the ideasbeing floated are areplacement of the401(k) deduction with atax credit that wouldoffer bigger benefits tolower earners, changesin the withdrawal choic-es that workers facewhen they retire and ashift in the way SocialSecurity benefits are cal-culated. That is on top ofthe increase in the retire-ment age that has beenmentioned several timesin recent months.

A variety of economicpressures and demo-graphic trends have

come together to putthese new ideas on thetable. There’s also somedisillusionment withinthe Obama Administra-tion and among peoplewith close ties to theadministration with theway the 401(k) system isoperating. The SocialSecurity program is pro-jected by its own trusteesto exhaust its trust fundin 2036. The so-called“retirement deficit” - thedifference between whatAmericans have savedfor retirement and whatthey should have saved -has been put at $6.6 tril-lion by Boston College’sCenter for RetirementResearch.

At the same time, Con-gress and the WhiteHouse are under pres-sure to cut federaldeficits. And prominentmembers of both politicalparties have talked upthe idea of loophole-clos-ing, rate-lowering taxreform.

Put all of that togeth-er, and it points tochanges in the sprawl-ing retirement system.“The kinds of points atwhich you can get fun-damental changes adopt-ed is in the midst of a bigdeal,” says Dallas Salis-bury, who has beenwatching retirement pol-icy closely as head of theEmployee BenefitResearch Institute. “AndPresident Obama wantsa grand bargain.”

Of course, it may bethat no big deal getsstruck and retirementplans remain unchangedbetween now and the2012 election. In thatcase, expect some ofthese themes to continue

surfacing after theheavy campaigning isdone.

“Any time they arelooking at spending andrevenue over the next 40or 50 year, these issueswill be on the table,” Sal-isbury predicts.

The tax break fordefined contributionretirement plans willcost the Treasury $212.2billion between 2010 and2014, according to theJoint Tax Committee.But the vast amount ofthat benefit - as much as80 percent - goes to thetop 20 percent of earn-ers, according to esti-mates from the Tax Poli-cy Center, a nonpartisan,but liberal-leaning, thinktank.

For example, a personin the 35 percent taxbracket saves $35 intaxes every time he puts$100 in his 401(k), for anet cost of $65. Someonein the 15 percent bracketpays $85, after tax, forthe same $100 contribu-tion. The Pension RightsCenter, which hasfavored traditionaldefined benefit pensionsand other programsaimed at lower-incomeretirees, advocatesrolling back the current$16,500 annual 401(k)tax-deferred contribu-tion limit to the $10,500level it was at before theBush tax cuts, its direc-tor, Karen Ferguson,has said.

One way to addressboth the cost and the dis-parity is to change thededuction into a credit.William Gale, of theBrookings Institution,will present a plan likethat to the Senate com-

mittee on Thursday. Hisplan would eliminate thededuction entirely andreplace it with a federalmatch that would bedeposited directly intoworkers retirementaccounts. A match of 30percent would be rev-enue neutral, he says.

If lawmakers insteadopted to approve an 18percent match, it wouldleave low-bracket work-ers unharmed, butwould raise $450 billionin tax revenues over 10years.

Gale’s proposal is sig-nificant because he hasclose ties to current andformer Obama Adminis-tration officials. An earli-er version of the Galeplan was coauthored byPeter Orzsag, who wasPresident Obama’s firstbudget director and whocontinues to editorializein favor of killing thededuction.

But those proposalswould leave higher-income workers withless incentive than theycurrently have to stashmoney into a tax-deferred retirementaccount. “Quantitativelyspeaking, these propos-als would appear toreduce prospectiveretirement well-being,”says EBRI’s Salisbury.He’s raised the idea - thathe says dates back to themid-1990’s - of puttingall tax-favored savings(for items like retirementand college) into a singleaccount that gave saversmore flexibility.

Mark Iwry, deputyassistant Treasury secre-tary for retirement andhealth policy, and anoth-er former Gale colleague,has voiced concern aboutthe fact that workersmay not be getting

enough informationabout how much lifetimeincome their 401(k)account balances cansupport. And it’s hardfor individual retirees tounderstand how muchthey can afford to pullout of their tax-deferredaccounts without run-ning short in later years.

One approach to solvethis would be a require-ment that 401(k) spon-sors put that kind ofinformation in theirstatements. A bill pro-posed by a bipartisangroup of senators led bySen. Herb Kohl, chair-man of the Senate Spe-cial Committee onAging, would requirethat 401(k) statementsshow how much of anannuity the currentaccount balance wouldprovide.

A step beyond thatwould be the offering ofmore annuity and auto-mated-withdrawal plansas alternatives to retir-ing workers who maybelieve their only optionis to take the lump sum.That’s an approach that,unsurprisingly, isfavored by the insuranceindustry. But it also hasfans in the Labor Depart-ment, which is currentlyworking on some sort ofpolicy encouragementfor employers who givetheir workers flexibleretirement income choic-es.

Though most officialsrepeatedly say they don’tintend to “fix” SocialSecurity by penalizingcurrent retirees, severalof the bipartisan, deficit-cutting proposals raisedover the last two yearshave included a swipe atthe cost-of-living adjust-ment that currently pegsbenefits to the Consumer

Price Index.This “is one of the few

ways to have currentretirees contribute torestoring balance in theprogram,” writes AliciaMunnell and WilliamHisey of the Center forRetirement Research ina new study.

But the most commonproposal, which wouldswitch the COLA fromthe CPI to a different(and slower-growing)measure called the“chained CPI” would setback retirees trying tokeep up with the cost ofelderly living by asmuch as 0.57 percent ayear, the coauthors esti-mated. That’s becausethe current CPI alreadyunderstates the inflationrate that is actually expe-rienced by retirees, andbecause the chained CPIwould further under-state that.

“Low-income elderlyare not deciding whetherto buy a watch or abracelet,” the two said.“They spend most oftheir income on essentialamounts of necessities,like housing, food,health care and trans-portation.”

Munnell and Hiseyproposed a one-timedelay in the inflationadjustment. That couldhelp save the programmoney but also set allcurrent beneficiariesback, but not to the sameextent as an annualadjustment that under-states inflation everyyear

Like all of the otherretirement proposalsfloating around now, theCOLA solution is a mov-ing target. Workers andretirees should continueto watch that space.

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TORONTO — DolbyLaboratories said ithas withdrawn itspatent infringementlawsuit againstResearch In Motionafter the BlackBerrymaker inked a licens-ing deal to use of someof Dolby’s technolo-gies.

In June, Dolby suedRIM for using itsaudio compressiontechnologies in itssmartphones andPlayBook tablets with-

out proper licenses.The lawsuits, filed inthe United States andGermany, soughtfinancial damages forpast use and injunc-tions to halt sales ofBlackBerry phonesand PlayBook tablets.

San Francisco-basedDolby said both law-suits have now beendismissed followingthe agreement withRIM. The terms of theagreement were notdisclosed.

NTT DoCoMo Inc andother Japanese firmswill partner SouthKorea’s Samsung Elec-tronics Co to developkey chips for next-gen-eration smartphones toreduce the reliance onQualcomm Inc, theNikkei business dailyreported.

The companies —including Fujitsu Ltd,NEC Corp and Panason-

ic Corp unit PanasonicMobile CommunicationsCo — are in talks toform a joint venturenext year to developchips that control wire-less communicationsand signals, the papersaid.

Qualcomm has about80 percent of the mar-ket for such semicon-ductors, known as base-band chips, the Nikkei

said.DoCoMo is to take a

majority stake in thejoint venture, to be capi-talized at about 30 bil-lion yen ($389.6 mil-lion) and headquarteredin Japan, said the paper.

The venture expectsto use the chips in thepartners’ own smart-phones and to sell toother handset manufac-turers, Nikkei said.

DoCoMo, others to make smartphone chips with Samsung

RIM, Dolby set licensingdeal; lawsuits dropped


By ISABELREYNOLDS

TOKYO — Ninten-do’s attempt to rescueits failed 3DS handheldgames gadget failed todispel market gloom,triggering a 5 percentshare slide and stokingdeep worries for aniconic brand desperateto win back users.On Tuesday, Presi-

dent Satoru Iwataintroduced what hesaid was an unprece-dented range of games,aimed at attractingeveryone from hard-core gamers to fashion-conscious girls andfans of the long-run-ning Mario series.The Japanese compa-

ny also announced onits website a new 1,500yen ($19) slidepadaccessory needed forcertain games.But analysts and

investors dismissed theline-up as lacklusterand largely irrelevantin the face of cheap or

free games played onthe likes of Apple’siPhone and iPad andG o o g l e - p o w e r e dAndroid devices.Nintendo has been

criticized for stickingrigidly to its own hard-ware, meaning it hasno access to the newgeneration of mobiledevices.“I don’t think the

new games will makeany difference,” saidMitsushige Akino,chief fund manager atIchiyoshi Investment.“Nintendo succeeded

by pulling in peoplewho weren’t gamersand their needs now areno longer being filledby Nintendo, they arehappy playing gameson their mobilephones,” he said.Nintendo’s shares

ended 5 percent lowerin a strong market. TheKyoto-based company’sshares have plungednearly 50 percent so farthis year, hit by the3DS flop and doubtsthat it can replicate the

success of its Wii homeconsole with the nextgeneration WiiU,announced at the E3games show in June.Nintendo, which

means “Leave luck toheaven,” was forced toannounce price cuts ofup to 40 percent in Julyto try to boost slumpingdemand for the glasses-free 3D version of theDS, but this only tem-porarily spurred sales.In July, Nintendo

slashed its outlook forthe business year toend-March to its lowestin 27 years as it bracedfor losses from the 3Dgadget and a strongeryen.In a subdued Tokyo

conference hall onTuesday, an appear-ance by the company’sstar game designer,Shigeru Miyamoto,wielding a toy swordand shield raised alaugh, but a series of3DS game imagesdepicting Miyamotoand Iwata as a pair ofyoung lovers was met

with silence.“From the end of this

year to the beginning ofnext, we are planningthe kind of extensiveline-up that has proba-bly never been seenbefore in the history ofvideo games,” Iwatatold reporters andguests.“We will make an all-

out effort to see that the3DS sells enough tobecome the successor tothe DS,” Iwata said.That will be no easy

task, given that earliermodels of the DS hadsold a cumulative totalof about 148 millionunits by the end of Junethis year. The gadget,along with the motion-controlled Wii homeconsole, enabled Nin-tendo to dominate theindustry for years.In Japan, 3DS sales

leaped to more than200,000 units in theweek of the price cut,but swiftly fell back toabout 55,000 units,according to researchfirm Enterbrain.

That leaves only thesecretive company’sfamed content, nevermade available on otherfirms’ hardware, torevive sales.“The only possible

way for Nintendo torevive would be to stopconcentrating onmobile games andswitch to Wii-typegames for the wholefamily,” said MakotoKikuchi, CEO of MyojoAsset Management.“However, at themoment, I can’t see thischange coming.”Iwata took a 50 per-

cent pay cut, and otherexecutives took 20-30percent cuts to takeresponsibility for thepoor performance.Analysts have cut

their full-year operat-ing profit forecasts forNintendo by an averageof 45 percent in the

past 30 days and thestock is now trading at45 times its estimatedforward 12-monthearnings, according toThomson Reuters data.Shares in software

provider Capcomslumped by 8.3 percentafter the company saidit would be developingthe next generation ofits hit Monster Huntergame for the 3DS.Nintendo slashed the

price of the 3DS aftersales shriveled to just710,000 units in April-June from 3.6 millionin the first month afterits launch, and a tinyfraction of the 16 mil-lion unit target for theyear.Macquarie Securities

analyst David Gibsonsaid he still expectedthe 3DS gadget to sellabout 14.5 million unitsover the year.

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LONDON — Hewlett-Packard has extendedthe deadline for its$11.2 billion takeover ofBritish software compa-ny Autonomy, with ana-lysts predicting the U.S.firm is on course to suc-ceed.HP has extended the

deadline for the offer toOctober 3 after gainingacceptances from share-holders representing

41.6 percent of shares.The company requires afurther 33.4 percentsupport from Autonomyinvestors to delist itstarget from the LondonStock Exchange.“I am very surprised

that they have needed toextend it at all,” S&Pequity research analystJames Crawshaw saidon Tuesday. “I wouldhave expected Autono-

my shareholders to beall pretty much happywith the takeout price.”Although it is rare

for takeover offers togain more than a hand-ful of acceptances at thefirst closing date, someanalysts said they hadexpected more investorsto take up the offerbecause HP is offering ahefty 79 percent premi-um.

HP offered an agreed2,550 pence per Autono-my share on August 18,which it said valued theenterprise search soft-ware company’s fullydiluted share capital at7.09 billion pounds($11.2 billion).Panmure Gordon

analyst George O’Con-nor said investors thathad not yet accepted theoffer would hang on to

the end for a competitivedeal.“You have got a very

decent bird in the hand,but there might beanother two in the bush.My own view is that thebush is empty. HP ispaying a very decentprice. I do not see a com-petitive bid approach-ing.”Analysts and bankers

are skeptical that a rivaloffer will emerge to cre-ate competitive tensionand boost the price.“I do not think any-

one else has the sameurgency to buy Autono-my as HP,” Tom Gidley-Kitchin at Charles Stan-ley said.“I guess that a lot of

professional investorsare holding onto theirshares until late on,against some minisculechance of some betteroffer.”A top 50 Autonomy

shareholder expressedsatisfaction with theoffer.“To be honest we

would be quite sur-prised if there was any-thing else out there. Iwouldn’t put us down asbeing majorly unhap-py,” the shareholdersaid.Gidley-Kitchin said

sentiment in the tech-nology sector, hardwareand even software, wasa bit negative. Autono-my investors may behanging on becausethere was nowhere bet-ter for them to put theirmoney.Autonomy shares

were steady, up 0.32percent at 2,525 penceat 0945 GMT.The offer is condition-

al on regulatory clear-ance. HP said on Tues-day that filings havebeen made in the UnitedStates, Austria, Ger-many and Ireland.

HP extends $11.2 billion Autonomy offer

By ALISTAIRBARR

SAN FRANCISCO —Google Inc.’s effort tobreak into the daily dealindustry and challengeindustry leadersGroupon and LivingSo-cial is not going well,according to datareleased on Monday.In its third month of

operation, the perfor-mance of Google Offersdeclined in its major

markets of New York,San Francisco and Port-land, Oregon, data fromindustry tracker anddeal aggregator Yipitshow.Total revenue gener-

ated by Google Offersdropped 23 percent inAugust from Julydespite a 22 percentincrease in the numberof daily deals run,according to Yipit.Revenue per deal fell

37 percent, driven by a46 percent slump in the

number of voucherssold per deal.The average price of

Google Offers vouchersincreased 18 percent,but it remains “farbelow” that of Grouponand LivingSocial, Yipitsaid.The online daily deal

industry has explodedinto a multibillion-dollarbusiness since Grouponwas launched in late2008. That growth hasattracted hundreds ofrivals, including giants

like Google, Facebookand Amazon.com Inc.Such competition has

raised questions aboutthe sustainability ofGroupon’s businessmodel ahead of aplanned initial publicoffering. Last week,Groupon put its IPO onhold for at least a fewweeks.Still, some rivals have

stepped back in recentweeks. Facebook endedits daily deals businessand Yelp chopped thenumber of offers it runs.In contrast, Groupon

gained market share inAugust. Revenue was$120.7 million in NorthAmerica, up 13 percentfrom July, Yipit said onMonday.LivingSocial revenue

in North Americaslipped 3 percent to$45.1 million inAugust, Yipit datashow.Groupon’s market

share increased to 53percent in August from51 percent in July,while LivingSocial’smarket share declinedto 20 percent from 22percent, according toYipit.Amazon Local gener-

ated more than $1 mil-lion in revenue inAugust, despite beingactive in only a handfulof markets for the fullmonth, Yipit said. Ama-zon owns part of Living-Social and sources someof its deals from the sec-ond-largest daily dealscompany.

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By JANEMCMANUS

C h a r l e m a g n eMcKelvey isn’t surehow his father gotan illegal Taser intoMetLife Stadium onthe 10th anniver-sary of 9/11 for theNew York Jets-Dallas Cowboysgame Sundaynight, but he wasalso angry at thetreatment LarryMcKelvey, 59, wasshown before hisarrest on aggravat-ed assault and twoweapons possessioncharges.

“He was attacked byfour or five Jets fans forhaving a Dallas jerseyon,” said McKelvey,who is a host of “TheBreakfast Club” morn-ing show on Power 105as Charlamagne ThaGod.

McKelvey, who putup $22,500 in bail forhis father Monday,noted that in a cellphone video purportedto be of the incident, hisfather is on the groundin a defenseless posi-tion. McKelvey alsoattended the game butwas in a different partof the stadium.

The websiteDeadspin posted a cell-phone video Monday of

the fight. One fan canbe heard on the videosaying: “How did he getin here with thatthing?”

Earlier in the week,Jets coach Rex Ryanwas asked aboutwhether there would bea lot of Cowboys fans inthe Jets home stadium.

“I don’t know whythey’d be here,” Ryansaid. “They’re cominginto our stadium, it’sprobably not recom-mended that you wearCowboys stuff, I wouldthink.”

Later in the week,Ryan backed downfrom those comments,and said that his intenthad been misconstrued.He hadn’t meant tothreaten anyone.

“If it’s somebody else

coming to enjoy agame, that’s fine. I’mnot calling for our guysto do anything,” Ryansaid. “The safety ofevery fan is importantto everybody in thisorganization, includingme.”

McKelvey is not surewhy his father had theTaser, or how he wasable to bring it into thestadium given theheightened security.His father came upfrom Moncks Corner,S.C. to attend the game,and McKelvey said thathe and his father havebeen Cowboys fans alltheir lives.

While he was at thegame, McKelvey saidthat his father, acousin, and his father’sgirlfriend were in the

stands wearing theirCowboys gear after tail-gating for most of theafternoon.

When his father did-n’t stand for part of theopening ceremony,McKelvey said Jets fansstarted heckling thegroup.

“Where was securityin the stadium?”McKelvey said.

MetLife StadiumCEO Mark Lampingsaid no one was serious-ly hurt in the incident.

There was anincreased security pres-ence at the game on the10th anniversary of theSept. 11, 2001, attacks,including bomb-sniff-ing dogs checking

every car that entered.Fans were also patteddown and had theirbags checked, typical ofgame day security.

“Procedures for patdowns established bythe NFL and used atevery game were ineffect at all entrygates,” Lamping said ina statement.

It’s possible therecould be changes in thesecurity methods,though. NFLspokesman Greg Aiellosaid the league is“always refining andimproving our securityprocedures.”

“These procedureshave been successful inkeeping items that can

cause serious injuriesout of our stadiums,”Aiello said in a state-ment. “We will continueto be vigilant in protect-ing the safety of ourfans.”

McKelvey said thathis father didn’t knowit was illegal to have aTaser. He was wrong tobring the weapon,McKelvey said, but hewas attacked.

“My father was root-ing for his team,”McKelvey said. “Jetsfans got upset but thatdoesn’t give them theright to jump a 59-year-old man.”

Cowboy Fan assaulted at Jet game

“Charlemagne the God”, host of “TheBreakfast Club” morning show on Power 105and son of Cowboy’s fan Larry McKelvey

Larry McKelvey

By CURTANDERSON

FORT LAUD-ERDALE, Florida -Former World SeriesMVP Manny Ramirez, acolorful slugger whoabruptly retired thisyear amid allegationsof banned substanceuse, is now facing crim-inal prosecution oncharges that he slappedhis wife during anargument.

Ramirez, 39, couldget up to a year in jail ifconvicted of misde-

meanor domestic bat-tery charges. He wasreleased on $2,500 bailTuesday after spendingthe night in theBroward County Jail,with little to say to aknot of waitingreporters.

“No thanks,”Ramirez said whenasked for comment.“Let me see, where’s myfamily?”

Ramirez hopped intoa white CadillacEscalade driven by hissister and was whiskedaway. A few minutes

earlier, the BrowardSheriff’s Office releaseda tape of the 911 callmade by his wife, 32-year-old JulianaRamirez, from theirsprawling home in theFt. Lauderdale suburbof Weston.

“My husband just hitme,” Juliana Ramirezsays calmly on the tape.

When the dispatcherasks where she wasstruck, Juliana replies,“My face and my head,in the bed. I have abump on my head.”

The dispatcher then

asks if Juliana has asafe room to get awayfrom her husband.

“He’s not doing any-thing anymore becausehe knows I’m callingthe police,” she says.Later, Juliana toldsheriff’s deputies shecalled 911 because shewas afraid the situationwould escalate.

At a brief courtappearance Tuesday,Ramirez was ordered tohave no direct contactwith his wife by CountyJudge John Hurley. Anattorney who attended

the hearing on hisbehalf did not immedi-ately respond Tuesdayto an email requestingcomment.

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After his release,Ramirez walked out ofthe jail alone and wasconfronted byreporters. He had toldinvestigators only thathe grabbed his wife bythe shoulders duringan argument and

“shrugged” her, caus-ing her to hit her headon the headboard oftheir bed. But he would-n’t discuss the incidentTuesday.

When a reporter said“You have to give ussomething,” Ramirezreplied: “Not my prob-lem.”

He spoke to anotherTV reporter in Spanishand put his arm aroundtwo of the femalereporters. He was wear-ing a tight, muscle-showing T-shirt anddark, low-slung pants.

Manny Ramirez out of jail after battery charge



CHALLENGE


Bolt smashes Gay’s track record

Jamaican athletics superstar UsainBolt ran a track record 9.85sec in the100m at the athletics meeting hereTuesday, smashing longstandingAmerican rival Tyson Gay’s mark of 9.92set last year.

The 25-year-old Olympic titleholder - who losthis world crown last month after being disquali-fied for false starting - eased away to win from StKitts and Nevis’s 35-year-old Kim Collins, 2003world champion and bronze medalist last month,while Trinidad and Tobago’s Richard Thompsonwas third.

Collins timed 10.01sec while Thompson fin-ished in 10.03sec.

Coach unsure if he’ll get 3 players back for Miami

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Days before his 17th-ranked Buckeyes hit the road for the first time toplay Miami, Ohio State coach Luke Fickell sayshe’s still unsure if three top suspended playerswill be available.

Starting tailback Jordan Hall and cornerbackTravis Howard, along with backup safety CoreyBrown, have been suspended two games so far foraccepting $200 in cash to attend a charity eventin suburban Cleveland in February.

Ohio State (2-0) will start Joe Bauserman atquarterback against the Hurricanes, but unlikelast week’s narrow 27-22 victory over Toledo,backup Braxton Miller is expected to also seeplaying time.

The Buckeyes are also without four other play-ers - three starters and a backup - suspended forthe first five games for getting improper benefitsfrom a local tattoo-parlor owner.

- RUSTY MILLER

Browns punter to go on IRCLEVELAND - Browns punter Richmond

McGee injured his back during warmups beforeSunday’s season opener, a possible explanationfor his horrendous NFL debut.

Agent David Canter said McGee suffered a her-niated disk before Cleveland hosted Cincinnati,and that the injury was so bad that McGee waskicking without feeling in his legs. McGee aver-aged just 36 yards on eight punts, shanking hisfirst one 20 yards and later following it withpunts of 28 and 30 yards.

Canter said the Browns plan to place McGee oninjured reserve later today.

“He’s extremely disappointed, but grateful hegot the opportunity,” Canter said of McGee, whowas signed after Reggie Hodges went down witha season-ending injury.

There are reports the Browns have signed vet-eran Brad Maynard, a 14-year veteran who spentthe past 10 years with the Chicago Bears. Hepunted for Houston during the preseason but waswaived by the Texans on Sept. 3.

A Browns spokesman said the team has no ros-ter moves to report at this time.

Maynard’s agent, Chad Wiestling, did notimmediately return messages.

Canter said McGee “felt a twinge” while he waswarming up on the field Sunday but decided toplay.

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was a beatdown for the St. LouisRams. In more ways than one.

They’re likely to be minusfour starters next Monday at theNew York Giants, includingrunning back Steven Jackson.Cornerback Ron Bartell is likelyout for the season with twobreaks in his neck.

Quarterback Sam Bradfordexpects to play despite a bruisedright index finger that knockedhim out in the fourth quarter ofSunday’s 31-13 loss to theEagles. But one of his top tar-gets, wide receiver DannyAmendola, is out with a dislocat-ed left elbow.

Another cornerback, BradleyFletcher, has a sprained toe thatmight limit him, and offensivetackle Jason Smith has asprained left ankle. The teamhad feared Smith, the secondoverall pick of the 2009 draft,had a high ankle sprain whichwould have sidelined him forperhaps a month.

Coach Steve Spagnuolo saidMonday it’s the worst injuryreport in his three seasons. Itcomes off a disappointing effortfor a franchise that’s supposedto be on the rise, too.

“There’s a lot there, no ques-tion,” Spagnuolo said. “Nobody’sgoing to bury their head in thesand, and we’re not going to goaway. We didn’t envision begin-ning like that and we certainlydidn’t envision losing all these

guys.”The defense gave up 16 plays

for double-digit yardage, theoffense was 2 for 12 on thirddowns — with about a half-dozen dropped passes — and theline couldn’t protect Bradford,who was sacked four times. TheRams were outscored 14-3 in thesecond half.

“A lot of their big plays weremental errors,” safety QuintinMikell said. “You can’t have thatagainst teams like that, butthere’s some promise here andonce we get the little thingsironed out, we’ll be all right.”

Bartell, the Rams’ top covercornerback, underwent a CTscan and an MRI exam at a hos-pital after the game. The teaminitially believed the injury wasa stinger.

Teammate Justin King saidBartell was trying to tackleEagles running back RonnieBrown midway through thefourth quarter when aPhiladelphia lineman dived toblock Bartell and hit the corner-back on the top of the head.King is likely to step up to takeBartell’s spot.

“It didn’t look right, theimpact,” King said. “It’s veryunfortunate, it’s one of the cruelrealities of the game. One playand your season can be over.”

Amendola, who led the Ramswith 85 catches last year, alsowas undergoing an MRI exam.Team medical personnel did not

believe the injury would requiresurgery.

Amendola caught five passesfor 45 yards against the Eagles.Like many teams, the Ramsopened with two quarterbacksinstead of three and had consid-ered Amendola their third quar-terback.

Now, their third-stringermight be a running back in awildcat formation.

Jackson was injured withoutcontact on a 47-yard touchdownrun on the Rams’ first play andleft with a strained right quadri-ceps after one more 9-yardcarry. Spagnuolo characterizedJackson as week-to-week andprobably out for the Giantsgame.

Jackson rode a stationarybicycle for a few minutes beforegiving up on the game,although he stayed in uniformthe rest of the way and the Ramsdidn’t change their assessmentthat Jackson’s return was ques-tionable.

“Once we knew, there was nothought of trying to get himback in there,” Spagnuolo said.

The Rams added quality back-ups this year for the first timeunder Spagnuolo, and CadillacWilliams had 91 yards on 19carries with 49 yards receiving.Williams had limited snaps inpractice, but Spagnuolo said “hewas fully in tune, knew exactlywhat it was that he was sup-posed to do.

Steven Jackson likely to sit Week 2

By DENNISWASZAK Jr.

F L O R H A MPARK, N.J. - IsaiahTrufant watchedthe football bouncein front of him andwaited a split-sec-ond to judge whereit was going.

Into his hands, theNew York Jets defen-sive back hoped - whileblocking out the 80,000screaming fans atMetLife Stadium.

“Man, the whole timeI was like, ‘Please! Goodbounce, good bounce!’”Trufant said. “Andthen, it bounced goodand I just took it. It waswild, man, just crazy.”

The well-traveledTrufant, promoted fromthe practice squad 24

hours earlier, complet-ed one of the biggestplays of the Jets’ 27-24season-opening winover the DallasCowboys on Sundaynight by returning JoeMcKnight’s blockedpunt 18 yards for atouchdown that tied itwith 5 minutes left. Itwas a lucky bounce fora guy who has bouncedaround quite a bit whiletrying to pursue hisNFL dream.

“He’s an amazing lit-tle guy,” coach RexRyan said, “and themore he plays - he justlooks short to me - hedoesn’t look small any-more. He did a greatjob.”

The diminutiveTrufant - he’s generous-ly listed at 5-foot-8 and170 pounds - wentundrafted out of

Eastern Washington in2006 and has sinceplayed in the ArenaFootball League and theUnited Football League,and hopes he now canstick in the NFL. Theyounger brother ofSeattle’s MarcusTrufant wasn’t evenexpecting to play in theopener until the daybefore the game.

“Man, it was a roller-coaster ride, really,”Trufant said. “Youwork hard everyday tohopefully get thatopportunity to be activeand when you do,you’ve got to try to takeadvantage of the oppor-tunity you have. I wasjust able to make a playoff a great block.”

The past few weekshave been a bit of a blurto Trufant, who was incamp with the

Philadelphia Eaglesthis summer, cut onAug. 30 and signed bythe Jets the next day -after taking a cross-country flight backhome to the Seattlearea.

“That was a little bitrough,” he said. “I gotin around midnightand then the nextmorning around 10a.m., I received a callfrom the Jets to hop onthe red-eye that samenight and fly back tothe East Coast. It wasall appreciated and allworth it.”

Trufant’s head keptspinning, though,because he was waivedby the Jets three dayslater, signed to thepractice squad the fol-lowing day and thenelevated to the activeroster on Saturday.

Jets’ well-traveled Trufant hopes he has NFL home

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WASHINGTON— The average fairmarket value of top-tier college footballand men’s basket-ball players is over$100,000 each, andthe athletes areentitled to at least aportion of that, anew report from anadvocacy groupargues.

Instead of gettingwhat they’re worth, theplayers receive athleticscholarships that don’tcover the full cost ofattending school, leav-ing many of them liv-ing below the povertyline, says the report,“The Price of Poverty inBig Time CollegeSport.”

A national collegeathletes’ advocacygroup and a sportsmanagement professorcalculate in the reportthat if college sportsshared their revenuesthe way pro sports do,the average FootballBowl Subdivision play-er would be worth$121,000 per year,while the average bas-ketball player at thatlevel would be worth$265,000.

The Associated Pressobtained a copy of thereport ahead of its offi-cial release, scheduledfor Tuesday.

Ramogi Huma, a for-mer UCLA linebackerwho heads the NationalCollege PlayersAssociation, wrote thereport with Drexel

University professorEllen J. Staurowsky.The association is anadvocacy group for col-lege athletes whichHuma says has morethan 14,000 members— about half of whomare currently enrolled.

Huma andStaurowsky argue thatthe players shouldreceive a portion of newrevenues, like TV con-tracts, to be put in an“educational lockbox.”Players could tap thosefunds to help cover edu-cational costs if theyexhaust their athleticeligibility before theygraduate — or receivethe money with nostrings attached upongraduating. They alsopropose that athletes befree to seek commercialdeals, such as endorse-ments, with some of themoney from that goingto the lockbox, and therest available for theathlete’s immediate use.

They also say thatschools should pay forcosts beyond thetuition, student feesand room and boardcovered by athleticscholarships. Thereport calculates theshortfall for the fullcost of attending col-lege — when thingssuch as clothing andemergency trips homeare added in — at $952to $6,127, dependingon the college. Thatleaves students on fullathletic scholarshipsliving below the povertyline at around 85 per-

cent of the schools, thereport claims, by com-paring the value of thescholarship’s room andboard to the federalpoverty guideline for asingle individual.

Huma acknowledgedthat calculation doesnot take into accountfinancial assistance stu-dents might get fromhome, or summer jobs,but he said most ath-letes are pressured toattend voluntary sum-mer workouts, makingit hard to get outsidework.

The report calls foraction from Congress toachieve some of thesegoals, arguing that fed-eral intervention is nec-essary because collegepresidents aren’t in aposition to take mean-ingful reform. TheNCAA, which puts theathletes’ amateur statusat the center of its mis-sion, would opposemuch of what thereport proposes.

In a statementMonday, the NCAA saidit had not yet reviewedthe report, but thatPresident MarkEmmert and universitypresidents made it clearat last month’s retreat— a meeting called inthe wake of a run ofscandals in college foot-ball — that they werecommitted to evaluat-ing an increase togrants in aid thatwould cover the fullcost of attending col-lege. The NCAA addedthat the Committee on

Academic Performanceis meeting this week todiscuss the issue, andwill make recommenda-tions to the Division IBoard of Directors nextmonth.

“Dr. Emmert hasbeen similarly clearthat paying student-athletes a salary is in noway on the table,” theNCAA said.

The report arguesthat playing big-timefootball and basketballis a full-time job, and anNCAA study releasedthis year backs that up.It found that players inthe Football BowlSubdivision — the high-est level — reportedspending 43.3 hoursper week during theseason in athletic timecommitment, whileDivision I men’s basket-ball players reported 39hours a week in season.

The report said thatplayers at the mostpowerful programs areworth far in excess ofeven the average ath-lete. The report esti-mates that Duke’s bas-ketball players areworth the most, ataround $1 million each,while Texas’ footballplayers top that sport at$513,000 each.

Officials at Texasand Duke did notreturn email and phonemessages Monday.

The report arguesthat the main benefici-aries of preserving thecurrent system for ath-letes are coaches, ath-letic directors, confer-

ence commissionersand bowl directors, cit-ing, for example, themultimil l ion-dol larsalaries of several high-profile coaches.

“The NCAA’s defini-tion of amateurism hasproven to be priceless toobscenely paid coaches,athletics administra-tors, and colleges buthas inflicted poverty oncollege athletes,” thereport charges. It foundthat some footballcoaches’ bonuses alonewere worth more thanthe entire scholarshipshortfall for theirteams.

Huma andStaurowsky argue thatcompensating playerswould go a long way toeliminating the blackmarket, in which ath-letes have violated rulesfor accepting things ofvalue.

“Rules that prohibitvaluable players fromaccepting benefitsabove and beyond theirscholarships set athlet-ic programs and theirplayers up for failure,”they say, citing the caseof former USC receiverR. Jay Soward, who toldSports Illustrated lastyear that he tookmoney from NFL agentJosh Luchs because hisscholarship didn’t coverhis food and rent costs.

“I would do it again,”Soward said. “I havefour sons, and if some-body offered my sonmoney in college and itmeant he didn’t have tobe hungry, I would tell

him to take it.”The recent scandal at

Ohio State involvedplayers trading memo-rabilia for cash and tat-toos from a man at thecenter of a federalinvestigation. And theUniversity of Miami isbeing investigated bythe NCAA for the rela-tionship a rogue boost-er and Ponzi schemeartist had with playersand coaches.

Huma, who graduat-ed from UCLA in 1999,said that he struggledto get by on his full ath-letic scholarship. Eventhough the school wasproviding him withthree meals a day, hesaid, he needed to eatfive or six times a daybecause of the calorieshe was burning playingfootball. And he wasn’table to get any supportfrom home.

“I got by taking toiletpaper and soap athotels, and taking outthe credit card,” herecalled, adding that hehad $6,000 in creditcard debt when he grad-uated. The school didprovide him with team-issued clothing, but notall of it was appropriatefor everyday use, hesaid.

“The bottom line isthat players are misledinto thinking that theirlabor will fully paytheir way throughschool, and they aredefinitely earningmuch less than theirfair market value,” hesaid.

Report makes case for paying players

By TOMCANAVAN

EAST RUTHER-FORD, N.J. - A dayafter saying hisoffense did almostnothing in a season-opening loss to theW a s h i n g t o nRedskins, New YorkGiants coach TomCoughlin dropped a

little more bad news.Leading receiver

Hakeem Nicks suffereda knee injury in thegame and was beingevaluated on Monday.

Coughlin was notsure about either theextent of the injury orwhich knee was hurt,but he said the knee wasswollen a day afterpostgame X-rays werenegative.

Nicks caught seven

passes for 122 yards inthe 28-14 loss, includinga 68-yard first-quarterreception that set up EliManning’s touchdownrun.

Coughlin would notspeculate on whetherNicks would be availablefor Monday night’shome opener against St.Louis.

“I don’t know theanswer that,” Coughlinsaid. “They’re checking

all that out.”The Giants could also

use a thorough check oftheir offense after theunit was shut out in thesecond half against theRedskins, registeringfour first downs and ameasly 102 yards inoffense.

Not only didn’t theoffense produce, but theRedskins went ahead forgood early in the thirdquarter when Ryan

Kerrigan scored on a 9-yard interceptionreturn. New York alsowas 1 of 10 on thirddowns, 0 for 1 on fourthdown and twice failed onshort yardage situationsin Washington territory.

To make thingsworse, placekickerLawrence Tynes had a38-yard field goalattempt in the fourthquarter blocked becausehe didn’t get it high

enough.“We definitely have

some work to do to getwhere we want offen-sively,” Coughlin said. “Iwon’t take anythingaway from theRedskins, they playedhard and they did thethings they had to do towin the game but I amdisappointed in our abil-ity to not take fulladvantage of what wehad.”

Add receiver Hakeem Nicks to Giants’ injury list

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