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By JASON DePARLE
MINDELO, Cape Verde — Virtually ev-
ery aspect of global migration can be seen in
this tiny West African nation, where the num-
ber of people who have left approaches the
number who remain and almost everyone has
a close relative in Europe or America.
Migrant money buoys the economy. Mi-
grant votes sway politics. Migrant departures
split parents from children, and the most fa-
mous song by the most famous Cape Verdean
venerates the national emotion, “Sodade,” or
longing. Lofty talk of opportunity abroad
mixes at cafe tables here with accounts of
false documents and sham marriages.
The intensity of the national experience
makes this barren archipelago the Galapagos
of migration, a microcosm of the forces
straining American politics and remaking so-
cieties across the globe.
An estimated 200 million people live out-
side the country of their birth, and they help
support a swath of the developing world as
big if not bigger. Migrants sent home about
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tercept human smugglers and new fences are
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became part of the civic DNA. You can dine
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and stroll Avenida da Holanda.
Yet Holland — the Netherlands — now
requires would-be migrants to pass a test on
Dutch language and culture. Other countries
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By JIM RUTENBERG
MIDLAND, Tex. — Late last
spring, Republicans in this West Tex-
as oil town called for a boycott of
Doña Anita’s Mexican restaurant, a
retaliatory step against its owner,
Luz Reyes, for closing shop and
showing up at a rally against pro-
posed new penalties for illegal immi-
grants.
But President Bush’s three best
friends here defied the boycott and
went to the restaurant, Mr. Bush’s
favorite when he lived here, regard-
less. One of them, the president’s
close confidant and former com-
merce secretary, Donald L. Evans,
told Ms. Reyes: “Luz, you didn’t do
anything wrong. We love you.”
The hometown divide helps to shed
light on a broader rift, as Mr. Bush
and like-minded Republicans engage
in an unusually contentious fight
with the rest of their party in the na-
tional debate over immigration.
Mr. Bush has pursued a goal of
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panic population, a voting group that
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By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Iran is in the throes of one of its
most ferocious crackdowns on dis-
sent in years, with the government
focusing on labor leaders, universi-
ties, the press, women’s rights advo-
cates, a former nuclear negotiator
and Iranian-Americans, three of
whom have been in prison for more
than six weeks.
The shift is occurring against the
backdrop of an economy so stressed
that although Iran is the world’s sec-
ond-largest oil exporter, it is on the
verge of rationing gasoline. At the
same time, the nuclear standoff with
the West threatens to bring new
sanctions.
The hard-line administration of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
analysts say, faces rising pressure
for failing to deliver on promises of
greater prosperity from soaring oil
revenue. It has been using American
support for a change in government
as well as a possible military attack
as a pretext to hound his opposition
and its sympathizers.
Some analysts describe it as a
“cultural revolution,” an attempt to
roll back the clock to the time of the
1979 revolution, when the newly
formed Islamic Republic combined
religious zeal and anti-imperialist
rhetoric to try to assert itself as a re-
gional leader.
Equally noteworthy is how little
has been permitted to be discussed in
the Iranian news media. Instead, at-
tention has been strategically fo-
cused on Mr. Ahmadinejad’s politi-
cal enemies, like the former presi-
dent, Mohammad Khatami, and the
controversy over whether he violat-
ed Islamic morals by deliberately
shaking hands with an unfamiliar
woman after he gave a speech in
Rome.
Mr. Khatami, the lost hope of
Iran’s reform movement, felt com-
pelled to rebut the accusation be-
cause such a handshake is religious-
ly suspect, but contended that the
crowd seeking to congratulate him
for his speech was so tumultuous
that he could not distinguish between
the hands of men and women. Natu-
rally a video clip emerged, showing
the cleric in his typical gregarious
style bounding over to the first wom-
an who addressed him on the orderly
sidewalk, shaking her hand and chat-
ting amicably.
The dispute over the handshake
occurred during a particularly fierce
round of the factional fighting that
has hamstrung the country since the
1979 revolution. Far more harsh ex-
amples abound.
Young men wearing T-shirts
deemed too tight or haircuts seen as
too Western have been paraded
bleeding through Tehran’s streets by
uniformed police officers who force
them to suck on plastic jerrycans, a
toilet item Iranians use to wash their
bottoms. In case anyone misses the
point, it is the official news agency
Fars distributing the pictures of
what it calls “riffraff.” Far bloodier
photographs are circulating on blogs
and on the Internet.
The country’s police chief boasted
Iran Cracks Down on Dissent,
Parading Examples in Streets
Continued on Page 8
By SARA RIMER
The Dominican boys in the back of
the freshman English class at the
high school in Washington Heights
were making fun of the timid Afri-
can-American girl, Queen Bond. One
of the boys got down on one knee in
front of her as if he were Romeo —
they had been studying “Romeo and
Juliet” — and delivered the final
crushing insult.
“He was saying something about
that I smelled,” recalled Queen, now
17. “I just put my head down. I start-
ed crying.”
Then something remarkable hap-
pened, she said: “Cristal stood up.”
Cool, streetwise, 4-foot-11-inch Cris-
tal Pimentel.
“This short, like, two-foot-tall per-
son is standing up to these guys who
are up to the ceiling,” Queen said.
“She’s screaming, getting angry,
waving her arms. She stood up, she
defended me. No one ever stood up
for me in that way.
“I’m, like, ‘Wow, this girl is the
most beautiful person.’ ”
For four years now, Queen and
Cristal have been a team: two teen-
age girls who are striving to make
something of themselves in the face
of tremendous adversity.
They graduated together yester-
day from the High School of Interna-
tional Business and Finance, a duo
who beat the odds in a school system
where despite improvements, only 50
percent of high school students grad-
uated on time last June, according to
state statistics.
Cristal, who is 18, is the first per-
son in her family to earn a high
school diploma. Queen is the first of
seven children — she has two older
brothers — to graduate.
How they did it is a story of two
outsiders who found each other in
one of the small schools the city has
turned to in an attempt to break up
large high schools that, with gradua-
tion rates of 25 to 40 percent, became
known as factories of failure.
Queen and Cristal’s school, with
roughly 700 students, is one of four
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Cristal Pimentel and Queen Bond worked as a team to graduate from
the High School of International Business and Finance in Manhattan. Continued on Page 18
By BILL PENNINGTON
When she moved into her retire-
ment condominium on a golf course,
Eleanor Weiner admired the lush,
pristine views of the fairways and
greens, a landscape she never had to
mow or maintain. Not long after, as
she prepared dinner, a golf ball shat-
tered the kitchen window, whistled
past her head and crashed through
the glass on her oven door. Ms. Wei-
ner retrieved the ball from her oven
and stalked outside to confront the
golfer who had launched the missile.
“He told me that’s what I get for
living on a golf course,” said Ms. Wei-
ner, who has lived for a dozen years
alongside Rancho Las Palmas Coun-
try Club near Palm Springs, Calif.
“That was the first time I heard that,
but it surely hasn’t been the last.”
The intersection of errant golf
shots and private property is not a
new phenomenon. But with new gear
that enables average golfers to hit a
ball 250 yards, and with golf commu-
nities sprouting nationwide — 70 per-
cent of new courses include housing
— it is becoming an increasingly
prominent problem. Most homes
built near this country’s 16,000 golf
courses may not be in the cross hairs
of slicing duffers, but thousands are.
“It’s not only an ongoing problem,
it’s been made worse by technologi-
cally advanced golf equipment that
makes golf balls go farther — and
farther sideways,” said David Mulvi-
hill, a managing director at the Ur-
ban Land Institute, who has studied
golf course development.
“So homes that have been on a golf
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INSIDE
By any measure, the “surge” in
Iraq is failing, according to Frank
Rich. What will the Bush administra-
tion do now? OPINION PAGES
A New Propaganda Offensive
New Yorkers may have become
accustomed to the eccentricities of
Michael R. Bloomberg, the billion-
aire information mogul who took an
unorthodox path to the mayor’s of-
fice. But as he has thrust himself
ever more fully into national politics,
even Mr Bloomberg has questioned
whether the rest of the country is
ready for him. PAGE 19
How an independent candidate
could anoint a president in a close
general election. WEEK IN REVIEW
Odd Man In? Bloomberg
As Mayor and ’08 Kingmaker Critics of the official investigation
of the August 2003 massacre of 17 aid
workers in the town of Mutur, Sri
Lanka, point to delays in introducing
findings and to inconsistencies in bal-
listics evidence that they say could
implicate government soldiers in the
killings. PAGE 4
Sri Lanka Faulted on Killings
The will of
Brooke Astor, at
the center of a legal
battle over her
care and her for-
tune, reflects the
devotion of Mrs.
Astor, now 105,
both to her family
and to the many
civic interests that have helped
make her an enduring New York fig-
ure for decades. PAGE 25
A Look at Mrs. Astor’s Will
By DAVID E. SANGER
and THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, June 23 — Last
month, Congress set a deadline for
the American commander in Iraq,
declaring that by Sept. 15 he would
have to assess progress there before
billions more dollars are approved to
finance the military effort to stabil-
ize the country. The commander,
Gen. David H. Petraeus, said in re-
cent days that his report would be
only a snapshot of trends, strongly
suggesting he will be asking for more
time.
But even before he composes the
first sentences of the report, to be
written with the new American am-
bassador in Baghdad, Ryan C. Crock-
er, the administration is commis-
sioning other assessments that could
dilute its findings about the impact of
the current troop increase. The in-
tent appears to be to give President
Bush, who publicly puts great em-
phasis on listening to his field com-
manders, a wide range of options.
The assessments are likely to con-
clude that the Iraqi government has
failed to use the troop increase for
the purpose the president intended,
to strike the political accommoda-
tions that he said would stabilize the
country. That and other views ex-
pected in the various reports could
also provide some rationale for be-
ginning a reduction of troops in Iraq
under conditions far short of the “vic-
tory” Mr. Bush, for the past four
years, has said was his ultimate goal.
He has used that word with far less
frequency recently.
American intelligence agencies,
according to senior administration
and intelligence officials, are already
preparing to submit their own as-
sessment of Iraq’s progress. That is
expected to include a judgment
about whether Prime Minister Nuri
General’s Report
On Iraq Progress
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In New York City and the metropolitan region.
Updated news: nytimes.com
The predictions are increasingly
ominous, but just how bad could a
cyberwar really be? WEEK IN REVIEW
Internet Armageddon
Jeffrey Smith After talks with ABC and NBC fell
through, Paris Hilton has decided to
give her first post-jail interview,
without payment, to CNN’s Larry
King on Wednesday night, a spokes-
woman for the show said. PAGE 22
CNN Gets Hilton Interview
Since reacquiring their shoe com-
pany, the Florsheim family has giv-
en it new life. SUNDAY BUSINESS
Back in Their Own Shoes
VOL. CLVI . No. 53,866 Copyright © 2007 The New York Times NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2007
New York: Today, a chance of snow
arriving late, high 38. Tonight, snow,
mixed with sleet, low 29. Tomorrow,
snow ends early, high 36. Yesterday,
high 42, low 20. Details, Page 18.
$3.50
Late Edition
Petty Officer Third Class Dustin E. Kirby, right and above, and
Marine Lance Cpl. Colin Smith were thrown together on a battlefield
in Iraq’s Anbar Province. Lance Corporal Smith was shot through
the helmet and skull by a sniper in late October and Petty Officer
Kirby, a Navy corpsman, worked feverishly to save him. On Christ-
mas, Petty Officer Kirby was also shot through the head by a sniper.
Petty Officer Kirby, 23, is back home in Georgia with his wife,
Lauren, and is progressing steadily toward recovery. Lance Corpo-
ral Smith, 19, below with his mother, Melissa, is undergoing inten-
sive therapy in Minneapolis. By C. J. CHIVERS, PAGE 16
Lives Touched by War
Photographs by Todd Heisler/The New York Times, top and bottom; Joao Silva for The New York Times
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By DAMIEN CAVE
BAGHDAD, Feb. 24 — Moktada al-
Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric and
founder of the Mahdi Army militia,
discovered recently that two of his
commanders had created DVDs of
their men killing Sunnis in Baghdad.
Documents suggested that they had
received money from Iran.
So he suspended them and stripped
them of power, said two Mahdi lead-
ers in Sadr City, the heart of Mr.
Sadr’s support here in the capital.
But did he do so as part of his co-
operation with the new security plan
for Baghdad, which aims to quell the
sectarian violence tormenting the
city? Because his men had been dis-
loyal, taking orders from Iran, whose
support he values but whose control
he fights? Or was it just for show —
the act of an image-conscious leader
who grasped the risk of graphic vid-
eos and wanted to stave off direct
American action against him?
Mr. Sadr has been the great desta-
bilizer in Iraq since 2003, wielding
power on the streets and in the ruling
Shiite bloc, thwarting the Americans
and playing out at least a temporary
alliance with Iran.
With the new security plan for Iraq
under way, every question about Mr.
Sadr’s motives touches on a different
facet of Iraq’s complicated struggle.
He now finds himself under pres-
sure from several sources. One is his
popular Shiite base, which demands
protection from devastating Sunni
attacks. Another is Iran, with which
he has had long but difficult ties.
Then there are renegade factions of
his own militia that resent his move
into the political mainstream.
Finally, the Americans, who have
accused Iran of supplying Shiite mili-
tias, including Mr. Sadr’s, with an es-
IRAQREBELCLERIC
REINS IN MILITIA;
MOTIVES AT ISSUE
PRESSED ON MANY FRONTS
Shiite Leader Seems to Be
Cooperating With U.S.,
at Least for Present
Continued on Page 4
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — A group
of influential Christian conservatives
and their allies emerged from a pri-
vate meeting at a Florida resort this
month dissatisfied with the Repub-
lican presidential field and uncertain
where to turn.
The event was a meeting of the
Council for National Policy, a se-
cretive club whose few hundred
members include Dr. James C. Dob-
son of Focus on the Family, the Rev.
Jerry Falwell of Liberty University
and Grover Norquist of Americans
for Tax Reform. Although little
known outside the conservative
movement, the council has become a
pivotal stop for Republican presi-
dential primary hopefuls, including
George W. Bush on the eve of his 1999
primary campaign.
But in a stark shift from the
group’s influence under President
Bush, the group risks relegation to
the margins. Many of the conserva-
tives who attended the event, held at
the beginning of the month at the
Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Fla.,
said they were dismayed at the ab-
sence of a champion to carry their
banner in the next election.
Many conservatives have already
declared their hostility to Senator
John McCain of Arizona, despite his
efforts to make amends for having
once denounced Christian conserva-
tive leaders as “agents of intoler-
ance,” and to former Mayor Rudolph
W. Giuliani of New York, because of
his liberal views on abortion and gay
rights and his three marriages.
Many were also suspicious of for-
mer Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachu-
setts; members have used the coun-
cil as a conduit to distribute a dossier
prepared by a Massachusetts con-
servative group about liberal ele-
ments of his record on abortion, stem
cell research and gay rights. (Mr.
Romney has worked to convince con-
servatives that his views have
changed.)
And some members of the council
have raised doubts about lesser
known candidates — Gov. Mike
Huckabee of Arkansas and Repre-
sentative Duncan Hunter of Califor-
nia, who were invited to Amelia Is-
land to address an elite audience of
about 60 of its members, and Senator
Sam Brownback of Kansas, who
spoke to the full council at its previ-
ous meeting, in October in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Although each of the three had
supporters, many conservatives ex-
pressed concerns about whether any
of the candidates could unify their
CHRISTIAN RIGHT
LABORS TO FIND
AN ’08 CANDIDATE
CONSERVATIVE DISCONTENT
Doubts Are Raised on Top
Republican Hopefuls
— Recruits Sought
INSIDE
Venezuelan arms spending has ex-
ceeded $4 billion in the past two
years, putting the nation ahead of
major buyers like Pakistan and Iran.
Venezuela says the fighter jets, at-
tack helicopters and Kalashnikovs
are to counter potential aggression
from the United States. PAGE 3
Venezuela a Top Arms Buyer
The New York Times Style Maga-
zine details the trends for spring, from
a new fascination with the future to
graphic prints and ethnic influences.
Also: Cathy Horyn goes behind the
scenes at Yves Saint Laurent.
T: Women’s Fashion
By JOSEPH KAHN
BEIJING — Li Jinsong and Li
Jianqiang are Chinese trial lawyers
who take on difficult political cases,
tangle with the police and seek sol-
ace in the same religion, Christian-
ity.
But like many who devote them-
selves to expanding freedoms and
the rule of law in China, the two
spend as much time clashing over
tactics and principles as they do
challenging the ruling Communist
Party.
The two Mr. Lis are part of a mo-
mentous struggle over the rule of law
in China. Young, well educated and
idealistic, they and other members
of the so-called weiquan, or rights de-
fense, movement, aim to use the laws
and courts that the Communist Par-
ty has put in place as part of its mod-
ernization drive to constrain the par-
ty’s power.
The informal network of rights de-
fenders may be the only visible force
for political openness and change in
China at a time when the surging
economy and the country’s rapidly
expanding global influence have oth-
erwise strengthened party leaders.
The authorities have refrained from
suppressing it entirely, at least part-
ly because it operates carefully with-
in the law and uses China’s judicial
system, as well as the news media, to
advance its aims.
Yet nearly 18 years after the June
4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy
protesters in Beijing, China quickly
crushes any organized opposition.
Rights defenders face the delicate
task of coordinating their actions and
expanding their collective influence
when they remain autonomous, rud-
derless and, very often, rivalrous.
The two Mr. Lis have feuded about
how to handle big court cases. When
they met the Bush administration’s
China specialists in the White House
last November, they argued about
whether top leaders like President
Hu Jintao were basically benevolent.
A joint interview on Radio Free Asia
devolved into a shouting match over
whether rights defenders could work
with party leaders or should actively
oppose them.
As their confrontation grew, Li
Jianqiang, the more combative of the
two, wrote a manifesto that called
China a “super jail” and described its
leaders as “ruthless dictators.” He
Rivals on Legal Tightrope Seek
To Expand Freedoms in China
RULE BY LAW
A Shared Vision of Justice
By BARNABY J. FEDER
After more than a decade-long de-
cline, is heart bypass surgery poised
for a comeback?
Some doctors say it may be time to
give bypass operations a second look.
They include even some cardiolo-
gists who specialize in the far more
popular alternative — using stents to
keep coronary arteries open.
No one is predicting a sudden
surge back to bypass, which is still a
far more invasive and initially riski-
er way to treat plaque-clogged heart
arteries, a condition that afflicts mil-
lions of Americans.
But in light of new safety concerns
over the long-term risks of stents, as
well as accumulating data indicating
that the sickest heart patients may
live longer if they receive bypass
surgery instead, some well-known
stent specialists say the pendulum
may have swung too far away from
bypass surgery.
“We as cardiologists have prob-
ably pressed forward on stent tech-
nology a little faster than we should
have,” said Dr. Kirk Garratt, the di-
rector of research into stents and re-
lated heart therapies at Lenox Hill
Hospital in New York, one of the na-
tion’s leading stenting centers.
It is a remarkable acknowledg-
ment, considering the medical and fi-
nancial stakes in play. In the last
In the Stent Era,
Heart Bypasses
GetaNewLook
Nicholas D. Kristof, from Ethiopia,
on what happens when the U.S. cuts
aid to women in the developing
world. WEEK IN REVIEW, PAGE 15
Opinion: Death by Pregnancy
A truck bomb detonated beside a
Sunni mosque and market near Fal-
luja, killing 36 people. Page 6.
Truck Bomb in Iraq Kills 36
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Metro ....................................................... 23-27
National .................................................. 14-21
Editorial, Op-Ed ... Week in Review, 13-15
Obituaries ................. 28 Weather ................... 18
TV Update ................ 26
Job Market Listings............. Sunday Business, page 17-25
By FELICITY BARRINGER
and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Under a proposed $45 billion buyout
by a team of private equity firms, the
TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that
has long been the bane of environ-
mental groups, will abandon plans to
build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to
a broad menu of environmental
measures, according to people in-
volved in the negotiations.
The roster of commitments came
through an unusual process in which
the equity firms asked two prominent
environmental groups what meas-
ures could be taken to win their sup-
port. The result is an about-face from
the company’s earlier approach to
climate-change issues, and includes a
goal of returning the carbon-dioxide
emissions by TXU to 1990 levels by
2020.
Environmental groups said yester-
day that they had never known of a fi-
nancial deal with such an ambitious
built-in environmental component.
Two private equity firms, Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts & Company and the
Texas Pacific Group, have proposed
to buy TXU in what would become the
largest leveraged buyout ever.
The transaction will be put to the
TXU board for a vote on Sunday.
People involved in the negotiations
said that Goldman Sachs, an adviser
and lender to the buyers, helped bro-
ker peace with environmental groups
and sought their support for the
transaction. Goldman Sachs has been
one of the most aggressive firms on
Wall Street about taking action on cli-
mate change; the company sends its
bankers home at night in hybrid lim-
ousines.
For the investor groups, the effort
Utility to Limit
NewCoalPlants
In Big Buyout
Twenty-three women were asked
to leave Delta Zeta sorority at
DePauw University, including every
member who was overweight or non-
white. Others left in protest. PAGE 17
A Sorority Showdown
Andrew Hancock for The New York Times
The Carpetbagger looks back on
his humbling Oscar season on the
edge of celebrity. ARTS & LEISURE
All Access, No Insight
Internal Justice Department per-
formance reports for six of the eight
U.S. attorneys dismissed in recent
months rated them “well regarded”
or “very competent.” The evalua-
tions, which were not made public
before, raise questions about why the
prosecutors were let go. PAGE 19
Praise for U.S. Attorneys
Dismissed by Justice Dept.
In an unusual move, a federal ap-
peals court is recommending that an
appeals board review immigration
cases involving a New York judge
whose asylum hearings have been
criticized. PAGE 25
Review of Judge’s Cases
Citigroup is expected to name a
top officer of American Express as
its new chief financial officer in a
move aimed at ending weeks of top
management turmoil. PAGE 27
Finance Chief for Citigroup
VOL. CLVII . No. 54,083 © 2007 The New York Times NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2007
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
NEVADA, Iowa, Sept. 24 —
The ethanol boom of recent years
— which spurred a frenzy of dis-
tillery construction, record corn
prices, rising food prices and
hopes of a new future for rural
America — may be fading.
Only last year, farmers here
spoke of a biofuel gold rush, and
they rejoiced as prices for etha-
nol and the corn used to produce
it set records.
But companies and farm co-
operatives have built so many
distilleries so quickly that the
ethanol market is suddenly
plagued by a glut, in part because
the means to distribute it have
not kept pace. The average na-
tional ethanol price on the spot
market has plunged 30 percent
since May, with the decline esca-
lating sharply in the last few
weeks.
“The end of the ethanol boom
is possibly in sight and may al-
ready be here,” said Neil E. Harl,
an economics professor emeritus
at Iowa State University who lec-
tures on ethanol and is a consult-
ant for producers. “This is a dan-
gerous time for people who are
making investments.”
While generous government
support is expected to keep the
output of ethanol fuel growing,
the poorly planned overexpan-
sion of the industry raises ques-
tions about its ability to fulfill the
hopes of President Bush and oth-
er policy makers to serve as a se-
rious antidote to the nation’s
heavy reliance on foreign oil.
And if the bust becomes worse,
candidates for president could be
put on the spot to pledge even
more federal support for the in-
dustry, particularly here in Iowa,
whose caucus in January is the
first contest in the presidential
nominating process.
Many industry experts say the
worst problems are temporary
and have been intensified by
transportation bottlenecks in get-
ting ethanol from the heartland
to the coasts, where it is needed
most. And even if some farmers
who invested in the plants lose
money, most of them are reaping
a separate bounty from higher
ETHANOL’S BOOM
STALLING AS GLUT
DEPRESSESPRICES
30% PLUNGE SINCE MAY
Production Expands but
Distribution Lags —
Blow to Farmers
By JO BECKER
From a political standpoint, it
should have been an easy deci-
sion. The calls flooding Fred D.
Thompson’s Senate office in the
winter of 1999 showed that his
Tennessee constituents over-
whelmingly favored removing
President Bill Clinton from of-
fice. But as the historic impeach-
ment trial neared, records show,
Mr. Thompson agonized over
what he saw as two “bad
choices.”
Years before, as Republican
counsel to the Senate Watergate
committee, Mr. Thompson had
witnessed the proceedings that
led to President Richard M. Nix-
on’s resignation. Now, he pored
over legal tomes on precedent.
He ordered up lengthy staff
memorandums on what the
founding fathers intended when
they said a president could be re-
moved for “high crimes and mis-
demeanors,” scribbling his
thoughts on a yellow legal pad.
Did the president’s cover-up of
an affair with a White House in-
tern justify deposing him
“against the will of the people,”
Mr. Thompson wondered, or
should Mr. Clinton be protected
by the very “baseness of his ac-
tions?” “His office is too high +
the crimes too low,” he mused.
Yet would an acquittal not
“haunt us in the future,” setting
the bar so high that even a “seri-
al perjurer” could not be re-
moved from office so long as his
conduct was “to cover up person-
al wrongdoing?”
“Worse of both worlds,” he
scrawled on a scrap of paper.
“Will be easier if you vote guilty.”
Today Mr. Thompson is cam-
paigning for president, selling
himself as the most devoted con-
servative in the Republican field,
a leader whose vision was
shaped by the Republican revo-
lution of 1994.
But his approach to the im-
peachment case — and his ulti-
mate decision to part with the
Republican majority by voting to
acquit Mr. Clinton on one of two
impeachment counts — under-
scores the concerns now being
raised by many conservative
G.O.P. Hopeful
TookOwnPath
In the Senate
Thompson Agonized
on Bill Clinton Trial
THE LONG RUN
Thompson in Congress
By C. J. CHIVERS
GROZNY, Russia — In the evenings, unex-
pected sights appear in this city, which less
than two years ago seemed beyond saving
and repair.
Women stroll on sidewalks that did not ex-
ist last year. Teenagers cluster under newly
installed street lights, chatting on cellphones.
At a street corner, young men gather to race
cars on a freshly paved road — a scene, con-
sidering that this is the capital of Chechnya,
that feels out of place and from another time.
Throughout the city, local officials, most of
them former rebels who waged a nationalist
Islamic insurgency against Russia, lounge in
cafes, assault rifles idled beside them.
Three years after a wave of guerrilla and
terrorist attacks caused many analysts to say
that Russia’s war against Chechen separat-
ists could not be won, the republic has fallen
almost fully under the control of the Kremlin
and its indigenous proxies, led by Ramzan A.
Kadyrov, the Chechen president.
Mr. Kadyrov’s human rights record is chill-
ing, and allegations of his government’s pat-
terns of brutality and impunity are wide-
spread. Yet even his most severe critics say
he has developed significant popular support,
in part because of the clear changes that have
accompanied his firm and fearsome rule.
Fighting has been sporadic and small in
scale for a second year. A large rebel offen-
sive did not materialize this summer, as the
separatists had predicted. Buoyed by a sus-
tained lull in fighting and flush with cash, Mr.
Kadyrov’s government has rebuilt most of its
capital and outlying areas.
Like Stalingrad after World War II, Grozny,
the Chechen capital, has reappeared from the
rubble. It has done so more swiftly than Euro-
pean cities revived by the Marshall Plan.
As recently as early 2006, Grozny was less
a city than rows of shattered buildings over-
looking cesspools. It now has electricity al-
Under an Iron Hand,
ARebirthofaRepublic
Russia’s Proxy Is a Fearsome Midwife
In the Revival of the Chechen Capital
Then and now: Grozny, Chechnya’s capi-
tal, in 1995, right, and 2007, below.
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By DAMIEN CAVE
MAHMUDIYA, Iraq — On bas-
es big and small south of Bagh-
dad, the scrambled reality of war
has become routine: an unending
loop of anxious driving in ar-
mored Humvees, gallons of
Gatorade, laughter at the absurd
and 4 a.m. raids into intimate
Iraqi bedrooms.
This is Iraq for the 3,300 sol-
diers of the 10th Mountain Divi-
sion’s Second Brigade, and many
have come to the unfortunate re-
alization that it now feels more
like home than home.
No brigade in the Army has
spent more days deployed since
Sept. 11, 2001, and with only a few
weeks to go before ending their
15-month tour, the soldiers here
are eager to go. But they are also
nervous about what their minds
will carry back, given the psychic
toll of war day after day and the
prospect of additional tours.
Heartache can be heard in the
quiet voice of Specialist Gerald
Barranco-Oro, who at 22 is on his
second tour of Iraq and will leave
for home without two close
friends who were killed May 19.
There are other losses, too: for
fathers like Staff Sgt. Kirk Ray,
25, whose 2-year-old daughter
screams when he calls because
“she doesn’t know who I am”;
and for those who must detach to
keep going, like Specialist Jesse
Herb, 20, who casually mentioned
recently that the ceiling above his
bed was dented with the bone
fragments of a lieutenant who
Weary Soldiers
Ready for Rest,
But Not at Ease
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Metro .............................................. 33-37
National .......................................... 16-27
Editorial and Op-Ed appear
in Week in Review, Pages 11-13.
Obituaries ............ 30-31 Weather ......... 28
TV Update ................ 38
Job Market Listings..... Sunday Business, page 17-25
New York: Today, sunny, light
winds, high 71. Tonight, cloudy,
low 57. Tomorrow, mixture of sun
and clouds, high 72. Yesterday,
high 76, low 61. Details, Page 28.
$5 beyond the greater New York metropolitan area. $4.00
Late Edition
By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pock-
eted conservative group led by
two former senior White House
officials, made an audacious de-
but in late August when it began
a $15 million advertising cam-
paign designed to maintain Con-
gressional support for President
Bush’s troop increase in Iraq.
Founded this summer by a doz-
en wealthy conservatives, the
nonprofit group is set apart from
most advocacy groups by the im-
mense wealth of its core group of
benefactors, its intention to far
outspend its rivals and its am-
bition to pursue a wide-ranging
agenda. Its next target: Iran pol-
icy.
Next month, Freedom’s Watch
will sponsor a private forum of 20
experts on radical Islam that is
expected to make the case that
Iran poses a direct threat to the
security of the United States, ac-
cording to several benefactors of
the group.
Although the group declined to
identify the experts, several were
invited from the American En-
terprise Institute, a Washington
research group with close ties to
the White House. Some institute
scholars have advocated a more
confrontational policy to prevent
Iran from acquiring nuclear
weapons, including keeping mil-
itary action as an option.
Last week, a Freedom’s Watch
newspaper advertisement called
President Mahmoud Ahmadine-
jad of Iran “a terrorist.” The
group is considering a national
advertising campaign focused on
Iran, a senior benefactor said,
though Matt S. David, a spokes-
man for the group, declined to
comment on those plans.
“If Hitler’s warnings were
heeded when he wrote ‘Mein
Kampf,’ he could have been
stopped,” said Bradley Blake-
man, 49, the president of Free-
dom’s Watch and a former depu-
ty assistant to Mr. Bush. “Ahma-
dinejad is giving all the same
kind of warning signs to us, and
the region — he wants the de-
struction of the United States and
the destruction of Israel.”
With a forceful message and a
roster of wealthy benefactors,
Freedom’s Watch has quickly
emerged from the crowded field
of nonprofit advocacy groups as a
conservative answer to the nine-
year-old liberal MoveOn.org,
Big Coffers and a Rising Voice
LiftaNewConservativeGroup
INSIDE
On the eve of parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Viktor F. Ya-
nukovich, once reviled, is arguably Ukraine’s most popular politician,
a transformation helped by an American political strategist. PAGE 8
Ukrainian Prime Minister Reinvents Himself
The getting in, the going, the
memories: a look at the college
experience from every angle of
the quad. MAGAZINE
College From All Angles
Frank Rich on the problem
with Hillary Clinton’s perfect
campaign. OPINION PAGES
Beware the Bloviation
Countrywide Financial faces
scrutiny over its process to help
distressed homeowners avoid
foreclosure. SUNDAY BUSINESS
Hard to Avoid Foreclosure
On the eve of a North American and European tour, Bruce Spring-
steen speaks with A. O. Scott about his reinfatuation with pop and why
he timed his new album to the presidential election. ARTS & LEISURE
Springsteen on Pop and Politics
TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Why the monks in Myanmar
can grant, or deny, legitimacy to
a government. WEEK IN REVIEW
Making the Military Sweat
Although its president denies
that homosexuality exists in Iran,
gays there insist that they are nu-
merous, if quiet. PAGE 11
Iran’s Gays Keep Low Profile
Why New Yorkers love side-
walk cafes, despite some not-so
delicious sights, sounds and
smells. WEEK IN REVIEW
The Great Outdoors
In the 45 previous loopy sea-
sons of the Mets, nothing had
ever happened like the sheer
mood swings yesterday. Strug-
gling to stay alive after a ghastly
two weeks, they
had the double ex-
hilaration of a near
no-hitter by John
Maine and a glut of
runs in a 13-0 vic-
tory against the
Florida Marlins.
The Mets could have used
some of this surplus during the
recent horrors — the worst days
in the history of the franchise, if
you think about it. They had
squandered a seven-game lead
with 17 to go, and sometimes
could not hit and usually could
not pitch.
After the game, the Mets all
said they were going out to din-
ner with their families. Nobody
would own up to a sideways peek
at a laptop or a television set to
track the Phillies-Nationals game
later in the afternoon. Therefore,
this may come as news to them
as they report to work this morn-
ing: For all their errors and home
run pitches of the last two weeks,
the Mets enter the last day of the
season in a dead heat with the
Phillies, who lost, 4-2.
“It’s bizarre,” Manager Willie
Randolph said after his own
game was over. “The whole sec-
ond half of the season is bizarre.
You can’t figure it out.”
Here’s what we know: If the
Mets win today and the Phillies
lose, the Mets will win the Na-
tional League East. If both teams
win or both teams lose, they will
play a one-game playoff for the
division title tomorrow in Phila-
delphia. The Mets are also still in
contention for the N.L. wild card
after the San Diego Padres failed
to clinch it yesterday.
In the erratic feast-or-famine
tradition of this team, the Mets
had it all yesterday, mostly from
Maine, a lanky 25-year-old right-
hander who pitched the game of
his life. Maine struck out 14 and
allowed only a few solid outs until
Paul Hoover, a substitute with
eight career hits, dribbled a sin-
gle 30 feet up the third-base line
with two outs in the eighth in-
ning.
Oh, yes, there was also a
bench-clearing rumble after the
GEORGE
VECSEY
SPORTS
OF THE TIMES
From the Deepest Depths, a Moment for the Mets
JOHN DUNN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mets starter John Maine did not allow a hit for seven and two-
thirds innings. The Mets finished the day in a tie for first place.
In Mexico City, Viswanathan
Anand of India took over the
world championship from Vladi-
mir Kramnik of Russia. PAGE 37
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Investment Opportunities
Economy SurvEy corporation aims to play
an influential role in keeping US leaders and decision
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through reports on those countries which are not fea-
tured in the day-to-day press.
Economy Survey Corp, leader in the industry, is ahead
of the game, keeping up with the changing times, of-
fering another vehicle for nations to show to the world
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our rEportS are a tool used successfully world-
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in today’S timES, the crisis-driven orientation of
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to cultural issues, and include the contributions of influential figures in
politics and business.
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highly-qualified team of correspondents, scattered across the planet. World
Review serves as a link between governments and markets, companies
and investors, and nations and individuals on a global scale. Our interviews
and articles offer a different point of view on matters of interest to the US
investor, businessman and politician.
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WORLD REVIEW aims to play an influential role in keeping US leaders
and decision makers informed of global investment opportunities through
reports on those countries which are not featured in the day-to-day press.
World Review, leader in the industry, is ahead of the game, keeping up
with the changing times, offering another vehicle for nations to show to
the world their strengths, dreams, and future aspirations. Our represen-
tatives invest time and effort in acquiring first-hand knowledge about a
nation. Interviews with influential politicians, public figures and industry
leaders give us unbeatable information about economic realities and the
best opportunities for investment.
The result is a concise and invaluable view of the featured country or sector.
Our reports are a tried-and-tested format, the ideal way to connect nation
to nation, vendor to consumer, producer to supplier, business opportunity
to investor.
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OuR REpORts are a tool used successfully worldwide to influence
public opinion, generate awareness and provide information in a dedi-
cated context. Special reports have a guaranteed impact on the target
audience. They have a real value in their own right. Attractive, graphic
presentation with relevant information on every page.
They provide invaluable sources of data and are often kept for future ref-
erence by the reader. Unlike other reports, our editorial is independent,
advertisements are clearly separate from editorial content, yet thanks
to positive support from state and private organizations, we are able to
successfully blend objectivity with persuasive advertising. The dedicat-
ed context also provides a coherent framework for advertising, linking
publicity to editorial analysis.
Through extensive research and interviews with top government offi-
cials and key business leaders, World Review presents balanced and
constructive portraits highlighting legislative reforms, good gover-
nance, improvements in business, and opportunities for partnership
and investment. As an independent agency with full editorial control,
we have found that our clients enjoy the opportunity to provide great-
er input and review of our reports’ content in conveying their mes-
sage to the influential readers of the New York post newspaper.
To complement the already substantial distribution of our reports, we
supplement circulation via our in-house mailing lists - local, interna-
tional, and targeted. Copies of our reports are forwarded to local
officials and businessmen within the country that has been profiled,
key staff of The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, and
the majority of the CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies.
They are a tool used successfully worldwide to influence public opinion,
generate awareness and provide information in a dedicated context.
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As the preeminent daily newspaper in the competitive New York market,
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• Median Age: 47.5
• Age 25-54: 57.7%
• Male/Female ratio: 63.3% / 36.7%
• College Educated (I+yrs): 58.7%
• Married: 56.0%
• Employed: 69.6%
• Median HHI: $84,023
• Median Home Value: $458,415
Post NY DMA Readership — DAILY 2,109,435
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NY Times
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263,052
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