Sunday October 29, 2006

The Final Word: “The Enemy Within Edition”

(The media experiment in which we conjoin the headline and last paragraph of each bylined article in the A-section of today's New York Times.)

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Businesses Seek Protection on Legal Front:

"It would be a shocking turning back to say only the commission can bring fraud cases," said Harvey J. Goldschmid, a former S.E.C. commissioner and law professor at Columbia University. "Private enforcement is a necessary supplement to the work that the S.E.C. does. It is also a safety valve against the potential capture of the agency by industry."

Democrats Push to Counter G.O.P. in Turnout Race:

"They are proud of their turnout operation," Ms. McCaskill said. "They think they have a machine-like operation in the Republican Party. They are just pouring money into it."

Africa’s World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Old’s Eyes:

But before many weeks passed, he had brought in a replacement — younger, more helpless, more submissive. It was Mark Kwadwo.

U.S. Jobs Shape Condoms' Role in Foreign Aid:

"At the same time, the United States can't just keep helping overseas. They've got to help us, too."

Waterfront Project Reflects 2 Images of a Senator:

"You do that when you come from Hudson County, it's called bossism," Mr. Menendez said. "But I guess when you come from my opponent's background, it's just leadership."

U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties:

Some problems with the election were later blamed on a software component, which transmits the voting results to a central computer, that was developed in Venezuela.

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Red Auerbach, Who Built Basketball Dynasty, Dies at 89:

Tom Heinsohn, a former star forward who often incurred Auerbach's wrath, noticed a large sound system on the court set up for the ceremony. Heinsohn exclaimed, "They need a sound system for him?"

Also Seeing Life Through a Face Mask:

He did not say much in response. "Being the older brother, you have to keep things grounded," he said. "I play that card a lot, not really giving her every pat on the back, making sure she's paving her own way."

Russia Led Arms Sales to Developing World in '05:

The study uses figures in 2005 dollars, with amounts for previous years adjusted to account for inflation.

Seeking to Ease Rift, Bush Confers With Iraq Premier:

Also on Saturday, 11 Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped at a fake checkpoint in the heavily Sunni village of Adhaim, north of Baghdad. South of Baghdad in the town of Iskandariya, five Iraqis were killed and 11 wounded in a car bombing.

Bishops Draft Rules on Ministering to Gays:

It says, "The church cannot support organizations or individuals whose work contradicts, is ambiguous about, or neglects her teaching on sexuality."

Big Financing Comes From Small Pool of Backers in Attorney General’s Race:

"Every person who donates to any candidate could hypothetically end up with business before the attorney general's office," he said. "As attorney general, Jeanine would not accept contributions from anyone with business pending before the attorney general."

The TV Watch: Scary, Like Funny Scary:

They mock their opponents, they laugh at themselves, and most of all, they affect a comic detachment from their own campaigns. Candidates don't cut and run, they run as cut-ups.

Play Magazine: What Keeps Bill Parcells Awake at Night:

What this is, he can't — or won't — specify. But when your life has been defined by the pressure of competition and your response to it, there's a feeling you get, and it's hard to shake. You wake up each morning knowing the next game is all that matters. If you fail in it, nothing you've done with your life counts. By your very nature you always have to start all over again, fresh. It's an uncomfortable feeling, but it's nonetheless addictive. Even if you have millions in the bank and everyone around you tells you that you're a success, you seek out that uncomfortable place. And if you don't, you're on the wrong side of the thin curtain that separates Cyclone Hart from Vito Antuofermo. "It's a cloistered, narrow existence that I'm not proud of," says Parcells. "I don't know what's going on in the world. And I don't have time to find out. All I think about is football and winning. But hey — " He sweeps his hand over his desk and points to the office that scarcely registers his presence. "Who's got it better than me?"

TV: Don't Touch That Dial:

Now, Ms. Walden said, those elements are crucial parts of the formula for how to get a new serialized drama made. "At the studio we first check with our international sales and home entertainment departments before we go ahead."

International

3 Killed in Mexican Protest; Police Move In:

"Oaxaca is a question mark," Flavio Sosa, a leader of A.P.P.O., said before the federal forces arrived. "No one knows what's going to happen."

Boomtown in Venezuela Confronts Mining Ban:

"If Chávez wants to empty the mines, we're finished," said Ana Victoria Mendoza Palma, 23, a cook. "The government says it wants miners to work in tourism, but why would anyone come here?"

President Holds a Big Lead as Brazil Prepares to Vote:

Mr. da Silva responded that no government had done more than his to root out corruption, which he described as "a tumor embedded" in the Brazilian body politic.

National Report

With Hands and Hounds, Stalking Feral Hogs in Texas:

"They eat anything. They really don't have a natural predator," Mr. Eddins said. "So, Barefoot Bob Richardson is the natural predator."

A Warm Welcome for Bush the Campaigner, in Indiana:

Mr. Bush has not set aside his fund-raising duties entirely. On Saturday evening, he appeared at a private event for the Republican National Committee on Kiawah Island, a resort community off the coast of South Carolina, that organizers said raised about $1 million.

Novice Stands Her Ground on Veterans' Turf in Alaska:

But Ms. Palin also recalled that the pipeline was a topic of discussion when she was a child and said that Mr. Knowles is being "disingenuous" when he says urgently that he wants pipeline proposals on his desk in the governor's office by Jan. 31, 2007.

Petra Cabot, Designer of the 1950s-Era Skotch Kooler, Dies at 99:

Ms. Cabot married Laurence Jordan, a poet, when she was 19; the marriage ended in divorce in 1931. In 1937, she married Blake Cabot, a medical writer and publisher, who died in 1974. She left no immediate survivors.

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