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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Today's Headlines: Military Offers Assurances to Egypt and Neighbors

TOP NEWS Military Offers Assurances to Egypt and Neighbors By KAREEM FAHIM As a new era dawned in Egypt, its leaders sought to project control and assuage fears about military rule.   Photographs   Interactive: 18 Days at the Center of Egypt's Revolution Obama's Budget Seeks Deep Cuts in Domestic Spending By JACKIE CALMES President Obama, who is proposing his third annual budget on Monday, will say that it can reduce projected deficits by $1.1 trillion over the next decade, according to a senior official. NEWS ANALYSIS Egypt's Path After Uprising Does Not Have to Follow Iran's By ANTHONY SHADID There is a fear in the West, one rarely echoed in Egypt, that the revolution could mimic Iran's, when radical Islamists ultimately led a movement that began with a broad base. But the two nations are very different. • NYTimes.com Home Page » QUOTATION OF THE DAY "He survived over there. Coming home and dying in a hospital? It's a disgrace." CHARLES ENDICOTT, on his son, Cpl. Nicholas Endicott, a Marine combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, who died in a military hospital with at least nine prescription drugs in his system.

Good vs. evil, hanging by a thread ALSO IN THEATER » The Super Bowl and the theater, an unlikely pair? From sketch to stage: "Milk Train" WORLD INTERACTIVE MAP: 18 Days at the Center of Egypt's Revolution Tahrir Square, in downtown Cairo, was the epicenter of antigovernment protests that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.   Photos From the Protests in Egypt   Video: After Mubarak, What Next?   Video: Cleaning Up Tahrir Square OPINION OP-CHART: Inside the Muslim (Journalist's) Mind By LAWRENCE PINTAK and SYED JAVED NAZIR Pakistan's journalists have found themselves at the center of America's struggle against terrorism.

WORLD In U.S. Signals to Egypt, Obama Straddled a Rift By HELENE COOPER, MARK LANDLER and DAVID E. SANGER President Obama had to navigate between the counsel of foreign policy traditionalists and a younger White House. Mubarak Family Riches Attract New Focus By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, DAVID ROHDE and ARAM ROSTON With Hosni Mubarak out of power, there are growing calls for an accounting of his family's wealth. Palestinian Leaders Suddenly Call for Elections By ETHAN BRONNER Elections were announced after a meeting in which the chief Palestinian negotiator with Israel also resigned.  From the Magazine: A Plan for Peace That Still Could Be • More World News » U.S. For Some Troops, Powerful Drug Cocktails Have Deadly Results By JAMES DAO, BENEDICT CAREY and DAN FROSCH In trying to treat the effects of war, doctors are prescribing drugs that can have fatal interactions.   Photographs: Happier Days Before a Deadly Mixture No Argument: Thomas Keeps 5-Year Silence By ADAM LIPTAK Next Tuesday will mark five years since Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken during a court argument. Trying to Hold Down Blue Language on a Red-Letter Day By KIM SEVERSON Middle schoolers in Alabama are pushing for a Valentine's Day without cursing. • More U.S. News » POLITICS At Gathering, Ron Paul Is No. 1 for 2012 By JEFF ZELENY Ron Paul won a presidential straw poll at a conservative conference, an early test of the unsettled Republican field.   Slide Show: Scenes From the Conservative Political Action Conference Administration to Push for Small 'Modular' Reactors By MATTHEW L. WALD The reactors would be cheaper and smaller than the traditional variety and transported like a modular home.  Nuclear Energy To Defend the Accused in a Tucson Rampage, First a Battle to Get Inside a Mind By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and MARC LACEY For Judy Clarke, the defender of Jared L. Loughner, a big challenge may be persuading him to let her raise questions about his mental health. • More Political News » BUSINESS The Dirty Little Secrets of Search By DAVID SEGAL How a campaign of paid links on all kinds of unrelated Web sites pushed one retailer to the top of Google results. Emirates' Ambitions Worry European Rivals By JAD MOUAWAD Given the growth of Dubai's fast-growing flagship airline, and its central location, airlines like Air France and Lufthansa are nervous. PING Shorter E-Books for Smaller Devices By JENNA WORTHAM As more people do their reading on e-readers and smartphones, some publishers are specializing in works that are longer than a typical magazine article, but shorter than the usual novel. • More Business News » TECHNOLOGY Malware Aimed at Iran Hit Five Sites, Report Says By JOHN MARKOFF The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, a new report says. EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS When Factories Vanish, So Can Innovators By LOUIS UCHITELLE With Asia producing so many of America's manufactured goods, some economists fear that the next breakthrough technologies may come from abroad as well. NOVELTIES Have You Charged Your Eyeglasses Today? By ANNE EISENBERG Touch the side of the frame on new electronic eyeglasses, and liquid crystals help you read small print. • More Technology News » SPORTS A Diploma, Then the Draft By PETE THAMEL Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck could have been the top pick in April's N.F.L. draft, but he decided to stay in college for his senior year. KNICKS 105, NETS 95 With Stoudemire Out, Knicks Fashion a Win By HOWARD BECK The Knicks prevailed without the injured Amar'e Stoudemire and kept their record above .500.  Down 22, Bobcats Top Hawks at Buzzer Hapless but Not Quite Hopeless By JONATHAN ABRAMS While Cleveland, without LeBron James, has hurtled from the N.B.A.'s best record to its worst, television ratings and attendance have suffered but not vanished. • More Sports News » ARTS A Tabloid Star Is Joining the Sisterhood of the Fallen By MICHAEL WHITE Larger-than-life figures, ripped from the headlines, are giving new juice to opera. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten By MAX FRANKEL A look at the opera "Nixon in China" by Max Frankel, a former executive editor of The New York Times who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Nixon's trip to China. Hollywood's Whiteout By MANOHLA DARGIS and A. O. SCOTT The films nominated for best-picture Oscars this year are like most films released in the United States in 2010: very white.   Slide Show: Race and the Oscar Race • More Arts News » NEW YORK / REGION Suspect in Brooklyn Stabbing Spree Is Captured By ROBERT D. McFADDEN and AL BAKER Maksim Gelman, 23, was accused in a rampage that left four people dead and four wounded. Speed-Dating, Muslim Style By ADAM B. ELLICK An event in Queens that helps Islamic men and women, often with parents watching, find marriage partners is a novel mixing of East and West. Chasing Crime, but Foiled by Traffic By COREY KILGANNON The idea was to drive around the five boroughs, using a police scanner as a kind of guide to the city's underbelly, but it proved easier said than done.   Video: Chasing a Police Scanner • More New York / Region News » MAGAZINE A Plan for Peace That Still Could Be By BERNARD AVISHAI Proposals that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas made in 2008 offer a path to a deal amid the region's turmoil.  Obama's Mideast Waiting Game The Irish Affliction By RUSSELL SHORTO Sex-abuse scandals involving priests have shaken Ireland, but is that enough to break the grip of the Catholic Church?  Photographs: Can the Catholic Church Atone for Its Sins? Mayor of Rust By SUE HALPERN John Fetterman has turned the busted town of Braddock, Pa., into a national symbol of hope, hard work and authentic blue jeans. As an actual place to live, however, it's a much harder sell. • More From the Magazine » EDITORIALS EDITORIAL A Patriot Act Surprise Twenty-six House Republicans demonstrated remarkable consistency by voting to prevent the extension of three questionable provisions of the Patriot Act. EDITORIAL It May Make Them Think Twice Financial regulators' proposed new rules to curb bankers' bonuses are a welcome step. EDITORIAL Convenient Amnesia It is useful to recall that under President George W. Bush, the E.P.A. was arguing for efforts to regulate greenhouse gases. EDITORIAL | THE RURAL LIFE The Mob at the Feeders By VERLYN KLINKENBORG Starlings come in gangs and mobs and hordes. • More Opinion » OP-ED OP-ED COLUMNIST At Last, Bernie Madoff Gives Back By FRANK RICH The bankruptcy trustee pursuing claims for Madoff victims is exposing a culture of Wall Street flimflams.  Columnist Page OP-ED COLUMNIST What Egypt Can Teach America By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Love of oil and fear of Islamism blinded American foreign policy.  Columnist Page | Blog | Twitter OP-ED COLUMNIST They Did It By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Egypt takes a big first step in the long walk toward democracy.  Columnist Page OP-ED COLUMNIST Simply the Worst By MAUREEN DOWD What Rummy didn't know could fill his book.  Columnist Page OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Sometimes, Justice Can Play Politics By NOAH FELDMAN Critics of Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas ignore the history of the court. OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR The Ghost of Revolutions Past By NIKOLAI GROZNI What Egyptians in 2011 can learn from the experience of Bulgarians in 1989. THE PUBLIC EDITOR Race, Religion and Other Perilous Ground By ARTHUR S. BRISBANE Even when pertinent, demographic labels are dicey business.  More Public Editor Columns  Web Journal • More Opinion » ON THIS DAY On Feb. 13, 1935, a jury in Flemington, N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed.