Today's Headlines

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.

Today's Headlines

Friday, February 11, 2011 

Today's Headlines: Mubarak Refuses to Step Down, Stoking Revolt's Fury and Resolve

TOP NEWS Mubarak Refuses to Step Down, Stoking Revolt's Fury and Resolve By ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt told the Egyptian people Thursday that he would delegate more authority to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, but that he would not resign his post.   Interactive Text and Video: President Mubarak's Speech   Video: Mubarak's Speech   Graphic: Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces   Text: President Obama's Statement on Egypt   Photographs Obama Tested on Whether to Break With Mubarak By MARK LANDLER and MARK MAZZETTI The Obama administration can choose to break decisively with President Hosni Mubarak or stick to its call for an "orderly transition" that may no longer be tenable. G.O.P. Leaders Yield to a Push for More Cuts By CARL HULSE House Republican leaders said that they would accede to demands from conservatives and dig deeper for additional savings, exhibiting the power of the Tea Party. • NYTimes.com Home Page » QUOTATION OF THE DAY "It's not about me. " HOSNI MUBARAK, president of Egypt, refusing to step down.

Travel that teaches life lessons ALSO IN BUSINESS » Finding the next big stock Mobile apps for economics MULTIMEDIA VIDEO:TimesCast | February 10, 2011 David Kirkpatrick assesses what Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's refusal to step down means for the thousands of protesters in the streets. OPINION ROOM FOR DEBATE What Will the Egyptian Military Do? Anger rises after Mubarak's refusal to step down. Will the army intervene?

WORLD Mubarak Refuses to Step Down, Stoking Revolt's Fury and Resolve By ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK President Hosni Mubarak told the Egyptian people Thursday that he would delegate more authority to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, but that he would not resign his post.   Interactive Text and Video: President Mubarak's Speech   Graphic: Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces   Text: President Obama's Statement on Egypt   Photographs Hopes Dashed, Protesters' Anger Spills Over By KAREEM FAHIM and THANASSIS CAMBANIS Elation turned to anger as Egyptians listened, shocked, to President Mubarak's speech on Thursday.   TimesCast Video: Reaction to Mubarak's Speech   Timeline: A Day of Whiplash Military Caught Between Mubarak and Protesters By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK The Egyptian military finds itself in an unfamiliar role, navigating between swelling protests and civilian leaders who appear reluctant to cede real power. • More World News » U.S. No 'Moby-Dick': A Real Captain, Twice Doomed By JESSE McKINLEY Researchers say they have found the wreck of the Two Brothers, which went down west of Hawaii exactly 188 years ago. Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban By A. G. SULZBERGER More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants. Ex-C.I.A. Agent Goes Public With Story of Mistreatment on the Job By CHARLIE SAVAGE Kevin M. Shipp said his family was sickened when the government put them in a Texas house where the water was contaminated, and then tried to cover it up. • More U.S. News » POLITICS Obama Unveils Wireless Expansion Plan By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Saying tomorrow's economy cannot take root in yesterday's infrastructure, the president made his case at a Michigan university that gives a laptop to every student. In Montana, A Bid to End Medical Use Of Marijuana By KIRK JOHNSON The 63-to-37 vote by the Montana House pushed the state to the front lines of a national debate about social policy, economics and health as medical marijuana use has surged. U.S. Proposes New Forest Management Plan By LESLIE KAUFMAN While mining and timber groups took a wait-and-see attitude, several environmental advocacy groups quickly expressed deep disappointment. • More Political News » BUSINESS In China, Tentative Steps Toward Global Currency By DAVID BARBOZA Beijing has begun to loosen currency controls, which could strengthen China's influence in financial markets. Search Engine Optimization to Lure Readers By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER The sale of the Huffington Post has drawn new attention to the use of behind-the-scenes tactics to get search engine users to visit Web sites. Search for Low Airfares Gets More Competitive By JAD MOUAWAD and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Google is looking to enter air travel search, and American Airlines wants to bypass online agents like Expedia. • More Business News » TECHNOLOGY Sprint Adds Subscribers For First Time Since 2007 By REUTERS Sprint Nextel added 58,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter, far above expectations, and also reported that it had narrowed it loss from a year ago. Playing Catch-Up, Nokia and H.P. Try to Innovate By STEVE LOHR The companies in some ways have fallen behind rivals like Apple and Google, and analysts say closing the gap will be difficult.  DealBook: In Nokia's Overhaul, an Opportunity for Deals Hackers Breach Tech Systems of Oil Companies By JOHN MARKOFF McAfee, the Internet security company, said the attacks were similar to but less sophisticated than those Google suffered last year. • More Technology News » SPORTS Farewell Tour Brings Jackson to the Garden By HOWARD BECK Phil Jackson, the Lakers' coach, will visit Madison Square Garden on Friday, probably for the last time in a storied career.  Knicks' D'Antoni Counts Differences With Lakers  Abdul-Jabbar Says His Cancer Is at 'Absolute Minimum' N.B.A. Dean of Coaches Resigns Abruptly By JONATHAN ABRAMS Jerry Sloan, the Utah Jazz's coach, resigned midway through his 23rd season, the longest tenure of any coach in the four major professional sports. LAKERS 92, CELTICS 86 For Celtics' Allen, a Moment to Cherish; for the Lakers, a Victory to Savor By HOWARD BECK Ray Allen passed Reggie Miller for the career 3-point record, but Kobe Bryant and the Lakers prevailed in Boston. • More Sports News » ARTS MOVIE REVIEW | 'POETRY' Consider an Apple, Consider the World By MANOHLA DARGIS The South Korean director Lee Chang-dong's devastating, humanistic film "Poetry" is about the importance of looking closely at the world. ART REVIEW When Picasso Changed His Tune By HOLLAND COTTER A new exhibition at MoMA, "Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914," looks at his brief but revolutionary foray into Cubism.   Slide Show THEATER REVIEW | 'WHEN I COME TO DIE' When the Final Curtain Doesn't Fall By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Nathan Louis Jackson's drama "When I Come to Die," about a prisoner who doesn't die from his lethal injections, is remarkably free of sensation and sentimentality. • More Arts News » NEW YORK / REGION Privately, Public Employees See Cuts as Inevitable By DAVID M. HALBFINGER In New Jersey, government workers are coping with a more treacherous terrain in which many voters support a variety of cutbacks to union benefits and pay Assisting Suicide to Be Focus of Trial in Motivational Speaker's Death By JOHN ELIGON A defendant who is about to go on trial told the police that, for a payment, he had held a knife as a stranger thrust himself at it. Yeshiva Fair Is a Bastion for Jewish Books of the Printed Variety By JOSEPH BERGER The fair has mushroomed into a highlight of the New York region's Orthodox calendar and has become a must-do social event. • More New York / Region News » MOVIES MOVIE REVIEW | 'JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER' That Hair! Those Eyes! His Fans! By MIKE HALE "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" is billed as a concert documentary, but attention is also paid to that pop star's legion of screaming fans as well as prefame home-movie snippets and segments with his handlers. MOVIE REVIEW | 'CEDAR RAPIDS' An Innocent Abroad, at a Convention in Iowa By MANOHLA DARGIS In "Cedar Rapids," an insurance salesman leaves his hometown for the first time to attend a convention, where he plunges into the reality of the world outside his tiny one. MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS' An Oscar Film Festival, All in One Screening By A. O. SCOTT "The Oscar Nominated Short Films" provide a chance to see the shorts nominated for animation, live action and documentary.   Slide Show: Oscar-Nominated Shorts • More Movies News » EDITORIALS EDITORIAL Beyond Reason on the Budget House Republican leaders have revealed their real vision of small government: tens of billions in ideologically driven cuts.   Graphic: First Round of Republican Cuts EDITORIAL Judge Fogel and the Death Penalty A case presents yet another reason to reject the death penalty as a barbaric punishment. EDITORIAL Protecting the Whistle-Blowers Revival of a whistle-blower protection bill should be a top priority. EDITORIAL Marriage Equality in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pledge to push for legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in New York is a promising development. • More Opinion » OP-ED OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR The Next Step for Egypt's Opposition By MOHAMED ELBARADEI After Mubarak's speech, the people must act.  Room for Debate: What Will Egypt's Military Do?  Roger Cohen: The Mubarak Muddle OP-ED COLUMNIST Out of Touch, Out of Time By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In one speech on Thursday evening, Hosni Mubarak shifted this Egyptian democracy drama from mildly hopeful, even thrilling, to dangerous.  Columnist Page OP-ED COLUMNIST The Freedom Alliance By DAVID BROOKS For every program concerned about budget cuts, the strategy should be less about proving merit and more about partnering with like-minded groups for offense. OP-ED COLUMNIST Abraham Lincoln, Inflationist By PAUL KRUGMAN Why does it seem as if Republicans have refrained from referring to themselves as "the party of Lincoln" these days?  Columnist Page | Blog • More Opinion » ON THIS DAY On Feb. 11, 1945, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement during World War II.