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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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January 22, 2014 • DAILY

inside: Keeping the sights true and Saving the nest egg

Qualifying on the .50 Cal

Story by MC3 (SW/AW) John Paul Kotara II Photo by MC2 (SW/AW/IDW) Eric Lockwood

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he sound of gunfire echoed off the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) fantail as empty shells clattered to the deck during a .50 caliber live-fire exercise aboard the ship, Jan. 17.

Twenty-five TR Sailors qualified to use the M2HB Heavy Barrel Browning Machine Gun, the ship’s last line of defense when entering and exiting port.

“If you are an aviation ordnanceman, gunner’s mate, masterat-arms, or on a temporary assigned duty billet in Security, your qualifications needed leading up to that point differ,” said Master-at-Arms 1st Class Alicia Keene, Patrol Operations leading petty officer.

The M2HB Machine Gun is a high-rate-of-fire weapon that delivers 550 .50 caliber rounds per minute at a maximum range of more than 7,400 yards.

“These firearms are utilized when entering and exiting port.

The Sailors manning these guns are the last line of defense for the ship and must be ready to respond to a sea or air threat,” said Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Jason Miller.

Sailors learn about the internal components of the firearm, as well as how to clean and maintain it.

“This is a process that Sailors learn to ensure barrel pressure, cartridge seating and firing time is not out of operational limits,” said Master-at-Arms 1st Class Jonathan Whitson.

This operational training helps prevent catastrophic weapon failure, such as a misfire or battery detonation, which can injure the Sailor operating the weapon.

A battery detonation occurs when the round is improperly seated within the firearm. When the pin strikes the round the explosion does not carry the round through the chamber, but explodes out the backside of the barrel instead.

Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class James Miller instructs a Sailor on the proper procedures for reloading the M2HB Heavy Barrel Browning machine gun aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

“This is a dangerous incident,” said Whitson. “This is the reason we practice safety and learn everything before firing the weapon.”

Weapons familiarization is just the first step in the qualification process. Sailors must also become proficient in the “dry fire” process, which includes firing the weapon without the presence of ammunition.

“During this [dry fire], Sailors go step by step just as though they have live bullets,” said Keene. “They start with loading the ammo and end with making sure the firearm is clean and clear.”

In the last phase, Sailors mounted the firearm and fired short bursts to learn the firearms trigger response. The qualification course concluded after each Sailor fired 100 rounds.

Planning for the Future

Story by MCSN Jenna Kaliszewski

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oney problems are no fun, and it can be difficult for Sailors to live within their means. However, if they don’t, it can become a huge problem, especially if they neglect to make any strides to repair their money issues. If Sailors find themselves behind the financial eight ball, there is help.

Command financial specialists and assistant command financial specialists aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and the Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) in Norfolk can help Sailors make sure their finances are in order.

“What we offer are financial worksheets, where we go over your income, your living expenses, your debt, and look at what your debt to income ratio is,” said Chief Electronics Technician Brian Taylor, a command financial specialist onboard TR. “We can’t sit there and say this is how you need to spend your money. We can sit there and offer you advice.”

FFSC offers financial counseling, helps in purchasing a car or house and counsels Sailors on the Thrift Savings Plan, said Taylor. If a Sailor needs help with financial planning, it is best to ask for it quickly.

“There are rates out there right now that involve security clearances, and having bad debt or poor credit could affect your security clearance,” said Taylor. “I’ve known a few guys who

actually lost their security clearance, but (the Navy) was able to re-designate them to another rate. It depends on how much time you have in the Navy. They may end up just separating you because you can’t have the clearance.”

Investigators study a Sailor’s credit history when conducting background checks. If a person is overdrawn on all of their accounts, they appear to be more susceptible to bribes and giving up secrets, said Taylor.

“If you’re not responsible with your money, you may not be responsible with your clearance,” said Taylor. “This is why financial training is important.”

Debt alone is not necessarily bad, said Taylor. It shows responsibility if the Sailor is making payments on time.

However, being thousands of dollars in debt and several months behind on payments is not viewed in a positive light.

“The help’s out there,” said Taylor. “Most of the time they’ve waited too long and they didn’t seek help right away, so they find themselves needing help. Even if you don’t need the help, come see us and we’ll help you out. Don’t wait until it’s too late.”

Sailors in need of financial counseling should contact the command financial specialist, their department’s assistant command financial specialist or Fleet and Family Services ashore at (757) 444-2102.

midnight in New York F R O M T H E PA G E S O F

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014

Amid Scandal, Christie Tries For Optimism TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie, bedeviled by doubts about his leadership style and political tactics, took the oath of office at the lowest point in his governorship on Tuesday, determined to re-establish a bond with scandal-weary citizens of New Jersey and remind them of what it was they liked about him.

Amid subpoenas, investigations and allegations, Christie seemed to plead with his state to return to the moment, just 77 days ago, when he was re-elected by a huge margin.

He spoke of “trust,” “faith” and “unity,” asking New Jerseyans to recall once more “the bond we have created with each other over the last four years.”

Aides were determined to put a celebratory face on Christie’s awkwardly timed second inauguration, arranging for the traditional 19-gun salute and an orchestral rendition of the triumphal theme song to the Olympic Games.

But Christie kept bumping up against rude reminders of his new reality. Inside the ornate War Memorial Theater, lawmakers and political hangers-on huddled in corners, shaking their heads and whispering about the scandal that has enveloped his administration. (“How could they be so shortsighted?” asked a man wearing an elephant pin on his lapel.)

As he urged New Jersey to look to the future, Christie had little choice but to share a stage with the same Democratic lawmakers who have denounced his aides’ role in the imbroglio over the closing of lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge and unleashed an aggressive investigation.

Even Christie’s most cherished political mentor, former Gov. Tom Keane, could not resist a jab, saying that he hoped Christie would learn something from the searing experience and wondering aloud to reporters if a national audience could ever learn to love the governor.

“You can’t change who you are,” Keane warned.

MICHAEL BARBARO and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE

© 2014 The New York Times

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Photos Said to Show Torture in Syria BEIRUT, Lebanon — Emaciated corpses lie in the sand, their ribs protruding over sunken bellies, their thighs as thin as wrists.

Several show signs of strangulation. The images conjure memories of some of history’s worst atrocities.

Numbers inscribed on more than 11,000 bodies in 55,000 photographs said to emerge from the secret jails of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, suggest that torture, starvation and execution are widespread and even systematic, each case logged with bureaucratic detail.

This collection of images was identified as having been part of a voluminous archive of torture and execution maintained by the Syrian government and smuggled out by a police photographer who defected. So far, only a few photographs have been released by lawyers commissioned by the Qatari government, an avowed opponent of Assad, and the claims about their origins could not be independently verified.

If genuine, the trove is new visual corroboration that Assad’s

government is guilty of mass war crimes against its own citizens.

The photographs were released as delegates from the Syrian government and the opposition began gathering in Switzerland for long-awaited talks to find a political solution.

But just as the use of chemical weapons last summer spurred Washington to threaten military action against Assad’s government, prompting it to give up its chemical arsenal, the new dossier complicates hopes among some of Assad’s supporters that the West has no choice but to reach a political accommodation with him.

Human rights groups had already documented the government’s systematic use of torture, forced disappearances and other abuses. But the quantity and the chilling detail of the visual evidence, if authenticated, may be much harder to dismiss.

The Qatari government hired a team of international law experts with experience prosecuting war crimes to validate the photographs and to help explain what they reveal. The investiga-

tors say releasing more images might identify the defector, endangering his family or former colleagues, and, they say, they cannot release the images out of respect for the victims’ families.

Assad’s enemies say they hope the leak, first reported in The Guardian and on CNN, will cause enough revulsion in the West to prevent any deal that might leave him in place, or perhaps prod the West into more muscular steps to remove him.

But even the most determined advocates of Western intervention say the images may dramatize the moral cost of inaction but are unlikely to change the policy, especially given the American aversion to another entanglement in the Middle East.

“The White House has completely hardened itself to whatever horrendous news might come out of Syria because the president doesn’t want to get involved,” said Robert Kagan, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who has pushed for American action.

BEN HUBBARD and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

States Are Cutting Weeks of Aid to the Jobless RIEGELWOOD, N.C. — After losing her job as a security guard in June, Alnetta McKnight turned to food stamps and unemployment insurance to support herself and her 14-year-old son. But her jobless benefits ran out after 20 weeks, and now they are living on close to nothing.

“I worked for 26 years; I lost my job through no fault of my own,” McKnight said.

Had she been laid off a year earlier, McKnight almost certainly would have qualified for more than a year of unemployment insurance payments, but last July, North Carolina sharply cut its unemployment program, reducing the maximum number of weeks of benefits to 20 from 73 and reducing the maximum weekly benefit as well.

The rest of the country is following North Carolina’s lead. A federal program supplying extra weeks of benefits to the long-term

unemployed expired at the end of 2013, and congressional Democrats failed in an effort to revive it. About 1.3 million jobless workers received their last payment on Dec. 28. Starting on Jan. 1, the maximum period of unemployment payments dropped to 26 weeks in most states, down from as much as 73 weeks.

With that move, the country’s safety net for jobless workers has undergone a sudden transformation, from one aimed at providing modest but sustained protection to workers weathering a tough labor market to one intended to give relatively short-term aid before spurring workers to accept a job, any job.

It is still early, but the results in North Carolina suggest that there are gains and losses from cutting back on support for the jobless. The state’s unemployment rate has fallen to 7.4 percent from 8.8 percent, the sharpest

drop in the country. In part, that is because more jobless workers are connecting with work. But an even greater number of workers have simply given up on finding a job.

McKnight still applies for jobs every day, and is hoping to be retrained as a certified nurse’s assistant. But in the meantime, she has sold her son’s dirt bike. She has stopped sending money to her mother, who has cancer, or to her daughter in college. A friend sold a set of decorative car rims to help her pay her electric bill. She has started visiting a local food bank for groceries.

“Two interviews so far out of 150 applications,” McKnight said. “If unemployment were for a year or a year and a half, that’s enough time to get established and get a job. Now, it’s over before it starts. That’s not enough time to find a job in an economy as bad as it is.” ANNIE LOWREY

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014 2

INTERNATIONAL

Thai Leaders Declare State Of Emergency BANGKOK — The embattled government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra declared the imposition of emergency rule in Bangkok and surrounding areas on Tuesday, suggesting a more aggressive posture toward protesters who have occupied parts of the city during the past two months and are seeking to overthrow the government.

But officials said they had no plans to crack down on protesters, who have escalated their campaign over the past week by blocking government offices, taking over major intersections and staging daily marches. The emergency decree enacted Tuesday gives the government the power to invoke curfews, censor the news media, disperse gatherings and use military force to “secure order.”

Protesters have been attacked by unknown assailants in recent days. Three grenade attacks left one person dead and dozens injured.

The emergency decree, which is valid for 60 days, was passed under the same law that a different government used in 2010 to start a military crackdown that left dozens of people dead. Underlining the seesaw power struggle that has gripped Thailand for the better part of the past eight years, the man responsible for the crackdown four years ago, Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime minister, is now leading the antigovernment protests.

THOMAS FULLER

U.S. and Russia Discuss Olympic Security BRUSSELS — Even as Russia imposes the most intensive security apparatus in Olympic history, the top military officers from the United States and Russia have opened discussions about using sophisticated American electronic equipment in a new effort to help secure the Winter Games in Sochi next month.

The Russian delegation first raised the prospect of gaining access to the technology, developed by the Pentagon to counter improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan and Iraq, Defense Department officials said on Tuesday. They stressed that no decisions had been made yet.

The potential for a technological exchange was part of an extensive discussion here Tuesday when Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held his first face-to-face meeting with his Russian counter-

part, Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, chief of the general staff.

Dempsey said the Defense Department would be willing to provide equipment designed to detect and disrupt cellphone or radio signals used by militants to detonate improvised explosives from a distance. But he cautioned that technical experts from both nations first needed to ensure that the American systems could be integrated into the communications networks and security systems being set in place by Russia.

Dempsey and Gerasimov met one day after Pentagon officials disclosed that the United States European Command was drawing up plans to have two Navy warships in the Black Sea at the time of the Sochi Games, should they be needed in case of emergency.

In addition to deploying tens of thousands of police officers and military reinforcements to the

Sochi area, the Russian government has tightened control inside the city ahead of the opening of the Games on Feb. 7, banning vehicles that are not registered in the region and requiring even Russians who visit to register with the police within three days, as foreigners must do.

The threat of terrorism has become a grim reality of major sporting events, and Russian officials are acutely aware that these Games are being held near a region festering with Islamist separatists.

Both the American and Russian generals — who share a history of having commanded large tank and armored units — emphasized the importance of improving communication between their armed forces. “I think we have an opportunity to advance the relationship on areas of common interest,” Dempsey said. THOM SHANKER

Ukraine’s Opposition Says Government Stirs Violence KIEV, Ukraine — As demonstrators in ski masks scuffled with the police here on Tuesday, opposition leaders accused the government of provoking the very violence it has been condemning in an effort to discredit and possibly split the protest movement.

Opposition leaders say the government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich has also rebuffed all offers of negotiations, adding fuel to a volatile situation.

“Few days are left, or maybe even hours, when solving the political process is possible through negotiations,” said Arseniy Yat-

senyuk, a leader of the opposition Fatherland Party.

The government’s opponents said three recent actions had been intended to incite the more radical protesters and sow doubt in the minds of moderates: the passing of laws last week circumscribing the right of public assembly, the blocking of a protest march past the Parliament building on Sunday and the sending of cellphone messages on Tuesday to people standing in the vicinity of the fighting that said, “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, blamed politicians from the European Union and the United States for encouraging the fighting over the past three days. The situation in the city, he warned, was “getting out of control.”

The European Union issued no official response to Lavrov, but its officials say it has never condoned or encouraged violence, as Lavrov seemed to suggest it had done by having an official mingle with the protesters when they first turned out two months ago.

ANDREW E. KRAMER

In Brief Pakistan Targets Militants Pakistani jets pounded suspected militant hide-outs in North Waziristan on Monday night for the first time in years, signaling that the government was prepared to take the fight to the center of the insurgency that has racked Pakistan. There were at least 40 casualties in the airstrikes. The strikes appeared to be in retaliation for recent terrorist bombings in Bannu and in Rawalpindi, the site of the Pakistani military’s general headquarters. The two bombings killed at least 30 members of the security forces and put added pressure on the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take a firmer stand against the militants. Violence continued on Tuesday. Two buses full of Shiite

pilgrims returning from Iran were attacked in Baluchistan Province in the southwest, leaving 18 people dead.

(NYT)

Japan Defends Dolphin Hunt The Japanese government Monday called dolphin hunting off its coastline a form of traditional fishing, taking issue with the new American ambassador, Caroline Kennedy, who criticized the practice in a recent Twitter post. Kennedy objected to a form of fishing called “drive hunt” killing, in which dolphins are herded together by boats into an area they cannot escape, resulting in the capture of scores of dolphins. Critics have called the practice inhumane for the sheer number of dolphins killed and the threat it

poses to the animal’s populations. “Deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing. USG opposes drive hunt fisheries,” Kennedy said in her post, referring to the United States government.

(NYT)

Embassy at Vatican to Reopen Ireland is reopening its embassy to the Vatican more than two years after shutting it down in the wake of sex abuse cases. Ireland closed its embassy to the Vatican in 2011, when relations soured over the church’s handling of sex abuse cases. The church’s once dominant role has faded in Ireland since revelations of rape and beatings by members of religious orders and the priesthood.

(Reuters)

NATIONAL

2 Friends Reach Across the Aisle On Immigration WASHINGTON — The two women might at first seem more like political rivals than a reminder of the way things used to work in Washington.

Esther Olavarria, a Democrat, left Cuba as a child, worked as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s top immigration lawyer and now holds a post in the White House. Rebecca Tallent, a Republican, left suburban Arizona and became Sen. John McCain’s chief of staff, and is now a top policy aide to Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio.

But if there is any way to unlock the immigration stalemate in Washington, colleagues say these two might find it.

A decade ago, the two women spent months in back-room dealmaking sessions as they repeatedly tried to bring lawmakers together on overhauls that would have given legal status to immigrants, secured the border and opened the country to more legal workers. In the process, they formed a friendship that transcended party affiliation.

“What they have is superior knowledge of the subject that exceeds any other staffers and any members,” said Mark Salter, a veteran of immigration battles who served as a top policy adviser and chief of staff to McCain.

As one longtime immigration lobbyist put it: “We hear from everybody that Boehner wants to get to yes but he doesn’t know how. So he hired Becky to find out.”

Tallent, 34, is a key player in writing what Boehner and other House Republicans call guiding principles for an immigration overhaul. The goals are likely to include bolstered border security and enforcement inside the country, fast-track legalization for agricultural laborers, more visas for high-tech workers, and an opportunity for young immigrants who came to the country illegally to become American citizens.

At the White House, Olavarria, 56, is charged with finding a compromise that Democrats and activists can live with. Both sides say they expect the two women to immerse themselves in backchannel talks.

Tallent and Olavarria declined to be interviewed for this article.

MICHAEL D. SHEAR

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014

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A Movie Date, a Text Message and a Fatal Shot WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — There’s a sticker on the door of the Grove 16 Theater just outside Tampa: no weapons.

Curtis J. Reeves Jr. must have walked right past it on Jan. 13 when he went to a matinee with his wife, carrying a .380 handgun.

Judging by later events, Reeves, a 71-year-old retired police captain, seemed more interested in another notice that flashed across the movie screen, the one that warned against talking on the phone or texting during the movie.

Before the movie “Lone Survivor” had even begun, Reeves had killed a phone user, was in handcuffs and faced the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison. The former homicide detective had snuffed the life from a Desert Storm veteran on a movie date with his wife.

“What’s he bringing a gun to the movies for?” said Charles Cummings, a 68-year-old former Marine who was in the row ahead

of Reeves and described him as an “aggressive” old man. “That’s a happy place. No one is going to kill you there, except that he did go there and kill someone.”

“Lone Survivor,” a movie about a covert Navy SEAL operation, was set to start at 1:20 that Monday afternoon. Only about 25 people attended the showing. In front of Reeves was Chad W. Oulson, 43, of Land O’ Lakes, Fla., a finance manager at a motorcycle dealership. Oulson was a 6-foot 4-inch motorcycle enthusiast, whose 22-month-old daughter, Alexis, was at home with a babysitter and not feeling well. So Oulson defied etiquette and texted the sitter.

Cummings remembers Reeves kicking the seat in front of him.

“He was agitated,” he said.

Reeves asked Oulson to quit texting. Oulson kept at it, explaining that he was just communicating about a preschooler. Reeves left in a huff to get a manager, but he returned alone.

Oulson complained about be-

ing tattled on, and the two men exchanged more words. That is when Oulson made what would turn out to be a fatal move.

“He stood up,” said Joseph Detrapani, a friend of Oulson’s, who heard the story later. “That was it.”

This was a boutique theater with rows of large seats that are elevated from one another. Oulson turned to face Reeves and swung the popcorn bag at his side; kernels struck Reeves’ face.

Reeves reacted. Struck in the face by what he told police was a “dark object,” he reached for his .380 and fired, just as his son, Matthew, also a police officer, entered the theater. Oulson was hit once in the chest. Police said Reeves sat down calmly, put the gun on his lap and stared ahead. A sheriff’s deputy from nearby Sumter County who saw the muzzle flash snatched the weapon from him.

Police said Reeves resisted at first and then acquiesced.

The gun was jammed.

FRANCES ROBLES

In Brief Snowden Denies He Was a Spy Edward J. Snowden on Tuesday adamantly denied as “absurd” and “smears” the suggestion by the leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that he might have been a Russian spy when he downloaded archives of classified National Security Agency documents and leaked them to journalists. In an interview with The New Yorker, Snowden declared that the accusation — advanced in particular by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee — was “false,” saying he had “clearly and unambiguously acted alone, with no assistance from anyone, much less a government.” Officials at both the N.S.A. and the F.B.I. have said their investigations have turned up no evidence that Snowden was aided by others.

(NYT)

Former Governor Indicted Former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting some $140,000 in loans and gifts in exchange for promoting the business of a political patron who was seeking special favors from the state government. The 14-count indictment filed by the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia included charges of fraud and soliciting bribes from Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the chief executive of Star Scientific, a maker of dietary supplements, who hoped to use the governor to promote his products. McDonnell has long maintained that he never did anything for Williams or his company that he would not have done for any other Virginia business.

(NYT)

CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Blindsided by the Cold The winter storm that swept through the East Coast seemed to catch many New Yorkers by surprise with its intensity.

In Files, a History of Abuse Thousands of documents gleaned from the personnel files of the Archdiocese of Chicago were released to the public on Tuesday, unspooling a lurid history of abuse by priests and halting responses from bishops in the country’s third-largest archdiocese. In each case, the priests ultimately died or were ousted from ministry, and in most cases, the allegations were never proved in a criminal court. But the documents suggest that church officials were at times quite solicitous toward priests accused of abuse. On Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Chicago published on its website a statement again apologizing for abuse by priests.

(NYT)

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014 4

BUSINESS

THE MARKETS

$2 Billion Deal in the Works for Puerto Rico Puerto Rico, which is battling a financial crisis of high unemployment and a crushing debt load, is under pressure to show investors and credit-rating agencies that it can still borrow from the capital markets.

A group of hedge funds and private equity firms may help it do just that, but at a high price.

Bankers at Morgan Stanley have been reaching out to about a dozen hedge funds, private equity firms and other large investors to gauge their interest in providing up to $2 billion in financing to Puerto Rico, according to people briefed on the discussions.

The talks are fluid, but one of these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the debt could carry yields as high as 10 percent, more than double what a highly rated city or state

pays to borrow in the current municipal debt market.

The proposed financing shows just how dire Puerto Rico’s situation has become. “It’s unprecedented,” said Robert Donahue, managing director at Municipal Market Advisors.

A spokesman for the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, which oversees debt deals for the island, declined to comment. A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman also declined.

Investors have been driving down prices of the island’s bonds in recent months, fearing Puerto Rico could default on its outstanding debts. Hedge funds have already been buying Puerto Rico debt at steep discounts.

The proposed debt deal being cobbled together by Morgan Stanley would be among the larg-

est wagers on Puerto Rico by hedge funds and other so-called alternative investment firms.

Hedge funds are big buyers of debt and stocks of troubled companies, but they are relative newcomers to municipal bonds.

Puerto Rico’s persistent financial problems have taken on a new urgency. Last month, Moody’s Investors Service said it was putting Puerto Rico’s credit rating on review for a downgrade.

A one-notch downgrade by any of the ratings agencies could have painful consequences. About $1 billion of debt repayments would be accelerated and additional collateral would have to be posted for interest rate swaps, according to Moody’s, which now rates Puerto Rico Baa3, one notch above junk.

MICHAEL CORKERY

Heir Apparent at Pimco Says He Will Step Down The giant asset manager Pimco lost its heir apparent and most prominent spokesman on Tuesday when Mohamed A. El-Erian unexpectedly announced he was stepping fown from the company.

His departure is likely to reverberate throughout the global bond market, where Pimco, with nearly $2 trillion in assets, is one of the biggest participants. As co-chief investment officer and chief executive, El-Erian played a major role in Pimco’s investment strategy, which influences the returns earned by the retirement accounts of millions of Americans.

Over the last year, however, Pimco has hit rough waters as its bond funds have struggled, reflecting rising interest rates and

falling bond prices. Last year, investors in the firm’s signature Total Return Fund, which was the largest mutual fund in the world, pulled out more than $40 billion.

Pimco announced on Tuesday that it had “reorganized its leadership structure,” leading to ElErian’s departure.

The move was surprising because El-Erian, 55, has been the public face of Pimco since he rejoined the company in 2007, taking some of the spotlight from the company’s famous founder, William H. Gross.

In 2012, Gross said, “Mohamed is my heir apparent.” On Tuesday, by contrast, Gross took to Twitter to announce: “I’m ready to go for another 40 years.” That would take Gross to his 109th birthday.

A statement from the company said that El-Erian would leave Pimco in March, but keep some leadership roles with Pimco’s parent company, Allianz.

Pimco said on Tuesday that it was elevating two portfolio managers to become deputy chief investment officers under Gross. Douglas M. Hodge, the chief operating officer, has been named chief executive. A Pimco spokesman declined to comment beyond the statement.

El-Erian’s resignation underscores the upheaval in the investment world as rising interest rates put an end to a bond bull market that helped build industry giants like Pimco and BlackRock.

NATHANIEL POPPER and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

JPMorgan Said to Drop Out of Another Offering in China HONG KONG — JPMorgan Chase has removed itself from a potential $1 billion share sale by a Chinese chemical company as an investigation in the United States into hiring practices in China by JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks moves forward, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

JPMorgan previously employed the daughter of the chairman of the chemical company, the privately held Tianhe Chemicals Group, as a junior banker in Hong

Kong, and recently bowed out as a potential underwriter of the company’s planned Hong Kong initial public offering of stock, the people said.

It is at least the second Chinese I.P.O. that the bank has disassociated itself from since The New York Times disclosed the U.S. investigation in August. The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have been investigating whether JPMorgan’s “Sons and Daughters” program of hir-

ing the children of executives at government-owned Chinese companies was directly linked to winning business.

In November, JPMorgan withdrew as one of the underwriters of a share sale for the government-owned China Everbright Bank. JPMorgan previously employed the son of Tang Shuangning, the chairman of the bank’s parent company, the China Everbright Group, a relationship that U.S. investigators have been examining.

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BUSINESS

Europe’s Bonds Back in Vogue Investors Seek Yields, but Analysts Warn of Risk LONDON — When Ireland recently made its first offering of new debt since leaving its bailout program, the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, was already focused on where the money would come from next.

He was in Doha, Qatar, where he and the country’s prime minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, smiled broadly as they posed together. The trip, earlier this month, also included a visit to Dubai.

Kenny next went to Riyadh, where he said he was “very much interested in finding out if the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency could resume purchasing Irish bonds as before.”

Once again, foreign investors are piling into the government bonds of Ireland, Spain and Portugal — countries that got into such debt trouble that they required bailouts. Now these countries are able to sell their bonds at lower interest rates than they have seen in years.

And yet, there are still few signs of relief from the deeper-rooted economic woes that have trapped much of the euro zone in a slump for more than five years. Despite the suddenly easier terms under which Ireland and other recov-

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ering euro zone countries can borrow, these countries are still mired in stagnation.

If investors are betting on Europe’s recovery, it is hardly a norisk gamble. “Things are going better, but they are by no means good,” said Jacob Kirkegaard, who tracks Europe at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

The ratio of Ireland’s debt to its economic output has nearly doubled — to an estimated 124 percent last year, up from 64.4 percent in 2009. And although it technically emerged from its international rescue program in December, Ireland will still be paying off about $91 billion in bailout money for years to come.

Real estate is selling again in central Dublin, but unemployment remains high and economic growth slow in Ireland and other bailedout European countries.

For the euro zone at large, a step back often follows each step forward. France and Italy, the bloc’s second- and third-largest economies, are increasingly seen as the latest sick men of the Continent. Even Germany, the bloc’s powerhouse, grew only feebly last year, by 0.4 percent.

“Europe is hardly roaring back to life,” said Nicholas Spiro, the managing director of Spiro Sovereign Strategy in London. “Talk about a recovery — the European Central Bank is still mulling measures to ward off the threat of deflation,” he added. “That speaks volumes of the weakness of the euro zone economy, and yet investors are piling into euro zone debt.”

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Banks Take On Debt, Despite Underlying Problems ATHENS — A wave of euphoria has swept over financial markets because investors now think Europe’s sovereign debt crisis may be ending. But the enthusiasm masks a lingering problem. The austerity programs used to regain their confidence have fanned recessions and high unemployment across Southern Europe.

Emboldened by promises from Europe’s central bank to do “whatever it takes” to keep a financial crisis at bay, investors are rewarding countries for sticking to their medicine. In the rush to grab profits, said Mohamed A. El-Erian, the chief executive of Pimco, one of the world’s largest bond investors, “investors are choosing to overlook all sorts of things.”

With deficits starting to decline in some countries, and tentative signs of recovery emerging in others, investors are again will-

ing to finance European governments at affordable rates. Banks have been loading up on European sovereign debt, scrambling to profit from returns among the most lucrative in the world.

Borrowing costs for Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Greece have fallen to levels not seen since 2010.

“The market is honoring fiscal improvement,” said Rainer Guntermann, an analyst at Commerzbank, which is based in Frankfurt.

In Ireland, which stuck to a harsh austerity plan and recently became the first euro zone country to leave a bailout, yields on the benchmark 10-year bond have fallen to 3.2 percent. That is well below 14 percent at the height of the crisis.

Spain’s borrowing costs have dropped to the lowest levels since 2006, and Portugal’s have fallen to the lowest since 2010. Even the

bonds of Greece, one of Europe’s sickest economies, are trading at 7 percent in the secondary market, down from nearly 50 percent less than two years ago.

Signs suggest an economic recovery, though economists debate how much austerity had to do with it. The economies of the 18-member euro bloc fell 0.4 percent last year after a 0.7 decline in 2012. A mild recovery of 1.1 percent is forecast for this year.

Nevertheless, the sweep of the improved sentiment toward the euro zone has alarms ringing.

Rising long-term unemployment, the high rate of jobless youth and the low level of economic growth coinciding with rising debt levels strongly suggest that the economies of these countries are still not healthy. “There are pretty alarming numbers,” El-Erian said. “All of these things have not been solved.” LIZ ALDERMAN

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Delta Air Lines Inc., up $1.01 to $32.08. Higher fares and rising yield — a measure of what each passenger pays to fly one mile — pushed the airline’s quarterly profits skyward.

The Dow Chemical Co., up $2.86 to $45.93. Dan Loeb revealed a new stake in the chemical maker, the largest investment for his hedge fund, Third Point.

Arch Coal Inc., down 14 cents to $4.18. The company said weak shipments in the Powder River Basin and lower production at the Mountain Laurel complex would trim its fourth-quarter results.

Alcoa Inc., up 77 cents to $12.13.

JPMorgan Chase lifted its rating on the aluminum maker to “overweight” from “neutral” and raised its price target to $15 from $9.

YRC Worldwide Inc., up $1.73 to $17.55. The trucking company reached a tentative deal with the Teamsters, giving it more breathing room as it attempts a turnaround.

Expedia Inc., down $3.02 to $67.67.

The news site SearchEngineLand reported that the online travel site is being punished by Google for trying to manipulate Internet traffic.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014 6

DINING

Women Making a Change in the Kitchen Last week at Marea, a New York haunt of the powerful and the polished, Lauren DeSteno moved up from executive sous-chef to chef de cuisine. It may sound like a mere tweak of a title, but in a small way it is revolutionary.

The promotion puts her in charge of one of the highest-earning kitchens in New York, where four male sous-chefs and 20 other cooks report to her. And though previous generations of female chefs had to fight past widespread sexism and a locker-room work culture to reach the top, at 31, DeSteno is calm, confident and entirely unsurprised by her success.

“In a good kitchen,” she said, “male and female really doesn’t matter anymore. You get the work done, you handle yourself professionally — because kitchens can still be crazy places — and you go home.”

DeSteno is living an idea whose time may have finally come: that one’s sex has exactly nothing to do with the real work of a chef. In baby steps, the American restaurant kitchen — a high-pressure arena that still bears the image of the tough-talking, pot-throwing male cook — is beginning to reflect that idea.

A leading kitchen run by a woman is no longer newsworthy.

But it is not quite commonplace, either; the tag “woman chef” is still applied to Anita Lo, Barbara

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Taking a Journey Via Cheese Wheel Certain cheeses transport you.

My first taste of raw milk Brie as a student in Paris had me almost dizzy with delight.

I felt similarly moved last spring at Gramercy Tavern, as I savored a portion of Winnimere from Cellars at Jasper Hill in Vermont, decadent cheese made from raw milk only during winter months when the cows eat hay, resulting in a creamier-textured cheese.

The only disappointment was that I had discovered it so late in the season. But now the mas-

Lauren DeSteno recently took charge at Marea in New York.

Lynch, April Bloomfield, Dominique Crenn and dozens of others. Certainly the most visible chefs are men, a fact made clear in November by a Time magazine spread that showcased its list of the world’s most influential chefs, with not a woman among them.

Even though male chefs are still more prevalent, a new vanguard of American women is coming up right behind them.

“Leaving was not an option for me,” said Alex Raij, who owns three popular Spanish restaurants in New York with her husband, Eder Montero; the couple have two children under age 5. “I don’t know how to do anything else.”

For decades, chefs of both sexes truly believed that the inequality was inevitable. The same stereotypes used to keep women out of armed combat, off the judicial bench and out of medical school were invoked to explain why women didn’t stick it out in the kitchen. The work, it was said, is too physically demanding and psychologically grueling; the hours, too incompatible with family life. But a younger generation isn’t having it.

“A lot of jobs have tough schedules; a lot of jobs are physically demanding,” DeSteno said.

“Nurses work weird hours. Police officers have hard jobs. You deal with it.”

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terfully complex Winnimere is available again. Its rind, washed in local beer and bound with a strip of spruce bark, encloses an unctuous, satin interior that harbors scents of fruit and smoke and has mellow richness with tangy undertones of earth: $29.95 for a wheel (about 1.2 pounds) and $14.99 for half a wheel at Murray’s Cheese stores; $32.99 from murrayscheese.com.

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If You Give a Cookie Some Stuffing Forget all the bad, soggy oatmeal cookies you’ve ever had. Picture instead a moistcentered, butterscotch-imbued cookie flecked with nubby oats. Add toasted coconut. Then subtract any chewy raisins and substitute A Good sweet, soft dates. This was what I was going for the last time I Appetite whipped up oatmeal cookies.

Melissa Then I thought of my childhood neighbor’s kitchen. It was there Clark that I became acquainted with oatmeal sandwich cookies with the icing in the center. That was what my cookies needed.

OATMEAL SANDWICH COOKIES

Time: 1 hour 15 minutes Yield: About 18 sandwiches For the cookies: 80 grams sweetened coconut flakes (fl cup) 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 330 grams packed dark brown sugar (1fl cups) 2 tablespoons honey 2 large room temperature eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 190 grams all-purpose flour (1› cups)

7 grams fine sea salt (1 teaspoon) 3 grams baking powder (1 teaspoon) 8 grams ground cinnamon (4 teaspoons) 260 grams rolled oats (3 cups) 100 grams dates, pitted and chopped (› cup) 65 grams granulated sugar (5 tablespoons) For the filling: 6 ounces cream cheese, softened 6 tablespoons mascarpone 25 grams confectioner’s sugar (3 tablespoons) 1› teaspoons vanilla extract 1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spread coconut flakes on a rimmed baking sheet. Toast, stirring occasionally, until lightly colored and fragrant, 7 to 10 minutes. Cool. Raise oven temperature to 375 degrees.

2. In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter until light. Beat in brown sugar and honey, then beat until very fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in vanilla.

3. In another large bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder and 1 teaspoon (2 grams) cinnamon. With the mixer set on low, beat flour mixture into butter mixture until combined.

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Beat in oats, dates and toasted coconut.

4. Line three baking sheets with parchment paper. In a small bowl, stir together granulated sugar and remaining cinnamon. Roll heaping tablespoonfuls of dough into balls, then roll balls in cinnamon sugar; transfer to baking sheet, leaving about 1› inches of space between dough balls. Bake until cookies are golden brown, about 15 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 2 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

5. Make the filling: Using the electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in mascarpone, confectioner’s sugar and vanilla. Scrape down sides of bowl. Sandwich about 1 tablespoon of filling between two cookies; repeat with the remaining filling and cookies.

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JOURNAL

Language by the Book, but the Book Is Evolving O.E.D. For the first time in 20 years, the venerable dictionary has a new chief editor, Michael Proffitt, who assumes the responsibility of retaining the vaunted traditions while ensuring relevance in an era of Googled definitions and text talk. “My idea about dictionaries is that, in a way, their time has come,” Proffitt said. “People need filters much more than they did in the past.”

Proffitt advocates links in digitized literature to O.E.D. entries; he wants more use by students, whose distinction between “dictionary” and “web search” is increasingly blurred; he is also willing to license O.E.D. data to other companies.

The O.E.D. has stood apart, partly for

OXFORD, England — To compile a dictionary of nearly every word in the English language was an endeavor typical of Victorian times, complete with white-bearded gentlemen, utter confidence and an endearingly plodding pace. After a quarter-century, the first installment emerged in 1884. Its contents? “A to Ant.” In our own impatient age, the Oxford English Dictionary is touch-typing toward a third edition, with 619,000 words defined so far, online updates every three months and a permagush of digital data to sort through. Earnest editors frown at flat screens. For all the words here, few are spoken aloud.

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authoritative definitions but chiefly for its unmatched historical quotations, which trace usage through time. The first edition, proposed in 1858 with completion expected in 10 years, was only finished 70 years later, in 1928. The second edition came out in 1989, at a length of 21,730 pages. Work on the third started in 1994, with hope of completion in 2005.

That was off slightly — by about 32 years, according to the current guess of 2037.

But for all the admirable rigor of the O.E.D., nowadays the dictionary is probably more revered than used. Part of the problem is price. A copy of the 20-volume second edition costs $995, with a one-year digital subscription running $295 — a hard sell when so many research tools are free online.

Although the O.E.D. survived the Internet upheavals that devastated other reference works, it has yet to capitalize fully on the potential online audience. Proffitt is eager to do so, perhaps with lower prices, certainly with tweaks to the website and less stuffy definitions.

“A lot of the first principles of the O.E.D. stand firm, but how it manifests has to change, and how it reaches people has to change,” said Proffitt, who speaks with a faint Scottish accent and a lexicographer’s habit of qualifying his speech with subheadings, historical references, alternate meanings.

Proffitt, taking charge of the most esteemed record of the most global language, may face criticism however he acts. Some will complain if he brings change, others if he resists it. But years of working with words offered a particular perspective.

“It makes you, broadly speaking, more tolerant or calmer or placid,” he said, hastening to add: “I don’t know whether those words are appropriate. But seeing the historical context often persuades you that what seemed like a hard-and-fast rule is not. And, similarly to the way the language changes, its uses change. The more flexible that people are about language use, then probably the more they thrive.”

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014 8

OPINION

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Another Syria Peace Conference

Drought and Syria

Few peace conferences have been set up amid the unrelenting pessimism that surrounds the talks involving Syria that open Wednesday in Switzerland. While a peace agreement is unlikely to be reached soon, the meeting can still produce useful results. That has to be the approach of the conveners, including the United States, Russia and the United Nations. Crucial early goals should include a cease-fire and the delivery of humanitarian assistance to millions of desperate civilians.

There were some shaky moments before the conference even got started, not least when the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, issued a last-minute invitation for Iran to attend, then rescinded it after strong objections from America. from Saudi Arabia and from the Syrian opposition. The United States has said that Iran could not participate without publicly accepting a 2012 communiqué that stipulates that the goal is a transitional administration by “mutual consent” of the Assad government and the opposition.

Iran has refused to accept any preconditions.

Just how the invitation from the United Nations was fumbled is unclear, but it is unfortunate that some diplomatic solution could not have been found to include Iran.

The deaths of thousands of civilians have not persuaded Russia and Iran to break with Assad or at least pressure him to end the slaughter and cruelty against civilians. Iran might have ensured itself a seat at the peace conference if it had promised to suspend arms

deliveries while negotiations were underway or persuaded Assad to call a cease-fire. And there are good reasons for Russia and Iran to play a constructive role. The civil war has drawn affiliates of Al Qaeda and other Sunni extremists to the Syrian battlefield, and these could eventually be a threat to Shiite-led Iran as well as Russia.

The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, acknowledged this problem generally, asserting that “the continuation of this tragedy in Syria can only provide the best breeding ground for extremists who use this basically as a justification, as a recruiting climate, in order to wage the same type of activity in other parts of this region.”

The peace conference is already providing a service by refocusing attention on the savagery of the war. On Monday, a team of legal and forensic experts commissioned by the government of Qatar said that thousands of photographs showed scarred, emaciated corpses that offered “direct evidence” of mass torture

by Syrian government forces.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have also accused opposition forces, as well as the government, of human rights abuses. In all, more than 100,000 Syrians are believed to have been killed in the war, many by government forces that have bombed cities and deprived civilians of food and other essential needs. It is well past time to say “enough” to more civilian deaths — and exactly the right time for a cease-fire and secure deliveries of humanitarian supplies.

A Rebuff to Overbroad Watch Lists Public trials are a cornerstone of a democratic society. But in the looking-glass world of legal challenges to the federal government’s terror watch lists, even people who succeed in showing that they were mistakenly included on such a list have no easy path around the walls of official secrecy and obstruction.

On Jan. 14, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Department of Homeland Security had to correct its erroneous inclusion of a Malaysian academic on the no-fly list. At the same time, however, U.S. District Judge William Alsup kept his actual ruling under seal until the court of appeals can weigh in.

The case involved Rahinah Ibrahim, a professor of architecture and design who had been a doctoral student at Stanford University. She sued the government after she was stopped from boarding a flight to Hawaii in 2005, handcuffed and detained in a holding cell.

Officials later released her and said she had been mistakenly placed on the no-fly list, apparently because a professional group she was affiliated with had a name similar to that of a terrorist organization. Ibrahim flew to Hawaii and then on to Malaysia, but when she tried to return to the United States she found that her student visa had been revoked.

In a three-page summary of his ruling, Alsup found that Ibrahim’s due process rights had been violated. He ordered the government to correct its mistake and to certify under oath that it had done so. The ruling is a significant victory for government accountability, and it could be one for transparency, too, depending on how the appeals process plays out.

Alsup reluctantly agreed to seal his full verdict until April 15 in order to give the federal appeals court time to address the ruling.

Meanwhile, the government continues to resist the release of the judge’s verdict, even though it has admitted that Ibrahim’s inclusion on the no-fly list was a “regrettable mistake” and has conceded that she “is not a threat to our national security.”

And Ibrahim is far from alone. Terror watch lists remain pointlessly overbroad, with more than 875,000 names scattered among about a dozen lists. (The no-fly list, which consisted of 16 names before Sept. 11, 2001, had approximately 21,000 names as of early 2012.)

After more than eight years and countless court proceedings, none of which Ibrahim was allowed to attend, she has won a measure of justice. But it should not have been this difficult.

In the 1970s, I got both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in modern Middle East studies, and I can assure you that at no time did environmental or climate issues appear anywhere in the syllabi of my courses. Today, you can’t understand the Arab awakenings — or their solutions — without considering climate, environment and population stresses.

I’ve been reporting on the connection between the Syrian drought and the uprising there for a Showtime documentary that will air in April, but recently our researchers came across a WikiLeaks cable that brilliantly foreshadowed how environmental stresses would fuel the uprising. Sent on Nov. 8, 2008, from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to the State Department, the cable details how Syria’s U.N. food and agriculture representative, Abdullah bin Yehia, was seeking drought assistance from the U.N. and wanted the U.S. to contribute. n “The U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs launched an appeal on September 29 requesting roughly $20.23 million to assist an estimated one million people impacted by what the U.N. describes as the country’s worst drought in four decades.” n “Yehia proposes to use money from the appeal to provide seed and technical assistance to 15,000 small-holding farmers in northeast Syria in an effort to preserve the social and economic fabric of this rural, agricultural community. If UNFAO efforts fail, Yehia predicts mass migration from the northeast, which could act as a multiplier on social and economic pressures already at play and undermine stability.”

Yehia was prophetic. By 2010, roughly one million Syrian farmers, herders and their families were forced off the land into already overpopulated and underserved cities. These climate refugees were crowded together with one million Iraqi war refugees. The Assad regime failed to effectively help any of them, so when the Arab awakenings erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian democrats followed suit and quickly found many willing recruits from all those dislocated by the drought.

But also consider this: Last May 9, The Times of Israel quoted Israeli geographer Arnon Soffer as observing that in the past 60 years, the population in the Middle East has twice doubled. “There is no example of this anywhere else on earth.”

And, finally, consider this: “In the future, who will help a country like Syria when it gets devastated by its next drought if we are in a world where everyone is dealing with something like a Superstorm Sandy,” which alone cost the U.S. $60 billion to clean up? asks Joe Romm, founder of ClimateProgress.org.

So to Iran and Saudi Arabia, who are funding the proxy war in Syria between Sunnis and Shiites/Alawites, all I can say is that you’re fighting for control of a potential human/ecological disaster zone. You need to be working together to rebuild Syria’s resiliency, and its commons, not destroying it.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014 9

SPORTS

In Brief

Wawrinka Refuses to Fold Against Djokovic MELBOURNE, Australia — Stanislas Wawrinka’s forehand sailed wide on break point in the fourth set, and Novak Djokovic screamed. Then he screamed again. Then he screamed once more. He screamed as if he had won the tournament. He screamed as if he had won the lottery. He screamed so loud, for so long, the chair umpire issued a warning.

The scene felt familiar: Djokovic against Wawrinka in a Grand Slam contest, the match more like a marathon, Wawrinka close, but Djokovic beginning to pull ahead.

It felt that way until their Australian Open quarterfinal ended with Wawrinka in front, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 9-7. As the final point concluded, Wawrinka’s face registered the most shock of all.

Same movie, different ending.

For Djokovic, a horror flick.

Wawrinka won their latest duel more than Djokovic, the defending champion here, lost it. Still, the final 2 points unfolded as if an understudy had subbed in.

At 30-30 in the final game, Djokovic slid into a forehand chip shot, one he intended to hit at an extreme cross-court angle. It sailed wide. On match point, Djokovic served-and-volleyed, and Wawrinka, perhaps surprised, popped up a return.

Djokovic settled underneath the volley but mis-hit it off the forehand side. He watched as it floated long.

Just like that, the latest installation of Djokovic-Wawrinka ended.

It could now officially be called a rivalry, now that Wawrinka had secured a Grand Slam triumph, snapped a 14-match losing streak to Djokovic and ended Djokovic’s 28-match winning streak and his

streak of 14 straight semifinal appearances in major tournaments.

“Now, I’m going to go in the ice bath for a long, long time,” Wawrinka said, and, as proof, he posted a picture on his Twitter page.

At stake was a berth in the men’s singles semifinals, opposite Tomas Berdych, who made some personal history Tuesday. By virtue of his 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 victory over David Ferrer, Berdych, seeded seventh, has now advanced at least as far as the semifinals in each Grand Slam tournament but has not won a final.

That made for a good story, but it was not Djokovic-Wawrinka, now tennis-speak for “settle in, this is going to take a while.”

In two singles tournaments now devoid of Americans and Australians, the Serbian player and the Swiss put on another show.

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Players Wanted Rodriguez Out of Union, Source Says Several angry major league players wanted Alex Rodriguez kicked out of their union after he sued it last week, but staff lawyers told them expulsion was not allowed.

The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrator’s decision suspending him for the 2014 season and postseason.

Details were first reported Tuesday by Yahoo Sports and later confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the call. The person spoke on con-

dition of anonymity.

The union and a spokesman for Rodriguez, Ron Berkowitz, declined comment.

The union will incur costs of defending the lawsuit by the New York Yankees third baseman, who claimed in the suit that it “breached its duty of fair representation to Mr. Rodriguez.” The union retained Michael Rubin and Barbara J. Chisholm of the San Francisco firm Altshuler Berzon to defend it, according to a court filing Tuesday.

Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games by baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on Aug. 5, and the union filed a grievance contend-

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ing the discipline was without “just cause.” The penalty was reduced to 162 games plus the 2014 postseason by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, who concluded that Rodriguez violated baseball’s drug agreement each year from 2010 to 2012 and twice obstructed M.L.B.’s investigation in violation of the sport’s labor contract.

Rodriguez agreed to a $275 million, 10-year contract with the Yankees after the 2007 season.

Horowitz’s decision cost Rodriguez $22.13 million of his $25 million salary this year. The threetime A.L. most valuable player is owed $61 million by the Yankees from 2015 to 2017.

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Defending Champ Out Victoria Azarenka’s 18-match winning streak at the Australian Open ended in an upset 6-1, 5-7, 6-0 quarterfinal loss to Agnieszka Radwanska on Wednesday to continue the flow of stars tumbling out of the season’s first major. Fifth-seeded Radwanska ended her streak of three consecutive quarterfinal defeats at the Australian Open with a stunning display of versatile shot-making that shocked and confused the big-hitting Azarenka.

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Devils Come Up Big The few hardy fans who made it through the snowstorm to Newark on Tuesday saw the Devils skate to their biggest victory of the season, a 7-1 trouncing of the St. Louis Blues. Seven players scored for the Devils, including Damien Brunner, who returned to play after missing 14 games.

(NYT)

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SPORTS JOURNAL

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2014

Knicks Have a Star Magnet: Courtside Seats They call it Celebrity Row, the six prime courtside seats in Madison Square Garden reserved for the three most prominent celebrities (plus guests) at any given Knicks game. For the game against the Miami Heat on Jan. 9, they were filled by an actor, a musician and a model: David Duchovny, Paul Simon and Kate Upton.

No other basketball team except the Los Angeles Lakers celebrates the presence of big-name fans at its games as aggressively as the New York Knicks do.

“If you’re an A-level person and we know the fans are going to go bananas when your picture goes up on the scoreboard, then there’s a value having you there,” said Barry Watkins, the Madison Square Garden company’s executive vice president for communications and administration.

The Garden has an ad-hoc celebrity-handling team whose members determine who in fact counts as a celebrity and to what degree; pursue relationships with those people; and deflect demands from lower-level personalities who wish they were celebrities but in fact are not.

The arena has lots of seats suitable for famous people, including courtside spots not along Celebrity Row. Depending on demand and availability, the Garden often finds itself accommodating 20 or

Redfoo, far left, of the duo LMFAO sitting beside Victoria Azarenka, with Phil Collins, third from right. and this time they saw a famous person they referred to as “that baseKATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS ball player.”

For a brief, giddy moment the more celebrities at a time.

During the games, the trans- other night, the pair thought they mission of celebrity images is had spotted Kim Kardashian.

“It was like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve just one of many diversions the Garden uses to keep the crowd seen her,’ ” Sabrina said.

They immediately posted the perpetually entertained. Some fans find this more thrilling than news on Instagram and other social media outlets, only to realothers.

At a recent game against the ize they had been mistaken. “We Phoenix Suns, Samir Patel, 43, tweeted it,” Ariana said, “but then who owns a liquor store in Parsip- we had to un-tweet it.”

Watkins said that the Garden pany, N.J., pronounced himself mystified by the evening’s ce- occasionally gets snippy queries lebrity offerings, which included for “front row or nothing” tickets, Michael Zegen, identified on the to which the Garden’s response screen as an actor from “Rescue is, generally, “nothing.” Leslie Me.” “I’ve heard of ‘Rescue Me,’ Sloane Zelnik, co-president of BWR Public Relations, said that but not him,” he said sadly.

But Sabrina Rogers and Ariana most of her clients are grateful to Bruschi, both 17-year-old high get tickets at all.

“I’ve honestly had A-listers sit school students from New Hyde Park, N.Y., said that to them, it was in the second or third row and not all about fame. Once they spotted complain,” she said.

SARAH LYALL Chris Rock at a game, they said,

At 19, Self-Confidence to Match Rising Tennis Game MELBOURNE, Australia — Eugenie Bouchard is in the Australian Open semifinals because she never thought she was not supposed to be.

With a sense of purpose and belonging on the big stage that eludes many more experienced players, Bouchard came back to defeat Ana Ivanovic, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2, in her quarterfinal match Tuesday.

Bouchard, a 19-year-old who goes by Genie, came to Melbourne last year ranked No. 145 and lost in the second round of the qualifying draw. This year, she came to Melbourne ranked 31st after a season of rapid improvement that earned her the WTA Newcomer of the Year award.

Seeded 30th, she avoided facing another seeded player as she navigated her way through the first four rounds. In the quarterfinals, she overcame the 14th-seeded Ivanovic, a resurgent former

No. 1, who had stunned Serena Williams in the fourth round.

“You gotta start from the bottom and now we’re here, right?”

Bouchard joked in an interview on the eve of her quarterfinal, coopting lyrics from the Canadian rapper Drake.

Bouchard is the first Canadian player to reach the Australian Open semifinals in singles. She is also the first Canadian to advance further than all American men and women in the singles draws at a Grand Slam in the Open era, which began in 1968.

Bouchard is normally nonchalant about her achievements, but that particular North American supremacy appealed to her immediately. “That’s really cool,” she said. “That’s an honor. I’ll take that.”

In her semifinal match Thursday, Bouchard will take on fourthseeded Li Na. Li lost only four

games in her 6-2, 6-2 win over No. 28 Flavia Pennetta on Tuesday.

In Bouchard, Li will face a player 12 years younger than Pennetta, to the day.

While many are surprised by just how quickly her success has come, Bouchard said she tried to act as if she has “been there before” on the biggest stages.

“I do try to walk around like I belong there, and play like I belong, and every time I walk on the court I believe I can win,” she said.

Following her has been the Genie Army, a group of Australian fans who dress in red and white and sing and chant during her matches. Starting in the second round, a member of the group has given her a stuffed animal after each victory. Four wins later, Bouchard has a plush menagerie, with a kangaroo, a koala, a kookaburra and a wombat.

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In Brief Durant Scores 46 Kevin Durant scored 11 of his 46 points in the final 3:23 to help the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Portland Trail Blazers 10597 on Tuesday night. Durant has scored at least 30 points for eight consecutive games, the longest such streak of his career. LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and 16 rebounds and Wesley Matthews added 21 points for Portland (31-11).

(AP)

Teenager Makes Team Maggie Voisin, 15, will be the youngest member of the United States Olympic team after being named to compete in the slopestyle skiing event. The halfpipe skier Torin Yater-Wallace also got a spot five weeks after breaking his ribs in training. Simon Dumont, one of the most decorated veterans on the halfpipe, was left off the team. He hurt his knee in practice last Friday.

(AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

MCPON Talks Future Force at SNA

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean Hurt, Defense Media Activity

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike Stevens outlined his key concerns about the future force of the Navy during a speech Jan. 16 at the 26th Annual Surface Navy Association National Symposium.

Stevens said the future force he envisions would be built upon strength through diversity, which includes opening more combat roles to women.

“We’ve made a lot of progress in that area,” said Stevens. “The Navy’s been working on this a long time.

In 2016 we plan on putting [female] enlisted Sailors on our Virginia class submarines.

This is an exciting time for women to serve in the Navy because of all the opportunities

that are out there.”

Stevens also talked about the drawdown in Afghanistan and the impact it would have on the individual augmentee program.

“In 2012, we had 6,812 Sailors in individual augmentee billets,” said Stevens. “In 2013, that number dropped to 4,300. That’s a

48-percent reduction over the last three years. Right now, the Navy as a force is 324,000 strong. The good news is there’s no plan right now to draw the Navy down any smaller.”

Stevens also spoke about suicide and its impact on the force. “[Suicide] is a tragic event

when it occurs. It impacts readiness, it impacts the morale of our units,” said Stevens. “The good news is we’re seeing the trends come down. We’ve seen our numbers drop from last year [2012] to this year [2013] by 18.”

Stevens also condemned the prevalence of sexual assault in the military.

“Sexual assault is going to be the challenge of our time,” said Stevens. “It’s a tragedy, it’s a crime, and it undermines the very fabric of who we are as an organization.”

Stevens said that although the problem will not be fixed overnight, he is optimistic about the steps leaders are taking to correct sexual assault in the ranks.

VCNO visits Navy students at Naval Station Newport From Defense Media Activity

Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mark E. Ferguson completed a two-day visit to Naval Station Newport, R.I., Jan 14-15, to meet with officers and senior enlisted students at several training commands on the base.

Adm. Ferguson was met by Rear Adm. Walter E. “Ted” Carter, Jr., Naval War College president, who said it was important for the students to hear directly from the Navy’s senior leaders.

“We truly appreciate having our most senior naval leaders, like Adm. Ferguson, visit us at the Naval War College to

share their insights,” said NWC President Rear Adm. Walter E. “Ted” Carter. “Hearing what leaders have to say is an important part of the educational experience for our students, to include our joint and international students, and Adm. Ferguson certainly gave them much to consider.”

During the visit, Adm. Ferguson met with students at the Naval War College, Surface Warfare Officer’s School, U.S. Naval Academy Prep School, and the Senior Enlisted Academy. He also met with prospective major commanders, commanding officers, executive officers, Command

Master Chiefs, and Chiefs of the Boat who are attending the Command Leadership School.

“This was a great opportunity to engage senior enlisted leaders and officers at various points along the leader development continuum and to underscore the importance of accountability and ethical behavior,” explained Adm. Ferguson.

Naval War College students studying leadership, management, and strategy development enjoyed the opportunity to discuss these concepts with the Navy’s second in command.

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