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The violent crash ejected Tony from his seat catapulting him through the windshield. He died instantly.

Machinery Repairman 2nd Class Brandi Garnett lost her brother that night, but learned a valuable lesson about the dangers of texting and driving.

Garnett’s father called her at work the afternoon Tony crashed to tell her what happened.

“I didn’t believe it,” said Garnett. “I didn’t want to.”

Tony was just 35 years old and a father of two teenage girls when he passed away.

Garnett admits she used to text and drive too, but losing her brother changed everything.

“I’m sure if my brother didn’t die I would be texting and driving,” said Garnett. “I used to be the queen of texting and driving, but now, learning from experience with my brother’s death, I don’t text while I drive.”

According to the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration, texting while driving is six times more likely to cause an accident than driving while intoxicated.

Texting while driving is dangerous because cell phones are an added distraction.

“I hate to see somebody texting and driving, because you don’t know who you’re affecting,” said Garnett. “If you’re trying to text, you’re not even looking at the road and you could lose control. You have to think about other people, before texting and driving.”

According to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, the average person takes their eyes off the road for approximately five seconds while texting, which is equivalent to driving blind during that time. At 55 miles per hour, that’s enough time to drive from one end of a football field to the other.

“Drivers can prevent accidents caused by texting while driving by turning their phone off or putting it on silent while driving,” said Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Ron Walters, the leading petty officer of Theodore Roosevelt’s Safety department. “You can’t check your phone if you can’t hear it.”

Texting while driving may seem innocent enough, but the cost could be incalculable. Although Garnett’s brother didn’t hurt anybody but himself, his actions still affected his loved ones. Tony’s children lost a father, his parents lost a son and Garnett lost a brother.

Sailors should ask themselves if sending one text while driving is really worth risking their lives and the lives of others.

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Paul Pushes Libertarianism From Fringe OBAMA PURSUING A MODEST AGENDA IN STATE OF UNION The libertarian faithful — antitax activists and war protesters, John Birch Society members and a smattering of “truthers” who suspect the government’s hand in the 2001 terrorist attacks — gathered last September, eager to see the rising star of their movement.

With top billing on the opening night of the Liberty Political Action Conference, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told the audience at an airport Marriott in Virginia the Republican Party must reach out to young people and minorities.

But not long after the applause died down, Paul was out the door.

He skipped an address by his father, former Rep. Ron Paul, as well as closing remarks by Jack Hunter, his former Senate aide, an ex-radio host who had once celebrated Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and extolled white pride as “the Southern Avenger.”

The senator was off to a resort on Mackinac Island, Mich. But this time he was in the company of Karl Rove and other power brokers, and his audience was Republican stalwarts who were sizing up possible presidential candidates.

As Paul tries to broaden his appeal, he is also trying to take libertarianism, an ideology on the fringes of U.S. politics, into the mainstream. Midway through his

first term, he has become a prominent voice in Washington.

In the months since he commanded national attention and bipartisan praise for his 13-hour filibuster against the Obama administration’s drone program, Paul has impressed G.O.P. leaders with his staying power.

“Senator Paul is a credible national c a n d i d a t e ,” Mitt Romney said.

As he has Rand Paul become a politician in his own right and tours the circuit of early primary states, Paul calls himself a libertarian Republican.

“I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship,” Paul said in an interview.

Some of the Libertarian movement’s adherents have formulated provocative theories on race, class and American history, and routinely voice beliefs that go far beyond the antiwar, anti-big-government, pro-civil-liberties message of the broader movement that has drawn legions of college students, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Tea Party activists.

That worldview emerges from

the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama, started with money raised by the senior Paul. It is named for the Austrian émigré who became the godfather of libertarian economic thinking, devoted to an unrestricted free market.

Paul says he abhors racism, has never visited the institute, and should not have to answer for the views of other libertarians.

In recent months, potential rivals for leadership of the G.O.P. have depicted him as an extremist. Before the recent investigations into political abuses by his administration, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said Paul’s “strain of libertarianism” is “very dangerous.” And Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told donors in Manhattan that Paul could not escape Ron Paul’s ideological history.

“Unlike his father, he’s not interested in educating,” said John Samples, a Cato Institute analyst.

“He’s interested in winning.”

Paul sometimes muses aloud about his prospects in 2016. “Imagine what a general election would be like if it were myself and Hillary Clinton,” he said. The Democrat would be more hawkish than the Republican. “You’d totally turn topsy-turvy the whole political spectrum.” SAM TANENHAUS and JIM RUTENBERG

Opposition in Ukraine Rejects Power Share Offer KIEV, Ukraine — In a striking concession aimed at defusing Ukraine’s civil uprising and preserving his own grip on power, President Viktor F. Yanukovych on Saturday offered to install opposition leaders in top posts in a reshaped government, but they swiftly rebuffed the offer to the delight of thousands of protesters on the street craving a fuller victory in the days ahead.

With mass protests spreading across the country, Yanukovych proposed one opposition figure, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, as prime minister and another, the former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, as vice prime minister for humanitarian affairs.

Yatsenyuk is a leader of Fatherland, the party of Yanukovych’s

archrival, the jailed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko.

“No deal,” Yatsenyuk wrote on Twitter, addressing Yanukovych as thousands of angry protesters streamed to the still-occupied Independence Square, undeterred by the biting cold. “We’re finishing what we started,” he added.

“The people decide our leaders, not you.”

In a speech from the stage on the square, and in a news conference afterward, Yatsenyuk expressed more flexibility but insisted that the embattled president was no longer in a position to dictate the terms of a deal. “We have our conditions,” he said, “not your conditions.”

Those conditions, Yatsenyuk said, would include reconsidera-

tion of the far-reaching political and free trade agreements with the European Union that Yanukovych had promised to sign, but then abandoned. That decision set off the protests in late November.

Yatsenyuk also said Tymoshenko must be released from prison as European leaders have insisted.

Many demonstrators on the streets of Kiev, the capital, including some involved in violent clashes with the police, have been demanding Yanukovych’s resignation, which he did not offer.

And the fury of the crowd made clear that the leaders would almost certainly have faced a mutiny had they accepted the deal.

DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

WASHINGTON — His ambitions in check and his eye on the calendar, President Obama intends to use his State of the Union address to put a difficult year behind him and reassert command before the capital is consumed with election-year politics.

After five years in office, Obama has, by his own account, come to feel the constraints on his power and the shrinking horizons before him — all of which makes his nationally televised speech to Congress on Tuesday a critical opportunity to drive an agenda that may yet shape his legacy.

But Obama confronts the reality that, except for a possible overhaul of immigration, he has little chance of major legislative victories in the coming year. As a result, aides said, he will present a blueprint for “a year of action” on issues like income inequality and the environment that bypasses Congress and exercises his authority as president to the greatest extent possible. “He’s got to convey a sense of focus and forward momentum,” said Jeff Shesol, a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton.

After failing to push through gun control legislation and other priorities he raised in last year’s State of the Union address, Obama must take a different approach. In an email to supporters Saturday, the president’s senior adviser, Dan Pfeiffer, characterized Obama’s message as “opportunity, action and optimism” and promised “a set of real, concrete, practical proposals” to boost the economy and expand opportunity.

Obama will still use the speech to push for an immigration overhaul, where Republicans have signaled they may compromise, as well as for a higher minimum wage, more infrastructure spending and an expansion of prekindergarten education.

But Pfeiffer acknowledged that there were limits.

“The president will seek out as many opportunities as possible to work with Congress in a bipartisan way,” he wrote. “But when American jobs and livelihoods depend on getting something done, he will not wait for Congress.”

PETER BAKER

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INTERNATIONAL

Dossier Amplifies Doubts on Karzai KABUL, Afghanistan — It was the kind of dossier the Taliban often publish, purporting to show the carnage inflicted during a raid by U.S. forces: photographs of shattered houses and bloodied bodies and video images of anguish at a funeral, all with gut-churning impact and no proof of authenticity.

But this time, it was the government of President Hamid Karzai handing out the inflammatory dossier stemming from airstrikes on Jan. 15 on a village and the supposed U.S. cover-up that followed.

In an apparent effort to demonize their U.S. backers, Afghan officials appear to have crossed a line that deeply troubles Western officials: They falsely represented at least some of the evidence and distributed other material whose provenance could not be determined.

An examination of the dossier by The New York Times also revealed that much of the same material was posted on a Taliban website, a rare instance of the militant group’s rhetoric matching that of the government it is fighting to topple.

The purpose of the dossier, according to other Afghan officials, was to justify Karzai’s stalling on signing a long-term security agreement with the United States and to improve the chances for peace talks with the Taliban by showing he is no U.S. stooge.

“There is no overall partnership,” a European diplomat said.

“We have some Afghan partners, and we have a lot of Afghans in the government who want us to leave. I think we’re all beginning to realize that.” MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Holocaust Told in One Word, 6 Million Times JERUSALEM — There is no plot to speak of, and the characters are woefully undeveloped.

On the up side, it can be a quick read — especially considering it is 1,250 pages.

The book consists of the single word “Jew,” in tiny type, printed six million times to signify the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It is meant as a kind of coffee-table monument of memory, a conversation starter and thought provoker.

“When you look at this at a distance, you can’t tell whether it’s upside down or right side up, you can’t tell what’s here; it looks like a pattern,” said Phil Chernofsky, the author, though that term may be something of a stretch. “That’s how the Nazis viewed their victims: These are not individuals, these are not people, these are just a mass we have to exterminate.

“Now get closer, put on your reading glasses, and pick a ‘Jew,’ ” Chernofsky continued. “That Jew could be you. Next to him is your

RINA CASTELNUOVO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A new book consists of only the word “Jew,” repeated. brother. Oh, look, your uncles and aunts and cousins and your whole extended family. A row, a line, those are your classmates. Now you get lost in a kind of meditative state where you look at one word, ‘Jew,’ you look at one Jew, you focus on it and then your mind starts to go because who is he, where did he live, what did he want to do when he grew up?”

The concept is not entirely original. More than a decade ago, eighth graders in a small Tennessee town set out to collect six million paper

clips, as chronicled in a 2004 documentary. The anonymity of victims and the scale of the destruction are also expressed in the seemingly endless piles of shoes and eyeglasses on exhibit at former death camps in Eastern Europe.

Now Gefen Publishing, a company in Jerusalem, imagines this book, titled “And Every Single One Was Someone,” making a similar statement in every church and synagogue, school and library in the world.

Ilan Greenfield, Gefen’s chief executive, said his goal was eventually to print six million copies of the book.

An Orthodox Jew with nine grandchildren, Chernofsky is a numbers man, the kind of person who cannot climb stairs without counting them.

“Harry Potter, in seven volumes, used 1.1 million words,” noted Chernofsky, who has a Quidditch broom hanging in his office.

“This has 6 million in it, so I outdid J. K. Rowling.” JODI RUDOREN

Philippines and Rebels Agree on Deal to End Insurgency MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government and the country’s largest Muslim insurgency group negotiated the final details of a historic peace accord on Saturday that many hope will end more than 40 years of violence that has killed tens of thousands of people and helped nurture Islamic extremism in Southeast Asia.

The agreement will create an autonomous Muslim-dominated region in the restive south of the predominantly Christian coun-

try, handing much of the responsibility for security there to local authorities as well as a large share of revenues from the region’s wealth of natural resources. The militants have agreed to disarm, with many expected to join Philippine security forces.

The deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is considered a signature achievement for President Benigno S. Aquino III. Aquino has vowed to end the conflicts on the island of Mindan-

ao that have bedeviled the Philippines for more than a century and that would eventually hinder the nation’s ability to expand its economy and catch up with more prosperous neighbors.

“The agreement represents the culmination of decades of excruciating diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the conflict in Mindanao,” said Richard Javad Heydarian, a political science lecturer at Ateneo de Manila University.

FLOYD WHALEY

In Brief Egyptians Celebrate Uprising Thousands of Egyptians celebrated the third anniversary of their revolt against autocracy on Saturday by holding a rally in Cairo for the military leader who ousted the country’s first democratically elected president. At least 29 people died in clashes with security forces at rival protests organized by Islamists and left-leaning activists. Riot police officers dispersed the protesters, leaving the day to the country’s military leader, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi.

(NYT)

Syria’s Peace Talks Advance The Syrian government and opposition

moved their fragile peace talks to a newly concrete state on Saturday, meeting face to face in Geneva for the first time in an attempt to win government approval for an aid convoy to neighborhoods in the city of Homs, long blockaded by the army. “The convoy is ready,” Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. special envoy to Syria, said on Saturday. “I hope it will be allowed tomorrow.”

(NYT)

news. Just eight bodies of the 32 presumed dead have been recovered. A massive blaze swept through the three-story building in L’Isle-Verte, about 140 miles northeast of Quebec City, early Thursday. The cause of the blaze that burned down the Residence du Havre was under investigation.

(AP)

32 Feared Dead in Quebec Fire

President François Hollande announced on Saturday that he and his companion, Valérie Trierweiler, had ended their relationship.

The announcement brought to a close a twoweek melodrama in France that began with a magazine’s report of an affair with an actress and Trierweiler’s emotional collapse. (NYT)

Crews struggled with frigid temperatures and ice as thick as 2 feet as they searched on Saturday for more bodies in the remains of a burned-out Quebec retirement home as friends and relatives of the victims awaited

Hollande Announces Breakup

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3 Shot Dead in Maryland Mall as Shoppers Flee COLUMBIA, Md. — Shots rang out at a popular shopping mall in this suburb between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore on Saturday morning, sending shoppers running from stores and hiding under tables in the food court.

When police officers arrived, they found three people dead inside a skate shop on the upper level of the two-story mall. Two of the victims were a young man and woman who worked at the store.

The body of another man, who is suspected of being the attacker, was found near the victims with a shotgun and ammunition nearby, said police officials, who believe the man killed himself.

Five other people had minor injuries — most of them suffered as they fled after hearing the gunshots — and were released from a local hospital on Saturday evening after receiving treatment.

The shootings at The Mall in Columbia set off fears in the area as residents waited to hear from loved ones and concern across the

The gunfire at The Mall in Columbia in Maryland set off fears across the country of another mass shooting. who had not been identified on Saturday evening, EVAN VUCCI/ASSOCIATED PRESS had had a large country over thoughts of yet an- amount of ammunition on him, officials said. The two employees other mass killing.

At a news conference, the coun- who were killed were identified ty police chief, William J. McMa- as Brianna Benlolo, 21, of College hon, said he believed the shoot- Park, Md., and Tyler Johnson, 25, ings were an isolated episode in- of Ellicott City, Md. The victims were found in a volving the three people who were found dead. “To our knowledge, store called Zumiez, which carries all the activity took place at one clothing and accessories for skateboarding and snowboarding. time, in one store,” he said.

McMahon said his officers had He said that only one weapon was found at the scene — a shot- not determined a motive for the JADA F. SMITH gun — and that police officers had attack. and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS not fired any shots. The suspect,

Accidents Surge as the Oil Industry Takes the Train CASSELTON, N.D. — Kerry’s Kitchen is where Casselton residents gather for gossip and comfort food. But a fiery rail accident last month only a half mile down the tracks, prompting residents to evacuate the town, has shattered people’s confidence in the crude-oil convoys that rumble past Kerry’s seven times a day.

What was first seen as a stopgap measure in the absence of pipelines has become a fixture — 200 “virtual pipelines” that snake in endless processions across the horizon daily. It can take over five minutes for a single oil train, made up of about 100 tank cars, to pass by Kerry’s.

“I feel a little on edge — actu-

ally very edgy — every time one of those trains passes,” said Kerry Radermacher, the cafe owner. “Most people think we should slow the production, and the trains, down.”

Casselton, a bedroom community 20 miles west of Fargo, is near the center of the great oil and gas boom. It has a front-row seat to another revival: the use of trains to carry the oil from the new fields of Colorado, Wyoming and North Dakota, in part as a result of delays in the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. About 400,000 carloads of crude oil traveled by rail last year to the nation’s refineries, up from 9,500 in 2008, according to the Association of American Railroads.

But a series of recent accidents — including one in Quebec last July that killed 47 people and another in Alabama last November — have put pressure on regulators to look at the safety of the oil shipments. In the race for profits and energy independence, critics say producers took shortcuts to get the oil to market without weighing the hazards of train shipments.

“There was no political pressure to address this issue in the past, but there clearly is now,” said Brigham A. McCown, a former administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JAD MOUAWAD

House Republicans to Offer Ideas for Immigration Reform WASHINGTON — House Republicans are preparing to unveil their own broad template for overhauling the nation’s immigration system this week, potentially offering a small opening for President Obama and congressional Democrats to pass bipartisan legislation before the end of the year.

Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio and other Republican leaders are expected to release a one-page statement of immigration prin-

ciples this week at their annual retreat in Cambridge, Md., according to aides with knowledge of the plan.

The document is expected to call for border security and enforcement measures, as well as providing a path to legal status — but not citizenship — for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants.

The effort comes as lawmakers describe immigration as one of the few areas for compromise before the end of the current Congress.

“The principles they lay out I’m sure won’t satisfy everybody,” Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said at an immigration forum on Friday.

But, he said, “if we can make some compromises here for the good of the country, I think we have a very good chance for the first time in a long time of changing something that is really damaging all of us.”

ASHLEY PARKER and JONATHAN WEISMAN

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In Brief Crafts Retailer Eyes Possible Data Breach In what may be the latest in a continuing spate of cyberattacks on U.S. retailers, Michaels Stores said on Saturday that it was investigating a potential security breach involving customers’ credit card information.

Michaels, an arts and crafts retailer based in Irving, Tex., said it was looking into reports of fraudulent activity. But the company said it had not yet confirmed a breach, and did not say how many credit cards were potentially compromised. The retailer operates over 1,000 stores in the United States and Canada.

The Secret Service is investigating the breach, and is conducting inquiries of breaches at Neiman Marcus and Target. (NYT)

Man Held in Shooting On S. Carolina Campus A man was arrested early Saturday and charged with murder in the shooting of a student outside a dormitory at South Carolina State University, law enforcement officials said. The suspect, Justin Bernard Singleton, 19, of Charleston, was arrested just after midnight in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Orangeburg, where the campus is, said Thom Berry, a public information officer with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Singleton was charged with murder in the death of Brandon Robinson, 20, who was shot Friday at the university, which has 3,200 students.

(AP)

Doctors Who Abuse Medicare Face Fines The Obama administration is cracking down on doctors who repeatedly overcharge Medicare patients, and for the first time in 30 years the government may disclose how much is paid to individual doctors treating Medicare patients. Marilyn B. Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said “recalcitrant providers” would face fines and could be expelled from Medicare and other programs. In a directive effective Jan. 15, Tavenner indicated the agency was losing patience with habitual offenders. (NYT)

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In One House, Myriad Lessons About the Housing Market In 1990, almost a million houses were built in the United States.

One of them, at 12204 Backus Drive in Bowie, Md., was a fourbedroom colonial with a bay window. The average home price that year was $150,000; the house on Backus, in a middle-class suburb of Washington, sold for $227,140.

Like every house, it became a vessel for its inhabitants’ personalities and possessions — the vast record collection of the first owner, the wedding photos of the most recent ones. It also came to hold a promise of prosperity, as the boom encouraged Americans to think of houses as not just places to live, but as investments that could, thanks to their rising prices, dispense huge cash returns.

The story of 12204 Backus Drive is in many ways the story of the American housing market: first anodyne, then ruinous, then resilient. It is peopled with losers and villains, lucky winners and a young couple hoping for, but not counting on, good fortune. This house’s value peaked at $540,000, plunged to $215,000, and rapidly convalesced until, last year, it sold for an amount that might be considered auspicious.

Virtually all the economic turmoil of the last seven years start-

STEVE RUARK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The home at 12204 Backus Drive in suburban Bowie, Md. ed with the housing market, which powered the economy during the bubble and then melted down, taking the financial system with it. Almost five million homes were lost in foreclosure in the last five years, and houses in some cities lost two-thirds of their value before they began to recover.

Now prices have bounced up 10 to 25 percent from their bottom, so quickly that a few economists have warned of a second bubble.

As the rebound effect fades and interest rates continue to rise, that

growth, already uneven, is expected to slow considerably. But experts say that if the job market continues to improve, the housing market will rise with it.

The various owners of 12204 Backus Drive still see homeownership as a sound choice — even those who were badly pummeled by market forces. They are joined in that belief by a vast majority of Americans; lending for home purchases rose from a low of $404 billion in 2011 to an estimated $652 billion last year.

But while Americans still want to own their homes, the scars of the financial debacle hold them back in other ways. Some large banks, unmotivated by low interest rates and afraid that they will have to buy back any loans that go bad, have cut back on mortgage lending.

Tighter lending standards are shutting out close to 12.5 million consumers who would qualify in normal times, according to an analysis by Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody’s Analytics.

But perhaps more significant, individual attitudes have changed. A house is a residence, sure. A better investment than renting, yes. But it is no longer an A.T.M., a source of ready cash for a better lifestyle.

Doug Duncan, the chief economist at Fannie Mae, the mortgage giant, says homeowners today are less likely to spend their equity on renovations, cars, clothes or college. Many people who refinanced when interest rates were in decline have opted to pay down their principal faster instead of lowering their monthly payments, he said.

“People will be more conservative than they were in the past,” Duncan said. SHAILA DEWAN and CATHERINE RAMPELL

Gadfly of Greenwich Real Estate Sees Glut of Greed in Unsold Mansions As he drives his white pickup truck past the manors that crowd the hills and meadows along Round Hill Road in Greenwich, Conn. — a town that has long signified what it means to be rich in America — Christopher Fountain snorts.

One of the gaudy estates is owned by a hedge fund kingpin now residing in prison; others belong to a real estate investor just coming out of prison and an investment adviser who steered his clients and their billions to Bernard L. Madoff. Then, to cap it off, a guy in an 8,000-square-foot mansion is charged with crushing his wife’s skull in with a baseball bat.

This is “Rogues Hill Road,” or so Fountain has called this 3.5-mile stretch of asphalt. “All these aspirational schnooks came out here thinking that they had really made it,” said Fountain, a real estate broker, blogger and lifelong Greenwich resident. “But then the tide went out and what you are left with is a bunch of crooks.”

Fountain, 60, makes a living bro-

kering mega-mansion real estate deals to these “schnooks,” among others. And his blog, For What It’s Worth, has attracted a cult following among those he lampoons — the financial titans who can plunk down $5 million on a house but who still seem to appreciate his scabrous take on residents’ lifestyles.

The essence of his complaint is that decades of easy money and ceaseless greed have created a glut of unsalable houses that will remain a blight on his hometown — where 1,000 of its 61,000 residents are licensed to sell houses.

Fountain likes to point to the Greenwich characters in the public spotlight as part of the problem.

Topping his list of homeowners is Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund executive serving an 11-year prison sentence on charges of insider trading. The estate of Steven A. Cohen, whose hedge fund pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, is six miles east of Round Hill Road.

Fountain’s contention that the legal and financial troubles bedevil-

ing Greenwich big shots have contributed to this slump — a view that is disputed by his more established competiChristopher tors — is more anecdotal than Fountain scientific. Still, the numbers are stark. According to Trulia, the real estate website, the average price per square foot of a four-bedroom house sold in the last three months in the Greenwich market was $442, down 40 percent from a year ago and 11 percent from 2009.

Fountain says more than 43 houses are for sale for at least $10 million — many unsold for over a year.

What will it take to sell them?

“My rule of thumb now is divide the asking price by two,” he said.

“Although the owner’s ego always makes that very hard to do.”

Even if it is all a bit of an act, the shtick has been great for his busi-

ness. “If he thinks the house you are trying to sell is worth $1 million and not $5 million, he will tell you,” said a banker, who spoke on condition of anonymity because his firm did not permit him to speak to the press. “Plus, his blog is hilarious.”

Perhaps no one is better qualified to add a bit of heft to Fountain’s thesis than David A. Stockman, who was the budget whiz kid of the Reagan administration. In his book, “The Great Deformation,” Stockman argues that the relentless money-printing of the Federal Reserve has created a pernicious cycle of greed and excess.

In 2012, Stockman put his trophy home — with its 11 bathrooms, swimming pool and tennis court — on the market, asking $19.75 million. The listing was removed — and Fountain is not surprised.

“For $9 million, it’s a nice little house,” he said. “But these types of houses don’t age well. There is just too much horse crap out there on the polo fields.”

LANDON THOMAS JR.

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The Next Big Picture BROADWAYHD

Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in an HD capture shot from the recent production of “Romeo and Juliet.”

Off Off Off Broadway (At Your Multiplex) Coming soon to a movie theater near you: Orlando Bloom!

Yes, I know that’s not in itself news. Bloom is a familiar presence on screens the world over. But in this instance the actor will not be appearing in a traditional movie, but in an HD broadcast of the Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet,” which ended its run in December. The show will be screened in at least 400 theaters around Valentine’s Day, a marketing-friendly date for one of the world’s most famous love stories.

The screenings are the first offering of a new venture called BroadwayHD, founded

by Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, which aims to bring the commercial theater aboard the high-definition broadcast bandwagon.

By now, American theater producers have more than enough models to follow. The Metropolitan Opera’s performance broadcasts began in 2006 and were an instant hit. The National Theater in London began its own highly popular live series of broadcasts in 2009.

Other performing arts organizations have followed suit — the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet, the Bolshoi, and New York City Ballet, for example. But with a few sporadic exceptions — “Memphis,” “Jekyll & Hyde” and the Roundabout Theater Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” — Broadway has shied away from this booming phenomenon, which could represent a new revenue stream or at least a potent new marketing tool.

Lane obviously believes there’s “gold in them thar hills,” as he put it, although he admitted that no one knows exactly how much, if any. He previously worked on a movie-theater broadcast of the New York Philharmonic’s production of “Company,” with Neil Patrick Harris, and he said that project is close to breaking even.

“Technological advances have brought the cost down,” Lane said, adding that he also sees possibilities in media like pay-per-view and live-streaming on the web. “And there is more cooperation from the industry, treating this not as an adversary but as a potential revenue source.”

CHARLES ISHERWOOD

At first glance, viewers of “What Is a Photograph?” opening Friday at the International Center of Photography, will not even recognize the work on the wall as photographic. There is no easily identifiable subject, no clear representational form.

“The show does not answer the question,” said Carol Squiers, the show’s curator. “It poses the question.”

Squiers pointed to Travess Smalley, who cuts shapes from magazines and colored paper and composes them into photo collages directly on a scanner. “He doesn’t necessarily call the result a ‘photograph,’ ” she said, but she wasn’t ready to define exactly what it was.

Photography is vastly different in these early years of the 21st century. As digital technology has all but replaced the chemical process, photography is an increasingly shape-shifting medium: The iPhone, the scanner and Photoshop are yielding a daunting range of imagery, and artists mining these new technologies are making documentation of the actual world seem virtually obsolete.

“Practices have changed,” said Quentin Bajac, the Museum of Modern Art’s new chief curator of photography, one of four curators at major institutions who spoke of the opportunities and obstacles of their jobs at this pivotal moment — photography’s identity crisis.

The shift of focus from fact to fiction, and all the gradations in between, is perhaps the largest issue in the soul-searching underway in photography circles. Questions swirl: Can the “captured” image (taken on the street) maintain equal footing with the “constructed” image (made in the studio or on the computer,

LUCIA KOCH/PIER 24, SAN FRANCISCO

ABE FRAJNDLICH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Quentin Bajac, MoMA’s new chief curator of photography, with a Cindy Sherman work from 1983. often with ideological intention)?

Museums, for their part, are debating whether photography should remain an autonomous medium or be incorporated into a mash-up of disciplines in contemporary art.

And photography curators, too, are questioning the quality and validity of new practices, as the ever-morphing ubiquity of social media challenges the singularity of the photographic image.

“The biggest problem facing curators and historians of photography,” Bajac said, “is the overflow of images.”

Trying to define what a photograph is today situates the curator at a new frontier, Squiers suggested. While it’s unclear where the medium is headed, she is certain that contemporary photographers are doing something that is disorienting yet ultimately transformative.

“You feel like the cord to the mother ship has been cut,” she said, “and now you’re floating in space.”

PHILIP GEFTER

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Lucia Koch’s “Spaghetti (2 Windows)” from 2006, far left, and Travess Smalley’s “Capture Physical Presence #7,” composed directly on a scanner, are part of a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art.

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BOOKS

Think You’re a Nervous Wreck? Stop Worrying As a young boy, Scott Stossel, the editor of The Atlantic magazine, worried every time his parents left: They’d die, he would think, or else abandon him. Years later, wild with stage fright, he hid in a bathroom to avoid getting a trophy on the dais. By adulthood, Stossel was saddled with often incapacitating nerves.

His new book, “My Age of Anxiety,” uses his experience as a guide through the disorder, tracing its legacy in thought and culture. He seeks to understand what anxiety is and what it means; he probes the condition’s ambiguities. The result is ambitious, and bravely intimate: a ruminative book that often breaks into a thrilling intellectual chase.

An estimated 40 million American adults have anxiety disorders in a given year, and one in four will suffer an anxiety disorder at some point in their lifetimes.

Stossel shares a widely held suspicion that the true numbers are higher, because a lot of people press on without mentioning symptoms to doctors.

Trickier still, experts don’t agree on what anxiety is. The most authoritative description, from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, has defined it as a six-month period of uncontrollable worry accompanied by three or more persistent problems: restlessness, fatigue, concentration issues, irritability, muscle tension or “sleep disturbance.”

Clusters of these symptoms probably describe the entire city of New York.

Does this mean that anxiety

My Age of Anxiety Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

By Scott Stossel 400 pages. Alfred P. Knopf. $27.95

disorder is a chimera, invented by people trying to pathologize your quirks and mine?

Stossel thinks not, and he has the proof of his experience. Today, his anxieties include claustrophobia, acrophobia, aerophobia and a mysterious fear of cheese. Also: panic attacks, a nervous stomach, stage fright.

He has bolted in the middle of interviews and speaking gigs. He has soiled himself on airplanes.

At the altar, preparing to take his wedding vows, he looked so fitful and intensely sweaty that the minister asked whether he was O.K. He was and he wasn’t, as he fought the shaking of his limbs, “the urge to vomit, and unconsciousness.”

True to the disorder, though, most of Stossel’s anxiousness anticipates what hasn’t occurred. A persistent problem is his emetophobia: the fear of vomiting. It governs his life, to the extent that he maintains a mental catalog of gastroenteritis outbreaks, carries stomach medication with him at all times and hoards airsick bags.

He finds it hard to enjoy heightened social moments. He pulled away from his first kiss because he felt sure he would throw up on the young woman in question.

Most people would find Stos-

sel’s vigilance excessive, especially since, by his own admission, he hasn’t vomited since 1977.

But these regurgitation-free decades only raise his guard. Californians will recognize his wary pessimism as earthquake thinking: a long hiatus means not safety but a crisis deferred.

Stossel’s therapist suggests that reflexes like vomiting foreshadow the ultimate corporeal letting go: death. (And who wants that?)

But Stossel also traces the idea, appearing often and across disciplines, that anxiety is essentially a consequence of modern life. We’re not made for this sort of thing, the thinking goes. And because our animal nature can’t find comfort in today’s demands, we’re constantly on edge — which makes bodies like Stossel’s protest all the more.

The condition, at debilitating extremes, clearly requires treatment. (Stossel has tried nearly everything; his current publicspeaking preparations include Xanax, Inderal and vodka.) Yet locating those extremes — when do the defining aspects of selfhood become its obstacle? — is harder, and Stossel shows we still can’t mark the line with any science.

Must we?

“I am living on the razor’s edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation — between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive,” he writes.

In his mind, the unsettledness is problematic. But to many people, anxious or not, it will sound like a state of grace.

NATHAN HELLER

Editor’s Row DUTY: Memoirs of a Secretary at War,

by Robert M. Gates. (Knopf, $35.) One of the few Obama administration members who come off well in this frank account — probably one of the best Washington memoirs ever — is Hillary Clinton.

OUR AMERICA: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe FernándezArmesto. (Norton, $27.95.) A professor pays rich tribute to the country’s Hispanic past, present and future.

RADIANCE OF TOMORROW, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Villagers in Sierra Leone face life after war in this novel by the author of “A Long Way Gone.”

THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News — and Divided a Country, by Gabriel Sherman.

(Random House, $28.) Sherman’s carefully documented study actually is fair and balanced.

DANUBIA: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe, by Simon Winder.

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) Winder engagingly describes what is still an unknown world for many people.

THE MONKEY’S VOYAGE: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life, by Alan de Queiroz. (Basic Books, $27.99.) On the ways related species came to inhabit far-flung regions.

DEMON CAMP: A Soldier’s Exorcism,

by Jennifer Percy. (Scribner, $26.) Percy’s first book follows an anguished Army veteran who searches for salvation in a Christian exorcism camp.

UNDER THE WIDE AND STARRY SKY, by Nancy Horan. (Ballantine, $26.)

A lyrical novel of Robert Louis Stevenson’s troubled marriage.

THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL,

by Armistead Maupin. (Harper, $26.99.)

Armistead’s “Tales of the City” concludes with a reunion of the tribe.

The full reviews of these and other recent books are on the web: nytimes.com/books.

Paperback Row LOVE IS A CANOE, by Ben Schrank. (Picador/ Sarah Crichton, $16.) Her marriage in trouble, the heroine of Schrank’s novel — a crackling sendup of the New York publishing industry and an inquiry into the fragility of human relationships — turns for help to the author of “Marriage Is a Canoe,” a classic self-help book she read as a child.

ENGINEERS OF VICTORY: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War,

by Paul Kennedy. (Random House, $16.) Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill and Stalin grasped the laurels for the Allied triumph in World War II, but Kennedy’s fresh, discursive history stresses the technological innovation and organizational efforts of little-known men and women — soldiers, scientists, engineers and businessmen — who helped win the war.

VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE: And Other Stories, by Karen Russell. (Vintage Contempo-

raries, $14.95.) A grim, stupendous magic is at work in Russell’s uncanny second collection. In the title story, a century-old marriage between two vam-

pires (who savor lemons in lieu of blood) suffers because the husband has developed a fear of flying.

JAMES JOYCE: A New Biography, by Gordon Bowker. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $18.) Bowker, who has written biographies of Malcolm Lowry and George Orwell, intimately binds together the life and work of Joyce (1882-1941), providing nuanced accounts of his exile from Ireland; his battles with poverty; and his out-of-wedlock relationship, scandalous for the time, with Nora Barnacle.

REASONS OF STATE, by Alejo Carpentier. Translated by Frances Partridge. (Melville House, $16.95.)

In the 1970s, Carpentier (1904-80), Gabriel García Márquez and Augusto Roa Bastos challenged one another to write novels about the dictatorships spreading misery in Latin America. (García Márquez wrote “The Autumn of the Patriarch”; Roa Bastos, “I the Supreme.”) In “Reasons of State,” first published in 1974, a Latin American despot (“the Head of State”) is luxuriating in 1910s Paris.

But World War I soon breaks out, and it seems he

hasn’t effectively crushed a rebellion back home.

WAVE, by Sonali Deraniyagala. (Vintage, $15.) One

of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2013, this is an unforgettable memoir of Deraniyagala’s struggle to carry on living after her husband, sons and parents were killed in the tsunami that struck Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004. The reviewer, Cheryl Strayed, called “Wave” an “unforgettable book that isn’t only as unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light.”

THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT, by Ned Beauman. (Bloomsbury, $16.) Beauman’s audacious second novel concerns Egon Loeser, a self-pitying set designer in 1930s Germany who is less worried about the Nazis than about the prospect that he “may never have sex again.” Beauman follows Egon’s carnal misfortunes — and his investigations into the possible existence of a teleportation device — from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris and the physics labs of Los Angeles.

Ihsan Taylor

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OPINION

SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2014

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

MAUREEN DOWD

The Koch Party

Reefer Gladness

Only a few weeks into this midterm election year, the right-wing political zeppelin is fully inflated with secret cash and firing malicious falsehoods at supporters of health care reform.

As Carl Hulse of The Times reported recently, Democrats have been staggered by a $20 million advertising blitz produced by Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group organized and financed by the Koch brothers, billionaire industrialists. The ads take aim at House and Senate candidates for re-election who have supported the health law, and blame them for the hyped-up problems with the law’s rollout that now seem to be the sole plank in this year’s Republican platform.

In one example, the group’s ad against Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich., who is running for an open Senate seat, is full of distortions and lies.

It accuses Peters of lying when he said the law bars cancellations of insurance policies. Peters happened to be right, as millions of people who once faced losing all insurance when they got sick now appreciate. The 225,000 Michigan residents who the ad said received “cancellation notices” were actually told they could change to a better policy; they were not told they could no longer have insurance, as the ad implies.

And though the ad said health care costs are “skyrocketing,” national spending on health care is now growing at the slowest pace ever recorded, in part because of the reform law.

Democrats intend to counter this campaign with the facts, but few of the candidates have the money to do so. As a result, the campaign is taking a political toll, increasing the chances that

Republicans who support a repeal of the law will win back the Senate majority this fall.

The Kochs are using vast pools of money earned through corporate revenues to build a network unrivaled in complexity and secrecy.

This weekend, they are bringing together some of the biggest Republican bank accounts at a resort in Palm Springs, Calif., to collect money and plan this year’s strategy.

As Politico described it on Friday, they have already set up an operation so sophisticated it rivals “even the official Republican Party in its ability to shape policy debates and elections.”

Its components include a political consulting firm to recruit, train and support like-minded antigovernment candidates, which will be active in the congressional primaries. There is also a center that provides technology and administrative services to right-wing groups and candidates, an office that compiles and analyzes voter data and a youth advocacy group.

In 2012, as The Washington Post reported, the Koch network raised $407 million, which was secreted among 17 groups. The clandestine influence of the Kochs and their Palm Springs friends would be much reduced if they were forced to play in the sunshine.

The Internal Revenue Service and several lawmakers are stepping up their interest in preventing “social welfare” organizations and other tax-sheltered groups from being used as political conduits, but they have encountered resistance from Republican lawmakers. Considering how effectively the Koch brothers are doing their job, it’s easy to see why.

Preventing the Next Data Breach The alarming discovery that hackers stole the credit card and personal information of tens of millions of Americans from Target’s computers is yet another reminder of human vulnerability in the digital age. The more practical and immediate lesson, however, is that retailers, banks and other corporations can do far more than they have done so far to protect customers from identity theft and financial fraud.

At last count, hackers had stolen the credit or debit card information of 40 million Target shoppers, as well information like the names, addresses and email addresses of 70 million customers. The company has said little about how its system might have been compromised, but experts say the attackers inserted malicious software into Target’s poorly secured systems during the holiday shopping season.

Many of the stolen card numbers have been showing up on the black markets where such information is traded. Some Target shoppers have had to deal with fraudulent charges. Experts warn that things could get worse when criminals start using the personal information they’ve stolen to try to commit identity theft by taking out loans and opening new credit card accounts in the names of Target customers.

Target and other companies must begin in-

vesting in better security measures to keep intruders out and start investing in software that would trigger alarms when it detects unauthorized access. A Verizon report on data breaches found that nearly four-fifths of intrusions in 2012 were of “low difficulty,” meaning hackers found trespass remarkably easy.

By keeping lots of sensitive information, companies place themselves and their customers at greater risk than if they had deleted or never collected the data. Security experts say there was no reason for Target to have stored the four-digit personal identification numbers, or PINs, of their customers’ debit cards.

Retailers and banks can also reduce risk by moving away from cards that use magnetic strips, which are easily faked. Many countries in Europe, Asia and elsewhere have replaced magnetic strips with chips, which are harder to duplicate. Chip-based cards require customers to enter a secure code before they can be used.

American retailers, including Target, have resisted chip-based cards because they would have to invest in new equipment to handle them.

(Target now says it supports chip-based cards.)

No security measure will ever eliminate theft and fraud. But there is evidence that companies could do a lot more to protect data.

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Denver So? You want to get high in a high-end way in the Mile High City.

You could call Dale Dyke and his wife, Chastity Osborn, a massage therapist, who run Get High Getaways. They gutted their brick house in Bel Mar and let it go to pot, refashioning it as a clothing optional, or as Dale calls it, “textile optional” bed-and-breakfast.

They’re waiting for their first big booking, but Chastity says they’re adding amenities to create a “resort environment,” like a stone labyrinth with a tether ball, a camera in the living room to Skype your friends stoned, an outdoor swing “where you can have a good time and catch a buzz,” and “maybe a nerf horseshoe court.”

They charge $199 per person per night — you have to be over 21 — and offer two rooms, 24/7 car service and a hot tub. They can give, rather than sell, their homegrown pot to guests.

“We’re trying to keep stoned tourists from getting lost in Denver and causing mayhem,” Dale says. “Our motto is ‘Don’t come on vacation and leave on probation.’ ” The blooming pot industry here is still more seedy than glossy. Yet the budding bud growers are eager to help Denver elude the stigma of Rocky Mountain Low, a place overrun by “The Dude Abides” hippies and Jeff Spicoli stoners.

They are thrilled to be part of the huge social experiment transforming Colorado, as jittery politicians press on the gas and brake at the same time, state government builds a regulatory system, entrepreneurs deal in “Breaking Bad” cash, and towns decide whether they will allow retail pot stores (Aspen) or not (Vail).

“We want to be the Napa Valley and the Silicon Valley of weed,” says Matt Brown, who cofounded My 420 Tours, which will shepherd guests to marijuana-friendly hotels and host special events like Stoner Bowl and a Valentine’s Weekend Tour that includes a “Threesome With Mary Jane” party and a trip to glass blowers, where couples can design their own bongs.

Now that Coloradans can buy recreational pot, the mood has shifted from self-consciously therapeutic, medicating “patients,” to selfconsciously scientific and capitalistic, serving consumers. “I don’t want to use the word ‘pot’ or ‘weed’ or ‘smoke’ or ‘joint,’ ” says a pretty 37-year-old event planner who uses the nom de pot Jane West (Mary Jane in the West) and owns a company called Edible Events.

West wants women to equate cannabis with a glass of wine. “Many women think it’s something that makes you dumb,” she says, arguing women should leave the Valley of the Dolls — anti-anxiety pills and Ambien — and switch to “the Napa Valley of cannabis.”

At a warehouse, Dixie Elixers is cooking up edible, drinkable and topical pot treats — from chocolate truffles to bath soaks, in packaging meant to scream “safe.” Still, Denver is the Wild West of weed. And things will be evolving and dicey for some time. As Chief Operating Officer Chuck Smith tells Dixie Elixers’ team, “We’re building the airplane while we’re flying it.”

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SPORTS

In Brief

Duke Hands Krzyzewski a Milestone Victory Duke did not shoot the ball well against visiting Florida State, nor did it have one of its big runs.

But the 18th-ranked Blue Devils did give their Hall of Fame coach, Mike Krzyzewski, a milestone win Saturday, 78-56. Rodney Hood scored 18 points to help give Krzyzewski his 900th victory in his 34th season at Duke.

Jabari Parker added 14 points for the Blue Devils (16-4, 5-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who shot 31 percent but nearly doubled the Seminoles (13-6, 4-3) in rebounds while scoring 29 points on turnovers and offensive rebounds.

SYRACUSE 64, MIAMI 52 No. 2 Syracuse held host Miami without a basket for over seven minutes down the stretch and made eight consecutive free throws in the final minute to remain unbeaten.

In its first season in the A.C.C., Syracuse (19-0, 6-0) needs only

one more victory to tie the team record for most wins to start a season, set two years ago.

Davon Reed scored 16 points for Miami (10-9, 2-5), which kept it close by shooting 9 of 17 from 3-point range.

VILLANOVA 94, MARQUETTE 85

Ryan Arcidiacono had 20 points and 11 assists and, after a frenzied finish to regulation, guided No. 4 Villanova in overtime in a win over host Marquette.

James Bell finished with 30 points for the Wildcats (17-2, 6-1 Big East). Todd Mayo had 18 points for Marquette (11-9, 3-4), including the last 10 in regulation.

FLORIDA 67, TENNESSEE 41 Michael Frazier II scored 17 points, Scottie Wilbekin added 13, and No. 6 Florida beat visiting Tennessee (12-7, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) for its 11th consecutive win.

The Gators (17-2, 6-0) snapped

a three-game losing streak in the series and extended their record for consecutive home wins to 26.

TEXAS 74, BAYLOR 60 The freshman guard Isaiah Taylor scored a season-high 27 points as Texas stretched its winning streak to five games with a victory at No. 24 Baylor.

The Longhorns (16-4, 5-2 Big 12) have won three consecutive games against top-25 teams for the first time in team history. Baylor (13-6, 1-5) lost its fourth straight.

WISCONSIN 72, PURDUE 58

Sam Dekker and Traevon Jackson scored 15 points each, helping No. 9 Wisconsin end its threegame losing streak with a victory at Purdue.

The Badgers (17-3, 4-3 Big Ten) won for the first time since starting the season 16-0. The Boilermakers (13-7, 3-4) lost their second straight game.

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Li Wins Baseline Battle, Then Serves Up Punch Lines MELBOURNE, Australia — In the immediate aftermath of most Grand Slam championships, the winners spout the usual clichés, shed a few tears and thank everyone they ever met and some people they do not know. There must be a manual for such occasions.

Then there is Li Na and the acceptance speech that came after her Australian Open women’s singles title, which she captured Saturday, by defeating Dominika Cibulkova, 7-6 (3), 6-0. Her speech was basically the opposite of that.

To her agent, Max Eisenbud, Li said, “Make me rich.”

To her husband, Jiang Shan, she said thank you in the form of a

roast. She appreciated his dedication as her hitting partner, Li said, and the way he fixed her drinks and fixed her rackets. She ended by reminding him that he was “so lucky to find me.” She said this on international television.

Perhaps she had a point. In victory, Li collected her second Grand Slam singles trophy; raised her standing as the most accomplished Chinese tennis player; and closed the gap on the No. 2 ranking, held

by Victoria Azarenka. She also collected $2.31 million in prize money.

Li played 13 sets before the final and won 12, eventually becoming the favorite. Still, she could not shake what happened in the 2013 fi-

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In 2013, as in 2011, she had won the first set, stood one set from the trophy and faltered.

Cibulkova could not bully Li from the baseline as she had her other opponents.

Now Li is a two-time Grand Slam winner, with this trophy and her triumph at the French Open in 2011.

This will only bolster her value as a brand in the world’s most populated country.

Someone asked Li what the Chinese characters on her shirt meant.

Her answer came back with no punch line: My heart has no limits.

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Woods Misses Cut Tiger Woods was right. The South Course at Torrey Pines in San Diego is playing about as tough as it did for the U.S. Open in 2008. But that’s the only similarity. Woods won that U.S. Open. He won’t even have a tee time in the final round at the Farmers Insurance Open on Sunday. Gary Woodland used power to his advantage Saturday to pick up five birdies in his round of 2-under 70 that gave him a one-shot lead over Jordan Spieth and Marc Leishman.

Woods went seven straight holes making bogey or worse and wound up with a 79, matching his worst score on U.S. soil. (AP)

Broncos Kicker Sick Denver Broncos Coach John Fox sent kicker Matt Prater home again Saturday to prevent him from making his teammates sick. Prater missed all three of the Broncos’ practices last week with the flu as the team prepared for the Super Bowl against Seattle next Sunday. Prater is expected to be on the team’s flight to New Jersey on Sunday. (AP)

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SPORTS

Wealthy Russians Adopt Teams Chasing Gold Seattle’s Sherman: Not long ago, Russia’s onceheralded biathlon program was in tatters. The team was plagued with doping violations. It was losing big competitions. A top official had been convicted of trying to arrange the murder of a governor.

What a difference an oligarch makes. Out of all the titles Mikhail D. Prokhorov juggles — Brooklyn Nets owner, billionaire playboy, Russian presidential candidate — perhaps the most unlikely one is biathlon federation president.

Russia’s team used to be among the most fearsome in the world — the men’s relay held a lock on the gold medal from 1968 to 1988, but the program turned ragged.

Prokhorov took the helm of the biathlon federation in 2008, a year after Sochi, Russia, was selected to host the Games, and has showered the team with money.

He has turned the program into a gold-plated machine in hopes of reestablishing Russian dominance when the Olympics open next month. Biathlon combines crosscountry skiing with sharpshooting.

Prokhorov is one of several highpowered Russian executives — often called oligarchs — who oversee a winter sport. The tycoons have brought their connections, expertise and deep pockets to once obscure athletic organizations, alter-

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Biathlon Olympians are financially aided by Russian tycoons. ing the competitive landscape.

Andrei Bokarev, a coal mining billionaire, is president of the freestyle skiing federation. Alexei Kravstov, the chief executive of Kraftway, one of Russia’s biggest information technology companies, is president of the skating group. Vagit Alekperov, the head of Lukoil, a leading oil company, has made his company a top sponsor of the cross-country ski team.

Their involvement signals just how important the Games are to President Vladimir V. Putin, who has spent tens of billions of dollars in government funds, to burnish Russia’s international standing.

In the United States, biathlon ranks somewhere below an afterthought — Tim Burke, perhaps

the best U.S. biathlete in a generation, doesn’t exactly have to worry about the paparazzi. The American biathlon budget is about $1.6 million for the Olympics, said Max Cobb, the president of U.S. Biathlon. “I suspect that the Russian budget is probably 10 times that amount.”

Prokhorov has said he will resign if the team doesn’t win at least two gold medals in Sochi, but gold is not a sure bet. Still, Prokhorov and his managers feel they have done their part. Now, it’s up to the biathletes.

“The Russian national team got all the best equipment and all the best funding to perform best,” said Sergey Kushchenko, a top biathlon official and a longtime Prokhorov deputy. “We’ll see how it works.”

SAM DOLNICK

After 30 Years, Stern Is Passing Commissioner’s Hat David Stern stepped into a conference room. He carried a can of soda and a plate of tortilla chips.

“My lunch,” he said recently as he settled in to be interviewed with Adam Silver, who will succeed him Saturday as N.B.A. commissioner.

After 30 years on the job, 48 over all in association with the league, Stern was all but done shepherding a growth enterprise with which he had become synonymous, or practically symbiotic. The transition of power seemed to have already occurred when Silver eased his tall, slender frame into a table next to Stern. Asked how he preferred to be addressed, he said, “Adam.”

Not Commissioner Silver or Mr. Commissioner. “I’ll be Adam because David set the tone,” Silver said. “I think he enjoyed that sports fan relationship with other sports fans and I think they understood, even if they criticized him for certain decisions, that he was trying to do what he thought was in the best interests of the league.”

overseer” during a 2011 Stern, 71, was, in the player lockout. The com1970s, a rising star at ment, called “an occupathe New York law firm tional hazard” by Stern, Proskauer Rose, which gained no traction. provided legal counsel Stern once explained to the N.B.A. and created the sport’s hold on him by a way inside the sport he recalling the title of a book followed growing up in by his predecessor, Larry Teaneck, N.J. David Stern O’Brien, about being a Silver, 51, joined the strategist for the Demoleague in 1992 as Stern’s special assistant and became chief cratic Party: “No Final Victories.”

His cherished memories? Preof staff, the senior vice president of N.B.A. Entertainment and the senting Magic Johnson with the M.V.P. trophy at the 1992 All-Star deputy commissioner, in 2006.

Whether one views Stern as a Game, after the former Los Angegreat commissioner or an unrelent- les Lakers star disclosed he had ing capitalist, it is hard to argue that the virus that causes AIDS. And he was not what the noted black watching the Dream Team — a sports sociologist Harry Edwards “much-maligned group of playonce called him — “an honest bro- ers and sport, on the march to the ker” — for a largely African-Amer- gold medal stand, being feted like ican player pool as it rose to the a combination of the Bolshoi, the pantheon of mainstream American Philharmonic and the Beatles.”

“And therein launched the gloand global entertainment.

That was apparent when HBO’s balization of the game,” Stern said.

Bryant Gumbel compared Stern to “Again, no final victories.”

HARVEY ARATON “some kind of modern plantation

COMPTON, Calif. — Darryl Smith was dividing the pizzas among the boys’ track and field team from Dominguez High School when he heard the voice he would never forget. It belonged to this scrawny, knock-kneed eighth grader who had tagged along with his older brother.

“I didn’t know if he was a good student or anything else,” said Smith, the track coach. “All I knew was that he talked a lot. A lot.”

Smith’s introduction to that younger brother, Richard Sherman, was not unlike a majority of the nation’s. His outburst on live television last Sunday, minutes after he made a critical defensive play that launched the Seattle Seahawks i nto Super Bowl XLVIII, catapulted him into a realm of renown reserved for presidents Richard Sherman and TV stars.

His older brother, Branton, said it was “destined to happen” because Sherman believes that he can create his own reality through visualization.

Long before the acrobatic tip that saved Seattle’s season, before the rant that cast him as villainous to some and refreshing to others, and playing for Stanford, the AllPro cornerback had a favorite pastime: imitation. He studied cocksure athletes like Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin and Muhammad Ali. He noticed how they oozed confidence, charisma and passion, and resolved to create a similar persona for himself. He did. He became the avatar of the modern showboating athlete.

Sherman, who, since 2011, has 20 interceptions, most in the N.F.L., has exchanged Twitter barbs with Darrelle Revis; barked at Tom Brady; won an appeal to avoid a four-game suspension for a positive performance-enhancing drugs test; burnished his credentials as one of the best cover cornerbacks; and, now, this kerfuffle.

Next Sunday, at MetLife Stadium, will begin his transformation: scoundrel to some, beacon to others and a voice, striving to be heard above the din, to all.

BEN SHPIGEL

Parallel

PATHS DIVERGE

By MC3 John Drew and MC2 Brian Reynolds

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ith more than 320,000 active duty Navy personnel stationed at various installations worldwide, it is statistically improbable for any Sailor to be randomly assigned to a command with a childhood friend.

The improbable has happened onboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

Lt. Rodney King and Senior Chief Engineman James Walker, who grew up in small neighboring communities in rural North Carolina, knew each other since they were eight years old, attending the same church and playing sports together. “(James) lived in Ronda, and I lived in Elkin,” said King, TR’s Flight Deck Officer. “They are in neighboring counties though they were only ten minutes apart,” said King.

“Our families knew each other. It was an extremely small community where everyone knew everyone,” said Walker, who is a senior chief engineman in the Reactor Auxiliaries department aboard the Nimitz-class carrier.

King and Walker’s trek to TR began as kids, when, on Sundays, they played basketball before their families went to church. The childhood friends grew up and, eventually, ventured away from home, beginning separate and unexpected journeys around the world in America’s Navy.

“I never thought that I would join the military,” said Walker. “One day I was just thinking about something to do instead of staying in a small town in North Carolina. I was originally going to join the Marines, but the Marine recruiter was out to lunch. So, I joined the Navy.”

Walker spent most of his career in Norfolk and advanced through the ranks to become a senior chief petty officer.

King also enlisted in the Navy, and his career took him to duty stations from Virginia to Japan,

where he decided to become an officer. He applied to become a limited duty officer (LDO) four times, was accepted in 2006 and commissioned in April 2007.

The childhood friends did their best to stay in touch throughout the years because of their common beginnings.

“Senior Chief Walker and I kept in touch because not a lot of people join the Navy from where we’re from,” said King. “We had that in common.

They normally either go to college or join the Army or Marines. As we progressed in rank, we kept in touch.”

The two spent more than two decades serving their country at commands that were, at times, half a world apart, not knowing their paths would soon cross again.

“When I came back from Japan, I called (Walker) and told him that I was looking for a house in the Chesapeake (Va.) area,” said King. “When I asked him what command he was at, he said, ‘Theodore Roosevelt.’ I was like, ‘No kidding!

That’s where I’m going.’”

Walker and King now share the same neighborhood again, this time aboard a 90,000 ton floating city. Walker works in ship’s Reactor department while King plies his trade in Air department. They live about the same distance apart in Chesapeake, Va., as they did when they were children in North Carolina.

“We found it ironic that after all of these years, we would end up on the same ship,” said King.

King and Walker no longer meet up on the basketball court. They now meet on the deckplates.

Both obtained successful Navy careers while taking different paths and maintaining a friendship to this day. The two friends attribute their success to their humble beginnings in rural North Carolina.

Lt. Rodney King and Senior Chief Engineman James Walker stand in front of the island of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). King and Walker grew up as childhood friends in neighboring towns in North Carolina and now serve together aboard TR. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric Lockwood

SHIP

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Day 6

1.5 mile run warm-up Repeat 3-5 times 400m run Squats - 20 Lunges - 10/leg Do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups total throughout the day

Day 7 Day 1

Repeat 3-4 times Push-ups max reps 1 min Sit-ups - 15-20 reps in 30 seconds 1.5 mile run warm-up Repeat 2-4 times 400m run at goal pace Squats - 20 Lunges - 10/leg Sit-ups - 20 in 30 seconds

Day 3

Repeat 3 times Max push-ups Pace Sit-ups 15-20 in 30 seconds Repeat 2 times 1.5 mile at close to goal pace - rest 10 minutes in between

Day 4 Day 2

Run 400m - rest 5:00 / stretch Run 1.5 mile run timed Do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups total throughout the day

Warm-up jog 10:00 Repeat 5 times 400m run at goal pace Squats - 20 Lunges - 10/leg Do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups total throughout the day

100-150 push-ups and sit-ups in as few sets as possible - no rest Repeat 4 times Run 400m run at full speed – rest 2 minutes Run 1.5-2 mile run timed

Day 8 3 miles at close to goal pace as possible Do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups total throughout the day

Day 9

Repeat 2-4 times bike or run - 2 minutes fast squats - 20 lunges 10/leg push-ups - max reps sit-ups - 40-50 in 1 minute Bike Pyramid: Manual mode level 2,4,6 Hold each level for 1 minute until failure - repeat in reverse order - should be 15-20 minutes long

Day 10

Warm-up Jog 5:00 1/4 mile at goal pace 1/2 mile at goal pace 3/4 mile at goal pace 1 mile at goal pace 1.5 mile run Do 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups total throughout the day

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The unknown hero of the health world, cauliflower, contains numerous vitamins and minerals and can often be substituted in place of higher calorie foods like potatoes.

Just try this delicious (and healthy of course) recipe that uses cauliflower, chilies and capers.

Roasted Cauliflower Medley

INGREDIENTS • 1 HEAD CAULIFLOWER • 5 TABLESPOONS EXTRA-VIRGIN OLIVE OIL • KOSHER SALT AND FRESHLY GROUND PEPPER • 2 TABLESPOONS CAPERS • 1/4 CUP WHITE WINE • 2 TABLESPOONS COLD BUTTER DIRECTIONS

Day 11

Push-up test 1 or 2 minutes Sit-up test 1 or 2 minutes Bike Pyramid: Manual mode level 2,4,6 Hold each level for 1 minute until failure - repeat in reverse order - should be 15-20 minutes long

Day 12

Repeat 2 times 800m run at goal pace - rest 2 min Run 1.5 mile run timed No push-ups / sit-ups

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Core the cauliflower and cut into florets. Toss the florets, 3 tablespoons olive oil, salt, and pepper on a baking sheet. Roast until tender, about 30 minutes.

2. Cook the capers and chili in the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil in a hot skillet for 1 minute. Add the wine and cook until reduced by half, about 1 minute. Stir in the butter and season with salt and pepper. Add the cauliflower and toss to coat.

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Swim or elliptical glide or both 20:00 of either or both No push-ups / sit-ups

twice before reaching for that energy drink. According to medicalnewstoday. com drinking coffee is a much better option with health benefits that include: preventing diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, liver disease, Alzheimer’s, and boosting long term memory. Best of all, it contains no calories. Energy drinks are expensive, high in calories and may contain high amounts of sugar, aspartame and Taurine, which have been found to cause cancer and can cause numerous heart conditions.

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CNO Holds All Hands Call at the Navy Global Network Operations and Security Center

By Michael J. Morris, Naval Network Warfare Command Public Affairs

SUFFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert visited the Navy Global Network Operations and Security Center in Suffolk and held an all-hands call with Sailors and civilians Jan. 24.

During his visit, the CNO recognized the efforts of Navy’s Information Dominance/Cyber warfighting team for their accomplishments in enhancing network reliability and security.

“This was quite rewarding for me when others in the Pentagon recognized the success of the operations being accomplished here,” Greenert said.

In all, the ceremony recognized the accomplishments of 47 Sailors and civilians from U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. TENTH Fleet South,

Naval Network Warfare Command, Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command, and Navy Information Operations Command Norfolk.

The CNO’s visit highlighted the importance of the civilian and military personnel that makeup the Navy’s cyber team and their role in network operations and defense.

Greenert spoke of how extraordinary the civilian/military team here and at Fleet Cyber Command is and the importance of recognizing the accomplishments of the teams across the Navy.

“And, after I leave here, I’m going to go down to USS Arlington and they’re going to dedicate a room to commemorate 9/11 and what the Arlington is about, 9/11 and the Pentagon and what happened there. As one person who was in

the building that day, it became very clear to me that there is no distinction in my mind between the civilians and military with regard to what they do for this country and of how they are perceived by those who are working against us.”

“They viewed us all on the same team, so it became incumbent in my mind to understand that. It’s never more clear than with cyber security and defense operations,” CNO continued. “So, therefore I thank all of you. We always consider you all as shipmates.”

Greenert went on to answer questions from the audience covering a range of topics from budget issues to Veteran benefits.

Naval Network Warfare Command operates the Navy’s Networks and Navy Cyber Defense

Operations Command and Navy Information Operations Command Norfolk coordinate defense of the Navy’s Networks.

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert delivers remarks during an all-hands call at the Navy Global Network Operations and Security Center. Greenert visited the command to recognize the command’s work in network operations and defense. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Elizabeth L. Burke/Released)

Multi-ship Exercise Koa Kai Underway Near Hawaii From Military Sealift Command Public Affairs

PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM (NNS) -- Seven Hawaiihomeported surface ships and two San Diego-based surface ships will participate in the integrated maritime exercise Koa Kai 14-1 near Hawaii Jan. 24 through Jan. 31.

“Koa Kai,” Hawaiian for “Sea Warrior,” prepares independent deployers in multiple warfare areas, while also providing training in a multi-ship environment.

Participating units will conduct integrated flight operations, anti-surface and anti-submarine training.

The San Diego-based ships USS Cape St. George (CG 71) and USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) will join Hawaii-based ships in the exercise, led by U.S. Third Fleet.

“Koa Kai provides an opportunity to exercise multiple warfare disciplines to ensure our ships maintain warfighting readiness and the capability to operate

forward on short notice,” said Rear Adm. Rick Williams, Commander, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific and Navy Region Hawaii. “Koa Kai is integrated, challenging, state-of-the-art training for our sea warriors here in the Middle Pacific that helps us achieve full deployment readiness.”

Williams added, “We will show, test and assess our capabilities in coordination with the Navy’s premier testing and training range - Pacific Missile Range Facility.”

USS Cape St. George and USS Lake Champlain join the Hawaii-based guided-missile cruisers USS Port Royal (CG 73), USS Lake Erie (CG 70), and USS Chosin (CG 65), and the guided-missile destroyers USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), USS Halsey (DDG 97), USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93), and USS O’Kane (DDG 77) - along with the underway

replenishment ship HMCS Protecteur from Canada and assets from Commander, Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet; Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 37; Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 2; VMFA-224, 24 Maritime Air Group, Hawaii Air National Guard, and 25th Combat Aviation Brigade.

Capt. Chris Bushnell, commander of Destroyer Squadron THREE ONE (CDS-31), said, “We’re extremely pleased with the level of commitment from the Joint commands on island to support Koa Kai 14-1.

Hawaii Air National Guard (USAF) together with VMFA224 (USMC) are providing our fixed wing component while MAG-24 (USMC) and 25th CAB (USA) are each providing variants of helicopters for surface, subsurface and air defense events throughout Koa Kai.

The participation of all the supporting commands will add great value and depth to the exercise and promises to be a significant stepping stone for future Koa Kai exercises,” he added.

Official U.S. Navy file photo of the fast attack submarine USS Tucson (SSN 770), the guided-missile cruisers USS Lake Erie (CG 70) and USS Port Royal (CG 73) and the guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sail past Diamond Head during the 2011 Koa Kai exercise. Hawaii-based surface Navy and other combatant units participated in Koa Kai 11-2, an integrated training event with the goal of attaining deployment certificates and training. Koa Kai 14-1 begins January 24, 2014. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark Logico/Released)

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