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TR GETS SOAKED

Sailors test AFFF systems in preparation for INSURV

A GREAT DAY FOR TRAINING The Harvard Learning Center is now open

TR’s Hangar Bay Gets a Dose of AFFF Story and Photo by MCSN Jenna Kaliszewski

ailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) conducted a test of the Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) system on the ship’s flight deck and hangar bay April 27. TR tested the AFFF systems in preparation for the upcoming Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV). “After INSURV we should be certified,” said Damage Controlman 1st Class Keith Frizell, from Engineering Department’s Damage Control division. “Then we only have to test it if we need to do repairs, before and after deployment, and regular required tests according to our instructions.” AFFF is a foam mixture of 94 percent sea water and six percent detergent used to smother liquid and gas fires onboard the ship. Overhead and in-deck sprinkler systems dispense the solution in the hangar bay and flight deck respectively. “When multiple aircraft are on fire and multiple hose teams are down, we use AFFF to put the fire out,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Handling 3rd Class Dallas Donnelly, of Air Department’s V-3 division. “We were testing the system to make sure they [the sprinklers] function properly from every control station we have on the ship,” said Donnelly. “The test went very well. Everything is running smoothly.” AFFF testing is conducted routinely to ensure the system is always in working order, keeping Theodore Roosevelt mission ready at all times.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Handling 3rd Class Monique Watson, Air Department V-3, cleans aqueous film forming foam up after a test of the system in the hangar bay aboard TR.

TR Converts Ready Room to Training Classroom

Story and Photo by MC3(SW) Heath Zeigler

he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new training classroom April 28. “It took a lot of hard work and late hours to get this accomplished,” said Lt. Cmdr. Terra A. Gray, the training officer aboard Theodore Roosevelt. “We utilized the talent of the Sailors aboard this ship, not contractors, to make this dream a reality.” Sailors converted ready room 10 into a training classroom by painting bulkheads, installing new seating and decorating the interior with memorabilia from Theodore Roosevelt’s time at Harvard. “The ready room was turned into the Harvard Learning Center,” said Gray. “We want Sailors to feel like they are students and fully engaged in the training that they are receiving.” The room provides a comfortable atmosphere for new Sailors aboard the ship to attend indoctrination training. The room will also host a multitude of meetings from navigation briefs to Navy College classes. “I want future Sailors to come to the Roosevelt and feel like they are welcomed,” said Gray. “This is their first impression and I want it to be a good one.”

From left: Capt. Mark J. Colombo, the executive officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Cmdr. Jeffrey A. Craig, the prospective executive officer of Theodore Roosevelt, Capt. Daniel C. Grieco, commanding officer of Theodore Roosevelt, Lt. Cmdr. Terra A. Gray, the training officer of Theodore Roosevelt, and Command Master Chief William Smalts, command master chief of Theodore Roosevelt, cut a ribbon officially opening TR’s new Harvard Learning Center.

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Court Upholds Limits on Coal Pollution TWO GIANT BANKS, SEEN AS IMMUNE, BECOME TARGETS

WASHINGTON — In a major victory for the Obama administration, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the smog from coal plants that drifts across state lines from 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states to the East Coast. The 6-to-2 ruling bolsters the centerpiece of President Obama’s environmental agenda: a series of new regulations aimed at cutting pollution from coal-fired power plants. Republicans and the coal industry have criticized the regulations, which use the Clean Air Act as their legal authority, as a “war on coal.” Legal experts said the decision, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, signals that the Obama administration’s efforts to use the Clean Air Act to fight global warming could withstand legal challenges. In June, the E.P.A. is expected to propose a sweeping Clean Air Act regulation to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, which scientists say is the chief cause of climate

change. Coal plants are the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. If the Supreme Court had decided against the Obama administration in Tuesday’s decision, Jody Freeman, director of the environmental law program at Harvard, said, “it would have been a shot across the bow to the E.P.A. as it takes the next steps” toward putting out the climate change regulations. Tuesday’s decision is only the latest blow to coal. Two weeks ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld another Clean Air Act rule that would cut coalplant pollution from mercury. The interstate air pollution regulation, also known as the “good neighbor” rule, has pitted Rust Belt and Appalachian states like Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky against East Coast states like New York and Connecticut. In its arguments before the court, the E.P.A. said the rules were necessary to protect the health and the environment of downwind states. East Coast

states are vulnerable to pollution blown by the prevailing west-toeast winds of the United States. The soot and smog produced by coal plants are linked to asthma, lung disease and premature death. In her decision, Ginsburg noted that in reining in interstate pollution, regulators must account for the vagaries of the wind. “Some pollutants stay within upwind states’ borders, the wind carries others to downwind states, and some subset of that group drifts to states without air quality problems,” she wrote. In a dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, said the regulation was unwieldy and suggested it was Marxist. As written, the regulation will require upwind polluting states to cut pollution in relation to the amounts of pollution each state produces, but also as a proportion of how affordably a state can make the cuts. In other words, states that are able to more cost-effectively reduce pollution will be required to cut more of it. CORAL DAVENPORT

Clippers Owner Barred for Life Over Racist Talk LOS ANGELES — The National Basketball Association on Tuesday handed a lifetime ban to the longtime Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after he was recorded making racist comments. Commissioner Adam Silver said the N.B.A. would try to force Sterling to sell Donald the Clippers, Sterling fully expecting to get the necessary three-quarters approval from other team owners. It would be a rare move for a North American professional sports league, made even more unusual by the fact that the N.B.A. is punishing Sterling for comments he made in a private conversation. Sterling was also fined $2.5 million, the largest that league by-

laws would allow, but a small percentage of his estimated $1.9 billion fortune. It is unclear how Sterling, who is believed to be 80, will respond. He has made no public comments. “The views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful,” Silver said. “We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling’s views. They simply have no place in the N.B.A.” Dozens of players and several team owners released statements applauding Silver’s move. Even the Clippers’ organization released one with the approval of Andy Roeser, the team president, and Doc Rivers, the head coach. “We wholeheartedly support and embrace the decision by the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver today,” the Clippers’ statement read. “Now the healing process begins.” The team’s website featured an all-black background on its

homepage, and a simple message: “We Are One.” The controversy began over the weekend by the release of audio clips of Sterling, making wide-ranging racist remarks in a conversation with a female acquaintance. He was perturbed that the woman posted pictures of herself online with black men, including Magic Johnson, who played his Hall of Fame career with the Los Angeles Lakers. “Don’t put him on Instagram for the world to see so they have to call me,” Sterling said, in recordings released by TMZ. “And don’t bring him to my games. Yeah, it bothers me a lot that you want to promo, broadcast, the you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” Silver said that the N.B.A.’s investigation revealed that the voice belonged to Sterling, and that Sterling admitted that the words were his. JOHN BRANCH

Federal prosecutors are nearing criminal charges against some of the world’s biggest banks, according to lawyers briefed on the matter, a development that could produce the first guilty plea from a major bank in more than two decades. In doing so, prosecutors are confronting the popular belief that Wall Street institutions have grown so important to the economy that they cannot be charged. A lack of criminal prosecutions of banks and their leaders fueled a public outcry over the perception that giant banks are “too big to jail.” Addressing those concerns, prosecutors in Washington and New York have met with regulators about how to criminally punish banks without putting them out of business and damaging the economy, interviews with lawyers and records reviewed by The New York Times show. The new strategy underpins the decision to seek guilty pleas in two of the most advanced investigations: one into Credit Suisse for offering tax shelters to Americans, and the other against France’s largest bank, BNP Paribas, over doing business with countries like Sudan that have been blacklisted. In the talks with BNP, prosecutors in Manhattan and Washington have outlined plans to extract a criminal guilty plea from the bank’s parent company, according to the lawyers who were not authorized to speak publicly. If BNP is unable to negotiate a lesser punishment, the case could counter congressional criticism that arose after the British bank HSBC escaped similar charges two years ago. Such criminal cases hinge on the cooperation of regulators, some who warned that charging HSBC could have prompted the revocation of the bank’s charter, the corporate equivalent of the death penalty. Federal guidelines require prosecutors to weigh the broader economic consequences of charging corporations. BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

INTERNATIONAL

Preparations For Rio Olympics Called ‘the Worst’ RIO DE JANEIRO — A top International Olympic Committee official on Tuesday called Rio de Janeiro’s preparations to host the 2016 Summer Olympics “the worst I have experienced,” adding to a growing chorus of doubts about the city’s ability to get ready for the Games without international help. “We’ve become very concerned, to be quite frank,” John D. Coates, who is vice president of the committee, said in Melbourne. “They really are not ready in many, many ways.” However, he ruled out moving the Olympics to another city. “There can be no Plan B; we are going to Rio,” Coates said. Brazil is scrambling to host two international sporting events in two years, including the World Cup that begins in June. Preparations for the two events have been plagued with delays, rising costs, street demonstrations, workers’ strikes and deaths in stadium construction. Coates cited several daunting problems in Rio, which will be the first South American city to host the Summer Olympics. He said that construction had hardly begun on the Deodoro sports complex, which will hold 11 Olympic events and is considered the second most important site after the Olympic Park. He also cited Rio’s polluted waterways as a concern for events like sailing, rowing, canoeing and the triathlon. Only 35 percent of sewage in the state of Rio de Janeiro is treated, according to the state government, meaning the sight and odor of polluted waterways like Guanabara Bay greet the city’s visitors. Labor issues and social unrest also trouble the city. Shots were reported near the Olympic Park in early April during a conflict between striking workers and security guards. In recent weeks, violence has also increased between the police and residents in favelas, or slums, that are part of the city’s “pacification” program, including many in Rio’s touristic corridor. The policing strategy has been a centerpiece of the state government’s efforts to allay international concerns about safety in Rio before the mega events. TAYLOR BARNES

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

Unrest in Iraq Narrows Odds for Maliki Win BAGHDAD — When a wellknown journalist was shot dead at a checkpoint here last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki rushed to the scene. He promised, “blood for blood.” In a city where hundreds die every month from explosions and gunshots, it was unusual for Maliki to make a fuss over a single murder. That scene, coming as it did just before elections, was a vivid demonstration of what diplomats and analysts say is Maliki’s best hope for securing a third term as prime minister: playing the strongman. A strategy of showing toughness may win votes among Maliki’s Shiite constituency, but as Iraqis prepare to vote on Wednesday in the first national elections since the withdrawal of American forces, it is far from certain Maliki will be able to win over enough others to lock down another term. American intelligence assessments have found that Maliki’s re-election could increase sectarian tensions and even raise the odds of a civil war, citing his accumulation of power, his failure

Many question whether Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has the votes to win another term. weary of the violence and political dysfunction that have defined life under Maliki. MAX BECHERER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Yet, Maliki’s prosto compromise with other Iraqi pects have brightened from six factions and his military failures months ago, when he had few genagainst Islamic extremists. On uine accomplishments to point to. his watch, Iraq’s military has been Heavy fighting against Sunni Islaaccused of serious abuses as it mist extremists in Anbar province cracks down on militants and op- and other areas has allowed him ponents of Maliki’s government, to campaign as a wartime leader including torture, indiscriminate and present himself to the Shiite roundups of Sunnis and demand- majority as the leader of an existential fight that he has defined in ing bribes to release detainees. A long list of political rivals are starkly sectarian terms. “All the elements are working determined to unseat him. Judging by their calls for “change,” he may in his favor,” said Izzat Shabendhave lost the support of the Shiite er, a Shiite politician who was once religious authorities in Najaf, the allied with Maliki but now wants holy city in southern Iraq, who him out of power, with a measure hold great sway over Iraq’s Shiite of exasperation. TIM ARANGO and MICHAEL R. GORDON majority. Many Iraqis say they are

In Brief U.S. Adds Enforcement Actions

ties around the elections planned for June 3, which government opponents widely regard as a sham, saying Assad’s victory is guaranteed. (NYT)

The United States government escalated enforcement of its Iran sanctions on Tuesday, adding eight Chinese companies, a Dubai company and two Dubai-based executives to blacklists for evading American restrictions on Iranian weapons, oil and banking transactions. In coordinated announcements by the Treasury, State and Justice Departments, the government also offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Li Fangwei, a Chinese businessman who is accused of abetting Iranian weapons procurement. The announcements said he owned the eight Chinese companies and that he had been charged in a previously sealed indictment with offenses including conspiracy to commit money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud. The announcements signaled the first significant enforcement of American sanctions directed at Iran in about three months. (NYT)

The British government said Tuesday that it would not order a fact-finding inquiry into the 1971 killing of 10 Belfast Catholics by British troops during a three-day street confrontation, a decision that infuriated relatives of the dead. The relatives have lobbied for an investigation like the one into 1972’s Bloody Sunday. The secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, said Britain did not believe an investigation “would provide answers which are not already in the public domain or covered by existing legal processes.” Briege Voyle, the daughter of a woman killed in the shooting, vowed to keep pushing for a public investigation, saying, “We will fight for this until we die.” (AP)

Pro-Assad Areas Are Attacked

Heroin Led to Deaths of Ex-SEALs

More than 50 people were killed in bomb, mortar and rocket attacks in government-controlled areas of Syria on Tuesday, as the international chemical weapons monitoring group declared that it was sending inspectors to the country to investigate suspected use of chlorine gas. The wave of attacks on civilian, mainly pro-government areas in the capital, Damascus, and in the central city of Homs, came a day after President Bashar al-Assad formally announced plans to run for re-election. Taken together, the day’s events underscored the uncertain-

The authorities in the Seychelles said Tuesday that they had determined that a combination of heroin and alcohol was responsible for the deaths of two former members of the Navy SEALs working as guards on board a container ship in February. The two, Jeffrey Reynolds and Mark Kennedy, in their 40s, were found dead in a cabin aboard the Maersk Alabama. Autopsies determined the men had died of respiratory failure and possible heart attacks, and further tests ruled out foul play, the police in the Seychelles said Tuesday. (NYT)

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NATIONAL

The Drone Master: Pop Culture Recasts Obama WASHINGTON — In Marvel’s latest thriller, Captain America battles Hydra, a malevolent organization that has infiltrated the highest levels of the United States government. There are missile attacks, enormous explosions, assassins, data-mining supercomputers and killer drones ready to obliterate millions of people. Its inspiration? President Obama, the optimistic candidate of hope and change. Five and a half years into his presidency, Obama has had a powerful impact on popular culture. But what many screenwriters, novelists and visual artists have seized on is compelling story lines in the darker, morally fraught parts of Obama’s legacy. “We were trying to find a bridge to the same sort of questions that Barack Obama has to address,” said Joe Russo, who with his brother, Anthony, directed “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” “If you’re saying with a drone strike, we can eradicate

an enemy of the state, what if you say with 100 drone strikes, we can eradicate 100?” A virtual arts festival of films, books, plays, comics, television shows and paintings have been using as their underlying narratives the sometimes grim reality of Obama’s presidency. The commando raid that Obama ordered to kill Osama bin Laden is the basis for the actions of the fictional President Ogden in the Godzilla comic books. Several episodes of CBS’s “The Good Wife” feature mysterious wiretaps of the main characters by the National Security Agency. The public relations machinery of the White House tries to control Obama’s image and legacy, but there is nothing it can do to stop artistic interpretation of his policies. Artists have focused particularly on the N.S.A. spying revelations disclosed by Edward J. Snowden and Obama’s “kill list” of terrorists targeted by drones. Past presidents have also seen

their actions reflected in the culture of the day. The difference for Obama may be the gap between what his supporters expected and what they now see. An artist named Kara Walker set off a controversy in 2012 with drawing displayed at the Newark Public Library in New Jersey. The drawing included an image of Obama standing at a lectern beneath a burning cross. The drawing is titled “The moral arc of history ideally bends towards justice but just as soon as not curves back around toward barbarism, sadism, and unrestrained chaos.” On the campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, the artists Nadia Afghani and Matt Fisher sculptured a full-size, 55-foot-wide MQ-1B Predator drone out of mud. In an accompanying manifesto titled “We Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Dust,” the artists say they are “proposing and modeling a possible act of resistance to the authoritarian machinery” of the drones. MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Inmate Dies After Oklahoma Execution Interrupted McALESTER, Okla. — What was supposed to be the first of two executions here Tuesday night was halted when the prisoner, Clayton D. Lockett, began to writhe and gasp after he had already been declared unconscious and called out “oh man,” according to witnesses. The administering doctor intervened and discovered that “the line had blown,” said the director of corrections, Robert Patton, meaning that drugs were no longer flowing into Lockett’s vein. At 7:06 p.m., Patton said, Lockett died of a heart attack. Patton said he had requested a stay of 14 days in the second ex-

ecution scheduled for Tuesday night, of Charles F. Warner. It was a chaotic and disastrous step in Oklahoma’s effort to execute the men, overcoming their objections that the state would not disclose the source of the drugs being used in a new combination. It did not appear that any of the drugs themselves failed, but rather the method of administration, but it resulted in what witnesses called an agonizing scene. “This was botched, and it was difficult to watch,” said David Autry, one of Lockett’s lawyers. A doctor started to administer the first drug, a sedative intended to knock the man out, at 6:23 p.m.

Ten minutes later, the doctor announced that Lockett was unconscious, and he started to administer the next two drugs, a paralytic and one intended to make the heart stop. At that point, witnesses said, things began to go awry. Lockett’s body moved, his foot shook and he mumbled, witnesses said. At 6:37 p.m., he tried to rise and exhaled loudly. At that point, officials pulled a curtain in front of the witnesses and the doctor discovered a “vein failure,” Patton said. Without effective sedation, the second two drugs are known to cause agonizing suffocation and pain. ERIK ECKHOLM

Judge Strikes Down Law Requiring Photo ID at Polls A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Wisconsin’s law requiring voters to produce state-approved photo identification cards at polling places, advancing a new legal basis — the Voting Rights Act — for similar challenges playing out around the nation. Judge Lynn Adelman, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, found that the state’s 2011 law vio-

lated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution as well as the Voting Rights Act, which bars states from imposing rules that abridge a citizen’s right to vote based on race or color. The order posed an immediate challenge for state Republican leaders who had earlier indicated they might soon call a special session to approve a revised law — one that could presumably pass court muster and go into effect be-

fore this year’s elections. Adelman enjoined the state from requiring voters to provide identification cards, and required officials to seek legal approval of any revised law. The judge pledged to expedite hearings on any rewritten law, but wrote that “it is difficult to see how an amendment to the photo ID requirement could remove its disproportionate racial impact and discriminatory result.” (NYT)

In Brief Hagel Seeks Review Of Policies on Hair Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday ordered the American military to review its policies concerning hairstyles popular with black women, telling critics of new Army regulations banning large cornrows, twists and dreadlocks that he takes “very seriously” concerns that military rules on hair have unfairly targeted black women. Responding to a complaint lodged by the 16 women of the Congressional Black Caucus, Hagel said he had given the secretaries and military leaders of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines three months to review comprehensive military regulations. (NYT)

Girl Accused of Killing A Rival Over a Boy A 14-year-old Chicago girl accused of killing another girl in a dispute over a boy tried unsuccessfully to fire a gun before someone fixed it for her so she could open fire, prosecutors said Tuesday. That detail emerged during a hearing in juvenile court, in which the girl appeared on a first-degree murder charge in Monday’s killing of Endia Martin, 14. According to a statement read in court, the girl pointed the weapon at people standing on a porch on the South Side and pulled the trigger, but it would not fire. She then handed the gun to someone who cleared the malfunction and gave it back to her. She opened fire, killing Endia and wounding a 16-year-old girl. (AP)

Symphony to Play Pot-Friendly Series The Colorado Symphony Orchestra said Tuesday it will play a series of “cannabis-friendly” fundraising concerts sponsored by the state’s burgeoning pot industry. The state’s only full-time professional orchestra hopes the unusual shows dubbed “Classically Cannabis: The High Note Series” will boost its audience as it struggles with dwindling attendance and shrinking budgets. The event, however, is strictly B.Y.O.C. — bring your own cannabis, according to the symphony website. (AP)

BUSINESS

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THE MARKETS

Twitter’s Results Worry Investors on Wall St. globally in March, up 5 percent from 241 million at the end of December, which ended a quarter in which monthly active users jumped by less than 4 percent. And engagement looked lackluster. On average, users refreshed their Twitter feeds 614 times a month during the recent quarter, up slightly from 613 times a month in the fourth quarter. Twitter users were refreshing their feeds less frequently than they were in the year-ago quarter. But most disconcerting for shareholders is that Twitter made $1.44 in advertising revenue for every 1,000 timeline views, down from $1.49 from its previous quarter. That may be the best marker of Twitter’s ability to make money from its platform, and in the first quarter it was trending down. In a call with

analysts, Twitter’s executives attributed some of that to seasonality because the fourth quarter tends to be the most profitable. Analysts say it is still too early to parse how Twitters users are engaging with the service, and they say the ways Twitter explains itself — using terms such as “timeline views,” which roughly equates to how many times a user looks at a fresh version of a Twitter feed — don’t provide a complete picture of how people are interacting with the service. “There is a bigger question here for Twitter of identity and use cases,” said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. For example, he said he would like to know how many minutes users are spending with the site, a metric Twitter has yet to disclose. NICOLE PERLROTH

Top Officer of Barclays in America Is Leaving For years, Barclays of Britain fought to become one of Wall Street’s elite investment banks, including buying up the remains of Lehman Brothers’ American operations. But as the firm moves to shrink its investment bank’s size and ambitions, one of the leaders who spearheaded that growth campaign plans to leave. The firm said that Hugh McGee III, the head of its business in the United States, will leave on Wednesday. The move comes as regulators force foreign banks to keep more of their assets in the United States, an effort designed to protect their American operations, and as Barclays looks to reshape

its business and cut costs. The bank is expected to unveil its plans for the restructured investment bank on May 8, two days after it reports its first-quarter results. That tension has worn down many within the investment bank, as employees have grumbled over their pay packages. Barclays executives have been forced to defend the bonus payments in the investment banking unit to its shareholders and the public upset over what it saw as excessive payouts. McGee finally had enough. “My focus has always been on clients, but given the need for Barclays leadership to focus on regulatory issues for the foresee-

able future, I have decided that it is time for me to move on to new challenges,” he said. While McGee has held discussions with a number of suitors, he doesn’t have a job lined up yet, according to a person briefed on the matter. He arrived at Barclays when the firm bought the bulk of the investment banking operations of Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis of 2008 — a deal that he had helped orchestrate. By then, he had already become one of Lehman’s top deal makers, who had advised on transactions like XTO Energy’s mammoth $31 billion sale to Exxon Mobil. CHAD BRAY and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

Nokia Announces New Strategy, and a New Chief LONDON — The Finnish technology company Nokia announced a new strategy on Tuesday that focuses on its core mobile telecommunications infrastructure business, and it named the head of that division, Rajeev Suri, as its new chief executive. The plan opens the first period in more than 30 years in which the company will not have a presence in the phone market; it completed the sale of its beleaguered handset business to Microsoft on Friday for $7.5 billion. Nokia said, it will continue to

invest in its two other business units, which focus on digital maps and on developing the company’s research and intellectual property teams. Some analysts, however, questioned how the company would be able to integrate the different divisions into a coherent strategy. The company remains dependent on its network business, which currently generates almost 90 percent of Nokia’s revenue, while its mapping business faces stiff competition from the likes of Apple and Google.

As part of the strategic review after the handset sale, Nokia also said on Tuesday that it would carry out dividend payments, share buybacks and debt reductions totaling more than $6.9 billion. Despite the uncertainty about Nokia’s long-term plans, investors cheered the dividend and share buyback news. Nokia’s shares had risen 5 percent in trading in Helsinki. The company’s stock has jumped 86 percent since the handset deal was first announced in September. MARK SCOTT

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SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is struggling to convince Wall Street that it is still a company with plenty of potential to grow. In its second earnings announcement as a public company, Twitter said on Tuesday that it had doubled revenues, besting its own forecasts and the expectations of Wall Street analysts. But the social networking service’s stock tumbled more than 11 percent in after-hours trading because the number of people who joined Twitter did not increase as quickly as many hoped. Wall Street, it appears, is more worried about Twitter’s ability to add users and keep them engaged than it is about its ability to increase revenues. In the last two quarters, that has been a problem. Twitter said it had 255 million monthly users

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A Bankruptcy From the Megadeal’s Golden Age It has long been the $45 billion corporate buyout that should never have happened. But it did. And now, a deal that defined the money and power of the golden age of private equity has gone bad the way things often do: Slowly, and then all at once. The TXU Corporation, the Texas energy giant that was taken over in a record-shattering buyout in 2007, finally collapsed into bankruptcy early Tuesday. On the surface, the decline of the company, renamed Energy Future Holdings, has caused few ripples, though it is the state’s largest electricity generator and provides power to three million customers. The private-equity owners had written their financial stakes down to almost zero years ago, and many debt investors sold their holdings at a loss. And thanks to negotiations in recent weeks, a group of hedge funds and other investors led by the financiers Leon D. Black of Apollo Global Management and

Bruce A. Karsh of Oaktree Capital is walking away with a big prize: the power generation business. But the bankruptcy of Energy Future Holdings represents a reckoning of sorts for some of the biggest names in private equity. The bankruptcy is the 11th largest in history and one of the largest failures of a company that had passed into private equity hands. Several deals involving U.S. companies that were taken private during the buyout boom era, from 2005 to 2007, have turned out to be big winners. The buyouts of the hospital giant HCA, Hilton Hotels and the energy company Kinder Morgan yielded big returns for the buyout kings and their investors. Still, other prominent deals of the era, including the $27 billion buyout of the First Data Corporation in 2007, the $23 billion acquisition of Clear Channel Communications in 2008 and the $17.4 billion purchase of Freescale Semiconductor in 2006, are still struggling

to manage the mountains of debt that the deal makers piled on them in businesses that have not yet rebounded. Analysts say such broad disparities — big gains but potential huge losses — are not the types of steady returns private equity sells to its pension-fund investors. Moreover, the era’s biggest deals could reflect a hubristic increased appetite for riskier deals. “The dangers of these boomera deals is that they were taking on more risk on the financial side, in terms of increased leverage, and taking on more risk on operations based on their models,” said Erik Gordon, a professor of law and business at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. “If you drive your car at 50 miles an hour and hit a pebble, you might feel the bump. If you’re driving the car at 150 miles an hour and hit the pebble, you’ll end up in a tree.” JULIE CRESWELL and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED

Case Shows the Risk of Signing Away Right to Sue When his children were young, Nathan Littlejohn was a regional salesman in search of a position that would allow him to spend more time with his family. So when he heard about Allstate’s neighborhood agent program in 1990, he was intrigued. Over the next several years, he said, he worked around the clock to build his customer base and poured about $40,000 of his own money into his agency in Overland Park, Kan. Using similar logic, Craig Crease was able to justify investing $120,000 in his Kansas City Allstate agency over the course of 14 years. The same went for Ron Harper in Thomson, Ga., who spent about $80,000. But after building up their agencies, the agents said they were called into meetings in late 1999 by Allstate managers. The agents could keep on selling Allstate policies, they were told, but they would no longer be entitled to health insurance, a retirement account or profit-sharing, and their pension benefits would no longer accrue. Instead, they would become independent contractors. “They just pulled the rug out from beneath me,” said Little-

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Nathan Littlejohn, a former Allstate agent, wants to pursue an agediscrimination claim in court. plaintiffs are seeking class-action status — are expected to be filed in mid-May. STEVE HEBERT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES While the Alljohn, now 65. The company said state case is an extreme examthe changes were the result of a ple, it illustrates the challenges employees face when they decide “group reorganization.” The men are among 6,200 to sue an employer. Employee agents who faced the same pre- discrimination claims are on the dicament: To continue to work rise, but they remain notoriously with Allstate, the insurer re- hard to prove, legal experts said. “These cases are hard to win,” quired them to sign a release waiving their rights to sue. Most said Stewart J. Schwab, dean at of them did sign, but a group of 31 Cornell Law School, who studied the success rates of employment agents sued Allstate anyway. Thirteen years later, the case is discrimination cases from 1979 to still winding through the courts. 2006. He and his co-author found A judge ruled in February that a that of the small fraction of casjury should decide whether the es that go to trial, plaintiffs win waiver the agents signed was about 28 percent of the time, on valid, and it appeared a trial date average. “Everyone deserves a day in would be set for this spring. But a last-minute complication has court,” Littlejohn said. “That is all delayed the process again. More we are asking.” TARA SIEGEL BERNARD documents in the case — the

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: MGM Resorts International, up $1.96 to $24.98. Profits soared as gamblers in Asia flocked to Macau casinos and the company also saw stronger bookings on the Las Vegas Strip. Coach Inc., down $4.71 to $45.71. Intensifying competition is tugging at profits for the luxury retailer, and sales at stores open at least a year in North America fell by 21 percent. Spirit Airlines Inc., down $1.74 to $56.69. The airline’s net income rose 23 percent in the first quarter on rapidly growing traffic, but it said second-quarter costs other than fuel will rise. Gogo Inc., down $5.26 to $13.12. AT&T is building a high-speed 4G service for use on commercial airlines, stepping into the wireless company’s backyard. Buffalo Wild Wings Inc., up $6.75 to $140.14. Quarterly profit jumped 73 percent as sports fans gobbled up chicken wings during the Winter Olympics and the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament. Biota Pharmaceuticals Inc., down $1.89 to $3.68. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a stop-work order to the drug company on its influenza A&B drug. (AP)

DINING

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Bitter Winter Limits the Offerings of Spring For cooks, particularly those in the Midwest and the Northeast, these are brutal days. The winter was particularly long and especially awful. Chicago had nearly 68 inches of snow, the third-highest total on record. The polar vortex killed berry and peach crops in Illinois and Ohio. At least 19 grape-growing counties in New York qualify for federal disaster relief. It’s supposed to feel like spring. But the soil has been too cold to plant sweet corn in the Midwest. New Jersey asparagus is getting frostbit. Michigan’s sweet cherries are in trouble. Even the South is suffering. Strawberry farmers in North Carolina, which produces the nation’s fourth-largest crop, fought back an Easter freeze. “I find the week that we’re in right now and the next two the most frustrating weeks of the year,” Dan Barber said during a break from his duties as chef at Blue Hill in Manhattan. The longing for the tastes of spring puts special pressure on chefs like Barber, who has made his living connecting earth and dinner, both at his Manhattan restaurant and at the outpost of Blue Hill at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. In his new book, “The Third Plate,” due out in May, Barber argues that the culinary wing of the sustainable agriculture movement needs to redefine its expectations about cooking and eating to better match the ecological realities of farming. But in the spring battleground of a restaurant kitchen, the fight is much more practical: as in how to persuade diners that a spring menu, especially this year’s, is not all asparagus and strawberries. In fact, it looks a lot like Jerusalem artichokes and parsnips. Last week at Blue Hill, parsnips that had spent the winter underground — the sugar content, “is through the roof,” he said — showed up in five of the nine dishes. Farmers say the season is not really late. It’s a

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Chefs like Michael Gallina, Blue Hill’s chef de cuisine, are struggling with limited produce. quirk of the calendar and perception, more than the result of the heinous winter. The past couple of years it was just extra early, said Wally Czajkowski of Plainville Farm in Hadley, Mass. “We liked the heavy snow this year,” he said. More snow and a long stretch of cold meant water seeped slowly into the soil, building a good reserve of ground water, good for the asparagus. But the heavy snowpack didn’t help farmers like Kasha Bialas in the black dirt country of Orange County, N.Y. She has to spend extra time fluffing soil compacted by extra-heavy snow. Many crops are two to three weeks behind. She, too, is desperate for a taste of spring. On a recent day, it was warm enough to grill outside. So she put on some shrimp, then chopped spring garlic and tarragon, the first green plants she had growing. As a cheat, she added zucchini that had been grown somewhere else. She tossed it all with some butter and ate it over fettuccine. “It was like finally, a real taste of spring,” she said. KIM SEVERSON

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A Noodle Craze Ramen mania is in full throttle. Its popularity may have as much to do with Japan’s economic, political and social development as it does with the rich flavor of the bowls of noodles immersed in broth. At least that’s what George Solt, an assistant professor of history at New York University, writes in his new book, “The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze.” He will speak at a meeting of the Culinary Historians of New York, with a ramen sampling: “The Slurpy, Messy History of Ramen,” May 19 at 6:30 p.m., Park Avenue United Methodist Church, 106 East 86th Street, culinaryhistoriansny.org for tickets. (NYT)

The Masters of the Craft of Making Bourbon With the approach of the Kentucky Derby, you can bet a lot of bourbon will be consumed. Nowadays, that’s nothing new. Over the last decade, bourbon has been on the kind of streak that horseplayers SpiritS of can only dream the timeS about. This is eric ASimov particularly true of the most expensive bourbons: not merely high-end ones, but those that are super-premium, in the parlance of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a trade association. From 2004 to 2013, sales of these bourbons and Tennessee whiskeys more than tripled, to more than 1.2 million cases from 385,000. In the last quarter of the 20th century, the bourbon industry had ceded much of the spirits field to other, better-marketed choices. Recognizing the urgency

of the moment, bourbon distillers successfully overhauled themselves as a significant option for connoisseurs. Instead of the inexpensive mass-market bourbons that for so long had been the industry’s focus, a new array of small-batch, single-barrel and special-selection bourbons emphasized the complexity and elegance prized by whiskey experts. It is easy to understand the appeal of small craft distillers. Given the perception that corporate ownership diminishes the socalled authenticity of foods and beverages by focusing more on profits and efficiency than quality and craftsmanship, connoisseurs may be drawn to those distillers the way they are to microbrewers and family wine estates. Yet, as our spirits panel found, craft distillers are not automatically successful with bourbon. Or, to be more precise, newer distill-

ers are not always better bourbon producers. Partly, this may be a function of expertise. The big producers have decades of bourbon-making experience, and, as the marketing term “small batch” indicates, they are not always producing vast quantities. But also start-up distillers do not often have the luxury of aging their spirits as long as they may like, not when they need cash. Younger whiskeys have their attractions, but by and large they tend to be fiery and aggressive, while smooth complexity generally comes from time in the barrel. Indeed, many of the bourbons in our lineup seemed raw and unrefined. Most bourbon distillers use 65 percent to 75 percent corn, blended with some combination of rye, wheat or malted barley. Our No. 1 bourbon, Tuthilltown

Spirits Hudson Four Grain Bourbon, used, as the label suggests, all four of these grains to produce a lovely, complex, savory and sweet spirit. No. 2 was from Brooklyn’s own Kings County Distillery, a raw yet exotic and deep spirit, while No. 3, from Hillrock Estate in Ancram, N.Y., was aged in a TONY CENICOLA/ solera system, THE NEW YORK TIMES like sherry, which combines spirits of multiple ages. At this point in their development, many of these whiskeys seemed more like curiosities than finished products: not at all bad, but offering potential more than anything else.

JOURNAL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

Tony Award Nominations Are Spread Across a Wide Stage on Broadway — a season that started with high hopes for its 12 new musicals but ended with more misses than hits. Only one new show — “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” — received nominations for best musical, book, score and director, suggesting that Tony nominators saw flaws in many of the others. Unlike most years when a couple of musicals dominate both the Tonys and ticket sales, no show is a powerhouse this spring: “Gentleman’s Guide” earned the most Tony nominations, 10, but it is one of the weakest-selling shows of the season. Most nominees for best play also have modest ticket sales, like “Casa Valentina” and “Mothers and Sons,” while a

The major races for Broadway’s Tony Awards will be unusually wide open this spring, with the nominations, announced on Tuesday, showing more love for Shakespeare than Hollywood and for popular songs by Carole King and Duke Ellington than original musicals. Ambitiously conceived productions like “Rocky” and “If/Then” fared poorly, and some of the most praised performers of the season — including Daniel Radcliffe and Denzel Washington — were edged out. The 33 Tony nominators spread the recognition around: Sixteen shows received at least four nominations, compared to 12 shows in 2013 and 10 in 2012. That lack of consensus was a sign that this was a season of letdowns

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stronger box office draw — the play “The Realistic Joneses” — received no nominations. Two of the best musical nominees, “Aladdin” and “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” are selling briskly. But they were well-executed productions of familiar material. Still, one of the boldest surprises was also one of the most successful: “Twelfth Night” received seven nominations. “Twelfth Night” received nominations for best play revival; Samuel Barnett for best actor (as Viola); and three of the five featured actor nominations (for Paul Chahidi, Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry). Rylance, already a double Tony winner, was also nominated for best actor in a play for “Richard III,” becoming the first man to earn two acting nominations in the same year. With all of the British actors nominated for Shakespeare, there was little room left for several stars like Radcliffe, as well as James Franco (“Of Mice and Men”), Michael C. Hall (“Joneses”), Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart (“No Man’s Land” and “Waiting for Godot”), and Zachary Quinto (“The Glass Menagerie”). Quinto aside, “Menagerie” did snap one of the longest streaks in theater history — the lack of any Tony nominations for Broadway productions of that Tennessee Williams play. “Menagerie” will compete with “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Twelfth Night” in the category for best play revival; its other actors — Cherry Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith — were all nominated. Jones, a two-time Tony winner, is in another tough, unpredictable category, facing, among others, Audra McDonald, a five-time Tony winner who is nominated for playing Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.” McDonald, 43, could become the first performer to win six Tonys for acting, as well as the first to win a Tony in each of the four acting categories. PATRICK HEALY

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OPINION

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

Not Getting Through to Putin The United States and the European Union announced another round of sanctions against Russia on Monday and Tuesday — the Americans against Russians close to President Vladimir Putin and the Europeans against senior Russian officials and secessionist leaders in Ukraine. The stated reason is that Russia has fulfilled none of the commitments it made at a meeting with Ukraine, the United States and the European Union in Geneva on April 17, and that Russia’s “involvement in the recent violence in eastern Ukraine is indisputable.” The action is justified, and for all of Putin’s bluster, the economic uncertainty generated by sanctions is accelerating Russia’s slide to recession. The same Russians who are cheering Putin on are rushing to get their money out of Russia. Yet given Putin’s demonstrative disdain for the Geneva agreements, such targeted penalties are not likely to change Russia’s behavior. And the sort that would — coordinated United States-European Union sanctions on financial institutions, the energy sector or defense industries — have proved very difficult to construct, largely because of the substantial difference between American and European exposure to Russia’s economy. About a quarter of the European Union’s gas supplies come from Russia. European Union trade with Russia, moreover, amounted to almost $370 billion in 2012, compared with United States-Russia trade of $26 billion. A weak and fragmented response would call into question a trans-Atlantic commitment to protect international law and democratic

values against the kind of aggression Putin is engaging in. The decision of Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, to meet with Putin on Monday in St. Petersburg and embrace him in a bear hug sent an unacceptable signal that some prominent Europeans are willing to ignore Putin’s brutish ways. One result has been pressure on President Obama to act unilaterally. That would be a mistake, and Obama has been right to maintain a unified front with the Europeans even if that has slowed and weakened the response. Acting separately would also fit into Putin’s efforts to split the United States from Europe, and East Europeans from the West Europeans, by consistently painting the United States as the orchestrator of discord in Ukraine. But Ukraine is very much a European crisis. It was an accession treaty offered by the European Union that touched off the current crisis, and it is the European Union’s eastern members who are most threatened by Putin’s efforts to revise the post-World War II order. Europe’s concern over the economic repercussions of broader economic sanctions are understandable. But that should not lead to any myopia about the danger Putin poses and the need to rein him in. His authoritarian behavior at home, his disdain for the Geneva agreement and, most recently, the capture of a European military observer mission in Slovyansk should persuade all European leaders that, as Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany told the magazine Spiegel, “We’ve slid into the worst crisis since the end of the Cold War.”

Voter ID Is the Real Fraud For the first time since the Supreme Court junked a core provision of the Voting Rights Act in June, a federal court has used the strongest surviving part of the act to strike down a state’s voter-identification law, and, in the process, has set out a detailed road map for upcoming challenges to similar laws around the country. Supporters of these laws insist they are necessary to prevent fraud at the polls. The real point is to deter from the polls significant numbers of Democratic voters. That was the heart of the reasoning by Judge Lynn Adelman of Federal District Court in Milwaukee, who issued a 90-page ruling on Tuesday invalidating Wisconsin’s voter-ID law. The law was passed by a Republican-controlled statehouse in 2011 and required that a prospective voter present a government-issued photo ID, like a driver’s license or passport. On the other hand, the judge found that 300,000 Wisconsin voters, or 9 percent of all registered voters, lack the required ID. “A substantial number” of those voters, the judge found, are lower-income and poorly educated residents who face a “unique barrier” to get-

ting the underlying documents needed to obtain a photo ID. Some cannot afford the $20 for a birth certificate; others must spend weeks tracking down documents at agencies inaccessible by public transportation. In the end, it was easy for Adelman to find the law unconstitutional under the equal protection clause. Equally important, the judge found that the law also violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits laws that have a disproportionate impact on minority voters. Until now, Section 2 has been used primarily in redistricting lawsuits, but its application in the voter-ID context gives a potent weapon to challengers of similar laws in Texas and North Carolina. When the Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s ID law in 2008, it found no evidence of actual harm to voters. The Wisconsin ruling is important in part because it shows the power of the testimony of real, everyday people whose right to vote is demonstrably burdened by these laws. Judges are at last starting to see voter ID for what it is: a concerted political effort by Republicans to keep opponents from the polls.

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Is Barry Whiffing? Washington Stop whining, Mr. President. And stop whiffing. I empathize with you about being thinskinned. When you hate being criticized, it’s hard to take a giant steaming plate of “you stink” every day, coming from all sides. You simply proclaim what you believe as though you know it to be absolutely true, hoping we recognize the truth of it. I also appreciate the fact that it’s harder for you than it was for J.F.K., W. and all those other pols who had their rich daddies and their rich daddies’ rich friends to buy anything they needed and connect them up. But you are the American president. And the American president should not perpetually use the word “eventually.” And he should not set a tone of resignation with references to this being a relay race. An American president should never say, as you did to the New Yorker editor, David Remnick, about presidents through history: “We’re part of a long-running story. We just try to get our paragraph right.” An American president should never say, as you did Monday in Manila: “You hit singles; you hit doubles. Every once in a while, we may be able to hit a home run.” Especially now that we have this scary World War III vibe with the Russians, we expect the president, especially one who ran as Babe Ruth, to hit home runs. In the immortal words of Earl Weaver, the Hall of Famer who managed the Baltimore Orioles: “The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers.” A singles hitter doesn’t scare anybody. It doesn’t feel like leadership. It doesn’t feel like you’re in command of your world. How can we accept these reduced expectations and truculent passivity from the man who offered himself up as the moral beacon of the world, even before he was elected? Mr. President, don’t you know that we’re speeched out? It’s not what we need right now. You should take a lesson from Adam Silver, who, in his first big encounter with a crazed tyrant, managed to make the job of N.B.A. commissioner seem much more powerful than that of president of the United States. Silver took the gutsy move of banning cretinous Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life, after many people speculated that there was little the N.B.A. chief could do except cave. But Silver realized that even if Sterling tries to fight him in court (and wins) he will look good because he stood up for what was right. Once you liked to have the stage to yourself, Mr. President, to have the aura of the lone man in the arena, not sharing the spotlight with others. But now when captured alone in a picture, you seem disconnected and adrift. What happened to crushing it and swinging for the fences? Where have you gone, Babe Ruth?

SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

Wizards Win First Playoff Series Since 2005 CHICAGO — The Bulls scored on their second possession in Game 5 Tuesday night against the Washington Wizards when Carlos Boozer knocked down a high arcing jump shot. WIZARDS 75 The ensuing BULLS 69 cheer for the Washington wins 2-0 lead at Unitseries, 4-1 ed Center was as much relief as excitement. In Game 4, the Bulls did not score until they spotted the Wizards 14 points in a blowout loss. The early basket, though, did not lead to an offensive renaissance. Instead, the fourth-seeded Bulls struggled to score and were eliminated from the playoffs by the Wizards, 75-69. Fifth-seeded Washington, which claimed its first playoff series win since 2005, will play Atlanta or Indiana in the second round. Returning from a Game 4 sus-

pension, Nene, as he had been all series, was a force. He bullied Chicago inside and knocked down an array of open jumpers. He shot 10 for 17 from the field and scored 20 points. The Bulls also had no answer for the young, talented Washington guards. John Wall scored 24 points and sharp-shooter Bradley Beal had 17. The Wizards had built a three games to one lead on the Bulls, despite not much of a statistical advantage. Rebounds were tied after four games. Washington shot 45 percent from the field to the Bulls’ 44 percent. Washington had made just four more free throws over the course of the series. The Bulls gave up a 13-point second half lead in Game 1 and a 10-point fourth quarter lead in Game 2. They could not take ad-

vantage of Nene’s absence from the lineup in Game 4. “Sometimes it’s a fingernail,” Bulls Coach Tom Thibodeau said before the game. “Get your hand on the ball. You do that, often times, that’s the difference between winning and losing.” Despite Boozer’s basket, the Bulls got off to a painfully slow start, scoring just 15 points in the first quarter. They made just 6 of 23 shots and looked older and slower than the energized Wizards. A 17-4 second quarter stretch erased a double-digit deficit and helped tie the game at 41-41 at halftime. The crowd and the Bulls were sparked by a monstrous dunk by Taj Gibson in transition. But the Bulls’ offense quickly vanished again in the third quarter, when Chicago scored only 11 points. BEN STRAUSS

Yet Again, the Rangers Seem Averse to Prosperity PHILADELPHIA — Some streaks defy logic, but the Rangers’ current run of futility may be the strangest of all: an N.H.L. record 12 straight defeats while holding a lead in FLYERS 5 RANGERS 2 a playoff series. The latest Series tied, 3-3 came Tuesday night, with a 5-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 6 of their opening-round series. The Rangers were buried beneath a blizzard of orange Flyers hats that fluttered down from the stands in the second period after Wayne Simmonds scored his third goal of the game to make the score 4-0. The rest of the night was a rau-

cous Flyers celebration. Still, the Rangers can take solace in having a better record in recent Game 7’s. They have won their last three series-deciding games. Early in the first period Benoit Pouliot was sent to the penalty box for a holding penalty, when he collared Claude Giroux in the neutral zone. On the power play Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi made a bad pass that gave the puck to the Flyers. Henrik Lundqvist robbed Simmonds once, but Simmonds got the puck back again and whacked it in to make the score 1-0. The game quickly spiraled out of control for the Rangers early

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In Brief Cano Helps Mariners Top the Yankees Robinson Cano drove in a run and scored another in a most unwelcome return to Yankee Stadium, helping the Seattle Mariners beat the Yankees, 6-3, Tuesday night for their fourth win in five games. Chris Young (1-0) gave up a second-inning homer to Mark Teixeira and not much else to earn his first win since 2012. (AP)

N. B. A . SCORES MONDAY’S LATE GAME San Antonio 93, Dallas 89 Series tied 2-2 TUESDAY Washington 75, Chicago 69 Washington wins series 4-1 Memphis 100, Oklahoma City 99, OT Grizzlies lead series, 3-2

N. H . L. SCORES MONDAY’S LATE GAME Los Angeles 4, San Jose 1 Series tied, 3-3 TUESDAY Philadelphia 5, Rangers 2 Series tied, 3-3

N. L. SCO RES MONDAY’S LATE GAME Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 3, 12 innings TUESDAY Mets 6, Philadelphia 1 Miami 9, Atlanta 0 Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 4, 11 innings

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SPORTS JOURNAL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

The Ball Lands in the Team Owners’ Court It’s the owners’ ball now. They are on the clock. Shame on them if they do not run the play that sends Donald Sterling out the N.B.A.’s back door. It should be on an uncontested BASketBAll layup, really, the three-quarter vote Harvey required by the Araton league’s Board of Governors to complete the elimination of Sterling’s ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers that digitally crashed and burned last weekend after 33 years. “I will urge the Board of Governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team and will do everything in my power to ensure that that happens,” Commissioner Adam Silver said after barring Sterling from his own arena and every other one for life while fining him $2.5 million. That certainly was a good start but steps one and two mean next to nothing without the final act on the part of Sterling’s 29 colleagues. How many among them would defy Silver in his first major act after succeeding David Stern earlier this year? Who among them would stand up for a man such as Sterling, given his most recent offensive remarks that made Elgin Baylor, the Clippers’ former general manager, sound like a prophet?

N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver said he would try to force Donald Sterling to sell the Clippers, a move that would require the backing of team owners. DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Baylor, a Hall of Famer, accused Sterling in a 2009 lawsuit of running his franchise with a plantation mentality. And here was Sterling, on an audio presumably made by a former girlfriend, identified as V. Stiviano, saying of his players: “I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game?” While this wasn’t the comment that drew the harshest rebukes, in many ways it should have been the one that galvanized the players, leaguewide, in a way that even the most bitter collective bargaining battles with Stern and the owners never did. Who makes the game? Surely not Sterling, the octogenarian who made much of his fortune

as a slumlord and, as the Justice Department charged, one who was systematically prejudicial against minorities. For context’s sake, the next time you see the Dallas owner Mark Cuban parading around the court after a game-winning shot like an Adderall-deprived man fan, remember that what he is largely communicating is the belief that being around these uniquely skilled athletes is just about the coolest thing on earth. Cuban wants to be their buddy, Sterling their boss man, but anyone who listened to the audios posted on the TMZ and Deadspin websites had to take away the understanding that, however much hate is actually in Sterling’s heart, he is too out of touch with 21st-century multiculturalism to be in the position the league tolerated him in for far too long.

With Rout, Real Madrid Is Back in Familiar Territory MUNICH — Cristiano Ronaldo sprinted toward the end line, his arms shaking and his eyes wide. Suddenly he stopped in front of a wall of Bayern Munich fans at the Allianz Arena, and held up 10 fingers. Then he dropped one hand and raised five fingers again. His point was clear. Ronaldo, the Portuguese superstar, had just set a record for most goals scored by a single player during a Champions League season (with 15 in 10 games, he subtly reminded everyone). Even more, his goal had sealed Real Madrid’s passage to next month’s final in Lisbon, where the club will seek to win its 10th European title. So Ronaldo preened. He screamed and shouted and, later, when he capped off Real’s destruction of Bayern with his 16th goal about an hour later, he jumped so high he could have cleared a pool table.

The final score in Tuesday’s semifinal second leg was 4-0 on the night and 5-0 on aggregate, and it could have been worse. Munich was blown out of its own building. Real, which also got two goals from Sergio Ramos, will face either Atletico Madrid, its intra-city foil, or Chelsea, who is coached by the former Real manager Jose Mourinho, in the title match next month. For the Bayern players, the massacre was mortifying; the club was seeking to reach its fourth final in five years and had high hopes of defending the championship it won at Wembley last May. For Manager Pep Guardiola, the ease at which his German champions were dispatched was especially alarming. Last year, in the semifinals, Bayern blasted Barcelona, Guardiola’s former club, which was still

playing his possession-centric style. Bayern was a counter-attacking juggernaut, pushing the ball forward quickly as soon as they gained possession. This year, Guardiola, in his first season in Munich, has molded Bayern’s style to closely match his Barcelona days. And while Bayern cruised to the German league title, Guardiola’s players were viciously undone in the Champions League by a fierce counter-attacking side that sprinted forward with lethal purpose. “This is incredibly bitter and disappointing,” said Philipp Lahm, the Bayern captain. “We did not play well tactically. We had an open game way too early.” Some will be quick to say that this result should spell the end of the so-called “tiki-taka,” or stylish passing style made famous by Guardiola’s Barcelona teams. SAM BORDEN

In Brief Braves Are Stifled In Rout by Marlins Jose Fernandez allowed two hits in eight stellar innings, Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run homer and the Miami Marlins opened a homestand by beating the Atlanta Braves, 9-0, on Tuesday. Jarrod Saltalamacchia also homered for Miami, which had its third-highest run output of the season. Marlins second baseman Ed Lucas had three hits in his season debut after recovering from a broken hand, and Marcell Ozuna added a two-run single. Fernandez (4-1) was dominant against the Braves, lowering his earned run average to 1.59. He struck out eight and walked two. Atlanta starter Alex Wood (2-4) allowed seven runs and 10 hits. (AP)

Jagr Deal Near, Devils Official Says Jaromir Jagr will return to the Devils next season, General Manager Lou Lamoriello said. Jagr, 42, led the Devils in scoring last season with 67 points from 24 goals and 43 assists. He played all 82 games, as well as each of the Czech Republic’s six games at the Olympics. He is tied with Steve Yzerman as the N.H.L.’s sixth-leading career scorer, with 1,755 points, and is its leading scorer among active players. (NYT)

A’s Lose Another Pitcher to Injury The Oakland Athletics righthander A. J. Griffin is scheduled to have elbow surgery Wednesday and will miss the entire season with his fellow starter Jarrod Parker. Parker had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow during spring training. Parker, who had been expected to be Oakland’s opening day starter, and Griffin combined for 26 wins last season. (AP)

Jets’ Smith to Get First-Team Snaps Geno Smith will get early firstteam snaps at quarterback when the Jets’ organized team activities begin next month, said Marty Mornhinweg, the offensive coordinator. He said he expected Michael Vick, the other candidate, to motivate Smith. (NYT)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

USS Taylor to Enter Black Sea

From Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs

AEGEAN SEA (NNS) -- The Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Taylor (FFG 50), homeported in Mayport, Fla., will enter the Black Sea April 22 to promote peace and stability in the region. The U.S. Navy routinely operates ships in the Black Sea consistent with the Montreux Convention and International Law. Taylor’s mission is to reassure NATO allies of the U.S. Navy’s commitment to strengthen and improve interoperability while working toward mutual goals in the region. Taylor recently completed repairs at Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Greece. After a round of sea trials that measured the vessel’s performance, general seaworthiness, speed and maneuverability, she has now

resumed her operations. Taylor is deployed in a multi-mission role in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations to contribute to regional maritime security, conduct bilateral and multilateral training missions, and to support NATO operations and deployments throughout the region. U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts a full range of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation missions in concert with allied, joint, and interagency partners in order to advance security and stability in Europe and Africa. The guided-missile frigate USS Taylor (FFG 50) departs Naval Station Mayport for a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. This is Taylor’s final deployment as the ship is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marcus L. Stanley/ Released)

SECNAV Holds Global All Hands Call FORT MEADE, Md. (NNS) -- The Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus addressed Sailors and Marines during a live, global all hands call April 29. Mabus answered questions about the budget, deployment schedules and pay and allowances among other things during the broadcast held at the Defense Media Activity. Mabus emphasized the Navy’s unique presence, citing that the Navy is where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, not just at the right time, but all the time. “We do this by focusing on four things,” said Mabus. “People, Platforms, Power and Partnerships.” During the broadcast, Mabus took questions from those gathered at DMA, from around the fleet via e-mail, from those tuned in

to a live chat on the Internet, and pre-recorded video. Popular topics ranged from deployment lengths and budget requirements to female hair regulations and equipment. One Sailor asked about weapon systems currently being tested, and when the Navy and Marine Corps may see those systems. Mabus said the Navy and Marine Corps are already seeing these weapon systems out in the fleet. The Navy is putting a laser weapon on board USS Ponce (LPD 15) to see how it does in a maritime environment. They are also testing rail guns on high speed vessels and USS Zumwalt has a brand new gun system that is very long range and amazingly accurate. “We’re going to get out the most advanced things we’ve got as quickly as we can,” added Mabus.

Mabus also fielded questions regarding retirement policy in regards to pay. Mabus said that the notion is that whatever policy was in place when a service member enlisted will be the policy they retire under, regardless of changes that occur while they are serving. When asked about incentives to keep those with special certifications and clearances from exiting the Navy, Mabus talked about Selective Reenlistment Bonuses, but also focused on the service aspect and the good Sailors and Marines do for their country by choosing to stay in the military. He added that although some do move on to pursue a career outside of the military, there are currently record recruiting and retention rates in the Navy. Unanswered questions in regard to providing the same

housing and allowances for single Sailors and Marines as is provided to married Sailors and Marines, and the warrant officer program being opened to additional ratings will be researched and answered later in an article for All Hands Magazine online (www.ah.mil.)

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus conducts a live worldwide all hands call at Defense Media Activity Fort Meade, Md. The secretary answered questions from the fleet on subjects ranging from pay and benefits to Navy and Marine Corps regulations via live video feeds, social media, and other sources. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Mark Logico/Released)

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WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

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OUT OF AFRICA

LOVE ACTUALLY

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GHOSTBUSTERS 2

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