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HONOLULU Republican lead-ers burst into applause here the otherday as their luncheon speaker, Gov.Linda Lingle of Hawaii, shared thelatest analysis by a Washington Con-gressional handicapper: The waythings are heading, she read, youcan count on the Democratic major-ity in the House being toast this fall.

But as the Republican NationalCommittee ended its winter meet-ing here on Saturday, party leaders,if jubilant over a string of electionvictories and declining support forPresident Obama, were also ques-tioning whether they could take fulladvantage of the opening Demo-crats had handed them.

At a moment of what appears tobe great if unexpected opportunity,the Republican Party continues tostruggle with disputes over ideolo-gy and tactics, as well as what partyleaders say is an absence of strongfigures to lead it back to power, fromthe party chairman to prospectivepresidential candidates.

From a sunny perch 5,000 milesfrom chilly Washington, the partyleaders watched Republican mem-bers of Congress try to keep theirbalance as Obama sought to reclaimthe mantle of reasonable bipartisan-ship in his State of the Union addresson Wednesday night and his remark-able public debate in Baltimore withHouse members on Friday.

At stake, they knew, was the heartof the strategy they had pursuedfor the last year and had intendedto carry into the midterm elections:remaining unified to block the WhiteHouse at every turn, rallying the con-servative base but leaving Republi-cans vulnerable to being portrayedas the obstructionist party of no.

We have the wind at our back,said Katon Dawson, the formerchairman of the South Carolina Re-publican Party. We just have to findour momentum.

Over all, the Republican victory inthe Massachusetts Senate race wasa boost to party spirits and an oppor-tunity to press the case that Obamahad fundamentally misread the elec-torate. ADAM NAGOURNEY

WASHINGTON The Obamaadministration is acceleratingthe deployment of new defensesagainst possible Iranian missileattacks in the Persian Gulf, plac-ing special ships off the Iraniancoast and antimissile systems inat least four Arab countries, ac-cording to administration andmilitary officials.

The deployments come at acritical turning point in Presi-dent Obamas dealings with Iran.He is warning that his diplomaticoutreach will now be combined

with the consequences, as heput it in the State of the Union ad-dress, of the countrys continueddefiance on its nuclear program.The administration is trying towin broad international consen-sus for sanctions against theIranian Revolutionary GuardsCorps, which Western nationssay controls the military side ofthe nuclear program.

As part of that effort, Secretaryof State Hillary Rodham Clintonpublicly warned China on Fridaythat its opposition to sanctionswas shortsighted.

The news that the UnitedStates is deploying antimissiledefenses including a rare pub-lic discussion of them by Gen.David H. Petraeus appears tobe part of a coordinated adminis-

tration strategy to increase pres-sure on Iran.

The deployments are also part-ly intended to counter the impres-sion that Iran is fast becomingthe most powerful military forcein the Middle East and to fore-stall any Iranian escalation of itsconfrontation with the West if anew set of sanctions is imposed.In addition, the administration istrying to show Israel that there isno immediate need for militarystrikes against Iranian nuclearand missile facilities, according

to administration officials, all ofwhom requested anonymity.

By highlighting the defensivenature of the buildup the admin-istration was hoping to avoid asharp response from Tehran.

Military officials said thatthe countries that accepted theantimissile weapons were Qa-tar, the United Arab Emirates,Bahrain and Kuwait. They saidthe Kuwaitis had agreed to takeadditional defensive weapons tosupplement older, less capablemodels it fielded years ago, whileit awaits delivery of an upgradedsystem that it is seeking fromthe Raytheon Co.. Saudi Arabiaand Israel have long had similarequipment of their own.

Petraeus has declined to saywho was taking the American

equipment, probably becausmany countries in the gulf arhesitant to be publicly identifieas accepting American militaraid and the troops that come witit. In fact, the names of countriewhere the antimissile systemare deployed are classified, bumany of them are an open secret.

Petraeus spoke about the deployments at a conference at thInstitute for the Study of Wahere on Jan. 22, saying that Irais clearly seen as a very seriou

threat by those on the other sidof the gulf front, and indeed, it habeen a catalyst for the implementation of the architecture that wenvision and have now been trying to implement.

As described by administration officials, the moves havseveral motives. Our first goais to deter the Iranians, said onsenior administration official, insisting on anonymity because thWhite House declined to answeany questions about the rationalbehind the buildup. A second ito reassure the Arab states, sthey dont feel they have to gnuclear themselves. But there icertainly an element of calminthe Israelis as well.

DAVID E. SANGERand ERIC SCHMIT

TIANJIN, China Chinavaulted past competitors in Den-mark, Germany, Spain and theUnited States last year to becomethe worlds largest maker of windturbines, and is poised to expandeven further this year.

China has also leapfroggedthe West in the last two years toemerge as the worlds largestmanufacturer of solar panels.And the country is pushing equal-ly hard to build nuclear reactorsand the most efficient types ofcoal power plants.

These efforts to dominate theglobal manufacture of renew-able energy technologies raisethe prospect that the West maysomeday trade its dependence onoil from the Mideast for a relianceon solar panels, wind turbines

and other gear manufactured inChina.

Most of the energy equipmentwill carry a brass plate, Made inChina, said K.K. Chan, the chiefexecutive of Nature ElementsCapital, a private equity fund inBeijing that focuses on renew-able energy.

President Obama, in his stateof the union speech last week,sounded an alarm that the UnitedStates was falling behind othercountries, especially China, onenergy. I do not accept a futurewhere the jobs and industries oftomorrow take root beyond ourborders and I know you donteither, he told Congress.

The United States and othercountries are offering incentivesto develop their own renewable

energy industries, and Obamcalled for redoubling Americaefforts. Yet many Western anChinese executives expect Chinto prevail in the energy-technoogy race.

Multinational corporations arresponding to the rapid growtof Chinas market by buildinbig, state-of-the-art factories iChina.

Renewable energy industriehere are adding jobs rapidlyreaching 1.12 million in 2008. Yerenewable energy may be doinmore for Chinas economy thafor the environment. Total powegeneration in China is on track tpass the United States in 2012 and most of the added capacitwill still be from coal.

KEITH BRADSHER

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DAVOS, Switzerland If therewas one takeaway from the an-nual gathering of business andpolitical leaders in Davos thisyear, it was this: trust in govern-

ments, corporations and above allbanks has become as elusive assure footing on the icy streets ofthis Alpine resort.

There was general relief that thefinancial system had been pulledback from the abyss glimpsed bymany speakers at Davos a yearago. As the chairman of the Brit-ish bank HSBC, Stephen K. Green,put it, Were in a better place thanwe were then although there hasbeen a huge breakdown in trust.

Over the first four days of most-ly closed-door meetings at theWorld Economic Forum, bankers,

central bankers and politiciansreached no consensus on the bestway forward to regulate marketsor banks. Like many bankers,Green acknowledged politicalinitiatives on both sides of the At-lantic, but was not ready to cedethe terrain to politicians. It isvery important, he said, that wedont throw the baby out with thebathwater.

Members of the financial ser-vices industry seemed ruefullyaware of how far they had sunkin public regard. Commentingon whether private equity com-panies would support an Obamaadministration proposal on bankregulation, David M. Rubenstein,managing director of the buyoutfirm Carlyle Group, quipped, Ourposition is unsure because wereafraid if we come out in favor, itwont pass.

Perhaps the billionaire investorand philanthropist George Soros

summed up the ambivalence mostsuccinctly. You want to keep reg-ulation to a minimum, he said,because it is worse than markets.But you cant do without it.

And so, from President Nico-las Sarkozy of France, who urgedcreation of a new internationalmonetary system and even a newreserve currency to replace thedollar, to angry representativesfrom trade unions, to the whitebusinessmen in suits who stilldominate this snow-kissed gath-ering, the one certainty seemed tobe continued uncertainty.

Many influential participantssaid that the financial crisis, res-cue and search for solutions thatthe world had experienced inthe last three years were with-

out precedent. That complicatesthe search for solutions howdo we define when we are out ofthe mess? and, in the West, in-creases pressure on politicianslike President Obama to ease thewidespread pain.

Obamas recent blasts at WallStreet, coupled with a State of theUnion address focused on MainStreet and jobs, provided a back-drop to the discussions here. Theonly senior administration offi-cial in attendance, Obamas chiefeconomic adviser, Lawrence H.Summers, evoked one reasonfor Obamas priorities before apacked audience on Saturday, not-ing that, in the United States, onein five men aged 25 to 54 is nowjobless.

Although the U.S. economygrew strongly in the last quarterof 2009, persistent unemploymenthas created a situation he de-scribed as a statistical recovery

and a human recession.It is reasonable to expect tha

to decline to one in seven or eighas the economy recovers, he saidBut it is far from the 95 percen

employment of American methat age in the mid-1960s.

Contrast that with the buoyanpresentation, in the same discussion, by Zhu Min, deputy governor of the Peoples Bank of ChinaChina had a good year, Zhopened, before rattling off statistics that boggle even economistsminds: for instance, a 200-millioton overcapacity in steel production, roughly equal to the 198 milion tons produced in the 27-natioEuropean Union in 2008.

The Chinese delegation thiyear, the biggest in 40 years of th

Davos gathering, was led by LKeqiang, the vice premier wideltipped to be the next prime minister. Their appearance exudemuch more confidence than evetwo years ago, a reflection of whamany participants here said wasclear shift of power east, particularly to China.

The effect of that shift, anwhether it will lead to cooperatioor confrontation, concerns policmakers in the West, particularlthe United States. China suggesed that trust might be the answehere, too.

Between Chinese people anAmerican and Western people, wlack mutual understanding, saiCheng Siwei, a former Chinespolitician and a co-chairman othe International Finance Foruma Beijing-based think tank. Thonly way to keep this relationship stable, he said, is to builmutual trust. ALISON SMALE

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Af-ter two weeks of often chaotic fooddistribution, the United Nations

announced plans on Saturday fora coupon-based system that aimsto give rice to 10,000 Haitians aday at each of 16 locations aroundPort-au-Prince.

The new program with thefirst coupons delivered Saturday,and food to be distributed Sunday ends what officials described asthe quick and dirty initial phaseof emergency response, but it is al-so an admission of what Haitianswere saying for days: that thesystem failed to reach those whoneeded it and was often exploitedby those it did reach.

Food giveaways, which beganwith little trouble after the earth-quake, have devolved into bloodsport as day after day, trucks ranout of food before long lines of peo-ple were served. In a few cases,aid workers protected by only afew police officers were overrunby thousands of Haitians, as menwith muscular arms stampededchildren and reached beyond bar-riers to grab what they could.

In other cases, U.N. troops haveresorted to tear gas and warningshots, followed by a quick escapebefore they could hand out all of

the food.Marcus Prior, a spokesman for

the U.N. World Food Program,said the new effort aimed to bringdistribution back under control.Its a unique response to a uniquesituation, he told reporters at anews conference here in the capi-tal. We need to stabilize the foodsupply. DAMIEN CAVE

Leaders in Davos Weigh Ways to Regain TrustU.N. RetoolsHaiti Food

Missi Strik Kis 15

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Three missilesbelieved to have been fired from Ameri-can drones killed 15 militants in North Wa-ziristan late Friday night, Pakistani securi-ty officials said Saturday. The target of thestrike was a compound in the Mamad Khelarea of North Waziristan, the officials said.Four Arab and two ethnic Uzbek fighterswere among those killed, with the rest beinglocal militants, a security official said. Fourmilitants were wounded. (NYT)

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KABUL, Afghanistan The Talibans

leaders on Saturday denounced reports

that their representatives had met with asenior U.N.official to discuss the possibilityof face-to-face peace talks with the Afghangovernment. In a statement sent to report-ers, the Taliban leadership council calledreports that its people had met with KaiEide, the United Nations representativehere, futile and baseless. The leadershipcouncil once again emphasizes the continu-ation of the Islamic jihad against all invad-ers, the statement said. The Taliban state-ment followed reports by American andU.N. officials that a group of men repre-senting the Taliban had met Eide at an un-disclosed location this month. The purposeof the meeting, the officials said, was to dis-

cuss the possibility of opening peace talks

between the guerrilla group and the Afghangovernment. (NYT

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The two main opposition leaders in Irancalled on their supporters on Saturday totake part in a demonstration on Feb. 11, theanniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution

Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Kar-roubi, the opposition leaders, urged supporters to participate in the rally next month,the opposition Jaras Web site reported. Protestors have hijacked public events to stagantigovernment rallies since the disputedJune 12 elections. (NYT

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James OKeefe III, the guerrillavideographer, advised conserva-tive students this month that theyneeded to start taking more risks.

The more you put yourself out

there and you take those calcu-lated risks, he told the Web siteCampusReform.org, which worksto foster conservative activism oncollege campuses, youre actu-ally going to get opportunities.

Just days later, OKeefe, 25,took his own advice, but did notget quite the opportunity he ex-pected.

He and three other men in-cluding a 24-year-old associate, Jo-seph Basel, who was interviewedalongside OKeefe by the Website were arrested and chargedwith a federal felony, accused of

seeking to tamper with the officetelephone system of Sen. MaryL. Landrieu. Two of them wereimpersonating repairmen in thesenators New Orleans office andwere caught after being asked foridentification.

OKeefe said Friday that the

four men had been trying to de-termine whether Landrieu wasavoiding constituent complaintsabout the Senate health carebill after her phone system was

jammed in December. (Her officesaid no calls had been intention-ally avoided.) On reflection, hesaid in a statement, I could haveused a different approach to thisinvestigation.

But that approach was preciselythe kind that he and others havebeen perfecting for years, a kindof gonzo journalism or a conserva-tive version of Candid Camera.

Those methods took root on col-lege campuses in the latter half ofGeorge W. Bushs presidency, fos-tered by a group of men and wom-en in their late teens and early 20s

with a taste for showmanship anda shared sense of political alien-ation a sort of political reverseimage of the left-wing Yippies ofthe 1960s. They studied leftist ac-tivism of years past as their pro-totype

OKeefe made his biggest na-

tional splash last year when hedressed up as a pimp and trainedhis secret camera on counselorswith the liberal community groupAcorn eliciting advice on fi-

nancing a brothel on videos thatwould threaten to become Acornsundoing.

He quickly became a cult heroamong young conservatives whosaw his work as path-breakingand sought to emulate him.

Liberals have denounced hismethods as dishonest, a form ofentrapment, but national Repub-lican leaders seized on them asrevelatory, pressuring Congressinto cutting Acorns financing.

Although he may be the mostpublic face of this new approach,he is just one of a group of young

conservatives who use politicalpranks and embarrassing record-ings to upend what they view asoverwhelming liberal biases oncollege campuses and in the cul-ture at large.

JIM RUTENBERG andCAMPBELL ROBERTSON

WASHINGTON PresidentObama will send a $3.8 trillionbudget to Congress on Mondayfor the coming fiscal year thatwould increase financing for edu-cation and for civilian researchprograms by more than 6 percentand provide $25 billion for cash-starved states, even as he seeks tofreeze much domestic spendingfor the rest of his term.

The budget for the 2011 fiscalyear, which begins in October,will identify the winners and los-ers behind Obamas proposal fora three-year freeze of a portion ofthe budget. Many programs at theNational Institutes of Health, theNational Science Foundation and

the Energy Department are in linefor increases, along with the Cen-sus Bureau.

Among the losers would besome public works projects ofthe Army Corps of Engineers andNASAs mission to return to theMoon, which would be ended asthe administration seeks to reori-ent the space program to use pri-vate companies for launchings.The president will propose an ad-ditional $10 billion in savings else-where in the budget.

Exempted from the cuts, howev-er, are national security, veteransprograms, Medicare, Medicaidand Social Security the most ex-pensive and fastest-growing areas

of the budget. By filling in the de-tails behind the freeze, the admin-istration hopes to show critics thatit used a scalpel rather than an axto keep spending for the targeteddomestic agencies to $447 billionannually through 2013, saving $10billion in the coming fiscal year.

The three-year freeze wouldsave $250 billion over the com-ing decade, assuming the over-all spending on the domesticprograms is permitted to rise nomore than the inflation rate for theremainder of the decade an aus-terity that neither party has everachieved in Washington.

JACKIE CALMESand ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON The North-eastern Republican was nearlydriven to extinction by politicalclimate change, but the species ap-pears poised to make a comeback.

The successful run of ScottBrown in the Senate race in Mas-sachusetts, coupled with the front-runner status of Rep. Michael N.Castle in Delaware in his bid for theSenate and other strong candida-cies, could bode well for Republi-cans in a region that has been shed-

ding them because of a sense thatthe party had grown too conserva-tive and focused on the South.

In the House, no New Englandstate is represented by a Repub-lican, and neighboring New Yorkis down to two. The Senates twomoderate Republicans, SusanCollins and Olympia J. Snowe ofMaine, say they would certainlywelcome the company.

I love the irony that it is Mas-sachusetts that has come to the

rescue of the Republican Party,said Collins, referring to how theelection of Brown from the deep-blue Bay State is energizing herparty and raising the spirits ofcandidates who now know it ispossible for Republicans to wineven in Democratic strongholds.

Republicans see Browns win and an earlier victory in the NewJersey governors race as evi-dence that independents are mov-ing back their way. (NYT)

Activists Go From High Jinks to Handcuffs

Obama to Submit $3.8 Trillion Budget Request

Northeastern Republicans Envision a Comeback

G Rigts i Ut

Utah lawmakers will not con-sider a law that would ban dis-crimination against gay men

and lesbians in the workplaceand in housing, and will insteadspend the next year studyingthe issue, key lawmakers saidFriday. In exchange, opponentsof gay-rights legislation willdrop any effort to prevent localgovernments from passing theiown nondiscrimination laws thilegislative session. Gay-rightsadvocates had hoped to buildon recent momentum createdby the Salt Lake City Council,which passed nondiscrimina-tion ordinances last year. Thoseordinances passed after The

Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints said it would support the measures. (AP

ariz Gu lws

Arizonas permissive gunlaws gained national attentionlast year when a man openlycarried an AR-15 rifle to a pro-test outside a speech by Presi-dent Obama. Now, gun rightsadvocates are hoping for evenfewer restrictions on wherethey can have a firearm. Amontheir top goals is to make Ari-

zona the third state where it islegal to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. Bills in theHouse and the Senate would alseliminate background checksand training classes for peopleto carry hidden guns. Thatssheer insanity, said M. Kris-ten Rand, legislative directorfor the Violence Policy Center.If you remove the backgroundcheck requirement, youre lit-erally writing a death sentencefor law enforcement officers,family members, just people inthe street. But supporters say

criminals will carry concealedweapons regardless of the law,so gun restrictions affect onlylaw-abiding citizens. (AP

Judi Cmri, 65

Judi Chamberlin, whose invountary confinement in a men-tal hospital in the 1960s pro-pelled her into a leading role inthe movement to guarantee ba-sic human rights to psychiatricpatients, died on Jan. 16 at herhome in Arlington, Mass. Shewas 65. (NYT

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For years, Altria, home to PhilipMorris and its popular Marlborocigarette brand, was a corporatepariah blamed for the deaths ofmillions of people and sued for

hundreds of billions of dollars byattorneys general in every state.After eventually acknowledg-ing that cigarette smoking was,indeed, addictive and causeddisease, Altria began supportinglegislation that would ultimatelyput the company under the regu-latory thumb of the Food andDrug Administration.

Did the company and its execu-tives suddenly embrace a truepartnership on public health?Or, as its longtime foes and com-petitors have argued, was Altriaseeking to generate good P.R. or

lock in its market dominance bycozying up to a regulator thatcould restrict rivals?

Another possible answer washighlighted this month, as thefederal government began fine-tuning aspects of a law that givesthe government sweeping new

powers to regulate the produc-tion and marketing of tobaccoproducts.

A series of letters that Altriasubmitted to the F.D.A. arguesthat the government should, ef-fectively, sign off on the notionthat smokeless tobacco productsare less harmful than cigarettes and that Altria and other com-panies should be allowed to mar-ket them as such to consumers.

It is a pivotal and divisive claim.While public health doctors agreethat the smokeless products arefar less hazardous to individuals

than cigarettes, they still haveconcerns because all tobaccoproducts contain nicotine and

carcinogens. They also contendthat promoting smokeless prod-ucts some in tiny packagesin the shape of cigarette packs would attract new, perhaps

younger customers and maintainthe addiction for smokers whomight otherwise quit.

If you look at how theyre mar-keting smokeless now, theyremarketing for dual use, and toprotect the cigarette market,which is their big money maker,says Stanton A. Glantz, a profes-sor of cardiology and a specialistin tobacco research at the Univer-sity of California, San Francisco.

An Altria spokesman said com-pany executives declined to com-ment because we dont want tobe perceived as leading the dis-

cussion on the regulatory front.DUFF WILSON

and JULIE CRESWELL

In the glory days of the digitalphoto frame business, when hisproducts were still a novelty andshoppers were flush with cash,getting a bank loan to manufac-ture them was a cinch, MichaelLevy says.

We would say: We got a $1million order from the SharperImage. We need financing. With asnap of the fingers, the guy drovedown to my office, wed sign a doc-ument, hed give us the money,Levy recalls, sitting in the DeerPark, Long Island, office of theMedia Street Group that he runswith his brother, Norm.

But like many other businessowners, Levy saw his prospectschange drastically in 2008 as thefinancial crisis unfolded. TheSharper Image and several other

top customers filed for bankrupt-cy, and Levy found himself scram-bling to keep the business afloat.

His longtime bank wanted noth-ing to do with his company, Levysays, and several other banksspurned his loan requests, too.After a year of hand-wringing, hefound an unconventional lenderthat was still making loans lotsof them.

Its called Hartsko FinancialServices, and it provides short-term credit to small and midsizecompanies that sell everythingfrom olive oil to womens san-dals. In the last year or so, com-panies have been beating a pathto Hartsko, and to other busi-nesses like it even if the loansare vastly more expensive thantraditional ones from banks.

Richard Eitelberg, Hartskosfounder and president, said hiscompany previously fieldedmany loan requests from compa-nies on the financial brink. Now,he says, Hartsko can also pickfrom companies with solid finan-cials that simply cant get a bankloan. What we are seeing is bet-ter deals than we did in the past,Eitelberg says. We were viablewhen banks were lending. Nowwe are overwhelmed.

Last year, Hartsko lent roughly$150 million, compared with $84million in 2008 and $60 millionthe year before that, he said.He estimates that the compa-ny will lend about $240 millionthis year. Profit, he says, was inthe high six figures in 2009.

ANDREW MARTIN

A new solar cell that imitatesMother Natures way of convert-ing sunlight to energy is makingits debut in a variety of consumerproducts.

The technology uses a photo-sensitive dye to start its energyproduction, much the way leavesuse chlorophyll to begin photo-synthesis.

The dye-sensitized cells will beused to provide power for devicesranging from e-book readers tocellphones and will take someinteresting forms. For e-book

readers, for example, the cellsmay be found in thin, flexiblepanels stitched into the readerscover. But such panels will also behoused in new lines of backpacksand sports bags, where they canrecharge devices like cellphonesand music players.

The technology, long in develop-ment, will work best in full, directsunshine, said Dr. Michael Grt-zel, a chemist and professor at thecole Polytechnique Fdrale deLausanne in Switzerland. But thecells will also make good use of

dappled and ambient light, includ-ing the indoor light of fluorescentbulbs, he said.

G24 Innovations, a company inCampbell, Calif., that has licensedthe technology, is using it to makesolar panels at its plant in Cardiff,Wales, said John Hartnett, G24schief executive.

Some of the panels will beplaced on covers as an accessoryfor Sony e-book readers, said TobiDoeringer, the director of globalsales at Mascotte Industrial As-sociates. ANNE EISENBERG

Altria Weighs In on New F.D.A. Regulations

Where They Go When the Banks Say No

Recharging Your Electronics, Mother Natures Way

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DAVOS, Switzerland At a conference here dominated by Chinawomen that other huge emerging market rose to the fore oSaturday morning in a debat

about The Gender Agenda.The three male chief executive

who joined three professionawomen on the stage were amonthe most forceful in arguing thagender parity was an excellenbusiness proposition:

This is about good business,saiMartin Sorrell, the chief executivof WPP, who said that 50 percenof his companys employees werwomen, even at senior management level.

Women are always more efective sales people, said MuhtaKent, chief executive at Coc

Cola; 70 percent of the shopperfor the companys products arwomen.

A successful car company todaneeds women, said Carlos Ghosnchief executive of Renault-Nissanwho is putting in place quotas aall levels of the company.

The panelists who includeArianna Huffington of The Hufington Post; Orit Gadiesh, chairman of Bain and Co.; and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating offcer of Facebook agreed that crucial challenge for women wacombining a career with family.

Ganiesh stressed the importance of making gender parity strategic matter with measurablobjectives along the way. Sandberg said companies should adjust so as not to penalize womefor taking maternity leave. AnHuffington emphasized that change in corporate culture musembrace men as well.

Its not just for women, its fomen, she said. Weve created group of sleep-deprived stressepeople at the very top.

If we had people who were lesstressed and had more sleep an

more life-work balance, she saidwe might not have been on thverge of financial meltdown.

Yet the women on the panel appeared adamant about not mandating quotas.

I dont want to have a job because they need to have me, I wanto have a job because I earned itSandberg said.

Sandberg, a 40-year-old motheof two, said that all of the men annone of the women who were ibusiness school with her 15 yearago, were in full-time employment. (NYT

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The title of Robert Stones newcollection of stories, Fun WithProblems, is clearly meant tobe read in an ironic sort of way.Stones characters do not have

fun. They may get high, get drunkor get loaded, but they are almostalways lost, disaffected and des-perate. They may visit exoticparts of the world and go on allsorts of wild adventures, but indoing so, they are always court-ing danger or falling prey to badfaith, bad karma and bad vibes.Even scuba diving or bungeejumping becomes for them exis-tential confrontation with mor-tality, raising primal questionsabout courage and angst, life anddeath, God or his absence.

Stone tends to be at his best

in his novels A Hall of Mirrors,Dog Soldiers and DamascusGate when hes using hisreportorial skills to conjure astrange or alien land, and rely-ing on his narrative gifts to cre-ate harrowing action sequencesthat reveal his characters in-nermost needs and fears. Hes athis worst in, say, the abysmalBay of Souls when hes pon-tificating (or allowing his heroesto pontificate) about the meaningof life, and stuffing his story linesfull of predictable, prepackagedB-movie tropes.

Unfortunately, Fun WithProblems is a grab-bag collec-tion thats full of Stones liabilities

as a writer, with only a glimpsehere and there of his strengths.Honeymoon is a ridiculous lit-tle tale about a man who talks tohis former wife while on his hon-eymoon with a new young bride,and who later commits suicideduring a dive. Charm City isan equally preposterous storyabout a grifter named Margaretwho works with her meth-headdaughter and the daughtersboyfriend. Margaret picks up a

mark a middle-aged, marriedwriter at a classical music re-cital, cases his country home forthings to steal and then ransacksthe house with her gang.

As for High Wire, it readslike a wobbly variation on Stones1986 Hollywood novel, Childrenof Light. Once again, weregiven a portrait of a burned-outscreenwriter with a taste forcoke and ludes and alcohol, andhis onetime lover, a troubled ac-tress who specializes in the oldnothingness-and-grief routineand whos on the fast track to dis-solution and despair.

Matthews, the hard-drinkinghero of the title story, is a hard-

boiled case. He picks up a wom-an named Amy, persuades herto drink with him (even thoughshes a drunk farm alumnawhos trying to stay sober), takes

her to bed and abruptly walks outto her tears.

He was the man, Stone writes,whose ex-wife had once said thathe didnt care whether he evenhad sex, as long as he could makesome woman unhappy.

Matthews wears his hardheart-edness proudly like a badge:Spite had taught him detach-ment. The trick was to carry onindifferent to his own feelings andwithout pity for things like Amysditsy vagueness or the needinessshe was beginning to display.

Similar cynics populate Stones

novels, of course, but in the mostpersuasive of those books, henot only maps the sources of hisheroes malaise and the falloutit has on their lives but also dra-matizes their flailing efforts tograb after one last chance at a bigscore or even a whiff of love andsalvation.

In the stories in this volumewe are not given the full arc ofhis peoples lives; we get onlysnapshots of their drunken ni-hilism and puerile self-pity. Itscertainly not enough to make uscare, not even enough to engageour voyeuristic curiosity; itssimply dismal and depressing.

MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Stones New Collection Features Familiar Types Editors Row

Paperback Row

eveRyThInG RavaGeD, eveRyThInG

bURneD, by Wells Tower. (Picador, $14.) The pro-tagonists of these nine polished and distinctivestories, as our reviewer, Edmund White, calledthem, are men who are older, battered, no longersuccessful. White praised Towers remarkablestyle: his grasp of psychology, crisp dialogue andsupple syntax, and his dark, surrealistic vision of

American life.

The InheRITanCe:T Wrd om C-rts d t Cgs t amric Pwr,by David E. Sanger. (Three Rivers, $16.)George W.Bushs foreign policy, writes Sanger, The Timesschief Washington correspondent, has left us lessadmired by our allies, less feared by our enemiesand less capable of convincing the rest of the worldthat our economic and political model is worthy ofemulation. This book is a catalog of wasted oppor-tunities and a blunt assessment of what is likely tohappen in the future American troops in Afghani-stan for decades, a nuclear Iran. In The Times, GaryJ. Bass found the book dazzling and mordantlyhilarious and Sanger a shrewd and insightful stra-tegic thinker.

The GaMble:Gr Ptrus d t amri-c Miitr adtur i Irq, by Thomas E.Ricks.(Penguin, $17.)Picking up where Rickss dev-astating Fiasco (2006) left off, this book examinesthe surge, particularly its new counterinsurgencytactics. In contrast to Bob Woodward, who saw thesurges origins in the White House in the fall of 2006,Ricks, who covered the military for The Washington

Post from 2000 to 2008, argues that the Bush admin-istration might never have contemplated the changein strategy had the Democrats not won the midtermelections that November. Ricks predicts that theevents for which the Iraq war will be rememberedprobably have not yet happened.

loWboy, by John Wray. (Picador, $14.) Lowboy so called for his love of riding subways is a para-noid schizophrenic teenager who is off his meds andhas escaped his chaperones from a mental institu-tion. Chapters alternate between Lowboys skewedperspective and those of his devoted mother and thedetective who is trying to find him. Our reviewer,Charles Bock, enjoyed Wrays vibrant charactersand the poets eye revealed in his descriptions ofNew York and the subways where much of the nov-

el takes place. Lowboy, he said, is meticulouslyconstructed and often gripping.

The blaCK GIRl nexT DooR: a Mmir, byJennifer Baszile. (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster,$15.) Growing up in a nearly all-white suburb of LoAngeles in a house a block from the ocean during

the 1970s and 80s, Baszile did not want for materiapossessions but always felt that she did not fully belong and wrestled with consuming fears of povertyfailure, exclusion and rejection. Basziles memoir,written mostly from the perspective of herself asa girl, reveals the turmoil underlying her familysachievements. She is now Yales first black femaleprofessor of history.

The GReaT InflaTIon anD ITS afTeRMaTh:

T Pst d futur amric auc, byRobert J. Samuelson. (Random House, $17.) Samuesons meditation on inflation chides Walter Heller,President Kennedys chief economic adviser, whopersuaded Kennedy to accept higher inflation inexchange for more jobs, leading eventually to thestagflation of the 1970s.

CRISIS anD CoMManD: The His-

tory of Executive Power From George

Washington to George W. Bush, by John

Yoo. (Kaplan, $29.95.) The former Bushadministration lawyer finds appeal ina presidency whose power is typically

expanded in a time of war.

boMb PoWeR: The Modern

Presidency and the National Security

State, by Garry Wills. (Penguin Press,

$27.95.) Wills argues that the unrelentingincrease of executive power has been aconstitutional travesty.

The laDy In The ToWeR: The Fal

of Anne Boleyn, by Alison Weir. (Bal-

lantine, $28.) Concentrating on the lastmonths of Boleyns life, Weir evaluatesthe range of opinion about what laybehind her execution.

fRee foR all: Joe Papp, the Public,

and the Greatest Theater Story Ever

Told, by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp

with Gail Merrifield Papp. (Doubleday,

$39.95.) Interviews with Papp before hisdeath and with many others illuminate ahistoric theatrical moment.

The RelenTleSS RevolUTIon:A

History of Capitalism, by Joyce Appleby.

(Norton, $29.95.) Appleby has writtena global history of capitalism in all itscreative and destructive glory.

The UnnaMeD, by Joshua Ferris.

(Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, $24.99.)This novels hero, a successful Manhattatrial attorney, is afflicted with an uncon-trollable compulsion to leave his desk antrek for miles.

Fun With Problems

By Robert Stone

195 pages. Houghton Mifflin $24

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It may seem counterintuitive, but with thegovernment reporting stronger-than-expect-ed economic growth at the end of last year, now

is the time to think about renewed recession and to act to avoid it.

The economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7percent in the fourth quarter of 2009. But wellover half of that growth came from large ad-justments to business inventories that are un-likely to be repeated on a similar scale in themonths to come. As such, they are evidencethat the sick economy is recovering, not thatit is healthy.

Another chunk of growth was due to govern-ment stimulus spending, which will wane in2010. Much of the recent upsurge in businesspurchases of equipment and software was like-ly due to a rush to take advantage of an invest-ment tax break before it expired in December.

So, what does it take to translate an incipi-ent recovery into a sustained expansion? In aword: jobs. Employment leads to income andto spending. As sales deplete inventories, busi-nesses restock, which creates more jobs and soon in an upward spiral.

Unfortunately, with the economy alreadysome 10 million jobs short, there is no jobgrowth on the horizon robust enough to setthat upward spiral in motion. And becausethe economy is already in such a deep hole, asecond leg down would mean ever worseninghardship.

The House has already passed a bill that isa good starting point for creating jobs. But theSenate is sitting on its version, with Repub-

licans and a handful of Democrats arguingthat deficit reduction is more important thanjobs. In the medium term, the deficit is a seri-

ous problem. But right now there is no way tosustain a recovery unless millions of jobs arecreated soon and the private sector alonecannot do that.

In his State of the Union address, PresidentObama said that he, too, was worried about thedeficit. And as a sign of good faith, he commit-ted to cuts in federal discretionary spendingstarting in the upcoming budget. The Senatecan show its good faith now by passing a jobsbill, ideally this week.

A good final bill would combine the Obamaadministrations call for tax credits for hir-ing and incentives for small-business lendingwith sound features from the House and Sen-ate versions. It would contain the Houses vital

provisions for extending unemployment ben-efits and providing more aid to states. Withoutsuch aid, states will have to make even deeperbudget cuts laying off large numbers of theirown work forces and forcing their private sec-tor contractors to do the same.

A final bill should also include provisionsfrom the House and the Senate to create infra-structure jobs and public service jobs. And itshould adopt the Senates plan to create jobsthat foster energy efficiency.

Obama said he wanted a jobs bill on his deskwithout delay. Getting a good bill passed willbe a crucial test of his ability to lead lawmak-ers, including members of his own party, whereAmerica needs them to go.

We sympathized with the concerns about se-curity and inconvenience raised by the JusticeDepartments plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mo-hammed, the self-described 9/11 mastermind,at a federal courthouse in downtown Manhat-tan, a short walk from ground zero.

But caving in to political pressure and agree-ing to move the trial, as The Times reportedthe Obama administration has decided to do,was the wrong move. New York was the rightplace for this trial. This is where the attack oc-curred, and New Yorkers should have beenproud to see justice done here. The U.S. Dis-trict Court in Manhattan has a long, successfulrecord of trying terrorists, including the onesresponsible for the 1993 World Trade Centerbombing.

President Obama was right to move Mo-hammed and four other high-profile terrorismsuspects out of the jurisdiction of military tri-bunals. President George W. Bushs decisionto hold prisoners outside the law and then at-tempt to try them in rigged military courts waslegally wrong, and hugely damaging to Ameri-can values and this countrys global image.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg first supportedthe presidents decision to hold the trial inNew York, but reversed field after looking at

the costs of what could be a very long process.Local business leaders protested, as did politi-cians with a variety of motives none reallysound and some profoundly cynical.

Obama should have worked with the mayorto develop a security plan, one that limited lo-cal disruption. The federal government shouldhave paid any additional cost. It will have to dothat wherever the trial is held.

The trial must remain within the federalcourt system. Obama should not put it in amakeshift court on a military base and defi-nitely should not give in to demands from theright to return Mohammed (and the four otherprisoners) to the tribunals.

Trying mass murderers in a criminal courtis not soft on terrorism. The federal courtshave tried, convicted and imprisoned manyterrorists. The tribunals have not held a singletrial, and may never have one that Americanscan be proud of.

Holding the trial in New York would be in-convenient. Democracy makes demands on itscitizens. It is inconvenient to serve on a jury,too. This was just not-in-my-backyard-ism.Nearly 10 years after 9/11, it is sad if this coun-try cannot freely conduct its business in LowerManhattan.

DAVOS, Switzerland As a political barometer, the Davos World Economic Forumusually offers up some revealing indicators o

the global mood, and this year is no exception.heard of a phrase being bandied about here bnon-Americans about the United States that I can honestly say Ive never heard beforepolitical instability.

Political instability was a phrase normallreserved for countries like Russia or Iran oHonduras. But now, an American businessmahere remarked to me, people ask me aboupolitical instability in the U.S. Weve becomunpredictable to the world.

Mind you, criticizing, poking fun at and complaining about America is the only global spormore popular than soccer. But in the past, was always done knowing that America wathis global bedrock that could always be coun

ed upon to lead. But this year is different. Thyear, Asians and Europeans, in particular, puyou aside and ask you some version of: Teme, whats going on in your country?

You can understand why foreigners are uneasy. They look at America and see a presidenelected by a solid majority, coming into officriding a wave of optimism, controlling botthe House and the Senate. Yet, a year later, hcant win passage of his top legislative priorityhealth care.

Our two-party political system is brokejust when everything needs major repair, nominor repair, said K.R. Sridhar, the foundeof Bloom Energy, a fuel cell company in SilicoValley, who is attending the forum. I am talk

ing about health care, infrastructure, education, energy. We are the ones who need a Marshall Plan now.

It was hard to read President Obamas eloquent State of the Union address and not feetorn between his vision for the coming yearand the awareness that the forces of inertia anspecial interests blocking him not to mention the whole Republican Party make thchances of his implementing that vision highlunlikely. Right now we are stuck.

The sad and frustrating thing is, we are sclose to being unstuck. If there were just sior eight Republican senators a few morJudd Greggs and Lindsey Grahams ready tmeet Obama somewhere in the middle on defcit reduction, energy, health care and bankinreform, I believe that in the wake of the Massachusetts wake-up call the president woulindeed meet them in that middle ground tforge not just incremental compromises, busubstantial ones on these key issues. But so fathe Republicans are having a good year politcally by just being the Party of No.

It is a shame because we are as a countrscrounging around for a few billion more dolars of stimulus to help our unemployed ansmall businesses when the biggest stimuluof all is hiding in plain sight: ending our politicaparalysis and the pall of uncertainty it is castinover everything from the cost of my health carto the way our biggest banks can do business

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MELBOURNE, Australia AsSerena Williams collapsed on thecourt Saturday, weary and elatedafter capturing her fifth Austra-lian Open title, those who follow

tennis, or perhaps sports of anykind, knew they had witnessed theperformance of a great champion.She had turned back a pretty goodchampion in Justine Henin for ahard-fought 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 victory.

It was Williamss 12th GrandSlam title, which matches BillieJean Kings total and is six behindChris Everts. Williams is halfwayto the record for major titles heldby Margaret Court, who was atMelbourne Park to present thechampionship trophy.

Williams, 28, fought throughpain to earn it her right thigh

and left knee and wrist werewrapped, as they have been forthe past two weeks. And her gri-

maces and hobbled steps as shebattled Henin further betrayedher distress.

Williamss ability to endure isone of her vital intangibles, as is

her ardor for the competitive partof the game. She played doubleshere nearly every day, and sheand her sister Venus won their11th major title on Friday. Theseare only part of the reason Wil-liams is the only active womensplayer who owns a career GrandSlam. Yes, she has a thunderingserve, a ballistic forehand and theability, as Henin put it, to hit theright shots at the right time.

But mostly, as Williams said, Iget up for the big ones. She dem-onstrated that early in the thirdset.

In the previous set, Henin useda symphony of shots to save twobreak points and held for 3-3, then

won 13 of the last 14 points. Heninwas a maestro, waving her racketand calling in every section of herorchestra booming forehandwinners, tinkling backhand slices

that Williams could not run down and controlling the rhythm ofthe game.

When Henin held serve to goup, 1-0, in the third set, Williamslooked at her racket, and gave itand herself a talking-to.

I thought I was just giving hertoo many points, Williams said.She was playing well, but I knewI could play better so I literally toldmyself, I need to man up.

Williams leaned on her big,deadly and accurate serve to dishout 12 aces, then broke Heninsserve three straight games and

left little doubt that she was thebest womens tennis player in theworld right now. JOE DRAPE

As dozens of state lawmakersconsider legislation to improveawareness and treatment ofconcussions in youth sports, themovement is resembling a musicstyle or weather pattern: whatstarted in the Pacific Northwest iswafting across the United States.

Last year Washington and Or-egon passed the first concussion-specific laws covering scholasticsports. Each mandated educationfor coaches, immediate removalfrom play of any athlete suspectedof a concussion in a game or prac-tice and proper medical clearancebefore that athlete could return.Washingtons in particular named after Zackery Lystedt, ateenager who in 2006 sustained a

serious brain injury playing foot-ball is a template for other statesformulating similar legislation.

The trend will get a name nextweek when the Zackery LystedtBrain Project is formally an-nounced at the Super Bowl. Spear-headed by the Sarah Jane BrainFoundation and the American Col-lege of Sports Medicine, the initia-tive will continue those organiza-tions push for states to enact lawssimilar to Washingtons. Florida,Massachusetts, New Jersey andNew York are among those withbills in the works.

We are going to get maybe 24states passing the laws or mak-ing serious headway this year,said Patrick Donohue, founder of

the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation.The national organization focusedon youth brain injuries is namedafter his 4-year-old daughter, whowas seriously injured when shak-en by a nurse as an infant.

Donohue added: Washingtonslaw is a work of art, and it tookalmost two years, but theyve al-ready done the hard work. Wedont need to take two years inevery state.

The laws cover youth sportsbeyond football; other contactsports, particularly girls soccerand basketball, have recentlybeen recognized as breedinggrounds for concussions that of-ten go ignored or are mistreated.

ALAN SCHWARZ

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If there is any justice in theworld, les bons temps the goodtimes will continue to roll rightthrough next Sunday, straightthrough to Mardi Gras.

New Orleans needsall the bons temps it canget.

No foolish event like afootball game will evermake up for HurricaneKatrina, which cameroiling out of the Gulf of Mexicoon Aug. 29, 2005, and the govern-mental neglect that followed. It isnot hard to root for New Orleansto survive.

Even on a trivial level likesports, New Orleans has also suf-fered with its Saints, who havenever been to a Super Bowl. Now

they will meet the IndianapolisColts, touching off all kinds ofmemories.

I remember a quarterback whotalked about crying. I rememberpeople who wore paper bags overtheir heads as a statement aboutthe team they called the Aints.This was 1980. I was sent to New

Orleans to write about a teamthat had lost all 14 games and got-ten its coach fired.

Two weeks ago, I cried, saidthe quarterback, a chap named

Archie Manning, recall-ing the 13th consecutiveloss. The 14th was evenworse. The Saints had a35-7 lead at halftime andlost, 38-35, in overtime tothe 49ers.

But last week, I promise you,I didnt know whether to laugh orcry, Manning added.

Mannings wife was expect-ing a third child our playoffbaby, he said. That would be Eli,born Jan. 3, 1981, the winner ofSuper Bowl XLII. The oldest son,Peyton, won Super Bowl XLI and

is back with the Colts to play theSaints next Sunday.

Archie Manning is on recordthat he is rooting for the Colts,because of Peyton.

Anybody who thinks its dif-ferent must not have children,Archie told Mike Chappell of TheIndianapolis Star last Sunday

after Peyton had pitched his wayinto his second Super Bowl.

Peyton has been a credit to hisfamily and the city that nurturedhim. Of course, Archie Manning

must root for his flesh and blood.But what about the rest of us?To paraphrase Tevye in the songIf I Were a Rich Man, would itspoil some vast eternal plan if theSaints won the Super Bowl?

Enough suffering already. NewOrleans fans suffered in theirunique way in 1980, putting bagson their heads. This was a stuntby Buddy Diliberto, a televisionpersonality whose bartenderRobert Le Comte had designedbags with two eyeholes and thename AINTS printed across theforehead.

Diliberto told me about the fanwho couldnt stand it anymoreand stuck his two Saints ticketsunder his windshield wiper. Takethese tickets. Please, take thesetickets.

When he got back to his car,there were six tickets stuck inhis window, Diliberto said, and I

believed him.Diliberto passed on to the Big

Bartender in the Sky in 2005. Iwas wondering what goofinesshed be pulling this week, but

apparently he once promised towear a dress if the Saints everreached the Super Bowl, so hisson has picked out a tasteful littlefrock for next Sunday.

Speaking of sons: Archie Manning played 10 full seasons for thSaints (and was injured for an11th) and bits of three other sea-sons for other teams but neverreached the playoffs. He was inIndy last week with sons Cooperand Eli, watching Peyton. Nowhe will root against the team forwhich he cried.

Thats just the way it is, Ar-

chie said.Fair enough. For the rest of us

rooting for underdogs is part ofthe game.

If there is any justice in theworld, the Saints and les bonstemps will continue to roll. I betArchie Manning wouldnt cry,either.

Long-Suffering Saints Fans Could Use Some Good Times

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