September 26, 2008 | Select excerpts from the New York Sun McCain To Hold Out for Bailout
'Lockdown' on a Deal, or No Debate
BY RUSSELL BERMAN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
WASHINGTON — With the campaign's first debate in doubt, the arrival here of both presidential contenders brought chaos and confusion to the capital as a $700 billion bailout deal that appeared at hand broke down amid a flurry of bitter recriminations… Budget Woes Beget Talk of Commuter Tax
BY BENJAMIN SARLIN - Special to the Sun
City and state lawmakers, on the hunt for new revenue sources to balance an increasingly tight budget, are calling for a revival of the commuter tax. Mayor Bloomberg issued a full-throated call for the tax to be reinstated yesterday, after the speaker… Bedbugs Emerge as New Area of Housing Law
BY E.B. SOLOMONT - Staff Reporter of the Sun
Lawyers who visited Brooklyn housing court were abuzz recently, when bed bugs were reportedly spotted inside a courtroom on Livingston Street. A spokeswoman for the courts insists the courts are insect-free, but the claim came as attorneys for… Ex-NBA Star Who Opened Schools in Imbroglio
BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
A former professional basketball player who helped start a charter school in Harlem this year, Kevin Johnson, is on a swing through New York to raise funds for his bid for mayor of Sacramento, Calif., just as his campaign is being rocked by word that… Paterson Calls Public Meeting On Economy
BY Associated Press
ALBANY — Governor Paterson plans to meet with legislative leaders next week in a public session to deal with losses of tax revenue and jobs from Wall Street's meltdown. The public leaders' meeting October 3 in Manhattan will be days after the… Union, City Dig In Heels Over Fate of Reserve Teachers
BY ELIZABETH GREEN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
There appears to be no easy agreement in sight in a battle between the city teachers union and the Department of Education over what to do with teachers who are on the city payroll but not in full-time teaching spots. The debate kicked off this spring… Port Authority May Miss Deadline For Tower 2 Site at Ground Zero
BY PETER KIEFER - Staff Reporter of the Sun
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expected to miss the September deadline it set to turn over land for Tower 2, to be built by the developer Larry Silverstein at the World Trade Center site. The Port Authority was supposed to turn over… Columbia Provost Brinkley Says He Is Stepping Down
BY BARI WEISS - Special to the Sun
Columbia University's provost, Alan Brinkley, is stepping down after five years on the job, leaving vacant a third major academic post for the university's president, Lee Bollinger, to fill. Mr. Bollinger already is searching for deans for both of… Manhattan Institute Honors Entrepreneurs
BY Special to the Sun
Five individuals have received $25,000 from the Manhattan Institute for their work as social entrepreneurs. The winners of the award are leading programs aimed at helping Americans, including the elderly, disadvantaged teenagers, and the homeless. The… Hundreds Protest a Dinner with Ahmadinejad
BY ROSS GOLDBERG - Staff Reporter for the Sun
Hundreds of protesters rallied on 42nd Street last night as the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dined with a group of religious leaders at the Hyatt Hotel. The dinner, billed as an international dialogue, was sponsored by a collection of… Presidents Roosevelt Honored With Posthumous Columbia Degrees
BY Special to the Sun
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt received posthumous degrees from Columbia Law School yesterday evening at a ceremony held at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The two Roosevelts each attended the law school, though neither graduated. Theodore… President Clinton Calls Bloomberg One of City's Greatest Mayors
BY BENJAMIN SARLIN - Special to the Sun
President Clinton heaped praise on Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, calling him an exceptional candidate for any job in the nation. Mr. Clinton's support boosts the mayor's résumé at a time when observers have discussed him as a potential Cabinet choice for… Officials Expected To Announce New Tappan Zee Bridge
BY Associated Press
WHITE PLAINS — Officials are expected to announce that New York's Tappan Zee Bridge will be replaced rather than repaired. The state's transportation department, which has led a years-long study on what to do about the aging bridge, has scheduled a… Paulson May Get Leeway To Set Executive Compensation
BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
WASHINGTON — Under the $700 billion economic bailout plan being discussed in the nation's capital, Secretary Paulson would have significant leeway in setting standards over the pay levels of financial executives that receive assistance. Key details… Palin: 'Only Flag in My Office' Is Israeli
On the Hustings
BY Staff Reporter of the Sun
PALIN: 'ONLY FLAG IN MY OFFICE' IS ISRAELI President Peres of Israel yesterday met for the first time with Governor Palin and with Senator McCain, who called the veteran Israeli statesman "my old friend." The warm handshake and exchange of broad… Interrogator Details Pre-Abu Ghraib Abuses
BY PAMELA HESS - Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A military interrogation expert, Air Force Colonel Steven Kleinman, told Congress yesterday that before the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions… Global Warming Pollution Increases 3%
BY SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The world pumped up its pollution of the chief man-made global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists' projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said yesterday. The new numbers… Judge Tries To Keep Simpson Past From Trial
BY LINDA DEUTSCH - Associated Press
LAS VEGAS -- The judge in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping and robbery trial struggled yesterday to keep jurors from being reminded of his infamous Los Angeles murder case, ruling that a witness could not mention the former football star's troubled past. Ike Wreaks Havoc on Gulf Seafood Industry
BY PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press
SAN LEON, Texas — On the eve of October's peak seafood harvesting season, migrant fishermen are sweeping debris from gutted bay side homes instead of scooping shrimp and oysters from the Gulf of Mexico's lucrative floor. The $100 million fishing… President Bush Meets With Middle Eastern Leaders
BY ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- In separate meetings with Middle East leaders yesterday, President Bush applauded Lebanon's efforts to forge a national reconciliation and told President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority that America has not given up hope on an agreement to create a Palestinian Arab state. Contractor, Wife Blamed in Stevens Corruption Case
BY MATT APUZZO and TOM HAYS - Associated Press
Senator Stevens was clueless about the cost and scope of a pricey makeover of his Alaska cabin that led to federal corruption charges and threatened his lengthy career, his lawyer said yesterday at the opening of his trial. Guantanamo Prosecutors Want Redo of Convict's Sentence
BY MIKE MELIA - Associated Press
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Military prosecutors have asked the judge who presided over the war crimes trial for Osama bin Laden's driver to order a new sentencing hearing, arguing the detainee should not have received credit for time served… The Credit 'Crisis'
Editorial of The New York Sun
The McCain campaign reports that yesterday's White House summit with President Bush, senators McCain and Obama, and the congressional leadership aimed at reaching an agreement on Secretary Paulson's plan to buy troubled mortgage-backed securities from… Gun Nuts
Editorial of The New York Sun
These columns have been defending Second Amendment rights against the Bloomberg administration, but there comes a point where the gun-dealers cross the line to indefensible, and the Daily News had a story this week about one such line. It turns out… WaMu Fails; JPMorgan To Buy Deposits
BY ARI LEVY and ELIZABETH HESTER - Bloomberg News
JPMorgan Chase & Co., the third-biggest American bank by assets, agreed to acquire the deposits of Washington Mutual Inc. as the thrift was seized by regulators in the biggest bank failure in American history. JPMorgan will pay $1.9 billion, the… Bailout Could Spur a New Gold Rush
BY DAN DORFMAN
A James Bond villain who would be overjoyed today if he hadn't met the fate of all 007 adversaries is Goldfinger. The words vary, but that's essentially the message from several market watchers who say they see sizable market risk in Uncle Sam's… Chrysler To Cut 300 White-Collar Jobs
BY Associated Press
Chrysler LLC is expected to fire about 300 salaried employees Friday, according to published reports, as it tries to meet its goal of cutting its white-collar work force by 1,000 workers. The automaker has been offering buyouts and early retirement… Financial Crisis Casts Pall on U.N. Poverty Goals
BY BENNY AVNI - Staff Reporter of the Sun
UNITED NATIONS — Members of the Black Eyed Peas performed, Bill Gates donated money, and Mayor Bloomberg hosted a party for world leaders, all in the name of eradicating half of the world's poverty by the middle of the next decade. But as leaders from… Russia Offers Venezuela's Chavez Weapons, Nuclear Cooperation
BY SEBASTIAN ALISON and HENRY MEYER - Bloomberg News
Moscow — Russia offered visiting President Chavez of Venezuela $1 billion in credit to buy weapons and nuclear cooperation amid worsening relations between both nations and America. "We are ready to implement all our accords in the military sphere,"… China Mission To Include First Spacewalk
BY WONG WAI-BOR - Associated Press
JIUQUAN, China — China successfully launched a three-man crew into space yesterday, including an astronaut who will make the country's first spacewalk. The Shenzhou 7 spacecraft, China's third manned mission, blasted off atop a Long March 2F rocket… Diplomats: America Asks IAEA for Full Syria Report
BY GEORGE JAHN - Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria — America has asked the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency for a fuller accounting of its investigation of Syria's alleged efforts to secretly develop a plutonium-producing facility at a site bombed by Israel. A senior Syrian… Air Travel to Pakistan Suspended Before Muslim Festival
BY The Daily Telegraph
Islamabad — Air travel in Pakistan was on the brink of total shutdown on yesterday as terrorists declared the country's airports a target, dashing hopes for an early resumption of British Airways flights before next week's Eid festival. The holiday… Kidnappers Move European Hostages into Libya
BY MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — A group of kidnappers who abducted a 19-member European tour group during a desert safari moved their captives from Sudan to Libya yesterday in a new complication to the week-old hostage ordeal, the Sudanese government said. Sudanese… Pirates Seize Ukrainian Ship Off Somalia
BY Associated Press
KIEV, Ukraine — The Foreign Ministry says pirates have seized a Ukrainian-operated ship off Somalia. The ministry says the Faina was sailing with 21 people on board under the Belize flag, though it is operated by Ukrainian managing company Tomax Team… Bush, Indian PM Hope Nuclear Agreement Will Pass
BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Prime Minister Singh of India expressed hope yesterday that Congress will approve a landmark agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation whose passage is in doubt. In remarks to reporters at the start of an Oval Office… Computer Glitch Grounds British Flights
BY Associated Press
LONDON — A computer glitch at Britain's air traffic control center yesterday led to delays and cancellations across the country, officials said. NATS, which provides air traffic control services for planes crisscrossing British airspace, said a… Canadian Found Guilty of Plot to Behead Premier
BY ROB GILLIES - Associated Press
BRAMPTON, Ontario — A Canadian man accused of participating in military exercises and firearms training as part of a group authorities say plotted to storm Parliament and behead the prime minister was found guilty yesterday. The man's attorney says… U.N. Will Question China on Human Rights
BY MALCOLM MOORE - The Daily Telegraph
Shanghai — The United Nations has presented China with a long list of questions about its alleged human rights abuses. China will have to answer the questions during two hearings in Geneva at the beginning of November. The U.N. Committee against… Britain's Brown Enjoys Rise in Popularity, Pole Shows
BY CAROLINE ALEXANDER - Bloomberg News
Gordon Brown's popularity among British voters rose, cutting in half a lead enjoyed by the Conservative opposition, after the prime minister addressed the Labour Party's conference this week, a poll showed. In 'Precautionary' Move, E.U. Moves To Ban Chinese Dairy Imports
BY BRUNO WATERFIELD - The Daily Telegraph
Brussels, Belgium — The European Union moved to ban imports of dairy based Chinese food products yesterday, including biscuits, sweets, and chocolate, aimed at children or infants amid a growing global health scare over contaminated milk from China… Caracas To Honor Founder of FARC With Plaza
BY DANIEL CANCEL - Bloomberg News
Caracas, Venezuela --Venezuela's capital plans to honor the founder of Colombia's largest rebel group by naming a plaza for him, El Universal reported. Venezuelan groups sympathetic to socialist causes in Latin America, including the country's… Russia Launches 3 Navigation Satellites
BY Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russia successfully launched three satellites yesterday to enhance its space navigation system, officials said. The Russian Federal Space Agency said the three GLONASS-M satellites were put into orbit yesterday by a Proton-M rocket that… Jets Could Suffer Due To Arizona's Leisurely Week
BY ERIC EDHOLM
Brett Favre and Kurt Warner are older players playing a young man's game. On Sunday, they'll try to get back on track — against each other as starting quarterbacks — coming off disappointing performances in Week 3. "When you've been in this league for… Week 4: Around the NFL
BY DOUG FARRAR
Six teams get byes this week, including both Super Bowl XLII entrants. However, there are some intriguing story lines among the remaining teams. The AFC's best squads (Buffalo, Tennessee, Denver) all line up against what should be fairly easy… Penn State Faces First Real Test This Weekend
BY RUSSELL LEVINE
The Southeastern Conference, with three teams in the Associated Press top five and five in the top 15, has been the talk of the early college football season. Once again, the nation's biggest game this weekend will be an SEC contest, as Alabama visits… Lee, Halladay Top Award Choices
BY JONAH KERI
It's the end of another baseball season again. Time to get psyched for the playoffs, rake some leaves — and argue like mad over awards choices. Before I present my picks for league MVP awards (as well as Cy Young and Rookie of the Year), a note about… Beltran's Base Hit Lifts Mets in 9th After Rally in 8th
BY Associated Press
Carlos Beltran singled home the winning run with two outs in the ninth inning and the Mets rallied to beat the Chicago Cubs 7-6 last night for a huge win that halted their late-season slide. After trailing by three runs in the seventh, New York fought… Around the World and Back
BY BRUCE BENNETT
If two themes can be said to define this year's New York Film Festival, they are the new era of global filmmaking parity and the renewing of professional challenges by past masters, Bruce Bennett writes. A British Artist Plumbs the Politics of Hunger
BY NICOLAS RAPOLD
"Full-bodied cinema" is one way of describing "Hunger," the extraordinary debut feature by the British artist Steve McQueen that will screen this weekend at the New York Film Festival. Often grueling but never gratuitous, the film relives the incarceration of members of the Irish Republican Army in the infamous Maze prison near Belfast, specifically the 1981 hunger strike led by one Bobby Sands until his death. Barbet Schroeder Can't Be Killed
BY STEVE DOLLAR
Since graduating in his early 20s from a stint at Cahiers du Cinéma to produce essential works such as Eric Rohmer's cycle of "Six Moral Tales" and Jacques Rivette's "Céline and Julie Go Boating," the filmmaker Barbet Schroeder, the subject of a new retrospective at BAM, often has been drawn to extreme subjects. 'Choke': Hard To Swallow
BY S. JAMES SNYDER
By softening its protagonists's edges, "Choke," based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, loses its chance to push the boundaries it wants to push and settles for quick and easy punch lines. 'Eagle Eye': Let It Go to Voicemail
BY BRUCE BENNETT
If one is inclined to entertain the notion of hurling one's cell phone into traffic, immersing it in water, or doing whatever else it takes to make it stop delivering bad news, garbled messages, and unsolicited contact from without, "Eagle Eye," a new thriller from Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks creative brain trust, may be just the ticket. 'The Lucky Ones': Nothing Salves the Soul Like a Road Trip
BY S. JAMES SNYDER
In a mishmash of a concept that no one has yet thought of (with good reason), "The Lucky Ones" infuses the wartime mourning of "Grace Is Gone" with the road-trip camaraderie of "Little Miss Sunshine" and the unrelenting optimism of any title in the Frank Capra catalog. 'Nights in Rodanthe': Contrived Hollywood Archetype Seeks Same
BY STEVE DOLLAR
"Nights in Rodanthe" is the fourth big-screen adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's fiction, following "The Notebook," "Message in a Bottle," and "A Walk To Remember." Like those movies, it offers the kind of broad, bathetic platform for sweepingly emotive hoo-hah that a certain breed of former A-list actor craves like opium. Carnegie Hall Goes All-Bernstein
BY JAY NORDLINGER
Another opening, another show — Carnegie Hall kicked off its 2008-09 season on Wednesday night. The hall looked absolutely beautiful. And it sounded beautiful, too. One can forget how good these acoustics are, over the course of a summer. The program… Busta Rhymes Denied Entry Into Britain
BY Associated Press - Bloomberg News
Rapper Busta Rhymes was refused entry into Britain on Thursday, according to the promoter of a Busta Rhymes charity concert. Dealer To Raffle Street Art at Frieze
BY Bloomberg News
London dealer Lazarides has come up with an ingenious way to market street art -- a raffle. On the evening of October 16, the day Frieze Art Fair officially opens, the urban art specialist will hold an "Extravaganza" of music, games and burlesque, according to an e-mailed statement. Hirst To Launch Art Retail Shop
BY Bloomberg News
Three weeks after Damien Hirst's $206 million auction at Sotheby's, the artist will open a shop next door to the auction house in London. Art Deco Shows Its Roots
BY FRANCIS MORRONE - Special to the Sun
"Art Deco" was not coined until 1968, when the art historian Bevis Hillier used the term in his book "Art Deco of the 20s and 30s." In those times, you might have heard such terms as "le style moderne," or "la mode 1925." The latter refers to the… Deborah Voigt's Bold Gambit
BY FRED KIRSHNIT
American soprano Deborah Voigt has had an up-and-down career over the last decade. Although some of her appearances at the Metropolitan Opera House have been powerful, especially her Sieglinde under both maestros Gergiev and Maazel, she has also… Also Opening This Weekend
BY Staff Reporter of the Sun
BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY Unrated, 86 minutes "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story," which opens Friday at Cinema Village, is a comprehensive look at its titular subject, the blues guitar-playing political rogue whose rambunctious rise from… NYFF Opens Albert Lewin's Magic Box
BY BRUCE BENNETT
As part of Martin Scorsese's ongoing preservation and presentation work, Albert Lewin's 1951 romantic fable "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" will unspool at the festival on October 10 in a new print from the George Eastman House. This new edition returns the film's extravagant Technicolor photography to a state closely approximating its original analog luster. The New Face of Philanthropy
BY RICHARD TOFEL
Beginning with Warren Buffett's multibillion dollar gift to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006 and Bill Gates's decision to turn his primary attention to giving all of that money away, philanthropy has been a hot topic in business circles. Kern's Killer Soprano
BY WILL FRIEDWALD
In the 100-plus years since Jerome Kern began writing songs, his music has continually crossed over from one genre to another and from one generation to the next. That said, the soprano K.T. Sullivan, who is currently celebrating Kern's work at the Oak Room, is as perfect a contemporary interpreter of Kern as can be imagined. A Wizard Casts His Spell in the Stable: 'Equus'
BY ERIC GRODE
From Don Quixote to Forrest Gump, one fictional savant after another has carved his way (they're almost always men) through Western culture, unfettered by the suffocating mores of society as he inspires the surrounding hordes of the "well."… NBC's 'Life' & 'Chuck': It's All in Your Head
BY BRENDAN BERNHARD
Two programs making their season premieres Monday night on NBC, "Chuck" and "Life," feature protagonists seeking justice with more on their minds than the people around them. How it got on their minds is a different story. Movies in Brief: 'Wild Combination'
BY STEVE DOLLAR
Anyone who mythologizes the glory days of East Village bohemia will watch Matt Wolf's "Wild Combination," which opens Friday at IFC Center, with a frog in his throat. Sympathetic enough to count as a fan's hagiography, this modestly mounted… Movies in Brief: 'The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela'
BY STEVE DOLLAR
Much as its subject — a 20-something Filipino pre-op transsexual named Earvin who rechristens him/herself Raquela — this curious film is never quite here or there. The Icelandic director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson discovered Raquela working the streets… A Spike in the War Chest
BY NICOLAS RAPOLD
Spike Lee's new World War II film, "Miracle at St. Anna," is not an example of the director's volatile filmic chemistry blowing up the laboratory. It's just not very good, never mind compelling enough to sustain a 160-minute sprawl that, at the end, leaves one puzzling over where exactly the time went. If You Can't Punch Someone, Run Him Over
BY S. JAMES SNYDER
As much a story about fatherhood and masculinity as it is a gritty introduction to the sport of rugby, "Forever Strong" does its best imitation of such recent testosterone thrillers as the ultimate-fighting film "Never Back Down" and the fuel-injected motorcycle melodrama "Torque." Modular Modernism Reborn
BY JAMES GARDNER
Two weeks ago, I wrote in this column about 100 Park Ave., a 60-year-old building that has been splendidly reclad and fundamentally reconceived by the relatively little-known firm of Moed de Armas & Shannon. But the activities of the firm are even… Eri Yamamoto Finds the Keys to the City
BY STEVE DOLLAR
Since training in classical music and finding jazz late in the game, the pianist Eri Yamamoto has quietly grown into one of the city's most undervalued and consistent jazz performers. Calendar
DANCE CHANGING PLACES Choreographer Tere O'Connor brings his dance company to the Baryshnikov Arts Center for performances of "Rammed Earth." The program, which was first staged in New York last fall, requires attendees to move their perspectives… Let's Go Out This Weekend: Think Globally, Surf Locally -- September 26-28, 2008
BY JAYANTHI DANIEL
FILM SURFING NYC While catching up with a friend from San Diego last week, I mentioned that I had spent this past summer taking surfing lessons out on Long Island. He was — as a California native — not aware that New York even had surfing… Voters Come Home
BY DAVID SHRIBMAN
There's a lot of talk, most of it silly, about the dynamics at play as we head toward October in the presidential campaign. Maybe there's virtue in cutting away a lot of the chaff by describing the state of play in a sentence: Voters are coming home, because events are nudging them there. It's about time. The Dangerous Brew
BY ABRAHAM FOXMAN
It is not that anything that comes from the mouth of President Ahmadinejad shocks. After all, he has denied the Holocaust. It is, rather, the realization that the most lethal form of hatred that could be directed against the Jewish people was delivered from the platform of the United Nations and that no other such diatribe against any other religious or ethnic group could possibly flow from that august site. Where To Stash One's Winnings?
BY MARK GILBERT
Today's Europe-wide lottery offers a tax-free, lump-sum jackpot worth about $200 million. When I hand over my winning ticket, though, I will face a dilemma: Where do I stash my luck-gotten gains? Is 'Clean' Clean Enough?
BY PATRICK McILHERAN
On some day in December, as the clock passes midnight, air that was fresh and clean in scores of places will become, in an instant, unconscionably filthy. Millions of people will sleep on unaware of the harm done them.The harm done by federal air regulators, that is. Time for McCain To Answer
BY MARCUS WINTERS
In the past weeks, Barack Obama finally brought education policy into the presidential debate in a speech in Dayton, Ohio. With Mr. Obama's proposal public, the October domestic policy debates will provide a chance for Mr. McCain to clarify his education plan. 'For Love of a Ballpark'
Letters to the Editor
'For Love of a Ballpark' I've appreciated Andrew Wolf's prominent voice and thought provoking columns concerning the preservation of Yankee Stadium in recent months [Opinion, "For Love of a Ballpark," September 22, 2008]. Is anyone listening… All the Met's a Stage at 125th Season's Opening Night
BY AMANDA GORDON
On October 22, 1883, 125 years ago, the Metropolitan Opera, at 39th and Broadway, had its first opening night. The opera was "Faust," seats were $1, and the program carried advertisements for Runkel's chocolates and coal. As for quality, wrote New… | 
