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1 THE FRONT PAGE Late Edition 3 2 To d ay, variable clouds, a rain or Every industry has its own jargon, and the newspaper industry is no different. snow shower. High 42. Tonight, mostly cloudy. Low 30. Tomorrow, If you were standing in the middle of the newsroom as the paper was about windy, colder, a snow shower. High 32. Weather map is on Page A26. to be put to bed (sent to the presses), here are some of the things you might 4 hear about the front page. VOL.CLIX . . No. 54,907 © 2010 The New York Times NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2010 $2.00 5 6 1 Nameplate 7 C.I.A. Takes On CHARGES VOIDED The newspaper’s designed title — also called the logo — appears at the Expanded Role FOR CONTRACTORS top of the page, is hand drawn, copyrighted and cannot be reproduced On Front Lines without permission. IN IRAQ KILLINGS 2 ear Deaths in Afghanistan The box to the left of the nameplate. The Times’s slogan first appeared Highlight New Risks 5 BLACKWATER WORKERS there on Feb. 10, 1897.

By MARK MAZZETTI Federal Judge Contends 3 Weather Ear WASHINGTON — The deaths of seven Central Intelligence Prosecutors Violated The box that gives regional weather. Just above the weather information, Agency operatives at a remote Rights of Accused base in the mountains of Afghani- a boldface line identifies which edition you’re reading. The Times has more stan are a pointed example of the civilian spy agency’s transforma- By CHARLIE SAVAGE than 25 print sites around the United States, producing regional editions tion in recent years into a para- military organization at the van- WASHINGTON — In a signif- with slightly different content. guard of America’s far-flung icant blow to the Justice Depart- wars. ment, a federal judge on Thurs- The C.I.A. operatives stationed day threw out the indictment of 4 Folio at Forward Operating Base five former Blackwater security Chapman in Khost Province, guards over a shooting in Bagh- The type beneath the nameplate, including the volume and issue numbers, where Wednesday’s suicide dad in 2007 that left 17 Iraqis dead bombing occurred, were respon- and about 20 wounded. copyright line, date and price. sible for collecting information The judge cited misuse of about militant networks in Af- statements made by the guards ghanistan and Pakistan and plot- in his decision, which brought to 5 Volume and issue numbers ting missions to kill the networks’ a sudden halt one of the highest- top leaders. In recent months, profile prosecutions to arise from The Times published its first issue on Sept. 18, 1851. The Roman numerals American officials said, C.I.A. of- the Iraq war. The shooting at ficers at the base had begun an Nisour Square frayed relations CLIX denote the 159th year of publication. Volume number increases on each aggressive campaign against a between the Iraqi government anniversary. The Arabic numerals indicate the number of issues published radical group run by Sirajuddin and the Bush administration and Haqqani, which has claimed re- put a spotlight on the United since its founding. sponsibility for the deaths of doz- States’ growing reliance on pri- ens of American troops. vate security contractors in war Even as the C.I.A. expands its zones. role in Afghanistan, it is also Each day’s paper begins with four dots betwen the volumes and issue number. Investigators concluded that 9 CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES playing a greater role in quasi- the guards had indiscriminately military operations elsewhere, Every time the editors change something on Page 1 of that issue (because of fired on unarmed civilians in an Twenty-Ten using drone aircraft to launch a The ball dropped, the confetti drifted down,8 a light rain fell, and the thousands in Times Square greeted the new year with a roar. steady barrage of missile strikes unprovoked and unjustified as- breaking news or a new development in an article), one dot is removed. in Pakistan and sending more op- sault near the crowded traffic cir- eratives to Yemen to assist local cle on Sept. 16, 2007. The guards 10 officials in their attempts to roll contended that they had been 6 Copyright Line back Al Qaeda’s momentum in ambushed by insurgents and LOWER PRICES AID Ailing Immigrants Find No Relief Back Home that country. fired in self-defense. The legal notice of The Times’s right to reproduce its contents. Over the past year, the C.I.A. A trial on manslaughter and urb of East Point, Ms. Chavarria firearm offenses was planned for THE BREAKING POINT and Mr. Barajas each wept while has built up an archipelago of IN CONSERVATION By KEVIN SACK firebases in southern and eastern February, and the preliminary 7 lead article Recrossing the Border describing their separation after proceedings had been closely EJIDO MODELO, Mexico — 15 years of marriage. Afghanistan, moving agency op- eratives out of the embassy in watched in the United States and The most important news of the day. It is always on the upper right. On the two-hour bus rides from “I think about them all the Iraq. region’s indigent population. But time,” said Ms. Chavarria, whose Kabul and closer to their targets. Some See Silver Lining her village on Lake Chapala to a But in a 90-page opinion, Judge before closing the clinic on Oct. 4, raven hair falls past her waist. “It But the push to the front lines dialysis clinic in Guadalajara, Ricardo M. Urbina of Federal 8 Caption 11 to Dip in Real Estate they offered to pay to relocate pa- was the hardest thing to leave carries great risk. Monica Chavarria’s thoughts District Court in Washington would inevitably turn to the hus- tients to their home countries or without them.” In 1983 in Beirut, it took a car wrote that the government’s mis- An explanation of what’s in a photograph. Also called a cutline, from the days band and son she left behind in other states, and to provide dialy- Mr. Barajas, a stocky road pav- bomb loaded with 2,000 pounds of handling of the case “requires By LESLIE KAUFMAN Georgia. sis for three transitional months. er, shielded his eyes with his explosives to kill eight C.I.A. offi- 12 dismissal of the indictment when the pictures in a newspaper were woodcuts. (A KICKER is a headline for A decade after crossing ille- Ms. Chavarria, 34, left quickly hand. “You don’t know if you’ll be cers stationed at the heavily forti- From the Florida Everglades against all the defendants.” gally into the United States, Ms. with her 8-year-old son, Jose An- able to see each other again,” he fied American Embassy in the to the bluffs overlooking the Des- In a “reckless violation of the a caption, often used to refer to an article inside the paper.) Chavarria returned home in Sep- dres, an American citizen who said. “We had always been to- city. In Khost on Wednesday, all it chutes River in Oregon, conser- defendants’ constitutional tember after learning that Grady had never been to Mexico. But gether, the four of us, and then took was one man bent on mar- vationists are snapping up prime rights,” the judge wrote, investi- Memorial Hospital in Atlanta was she has not found a solution suddenly they had to go.” tyrdom to slip into a remote base 9 Credit line property for preservation, often and inflict a similar toll on the gators, prosecutors and govern- at a fraction of what the asking closing the clinic that had pro- there. Her free treatments have Like other patients repatriated vided her with dialysis, at tax- run out, and she can now afford by Grady this fall, Ms. Chavarria spy agency’s relatively small ment witnesses had inappropri- The name of the photographer or news agency that supplied the picture. price was at the real estate mar- work force. ately relied on statements that ket’s height. payer expense, for more than a dialysis only by poaching the sav- gambled that her chances would be better at home. The costs of di- Among those killed, officials the guards had been compelled to On Wednesday, the threatened year. ings her family has set aside for a 13 alysis and a possible kidney Continued on Page A12 Continued on Page A16 bog turtle got a reprieve when Grady, a struggling charity transplant. 10 headline transplant would be considerably conservationists scooped up 166 hospital, had been absorbing Her husband, Roberto Barajas, lower in Mexico, and she had acres of marshland in Frankford multimillion-dollar losses for 37, and their 14-year-old son, A quick summary of the article’s content. The larger the headline, the more three siblings there willing to do- THE CHRISTMAS TERROR PLOT Township in northern New Jer- years because the dialysis clinic Eduardo, remained in Georgia so nate an organ. sey, where developers had primarily served illegal immi- Mr. Barajas could keep working important the news. But it has not worked out that GUANTÁNAMO The attempted bombing of a jetliner on Christmas could planned to build luxury homes. grants who were not eligible for and wire money home for her way. complicate President Obama’s efforts to close the detention center at Hours later, city officials and en- government insurance programs. care. On Dec. 22, she exhausted the Guantánamo Bay. BY PETER BAKER AND CHARLIE SAVAGE, PAGE A14 vironmentalists in Boise, Idaho, Hospital officials decided the In separate interviews, one in 11 bank or deck 30 free dialysis sessions that Gra- were rejoicing as they closed a losses were threatening Grady’s the farming village of Ejido Mod- CELEBRITY IMAMS The apparent ties between the deal to protect 1,300 acres of broader mission of serving the elo, the other in the Atlanta sub- Continued on Page A4 suspect and a Yemeni imam have cast a spotlight Subheadings with other important facts in the article. wooded foothills beloved by local on a world of charismatic clerics who wield their hikers. Internet celebrity to indoctrinate young Muslims. 12 byline The victories reveal a green BY ERIC SCHMITT AND ERIC LIPTON, PAGE A14 lining of sorts in a credit crisis As Honor Students Multiply, Who Really Is One? CLASSES AS COVER The suspect may have used The writer or writers of the article. that has depressed real estate Arabic classes as a formal pretext to re-enter prices, prompted foreclosures Yemen legally after being recruited elsewhere by and derailed development By WINNIE HU Al Qaeda. BY STEVEN ERLANGER, PAGE A16 13 body Type projects across the nation. 14 The purchases by conserva- COMMACK, N.Y. — There The text of the narrative, or body of the article. The Times’s body type style tionists and state and local gov- have been so many honor socie- ernments assure that thousands ties created at Commack High is known as Imperial. of acres will be put aside in per- School on Long Island in recent From Airports to Broadway, petuity for parks, watershed pro- years that some students ended tection or simply preservation of up in six or seven of them, rack- 14 dateline open space. ing up memberships like so many Crowds Were Thinner in ’09 “We are getting a second bite merit badges or thanks-for-play- The place the reporting was done. If there is no dateline, the article was at properties that never should ing trophies. 15 have been developed in the first But the school reversed course By PATRICK McGEEHAN either written in New York or where it was written has no relation to the this school year, cutting out its place,” said Will Rogers, presi- The flow of tourists into New but as recently as last summer, 28-student technology honor so- dent of the Trust for Public Land, York, which has helped fuel the they had been predicting a 4.5 content of the story. ciety and combining those for a national nonprofit group that city’s growth and stabilize its percent decline in visitors. And in buys land for preservation. “We sign language, Latin, German economy during the recession, analyzing the data used by the are working on dozens of these and French. That left 11 societies, fell off in 2009, according to vari- city in calculating tourism num- 15 speCIAL FEATURE deals across the country, and I and a community wondering how ous indicators used by the city. bers, all of the crucial indicators know other land trusts are as much honor is too much. The decrease, which would be have declined. An article of special interest that begins on Page 1. It might be a human well.” With so many societies, some the industry’s first annual decline Although the real estate bubble students are unable to attend all At the area’s three major air- interest story, a report on a new trend, an in-depth look at a topic or just in eight years, could be seen at ports, for example, the number of burst in 2008, it was only in the of the meetings and shirk their the area’s three major airports last 6 to 12 months that many de- duties with the groups, showing passengers was on pace to fall to an article on something amusing or unusual. and at Pennsylvania Station, roughly 100 million for the first velopers and banks became des- up only to collect the “honor where traffic was down, even time since 2005, preliminary data perate enough to slash prices cord” — a decorative tassel — to counting the mob that gathered show. deeply enough for the trusts, Mr. wear at graduation. for New Year’s Eve festivities in 16 Jump line Rogers and several other conser- Commack is one of many Midtown. It also has affected ho- Attendance at Broadway vationists said. places where educators and par- tels and Broadway theaters, shows for the current season was A signpost that an article continues (“jumps”) to another page. Suki Molina, vice president of ents are re-examining the role of where more rooms and seats down 5.2 percent, and the num- the Foothills Conservation Advi- KATIE ORLINSKY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES honor societies, which started out went unsold. ber of delegates attending trade sory Committee, which joined An induction ceremony for the Spanish Honors Society at as an academic distinction re- Officials have not released the shows at the Jacob K. Javits Con- Sections of The Times are designated by letters. Some of these are: Continued on Page A3 Commack High on Long Island. The group has 258 members. Continued on Page A27 city’s official year-end figures, 16 Continued on Page A27 A: Main news section B: Business Day INTERNATIONAL A6-16 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 SPORTSFRIDAY B7-12 NEW YORK A22-27 Impasse Over Fox Stations C: The Arts Iraq Release Raises Questions A Toast to a Good Year Time Warner Cable and the News Cor- AT&T Drops Bloomberg Keeping It Simple Before a British hostage was released, a Stocks fell on the last day of the year, poration remained at an impasse early Tiger Woods Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will be Friday in negotiations over retransmis- suspected insurgent was turned over to but major indexes ended at their high- AT&T, whose logo sworn in for the third time at a ceremo- 17 reFERs sion rights for Fox TV stations. After the Iraqi authorities. PAGE A6 est levels in 14 month. PAGE B1 has been embla- ny at noon on Friday. With many New Federal Communications Commission An interactive graphic on the mar- zoned on Woods’s Yorkers struggling, the city plans a mut- A one- or two-sentence summarization of an article (or several) inside the asked the two sides to keep talking, the U.N. Staff Pullback in Pakistan kets in 2009. golf bag, became ed and no-frills affair this time, in con- Fox signal stayed on the air as negotia- paper, and serves as a referral to the fuller treatment. The United Nations is temporarily mov- nytimes.com/business the latest sponsor trast to Mr. Bloomberg’s first two trips ing up to a quarter of its foreign staff out tions went on. PAGE B2 to curtail an agree- to the ceremonial stand, and there will of Pakistan for safety reasons. PAGE A6 ment with him. be no inauguration party. PAGE A25 18 bar Code WEEKEND C1-32 PAGE B11 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A28-29 The bar code identifies each edition and is used for verifying single-copy NATIONAL A17-20 Ephemeral Time, in Images Makeover Ruling for Assisted Suicide Capturing a year, or an eon or a mo- 17 For a Stadium Paul Krugman PAGE A29 sales information. A ruling in Montana protects doctors ment, in art: there are insights pre- Worried about the long-term survival of from prosecution for helping terminally served in the historical collections at the the 87-year-old Rose Bowl, officials in 18 ill patients die but sidesteps whether as- Metropolitan Museum of Art. A column Pasadena, Calif., are completing plans sisted suicide is a right. PAGE A17 by Roberta Smith. PAGE C21 for a $164 million renovation. PAGE B7 U(D54G1D)y+,!%!,!=!z

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