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Reif promotes Kendall Square zoning MIT in favor of redactions petition before Cambridge City Council in Swartz case documents Legal filing made Friday focuses on privacy

By Austin Hess ment in the investigation, but modifying the Pro- news editor tective Order could override this plan. Established 1881 MIT noted that the documents were provided On Friday, March 29, MIT filed a legal memo- under condition of confidentiality. The memorandum to “partially oppose” the March 15 mo- randum stated, “After Mr. Swartz was indicted, tion by the Estate of Aaron Swartz to publicly the government produced the MIT documents release documents related to Swartz’s criminal to his defense counsel pursuant to the Protective prosecution. The documents, originally provided Order, which provides (1) that the defense could to the U.S. Attorney’s Office by MIT for pre-trial not use MIT’s documents for any purpose other discovery, are kept confidential by a Protective than in the defense of the criminal case, and (2) Order. According to MIT’s memorandum, the that such documents were to be destroyed at the U.S. Attorney’s Office required a Protective Order end of the criminal case. The criminal case is now on the documents beginning November 2011 due over; it was dismissed on January 14, 2013.” to “sensitive information” they contain. MIT suggested that it would have a “strong In the filing, MIT argued that it is not opposed argument” to not release the documents at all, to releasing the documents, but first wants to be pointing out that the only reason Swartz’s at- able to redact names and identifying information torneys had the documents was as part of a now of members of the MIT community as well as any closed criminal case, following which, the docu- information that may expose MIT network vul- ments should have been destroyed according Established 1881 nerabilities, as MIT President L. Rafael Reif had to the Protective Order. It also claimed that the previously announced in a letter on March 19. Swartz Estate does not have standing “to appear In a filing made the same day, JSTOR, the online in the criminal case to which it is not a party,” academic journal library from which Swartz al- which would mean the documents are still MIT’s legedly downloaded millions of documents, also alone. MIT suggested that it should release the supported the public release of the documents, documents on its own terms due to its “commit- but also requested the redaction of the names of ment to openness,” but that there was no case to its employees. remove the Protective Order without regard for MIT employed several arguments when mak- its security concerns. ing its case for redaction. According to the mem- MIT also cited several recent events as exam- orandum, “The MIT community has been the ples of its security concerns. It mentioned the al- John A. Hawkinson—The Tech subject of threats to personal safety and breaches legedly Swartz-related gunman hoax on February MIT President L. Rafael Reif spoke last night before the Cambridge City to its computer network, apparently based on 23. It also published public Internet comments, Council in favor of MIT’s zoning petition for Kendall Square. It was the first MIT’s involvement in the events relating to Mr. including, “MIT deserves all the harassment they time Reif had spoken before the council. He was accompanied by faculty lumi- Swartz’s prosecution.” can get. They’re to blame for his death,” and “If naries like former chancellor Phillip L. Clay, Phillip A. Sharp, Robert P. Weinberg, In his March 19 letter, Reif wrote that MIT the courts will not punish these killers, the peo- and others. plans to release these documents at the same Established 1881 time as Hal Abelson’s report on MIT’s involve- Swartz, Page 9

Faculty meeting focuses on Another body found in the Charles River

Early morning last Wednesday, would not be released, though Wark gunman disruption response March 27, Mass. State Police re- did confirm that it was not an MIT sponded to reports of a body in the student. The body does not appear Charles River under the Harvard to be Brown University student Sunil Head of MIT Police discusses emergency alert system Bridge. The body was pulled out of Tripathi, who has been missing for the river around 9 a.m. The Suffolk two weeks, Wark said to The Boston By Leon Lin update. According to DiFava, MIT School and Sandy Hook Elemen- County DA is investigating the death. Globe. Associate News Editor Police is working on several steps tary School tragedies, have been Suffolk DA Press Secretary Jake This is the fourth body pulled out to remedy inefficiencies in the much slower than the “incredibly Wark said that there was no evi- of the Charles River since October MIT “failed abysmally” in notification system. significant” two-minute response dence that the death was criminal 2012. promptly notifying the commu- Yet at 7:30 a.m., “upwards of from MIT and Cambridge, though in nature, and therefore an identity —Bruno B. F. Faviero nity after receiving a false Feb. 23 16 police officers” from MIT and there were multiple casualties report of a gunman on campus, Cambridge were already at 77 at both Columbine and Sandy MIT Chief of Police John DiFava Mass. Ave. They proceeded to Hook before police learned of the said at the last faculty meeting, lock down the Main Group build- shooters. following an internal review of ings, searching room to room in He also said that training MIT wins 2nd in Putnam math contest the events on the day of the scare. groups of four, each group with since Columbine has influenced But the police response on the at least one MIT officer familiar police responses. Officers then Just behind Harvard, MIT took contest for high school students. scene was “superb,” DiFava said. with the campus, according to were told to “set up a perimeter” second place in the 2012 William Though MIT fielded three of the Cambridge Police received DiFava. Their performance “vin- and “don’t let anybody in or out Lowell Putnam Mathematical Com- five Putnam Fellows and 12 of the top the hoaxer’s tip at 7:28 a.m. and dicated all of our efforts to train — wait for tactical units to ar- petition, winning $20,000 for the 25 contestants, the MIT team fell to tweeted a warning at 7:35 a.m., our officers.” rive.” The respondents on Feb. 23 math department and $800 for each Harvard’s because the school awards but MIT’s emergency website was DiFava said that police re- were instead trained to move in of the three team members. The pres- only depend on the three members not updated until 8:47 a.m. Sever- sponse times to school “gunman immediately. tigious contest is 12 questions and 6 selected for the team. Neither of the al text messages and emails were situations” in the past 15 years, hours long, and is administered ev- two teams ended up being the opti- sent out in the hour following that including the Columbine High Alerts, Page 11 ery December to undergraduate stu- mal choice for its school. dents studying in the U.S. or Canada. “The following strategy would im- In third, fourth, and fifth were prove MIT’s chances of winning the to the fair. Register for the fair MIT’s graduation site at http://bit. UCLA, Stony Brook, and Carnegie team award: choose a three member In Short through CareerBridge with your ly/Xn9dUX to get specific infor- Mellon. team. Then give the Putnam to those Still looking for a job or intern- electronic resume. The Spring mation regarding cap and gown The top five individual performers three people and forbid all other MIT ship? Attend the Spring Career each year become Putnam Fellows. students from taking the Putnam,” Career Fair resume book will be from the MIT Coop, tickets, and Fair on Thursday, April 4th! The This year, they are Ben Gunby ’15 of wrote Kent Merryfield when he an- event will be held from 11 a.m. viewable by the employers. all information relevant to June MIT, Eric Larson of Harvard, Mitchell nounced the results, perhaps not half to 4 p.m. in the Stratton Student 2013 commencement. Lee ’16 of MIT, Zipei Nie ’15 of MIT, in jest. “Yes, that is a ludicrous strat- Center (W-20) in La Sala Puerto Seniors: graduation is fast ap- and Evan O’Dorney of Harvard. All egy — but then the whole team rank Rico on the second floor. MIT ID proaching, and so is the dead- Send news information and five were gold medalists at the Inter- thing is pretty loopy.” cards will be required for entry line for ordering regalia. Go to tips to [email protected]. national Mathematical Olympiad, a —Leon Lin

The science/ major league baseball MIT Kendall plan the role of SECTIONS World & Nation ��2 Washington Nationals expected to win religion line deadline looms greek alumni Opinion ��4 NL East again. sports, p. 16 Ask A-Theist: do See MITIMCo’s model How should fraternity Campus Life ��5 scientific and religious in good company of possibilities for the alumni support Fun Pages ��6 thinking conflict? south side of Main Street. current undergrads? Sports ��16 campus life, p. 5 Struggling with bipolar disorder. photo, p. 9 opinion, p. 4 campus life, p. 5 2 The Tech Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Lhota turns up heat on Quinn D for supporting police monitor US sees North Korea NEW YORK — For a political acolyte of Rudolph W. Gi- uliani, a ferocious rhetorical bomb-thrower, Joseph J. Lhota has proved an oddly mild candidate so far, repeatedly holding his blustering, not acting fire — and his tongue — since declaring his Republican cam- paign for mayor of New York three months ago. By Mark Landler “We are not seeing changes to the Obama administration ap-

worl But on Monday, Lhota conspicuously changed gears, com- and Choe Sang-Hun the North Korean military posture peared to be trying to defuse a sit- mandeering the steps of City Hall to deliver a blistering attack The New York Times such as large-scale mobilizations uation that many analysts say has

n on his leading Democratic rival, Christine C. Quinn, for en- or positioning of forces,” said Jay gone beyond previous cycles of dorsing a new agency that would independently monitor the WASHINGTON — Despite a Carney, the White House press provocation by North Korea, and city’s Police Department. drumbeat of increasingly bel- secretary. “What that discon- raised genuine fears of war. Lhota denounced Quinn’s plan as “reckless and danger- licose threats from North Korea, nect between rhetoric and action “It is a calculated response to ous,” declared that it would “handcuff” the department, and the White House said Monday means, I’ll leave to the analysts to say, ‚ÄòWe don’t want anyone to demanded that she immediately withdraw her support for it. that there was no evidence that j u d g e .” think the situation is getting out of And in a personal twist, he accused Quinn, the City Coun- the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, Even as the White House tried control, that the ladder of escala- atio cil speaker, of abdicating her responsibility to have the Council was mobilizing troops or other to tamp down the tensions, the tion is going to end in a full-scale monitor the police force and instead seeking to offload the task military forces for any imminent Pentagon said it had moved a conflict,”’ said Jeffrey A. Bader, to a new and unnecessary bureaucracy. attack. Navy missile-defense ship from who worked on North Korea pol- In doing so, Lhota offered a glimpse of the kind of candida- Though U.S. officials said they its home port in Japan to waters icy for the Obama administration cy that friends and aides have long promised: punchy, pointed remained concerned about the closer to the Korean Peninsula, in from 2009 to 2011. and deeply committed to a vision of a muscular chief executive invective flowing from North Ko- what was described as a carefully For all the uncertainty sur- at City Hall. rea — and South Korea’s president calibrated response, given the rounding the young ruler of North —Michael Barbaro, The New York Times ordered military commanders to North’s warnings about putting its Korea, Bader said, the latest round

& N carry out a swift and strong re- rockets on a higher stage of alert. of warlike statements from the Kelly intended frisks to instill sponse to any provocations — the The deployment came after the North recalled the theatrical bel- Obama administration took pains United States publicized a rare ligerence shown by Kim ‘s father, fear, Senator testifies to emphasize the “disconnect” be- training flight by two B-2 bomb- Kim Jong Il. Those episodes of- tween Kim’s “rhetoric and action.” ers over South Korea, where they ten led to hostile acts, but never a NEW YORK — During a legislative debate in 2010 over the The White House’s strategy, of- carried out a mock bombing run, wholesale military attack on South Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk encounters, the po- ficials said, was calculated to ease and pledged to spend $1 billion to Korea. lice commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, met with the governor at tensions after a fraught few days in expand ballistic missile-defense Still, on Monday, South Korea’s orld the time, David A. Paterson, to defend the tactic’s importance as which Kim threatened to rain mis- systems along the Pacific Coast. new president, Park Geun-hye, a crime-fighting tool. siles on the American mainland Having taken these unusually ordered her country’s military According to a state senator, Eric Adams, who was at the and the United States responded public steps to demonstrate its to deliver a strong and immedi- meeting at the governor’s office in Midtown Manhattan, the by flying nuclear-capable bomb- W commitment to defend itself and ate response to any North Korean commissioner said young black and Hispanic men were the fo- ers over the Korean Peninsula. protect South Korea and Japan, provocation. cus of the stops because “he wanted to instill fear in them, every time they leave their home they could be stopped by the police.” Adams, D-Brooklyn, a former captain in the New York Police Department, recalled the meeting as he testified in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday, as a trial over the constitution- Gorbachev criticizes Putin and ality of the department’s use of the tactic entered its third week. Kelly, who is not being called to testify, said in remarks to reporters Monday that Adams’ characterization of what he said was “absolutely, categorically untrue.” Kelly has also filed an af- his restrictions fidavit in court, saying, “At that meeting I did not, nor would I ever, state or suggest that the New York City Police Department By David M. Herszenhorn estroika” — the Russian word for Saturday as he briefly ventured targets young black and Latino men for stop-and-frisk activity.” The New York Times “restructuring” and the brand from a Moscow hospital where he It continued: “That has not been nor is it now the policy or name of his reforms that brought is undergoing a lengthy checkup, practice of the NYPD.” MOSCOW — Mikhail Gor- about the fall of communism and quickly drew angry and dismissive —Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times bachev, the first and last presi- helped him win the Nobel Peace responses from the Kremlin. dent of the Soviet Union, now 82 Prize — called for yet another “We have had enough restruc- Double-digit inflation worsens and increasingly frail, may have renewal of the Russian political turing,” said Putin’s spokesman, needed a helping hand to climb on system. Dmitry S. Peskov. in Iran stage for a speech at the state-run His prepared speech, posted Sergei Neverov, the deputy RIA-Novosti news agency. Oratori- later on the Internet, was even speaker of the lower house of Par- Iran’s double-digit inflation rate worsened for the sixth con- cally, however, he seemed nimble tougher than the remarks he de- liament and a leader of United secutive month in March, the government said Monday, in what enough, delivering a sharp poke livered. In it, he wrote that by cur- Russia, the party that nominated appeared to be an implicit acknowledgment that international in the gut to President Vladimir V. tailing freedoms and tightening Putin for president, said, “Mikhail sanctions linked to the disputed Iranian nuclear program are Putin and the Kremlin. restrictions on civil society groups Sergeyevich has already been the causing some economic harm. “Politics is more and more and the press, Putin had adopted initiator of one perestroika, and as The government’s statistics office said the rate increased in turning into an imitation,” Gor- “a ruinous and hopeless path.” a result we lost the country.” March to an annualized 31.5 percent, compared with 30.2 percent bachev said. “All power is in the Unlike in the West, where he Alexei Pushkov, a member of in February and 26.4 percent a year earlier, the semiofficial Mehr hands of the executive. The Parlia- is still revered for his role in end- United Russia and chairman of the News Agency reported. The Mehr report did not offer an explana- ment only seals its decisions. Judi- ing the Cold War, Gorbachev has Foreign Affairs Committee in the tion for the increase except to specify that much of it was in the cial power is not independent. The largely faded into insignificance lower house, rejected Gorbachev’s categories of food, beverages and tobacco. economy is monopolized, hooked in Russia. He is remembered far objections by criticizing Gor- Many economists say the real rate could be at least double to the oil and gas needle. Entrepre- more for the chaos and depriva- bachev. “The cost of a painful pro- the official rate, partly because it does not fully take into account neurs’ initiative is curbed, small tion of the 1990s that followed him cess, the cost of huge losses from a the prices of many imported goods, which have become prohibi- and medium businesses face huge than for delivering the citizens of major transformation of our coun- tively expensive. barriers.” the Soviet Union from tyranny. try has already occurred,” Pushkov —Rick Gladstone, The New York Times Gorbachev, invoking “per- Nonetheless, his speech, made told the Interfax news agency.

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Moderate Compiled by MIT Hurricane Meteorology Staff Stationary Front Heavy and The Tech nation world & nation world & nation world & nation & nation world & nation world & nation world nation Tuesday, April 2, 2013 The Tech 3 Apple’s chief apologizes to China WORLD & Nati Low-cost drugs in poor nations over warranty policy get lift in court SHANGHAI — Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, took the un- usual step Monday of apologizing to Chinese customers over the company’s warranty policy and said he would improve customer By Gardiner Harris continue making copycat versions ‚ÄòWell, hold on a minute — India service in the country. and Katie Thomas of the drug Gleevec, which is made stuck to its guns,”’ said Tahir Amin, Apple’s apology Monday was the latest twist in a strange spec- The New York Times by Novartis. It is spelled Glivec in a director of the Initiative for Medi- tacle that has unfolded in recent weeks in China over Apple’s war- Europe and elsewhere. The drug cines, Access and Knowledge, a ranty policies and underscored the challenges the company is fac- NEW DELHI — People in de- provides such effective treatment group based in New York that works ing as the country becomes an important market for its products. veloping countries in Africa and for some forms of leukemia that the on patent cases to foster access to Apple’s problem began on International Consumers’ Day, when Asia will continue to have access to Food and Drug Administration ap- drugs. In trade agreements — in- China`s biggest state-run television network, as is its tradition, low-cost copycat versions of drugs proved the medicine in the United cluding one being negotiated be- broadcast an investigative report on how companies operating in for diseases like HIV and cancer, at States in 2001 in record time. The tween the United States and coun- China cheat or mistreat consumers. This year, on March 15, one of on least for a while. ruling will alsohelp India main- tries in the Pacific Rim — the drug the targets was Apple. Production of the generic drugs tain its role as the world’s most industry has lobbied for stricter China Central Television criticized the American company’s in India, the world’s biggest provid- important provider of inexpensive patent restrictions that would more after-sales iPhone customer service in China because it gave only a er of cheap medicines, was ensured medicines, which is critical in the closely resemble protections in the one-year warranty, while in China the law is two years. It also said WORLD & Nati Monday in a ruling by the Indian global fight against deadly diseases. United States. that phone owners had to pay about $90 to replace a faulty back Supreme Court. Gleevec, for example, can cost as Gleevec is widely recognized as cover. The debate over global drug much as $70,000 a year, while In- one of the most important medical Apple did not immediately respond to some of the accusations, pricing is one of the most conten- dian generic versions cost about discoveries in decades. In a tele- but other state media outlets stepped up their criticism over the tious issues between developed $2,500 a year. vised interview, Ranjit Shahani, next two weeks, raising the stakes for Apple in China, which is now countries and the developing The ruling comes at a chal- vice chairman of the Indian subsid- the company’s second-biggest market after the United States. world. While poorer nations main- lenging time for the pharmaceuti- iary of Novartis, said that compa- —David Barboza and Nick Wingfield, The New York Times tain they have a moral obligation cal industry, which is increasingly nies like Novartis would invest less to make cheaper, generic drugs looking to emerging markets to money in research in India as a re- New York City ‘kidnapping’ was available to their populations — by compensate for lackluster drug sult of the ruling. “We hope that the limiting patents in some cases — sales in the United States and Eu- ecosystem for intellectual property birthday joke, police say the brand name pharmaceutical rope. At the same time, it is facing in the country improves,” he said. companies contend the profits they other challenges to its patent pro- India exports about $10 billion NEW YORK — A mysterious abduction in Upper Manhattan reap are essential to their ability to tections in countries like Argen- worth of generic medicine every was nothing more than an unorthodox birthday gag. develop and manufacture innova- tina, the Philippines, Thailand and year. India and China together pro- Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Monday that tive medicines. Brazil. duce more than 80 percent of the what had originally appeared to be a brazen daylight kidnapping

Specifically, the decision allows “I think other countries will active ingredients of all drugs used of a young couple from a street in the Washington Heights section on Indian makers of generic drugs to now be looking at India and saying, in the United States. Friday was in fact the beginning of a surprise birthday celebration in the Pocono Mountains for a man who had just turned 30. “The person who was supposed to be surprised by the party found out about it,” Kelly said at a news conference at Police Head- WORLD & Nati quarters. “So then, you know, Plan B was to kidnap him and take him to the party. This was an additional surprise.” Connecticut legislators agree on That determination came more than two days after witnesses described what they believed to be the armed kidnapping of the man and his girlfriend Friday evening from the sidewalk. sweeping gun control laws From the beginning, there were small signs that the apparent abduction — captured by surveillance cameras in video released By Peter Applebome spite a dramatic plea on Monday you could judiciously say this is the by the police — was something other than a crime. The New York Times from relatives of 11 of the victims strongest bill in the nation.” No one had been reported missing in the area, the police said. killed at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14, The bill is expected to go to both An 8-year-old boy had told the police that he had seen the kidnap- HARTFORD, Conn. — More legislative leaders did not include a houses of the General Assembly pers use a gun, but by Monday, Kelly said, the police no longer be- than three months after the mas- complete ban on their ownership, on Wednesday; passage seemed lieved any gun was involved. sacre of 26 people at Sandy Hook although they agreed on new rules assured. —J. David Goodman, The New York Times Elementary School in Newtown, requiring their registration. Legis- In a state still shaken by the Conn., legislative leaders an- lation passed by New York in Janu- tragedy and with a moderate social Mandela spends 5th day in nounced on Monday that they had ary included a ban on the owner- and political culture, Democratic agreed on what they called the ship of high-capacity magazines. and Republican leaders hailed the hospital on most far-reaching gun-legislation But the legislation in Connecti- agreement. package in the country. cut, agreed to after several weeks of “I wake up in morning and put JOHANNESBURG — The condition of former President Nelson It would require new state- negotiations between Democratic this green ribbon and pin on my Mandela was improving, according to South African government issued eligibility certificates for and Republican leaders in the jacket lapel to remember those officials, as he spent his fifth day in a hospital Monday being treat- WORLD & Nati the purchase of any rifle, shotgun Democratic-controlled General As- we’ve lost,” said John McKinney, a ed for pneumonia. or ammunition; mandate that of- sembly, was hailed by gun-control Republican who represents New- Mandela, the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader, has been hos- fenders convicted of more than proponents as a landmark package town and is the Senate minority pitalized three times in the past four months, including almost 40 weapons offenses register with and an appropriate response to the leader. “And what I’m proud of is three weeks in December, when he was treated for a lung infection the state; require universal back- tragedy at Sandy Hook. that all of us, Republicans and and had surgery for gallstones. He has not been seen publicly since ground checks for the sale of all Ron Pinciaro, executive direc- Democrats, understood that some 2010. firearms; and substantially expand tor of Connecticut Against Gun issues, and this one particularly, “President Nelson Mandela had a restful day and continues to the state’s existing ban on assault Violence, said he was disappointed should rise above politics.” receive treatment,” the government said in a statement released weapons. that the ban on possession of high- And leaders of both parties said Sunday. “The doctors are providing the former president with the But the package did not include capacity magazines was not ap- the bipartisan process, which was best medical care possible to enable his recovery and comfort. everything that anti-gun forces had proved and that the bill would have more protracted than originally They have reported a further improvement in his condition.” asked for. It includes a ban on the little effect on handgun violence. expected, had been difficult but On Saturday, the government gave more details about Mande- sale of high-capacity magazines But, he said, “When you take all the should be a model for other states la’s health, saying he “had developed a pleural effusion,” or a fluid with more than 10 bullets. But de- elements and compare it, I think and for Washington. buildup in the lungs, that was addressed. “This has resulted in him now being able to breathe without difficulty,” it said.

Lung infections have been a persistent problem for Mandela, on who contracted tuberculosis during his 27 years in prison at the hands of the apartheid government. Ruling sets stage for pension battle in —Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times bankrupt city Pattycake, first gorilla born in WORLD & Nati New York City, dead at 40 By Mary Williams Walsh California, where the big state pen- ficult questions of law that I can see The New York Times sion system, known as CalPERS, out there on the horizon,” he said. NEW YORK — There were problems with her heart that weren’t has been girding for battle on the is- The judge said he would decide getting better. She weighed 320 pounds. One can only imagine the toll A federal bankruptcy judge sue, trying to avoid the precedent of those questions during the next taken by so many years of cloying attention, all the beguiled admir- ruled Monday that the city of Stock- a cutoff or shortfall in a city’s pen- phase of Stockton’s bankruptcy, in ers staring and cooing and craning to get close to her. The press was ton, Calif., was eligible for court sion contributions. which the city’s creditors will con- always sniffing around for new angles. Of course, there was her age. protection from its creditors, clear- Federal bankruptcy law often test whether its so-called plan of Forty sounds painfully young — but, then, she was a gorilla. Once ing the way for a battle over wheth- trumps state laws, but municipal adjustment is fair. A plan of adjust- you’re past 37, you need to consider putting your affairs in order. er public workers’ pensions can be bankruptcies are so rare that there ment in a municipal bankruptcy is And so it was sad but not entirely surprising when word came cut when the city they work for goes is almost no precedent on how comparable to a plan of reorgani- Sunday of the passing of Pattycake, the Bronx Zoo gorilla that had bankrupt. to apply the law to state pension zation in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy; long reigned as one of the city’s more acclaimed tourist attractions. After declaring Chapter 9 bank- provisions. a city cannot emerge from bank- Jim Breheny, the zoo’s director, said she had been discovered around ruptcy last year, Stockton elimi- In the ruling issued Monday in ruptcy unless the judge confirms its 8 a.m. by a worker in the zoo’s Congo Gorilla Forest. Apparently, she nated tens of millions of dollars Sacramento , which affirmed the le- plan of adjustment. went peacefully, in her sleep. Even at 40, her looks were still pretty on in city services and said it would gal status of Stockton’s bankruptcy, “The day of reckoning will be much intact. cut back some bond payments in Judge Christopher M. Klein said he the day of plan confirmation,” Klein For a gorilla, she had had quite a life. “She was a story that capti- a way unseen before in municipal could see battle lines being drawn said near the end of a two-hour ses- vated people,” Breheny said. bankruptcy. But bondholders ob- between CalPERS — formally the sion in which he read his decision She earned a superstar’s distinction and heaps of publicity right W jected to Stockton’s effort to protect California Public Employees’ Re- from the bench. “The city is going at birth, on Sept. 3, 1972, being that she was the first gorilla born in pensions while forcing losses on tirement System — and the city’s to have a difficult time confirming New York City, as opposed to, say, Cameroon or Gabon or Equatorial investors. other major creditors, including a plan over the objection of unfair Guinea. It was an excellent Manhattan address — the Central Park o Many states have statutes and several Wall Street companies that discrimination.” Zoo. Her furry face served as a bit of a respite at a time when the city constitutional provisions making it either bought Stockton’s bonds or The Wall Street creditors had found itself grappling with high crime rates and an intensifying finan- R

illegal to cut public workers’ pen- insured them. But he ruled that it been trying, until now, to persuade cial crisis. l sions. Until now, there has not been was still too early in the case for that Klein to throw out the case, arguing Another gorilla, Hodari, was born just a month later at the Bronx a prominent test of those laws in battle to be joined. that the city was not truly insolvent Zoo, and he never got the press she did. D bankruptcy — particularly not in “There are very complex and dif- and had not treated them fairly. —N.r. Kleinfield, The New York Times 4

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DiFava also hoped pose a threat to public safety. that neither DiFava himself nor the MIT Police will Biology department head Tania “If you get stuck in a garage, larger MIT community was aware Baker expressed concerns that not to have one more you call the Police Department. We of the situation as the officers began consider training everyone in the MIT community, supervisor in the need to get away from that,” he said. to secure the Main Group. It took especially those with joint affilia- The false report of the gunman 49 minutes for word to start mov- officers to better tions with the Broad Institute or the office at all times. was sent to the Cambridge Police ing up the chain of command. After inform superiors. Whitehead Institute for example, Department using an Internet relay DiFava got the call, it was another 14 were kept in the loop. DiFava ac- DiFava also hoped to have an service typically used by people with minutes before MIT’s alert was out, In the wake of the Feb. 23 events, knowledged the difficulty of reach- additional supervisor in the office hearing or speech impairments. Ac- he said. MIT Police is also looking into training everyone who could potentially at all times to send out notifications cording to MIT treasurer and execu- Now MIT Police has installed a ing officers to feed information to be affected by an emergency. and assist the desk officer, who on tive vice president Israel Ruiz SM ’01, button that a sergeant can press to superiors as emergency situations “We’ve identified about 120 de- the morning of Feb. 23 had to an- the caller said the gunman intended immediately send out a emergency develop, though DiFava stressed partmental labs and centers. 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However, WASHINGTON — Unable to 33 states where the federal govern- In the weeks leading up to pas- employees. the administration said the govern- meet tight deadlines in the new ment will be running insurance mar- sage of the health care legislation in One of the most important tasks ment and insurers needed “addition- health care law, the Obama admin- kets known as exchanges. And they 2010, Landrieu provided crucial sup- of the exchange is to simplify the al time to prepare for an employee istration is delaying parts of a pro- will delay the requirement for other port for the measure, after securing collection and payment of monthly choice model” of the type envisioned gram intended to provide affordable states as well. changes to help small businesses. premiums. An employer can pay a in the law signed three years ago by health insurance to small businesses The promise of affordable health The administration cited “op- lump sum to the exchange, which President Barack Obama. and their employees — a major insurance for small businesses was erational challenges” as a reason for will then distribute the money to D. Michael Roach, who owns selling point for the health care portrayed as a major advantage of the delay. 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