The Long Road to a Clinton Exit
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C M Y K Nxxx,2008-06-08,A,001,Bs-BK,E4 Late Edition Today, sultry, hazy sun, isolated thunderstorms in afternoon, high 94. Tonight, muggy, patchy fog late, low 79. Tomorrow, torrid, hazy sun, high 96. Details, Page 41. VOL. CLVII . No. 54,335 © 2008 The New York Times NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2008 $5 beyond the greater New York metropolitan area. $4.00 OIL PRICES RAISE Researchers CLINTON ENDS BID COST OF MAKING Fail to Reveal WITH CLEAR CALL Full Drug Pay RANGE OF GOODS TO ELECT OBAMA Possible Conflicts Seen HARD CHOICES ALL OVER in Child Psychiatry ROUSING ENDORSEMENT As Profits Suffer, Prices By GARDINER HARRIS Making Plea to Women and BENEDICT CAREY Rise and Workers’ A world-renowned Harvard and Reflecting on a Hours Are Cut child psychiatrist whose work Milestone Race has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at By LOUIS UCHITELLE By ADAM NAGOURNEY least $1.6 million in consulting and MARK LEIBOVICH Surging oil prices are begin- fees from drug makers from 2000 ning to cut into the profits of a to 2007 but for years did not re- WASHINGTON — Senator Hil- wide range of American busi- port much of this income to uni- lary Rodham Clinton brought her nesses, pushing many to raise versity officials, according to in- campaign for the White House to prices and maneuver aggressive- formation given Congressional an end on Saturday with a rous- ly to offset the rising cost of mer- investigators. ing farewell to thousands of sup- chandise made from petroleum. By failing to report income, the porters here and an emotional Airlines, package shippers and psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Bieder- and unequivocal call for her vot- car owners are no longer the only man, and a colleague in the psy- ers to get behind Senator Barack ones being squeezed by the ever- Obama, the man who defeated chiatry department at Harvard mounting price of oil, which shot her for the Democratic nomina- Medical School, Dr. Timothy E. up almost $11 a barrel on Friday tion. Wilens, may have violated fed- alone, to $138.54, a record. For 28 minutes, standing alone eral and university research Companies that make hard on a stage in the historic National rules designed to police potential goods using raw materials de- Building Museum, Mrs. Clinton rived from oil, like tires, toilet- conflicts of interest, according to spoke not only about the impor- ries, plastic packaging and com- Senator Charles E. Grassley, Re- tance of electing Mr. Obama, but puter screens, are watching their publican of Iowa. Some of their also about the extent to which costs skyrocket, and they find research is financed by govern- her campaign was a milestone for themselves forced into unpleas- ment grants. women. She urged women who ant choices: Should they raise Like Dr. Biederman, Dr. Wilens had supported her — who had prices, shift to less costly pro- belatedly reported earning at turned out at her headquarters, cedures, cut workers, or all least $1.6 million from 2000 to flocked to her rallies and poured three? 2007, and another Harvard col- into the polls to vote for her — The Goodyear Tire and Rubber league, Dr. Thomas Spencer, re- not to take the wrong lesson from Company is trying to adapt. Its ported earning at least $1 million her loss. raw material of choice now is nat- after being pressed by Mr. Grass- “You can be so proud that, ural rubber rather than synthetic ley’s investigators. But even from now on, it will be unremark- rubber, made from oil. To sustain these amended disclosures may able for a woman to win primary profits, it is making more high- understate the researchers’ out- state victories, unremarkable to end tires for consumers willing to side income because some en- have a woman in a close race to pay upwards of $100 to replace tries contradict payment infor- be our nominee, unremarkable to each tire on their cars. mation from drug makers, Mr. think that a woman can be the These steps have not been Grassley found. president of the United States,” enough, however, particularly she said. “To those who are dis- In one example, Dr. Biederman DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES now that the cost of natural rub- reported no income from John- appointed that we couldn’t go all ber is also rising sharply, along Hillary Rodham Clinton thanked voters for putting “about 18 million cracks” in the glass ceiling. son & Johnson for 2001 in a dis- of the way, especially the young with that of many other commod- closure report filed with the uni- people who put so much into this ities. So Goodyear has raised the versity. When asked to check campaign, it would break my prices of its tires by 15 percent in again, he said he received $3,500. heart if, in falling short of my just four months. goal, I in any way discouraged “Our strategy is to raise prices But Johnson & Johnson told Mr. The Long Road to a Clinton Exit Grassley that it paid him $58,169 any of you from pursuing yours.” and improve the mix to offset the At that point the cheers, mostly cost of raw materials,” said Keith in 2001, Mr. Grassley found. The Harvard group’s consult- from women, swelled so loud that Price, a Goodyear spokesman. Mrs. Clinton’s remaining words ing arrangements with drug Undone by Old Rivalries and a New-Style Opponent “No one has predicted how long could not be heard. makers were already controver- we can continue to do that.” Mrs. Clinton first mentioned sial because of the researchers’ The sense that many compa- By PETER BAKER math. All she had left was the Mr. Obama seven minutes into advocacy of unapproved uses of CAMPAIGN COLLAPSE nies may be hitting a wall is pal- and JIM RUTENBERG perception of momentum, and her speech. But when she did, psychiatric medicines in chil- pable. Corporate profits peaked WASHINGTON — By the time When Destiny Failed suddenly, that was gone. she swept away any doubt — cre- dren. last spring and have shrunk since the campaign tracked down the Hers was a campaign of des- ated by her speech on Tuesday then, Moody’s Economy.com re- In an e-mailed statement, Dr. tiny that fell achingly short, gar- night, when he claimed the nomi- small-city Indiana mayor, Bill the background. “It’s not very Continued on Page 24 Continued on Page 32 Clinton was in a lather. Senator nering nearly 18 million votes in nation — that she was ready to often you basically have a former her quest to become the first Hillary Rodham Clinton had lost Continued on Page 31 president yelling at you to get the woman to hold the presidency. the North Carolina primary that numbers out,” he recalled. evening and was eager to offset it “Although we weren’t able to The yelling was for naught. Mr. shatter that highest, hardest ceil- with a win in Indiana. But a vote- McDermott said he had no con- THE 2008 CAMPAIGN counting delay in one county ing this time, thanks to you, it’s trol over the vote count and, in got about 18 million cracks in it,” threatened to rob her of a prime- OBAMA STRATEGY Barack Oba- the end, the late results cemented Mrs. Clinton said as she ended time victory speech. ma’s plan calls for broadening the a negative narrative for an her campaign on Saturday. The Clinton campaign called a evening dominated by the North electoral map by challenging Yet while she emphasized its supporter for help. “I’ve got an Carolina defeat with little atten- John McCain in typically Republi- trailblazing nature as she exited angry president here and a can- tion focused on the eventual Indi- can states, aides said. PAGE 28 the race, her campaign also rep- didate who wants to know wheth- ana victory. The night of May 6 resented a back-to-the-future ef- er or not she won,” a local cam- became the moment that Mrs. COLOR TEST Blacks in politics, fort to restore the Democratic dy- paign representative told the Clinton’s desperate comeback bid business and beyond often find nasty of the 1990s that could nev- mayor, Thomas McDermott Jr. of for the Democratic presidential that to win over whites, they must Hammond, Ind. Mr. McDermott nomination finally crashed er quite escape the past. Al- play down race and keep the com- could hear Mr. Clinton railing in against the reality of delegate Continued on Page 30 fort level high. WEEK IN REVIEW For Studies in English, Koreans Learn to Say Goodbye to Dad By NORIMITSU ONISHI AUCKLAND, New Zealand — seas while the fathers live and On a sunny afternoon recently, work in South Korea, flying over half a dozen South Korean moth- to visit a couple of times a year. ers came to pick up their children Driven by a shared dissatisfac- at the Remuera Primary School tion with South Korea’s rigid edu- here, greeting one another warm- cational system, parents in rap- ly in a schoolyard filled with New idly expanding numbers are Zealanders. seeking to give their children an The mothers, members of the edge by helping them become flu- largest group of foreigners at the ent in English while sparing public school, were part of what them, and themselves, the stress are known in South Korea as of South Korea’s notorious educa- CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES “wild geese,” families living sep- tional pressure cooker.