Monday, 20 October 2014

Just propaganda. In China, real corruption and crimes are protected from government

Today's Headlines

Monday, October 20, 2014

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Top News

Presumed Guilty in China's War on Corruption, Targets Suffer Abuses

By ANDREW JACOBS and CHRIS BUCKLEY

China is in the midst of a scorching campaign against government corruption, but its system of investigation often operates in secret and beyond the law, leading to abuses suffered by the officials being targeted.

Julian Goldberg, who owns an Army goods store in Louisville, Ky., said several acquaintances had urged him to start selling protective gear along with other items.

Fear of Ebola Closes Schools and Shapes Politics

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

Within the escalating debate over how to manage potential threats to public health, the line between vigilance and hysteria can be blurry.

The team's coach, George Najjar, during a game in 2011.

Football Players in Sayreville, N.J., Recall Hazing

By NATE SCHWEBER, KIM BARKER and JASON GRANT

The investigation may be complicated by conflicting accounts from witnesses and some of the freshman football players targeted by older members of the Sayreville War Memorial High School team.

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Editors' Picks

U.S. | RETRO REPORT

The Cost of Campaigns

By CLYDE HABERMAN

The Watergate campaign finance scandals led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Forty years later, some say the scandal isn't what is illegal, it's what is legal.

Video: The Cost of Campaigns

OPINION | ROOM FOR DEBATE

The Necessity of Checking the 'Sex' Box

Why should the government care whether you are male, female or other?

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"It's like quitting smoking and drinking. Can you stop smoking or drinking just like that?"

WANG QISHAN, who oversees the Chinese ruling party's anticorruption agency, on changing the habits of corrupt officials.

Today's Video

VIDEO: To Kill a Sparrow

In Afghanistan, thousands of young women have been imprisoned for so-called moral crimes - including running away from unlawful forced marriages. This is one woman's story.

VIDEO: Bill Cunningham | Chanel's Paris Show

If you were to attend only one fashion show in Paris, it would have to be Chanel.

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World

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

In Homeland, Liberia Native Finds Resilience Amid Horror

By HELENE COOPER

Long before Ebola arrived, the people of Liberia endured 14 years of civil war. When it finally ended in 2003, what was left was a nation of survivors.

Historic Loss May Follow Rise of Rents in Barcelona

By RAPHAEL MINDER

After 20 years' warning of an impending rent increase, there is 11th-hour resistance to small shops' being pushed from historic districts by an inundation of international brands.

Obama Sees an Iran Deal That Could Avoid Congress

By DAVID E. SANGER

The Iranians have signaled that they would accept a "suspension" of the stringent sanctions that have cut their oil revenues and terminated their banking relationships with the West.

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U.S.

At Summa Akron City Hospital, Sheri Eichorn, left, and Debbi Anders, both nurses, practiced their responses to an Ebola threat in Akron, Ohio.

Dozens Declared Free of Ebola Risk in Texas

By MANNY FERNANDEZ and KEVIN SACK

The 21-day monitoring period ended for nearly everyone who had contact with the country's first Ebola fatality, as the Pentagon said it would form a 30-person military medical team.

Life in Quarantine for Ebola Exposure: 21 Days of Fear and Loathing

Robots drew a crowd Saturday at the national convention of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. in Salt Lake City. The organization has moved to put a greater focus on technology.

Girl Scouts Debate Their Place in a Changing World

By JENNIFER DOBNER

The organization has spent years moving away from its roots in camping and crafts to embrace more modern-day themes. Now some are pushing for a return to tradition.

Cooling towers rise above two adjacent nuclear reactors, Watts Barr 1 and 2. Construction on the second was suspended in 1988 and resumed in 2007.

In Tennessee, Time Comes for a Nuclear Plant Four Decades in the Making

By MATTHEW L. WALD

Electricity demand has not met projections, but the cost of upgrading coal-burning plants makes this an opportune moment for the reactor to arrive.

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Business

Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Fed, has expressed caution on the timing of any interest rate increase.

Volatility Unlikely to Alter Fed's Policy Course

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

The Federal Reserve still plans to wrap up its bond-buying campaign at the end of October and remains likely to raise interest rates in mid-2015, although it now seems less likely to act sooner, analysts say.

Daniel E. Pinto, the chief of JPMorgan's investment bank, is pushing further into automated trading.

DEALBOOK

Shouts on Bond-Trading Floor Yield to Robot Beeps

By NATHANIEL POPPER

JPMorgan Chase is moving more of its bond trading to electronic platforms, following a trend on Wall Street in stock trading, which was transformed by automation years ago.

Hackers targeted the phone system at Bob Foreman's architecture firm in Georgia, making $166,000 in calls in a weekend.

Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions

By NICOLE PERLROTH

A phone fraud on the rise and aided by Internet-connected phone systems can lead to six-figure bills for businesses.

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Sports

On San Francisco's side, clockwise from top left: third baseman Pablo Sandoval; Matt Duffy's bat knob, featuring a tribute to

Royals and Giants Make It a Wild-Card World Series

By TYLER KEPNER

The World Series will feature two wild-card teams, San Francisco and Kansas City, for the first time since 2002, when the Giants were also involved. But the similarities end there.

Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (9) after DeMarco Murray's 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.

COWBOYS 31, GIANTS 21

Turnovers Catch Up to Giants as Cowboys Break Away

By BILL PENNINGTON

The Giants, embarrassed last week, showed a renewed sense of vitality and proficiency, but the Cowboys scored two second-half touchdowns to escape with a hard-earned victory.

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston during the Seminoles' 31-27 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday in Tallahassee.

SPORTS OF THE TIMES

Florida State's Jameis Winston Performs Admirably Under Scrutiny, at Least on the Field

By WILLIAM C. RHODEN

Winston appeared unflappable in leading Florida State to a come-from-behind win over Notre Dame on Saturday, but he has not demonstrated the same maturity on campus.

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Arts

The ballerina Wendy Whelan at the curtain call following her farewell performance with New York City Ballet on Saturday night.

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

A Loving, Lingering Farewell Embrace

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

Wendy Whelan gave her final performances with New York City Ballet after a 30-year career that created roles for some of the most notable ballets of the 21st century.