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VOL. CLXII ... No. 56,249 © 2013 The New York Times WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 U(DF463D)X+@!]!%!#!% This article is by Mark Landler, Michael R. Gordon and Thom Shanker. WASHINGTON — President Obama won the support on Tues- day of Republican and Democrat- ic leaders in the House for an at- tack on Syria, giving him a foun- dation to win broader approval for military action from a Con- gress that still harbors deep res- ervations. Speaker John A. Boehner, who with other Congressional leaders met Mr. Obama in the Oval Of- fice, said afterward that he would “support the president’s call to action,” an endorsement quickly echoed by the House majority leader, Representative Eric Can- tor of Virginia. On Tuesday evening, Demo- crats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee agreed on the wording of a resolution that would give Mr. Obama the authority to carry out a strike against Syria, for a peri- od of 60 days, with one 30-day ex- tension. A committee vote on the measure could come as early as Wednesday. Uncertainties abound, partic- ularly in the House, where the imprimatur of the Republican leadership does not guarantee approval by rebellious rank and file, and where vocal factions in both parties are opposed to any- thing that could entangle the na- tion in another messy conflict in the Middle East. Still, the expressions of sup- port from top Republicans who HOUSE’S LEADERS EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR SYRIA STRIKE OBAMA GAINS TRACTION Senate Panel Agrees on Wording of Measure to Permit Action Continued on Page A10 By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and BEN HUBBARD President Bashar al-Assad of Syria appeared to be in a jovial mood late last week, even while facing a threatened American at- tack, joking with a visiting Yem- eni delegation about the political mess in nearby Egypt and derid- ing his regional rivals as “half men.” Damascus was tense — streets deadly quiet, residents stockpil- ing food, wives and children of the elite sent hastily abroad. But Mr. Assad kept up appearances, greeting visitors at the entrance to the boxy white presidential palace atop a hill or to his small personal office in a wooded glen nearby. “He is not hiding,” a Syri- an journalist noted. That has been his strategy, echoed in the public activities of his glamorous wife, Asma, since the March 2011 beginning of the conflict — to act as if nothing un- toward is happening, as if the gory civil war that has laid waste to Syria is taking place in a differ- ent realm. Mrs. Assad, rail thin, was even photographed recently wearing a trendy fitness band on her wrist. “He doesn’t give the impres- sion that he is bloodthirsty or that he’s a man of war,” said Talal Salman, the editor of Al-Safir newspaper in Beirut, who was once close to the Syrian leader but broke with him early over the bloody crackdown against peace- ful protesters. “He does not give the sense that he’s going to bat- Assad Wages War Shielded With a Smile Public Activities Mask Increased Aggression Continued on Page A10 Try one of these techniques if you want better service in restau- rants: 1. Become very famous; 2. Spend $1,000 or more on wine every time you go out; 3. Keep going to the same res- taurant until you get V.I.P. treat- ment; if that doesn’t work, pick another place. Now, here is a technique that is guaranteed to have no effect on your service: leave a generous tip. I’ve tipped slightly above the average for years, generally leav- ing 20 percent of the total, no matter what. According to one study, lots of people are just like me, sticking with a reasonable percentage through good nights and bad. And it doesn’t do us any good, because servers have no way of telling that we aren’t the hated type that leaves 10 percent of the pretax total, beverages ex- cluded. Some servers do try to sniff out stingy tippers, engaging in cus- tomer profiling based on national origin, age, race, gender and oth- er traits. (The profiling appears to run both ways: another study showed that customers tended to leave smaller tips for black serv- ers.) I could go on against tipping, but let’s leave it at this: it is ir- rational, outdated, ineffective, confusing, prone to abuse and sometimes discriminatory. The people who take care of us in res- taurants deserve a better system, and so do we. That’s one reason we pay at- tention when a restaurant tries another way, as Sushi Yasuda in Manhattan started to do two months ago. Raising most of its prices, it appended this note to credit card slips: “Following the custom in Japan, Sushi Yasuda’s service staff are fully compensat- ed by their salary. Therefore gra- tuities are not accepted.” Sushi Yasuda joins other res- Leaving a Tip: A Custom in Need of Changing? Continued on Page A3 PETE WELLS CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK HARRY CAMPBELL By LAURIE GOODSTEIN LOS ANGELES — The Ameri- can bar mitzvah, facing derision for Las Vegas style excess, is about to get a full makeover, but for an entirely different reason. Families have been treating this rite of passage not as an en- try to Jewish life, but as a gradua- tion ceremony: turn 13, read from the Torah, have a party and it’s over. Many leave synagogue until they have children of their own, and many never return at all — a cycle that Jewish leaders say has been undermining organized Ju- daism for generations. As Jews celebrate the new year Wednesday night, leaders in the largest branch of Judaism, the Reform movement, are start- ing an initiative to stop the attri- tion by reinventing the entire bar and bat mitzvah process. Thirteen Reform congrega- tions across the nation have vol- unteered to pilot the change, and Bar Mitzvahs Get New Look To Build Faith Continued on Page A13 By NICK WINGFIELD SEATTLE — With its purchase of Nokia’s phone business, Micro- soft is taking inspiration from Ap- ple’s way of making products, bringing hardware and software under a single roof where they can be more elegantly woven to- gether. But Microsoft already bears a striking resemblance to Apple — the Apple of two decades ago, not the trailblazer of the mobile era. The $7.2 billion Nokia deal, which was reached late Monday, is un- likely to change that and catapult Microsoft up the ranks in the smartphone market. That is because Microsoft, with its Windows phone operating system, is stuck in third place in that market, where all the oxy- gen has been drained by more es- tablished players. Apple and Google have won the hearts and minds of develop- ers, who design the apps that lure consumers to their devices, while Samsung is the dominant maker of mobile phones, most of which run Google’s Android operating system. Even though Microsoft’s and Nokia’s products have won praise for their quality, they have arrived late. “What matters is not the phone per se but a dynamic app and services ecosystem,” said Brad Silverberg, a former senior Microsoft executive who is now a venture capitalist in the Seattle area. Microsoft’s predicament is a flashback to the situation Apple found itself in during the early 1990s. At that time, Apple argu- ably had a superior computer product, the Macintosh, but it In Nokia, Microsoft Bets on Apple-Like Revival Continued on Page B4 The Dining section looks ahead to the tastes and trends on New York menus this fall. Section D. A New Restaurant Season JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Traffic on the new section Tuesday, 24 years after an earthquake damaged the old one, at right. A New Span for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Underground frozen wall Pipes will carry liquid coolant into the ground, freezing the soil to create a barrier to prevent groundwater from being contaminated. Attempts T o Control Contamination By Radioactivity In Fukushima Source: Tokyo Electric Power Company Impermeable sea wall A sea wall scheduled for completion in one year will attempt to prevent contaminated water from flowing into the ocean. Water tanks Since the disaster in March 2011, hundreds of tanks have been built behind the plant to hold contaminated water. Last month, Tepco said 300 tons of water had leaked from one of them. Reactor 4 Plans call for the removal of spent fuel rods from Reactor 4’s building. 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Yet, every time it rains, more radioactive contamination cascades down the forested hillsides along the rugged coast. Nearby, thousands of workers and a small fleet of cranes are preparing for one of the latest ef- forts to avoid a deepening envi- ronmental disaster that has Chi- na and other neighbors increas- ingly worried: removing spent fuel rods from the damaged No. 4 reactor building and storing them in a safer place. The government announced on Tuesday that it would spend $500 million on new steps to stabilize the plant, including an even big- ger project: the construction of a frozen wall to block a flood of groundwater into the contami- nated buildings. The government is taking control of the cleanup from the plant’s operator, the To- kyo Electric Power Company. The triple meltdown at Fukushima in 2011 is already con- sidered the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The new efforts, as risky and tech- nically complex as they are ex- pensive, were developed in re- sponse to a series of accidents, miscalculations and delays that have plagued the cleanup effort, making a mockery of the authori- ties’ early vows to “return the site to an empty field” and lead- ing to the release of enormous quantities of contaminated water. As the environmental damage around the plant and in the ocean nearby continues to accumulate more than two years after the disaster, analysts are beginning to question whether the govern- ment and the plant’s operator, known as Tepco, have the ex- pertise and ability to manage such a complex crisis. In the past, they say, Tepco has resorted to technological quick fixes that have failed to control the crisis, further damaged Ja- pan’s flagging credibility and only deflected hard decisions into the future. Some critics said the government’s new proposals of- fer just more of the same. “Japan is clearly living in deni- al,” said Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a medical doctor who led Parlia- ment’s independent investigation last year into the causes of the nuclear accident. “Water keeps building up inside the plant, and debris keeps piling up outside of it. This is all just one big shell game aimed at pushing off the Errors Cast Doubt on Japan’s Nuclear Cleanup Continued on Page A8 Intelligence estimates in the West differ on Syria, but in the end not significantly. Page A11. Allies’ Bottom Line Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and other members of his family are quietly but forcefully gearing up to promote a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigra- tion laws. PAGE A12 NATIONAL A12-14 Protecting a Bush Legacy The growing Kontinental Hockey League has teams in eight nations, from Central Europe to Asia. Teams have the support of Russia’s industrial giants and the Kremlin. PAGE B10 SPORTSWEDNESDAY B10-14 Hockey League Flexes Muscles The science fiction writer and editor took a decidedly anti-utopian stance in much of his work. PAGE B15 OBITUARIES B14-15 Frederik Pohl Dies at 93 The proximity of Labor Day and Rosh Hashana this year delayed the start of school and disrupted families. PAGE A15 NEW YORK A15-17 An Extra Week of Vacation The government stepped up its use of trials to jail supporters of the ousted president, and banned four networks considered sympathetic to him. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-11 Egypt Tightens Reins Government budget cuts and a break- down in the budgeting process have left agencies wondering how much money they will get in the year ahead. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-9 Washington Guessing Game The alternative rock band, now in its second life, is finally giving fans a new album — or four songs of what will eventually add up to its first new album in 22 years. The departure of the bassist Kim Deal means the Pixies must partly reinvent themselves yet again. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-6 Fresh Music From the Pixies A review panel has found that the State Department’s diplomatic security office must be made a higher priority. PAGE A4 Safety for Diplomats Even as the economy rebounds in Ger- many, its prosperity is not being shared by the rest of Europe. PAGE B1 Missing Out on German Gains Maureen Dowd PAGE A19 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A18-19
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VOL. CLXII . . . No. 56,249 © 2013 The New York Times WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
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This article is by Mark Landler,Michael R. Gordon and ThomShanker.
WASHINGTON — PresidentObama won the support on Tues-day of Republican and Democrat-ic leaders in the House for an at-tack on Syria, giving him a foun-dation to win broader approvalfor military action from a Con-gress that still harbors deep res-ervations.
Speaker John A. Boehner, whowith other Congressional leadersmet Mr. Obama in the Oval Of-fice, said afterward that he would“support the president’s call toaction,” an endorsement quicklyechoed by the House majorityleader, Representative Eric Can-tor of Virginia.
On Tuesday evening, Demo-crats and Republicans on theSenate Foreign Relations Com-mittee agreed on the wording of aresolution that would give Mr.Obama the authority to carry outa strike against Syria, for a peri-od of 60 days, with one 30-day ex-tension. A committee vote on themeasure could come as early asWednesday.
Uncertainties abound, partic-ularly in the House, where theimprimatur of the Republicanleadership does not guaranteeapproval by rebellious rank andfile, and where vocal factions inboth parties are opposed to any-thing that could entangle the na-tion in another messy conflict inthe Middle East.
Still, the expressions of sup-port from top Republicans who
HOUSE’S LEADERS EXPRESS SUPPORTFOR SYRIA STRIKE
OBAMA GAINS TRACTION
Senate Panel Agrees on
Wording of Measure
to Permit Action
Continued on Page A10
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and BEN HUBBARD
President Bashar al-Assad ofSyria appeared to be in a jovialmood late last week, even whilefacing a threatened American at-tack, joking with a visiting Yem-eni delegation about the politicalmess in nearby Egypt and derid-ing his regional rivals as “halfmen.”
Damascus was tense — streetsdeadly quiet, residents stockpil-ing food, wives and children ofthe elite sent hastily abroad. ButMr. Assad kept up appearances,greeting visitors at the entranceto the boxy white presidentialpalace atop a hill or to his smallpersonal office in a wooded glennearby. “He is not hiding,” a Syri-an journalist noted.
That has been his strategy,echoed in the public activities ofhis glamorous wife, Asma, sincethe March 2011 beginning of theconflict — to act as if nothing un-toward is happening, as if thegory civil war that has laid wasteto Syria is taking place in a differ-ent realm. Mrs. Assad, rail thin,was even photographed recentlywearing a trendy fitness band onher wrist.
“He doesn’t give the impres-sion that he is bloodthirsty orthat he’s a man of war,” said TalalSalman, the editor of Al-Safirnewspaper in Beirut, who wasonce close to the Syrian leaderbut broke with him early over thebloody crackdown against peace-ful protesters. “He does not givethe sense that he’s going to bat-
Assad WagesWar Shielded
With a Smile
Public Activities Mask
Increased Aggression
Continued on Page A10
Try one of these techniques ifyou want better service in restau-rants:
1. Become very famous;2. Spend $1,000 or more on
wine every time you go out;3. Keep going to the same res-
taurant until you get V.I.P. treat-ment; if that doesn’twork, pick anotherplace.
Now, here is atechnique that isguaranteed to haveno effect on your
service: leave a generous tip.I’ve tipped slightly above the
average for years, generally leav-ing 20 percent of the total, nomatter what. According to onestudy, lots of people are just likeme, sticking with a reasonablepercentage through good nightsand bad. And it doesn’t do us anygood, because servers have noway of telling that we aren’t thehated type that leaves 10 percent
of the pretax total, beverages ex-cluded.
Some servers do try to sniff outstingy tippers, engaging in cus-tomer profiling based on nationalorigin, age, race, gender and oth-er traits. (The profiling appearsto run both ways: another studyshowed that customers tended toleave smaller tips for black serv-ers.)
I could go on against tipping,
but let’s leave it at this: it is ir-rational, outdated, ineffective,confusing, prone to abuse andsometimes discriminatory. Thepeople who take care of us in res-taurants deserve a better system,and so do we.
That’s one reason we pay at-tention when a restaurant triesanother way, as Sushi Yasuda inManhattan started to do twomonths ago. Raising most of itsprices, it appended this note tocredit card slips: “Following thecustom in Japan, Sushi Yasuda’sservice staff are fully compensat-ed by their salary. Therefore gra-tuities are not accepted.”
Sushi Yasuda joins other res-
Leaving a Tip: A Custom in Need of Changing?
Continued on Page A3
PETEWELLS
CRITIC’SNOTEBOOK HARRY CAMPBELL
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
LOS ANGELES — The Ameri-can bar mitzvah, facing derisionfor Las Vegas style excess, isabout to get a full makeover, butfor an entirely different reason.
Families have been treatingthis rite of passage not as an en-try to Jewish life, but as a gradua-tion ceremony: turn 13, read fromthe Torah, have a party and it’sover. Many leave synagogue untilthey have children of their own,and many never return at all — acycle that Jewish leaders say hasbeen undermining organized Ju-daism for generations.
As Jews celebrate the newyear Wednesday night, leaders inthe largest branch of Judaism,the Reform movement, are start-ing an initiative to stop the attri-tion by reinventing the entire barand bat mitzvah process.
Thirteen Reform congrega-tions across the nation have vol-unteered to pilot the change, and
Bar Mitzvahs
Get New Look
To Build Faith
Continued on Page A13
By NICK WINGFIELD
SEATTLE — With its purchaseof Nokia’s phone business, Micro-soft is taking inspiration from Ap-ple’s way of making products,bringing hardware and softwareunder a single roof where theycan be more elegantly woven to-gether.
But Microsoft already bears astriking resemblance to Apple —the Apple of two decades ago, notthe trailblazer of the mobile era.The $7.2 billion Nokia deal, whichwas reached late Monday, is un-
likely to change that and catapultMicrosoft up the ranks in thesmartphone market.
That is because Microsoft, withits Windows phone operatingsystem, is stuck in third place inthat market, where all the oxy-gen has been drained by more es-tablished players.
Apple and Google have wonthe hearts and minds of develop-ers, who design the apps that lureconsumers to their devices, whileSamsung is the dominant makerof mobile phones, most of whichrun Google’s Android operatingsystem. Even though Microsoft’s
and Nokia’s products have wonpraise for their quality, they havearrived late.
“What matters is not the phoneper se but a dynamic app andservices ecosystem,” said BradSilverberg, a former seniorMicrosoft executive who is now aventure capitalist in the Seattlearea.
Microsoft’s predicament is aflashback to the situation Applefound itself in during the early1990s. At that time, Apple argu-ably had a superior computerproduct, the Macintosh, but it
In Nokia, Microsoft Bets on Apple-Like Revival
Continued on Page B4
The Dining section looks aheadto the tastes and trends on NewYork menus this fall. Section D.
A New Restaurant Season
JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Traffic on the new section Tuesday, 24 years after an earthquake damaged the old one, at right.
A New Span for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Underground frozen wall
Pipes will carry liquid
coolant into the ground,
freezing the soil to create a
barrier to prevent
groundwater from being
contaminated.
AttemptsTo ControlContaminationBy RadioactivityIn Fukushima
Source: Tokyo Electric Power Company
Impermeable sea wall
A sea wall scheduled for
completion in one year will
attempt to prevent
contaminated water from
flowing into the ocean.
Water tanks Since the disaster in
March 2011, hundreds of tanks have
been built behind the plant to hold
contaminated water. Last month,
Tepco said 300 tons of water had
leaked from one of them.
Reactor 4
Plans call for the
removal of spent
fuel rods from
Reactor 4’s
building.
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NARAHA, Japan — In thissmall farming town in the evacu-ation zone surrounding thestricken Fukushima Daiichi nu-clear power plant, small armiesof workers in surgical masks andrubber gloves are busily scrapingoff radioactive topsoil in a des-perate attempt to fulfill the cen-tral government’s vow one day toallow most of Japan’s 83,000evacuees to return. Yet, everytime it rains, more radioactivecontamination cascades downthe forested hillsides along therugged coast.
Nearby, thousands of workersand a small fleet of cranes arepreparing for one of the latest ef-forts to avoid a deepening envi-ronmental disaster that has Chi-na and other neighbors increas-ingly worried: removing spentfuel rods from the damaged No. 4reactor building and storingthem in a safer place.
The government announced onTuesday that it would spend $500million on new steps to stabilizethe plant, including an even big-ger project: the construction of afrozen wall to block a flood ofgroundwater into the contami-
nated buildings. The governmentis taking control of the cleanupfrom the plant’s operator, the To-kyo Electric Power Company.
The triple meltdown atFukushima in 2011 is already con-sidered the world’s worst nuclearaccident since Chernobyl. Thenew efforts, as risky and tech-nically complex as they are ex-pensive, were developed in re-sponse to a series of accidents,miscalculations and delays thathave plagued the cleanup effort,making a mockery of the authori-ties’ early vows to “return thesite to an empty field” and lead-ing to the release of enormousquantities of contaminated water.
As the environmental damagearound the plant and in the oceannearby continues to accumulatemore than two years after thedisaster, analysts are beginningto question whether the govern-ment and the plant’s operator,known as Tepco, have the ex-pertise and ability to managesuch a complex crisis.
In the past, they say, Tepco hasresorted to technological quickfixes that have failed to controlthe crisis, further damaged Ja-pan’s flagging credibility andonly deflected hard decisions intothe future. Some critics said the
government’s new proposals of-fer just more of the same.
“Japan is clearly living in deni-al,” said Kiyoshi Kurokawa, amedical doctor who led Parlia-ment’s independent investigationlast year into the causes of thenuclear accident. “Water keepsbuilding up inside the plant, anddebris keeps piling up outside ofit. This is all just one big shellgame aimed at pushing off the
Errors Cast Doubt on Japan’s Nuclear Cleanup
Continued on Page A8
Intelligence estimates in theWest differ on Syria, but in theend not significantly. Page A11.
Allies’ Bottom Line
Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida andother members of his family are quietlybut forcefully gearing up to promote abroad overhaul of the nation’s immigra-tion laws. PAGE A12
NATIONAL A12-14
Protecting a Bush LegacyThe growing Kontinental HockeyLeague has teams in eight nations, fromCentral Europe to Asia. Teams have thesupport of Russia’s industrial giants andthe Kremlin. PAGE B10
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B10-14
Hockey League Flexes Muscles
The science fiction writer and editortook a decidedly anti-utopian stance inmuch of his work. PAGE B15
OBITUARIES B14-15
Frederik Pohl Dies at 93The proximity of Labor Day and RoshHashana this year delayed the start ofschool and disrupted families. PAGE A15
NEW YORK A15-17
An Extra Week of Vacation
The government stepped up its use oftrials to jail supporters of the oustedpresident, and banned four networksconsidered sympathetic to him. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-11
Egypt Tightens ReinsGovernment budget cuts and a break-down in the budgeting process have leftagencies wondering how much moneythey will get in the year ahead. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-9
Washington Guessing GameThe alternative rock band, now in itssecond life, is finally giving fans a newalbum — or four songs of what willeventually add up to its first new albumin 22 years. The departure of the bassistKim Deal means the Pixies must partlyreinvent themselves yet again. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
Fresh Music From the Pixies
A review panel has found that the StateDepartment’s diplomatic security officemust be made a higher priority. PAGE A4
Safety for DiplomatsEven as the economy rebounds in Ger-many, its prosperity is not being sharedby the rest of Europe. PAGE B1
Missing Out on German Gains
Maureen Dowd PAGE A19
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A18-19
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