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VOL. CLXIII ... No. 56,471 © 2014 The New York Times NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014 Late Edition Today, mostly cloudy skies, breezy, warm, high 72. Tonight, plenty of clouds, some rain, low 57. Tomor- row, rain showers, breezy, cooler, high 63. Weather map, Page C8. $2.50 By JUSTIN GILLIS BERLIN — Delivering the lat- est stark news about climate change on Sunday, a United Na- tions panel warned that govern- ments are not doing enough to avert profound risks in coming decades. But the experts found a silver lining: Not only is there still time to head off the worst, but the political will to do so seems to be rising around the world. In a report unveiled here, the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli- mate Change found that decades of foot-dragging by political lead- ers had propelled humanity into a critical situation, with green- house emissions rising faster than ever. Though it remains technically possible to keep plan- etary warming to a tolerable lev- el, only an intensive push over the next 15 years to bring those emissions under control can achieve the goal, the committee found. “We cannot afford to lose an- other decade,” said Ottmar Eden- hofer, a German economist and co-chairman of the committee that wrote the report. “If we lose another decade, it becomes ex- tremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.” The good news is that ambi- tious action is becoming more af- fordable, the committee found. It is increasingly clear that meas- ures like tougher building codes and efficiency standards for cars and trucks can save energy and reduce emissions without harm- ing people’s quality of life, the panel found. And the costs of re- newable energy like wind and so- lar power are falling so fast that its deployment on a large scale is becoming practical, the report CLIMATE EFFORTS FALLING SHORT, U.N. PANEL SAYS LOST TIME RAISES RISKS But Report Sees Increase in Nations’ Will to Fight Warming Continued on Page A7 By ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANDREW HIGGINS SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government on Sun- day for the first time sent its se- curity services to confront armed pro-Russian militants in the country’s east, defying warnings from Russia. Commandos en- gaged in gunfights with men who had set up roadblocks and stormed a Ukrainian police sta- tion in Slovyansk, and at least one officer was killed, Ukrainian officials said. Several officers were injured in the operation, as were four locals, the officials said. Russian news media and residents here disput- ed that account, saying the Ukrainian forces had only briefly engaged one checkpoint. In either case, the central gov- ernment in Kiev has turned to force to try to restore its author- ity in the east, a course of action that the Russian government has repeatedly warned against. With tens of thousands of Rus- sian troops massed along Ukraine’s eastern border near Donetsk, Western leaders have worried that Moscow might use unrest in Ukraine’s mainly Rus- sian-speaking areas as a pretext for an invasion. Both governments intensified their statements on Sunday. Ukraine’s interim president, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, issued another ultimatum, saying sepa- ratists should vacate occupied buildings by Monday or face a “large-scale antiterrorist opera- tion” that would include the Ukrainian military. And Russia claimed that the Ukrainian gov- ernment was cracking down at the behest of American and Euro- pean officials. Ukraine’s ousted president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, speaking late Sunday in Rostov-on-Don, in Russia, echoed Moscow’s charges of American meddling. Insisting that he remained Ukraine’s commander in chief Ukraine Forces Storm a Town, Defying Russia Armed Militants Are Confronted in East Continued on Page A8 U(D54G1D)y+=!.!=!#!& DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Lucy Baird, left, and Ali Berluti, both of Manhattan, posed after a crown-making class at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Sunday. Say Spring! By HELENE COOPER and THOM SHANKER WEST POINT, N.Y. — Col. Jeff Lieb, the deputy commandant of the United States Military Acad- emy and a veteran of the war in Iraq, paced before a group of ca- dets standing in formation and shouted at them about their lives after graduation. “I took a thousand kids to war, and I brought a thousand back,” Colonel Lieb told the eager, soon- to-be second lieutenants on a re- cent day. “Every time I deployed, I got out there and talked to my soldiers about safety. You’re go- ing to have to do the same thing.” Except these cadets probably will not — or at least not anytime soon. For the first time in 13 years, the best and the brightest of West Point’s graduating class will leave this peaceful Hudson River campus bound for what are likely to be equally peaceful tours of duty in the United States Army. “It started to hit home last year, when we started consider- ing what we really wanted to do, and realized that there’s a much more limited opportunity to de- ploy,” said Charles Yu, who is ma- joring in American politics and Chinese. Cadet Yu, who will grad- uate this spring, is going into mil- itary intelligence in South Korea, where he hopes to get experience helping to manage the long-run- ning conflict between North and South Korea. He will work at Camp Red Cloud near the demili- tarized zone, or, as he put it, “as close as you can get to the DMZ.” For Cadet Yu and the rest of the class of about 1,100 cadets, there may be few, if any, coveted combat patches on their uni- forms to show that they have gone to war. Many of them may not get the opportunity to one day recall stories of heroism in battle, or even the ordinary daily sacrifices — bad food, loneliness, fear — that bind soldiers together in shared combat experience. The end of the war in Iraq and the winding down of the war in Afghanistan mean that the grad- uates of the West Point class of 2014 will have a more difficult time advancing in a military in which combat experience, partic- ularly since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has been crucial to pro- motion. They are also very likely to find themselves in the awk- In New Officers’ Careers, Peace Is No Dividend SUZANNE DeCHILLO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Cadets in February at the West Point military academy. Continued on Page A3 By JASON HOROWITZ LUDLOW, Mass. — Eric Less- er was shaking hands with diners in a Portuguese restaurant last week when he spotted the owner of Manny’s TV & Appliances. “Oh, I’ve got to get a picture,” Mr. Lesser eagerly said, draping his arm over Manny Rovithis, whose low-budget commercials have run for decades in Western Mas- sachusetts. Mr. Lesser’s giddi- ness about meeting the local ce- lebrity had not faded when he sat down for lunch. “Awesome,” he said. Although Mr. Lesser spent much of the last six years in the company of President Obama and Washington hotshots, now, as an earnest, hug-prone 29-year- old candidate for the Massachu- setts State Senate, he is far more interested in people like Mr. Rovithis. Which is a good thing. Mr. Lesser, a former White House staff member, has re- turned home on the path Mr. Obama hoped to inspire many of his young supporters to follow when he said, “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” But if Mr. Lesser, who is on leave from Harvard Law School to run for office, is the face of the promised Obama political gener- Obama Effect Inspiring Few To Seek Office Continued on Page A13 By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE STONEHAM, Mass. — When two bombs transformed last year’s Boston Marathon into a war zone, the Norden family ab- sorbed a double dose of grief. J. P., 34, and his brother Paul, 32, both strapping construction workers in their prime who were there to cheer on a friend, each lost a leg in the carnage. Since then, they have slowly, achingly, been rebuilding their lives. After lengthy hospital stays and more than 50 surgeries be- tween them, they are walking on prosthetic legs. They talk of start- ing a roofing business together. Both have moved out of their mother’s house in this working- class suburb just north of Boston and are living with their girl- friends. Paul is engaged. The Nordens do not want to dwell on what happened at the marathon or be defined by it. But the approach of the first anniver- sary is pulling them in. The occa- sion has assumed enormous symbolic significance as the sur- vivors and Boston itself are de- termined to show their defiance and resilience. The formal ob- servance will stretch out for al- most a week starting on April 15, the date of last year’s bombings — which killed three people, wounded at least 260 and robbed 16 of various limbs — and con- tinuing through April 21, the date of this year’s marathon. Like many others, the Nordens have been overwhelmed by the attention the anniversary is drawing. Tributes, panel discus- sions, concerts, fund-raisers and Year After Boston Marathon Bombings, Injured Brothers Endure KATHERINE TAYLOR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Paul Norden, left, and his brother J.P. each lost a leg in the at- tack. They have had more than 50 surgeries between them. Continued on Page A14 By ALAN COWELL PRETORIA, South Africa — It was a corruption trial that had transfixed South Africa, and the prosecutor was in no mood for mercy. The defendant was the nation’s top police official, a fig- ure of such international stature that he had once led Interpol. But when he took the stand, his testi- mony — his wife, he said, had ac- cidentally shredded evidence — was rejected outright by his in- quisitor. “You know what this means?” the prosecutor said. “That you are arrogant and that you lie.” When the trial ended in 2010, the police commissioner, Jackie Selebi, was sentenced to 15 years, and the prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, had cemented a reputation for abrasive, in-your-face cross-ex- amination that earned him a new nickname: the pit bull. Now, Mr. Nel is focusing the same judicial laser on Oscar Pis- torius, the double-amputee sprinter charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, his girl- friend, in a trial that has riveted a much broader audience around the world. For the prosecutor’s admirers, the trial of Mr. Selebi — a turning point in post-apartheid South Af- rica — held other omens. During the investigation that preceded it, Mr. Nel, a prosecutor for more than three decades and a member of the country’s Afri- kaner minority, had been the re- gional leader of the Scorpions, an elite anti-crime unit of prosecu- tors and investigators. The group was embroiled in a bare-knuckles political duel with other police units backed by powerful forces within the leadership of the gov- erning African National Con- gress. In January 2008, 20 of those of- ficers burst into Mr. Nel’s home early one morning and arrested him in front of his family, taking him quickly off to prison on cor- ruption charges that were soon dropped — a highly unusual epi- Pistorius Versus the Pit Bull: Fierce Prosecutor Shares Stage KEVIN SUTHERLAND/REUTERS Gerrie Nel, the state prosecu- tor, in high court on Friday. Continued on Page A8 With a three-under-par 69, Bubba Wat- son held on to win the Masters for a sec- ond time, preventing Jordan Spieth, 20, from becoming the tournament’s young- est champion. PAGE D1 SPORTSMONDAY D1-8 A Second Win at Augusta Partial results from the Afghan presi- dential election have the candidates Ab- dullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani head- ing for a runoff. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-9 Runoff Likely in Afghanistan A roster of veteran television stars like Harry Hamlin (below left, with John Slattery) are remaking themselves with period clothing and hairstyles for recur- ring roles on “Mad Men.” PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 Retro Reinvention for Actors Marty Singer, one of the last workers displaced by the closing of J&R Music and Computer World, said goodbye to the company he had worked for since 1977. He was hired at 19, as a security guard, and over the decades worked his way up to become the corporate sales manager. The Working Life. PAGE A16 NEW YORK A16-20 An Employee’s Farewell Mirrors on a mountaintop reflect sun- light into a Norwegian town that spends six winter months in darkness. PAGE A6 Cheer for a Sun-Starved Town Suicide prevention organizations are starting to turn to a new source for help with counseling — people who tried to take their own lives. PAGE A11 Breaking a Silence on Suicide A known anti-Semite was arrested after three people were shot dead at Jewish centers near Kansas City. PAGE A12 Three Dead in Gun Rampage Paul Krugman PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 Venture capital firms are pouring huge sums of money into Silicon Valley start- ups already flush with cash. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 Start-Ups’ Cup Overflows Representative Vance McAllister of Louisiana, who campaigns on Christian values, is resisting calls for his resigna- tion after a video showed him kissing a female staff member. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-14 Calls for Lawmaker to Quit
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VOL. CLXIII . . . No. 56,471 © 2014 The New York Times NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014
Late EditionToday, mostly cloudy skies, breezy,warm, high 72. Tonight, plenty ofclouds, some rain, low 57. Tomor-row, rain showers, breezy, cooler,high 63. Weather map, Page C8.
$2.50
By JUSTIN GILLIS
BERLIN — Delivering the lat-est stark news about climatechange on Sunday, a United Na-tions panel warned that govern-ments are not doing enough toavert profound risks in comingdecades. But the experts found asilver lining: Not only is therestill time to head off the worst,but the political will to do soseems to be rising around theworld.
In a report unveiled here, theIntergovernmental Panel on Cli-mate Change found that decadesof foot-dragging by political lead-ers had propelled humanity into acritical situation, with green-house emissions rising fasterthan ever. Though it remainstechnically possible to keep plan-etary warming to a tolerable lev-el, only an intensive push overthe next 15 years to bring thoseemissions under control canachieve the goal, the committeefound.
“We cannot afford to lose an-other decade,” said Ottmar Eden-hofer, a German economist andco-chairman of the committeethat wrote the report. “If we loseanother decade, it becomes ex-tremely costly to achieve climatestabilization.”
The good news is that ambi-tious action is becoming more af-fordable, the committee found. Itis increasingly clear that meas-ures like tougher building codesand efficiency standards for carsand trucks can save energy andreduce emissions without harm-ing people’s quality of life, thepanel found. And the costs of re-newable energy like wind and so-lar power are falling so fast thatits deployment on a large scale isbecoming practical, the report
CLIMATE EFFORTSFALLING SHORT,
U.N. PANEL SAYS
LOST TIME RAISES RISKS
But Report Sees Increase
in Nations’ Will to
Fight Warming
Continued on Page A7
By ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANDREW HIGGINS
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — TheUkrainian government on Sun-day for the first time sent its se-curity services to confront armedpro-Russian militants in thecountry’s east, defying warningsfrom Russia. Commandos en-gaged in gunfights with men whohad set up roadblocks andstormed a Ukrainian police sta-tion in Slovyansk, and at leastone officer was killed, Ukrainianofficials said.
Several officers were injured inthe operation, as were four locals,the officials said. Russian newsmedia and residents here disput-ed that account, saying theUkrainian forces had only brieflyengaged one checkpoint.
In either case, the central gov-ernment in Kiev has turned toforce to try to restore its author-ity in the east, a course of actionthat the Russian government hasrepeatedly warned against.
With tens of thousands of Rus-sian troops massed alongUkraine’s eastern border nearDonetsk, Western leaders haveworried that Moscow might useunrest in Ukraine’s mainly Rus-sian-speaking areas as a pretextfor an invasion.
Both governments intensifiedtheir statements on Sunday.Ukraine’s interim president,Oleksandr V. Turchynov, issuedanother ultimatum, saying sepa-ratists should vacate occupiedbuildings by Monday or face a“large-scale antiterrorist opera-tion” that would include theUkrainian military. And Russiaclaimed that the Ukrainian gov-ernment was cracking down atthe behest of American and Euro-pean officials.
Ukraine’s ousted president,Viktor F. Yanukovych, speakinglate Sunday in Rostov-on-Don, inRussia, echoed Moscow’scharges of American meddling.
Insisting that he remainedUkraine’s commander in chief
Ukraine ForcesStorm a Town,Defying Russia
Armed Militants Are
Confronted in East
Continued on Page A8
U(D54G1D)y+=!.!=!#!&
DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Lucy Baird, left, and Ali Berluti, both of Manhattan, posed after a crown-making class at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Sunday.
Say Spring!
By HELENE COOPER and THOM SHANKER
WEST POINT, N.Y. — Col. JeffLieb, the deputy commandant ofthe United States Military Acad-emy and a veteran of the war inIraq, paced before a group of ca-dets standing in formation andshouted at them about their livesafter graduation.
“I took a thousand kids to war,and I brought a thousand back,”Colonel Lieb told the eager, soon-to-be second lieutenants on a re-cent day. “Every time I deployed,I got out there and talked to mysoldiers about safety. You’re go-ing to have to do the same thing.”
Except these cadets probablywill not — or at least not anytimesoon.
For the first time in 13 years,the best and the brightest of WestPoint’s graduating class willleave this peaceful Hudson Rivercampus bound for what are likelyto be equally peaceful tours ofduty in the United States Army.
“It started to hit home lastyear, when we started consider-ing what we really wanted to do,and realized that there’s a muchmore limited opportunity to de-ploy,” said Charles Yu, who is ma-joring in American politics andChinese. Cadet Yu, who will grad-uate this spring, is going into mil-itary intelligence in South Korea,where he hopes to get experiencehelping to manage the long-run-ning conflict between North andSouth Korea. He will work atCamp Red Cloud near the demili-
tarized zone, or, as he put it, “asclose as you can get to the DMZ.”
For Cadet Yu and the rest ofthe class of about 1,100 cadets,there may be few, if any, covetedcombat patches on their uni-forms to show that they havegone to war. Many of them maynot get the opportunity to oneday recall stories of heroism inbattle, or even the ordinary dailysacrifices — bad food, loneliness,fear — that bind soldiers together
in shared combat experience. The end of the war in Iraq and
the winding down of the war inAfghanistan mean that the grad-uates of the West Point class of2014 will have a more difficulttime advancing in a military inwhich combat experience, partic-ularly since the attacks of Sept.11, 2001, has been crucial to pro-motion. They are also very likelyto find themselves in the awk-
In New Officers’ Careers, Peace Is No Dividend
SUZANNE DeCHILLO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Cadets in February at the West Point military academy.
Continued on Page A3
By JASON HOROWITZ
LUDLOW, Mass. — Eric Less-er was shaking hands with dinersin a Portuguese restaurant lastweek when he spotted the ownerof Manny’s TV & Appliances.“Oh, I’ve got to get a picture,” Mr.Lesser eagerly said, draping hisarm over Manny Rovithis, whoselow-budget commercials haverun for decades in Western Mas-sachusetts. Mr. Lesser’s giddi-ness about meeting the local ce-lebrity had not faded when he satdown for lunch.
“Awesome,” he said.Although Mr. Lesser spent
much of the last six years in thecompany of President Obamaand Washington hotshots, now,as an earnest, hug-prone 29-year-old candidate for the Massachu-setts State Senate, he is far moreinterested in people like Mr.Rovithis. Which is a good thing.Mr. Lesser, a former WhiteHouse staff member, has re-turned home on the path Mr.Obama hoped to inspire many ofhis young supporters to followwhen he said, “We are the oneswe have been waiting for.”
But if Mr. Lesser, who is onleave from Harvard Law Schoolto run for office, is the face of thepromised Obama political gener-
Obama EffectInspiring FewTo Seek Office
Continued on Page A13
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
STONEHAM, Mass. — Whentwo bombs transformed lastyear’s Boston Marathon into awar zone, the Norden family ab-sorbed a double dose of grief.J. P., 34, and his brother Paul, 32,both strapping constructionworkers in their prime who werethere to cheer on a friend, eachlost a leg in the carnage.
Since then, they have slowly,achingly, been rebuilding theirlives. After lengthy hospital staysand more than 50 surgeries be-tween them, they are walking onprosthetic legs. They talk of start-ing a roofing business together.Both have moved out of theirmother’s house in this working-class suburb just north of Bostonand are living with their girl-friends. Paul is engaged.
The Nordens do not want todwell on what happened at themarathon or be defined by it. Butthe approach of the first anniver-sary is pulling them in. The occa-sion has assumed enormoussymbolic significance as the sur-vivors and Boston itself are de-termined to show their defianceand resilience. The formal ob-servance will stretch out for al-most a week starting on April 15,the date of last year’s bombings— which killed three people,wounded at least 260 and robbed16 of various limbs — and con-tinuing through April 21, the dateof this year’s marathon.
Like many others, the Nordenshave been overwhelmed by theattention the anniversary isdrawing. Tributes, panel discus-sions, concerts, fund-raisers and
Year After Boston Marathon Bombings, Injured Brothers Endure
KATHERINE TAYLOR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Paul Norden, left, and his brother J. P. each lost a leg in the at-tack. They have had more than 50 surgeries between them.Continued on Page A14
By ALAN COWELL
PRETORIA, South Africa — Itwas a corruption trial that hadtransfixed South Africa, and theprosecutor was in no mood formercy. The defendant was thenation’s top police official, a fig-ure of such international staturethat he had once led Interpol. Butwhen he took the stand, his testi-mony — his wife, he said, had ac-cidentally shredded evidence —was rejected outright by his in-quisitor.
“You know what this means?”the prosecutor said. “That youare arrogant and that you lie.”
When the trial ended in 2010,the police commissioner, JackieSelebi, was sentenced to 15 years,and the prosecutor, Gerrie Nel,had cemented a reputation forabrasive, in-your-face cross-ex-amination that earned him a newnickname: the pit bull.
Now, Mr. Nel is focusing thesame judicial laser on Oscar Pis-torius, the double-amputeesprinter charged with the murderof Reeva Steenkamp, his girl-friend, in a trial that has riveted amuch broader audience aroundthe world.
For the prosecutor’s admirers,the trial of Mr. Selebi — a turningpoint in post-apartheid South Af-rica — held other omens.
During the investigation thatpreceded it, Mr. Nel, a prosecutorfor more than three decades and
a member of the country’s Afri-kaner minority, had been the re-gional leader of the Scorpions, anelite anti-crime unit of prosecu-tors and investigators. The groupwas embroiled in a bare-knucklespolitical duel with other policeunits backed by powerful forceswithin the leadership of the gov-erning African National Con-gress.
In January 2008, 20 of those of-ficers burst into Mr. Nel’s homeearly one morning and arrestedhim in front of his family, takinghim quickly off to prison on cor-ruption charges that were soondropped — a highly unusual epi-
Pistorius Versus the Pit Bull:
Fierce Prosecutor Shares Stage
KEVIN SUTHERLAND/REUTERS
Gerrie Nel, the state prosecu-tor, in high court on Friday.
Continued on Page A8
With a three-under-par 69, Bubba Wat-son held on to win the Masters for a sec-ond time, preventing Jordan Spieth, 20,from becoming the tournament’s young-est champion. PAGE D1
SPORTSMONDAY D1-8
A Second Win at Augusta
Partial results from the Afghan presi-dential election have the candidates Ab-dullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani head-ing for a runoff. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-9
Runoff Likely in AfghanistanA roster of veteran television stars likeHarry Hamlin (below left, with JohnSlattery) are remaking themselves withperiod clothing and hairstyles for recur-ring roles on “Mad Men.” PAGE C1
ARTS C1-7
Retro Reinvention for ActorsMarty Singer, one of the last workersdisplaced by the closing of J&R Musicand Computer World, said goodbye tothe company he had worked for since1977. He was hired at 19, as a securityguard, and over the decades worked hisway up to become the corporate salesmanager. The Working Life. PAGE A16
NEW YORK A16-20
An Employee’s Farewell
Mirrors on a mountaintop reflect sun-light into a Norwegian town that spendssix winter months in darkness. PAGE A6
Cheer for a Sun-Starved Town
Suicide prevention organizations arestarting to turn to a new source for helpwith counseling — people who tried totake their own lives. PAGE A11
Breaking a Silence on Suicide
A known anti-Semite was arrested afterthree people were shot dead at Jewishcenters near Kansas City. PAGE A12
Three Dead in Gun Rampage
Paul Krugman PAGE A23
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
Venture capital firms are pouring hugesums of money into Silicon Valley start-ups already flush with cash. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-6
Start-Ups’ Cup Overflows
Representative Vance McAllister ofLouisiana, who campaigns on Christianvalues, is resisting calls for his resigna-tion after a video showed him kissing afemale staff member. PAGE A10
NATIONAL A10-14
Calls for Lawmaker to Quit
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