AI Data for Midnight, New York City

THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2014 New York Times Late Edition Today, clouds and periodic sun, high 32 Tonight, cloudy, a flurry low 29. Tomorrow, snow, steadiest tate, an inch or two during the day high 33 Weather map. Page D8. "All the That's Fi NYT 0081002 LBO SZE SARAH 438 W 37TH ST 4A 92900645 VOL, CLXIII NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2014 $2.50 MILLIONS GAINING HEALTH COVERAGE TODAY UNDER LAW Power Curbed, DE BLASIO DRAWS Detroit Mayor Faces Big Job ALL LIBERAL EYES TO NEW YORK CITY Offers Ambitious Plan TEST OF CENTRAL TENET for Bankrupt City LAB FOR POPULIST IDEAS Milestone Is Unlikely to A Tax-the-Rich Mayor By MONICA DAVEY DETROIT - For some who have been around this city the longest, expectations for a new mayor have by now become un- derstandably low: Turn some streetlights on. Do not get in- dicted. Wait for the lawyers to get Detroit out of bankruptcy. Yet Mike Duggan, a brash, fre- netic former hospital executive and prosecutor who often talks his voice into a husky croak by municipal machinery into a close- late afternoon, has anything but ly watched laboratory for popu- modest plans as he steps into un- certain and politically fraught cir- Put End to Constant Gives America's Left Partisan Battles a Rallying Point By ROBERT PEAR By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and ABBY GOODNOUGH Liberals across the country are looking to Bill de Blasio, who was sworn in as mayor early Wednes- day, to morph New York City's WASHINGTON Millions of Americans will begin receiving health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday after years of conten- tion and a rollout hobbled by de- lays and technical problems. The decisively new moment in the ef- fort to overhaul the country's health care system will test the law's central premise: that ex- tending coverage to far more Americans will improve the na- tion's health and help many avoid crippling medical bills. Starting Wednesday, health in- surance companies can no longer deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and can- not charge higher premiums to list theories of government that have never belore been enacted unprecedented on such a large scale. cumstances among major American cities. On Wednesday, Mr. Duggan tax-the-rich liberal to the nation's will become Detroit's first white mayor in 40 years, presiding over has fanned hopes that hot-button a mostly black, bankrupt city that has seen more residents leave - more than a million since 1950 - than are left. He inherits a city of tens of thousands of abandoned buildings, darkened streets and a shrunken, demoralized work force whose members worry The elevation of an assertive, most prominent municipal office causes like universal prekinder- garten and low-wage worker benefits have been passed in smaller cit- jes- could be aided by the impri- matur of being proved workable in New York. *The mayor has a remarkable opportunity to make real many progressive policies and prove their merit," said Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of Cali- fornia, who as mayor of San versions of which women than to men for the same coverage. In most cases, insurers must provide a standard set of benefits prescribed by federal law and regulations. And they cannot set dollar limits on what they spend on "essential health benefits" for a policyholder. Though this is a milestone for the law, it is unlikely to end the constant partisan battles that be- gan even before its passage near- ly four years ago. Late Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor tempo- rarily blocked the Obama admin- istration from forcing some reli- gious-affiliated groups to provide Eyes, Lots of Them, on the Ball coverage of birth control or face Revelers packed a chilly Times Square in Manhattan for the traditional New Year's celebration. penalties. [Page A13.] Doctors, hospitals and phar- macists say consumers could ini- about what will become of their pensions. Though he has a man- date to make things better. Mr. Duggan also starts his term yoked to an agreement in which he must share control with a Francisco introduced a form of powerf manager, Kevyn D. Orr, a Wash- same-sex couples to wed. ington brought here by Michigan's gov- ernor to help resolve the city's ing on his success." $18 billion in debt. appointed emergency universal health care and allowed bankruptcy lawyer "De Blasio matters," Mr. New- som said. "A lot of us are count- New York has long been a lode- star for urban governments the world over. The avant-garde po- While Mr. Orr will direct the city's finances, including the like- ly future of the pensions, it is Mr. licing pioneered by former May- Duggan who will be left to sort out some of the most politically formed the way major munici- vexing long-term questions about the fate of Detroit. Do services and infrastructure designed for minded approach to education all of this city's 139 square miles still make sense with a popula- tion of 700,000 and stretches of quickly gained global traction. blocks where only a few houses remain occupied? Or must the conscious strategist who had city shrink to survive? Many people say Detroit must, at last, come to terms with the mary, advocates on the left see a or Rudolph W. Giuliani trans- palities fight crime. Mayor Mi- chael R. Bloomberg's corporate- tialy experience some delays U.S. Judge Upholds Most New York Gun Limits and feats of social engineering. like the ban on smoking in bars, and difficulties as they try to use their new insurance. In Mr. de Blasio, a wily, image- "I feel a huge sense of relief," said Katie R. Norvell, 33, a music therapist in St. Louis, who has been uninsured for three and a half years and has a pre-existing gynecological condition, endome- triosis. She signed up Dec. 22 for ban on assault weapons, were a midlevel silver plan offered by the most restrictive in the coun- try. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, pushed for the state to be the first to take action after the mass school shooting in New- town, Conn.; gun rights groups accused him of ramming through new gun restrictions they called "Of course, this is only one inci- dent," Judge Skretny wrote. "But it is nonetheless illustrative. Studies and data support New York's view that assault weapons continuing exodus, but Mr. Dug- unique aligning of the stars: a are often used to devastating ef- fect in mass shootings." He said that the gun law "ap- plies only to a subset of firearms with characteristics New York State has determined to be par- ticularly dangerous and unneces- sary for self-defense; it does not totally disarm New York's citi- zens; and it does not meaning- lagged far behind in polls just weeks before the Democratic pri- By THOMAS KAPLAN A federal judge ruled on Tues- day that New York's strict new gun laws, including an expanded gan says he has no plans to re- treat. He plans, he says, to re- also a shrewd and cunning practi- verse the trend of half a century. "Everything that we are doing. from the time we get up in the over inequality and social justice morning, we're thinking about: How are we going to build the city where the population is redemptive moment for a nation- growing again?" Mr. Duggan said. "And that's ultimately blamed for the crumbling of ur- what's going to define this: Do ban centers in the 1960s and Continued on Page A3 champion of their values who is constitutional, but struck down a provision forbidding gun owners ill-conceived, poorly understood to load more than seven rounds and unconstitutional. tioner, stepping into office at a time when the national debate Continued on Page A3 into a magazine. The ruling offered a victory to gun control advocates at the end known but troubled portion of the of a year in which efforts to pass law, which prohibited gun owners new legislation on the federal lev- from loading more than seven el suffered a high-profile defeat in Congress, although some new re- called the limit "an arbitrary re- strictions were approved in state striction" that violated the Sec- capitals. The judge, William M. Skretny of Federal District Court in Buffa- lo, said expanded bans on assault ranted is not a judicial question; weapons and high-capacity mag- azines were legally sound be- cause they served to "further the acted within their bounds when state's important interest in pub- they drafted the gun laws, and lic safety." The new laws in New York, en- acted in January 2013, are among In a 54-page ruling, Judge Skretny struck down a well- has reached a fever pitch. His administration could be a al left whose policies were often rounds into a magazine. He fully jeopardize their right to self- Continued on Page Al5 Continued on Page A16 ond Amendment. But, saying that "whether reg- ulating firearms is wise or war- Old Rivalries Reignited a Fuse in South Sudan it is a political one," he found that Mr. Cuomo and lawmakers had By NICHOLAS KULISH specifically cited the Bushmaster rifle and 30-round magazine u.ed in the Newtown shooting JUBA, South Sudan - Few moments conjure as much fear in South Sudan as the massacre of Вог. William Hannah has been un- insured for the past 20 years. Long before South Sudan be-. came a nation, while it was still in the throes of one of Africa's long- est civil wars, fighters tied to a leader stormed through the city of Bor in 1991, kılling 2,000 fellow south- erners in an attack that would lay bare the deep divisions in this im- poverished land. Since then, the people of South Sudan have had periods of peace, compromise and even shared ju- bilation at the birth of their na- A's for Athletes, but Charges of Tar Heel Fraud named Riek Machar tor, was paid $12,000. University ment charged Nyang'oro with and law-enforcement officials say AFAM 280 never met. One of doz- ens of courses in the department the intent to cheat and defraud" that officials say were taught in- completely or not at all, AFAM the AFAM course - a virtually 280 is the focus of a criminal in- "unlawfully, willfully and feloni- ously" accepting payment "with By SARAH LYALL CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - In the summer of 2011, 19 undergradu- ates at the University of North Carolina signed up for a lecture course called AFAM 280: Blacks dictment against Mr. Nyang'oro against a professor. in North Carolina. The professor was Julius Nyang'oro, an inter- nationally respected scholar and longtime chairman of the African and Afro-American studies de- the university in connection with unheard-of legal accusation The indictment, critics say, covers just a small piece of one of the biggest cases of academic that was issued last month. Eighteen of the 19 students en- rolled in the class were members of the North Carolina football fraud in North Carolina history. team (the other was a for member), reportedly steered there by academic advisers who saw their roles as helping ath- athletic program revered across tion in 2011. Mr. Machar himself became vice president, apologiz- ing for the massacre. But there was never a real and A displaced girl carrying water to a United Nations compound in South Sudan. Violence there has uprooted 180,000 people. That it has taken place at Chapel Hill, known for its rigorous aca- demic standards as well as an the factions threatening to pull of the Enough Project, a nonprof- war with its neighbor to the partment. It is doubtful the students learned much North Carolina or anything else, letes maintain high enough the country, has only made it though they received grades for papers they supposedly turned in and Mr. Nyang'oro, the instruc- lasting reconciliation between ignited," said John Prendergast the best way to end decades of about blacks, grades to remain eligible to play. Handed up by an Orange Coun- ty, N.C, grand jury, the indict- more shocking Two reports on the activities of Continued on Page B9 this new nation apart, and on Tuesday fighters allied with Mr. Machar charged into Bor once it antigenocide organization. "It was just when and not if. When leaders from around the world pressed South Sudan into existence - seeing its creation as north, Sudan - they were well aware that the bitter internal ri valries in the south had never again. "This was a fire waiting to be Continued on Page A8 INTERNATIONAL A4-8 NATIONAL AI0-13 ARTS CI-12 SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-13 Kerry to Step Up Mideast Effort With his deadline of April for a peace deal approaching, Secretary of State John Kerry will be seeking a basic ac- cord to keep talks going. Drug Testing Law Struck Down Coming Attractions Tournament of Memories A federal judge ruled that a Florida law requiring welfare applicants to undergo mandatory drug testing was unconstitu- tional. Before Stanford and Michigan square off in the 100th Rose Bowl, a look at highlights of the previous 99, among them Texas' wild victory over Southern California for the national title in 2006 and Northwestern's improbable trip to the 1996 game. Critics for The Times list the shows, con- certs, books and films (including Pawel Pawlikowski's "Ida," starring Agata Trzebuchowska) that they're most an- ticipating in the new year. PAGE AS PAGE AI0 PAGE CI Afghans Plan to Free Prisoners Fewer Killings in Chicago PAGES BI0-11 A move to release dozens, including committed insurgents who had attacked Americans, angers the West. Killings have slowed in the city, which drew national notice in 2012 for its high number of homicides. PAGE AS DINING DI-7 PAGE AIO EDITORIAL, OP-ED A18-19 Palatable Resolutions Roger Cohen PAGE AD BUSINESS DAY B1-6 NEW YORK A14-17 Mark Bittman offers recipes and sug- gestions for the new year, from cooking big pots of grains and beans once a week, to buying half as much meat and making it better meat. A Stellar Year for Stocks Crackdown on Phish's Fans Despite some worries, the stock market just kept rising, with the S.&P. 500 post ing its best year since 1997. The band's concerts at Madison Square Garden have led to more than 200 ar- 3546134. PAGE BI PAGE DI rests or summonses. PAGE AH 2015 AP2/2

THE

NEW

YORK

TIMES,

WEDNESDAY,

JANUARY

1,

2014

New

York

Times

Late

Edition

Today,

clouds

and

periodic

sun,

high

32

Tonight,

cloudy,

a

flurry

low

29.

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snow,

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an

inch

or

two

during

the

day

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map.

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COVERAGE

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UNDER

LAW

Power

Curbed,

DE

BLASIO

DRAWS

Detroit

Mayor

Faces

Big

Job

ALL

LIBERAL

EYES

TO

CITY

Offers

Ambitious

Plan

TEST

OF

CENTRAL

TENET

for

Bankrupt

City

LAB

FOR

POPULIST

IDEAS

Milestone

Is

Unlikely

to

A

Tax-the-Rich

By

MONICA

DAVEY

DETROIT

-

For

some

who

have

been

around

this

city

longest,

expectations

new

mayor

by

now

become

un-

derstandably

low:

Turn

streetlights

on.

Do

not

get

in-

dicted.

Wait

lawyers

out

of

bankruptcy.

Yet

Mike

Duggan,

brash,

fre-

netic

former

hospital

executive

prosecutor

often

talks

his

voice

into

husky

croak

municipal

machinery

close-

late

afternoon,

has

anything

but

ly

watched

laboratory

popu-

modest

plans

as

he

steps

certain

politically

fraught

cir-

Put

End

Constant

Gives

America's

Left

Partisan

Battles

Rallying

Point

ROBERT

PEAR

MICHAEL

M.

GRYNBAUM

ABBY

GOODNOUGH

Liberals

across

country

are

looking

Bill

de

Blasio,

was

sworn

in

early

Wednes-

day,

morph

City's

WASHINGTON

Millions

Americans

will

begin

receiving

health

insurance

coverage

under

Affordable

Care

Act

on

Wednesday

after

years

conten-

tion

rollout

hobbled

de-

lays

technical

problems.

The

decisively

moment

ef-

fort

overhaul

country's

care

system

test

law's

central

premise:

that

ex-

tending

far

more

improve

na-

tion's

help

many

avoid

crippling

medical

bills.

Starting

Wednesday,

surance

companies

can

no

longer

deny

people

with

pre-existing

conditions

can-

charge

higher

premiums

list

theories

government

never

belore

enacted

unprecedented

such

large

scale.

cumstances

among

major

American

cities.

On

Mr.

Duggan

tax-the-rich

liberal

nation's

Detroit's

first

white

40

years,

presiding

over

fanned

hopes

hot-button

mostly

black,

bankrupt

seen

residents

leave

than

million

since

1950

left.

He

inherits

tens

thousands

abandoned

buildings,

darkened

streets

shrunken,

demoralized

work

force

whose

members

worry

elevation

assertive,

most

prominent

office

causes

like

universal

prekinder-

garten

low-wage

worker

benefits

passed

smaller

cit-

jes-

could

be

aided

impri-

matur

being

proved

workable

York.

*The

remarkable

opportunity

make

real

progressive

policies

prove

their

merit,"

said

Gavin

Newsom,

lieutenant

governor

Cali-

fornia,

San

versions

which

women

men

same

coverage.

In

cases,

insurers

must

provide

standard

set

prescribed

federal

law

regulations.

And

they

cannot

dollar

limits

what

spend

"essential

benefits"

policyholder.

Though

is

milestone

law,

it

unlikely

end

constant

partisan

battles

be-

gan

even

before

its

passage

near-

four

ago.

Tuesday,

Justice

Sonia

Sotomayor

tempo-

rarily

blocked

Obama

admin-

istration

from

forcing

reli-

gious-affiliated

groups

Eyes,

Lots

Them,

Ball

birth

control

face

Revelers

packed

chilly

Square

Manhattan

traditional

Year's

celebration.

penalties.

[Page

A13.]

Doctors,

hospitals

phar-

macists

say

consumers

ini-

about

pensions.

man-

date

things

better.

also

starts

term

yoked

agreement

share

Francisco

introduced

form

powerf

manager,

Kevyn

D.

Orr,

Wash-

same-sex

couples

wed.

ington

brought

here

Michigan's

gov-

ernor

resolve

city's

ing

success."

$18

billion

debt.

appointed

emergency

allowed

bankruptcy

lawyer

"De

Blasio

matters,"

New-

som

said.

"A

lot

us

count-

long

lode-

star

urban

governments

world

over.

avant-garde

po-

While

Orr

direct

finances,

including

like-

future

pensions,

licing

pioneered

May-

left

sort

formed

way

munici-

vexing

long-term

questions

fate

Detroit.

services

infrastructure

designed

minded

approach

education

all

139

square

miles

still

sense

popula-

700,000

stretches

quickly

gained

global

traction.

blocks

where

only

few

houses

remain

occupied?

Or

conscious

strategist

had

shrink

survive?

Many

must,

at

last,

come

terms

mary,

advocates

see

Rudolph

W.

Giuliani

trans-

palities

fight

crime.

Mi-

chael

R.

Bloomberg's

corporate-

tialy

experience

delays

U.S.

Judge

Upholds

Most

Gun

Limits

feats

social

engineering.

ban

smoking

bars,

difficulties

try

use

insurance.

wily,

image-

"I

feel

huge

relief,"

Katie

Norvell,

33,

music

therapist

St.

Louis,

uninsured

three

half

gynecological

condition,

endome-

triosis.

She

signed

up

Dec.

22

assault

weapons,

were

midlevel

silver

plan

offered

restrictive

coun-

try.

Gov.

Andrew

Cuomo,

Democrat,

pushed

state

Title Midnight, New York City	Date 2015
People Artist: Sarah Sze, American born 1966 Publisher: Moonlight Editions,	Classification Prints
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Title

Midnight, New York City

Date

2015

People

Artist: Sarah Sze, American born 1966

Publisher: Moonlight Editions,

Classification

Prints

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2017.44.5