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U(D54G1D)y+=!"!$!#!\ By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — President Obama and Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu of Israel of- fered radically divergent ap- proaches to the perils of a nucle- ar-armed Iran on Monday even as they tried to cool down the personal nature of a long-dis- tance dispute that has inflamed relations between the United States and Israel for more than a month. On the eve of Mr. Netanyahu’s hotly debated address to Con- gress, the two leaders separately disclaimed personal animosity while laying out what amounts to the biggest policy schism be- tween the two countries in years. Mr. Obama defended his diplo- matic efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran while Mr. Netanyahu presented them as dangerously naïve. “I have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of these dan- gers while there is still time to avert them,” Mr. Netanyahu told thousands of Israel supporters in Washington. “For 2,000 years, my people, the Jewish people, were stateless, defenseless, voiceless.” He added: “Today, we are no longer silent. Today, we have a voice. And tomorrow, as prime minister of the one and only Jew- ish state, I plan to use that voice” TWO LEADERS TRY TO PLAY DOWN RANCOR ON IRAN OBAMA AND NETANYAHU A ‘Family’ Fight, With Sharp Differences on Nuclear Talks Continued on Page A6 DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES The stage at the Aipac confer- ence Monday in Washington. By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to con- duct government business as secretary of state, State Depart- ment officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address dur- ing her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Depart- ment effort to comply with fed- eral record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers re- viewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secre- tary’s post in early 2013. Her expansive use of the pri- vate account was alarming to current and former National Ar- chives and Records Administra- tion officials and government watchdogs, who called it a seri- ous breach. “It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabi- net-level head officer to solely use a private email communica- tions channel for the conduct of government business,” said Ja- son R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the Na- tional Archives and Records Ad- ministration. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Nick Merrill, defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the “letter and spirit of the rules.” Under federal law, however, letters and emails written and re- Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept. Lack of Archiving May Break Federal Rules Continued on Page A20 LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Rika, whose stepmother poured acid on her when she was a girl, in her room in the Women for Afghan Women shelter in Kabul. By ALISSA J. RUBIN KABUL, Afghanistan — Fahee- ma stood trembling in the court- yard of the large house, steeling herself for the meeting with her family. She took a deep breath and ran inside, her black abaya swirling around her, and fell to the floor at her uncle’s feet, hugging his knees, her face pressed against him, her shoulders heaving. The reproaches came immedi- ately. “How could you do this?” her uncle said. “You were always so sweet to everyone. How could you have done this?” What Faheema, 21, had done was to run away from her home in eastern Afghanistan with the man she loved. She left behind her large family and the man that her family had promised her to. Although her uncle’s words at first seemed kind, his tone had a dangerous edge: Faheema had to come home. For a young woman from an Afghan village to go home after running away with a man is tan- tamount to crossing a busy street blindfolded: There is a strong likelihood that she will be killed for bringing shame on her family. Faheema, who like many Af- ghans uses a single name, was one of the lucky ones: She had made it to an emergency wom- en’s shelter, one of about 20 that over the last 10 years have pro- tected several thousand women across Afghanistan from abuse or death at the hands of their rel- atives. These shelters, almost entirely A Thin Line of Defense Against ‘Honor Killings’ WOMEN’S WAR Seeking Shelter Continued on Page A14 By TOM ROBBINS and LAUREN D’AVOLIO Three guards accused of beat- ing an inmate at the Attica Cor- rectional Facility so severely that doctors had to insert a plate and six pins into his leg, each pleaded guilty on Monday to a single mis- demeanor charge of misconduct. The last-minute plea deal spared them any jail time in exchange for quitting their jobs. The resolution of the case came more than three years after corrections officers beat a 29- year-old inmate, George Wil- liams. He suffered two broken legs, broken ribs, a broken shoul- der and a severe fracture of his eye socket, among other injuries. “Let me be clear: This has nev- er been about jail for these offi- cers, even though they came dan- gerously close to that idea,” the Wyoming County district attor- ney, Donald O’Geen, said hours after the three guards were to have gone on trial on charges of gang assault, filing false reports and evidence tampering. Under the agreement, the officers can never again work in a New York State correctional institution. “This prosecution has always been about holding these officers accountable for their abuse of power and to, once and for all, get them out of the corrections pro- fession,” Mr. O’Geen added. He also said that Mr. Williams had “approved of the settlement” and “was overcome with emotion” Attica Guards Resign in Deal To Avoid Jail Continued on Page A26 By PATRICIA COHEN After a recent government crackdown on the multibillion- dollar career-training industry, stricter limits on student aid and devastating publicity about stu- dents hobbled by debt and use- less credentials, some for-profit schools simply shut down. But a few others have moved to drop out of the for-profit business altogether, in favor of a more tra- ditional approach to running a higher education institution. And the nonprofit sector, it turns out, can still be quite profit- able. Consider Keiser University in Florida. In 2011, the Keiser family, the school’s founder and owner, sold it to a tiny nonprofit called Everglades College, which it had created. As president of Everglades, Ar- thur Keiser earned a salary of nearly $856,000, more than his counterpart at Harvard, accord- ing to the college’s 2012 tax re- turn, the most recent publicly available. He is receiving pay- ments and interest on more than $321 million he lent the tax-ex- empt nonprofit so that it could buy his university. And he has an ownership in- terest in properties that the col- lege pays $14.6 million in rent for, as well as a stake in the charter airplane that the college’s man- agers fly in and the Holiday Inn where its employees stay, the re- Some Private Colleges Turn a Tidy Profit by Going Nonprofit Continued on Page B4 DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, above addressing pay equity last year with Senators Mary L. Lan- drieu, left, and Elizabeth Warren, is to retire when her term ends in 2017. Page A16. An End for the Longest-Serving Woman in Congress By ADAM LIPTAK WASHINGTON — The first lawsuits challenging the Afford- able Care Act were still in the early stages, but conservative lawyers were already working on a backup plan in December 2010 if the first line of attack failed. It was Thomas M. Christina, an employment benefits lawyer from Greenville, S.C., who found a new vulnerability in the sprawl- ing law. “I noticed something pe- culiar about the tax credit,” he told a gathering of strategists at the American Enterprise Insti- tute. With a rudimentary Power- Point presentation, Mr. Christina sketched a new line of argument. He pointed to four previously un- noticed words in the health care law, enacted nine months earlier. They seemed to say its tax-credit subsidies were limited to people living where an insurance mar- ketplace, known as an exchange, had been “established by the state.” The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the implications of Mr. Christina’s theory on Wednesday. If a majority of the justices accepts it, more than six million Americans could lose health care coverage and insur- ance markets could collapse in about three dozen states where the federal government runs the exchanges, imperiling the health care law itself.   This is the first threat to Presi- dent Obama’s signature legisla- tive achievement to go before the Supreme Court since it upheld a crucial provision in 2012, by a 5-to-4 vote. Mr. Christina said he hesitated to take too much credit Lawyer Put Health Act in Peril By Pointing Out 4 Little Words Continued on Page A18 Termites, often viewed by the public as pests, build elaborate habitats, like this mound in Kenya, that can pre- serve landscapes and protect a broad array of ecosystems, from the desert to the jungle. PAGE D1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-7 Where Termites Are Welcome The Los Angeles police’s fatal shooting of a homeless man on Skid Row — the encounter filmed by a bystander — has become a new symbol of what many call abusive tactics. PAGE A16 NATIONAL A16-20 Police Killing Seen as Symbol The poor health of children in In- dia, even after decades of eco- nomic growth, is a perplexing public health is- sue linked to their mothers’ relatively poor health. Above, a prema- ture infant in Gurgaon, India. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-15 India’s Malnourished Mothers Saudi Arabia gave an award to a Muslim televangelist who called America the world’s “biggest terrorist,” and the hon- or highlighted the conflicted role of an ally that backs foes of the West. PAGE A4 Saudis Honor Critic of U.S. David Brooks PAGE A29 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A28-29 Safety advocates are calling for the in- creased prosecution of drivers who vio- late traffic laws in New York, and for the suspension of licenses after serious of- fenses as a way of deterring dangerous driving. PAGE A21 NEW YORK A21-26 Push for More Driver Penalties “Desire Lines,” a work created by the sculptor Tatiana Trouvé, below, for the Public Arts Fund, is com- posed of miles of colored rope that — in a manner of thinking — is the size of the park itself. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 Dreaming Big for Central Park The drop in gasoline prices has meant huge savings for consumers, but the shopping spree that some economists expected has yet to happen. 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U(D54G1D)y+=!"!$!#!\

By PETER BAKER

WASHINGTON — PresidentObama and Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu of Israel of-fered radically divergent ap-proaches to the perils of a nucle-ar-armed Iran on Monday evenas they tried to cool down thepersonal nature of a long-dis-tance dispute that has inflamedrelations between the UnitedStates and Israel for more than amonth.

On the eve of Mr. Netanyahu’shotly debated address to Con-gress, the two leaders separatelydisclaimed personal animositywhile laying out what amounts tothe biggest policy schism be-tween the two countries in years.Mr. Obama defended his diplo-matic efforts to negotiate a dealwith Iran while Mr. Netanyahupresented them as dangerouslynaïve.

“I have a moral obligation tospeak up in the face of these dan-gers while there is still time toavert them,” Mr. Netanyahu toldthousands of Israel supporters inWashington. “For 2,000 years, mypeople, the Jewish people, werestateless, defenseless, voiceless.”He added: “Today, we are nolonger silent. Today, we have avoice. And tomorrow, as primeminister of the one and only Jew-ish state, I plan to use that voice”

TWO LEADERS TRYTO PLAY DOWNRANCOR ON IRAN

OBAMA AND NETANYAHU

A ‘Family’ Fight, With

Sharp Differences on

Nuclear Talks

Continued on Page A6

DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

The stage at the Aipac confer-ence Monday in Washington.

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

WASHINGTON — HillaryRodham Clinton exclusively useda personal email account to con-duct government business assecretary of state, State Depart-ment officials said, and may haveviolated federal requirementsthat officials’ correspondence beretained as part of the agency’srecord.

Mrs. Clinton did not have agovernment email address dur-ing her four-year tenure at theState Department. Her aides tookno actions to have her personalemails preserved on departmentservers at the time, as requiredby the Federal Records Act.

It was only two months ago, inresponse to a new State Depart-ment effort to comply with fed-eral record-keeping practices,that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers re-viewed tens of thousands ofpages of her personal emails anddecided which ones to turn overto the State Department. All told,55,000 pages of emails were givento the department. Mrs. Clintonstepped down from the secre-tary’s post in early 2013.

Her expansive use of the pri-vate account was alarming tocurrent and former National Ar-chives and Records Administra-tion officials and governmentwatchdogs, who called it a seri-ous breach.

“It is very difficult to conceiveof a scenario — short of nuclearwinter — where an agency wouldbe justified in allowing its cabi-net-level head officer to solelyuse a private email communica-tions channel for the conduct ofgovernment business,” said Ja-son R. Baron, a lawyer at DrinkerBiddle & Reath who is a formerdirector of litigation at the Na-tional Archives and Records Ad-ministration.

A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton,Nick Merrill, defended her use ofthe personal email account andsaid she has been complying withthe “letter and spirit of the rules.”

Under federal law, however,letters and emails written and re-

Clinton UsedPersonal EmailAt State Dept.

Lack of Archiving May

Break Federal Rules

Continued on Page A20

LYNSEY ADDARIO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Rika, whose stepmother poured acid on her when she was a girl, in her room in the Women for Afghan Women shelter in Kabul.

By ALISSA J. RUBIN

KABUL, Afghanistan — Fahee-ma stood trembling in the court-yard of the large house, steelingherself for the meeting with herfamily.

She took a deep breath and raninside, her black abaya swirlingaround her, and fell to the floor ather uncle’s feet, hugging hisknees, her face pressed againsthim, her shoulders heaving.

The reproaches came immedi-ately. “How could you do this?”her uncle said. “You were alwaysso sweet to everyone. How could

you have done this?”What Faheema, 21, had done

was to run away from her homein eastern Afghanistan with theman she loved. She left behindher large family and the man thather family had promised her to.Although her uncle’s words atfirst seemed kind, his tone had adangerous edge: Faheema had tocome home.

For a young woman from anAfghan village to go home after

running away with a man is tan-tamount to crossing a busy streetblindfolded: There is a stronglikelihood that she will be killedfor bringing shame on her family.

Faheema, who like many Af-ghans uses a single name, wasone of the lucky ones: She hadmade it to an emergency wom-en’s shelter, one of about 20 thatover the last 10 years have pro-tected several thousand womenacross Afghanistan from abuseor death at the hands of their rel-atives.

These shelters, almost entirely

A Thin Line of Defense Against ‘Honor Killings’

WOMEN’S WAR

Seeking Shelter

Continued on Page A14

By TOM ROBBINS and LAUREN D’AVOLIO

Three guards accused of beat-ing an inmate at the Attica Cor-rectional Facility so severely thatdoctors had to insert a plate andsix pins into his leg, each pleadedguilty on Monday to a single mis-demeanor charge of misconduct.The last-minute plea deal sparedthem any jail time in exchangefor quitting their jobs.

The resolution of the casecame more than three years aftercorrections officers beat a 29-year-old inmate, George Wil-liams. He suffered two brokenlegs, broken ribs, a broken shoul-der and a severe fracture of hiseye socket, among other injuries.

“Let me be clear: This has nev-er been about jail for these offi-cers, even though they came dan-gerously close to that idea,” theWyoming County district attor-ney, Donald O’Geen, said hoursafter the three guards were tohave gone on trial on charges ofgang assault, filing false reportsand evidence tampering. Underthe agreement, the officers cannever again work in a New YorkState correctional institution.

“This prosecution has alwaysbeen about holding these officersaccountable for their abuse ofpower and to, once and for all, getthem out of the corrections pro-fession,” Mr. O’Geen added. Healso said that Mr. Williams had“approved of the settlement” and“was overcome with emotion”

Attica GuardsResign in Deal

To Avoid Jail

Continued on Page A26

By PATRICIA COHEN

After a recent governmentcrackdown on the multibillion-dollar career-training industry,stricter limits on student aid anddevastating publicity about stu-dents hobbled by debt and use-less credentials, some for-profitschools simply shut down.

But a few others have moved todrop out of the for-profit businessaltogether, in favor of a more tra-ditional approach to running ahigher education institution.

And the nonprofit sector, itturns out, can still be quite profit-able.

Consider Keiser University inFlorida. In 2011, the Keiser family,the school’s founder and owner,

sold it to a tiny nonprofit calledEverglades College, which it hadcreated.

As president of Everglades, Ar-thur Keiser earned a salary ofnearly $856,000, more than hiscounterpart at Harvard, accord-ing to the college’s 2012 tax re-turn, the most recent publiclyavailable. He is receiving pay-ments and interest on more than

$321 million he lent the tax-ex-empt nonprofit so that it couldbuy his university.

And he has an ownership in-terest in properties that the col-lege pays $14.6 million in rent for,as well as a stake in the charterairplane that the college’s man-agers fly in and the Holiday Innwhere its employees stay, the re-

Some Private Colleges Turn a Tidy Profit by Going Nonprofit

Continued on Page B4

DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, above addressing pay equity last year with Senators Mary L. Lan-drieu, left, and Elizabeth Warren, is to retire when her term ends in 2017. Page A16.

An End for the Longest-Serving Woman in Congress

By ADAM LIPTAK

WASHINGTON — The firstlawsuits challenging the Afford-able Care Act were still in theearly stages, but conservativelawyers were already working ona backup plan in December 2010if the first line of attack failed.

It was Thomas M. Christina, anemployment benefits lawyerfrom Greenville, S.C., who founda new vulnerability in the sprawl-ing law. “I noticed something pe-culiar about the tax credit,” hetold a gathering of strategists atthe American Enterprise Insti-tute.

With a rudimentary Power-Point presentation, Mr. Christinasketched a new line of argument.He pointed to four previously un-noticed words in the health carelaw, enacted nine months earlier.They seemed to say its tax-creditsubsidies were limited to people

living where an insurance mar-ketplace, known as an exchange,had been “established by thestate.”

The Supreme Court will heararguments on the implications ofMr. Christina’s theory onWednesday. If a majority of thejustices accepts it, more than sixmillion Americans could losehealth care coverage and insur-ance markets could collapse inabout three dozen states wherethe federal government runs theexchanges, imperiling the healthcare law itself.    

This is the first threat to Presi-dent Obama’s signature legisla-tive achievement to go before theSupreme Court since it upheld acrucial provision in 2012, by a5-to-4 vote. Mr. Christina said hehesitated to take too much credit

Lawyer Put Health Act in Peril

By Pointing Out 4 Little Words

Continued on Page A18

Termites, oftenviewed by thepublic as pests,build elaboratehabitats, like thismound in Kenya,that can pre-serve landscapesand protect a

broad array of ecosystems, from thedesert to the jungle. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-7

Where Termites Are Welcome The Los Angeles police’s fatal shootingof a homeless man on Skid Row — theencounter filmed by a bystander — hasbecome a new symbol of what many callabusive tactics. PAGE A16

NATIONAL A16-20

Police Killing Seen as SymbolThe poor healthof children in In-dia, even afterdecades of eco-nomic growth, isa perplexingpublic health is-sue linked totheir mothers’relatively poor health. Above, a prema-ture infant in Gurgaon, India. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-15

India’s Malnourished Mothers

Saudi Arabia gave an award to a Muslimtelevangelist who called America theworld’s “biggest terrorist,” and the hon-or highlighted the conflicted role of anally that backs foes of the West. PAGE A4

Saudis Honor Critic of U.S.

David Brooks PAGE A29

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A28-29

Safety advocates are calling for the in-creased prosecution of drivers who vio-late traffic laws in New York, and for thesuspension of licenses after serious of-fenses as a way of deterring dangerousdriving. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A21-26

Push for More Driver Penalties

“Desire Lines,” a work created by thesculptor Tatiana Trouvé, below, for thePublic ArtsFund, is com-posed of miles ofcolored rope that— in a manner ofthinking — is thesize of the parkitself. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

Dreaming Big for Central Park

The drop in gasoline prices has meanthuge savings for consumers, but theshopping spree that some economistsexpected has yet to happen. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Fuel Savings Stay in the Bank

Leading houses like Versace and Botte-ga Veneta are finding ways to combinetheir heritage with the digital age. Re-view by Vanessa Friedman. PAGE C8

FASHION C8

A New Dynamic in Milan

VOL. CLXIV . . . No. 56,794 + © 2015 The New York Times NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015

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