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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
Late EditionToday, early sun with snow in theafternoon, high 31. Tonight, snowand sleet 1 to 2 inches, low 30. To-morrow, morning rain, high 47.Weather map appears on Page A24.
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