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VOL. CLXV . . . No. 57,060
© 2015 The New York Times
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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015
CHIEF OF PFIZER
DEFENDS MERGER
AS GOOD FOR U.S.
EMERGENCY EDICT
IN FRANCE SPURS
INTENSE POLICING
NEW HOME IN IRELAND
FEW PROTEST MEASURES
Deal Revives Debate on
Moving Overseas for
a Tax Cut
Muslims and Others See
Impending Threat
to Liberties
This article is by Michael J. de
la Merced, David Gelles and Leslie Picker.
In phone calls to Washington
lawmakers and Obama administration officials, the chief executive of the largest drug maker in
the nation had a surprising message: A deal that would allow the
company to move its headquarters to Ireland was actually good
for the United States.
The Scottish-born chief executive of Pfizer, Ian C. Read, told
them that a merger with Allergan, the maker of Botox that is
based in Dublin, would significantly cut Pfizer’s tax bill and
give it more cash that it could invest in the United States and ultimately add jobs, according to
people briefed on the calls. He
made the calls in recent days as
the two companies were hammering out a $152 billion deal.
Monday’s announcement of
the deal — the biggest merger in
15 years — has revived a fierce
public debate over whether
mergers that allow a company in
the United States to relocate to a
lower-tax country are, in fact,
good for America.
Pfizer, founded by German immigrants in Brooklyn in 1849, is
becoming the biggest company
yet to shed its American citizenship to lower its taxes. While
Continued on Page B9
Scrutiny on Lawmakers
The merger news highlights
the inaction in Congress on overhauling corporate taxes. Page B1.
By ADAM NOSSITER
TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Haunted by a Battle With ISIS
Residents of Kobani in northern Syria are struggling to rebuild 10 months after Kurdish fighters took back their town. Page A8.
A Chill Grips a U.S. Haven for Syrian Families For Third Day,
Terror Menace
Uproar Over Refugees
Saps Brussels
Jolts ‘Beautiful Life’
By JULIE BOSMAN
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich.
— In late 2011, as killings, kidnappings and sectarian strife
crept across the battle-scarred
city of Homs, Syria, the family of
four made a sorrowful decision:
to flee.
Radwan Mughrbel; his wife,
Sanaa Hammadeh; and their two
young sons packed their bags
with only a single change of
clothes per person. They took a
bus to Damascus and hired a taxi
to spirit them across the border
into Jordan. For years, they
patched together a meager life,
barely making enough money to
eat and desperately seeking refugee status.
When the United Nations refu-
in Michigan
gee agency asked where they
wanted to go, the answer was obvious.
“America,” said Mr. Mughrbel,
a short, wiry Muslim man of 52,
his face lighting up in a smile as
he sat in his bare-walled living
room in this Detroit suburb last
week. “They brought us here,
and I feel safe, like nothing bad
can happen to us. Now we have a
beautiful life.”
Yet that beautiful life has been
shaken. Since the terrorist at-
tacks in Paris, a tide of antirefugee, anti-Muslim sentiment
has swept, angrily and inexorably, across the United States.
Now Mr. Mughrbel and Ms. Hammadeh say Michigan is not as
welcoming a place as it was before.
Gov. Rick Snyder, who in September publicly rhapsodized
about the boon that refugees
were to Michigan’s economy, was
among the first of more than two
dozen Republican governors to
vow last week that they would try
to keep displaced Syrians out of
their states to preserve the safety
of Americans from would-be terrorists.
Presidential candidates and
elected officials around the counContinued on Page A20
Two Dreaded Words for New Yorkers on the Go: ‘Sick Passenger’
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
A voice over the intercom delivers the bad news, and throughout the car there are audible
sighs.
Your train is delayed because
of a sick passenger.
Subway riders sit and wonder:
Who is this sick passenger, and
why is he or she on my train?
Any sympathy for the mysterious
person is often mixed with annoyance.
At the same time, an intricate
effort unfolds out of sight. The
train’s crew alerts the rail control
center to send an ambulance to
the nearest station. The emergency medical workers rush below ground to locate the patient
— often a challenge in more labyrinthine stations.
This process can stretch on for
more than half an hour, creating
a cascade of delays across the
vast system. And so the not-sick
passengers wait. And wait. Statistics show they are waiting
more than ever these days.
Sick passengers have accounted for about 3,000 train delays
each month this year in New
York City, a figure that has grown
drastically in recent years, up
from about 1,800 each month in
By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA
BRUSSELS — On what would
normally have been a busy Monday, this city in the heart of Europe remained shut down for a
third straight day. Everything
was closed — the schools, museums, government offices, public
transportation,
markets,
shops, everything.
And still, the fear of a terrorist
attack like the one in Paris was so
great that the authorities felt it
necessary to tell the public it was
O.K. to step outside.
“We feel as if we’re taken hostage by the security situation because we’ve had to change our
habits, because everything’s
closed,” said Deborah Mix, who
manages a Bruyerre chocolate
shop. “I can’t go do my shopping.
I need to be careful when I leave
the house. At the same time I feel
like the security measures are
adding to this climate of fear.”
As an eerie silence gripped the
capital, with its empty streets
and shuttered shops, the authoriContinued on Page A6
PARIS — All over France, from
Toulouse in the south to Paris
and beyond, the police have been
breaking down doors, conducting
searches without warrants, aggressively questioning residents,
hauling suspects to police stations and putting others under
house arrest.
The extraordinary steps are
now perfectly legal under the
state of emergency decreed by
the government after the attacks
on Nov. 13 in Paris that left 130
dead — a rare kind of mobilization that will continue. The
French Parliament voted last
week to extend the emergency
for three more months, which
means more warrantless searches, more interrogations, more
people placed under house arrest.
There have been 1,072 police
searches already and 139 police
interrogations, and 117 people
have been placed in custody, the
Ministry of the Interior said on
Monday. Those included a weekend raid on a restaurant selling
halal burgers and Tex-Mex food
in the Paris suburbs, where officers found nothing suspicious after breaking down the doors.
Many of those being swept up
are among the hundreds of
French who have already been
flagged as potential security
Continued on Page A8
THIERRY CHESNOT/GETTY IMAGES
ALLIES President François Hol-
lande is lobbying leaders like
David Cameron, left. Page A10.
Christie’s Bid Gains New Life
As He Invokes 9/11 Amid Fear
By MICHAEL BARBARO
DAVE SANDERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
An emergency medical worker examined an ill passenger on the F train in Brooklyn in June.
2012, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The authority alerts riders to the
incidents on Twitter, and some
have responded by voicing frustration over the disruptions.
Yet despite the frequency of
these delays, they remain a per-
sistent riddle for many riders
who have no idea what exactly
the phrase “sick passenger”
means.
Officials at the authority say
the incidents often involve riders
who have fainted or vomited.
Other passengers might have
had a heart attack or a seizure, or
could be unconscious or even
dead. A sick customer is not, as
some surmise, a suicide on the
tracks, which workers are instructed to announce as a “police
investigation.”
Continued on Page A22
SPORTSTUESDAY B12-16
SCIENCE TIMES D1-8
Questions After Concussion
Space, Time and Einstein
The N.F.L. has trumpeted its efforts to
spot and treat concussions, but an injury to St. Louis Rams quarterback Case
Keenum on Sunday raised questions
PAGE B12
about the new system.
Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity turns 100 on Wednesday, and scientists have not thought about time and
PAGE D1
space in the same way since.
BUSINESS DAY B1-10
Eggs From Hens That Roam
OBITUARIES B10-11
Pastured eggs, while still just a slim
fraction of the roughly 75 billion eggs
produced each year in the United
States, have become one of the fastestPAGE B1
growing categories of eggs.
A Pitcher With a Unique Feat
NATIONAL A16-20
Wife Whom Mailer Stabbed
Danger in Faulty Medical Tests
Adele Mailer, second wife of the novelist
Norman Mailer, was seriously injured in
1960 when her husband stabbed her
with a penknife during a party. PAGE B11
The government says the tests result in
unnecessary operations, put tens of
thousands of people on unneeded drugs
PAGE A16
and raise costs.
Ken Johnson, who in 1964 became the
only major league pitcher to throw a
nine-inning no-hitter and lose the game,
PAGE B10
was 82.
ARTS C1-6
Miami’s Next Big Art Scene
Galleries have enhanced Miami’s art
scene, and the profiles of some workingclass neighborhoods are rising. PAGE C1
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
David Brooks
PAGE A27
Supreme Court’s Changing Face
At a talk, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
reflected on a predecessor, Charles Evans Hughes, and took stock of the court’s
evolution, Adam Liptak writes. PAGE A17
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STRATHAM, N.H. — In the
course of a two-hour campaign
stop here, Gov. Chris Christie of
New Jersey brought a handful of
men and women to tears describing the deathbed wishes of his
cancer-ridden mother, cracked
them up with the declaration that
his presidency would be golf-free
and riveted them with his remembrances of the family friends
he lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
“I live with those widows and
orphans,” he said, the emotion
welling up in his throat as he recited the names of neighbors.
“I’ve looked into their eyes.”
Afterward, a stream of voters
walked up to him, pledging their
votes to an unexpected vessel for
their newly heightened anxieties
about security and terrorism.
It is too early to tell how the
Paris attacks will ultimately reshape the topsy-turvy Republican presidential race. But this
much is clear: It has brought
sudden intensity, attention and
focus to the once-moribund candidacy of Mr. Christie.
Across New Hampshire, voters
are reassessing the man they had
Continued on Page A19