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SUNDAY REVIEW

As he devotes himself to a music career,James L. Dolan, the Knicks’ owner, sayshe will spend less time with the teamand put his faith in Phil Jackson. PAGE 1

SPORTSSUNDAY

He Sings, and the Knicks PlayAn engineer says he has found a way tostop people from texting while driving.Finding a cellphone carrier to try hisidea is not as easy. PAGE 1

SUNDAY BUSINESS

Theory in Need of a Road TestReflecting concerns raised across thenation, Davis, Calif., has mothballed anarmored military vehicle that it decidedit did not want its police to have. PAGE 20

NATIONAL 20-24

Wrong Turret for College TownPeople in England’s northernmost townfear that life will never be the sameagain — even if Scotland votes onThursday against independence. PAGE 8

INTERNATIONAL 6-18

Bracing for Scots’ Referendum

By JEREMY W. PETERS

WASHINGTON — Democratshave reversed the partisan im-balance on the federal appealscourts that long favored con-servatives, a little-noticed shiftwith far-reaching consequencesfor the law and President Oba-ma’s legacy.

For the first time in more thana decade, judges appointed byDemocratic presidents consider-ably outnumber judges appoint-ed by Republican presidents. TheDemocrats’ advantage has onlygrown since late last year whenthey stripped Republicans oftheir ability to filibuster the presi-dent’s nominees.

Democratic appointees whohear cases full time now hold amajority of seats on nine of the 13United States Courts of Appeals.When Mr. Obama took office,only one of those courts had morefull-time judges nominated by aDemocrat.

The shift, one of the most sig-nificant but unheralded accom-plishments of the Obama era, islikely to have ramifications forhow the courts decide the legalityof some of the president’s mostcontroversial actions on healthcare, immigration and clean air.Since today’s Congress has beena graveyard for legislative ac-complishment, these judicial con-firmations are likely to be amongits most enduring acts.

“With all the gridlock, it is for-gotten that one of the most pro-found changes this Congressmade was filling the bench,” saidSenator Charles E. Schumer,Democrat of New York, who ledthe push with the White Houselast summer to force the confir-mation of three nominees to theUnited States Court of Appealsfor the District of Columbia Cir-cuit after Republicans blockedthem. “This will affect Americafor a generation, long after the in-

Eye on Legacy,Obama ShapesAppeals Courts

Democratic Appointees

Will Judge Key Cases

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By PETER BAKER

WASHINGTON — Just hoursbefore announcing an escalatedcampaign against Islamic ex-tremists last week, PresidentObama privately reflected on an-other time when a presidentweighed military action in theMiddle East — the frenziedweeks leading up to the Ameri-can invasion of Iraq a decade ago.

“I was not here in the run-up toIraq in 2003,” he told a group ofvisitors who met with him in theWhite House before his televisedspeech to the nation, according toseveral people who were in themeeting. “It would have been fas-cinating to see the momentumand how it builds.”

In his own way, Mr. Obamasaid, he had seen something simi-lar, a virtual fever rising in Wash-ington, pressuring him to sendthe armed forces after the Sunniradicals who had swept throughIraq and beheaded Americanjournalists. He had told his staff,he said, not to evaluate their ownpolicy based on external momen-tum. He would not rush to war.He would be deliberate.

“But I’m aware I pay a politicalprice for that,” he said.

His introspection that after-noon reflected Mr. Obama’s jour-ney from the candidate whowanted to wind down America’soverseas wars to the commanderin chief who just resumed and ex-panded one. For Mr. Obama, thatspring of 2003, when PresidentGeorge W. Bush sent troops to

Paths to War,Then and Now,Haunt Obama

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By NORIMITSU ONISHI

MONROVIA, Liberia — Thegirl in the pink shirt lay mo-tionless on a sidewalk, flat on herstomach, an orange drink next toher, unfinished. People gatheredon the other side of the street,careful to keep their distance.

Dr. Mosoka Fallah waded in.Details about the girl spilled outof the crowd in a dizzying torrent,gaining urgency with the siren ofan approaching ambulance. Thegirl’s mother had died, almostcertainly of Ebola. So had threeother relatives. The girl herselfwas sick. The girl’s aunt, unableto get help, had left her on thesidewalk in despair. Other familymembers may have been infect-ed. Still others had fled acrossthis city.

Dr. Fallah, 44, calmly instruct-

ed leaders of the neighborhood —known as Capitol Hill, previouslyuntouched by Ebola — how todeal with the family and protecttheir community. He promised toreturn later that day, and sendmore help in the morning. Hiswords quelled the crowd, for themoment.

“This is a horrific case,” he saidas he walked away. “It could bethe start of a big one right here.It’s a ticking time bomb.”

Months into the Ebola out-break, Liberia remains desper-ately short on everything neededto halt the rise in deaths and in-fections — burial teams for thedead, ambulances for the sick,treatment centers for patients,gloves for doctors and nurses.But it is perhaps shortest onsomething intangible: the trustneeded to stop the disease fromspreading.

Dr. Fallah, an epidemiologistand immunologist who grew upin Monrovia’s poorest neighbor-hoods before studying at Har-vard, has been crisscrossing thecapital in a race to repair that rift.Neighborhood by neighborhood,block by block, shack by shack,he is battling the disease acrossthis crowded capital, seeking thecooperation of residents who aredeeply distrustful of the govern-ment and its faltering response tothe deadliest Ebola epidemicever recorded.

“If people don’t trust you, they

can hide a body, and you’ll neverknow,” Dr. Fallah said. “And Ebo-la will keep spreading. They’vegot to trust you, but we don’thave the luxury of time.”

With his experience straddlingvastly different worlds, Dr. Fallahacts as a rare bridge: betweencommunity leaders and theHealth Ministry, where he is anunpaid adviser; between the gov-ernment and international organ-izations, which have the moneyto back his efforts.

But the scale of the task isdaunting. He is trying to beatEbola in a city of 1.5 million peo-ple where the disease is expand-ing exponentially, where entirefamilies search in vain for med-ical care, and where the mainhospital is dangerously over-whelmed, plagued by electricalfires, floods and the deaths of

Back to the Slums of His Youth, to Defuse the Ebola Time Bomb

DANIEL BEREHULAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Dr. Mosoka Fallah, center, an epidemiologist and immunologist, with residents of New Kru Town, a district in Monrovia, Liberia.

For a Liberian Doctor,

Earning Trust Is the

Top Priority

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DJAMILA GROSSMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

New wind turbines off Germany, where renewable energy is soaring and driving down prices.

By JUSTIN GILLIS

HELIGOLAND, Germany —Of all the developed nations, fewhave pushed harder than Germa-ny to find a solution to globalwarming. And towering symbolsof that drive are appearing in themiddle of the North Sea.

They are wind turbines, stand-ing as far as 60 miles from themainland, stretching as high as60-story buildings and costing upto $30 million apiece. On some ofthese giant machines, a singleblade roughly equals the wing-span of the largest airliner in the

sky, the Airbus A380. By year’send, scores of new turbines willbe sending low-emission elec-tricity to German cities hundredsof miles to the south.

It will be another milestone inGermany’s costly attempt to re-make its electricity system, anambitious project that has al-ready produced striking results:Germans will soon be getting 30percent of their power from re-

newable energy sources. Manysmaller countries are beatingthat, but Germany is by far thelargest industrial power to reachthat level in the modern era. It ismore than twice the percentagein the United States.

Germany’s relentless push intorenewable energy has implica-tions far beyond its shores. Bycreating huge demand for windturbines and especially for solarpanels, it has helped lure big Chi-nese manufacturers into the mar-ket, and that combination is driv-ing down costs faster than almost

Sun and Wind Transforming Global Landscape

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THE BIG FIX

Risks of Renewables

 By SHARON OTTERMAN

The Roman Catholic Diocese ofPeoria, Ill., has already con-structed a museum in honor ofArchbishop Fulton J. Sheen, a na-tive son whose Emmy-winningtelevision show during the 1950sbrought Catholicism to the Amer-ican living room. It has docu-mented several potential mir-acles by him and compiled a dos-sier on his good works for theVatican.

It has drawn up blueprints foran elaborate shrine in its maincathedral to house his tomb andsketched out an entire devotional

campus it hopes to completewhen its campaign to have himdeclared the first American-bornmale saint succeeds.

There has been just one snagin the diocese’s carefully laid ven-eration plans: the matter of Arch-bishop Sheen’s body.

Since his death in 1979, his re-mains have been sealed in awhite marble crypt at St. Pat-rick’s Cathedral in New York, thecity where he spent much of hislife. And though the Peoria dio-cese says it was promised the re-mains, Cardinal Timothy M.Dolan, who considers ArchbishopSheen something of a personalhero, has refused to part withthem, citing the wishes of thearchbishop and his family.

Now the dispute over Arch-bishop Sheen’s corpse hasbrought a halt to his rise to saint-hood, just as he appeared close tobeatification, the final stage be-fore canonization. Bishop DanielR. Jenky, Peoria’s leader, an-nounced this month that the pro-cess had been suspended be-cause New York would not re-lease the body.

To be sure, disputes over re-

Tug of War Between Dioceses

Halts a Bishop’s Beatification

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NEAL BOENZI/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in1979, the year of his death.

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA

The Islamic State in Iraq andSyria released a video Saturdayof the third beheading of a for-eign hostage, a British aid work-er. The execution was a clearmessage to Britain, a vital ally ofthe United States as it builds aninternational coalition to targetthe militant group, which hasmade stunning advances acrossSyria and north-ern Iraq in recentmonths.

The videoshows the aidworker, DavidCawthorneHaines, kneelingon a bare hill un-der the open sky,in a landscapethat appearsidentical towhere two American journalistswere killed by the group in back-to-back-executions in the pastmonth. In the moments before hisdeath, the 44-year-old Mr. Hainesis forced to read a script, in whichhe blames his country’s leadersfor his killing.

“I would like to declare that Ihold you, David Cameron, entire-ly responsible for my execution,”he said. “You entered voluntarilyinto a coalition with the United

ISIS VIDEO SHOWSBRITISH HOSTAGE

BEING BEHEADED

‘AN ACT OF PURE EVIL’

Aid Worker’s Killing a

Grisly Warning to

U.S. Allies

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