Today's Headlines: Two Champions of Children Are Given Nobel Peace Prize-NYT-PALMERA 777-12-10-2014-7-SUSPENSO-10/11. View in Browser Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Unsubscribe Most Popular | Video | Today's Headlines Saturday, October 11, 2014 IN THIS EMAIL World | U.S. | Politics | Business | Technology | Sports | Arts | N.Y./Region | Travel | Today's Video | Obituaries | Editorials | Op-Ed | On This Day | CUSTOMIZE » As a subscriber to Today's Headlines, get all digital access to The Times for just 99 cents. Top News Two Champions of Children Are Given Nobel Peace Prize By DECLAN WALSH Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani advocate of girls' education, and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian who has rescued trafficked children from slavery, shared the prize. Officials Admit a 'Defeat' by Ebola in Sierra Leone By ADAM NOSSITER The decision to help families treat patients at home signifies a significant shift in the struggle against the rampaging disease. Secret Money Fueling a Flood of Political Ads By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE More than half of the general election advertising aired by outside groups in the battle for control of Congress has come from organizations that disclose little or nothing about their donors. For more top news, go to NYTimes.com » ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks U.S. VIDEO: What 'We the People' Want With less than a month until the midterm elections, polls show that Americans are deeply dissatisfied with their elected officials. The Times drove from Washington to St. Louis to ask why. Related Article OPINION | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR What I Saw as an N.F.L. Ball Boy By ERIC KESTER Games spent gathering helmet fragments and supplying smelling salts. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "We are killing them, and they keep coming." TIMUR DEMIRBOGA, a Kurdish fighter in Kobani, a Syrian city besieged by Islamic State forces. Today's Video VIDEO: The Rise of Anonymous Political Giving Inside the growing influence of completely anonymous campaign contributions and the impact on the 2014 election. Related Article VIDEO: League of Legends' Profitable World For Riot Games, the creator of the wildly popular League of Legends game, fan experience comes before profits - and that might be key to its success. Related Article VIDEO: Small Plates For the magazine's fall Food issue, we treated six second graders from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn to dinner at Daniel, where the seven-course tasting menu goes for $220 a person. Related Article For more video, go to NYTimes.com/Video » ADVERTISEMENT World 'Putin's Tiger,' in a Territory Grab All His Own, Swims to China By ANDREW JACOBS A Siberian tiger released into the wild in Russia in the spring crossed a river this week into China, where wildlife officials are tracking his whereabouts. ISIS Intensifies Siege of Kurdish Enclave in Syria By ERIC SCHMITT and KAREEM FAHIM The Islamic State is pouring reinforcements into the besieged Syrian city of Kobani, a Kurdish enclave, despite heavy attacks from American-led aircraft. THE SATURDAY PROFILE Chinese Writer, Tackling Tiananmen, Wields 'Power to Offend' By JANE PERLEZ Publishers in China would not touch Sheng Keyi's "Death Fugue," which fashions the Tiananmen crackdown into a stomach-churning, exuberantly written allegory. For more world news, go to NYTimes.com/World » U.S. As Apprentices in Classroom, Teachers Learn What Works By MOTOKO RICH Three residents in a teacher training program known for its practical approach were followed through a year of setbacks and successes in California classrooms. Protests Begin Over Ferguson Shooting Amid Dismay in St. Louis Case By ALAN BLINDER and MONICA DAVEY A "Weekend of Resistance" over the death of Michael Brown gets underway with attention to the shooting of another black teenager, Vonderrit Myers Jr. Ebola Patient Sent Home Despite Fever, Records Show By MANNY FERNANDEZ and KEVIN SACK Medical records of Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died this week in Dallas, contradict earlier statements from the hospital that treated him. For more U.S. news, go to NYTimes.com/US » ADVERTISEMENT Politics LISTENING POST Recent White House Memoirs Target Lame Duck Over a Potential Successor By MARK LANDLER In the growing crop of tell-alls by former Obama officials, Hillary Rodham Clinton has emerged largely unscathed - proof that it is easier to kick a sitting second-term president than a potential future one. Oregon First Lady's Ex-Marriage Spills Into Race for Governor By KIRK JOHNSON Cylvia Hayes, the wife of Gov. John Kitzhaber, said she married her third husband, an Ethiopian immigrant, for money in a sham marriage in 1997. Maneuvering Persists After Courts Block New Voter Conditions By ERIK ECKHOLM Voter ID requirements were delayed in Wisconsin and Texas, though officials continued to look for ways around the decisions ahead of next month's elections. For more political news, go to NYTimes.com/Politics » Business THE UPSHOT Wall Street's Whipsaw Week Shows Global Economy's Flaws By NEIL IRWIN and PETER EAVIS With markets priced for expectations of a steadily improving global economy, troubling signs that growth may have stalled. TV Ratings by Nielsen Had Errors for Months By BILL CARTER and EMILY STEEL The mistake raises questions about the company's increasingly criticized system for measuring TV audiences. Harvoni, a Hepatitis C Drug From Gilead, Wins F.D.A. Approval By ANDREW POLLACK The drug is the first complete treatment for the disease that requires a single daily pill. For more business news, go to NYTimes.com/Business » Technology POWER UP Behind League of Legends, E-Sports's Main Attraction By DAVID SEGAL Riot Games, creator of the wildly popular League of Legends, says it puts players' enjoyment above the need to produce profits. And that may be the key to the game's success. Interactive: 10,000 League of Legends Games in 30 Seconds Video: League of Legends' Profitable World BITS BLOG Links to Photos Said to Be Stolen From Snapchat Users Flood Message Boards By MIKE ISAAC Just weeks after a celebrity hacking scandal, members of an anonymous online message board claimed to have accessed hundreds of thousands of photographs of noncelebrities. BITS BLOG Apple's Jony Ive Has Harsh Words for Xiaomi By BRIAN X. CHEN In a rare public appearance, Apple's head of design talked about Apple's design process and remarked bluntly in response to a question involving the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. For more technology news, go to NYTimes.com/Technology » Sports At Florida State, Football Clouds Justice By MIKE McINTIRE and WALT BOGDANICH Police and court records and interviews with witnesses show that the Tallahassee police on numerous occasions have soft-pedaled allegations of wrongdoing by Seminoles football players. ROYALS 8, ORIOLES 6, 10 INNINGS Royals Keep Magic Alive, Beating Orioles With Homers in the 10th By DAVID WALDSTEIN The Royals won Game 1 of the A.L.C.S. against the Orioles with more heroics in extra innings. Proper Farewell, Despite Potential for Awkwardness By ANDREW KEH After being left off the World Cup roster this summer, Landon Donovan put aside tension with the U.S. men's national team and played the final game of his 15-year international career, a friendly match against Ecuador. Slide Show: A Farewell Match for a Sport's Star For more sports news, go to NYTimes.com/Sports » Arts ON COMEDY In a Big House, but Playing It Small By JASON ZINOMAN Aziz Ansari, known for his jittery energy, played Madison Square Garden with a calmer, humbler tone, and even interacted with the crowd. Scholars Fear Loss of Eden in London By RACHEL DONADIO The Warburg Institute is under financial pressure from its host, the University of London, and there are worries that it will be broken up or absorbed by another institution. DANCE REVIEW Blithely Stepping Out of a Comfort Zone By GIA KOURLAS In "Chalk and Soot" at the Lincoln Center White Light Festival, John Heginbotham choreographs to silence and Colin Jacobsen has turned to writing vocals. For more arts news, go to NYTimes.com/Arts » N.Y./Region ELECTION 2014 Cuomo's Rival a Conservative Since Day One By DAVID W. CHEN Many political candidates have changed, over time, on key issues, but Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate for New York governor, is basically the same steadfast conservative that he was at 18. Principal of Failing Brooklyn School Quits, Saying City Lacks an Education Plan By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS Bernard Gassaway, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, offered Mayor Bill de Blasio's Education Department one of its sternest public rebukes yet. In Upstate New York, Fight Pits Gambling Empire vs. a Baron's Heirs By CHARLES V BAGLI Caesars Entertainment has proposed a casino in Harriman, N.Y., a village named after E.H. Harriman, whose descendants are trying to block the development. For more New York news, go to NYTimes.com/NewYork » Travel New Zealand for Beginners By JOE DRAPE Finding himself in a country he'd never given much thought, the author manages to hurtle down slopes, go on a picturesque "tramp" and hit some pubs - all in a few days. THE GETAWAY The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM Instead of hunting masterpieces at a fevered clip, spending more time with fewer works just might make for a better visit. PERSONAL JOURNEYS Won Over by the Battlefield By HELENE STAPINSKI A son's fascination with historic battles sets the itinerary for family vacations that stretch from Normandy to Pearl Harbor. For more travel news, go to NYTimes.com/Travel » Obituaries David Jones, Florist to Hollywood, Dies at 78 By PAUL VITELLO Mr. Jones was probably best known as the floral designer for Elizabeth Taylor's 1991 wedding and for Michael Jackson's funeral in 2009. Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 By MARGALIT FOX Ms. Kizer was known for political and satirical works that, she said, came with "a sting in the tail." Ray K. Metzker, Art Photographer, Dies at 83 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Mr. Metzker, who experimented with photographic forms for six decades, is perhaps best known for his cityscapes and landscapes. Slide Show: Visions by a Master of Black and White For more obituaries, go to NYTimes.com/Obituaries » EditorialsTODAY'S EDITORIALS Having to Rebuild Gaza, Again By THE EDITORIAL BOARD What is the point of spending many millions of dollars to reconstruct the strip just so it can be destroyed in the next war? The Border Crisis Isn't Over 'Operation Choke Point' Hits the Mark For more opinion, go to NYTimes.com/Opinion » Op-Ed OP-ED COLUMNIST Putin Shows His Hand By JOE NOCERA The Western sanctions imposed on Russia may be generating some unintended consequences. Columnist Page OP-ED | TAHMIMA ANAM How to Rob a Bank in Bangladesh By TAHMIMA ANAM The hard way is to drill through the wall. Most choose the easy way: take a big loan and default on it. 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HARRIS Bernard Gassaway, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, offered Mayor Bill de Blasio's Education Department one of its sternest public rebukes yet. In Upstate New York, Fight Pits Gambling Empire vs. a Baron's Heirs By CHARLES V BAGLI Caesars Entertainment has proposed a casino in Harriman, N.Y., a village named after E.H. Harriman, whose descendants are trying to block the development. Lawyer in Central Park Jogger Case Hired by Garner's Family By BENJAMIN WEISER The family of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died after a confrontation with the police, has hired Jonathan C. Moore to replace Sanford A. Rubenstein, who has been accused of rape. ADVERTISEMENT Features STREETSCAPES An Aristocratic Painter's Astonishing Aesthetic By CHRISTOPHER GRAY Murals by Robert Winthrop Chanler may be seen at Coe Hall in Oyster Bay, N.Y. More Streetscapes Columns Sports Brian Cashman's Era With Yankees Is Extended for Three Years, but Kevin Long Is Dismissed By DAVID WALDSTEIN Cashman, the team's general manager since 1998, received a three-year contract on Friday, while the coaches Kevin Long and Mick Kelleher were fired. For more Sports news, go to NYTimes.com/Sports » ADVERTISEMENT Multimedia What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal VIDEO BY JEFFREY BLITZ Students from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn learn the fine points of French cuisine at one of New York's poshest restaurants. Arts ON COMEDY In a Big House, but Playing It Small By JASON ZINOMAN Aziz Ansari, known for his jittery energy, played Madison Square Garden with a calmer, humbler tone, and even interacted with the crowd. 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