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CAIRO — Gaza’s ruling Hamas will not stop arming itself, the No. 2 in the Palestin-ian group told The Associated Press on Sat-urday, signaling tough challenges ahead for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Islamist militants on a new border deal for Gaza.

The talks are being brokered by Egypt, which also helped forge a cease-fi re deal that ended eight days of Israel-Gaza fi ghting ear-lier this week.

The truce went into effect late Wednesday and has largely held. Residents in Gaza said Israel has begun easing some border restric-tions, allowing fi shermen to head further out to sea and permitting farmers inspect land in a former no-go zone.

Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy to Hamas’ top leader in exile Khaled Mashaal, said talks on a further easing of restrictions are to be held in Cairo on Monday. Hamas and Israel

Hamas No. 2 rejects arms halt in Gaza

BY MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHAssociated Press

Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and op-portunities since Congress passed land-mark legislation on their behalf in 1990. And yet advocates say barriers and bias still abound when it comes to one basic human right: To be a parent.

A Kansas City, Mo., couple had their

daughter taken into custody by the state two days after her birth because both parents were blind. A Chicago mother, because she is quadriplegic, endured an 18-month legal battle to keep custody of her young son. A California woman paid an advance fee to an adoption agency, then was told she might be unfi t to adopt because she has cerebral palsy.

Such cases are found nationwide, ac-

cording to a new report by the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency. The 445-page document is viewed by the disability-rights com-munity as by far the most comprehensive ever on the topic — simultaneously an encyclopedic accounting of the status quo and an emotional plea for change.

Disabled parents face biasBY DAVID CRARY

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NEW YORK — One reason “Dallas” became a cultural phenomenon like none other is that Larry Hagman never took its magnitude for granted.

During an interview last June, he spoke of returning to Dallas and the real-life South-fork Ranch some months earlier to resume his role of J.R. Ewing for the TNT network’s revival of the series. There at Southfork, now a major tourist attraction, he came upon a wall-size family tree diagramming the en-tanglement of “Dallas” characters.

“I looked at it and said ‘I didn’t know I was related to HER!’” Hagman marveled. “And I didn’t know THAT!”

In its own way, the original “Dallas” — which aired on CBS from 1978 to 1991 — was unfathomably bigger than anything on TV before or since, while J.R. Ewing remains unrivaled not just as a video villain but as a towering mythical fi gure.

All this is largely thanks to Hagman and his epic portrayal of J.R., a Texas oilman and patriarch who, in Hagman’s hands, was in equal measures loathsome and lovable.

Hagman, who died Friday at 81, certainly had nothing more to prove a quarter-century ago when “Dallas” ended after 14 seasons.

But in the series revival, whose fi rst season aired this summer, J.R. was even more evil and deliciously conniving than ever. Though

Larry Hagman as J.R.: Villain over the decades

BY FRAZIER MOOREAssociated Press

Thanksgiving shopping took a noticeable bite out of Black Fri-day’s start to the holiday season, as the latest survey found retail sales in stores fell slightly from last year.

Saturday’s report from retail technology company Shopper-Trak fi nds consumers spent $11.2 billion at stores across the U.S. That is down 1.8 percent from last year’s total.

This year’s Friday results ap-pear to have been tempered by hundreds of thousands of shop-pers hitting sales Thursday eve-ning while still full of Thanksgiv-ing dinner. Retailers including Sears, Target and Wal-Mart got

their deals rolling as early as 8 p.m. on Turkey Day.

Online shopping also may have cut into the take at brick-and-mortar stores: IBM said online sales rose 17.4 percent on Thanks-giving and 20.7 percent on Black Friday, compared with 2011.

Yet ShopperTrak said retail foot traffi c increased 3.5 percent, to more than 307.67 million store visits, indicating at least some

shoppers were browsing but not spending freely.

“Black Friday continues to be an important day in retail,” said ShopperTrak founder Bill Mar-tin. “This year, though, more re-tailers than last year began their doorbuster deals on Thursday, Thanksgiving itself. So while foot traffi c did increase on Friday,

Thanksgiving steals Black Friday salesBY LINDA A. JOHNSON

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Sorry, fellas, but President Barack Obama’s re-election makes it offi cial: Women can overrule men at the ballot box.

For the fi rst time in research dating to 1952, a presidential candidate whom men chose decisively — Republican Mitt Romney — lost. More women voted for the other guy.

It’s surprising it didn’t happen sooner because women have been voting in larg-er numbers than men for almost three decades, exit polls show.

But men, who make up less than half the U.S. population, always have exer-cised power greater than their numbers and they aren’t about to stop now.

When it comes to elections, males as a group are more infl uential because they show less party loyalty than women, who skew Democratic.

Despite all the focus on candidates courting Hispanics or the working class, men are the nation’s ultimate swing vot-ers; they’re why Republican George W. Bush became president and Republican John McCain didn’t.

Their move away from Obama this

year expanded the voting “gender gap.” It wasn’t enough to determine the out-come, but came close.

So presidential hopefuls staring into

the gender gap in 2016 might want to look beyond the usual controversies over

With gender gap, men play crucial roleBY CONNIE CASS

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Brooke Croteau, an assistant to Carrie Ann Lucas, a disabled mother of four disabled adopted children, helps Adrianne, 13, one of Lucas’ children, into a vehicle on Nov. 14 as the family leaves their home in Windsor, Colo., to attend an adoption hearing. Anthony, 11, the intellectually-disabled adopted son of Lucas, is pictured at right.

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Amber Lopez and her 10-year old son Zach Crawford, both of Paducah, sit outside Paducah’s Best Buy on Thursday as they wait for the store’s midnight opening for Black Friday. Many retail stores around the country opted to open Thursday evening for shoppers, as opposed to Friday morning.

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The audience, who were mostly women, listen behind President Barack Obama on Oct. 19 as he speaks about the choice facing women in the election during a campaign event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Sorry, fellas, but Presi-dent Barack Obama’s re-election makes it official: Women can overrule men at the ballot box.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — It was the 18th-century version of a tweet: a two-sentence, 25-word dispatch in a Lon-don newspaper reporting the American colonies had declared their indepen-dence from Great Britain.

The events of the Revolu-tionary War may seem like ye olde news to today’s his-tory students, but they were breaking news to people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and newspapers were the main source of in-formation. Some historians theorize there would have been no American Revo-lution without the era’s newspapers, even though they tended to be four-page publications crammed with information that was days, weeks or months old.

“Newspapers are what fanned the fl ames of rebel-lion,” said Todd Andrlik, whose collection of 18th-century newspapers is the focus of a book published this month.

“Reporting The Revolu-tionary War” (Sourcebooks) primarily focuses on the turbulent 20-year period be-tween the end of the French and Indian War and the con-clusion of the American Rev-olution. The large-format book features reproductions of the actual newspaper pag-es from the era, with contex-tual essays written by three dozen historians, scholars and authors.

“For 250 years, newspa-per accounts have been rel-egated to footnotes,” said Andrlik, a marketing ex-ecutive for a Chicago-area construction fi rm.

Over the past fi ve years, his collection of newspa-pers from the 1700s has grown to more than 400, including editions of Amer-ican and British publica-tions that are among the rarest of their kind. An-drlik’s book is unique be-cause it compiles so many

primary sources in a single publication, according to one Revolutionary War au-thor and historian.

“I’ve seen nothing like it and I’ve been studying the Revolution since 1955,” said Thomas Fleming, whose contribution to the book details the obstacles the Americans and British faced in negotiating a peace treaty to end the war.

Getting news into print was a hands-on, time-con-suming task in the late 18th century. It could also be life-threatening, especially if a newspaper printer was on the wrong side of the re-bellion.

Word of the outbreak of fi ghting at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, wasn’t front-page news in nearby Boston because there were no front pages being published: Most of the city’s printers had fl ed from the British occupa-tion forces, Andrlik said. Two days later, a newspa-per in Portsmouth, N.H., was one of the fi rst with a page one story of the bat-tles, publishing an account under the headline “Bloody News.”

The news of the Ameri-can Declaration of Inde-pendence was published in the London Gazette on Aug. 13, 1776, barely fi ve weeks after the Continen-tal Congress had fi nalized the document. Tucked be-tween business notices and brief overseas dispatches, the short note served as a news bulletin at a time when the typical trans-At-lantic voyage could take up to two months:

“Advice is received that the Congress resolved upon independence the 4th of July; and, it is said, have declared war against Great Britain in form.”

“Newspapers in those days had the same attitude toward a hot story: They got it into the papers as quickly as possible,” Flem-

ing said.Full versions of the rebel-

lious colonies’ declaration were appearing in British publications just days lat-er. One Scottish periodical provided its own analysis of the document, including a snarky response to what became one of the Decla-ration of Independence’s best-known lines: “In what are they created equal?”

Fleming said the Ameri-can population was “amaz-ingly literate” during the pe-riod, and the new nation’s

military and political lead-ers such as George Wash-ington and John Adams realized how newspapers could be as important to the Revolution’s success as the outcome of any battle.

He pointed out how Washington started his own newspaper to fi ll an information void while his army was fi ghting in New Jersey.

“You didn’t have to hold rallies,” Fleming said. “You were rallying them with this journalism.”

Book tells how 18th-century papers covered warBY CHRIS CAROLA

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“Reporting The Revo-lutionary War” primar-ily focuses on the tur-bulent 20-year period between the end of the French and Indian War and the conclusion of the Ameri-can Revolu-tion.

MADISON, Wis. — Every weekday as the clock strikes noon, dozens of demonstra-tors pass out songbooks in-side the Wisconsin Capitol. Offi ce workers who know what’s coming scramble to close their doors, and sev-eral police offi cers take up watch from a distance.

Then the group begins to sing, the voices echoing throughout the cavern-ous rotunda. The fi rst song might include the lyrics, “Hit the road, Scott, and don’t you come back no more.” The next tune could say, “We’ll keep singing ‘til justice is done. We’re not going away, oh Scotty.”

Most of the protesters who hounded Gov. Scott Walker for his collective-bargaining law got on with their lives long ago. But one group still gathers every day to needle the state’s leading Republican — a tactic they promise to continue even as supporters suggest there are more effective ways to infl uence politics.

“We’re not just protest-ing,” said Brandon Bar-wick, a 28-year-old stu-dent and musician who is the unoffi cial leader of the sing-along. “We’re advocat-ing for a way of governing, a way of living that preserves our freedoms, our rights.”

Madison has a long,

proud tradition of public protests, from a famous civil rights march in 1969 to violent clashes with po-lice during the Vietnam era. More recently, Walk-er’s law to strip most public employees of their union rights drew massive pro-tests in 2011 and sparked an effort to oust the gov-ernor earlier this year. He survived a recall election in June.

But the Solidarity Singers won’t accept defeat. Walk-er’s attack on Wisconsin workers was so severe, Bar-wick said, that he deserves constant reminders of the damage he caused.

Their efforts might seem puzzling. Protests gener-ally persist only as long as there’s a chance to bring change. It can be hard to sustain that energy when there’s no clear goal or real-istic chance of success.

That’s what happened with the Occupy move-ment, which grew out of anger at Wall Street and a fi nancial system per-ceived to favor the richest 1 percent. The movement grew too large too quickly for organizers to keep up. Without leaders or specifi c demands, it eroded into an amorphous protest against everything wrong with the world and eventually fell apart.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Preliminary investiga-tions show more than 40 buildings were damaged in a natural gas explosion in Massachusetts that injured 18 people, building inspec-tors said Saturday.

A strip club was fl attened and a day care center was heavily damaged in the massive blast Friday night in Springfi eld, one of New England’s biggest cities.

Investigators were trying Saturday to fi gure out what caused the blast that could be heard for miles, left a large hole in the ground where the multistory brick building housing Scores Gentleman’s Club once stood and scattered debris over several blocks.

Offi cials already had evacuated part of the en-tertainment district after responding to a gas leak and odor reported about an hour before the explo-sion. Gas workers venting a gas leak got indications that the building was about to explode and they ducked for cover behind a util-ity truck — along with fi re-fi ghters and police offi cers — just before the blast, said Mark McDonald, president of the New England Gas Workers Association.

Most of the injured were in that group, and the truck that saved their lives was es-sentially demolished, he said.

“It really is a miracle and it’s an example of our pub-lic safety offi cials, each and every day, putting them-selves in harm’s way, tak-ing what could have been considered a very routine call of an odor of gas, but they took the proper pre-cautions,” State Fire Mar-shal Stephen Coan said.

“And thanks to God that they did.”

Offi cials also marveled how the 5:30 p.m. blast oc-curred when a day care cen-ter next door was closed. The center’s building was heavily damaged.

Lt. Gov. Tim Murray and Springfi eld Mayor Domenic Sarno were at-tending a tree-lighting cer-emony when the explosion occurred. Sarno said some people mistakenly thought the boom was part of the holiday event.

The explosion blew out windows in a three-block radius, leaving at least three buildings irreparably dam-

aged and causing emergen-cy workers to evacuate a six-story apartment build-ing that was buckling, po-lice said. Pieces of broken glass littered streets and sidewalks. It was unclear how many residents had been evacuated. A shelter was set up at a school, but city offi cials said no one stayed there overnight.

Omar Fermin, manager of the Punta Cana Restau-rant two blocks from the explosion site, found the fl oor-to-ceiling windows blasted out when he came to check on the property Saturday morning.

“It looks like an earth-

quake hit,” said Fermin, a native of the Dominican Republic. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

He said he was waiting for someone to come and assess the damage. He wor-ried the restaurant would remain closed for weeks while the owner seeks to replace the massive cus-tom-made windows.

Authorities cordoned off the center of the explosion Saturday as building in-spectors worked to identify unsafe structures. Anxious residents gathered at the pe-rimeter, waiting for permis-sion to visit their buildings.

Preliminary reports

show the blast damaged 42 buildings housing 115 resi-dential units, said Thomas Walsh, spokesman for the mayor.

Three buildings were immediately condemned, and 24 others require ad-ditional inspections by structural engineers to de-termine whether they are safe, Walsh said.

Dogs trapped in aban-doned buildings barked loudly Saturday as build-ing inspectors fanned out across the area. One in-spector said he wished he could get a ladder and permission to retrieve a dog that was barking in the

upper fl oor of one building sealed off from residents.

Authorities are opening an animal shelter for pets affected by the explosion, Walsh said.

Coan, the fi re marshal, said his offi ce is investigat-ing the cause of the blast and its possible origin. The state’s Department of Pub-lic Utilities was also inves-tigating.

Sheila Doiron, a spokes-woman for Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, said the company will continue to monitor for any potential leaks within several blocks of the blast site. So far, she said, the company hadn’t yet found any measurable readings.

The utility will keep at least 30 workers at the scene, along with a so-called sniffi ng car mounted with sophisticated gadgets capable of detecting low levels of gas leaks, Walsh said.

Doiron said the com-pany also didn’t fi nd in its records any gas odor calls to the area where the strip club was located.

Authorities also deployed police offi cers throughout the area to prevent looting, Walsh said.

The victims were taken to two hospitals in the city. Those injured were nine fi refi ghters, two police of-fi cers, four Columbia Gas workers, two civilians and another city employee.

Springfi eld, which is 90 miles west of Boston and has about 150,000 residents, is the largest city in western Massachusetts. It’s known as the home of the Basket-ball Hall of Fame, which is not near the blast site.

The city has been rebuild-ing from damage caused by a tornado in June 2011.

Natural gas explosion damages 42 buildingsBY SUSAN HAIGH

Associated Press

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Inspectors stand in debris Saturday at the site of a gas explosion that leveled a strip club in Springfield, Mass., on Friday evening. Investigators were trying to figure out what caused the blast where the multi-story brick building housing Scores Gentleman’s Club stood.

CAIRO — Prominent Egyptian democracy advo-cate Mohammed ElBara-dei warned Saturday of in-creasing turmoil that could potentially lead to the mili-tary stepping in unless the Islamist president rescinds his new, near absolute pow-ers, as the country’s long fragmented opposition sought to unite and rally new protests.

Egypt’s liberal and secu-lar forces — long divided, weakened and uncertain amid the rise of Islamist parties to power — are seeking to rally themselves in response to the decrees issued last week by Presi-dent Mohammed Morsi. The president granted himself sweeping powers to “protect the revolution” and made himself immune to judicial oversight.

The judiciary, which was the main target of Morsi’s edicts, pushed back Satur-day. The country’s high-est body of judges, the Supreme Judical Coun-cil, called his decrees an “unprecedented assault.” Courts in the Mediterra-nean city of Alexandria an-nounced a work suspension until the decrees are lifted.

Outside the high court building in Cairo, sev-eral hundred demonstra-tors rallied against Morsi, chanting, “Leave! Leave!” echoing the slogan used against former leader Hos-ni Mubarak in last year’s uprising that ousted him. Police fi red tear gas to dis-perse a crowd of young men who were shooting fl ares outside the court.

The edicts issued Wednes-day have galvanized anger brewing against Morsi and

the Muslim Brotherhood, from which he hails, ever since he took offi ce in June as Egypt’s fi rst freely elected president.

Critics accuse the Broth-erhood — which has domi-nated elections the past year — and other Islamists of monopolizing power and doing little to bring real reform or address Egypt’s mounting economic and se-curity woes.

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do not meet directly and the indirect talks are held through Egyptian interme-diaries.

An Israeli security offi cial has said Israel would likely link a signifi cant easing of Gaza’s border blockade to Hamas’ willingness to stop arming itself. Israeli offi -cials were not immediately available for comment Sat-urday.

However, Abu Marzouk rejected such demands. “These weapons protected us and there is no way to stop obtaining and manu-facturing them,” he said in an interview at his offi ce on the outskirts of Cairo.

Hamas offi cials in Gaza have said they have devel-oped a local arms industry. Mashaal said earlier this week that the group has re-ceived weapons from Iran since Israel’s last Gaza of-fensive four years ago.

Hamas smuggles such

weapons into Gaza through tunnels under the border with Egypt.

Israel and Hamas have clashed repeatedly over the years, most recently in the

cross-border battle that be-gan Nov. 14.

Meanwhile, tens of thou-

sands of Gaza children re-turned to school Saturday for the fi rst time since fi ght-ing ended late Wednesday. About half of Gaza’s 1.6 mil-lion people are children.

In 245 U.N.-run schools, the day was dedicated to letting children share what they experienced, in hopes of helping them deal with trauma, educators said.

In a sixth-grade class in Gaza City, boys eagerly raised their hands when asked by their science teacher to share their sto-ries in the presence of a reporter. Mohammed Abu Sakr, 11, said that earlier this week, he witnessed an Israeli missile striking a car and engulfi ng it in fl ames. The boy said he had trouble sleeping and eating after-wards, and still feels scared.

Thirty-four children and minors under the age of 18 were among those killed in the fi ghting, said Gaza health offi cials and local human rights groups. A to-

tal of 156 Palestinians were killed during the fi ghting and 10 died later of their wounds, they said.

The exchanges of fi re were the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years. Israel launched the offensive to put an end to escalating Gaza rocket fi re on Israeli towns. Israel said it reached its objectives, while Hamas claimed vic-tory because Israel didn’t make good on threats to send ground troops into the territory, as it had done four years earlier.

Israel’s air force carried out some 1,500 strikes on Hamas-linked targets, while Gaza militants fi red roughly the same number of rockets, including some targeting the Israeli heart-land cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the fi rst time.

The truce is to lead to a new border deal for Gaza, with Egypt hosting indirect talks between Israel and Hamas.

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Palestinian fishermen stand at the Gaza seaport, in Gaza City, on Saturday. Gaza residents said that Israel has eased some border restrictions as part of its truce with the Palestinian territory’s Hamas rulers, allowing farmers to visit land near its secu-rity fence and letting fishermen head farther out to sea.

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“Parents with disabili-ties continue to be the only distinct community that has to fi ght to retain — and sometimes gain — custody of their own children,” said autism-rights activist Ari Ne’eman, a member of the council. “The need to cor-rect this unfair bias could not be more urgent or clear.”

The U.S. legal system is not adequately protecting the rights of parents with disabilities, the report says, citing child welfare laws in most states allowing courts to determine that a parent is unfi t on the basis of a dis-ability.

Child-welfare observers, responding to the report, said they shared its goals of expanding supports for dis-abled parents and striving to keep their families together. But they said removals of children from their parents — notably in cases of signifi -cant intellectual disabilities — are sometimes necessary even if wrenching.

“At the end of the day, the child’s interest in having permanence and stability has to be the priority over the interests of their par-ents,” said Judith Schagrin, a veteran child-welfare ad-

ministrator in Maryland.The new report, titled

“Rocking the Cradle: En-suring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children,” estimates that 6.1 million U.S. children have disabled parents. It says these parents are more at risk than other parents of losing custody of their children, including removal rates as high as 80 percent for parents with psychiatric or intellectual disabilities.

Parents with all types of

disabilities — physical or mental — are more likely to lose custody of their chil-dren after divorce, have more diffi culty accessing assisted-reproductive treat-ments to bear children, and face signifi cant barriers to adopting children, the re-port says.

One of the cases it details involved Erika Johnson and Blake Sinnett of Kan-sas City, whose 2-day-old daughter, Mikaela, was taken into custody by Mis-

souri authorities because both parents were blind. The action occurred after a hospital nurse reported that Johnson seemed to be having trouble with her fi rst attempts at breast-feeding — which Johnson said hap-pens with many fi rst-time mothers.

During a 57-day legal battle, before the couple re-gained custody, they were allowed to visit Mikaela only two to three times a week, for an hour at a time, with a foster parent moni-toring.

Since then, the family has been left in peace, said Johnson, who tries to offer support to other disabled parents facing similar chal-lenges.

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“women’s issues” such as abortion or the polling fads such as “Wal-Mart moms.” Maybe it’s time to pause and consider the fi ckle male. Maybe it’s time to ask, “What do men want?”

In the voting booth, that is.

“I don’t think we fully understand it yet,” political scientist Christina Wolbre-cht of the University of Notre Dame said about why men and women vote differently. But she said plenty of research on elec-tions going back to the 1950s indicates it’s not because of issues such as equal pay, birth control coverage in health plans or Romney’s awkward ref-erence to “binders full of women.”

Paul Kellstedt has some ideas. A Texas A&M asso-ciate professor of political science, Kellstedt studies what American men and women want from their government and how that shifts over time.

Like Wolbrecht, he not-ed that the sexes aren’t that different, at least when it comes to the issues.

Studies have found that the opinions that separate liberals and conserva-tives, even on issues such as abortion, don’t divide the sexes much. Men and women are about as likely to fall on either side of those debates, and millions of each happily line up with each political party.

But there has been a con-sistent thread of disagree-ment for decades over what role the government should play. It’s not a big gap, but it is statistically signifi cant, about 4 per-centage points or 5 points in many studies, Kellstedt said. As a group, women tend to like bigger govern-

ment with more health and welfare programs; men lean toward smaller gov-ernment that spends less, except on the military.

Sort of the social safety net versus rugged individ-ualism. Or Obama versus Romney.

There are lots of possible reasons the genders see this differently.

Besides women’s tradi-tional role as family nur-turers, they also live longer than men and so are more likely to rely on Social Se-curity and Medicare.

those Thursday deals at-tracted some of the spend-ing that’s usually meant for Friday.”

The company estimated that shopper foot traffi c rose the most in the Mid-west, up 12.9 percent com-pared with last year. Traffi c rose the least, 7.6 percent, in the Northeast, parts of which are still recovering from Superstorm Sandy.

ShopperTrak, which counts foot traffi c and its own proprietary sales num-bers from 25,000 retail outlets across the U.S., had forecast Black Friday sales would grow 3.8 percent this year, to $11.4 billion.

While consumer confi -dence has been improving, many people are still wor-

ried about the slow eco-nomic recovery, high un-employment and whether a gridlocked Congress can avert tax increases and government spending cuts — the so-called “fi scal cliff” — set to occur auto-matically in January. And some would-be shoppers said they weren’t impressed with the discounts, or that there wasn’t enough inven-tory of the big door-busters.

“As far as deals, they weren’t there,” said Tammy Stempel, 48, of Gladstone, Ore. “But business have to be successful, too. I’m hop-ing they extend the deals through December.”

She was waiting in line outside an Ikea in Portland on Saturday to buy pots and pans for her 18-year old daughter — as a hint

that it was time to move out. Stemple and her hus-band went shopping at two Targets, Michaels and other stores Friday, but failed to fi nd any amazing deals, even on a fl at-screen TV they wanted for themselves.

Target, Best Buy and other stores near the Ikea seemed to have few cus-tomers, and traffi c at the nearby Lloyd Center Mall also was light, even for a normal weekend.

Online retailers worked as hard as brick-and-mor-tar stores to draw custom-ers, sending each of their subscribers an average of 5.9 promotional emails during the 7 days through Black Friday. That’s an all-time high, according to marketing software com-pany Responsys.

WILL PINKSTON | The Sun

(Left) Jackie Bray and Tammie Gordon, both of Barlow, push their cart as they leave Walmart on Hinkleville Road on Thursday night. Walmart opened early to allow shop-pers a jump on Black Friday deals.

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visibly frail, Hagman knew how to leverage J.R.’s vulnerabilities as a new form of strength to wield against his rivals. Hagman knew how to double-down on J.R. as a force the audience could hiss and cheer with equal delight.

Of course, in his long career, Hagman did more than star in “Dal-las” and tackled more roles than J.R. Ewing. Had “Dallas” never come along with its operatic sprawl of power, corrup-tion and family feuds, Hagman would likely be remembered for an ear-lier series, “I Dream of Jeannie,” the 1960s sit-com about an astronaut and the genie who loved him.

Even so, during Hag-man’s fi ve seasons co-starring with Barbara Eden as the sexy genie-in-a-bottle, he was inevi-tably upstaged.

That would never be a problem on “Dallas,” especially after the fi nal hour of the series’ sec-ond season, when J.R. was gunned down by an unknown assailant and left for dead on his offi ce fl oor.

All that summer and late into the fall, the nation was seized and teased by the mystery of Who Shot J.R.? Nearly every fellow character had suffi cient motive to want J.R. killed, and which of them had done the deed was a question everyone was asking. Finally, the answer was delivered on the episode that aired 32 years ago almost to the day — on Nov. 21, 1980 — when the shooter was revealed

to be J.R.’s scheming sister-in-law and mistress, Kris-tin.

And oh, by the way, J.R. survived.

As J.R., Hagman could marshal piercing glances with his hawk-like eyes, and chill any onlooker with his wicked grin. There was no depth to which J.R. couldn’t sink, especially with the outrageous story lines the series blessed him with.

But his popularity ex-ceeded that for even a no-table bad guy. This, too, is a credit to Hagman’s por-trayal. By all indications, the glorious rascalness that made J.R. such fun to watch was lifted intact from Hag-man’s own lively personal-ity. During last June’s lunch interview with Hagman and Linda Gray (J.R.’s long-suf-fering onetime wife, Sue El-len), Gray recalled the day the “Dallas” cast fi rst met.

“He walks in, this man with a cowboy hat,” said Gray, “and I thought,

‘What’s this?’ To me, he was still the astronaut from ‘I Dream of Jeannie.’ Then he looked at me and he went, ‘Hello, darlin’.’ And that was it: I thought, Oh, darn, this is gonna be fun.”

“She THREW herself at me!” Hagman broke in. “She’d had a couple of glasses of champagne al-ready, and she put her arms around me and said, ‘I’m your WIFE!’”

“Where do you come up with these stories?” Gray, laughing, fi red back at the man she would describe at his passing months later as “my best friend for 35 years.”

What made J.R. irresist-ible, and always forgivable, was his high-spiritedness, his love of the game. De-spite the legendary fortune of the Ewings, J.R. didn’t fl aunt his wealth. J.R. sa-vored power, not things.

He loved doing to others before they did it to him, and he usually succeeded.

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