NY+Times+28+oct

 **** __Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll__ **** By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and a suspected player in the opium trade, has gotten payments from the C.I.A. for eight years, American officials said.

**** __U.S. to Protect Populous Afghan Areas, Officials Say__ **** By THOM SHANKER, PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER The approach would stop short of an all-out assault on the Taliban while still seeking to nurture long-term stability.

**** __New Meaning for Night Class at 2-Year Colleges__ **** By ABBY GOODNOUGH Predawn and late-night classes are among the ways community colleges are responding to high demand.

 By SABRINA TAVERNISE and ALISSA J. RUBIN Six U.N. workers were among the dead, a spokesman said, while Afghan authorities said three attackers were killed.
 * ****WORLD**** ||
 *  **** __Militants Attack U.N. Guest House in Kabul, Killing Nine__ ****

**** __Extremism Spreads Across Indonesian Penal Code__ **** By NORIMITSU ONISHI Under a new Islamic criminal code to take effect soon in Aceh, adulterers may face death by stoning.

**** __Clinton, in Pakistan, Confronts Rising Hostility__ **** By MARK LANDLER The visit comes at a tense moment in Pakistani-American relations, in the wake of a furor over a U.S. aid package. ||  By JESSE McKINLEY State lawmakers are holding a hearing on the effects of a bill that would legalize, tax and regulate the drug — in what would be the first such law in the United States.
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 *  **** __Push to Legalize Marijuana Gains Ground in California__ ****

**** __Focus of Gay-Marriage Fight Is Maine__ **** By ABBY GOODNOUGH Donations and volunteers are pouring in to sway a referendum to repeal Maine’s new same-sex marriage law.

**** __Anxious Crowds Meet Ad Hoc Swine Flu Police__ **** By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Efforts to get vaccines to those at high risk are colliding with widespread fears and willy-nilly distribution. **** __Union Votes Go Against Cuts at Ford__ **** By NICK BUNKLEY Members of at least five local chapters of the United Automobile Workers union have turned down proposed concessions from the automaker.

**** __Bill Seeks to Shift Rescue Costs to Big Banks__ **** By STEPHEN LABATON Legislation would let the government shift the cost of saving troubled firms from taxpayers to other companies.

**** __Fears of a New Chill in Home Sales__ **** By DAVID STREITFELD The August data from a home price index suggested that a housing recovery is taking hold. ||