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Our topic for today is hypocrisy. Thescene is — where else? — Congress.

This week the House of Representa-tives voted 237 to 189 to make it acrime for a doctor to perform an abor-tion on a woman who has been preg-nant more than 20 weeks. Victory forthe anti-choice forces. One of whomwas apparently very interested inmaintaining all options when hethought his own girlfriend was expect-ing.

Meet Tim Murphy, a Republicancongressman from the Pittsburghsuburbs who has a doctorate in psy-chology, and is the co-author of a cou-ple of books with titles like “Overcom-ing Passive-Aggression.” He’s married

but — proddedby informationrevealed at hislover’s divorcetrial — he admitshaving strayedwith anotherpsychologist.

Murphy is aco-sponsor of theanti-abortion bill.

At about the same time it was passing,The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publisheda note his mistress had texted in Janu-ary, complaining about the way he keptputting anti-abortion messages on hisFacebook page “when you had no issueasking me to abort our unborn childjust last week. . . . ”

Whoops. This is not actually aunique story. There’s a history of law-makers who are eager to restrict abor-tions in every case not involving theirown personal sex life.

Back in the ’90s Representative BobBarr, a Georgia Republican, was tar-geted by his ex-wife, who claimed hehad helped her get an abortion whilethey were married. It was a particu-larly embarrassing episode since Barrwas so dedicated to the anti-choicemovement he once said he’d stop hiswife from having an abortion even ifshe had gotten pregnant via a rape.(This was a different ex-wife from theone who announced Barr had takenher to the abortionist. One of the thingsthe various stars of this story have incommon is a certain friskiness.)

More recently, Representative ScottDesJarlais, a Tennessee Republicanwho bragged about his “100 percentpro-life voting record,” was confrontedwith pesky divorce records thatshowed he’d encouraged women to

Sanctimonymeets sexin Congress

Gail Collins

OPINION

When U.S.Republicansdecide tosin, self-righteousnessis suddenly in.

COLLINS, PAGE 17

The land beneath Dolgor Dashnyam’shome is wet and gritty and smells of de-cay. Here, atop one of Ulan Bator’s larg-est landfills, Ms. Dashnyam lives undera roof made of soggy mattresses. Shespends her days rummaging throughpiles of gin bottles and discarded animalbones, picking up pieces of scrap metalto sell in order to buy water and bread.

Ms. Dashnyam, 55, was once an ambi-tious college graduate who dreamed ofowning a farm and getting rich. But ascarcity of affordable housing haspushed her and thousands of low-in-come residents to the fringes of Ulan Ba-tor, Mongolia’s capital, where theystruggle for basic necessities like foodand clean water.

“Nobody cares about us,” said Ms.Dashnyam, who makes about $3 a dayand says she has been unable to obtaingovernment-subsidized housing. She

was laid off from a farming job. “Wedon’t exist.”

Hundreds of thousands of peoplehave flocked to Ulan Bator in recentyears, drawn by the promise of high-paying jobs and a path to the middleclass. Many are fleeing harsh conditionsin the countryside brought on by climatechange, with droughts and bitter win-ters devastating fields and livestock.

But city life has grown increasinglybleak. While luxury high-rises are plen-tiful along sleek downtown streets, af-fordable housing is scarce. Homeless-ness is rising, advocates for the poor say,as an economic slowdown hurts jobsand wages. Pollution is worsening, andaccess to public resources like electrici-ty and sewers is strained.

Ulan Bator, nestled in a valley about4,400 feet above sea level, was never de-signed to house more than a few hun-dred thousand residents. Now it is oncourse to expand indefinitely, raisingfears that the government may not beable to keep up with the influx of new-comers.

City officials, citing concerns about alack of space at schools and an overbur-dened welfare system, said this yearthat Ulan Bator would not accept anymore people moving in from rural areas.The government has cautioned against

constructing homes in some placesaround the city because of the dangersof overcrowding.

Still, many Mongolians are defiant.On craggy hillsides and rocky plains,they are setting up makeshift shacks

and gers, or yurts, the traditional homesof Mongolian nomads.

On a secluded hill, Enkh-amgalanTserendorj, 50, washed clothes outsidethe family yurt in northern Ulan Bator,

Scavengers sifting through a garbage dump outside Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Hundreds of thousands of Mongolians have flocked to the city in search of a path to the middle class.PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Life inside Mongolia’s slums

MONGOLIA, PAGE 5

ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA

BY JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ

Housing shortage pushesthousands of poor residentsto the fringes of the capital

Affordable housing is scarce around Ulan Bator. City officials, worried about an overbur-dened welfare system, have said the city would not accept any more rural newcomers.

The video poker machines that StephenPaddock liked were the ones that did notdraw attention. They had few look-at-me flashing lights or listen-to-me bells.

He would sit in front of them for hours,often wagering more than $100 a hand.The way he played — instinctually, deci-sively, calculatingly, silently, with littlemovement beyond his shifting eyes andnimble fingers — meant he could playseveral hundred hands an hour. Casinohosts knew him well.

“Not a lot of smiles and friendliness,”said John Weinreich, who was an execu-tive casino host at the Atlantis CasinoResort Spa in Reno, Nev., where Mr.Paddock was once a regular and wherehe met his girlfriend. “There was not alot of body movement except for hishands.”

His methodical style and his skill levelallowed him to gamble, and occasionallywin, tens of thousands of dollars in onesitting, collecting payouts and hotelperks in big bunches. Last week in LasVegas, as a reward for his loyalty andgambling, Mr. Paddock stayed free ofcharge on the 32nd floor in one of theelite suites of the Mandalay Bay Resortand Casino, one of his favorite places toplay.

On Sunday night, using an arsenal ofrifles he secretly shuttled in and shoot-ing through windows he broke, Mr. Pad-dock, 64, sprayed gunfire into a concertcrowd across South Las Vegas Boule-vard. When it was over, 58 people weredead, plus Mr. Paddock, who killed him-self in the room as police teams movedin. About 500 were injured by bullets orin the panic to escape the barrage.

That the attack was launched fromthe glassy tower of one of Las Vegas’smost prestigious casinos was not a co-incidence. A defining aspect of Mr. Pad-dock’s life involved gambling, and hehungered for the kinds of rewards thatonly the Las Vegas Strip could provide.

Just three days before he opened firefrom the Mandalay Bay, he was seenplaying video poker in its casino.

Mr. Paddock was not widely knownamong the city’s serious gamblers, oper-ating at a level below the highest rollers.He was not a whale, the term used forthe biggest gamblers. But placing betsof $100 or more in video poker, “this guy

Gambler methodicallyplayed forhigh stakesLAS VEGAS

Days before shooting,betting up to $100 a hand on video poker machines

BY JOHN BRANCH,SERGE F. KOVALESKIAND SABRINA TAVERNISE

GAMBLER, PAGE 4

If you were an aspiring singer in Bridge-port, Conn., in the 1970s, chances are youknew, or at least knew about, the voiceteacher Pasquale Pappano and histeenage son, Tony, who assisted him af-ter school.

“My father would do half an hour oftechnical work with a pupil,” Tony re-called recently, “then I would work onrepertoire for another half-hour.”

Tony Pappano from Bridgeport hascome a long way since then. KnightedSir Antonio Pappano five years ago, hehas been the music director of the RoyalOpera at Covent Garden in London, oneof the world’s most important compa-nies, since 2002.

Since 2005, he has also been music di-rector of the Orchestra dell’AccademiaNazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome,

which he will conduct in two concerts atCarnegie Hall in New York on Oct. 20and 21 as part of the ensemble’s firstAmerican tour in 48 years. The concertsinclude works by Verdi, Respighi, Pro-kofiev, Mahler and Salvatore Sciarrino,and feature as soloists the pianistMartha Argerich and the soprano Bar-bara Hannigan.

Making a belated Carnegie debut withthese performances and also a rare ap-pearance with the New York Philhar-monic in February, Mr. Pappano is, at 57,unflashy but experienced and energetic,his performances stylish and dramatic.He is one of the most sought-after con-ductors, and the music world is eagerlywaiting to learn what course he willchoose in 2020, when his Royal Operacontract expires.

He has said he wants to concentratemore on symphonic music, and hasplayed down rumors that he may takeanother major opera position, like theone being vacated at the Bavarian StateOpera in Munich.

“I’m not interested in another big CONDUCTOR, PAGE 2

London, Rome and now New York

The conductor Antonio Pappano in Rome. He will make his Carnegie Hall debut thismonth in New York with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

MASSIMO BERRUTI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Carnegie Hall welcomesone of the world’s mostsought-after conductors

BY HARVEY SACHS

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