New York Times Top Online Stories: Mon 11/15/10

The New York Times lead headline online early Monday morning says "U.S. Would End Afghan Combat by 2014 in Plan." The paper says a phased four-year plan to wind down American and allied fighting in Afghanistan will be presented at a NATO summit meeting in Lisbon later this week.

It says investors are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into medical malpractice and divorce cases, among others, in the hope of sharing winnings.

The paper says nonpublic schools like the Collège Classique Féminin remain largely unfunded as they struggle to rebuild.

The Times says a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to push for a freeze on some settlement building is an effort to keep the Palestinians at peace talks.

It says cholera, which can spread rapidly and kill quickly, is now reported in 6 of Haiti’s 10 provinces.

And the most popular story says a secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.