The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, August 26:
Washington Area Bestsellers
Aug 26, 2007 ... Paperback Fiction 1 THE KITE RUNNER (Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruledcountry to atone for a past betrayal. 128 2 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a ...
Hero for Our Times; A glowing portrait of Eisenhower's fairness and pragmatism.
Aug 26, 2007 ... IKE An American Hero By Michael Korda HarperCollins. 779 pp. $34.95 Michael Korda, successful editor, novelist and memoirist, knows agood and timely story when he sees one. What could be more appealingtoday to Americans, divided, trapped in an unpopular and ...
The Fire This Time; A fellow traveler of a different color describes his turbulent times.
Aug 26, 2007 ... BLACK RADICAL The Education of an American Revolutionary By Nelson Peery New Press. 242 pp. $24.95As a teenager, Nelson Peery asked himself a question thatperplexed and frustrated many African Americans who, like him, cameof age during the Jim Crow era ....
Great Journeys
Aug 26, 2007 ... Cuteness is not usually a quality associated with a book, but Ican't help it: The paperback volumes in Penguin's forthcoming GreatJourneys series are cute. With their brightly colored covers andmanageable size (seven inches tall, a bit over four inches wide, onaverage 100 pages long, and ...
Mirror Images; What happens when the torturer is also a victim?
Aug 26, 2007 ... THE WATER CURE By Percival Everett Graywolf. 216 pp. $22 The narrator of The Water Cure is a manwhose 11-year-old daughter has been raped and killed. He now is inthe process of torturing her murderer, but this, as they say, isonly the tip of the iceberg. True, as a subject ...
Aug. 27-Sept. 1, 2007
Aug 26, 2007 ... 6:30 P.M. Elliott Lewis, a local freelance broadcast journalist,discusses and signs his recent memoir, Fade: My Journeys inMultiracial America, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, 202-387-7638. 7 P.M. Local professor Scott W. Berg discusses and signs GrandAvenues: The Story ...
Bandit or . . . Entrepreneur?; People such as Lai Changxing are building the new China -- for better or worse.
Aug 26, 2007 ... INSIDE THE RED MANSION On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man By Oliver August Houghton Mifflin. 268 pp. $26 In a nation of unjust laws andarbitrary state authority, corruption can take on the patina ofcivil disobedience or rebellion. Yet the entrepreneurs ...
The Squall After the Whirlwind; A British historian takes Americans to task for their role in the post-World War II occupation.
Aug 26, 2007 ... AFTER THE REICH The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation By Giles MacDonogh Basic. 618 pp. $32 There's a gruesome last chapter to World WarII, the bloodiest war in history. During the forced expulsions ofabout 12 million Germans from the Reich's eastern ...
The Korean poet Kim Sowol (190 ...
Aug 26, 2007; ... The Korean poet Kim Sowol (1902-1934), according to histranslator David McCann, was a modernist influenced by Westernpoetry -- but a modernist who also incorporated many traditionaltechniques, images and forms from Korean folk poetry and folk song.His work is still popular and beloved ...
Paradise Lost
Aug 26, 2007 ... LETTER FROM POINT CLEAR By Dennis McFarland Henry Holt. 290 pp. $25Preachers in literature -- from ArthurDimmesdale to Elmer Gantry -- tend to be a sanctimonious,hypocritical lot who do not practice what they sermonize. At firstblush, the foil in Dennis McFarland's new ...
Bound to China; Personal and impersonal forces weave Americans and Chinese together.
Aug 26, 2007 ... A YEAR WITHOUT "MADE IN CHINA" One Family's True Life Adventure In the Global Economy By Sara Bongiorni Wiley. 235 pp. $24.95 CHINA GHOSTS My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood By Jeff Gammage Morrow ....
Great Expectations
Aug 26, 2007 ... MISTER PIP By Lloyd Jones Dial. 256 pp. $20On an island called Bougainville in the early1990s, civil war rages. Rebels have taken up arms, and soldiershelicopter in from nearby Port Moresby to reestablish New Guinea'ssovereignty over the island. All the whites have fled ...
WASHINGTON IS ALSO READING; SELLING WELL AT LOCAL BOOKSELLERS
Aug 26, 2007 ... HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS By J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, $34.99) No, we're not going to divulge any secrets from Rowling's seventhand final book in the literary and marketing phenomenon that isHarry Potter, so rest easy. But with the book having shattered ...
Just the Facts, in Words and Pictures
Aug 26, 2007 ... After a summer overshadowed by Harry Potter, whether in print oron-screen, kids might appreciate a break from fantasy. Some recentand forthcoming titles are a reminder that nonfiction can be prettymagical, too. Every child should have access to a globe and a junior atlas. Butthe ...
Return of the Patriarch; A prequel sets the scene for tales of a spirited clan in feudal Japan.
Aug 26, 2007 ... HEAVEN'S NET IS WIDE The First Tale of the Otori By Lian Hearn Riverhead. 484 pp. $26.95 Nobody should need to ask who the Otori are by now. Scions of animaginary, quasi-Japanese feudal clan, they've made a big splash inthe small realm of literary fantasy since ...
Smitten; One of Spain's greatest writers tells a gripping story about an extraordinarily dull husband.
Aug 26, 2007 ... IN HER ABSENCE By Antonio Munoz Molina Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen Other Press. 134 pp. Paperback, $13.95 Several years ago AntonioMunoz Molina was described as "a Spanish writer laden with prizesand so far scandalously unknown in English." His awards ...
Lives Uprooted and Families Restored
Aug 26, 2007 ... At a very early age, Steve Geng was seduced by the myth of theoutsider, the outlaw hipster. He and his parents left theirPhiladelphia home for Orleans, France, in 1960, when he was 17, andhe explored the seamier side of Paris during the fraught years ofAlgeria's struggle for ...
A bad dream made real: nighttime in the city of New Orleans.
Aug 26, 2007; ... DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS Reflections from a Drowned City By Billy Sothern Univ. of California. 346 pp. $21.95Two years ago this weekHurricane Katrina smashed into the Gulf Coast. Coastal communitiesfrom Louisiana to Alabama were pulverized, and the city of NewOrleans was ...
Polished 'Rock' Rolls On; NBC Comedy Rides Positive Momentum Into Season 2
Aug 26, 2007; ... "30 Rock," Tina Fey's sitcom about life backstage at a "SaturdayNight Live"-like show, will return for a second season Oct. 4.Meanwhile, Aaron Sorkin's glowingly reviewed "Studio 60 on theSunset Strip," the 2006 drama with a similar premise, is history. Surprised? Fey isn't. She ...
A Federal Intelligence Network With an Amazon Feel
Aug 26, 2007; ... Government agents may soon find valuable information through anonline-recommendation system like the one on Amazon.com: Spies whoread this report, it might say, also found these reports useful. That is one of several features the Office of the Director ofNational Intelligence might ...
On Capitol Hill, a Hitchcockian Summer; Starlings Leave Block Awash in Filth, Stench
Aug 26, 2007; ... By now, the nets were to be shrouding the trees, blocking thebirds -- and stopping the bird bombs. Granted, this was a hopeful deadline. But for Capitol Hillresidents on this old, elegant block near Congressional Cemetery,it's been a long summer of starlings -- "rats with ...
THE LOTTERIES; August 24
Aug 26, 2007 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 9-3-6 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 7-1-9-3 Lucky Numbers: 9-4-0 D.C. 4: 9-0-6-4 Rolling Cash 5: 2-4-6-22-30 Daily 6: 4-20-22-26-33-39 *23 Day/Pick-3: 0-0-9 Pick-4: ...
Model Organization; With the Building of D-Backs a Major Success, Nats Hope to Follow Same Plan
Aug 26, 2007; ... The night a team clinches the worst record in all of baseballshould be a low point. But in 2004, Mike Rizzo was sitting alongsidehis boss at the time -- then-Arizona Diamondbacks general managerJoe Garagiola Jr. -- and as he watched the final out of yetanother loss, he started ...
DR. G's TIPS
Aug 26, 2007 ... New MARC Parking Starting Monday morning, MARC riders will have a new parking lotat Point of Rocks. They can get to it from Route 28 at MonroeStreet. Meanwhile, the west half of the old parking lot will beclosed for work on drainage and lighting and reconfiguring spaces ....
Over the past two seasons it ...
Aug 26, 2007 ... Over the past two seasons it has become clear that even large-market clubs prefer to hold onto top prospects at the tradedeadline. Now, those youngsters -- some not old enough to drink -- are being thrown into pennant races. Five who started the year inthe minors but will finish it ...
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE . . . . . . to be booed by your home crowd
Aug 26, 2007 ... On July 31 at RFK Stadium, Tim Tolman was coaching third base forthe Washington Nationals against the Cincinnati Reds. With two outs,Brian Schneider on first base and Nook Logan at the plate, Tolmanfound out just what it's like to be booed -- vociferously andunmercifully -- by his ...
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Aug 26, 2007 ... Opponents' batting average this season against Boston Red Soxrelievers, best in the majors. The Red Sox' bullpen also has the lowest ERA (2.97) andhas yielded the fewest ...
THE week ahead
Aug 26, 2007 ... METS AT PHILLIES Tomorrow through Thursday Citizens Bank Park, Phila. Philadelphia could get second baseman Chase Utley back from hisbroken hand (thank you, John Lannan) in time for this four-game set,but ace lefty Cole Hamels (elbow) won't be available. The Mets ...
Astros Expect To Refuel After Difficult Year
Aug 26, 2007 ... In many ways, this offseason will be the one in which the HoustonAstros officially break from the past. The Astros are on their wayto their first losing season since 2000 and their second since 1991.But they will (presumably) have no more questions about signingRoger Clemens, no more ...
Brandon Webb D-backs ace has ...
Aug 26, 2007 ... D-backs ace has scoreless streak end at 42 consecutive innings.Didn't Jerome Williams have similar streak? Oh, no, that was scoredupon. Angels veteran outfielder, 35, has 10 of his season total of 50RBI in single game vs. Yankees. Are we sure current Californiainmate Greg is no ...
DNC Strips Florida Of 2008 Delegates; No Convention Slots Unless Later Primary Is Set
Aug 26, 2007; ... The Democratic National Committee sought to seize control of itsunraveling nominating process yesterday, rejecting pleas from stateparty leaders and cracking down on Florida for scheduling a Jan. 29presidential primary. The DNC's rules and bylaws committee, which enforces party ...
Russell Moves Closer To Redemption, Beijing
Aug 26, 2007; ... They met first in the hallways of the Hilton Hotel on Saturdayafternoon. Gary Russell Jr. spotted the man who has consumed him allweek, and Roberto Marroquin would not be allowed to pass withoutcomment. Marroquin turned and watched perplexed as Russell shoutedhis name and promised a ...
Coming Thursday in the Extra
Aug 26, 2007 ... District lawyers help provide representation for the poor andeven the not-so-poor as ...
WEEK IN REVIEW; Aug. 19-25
Aug 26, 2007 ... Envision Hospital Corp., the owner of Greater Southeast CommunityHospital, has agreed in principle to sell the troubled facility to aNew England company that plans to quadruple its number of beds andexpand services to create a "medical mall" of care. The $31.5 million deal with ...
EXPLORING THE NORTH BY BOAT
Aug 26, 2007 ... Angus Phillips sails through ...
Holocaust Heroism in Debate; Survivor Contradicts Story of Ukrainian Villagers' Rescue of Jews
Aug 26, 2007; ... It is a story of courage and kindness during the first tragicdays of the Holocaust in Ukraine -- the tale of how a village roseup against an anti-Semitic gang of killers to save its Jewishneighbors. A researcher stumbled on the story this year. Now some ofUkraine's Jewish ...
In India, One Cheap Car Could Go a Long Way
Aug 26, 2007; ... Every afternoon when Sudheer Mahanan, a government forest warden,picks up his two children from school, he is forced to squeeze themonto his moped. As they speed over monsoon-drenched potholes and weave aroundmeandering cows, his 5-year-old daughter, Harichandana, gets ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Aug 26, 2007 ... HOME RUNS Fielder, Mil 39 YESTERDAY: 0 HR TODAY: vs. Lincecum, 1-4, 1 BB, 2 K TRIPLES Rollins, Phil ...
Q Dear Tom and Ray: I need yo ...
Aug 26, 2007 ... Q Dear Tom and Ray: I need your help doing the unthinkable: proving my father wrong.I drive a 2003 Chevy Tahoe. I live in Atlanta and go to GeorgiaTech, so most of my driving is city driving. With the constant stopand go, bumpy pavement and having to drive around people who are ...
ERA Young, SD ... 2.12 NE ...
Aug 26, 2007 ... ERA Young, SD 2.12 NEXT: To Be Announced INNINGS PITCHED Webb, Ari. ...
To read these and other Week ...
Aug 26, 2007 ... To read these and other Week In Review ...
The 50% MPG Gain That Detroit Won't Touch
Aug 26, 2007; ... Gerald Rowley keeps his dreams in his garage. There, on a quietstreet in this southeast Florida town, he stores an aging Mazda 626sedan, cream white with a worn interior, unremarkable in nearly allrespects with the exception of a precisely machined, one-gallonsteel box in the trunk ...
Another Incentive to Pay Child Support; Parents Owing Large Amounts Must Settle Up if They Want a U.S. Passport
Aug 26, 2007; ... How much does a passport cost? For a U.S. businessman now livingin China, the price included $311,491 in back child-supportpayments. For a man planning a Dominican Republic vacation, itrequired $45,849 more, and for a musician seeking to performoverseas, it took $46,000. The new ...
New Paint, Plants for First Day; More Than 1,600 Join Fenty, Rhee in Annual Cleanup
Aug 26, 2007; ... Sure, it was Saturday. But for more than 1,600 Districtemployees, residents, parents and volunteers, yesterday was a day ofwork. The crowd fanned out to the city's 141 public schools to pullweeds, paint, trim shrubs and perform other manual labor as part ofthe annual ...
Nats' Fine Effort Wasted; Colorado Wins With Five in 9th
Aug 26, 2007; ... Rockies 6, Nationals 5 Chad Cordero sat with his jeans already on, his shoes alreadytied, his back to the room, his head in his locker. Across thevisitors clubhouse late Friday night at Coors Field stood ShawnHill, who had done his part by throwing seven dominant innings inwhich ...
Season's Forecast Remains Uncertain
Aug 26, 2007; ... If you want Redskins symbolism, look no further than last night'spreseason game against the Ravens, which was cut almost in half bymonstrous thunderstorms that delayed the game for 72 minutes, thenstopped play for good when the severe weather returned withWashington ahead 13-7 early in ...
On Anniversary, Officials Say D.C. Lottery Is a Winner
Aug 26, 2007; ... Christopher Snipes didn't really believe he would win the D.C.Lottery when a store owner persuaded him to plop down $1 to buy ascratch ticket on the first day of the game in August 1982. But seconds later, as the Metrobus driver finished scratching offthe third $10,000 spot, he ...
A Colorful Nickname Often Leads to a Criminal's Capture
Aug 26, 2007; ... The Spiderman Bandit didn't scale walls and spin webs whilerobbing banks. Rather, weblike tattoos on his forearms earned himthe nickname. The Skunk Bandit probably doesn't stink -- at least not like askunk. He does, however, resemble a skunk in bank surveillancevideo, in his ...
Army Fights Humvee Rollovers; Drills, Simulations Become Standard in Effort to Cut Deaths
Aug 26, 2007; ... Leaders at this Army base have begun fighting Humvee rollovers -- the type of accident that has killed dozens of U.S. troops inIraq and Afghanistan -- with a new training regimen that includescutting-edge simulators. The Army takes the rollover problem so seriously that it ...
A Caiman, and Its Owner, Snapped Up in Occoquan
Aug 26, 2007; ... A native to Central and South America, he was a foreigner here.An illegal whose kind -- Virginia law was clear -- was notwanted. Authorities had no choice. They seized the caiman -- a crocodilian reptile -- when theyfound it in an Occoquan home earlier this month ....
Probe May Alter Face of Alaskan Politics; Some of the State's Most Dominant Figures Under Scrutiny in Corruption Investigation
Aug 26, 2007; ... Sen. Ted Stevens's home sits on a quiet, graveled street whereblack bears occasionally ramble and traffic is a rarity. So his neighbor, Julie Pederson, was startled when a caravan ofSUVs pulled up to the Republican senator's shuttered home atmidmorning July 30, just as she finished ...
Close Encounters With the Swamps' Fiercest Predator; Divers Swim With Florida's Alligators
Aug 26, 2007; ... The second that Jose Fernandez slips into the cypress-linedEverglades pond, a resident alligator slices across the green,glassy water to confront him. Pushing seven feet and clearly pugnacious, even without takinginto account the chewed-off left rear leg, it stops a ...
Obama and Edwards Step Up Attacks on Front-Runner Clinton
Aug 26, 2007; ... Toiling behind Hillary Rodham Clinton in most national polls, hertwo main rivals in the 2008 Democratic presidential field, IllinoisSen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina senator John Edwards,are increasingly seeking to contrast themselves with the New Yorksenator. The ...
DRAFTING A WINNER
Aug 26, 2007 ... Mike Rizzo, the Nats VP of baseball ...
QUOTABLE "I felt like I was ...
Aug 26, 2007 ... "I felt like I was on the road today. That was a littleembarrassing, but what do you do?" RHP Jon Garland, on the sparse crowd in Chicago for yesterday'smakeup of Thursday night's rainout with Boston. The White Sox lostfor the 10th time in 12 games. Devil Rays: Shut down CF ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Aug 26, 2007 ... CHICAGO -- Residents in parts of Ohio, Illinois and Indianastruggled to recover Saturday from nearly a week of thunderstormsand prepared for more floods from overburdened rivers and streams. The worst of the storms, which have been blamed for 14 deathsthroughout the Midwest, was ...
Potential Gang Caps Ordered Out
Aug 26, 2007 ... Reprinted from yesterday's late editions A lineup of team logo baseball caps denounced as tailor-made forgang members was ordered removed from store shelves by itsmanufacturer yesterday after complaints from baseball officials. "It has been brought to our attention that some ...
As Web Fuels Bike Thefts, Victims Turn Vigilantes
Aug 26, 2007; ... By the time he got the call last month, Martin Moulton had givenup on his stolen $3,000 bike. The caller, a friend, had been browsing through bike ads onCraigslist when he spotted Moulton's 2005 Cannondale with itsunmistakable, custom-ordered Spiderflex saddle. "Adam," as the ...
Officials Laud D.C. Lottery as Success
Aug 26, 2007; ... Christopher Snipes didn't really believe he would win the D.C.Lottery when a store owner persuaded him to plop down $1 to buy ascratch ticket on the first day of the game in August 1982. But seconds later, as the Metrobus driver finished scratching offthe third $10,000 spot, he ...
Migration Spawns Immense Economy; Workers Send Billions To Relatives Back Home
Aug 26, 2007; ... Josif Poro pats his new sofa, points with pride to his carpetsand runs a wrinkled hand over a gleaming white refrigerator. He and his wife barely scrape by on their $220 monthly pension.They'd have to do without many of the items in their crampedapartment if their son, a factory ...
Guatemala Raid Puts Children in Limbo; Adoption Home Case Painful for Future Parents as Well as Those of Missing Youngsters
Aug 26, 2007; ... Ann Roth mortgaged her Chicago home to adopt two 9-month-oldsfrom Guatemala. Now the babies' future is caught up in aninternational crackdown on a country that sent more than 4,000babies to U.S. homes last year. The two children are being watched by police carrying assaultrifles, ...
Building Spruce-Up A Lesson in Teamwork; Over 1,600 Residents Weed, Paint, Unpack
Aug 26, 2007; ... Sure, it was Saturday. But for more than 1,600 Districtemployees, residents, parents and volunteers, yesterday was a day ofwork. The crowd fanned out to the city's 141 public schools to pullweeds, paint, trim shrubs and perform other manual labor as part ofthe annual ...
TIME FOR CHANGE
Aug 26, 2007 ... George Solomon on Maryland's racing ...
Nuts & Bolts; 2008 Ford Taurus X Limited
Aug 26, 2007 ... Complaints: Ria Manglapus, my associate in vehicle evaluations,initially complained that the Taurus X Limited wagon wasunderpowered. However, she conceded that her opinion might have beenbiased by her stints in the last two cars we drove: the Audi R8sports coupe and the Mercedes-Benz ...
Tigers' Win Is Worth The Wait
Aug 26, 2007 ... Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" blared through the speakers atComerica Park in Detroit, a fitting send-off for the severalthousand Tigers fans who stuck around for a game that lasted evenlonger than the 4-hour 1-minute rain delay that preceded it. Carlos Guillen's three-run homer ...