The Washington Post back issues from Friday, September 7:
Officials Face Constitutional Complexities
Sep 07, 2007; ... For elected officials who promised Northern Virginia voters thatthey would make their communities less hospitable to illegalimmigrants, Herndon Town Council member Dennis D. Husch has someadvice: Read up on the Constitution. Husch and the council decided Tuesday to close the town's ...
Bush's Picks for Court Spur Criticism by Warner, Webb
Sep 07, 2007; ... President Bush nominated two lawyers yesterday to fill vacancieson the federal appeals court in Richmond, but Virginia's U.S.senators immediately criticized the White House for ignoring theirrecommendations for one of the seats. Bush nominated Richmond lawyer E. Duncan Getchell Jr ....
Battered by Slots, Ohio Track Is Put on the Block by Magna
Sep 07, 2007 ... Struggling to compete with casinos and racetracks with slotmachines in neighboring states -- problems that mirror thoseplaguing the Maryland horse racing industry -- Thistledownracetrack outside Cleveland was put up for sale yesterday by ownerMagna Entertainment. Magna, which ...
Chrysler Hires Top Executive From Toyota
Sep 07, 2007; ... James E. Press, the American car executive who helped buildToyota Motor into an automotive powerhouse that brought only pain toDetroit, yesterday was named a president and vice chairman atChrysler. The hiring of Press, 60, was widely described as a coup forCerberus Capital ...
State-Subsidized Projects Struggling, Audit Finds
Sep 07, 2007; ... Several projects subsidized by Maryland's economic developmentagency are in financial trouble, legislative auditors reportedyesterday, citing, in particular, a resort in Western Maryland and agolf course in Calvert County. Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort, the state-subsidized retreat ...
Flynn Finally Gets His Chance; After Four Years On Bench, QB Starts for LSU
Sep 07, 2007; ... Matt Flynn and Jordan Owens have been best friends since theyfirst became football teammates in seventh grade, Flynn thequarterback, Owens the center. Their lives diverged once they leftfor college, but Owens and Flynn make it a point to reunite eachsummer, when they return home to ...
PERSONNEL DEPT. Angels: OF V ...
Sep 07, 2007 ... Angels: OF Vladimir Guerrero was a late scratch from the lineupbecause of inflammation in his right triceps. Indians: Activated OF David Dellucci from the 60-day disabledlist and designated IF Joe Inglett for assignment. Mariners: Released RHP Rick ...
The Shan'ts and the Have-Nots
Sep 07, 2007; ... THE HEADMASTER'S DILEMMA By Louis Auchincloss Houghton Mifflin. 177 pp. $25 I've heard the verbal contraction "shan't" spoken only once in mylife -- by a Rhodes Scholar who was going to the hospital at theend of his life. In using that locution, he gathered up all ...
Indians Are Quietly Running Away
Sep 07, 2007 ... With a solid starting rotation and a lineup stocked with youngplayers mostly unknown outside Ohio's borders, the Indians are onthe verge of securing their first AL Central division championshipsince 2001. Just as C.C. Sabathia predicted. A few weeks ago, with Cleveland in the ...
Officer Shoots Driver During B-W Parkway Stop
Sep 07, 2007; ... A U.S. Park Police officer shot and seriously wounded a manduring a traffic stop on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway yesterday,police said. The incident began just after 1 p.m. when the officer attemptedto stop the driver of a Buick sedan traveling north on the parkwaynear the ...
Police Discriminated Against Black Officer, EEOC Decides
Sep 07, 2007; ... Montgomery County police discriminated against a black policeofficer and then retaliated against him when he complained that hewas being treated unfairly, according to a finding by the U.S. EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission. The officer, Nolan Williams, said his former ...
Shutting Down Big Downloaders; Comcast Cuts Internet Service to Bandwidth Hogs
Sep 07, 2007; ... The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created anew Internet sin: using it too much. Comcast has punished some transgressors by cutting off theirInternet service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internetcapacity and slow down the network for other customers ....
U.S. Men Finish a Surprising 4th
Sep 07, 2007 ... For a year, the American men quietly took the criticism. They weren't any good. They'd be lucky to qualify for the BeijingOlympics. They were little better than backups to those guys who wonthe silver medal in Athens. How's this for an answer: a fourth-place finish at the ...
Man Killed, Another Injured Near Strip Club, Police Say
Sep 07, 2007; ... A 24-year-old New Carrollton man was fatally shot and his 19-year-old acquaintance was critically wounded early yesterday afterthe two became involved in a dispute with patrons of a strip club inPrince George's County, police said. The incident began about 2:45 a.m. as the men ...
Man Is Killed And Another Is Wounded In Shooting
Sep 07, 2007; ... A 24-year-old New Carrollton man was fatally shot and his 19-year-old acquaintance was critically wounded early yesterday afterthe two became involved in a dispute with patrons of a strip club inPrince George's County, police said. The incident began about 2:45 a.m. as the men ...
Immigration, Crime Debates Entwined; In Prince William, Attention Over Legal Status Is Growing
Sep 07, 2007; ... With a single sentence in a news release, a slaying in PrinceWilliam County gained high-profile treatment this week, not becauseof how the crime was committed, but because of who police say didit: a twice-deported illegal immigrant. What was not mentioned before -- a suspect's ...
Black Officer a Victim Of Bias, EEOC Says
Sep 07, 2007; ... Montgomery County police discriminated against a black policeofficer and then retaliated against him when he complained that hewas being treated unfairly, according to a finding by the U.S. EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission. The officer, Nolan Williams, said his former ...
Green Valley In Wal-Mart's Back Yard; Start-Ups Set Out to Sustain Giant's Eco-Friendly Focus
Sep 07, 2007; ... Daniel Sanker has traveled to the most chic cities -- London,New York, Los Angeles -- as founder of the shipping and logisticsfirm CaseStack. But his quest to create a more sustainable businessis taking him to the home turf of a company that is virtuallysynonymous with suburban ...
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NOAA Scientists Say Arctic Ice Is Melting Faster Than Expected
Sep 07, 2007; ... The Arctic ice cap is melting faster than scientists had expectedand will shrink 40 percent by 2050 in most regions, with grimconsequences for polar bears, walruses and other marine animals,according to government researchers. The Arctic sea ice will retreat hundreds of miles ...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Sep 07, 2007 ... CHINA President Hu Jintao, right, offered to work with other countriesto improve China's product inspection. Hu said China has put inplace rigorous quality controls for manufacturing and is improvingmonitoring systems to detect food contamination. SOUTH KOREA South ...
Study Points to Virus in Collapse of Honeybee Colonies
Sep 07, 2007; ... Scientists yesterday identified a virus as one of the likelycauses of the recent wave of honeybee colony collapses across thecountry. The study, co-authored by researchers at Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Columbia University, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and several other ...
Hedge Fund Power!; It turns out that tax breaks for Wall Street moguls are a civil rights issue. Who knew?
Sep 07, 2007 ... IF YOU'RE lobbying to keep a tax break, rich white guys makingastronomical sums by investing other people's money aren't the mostsympathetic clients -- especially when they're paying taxes at alower rate than firefighters and teachers. So the private-equity andhedge fund industry has ...
Coming: Havoc in Herndon; Hounding immigrants curbside will replace an orderly work center.
Sep 07, 2007 ... THE HERNDON Town Council, having inherited an orderly situationregarding the management of day laborers, has opted to replace itwith disorder. Now, there's a novel approach to municipalgovernance. For almost two years, more than 100 workers -- most of themHispanic and many ...
Enter Mr. Thompson; A 'late' candidacy shakes up the Republican field.
Sep 07, 2007 ... FORMER Tennessee senator Fred Thompson enters the 2008presidential race at a time when the state of the campaign isunsettled and many Republican voters appear less than fullysatisfied with their choices. Mr. Thompson has been testing thepresidential waters for so long that, as Jay Leno ...
Anyone can be on television th ...
Sep 07, 2007 ... Anyone can be on television these days. . . . Want to be famous? Nickelodeon's "iCarly" might be just theticket. The new series premieres with two episodes Saturday at 8p.m. Miranda Cosgrove stars as host of a Webcast that features kidswith special talents, ideas and inventions ...
Super Bowl? Not in Your Lifetime
Sep 07, 2007 ... Kids know more about certain things than adults do. For example,kids know more about iPods, computers and . . . the WashingtonRedskins. Adults are old enough to remember when the Redskins won the SuperBowl after the 1982, 1987 and 1991 seasons. So lots of olderWashington football ...
TODAY'S NEWS
Sep 07, 2007 ... The reason dinosaurs aren't roaming Earth today can be traced tothe collision of two asteroids between Mars and Jupiter 160 millionyears ago, scientists said this week. Many fragments from that collision hurtled toward Earth. Ninety-five million years later, a rock chunk six miles ...
Tastes From the Old Delhi
Sep 07, 2007; ... You could be attracted to the fascinating economic and politicalenigma that is India, or just be into indie film, but you don'thave to be part of Washington's substantial South Asian populationto find something worth catching at the DC Meets Delhi film and artsfestival, kicking off at ...
No Disguising Their Effort
Sep 07, 2007; ... The Boston Red Sox' team bus didn't break down. The umpiresarrived on time. And it didn't rain. So, the Orioles had to playagain last night. Who says there's no crying in baseball? After being clubbed, 17-2, on Wednesday in Tampa Bay by the worstteam in baseball, the Orioles ...
Open-and-Shut Case for Colts; Saints No Match in NFL Kickoff
Sep 07, 2007; ... Colts 41, Saints 10 The Indianapolis Colts celebrated their seven-month-old SuperBowl title, then took a first step Thursday night at the raucous RCADome toward securing another one. Quarterback Peyton Manning threwfor three touchdowns and tailback Joseph Addai ran for another ...
Outlook Improves for Quick Action in Senate; Supporters Confident About Bill That Would Grant Full Seat in U.S. House
Sep 07, 2007; ... Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid hopes to bring the D.C.voting-rights bill to the floor for a crucial vote the week of Sept.17, his spokesman said yesterday. Supporters celebrated the announcement, saying they think themeasure, which would give the District a full seat in the ...
Senate Outlook Better For D.C. Vote Measure; Majority Leader Wants Action Soon
Sep 07, 2007; ... Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid hopes to bring the D.C.voting-rights bill to the floor for a crucial vote the week of Sept.17, his spokesman said yesterday. Supporters celebrated the announcement, saying they think themeasure, which would give the District a full seat in the ...
Bridge
Sep 07, 2007; ... It's fine to be an optimist -- always looking for a silver lining-- but sometimes it's a pessimist who finds the gold. When South played four hearts, West cashed two high spades andled a LOW spade. East obligingly ruffed with the six of trumps, andSouth pondered and threw a diamond ...
New Jersey Corruption Probe Nets 11 Officials
Sep 07, 2007 ... Federal agents arrested 11 public officials Thursday in townsacross New Jersey on charges of taking bribes in exchange forinfluencing the awarding of public contracts, the U.S. Attorney'sOffice said. Two of the arrested are state lawmakers, two are mayors, threeare council ...
Area Disaster Planning Gets More Muscle; Officials Respond to Criticism of Evacuation Preparedness
Sep 07, 2007; ... Under pressure from the federal government, the District and itssuburbs are developing their most extensive evacuation plans sincethe Cold War -- mapping escape routes, stockpiling bedding forshelters and designating pickup points for people who don't havecars. The area's ...
Germany Widens Probe Into Bomb Plot; At Least 7 More People Suspected In Anti-U.S. Plan
Sep 07, 2007; ... Authorities said Thursday that they are investigating at leastseven more people suspected of aiding a multinational cell ofIslamic militants plotting to bomb American interests in Germany,including two who may have trained at camps in Pakistan. Prosecutors said they had identified ...
Appeals Court Sides With Union, TSA Airport Screener
Sep 07, 2007; ... Even though the government's 43,000 airport screeners do not havefull civil service rights, they still can file claims under theConstitution, a U.S. appeals court has ruled. The ruling came in a case brought by a union and John Gavello,who had worked as a federal security screener ...
Legal Realities Color Immigrant Crackdown; Herndon Labor-Site Action Spurs Debate
Sep 07, 2007; ... For elected officials who promised Northern Virginia voters thatthey would make their communities less hospitable to illegalimmigrants, Herndon Town Council member Dennis D. Husch has someadvice: Read up on the Constitution. Husch and the council decided Tuesday to close the town's ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Sep 07, 2007 ... NEW YORK -- A police officer has been indicted in the death ofa homeless Guatemalan man in Mount Kisco, N.Y., exposing tensions inthis sleepy community between immigrant laborers and its affluent,mostly white population. George Bubaris, 30, a Mount Kisco police officer, was ...
ON STAGE Broadway in the Bel ...
Sep 07, 2007 ... ON STAGE Broadway in the Beltway: "Avenue Q," "Spamalot" and"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" Tickets for all threeshows go on sale this weekend and they're likely to go fast,because you really can't get shows any quirkier or more entertainingthan these one-time Broadway ...
Northern Virginia
Sep 07, 2007 ... EXHIBIT "Aachen to Arlington" Tonight, catch the openingreception (which is when an art exhibition can feel most like aswank party) for the Arlington Arts Center's second installment of"Aachen to Arlington: Imaging the Distance." The show is a sort ofcultural exchange, with works in ...
Tastes From the Old Delhi
Sep 07, 2007 ... You could be attracted to the fascinating economic and politicalenigma that is India, or just be into indie film, but you don'thave to be part of Washington's substantial South Asian populationto find something worth catching at the DC Meets Delhi film and artsfestival, kicking off at ...
Hello, Sailor!
Sep 07, 2007; ... Late last year, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), a former member ofthe Capital Yacht Club in Southwest Washington and an excellentboater, was buying a fine, used 38-foot Chris Craft motorboat andlooking to rejoin the most exclusive club and moor the boat there. But even though the ...
A Judge Finds Administration's Secrecy 'Baffling'
Sep 07, 2007 ... U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. is clearly unhappy withthe Bush administration's penchant for secrecy -- which includesbarring the judge's law clerk from seeing classified documents aspart of an ongoing case. Kennedy is the presiding judge in a lawsuit filed in ...
Maryland
Sep 07, 2007 ... THE GREAT OUTDOORS Closing Soon: The Butterflies at Brookside Ifyou haven't headed over to the Montgomery County park to see the"Wings of Fancy" live butterfly exhibition (now a decade old), thisweekend and next are your last chances; the exhibit wraps for thesummer Sept. 16. This year, ...
CORRECTIONS
Sep 07, 2007 ... The Sept. 6 On the Hill column incorrectly said that Sen. LisaMurkowski (Alaska) was in line to become the ranking Republican onthe Veterans' Affairs Committee. Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.) is in linefor that position. Murkowski is in line to move up in seniority onthe Energy and Natural ...
Israel Faulted in Deaths Of Civilians in Lebanon; Rights Group Cites Failure to Distinguish Targets
Sep 07, 2007; ... Israel's "frequent failure" to distinguish between military andcivilian targets during the war in Lebanon last summer was theprimary reason so many Lebanese civilians were killed in the bombingcampaign, according to a Human Rights Watch report releasedThursday. In an unrelated ...
Hi, It's Steve. Sorry for The Price Cut. Take a Credit.
Sep 07, 2007; ... So, all those people who paid $200 too much for the Apple iPhone? Not happy. Mac fans took the blogosphere by storm following Apple chiefexecutive Steve Jobs's announcement Wednesday that he was cuttingthe price of the company's new smartphone 10 weeks after it debutedat ...
A Girl, Her Father and The Monkey on His Back
Sep 07, 2007; ... Q.Last year my daughter broke up her marriage and moved back homewith our 3-year-old granddaughter due to her husband's deepeningopiate addiction and the emotional and financial turmoil it caused. Since my husband and I have always taken care of ourgranddaughter while her mother ...
Brohm Throws 5 TDs, No. 8 Louisville Survives
Sep 07, 2007 ... Brian Brohm threw for a career-high 401 yards and five touchdownsand Anthony Allen added a school-record 275 yards rushing and twoscores as No. 8 Louisville avoided a major upset by surviving MiddleTennessee, 58-42, last night at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Mario Urrutia, Gary ...
One High-Pressure Phone Room
Sep 07, 2007; ... For weeks, U.S. military leaders in Iraq have been saying thatsecurity is improving in Baghdad. But the military's JointContracting Command is still urging precautions for U.S. contractorsworking at the Interior Ministry headquarters. The command is seeking bids on a contract to ...
Russia, Indonesia Set $1 Billion Arms Deal; Moscow Seen Trying to Boost Clout in Asia
Sep 07, 2007; ... During a one-day visit to Indonesia on Thursday, PresidentVladimir Putin witnessed the signing of a $1 billion arms deal thatmany analysts here see as part of a broader Russian effort torestore diplomatic and military clout in the Asia-Pacific region andmake some money, as well ....
Bush Urges Pacific Rim to Expand Free Trade; President, Chinese Leader Discuss Product Safety, Olympics
Sep 07, 2007; ... President Bush on Friday called on Pacific Rim leaders to supportefforts to expand free trade, saying that open markets are a crucialelement in strengthening the "forces of freedom and prosperity." Speaking to business leaders at the Asia-Pacific EconomicCooperation forum at the ...
Landlord Subject of Criminal Complaint; Northwest Building In 'Atrocious' Shape
Sep 07, 2007; ... D.C. officials filed a criminal complaint yesterday alleging2,861 housing code violations against a landlord whose dilapidatedColumbia Heights building has rotted floors, caved-in ceilings,broken windows, rat carcasses and even a tenant living in anapartment with no ...
Subsidized Projects Struggling, Audit Finds
Sep 07, 2007; ... Several projects subsidized by Maryland's economic developmentagency are in financial trouble, legislative auditors reportedyesterday, citing, in particular, a resort in Western Maryland and agolf course in Calvert County. Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort, the state-subsidized retreat ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Sep 07, 2007 ... ENERGY Massey Energy of Richmond plans to increase production of coalsold to the steel industry by dipping into its reserves and usingcash from operations to open new mines, chief executive DonBlankenship said. The aim is to retake some of the 40 million tonsof metallurgical coal ...
Ex-Fugitive's Fundraising Talent Put Him on Democrats' A-List
Sep 07, 2007; ... Last week, before his world came crashing down, Norman Hsu helpedorganize a breakfast meeting in San Francisco with prospectivedonors. The featured attraction was Democratic National CommitteeChairman Howard Dean. The meeting was hardly unusual for Hsu, a New York ...
U.S. Military Rejects Call To Disband Iraqi Police
Sep 07, 2007; ... Senior U.S. military commanders in Iraq rejected an independentcommission's recommendation yesterday to disband the 25,000-strongIraqi national police force, saying that despite sectarianinfluences the force is improving and that removing it would createdangerous security vacuums in key ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Sep 07, 2007 ... 9/11 COMMEMORATION Today is the registration deadline for people who want to takepart in Sunday's third annual America Supports You Freedom Walk, thePentagon-sponsored rally that salutes the armed forces and marks theanniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The ...
The District
Sep 07, 2007 ... FESTIVALS The Sonic Circuits Experimental Music Festival, Now 18Times as Long Okay, not really. But the artistically ambitiousfestival, produced by the local chapter of the American ComposersForum and other organizers to provide a space for blips and bleepsand all kinds of aural ...
FBI Hopes Web Users Drop a Dime on Suspects; D.C., Baltimore Offices Post Surveillance Photos, Links for E-Mail Contact
Sep 07, 2007; ... The FBI has a request for all Internet surfers and potentialcrime solvers: Please go to www.bankbandits.org. In "Today's Featured Bandits" and "Bandit Gallery," the FBI'sWashington and Baltimore field offices have posted surveillancepictures of suspects wanted in bank robberies as ...
LEGAL Court Rejects Vioxx Cla ...
Sep 07, 2007 ... LEGAL The New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a class-action lawsuitagainst Merck over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, reversing twoprevious lower-court decisions. The suit was brought by a unionhealth plan on behalf of all insurance plans that paid for Vioxxprescriptions ....
HIV Loosens Tribe's Resistance to Circumcision; Many Kenyans See Survival at Stake
Sep 07, 2007; ... Family gatherings for Collins Omondi once were boisterous affairshere on the verdant shores of Lake Victoria. But in just 11 years,AIDS has killed seven of his uncles, six aunts, five cousins andboth his parents. His extended family now consists of one survivinguncle, an aunt and their ...
4 Plead Guilty in Stock-Manipulation Scam
Sep 07, 2007; ... Four men in the United States and France pleaded guilty to fraudcharges for their roles in share-manipulation scams involving 15publicly traded companies. Two of the men also settled lawsuitsbrought by U.S. regulators. Members of the ring offered to help small, privately ...