The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, September 30:
PERSONNEL DEPT. Angels: OF V ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... Angels: OF Vladimir Guerrero sat out against the Athletics torest sore triceps muscles on both arms, and he will probably sit outtoday. SS Orlando Cabrera, OF Garret Anderson, 2B Maicer Izturis andOF Gary Matthews also were rested. White Sox: C A.J. Pierzynski, 30, agreed to a ...
Orioles Hoping Cabrera Fulfills His Potential
Sep 30, 2007 ... Another year has passed without Daniel Cabrera fulfilling hispotential. The Orioles RHP finished his season at 9-18 with a 5.55 ERA aftergetting hammered for 10 hits and six earned runs in three inningslast night by the Yankees. It's his third straight losing seasonafter a 12-8 ...
Tigers 2W: J. Vazquez (15-8) ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... Tigers 2W: J. Vazquez (15-8) L: Rogers (3-4) S: Jenks (40)White Sox 5 Paul Konerko hit a three-run homer and Jim Thome hit his 506thcareer homer to lead Chicago past Detroit. Javier Vazquez pitched 72/3 solid innings for the White Sox, whohave won eight of their ...
Howard's Bailey Wins His First
Sep 30, 2007 ... Brian Johnson's three touchdown passes and Dennis Wiehberg's 28-yard field goal gave Howard Coach Carey Bailey his first victory, a24-21 overtime victory over Winston-Salem State yesterday at GreeneStadium. In overtime, the Bison (1-3) stymied the Rams (2-3) with threestraight ...
Kabul Bus Bombing Kills 30; Taliban Asserts Responsibility for Attack on Afghan Soldiers
Sep 30, 2007; ... A suicide bomber dressed as a soldier boarded an Afghan NationalArmy bus in Kabul early Saturday and detonated his explosives,killing at least 30 people and injuring 29, Afghan securityofficials said. The massive explosion, one of the deadliest suicide attacks inAfghanistan ...
The UAW Can't Count on Buyers' Support Anymore
Sep 30, 2007; ... From this East Coast perch, where it seems that the only domesticcars are those painted yellow and topped with taxi signs, it's hardto tell whether the United Auto Workers' brief strike againstGeneral Motors last week was an attempted suicide or a sophomoricbargaining ...
Nuts & Bolts; 2008 Cadillac CTS4
Sep 30, 2007 ... Complaints: I'm sure there's something wrong somewhere with theCTS4. I looked for defects but didn't find any before this column'sdeadline. I strongly disagree with critics who say the CTS4 does notrun as fast or handle as crisply as its European rivals do. I alsodisagree with some ...
QDear Tom and Ray: I was dri ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... QDear Tom and Ray: I was driving from Flagstaff, Ariz., to Tucson, and the treadblew off the front driver's side tire. The tire guy tested thepressure and said someone must have put air in the tire. But it hadbeen several months since any service. Can altitude, ...
Luxurious and Affordable, Even for the Purists
Sep 30, 2007; ... I've driven many cars. None of them has been perfect. BMWautomobiles often came with technology, such as the iDrive vehicleinfotainment/navigation system, that offered more complexity thanadvantage. Mercedes-Benz cars have had their share of electricalwoes. A check of Toyota's U.S ....
It's a Wonderful Life; An overweight "ghetto nerd" struggles to find love and a place to call home.
Sep 30, 2007 ... THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO By Junot Diaz Riverhead. 340 pp. $24.95 Nowadays, there may be Hmong in Madisonand Somalis in St. Paul, but some of us still have trouble keepingup with all the intense cultural mixing and melting going on amidour purple-mountained ...
Washington Area Bestsellers
Sep 30, 2007 ... Paperback Fiction 1 THE COLLECTORS (Grand Central, $9.99) By David Baldacci. The Camel Club reunites to solve a murder atthe Library of Congress.4 2 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a circusduring the ...
Family Matters; The author of "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" returns with a novel about friendship tested by depression.
Sep 30, 2007 ... SONGS WITHOUT WORDS By Ann Packer Knopf. 322 pp. $24.95 Ann Packer has been looking in our windows. The majority of readers of contemporary literary fiction inAmerica -- especially fiction written by women -- are womenthemselves, and in her new novel, ...
The Optimist's Son; Richard Russo's epic tale of a town, a family and life's rhythms.
Sep 30, 2007 ... BRIDGE OF SIGHS By Richard Russo Knopf. 528 pp. $26.95 Richard Russo was already the patron saint of small-town fiction,but with his new novel, Bridge of Sighs -- his first since thePulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls -- he's produced his mostAmerican story ....
Nathan Zuckerman, now 71, faces mortality -- and sex -- one last time.
Sep 30, 2007; ... EXIT GHOST By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin. 292 pp. $26The prose is as assured and invitingas ever, but Philip Roth's latest -- and perhaps last -- novelabout his alter ego, the writer Nathan Zuckerman, is in many ways amagnificent shambles, like old age itself. Exit ...
True Crime; A novelist investigates the killing of a beloved Guatemalan bishop.
Sep 30, 2007 ... THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER Who Killed the Bishop? By Francisco Goldman Grove. 396 pp. $25 Francisco Goldman, an accomplished novelist who specializes inevoking murky tropical worlds, could easily have concocted a macabreand fantastic plot in which right-wing ...
October 1-7, 2007
Sep 30, 2007 ... 4:15 P.M. Historian Norman Davies discusses and signs No SimpleVictory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945 at the GeorgetownUniversity Bookstore, Leavey Center, 37th & O Sts. NW, 202-687-7492. 7 P.M. Poet Pamela Harrison and playwright Juanita Rockwell readfrom their work as part ...
Letters; Disputing Henry
Sep 30, 2007 ... Since my novel Lions at Lamb House tells an entirely imaginarystory, albeit braced by historical circumstance, it borders onvanity to bandy competing speculations as to what the historicalfigures who inhabit it would or wouldn't have done, thought orwritten. But I have fallen foul of ...
Media Watch
Sep 30, 2007 ... Is the line between observer and participant growing fuzzier? Orare media commentators, particularly those on TV, just more openabout ...
Dearly Departed
Sep 30, 2007 ... PONTOON By Garrison Keillor Viking. 248 pp. $25.95 When I was a boy growing up in a smalltown much like Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, every family seemedto have an Evelyn Peterson: an agnostic in a predominantly Lutherancommunity, who at 82 wears "feathery earrings like ...
How Life (and Science) Evolves
Sep 30, 2007; ... "Now and at all other points in evolutionary time," writeszoologist Wallace Arthur in Creatures of Accident, "the living worldhas been dominated by bacteria." And yet bacteria are not the mostadvanced creatures on the planet; humans are. "How did humans,"wonders Arthur, "our fellow apes, ...
Personal emotions -- impat ...
Sep 30, 2007; ... Personal emotions -- impatience, affection, discomfort ofillness, pleasure in food or music, feeling old or angry, sorrow andexhilaration -- are not necessarily diminished by political orsocial context. On the contrary, the context can make the feelingsmean more. In a way, the word ...
A Country on the Edge; An expert sees danger in China's weakness, not its strength. [Correction 10/11/07]
Sep 30, 2007 ... CHINA Fragile Superpower By Susan L. Shirk Oxford Univ. 320 pp. $27 Susan L. Shirk starts out her revelatorybook on China with a nightmare scenario. A Chinese SU-27 fighter anda Taiwanese F-16 collide over the Taiwan Strait. The incidentspirals out of control when the ...
Royal Pretender; Was the woman pulled from a Berlin canal the daughter of the murdered Russian tsar?
Sep 30, 2007 ... A ROMANOV FANTASY Life at the Court of Anna Anderson By Frances Welch Norton. 357 pp. $24.95The story of the last days of the Romanovs -- and especially that of the Grand Duchess Anastasia -- seems tohave no end. But its tragic beginning is well-known. In July 1918, ...
In Conversation . . .; Philip Roth talks to French novelist Marc Weitzmann about the work of a lifetime.
Sep 30, 2007 ... Philip Roth writes in a spare but comfortable two-room clapboardcabin some 200 feet from his house in Connecticut, where he spendsmost of his time, surrounded by woods and silence. Although there isa desk -- neatly ordered, like everything else here -- he writesstanding up at a ...
Staying On; How did two elderly Jewish writers living in occupied France survive the Nazis?
Sep 30, 2007 ... TWO LIVES Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm Yale Univ. 229 pp. $25Gertrude Stein wrote monstrously unreadableprose on the theory, in vogue circa 1905, that she could bypass herconscious mind and write directly from the subconscious. Her greatlove, Alice B. Toklas, ...
To read these and other Week ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... To read these and other Week In Review ...
A father and daughter, torn between racial boundaries.
Sep 30, 2007; ... ONE DROP My Father's Hidden Life --A Story of Race and Family Secrets By Bliss Broyard Little, Brown. 514 pp. $24.99For most of the 1970s and '80s,Anatole Broyard was a staff book critic for the New York Times,writing two or three reviews a week for its ...
Espresso Machine, the Numbers
Sep 30, 2007 ... Cost: about $100,000, although a streamlined model underdevelopment could cost as little as $25,000. Cost of printing one page of a book: about 1 cent. Number of people required to run the machine: one, who selects atitle to print, keeps the machine ...
Seeing the Past, Present and Future in a National Symbol -- Coca Leaves
Sep 30, 2007; ... Inside her booth, as small and dingy as a garden shed, gold-toothed soothsayer Felipa Quispe places a handful of coca leaves onan intricately patterned Tari cloth. "So what would you like the coca leaves to tell you? Love, money,career?" she asks. I had come up the steep hill ...
A Heavyweight Matchup: Broncos' Defensive Backs vs. Air Manning
Sep 30, 2007 ... Denver at Indianapolis 4:15 p.m. 17-2 Colts' record in September since Tony Dungy became coach in 2003,best in the league over that time span Champ Bailey, perhaps thebest cornerback in the game, has done his job for the Broncosagainst Peyton Manning and the ...
For Tomlin, It's Personal
Sep 30, 2007 ... Pittsburgh at Arizona 4:15 p.m. WUSA-9, WJZ-13 1979 The last time the Steelers started a season 4-0 0 Players who have rushed for 100 yards against the Steelers sincethe Cardinals' Edgerrin James did it while with the Colts on Nov.28, ...
Defenses' Mirror Image
Sep 30, 2007 ... Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants 8:15 p.m. WRC-4, WBAL-11 16, 5 Touchdowns and interceptions for Eagles QB Donovan McNabb in 13career games against the Giants. The Eagles are 7-6 in those gamesbut have won seven of the past eight. In the closing scene of ...
Milwaukee Brewers first basem ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder is estranged fromhis father, Cecil, with whom he hasn't spoken in years, but he can'tavoid the fact they share a bit of history. They are the only fatherand son to have each hit 50 homers in a season. Cecil did it in1990; Prince reached the ...
THE OFFSEASON AHEAD
Sep 30, 2007 ... BARRY BONDS VS. RETIREMENT The scandal-plagued slugger, trash-heaped by the San FranciscoGiants last week, heads into the offseason not knowing where -- orif -- he'll play in 2008. There may be AL teams interested inmaking him their DH (think Texas, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Seattle ...
Dave Sheinin's Postseason Awards
Sep 30, 2007 ... After driving ourselves crazy weighing the relative merits ofeach of the deserving candidates in this year's riveting race forNational League most valuable player -- perhaps the bestindividual award race in recent memory -- we decided to simplifymatters: The NL hitter with the ...
Spoilers Nats sweep Mets at ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... Nats sweep Mets at Shea Stadium, damaging latter's playoff hopes.Only downside was fending off sloppy hugs from grateful Philliesplayers. Nats exercise 2009 option on manager's contract. Unfortunately,they can't guarantee him a parking space at new stadium. O's thank fans ...
At the Top, More Power; In Evolution of the Leadoff Hitter, There Are Various Ingredients in the Package
Sep 30, 2007; ... When Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins was growing upin Oakland, Calif. -- small, fast and way into baseball -- heworshipped Athletics leadoff man Rickey Henderson, appropriating allof Henderson's moves, mannerisms and quirks in Little League gamesacross the Bay Area ....
SAVES Valverde, Ari. ... 47 ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... SAVES Valverde, Ari. 47 NEXT: Today, at Colorado GAMES PITCHED Rauch, Wash ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Sep 30, 2007 ... HOME RUNS Fielder, Mil 50 YESTERDAY: 0 HR TODAY: vs. Tomko, 1-3, HR RBI Holliday, Col 133 YESTERDAY: 2 ...
ERA Lackey, LA ... 3.01 N ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... ERA Lackey, LA 3.01 NEXT: Regular season finished GAMES PITCHED Walker, Balt ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Sep 30, 2007 ... BATTING Ordonez, Det .360 YESTERDAY: DNP TODAY: vs. Contreras, 6-31, 2 HR, 7 SO HITS Suzuki, Sea ...
Red Sox' Buchholz Is Shut Down
Sep 30, 2007 ... Red Sox rookie Clay Buchholz won't pitch for the rest of the yearand will miss the postseason because of shoulder fatigue. The 23-year-old right-hander pitched a no-hitter againstBaltimore on Sept. 1 in his second major league start, then was sentto the bullpen and made a relief ...
QUOTABLE "At 5 o'clock Sunda ...
Sep 30, 2007 ... "At 5 o'clock Sunday, 2007 is over. I'm not going to talk aboutit anymore." Orioles Manager Dave Trembley, already looking forward to a newseason Tigers: SS Carlos Guillen will shift to first base next season.Tigers Manager Jim Leyland spoke with Guillen about the change ...
Florida City Comes to Terms With Its Status in Scientology
Sep 30, 2007; ... Sure, says Mayor Frank Hibbard, it can be a little unsettling tosee throngs of Scientologists wandering Clearwater's streets intheir blue or khaki trousers and crisp dress shirts. Sometimes, it makes the neighbors a bit uneasy. "When you come to downtown, no one likes being a ...
Free Clinic Works to Help Keep Southern Maryland Kids Smiling
Sep 30, 2007; ... Southern Maryland's only free medical clinic started a decade agoas a one-day-a-week operation. Demand for health care from uninsuredresidents has increased so much that, three months ago, the clinic,Health Partners, expanded its schedule to six days a week. The Waldorf clinic will ...
Most Immigrants Convicted Of Crimes Are Not Deported
Sep 30, 2007; ... Ezequiel Lopez-Quintero already had a rap sheet that stretched toTexas when, police said, he shot Kenosha County, Wis., Sheriff'sDeputy Frank Fabiano Jr. in the head, killing him. Lopez-Quintero, 45, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was free atthe time of the May shooting, after ...
In Dolphin's Injury, a Fluke of Luck; Building a New Tail May Yield Ways to Improve Human Prosthetics
Sep 30, 2007; ... Prosthetic specialist Kevin Carroll travels the country tacklingthe toughest human amputation cases, so it was only natural that hewas also drawn to Winter -- the only known dolphin to survive theloss of her powerful tail flukes. "My heart went out to her, and I was thinking I ...
Kidnapped for Cash in Philadelphia
Sep 30, 2007; ... When two men snatched a 7-year-old at gunpoint from a drug-plagued neighborhood this summer, they hoped to get $250,000 inransom. The plan unraveled when the captors saw the youngster's fatherwith police -- a turn they had not anticipated. They let the boygo unharmed two hours ...
A Big Change Is in the Air for Television Sets; End of Analog Signals May Surprise Viewers
Sep 30, 2007; ... The industry has tried to get the word out, but many consumersstill aren't getting the message: In a year and a half, millions oftelevision screens could go dark. Not the fancy high-definition TVs or those connected to cable orsatellite. But the 70 million sets relying on rooftop ...
In Germany, a Female Migration; Women Abandoning the East to Find Opportunity in More Prosperous West
Sep 30, 2007; ... Silke Gawenda's home town has its charms -- ramparts andtimbered houses from the Middle Ages, and quiet streets lined withlinden trees. A little too quiet for the bright 18-year-old, who is countingthe days until high school graduation so she can leave Wittstock forcollege in ...
Civil Rights School Celebrates 75th Year; Institution Has Survived the Klan, a House Probe, the Red Scare and State Spying
Sep 30, 2007; ... The little school tucked away in the mountains of East Tennesseemay have faded from the public spotlight, but it was once at thecenter of the struggle for civil rights. It has been investigated by the House Committee on Un-AmericanActivities, spied on by a governor of Georgia and ...
Lights Out For Lustrons Of Quantico
Sep 30, 2007; ... Alas, no amount of wishful thinking could save the Lustrons ofQuantico. Demolition crews will arrive Monday to begin knocking down theremaining 34 all-metal, pastel-colored, iconic postwar houses of theQuantico Marine Corps base's Argonne Hills neighborhood, bringing ...
Kansas City Draws Ire of NAACP, La Raza; Woman Named to Park Board Also Belongs to Civilian Group Policing Mexican Border
Sep 30, 2007; ... When the mayor named a 73-year-old grandmother to the city's parkboard, which considers issues such as off-leash dog areas andoutdoor party permits, the move might have gone largely unnoticed. But Frances B. Semler's appointment could now cost the citymillions of dollars, because ...
Nats Get a Glimpse Of the Playoff Race; Phillies in First After Win, Mets Loss
Sep 30, 2007; ... Phillies 6, Nationals 0 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions When the stadium had emptied and the towel-waving fans hadspilled onto the streets and into the bars, cheers still eruptedaround Citizens Bank Park. By 10:45 p.m. Friday night, thePhiladelphia Phillies had won, ...
A Transformation Measured in 'It' Bags; Vietnam's Newly Rich Leave Communist Ideals Behind as They Stock Up on Luxury Goods
Sep 30, 2007; ... In a country whose peasant army once marched on flip-flops cutfrom old tires, Gucci beach sandals priced at $365 can come as ashock. But the luxury market is booming in Vietnam, where a generationago Ho Chi Minh's communist revolution exalted equality and thecommon man. As ...
THE LOTTERIES; September 28
Sep 30, 2007 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 2-1-7 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 6-4-4-7 Lucky Numbers: 6-9-1 D.C. 4: 9-6-1-9 Rolling Cash 5: 2-6-7-18-31 Daily 6: 1-3-5-9-13-39 *24 Day/Pick-3: 2-9-8 Pick-4: ...
Enough Said? Probably Not.; Free-Speech Issues Once Again Testing University President
Sep 30, 2007; ... Lee Bollinger walks into the lecture hall and, easing out of hisjacket, begins to set up a hypothetical: Let's say I'm a senatorwho wants a law that prohibits glorifying violence againstAmericans, he says. Tell me why such speech is constitutionallyprotected. As students in the ...
Bonuses Given Wrongly, Report Finds; Auditor Faults Personnel Director for Size of Awards and Lack of Paperwork
Sep 30, 2007; ... During Mayor Anthony A. Williams's final months in office, hispersonnel director improperly gave 28 top appointees two sets ofbonuses totaling more than $525,000, according to a report by theD.C. auditor. The 16-page report says Lisa Marin approved higher bonuses thanthe mayor's ...
Report: Williams Officials Given Undue Bonuses; Auditor Faults Personnel Director for Size of Awards and Lack of Paperwork
Sep 30, 2007; ... During Mayor Anthony A. Williams's final months in office, hispersonnel director improperly gave 28 top appointees two sets ofbonuses totaling more than $525,000, according to a report by theD.C. auditor. The 16-page report says Lisa Marin approved higher bonuses thanthe mayor's ...
Who Benefited
Sep 30, 2007 ... The D.C. auditor questioned bonuses the Williams administrationawarded senior officials in two installments. The combined total inmost cases exceeded 10 percent of their salaries. Below are some ofthose who received such bonuses: Robert C. Bobb, city administrator: $31,200 ...
'The single most effective weapon against our deployed forces'
Sep 30, 2007; ... It began with a bang and "a huge white blast," in the descriptionof one witness who outlived that Saturday morning, March 29, 2003.At a U.S. Army checkpoint straddling Highway 9, just north of Najaf,four soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division, part of the initialinvasion of Iraq, had ...
Colorado Stuns No. 3 Oklahoma; Field Goal as Time Expires Caps Rally
Sep 30, 2007; ... Colorado 27, Oklahoma 24 Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops envisioned it going down to the wire.Colorado's Dan Hawkins had a hunch his team would pull off the bigupset. Both coaches turned out to be correct, and Hawkins's Buffaloesdealt a serious blow to the Sooners' national title ...
U.N. Envoy Arrives In Burma for Talks With Ruling Junta; Without Sequestered Monks, Protest Wilts
Sep 30, 2007; ... A U.N. special envoy flew to Burma for discussions with thecountry's entrenched military government Saturday, seeking toresolve a bloody political uprising that has generated worldwidedemands for the generals to halt their repression and make way fordemocratic reforms. The ...
For Burmese Exiles, Hope Amid Turmoil; As Deadly Protests Erupt in Their Country, D.C. Area Expatriates Join the Outcry With New Optimism About a Democratic Future
Sep 30, 2007; ... From his spartan office suite in Rockville, the headquarters ofBurma's democratic opposition in exile, Bo Hla Tint has spent yearsfruitlessly pressing for international attention on the plight ofhis impoverished, oppressed and nearly invisible country inSoutheast Asia. Last ...
Backup Johnson Has Started Off Strong
Sep 30, 2007; ... Asked why he has appeared more composed, confident and focused inthe Washington Capitals' net, Brent Johnson paused for a moment,then smiled. "Every single thing in my life is great right now," he saidyesterday. "When I'm not here, I'm home getting lots of rest so I'mready to go ...