The Washington Post back issues from Wednesday, October 10:
'Godfather' Gentile Plans To Retire After 40 Years
Oct 10, 2007; ... Sgt. Joe Gentile, who has been the D.C. police department'spublic face and spokesman for nearly four decades, is retiring laterthis month, he said yesterday. "Most people in their careers have to face a time when thereshould be a changing of the guard," said Gentile, 64, who ...
Capitals' Next Three
Oct 10, 2007 ... TimeOpponentTVFriday7 p.m.at RangersCSNSaturday7 p.m.at ...
Judge Orders U.S. Not to Transfer Tunisian Detainee
Oct 10, 2007; ... A federal district judge has ordered the government not totransfer a Tunisian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hishome country, over fears that he would be tortured or killed. Themove marks the first time a court has prevented U.S. officials frommaking such a transfer and is the ...
Bridge
Oct 10, 2007; ... Two is not equal to three (not even for very large values oftwo). Today's East misdefended because he thought three equals fourand nine equals ten. South took the queen of clubs, cashed the A-K of trumps (notbest) and took the A-K of clubs to pitch a diamond from dummy. Henext ...
Foreclosures On the Rise
Oct 10, 2007 ... Foreclosures are up in Maryland and around the region, in partbecause of risky or bad loans. Below is a look at foreclosures inthe state from 2005 through June 2007: 2005 5,141 homes 0.24 percent of households statewide in foreclosure 2006 4,522 ...
The Road Less Taken
Oct 10, 2007; ... EUREKA By Jim Lehrer Random House. 228 pp. $24.95 On its surface, Jim Lehrer's 17th novel is a nutty, likable romp,but it quickly takes on a deeper resonance that is certain to pleasereaders as much as the wacky premise does. Otis Halstead is thesedentary and bored ...
The Oct. 9 Style re ... [Correction 10/17/07]
Oct 10, 2007 ... The Oct. 9 Style review of a recital by violinist Robert McDuffieand pianist Christopher Taylor was published by mistake. Itoriginally ran on Nov. 12, 2005. A review of the Oct. 7 performanceby McDuffie and Taylor at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater appearstoday on Page C2. A ...
Music to All Ears; 'Nobody's Perfect' Explores Childen's Attitudes About Deafness
Oct 10, 2007; ... In a small rehearsal room deep in the Kennedy Center, fouractresses playing 9- and 10-year-olds shriek in delight at animaginary purple pizza: "Purple! Disgusting! Yeah!!!" Later in thescene they burst into song about their pal Megan's "perfect purpleparty" for her 10th ...
Clinton Cites Lessons of Partisanship; Senator Says She's Best Equipped to Unite America
Oct 10, 2007; ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton pushed back against criticism fromfellow Democrats that she is too polarizing to unite the country aspresident, arguing that the political battles she has been throughmake her uniquely equipped to bring the nation together and build acentrist governing ...
Atlantic City Mayor Was In Clinic, Lawyer Says
Oct 10, 2007; ... Atlantic City Mayor Robert W. Levy, who has not been seenpublicly in nearly two weeks, was hospitalized late last month, hisattorney said Tuesday, at a facility that says it specializes in"psychiatric and addictive illness." The lawyer, Edwin J. Jacobs, would not elaborate on what ...
Solas Nua's New Season
Oct 10, 2007 ... Solas Nua, which specializes in contemporary Irish theater of theedgiest sort, starts its 2007-08 season with "Made in China"(Thursday-Nov. 4) at Atlas Performing Arts Center. Mark O'Rowe'sviolent tale set in an imaginary Dublin underworld will be directedby Colin Hovde. Mark ...
Toyota Ad Shows How Game Is Changing
Oct 10, 2007; ... Behold the Toyota Yaris. It's moderately priced, gets goodmileage, and has a gun turret capable of destroying toasters andbike-riding sumo wrestlers as it cruises down a track. Not every Yaris shopper gets the turret option; that's a featurereserved for Xbox 360 owners who download ...
Bush Declares His Openness To Revising Education Law; But He Holds Firm on Testing, Accountability
Oct 10, 2007; ... Under pressure from the right and the left, President Bush saidyesterday that he is open to reformulating his signature No ChildLeft Behind education law but stressed that he remains unwilling tosurrender on its core elements of testing and accountability. "As we move forward, we ...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Oct 10, 2007 ... EUROPEAN UNION The European Union imposed five-year tariffs as high as 71.8percent on industrial salts from the United States, China andTaiwan, targeting exporters including DuPont in a bid to protectGerman manufacturers. The duties punish exporters of peroxosulfatesfor selling ...
Patience Pays Off for Hokies' Warren
Oct 10, 2007; ... Brett Warren never complained, never so much as broached the ideaof leaving Virginia Tech to go play linebacker somewhere else. He'stoo competitive to give up like that, his father says. But wheneverhe spoke with his son, Don Warren could sense how much he wanted toplay, how it killed ...
In Praise of Par-3s: Shorter Rounds for Shorter Days; A 9-Iron and a Putter Can Get You Across Md.
Oct 10, 2007; ... Txt msging instead of writing letters, downloading ring tonesinstead of whole songs, squeezing annual vacations into one weekend.In this Age of Abbrev. -- where everything's short, kwik, reduced -- par-3 golf courses make perfect sense. With most par-3s, you need only a fistful ...
Why Par 3? Sometimes called e ...
Oct 10, 2007 ... Why Par 3? Sometimes called executive courses, sometimes pitch'n' putts, par-3 courses are oft-overlooked jewels. Real golfersscoff at their compactness; miniature golfers don't like to useirons and wedges. But the courses are challenging and, if takenseriously, can be helpful to a ...
Trying to Hold On to Home; Metropolitan Money Store Put Their House at Risk, Md. Couple Say
Oct 10, 2007; ... The dining room table is draped with a blue plastic tablecloth,left over from an 11-year-old's birthday party a few days earlier. George and Jacqueline Prunty's son wanted a sleepover, but hisparents said no. Facing eviction because their house has gonethrough foreclosure and been ...
Board Gives Preliminary Approval to Shut Charter
Oct 10, 2007; ... The D.C. Public Charter School Board gave preliminary approvalyesterday to revoke the charter of Hope Academy, a middle schoolthat has struggled to fill student seats since it opened two monthsago. The 7 to 0 vote is the first step toward closing the school,which has 15 days to ...
Worse Than Irrelevant; A congressional resolution about massacres in Turkey 90 years ago endangers present-day U.S. security.
Oct 10, 2007 ... IT'S EASY to dismiss a nonbinding congressional resolutionaccusing Turkey of "genocide" against Armenians during World War Ias frivolous. Though the subject is a serious one -- more than 1million Armenians may have died at the hands of the Young Turkregime between 1915 and the early ...
Put Out This Fire; A blame game won't fix the problems exposed by a D.C. blaze.
Oct 10, 2007 ... THE DISTRICT and the agency that supplies its water just don'tget along. Witness the ugly finger-pointing over who was to blamefor hampered firefighting efforts at an Adams Morgan condo. Thatofficials need to cooperate in remedying problems should go withoutsaying. Lives are at ...
Army Leaders Plan to Add 74,000 Soldiers by 2010
Oct 10, 2007 ... Top Army leaders said yesterday that they plan to add 74,000soldiers to the Army by 2010, two years sooner than originallyplanned, to relieve the strain on forces stretched by the Iraqand Afghanistan wars. Army leaders said they will do it largely by persuading moresoldiers to ...
Ms. Clinton's Trade Adjustment; Convenience bests principle as the candidate stumps in Iowa.
Oct 10, 2007 ... PRESIDENT Bill Clinton had to fight many powerful lobbyinggroups to win approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement in1993. None was more imposing than that most Democratic ofconstituencies, organized labor. Mr. Clinton stood up to the unions:He publicly condemned the AFL-CIO ...
Iraq War Deaths Total number ...
Oct 10, 2007 ... Total number of U.S. military deaths and names of the U.S. troopskilled recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon: 3,811 Fatalities In hostile actions: 3,109 In non-hostile ...
GOP Opposes Attempt To Revise Wiretap Law; Democrats Propose New Requirements
Oct 10, 2007; ... A House Democratic effort to revise the nation's new foreignintelligence surveillance law met swift resistance yesterday fromthe White House, Republican lawmakers and even some party members. The GOP leaders of both chambers said the bill introducedyesterday by the chairmen of the ...
Homeland Security Revises Rule for Disciplinary Appeals
Oct 10, 2007; ... A key rule designed to streamline the handling of majordisciplinary appeals by Department of Homeland Security employees isin place -- almost five years after President Bush set it inmotion. The rule, which was snagged in litigation at one point, came outof a collaboration ...
Today's Horoscope
Oct 10, 2007; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). Profit, health and happiness springfrom the work you do -- as long as it has integrity. So don't worryabout impressing your people, only about bringing them value. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). No matter how well you know someone,you'll learn and feel more ...
Frederick Votes Not To Deny Immigrants
Oct 10, 2007; ... In a 3 to 2 vote, Frederick County commissioners rejected aproposal yesterday that would have denied public services, includingschooling, to immigrants in the United States illegally, decidingnot to follow the lead of Prince William and Loudoun counties. But the Frederick board ...
WORLD IN BRIEF
Oct 10, 2007 ... ISRAEL Israel confirmed Tuesday that it is building a new road forPalestinians in the West Bank, prompting charges that anincreasingly separate road system is meant to seal Israeli controlover a swath of land near Jerusalem as the sides try to revive peacetalks. Israel said ...
Dejected Yankees Brace for Wrecking Ball; Speculation Rampant On Future of Torre And Several Players
Oct 10, 2007; ... Across East 161st Street from Yankee Stadium, where a handful ofgrim-faced New York Yankees trickled in Tuesday morning to collecttheir belongings and review offseason workout plans with the team'smedical staff, giant cranes reached high into the gray sky, thegroan and clank of ...
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Oct 10, 2007 ... OFFENSEYardsRushPassDallas429.6137.2292.4Green Bay 362.267.6294.6Arizona348.0108.4239.6Washington 340.8130.3210.5Detroit338.673.2265.4Philadelphia 337.3126.0211.3N.Y. Giants332.8117.0215.8Minnesota 313.3135.0178.3Seattle312.091.2220.8New Orleans ...
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS Bre ...
Oct 10, 2007 ... MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS The makers of Coors and Miller Lite plan to combine their U.S.brewing operations in an effort to compete against industry leaderAnheuser-Busch. The deal would concentrate almost 80 percent of theU.S. beer market in the hands of just two companies, the ...
Fed Takes Wait-and-See Approach; No Specific Plan for Further Interest Rate Cuts, Minutes Show
Oct 10, 2007; ... Federal Reserve policymakers left their Sept. 18 meeting withoutany specific plan for further interest-rate cuts because they wereunsure how markets and economic growth would respond, minutes of themeeting show. "Further actions would depend on how economic prospects wereaffected ...
Fall Colors Could Appear Sometime Soon (or Not)
Oct 10, 2007; ... With autumn-like weather expected to sidle into the mid-Atlantictoday, perhaps Washington-area residents will at last begin to seefall itself -- the glorious changing of the leaves. Or maybe not. The drought and summer heat that won't leave -- another recordwas set yesterday ...
RANDOM ACTS
Oct 10, 2007 ... It's all too easy to grow cynical and wary in this urbanenvironment, but the outpouring of letters we've received reveals aheartwarming level of honesty, compassion and humanity. Maybe we'rea more gentle species than city life suggests? As I tucked my son in and said good night, he ...
Free Trade and Low Taxes Star in Republican Debate
Oct 10, 2007; ... On a day when stock indexes hit record highs, Republicanpresidential candidates gathered here Tuesday for a group defense oflow taxes and free markets and warned that Democrats, particularlySen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, pose the greatest danger to thenation's future ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Oct 10, 2007 ... U.S. DISTRICT COURT Washington's U.S. District judges announced yesterday they hadvoted to appoint Jeffrey A. Taylor to continue as U.S. attorney onan interim basis. Taylor, whose interim appointment would have expired this month,has not been confirmed by the U.S. Senate ....
Broadneck enters the rankings ...
Oct 10, 2007 ... Broadneck enters the rankings after beating previously undefeatedOld Mill and Severna Park in the past week. TeamLW1. DeMatha (10-0-3) 12. Magruder (10-0) 23. Gonzaga (12-2-2) 44 ....
NATION IN BRIEF
Oct 10, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES -- A series of errors by Los Angeles policecommanders led to a May Day melee at a pro-immigration rally inwhich officers clashed with protesters and journalists, according toa long-awaited report released Tuesday. Officials said 26 officers are under investigation ...
Disappointed BCA Weighs Legal Action
Oct 10, 2007 ... Floyd Keith, executive director of Black Coaches &Administrators, said yesterday his group will consider legal actionunder civil rights legislation. "We've brought that up and it will be considered on a case-by-case basis," Keith told the Associated Press before announcing ...
With Monday's 8-0 win over Ei ...
Oct 10, 2007 ... With Monday's 8-0 win over Einstein, No. 7 Bethesda-Chevy Chaseclinched the Montgomery County 3A/2A/1A East division title. FiveBarons have scored four or more goals this season in an offense thatis averaging 5.2 goals per ...
Frederick Votes No On Denying Public Services
Oct 10, 2007; ... In a 3 to 2 vote, Frederick County commissioners rejected aproposal yesterday that would have denied public services, includingschooling, to immigrants in the United States illegally, decidingnot to follow the lead of Prince William and Loudoun counties. But the Frederick board ...
South River has handed Broadn ...
Oct 10, 2007 ... South River has handed Broadneck and Quince Orchard their onlylosses. Broadneck moved up this week after handing perennial powerSeverna Park its second overtime loss in as many weeks. LakeBraddock has won nine games in a row since a loss to Langley onSept ....
In Charm City, Marin Alsop Wins Over an Orchestra
Oct 10, 2007; ... Marin Alsop ascends the podium to rehearse the Baltimore SymphonyOrchestra. She is a slight, sprightly woman, soon to turn 51. Pausing to survey the arrayed forces, she knows that she hasarrived. It has been a long slog since she was denied entry to theconducting program in college and ...
Red Sox Hope Wakefield Is Back on Track
Oct 10, 2007 ... Tim Wakefield tested his balky back from the Fenway Park mound onTuesday to see if he'll be able to start Game 4 of the AmericanLeague Championship Series. Curt Schilling showed everything he needed to show on Sunday. Two days after helping the Red Sox finish off the Los ...
From Former Bush Aide, A Candid Assessment Of the GOP Candidates
Oct 10, 2007; ... A former adviser to President Bush has a brutally candid analysisof the Republican presidential nomination contest: Fred D. Thompsonis the campaign's "biggest dud," Mitt Romney has "a real problem inthe South" because of his religion, Mike Huckabee's last name is toohick, and John McCain ...
In New Trial, PurchasePro Founder Faces Additional Charge
Oct 10, 2007; ... A former dot-com billionaire who allegedly cheated investors athis software company also tried to defraud a federal court at histrial last year by pushing his lawyer to introduce phony e-mails asevidence, prosecutors said yesterday. Charles E. "Junior" Johnson, 46, whose ...
Poster Was Aimed at Racism, Authors Say; Group Was Mocking Fear of Muslims
Oct 10, 2007; ... Fliers that appeared on the George Washington University campuscarrying an apparently anti-Islamic message were produced bystudents who were attempting to mock those they thought were tryingto stir fear of Muslims, a campus newspaper was told. The GW Hatchet, an independent campus ...
AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Oct 10, 2007 ... Game WhenTimeIndians' Projected StartersRed Sox' ProjectedStartersTV 1Friday at Boston7:10 p.m. C.C. Sabathia (19-7,3.21)Josh Beckett (20-7, 3.27) WTTG-5 2Saturday at Boston8:21p.m.Fausto Carmona (19-8, 3.06)Curt Schilling (9-8, 3.87)WTTG-5 3Monday at Cleveland7:10 p.m.Jake Westbrook ...
Dan Bartlett on: Fred Thomp ...
Oct 10, 2007 ... "The biggest liability was whether he had the fire in the bellyto run for office in the first place." "The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a realproblem in other parts of the country." "The problem's going to be it always comes down to ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Oct 10, 2007 ... CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Sunrise Senior Living of McLean, which manages 453 retirementcommunities, settled a lawsuit by a union pension fund and agreed toallow shareholders to vote on a proposal to elect directorsannually. The Service Employees International Union Master Trust ...
New Security Strategy Emphasizes Disaster Preparedness
Oct 10, 2007; ... The White House yesterday updated the nation's homeland securitystrategy for the first time since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001,attacks, acknowledging the need to prepare for catastrophic naturaldisasters as well as the "persistent and evolving" threat ofterrorism. The 53-page ...
Va. Candidate Got Improper Tax Break; Vogel Unaware of Condo Deduction
Oct 10, 2007; ... A state Senate candidate in Virginia has been improperlyreceiving a tax break on a home she owns in Northwest Washington,according to D.C. land records and interviews with city officials. Since 2005, city records show Jill Holtzman Vogel (R) and herhusband have received a homestead ...
For Everyday Heroes, a Way to Say Thanks; Medal of Honor Society Creates Awards for Citizens Who Go Above and Beyond
Oct 10, 2007; ... Paul Bucha earned the Medal of Honor during an extended firefightnear Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam, in which he and his men were outnumberedand almost overwhelmed and he was seriously wounded. He was then a24-year-old Army captain. The year was 1968. Now 64 and a real estate developer, ...
GWU Drinkers Who Muss the Bus May Be Asked to Pick Up the Tab
Oct 10, 2007; ... College students have a lot to worry about these days. At GeorgeWashington University, they pick up a copy of the student newspaperand find they can't even throw up in peace. There it was in the GW Hatchet: "Fines Imposed for Vomiting onVern Express." Students who drink until they ...
For Safety's Sake; Student Patrols Play an Important Role
Oct 10, 2007 ... Kids on the safety patrol at Janney Elementary School inNorthwest Washington are role models. They arrive at school earlyand stay late to help keep other students safe. This is a big job. In the mornings, Albemarle Street outsideJanney is busy with cars, bikes and strollers ....
Safety in Numbers
Oct 10, 2007 ... The School Safety Patrol program began in 1920. Since then,millions of kids around the world have worn the brightly coloredbelts and badges of patrol members. If your school doesn't have a safety patrol and would like tojoin ...
TODAY'S NEWS
Oct 10, 2007 ... Kids in India and the Philippines are facing off in a flurry ofbrushing. The goal: to set the Guinness World Record for most peoplebrushing their teeth at the same time. Students in the Philippines set a record in February when morethan 41,000 kids brushed at the same time ....
A Bomb Not Worth Building
Oct 10, 2007 ... Regarding the Sept. 30 news story, "Nuclear Warhead Design HitsSnag": The finding by the "Jasons," a group of scientists that advisesthe government on nuclear defense issues, that the ReliableReplacement Warhead design is not certifiable without undergroundtesting should be a ...
More Entries for the Cheney Files
Oct 10, 2007; ... In response to Friday's column, Loop Fans have been sending infine sightings of the oft-reclusive Vice President Cheney on histravels. "Thought I saw his entourage speeding through Jackson, Wyo., lastSunday morning (Sept. 30)," one reader wrote. "Also saw a largeaircraft ...
A Lot of Experience, a Little History
Oct 10, 2007 ... It's the second-to-last fall semester of the Bush administration,and, as the White House continues to push historical analogies forthe Iraq war, providing versions of history lessons in presidentialaddresses, some who have already cycled through the Bushadministration are out teaching ...
Goodbye, Old Chum
Oct 10, 2007 ... A Quirk Takes item in the Oct. 8 Sports section illustrated that,although many people in this country demand that we all speakEnglish, we don't really speak English. Pete Hodge, a prize-winning English fishing enthusiast, wants hisremains to be made part of a mixture that English ...
Partitioning's Dubious Pedigree
Oct 10, 2007 ... I wholeheartedly agree with David Ignatius that the United Statesshould not be in the business of partitioning Iraq ["Dividing Iraqto Save It," op-ed, Oct. 4]. For anybody who has given seriousthought to the idea of partition, let me present the example of apartition from 60 years ago: ...
What the UAW Was Fighting For
Oct 10, 2007 ... Columnist Warren Brown's comparison of striking auto workers tospoiled children was not just irresponsible, it missed the point["The UAW Can't Count on Buyers' Support Anymore," The Car Pages,Sept. 30]. Yes, domestic automakers are struggling, but those struggles arerelated to a ...
The Bill the President Vetoed
Oct 10, 2007 ... Regarding Eugene Robinson's Oct. 5 column, "Bush's Veto Lies," onthe State Children's Health Insurance Program: Mr. Robinson wrote that the authorization to cover children infamilies in New York earning up to $83,000 "is not in the bill[President] Bush vetoed." In fact, Section ...