The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, October 14:
Red Sox Still Have Confidence in Gagne
Oct 14, 2007; ... The Boston Red Sox still are hoping right-handed reliever EricGagne will become a prominent figure in their bullpen this season,but his messy mop-up outing in Game 1 of the American LeagueChampionship Series has left some question as to whether that ispossible. Gagne, the most ...
Marriotts Ridge Holds Off Atholton
Oct 14, 2007; ... When it was over, the Marriotts Ridge football players whoopedand hollered on the team bus like a band of brothers that had justaccomplished something special. And the Mustangs' 12-7 win yesterdayat Atholton was plenty special. Marriotts Ridge, playing just its second season of ...
AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Oct 14, 2007 ... Game WhenTimeIndians' Projected StartersRed Sox' ProjectedStartersTV 1Boston 10, Cleveland 3 (W: Beckett; L: Sabathia) 2Cleveland at Boston, Late 3Tomorrow at Cleveland7:10 p.m.JakeWestbrook (6-9, 4.32)D. Matsuzaka (15-12, 4.40)WTTG-5 4Tuesday atCleveland8:21 p.m.Paul Byrd (15-8, ...
Itati Wins Baltimore Marathon
Oct 14, 2007; ... -- After 19 miles of the Baltimore Marathon, John Itati wastired of waiting. The Kenyan had run in the lead pack the first halfof the race. And after mile 16, thanks to a string of hills, thatgroup was cut to two men, Itati and Mesfin Hailu, 25, of Ethopia. So on Harford Avenue, ...
Five Down, Five to Go The following results yesterday ended these unbeaten seasons:
Oct 14, 2007 ... Kentucky 43, LSU 37 Oregon State 31, Cal 28 Oklahoma 41, Missouri 31 Louisville 28, Cincinnati 24 Virginia 17, Connecticut 16 That left the following teams ...
Baker Agrees to 3-Year Deal to Manage Reds
Oct 14, 2007 ... Dusty Baker was hired as manager of the Cincinnati Redsyesterday, agreeing to a three-year deal with a team coming off itsseventh straight losing season and looking for stability at the top. The 58-year-old Baker worked in television for a year after theChicago Cubs fired him ...
Nuts & Bolts; 2008 Saturn Vue XR
Oct 14, 2007 ... Complaints: Ria Manglapus, my Washington Post associate invehicle evaluations, had higher expectations of the Vue XR. Shedisagrees with my assessment of its handling and performance. "Tome, it felt heavier and less sporty than the Honda CR-V EX or theMazda CX-7," she said. "I prefer ...
The Point, Mr. AFL-CIO: Consumers Don't Care
Oct 14, 2007; ... To: Mr. John J. Sweeney, president, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: Thank you for your letter to the editor of The Washington Post("What the UAW Was Fighting For"), published Wednesday. It is a spirited response to my Car Culture column ("The UAWCan't Count on ...
Q Dear Tom and Ray: My girlf ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... Q Dear Tom and Ray: My girlfriend says I am too mature (I'm 61) for my '96 Miata, andI should be driving something in my maturity range, if not my pricerange. I plan to spend about $20,000 for the newer car but havediscovered an interesting situation in the used car market. I ...
A Peach of a Ride to the Apple Orchard
Oct 14, 2007; ... Life is a matter of expectations. If good expectations are met,we're happy. If not, we're disappointed. If they are surpassed,we're very happy -- perhaps even forgiving of previousdisappointments. Consider apple-picking here at Tantillo's Farm Market, about a 90-minute drive ...
Classified Nation; Can democracy function when government systematically hides the truth?
Oct 14, 2007 ... TAKEOVER The Return of the Imperial Presidency And the Subversion of American Democracy By Charlie Savage Little, Brown. 400 pp. $25.99 NATION OF SECRETS The Threat to Democracy And the American Way of Life By Ted ...
Washington Area Bestsellers
Oct 14, 2007 ... Paperback Fiction 1 CROSS (Grand Central, $9.99) By James Patterson. While hunting a killer, Alex Crossunwittingly finds clues to his wife's murder.2 2 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a circusduring ...
So Far Away; Edwidge Danticat recalls a childhood split between two fathers and two countries.
Oct 14, 2007 ... BROTHER, I'M DYING By Edwidge Danticat Knopf. 272 pp. $23.95 Imagine being a child whose parents live ina faraway place that won't allow you to visit them, or them to cometo you. Imagine being a parent who learns that his child across theocean was beaten at school and who is ...
The Caretaker's Dilemma; The author of "The Lovely Bones" explores a matricide and the loveless years that led to it.
Oct 14, 2007 ... THE ALMOST MOON By Alice Sebold Little, Brown. 291 pp. $24.99 Alice Sebold makes us listen towomen we don't want to listen to: a rape victim, a murdered teenagerand, now, a daughter who's smothered her elderly mother to death.She attends to the kinds of people who, ...
Consuming Silence; While anarchists terrify America, these patients in Saranac Lake must endure their own quiet terror.
Oct 14, 2007 ... THE AIR WE BREATHE By Andrea Barrett Norton. 297 pp. $24.95The town of Saranac Lake in the AdirondackMountains of New York must be one of those haunted places, such asEllis Island and Alcatraz, where visitors can sense the dread ofpast inhabitants still trapped in the ...
When this ultra-romantic pianist sat down to play, ladies and critics swooned.
Oct 14, 2007; ... LOST GENIUS The Curious and Tragic Story of An Extraordinary Musical Prodigy By Kevin Bazzana Carroll & Graf. 383 pp. $28A few years back, Kevin Bazzanabrought out Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould.Brilliant, controversial and eccentric, Gould ...
The Bridge Builder; Ken Follett's long-awaited sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth" is a rousing epic of 14th-century England.
Oct 14, 2007 ... WORLD WITHOUT END By Ken Follett Dutton. 1,014 pp. $35The millions of readers who enjoyed KenFollett's Pillars of the Earth (1989) will certainly enjoy itssequel, World Without End. While it would be grossly unfair to saythat it's the same book with different characters, ...
Good Jimmy, Bad Jimmy; The former president reminds us of his accomplishments since leaving office.
Oct 14, 2007 ... BEYOND THE WHITE HOUSE Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope By Jimmy Carter Simon & Schuster. 272 pp. $26 Two Jimmy Carters have longcoexisted in the public mind. Good Jimmy brokered the Camp Davidaccords between Israel and Egypt. Bad Jimmy failed to ...
Bravery and Blunder; Volume Two in a monumental history shows raw GIs and inexperienced generals in a schoolhouse of war.
Oct 14, 2007 ... THE DAY OF BATTLE The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 By Rick Atkinson Henry Holt. 791 pp. $35The airborne operations were a disaster.British gliders plummeted into the sea, American paratroopers werescattered all over the island. Seaborne landings went ...
Repostings; Anticipating Lessing's Nobel Prize
Oct 14, 2007 ... Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature this week,was profiled by David Streitfeld for this newspaper almost 20 yearsago, on Dec. 25, 1988. Some quotes from his article: "Lessing is a perennial Nobel candidate, especially if the judgesever get around to honoring a ...
Life in a Small Town; Lynne Cheney remembers an idyllic Wyoming childhood.
Oct 14, 2007 ... BLUE SKIES, NO FENCES A Memoir of Childhood and Family By Lynne Cheney Threshold. 305 pp. $26 Lynne Cheney's credentials are, as far asI can tell, unprecedented among vice-presidents' wives: a doctoratein English, author of numerous books, Lockheed Martin ...
Spaceships, gunfights and believable characters, too.
Oct 14, 2007 ... Modern fantasy is hard to define, especially when genre writersas diverse as Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman and Emma Bull are hip-deep init. Bull's Territory lacks the malevolent poetry of Powers's bestand the trenchant wit of Gaiman's latest, but her version of theshoot-out at the O.K. Corral, ...
October 15-21, 2007 [Correction 10/24/07]
Oct 14, 2007 ... 7 P.M. Actress Danica McKellar, known for her roles in "TheWonder Years" and "The West Wing," discusses and signs her new bookmeant to inspire young girls, Math Doesn't Suck: How to SurviveMiddle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, atBorders Books-White Flint, 11301 ...
In a Family Way
Oct 14, 2007; ... To every mother who dreads the question "What did you do allday?" Naomi Stadlen offers comfort, even vindication: "If we see'nothing' when we look at a mother who is quietly being a mother, itis easy for her to feel as if she is doing nothing too. If shethinks she is doing nothing . . ....
The Library of America has pu ...
Oct 14, 2007; ... The Library of America has published an inclusive anthology ofAmerican poetry from the 17th and 18th centuries -- poetry writtenby English colonists before there was a United States, and bycitizens of the new republic shortly after its founding. Fascinatingfor historical perspective, ...
The Pity of War
Oct 14, 2007 ... In the movies, it usually happens this way: The doorbell rings,the mother opens the door, and there stands a stranger, a soldier inuniform. The mother knows immediately what has prompted this visit,and she begins to sob. In real life, however, the news sometimescomes less dramatically, ...
Victory of Steel and Ice; During the Battle of Moscow, Stalin turned his guns on his own people.
Oct 14, 2007 ... THE GREATEST BATTLE Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow ThatChanged the Course of World War II By Andrew Nagorski Simon & Schuster. 366 pp. $27 So far, no one has done for Moscow what Jan Morris did forVenice: No devoted outsider (yes, an ...
Daniel Boone was a man. Yes, a big man.
Oct 14, 2007; ... BOONE A Biography By Robert Morgan Algonquin. 538 pp. $29.95The story of Daniel Boone, Robert Morganwrites in this comprehensive and deeply sympathetic biography, "isthe story of America," and he's right. He argues, further, that bythe time Boone was in his mid-50s, ...
About a Boy
Oct 14, 2007 ... SLAM By Nick Hornby Putnam. 309 pp. $19.99. Ages 14-up."Listen," says Sam Jones, thegarrulous young narrator of Nick Hornby's likable first novel forteenagers, "I know you don't want to hear about every single littlemoment." He then relives every single little moment ...
A look at some of the wackine ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... A look at some of the wackiness of the SEC, where no team isunbeaten in the conference and 10 of the 12 teams have at least oneconference win. KENTUCKY beat LSU, 43-37, yesterday LSU beat South Carolina, 28-16, on Sept. 22 SOUTH CAROLINA beat ...
To read these and other Week ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... To read these and other Week In Review ...
Reports Detail Laser Eye Surgery's Hazards, Complications
Oct 14, 2007; ... Millions of Americans have undergone laser eye surgery to correctbad vision, and along with the procedure's popularity, somethingelse is coming into focus: its hazards. Advertising stresses the surgery's safety, and most proceduresare successful. Tiger Woods, who relies on keen ...
Private Firms Take Over Some Public Libraries
Oct 14, 2007; ... A big red "closed" sign has been plastered across the front doorof the library here since mid-April, when Jackson County ran out ofmoney to keep its 15 branches open. In a few weeks, though, the sign will come down and the doorswill be open again, now that the county has come up ...
Cash on the 'Che Trail': Marketing the Mystique of a Revered Marxist
Oct 14, 2007; ... The bearded image of guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara hasbecome a pop icon splashed on mugs, T-shirts and even bikinis 40years after his death, and this Bolivian town is out to cash in onthe marketing frenzy. In central Bolivia, where Guevara battled the army before he ...
Odd Weather Serves Up Unusually Mixed Greens
Oct 14, 2007; ... Sweet corn a month into football season. Cantaloupes andpumpkins, side by side. Sweater-weather tomatoes. What's next, watermelon jack-o-lanterns? At farmers markets across the region this year, October is thenew July. And that's just fine with shoppers such as ...
The Lives Behind Immigrant Lawsuit; Pr. William Plaintiffs Of Diverse Status
Oct 14, 2007; ... The federal lawsuit filed this past week against Prince WilliamCounty paints a broad picture of those who believe they will beaffected by the crackdown on illegal immigration. The 22 plaintiffs are a mix of identified and unidentified men,women and children who live or work in the ...
Upsets Wreak Havoc On Polls; First BCS Rating Is Unveiled Today
Oct 14, 2007; ... A college football season that has already endured scores ofinexplicable twists and turns is due for another surprise today withthe unveiling of the initial Bowl Championship Series ratings, whichwill offer a real-time snapshot of a landscape that becomes moreunfamiliar by the ...
THE LOTTERIES; October 12
Oct 14, 2007 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 0-5-2 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 3-8-6-7 Lucky Numbers: 9-8-8 D.C. 4: 1-9-1-4 Rolling Cash 5: 5-11-18-25-28 Daily 6: 8-22-23-31-37-39 *2 Day/Pick-3: 7-0-5 Pick-4: ...
Small-Town Pharmacies Fear the End
Oct 14, 2007; ... At least once in the past week, a pharmacist in Bowie got up inthe middle of the night to fill a prescription for a customer indire need. A pharmacist in Waldorf smiles as he tells of onecustomer who refills her prescriptions over a span of days just soshe can talk to ...
Texans 'Own' Jaguars?
Oct 14, 2007 ... Houston at Jacksonville 1 p.m. 73,000 Potential Jaguars fans wearing teal to the game today, inresponse to a plea from the team 0 Jaguars players wearing teal in the game today; the team willfollow its early-season practice of wearing white Normally, it's ...
Indians 3W: Beckett (1-0) L: ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... Indians 3W: Beckett (1-0) L: Sabathia (0-1)Red Sox 10 ClevelandABRHBIBBSOAVGTotals33383211 -- Sizemorecf500003.000ACabrera 2b301201.333Hafner dh311111.333VMartinezc400001.000Garko 1b201000.500Gomez ph100001.000JhPeraltass401000.250Lofton lf402001.500Gutierrez ...
Bad News for These Three Winless Teams, but They Bear Watching
Oct 14, 2007 ... St. Louis at Baltimore 1 p.m. WBFF-45 Miami at Cleveland 1 p.m. New Orleans at Seattle 8:15 p.m. WRC-4 2 Teams that have gone 0-14 in NFL history -- the 1976 Buccaneersand 1980 Saints (who finished ...
Titans Are in No Rush
Oct 14, 2007 ... Tennessee at Tampa Bay 1 p.m. 13-1 Titans Coach Jeff Fisher's record against teams from the NFCSouth The Titans are looking to rekindle a healthy running attack.The Buccaneers would settle for a healthy running back. In consecutive weeks, Tampa Bay lost ...
Penalties Kill Capitals Against N.Y.
Oct 14, 2007; ... Rangers 3, Capitals 1 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Any hope the Washington Capitals had of building on theirimpressive first week and improving to 4-0 for the first time in 10years had vanished by the time they trudged off the ice for thefirst intermission Friday ...
Ortiz, Ramirez Retain Order
Oct 14, 2007; ... Red Sox 10, Indians 3 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions The pinch runner shot out of the dugout, nearly beating MannyRamirez to first base, fresh legs subbing for tired ones. It was theeighth inning, Ramirez had just reached base for the fifth straighttime and he ...
PACKERS CONTROL AIRWAVES
Oct 14, 2007 ... Green Bay cornerbacks Charles Woodson, ...
THE PERFECT QUESTION
Oct 14, 2007 ... Tom Brady and the Patriots are one of three ...
A week to relax and reflect
Oct 14, 2007 ... Maryland's Ralph Friedgen, right, and Navy's ...
Howard Remains Winless in MEAC After Losing to Morgan St.
Oct 14, 2007 ... Quarterback Byron Selby completed 11 of 20 passes for 216 yardsand one touchdown as Morgan State sneaked by Howard, 36-33, inovertime yesterday in Baltimore. Morgan State place kicker James Meade made a 23-yard field goalafter Howard's Dennis Wiehberg missed a 38-yard attempt to ...
Bursting Housing Bubble Drains Mortgage Jobs
Oct 14, 2007; ... After more than two decades in the mortgage business, TonyVentimiglio got his big break in 2001 when he accepted a managerialjob with a lender here in the heart of Orange County for $225,000 ayear -- more than double what he had made in each of the previousfour ...
Grounds for Pessimism in Peacetime Nepal; Feuds, Former Rebels Are Paralyzing Politics
Oct 14, 2007; ... With 13,000 dead after more than a decade of fighting, there's atleast one good thing people here say about their country: At leastthere's no war now. But nearly a year after Maoist rebels left their Himalayan basesto join the political mainstream, raising hopes the government ...
Justice Is Exhibit A in Museum Display; Massachusetts Court Explores Whether Immigrant Anarchist Duo Got a Fair Trial
Oct 14, 2007; ... More than 80 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettiwere executed in Boston, they still inspire impassioned debate aboutwhether they were guilty of the murder of two men during a 1920payroll robbery. But in a new exhibition at Massachusetts's highest court, theguilt or ...
Rockies, D-Backs Trust Their Bullpens
Oct 14, 2007; ... When the Colorado Rockies extracted themselves from a bases-loaded situation in the seventh inning of Game 1 of the NationalLeague Championship Series on Thursday night, there was a sense thatthe game essentially had ended. Brian Fuentes, once a closer, wouldtake the mound in the eighth, ...
A Boom in Business Energizes Soweto; Historic Township Was Focus in Fight Against Apartheid
Oct 14, 2007; ... The towering construction cranes and the cacophony of churningconcrete trucks and rumbling cherry pickers are the sights andsounds of a business boom in South Africa's most famous township. Black South Africans are reaping the benefits of a growingeconomy, and at the heart of it ...
Writing Ukraine's Holocaust History; Scholars Gather To Piece Together Obscured Horrors
Oct 14, 2007; ... Who is to blame for the killing of 1.4 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine? And what can be done now to dispel age-old anti-Semitism in Ukraine, honor Jewish dead and move on? For the first time, scholars from around the world shareddocuments and knowledge about the Holocaust in ...
Tiny Town In Loudoun Lays Claim To Civil War
Oct 14, 2007; ... With a population of 50 or so, it's easy to overlook the westernLoudoun hamlet of Unison. And because of when it occurred, it'seasier still, perhaps, to overlook the Civil War battle that tookplace there, National Park Service historian David Lowe said. "You have the huge Battle of ...
Minn. Man's Pain Remains After Police Run-In
Oct 14, 2007; ... Sprawled on his stomach outside a gas station in Golden Valley,Minn., Al Hixon had a police officer's boot planted on his neck andpepper spray shot deep into his nostrils, scorching his lungs.Moments earlier, Hixon had been pouring oil into his blue Jaguar --a quick stop on what was ...
Miami (
Oct 14, 2007 ... Miami (+41/2) over CLEVELAND Let's just start by saying smart people don't gamble on NFLgames. However, of the people who do gamble on NFL games, thesmarter ones pay attention to trends. (The dumber ones pay attentionto Swezey's picks. Zing!) The Dolphins have lost by exactly ...
Capitals100 -- 1Rangers300 -- ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... Capitals100 -- 1Rangers300 -- 3 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, N.Y. Rangers, Gomez 1 (Shanahan, Jagr), 1:33 (pp). 2,Washington, Ovechkin 2 (Green, Poti), 7:46 (pp). 3, N.Y. Rangers,Straka 2 (Hossa, Jagr), 13:26 (pp). 4, N.Y. Rangers, Rozsival 2(Jagr, Drury), 17:59 (pp). Penalties: ...
CAPITALS REPORT
Oct 14, 2007 ... TimeOpponentTVThursday7 p.m.vs. N.Y. IslandersCSNSaturday7p.m.vs. PittsburghCSNOct. 247 p.m.vs. Tampa BayCSN ALL GAMES ON WWWT (107.7 FM, 1500 AM) .958 G Olie Kolzig's save percentage after three starts, good forthird in the league behind Columbus's Pascal Leclaire ...
For LSU and California, a 1-2 Punch-Out; No. 17 Kentucky Fells Top- Ranked Tigers
Oct 14, 2007; ... Kentucky 43, LSU 37 Kentucky became the latest team to shake up the national titlerace. Andre Woodson found Steve Johnson open in the end zone for aseven-yard score in the third extra period on Saturday, and the No.17 Wildcats stunned No. 1 Louisiana State, ...
Sewell Leads Cavs to Sixth Straight Win
Oct 14, 2007; ... Virginia 17, Connecticut 16 Jameel Sewell crouched behind center and stared ahead, 11Connecticut defenders the only thing in his view, possibility theonly thing in his mind. What was behind him, the misfires andmistakes he had committed throughout the afternoon, remained ...
Virginia CavaliersRecord ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... Record: 6-1, 3-0 in Atlantic Coast ConferenceThis Week: Won, 17-16, vs. ConnecticutNext Week: Saturday at Maryland, TBDClose ...
Virginia Tech HokiesReco ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... Record: 6-1, 3-0 in Atlantic Coast ConferenceThis Week: Won, 43-14, at DukeNext Week: Oct. 25 vs. Boston College, 7:30 p.m ....
Navy MidshipmenRecord: 4 ...
Oct 14, 2007 ... Record: 4-2 (Independent)This Week: Won, 48-45, at Pittsburgh onWednesdayNext Week: Saturday vs. Wake Forest, 1 p.m.Role ...