The Washington Post back issues from Monday, October 29:
Sunday's GamesDenver at De ...
Oct 29, 2007 ... Sunday's Games Denver at Detroit 1 Carolina at Tennessee 1 San Diego at Minnesota 1 Washington at N.Y. Jets 1 San Francisco at Atlanta 1 Cincinnati at Buffalo 1 Jacksonville at New Orleans 1 Green Bay at Kansas City ...
Providing the Structure the Autistic Need for College Life
Oct 29, 2007; ... The first 15 years of Laura Freeman's childhood were marred byerratic obsessions with television shows, outbursts when otherchildren teased her, a suicide attempt and questions about why shebehaved the way she did. During her freshman year at Walt Whitman High School in ...
From the Bush to a Chandeliered Hotel, a Rebel Takes Talks in Stride; Conflict in Darfur Has Grown Into Entrenched Way Of Life for Many
Oct 29, 2007; ... Until 17 days ago, rebel Abdul Majid Dosa was living in the bushof the warring Darfur region of western Sudan. Dosa, 51, would stubout his last cigarette of the day at sunset, he said, so thatSudanese government warplanes wouldn't see the glow. His bed was a stretch of arid ground ....
Ellsbury's a Hit Right Off the Bat; Boston Rookie Handles Leadoff Role With Aplomb
Oct 29, 2007; ... Reprinted from yesterday's online editions The machinations had been discussed and analyzed, spliced anddissected, as Game 3 of the World Series approached. Sit DavidOrtiz, and the Boston Red Sox would lose one of the most fearedhitters in all of baseball. Sit Kevin Youkilis, and ...
Iran Adapts to Economic Pressure; Oil Market Could Help It Weather U.S. Sanctions
Oct 29, 2007; ... Confronted by mounting U.S. and U.N. pressure, Iran has beensteadily shifting its trade from West to East and, with the benefitof record high oil prices, is likely to be able to withstand the newU.S. sanctions, according to U.S., European and Iranian analysts. China, a permanent ...
Retirees' Costs Worry Officials; Jurisdictions Must Set Aside Health Funds
Oct 29, 2007; ... There's a big bill in the mail for many state and localgovernments, including several in the Washington area, as accountingregulations imposed this year begin requiring them to calculate thefuture cost of retiree health insurance and set aside money to payfor it. Arlington ...
Smoother Sailing For Chelsea School; Headmaster Credited With Restoring Calm After 2005 Protests Over Teacher Hiring
Oct 29, 2007; ... On the day Anthony Messina first arrived at Chelsea School, acampus he would ultimately lead, students and parents were marchingin the streets. That was two years ago, and the Silver Spring school was inturmoil. Parents and students at Chelsea, a private school thatserves ...
Jaguars Give Gray The Help He Needs
Oct 29, 2007; ... Jaguars 24, Buccaneers 23 -- With Quinn Gray making his first NFL start, the JacksonvilleJaguars put their trust in a vibrant running game and a sturdydefense. The plan to help the inexperienced quarterback replacing injuredDavid Garrard worked Sunday, though not ...
WORLD IN BRIEF
Oct 29, 2007 ... PAKISTAN Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto visited the families ofpeople killed in a suicide bombing that struck her convoy, touring apoor neighborhood Sunday in Larkana in a visit kept secret until thelast minute to protect her from another assassination attempt. Bhutto ...
Rodriguez Opts Out of Contract With Yankees
Oct 29, 2007 ... Alex Rodriguez opted out of his 10-year, $252 million contractwith the Yankees on Sunday in what appears to be the end of hiscareer with New York. Rodriguez's decision, announced by agent Scott Boras during Game4 of the World Series, makes him eligible to become a free ...
Redskins Have Headset Troubles
Oct 29, 2007; ... For the third time this season, the Washington Redskins hadheadset problems between the coaches and quarterback Jason Campbell. This time, though, the problems were not as severe as they werein the loss to the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Oct. 4. Still, any ...
He's No. 1: Federer Ends Year at the Top
Oct 29, 2007 ... Roger Federer beat Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 6-4 to win his secondstraight Swiss Indoors in Basel, and clinch the No. 1 ranking forthe fourth consecutive year. Federer joins Pete Sampras, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and IvanLendl as the only men's players to end the season ranked No. 1 ...
New Health Warning on Wine Labels Has Many French Seeing Red
Oct 29, 2007; ... The label on the bottle of Chateau du Bois de la Garde offersadvice for serving (perfect with game, grilled meat or cheese),gives the vintner's credentials (fourth-generation wine grower) anddescribes the characteristics of the wine (delicate, with red fruitflavors). Beginning ...
The Virginia Department of Ed ...
Oct 29, 2007 ... The Virginia Department of Education provided this response: The External Diploma Program is a program developed for adults,age 21 and older, who have not had recent schooling or test-takingexperience but who have acquired high school-level academic skillsin other than ...
About the Disorders
Oct 29, 2007 ... Autism is one of a group of disorders known as autism spectrumdisorders. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control andPrevention, the disorders are developmental disabilities that causeimpairment in social ...
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Of Crime and Passion
Oct 29, 2007; ... ABSOLUTION By Caro Ramsay Pegasus. 401 pp. $25 In the opening section of Caro Ramsay's ambitious first novel, ayoung Glasgow, Scotland, policeman named Alan McAlpine returns toduty after his brother's death. He is given what appears to be aneasy assignment. Someone ...
STAR OF THE DAY
Oct 29, 2007 ... CB, Chargers, second season Cromartie scored the first touchdowns of his career to help SanDiego beat the Houston Texans, 35-10. His first came when he dove ona ball in the end zone for a 14-0 lead after the snap went overpunter Matt Turk's head. Cromartie intercepted ...
All students who can read, wr ...
Oct 29, 2007 ... All students who can read, write and calculate at the high schoollevel should have access to a diploma program in high school thatallows them to demonstrate their competency. Our son was denied suchaccess but by chance found another way. Fairfax County's External Diploma Program is ...
Brady Gets It, All Right
Oct 29, 2007; ... Perfect Tommy is chasing perfection. You can see that in hisperfect eye black, so straight it looks like he puts it on with aruler, and those perfect passes traveling along their javelin-straight paths downfield. But never mind the perfect jaw, and theperfect hair, and the perfectly ...
One Thing We Can't Build Alone in Iraq
Oct 29, 2007; ... When Columbia University sociologist Peter Bearman dived into theworld of the white-gloved workers who open the front doors ofexpensive New York apartment buildings, he found that most peoplewho applied for jobs as doormen never got one. Most doormen,however, had not applied for their ...
Gunmen in Iraq Kidnap Eleven Tribal Leaders Allied With U.S.;
Oct 29, 2007; ... Eleven tribal leaders who had banded with U.S. troops to fightthe Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq were kidnapped Sundaymorning, the latest in a string of such attacks, fellow tribesmensaid. The Shiite and Sunni sheiks, members of the al-Salam SupportCouncil, a group ...
For One Day, London Calls on NFL; Fans Claim That Watching 'Big Blokes in Lots of Padding' Is More Than a Curiosity
Oct 29, 2007; ... The NFL rolled into London on Sunday night like a rollickingAmerican circus, filled with pyrotechnics and pom-pom-pumpingcheerleaders and enormous men slamming each other in front of morethan 80,000 delirious -- if slightly confused -- fans. In the process, the New York Giants ...
New Quarterbacks Come In, Same Old Result for Jets
Oct 29, 2007 ... Bills 13, Jets 3 -- J.P. Losman came on in relief of an injured Trent Edwards andconnected with Lee Evans on an 85-yard touchdown pass with 3 minutes38 seconds remaining to help lead the Buffalo Bills to a 13-3victory over the New York Jets on Sunday. With the Bills on the ...
Pumped Up Chargers Rout Texans
Oct 29, 2007; ... Chargers 35, Texans 10 -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger flipped the coin, thanked thefirefighters and yelled, "Go, Chargers, go!" Did they ever, helping bring a sense of normalcy to a regionthat's been ravaged by deadly wildfires. Two days after the last evacuees left ...
Bridge
Oct 29, 2007; ... I've heard "middle age" defined as the time when a man is surethat in a week or two he'll feel as good as ever. Unlucky Louie ishealthy enough at 45, but he keeps on hoping his luck will change. Louie, today's West, suffered a triple dose of bad luck. First helet himself be outbid, ...
Today's Horoscope
Oct 29, 2007; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). You're at the brink -- the jumping-off place for a new kind of experience, one that's sure to bring youextremes of emotion. Following your bliss is always a little scary.If it weren't, everyone would do it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Life doesn't get ...
Indianapolis Rolls Another Seven; Defending Champs Are Undefeated But Face Patriots Next
Oct 29, 2007; ... Colts 31, Panthers 7 Peyton Manning set another record and the Indianapolis Colts are7-0. Manning shook off a slow start to throw for 254 yards and twotouchdowns and broke Johnny Unitas's franchise record for careerscoring passes in a 31-7 victory over injury-plagued Carolina ...
Bartlett Heading Home to the Lone Star State
Oct 29, 2007; ... Dan Bartlett, who as White House counselor was one of PresidentBush's closest aides, is heading back to Texas after several monthsof mulling job opportunities, he said last night. Bartlett is joining Public Strategies, a national strategiccommunications firm headquartered in ...
Two Choirs, One Great Show [Correction 11/7/07]
Oct 29, 2007 ... London's Winchester Cathedral Choir gave an object lesson in theart of choral singing Friday at the Washington National Cathedral.It offered tone of unearthly purity, faultless blend and dead-onintonation throughout the harmonic challenges and filigree vocallines of James MacMillan's ...
A Soft Schedule Is Making It Hard on Hawaii
Oct 29, 2007 ... Hawaii's Colt Brennan continues to amass gaudy statistics, butthe number that could be most important for Hawaii fans to follow inthe coming weeks is 12. To earn an automatic berth in one of the five BCS games, Hawaiineeds to be ranked in the top 12 or be ranked in the top 16 ...
Argentina's First Lady Wins Presidency by Wide Margin; Fernandez de Kirchner Vows to 'Deepen' Policies
Oct 29, 2007; ... The presidency of Argentina was handed from husband to wifeSunday, as first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner crushed 13opposition candidates on the promise of adhering to the politicalprinciples that made President Nestor Kirchner one of LatinAmerica's most popular ...
Unlikely Pac-10 Leaders Square Off
Oct 29, 2007; ... One day after experiencing what Southern California Coach PeteCarroll dubbed a "championship" atmosphere, students on this idyllicOregon campus began preparing for an even bigger matchup nextweekend. Granted, Louisiana State's visit to Alabama, which matchesCrimson Tide Coach ...
Sen. Rockefeller, It's For You
Oct 29, 2007 ... In 2005 and 2006 combined, the nation's largesttelecommunications companies, AT&T and Verizon, contributed $12,000to Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.). This year, they gave$47,350. Rockefeller chairs the Senate intelligence committee, a panel notknown for drawing telecom ...
Ryan and Dixon Take Lead in Heisman Race
Oct 29, 2007 ... The weekend brought some clarity to what has been a blurryHeisman Trophy picture. Two quarterbacks who were strong hopefuls just a few weeks ago,Kentucky's Andre Woodson and Florida's Tim Tebow, saw their hopessquashed Saturday. Woodson threw three interceptions in a loss ...
21st Century Consort: Turning Images Into Colorful and Powerful Melodies
Oct 29, 2007 ... Folk landscape paintings and World War I propaganda posters havelittle, if anything, to do with one another. So it was daring forthe 21st Century Consort, the venerable contemporary music ensemble,to take inspiration from exhibits on those disparate topics at theSmithsonian American Art ...
Mary Gauthier, In Comic Form At Rams Head
Oct 29, 2007 ... No one shows up at a Mary Gauthier concert for the first timeexpecting a lot of laughs, and no one returns expecting anythingless. At the Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis on Friday night, thesinger-songwriter was in prime form, punctuating tales of despairand bad luck with flashes of wicked ...
Lawmakers Keep Aerial Tankers on Life Support
Oct 29, 2007; ... Once a week, at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, a crewchief on a tug tows one of a dozen or more aging KC-135E flyingtankers a short distance just to keep the tires from going flat.Every 25 to 30 days, each of the planes is taxied to a special spotjust to sit while its engines run ...
BY THE NUMBERS 18:18 Minute ...
Oct 29, 2007 ... 18:18 Minutes and seconds it took the Chargers to score 35 points inthe first half of a 35-10 victory over the Texans 136.8 Passer rating for Saints QB Drew Brees in yesterday's 31-10 winvs. the 49ers. His previous best rating this season was ...
In Fires' Ruins, Lessons in Prevention
Oct 29, 2007; ... The fires of Southern California were largely abating on Sunday.Hills on both ends of San Diego County still blazed, as did a woodedcanyon in Orange County and the tall, dead trees of the SanBernardino Mountains. But with a weekend of favorable winds and evena smattering of rain, ...
Chess
Oct 29, 2007; ... Hikaru Nakamura, 19, dominated the 10-player Casino Barcelonatournament, finishing first with seven points in nine games, a fullpoint ahead of the top-rated grandmaster Lenier Perez Dominguez ofCuba. Can the former U.S. champion repeat what he achieved Friday inSpain against much ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Oct 29, 2007 ... OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. -- An early morning fire Sunday ravageda beach house occupied by more than a dozen college students,killing seven and sending several more to a hospital. Mayor Debbie Smith said the six people hospitalized were treatedand released, including one survivor ...
In Game 3, Rookies Give Red Sox Quite a 1-2 Punch; Ellsbury, Pedroia Put Boston on Verge of Another World Series Title
Oct 29, 2007; ... Red Sox 10, Rockies 5 Reprinted from yesterday's online editions The fans at Coors Field, bless their hearts, still stood andscreamed and waved their little white towels, as if there was stillhope. The Colorado Rockies still dug in and strained and gave everyappearance of a ...
Practice Dog Etiquette
Oct 29, 2007 ... I am a dog owner who has lived in the Washington area about 10years. There are endless trails and places to take your dog. My dogsare always on leashes because it's the law and because no matter howmuch control you think you have over your animals, they can act inunexpected ...
More Health-Care Politicking; Democrats undercut their own compromises on children's health insurance.
Oct 29, 2007 ... THE LATEST version of the measure expanding the State Children'sHealth Insurance Program makes significant changes to address thecriticisms of President Bush and some Republican lawmakers. Thecompromise focuses more resources on enrolling the poorest children;further reduces eligibility ...
For Loudoun Schools; Our endorsements for the Nov. 6 School Board election
Oct 29, 2007 ... AS WITH ALL things in Loudoun County, the issue overwhelming thepublic schools is growth. Enrollment in the 54,000-student schoolsystem is projected to increase nearly 25 percent by 2011. Thattranslates into some 3,500 students a year, 17 new school facilitiesover the next six years and ...
Checking Child Pornography; The Supreme Court considers a pandering case.
Oct 29, 2007 ... MICHAEL WILLIAMS boasted in an Internet chat room that he hadpictures of himself engaged in sex acts with his daughter, atoddler. He told another person in the chat room that he was willingto provide a link to the photos in exchange for pictures of otherchildren in provocative poses or ...
Urlacher Says He Plays With Arthritic Back
Oct 29, 2007 ... After a sub-par performance in the Bears' 16-7 loss to thevisiting Lions yesterday, LB Brian Urlacher all but confirmed anInternet report that he has an arthritic back. Urlacher was credited with four tackles, another poor performancein an inconsistent season for him. The ...
New Insights From Creatures' Perspective
Oct 29, 2007; ... Two decades ago, Greg Marshall was diving off the reefs of Belizestudying queen conchs when he noticed a reef shark passing by with aremora clinging to its belly. The thought occurred to Marshall, whowas then a graduate student in marine environmental science, that ifa camera could be ...
Oh, the Joy! The Eroticism! The Anxiety! Call It Love
Oct 29, 2007; ... Love is a slippery thing in Martha Graham's hands, inconsistentand complicated and changing by the minute. The more youthful Grahamrecognized its soft center, but by the time she was in mid-career,love as a theme had grown vastly more toxic. That was one conclusion afforded by the ...
In S.C., Obama Seeks a Spiritual Reawakening
Oct 29, 2007; ... As a man not only of God but of politics, the Rev. Joe Darby isan outspoken observer of the campaign scene. Reclining in hiscluttered office at Morris Brown AME Church here, he witnesses theunion between the pulpit and the polls. "Politics does come down to some degree of emotion ....
Top 10 Films; Here are the top movie ticket sales Friday through Sunday, with estimated weekend receipts, and total receipts since the movie opened. The number of weeks opened is in parentheses.
Oct 29, 2007 ... WeekendTotalin millions of dollars1.Saw IV (1)32.132.12.Dan inReal Life (1)12.112.13.30 Days of Night (2)6.727.34.The Game Plan(5)6.377.15.Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married ...
Adapted from a recent online ...
Oct 29, 2007; ... Adapted from a recent online discussion. Carolyn: How do you get over regret? My husband's best friend died lastnight. Less than a week before, he seemed to be on the road torecovery after surgery for a brain aneurysm. My husband was able tovisit him. I didn't go because I ...
CORRECTION
Oct 29, 2007 ... A Business-section cartoon that ran in Sunday editions did notinclude its text. To see the full cartoon and text, go towww.washingtonpost.com/business. An Oct. 24 Metro article said that Tonya Bell, who pleaded ...
Racetrack Envisions A Future With Slots
Oct 29, 2007; ... Louis J. Raffetto Jr. walks around the enormous Laurel Parkracetrack grandstand, looking at the aging facility with the eye ofan interior designer. If he had his druthers, the old teller windows, where the paintis chipping, would be gutted and replaced with slot machines ....
One Nation, Indefensible
Oct 29, 2007; ... It is Halloween and These Things Scare Me: It's not America, it's Red Sox Nation. Is it too late to call ourold, tyrannical friends at the British Empire and ask back in? Formany of us cannot understand how one night we all went to sleep inthe United States and the next day we ...
YESTERDAY'S LEADERS
Oct 29, 2007 ... Passing YardsCmp-AttYds.TD1.Drew Brees, NO31-3933642.D. McNabb,Phi.23-3633313.Marc Bulger, St.L24-3631014.Tom Brady, NE29-3830635.Jon Kitna, Det.24-3526806.Jeff Garcia, TB19-4126717.PeytonManning, Ind.14-3025528.Derek Anderson, Cle.18-2524839.B.Roethlsberger, Pit.22-38230210.Brian ...
Capitals111 -- 3Blues211 -- 4 ...
Oct 29, 2007 ... Capitals111 -- 3Blues211 -- 4 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, St. Louis, Boyes 7 (Tkachuk), :45. 2, St. Louis,Brewer 1 (Kariya, Jackman), 8:58. 3, Washington, Green 2 (Erskine,Ovechkin), 9:38. Penalties: Backes, StL (hooking), 3:49; Brashear,Was (holding), 5:46; Semin, Was ...
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE . . . to block a punt Nowhere is blocking a punt more celebrated than at Virginia Tech, where Beamer Ball has turned special teams into an art form. On Oct. 13 against Duke, Hokies cornerback Stephan Virgil became the latest to master the toe-meets- leather-meets-body trick, scoring the 58th blocked punt of Coach Frank Beamer's tenure.
Oct 29, 2007 ... On the sideline, I heard Coach Beamer call out the play and Isaid, 'I'm going to block this one.' I just had that feeling. Iheard them calling out men [for blocking assignments], and nobodycalled my number. So I said, 'I'm going free.' [The key is] getting off the ball. Just watch ...
Survive and Strive
Oct 29, 2007; ... As Boston Manager Terry Francona approached the World Seriesmound and firmly, but gently, took the baseball from Jon Lester'sleft hand, he smacked his pitcher on the back so firmly you almostfelt it yourself. First baseman David (Big Papi) Ortiz practicallyhugged the 23-year-old. Rookie ...
Depleted Capitals Limp Into Toronto
Oct 29, 2007; ... -- Two days after struggling in St. Louis minus Chris Clark,Alexander Semin and Tom Poti, the Washington Capitals could againfind themselves without three of their most important players Mondaynight as they aim to snap a two-game losing streak against theToronto Maple ...
CAPITALS REPORT
Oct 29, 2007 ... TimeOpponentTVToday7:30at TorontoCSNThursday7at N.Y.RangersCSNFriday7vs. PhiladelphiaCSN+ ALL GAMES ON WWWT (107.7 FM, 1500 AM) 3 Goals this season for second-year D Mike Green, who struck twiceagainst the Blues. He had three career goals entering the ...
No Peanuts and Cracker Jack; Kids With Food Allergies Get Rare Chance to See a Ballgame
Oct 29, 2007 ... Jacob Blitz is a big Nationals fan. But until recently theBethesda 9-year-old had never attended a Major League Baseball game. Why? Because he could die if he gets too close to peanuts. For the 1.5 million Americans like Jacob who have peanutallergies, touching a peanut could ...
Food Allergies
Oct 29, 2007 ... Robert A. Wood, a doctor at Johns Hopkins Children's Center inBaltimore, explains: How many kids in this country have food allergies? About 6 to 8 percent of children younger than 3. Most willoutgrow them by age 7 but some never do. About 11 million people inthe United ...
SCENE AND HEARD
Oct 29, 2007 ... Life is composed of accidental moments. They are glimpses of whowe are and where we live. It started with my morning commute on the bus. Suddenly, trafficcame to a halt, and police cars and ambulances arrived. There wasjust enough commotion to wake me up out of my morning daze ....