The Washington Post back issues from Wednesday, November 14:
WALL STREET BofA Plans $3 Bi ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... WALL STREET Bank of America said it would take a $3 billion, debt-relatedwrite-down in the fourth quarter and warned that its losses couldgrow as the market wrestles with the fallout from the housing andmortgage-lending slump. The bank said it would also spend about $600million ...
Burmese Authorities Arrest Two Prominent Dissidents; Roundup Continues in Wake of Protests
Nov 14, 2007; ... Two prominent Burmese dissidents have been detained, exiledactivists said yesterday, as the military government continues tohunt down and arrest dissident monks and other organizers ofSeptember's pro-democracy demonstrations. The two are a monk who goes by the name of U Gambira, a ...
OFFENSEYardsRushPassDallas . ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... OFFENSEYardsRushPassDallas396.8122.8274.0Green Bay 376.277.4298.8New Orleans354.487.6266.9Philadelphia 352.9116.1236.8Seattle341.995.4246.4New York 330.2134.2196.0Detroit328.682.7245.9Tampa Bay 326.6113.0213.6Minnesota324.9172.3152.6Arizona ...
Gunshots Fired at Apartment Of Virginia Tech Player Harris
Nov 14, 2007 ... Gunshots were fired into the apartment of Virginia Techcornerback Victor Harris early Sunday morning, Coach Frank Beamersaid yesterday. Harris was not injured and will play in Saturday'sgame against Miami. Blacksburg police are investigating the incident, but they haveyet to ...
Iraq War Deaths Total number ...
Nov 14, 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: 3,858 Fatalities In hostile actions: 3,147 In non-hostile ...
Three Local Lights, Dancing on Their Own
Nov 14, 2007 ... "Three Dancers -- The Essence of Dance," Monday night at theAtlas Performing Arts Center, was a beautiful gem of a program. Itfeatured a trio of the area's finest dancers -- Gesel Mason,Tehreema Mitha and Nejla Yatkin -- performing self-choreographedsolo pieces and then a group ...
Blue-Collar Patriots Hang On
Nov 14, 2007; ... The George Mason Patriots have hardly been an artistic successthrough two games, but with a key forward sidelined and four guardsin the starting lineup, Coach Jim Larranaga isn't worried about theaesthetics at this point. The Patriots lumbered to another blue-collar victory last ...
Today Indiana ... 7 Nov. 16 ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... Today Indiana 7 Nov. 16 at Minnesota 8 Nov. 17 Portland 7 Nov. 20 Philadelphia 7 Nov. 21 at Charlotte 7 Nov. 23 Golden State 7 Nov. 24 at Memphis 8 Nov. 26 at Dallas 8:30 Nov. 28 at San Antonio 8:30 Nov. 30 at ...
Yesterday's Results at Orla ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... Yesterday's Results at Orlando 103 Seattle 76 at Charlotte 91 Miami 76 Boston 101 at Indiana 86 at Memphis 105 Houston 99 at San Antonio 107 Lakers 92 at Dallas 99 Philadelphia 84 at Phoenix 113 New York 102 at Portland 102 ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Nov 14, 2007 ... CAPITOL HILL BLAZE One of the two firefighters who were critically injured in anexplosive rowhouse fire on Capitol Hill about two weeks ago wasreleased from a hospital yesterday. Charlie Shyab, who had second- and third-degree burns over 30percent of his body, left the ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Nov 14, 2007 ... LEGAL SLM, better known as Sallie Mae, the Reston student-loan providersuing over a failed $25 billion takeover, is seeking a clarificationof the merger agreement, which could postpone a trial on whether itis entitled to a $900 million break-up fee from a group led bybuyout firm ...
One Tired, Under-Trained, Overworked Face at the Border
Nov 14, 2007; ... There may be "one face at the border," but it's working too muchovertime, not getting enough training and has no voice in how to getthe job done. It's all adding up to fatigue and poor morale. That's the snapshot of Customs and Border Protection that emergedat a Senate hearing ...
CORRECTIONS
Nov 14, 2007 ... In a Nov. 11 Business article about the Xbox 360 game console,video game aficionado David Dreger's online name was renderedincorrectly. His Xbox identity is "Knuckles Dawson." A Nov. 11 Book World listing gave the wrong Busboys and Poetslocation for today's reading by Adam LeBor ....
FREE THROW PERCENTAGE Player, ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... FREE THROW PERCENTAGE Player,TeamFTFTAPct.Bass, Dall.18181.000Childress, Atl. 12121.000Nash, Phoe.19191.000Songaila, Wash. 13131.000Jefferson, N.J.6769.971Redd, Mil.4244.955Smith,Chi.1617.941Harpring, Utah1415.933Jo. Howard, Dall. 2628.929Salmons, ...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Nov 14, 2007 ... TRADE The United States and Europe may not be able to reach asettlement on government support for rival planemakers Boeing andAirbus for another two years or even longer, Peter Mandelson, theEuropean Union trade chief, said. Mandelson told the European Parliament that several ...
Trial Begins in Clash Over Va. Church Property
Nov 14, 2007; ... Tens of millions of dollars of Virginia real estate are at stakein a trial that began yesterday in Fairfax County Circuit Court,where priests, members of bitterly divided churches and lawyersfilled the pews. It is one of the largest property disputes inEpiscopal Church history ....
Katy Industries Inc. Ticker: ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... Katy Industries Inc. Ticker: KATY Headquarters: Arlington ThirdQuarterYear to DateFiscal year20072006% Chg20072006%ChgRevenue$49.2$51.9-5.2$144.7$148.8-2.7Profit-$0.8-$2.0 -- -$2.8-$9.7 -- Earnings per share-$0.10-$0.25 -- -$0.35-$1.22 -- NOTE: Quarter ended ...
A Sea of Heartache
Nov 14, 2007; ... CASPIAN RAIN By Gina B. Nahai MacAdam/Cage. 298 pp. $25 "Caspian Rain," the latest novel by Gina B. Nahai, is aboutdivisions -- between rich and poor, between East and West andbetween people who can and cannot feel. It begins about a decadebefore Iran's Islamic ...
Clark Looks to Return Tomorrow
Nov 14, 2007; ... Even though the Washington Capitals are in the midst of a season-threatening slump, their captain wore a big smile as he removed hispads after yesterday's practice. That's because, for the entire hour-and-a-half session at KettlerCapitals Iceplex, Chris Clark didn't experience any ...
Suspect Recaptured in Manhunt Is Tied to Car Theft Ring
Nov 14, 2007; ... An alleged car thief who escaped from police custody and prompteda five-hour manhunt yesterday in Prince George's County had been atarget of a months-long investigation into a car theft ringstretching from the Washington area to the west coast of Africa,according to a law enforcement ...
Pr. George's Escapee Is Tied to Car Theft Ring
Nov 14, 2007; ... An alleged car thief who escaped from police custody and prompteda five-hour manhunt yesterday in Prince George's County had been atarget of a months-long investigation into a car theft ringstretching from the Washington area to the west coast of Africa,according to a law enforcement ...
Take the Gun Case; The District waits to find out whether its ban will become the nation's Second Amendment battleground.
Nov 14, 2007 ... THE SUPREME Court yesterday stayed silent on whether it will heara challenge concerning the constitutionality of the District's gunban. In doing so on a day when they were expected to announce theirplans, the justices kept alive the possibility that they will hearthe appeal. But their ...
Arrests Speak Louder; Burma's ruling generals feint at dialogue while continuing to lock up the innocent.
Nov 14, 2007 ... TWO YEARS ago, a slight, 34-year-old Burmese woman with a heart ailment sued her local mayor for forcing her and her neighbors tohelp repair municipal roads for no pay. To everyone's shock, in arepressive nation notorious for forced labor, she won her case,under a national law banning ...
Troops' Mental Distress Tracked; Early Checkups Find Fewer Problems Than Later Ones
Nov 14, 2007; ... Soldiers who have served in Iraq are suffering substantiallygreater mental distress several months after leaving the combat zonethan when they first return home -- with one out of five active-duty Army soldiers and more than 40 percent of Army reservistsneeding treatment, according to ...
Today's Horoscope
Nov 14, 2007; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). Get in touch with your uniqueness.What the world wants from you is the thing that only you can give.Aries blues singer Billie Holiday said, "If I'm going to sing likesomeone else, then I don't need to sing at all." TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Just because ...
Bridge
Nov 14, 2007; ... If opportunity came disguised as temptation, just one knock wouldbe plenty. In today's deal, South ruffed the second heart and couldn'tresist the temptation to draw trumps. Since the missing trumps broke4-2, he spent all but one of his remaining trumps. South next forcedout the ...
Churches Clash Over $30 Million In Property
Nov 14, 2007; ... Tens of millions of dollars of Virginia real estate are at stakein a trial that began yesterday in Fairfax County Circuit Court,where priests, members of bitterly divided churches and lawyersfilled the pews. It is one of the largest property disputes inEpiscopal Church history ....
THE DOTTED LINE
Nov 14, 2007 ... John Allen, who ran the Cincinnati Reds after former owner MargeSchott was suspended in the 1990s, resigned as the team's chiefoperating ...
A Regional Partnership; For 50 years, local officials have been doing business at COG.
Nov 14, 2007 ... IT WAS 1957, and local officials from the Washington region hadgathered to talk about common problems. First, though, they had tointroduce themselves to each other. From that inauspicious beginningrose an important partnership among unlikely governments -- onethat has helped to shape ...
A Thing Of Beauty
Nov 14, 2007; ... The Nationals' new ballpark is the bomb. After decades ofwaiting, Washington has a winner. Within a few years, as theAnacostia waterfront development project sparks urbanrevitalization, we may be even more pleased. For now, it's enough toknow that, after all the angst and expense, ...
Breezewood: It's a Wonderful Interchange. Really.
Nov 14, 2007 ... Driving over the holidays? If you plan to break bread withGrandma in Columbus, Ohio, or fight over the turkey leg with CousinBilly in Buffalo, you most likely will blow through Breezewood, Pa.The so-called "Town of Motels" is the highly trafficked junction ofinterstates 76 and 70 that ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Nov 14, 2007 ... New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D) has decided to abandon a planto issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, officials familiarwith the decision said last night. The governor is due to meet this morning with New York'scongressional delegation, many of whom openly oppose the ...
Capitals Next Three
Nov 14, 2007 ... TimeOpponentTVTomorrow7:30at ...
SCORING AVERAGE Player,Team ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... SCORING AVERAGE Player,TeamGFGFTPts.Avg.Bryant, L.A.L. 5524015230.4McGrady, Hou.7694319127.3Martin, Sac. 7527218927.0Jefferson, N.J.7576718826.9James, Clev. 8755421326.6Boozer, Utah8854021026.3Anthony, Den. 8735020625.8Iverson, Den.8666120525.6Davis, ...
African Continuum Loses New Artistic Director; Ambush Quits Before Starting Full Time; Struggling Troupe Cancels Its Fall-Winter Season
Nov 14, 2007; ... The financially troubled African Continuum Theatre Company haslost its new artistic director, Benny Sato Ambush, before he was tobegin the job full time. Ambush stepped down as acting artistic director Oct. 30 but didnot speak of his decision until after the board announced it ...
RANDOM ACTS
Nov 14, 2007 ... These are among the simplest acts of kindness, helping a fellowhuman in a moment of distress, and we present them so that you mayask yourself a question when you're done reading: If you came uponone of these scenes in the midst of your busy life, would you beprepared to respond as ...
Doping Divide May Taint Olympics; Nations Hold Wide Range of Policies
Nov 14, 2007; ... Backed by a spate of law-enforcement actions in recent years thathave exposed drug use by dozens of top world athletes, leading anti-doping authorities are convinced that an investigation-orientedapproach is more effective than drug tests in the campaign againstperformance-enhancing ...
Show Pulled Featuring Donda West's Surgeon
Nov 14, 2007; ... Silver Spring-based cable network Discovery Health has pulled theseries "Plastic Surgery: Before and After" from its lineup this weekafter reports that the show's host, physician Jan Adams, operated onthe mother of hip-hop artist Kanye West before she died Saturday. Donda West, 58, ...
Democrats' Bold Statements on Ending Iraq War Don't Square With Details
Nov 14, 2007 ... As the primary campaign heats up, presidential candidates arescrambling to carve out distinct positions on the war in Iraq andattack the records of their rivals. This week, we examine thestatements of the ...
Sabathia Runs Away With AL Cy Young Award
Nov 14, 2007; ... In the two head-to-head meetings during the American LeagueChampionship Series of the pitchers considered the leadingcandidates for the Cy Young Award, Boston's Josh Beckett dominatedCleveland's C.C. Sabathia each time. But yesterday, the individualhonor went to Sabathia, in a reminder ...
THE FACTS John Edwards car ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... THE FACTS John Edwards caricatures Clinton's position on Iraq while skatingover his own refusal to commit to pulling all U.S. troops out ofthat country by the end of the next presidential term, in January2013. The Edwards plan for Iraq is certainly more specific than theClinton ...
Bush Veto Sets Up Clash on Budget; Democrats Make War-Funds Threat
Nov 14, 2007; ... A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday asPresident Bush vetoed the Democrats' top-priority domestic spendingbill and the party's Senate leader threatened to withhold warfunding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq. The long-anticipated clash came ...
THE CLAIM
Nov 14, 2007 ... THE FACTS Hillary Clinton's promises to get the United States out of Iraqand to bring U.S. troops home on a definite timetable are greatapplause lines. But they are also misleading. An examination of thefine print of Clinton's positions on Iraq shows that they arecarefully hedged ...
THE FACTS Together with De ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... THE FACTS Together with Dennis J. Kucinich and Mike Gravel, Bill Richardsonhas demanded a complete U.S. pullout from Iraq. But he has alsodistorted the positions of his rivals and grossly oversimplified thechallenge of withdrawing 140,000 troops from the country. Clinton, ...
Top Five Markets
Nov 14, 2007 ... FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin has proposed to allow big-citynewspapers to buy lesser-watched television stations in the samecity. Here's how the change would affect the top five media marketsin the country. New York: Tribune Co. has a waiver to continue to own Newsday andTV ...
FCC Chief Offers New Plan on Cross-Ownership
Nov 14, 2007; ... The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission yesterdayproposed relaxing an agency rule to allow big-city newspapers to buythe smaller television stations in their markets, a move designed asa compromise in the ongoing issue of corporate control of theairwaves. The ...
THE FACTS Of the major Demo ...
Nov 14, 2007 ... Of the major Democratic candidates, Barack Obama has been themost consistent on Iraq. He was opposed to the war when it began in2003, and he remains opposed to it today. At the same time, he hasresisted the temptation to pretend that there is an easy or quicksolution to the war. He has ...
WORLD IN BRIEF
Nov 14, 2007 ... PHILIPPINES A bomb exploded outside the House of Representatives in Manilalate Tuesday, killing a former Muslim rebel who became a congressmanand had backed a U.S.-Philippine offensive against Islamicextremists. A lawmaker's driver and a legislative staffer also ...
Council Approves Growth Policy; Higher Taxes, Tighter Restrictions Are Put on Development
Nov 14, 2007; ... The Montgomery County Council approved a growth policy yesterdaythat increases taxes on builders to help pay for roads and schoolsand encourages denser development near public transit to try toabsorb an expected influx of newcomers. The policy also requires developers to do more to ...
Hi, Carolyn: Boy and Girl da ...
Nov 14, 2007; ... Hi, Carolyn: Boy and Girl date for a year and a half, live together for ayear. Girl screws up, loses Boy's trust, Girl moves out, but Boy andGirl still date, albeit in an "open relationship," much to Girl'sdismay. Girl knows she did wrong and tries to go with the ...
FBI Recordings Cast Hornsby in New Light; Closing Arguments Set for Today in Trial That Has Featured 16 Taped Conversations
Nov 14, 2007; ... In 2001, computers were missing from the school district inYonkers, N.Y., and Andre J. Hornsby, a former superintendent, hademerged as a possible suspect. That April, Cynthia Joffrion, anassociate, told Hornsby she was considering telling investigators"the truth." "Well, I'm not ...
Big 12 Fines Texas Tech Coach Leach Record $10,000
Nov 14, 2007 ... Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach was fined a record $10,000by the Big 12 Conference yesterday for his harsh criticism of gameofficials following last week's loss to Texas. The fine doubled the previous high by the league, levied twicebefore, against Kansas Coach Mark Mangino ...
U.S.-Backed Fighters Attacked Outside Baghdad; 5 Local Volunteers, 15 Insurgents Killed in Clashes, Military Says
Nov 14, 2007; ... Fierce clashes between the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraqand volunteer fighters supported by American troops left at least 20people dead this week, marking one of the biggest assaults so far onthe U.S.-led effort to create neighborhood-based armed patrols,American officials said ...
Raising the Roof; Smithsonian Celebrates Construction of Gigantic Glass Ceiling [Correction 11/20/07]
Nov 14, 2007 ... First take 862 large pieces of glass, individually cut so thateach is unique. Connect them with steel, and the result is a glasscanopy stretching 38,000 square feet, an area nearly as big as afootball field without the end zones. That's how large the new glass covering is over the ...
Family Festival
Nov 14, 2007 ... The Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard opens Sunday with a freefestival that includes hands-on art workshops; music, dance andtheatrical performances; and costumed actors impersonating peopledepicted in the collections of the two museums. The event runs from noon to 6 ...
TODAY'S NEWS
Nov 14, 2007 ... Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed an ancient temple withcolorful wall paintings and a staircase leading to an altar wheresacrifices were made. The 4,000-year-old temple and murals indicate an "advancedcivilization" with different traditions than others known to haveexisted ...
Earmarks Now Everybody's Business
Nov 14, 2007; ... Who put a million dollars for an "Extended Cold Weather ClothingSystem" into the 2008 defense spending bill President Bush signedyesterday? The item is one of thousands that can be found onEarmarkWatch.org, a new Web site that enlists voters' helpmonitoring congressional ...
That FEMA Thing? It Was a Setup. Any More Questions?
Nov 14, 2007; ... FEMA's internal investigation into its infamous phony newsconference is over, but the topic is sure to come up when actingDeputy Administrator Harvey Johnson goes to the Senate for hisconfirmation hearing. (His name mysteriously failed to make theSenate hearing list last week, however.) ...
Campaigning Religiously
Nov 14, 2007 ... Regarding Michael Gerson's Nov. 2 op-ed, "A Second Home forReligious Voters?": Mr. Gerson's claim that the American political system isdeveloping one religious political party and one secular partyamazed me. Both the Democrats and Republicans running for presidenthave made ...
What a D.C. High School Student Can Do
Nov 14, 2007 ... Regarding the Nov. 11 and 12 front-page articles "Will JonathanGraduate?" and "For Jonathan Lewis, It's Fourth and Goal": It appears that just about everyone involved in this story isinterested in Jonathan Lewis's education except Jonathan Lewis.After 30 years in the classroom, I ...
An Immaculate Smithsonian
Nov 14, 2007 ... The Smithsonian isn't going far enough in returning oil industrydonations for its ocean exhibit ["Smithsonian Questions $5 Millionin Oil Money," front page, Nov. 3]. If industry funding and museums really don't mix, then whatbusiness does the Smithsonian have even staying in ...
Coming Home, Then and Now
Nov 14, 2007 ... William Quinn's Nov. 11 Outlook piece, "I'm Back Home, but Stillin Iraq's Grasp," captured many of the thoughts I had when Ireturned from Vietnam in September 1968. I soldiered for 26 years and spent another 14 as a civilian inthe Defense Department. My daughter served for five ...
Mr. Boehner's Budget Numbers
Nov 14, 2007 ... How sad that House Minority Leader John A. Boehner maintains thattax cuts are self- financing when all the available evidence saysotherwise ["Trim the Fat to Avoid a Tax Hike," letters, Nov. 12]. If Mr. Boehner is in doubt, all he has to do is check with theOffice of Management ...
For Young Libyans, Old-Style Marriage Is a Dream Too Far
Nov 14, 2007; ... Thirty-one-year-old Abdel Baset al-Assady dreams of gettingmarried in the mountains, where Arabian horses would paw the air andprance in rhythm with his wedding drums. Assady dreams of getting married in the city. His proud familywould stream into the home of his bride bearing ...
Atheists in the GOP Tent?
Nov 14, 2007 ... Sen. Sam Brownback is critical of "atheistic communism" ["Faithin a Winning Message," op-ed, Nov. 12]. Does Mr. Brownback realizethat atheism is not ...