The Washington Post back issues from Thursday, January 3:
Last Pitches Before the First Vote; Candidates Await Iowa's Judgment
Jan 03, 2008; ... The presidential candidates made their final appeals to votersWednesday in the earliest-starting and most expensive campaign inIowa history, fanning out across the state in search of a victoryand crucial momentum headed into a front-loaded primary season. With the competitions in ...
Parker Doesn't Start, But Finishes Strong
Jan 03, 2008 ... Benched for the first half for missing curfew, Candace Parkerscored 17 points last night and third-ranked Tennessee beat No. 15DePaul, 102-68, in Chicago. This wasn't the homecoming Parker had envisioned when Coach PatSummitt scheduled the game. Parker, who grew up in ...
Escape Prompts Hospital Scrutiny; Break is 2nd at Laurel Regional [Correction 1/15/08]
Jan 03, 2008; ... The escape of Kelvin D. Poke from Laurel Regional Hospitalyesterday morning followed a familiar script: Get outside prisonwalls by going to a hospital, wait for an opportunity to seize anofficer's gun and make a break for it. Poke did not make it far -- he was shot dead by Prince ...
LOOKING BACK Previous results from the Iowa caucuses. Black arrows () represent candidates who won their party's nomination. Red arrows () represent candidates who won the presidential election.
Jan 03, 2008 ... 2004 Democrats Pct. John Kerry 38%John Edwards 32%Howard Dean 18%Richard Gephardt 11%Dennis Kucinich 1%Republicans Pct. George W. Bush 100%2000 Democrats Pct. Al Gore 63%Bill ...
Choosing a Candidate, and More; For Democrats, Party's Tone and Image Also at Stake
Jan 03, 2008; ... So far, the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign has little ofthe tone of past battles, such as the 1984 fight between Walter F.Mondale and Gary Hart, or even Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign torebrand the party with his New Democrat label. There are no echoesof the 1972 nomination battle, ...
PAGE THREE | Dispatches From . . .
Jan 03, 2008 ... Until we received Carolyn Clemente's account, we harbored thebelief that the wall calendar -- except for the fancy photo kindyou buy at the bookstore -- was a relic of the 20th century. Themailman brings us just one each year -- on a magnet, sent by areal estate agent. The ...
Soon, Roads Could Start Tolling for Carlyle
Jan 03, 2008; ... Someday, the Carlyle Group may want to sell you the BrooklynBridge. For real. The District buyout firm has raised $1.15 billion for aninfrastructure fund that it will use to partner with federal, stateand local governments in running vital public projects in the UnitedStates, ...
CAPITALS REPORT
Jan 03, 2008 ... TimeOpponentTVToday7 p.m.at BruinsCSNSaturday12:30 p.m.atCanadiensCSNWednesday7 p.m.vs. AvalancheCSN ALL GAMES ON WWWT (107.7 FM, 1500 AM) 5 Consecutive overtime games between the Capitals and Bruins.Boston won all four meetings last season. "The other teams ...
Mountaineers Rock The Sooners' World
Jan 03, 2008 ... West Virginia 48, Oklahoma 28 -- The West Virginia Mountaineers didn't need coach RichRodriguez. They had Pat White, and their elusive quarterback ledthem to a surprising 48-28 romp over No. 3 Oklahoma in the FiestaBowl on Wednesday night. White ran for 150 yards and threw ...
Md. Inmate Killed After Escape, Carjackings; 5 Guards Overpowered at Hospital
Jan 03, 2008; ... A Maryland inmate overpowered five guards at a Laurel hospitalyesterday morning and took two guns, setting off an intense manhuntthat ended when the prisoner was fatally wounded seven hours laterin a shootout with police at a cemetery in Prince George's County,authorities ...
A Declaration of Spanish Alliance; At the Portrait Gallery, Spain's Role in America's 'Age of Independence'
Jan 03, 2008; ... It's the celestial glow around George Washington that firstgrabs you; the sort of adoring, direct-from-heaven spotlight thatpainters reserve for men of destiny. Leaning casually on a cannon, Washington looks supremelyconfident; storm clouds are giving way to blue skies overhead, ...
Mason Falls to Georgia State on Buzzer-Beater
Jan 03, 2008 ... Leonard Mendez made a game-winner jumper as time expired, cappingGeorgia State's second-half rally to beat George Mason, 66-64,yesterday in Atlanta. The Patriots (9-4, 1-1 Colonial Athletic Association) reachedhalftime with a 43-30 lead. Georgia State opened the second halfwith a ...
Two Pounds of Efficiency
Jan 03, 2008; ... The first time I took Asus's Eee PC laptop on a flight, thesecurity screener assumed it was a portable DVD player. That's an easy mistake to make. This tiny, two-pound machine isbarely bigger or heavier and not much more expensive, at $399 forone I tested and $299 for the cheapest ...
Discovery Promotes Veteran Hollinger; Executive Oversaw '07 Store Closures
Jan 03, 2008; ... Discovery Communications will announce today that company veteranMark Hollinger will be promoted to the newly created job of chiefoperating officer, wrapping up a frenetic year of reorganization,acquisitions and layoffs at the Silver Spring cable televisionnetwork. Hollinger, 48, ...
Backdating of Document At Issue in Md. Tax Suit
Jan 03, 2008; ... A partisan legal battle over the fate of Maryland's $1.4 billiontax increase took a new twist yesterday, as lawyers with theattorney general's office acknowledged that a legislative clerkbackdated a document under scrutiny in the case. The lawyers for the attorney general and ...
Danger: Chimps; Animals Need Help, and Need to Remain Wild
Jan 03, 2008 ... They can leap playful somersaults or maul a human to death. Meet the chimpanzee, man's closest relative. Today, Philip, a powerful male, plays tricks to earn a juicypassion fruit. But last year he was among 31 chimps from theTacugama sanctuary in Sierra Leone that fatally ...
Today's Horoscope
Jan 03, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). Nobody gives you power -- you justtake it. The initiative you show, especially socially andpersonally, makes you so attractive that wherever you go, you'llnotice that you have admirers. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You're resolution of a tense ...
TODAY'S NEWS
Jan 03, 2008 ... Could the missing link between whales and land animals be araccoon-sized animal that lived 48 million years ago and looked likean overgrown rat? An Ohio scientist thinks so. Fossils recently dug up in India show that a creature calledIndohyus has likenesses to ancient whales, ...
Teens Will Be Teens
Jan 03, 2008 ... In her Dec. 28 letter, "The Wisdom in Supporting Abstinence,"Fran Vanbrocklin of Olney felt compelled to ask: "Exactly what is wrong with teaching abstinence and abstinenceonly to our youths?" I feel compelled to reply: You can teach it. You can preach it.You can ...
Calling New Hampshire; Granite State voters deserve to know what their senators are doing to the would-be voters of Washington.
Jan 03, 2008 ... ON JAN. 8, the eyes of the nation are going to be on NewHampshire for the first presidential primaries. Let's hope they stayfocused a day later when the state's legislature is set to take upan issue that surely demands the nation's attention: D.C. votingrights. A proposed ...
The District
Jan 03, 2008 ... ON STAGE Corey Holcomb of "Wild 'n Out" Holcomb, a Chicagoan, hasbeen on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," was a finalist on "LastComic Standing" and has a concert film called "The Problem Is You."(Warning: His specialty is male-female relations, including love.)Now a cast member of Nick ...
Northern Virginia
Jan 03, 2008 ... ON STAGE NoVa Meets Arena Stage While its Southwest Washingtoncampus is renovated and expanded over the next few years, thetheater company is moving some of its productions to Crystal City'sold Crystal Forum movie house. The first show there is a touringmusical, "Ella." The show ...
For Hokies, Some Heavy Lifting; Virginia Tech to Face Kansas With a Struggling Conference on Its Back
Jan 03, 2008; ... -- Sean Glennon's eyes bulged and he squirmed slightly back intohis chair. What he had just been told did not sound right. "Really?"he asked. Glennon, the Virginia Tech quarterback, had been informed of therecord of Atlantic Coast Conference teams in Bowl ChampionshipSeries ...
Orange Bowl
Jan 03, 2008 ... Who: Kansas (11-1) vs. Va. Tech (11-2). When: 8 ...
Collins's Perfect Timing
Jan 03, 2008; ... How can Todd Collins be so good? Why can he run Al Saunders'soffensive system so well when neither Mark Brunell nor JasonCampbell could consistently find the ignition switch? Is it a one-month fluke? How long can he maintain his surreal efficiency,posting passer ratings worthy of Tom ...
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Again Ranks as Busiest in World
Jan 03, 2008 ... For the third year in a row, Hartsfield-Jackson AtlantaInternational Airport has retained its title as the nation's busiestairport in terms of flights, according to preliminary governmentdata released yesterday. The Atlanta airport logged 994,466 flights in 2007, up 1.8percent ...
Despite Loss, Giants Feeling a Sense of Momentum
Jan 03, 2008; ... New York Giants Coach Tom Coughlin is adamant that he did theright thing last weekend when he had his team exert itself to try tobeat the New England Patriots in a regular season finale that meantplenty for history but nothing for the playoffs. The verdict will come Sunday in Tampa ...
First Came Barbara Jordan
Jan 03, 2008 ... In "The Steepest Climb" [Style, Dec. 27], Kevin Merida chartedthe history of African Americans who aspired to the presidency, buthe failed to mention Barbara Jordan of Houston, the black Housemember of the late 1970s who was consistently cited in polls as thefirst African American and ...
Lockheed to Pay $2.5 Million In Racial Discrimination Case
Jan 03, 2008; ... The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday announcedits largest-ever settlement for an individual racial discriminationcase -- $2.5 million -- against Lockheed Martin of Bethesda. Lockheed agreed to pay Charles Daniels, a black aviationelectrician who said he was ...
California Sues EPA Over Emissions Rules; 15 Other States Back Effort to Win Waiver to Allow the Setting of Tougher Standards
Jan 03, 2008; ... California, joined by 15 other states led by New York, sued theEnvironmental Protection Agency on Wednesday over its refusal toallow the state to set its own, tougher vehicle-emissions standardsto control greenhouse gases and combat global warming. The suit, to which Maryland is a ...
KANSAS TEAM STATISTICS CATE ...
Jan 03, 2008 ... CATEGORYJAYHAWKSOPPPassing Yards-Rushing Yards3,534-2,3592,722-1,097Passing Completions-Attempts281-438289-497Rushing Attempts-Average476-5.0359-3.1First Downs307196Third-Down Efficiency75-171(44%)61-194 (31%)Fourth-Down Efficiency10-17 (59%)11-28 ...
Gros Out for 2008 Season Because of Head Injuries
Jan 03, 2008 ... D.C. United midfielder Josh Gros, a starter most of his four MLSseasons, will not play this year after suffering three head injuriesin 2007. "He does not plan to play the 2008 season due to the effects ofhis many concussions," Dan Segal, Gros's agent, wrote in an e-mailyesterday ....
CORRECTIONS
Jan 03, 2008 ... A Dec. 30 Metro article on the possibility of expanding severalD.C. elementary schools to include seventh and eighth gradesincorrectly said that a proposal to close 23 schools would eliminate15 million square feet of excess space. The closings would eliminateabout 2 million square feet ...
Tribal Rage Tears at Diverse Kenyan City; In a Flash, Neighbors Turn on One Another; At Least 110 Killed
Jan 03, 2008; ... One after another, bandaged men and women offered chillingdetails: that a swarming mob of machete-wielding men chained thefront door of a mud-and-steel church, trapping about 100 people,mostly women and children, inside. The mob shoved mattresses against the outside walls, doused ...
Suicide Blast Targets U.S.-Allied Iraqi Force; Leader in Sunni Group Among 4 Dead
Jan 03, 2008; ... A suicide bomber blew himself up on the hood of a car driven by amember of Iraq's burgeoning Sunni-dominated security forces, thelatest in a series of recent attacks against the U.S.-backedmilitiamen, according to U.S. military and Iraqi officials. The bomber struck in downtown ...
The Difference In Carlyle Profit
Jan 03, 2008 ... 12% to 15% Return on infrastructure fund, which buys roads, ports ...
Egypt Opens Crossing So Palestinians Can Return; Israel Protests as Thousands Pass to Gaza After Pilgrimage
Jan 03, 2008; ... Egypt opened its main crossing into the Gaza Strip on Wednesdayto allow more than 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims -- including atleast one official of the armed Hamas movement -- to return totheir homes there, outraging Israel in a growing dispute over bordersecurity. The return ...
VIRGINIA TECH TEAM STATISTICS ...
Jan 03, 2008 ... CATEGORYHOKIESOPP.Passing Yards-Rushing Yards2,585-1,7362,695-1,118 Passing Completions-Attempts205-348256-480Rushing Attempts-Average445-3.4418-2.8First Downs218207Third-Down Efficiency70-196(36%)59-206 (29%)Fourth-Down Efficiency4-8 (50%)8-22 ...
Conference Call
Jan 03, 2008 ... After going 4-4 in bowl games last season, the ACC has struggledthis postseason, with Boston College and Wake Forest its only bowlwinners. A look at how the BCS ...
Pakistan's Postponement; A delay in elections should be used to ensure that they are democratic -- and not to bolster President Musharraf.
Jan 03, 2008 ... IN A DIFFERENT context, the six-week delay in Pakistan'sparliamentary elections announced yesterday could have been helpful.Opposition leaders have been calling on President Pervez Musharrafto respond to last week's assassination of Benazir Bhutto with agenuine effort to restore ...
Dear Amy: I am a high schoo ...
Jan 03, 2008 ... Dear Amy: I am a high school junior and have dated the same guy since myfreshman year. I never in a million years thought that we would end up beingtogether for a long time, but for some reason we did, and I am quitehappy and grateful that we are so close. He is ...
Maryland
Jan 03, 2008 ... CLOSING Last Chance to See "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" TheAFI Silver's screenings of the classic that inspired the Broadwaymusical "Spamalot" end with tonight's show. $6.75-$9.75. 9 p.m.(Other films in the Monty Python at the Movies series continue atvarious times through Jan. 7.) ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Jan 03, 2008 ... STOCKS Shares of Sallie Mae, the largest provider of U.S. student loans,fell to their lowest level in seven years after Friedman, Billings,Ramsey cut its profit estimates for the largest U.S. student-loanprovider. Reston-based Sallie Mae lost 78 cents, to $19.36. Sallie Mae ...
A Very Real Threat
Jan 03, 2008 ... Of the world's 394 primate species, 114 -- or nearly a third -- are threatened with extinction, says the World ConservationUnion. "You could fit all the surviving members of the 25 [mostendangered] species in a single football stadium, that's how few ofthem remain," said ...
Food for Your Inner Wonk
Jan 03, 2008 ... With Iowans making big civic decisions far from Washingtontonight (the nerve!), perhaps it's time we showed them who's bosswhen it comes to wonkery. For example, on a run-of-the-mill week inWashington, there are: Tonight, George Washington University professor Jerrold M. Postat ...
Au Revoir to the Smoke-Filled French Cafe
Jan 03, 2008; ... In bars and cafes across Paris, in restaurants and casinosthroughout France, the once-revered cigarette now is officiallybanned, relegating one of the Western world's last public smokingholdouts to the ashtray of history. On Wednesday, the public act that perhaps most epitomized ...
Popular Children's Author Named Reading Ambassador
Jan 03, 2008; ... Jon Scieszka, author of "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other FairlyStupid Tales" and the "Time Warp Trio" series, will get theimprimatur of the Library of Congress today as the first NationalAmbassador for Young People's Literature. "We think it's very important to have an evangelist ...
Not Everyone's Moved by the Caucus Spirit; Iowa Is Home to Party Faithful And Plenty of Nonbelievers
Jan 03, 2008; ... The Iowa caucuses, stripped bare, are all about numbers. Let'sstart with 99, the number of counties in the state. Then 1,781, thenumber of precincts where caucusing takes place. Followed by230,000, the estimated number of caucusgoers (some 150,000 Democratsand 80,000 Republicans). All ...
airlines Singapore Airlines' ...
Jan 03, 2008 ... airlines Singapore Airlines' bid to buy a 24 percent stake in ChinaEastern Airlines for about $923.8 million appeared in troubleyesterday after a major shareholder criticized the deal. ChinaNational Aviation, which owns 12.1 percent in the Shanghai-basedcarrier, said in a ...
Adapted from a recent online ...
Jan 03, 2008; ... Adapted from a recent online discussion: Hey Carolyn: My boyfriend of 31/2 years is wonderful, but I feel like I amconstantly picking at him for some reason or another. He has pointed this out to me, too, so obviously it's a problem. We recently got through a ...
HOW THE CAUCUSES WORK IN I ...
Jan 03, 2008 ... The Democratic caucus is a multi-step process. At the outset,participants indicate their support for a candidate by standing in adesignated area of the caucus site. Participants then try topersuade undecideds and those backing other candidates to supporttheir candidate. Supporters for ...
On the Next Tee
Jan 03, 2008 ... Event: Mercedes-Benz Championship. When: Today-Sunday. Where: Kapalua Resort, The Plantation Course (7,411 yards, par73), Kapalua, ...
Drawing Conclusions Outside the Lines
Jan 03, 2008; ... PROUST WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST By Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin. 242 pp. $24 Jonah Lehrer's smart, elegantly written little book expresses anappealing faith that art and science offer different butcomplementary views of the world. His main argument, that artistshave ...
Standard Intelligence Test
Jan 03, 2008; ... The keepers of the nation's secrets soon will be evaluatedagainst common standards on how well they analyze problems, shareinformation and stand behind their professional judgments. Those job performance standards and others will apply to all rank-and-file civil service employees ...
An Improved Woods Is Looming in 2008; Caddie: 'He's in More Control of His Shots'
Jan 03, 2008; ... Here's a scary thought for professional golfers as the 2008 PGATour season gets underway today with the Mercedes-Benz Championshipin Hawaii: Tiger Woods just might be better than ever. "No doubt this is the best he's ever played," his caddie, SteveWilliams, told the Associated ...
REGULATORS Mortgage Broker S ...
Jan 03, 2008 ... REGULATORS Seven states launched a mandatory process to more thoroughlylicense and track mortgage brokers. The Internet-based systemcreates a uniform application for mortgage brokers and a databasethat banking regulators, and eventually consumers, can use to trackdown brokers who ...
Semin May Play Tonight; Poti Out
Jan 03, 2008; ... The Washington Capitals' collective confidence received aconsiderable boost after Tuesday's drubbing of the Ottawa Senators,their second win over the Eastern Conference's best team in threedays. The Capitals' collective health, however, has taken a hit. Yesterday, the team ...
Mr. Mukasey's Move; The destruction of CIA interrogation tapes will get the criminal investigation it deserves. [Correction 1/15/08]
Jan 03, 2008 ... THE JUSTICE Department's decision to ratchet up its investigationof the destruction of CIA tapes is a welcome sign that thedepartment is moving seriously and expeditiously on the matter.Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced yesterday that he hadelevated the probe from a ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Jan 03, 2008 ... NEWARK -- A guard who was named in a cheeky thank-you note leftby two jail inmates when they chiseled their way out of their cellshas committed suicide, his attorney said Wednesday. Rudolph Zurick, 40, was found dead at his home in MiddlesexCounty, said lawyer Michael J. Mitzner ....
FOR FAMILIES Sweet Honey in t ...
Jan 03, 2008 ... FOR FAMILIES Sweet Honey in the Rock's Children's Concert Theannual matinee performance by the women's vocal sextet returns thismonth, and this time the program will include tunes from Sweet Honeyin the Rock's jazzier new children's record, "Experience . . . 101."Two shows are set for ...
Bridge
Jan 03, 2008; ... I recommend avoiding finesses, which are as fickle as the wind.But you can take a finesse if you don't care whether it wins orloses. At four spades South drew trumps and led the jack of diamonds tofinesse. East took the king and led the queen of hearts, and thedefense took two ...
Washington-Lee High's New Building to Open Today
Jan 03, 2008; ... As 15-year-old Kyle Thornhill roamed the halls of the newWashington-Lee High School yesterday, a day before his peers, hecouldn't wait for them to see the cyber cafe with its rows of flat-screen monitors, the balcony off the library, the overwhelmingamount of space. "Amazing ....
FEC Adds Fine to Hastert's Legal Bills in Mark Foley Case
Jan 03, 2008; ... As if the House page scandal involving former representative MarkFoley (R-Fla.) hadn't done enough damage to Republicans, now wediscover that legal bills arising from it landed former speaker J.Dennis Hastert's campaign committee in hot water with the FederalElection ...
A $200 Surrender to the Tax Pro
Jan 03, 2008; ... What is it about hiring a financial professional that just makesus want to cuss? People don't like to pay a financial adviser to manage theirportfolios. Those in financial trouble find it ironic that they haveto pay a bankruptcy attorney in order to go broke. And we ...
Lawmaker Says He Has Cancer And Will Not Run for Reelection
Jan 03, 2008; ... Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), a Holocaust survivor who became thechairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced yesterdaythat he has cancer and will not run for reelection in November. Lantos, who will turn 80 on Feb. 1, said a routine medical testlast month revealed that ...