The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, January 13:
Bank Worker Among 6 Arrested in Theft
Jan 13, 2008; ... Six people were arrested yesterday and Friday in the theft ofhundreds of thousands of dollars from a Wheaton bank by a man posingas an armored truck employee, the Montgomery County police said. The police said one of those arrested in the Wednesday theft wasan employee of the BB&T ...
WEEK IN REVIEW; Jan. 6-12
Jan 13, 2008 ... Parents and community activists called for a boycott of MayorAdrian M. Fenty's 23 public hearings on school closings, set forThursday, and set up one meeting that night for residents. Fenty'smany gatherings, critics say, are an effort to limit public input. The action followed ...
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Jan 13, 2008 ... To read these and other Week In Review ...
Coming This Week in the District Extra
Jan 13, 2008 ... Transitional housing for homeless veterans is increasing thisweek with the ...
Forgotten Revolutionaries; How Southern communists, socialists and expatriates paved the way for civil rights.
Jan 13, 2008 ... DEFYING DIXIE The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Norton. 642 pp. $39.95 Willful amnesia has been a chronic problemin American historical thought. Many of us, it seems, have preferreda simplified and sanitized version of national ...
Washington Area Bestsellers
Jan 13, 2008 ... Paperback Fiction 1 ATONEMENT (Anchor, $14.95; $7.99) By Ian McEwan. The calamitous repercussions of a child's falseaccusation; now a feature film.4 2 THE KITE RUNNER (Riverhead, $14) By Khaled Hosseini. An Afghan returns to his Taliban-ruledcountry to atone for ...
A Backwoods Odyssey; Two noble misfits ride into the Vermont mountains to defend a damsel in distress.
Jan 13, 2008 ... GO WITH ME By Castle Freeman Jr. Steerforth. 160 pp. $21.95 Chivalry isn't dead; it has justretreated to the backwoods of Vermont. Far beyond the range of leaf-peepers, quaint B&Bs and wealthy liberals lie millions of acres ofdark forest, the kind of rich soil that ...
Extra, Extra: Vintage Strips Rise Again
Jan 13, 2008 ... Aficionados of classic comic strips used to have a tough time ofit: If you wanted to read Milton Caniff's "Terry and the Pirates" orChester Gould's "Dick Tracy," you had to track down ancient,hopelessly rare newspapers or rely on fragmentary and butcheredrepackagings. The last few years, ...
A 20th-century master shines even more brightly through the eyes of his students.
Jan 13, 2008; ... ROSTROPOVICH The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and Legend By Elizabeth Wilson Ivan R. Dee. 385 pp. $35Back in the late 1960s, a studiousEnglish major wandered into Oberlin College's Finney Chapel toattend an evening concert. Despite his long ...
Fathers and Sons; Richard Wright's final novel is a prescient look at the price of racial progress.
Jan 13, 2008 ... A FATHER'S LAW By Richard Wright Harper Perennial. 268 pp. Paperback, $14.95Posthumously releasednovels are published with great fanfare, but rarely live up to thehype or readers' expectations. On the surface, they seem to bepackaged events for literary and cultural ...
Choosing Sides; Who is to blame for America's sordid racial history?
Jan 13, 2008 ... SELLOUT The Politics of Racial Betrayal By Randall Kennedy Pantheon. 228 pp. $22 WRONG ON RACE The Democratic Party's Buried Past By Bruce Bartlett Palgrave Macmillan. 268 pp. $26.95In a 1963 speech Malcolm Xdistilled black America's ...
Blood Feud
Jan 13, 2008 ... BLEEDING KANSAS By Sara Paretsky Putnam. 431 pp. $25.95 There was the 1850s' Bloody Kansas ofhistory, and now there is Sara Paretsky's Bleeding Kansas offiction. Each is a mix of the real and the imagined, and both areunforgettable. Paretsky, one of America's bestselling ...
Letters
Jan 13, 2008 ... In his review of Peter Gay's new book, "Modernism: The Lure ofHeresy" (Book World, Dec. 23), Michael Dirda implies that Modernistart and letters exhibit a "sort of sexual and racial chauvinism,"evident in the fact that, "Apart from Virginia Woolf and MarthaGraham, no women artists appear ...
January 14-20, 2008
Jan 13, 2008 ... 6:30 P.M. Journalist Charles Enderlin, the Jerusalem bureau chieffor channel France 2, discusses and signs The Lost Years: RadicalIslam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East, 2001-2006 at BordersBooks-Downtown, 18th & L Sts. NW, 202-466-4999. 7 P.M. Sue Miller reads from and signs ...
On the Cover
Jan 13, 2008 ... (From left to right): Paul Robeson, actor and singer; Pauli Murray, activist; Lovett Fort-Whiteman, ...
Missions (Almost) Accomplished
Jan 13, 2008; ... The British explorer Robert Falcon Scott is one of thosehistorical figures better known for his failures than hisaccomplishments. His ill-fated expedition to the South Pole -- inwhich he was beaten to the goal by Roald Amundsen and then died onhis return journey -- has been ...
Where Does It Hurt?; When it comes to medical treatment, more may not be better.
Jan 13, 2008 ... OVERTREATED Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer By Shannon Brownlee Bloomsbury. 343 pp. $25.95 Is the problem with American healthcare too little treatment or too much? Most people would probablysay the former, pointing to the millions who lack health ...
One kind of poetry register ...
Jan 13, 2008; ... One kind of poetry registers the physical world: words arrangedto communicate the emotional power of the senses, the feeling of avisible reality. A different kind of poetry concentrates morestrikingly on expressiveness: words arranged to create a voice, thefeeling of a particular ...
Black and Brown
Jan 13, 2008 ... THE LATINO CHALLENGE TO BLACK AMERICA By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Middle Passage. 232 pp. $19.95Writer and activist Earl OfariHutchinson begins The Latino Challenge to Black America on apromising note. He recalls an incident on a cultural trip to Chinain 1974, when he assumed ...
Maybe the war to end all wars -- at least in Europe -- has already been fought.
Jan 13, 2008; ... WHERE HAVE ALL THE SOLDIERS GONE? The Transformation of Modern Europe By James J. Sheehan Houghton Mifflin. 284 pp. $26Astrong case can be made that thesalient fact about Western Europe today is not that it has overcomecenturies of bitter animosity to reach ...
Austen, in Abundance
Jan 13, 2008; ... Hold on to your teacups, Jane Austen fans: A three-month tributeto the renowned author begins Sunday on PBS. "The Complete Jane Austen" includes adaptations of her sixfinished novels, plus a dramatization of her life. Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of Sunday night ...
Mustangs Win Clash With Titans in 2 OT; Game Features Eight Ties, Seven Lead Changes
Jan 13, 2008; ... T.C. Williams Coach Ivan Thomas calls himself a "high schoolbasketball junkie." Thomas often makes the drive to Rockville to watch Washingtonarea power Montrose Christian's games. Last night, Thomas welcomed the Mustangs to Alexandria for thefirst meeting between the ...
Old Newseum Up for Grabs As Museum or Cultural Venue
Jan 13, 2008; ... FREE TO GOOD HOME: Fabulous museum space or cultural center,inside Capital Beltway, convenient to Metro, rent-free for 10 years.Must bring own collection to display. Only innovative applicantsneed apply. As part of a deal to build a 30-story office tower, ArlingtonCounty has ...
Avoiding Plane Crashes Crunching Numbers; Data Mining Helps Identify Subtle Flaws
Jan 13, 2008; ... For decades, aviation authorities played the role of homicidedetectives. When an airliner went down, they scoured the crash siteand flight recorders for clues that often showed how to avert futureaccidents. But with so few crashes in recent years, air carriers andregulators have ...
New York Revisits Plans for a Memorial to FDR; A 34-Year-Old Design, a Problem In Raising Funds
Jan 13, 2008; ... George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street,Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the HudsonRiver. But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York nativeson Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city. Not that the name is ...
Momentum Gaining in Bid to Free 3 Men Convicted in 1993 Slayings
Jan 13, 2008; ... An effort to free three young men convicted in the lurid 1993slayings of three 8-year-old boys is gathering speed, with rockstars and other celebrities taking up their cause and about 150supporters rallying recently on the steps of the Arkansas Capitol. Supporters of the "West ...
State Senator Known for Putting People First
Jan 13, 2008; ... Her whole life, Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt was a quiet fighter. The Prince George's County senator, 66, endured 40 days in jailwhen she sat down in a whites-only train station waiting room inMississippi as a Freedom Rider. She accepted arrest for riding asegregated merry-go-round in ...
Jewish Woman's Diary Portrays Life in Paris Under the Nazis; Author Was Deported at 24 And Died at Bergen-Belsen
Jan 13, 2008; ... On some days her world was awash in light. On others, darkshadows enveloped her and all of Paris. The secret diary of a young Jewish woman chronicling two yearsunder the Nazi occupation portrays the slow shattering of her life,ending with her deportation on her 24th birthday and ...
Iran's Nomadic Tradition Drifts Into Legend; Allure of City Life Proves Too Powerful for Some; Factories, Roads Eat Away at Grazing Lands
Jan 13, 2008; ... As chill wind blows in, the Bakhtiari nomads pack up at the endof summer and start a long journey -- women and children onhorseback, men on foot, belongings in tow -- for the warmerregions here in southwestern Iran. In April, when the desert heat begins to fire up, they will ...
Tense Kosovo Moves Into a Season of Uncertainty; Peacekeepers Seek to Impede Ethnic Strife as Serbian Province Prepares to Declare Independence
Jan 13, 2008; ... Staff Sgt. Nathan Pike grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. Theother day he was feeding cows in Kosovo. The ethnic strife in the Kosovo town of Vitina underscores thechallenge that confronts NATO-led peacekeepers as the southernSerbian province prepares to declare ...
Bush Meets With Petraeus; In Kuwait, President Seems to Claim Vindication for 'Surge'
Jan 13, 2008; ... President Bush ventured to this sprawling U.S. base near Iraq onSaturday to begin exploring further troop reductions with his topcommander and take something of a victory lap over the country'simproved security conditions a year after announcing "the surge." Bush seemed anxious to ...
Today's Playoff Games
Jan 13, 2008 ... AFC Chargers at Colts 1 p.m. WUSA-9, ...
Capitals Getting Healthy; Team Faces Challenge of Seven Games in 12- Day Stretch
Jan 13, 2008; ... Chris Clark practiced again yesterday and said afterward thathe'll be a game-time decision when the Washington Capitals host thePhiladelphia Flyers this afternoon. The team captain suffered a severely strained groin muscle onNov. 28 and has missed the past 18 games, the longest ...
Md. Senator Known for Putting People First; Civil Rights Activist's Sudden Death Stuns Admirers, Political Colleagues
Jan 13, 2008; ... Her whole life, Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt was a quiet fighter. The Prince George's County senator, 66, endured 40 days in jailwhen she sat down in a whites-only train station waiting room inMississippi as a Freedom Rider. She accepted arrest for riding asegregated merry-go-round in ...
CAPITALS REPORT
Jan 13, 2008 ... TimeOpponentTVToday1 p.m.vs. FlyersCSNTuesday7 p.m.vs.SenatorsCSNThursday7 p.m.vs. OilersCSN ALL GAMES ON WWWT (107.7 FM, 1500 AM) Alexander Semin got some laughs when he came out for practicewearing a pink helmet, punishment for losing a morale-buildingshooting drill. David ...
Singletary Keeps It All in Perspective; Virginia Senior Has Faced Plenty of Adversity Dating From His Youth in Philadelphia
Jan 13, 2008; ... Sean Singletary wanted to go home, frozen with doubt andterrified of the older, bigger boys out on the court. His mother haddriven him to the gym to play organized basketball for the firsttime, and it didn't matter that he was just 7 years old and theother kids were 10. She expected him ...
George Mason Gets Big Lead and Keeps It
Jan 13, 2008; ... George Mason 80, Northeastern 52 The George Mason men's basketball team danced to the locker roomat halftime yesterday with an 18-point lead, with freshman guard CamLong approaching his career high in scoring and with three-pointersdropping with the ease of layups. But this ...
Wildcats Hand Vandy 1st Loss
Jan 13, 2008; ... Kentucky 79, Vanderbilt 73 Unlike the start of his tenure at Kentucky, Coach Billy Gillispiemore than met expectations in his Southeastern Conference debut. Freshman Patrick Patterson had 23 points and 12 rebounds to liftthe Wildcats to a 79-73 double-overtime win over No. 13 ...
Virginia at Duke
Jan 13, 2008 ... When: 8 p.m. Where: Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, ...
Arlington to Put Old Newseum Site Up for Grabs; County Acquires Rights for 10 Years, Will Seek Bids for Turning It Into Museum or Cultural Space
Jan 13, 2008; ... FREE TO GOOD HOME: Fabulous museum space or cultural center,inside Capital Beltway, convenient to Metro, rent-free for 10 years.Must bring own collection to display. Only innovative applicantsneed apply. As part of a deal to build a 30-story office tower, ArlingtonCounty has ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Jan 13, 2008 ... JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -- Authorities issued an arrest warrantSaturday for a Marine corporal wanted in the death of a pregnantcolleague, whose burnt remains were excavated from a fire pit in hisback yard. Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said investigators also recoveredthe remains ...
Hands-On General Is Next No. 2 in Iraq; Austin Will Take Over Daily Operations
Jan 13, 2008; ... Most U.S. Army generals wear pistols on the battlefield. Lt. Gen.Lloyd J. Austin III, a decorated paratrooper who next month takesover as the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq, packs an M4 rifle. A physically imposing but modest man who is little known outsideArmy circles, Austin's ...
Along Route 66, Drivers Passed Through, Not By
Jan 13, 2008; ... An occasional tornado or winter storm roars through Galena. Butnot much else moves in this town of 3,200 souls at the eastern edgeof Kansas. Garry and Sherry Collins will tell you that things have notalways been this way. "Nope," said Garry, chatting with me at the 4 Women on ...
CHARGERS STATISTICS CATEGOR ...
Jan 13, 2008 ... CATEGORYOFFENSEDEFENSEYards Per Game (Rank)315.3 (20)320.3(14)Passing Yards Per Game (Rank)187.8 (26)213.3 (14)PassingCompletions-Attempts281-471338-555Rushing Yards ...
SAN DIEGO CHARGERS at INDIANAPOLIS COLTS
Jan 13, 2008 ... OFFENSE: QB Peyton Manning threw six interceptions when the Coltslost in San Diego in Week 10. But that was with a depleted widereceiver corps and a patchwork offensive line, and the Colts stillwould have rallied to win if PK Adam Vinatieri hadn't missed a latechip-shot field goal try ....
COLTS STATISTICS CATEGORYOF ...
Jan 13, 2008 ... CATEGORYOFFENSEDEFENSEYards Per Game (Rank)358.7 (5)279.7(3)Passing Yards Per Game (Rank)252.1 (6)172.8 (2)PassingCompletions-Attempts355-551325-498Rushing Yards ...
Dr. G's TIPS
Jan 13, 2008 ... HOV Restrictions Restored for Part of I-395 Starting tomorrow, drivers must be in three-person carpools touse the HOV lane section of Interstate 395 between Duke Street andSpringfield from 3:30 to 6 p.m. That segment had been open to alldrivers since 1982 to help ease congestion ...
Q Dear Tom and Ray: What ar ...
Jan 13, 2008 ... Q Dear Tom and Ray: What are shop supplies? I always thought it was old rags andsprays to clean or lube. My recent visit to a dealer's garage costme $22.56 for shop supplies. My total bill was $297.81. Do I have topay it? Is it a tip? -- Carol A TOM: It's not a tip, Carol ....
THE LOTTERIES; January 11
Jan 13, 2008 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 6-6-1 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 9-1-4-8 Lucky Numbers: 7-2-4 D.C. 4: 8-2-9-2 Rolling Cash 5: 5-19-26-28-33 Daily 6: 4-14-25-34-35-37 *27 Day/Pick-3: 9-4-1 Pick-4: ...
Asbestos Remover Gets Jail Time; Pax River Workers Told to Smash Panels, Releasing Fibers
Jan 13, 2008; ... A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Patuxent River Naval AirStation contractor to 60 days in prison for telling his workers toremove asbestos panels by whacking them with crowbars and hammers. Robert Langill of Woburn, Mass., was employed by a Marylandasbestos abatement company ...
Va. Award Highlights Schools' Strengths; Parents, Principals, Teachers Praised For Achievements
Jan 13, 2008; ... The three Prince William County schools are similar: They have alow percentage of economically disadvantaged students and a mostlywhite student body, defying the county's overall surge in Hispanicsand nonnative English speakers. Last week, the three were among 89 schools that won ...
Plans Set to Close Sterling Access Road; Business Owners Fear VDOT Move Will Shrink Their Clientele
Jan 13, 2008; ... The Web site for Belfort Furniture offers what it calls "new easydirections" to the store on Shaw Road in Sterling. But thedirections are not as easy as they once were. For many years, the easiest way for most customers to get to thestore has been through an access road that ...
Port Republic's Musical Prodigy; 9-Year-Old Honor Student Preparing to Release a CD
Jan 13, 2008; ... N ot only is Andre Jones a repeat winner at the Apollo Theater,he has entertained the governor while making a name for himselfperforming gospel throughout Calvert County. Andre, of Port Republic, is 9 years old. After winning three Amateur Night contests at the historic ...
Nuts & Bolts; Smart Fortwo
Jan 13, 2008 ... Complaints: Cross-country driving in the Smart Fortwo is agimmick that should not be tried at home and probably should not bedone solo. Smarts are great city cars, great for suburban-urbancommuting and parking. Operating them in a high-speed milieu is nota smart thing to do regularly ....
Driving One Means Life in the Right Lane
Jan 13, 2008; ... My late brother-in-law, William McDonald Reed Jr., once lecturedme on the Theory of Farm Life as Related to Highway Driving. Histalk was occasioned by my hubris. I had driven to his home inArlington, Tex., in a Hummer H1, the biggest Hummer available whenBill was fighting pancreatic ...
Wizards Rally to Win in Overtime; For the Hawks, Not One, but Two Victories Are Taken Away
Jan 13, 2008; ... Wizards 102, Hawks 98 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions The Washington Wizards' 102-98 overtime victory over the AtlantaHawks was sprinkled with terrific individual performances. Antawn Jamison tied a season-high with 17 rebounds, AndrayBlatche played extensive ...
Uninterested In Short Run, Celtics Take Long View
Jan 13, 2008; ... Reprinted from yesterday's editions Kevin Garnett claimed his "gas was high," but the notoriouslypassionate Boston Celtics forward looked to be on the verge ofexploding after hitting a series of critical jump shots against theHouston Rockets last week. He screamed at the top of ...
As Turner Dances, the Chargers Step It Up; San Diego's Players Warm to New Coach, Get Hot at Right Time
Jan 13, 2008; ... The San Diego Chargers' players don't think much of Norv Turner'sdancing, but they've warmed to his coaching, and that's what mattersas the Chargers ready for an AFC semifinal today in Indianapolis.The game will be a referendum not only on the success of theirseason, but also on the ...
2007 Among Hottest Years On Record; Scientists Blame Trend On Greenhouse Gases
Jan 13, 2008; ... Data collected from around the globe indicate that 2007 ranks asthe second-warmest year on record, according to a new analysis fromclimatologists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. A second team of scientists, at the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration, has ...
Ovechkin Is an All-Star Again; Caps' Defenseman Green 'Disappointed' in Being Omitted
Jan 13, 2008; ... Reprinted from yesterday's editions Less than a day after signing a record-setting contractextension, Alex Ovechkin was given another reason to celebrate: Theleft wing will represent the Washington Capitals in the All-StarGame for the second straight year. Although he was ...
Friday's Results Wash. 102 .. ...
Jan 13, 2008 ... Friday's Results Wash. 102 at Atlanta 98 (OT) Chicago 100 at Philadelphia 97 Boston 86 at New Jersey 77 Toronto 99 at New York 90 at Clev. 113 Char.106 (2OT) at New Orleans 114 Miami 88 at Houston 113 Minnesota 82 at Denver 113 ...
A Range of Challenges; Snake Pits? Corsets in July? It Comes With the Territory
Jan 13, 2008; ... Val Kilmer wasn't quite sure what to make of his "Comanche Moon"character's belief that he was not a man but a flea. Kilmer plays Capt. Inish Scull, an off-kilter New Englandaristocrat and war hero. Scull is captured by Mexican banditAhumado, whose trademark is torturing into ...
Robots on The Rampage
Jan 13, 2008 ... Premieres Sunday at 8 p.m. on Fox; regularly airs Mondays at 9. Basic story: Aside from being destined to protect the human racefrom a mechanized Armageddon, John Connor (Thomas Dekker) is yourtypical moody, brooding 15-year-old. It's 1999, several years afterthe events of ...
Coyotes031 -- 4Canucks102 -- ...
Jan 13, 2008 ... Coyotes031 -- 4Canucks102 -- 3 Keith Yandle and Ed Jovanovski scored 16 seconds apart on two-man advantages in the second period as Phoenix handed Vancouver itsfirst home loss in regulation since Nov. 1. Rookie Peter Mueller and Niko Kapanen also scored for ...
What to Watch
Jan 13, 2008 ... Sunday: NICK NEWS: PRESIDENTS 9 p.m. on Nickelodeon Even though they're too young to vote, kids will get a windowinto the election process in this special, the first of three on thetopic. The programs, hosted by Linda Ellerbee, explain how presidentsare ...