The Washington Post back issues from Thursday, February 14:
Yesterday's Results Washingto ...
Feb 14, 2008 ... Yesterday's Results Washington 91 L.A. Clippers 89 Orlando 109 Denver 98 Toronto 109 New Jersey 91 Philadelphia 102 Memphis 88 Charlotte 100 Atlanta 98 (OT) San Antonio 112 Cleveland 105 Boston 111 New York 103 Detroit 96 ...
Home Builders Halt Campaign Funds After Setback
Feb 14, 2008; ... The National Association of Home Builders, one of the top 10corporate donors to politicians, has stopped contributing tocongressional candidates after it failed to get what it wanted inrecent anti-recession legislation. The powerful lobby said Tuesday that it was taking ...
FOOD Coca-Cola Sets Recyclin ...
Feb 14, 2008 ... FOOD Coca-Cola said it has set a long-term goal to recycle or reuseall of the aluminum cans containing its products that it sells eachyear in the United States. The company recovers and reuses about 30percent of its cans and bottles. Gary Wygant, vice president ofrecycling ...
VENEZUELA Exxon Gets Extensi ...
Feb 14, 2008 ... VENEZUELA Exxon Mobil won a court order extending a freeze on as much as$315 million that would have been transferred to state-ownedPetroleos de Venezuela in a bond buyback transaction. If Exxon winsa separate arbitration claim against Petroleos, it could use thefrozen funds to ...
THE DOTTED LINE
Feb 14, 2008 ... The Dodgers and RHP Takashi Saito agreed on a one-year, $2million contract. . . . The Phillies and RHP Kris Benson agreed on aminor league deal. The Chiefs claimed T Anthony Alabi ...
NCAA Report Says Sampson Committed 5 Major Violations
Feb 14, 2008 ... Indiana men's basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and his staffviolated telephone recruiting restrictions imposed because of hisprevious violations at Oklahoma, then lied about it to the schooland NCAA investigators, according to an NCAA report releasedyesterday. The report sent to ...
Too Many Subplots Crowd This 'Book Club'; Round House Premieres an Uneven Satire
Feb 14, 2008; ... The spirit is willing, but the plot is weak. One is open to buying into the characters and overall premise of"The Book Club Play," the eager-to-please comedy receiving its worldpremiere at Round House Theatre. Playwright Karen Zacarias offers upa potentially juicy satire of ...
2 Reports At Odds On Biotech Crops; Dispute Is Over Use of Pesticides [Correction 3/6/08]
Feb 14, 2008; ... Take your pick: The widening adoption of genetically engineered crops by farmersaround the world is reducing global pesticide use, increasingagricultural yields and bringing unprecedented prosperity and foodsecurity to millions of the world's poorest citizens. Or, it is ...
Casino Battle Rages in Congress; Interests Clash as Mich. Tribes Pursue Land off Reservations
Feb 14, 2008; ... An unusual effort by several powerful congressmen to clear theway for two Indian casinos in Michigan is fueling a fiercemultimillion-dollar lobbying battle of a scale not seen since thefall of Jack Abramoff. More than a dozen lobbying firms have joined the fray on bothsides, ...
Metro Seeks Changes to Busy Bus Routes
Feb 14, 2008; ... Metro is planning to improve bus service on its highest ridershipline, which carries 20,000 daily riders along the major east-westroute in the District, by shortening some long routes and addingtwo rush-hour express services that officials say will reducecommute times for thousands of ...
CORRECTIONS
Feb 14, 2008 ... A Feb. 13 Metro article about the Virginia General Assemblyincorrectly identified Sen. R. Edward Houck (D- Spotsylvania) as aRepublican. Two listings in the Feb. 10 Spring Arts Preview containedincorrect dates. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will not open amajor show of ...
Autism, From the Inside Out
Feb 14, 2008; ... HOW CAN I TALK IF MY LIPS DON'T MOVE? Inside My Autistic Mind By Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay Arcade. 219 pp. $25 Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay is 19 and has published two memoirs, abook of short fiction and poetry; what is most remarkable about him,perhaps, is ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Feb 14, 2008 ... CAPE CANAVERAL -- Two spacewalking astronauts supplied theinternational space station with a fresh tank of nitrogen Wednesday,one of them a German who was too sick to venture outside a few daysearlier. Looking and sounding fit, Hans Schlegel joined Rex Walheim inremoving a ...
Lawmakers Move to Grant Banks Immunity Against Patent Lawsuit
Feb 14, 2008; ... Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has sponsored an unusual provision atthe urging of the nation's banks granting them immunity against anactive patent lawsuit, potentially saving them billions of dollars. Adopted with little fanfare, the amendment would prevent a smallTexas company ...
A Melodramatic 'Doll's House' With A Solid Foundation; Chesapeake Effort Shows a Few Cracks
Feb 14, 2008; ... Melodrama can make people uneasy, and the audience shifts a bitduring the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's straightforward, ferventproduction of "A Doll's House." "Nora, you're hiding something," a character suggests to theplay's heroine. "Does it show?" Nora asks, and the ...
Making His Pitch; In Attempt to Clear The Air, Hurler May Have Clouded Legacy
Feb 14, 2008; ... Roger Clemens now has a new performance to fit in among all theothers, the pair of 20-strikeout games, the tips of his cap aftereach of his three retirements, the wins in the playoffs and WorldSeries. Added to that legacy yesterday were 41/2 hours of Clemensdefending himself -- ...
"I have been accused of somet ...
Feb 14, 2008 ... "I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do youprove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm nevergoing to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set therecord straight." Roger Clemens, in his opening ...
Ovechkin Saves Point For Caps, But Not Win
Feb 14, 2008; ... Thrashers 3, Capitals 2 Alex Ovechkin wasn't afforded much room to operate Wednesdaynight at Philips Arena. But when the Washington Capitals' all-stardiscovered a sliver of open ice in the final moments of regulation,he made the most of it. Ovechkin extended his league lead ...
Time for Legislating; President Bush should allow Congress to fine- tune legislation on surveillance.
Feb 14, 2008 ... CONGRESS has been struggling for months to resolve disagreementsover how to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act andwhether to grant immunity to communications companies thatcooperated in the administration's warrantless wiretapping. TheSenate and House have now passed ...
Nativism's Electoral Flop; Bashers of illegal immigration are failing at the polls.
Feb 14, 2008 ... IN THE AFTERMATH of last summer's national debate overimmigration reform, elected officials of all stripes were stunned bythe popular passion and fury unleashed by the failed effort inCongress to provide an eventual path to citizenship for illegalimmigrants. Many Republicans concluded ...
Charter School Picked To Take Over Another
Feb 14, 2008; ... The D.C. Public Charter School Board last night selected theHoward Road Academy charter school to assume management ofWashington Academy, a charter school in Southeast that did not haveenough money to continue operating past February. The decision marked the first time that the ...
Online, Dear Valentines, The Wolves Talk of Love
Feb 14, 2008; ... If you're looking online for a sweetheart, beware: You may find anew meaning for the expression "money can't buy love." The National Consumers League has issued a warning to peoplelooking for love on the Internet to watch out for con artists whoseonly mission is to separate them ...
Charter School Picked to Take Over Another
Feb 14, 2008; ... The D.C. Public Charter School Board last night selected theHoward Road Academy charter school to assume management ofWashington Academy, a charter school in Southeast that did not haveenough money to continue operating past February. The decision marked the first time that the ...
Carr's Three-Point Shooting Helps the Eagles Stay on Top [Correction 2/26/08]
Feb 14, 2008; ... Garrison Carr and American University celebrated their return tothe top of the Patriot League for the first time in four years withanother victory and a milestone. Carr scored 24 points and set the league record for three-pointers in a season last night as the Eagles held off ...
Correction
Feb 14, 2008 ... In his Feb. 4 column, "Clinton's Generational Constraint," FareedZakaria wrote that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "won't say" whethershe supports an ...
Capitals0110 -- 2Thrashers020 ...
Feb 14, 2008 ... Capitals0110 -- 2Thrashers0200 -- 3Thrashers won shootout, 2-0 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: None. Penalty: V.Kozlov, Atl (hooking), 9:21. SECOND PERIOD Scoring: 1, Washington, S.Kozlov 12 (Ovechkin, Backstrom), 2:56;2, Atlanta, Perrin 10 (Hossa, Enstrom), 16:29. 3, ...
CAPITALS REPORT
Feb 14, 2008 ... TimeOpponentTVTomorrow7:30at PanthersCSNSaturday7:30atLightningCSNWednesday7 p.m.vs. IslandersCSN ALL GAMES ON WWWT (107.7 FM, 1500 AM) "It's going to be a way ...
DISPATCHES
Feb 14, 2008 ... Indoor Track and Field: Inclement weather has caused a shake-upin the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Associationschedule for the indoor postseason. The 3A West Region meet has beenpostponed until 4 p.m. on Feb. 21, and the state meet for 3A hasbeen moved back to 4 p.m., Feb ....
Md., Va. Among Top 3 In Passing '07 AP Tests
Feb 14, 2008; ... Maryland public schools had the second-highest percentage ofgraduating seniors who passed Advanced Placement tests last year,and Virginia's had the third-highest, College Board officialsdisclosed yesterday. Maryland also ranked second in the nation forgains on that measure of college ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Feb 14, 2008 ... TRANSPORTATION Amtrak and the United Transportation Union agreed on a newcontract, subject to approval by union members. The union represents2,300 Amtrak conductors and assistants. The agreement "mirrors thetentative agreements the company reached with nine of its unionslast ...
Md., Va. Among Nation's Top 3 in Passing AP Tests in '07
Feb 14, 2008; ... Maryland public schools had the second-highest percentage ofgraduating seniors who passed Advanced Placement tests last year,and Virginia's had the third-highest, College Board officialsdisclosed yesterday. Maryland also ranked second in the nation forgains on that measure of college ...
Hitting Merit Pay With a Fair-Play Standard
Feb 14, 2008; ... Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), chairman of the House federalworkforce subcommittee, is increasingly skeptical of pay-for-performance systems in the federal government. He's also a littlefrustrated. At a hearing Tuesday afternoon, Davis recalled that federalagencies and ...
Soaring but Not Free: Smithsonian's Butterfly Habitat
Feb 14, 2008; ... Inside the milky white dome of the Smithsonian's new butterflyhabitat, an Asian swallowtail alights on what looks like scouring-sponge netting, soaking in a tray of bluish liquid. It sipsdelicately from the fabric, surely imbibing some scientificallycalibrated mix of nectars and ...
When Tiny Candy Heart Adages And Cupid's Arrows Won't Do
Feb 14, 2008 ... School officials, especially the meanest and most conspiratorialones, tend to think that students who send text messages insideclass or in the hallways are gossiping, cheating or doing somethingelse underhanded. But teachers and principals might want to dial down theirparanoia on ...
D.C. Giant to Be Unearthed Next Week for New Digs
Feb 14, 2008 ... Washington's massive, quirky public sculpture "The Awakening,"depicting a bearded giant appearing to crawl out of the earth, willbe dug up Wednesday and moved from its home at Hains Point, theNational Park Service announced last night. J. Seward Johnson's creation, which has been ...
Clinton Scrambles to Try to Reverse Obama's Momentum
Feb 14, 2008; ... After big losses to Sen. Barack Obama in Tuesday's PotomacPrimary, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton signaled yesterday that shewill challenge her rival more aggressively, launching new televisionads and attempting to overcome the Obama campaign's clearorganizational advantages. The ...
Diabetes Treatment Risk Not Found in 2nd Study
Feb 14, 2008; ... One week after U.S. researchers announced that pushing down bloodsugar levels as close as possible to normal might be dangerous forhigh-risk diabetes patients, a preliminary analysis of a similarinternational study has found no such risk. The seemingly conflicting findings, ...
Two Not Supported by Teachers Union Advance in Montgomery
Feb 14, 2008; ... Two Montgomery County parents prevailed in a school board raceTuesday without the support of the county teachers association,which was thought to be crucial for election in the school-obsessedcounty. Phil Kauffman and Tommy Le took 34 percent and 25 percent of thevote, ...
Grass-Roots Drive, Political Machinery Were Key to Obama
Feb 14, 2008; ... Sen. Barack Obama's 3 to 1 trouncing of Sen. Hillary RodhamClinton in the District was a combination of political machinery andgrass-roots momentum. Pre-certified election results released yesterday show that Obamawon more than 75 percent of the Democratic vote and that ...
Winter All-Met Nominations
Feb 14, 2008 ... Instructions for nominating All-Met athletes have been mailed toarea schools. Winter sports coaches who have not receivedinstructions or ...
As the 50th running of the Daytona 500 approaches, three-time winner Dale Jarrett remembers his 1993 victory, in which he edged Dale Earnhardt by 0.16 of a second as his father, broadcaster Ned Jarrett, urged him across the finish line from the CBS booth:
Feb 14, 2008 ... "I had sensed that Dale's car was getting extremely loose. Heonly changed two tires, and the rest of us got four the last time wepitted. So I knew if I could just get to his back bumper -- not tohit him -- but aero-wise, I could get him loose enough that Icould probably get by ...
The Delegate Count
Feb 14, 2008 ... Total Delegates DemocratsObama 1,275 Clinton 1,220 RepublicansMcCain 843 Huckabee242 Delegates needed for nomination: 2,025 in Democratic ...
Ethics Panel Admonishes Craig for Conduct in Sex Sting
Feb 14, 2008; ... Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) was rebuked yesterday by the Senateethics committee over his conviction for disorderly conduct in anairport men's restroom, with the panel concluding that he committedthe offense and citing him for actions "which [have] reflecteddiscreditably on the ...
'Definitely, Maybe': A Big Box of Coconut Cremes
Feb 14, 2008; ... Releasing a movie on Valentine's Day can mean only one thingabout the film and, yes, probably, "Definitely, Maybe" has it, inbig fragrant bouquets. Love, heartache and dollops of schmaltz. You can see why such a movie would hit theaters today: Immunityto sentiment is at a ...
Payday Parasites; Time to crack down on rip-off lenders in Virginia
Feb 14, 2008 ... BY OPENING Virginia's doors to the payday lending industry in2002, lawmakers in Richmond in effect declared open season on someof the state's most financially strapped and vulnerable residents.In the wake of the legislature's action, hundreds of lending storesset up shop, mostly in ...
Lawmakers Challenge O'Malley, Gansler Over Proposed Expansion
Feb 14, 2008; ... Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Attorney General Douglas F.Gansler faced aggressive questions yesterday from a pair oflegislative committees as they pitched a plan to expand the state'sDNA database, one of the governor's top priorities for the GeneralAssembly's 90-day ...
Bridge
Feb 14, 2008; ... Today's declarer has a decision in clubs. I've heard a decisiondefined as what an executive must make when he can't find anyone toserve on a committee, but South has no help: He must rely on his ownpowers of inference and counting. South's 1NT bid promised, by agreement, 12 to 14 ...
Today's Horoscope
Feb 14, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). You get serious about your No. 1 goal,determined to have what you want. Casual relationships don't staycasual. Tonight, you're moved to make a promise. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You'll be using a hidden talent thatnot many people know you possess. Your ...
Candidates' Earmarks Worth Millions; Of Front-Runners, McCain Abstained
Feb 14, 2008; ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 millionworth of home-state projects in last year's spending bills, placingher among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known asearmarks, according to a new study by a nonpartisan budget ...
Advance Auto Parts Inc. Ticke ...
Feb 14, 2008 ... Advance Auto Parts Inc. Ticker: AAP Headquarters: Roanoke FourthQuarterYear to DateFiscal year20072006% Chg20072006%ChgRevenue$1,048.4$1,016.1+3.2$4,844.4$4,616.5+4.9Profit$34.7$35.3-1.7$238.3$231.3+3.0 Earnings pershare$0.35$0.33+6.1$2.28$2.16+5.6NOTE: Quarter ended Dec ....
Everyone Plays in the Blame Game; Like Roger Clemens, Fans' Values Should Be Scrutinized, Too
Feb 14, 2008; ... As Roger Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers in baseballhistory, sits before a House committee trying to defend himselfagainst allegations that he used steroids and human growth hormone,people slip into the crowded hearing room to take a peek. Smallgroups of fans rotate in for 20 ...
Preparing for the Beginning of the End of Analog TV
Feb 14, 2008; ... TV as we've known it has barely a year left to live. On Feb. 17,2009, the analog broadcasts that have taken the networks intoAmerican homes for decades will end, replaced by a stream of digitalbits that carry video and audio more efficiently and with higherquality. For all the ...
Gilchrest Just as Content In Defeat; GOP Maverick Is Ready to Go
Feb 14, 2008; ... From the beginning, there was no grand scheme, no intricatepolitical calculation, involved. When Wayne Gilchrest decided oneday in 1988 to run for Congress, he simply took a lunch break fromhis job painting houses, got in his old Ford pickup and drove to thestate election office in ...
Change Is In the Air, At the Polls
Feb 14, 2008; ... Win or lose, Barack Obama has changed America. It's one thing tobelieve in a picture we'd like to be true -- a society movingtoward a colorblind ideal -- and something entirely different tolive each day with a personification of that ideal. "I've actually changed my view of ...
WORLD IN BRIEF
Feb 14, 2008 ... SOMALIA Forces in northern Somalia freed a German aid worker from gunmenwho had abducted him hours before, officials said Wednesday. Troops of the breakaway region of Somaliland had been pursuingthe kidnappers since Tuesday's abduction and launched a rescueoperation before ...
Rare Dual Losses in Md. Put Incumbents on Notice
Feb 14, 2008; ... Two long-serving members of the House of Representatives fromMaryland were ousted in primaries Tuesday, as voters seeking changeunited with ideological activists in both parties who wanted topunish congressmen thought to have strayed from party principles. In Prince George's and ...
Comptroller Calls 'Draconian Cuts' To Budget Political
Feb 14, 2008; ... Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot yesterday accused SenatePresident Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., a fellow Democrat, of seeking"draconian cuts" to the tax agency's proposed budget as politicalretribution for Franchot's outspoken opposition to legalizing slot-machine ...
Rekindling Frida Kahlo, With Little Fuel; Teatro de la Luna's Idling 'Passion'
Feb 14, 2008; ... The volcanic emotional life of Mexican painter Frida Kahloerupts with all the urgency of molasses in Teatro de la Luna'slatest offering, "Frida Kahlo: La Pasion" ("Frida Kahlo: ThePassion"). The play, by Argentine dramatist Ricardo Halac, lumbers dutifullyback and forth along ...
Defendants' Lawyers Fear Loss of Potential Evidence at Guantanamo Bay
Feb 14, 2008; ... Lawyers representing military detainees at Guantanamo Bay haveexpressed concern that the government has violated a federal courtorder by losing or erasing several years' worth of digital videorecordings that could shed light on the legality of detaineetreatment. The concerns are ...
The District
Feb 14, 2008 ... THE SCENE "The Cinema Effect" It's opening day for the first partof a new exhibition series at the Hirshhorn, "The Cinema Effect:Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image," which focuses on that ever-expanding segment of the art world working in video, film anddigital technology. Cut out ...
A Night To Follow Your Heart
Feb 14, 2008 ... Love is hard. If you're in the throes of it, it's likely that you'll beexpected to have chocolates, flowers, even reservations tonight. Andif you're doing just fine without romance thankyouverymuch, you'llstill have to contend with couples (and their reservations) thisevening ....
Maryland
Feb 14, 2008 ... CONCERT Art Garfunkel and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Expect the folkie to reprise all his greatest contributions tomusic, including, of course, his works with Paul Simon such as"Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Mrs. Robinson," when he performsat Strathmore tonight. And if you're ...
CONCERT Radiohead You know w ...
Feb 14, 2008 ... CONCERT Radiohead You know what would be a really sweetValentine's Day gift for your boo? Tickets to Radiohead. The bandhas announced a spring tour that lands in a number of U.S. citiesincluding, yes, glorious Bristow, Va. They'll be at Nissan Pavilionin May. Tickets (after a pre-sale ...
On the Next Tee
Feb 14, 2008 ... Event: Northern Trust Open When: Today-Sunday. Where: Riviera Country Club (7,279 yards, par 71), Los Angeles. Purse: $6.2 million ($1,116,000 winner's share). Television: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 3 p.m.); CBS (Saturday-Sunday, 3 p.m.). Defending ...
Northern Virginia
Feb 14, 2008 ... FILM Cheap Date to Make a Woman Smile? Okay, so it's imperativethat you recognize that the Arlington Cinema 'N' Drafthouse'sscreening tonight of "The Princess Bride" won't work with everywoman. Especially the ones who wouldn't be caught dead with stuffedanimals in their homes. But for ...