The Washington Post back issues from Friday, March 14:
Street Vendors Vow Not to Be 'Bullied'; Some Fear New Rules Could Hurt Business
Mar 14, 2008; ... Street vendors pulled their carts off the District's sidewalksyesterday afternoon to attend a public hearing on legislation thatthey fear could put them out of business. In a room packed with about 200 people at the John A. WilsonBuilding, vendors testified about possibly losing ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Mar 14, 2008 ... EASTER EGG ROLL The National Park Service will distribute free tickets to theWhite House Easter Egg Roll starting at 7:30 a.m. March 22 at theEllipse Visitor Pavilion, on the southwest corner of 15th and Estreets. A smaller batch of tickets will be distributed at the same ...
Singletary, Cavaliers Are Quickly Bounced; First-Round ACC Loss Might End Season
Mar 14, 2008; ... Georgia Tech 94, Virginia 76 Dave Leitao wanted, more than anything, to burnish Virginia'sreputation as a stalwart defensive team when he arrived inCharlottesville three seasons ago. Bearing down, slapping the floorand stopping the other team would be the bedrock of his ...
'Fighting for Life' Shows Real Blood, And Real Guts
Mar 14, 2008; ... Most documentaries about the Iraq war have sought toinvestigate, expose, critique and provoke. "Fighting for Life" bucksthat trend. Rather than join the polemical free-for-all of the pastfive years, filmmaker Terry Sanders has chosen to take viewers on ariveting, often painfully ...
Colgate at American
Mar 14, 2008 ... What: Men's tournament final. When: 4:45 p.m. Where: Bender Arena. TV: ESPN2. Radio: WWRC (1260 ...
Britain Halts Deportation Move Against Gay Iranian; 19-Year-Old Fears Execution at Home
Mar 14, 2008; ... Britain halted deportation proceedings Thursday against a gayIranian teenager who has said he would probably be hanged because ofhis sexual orientation if he is returned to Iran. Mehdi Kazemi, 19, moved to Britain in 2005 to study and has saidhe then learned that his boyfriend in ...
What Did the FCC Do About That?; GAO Says Agency Doesn't Track How It Handles Complaints
Mar 14, 2008; ... The Federal Communications Commission processes 95 percent of thecitizen complaints it receives but does a poor job of tracking howit resolves them, congressional auditors said in a report releasedyesterday. The Government Accountability Office said the agency "needs toimprove ...
Crystal a Hit Even When He Misses
Mar 14, 2008 ... Billy Crystal better stick to his night job. The comedian, actor and Oscar host embarked on his new career asa baseball player yesterday -- and promptly struck out as the NewYork Yankees' new leadoff man. Wearing No. 60 a day before his 60th birthday, and cheered on ...
Alexander Again Is Lights-Out For W.Va.
Mar 14, 2008 ... One year has made a remarkable difference for Joe Alexander andWest Virginia. Last March, Alexander didn't score a point as the Mountaineersbeat Clemson in the NIT championship game. Yesterday, the 6-foot-8 junior forward scored a career-high 34points on the same Madison ...
Maryland Basketball Semifinals
Mar 14, 2008 ... Gwynn Park features one of the area's top back courts in seniorguards Harold Washington and Sean Thomas. Washington can explode tothe basket, while Thomas uses his size well and can score inside.Look for Washington to try to use his speed with the ball intransition. The Yellow Jackets' ...
Kolzig Likes Morning Routine; Goalie Thrives After Bypassing Pregame Skates
Mar 14, 2008; ... One day after earning his 300th career victory, WashingtonCapitals goalie Olie Kolzig was asked to assess the second-halfresurgence that helped him reach the milestone. His answer was unexpected. "One thing I've done -- the biggest thing -- is that I don'ttake pregame ...
Miami's Victory Sets Up Well for Hokies
Mar 14, 2008; ... Fifth-seeded Miami earned the right to play Virginia Tech in thesecond round of the ACC tournament with a sluggish 63-50 victoryThursday over 12th-seeded North Carolina State. The Hurricanes withstood 27 points from North Carolina Statefreshman forward J.J. Hickson despite getting ...
Miller, Vonn on Verge Of Some Sweep Success
Mar 14, 2008 ... Bode Miller clinched his second overall World Cup title, thenpromptly retreated behind the tinted windows of his personal bus. Lindsey Vonn was all smiles after moving so close to securing thewomen's crown that her only competitor still in the running concededdefeat. Miller ...
Chrysler Plans To Shut Down Company for Two Weeks; Employees Encouraged To Take Vacation in July
Mar 14, 2008; ... Chrysler, which is restructuring a troubled business underprivate ownership, told its workers in an e-mail yesterday thatalmost all of the company will shut down for two weeks in July tosave money. "This year, in order to create better alignment and efficiencyacross ...
O'Malley Joins Bid to Repeal Computer Services Tax
Mar 14, 2008; ... Gov. Martin O'Malley added his voice yesterday to those callingfor a repeal of Maryland's new tax on computer services, saying hewould like to see legislators agree on another source of revenuebefore adjourning next month. "The more we look at it and the more we look at the ...
A New Economic Order; Why the Downturn Had to Happen
Mar 14, 2008; ... Retail sales plummeting. The dollar at a new low against otherworld currencies. A 60 percent jump in U.S. home foreclosures. Amajor investment fund going kaput. This is what a reordering of the world economy looks like in realtime. Don't think of yesterday's economic news as ...
Anatomy of a Carlyle Collapse; Pressure on Banks Left an Ailing Fund Exposed
Mar 14, 2008; ... It was around noon on Wednesday, and the founders of the CarlyleGroup, the District-based private-equity powerhouse, thought theyhad a $500 million deal to salvage their troubled European affiliatealong with their firm's reputation. The three co-founders, David M. Rubenstein, ...
Stephen Barr is away. ...
Mar 14, 2008 ... Stephen ...
Dialysis Corp. of AmericaTick ...
Mar 14, 2008 ... Dialysis Corp. of AmericaTicker: DCAI Headquarters: LinthicumFourth QuarterYear to DateFiscal year20072006% Chg20072006%ChgRevenue$20.0$18.2+9.8$74.5$62.5+19.3Profit$1.0$1.1-8.7$3.1$3.0+1.2 Earnings per share$0.11$0.12-8.3$0.32$0.32 -- NOTE: Quarter ended Dec. 31. Intersections ...
AOL to Buy Bebo to Compete In Social-Networking Market
Mar 14, 2008; ... AOL announced plans yesterday to buy social-networking site Bebofor $850 million in an attempt to appeal to younger Internet usersand expand its online-advertising business. Bebo says it has 40 million members and is one of the mostpopular social networks in Britain. It is also the ...
Dollar Squeezed From All Sides; Economic Setbacks Converge, Sending Currency to Record Lows
Mar 14, 2008; ... Ordinarily, it only takes one major setback to drive down thevalue of the dollar: huge trade and current account deficits,falling Federal Reserve interest rates, rising U.S. inflation or aloss of confidence in the U.S. economy. But the United States is grappling with all of those ...
Governor Backs Repeal of Tax; O'Malley Shifts Position, Says Levy Would Harm Tech Sector
Mar 14, 2008; ... Gov. Martin O'Malley added his voice yesterday to those callingfor a repeal of Maryland's new tax on computer services, saying hewould like to see legislators agree on another source of revenuebefore adjourning next month. "The more we look at it and the more we look at the ...
1A Boys: Surrattsville vs. Fo ...
Mar 14, 2008 ... Surrattsville might be the biggest surprise of all the Marylandsemifinalists. The Hornets' three-game winning streak is theirlongest of the season. Senior guard Jamahl Brown averaged 34.3points in Surrattsville's three regional tournament victories,leading the way for a team that has ...
AIRLINES Record Passengers in ...
Mar 14, 2008 ... AIRLINES U.S. airlines carried a record number of passengers in 2007 onmostly full planes, according to government data. The airlines,which had the second-worst year ever for flight delays, carried769.4 million domestic and international passengers in 2007, a 3.3percent increase ...
Taming a Reluctant Patient; Heart Disease Is Killing Gorillas at North American Zoos, But Testing the Mighty Apes for Signs of Illness Is a Touchy Subject
Mar 14, 2008; ... "Handsome" has been feisty this morning. The young, 170-poundgorilla has been galloping around his National Zoo enclosure,rattling the cage and leaping on the mesh like Spider-Man, untiljust now. Although the animal's real name is Kwame, veterinarian SuzanMurray gently calls him ...
MINING New Markets Push Deman ...
Mar 14, 2008 ... MINING Rapid growth in emerging markets is expected to drive globaldemand for steel, spurring deals between companies in countries suchas China and Brazil, executives said at an international steelconference. One said he expected demand for steel to grow by about 7percent this ...
CORRECTION
Mar 14, 2008 ... A March 5 Page One article about private schools in theWashington area incorrectly said that Burgundy Farm Country DaySchool in Alexandria accepted applications past its officialdeadline. School head Jeff Sindler said the school experienced a 9percent increase in applications but ...
Game Giant Electronic Arts Begins Hostile Bid for Take-Two
Mar 14, 2008; ... Game publisher Electronic Arts is turning to shareholders in itsfight to acquire rival Take-Two Interactive Software. The world'slargest game publisher announced yesterday that it would pay $26 pershare of Take-Two stock, the same price the Take-Two board rejectedlast month. "We ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Mar 14, 2008 ... INVESTING Moody's Investors Service put its ratings for Radio One underreview for possible downgrade because of weak fourth-quarterresults. Revenue was down 5 percent. The Lanham company owns oroperates 54 radio stations in 17 markets, primarily targeting ...
American Buzzing Over Shot At Title; First NCAA Berth At Stake for Eagles
Mar 14, 2008; ... In cities across the country, alumni are planning get-togethersto watch the game. Students are cutting short spring break to returnto campus. Faculty and staff have stopped by the athletic departmentto snag tickets. Players are being inundated with calls and textmessages. Duke ...
Despite Pleas, Cross This Ex Off the List
Mar 14, 2008; ... Q.I'm the single mother of a boy, 41/2, and I need help. Lastyear I let my son get very close to a man with whom I was involved,which wasn't as reckless as it sounds since we were discussingmarriage. We also decided that he would stay in my son's life evenif things didn't work out ...
Race Tangled in the Race; Geraldine Ferraro's Pointed Campaign Discourse
Mar 14, 2008; ... The debate about racial preference vs. equal opportunity hascoursed through society for decades, and not smoothly. We've arguedpassionately about who gets admitted to college and why, who gets ajob promotion and why, which company gets awarded a contract andwhy. But affirmative ...
Food Crisis; Soaring prices are causing hunger around the world. [Correction 4/2/08]
Mar 14, 2008 ... THE SKYROCKETING commodity prices that have made the Farm Beltone of the most prosperous regions of the United States have had arather different impact on large areas of the developing world.Foodstuffs have gone up 41 percent in price since October 2007,pushing many people over the line ...
A Failing Campaign; swearing off military action, a U.S. commander weakens the diplomatic offensive against Iran.
Mar 14, 2008 ... ADM. WILLIAM J. Fallon, the U.S. Middle East commander whoresigned on Tuesday, was portrayed in a recent Esquire magazinearticle as the main obstacle to a potential decision by the Bushadministration to go to war with Iran. Though the article seems tohave precipitated Adm. Fallon's ...
Turn It Down; The D.C. Council should enact restrictions on public noise.
Mar 14, 2008 ... FEW WOULD argue that laws preventing protesters from staging ademonstration in the middle of Massachusetts Avenue at the height ofrush hour are an unreasonable infringement of constitutional rights.Rules governing the posting of political signs in public spaces alsoare widely accepted ....
Springbrook, Thomas Stone Get the Final Word
Mar 14, 2008; ... The instructions for Brandon Davis were pretty simple. Davis, a Springbrook junior forward making his second careerstart because a teammate was suspended, was supposed to do anythinghe could to harass the opposing center and scoop up as many looseballs or rebounds as he could ....
A Personal Loss, a National Shame
Mar 14, 2008; ... TWO WEEKS OF LIFE A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics By Eleanor Clift Basic. 337 pp. $26 "At the same time that hospice workers were helping me care forTom [that would be Eleanor Clift's husband, Tom Brazaitis,Washington correspondent for the Cleveland Plain ...
Steal Seals the Deal for Long Reach
Mar 14, 2008; ... Steve Bell had more than a week to get used to the throbbing painin his right leg, but as regulation wound down in Long Reach'sMaryland 3A boys' basketball semifinal game against Lake Clifton,Bell couldn't bear the thought of overtime. So after leading his team through an ...
'Blindsight': The Heart Shows Climbers the Way
Mar 14, 2008; ... What can you see from the top of Mount Everest when you'reblind? That's one of many paradoxes swirling like mountain mist around"Blindsight," Lucy Walker's moving, thought-provoking documentary,which follows six Tibetan boys and girls on a three-week trek toLhakpa Ri, the north ...
Bridge
Mar 14, 2008; ... In the Blue Ribbon Pairs at the ACBL Fall Championships, manyNorth-Souths bid boldly to four hearts in today's deal. Some Southsmade the contract, some failed; but at one table four hearts wasBEATEN. West, expert Fred Stewart (no relation), led the king of clubs.Say West shifts ...
Time for a Familiar Final
Mar 14, 2008; ... -- Eight months ago, Arundel and Eleanor Roosevelt played for achampionship. On Monday night, they will play for another, and thisone will mean much more. The Wildcats and Raiders, who last met in July to decide a summerleague title, earned berths in the Maryland 4A girls' ...
Today's Horoscope
Mar 14, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). You're getting a fortuitous blessingfrom the heavens for sure. But don't credit all your good luck tothe stars. Your attitude is what determines who you are and what youattract as a result. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There's no express elevator to ...
A Whiff of Openness at China's Congress; Delegates' Input and Expanded Media Access Reflect New Tolerance for Debate
Mar 14, 2008; ... China is awash in policy proposals as more than 5,000 people meetthis month to ratify laws handed down by Communist Party leaders.The official Chinese news media portray it as democracy in action -- delegates, selected by local officials to represent theirregions, offer ideas for laws ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Mar 14, 2008 ... LOGAN, W.Va. -- Two people accused of taking part in thetorture of a young black woman received the maximum sentencespossible Thursday, but the victim's mother said they were notenough. Karen Burton, 46, and Frankie Brewster, 49, pleaded guilty lastmonth for their roles in the ...
D.C. Street Vendors Plead for Livelihood
Mar 14, 2008; ... Street vendors pulled their carts off the District's sidewalksyesterday afternoon to attend a public hearing on legislation thatthey fear could put them out of business. In a room packed with about 200 people at the John A. WilsonBuilding, vendors testified about possibly losing ...
D.C. Blaze Displaces Nearly 200; Northwest Apartment Building Had History of Code Violations
Mar 14, 2008; ... The fire that ripped through a four-story apartment building inMount Pleasant yesterday, leaving almost 200 people homeless, cameafter years of complaints about living conditions from tenants andthe D.C. government. In recent months, the owners of the property had made repairs ...
Obama Lists Requests for Pet-Project Funding
Mar 14, 2008; ... Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) disclosed yesterday the more than halfa billion dollars' worth of pet projects, or earmarks, he sought tofund during his first two years in the Senate, and he immediatelycalled on rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to do the same. Obama released ...
P. Branch, Atholton To Meet in Title Game
Mar 14, 2008; ... Second-ranked Paint Branch started slowly in Thursday night'sMaryland 3A semifinal game against No. 16 Great Mills, but once thePanthers got rolling, they were unstoppable. Paint Branch went 3 minutes 47 seconds without scoring a point,but then scored 22 of the game's next 23 ...
Presidential Contenders Show Up for Budget Votes
Mar 14, 2008; ... Presidential politics swept onto the floor of the Senateyesterday, as the three contenders took a rare break from thecampaign trail to return to Washington, cast a few votes and sparover spending on government pork. The warring Democratic candidates -- Sens. Barack Obama ...
CAPITALS REPORT
Mar 14, 2008 ... TimeOpponentTVTonight7 p.m.vs. AtlantaCSNSunday3 p.m.vs.BostonCSNTuesday8 p.m.at NashvilleCSN ALL GAMES ON WWWT (107.7 ...
Florida Democrats Urge A 2nd Primary, in June; Ballots Would Be Sent Out 2 Weeks Before
Mar 14, 2008; ... Florida Democrats, seeking a solution to the dispute over theirdelegates to the party's national nominating convention, yesterdayproposed a do-over primary in June that would be conducted largelyby mail, although even the idea's sponsors expressed pessimism thatthe plan will ever be ...
Clinton Opens Her Home to Woo Unaligned Lawmakers
Mar 14, 2008; ... Having mastered the art of town-hall meetings on the campaigntrail, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is now holding them in a morecomfortable setting: her living room. On Wednesday night, the Democratic presidential candidate held aprivate reception for several dozen members of ...
'Funny Games': Deadly Serious; Haneke Punctures Bourgeois Pretensions In Disturbing Film
Mar 14, 2008; ... During an interview for Michael Haneke's "The Piano Teacher"back in '01, the French actress Isabelle Huppert talked about herdirector and his taste in music: Haneke sneered at Brahms, Huppertsaid; Bach, however, was God. While it was easy to understand theappeal of Bach's mathematical ...
WORLD IN BRIEF
Mar 14, 2008 ... CENTRAL AFRICA The presidents of Sudan and Chad signed a peace agreementThursday to prevent armed groups operating along their sharedborders from destabilizing the region, officials said. If successful, the deal would be a step toward ending violence inSudan's Darfur ...
At Heineman Myers, Celebrity Treatment
Mar 14, 2008 ... Painter Eric Finzi traces present-day celeb culture back to thegiddy scandals of French actress Sarah Bernhardt, the belle epoqueactress of stage and screen whose paramours, male and female, madeher the (pre-Brad) Angelina of her day. In a series of portraits,Finzi depicts Bernhardt in ...
A Blog's-Eye View of Washington
Mar 14, 2008; ... J at Civilian, a group of amateur photographers, documents theDistrict's other monuments -- you know, like Ian MacKaye. Thelongtime Washington-based punk musician appears in Nestor A. Diaz'scolor picture, one of 47 images of Washington hanging in "DCistExposed." Diaz counts himself ...
Shades of Modernity
Mar 14, 2008 ... Nancy Wolf's highly detailed scenes of Chinese megalopolisestrade in anachronism and juxtaposition. One work finds an ancienttemple complex marooned inside a belt of highway ramps. Anotherdepicts temples walled off by a vertiginous curtain of glass-and-steel office towers. Color -- and ...
Earthy Abstractions
Mar 14, 2008 ... Earth, sky, moon, sun. It's a veritable environmental scienceclass inside Mu Project, where Shinji Turner-Yamamoto exhibitsabstract paintings and wall works, many incorporating ash andseveral "painted" by raindrops. The works in the artist's "rainbow"series were made, in part, as ...
A Color School Reunion For One at Osuna Art
Mar 14, 2008 ... Poor Howard Mehring. Left out of the "Color as Field" surveydowntown, the Washington Color School painter gets a little airtimeat Osuna. Inside the gallery hang formalist works with reverse "z"patterns in saturated colors; the matte surfaces of these '60s-eraworks feel their age. The ...
Art? Rock Posters That Fill the Bill
Mar 14, 2008 ... How to publicize an indie rock show? These days, an e-mail blastand some blog posts should suffice. Yet it turns out there are folksinsistent on that prehistoric method, the poster. A surveyexhibition of recent efforts -- made to illustrate concerts by theDecemberists and the White ...
Bruins Avoid Drama in Rematch
Mar 14, 2008; ... UCLA 88, California 66 No controversy, no contest. No. 3 UCLA buried California under a flurry of three-pointers tostart the second half on its way to an 88-66 victory in the Pacific-10 tournament quarterfinals Thursday. Darren Collison scored 19 points, Josh Shipp 18 ...
TITANS' TIME? When No. 3 T. ...
Mar 14, 2008 ... When No. 3 T.C. Williams (28-3) takes on Bethel (30-1) at 8:45tonight in the Virginia AAA boys' final, the Titans will be lookingto end a Virginia AAA Northern Region boys' basketball title droughtthat dates from Lee's victory in 1981. During the 26-season span,the Eastern Region has ...
The District
Mar 14, 2008 ... ON STAGE "iMusical": Songs Arranged . . . by You The WashingtonImprov Theater's improvised musical is in its fourth run, and whywouldn't it be, after being reviewed in this fine newspaper as quitepossibly the work of "an unembarrassed bunch of sickos"? Actors callon the crowd to help ...
The Sartorialist: Candid Couture [Correction 3/26/08]
Mar 14, 2008 ... Tomorrow, Adamson Gallery will open a show spotlighting thephotography of longtime fashion insider/blogger Scott Schuman,a.k.a. The Sartorialist. Fashionable people -- and their close cousins, voyeurs -- pant at the mere mention of Schuman's Sartorialist blog, which since2005 ...
Northern Virginia
Mar 14, 2008 ... ON STAGE A Comedienne of Comedy: Maria Bamford Bamford, a stand-up who has her own Internet sitcom on SuperDeluxe.com, stars inComedy Central's "The Comedians of Comedy" tour and does voice-overs for the Nickelodeon series "CatDog," visits the ArlingtonCinema 'N' Drafthouse for two ...