The Washington Post back issues from Thursday, April 17:
Declining Raises Fuel Discontent; Performance Pay System Is Unfair, Employees Say
Apr 17, 2008; ... Many Fairfax County employees thought it was a good idea in 2000when the Board of Supervisors scrapped traditional merit and cost-of-living increases and established a "pay-for-performance" plan.The new system offered high-achieving, non-uniformed workers achance to win larger annual ...
Commission Repeals State Worker's Pension; Md. Ethics Board to Investigate How Register of Wills Got It in the First Place
Apr 17, 2008; ... The five Charles County commissioners voted unanimously yesterdayto repeal a decision to grant a state employee a county pension andcalled on the Maryland State Ethics Commission to investigate howthe pension was granted. The vote eliminates a county retirement salary for Register ...
USADA Begins Program To Test Body Chemistry
Apr 17, 2008 ... The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has launched the opening phase of avoluntary pilot program it hopes will improve the accuracy of dopingtests. The anti-doping agency will profile the body chemistry of 12participating athletes using a series of blood and urine tests, andthose ...
A Scholarly Patina; Dumbarton Oaks Museum Reopens, With an Elevated Purpose
Apr 17, 2008; ... They threw open the doors of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum preciselyat 2 p.m. on Tuesday and . . . the crowds trickled in. Quietly.Reverently. They crossed the dour threshold, trod over the ancientmarble mosaics and remade the acquaintance of the rich, old dowagerof Washington ...
CORRECTIONS
Apr 17, 2008 ... An April 16 A-section article on Afghan refugees in Pakistanincorrectly described the location of Jalozai refugee camp. It issoutheast of Peshawar, not southwest ....
Rodriguez Moves Up on Career Homer List
Apr 17, 2008 ... Alex Rodriguez hit his 522nd home run last night, passing TedWilliams and Willie McCovey for 15th place on the career list. The Yankees star connected in the first inning off Boston's ClayBuchholz. The solo shot was Rodriguez's fourth home run of theseason. Rodriguez's drive ...
Young, Restless Cougars Roaming Eastward
Apr 17, 2008; ... -- "Go east, young cougar!" That approach seems to apply to a growing number of young malecougars striking out from the Black Hills of South Dakota in searchof new territory. A cougar shot and killed Monday night by police in a bustling,trendy North Side Chicago neighborhood ...
RUSSIA Putin Sets Stronger T ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... RUSSIA Russia announced Wednesday that it would establish legal linkswith neighboring Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and SouthOssetia, a move Georgia condemned as a breach of international law. NATO's chief urged Russia to reverse the decision, which a seniorU.S ....
STRIKEOUTS Cueto, Cin ... 2 ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... STRIKEOUTS Cueto, Cin 24 NEXT: Saturday vs. Milwaukee SAVES Isringhausen, StL ...
St. Mary's-Annapolis has drop ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... St. Mary's-Annapolis has dropped two of three after Tuesday's 10-9 loss against Boys' Latin, but the Saints remain at No. 1 becauseof the level of competition in the MIAA-A Conference. GeorgetownPrep has a six-game winning streak, and Landon has won eight in arow. St. Mary's Ryken ...
GMU Hires Porter As Its Women's Coach
Apr 17, 2008 ... George Mason hired Jeri Porter to be its women's basketballcoach, the school announced yesterday. Porter, who grew up in Capitol Heights, comes to the Fairfax school from RadfordUniversity. "George Mason for me is just a tremendous fit on a lot ofdifferent levels," Porter said ....
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Apr 17, 2008 ... BATTING C. Jones, Atl .415 YESTERDAY: 1-4 TODAY: vs. Nolasco, 3-7 STOLEN BASES Bourn, Hou ...
D'oh! 'Simpsons' Again Angers South Americans
Apr 17, 2008; ... If Homer Simpson and his family are planning any South Americanvacations in the near future, they might want to come up with abackup plan. The television show "The Simpsons" is nothing short of a culturalphenomenon in many parts of the continent, but it also has becomevery good ...
OMB Chief Orders Tighter Controls Over Credit Cards
Apr 17, 2008; ... The memo is out. As promised in the aftermath of a congressional audit showingmisuse of government credit cards, the Office of Management andBudget has directed federal agencies to tighten their controls. "OMB is extremely concerned with the incidences of charge cardabuse by ...
NATION IN BRIEF
Apr 17, 2008 ... IRVING, Tex. -- Nearly 400 people were arrested Wednesday inimmigration and identity theft raids at Pilgrim's Pride poultryplants in five states. More than 100 people were arrested on immigration violations inChattanooga, Tenn., and Moorefield, W.Va. In Mount Pleasant, Tex., 45 ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Apr 17, 2008 ... MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Dulles-based MaxJet Airways, which has filed for bankruptcyprotection, was bought by NCA Sports Group, a provider of travel forcollege athletes and fans. A bankruptcy court approved the sale. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE One of Richmond-based Media ...
What You Could Buy With $3.7 BILLION
Apr 17, 2008 ... 1 Northwest Airlines, or 3 Bear Stearns, ...
Railroads Directed to Analyze Safety and Security of Routes
Apr 17, 2008; ... The U.S. Transportation Department issued a rule yesterday thatorders railroads to extensively analyze security risks in choosingthe routes on which they ship hazardous chemicals. Railroads will be required to do a safety and security riskanalysis of primary routes and any ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Apr 17, 2008 ... SECURITY CAMERAS More concerns are being raised about Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's planto combine more than 5,000 surveillance cameras into a singlenetwork monitored by the city's homeland security agency. The Constitution Project, a legal advocacy group, issued astatement ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Apr 17, 2008 ... BATTING Pierzynski, Chi .421 YESTERDAY: 1-4 TODAY: vs. Guthrie 3-4, 1.250 SLG HOME RUNS Pena, TB 6 YESTERDAY: 0 ...
Couple Gives $25M To Children's Hospital
Apr 17, 2008; ... A Washington couple has made a generous donation to advancepediatric health care in the region, giving $25 million to funddiabetes and obesity research and a host of other initiatives atChildren's National Medical Center, the hospital announcedyesterday. Seven years after giving ...
LEGAL Mortgage Fraud Cases S ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... LEGAL FBI Director Robert Mueller said the agency's mortgage fraudcaseload has surged because of the subprime loan meltdown, and heexpects it to grow further. There are now 19 investigations of Wall Street banks, mortgagelenders and other financial institutions, Mueller told ...
Bush Seeks Voluntary Curb On Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Apr 17, 2008; ... President Bush yesterday called for a national goal of haltingthe growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, mostly bycurbing power plant pollution. But his voluntary target fell wellshort of what most leading scientists say is needed to avoiddangerous climate change and was widely ...
Save and Pay as You Go
Apr 17, 2008; ... I'll confess: I filed my tax return on April 15. This year thetime just seemed to come up so fast. But my husband and I have already talked to our tax preparerabout our 2008 tax situation. You see, this is the time to beginlooking at your taxes for next year. If you start now, you ...
CBS Scores on the Web With March Madness
Apr 17, 2008; ... CBS this year presented every game of the NCAA March Madnessbasketball tournament on the Web for free, marking the first time amajor U.S. sporting event has been so readily available online. Nowthe numbers are in, and they indicate that even for a company rearedin traditional media, the ...
1 Man, 1 Year: $3.7 Billion Payout; Hedge Fund Manager Won Big by Betting Mortgages Would Fail
Apr 17, 2008; ... The subprime mortgage mess that caused massive losses forhomeowners and banks was a little kinder to hedge fund manager JohnPaulson. Betting subprime mortgage securities would sour, Paulsonpersonally earned $3.7 billion last year. Yes, you read that correctly. That's billion with ...
CHINA Economic Growth on a Ro ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... CHINA China's economy grew 10.6 percent in the first quarter, slowingonly slightly as concern about the global economy grows, butinflation stayed above 8 percent despite efforts to ease foodshortages, the government reported. The cost of food, including porkand vegetables, jumped ...
QUOTABLE "You'd like to be h ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... "You'd like to be home a little more, but who's going to arguewith the pope? No, not me." Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, on changes in his team's schedule toaccommodate Pope Benedict XVI's Mass on Sunday at Yankee Stadium.New York is in the midst of playing 18 of 20 games on the ...
Upper-Crass Video: Maybe the Rich Aren't Different [Correction 5/5/ 08]
Apr 17, 2008; ... At first the video looks like just another shaming-by-YouTube. Ascorned wife (blond, British, bug-eyed), fearful of being evictedfrom her Manhattan pad by her estranged husband, decides to air hergrievances online. She rants about their nonexistent sex life andher husband's family ....
Man Fatally Stabbed, Friend Hurt While Riding Motorbikes in Woods
Apr 17, 2008; ... After work and on weekends, Steven P. Williams liked nothing morethan riding his motorbike in a wooded area in Clinton, about 15minutes from his home in a quiet, upper-middle-class section of FortWashington. Tuesday evening, after eating a dinner prepared by his mother,Williams ...
More About Max
Apr 17, 2008 ... Multimedia pop artist Peter Max was born in Berlin, Germany, in1937 but lived in Shanghai, China -- in a pagoda-style house -- until he was 10. His nanny was his first art teacher. Then his mother, who hadbeen a fashion designer, set up three balconies at their home assmall ...
Bridge
Apr 17, 2008; ... A famous expert once defined a mistake as any action he wouldn'ttake. I'd say the real mistakes are those from which we learnnothing. South took the ace of spades, led a trump to his king andcontinued with the queen. Dummy threw a spade. East took the ace andpassively returned a ...
Today's Horoscope
Apr 17, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). World peace starts at home. You'remore tolerant than ever. And as far as love goes, you have lots togive. When you give it, you deepen your connection to those you loveand also those you hardly know. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). As much as you've lately ...
Officer Is Charged In Hit-and-Run Crash
Apr 17, 2008; ... An Anne Arundel County police officer was arrested yesterday andcharged for his alleged role in a hit-and-run crash in January thatkilled a 28-year-old man on Interstate 95 in Harford County,authorities said. Officer Dane Patrick Hall, 28, was arrested one day after aHarford ...
J.P. Morgan Hit Hard by Credit Crisis; First-Quarter Profit Still Above Expectations
Apr 17, 2008; ... J.P. Morgan Chase, which previously escaped largely unscathedfrom severe problems in the mortgage market, reported Wednesday thatits first-quarter profit fell by half, showing how credit troublesin subprime home loans are now spreading to other types of consumerand business ...
Getting Close to the Pope Runs in the Family
Apr 17, 2008; ... John Kane was 19 when he stood with his other siblings behind hissister Margaret and his brother Richard as they stepped forward tohand Pope John Paul II a chalice of wine, a ceremonial gift to theVicar of Christ, during his 1979 visit to Washington. The pope's words on the Mall ...
Reports Offer Grim Picture of Economy; 9 of 12 Regions Tell Fed Of Business Slowdown
Apr 17, 2008; ... The economy is slowing across the nation, the home-buildingsector is tanking more than even the pessimists could have imagineda few months ago and prices keep rising at an uncomfortably highrate. Those are the unpleasant conclusions of several governmentreports released yesterday ...
Annandale Is Right Where It Wants to Be
Apr 17, 2008; ... On the bus ride home from Tuesday's 10-7 win over South County,Annandale boys' lacrosse coach Bill Maglisceau heard the answer on his cellphone and relayed it to his players. "Lake Braddock 8," he told them, "West Springfield 7." A loud and prolonged roar followed ....
Good Counsel Comes Up Short
Apr 17, 2008; ... Severn plays in one of the nation's toughest girls' lacrosse leagues, the IAAM A Conference. Good Counsel puts together one ofthe toughest schedules of any area team. Yesterday, they met for the first time, and despite a worthycomeback effort by Good Counsel in the final nine ...
Capitals at Flyers Philadelphia leads, 2-1
Apr 17, 2008 ... When: Tonight, ...
Spalding is coming off a 13-1 ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... Spalding is coming off a 13-10 win over a strong Roland Park(Baltimore) squad. The Cavaliers have turned around their programafter not winning a league game the previous two seasons. SouthRiver has earned wins this season over solid nonleague squadsCentury, Westminster and Towson. Its ...
One Movie, Multiple Bill; 'The Tracey Fragments' Can Be Watched on Various Levels and Panels
Apr 17, 2008; ... Before Ellen Page became the Oscar-nominated Ellen Page, shemade a little art-house movie called "The Tracey Fragments." Page,who starred in "Juno" last year, played the title character, atortured 15-year-old who rides city buses through the dreary streetsof Winnipeg, Manitoba, in ...
'Black Enough': Tales That Get Under the Skin
Apr 17, 2008; ... With the presidential campaign floodlighting the issue of race,the time is prime for Clinton Johnston's "Am I Black Enough Yet?," a patchwork of poignant and satirical skits grappling with questionsof ethnicity. Director George Grant's staging for the Charter Theatreoccasionally ...
Clawing for Life; Facing disaster, two governors act to save the Chesapeake Bay's crabs.
Apr 17, 2008 ... THE MOMENT that Chesapeake Bay watermen had been dreading arrivedTuesday. Faced with a dire drop in the blue crab harvest, thegovernors of Maryland and Virginia announced sharp new limits on thevolume of sooks (as female crabs, the ones generally used to makecrab cakes, are known) that ...
PGA's Finchem Knew of Woods's Knee Pain
Apr 17, 2008; ... PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said yesterday he was not atall surprised to hear about Tiger Woods's arthroscopic knee surgeryon Tuesday, only because Woods told him as recently as six weeks agothat "it was bugging him a little bit." "He mentioned it to me," said Finchem, who ...
On Real Estate, New Eagle Pair Not Too Picky
Apr 17, 2008; ... You knew George and Martha. Now, meet John and Abigail. The region's newest pair of urban bald eagles has set uphousekeeping in Arlington this spring, raising eaglets in a tree inthe median of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. They are thethird pair of the birds, now on the ...
U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects' DNA; Policy Adds People Arrested but Not Convicted
Apr 17, 2008; ... The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples fromall citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and frommany immigrants detained by federal authorities, adding geneticidentifiers from more than 1 million individuals a year to theswiftly growing federal law ...
DR. GRIDLOCK SAYS
Apr 17, 2008 ... This morning, thousands of worshipers bound for Nationals Parkwill collide with thousands of commuters trying to reach work. The Douglass Bridge and part of South Capitol Street nearNationals Park will be closed throughout the morning. The maindetour for this major commuter route ...
Decked Twice, Capitals Shuffle
Apr 17, 2008; ... With the Washington Capitals reeling after consecutive losses andhis top offensive players being shut down by a bruising PhiladelphiaFlyers team, Coach Bruce Boudreau experimented with several changeson Wednesday, one day after his team was thumped, 6-3. Veteran Sergei Fedorov -- ...
A Lifetime of Undying Devotion To a Life Tragically Cut Short; Crews Did Everything In Her Power to Help Boyfriend Battle Cancer
Apr 17, 2008; ... Courtney Crews wiped the tears from her eyes and took a deepbreath. She stared at the softball diamond in front of her, pulledthe catcher's mask over her face and settled into a crouch behindhome plate. Every couple of innings, Courtney, a senior at North StaffordHigh School, ...
On the Next Tee
Apr 17, 2008 ... Event: The Heritage. When: Today-Sunday. Course: Harbour Town Golf Links (6,973 yards, par 71), HiltonHead Island, S.C. Purse: $5.5 million (winner's share $990,000). TV: Golf Channel (today-tomorrow, 3 p.m.); WUSA-9, WJZ-13 (Saturday-Sunday, 3 ...
Warmed Over; President Bush delivers much talk and little action on climate change.
Apr 17, 2008 ... PRESIDENT BUSH strode to the lectern in the Rose Gardenyesterday and once again passed up an opportunity -- perhaps hislast -- to do something meaningful on climate change. "Today, I amannouncing a new national goal: to stop the growth of U.S.greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," he ...
Adapted from a recent online ...
Apr 17, 2008; ... Adapted from a recent online discussion: Dear Carolyn: I am a 40-year-old male and currently dating casually. I amhighly motivated to get married and start a family. How do I askpotential mates if they are able to have children, without beingoffensive? I have recently dated ...
Mr. Zahar and Mr. Carter; The former president, on what he says is a road to peace, embraces Hamas terrorists.
Apr 17, 2008 ... ON THE OPPOSITE page today we publish an article by the "foreignminister" of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, that drips with hatred forIsrael, and with praise for former president Jimmy Carter. Webelieve Mr. Zahar's words are worth publishing because they providesome clarity about the group he ...
The World
Apr 17, 2008 ... The United Nations has set 2015 as a target date for all childrento be enrolled in primary school. This week, UNESCO -- the U.N.Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- reported that72 million children remain outside the world's classrooms. Of ...
ERA Lee, Clev ... 0.61 NE ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... ERA Lee, Clev 0.61 NEXT: Tomorrow at Minnesota STRIKEOUTS Matsuzaka, Bos ...
Iraq to Open Oil-Field Bidding; Big Companies to Compete for Exploration, Production Rights
Apr 17, 2008; ... Iraq will open at least six major oil and natural-gas fields forexploration and production in the first bidding for licenses sincethe U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Iraq, which pre-qualified international oil companies this weekfor the bidding, will open the southern fields of Rumaila ...
Northern Virginia
Apr 17, 2008 ... [ FILM ] "Forgotten Ellis Island" This documentary by Bostonjournalist Lorie Conway looks at the massive hospital complex thattreated immigrants at Ellis Island (and held the sick for longperiods), an institution that sprang up in part to respond to thesevere diseases that entered the ...
Maryland
Apr 17, 2008 ... [ ON STAGE ] "Elephant Man" Silver Spring-based Troika Theater -- a new company staging its first work -- presents this story ofa hideously disfigured young man who maintains his dignity. Troika's spin: The troupe reworks the tale into something a littlemore avant-garde, with ...
CAPITALS vs. Flyers Best-of-Seven Flyers Lead, 2-1
Apr 17, 2008 ... Game 1April 11 at WashingtonCapitals 5, Flyers 4Game 2April 13 atWashingtonFlyers 2, Capitals 0Game 3April 15 at PhiladelphiaFlyers6, Capitals 3Game 4Tonight at Philadelphia7 p.m.Comcast SportsNet,VersusGame 5Saturday at Washington1 p.m.WRC-4, WBAL-11Game 6*Mondayat ...
The District
Apr 17, 2008 ... [ CLOSING ] $5 to Downward Dog Today and tomorrow are your lastdays to take advantage of the third annual D.C. Yoga Week's cheapclasses at more than a dozen studios, including Capitol Hill Yoga,Tranquil Space Yoga and Unity Woods Yoga Center. Participatingstudios offer daily $5 classes ...
Fighting Breaks Out in Gaza Strip; 18 Palestinians, 3 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Clashes
Apr 17, 2008; ... Eighteen Palestinians -- many of them civilians -- and threeIsraeli soldiers were killed Wednesday during fierce clashes in theGaza Strip, marking the deadliest day of fighting in more than amonth. The violence erupted Wednesday morning after Palestinian gunmenapproached the ...
Treachery at Yalta
Apr 17, 2008; ... CHURCHILL'S TRIUMPH A Novel of Betrayal By Michael Dobbs Sourcebooks Landmark. 341 pp. Paperback, $14.95 "A Novel of Betrayal" is how Michael Dobbs subtitles this lastof his Winston Churchill quartet, which traces Churchill's journeyfrom political outsider to ...
Yesterday's Results at Orlan ...
Apr 17, 2008 ... Yesterday's Results at Orlando 103 Washington 83 at Indiana 132 New York 123 Detroit 84 at Cleveland 74 at Dallas 111 New Orleans 98 at Charlotte 115 Philadel. 109 at Miami 113 Atlanta 99 at Boston 105 New Jersey ...
New Freedom, and Peril, in Online Criticism of China
Apr 17, 2008; ... Wang Qianyuan did not realize she would cause such a frenzy lastweek when she ran into a group of American students, Tibetan flagstied over their shoulders, getting ready for a vigil at DukeUniversity to support human rights. She used blue body paint to write "Save Tibet" slogans ...