The Washington Post back issues from Tuesday, April 22:
Iraqi Christians Struggle With Fear After Slayings; Recent Priest Killings Follow Years of Violence, Leaders Say
Apr 22, 2008; ... At the Rev. Thair Abdal's church, where on Sunday mornings sweetsongs of prayer stream from the doorway, the congregation's fear ofdeath leaves the sanctuary half-filled. "It's very clear," Abdal said. "Like the light of day, you cannothide it." Guards with AK-47 assault ...
U.S. to Insist That Travel Industry Get Fingerprints
Apr 22, 2008; ... The U.S. government today will order commercial airlines andcruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of allforeigners before they depart the country under a securityinitiative that the industry has condemned as costly and burdensome. The proposal does not say where ...
Schools Should Set Start Times To Students' Biological Clocks
Apr 22, 2008; ... Anyone who has ever been a teenager recalls the horror of early rising during those heady years. And school administrators knowabout research that supports the need many teens feel to sleep tillnoon. Yet most school systems insist that bus schedules and theconvenience of parents and ...
Clinton, Obama Duel Over Readiness
Apr 22, 2008; ... On the final day before the Pennsylvania primary, Sen. HillaryRodham Clinton released an ad that, without naming Sen. BarackObama, questions his readiness to be president. Hours later, Obamastruck back with an ad of his own. Clinton's Attack The Ad: It's the toughest job in ...
Plenty of Talent Available at Cornerback; Scouts Say Top Four Prospects Could Be Drafted in Any Order
Apr 22, 2008; ... Talent evaluators around the NFL seem to agree on a few thingsabout this year's class of draft-eligible cornerbacks: It's a prettysolid group and just about every team would be overjoyed to add oneof the draft's top cornerbacks. "You never have enough corners," Vinny Cerrato, the ...
No Seats for Sale; The Supreme Court should uphold the 'Millionaires' Amendment' governing congressional races.
Apr 22, 2008 ... IT'S NOT OFTEN that the rich claim they've been unduly burdenedbecause of their fortunes. But that is essentially what self-mademillionaire Jack Davis is arguing in a case scheduled to be heardby the Supreme Court today. Mr. Davis unsuccessfully ran in 2004 and2006 for a New York seat ...
NFL Draft Preview: Defensive Backs Mark Maske breaks down each position, leading up to next weekend's draft:
Apr 22, 2008 ... TOP PLAYERS Pos.PlayerHt.Wt.SchoolThe SkinnyCornerbackLeodis McKelvin5-101/2190TroyAlso a great kick returner with seven career punt returnTDsCornerbackDominique Rodgers-Cromartie6-11/2182TennesseeStateStandout at Senior Bowl and scouting ...
Helping Women at Risk; A Maryland program aimed at averting domestic violence is given deserved recognition.
Apr 22, 2008 ... EACH YEAR, more than 1,200 women in the United States are killedby their husbands or boyfriends. Only a tiny percentage of them willhave sought help from domestic violence programs. Despite beingabused -- which often brings police attention -- they don'tfully comprehend or accept the ...
Caps Bring It Back Home; Ovechkin's Two Goals in Third Force Game 7 at Verizon Center
Apr 22, 2008; ... All season, the Washington Capitals have been counted out. Ithappened when they started out 6-14-1. It happened when Philadelphiatook a three games to one lead in the Eastern Conferencequarterfinals last week, and again when the Flyers pushed them tothe edge of extinction in Game ...
Guilty Plea Fairfax Teen in '07 Fatal Crash
Apr 22, 2008; ... A Fairfax County teenager pleaded guilty yesterday to involuntarymanslaughter in a drunken-driving crash last fall that killed a 59-year-old Leesburg woman. Under the plea agreement, the state reduced a charge ofaggravated manslaughter to involuntary manslaughter, a felony ...
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Apr 22, 2008 ... AIRLINES The head of Delta's pilots union said he is open to arbitrationwith Northwest pilots over merging their seniority lists. The twosides failed to reach a pact before their airlines agreed to combinelast week. In a letter to pilots, Lee Moak said union leaders are ...
Dilbert Cartoonist Challenges Readers To Outdo Punch Lines
Apr 22, 2008; ... Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams is giving his readers a chance totry and prove that they're funnier than he is. With a new Web feature introduced on the popular comic's site,fans of dysfunctional office humor are invited to rewrite the finalframe of one of Adams's daily strips, ...
Civil Obedience: Local Book Inspires Seminars, Classes
Apr 22, 2008; ... There are 40,000 "Choose Civility" magnets around Howard County -- and more on the way. Some adorn cars; others sit on office desksas reminders. And "Please Drive Gently" bumper stickers have startedto appear on the vehicles of some Montgomery County drivers. Believe it or not, ...
Bank of America Earnings Plummet; Profit Falls 77%; $3 Billion Set Aside For Bad Loans
Apr 22, 2008; ... Bank of America, which has a sprawling business in personal andcommercial loans, reported a 77 percent decline in profit Monday,the latest indication of how financial troubles that started withsubprime mortgages have spread across the credit markets. In reporting its first-quarter ...
Capitals022 -- 4Flyers110 -- ...
Apr 22, 2008 ... Capitals022 -- 4Flyers110 -- 2 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, Philadelphia, Richards 2 (Timonen, Lupul), 3:49 (pp).Penalties: Bradley, Was (interference), 2:59; Upshall, Phi(tripping), 13:07; Jones, Phi (interference), 16:32; Semin, Was(cross-checking), 19:22. SECOND ...
High Court to Hear Uranium Case; Bethesda's USEC Argues to Impose Anti-Dumping Duties on French Firm
Apr 22, 2008; ... The Supreme Court said yesterday that it would hear a disputebetween USEC of Bethesda and a French supplier of low-enricheduranium in a case the federal government said has implications notonly for the energy industry but also for efforts to dismantle somenuclear ...
CAPITALS vs. Flyers Best-of-Seven Series Tied, 3-3
Apr 22, 2008 ... Game 1April 11 at WashingtonCapitals 5, Flyers 4Game 2April 13 atWashingtonFlyers 2, Capitals 0Game 3April 15 at PhiladelphiaFlyers6, Capitals 3Game 4April 17 at PhiladelphiaFlyers 4, Capitals 3 (2OT)Game 5Saturday at WashingtonCapitals 3, Flyers 2Game 6Last nightat PhiladelphiaCapitals ...
The 25 Rules
Apr 22, 2008 ... 1. Pay attention. 2. Acknowledge others. 3. Think the best. 4. Listen. 5. Be inclusive. 6. Speak kindly. 7. Don't speak ill. 8. Accept and give praise. 9. Respect even a subtle "no." 10. Respect others' opinions. 11 ....
CORRECTIONS
Apr 22, 2008 ... An April 20 Page One article on mountaintop coal miningincorrectly said that two companies that own local power plants,Mirant and Constellation Energy, also own the mines that supplytheir coal. The companies buy the coal from other businesses. The Financial Futures column in the ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Apr 22, 2008 ... HOSPITALITY Marriott International of Bethesda will more than double thenumber of hotels it operates in the Middle East by 2011 as it seeksto expand in the region's fast-growing tourism market. Marriott, the world's largest lodging chain, will "sign newdevelopment agreements" ...
Thrift Savings Plan's Stock Funds Take a Hit; __
Apr 22, 2008; ... The stock markets were roiled, and federal employees headed forcover. That's what happened in the first three months of the year, whenparticipants in the Thrift Savings Plan transferred about $9 billionof their retirement savings into bonds and government securities andout of ...
Carlyle Creates Fund to Buy Corporate Debt; Private-Equity Firm Raises $450 Million to Purchase Secure Class of Loans
Apr 22, 2008; ... The Carlyle Group said yesterday that it had created a $450million fund to buy corporate debt being sold by banks at discountedprices, continuing a flurry of activity by the District privateequity firm following the collapse of one of its funds in Europelast month. Carlyle has ...
AIRLINES Air France-KLM Drop ...
Apr 22, 2008 ... AIRLINES Air France-KLM said its offer to buy struggling Italian airlineAlitalia for $220 million was "no longer valid." The French-Dutch carrier said its Italian counterpart failed toclarify the "legal situation" after talks on a possible takeoverwere broken off this month ....
Bank of England Unveils Plan to Boost Liquidity
Apr 22, 2008; ... The Bank of England, aiming to deal with the crippling impact ofthe U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, announced on Monday a $100billion plan to allow banks to swap mortgage-backed securities forBritish Treasury bills. The bank's aim is to unblock the interbank lending market ...
Automakers See Chance to Go Big in China; Growing Prosperity Fuels a Surging Demand for SUVs and Luxury Sedans
Apr 22, 2008; ... High, wide and fuel-hungry, the gleaming black Cadillac Escaladeon display at the Beijing auto show is an unlikely car for an era ofrecord oil prices. Although U.S. sport-utility vehicle sales are tumbling,automakers are finding that for China's newly prosperous car buyers,bigger ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Apr 22, 2008 ... METRO Get out the fiddles. Tune up the vocal chords. Metro is holdingauditions next week for District-based performers to showcase theirtalents at select Metrorail station entrances this year. Auditions for season two of MetroPerforms! will take place May 2from 5 to 8 p.m ....
Quotable "Right now we've go ...
Apr 22, 2008 ... "Right now we've got a lot of talent. We don't have a lot ofteam. . . . It's pretty simple. The big boys gotta step it up.There's no secrets here." Tigers Manager Jim Leyland, as reported in the Detroit FreePress, before yesterday's game. Detroit then went out and beatToronto, ...
Fish, Isner Join Field For Legg Mason Classic
Apr 22, 2008 ... Washington's Legg Mason Tennis Classic, which celebrates its 40thanniversary this summer, has received commitments from AmericansMardy Fish and John Isner. They'll join a field led by the country'stop-ranked player, Andy Roddick, who announced earlier this yearthat he'll skip the 2008 ...
At Least 20 Dead After Boat Capsizes Off the Bahamas
Apr 22, 2008; ... Haitians fleeing their impoverished homeland met tragedy whentheir boat went down off the Bahamas, killing at least 20 people andleaving only three known survivors, including an alleged migrantsmuggler, authorities said Monday. Survivors said the boat was carrying 24 people when it ...
Life Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women; Historic Reversal, Found in 1,000 Counties, May Be Result of Smoking and Obesity
Apr 22, 2008; ... For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, lifeexpectancy is falling for a significant number of American women. In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12percent of the nation's women, life expectancy is now shorter thanit was in the early 1980s, ...
Iraq Wants U.S. to Compromise More on Security Deals
Apr 22, 2008; ... Iraq is resisting U.S. proposals for a pair of new bilateralsecurity agreements, saying it expects Washington to compromise on"sensitive issues," including the right to imprison Iraqi citizensunilaterally, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday. Other problematic areas now ...
Rodriguez Is Set to Rejoin Yankees Today
Apr 22, 2008 ... Alex Rodriguez has a mild strain of his right quadriceps and willrejoin the Yankees today in Chicago. Rodriguez was injured Sunday in New York's 7-1 win at Baltimore.He returned to New York to be examined rather than accompany theteam to Chicago, where the Yankees start a series ...
GAMES PITCHED Casilla, Oak . ...
Apr 22, 2008 ... GAMES PITCHED Casilla, Oak 11 NEXT: Today vs. Minnesota SAVES Papelbon, Bos ...
THE ORIOLES' UPCOMING SERIES; at Seattle Mariners
Apr 22, 2008 ... TimeOrioles PitchersOpponent PitchersToday10:10Jeremy Guthrie (0-1, 4.38)Felix Hernandez (2-0, 1.47)Tomorrow10:10Daniel Cabrera (1-0, 5.16)Carlos Silva (3-0, 2.79)Thursday10:10Adam Loewen (0-1, 6.32)R.A. Dickey (0-1, 6.43) ...
Aggression in Georgia; Vladimir Putin steps up his campaign against Russia's democratic neighbor -- and bets that NATO won't respond.
Apr 22, 2008 ... LAST MONTH, NATO sent a muddled message to Ukraine and Georgia,fragile European democracies that are seeking membership in theWestern alliance. Pressed by President Bush, a NATO summit meetingissued a statement declaring that the two countries "will becomemembers of NATO" someday. But ...
Casting a Wide Net
Apr 22, 2008 ... Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig, author of fourbooks about the Internet and its impact on society, is an obviousget for a congressional hearing on "The Future of the Internet," setto unfold today under the aegis of the Senate commerce committee. Justine Bateman, ...
White House Defends NAFTA as Bush Meets With Heads of Mexico, Canada
Apr 22, 2008; ... With the North American Free Trade Agreement taking a pounding onthe campaign trail, President Bush met here Monday with the leadersof Mexico and Canada to defend the pact and to seek new ways tocooperate on border, economic and regulatory issues. After meeting with Bush, Mexican ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Apr 22, 2008 ... BATTING Youkilis, Bos .378 YESTERDAY: 2 BB TODAY: vs. Weaver 4-12, 1 HR HOME RUNS Pena, TB ...
Clinton Campaign Facing Deepening Debt to Advisers
Apr 22, 2008; ... The financial gap between Democratic Sens. Barack Obama andHillary Rodham Clinton has grown increasingly pronounced during thepresidential primary season, and the Clinton campaign is nowshouldering sizable debts to several key consultants and advisers,campaign records ...
Ashlee's 'World': Overpopulated And Empty
Apr 22, 2008; ... Let's get it out of the way: Fall Out Boy leader Pete Wentz doesnot appear on his fiancee Ashlee Simpson's third disc, "BittersweetWorld." But know this: During its worst moments, you will actuallymiss him. "Bittersweet World" appears to have been sewn together fromrandom bits ...
Clinton, Obama Make Last Pitches To Pennsylvania; Tense Battle Becoming More Vitriolic
Apr 22, 2008; ... Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama offeredPennsylvania voters their closing arguments on Monday, winding downa nearly two-month campaign in the state that has done little tobring clarity to the Democratic presidential contest. In stops statewide, Clinton continued to ...
Nature Writing in All Its Diversity
Apr 22, 2008; ... AMERICAN EARTH Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Edited by Bill McKibben Library of America. 1,047 pp. $40 Colonial Americans didn't have much use for the wild, for whatone Puritan leader characterized as a "savage, howling wilderness."The territory beyond ...
ERA Sheets, Mil ... 0.96 ...
Apr 22, 2008 ... ERA Sheets, Mil 0.96 NEXT: Thursday vs. Philadelphia WINS Webb, Ari. ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Apr 22, 2008 ... BATTING C. Jones, Atl .458 YESTERDAY: 1-3 TODAY: vs. Lannan 1-1, 2 BB HOME RUNS Utley, Phil ...
Gates Assails Pentagon on Resources for Battlefields
Apr 22, 2008; ... Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday criticized the U.S.military services for not moving aggressively enough to providecritical resources to the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan,saying it has been "like pulling teeth" to get the Pentagon'sconventional Cold War bureaucracy to ...
LOCAL GOLF
Apr 22, 2008 ... Argyle -- On the Nassau tournament, the overall 18 went toJoanne Horgan with 70 ....
THE DOTTED LINE
Apr 22, 2008 ... Tackle Max Starks, a backup for most of last season, will returnto the Pittsburgh Steelers after signing a one-year tender offerworth $6.9 million. The Steelers designated Starks in February as their transitionplayer. . . . The Kansas City Chiefs signed unrestricted free ...
Detainees Allege Being Drugged, Questioned; U.S. Denies Using Injections for Coercion
Apr 22, 2008; ... Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bayas this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. "I'd fall asleep" after the shot, Nusairi, a former Saudipoliceman captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2002, recalledin an interview with his attorney ...
Bridge
Apr 22, 2008; ... When I watched today's deal at the club, declarer was JoeOverberry, who plays every deal for the maximum -- and many for theminimum. To Joe, it's nobler to go down trying for an overtrick thanto make what he bid. Joe can count his tricks as declarer (my topic this week) ....
Today's Horoscope
Apr 22, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). Hopefully people you work with realizethat you're the one they should be consulting when new problems cropup. Your finger is on the pulse now. You come up with the cutting-edge solutions. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You're active, endeavoring ...
Cardinal Financial Corp. Tick ...
Apr 22, 2008 ... Cardinal Financial Corp. Ticker: CFNL Headquarters: McLean FirstQuarterYear to DateFiscal year20082007% ...
What Killed Earth Day? Too Much Fuss And No Bother; IN MEMORIAM
Apr 22, 2008; ... Today isn't Earth Day anymore. Haven't you heard? Earth Day isdead. It collapsed yesterday after one of its many news conferencesand was rushed by hybrid ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.(Where staff members were immediately fired for peeking at EarthDay's medical ...
Green for a Day, but Then Comes Tomorrow; Some Worry That Earth Day Hoopla Hides the Reality of Lagging Changes
Apr 22, 2008; ... This is the good and bad of Earth Day, 38 years on: Almosteverybody seems to be doing -- or buying -- something to lightentheir burden on the environment. Twisty light bulbs. Hybrid cars. AtWhole Foods, "bananas with a conscience." But it can still seem as though nobody is ...
Changing the Current; State Environmental Laws Drive Power Producers to Renewable Resources
Apr 22, 2008; ... The Imperial Valley of California is ideal country for solar andwind power. It rains less than three inches a year. Temperatures hit110 degrees in the summer. The wind blows pretty steadily, too. Andit's just east of San Diego. Now, because of a California law requiring utilities ...
What the Autism Studies Show Isn't Reflected in What the Candidates Say
Apr 22, 2008 ... Two leading presidential candidates have now wandered into anexceptionally emotional medical debate in which they have no knownscientific expertise. Several advocacy groups and families ofchildren with autism are embroiled in a long-running court caseseeking billions of dollars in ...
Fairfax Prepares to Raise Tax Rate As Region's Fiscal Outlook Darkens
Apr 22, 2008; ... Fairfax County yesterday joined a growing list of communitiesacross the region that have raised property taxes this year toprotect government services and public schools in the face ofdeclining real estate values and a generally sluggish economy. The bad news is that, for Fairfax ...
Higher Rates
Apr 22, 2008 ... Yesterday, Fairfax County supervisors approved a property taxrate increase for the coming budget year. Here are rate increasesapproved or proposed by major Northern Virginia governments. Ratesare per $100 of assessed value. *Alexandria: Up 3 cents, or 3.6 percent, to 86 ...
The Fessenden Ensemble, Hitting the Heart of Barber
Apr 22, 2008 ... The Great Hall of St. Paul's Rock Creek Church is surrounded bya graveyard: an interesting setting for music that delves intomurder, revenge and the darker corners of the human heart. Soperhaps it was appropriate that the Fessenden Ensemble, one ofWashington's most consistently ...
Around the World
Apr 22, 2008 ... RUSSIA A Moscow court on Monday convicted an American pastor ofsmuggling hunting ammunition into Russia and sentenced him to threeyears and two months in prison. Phillip Miles, pastor of Christ Community Church in Conway, S.C.,part of an evangelical fellowship, has been in ...
The World
Apr 22, 2008 ... According to a recent poll supervised by the University ofMaryland, 70 percent of people in 16 countries believe that oil isrunning out and that new sources of energy must be developed. Butonly 53 percent of respondents said their government was acting withsufficient urgency. Here ...
Former Justice Official Accused of Exchanging Favors With Abramoff
Apr 22, 2008; ... A federal prosecutor in Maryland has accused a Justice Departmentofficial who became the former deputy chief of staff of the criminaldivision of helping Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchangefor a "stream of things of value," according to criminal papersfiled ...
Georgia Says Russia Downed Surveillance Drone Over Separatist Region
Apr 22, 2008 ... Georgia on Monday accused Russia of downing an unmanned Georgianreconnaissance plane over one of its breakaway territories in an"unprovoked act of aggression," but the Russian military called theallegation nonsense. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili telephoned ...
Gannett Profit Falls 8.9% As Ad Revenue Declines
Apr 22, 2008; ... Gannett, owner of 85 daily newspapers including USA Today, saidyesterday that its first-quarter profit dropped nearly 9 percentfrom the year before, as the newspaper industry continues tostruggle with declining advertising revenue and circulation. Gannett reported a profit of $192 ...
Adapted from a recent online ...
Apr 22, 2008; ... Adapted from a recent online discussion: Dear Carolyn: In the past several months, I've had two of my married malefriends, both of whom I never dated, had a relationship with, etc.,tell me their wives are uncomfortable with our friendship and haveeffectively ended it. I have ...
New Data Link Heparin Deaths to Chinese Batches, FDA Says
Apr 22, 2008; ... Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday they havenew evidence that links hundreds of serious adverse reactions andscores of deaths among patients given the blood thinner heparin to aman-made contaminant introduced during production in China. Janet Woodcock, director ...