The Washington Post back issues from Friday, April 25:
O's Markakis Delivers A Victory for Cabrera
Apr 25, 2008; ... Orioles 3, Mariners 2 Reprinted from washingtonpost.com The typically unflappable Nick Markakis came to the brink ofejection in the fourth inning, when Seattle Mariners starter CarlosSilva fired a two-strike fastball over the outer edge of the platethat home plate umpire ...
Jury Faults Pr. George's In Church Bias Suit
Apr 25, 2008; ... A federal civil jury awarded more than $3.7 million yesterday toa Seventh-day Adventist church after finding that the PrinceGeorge's County government discriminated against the church byblocking its efforts to build a sanctuary in Laurel. At U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, the ...
Eagle Bancorp Inc.Ticker: EGB ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... Eagle Bancorp Inc.Ticker: EGBN Headquarters: BethesdaFirstQuarterYear to DateFiscal year20082007% Chg20082007%ChgAssets$899.5$776.2+15.9 -- -- -- Profit$1.65$1.68-1.8 -- -- -- Earnings per share$0.17$0.170 -- -- -- NOTE: Quarterended March 31. Friedman, ...
NFL Draft
Apr 25, 2008 ... When: Tomorrow and Sunday. Tomorrow's TV: ESPN (3 p.m.), ...
DHS Between Administrations
Apr 25, 2008 ... The Department of Homeland Security has seven main operatingunits. Here is a summary of how the presidential transition willaffect their leadership, as Acting Deputy Secretary Paul A.Schneider told a House committee Wednesday. Coast Guard and Secret Service: No political ...
Clinton's Hopes May Lie With N.C.; Loss Would Shake Her Big-State Claims
Apr 25, 2008; ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday emphasized her plans toremove combat troops from Iraq and challenged Sen. Barack Obama to adebate in North Carolina, as she turned her attention to a statethat could upend her hopes of a comeback. Standing with a group of military supporters, ...
Practical Democracy
Apr 25, 2008 ... Presidential promises come and go, but local real estate andwater policy issues are forever. Will the new mortgage assistance proposals reach the consumerswho need help most? And what about water policy -- once primarily a Western concernbut now, thanks to rapid population ...
Jimmy Fallon May Get NBC's 'Late Night' Gig
Apr 25, 2008 ... Jimmy Fallon appears to be inching closer to Conan O'Brien's"Late Night" chair. For months, Fallon has been widely considered the top choice tosucceed O'Brien when he steps down next year. On Thursday, publishedreports said Fallon has signed, or soon will sign, a deal with ...
WINS Matsuzaka, Bos ... 4-0 ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... WINS Matsuzaka, Bos 4-0 NEXT: To Be Announced ERA Lee, Clev ...
British Court Views Video Of Bomber And Child
Apr 25, 2008; ... On the home video, a young father, on his way to a war where heknows he will die, bounces his baby daughter on his knee, showersher with kisses and laments that he will never see her grow up. "Sweetheart, not long to go now. And I'm going to really, reallymiss you a lot," the ...
CORRECTIONS
Apr 25, 2008 ... An April 24 Business article about the proposed Delta-Northwestmerger inaccurately described American Airlines' fleet. American has34 Airbus A300s in its 655-jet fleet. The rest were made by Boeingor McDonnell Douglas, which merged with Boeing. In some editions, an April 23 ...
Fannie, Freddie Get Relief On Affordable-Loan Quotas
Apr 25, 2008; ... The government yesterday said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac willface no penalty for failing to meet certain federal affordable-housing quotas in 2007 because market conditions made thoserequirements unattainable. The two federally chartered mortgage-finance companies, whoseties to ...
Around the Nation
Apr 25, 2008 ... The Justice Department said yesterday that it will add 64prosecutors in U.S. attorney's offices along the southwest border tobetter combat immigration offenses, human trafficking, drugsmuggling and money laundering. Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip, visiting law ...
LEGAL Two Cleared of Fraud C ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... LEGAL A jury in Washington cleared Kent Wakeford, a former executivedirector at AOL's business affairs unit, and Michael Kennedy, whowas chief technology officer at defunct Las Vegas software companyPurchasePro, of civil fraud charges brought by federal regulatorswho accused them ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Apr 25, 2008 ... HOME RUNS Utley, Phil 10 YESTERDAY: 0 HR TODAY: vs. Duke 3-7, 1 strikeout ON-BASE PCT. Pujols, StL .500 Y'DAY: 2-2, 2 ...
Bush Plan To Contract Federal Jobs Falls Short; Scope and Savings Have Not Met Goals
Apr 25, 2008; ... Joseph Wassmann thought he had a secure position producing videosfor the U.S. Military Academy, but not long ago he found his job onthe line because of a Bush administration plan to inject moreefficiency into the federal bureaucracy. Wassmann, 40, was among a group of information ...
QUOTABLE "We knew this was ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... "We knew this was going to be a good lineup. Now we're gettingsome big hits from the top of the order, and we're also getting alot from the bottom guys." Tigers Manager Jim Leyland, after Detroit's sweep of Texas Athletics: Placed OF Travis Buck on the 15-day disabled ...
Texas Coverup Is Latest FAA Black Eye; Controllers' Errors Were Pinned on Pilots
Apr 25, 2008; ... Federal Aviation Administration managers covered up mistakes byair traffic controllers at a Texas facility, making it moredifficult for authorities to detect safety hazards in some of thenation's busiest airspace, FAA officials disclosed yesterday. In revealing the results of a ...
Who'll Cover the Checks?; The Democratic candidates' tax and spending plans are costly and ambitious -- and probably short on fiscal realism.
Apr 25, 2008 ... THE DEMOCRATIC presidential candidates have some big plans -- with big price tags attached. By our calculations, using figuressupplied by the campaigns, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) hasproposed new spending and tax breaks that would amount to almost$265 billion a year when ...
Bridge
Apr 25, 2008; ... "I thought I was on the right track when I started the diamonds,"today's declarer sighed. "Even if you were," North muttered, wanting to kick his partner'scaboose, "you might be on the wrong train." South won the first spade with the queen and led a diamond. Westplayed low, ...
U Street Develops Vision for Theater; City Solicits Plans With Intent to Reinvest Revenue
Apr 25, 2008; ... The District announced yesterday that it is seeking to developland adjoining the historic Lincoln Theatre, a U Street institutionthat would receive much-needed financial assistance from theproject. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) invited developers to submit proposalsfor the ...
Today's Horoscope
Apr 25, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). Someone has put you to the test in thelast three weeks, and now it's time to put someone else to the test.Don't be afraid to push. You'll find that your subject is verycapable and willing to excel. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You'll be assimilating a dream ...
Paul VI Catholic remained und ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... Paul VI Catholic remained undefeated by scoring twice in theseventh inning Saturday for a 2-1 victory over St. Mary's Ryken.With the season winding down and some rainouts this week, teams willbe pushed deep into their pitching staffs with makeup games crowdingthe ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Apr 25, 2008 ... DISTRICT ATTORNEY A House subcommittee held a hearing yesterday on a bill to givethe District a locally elected district attorney. In 2002, D.C. voters approved a ballot measure calling for alocally elected prosecutor, but the change requires congressionalapproval. The U.S ....
Macklin Will Transfer From Georgetown
Apr 25, 2008 ... Georgetown sophomore forward Vernon Macklin will transfer toanother school, the university's athletic department announcedyesterday. "We appreciate the hard work he put in at Georgetown, both on andoff the floor," Coach John Thompson III said in a statement. "Wewish him the best ...
A Seasoned Command; President Bush wisely promotes his two most successful generals in Iraq.
Apr 25, 2008 ... PRESIDENT BUSH has done his successor a great favor by nominatingGen. David H. Petraeus as the new chief of U.S. military operationsin the Middle East and Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno to replace him asthe top commander in Iraq. The two generals worked in closecooperation last year to ...
Hey, 'Cry-Baby,' Grow Up!; The Latest John Waters Flick Turned Into a Broadway Musical Isn't Ready for the Big Time
Apr 25, 2008; ... Now that there are two Broadway musicals based on movies by JohnWaters, this might be a good moment to reflect on the overall recordfor adapting the filmmaker's out-there oeuvre. The first show, splashy, lovable "Hairspray," opened in 2002 andtook off like a shot. The ...
ERA Smoltz, Atl ... 0.78 ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... ERA Smoltz, Atl 0.78 NEXT: Sunday at Mets INNINGS PITCHED Hamels, Phil ...
After 20 Years Away, Can a Daughter Bond With Her Mother Again?
Apr 25, 2008; ... Q.I am my mother's only daughter and I love her very much -- but I feel betrayed by her. I left home at 18 and stayed away for 20 years, seeing her only ahandful of times during those years but we talked every weekend onthe phone. I came back five years ago because of health ...
AIRLINES Delta, Northwest Def ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... AIRLINES Delta Air Lines chief executive Richard Anderson and NorthwestAirlines chief executive Doug Steenland defended their proposedmerger during hearings before the House and Senate Judiciarycommittees. The executives argued that their airlines would be strongertogether ...
Churchill Sunset Painting Auctioned for $350,000
Apr 25, 2008 ... A painting by Winston Churchill of a Moroccan sunset -- a viewhe loved so much that he invited President Franklin D. Roosevelt tosee it -- has sold for $350,000, an auction company says. "Sunset Over the Atlas Mountains," a vibrant landscape painted in1935 from Churchill's ...
Athletics Bring F. Thomas Back to Oakland
Apr 25, 2008 ... The Big Hurt is back in the Bay Area -- and it's as if he neverleft. The Athletics agreed to terms yesterday with DH Frank Thomas, whowas released Sunday by the Blue Jays to become a free agent aftergetting frustrated with his lack of playing time. "He has a presence to ...
District Heights Mayor Arrested in Sting; Walls, 30, Offered $40 for Sex to Undercover Officer in the District, Police Say
Apr 25, 2008; ... The mayor of District Heights was arrested early yesterday in theDistrict after allegedly offering an undercover male police officer$40 for sex in a known prostitution area, authorities said. James L. Walls Jr., 30, was arrested at 12:30 a.m. at Sixth and Fstreets NW, near Verizon ...
Bush Tells Palestinian Leader Peace Is Possible
Apr 25, 2008; ... President Bush sought to assure Palestinian Authority PresidentMahmoud Abbas yesterday that a peace agreement with Israel remainspossible, as he began to accelerate his personal diplomacy inadvance of his second trip to the Middle East this year. "The thing that I'm focused on, and ...
THE ORIOLES' UPCOMING SERIES; at Chicago White Sox
Apr 25, 2008 ... TimeOrioles PitchersOpponent PitchersTonight8:10Brian Burres (2-1, 3.63)Mark Buehrle (1-2, 5.96)Tomorrow7:05Steve Trachsel (1-3, 5.23)John Danks (2-1, 3.04)Sunday2:05Jeremy Guthrie (0-2, 4.18)Jose Contreras (1-2, 4.68)Monday2:05Daniel ...
Competitive Sourcing
Apr 25, 2008 ... Q: How do agencies decide which jobs to put up for competition? A: They inventory jobs that are considered "commercial," such ascafeteria and maintenance work. Q: How many jobs are eligible for competition? A: In 2003, the White House estimated that 858,000 federal ...
Compromise Takes Shape for Inspectors General Bill
Apr 25, 2008; ... After a decade of debate, Congress appears ready to strengthenthe independence of the government's inspectors general. The Senate, on a voice vote late Wednesday, approved a bill thatwould set job qualifications for inspectors general, allow Congressto determine if an agency was ...
IRAQ Oil Exports Increased in ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... IRAQ Iraq boosted its crude oil exports by 3.3 million barrels inMarch, and oil exports brought in $15.5 billion in the first threemonths of 2008, Oil Ministry figures showed. The country's total crude oil exports stood at 59.4 millionbarrels for March and grossed $5.64 ...
Speaking in Tongues
Apr 25, 2008; ... THE MAYOR'S TONGUE By Nathaniel Rich Riverhead. 310 pp. $24.95 "The Mayor's Tongue" is a goofy, playful, highly intellectualnovel about serious subjects -- the failure of language, for one,and how we cope with that failure in order to keep ourselves sane.It's ...
Senators Seek Deeper Air Force Investigation
Apr 25, 2008; ... The Senate Armed Services Committee has asked the DefenseDepartment's inspector general to review the role of senior AirForce officials in a $50 million contract, seeking furtherinvestigation into possible criminal conduct, ethical violations andfailures of leadership. Sens. Carl ...
Economy Showing Signs of Stability; Future Cloudy as New-Home Sales, Durables Slump
Apr 25, 2008; ... Financial markets are starting to function more normally, banksare raising billions of dollars in capital, and the latest economicfigures, while weak, aren't much weaker than had been expected. Taken together, these signs of stability make for the calmesteconomic period the nation ...
Applying Capitalism to Protect Dwindling Brazilian Forestland
Apr 25, 2008; ... Driving a farm truck across the mud roads of the eastern Amazonregion is agony on axles, a careful slalom around slippery ruts andyawning craters. The scenery is unromantic: mostly cattle pastureand soybean fields, with the occasional stand of naked tree trunkscharred by last year's ...
At Wrigley, Fans Bask in the Rising Son
Apr 25, 2008; ... Above Wrigley Field, the midday sun is making its presence feltfor the first time this season, and pale, bare arms and legssuddenly become visible in the timeless bleachers. A half-dozenseagulls, who no doubt recall fondly their first trips to Wrigleywith their fathers and grandfathers ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Apr 25, 2008 ... BATTING Pedroia, Bos .359 YESTERDAY: 1-5, 2K TODAY: vs. Garza 1-3, .667 SLG. HOME RUNS Ramirez, Bos 6 Y'DAY: ...
Womb Mates; In 'Baby Mama,' The Laughs Have Time to Gestate
Apr 25, 2008; ... "Baby Mama" isn't exactly laugh-out-loud funny. It's more quiet-chuckle funny, which is fine, too. This latest addition to thepregnancy comedy trend, starring Tina Fey as an overachievingcorporate vice president who hires a working-class party girl (AmyPoehler) to be a surrogate mother, ...
PAGE THREE : The Mailbag
Apr 25, 2008 ... Our mother told us that studying mathematics would train us tothink logically. It failed to, so we went into journalism. Manypeople who read Phyllis Jordan's Page Three piece yesterday aboutconfusion over her daughter's math homework tried to apply amathematician's logic to the matter ....
Public Safety Spectrum on FCC Calendar
Apr 25, 2008; ... The Federal Communications Commission said yesterday that it willuse its next public meeting to reconsider plans for the portion ofwireless spectrum that's reserved for emergency first responders. A month ago, when the commission tried to auction the publicsafety spectrum, a ...
T. Rex Closer to Gizzards Than Lizards; One of Fiercest Dinosaurs Shows Similarity at the Molecular Level to Chickens
Apr 25, 2008; ... Protein retrieved from a 68 millon-year-old Tyrannosaurus rexbone closely resembles the main protein in chicken and ostrich bonesand is only distantly related to lizards', strengthening the popularidea that birds, and not reptiles, are the closest living relatives of ...
Roofing Supplies Catch Fire Atop Condominium Project; No One Is Injured; Damage Is Minor
Apr 25, 2008; ... A pile of tar paper and roofing supplies caught fire yesterdayafternoon, causing a scare at National Harbor. The fire ignited atop an eight-story condominium underconstruction, sending a plume of black smoke billowing over the high-end development in Prince George's County and ...
Kaine's Wife Puts Career On Hold for Higher Profile; Holton Focuses On Foster Care
Apr 25, 2008; ... During her husband's campaign for governor, Anne Holton kept alow profile. She stayed home during fundraisers. She even peeled theTimothy M. Kaine bumper sticker off the family car before she wentto work. "There were times when I remember sending my children and my in-laws and my ...
Ford Reports Quarterly Profit; Company Earns Surprise $100 Million on Strong Foreign Sales
Apr 25, 2008; ... Ford Motor reported a surprising first-quarter profit of $100million yesterday, as surging sales in South America and Europehelped offset a loss in its core North American division. The profit comes partly from Ford's restructuring, analysts said,and was a rare bit of good news in ...
Around the World
Apr 25, 2008 ... zimbabwe The top U.S. envoy to Africa said Thursday that Zimbabwe'sopposition leader won the country's disputed presidential electionand that longtime President Robert Mugabe should step down. The opposition claims that Morgan Tsvangirai defeated Mugabeoutright in the March ...
The World
Apr 25, 2008 ... A diamond brooch worn by French Empress Eugenie, wife of NapoleonIII, is returning to Paris after 121 years in the United States.Following Napoleon III's fall from power, ...
Boston Charity Nets $175,100 For Jersey Buried at Stadium
Apr 25, 2008 ... The Boston Red Sox jersey secretly buried under the new YankeeStadium in a failed curse attempt sold yesterday for $175,100 in acharity auction. The bid from Kevin Meehan, the owner of Imperialcars.com inMendon, Mass., was the highest of 282 for the battered No. 34 DavidOrtiz ...
Brilliant Strokes of Satire
Apr 25, 2008 ... Make straight for the second-floor displays of Ecuadorean OswaldoGuayasamin's painting retrospective. There, a quintet of massivecanvases boast the heads and trickster hands of scheming fat catsand wizened impotents. Called "Meeting at the Pentagon I-V," theseries is a brilliant exercise ...
Color-Washed Imagery
Apr 25, 2008 ... Though two of Dustin Aksland's big color photographs include therequisite dyspeptic suburban youth, the rest minimize humans infavor of the romantic sublime. In one picture, where a thicket ofreeds nearly swallows a Reno, Nev., couple, Aksland's palette andcomposition suggest J.M.W ....
At Curator's: Jason Horowitz, The Abdominal Showman
Apr 25, 2008 ... You know those liposuction ads weighing down the back pages ofthis paper's Sunday magazine? Picture the "before" image as a finecolor print stretching five feet wide and you've got a good idea ofJason Horowitz's work. The suite of photographs at Curator's Officeposits human flesh as ...
Christine Gray's Household Helpers
Apr 25, 2008 ... Whimsical and self-conscious in equal measure, Christine Gray'spaintings depict models she makes from seemingly random domesticmiscellany (thread, rabbits' feet, toothpicks). Like Ian Whitmore athis quirkiest, Gray's tableaux seduce us with a convincing illusiononly to throw our eye ...
At Prada, Mindy Weisel Saves the Best for Glass
Apr 25, 2008 ... What's special about Mindy Weisel's solo show in Georgetown isn'ther big, gestural abstractions, here rendered in cool blue inflectedwith pink and purple (she's been manufacturing such pictures,dependably, for decades). Instead, attention should be paid to thetiny upstairs room where ...
Fake Beard, Genuine Article
Apr 25, 2008 ... Lu Zhang, a 2004 grad of Maryland Institute College of Art, makesobsessive drawings where hair-thin ink lines squirm on white paperlike protozoa in a petri dish. This style, which looks like hangoverfrom high school bio, is an all too familiar conceit in today's artworld. Zhang should ...
The District
Apr 25, 2008 ... CONCERT The Beatdown 8 At Club Five tonight, Inner Loop Records'regular showcase of beatmaker/producers' talents takes to the DJbooth. The featured producer is Illmind, a New Jersey-basedbeatmaker working for G-Unit and Little Brother. Also on the bill:Choppy Chopp-E, Rico and others ....
The Prohibition Past: Drink It In
Apr 25, 2008 ... Washington, obviously, has a thriving night life, with bars,gastro-pubs and swanky lounges in just about every corner of thecity. It's hard to imagine that just over 75 years ago, it was dry asa bone (well, it was supposed to be, anyway) for a little more than 15 years ....
ON STAGE Kids in the Hall For ...
Apr 25, 2008 ... ON STAGE Kids in the Hall Forget YouTube. These Canadian comicshave been making weird sketch comedy for television since they wereyoung and awkward in the 1980s. And now? They are no longer young.And still awkward. But all five original members are on tour, andnext weekend they'll be at ...
Northern Virginia
Apr 25, 2008 ... ON STAGE "Dhol Bhaje" Dance fans will appreciate the thumpingdrum and vibrant colors of tonight's show at the Rosslyn Spectrum,where the rural dances of India are on display. The show, organizedby the Indian Dance Educators Association, will include folk danceto represent several regions ...
Maryland
Apr 25, 2008 ... THE SCENE Collectors for a Cause Pyramid Atlantic Art Center inSilver Spring hosts three days of art sales, wine tasting and talksabout the fine art of art collecting, beginning tonight with a bashaimed at singles. Collector Philippa Hughes of the Pink Line Projecttalks specifically ...