The Washington Post back issues from Monday, May 12:
Bridge
May 12, 2008; ... "Your honor," the District Attorney announced, "we will proveSouth committed a felony in that he failed at 3NT." "Proceed," said the judge. "South won the first spade in his hand," the DA related, "and leda diamond to dummy's queen. East won and returned a spade, and Westtook ...
Today's Horoscope
May 12, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). There are those who love to provokeyou -- they can't help themselves. You're so much fun when you'rebothered. Decide not to take offense or get ruffled and they'llstop. All they want is your attention anyhow. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The best help you ...
Pair Break Barriers for Charter Schools
May 12, 2008; ... They won a legal battle to force Maryland to increase publicfunding for charter schools more than 60 percent. They opened twocharter schools in Prince George's County and befriended thesuperintendent there even though the county had a reputation ashostile to the charter movement. They ...
ERA Lee, Clev ... 0.81 NE ...
May 12, 2008 ... ERA Lee, Clev 0.81 NEXT: Today vs. Blue Jays WINS Lee, Clev ...
Ramirez Makes a Cameo on His Night Off
May 12, 2008 ... Red Sox OF Manny Ramirez was originally given last night offagainst the Twins because of a sore right hamstring but was broughtin as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning of Boston's 9-8 loss toMinnesota. Boston Manager Terry Francona said he saw Ramirez come up alittle gimpy while ...
THE LINEUP; Slugging percentage as a designated hitter since 2000
May 12, 2008 ... A look at the best and worst in the league through Saturday(minimum 250 plate appearances): BEST PLAYER (Team)SLG%1Manny Ramirez (Red Sox).5892David Ortiz (RedSox).5763Travis Hafner (Indians).5584Hideki Matsui (Yankees).5455JimThome (White Sox).5366Frank Thomas ...
The Network's Report Card for Its Schools
May 12, 2008 ... Arlington County-based Imagine Schools, one of the country'slargest charter school networks, grades its schools each year on sixfactors: shared values, parent choice, academic achievement,positive character development, economic sustainability and newschool development. Here is how chief ...
Page Three : With Apologies to Art Linkletter
May 12, 2008 ... Readers share tales of their children in this occasional PageThree feature. My triplets, born in 1970, included a pair of identical twingirls, Paige and Tiercy, and a boy, Todd. From the time they wereold enough, they were very curious about their births, especiallysince their ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
May 12, 2008 ... BATTING C. Jones, Atl .400 YESTERDAY: ppd. TODAY: vs. Dumatrait, 1-2 HITS C. Jones, Atl 52 YESTERDAY: ...
GAMES PITCHED Ayala, Wash . ...
May 12, 2008 ... GAMES PITCHED Ayala, Wash 22 NEXT: Today at N.Y. Mets SAVES Isrnghausn, StL ...
Clinton Team Acknowledges $20 Million Debt; A Top Aide Denies Rumors That She Is Seeking VP Slot
May 12, 2008; ... With her campaign falling ever deeper into debt, Sen. HillaryRodham Clinton spent a rainy Mother's Day seeking votes ahead ofTuesday's primary here, turning a deaf ear to calls for her to leavea Democratic presidential contest she has little hope of winning. Clinton aides continued ...
Experience With Syria Exemplifies Challenge That Detection Presents
May 12, 2008; ... Syria went to extraordinary lengths to conceal its undeclaredconstruction of a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor from spies inthe sky and on the ground in recent years, according to a draftreport by independent nuclear experts briefed by Bush administrationofficials. The ...
SERBIA Winner Faces Challeng ...
May 12, 2008 ... SERBIA Serbia's pro-Western president, Boris Tadic, declared victory inSunday's parliamentary elections, fending off nationalists who triedto exploit anger over Kosovo's independence. But his rivals vowed tofight on, and it was unclear whether he could stave off ...
A Graceful Study in Contrasts
May 12, 2008 ... The upside of globalization was apparent Saturday night at DancePlace in Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company's deliciouslyvaried program. Opening the evening with a trio of traditional Indian dances, thecompany engaged the audience as it told ancient stories ...
Top 10 Films; Here are the top movie ticket sales Friday through Sunday, with estimated weekend receipts, and total receipts since the movie opened. The number of weeks opened is in parentheses.
May 12, 2008 ... WeekendTotalin millions of dollars1.Iron Man(2)$50.5$177.12.Speed Racer (1)$20.2$20.23.What Happens in Vegas(1)$20.0$20.04.Made of Honor (2)$7.6$26.35.Baby Mama(3)$5.8$40.46.Forgetting ...
The World
May 12, 2008 ... The British military will hold war games in August to testfuturistic weapons. Six finalists in a design competition got$600,000 each to build prototypes of their ideas. During theexercise, the machines will search for mock threats in a villagenear Stonehenge. Among the ...
Storied Paper Bets on a Daily Future in Colombia
May 12, 2008; ... El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper, has been bombed,torched and occupied by troops, and its most legendary editor,Guillermo Cano, was slain in a hail of gunfire. The paper publishedGabriel Garcia Marquez's first stories, long before he became aNobel Prize winner, and has printed ...
Disasters and Donations
May 12, 2008 ... Americans open their hearts and wallets after disasters, but thescale of the suffering is not the only thing that determines theirgenerosity. Several other factors, including their sense ofconnection to the events, determines how people respond to naturaldisasters such as the cyclone ...
The Hunger Paradox
May 12, 2008 ... About 35 million Americans regularly go hungry each year,according to federal statistics. Last year, a Harvard domesticpolicy expert who studies hunger issues calculated that it wouldcost about $12 billion annually in federal spending to eliminatehunger through additional funding for ...
Where the Conscience Meets the Checkbook; -
May 12, 2008; ... If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapelshad been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" A few decades ago, a cyclone similar to the one that ravagedBurma last week struck South Asia. As in the ...
Far From Home, in the Kitchen; Male Latino Workers Find Domestic Skills Are Survival Tools
May 12, 2008; ... Marco Antonio Rosales learned to cook the way many immigrant mendo: from a cellphone. Soon after arriving in the Washington areafive years ago, the young construction worker found himself on thehorn to a mountain town in western Guatemala, burning up calling-card minutes in pursuit of ...
Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared; Global Interest in Energy May Presage A New Arms Race [Correction 5/29/08]
May 12, 2008; ... At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Gulf region toLatin America have recently approached U.N. officials here to signalinterest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concernedproliferation experts say could provide the building blocks ofnuclear arsenals in some of ...
Once 'Small' and 'Skinny,' Aussie Comes Up Big at USA Diving Grand Prix
May 12, 2008; ... This man, at the top of a diving medal podium? An Australian freespirit who just two years ago up and quit -- for a year -- because he was sick of the sport? A former trampoline artist with asilver piercing in the middle of his tongue? A self-described non-athletic kid who grew up ...
Black Bear Fatally Hit by Car in Frederick County
May 12, 2008; ... A black bear was struck by a car and killed Saturday in FrederickCounty in an incident rare for the Washington region. The bear was killed about 8 p.m. on Route 340, a few miles southof Interstate 70, Maryland State Police Sgt. Wayne Wachsmuth said.Collisions with deer are common ...
N.J. Schools' Strict AP Rule Is for Students' Own Good
May 12, 2008 ... Editor's note: Here is an excerpt from today's online "ClassStruggle" by Jay Mathews. His weekly columns are posted atwww.washingtonpost.com/classstruggle. J. David Goodman's story in the New York Times last week aboutthe new Advanced Placement policy at two high schools in New ...
3 Die as Medical Copter Cra ...
May 12, 2008 ... MADISON, Wis. -- A medical helicopter dropped off a patient andthen crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight toMadison, killing the surgeon, the nurse and the pilot on board,officials said Sunday. The University of Wisconsin Hospital Med Flight crew went downabout ...
'Elektra': Vocal, Not Visual, Power Surges
May 12, 2008; ... Family rivalries are at the heart of "Elektra," both theSophocles drama and the Richard Strauss/Hugo von Hofmannsthal opera.But a new wrinkle in the familiar tale of revenge and matricide wasintroduced in the revival of the Washington National Opera's 1997production that returned to the ...
Crime Fiction's Familial Shadows
May 12, 2008; ... QUIVER By Peter Leonard Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur. 276 pp. $24.95 Life, as our leaders keep reminding us, is unfair, and that'strue in spades in the book review game. To start with, roughly azillion books are published for every one that is reviewed ....
'Antony': Kahn Gets to The Heart of It
May 12, 2008; ... At the news that her celebrated lover has deserted her foranother woman, the Cleopatra of Michael Kahn's pleasurably well-rounded "Antony and Cleopatra" goes into the kind of tailspin ofincredulity we have come to associate with telegenic desperatehousewives of the modern ...
Time Is Up for Restaurant Where It Long Stood Still
May 12, 2008; ... As she finished her shift at Johnson's Charcoal Beef House inLeesburg last week, waitress Violet Jewell was on the brink oftears. For more than 40 years, she has served up scrapple, country hamand porterhouse steaks that are, the menu promises, "tender as yourmother's love." ...
QUOTABLE "He only did it bec ...
May 12, 2008 ... "He only did it because he knew the game was going to be rainedout anyway." Yankees SS Derek Jeter, joking about Manager Joe Girardi'sdecision to bat Jeter cleanup in yesterday's Yankees-Tigers game,which was postponed Athletics: To open a roster spot for RHP Rich Harden, OF ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
May 12, 2008 ... ON-BASE PCT. Cust, Oak .433 Y'DAY: 1-2, 3 BB TODAY: Off day BATTING Martinez, Clev .346 YESTERDAY: ...
Agent Zeroes
May 12, 2008; ... Between watching every NBA playoff game on TV and watchingHillary Clinton contemplate using one of her replay challenges toobtain the Democratic presidential nomination, a curious baseballthought struck me the other day: Mariano Rivera might not give up a single run in ...
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE . . . to hit your 500th home run Nicknamed "The Big Hurt," Oakland Athletics slugger Frank Thomas joined elite company last season when he became the 21st member of baseball's 500- home-run club. Thomas's historic shot came when he was a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. He hit it against then-Minnesota Twins pitcher Carlos Silva on June 28.
May 12, 2008 ... It was a long week. I was stressed to hit that home run. It justseemed so hard trying to hit one ball out of the ballpark andputting so much emphasis on it. My family was following me aroundfrom city to city. That morning my daughter was like, 'Dad, you'vegot to hit it because we have an ...
Helping 9/11's Survivors; A local charity's intelligent response to trauma
May 12, 2008 ... THE SURVIVORS' Fund, the only charity established after Sept. 11,2001, specifically in response to the attack on the Pentagon, wasfar from the largest or best-known relief effort aimed at victimsand their loved ones. Measured by efficacy, however, it may havebeen unsurpassed. The ...
Car and Driver; Plummeting auto sales teach a lesson in the value of putting a price on carbon.
May 12, 2008 ... THE DISMAL April car sales data out of Detroit illustrated animportant lesson about what it will take to reduce U.S. consumptionof foreign oil and to cut greenhouse gas emissions. With the realitysinking in that high gas prices (already more than $4 per gallon insome places) are here to ...
Not an Emergency; Congress again uses a war funding bill to advance pet projects.
May 12, 2008 ... FIVE YEARS into paying for two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan,it's outrageous that so much of the financing continues to beapproved outside the normal budget process, through "emergency"spending bills that must be passed, must be passed in a hurry andtherefore must risk ending up as ...
Burma Faces 'Public Health Catastrophe,' Charity Says
May 12, 2008; ... An estimated 1.5 million Burmese are on the brink of a "massivepublic health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned Sunday,as survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of the devastatedIrrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food andother help. Burma is ...
The Toll of Eight Belles
May 12, 2008; ... If people concerned about the safety of thoroughbreds had theirway, the Preakness might be a race for 4-year-olds instead of 3-year-olds. It would be run on a synthetic surface instead of dirt.The jockeys would be forbidden to carry whips. These are among the many proposals put ...
The 133rd Preakness Stakes
May 12, 2008 ... When: Saturday, Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore ....
Chess
May 12, 2008; ... Last Monday, Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan, Wang Yue of China andMagnus Carlsen of Norway shared first place at the FIDE Grand Prixtournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. They scored 8 points in 13 games. At17, Carlsen was the youngest participant, but also the top-ratedplayer of the event. He ...
Holy Slumping Spring, Batsmen!
May 12, 2008; ... If the Nationals hit any worse, even the Rotunda is going to stopwatching. Every week, does the U.S. Capitol sneak a few blocksfarther from Nationals Park? After six weeks of impeachable offense, Manager Manny Acta issick of watching his putrid attack, too. But now there's ...
'Ark' Designed to Save Imperiled Amphibians; -
May 12, 2008; ... The 300 Kihansi spray toads residing in a small room at the BronxZoo chirp cheerily as they bask in a light sprinkling of water 14times a day. Until a few years ago, the tiny, mustard-colored toadsexisted only in a river gorge in Tanzania. Now the survivors areconfined to the Bronx and ...
LOCAL GOLF
May 12, 2008 ... Ladies A-Team Matches Argyle 91/2, Baltimore CC 21/2 Westwood -- In the ...
On the Next Tee
May 12, 2008 ... Event: AT&T Classic. When: Thursday-Sunday. Course: TPC Sugarloaf (7,293 yards, par 72), Duluth, Ga. Purse: $5.5 million (winner's share $990,000). TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.); WUSA-9, WJZ-13 (Saturday-Sunday, 3 ...
Adapted from a recent online ...
May 12, 2008; ... Adapted from a recent online discussion: Carolyn: For what reasons does bringing home a baby "undo" a couple? Anysigns to look for or things to keep in mind so you and partner don'tget "undone"? Babyville When two adults are together, they can maneuver ...
In Custody, in Pain; Her Health Problems Worsening as She Fights Deportation, A U.S. Resident Struggles to Get the Medical Care She Needs
May 12, 2008; ... Underneath her baggy jail-issue pants, Yong Sun Harvill feels thesoft lump just below her left knee. Sometimes it tingles. Sometimesit is numb. Like her cancer felt when it arrived behind the knee afew years ago. She noticed the lump under the thin, blue cotton in August, ...
Yong Sun Harvill's journal, Pinal County Jail; Yong Sun Harvill's journal, continued
May 12, 2008 ... Using the five pieces of paper she can get per week, and askingother detainees to write when her hands are too stiff, Harvilldescribes frustration with her care. In the document below, from June 2007, ICE denied her attorneys' requests for humanitarianparole by writing that DIHS is "able ...
Report: Mayo Accepted Money While at USC
May 12, 2008 ... A former associate of USC freshman guard O.J. Mayo claims thebasketball star received thousands of dollars in cash and othergifts from an event promoter over the past four years that wouldviolate NCAA rules, ESPN reported Sunday. Louis Johnson told ESPN's "Outside the Lines," that ...
Delicate Deal Helps Decrease Violence in Baghdad's Sadr City Enclave [Correction 5/20/08]
May 12, 2008; ... Violence in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City subsided Sunday as adeal took hold to end fighting between Shiite militiamen and U.S.and Iraqi forces. But U.S. military officials and militia commanderssaid that a truce had not yet been reached, underscoring thefragility of the ...
No. 1 Saints Will Face No. 3 Cubs In Title Game
May 12, 2008 ... Senior Cassie Pyle scored five goals and assisted on another, andjunior Kelly Austin also scored five times to lead No. 1 St.Stephen's/St. Agnes to a 16-3 victory over Holton-Arms in an ISL-AAsemifinal at Bullis yesterday. The Saints (22-0) will play No. 3 Georgetown Visitation in ...
Utah's Defense Keys Overtime Triumph
May 12, 2008 ... Jazz 123, Lakers 115 The Utah Jazz had plenty of chances to crumble and nearly did. They let a 12-point slip away in the last four minutes and facedovertime against league MVP Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.Instead of wilting, Utah played its toughest defense of the ...
Kanye West: Out of This World; At Nissan, the Rapper Lives Up to His Sci-Fi Self-Homage
May 12, 2008; ... The ego has landed! "You're the brightest star in the universe," a disembodied,digitized voice told Kanye West when the rap star's sci-fi-themedconcert tour touched down Saturday at Nissan Pavilion. Standing on a stage designed to look like an astral landscape --all crags, ...
The Calder Game
May 12, 2008 ... The Calder Game By Blue Balliett For ages 9-12Fans of Blue Balliett's earlier art-world mysteries -- "Chasing Vermeer" and "The Wright 3" -- will be delighted toknow she's back. This time it's with a mystery set on the grounds ofBlenheim Palace near Oxford, ...
Who Is Alexander Calder?
May 12, 2008 ... Alexander Calder (1898-1976), the son of an artist and a painter,not surprisingly was a multimedia artist. In addition to sculpture,he painted, made toys and ...
How Defense Research Is Making Troops More Effective in Wartime
May 12, 2008; ... When Army patrol leaders in Iraq prepare to go out on missions inBaghdad, their last stop at headquarters is a computerized map onwhich they outline the area where they will operate. Then they watchas icons emerge, showing, in grim detail, the lurking dangers. By clicking on those, ...
Education-Benefits Plan Could Face Math Test [Correction 5/20/08]
May 12, 2008; ... Three months after President Bush raised the idea of allowingU.S. troops to transfer education benefits to relatives, the WhiteHouse has finally sent a formal proposal to Capitol Hill. Whether it has a chance of passing is another matter. Bush drew big applause during his State ...
Rabil's 4 Goals Lead Johns Hopkins to 1st-Round Victory
May 12, 2008; ... -- Johns Hopkins senior midfielder Paul Rabil addressed the teamin its huddle following a 10-4 victory over Hofstra in an NCAAtournament first-round game before 2,291 at Homewood Field onSunday. "We're one of eight teams left," he told his teammates. They advanced largely because ...
COLLEGE LACROSSE
May 12, 2008 ... Men Virginia 10, UMBC 9 Virginia 2 2 5 1-- 10 UMBC 2 3 2 2-- 9 GOALS -- V: Glading 4, Billings 3, Rubeor 2, Bratton, S.; UMBC:Latham 3, Hopmann 2, Wimer 2, Davis 2. ASSISTS -- V: Billings 2, Lamade 2, Glading, Rubeor; ...
Lebanese Groups Clash In Villages Near Capital
May 12, 2008; ... Clashes between government supporters and opponents erupted in amountainous area just south of the Lebanese capital Sunday, raisingconcerns about a further escalation of violence in the country. A tense calm fell over Beirut, where pro-government factionsdecided to stop fighting ....
A Winning Ballpark Outing
May 12, 2008 ... Although I have sympathy for Kirsten J. Morisi, the PrinceFrederick woman with disabilities who had such a bad experiencegetting to Nationals Park [letters, May 7], I must report the otherside of the coin: the totally positive experience my friend and Ihad April 30. In 20 minutes ...
The Threat Mr. Putin Sees
May 12, 2008 ... I didn't find Robert Kagan persuasive when he said that whatVladimir Putin, now Russian's prime minister, has to fear from NATOexpansion into Ukraine and Georgia is only democracy, not a militarythreat ["Ideology's Rude Return," op-ed, May 2]. Mr. Kagan echoedPresident Bush on the ...
Give Anne Arundel's Schools Chief an F
May 12, 2008 ... Kevin M. Maxwell, superintendent of the Anne Arundel PublicSchools, "doth protest too much" ["Proposed Budget Irks SchoolChief," Metro, May 2]. Despite the current economic realities facedby local governments, he submits an unrealistic plan to increase theschools budget by $100 million ...
Art and Its Effect
May 12, 2008 ... It is wrong for Chuck Lane to suggest that Aliza Schvarts'sprovocation reflects "standard fare in the humanities" atuniversities today ["The Art of Folly at Yale," op-ed, May 3]. Most courses offered at any institution remain oriented toward"canonical" texts with emphases on ...
Burma's Tragedy Is Everyone's Issue
May 12, 2008 ... Regarding the May 8 front- page story "Scant Aid Reaching Burma'sDelta": I am increasingly bewildered by international "frustration" withthe Burmese junta's not allowing relief workers to enter into thecountry. What is the balance between national sovereignty andinternational ...