The Washington Post back issues from Saturday, May 17:
Bridge
May 17, 2008; ... "I'm giving up preempts," Cy the Cynic told me. "They're losers." "Preempts are effective," I protested. "They disrupt youropponents' bidding." "Mine bid with all the more determination," Cy grumbled, "andreach unlikely games. Then declarer plays as if he could see ...
Oil Efforts Are Best Possible, Saudis Say; Bush Unable to Win Concessions Likely to Lower Gasoline Prices
May 17, 2008; ... Saudi leaders told President Bush on Friday that they are doingall they can to increase oil production, gently turning aside thepresident's efforts to bring down prices more rapidly. After a meeting with Bush and his advisers Friday afternoon,Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi ...
The BSO, Awkward Now & Then; Beethoven Bookends For Ades New Work
May 17, 2008; ... Thomas Ades, 37, is one of the biggest stars in the contemporarymusic firmament. But you wouldn't necessarily know that if youattended his appearance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra onThursday night. This is nothing against Ades, and nothing againstthe BSO, which, under David ...
BUSINESS BRIEFING
May 17, 2008 ... AUTOMOTIVE A striking United Auto Workers local at a key General Motorsfactory ratified a new contract with the company and will resumeproduction on Monday. UAW Local 602 said on its Web site 73.5 percent of its membersvoted in favor of the new deal. It will end a strike that ...
The Prince's Hair: What A Great Part
May 17, 2008; ... Some of us in the Style section (well, one of us) would like tosay something about Prince Caspian's hair, as seen on the head of 26-year-old British actor Ben Barnes in "The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian," which opened yesterday, and can also be seen onmovie posters pasted up ...
Rescue Can Bring Quake Victims New Danger; Some Are Freed From Rubble Only to Suffer the Ravages of 'Crush Syndrome'
May 17, 2008; ... For people pinned in the wreckage after catastrophes such as thisweek's earthquake in China, a successful rescue often marks thebeginning, not the end, of the danger. Crushed and damaged muscle tissue can flood the bloodstream withtoxic substances capable of killing within a few ...
Japan Feeling Left Out as U.S. Talks to Pyongyang
May 17, 2008; ... As the Bush administration inches toward a deal to reward NorthKorea for retreating from its nuclear ambitions, the odd man out inthe negotiations is Japan, the closest ally of the United States inAsia. The Japanese government appears resigned to the possibility thatthe United ...
Excavators Battle Debris in China Amid Fears of Disease
May 17, 2008; ... Heavy earth-moving equipment on Friday rolled up to the rubble ofbuildings decimated by this week's massive earthquake and begandigging in earnest, as the race to find survivors shifted to a raceto control disease from thousands of decomposing bodies stilltrapped. With ...
Around the World
May 17, 2008 ... philippines At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined upand fatally shot in the head Friday in the worst bank robbery in thecountry's history, police said. Another employee was in criticalcondition at a hospital. Customers alerted authorities when the bank ...
Official Burma Storm Toll Jumps to 78,000
May 17, 2008; ... Torrential rain lashed victims of Cyclone Nargis on Friday asBurma's ruling junta said more than 130,000 people were confirmeddead or missing, putting the disaster on a par with a 1991 cyclonethat killed 143,000 in neighboring Bangladesh. In a shock update to the official death ...
A Century of Creating What's Hot and What Cools
May 17, 2008 ... Appliances invented by GE: 1907: Full line of heating and cooking devices 1910: Electric range 1925: Hermetically sealed domestic refrigerator 1927: Monitor top refrigerator, direct-drive dishwasher 1930: Room air conditioner 1935: Food waste ...
Cannes, Sweet And Sour; Sublime, Ridiculous Come Together at Cinema's Head Table
May 17, 2008; ... The world's most zuper-fabulous film festival began with anapocalyptic bummer of a movie about blind people -- being brutallydegraded -- and then quickly moved on to cartoon pandas andAngelina Jolie, who is heavy with twins. So it was sweet and sour. Angie? She positively ...
His Eyes Saw the Prize Early; Flip Schulke Framed Civil Rights Era's Glory Days, Horrors
May 17, 2008; ... During his long career as a photographer, Flip Schulke coveredwars, presidents, rocket launches and the great human drama of thecivil rights movement in the American South. But people always askedabout one picture in particular: Muhammad Ali standing underwater. How did he manage ...
Mosul Insurgents Are Offered Cash for Arms; Iraqi Officials Set 10- Day Amnesty Period
May 17, 2008; ... Iraqi officials on Friday gave insurgents in the northern city ofMosul a 10-day amnesty period to turn in weapons for cash payouts,the government's latest effort to regain control of the largestinsurgent stronghold in Iraq. The offer came nearly a week after the government launched ...
White Sox 4W: Dotel (2-2) L: ...
May 17, 2008 ... White Sox 4W: Dotel (2-2) L: FRodriguez (0-1) S: Jenks (8)Angels 3 ChicagoABRHBIBBSOAVGTotals35410462 -- OCabrerass400102.224Pierzynski c513100.315Quentin lf301020.294Dyerf502000.293Thome dh401110.204Konerko 1b511000.215Crede3b311010.271Swisher cf201020.211BAnderson ...
BELMONT STATION
May 17, 2008 ... 6900 Tasker Falls Elkridge, Md. 21075 866-527-8963 www.belmontstationapts.com APPLICATION FEE: $30 per applicant, $25 per additional occupant18 and older SECURITY DEPOSIT: $250 LEASE TERM: 12 months UTILITIES: Residents pay for ...
Activities, Attention to Detail Provide Staying Power At New Elkridge Complex
May 17, 2008; ... One beautiful spring weekend soon after Michael Dear moved intohis apartment at Belmont Station in Elkridge, he flung open thedoors to his balcony, powered up his new laptop computer and barelybudged until Monday morning. "I'm pretty much in love with the place," he said of his ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
May 17, 2008 ... BATTING C. Jones, Atl .418 YESTERDAY: 2-3 TODAY: vs. Harden 0 AB HOME RUNS Berkman, Hou 15 YESTERDAY: ...
Indians' Fausto Carmona VS. Reds' Aaron Harang
May 17, 2008 ... vs. Reds (career) BatterABHHRBBSOOBPSLGAVGScott Hatteberg110001.0001.0001.000KenGriffey Jr.110001.0002.0001.000Corey Patterson104000.400.400.400PaulBako61010.286.167.167David Ross10000.000.000.000AdamDunn20001.000.000.000Jerry Hairston Jr.30001.000.000.000 vs. Indians ...
QUOTABLE "Well, we're not as ...
May 17, 2008 ... "Well, we're not as far back as we were last year at this time." Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner, reflecting on his team's last-place standing in the AL East. New York rebounded to win 94 games last season. Indians: LHP Jeremy ...
ERA Volquez, Cin ... 1.12 ...
May 17, 2008 ... ERA Volquez, Cin 1.12 NEXT: Tomorrow vs. Cleveland WINS Webb, Ari. ...
Antonym Trouble
May 17, 2008 ... Shankar Vedantam needs to use a dictionary. "Approbation" meansapproval. Perhaps "opprobrium" is what he meant to apply to the stigma ofobesity in the otherwise interesting article about people'sunconscious associations ["The Candidate, the Preacher and theUnconscious Mind," ...
Lend Me Your Ears
May 17, 2008 ... Your employees display a deplorable lack of knowledge of basicRoman history and of Shakespeare's plays. Whoever wrote the caption to one of the pictures illustratingthe review of "Julius Caesar" [Style, May 9] called Caesar an"emperor" -- and the whole point of the play is that ...
The Truth Of 'Multiple Personalities'
May 17, 2008 ... Regarding the May 9 Style article "A Voice to Still All HisOthers": As a clinical psychologist, I want to clarify several pointsregarding dissociative identity disorder. Multiple personalitydisorder was renamed dissociative identity disorder (DID) in 1994when the Diagnostic and ...
Virginia Tax Math
May 17, 2008 ... The assertion in the headline on a May 9 Metro story aboutVirginia lawmakers considering transportation funding proposals -- "Poorest Would be Hurt by Tax Hikes" -- was misleading. Of coursethe poorest would be hurt by tax hikes. Everyone is hurt by taxhikes. The problem was ...
Military News With a Side of Opinion
May 17, 2008 ... Thank you for the six-sentence, May 13 news brief "Military MetGoals for April Recruiting." What great news that the Marines and the Army exceeded Aprilrecruiting goals by a combined 43 percent and that the Navy and AirForce met their goals. I think it is quite a statement that ...
Getting a Rebellion Wrong
May 17, 2008 ... Regarding a March 7 obituary, "George Kao; Writer-TranslatorHelped Readers in China, U.S. Share Cultures": I can only imagine what Mr. Kao would have thought of theobituary's reference to the United States (and other foreign powers)paying indemnity to China for loss of life and ...
When TV Goes Digital
May 17, 2008 ... The May 8 Business article "FCC to Test Transition to Digital TVin N.C." said: "Subscribers to cable and satellite services should not have todo anything to keep watching TV." My ...
Watch Where You Place the Ads and Stories
May 17, 2008 ... I understand that news must be reported and that ads help to paythe cost of running a newspaper, but there is technology to easilymove text around. On the May 9 front page was a story about the cyclone in Burma["We Have Nothing. How Do We Go On?"] and people there ...
Don't Forget the Other NIH Orchestra
May 17, 2008 ... Philip Rucker's otherwise engaging and well-researched articleabout the NIH Philharmonia ["High-Achieving MDs and PhDs FindHarmony in Orchestra," front page, May 10] unfortunately lacked akey phrase beneath his byline: "Part 1 of 2." Since its founding more than a decade ago, the ...
Care at the Immigrant Detention Centers
May 17, 2008 ... The May 11-14 front-page series "Careless Detention" implicitlyraised the question of what purpose is served by incarcerating some33,000 migrants and asylum seekers in the United States each day. The scapegoating of migrants and asylum seekers and thedeliberate fueling of fear by ...
An Unholy Union
May 17, 2008 ... Montgomery County Council member Valerie Ervin (D-Silver Spring)said that the county should not break union contracts "negotiated ingood faith" [Metro, May 16]. I found her comment very frustrating.These contracts are so out of line with current economicconditions because they ...
Unkept Promises in D.C.; Why can't the city improve care for those with disabilities?
May 17, 2008 ... "SERIOUS DEFICITS . . . very troubling . . . minimally acceptablestandards of care . . . very serious risk." That criticism by aspecial court monitor about the District's treatment of mentally andphysically disabled people in its care is depressingly familiar.Year in and out, decade ...
End FBI-ATF Rift, Senators Urge
May 17, 2008; ... Battles between the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives threaten national security and arereminiscent of the poor information-sharing that failed to detectthe Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, two U.S. senators said in aletter urging Attorney General Michael ...
Crises Cloud China's Olympic Mood as Quake Tests Party's Mettle
May 17, 2008; ... Eight is an auspicious number in Chinese tradition, and 2008 wassupposed to be a joyful year, a time for celebrating at the BeijingOlympics and basking in international recognition of the country'stremendous progress under the careful leadership of the CommunistParty. It has not ...
Montgomery Gets 46 Months For Role in Bank Fraud Scheme
May 17, 2008 ... Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery was sentenced to 46 monthsin prison yesterday for his part in a multimillion-dollar fake-check scheme. The former track star, 33, hung his head as U.S. District JudgeKenneth Karas imposed the sentence in White Plains, N.Y. Montgomery ...
Byrd Takes 66 Route to the AT&T Lead
May 17, 2008 ... Jonathan Byrd took advantage of soft fairways and receptivegreens at TPC Sugarloaf yesterday and shot his way to a secondstraight 6-under-par 66 and a three-stroke lead at the AT&T Classicin Duluth, Ga. Byrd, seeking his fourth PGA Tour victory, shared the lead withKenny Perry, ...
Switching Fields, Virginia's M. Kelly Still Stands Out; Star Running Back In High School Had Considered Football in Big Ten
May 17, 2008; ... When Virginia defenseman Matt Kelly was in high school, hefigured he had as good a chance to play Big Ten football as ACClacrosse, and when he first took to a lacrosse field, he was wearingan outdated panel helmet. "It was my older brother's equipment from eight years ...
NCAA Men's Lacrosse Quarterfi ...
May 17, 2008 ... MARYLAND Leaders: A Grant Catalino, Fr. (27 goals); MF Jeff Reynolds, Jr.(18 goals). Under the Microscope: A Travis Reed. He had three goals and twoassists in a 13-7 win over Virginia on March 29. Virginia defendedhim with a shortstick that day. In Virginia's 11-8 win in the ...
Behind James, Cavs Are Still Alive; Star Nets 32 Points As Series Goes Back To Boston Tied at 3
May 17, 2008 ... Cavaliers 74, Celtics 69 The Cleveland Cavaliers packed for a weekend stay in Beantown --not a few weeks on Cape Cod. They've got at least one more game left, and in the NBA, it's asbig as they get. Game 7. On Sunday. In Boston. LeBron James scored 32 points ...
Post Writers Win Gerald Ford Reporting Prizes
May 17, 2008; ... Two Washington Post reporters won the 2007 Gerald R. Ford Prizesfor Distinguished Reporting, one for coverage of the presidency andthe other for coverage of national defense, it was announcedyesterday. White House correspondent Peter Baker, who has since left thenewspaper, won ...
A Horse-Drawn Life at Pimlico; For Stable Hands, the Backstretch Can Be a Meager but Happy Home
May 17, 2008; ... Darryl Scott is every inch a city guy, born and raised in theneighborhoods around Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. But there is adifference between Scott and the fellows he hangs out with at thetakeout joints and liquor stores along Park Heights Avenue, justoutside the track's main gate: ...
Sell the Stock; Financial conflicts are hobbling the Supreme Court.
May 17, 2008 ... THE SUPREME Court found itself paralyzed this week, unable todecide whether to take up an important class-action case againstcompanies that allegedly aided and abetted South Africa's apartheidregime. The result is unfortunate, leaving in place a flawed lower-court decision that allows ...
Detention Deficit; Immigrant detainees suffer and die from poor care in a system where many shouldn't be in the first place.
May 17, 2008 ... A34-YEAR-OLD man being held in a U.S. facility for foreigndetainees dies of heart failure after employees wait more than 40minutes after his collapse to provide medical help. A permanentlegal resident facing deportation because of a 10-year-oldconviction for buying stolen jewelry is ...
CORRECTIONS
May 17, 2008 ... A listing in the May 16 Weekend section incorrectly said that aprogram at the Arlington Planetarium is for ages 7 and older."Larry, Cat in Space" is for ages 2 and older. Also, admission is$3, not $2.50. For seniors and children 12 and younger, it is $2,not $1.50. The Working ...
More Campaign Staffers Out Because of New Ethics Policy [Correction 5/28/08]
May 17, 2008; ... The campaign of Sen. John McCain continued to dismiss staffmembers this week for violating its new ethics policy, as Democratsratcheted up pressure on McCain advisers for their lobbyingbackgrounds. McCain dismissed two staff members Thursday after unveiling thepolicy, which ...
War Crimes Trial on Hold Pe ...
May 17, 2008 ... SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A military judge wants to hear fromthe Supreme Court before starting the first war crimes tribunal atthe prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The judge hearing the case against Osama bin Laden's allegedformer driver ruled Friday that the trial should be ...
Today's Horoscope
May 17, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). You strike a delicate balance bystaying within your own boundaries. You enjoy the eccentricities ofothers without allowing those same qualities to disrupt your planstoo much. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You need care. You can and shouldpamper yourself ...
Week 765: It's Doo-Dah Day
May 17, 2008 ... Some of the loveliest melodies in American music were written byStephen Foster, the biggest-deal songwriter of the 19th century.Unfortunately, Foster's lyrics don't tend to be quite so lovely tomost American ears, since many were written for pre-Civil Warminstrel shows, to be sung by ...
Contested Nominee To FEC Drops Out
May 17, 2008; ... A controversial Bush administration nominee to the FederalElection Commission withdrew from consideration yesterday, providinga likely breakthrough to an impasse that has sidelined the politicalwatchdog agency at the height of the primary season. Hans von Spakovsky, a former ...
Werth Has 3 Homers, Eight RBI for Phillies
May 17, 2008 ... Phillies 10, Blue Jays 3 Jayson Werth homered in his first three at-bats and tied aPhiladelphia Phillies record with eight RBI in a 10-3 win over theToronto Blue Jays on Friday night. With a chance to tie the major league record of four home runs ina game, Werth fouled out ...
'El Nino's' Transcendent Genre
May 17, 2008; ... John Adams likes to refer to traditional forms. "A FloweringTree," for instance, his 2006 opera-oratorio, was his riff onMozart's "Magic Flute." Then there's "El Nino," the sprawling choral work that the ChoralArts Society is performing tomorrow night, which is his homage ...
Indians to Close Out Games With Best of Four
May 17, 2008 ... Rafael Betancourt has lost his job as interim closer for theIndians, who plan to use several relievers at the end of games untilJoe Borowski returns from an arm injury. Manager Eric Wedge made the decision yesterday, a day afterBetancourt had to be replaced in the ninth inning of a ...
SAVES F. Rodriguez, LA ... ...
May 17, 2008 ... SAVES F. Rodriguez, LA 16 NEXT: Today vs. L.A. Dodgers INNINGS ...
ON STAGE "The Mystery of Irma ...
May 17, 2008 ... ON STAGE "The Mystery of Irma Vep" Arena Stage's next productionat its Crystal City location is the Charles Ludlam camp comedy,which features two characters, both men, portraying everything fromnewlywed Lady Enid to werewolves and vampires (the quick changesare part of the conceit) as ...
Bryant Leads Lakers Into Western Finals
May 17, 2008 ... Lakers 108, Jazz 105 Kobe Bryant scored 34 points and the Los Angeles Lakers held offa furious rally by Utah in a 108-105 win on Friday, putting theLakers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in fouryears. The Jazz trailed by 19 at halftime and 16 at the end of ...
Graduate Knows All About Carrying a Full Load
May 17, 2008; ... There is no easy explanation for how Sylvia Spady-Viney managedto get her master's degree Friday from the University of Maryland'sschool of social work. She's 58, a full-time Prince George's County social worker, full-time mother to two of her grandchildren -- one of whom ...
Stand-Up With Special Sauce
May 17, 2008 ... To say that comedian Vijai Nathan received some seriously mixedmessages growing up Indian American in 1980s Montgomery County is anunderstatement. Her parents, immigrants from South India, observed auspiciousdays. Encouraged her to keep her flowing black hair long. They ...
Maryland
May 17, 2008 ... THE SCENE The Food & Wine Festival at National Harbor Yes, thenew development is already home to a festival; this one, whichbegins today, features talks by chefs such as Citronelle's MichelRichard, a campfire cook-off and even a one-woman show about JuliaChild, and a theme of local food ...
The District
May 17, 2008 ... FESTIVALS The Barracks Row Dine-Around This event on EighthStreet SE in Capitol Hill features restaurants from the area eachoffering a drink, appetizer, entree or dessert for guests, who areencouraged to flit from one restaurant to another -- like aprogressive dinner party. This time, ...
Adapted from a recent online ...
May 17, 2008; ... Adapted from a recent online discussion: Carolyn: My parents are here to meet their first grandbaby. We just moved(to a house with no guest room), so things are chaotic, but we'reglad to have the little guy meet his Grammy and Gramps. They'restaying in what will be the kid's ...
Northern Virginia
May 17, 2008 ... FESTIVALS Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival Last week Bethesdaheld its annual street festival, and this weekend Reston followswith this 17th annual fair, featuring 200 artists and crafters(among them jewelers, sculptors, painters and textile artists) andlive music both days. The event ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
May 17, 2008 ... U.S. DISTRICT COURT Two women, including a former D.C. schools employee, werearrested on charges that they used identification information about65 schools workers and job applicants to open fraudulent creditaccounts in their names, prosecutors said. Rashelle Henderson, 22, of ...
Looking to Create a Culinary Destination; Food and Wine Festival Brings In Top Chefs, Gourmet Fare
May 17, 2008; ... Looking to expand your taste buds? Try some chocolate grapes byrenowned chef Michel Richard or some whole-grain bread from KingArthur Flour in Vermont. Then wash it down with an oak-aged cabernetor crisp chardonnay from Maryland's own Boordy Vineyard or selectedorganic wines from ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
May 17, 2008 ... RBI Hamilton, Tex 44 YESTERDAY: 5-5 TODAY: vs. Oswalt 0-6, 0 RBI SLUGGING PCT. Youkilis, Bos ...