The Washington Post back issues from Friday, May 30:
FRANCE Former EADS Chief Faci ...
May 30, 2008 ... FRANCE French judges filed preliminary insider trading charges againstNoel Forgeard, right, a former co-chief executive of Airbus parentEADS, his lawyer said. The investigating judges ordered Forgeardfreed after two days in the custody of financial police pending ...
A Big Problem Solved?; A new study on childhood obesity is no reason to trim back efforts to slim down children.
May 30, 2008 ... REJOICE IN the new report from the National Center for HealthStatistics that suggests that childhood obesity rates may haveplateaued. But rejoice for only a moment. As David S. Ludwig ofChildren's Hospital Boston wrote in a commentary released with thereport, "We're not out of the woods ...
Is That a Scarf Or Terror Symbol? Ray Ad Yanked
May 30, 2008; ... Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuringRachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarfthat the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support forMuslim extremism and terrorism. Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle ...
Brake-Light Weekend Ahead on The Wilson
May 30, 2008; ... If your travel plans will take you anywhere near the WoodrowWilson Bridge this weekend, you might want to rethink them.Officials are predicting massive delays as traffic heading fromMaryland into Virginia is shifted onto the new second span of thebridge. The work is scheduled to ...
Campaign Jousting Returns to Iraq War; McCain, Obama Trade Attacks
May 30, 2008; ... After a strong push from Sen. John McCain's allies, the war inIraq has moved back to center stage in the presidential election,with McCain attacking Sen. Barack Obama for making up his mind aboutthe war without visiting the war zone and Obama charging that McCainhas yet to learn the ...
ECONOMY GDP Up Slightly in Fi ...
May 30, 2008 ... ECONOMY The Commerce Department said the economy logged an 0.9 percentincrease in the gross domestic product in the first quarter, spurredby improved sales of U.S. products overseas. The growth was 0.3percentage point higher than both the initial first-quarter estimateand the ...
Reid, Pelosi See End to Party Race
May 30, 2008; ... Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid and House Speaker NancyPelosi both predicted a swift end to the Democratic presidentialcampaign once South Dakotans and Montanans cast the last ballots ofthe marathon primary season on Tuesday, saying there is littlesupport among party leaders for a ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
May 30, 2008 ... BATTING Matsui, NY .330 YESTERDAY: Off TODAY: vs. Bonser, 0-3 HOME RUNS Quentin, Chi ...
OPM Halts Work on Retirement Calculator
May 30, 2008; ... The Office of Personnel Management sent a "stop work" letter tothe contractor developing a software system to calculate retirementbenefits for federal employees, officials said yesterday. The contractor, Hewitt Associates, was given 10 days to propose aremedy for flaws and defects ...
FIFA Lifts Ban on Iraq After Country Reinstates Ruling Body
May 30, 2008 ... Soccer's governing body yesterday lifted its international ban onIraq to keep alive the World Cup qualifying hopes of a team thatrepresents a rare symbol of national unity amid war and sectarianrivalries. Iraq was suspended by FIFA, the sport's overseers, on Tuesdayafter Iraq's ...
Neal Potter; A politician who personified the Montgomery County tradition of thoughtful, open governance
May 30, 2008 ... GOVERNMENT has the ability to do great good. Sometimes, though,it has terrible potential to hurt individuals. Montgomery County'sNeal Potter knew that firsthand, so he spent a lifetime bringing kindness and smartness to Montgomery government. In fact, it couldbe argued that the very soul ...
Let Them Eat Frogs; Burma's junta is willing to let its people starve while relief waits just offshore.
May 30, 2008 ... "THE SEARCH for food begins just after dawn," the Los AngelesTimes reported Tuesday from a small, devastated village in Burma."Each day, men, women and children fan out into paddies flooded byseawater, littered with corpses. Like prospectors working claims,they scoop up the muck in their ...
Suicides in Army Set Record in '07
May 30, 2008 ... U.S. Army personnel committed suicide at the highest rate onrecord in 2007, and the trend is continuing this year as long wardeployments stretch on. At least 115 soldiers killed themselves last year, up from 102the previous year, the Army said yesterday. Nearly a third of ...
CASINO DRIVE; Born in Kentucky but trained in Japan, the horse who might be the best bet to knock off Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes is . . .
May 30, 2008; ... Perched on a white loveseat in his semi-celestial penthouseoffice in central Tokyo, the Japanese slot machine mogul turnedhorseman is happy. "I really enjoy every day of my life right now," said HidetoshiYamamoto, who began buying thoroughbreds just four years ago. The horse ...
Blue Jays Follow Litsch's Lead; Pitcher Wins Fifth Straight Decision as Offense Scores a Season High
May 30, 2008; ... Blue Jays 12, Athletics 0 Jesse Litsch held down Oakland's offense just as he did in ashutout of Kansas City in his previous start. The Blue Jays scoredmore than enough runs for him for a change, too. Litsch won his fifth straight decision and extended his scorelessstreak to ...
A Mall Party for Israel's 60th
May 30, 2008 ... Sometimes, Regina Spektor's body rejects the way she makes herliving. The Russian American musician is prone to pre-concertstomachaches that can strike when she's about to play for 50 peopleor 5,000. Fortunately, the intensity of the jitters does notcorrespond to the size of ...
The District
May 30, 2008 ... CLOSING "A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters From the Archives ofAmerican Art" This small show features 40 alternately loving,lovelorn and amusing letters and tokens, as well as photos fromartists including Frida Kahlo and Rockwell Kent. (Kahlo, you'll wantto know, signed hers -- not to ...
Maryland
May 30, 2008 ... FILM "Pulp Fiction" Quentin Tarantino's slick and stylish moviewas brilliant the first time -- a revelation, even. And it wasgood the second time, too. Then, the onslaught: It was played andreplayed and copied so frequently by other filmmakers that its verypresence on late-night cable ...
Today's Horoscope
May 30, 2008; ... ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your general well-being is linked toyour attitude about your body. It's funny how one little thing -- abad hair day or a number on the scale -- can tip your thinking in acertain direction. Ease up on yourself. You're human. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You ...
Chuckas Tapped to Run Laurel Park and Pimlico
May 30, 2008 ... The Maryland Jockey Club yesterday made official the hiring ofTom Chuckas, who headed Fort Washington harness track RosecroftRaceway for 11 years, as president and chief executive in charge ofLaurel Park and Pimlico. Frank Stronach, chairman of Magna Entertainment, which owns ...
Around the World
May 30, 2008 ... PANAMA Chile's national police chief and five other Chileans were killedThursday when their Panamanian government helicopter crashed into athree-story building in Panama City. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet rushed back to Santiago fromnorthern Chile when she learned of ...
Bridge
May 30, 2008; ... I'm no economist, but I know everything costs more nowadays:health care, gas and golf balls. Maybe the only thing that doesn'tis free advice at the bridge table. West shifted to the king of clubs at the second trick, and Southtook the ace and led the queen of trumps and a trump to ...
Around the Nation
May 30, 2008 ... NEW YORK -- The United Nations and its host city, noted forperiodic quarrels over diplomatic deadbeats and parking scofflaws,are involved in another domestic spat -- this time over $6 millionin rent the city wants for unbuilt office and residential space nearU.N ....
GAMES PITCHED Ayala, Wash .. ...
May 30, 2008 ... GAMES PITCHED Ayala, Wash 31 NEXT: Today at Diamondbacks WINS Webb, Ari. ...
Contract With GOP Consultant's Firm Under Review for $1 Million in Spending
May 30, 2008; ... Maryland officials said yesterday that they are reviewing morethan $1 million in expenditures related to a consulting contractwith a firm headed by Alan B. Fabian, a well-connected Republicanbusinessman who pleaded guilty this month to a multiyear fraudscheme involving other ...
SOMETHING'S BREWING A Japan ...
May 30, 2008 ... A Japanese brewery will produce 100 bottles of beer from barleydescended from seeds that spent five months aboard the internationalspace station. Sapporo Breweries, which doesn't plan to sell theinitial ...
Tigers Hope to Measure Up; Wilson Dominates the DCIAA, but Stiffer Challenges Beckon From Elsewhere
May 30, 2008; ... Faced with playing two league tournament games this week leadingup to tomorrow's inaugural Congressional Bank D.C. Baseball Classic,Wilson Coach Eddie Saah needed little time to figure out hispitching rotation. No. 1 pitcher David Perez would not throw ineither the D.C. Interscholastic ...
Inspiration in the Ordinary; Vienna Artist Transforms Mundane Objects Into Elaborate Creations
May 30, 2008; ... Yuriko Yamaguchi was walking along her cul-de-sac near TysonsCorner and picked up an acorn. Then she grabbed another. She took hundreds of them home, spilled them out and took apicture. She stuffed them into plastic newspaper bags, put them in acloset and forgot about them ....
The Dotted Line
May 30, 2008 ... Rutgers has given men's basketball coach Fred Hill a two-yearcontract extension through the 2012-13 season, but he will notreceive a ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
May 30, 2008 ... BATTING C. Jones, Atl .418 YESTERDAY: 2-4 TODAY: vs. Volquez 1-2, 1 walk HOME RUNS Utley, Phil ...
Iraq War Deaths Total number ...
May 30, 2008 ... Total number of U.S. military deaths and names of the U.S. troopskilled recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon: 4,086 Fatalities In hostile actions: 3,330 In non-hostile ...
Congressional Bank D.C. Bas ...
May 30, 2008 ... BATTING ORDERS 1.CSam Mulroy Sr.2.3BBrian Pourciau Jr.3.CFLiam DuffySr.4.RFWillis Bradwell Sr.5.DHJack Schneider Sr.6.2BAlex KorobkinJr.7.1BJoe Powden So.8.LFTom Abernethy So.9.SSSantiago SueiroSr.PWalter Albee Jr. Coach: Antoine Williams 1.SS Matt Bowman Jr.2.C Andy Thomas ...
DynCorp International Inc.Tick ...
May 30, 2008 ... DynCorp International Inc.Ticker: DCP Headquarters: FallsChurchFourth QuarterYear to DateFiscal year20082007% ...
QUOTABLE "Too many babies in ...
May 30, 2008 ... "Too many babies in here. They don't know how to play the gameand how to win games." The Royals' Jose Guillen, minus the profanities, blasting histeammates after they squandered a five-run lead and lost their 10thin a row Wednesday. Kansas City then lost its 11th straight ...
Fluid Fortunes; In Market Upheaval, T. Rowe Price Plugs Away for Gains While Legg Mason Swings and Misses With Its First Loss Ever
May 30, 2008; ... The headquarters of two leading asset management firms, LeggMason and T. Rowe Price, stand a block apart on Baltimore's InnerHarbor, but more than a city street divides them. In the most recent quarter, T. Rowe's earnings rose 6 percent asinvestors, undeterred by falling markets ...
19,000 Workers Take GM's Offers
May 30, 2008; ... General Motors said Thursday that a quarter of its U.S. hourlyworkers will take the company's latest buyout and early retirementoffers, opening the door for new hires who will make less money. The automaker said Thursday that 19,000 workers had agreed totake the buyout offers and ...
'The Fall,' A Plunge Into A Deep Well Of Imagining
May 30, 2008; ... Think of "The Fall" as a film snob's "Indiana Jones." A rapturousvalentine to cinema's roots, this visually dazzling evocation ofmatinee heroes and mythmaking fancy by turns plays with Hollywood'smost cherished conventions and worships art for art's sake. It's aweird and often wonderful ...
Rays Closer Percival Heads to 15-Day DL
May 30, 2008 ... Tampa Bay closer Troy Percival was placed on the 15-day disabledlist with a left hamstring strain, and the Rays filled the rosteropening by activating IF Willy Aybar yesterday. Percival, 1-0 with 14 saves in 16 chances and a 2.95 ERA, limpedoff the mound during the ninth inning of ...
French Open
May 30, 2008 ... Where: Roland Garros, Paris. TV: Tennis Channel, 5 a.m.-3 p.m.; ESPN2, 3-6:30 p.m. Yesterday's Key Results: Men -- Roger Federer (1) Switzerland, def. Albert Montanes,Spain, 6-7 (7-5), 6-1, 6-0, 6-4; Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def.Nicolas Devilder, France, 6-4, 6-0, ...
How to Turn Today's Lonely Boy Into Tomorrow's Singular Man
May 30, 2008; ... Q.My sweet, shy, kind, well-behaved and focused kindergartner isalmost 6, reads better than a second grader and does complex math inhis head -- but he has no friends. He always had a best friend and other buddies at preschool andfitted in so well, but now he's the youngest (and ...
Pr. William Investigates Dale City Fire, Response
May 30, 2008; ... Prince William County authorities said yesterday that they areinvestigating a suspicious house fire in Dale City and looking intocomplaints that 911 calls went unanswered as residents watchedflames engulf the home a few blocks away from a fire station. No one was injured in ...
Teen Who Drove Drunk Gets 30 Days for Fatality
May 30, 2008; ... A 17-year-old Fairfax County girl who pleaded guilty in a drunken-driving crash that killed a Leesburg woman was sentenced yesterdayto 30 days in a juvenile detention center and ordered to do 500hours of community service. Loudoun County juvenile court Judge Pamela L. Brooks ...
Tale of the Tape
May 30, 2008 ... A look at the top two horses for next Saturday's Belmont Stakes: Casino DriveBig ...
N.Y. to Recognize Other Jurisdictions' Gay Marriages
May 30, 2008; ... Same-sex marriages legally performed elsewhere will be recognizedin New York state, according to the office of Gov. David A.Paterson. In response to a February state court ruling, the governor'soffice has directed all state agencies to revise their regulationsand policies to ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
May 30, 2008 ... TECHNOLOGY Barracuda Networks, a private computer security company based inCalifornia, said it offered to buy Sourcefire, a Columbia maker ofnetwork security products, for about $187 million in cash. The $7.50-a-share offer represents a 13 percent premium above ...
In the May 26 installm ...
May 30, 2008 ... In the May 26 installment of Faces of the Fallen, the date aboveStaff. Sgt. Keith M. Maupin was incorrect. Maupin was captured onApril 9, 2004, and was declared dead on March 29, 2008. The Washington Post is committed to correcting errors that appearin the newspaper. Those ...
ERA Lee, Clev ... 1.50 NE ...
May 30, 2008 ... ERA Lee, Clev 1.50 NEXT: Today at Royals WINS Matsuzaka, Bos ...
Federer, Nadal Start Slow but Win Big
May 30, 2008 ... Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal showed what they can do whenchallenged. The two highest-seeded men at the French Open had tougher-than-expected first sets Thursday, and both responded by reeling off gameafter game to move into the third round. Although Federer wasn't broken, ...
'The Slave Ship' Author Wins $50,000 GW Book Prize
May 30, 2008 ... University of Pittsburgh history professor Marcus Rediker lastnight was awarded the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize for hislook at the slave trade in "The Slave Ship: A Human History." The prize, given annually for the best book written about the eraof the Founding Fathers, is ...
A Novel Reason for Rapture
May 30, 2008; ... EXILES By Ron Hansen Farrar Straus Giroux. 227 pp. $23. Here is what happened when I began raving to some (very nice)friends about "Exiles," a new novel by Ron Hansen about how the 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came to write perhaps hismost ...
For Future White House Aides, Required Reading
May 30, 2008; ... The people who should sit down and read Scott McClellan'sblockbuster new book are the people least likely to take the time todo so right now. They are the aides to Barack Obama, John McCain andHillary Clinton -- and perhaps the candidates themselves. The Washington buzz over the ...
THE ORIOLES' UPCOMING SERIES; vs. Boston Red Sox
May 30, 2008 ... TimeOrioles PitchersRed Sox PitchersTonight7:05Daniel Cabrera (5-1, 3.70)Josh Beckett (5-4, 4.43)Tomorrow7:05Garrett Olson (4-1, 4.09)Jon Lester (3-3, 3.55)Sunday1:35Brian Burres (4-4, 4.15)Bartolo Colon (2-0, 2.25)Monday7:05Jeremy ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
May 30, 2008 ... ENVIRONMENT The cleanup of World War I chemical weapons buried under theSpring Valley neighborhood of Northwest Washington could last threemore years, as crews search for more shells and remove tainted soil,officials said yesterday. The Spring Valley cleanup began in 1993, ...
Deaf D.C. Residents Hit 8 Home Break-Ins
May 30, 2008; ... Deaf people have been victims in a rash of home break-ins nearGallaudet University in Northeast Washington, putting students onedge and prompting police to increase enforcement in the area. At least eight burglaries or attempted break-ins have beenreported in the past two weeks, ...
Bear Stearns Shareholders Approve Sale
May 30, 2008; ... J.P. Morgan Chase won approval of its purchase of Bear Stearnsyesterday, shuttering an 85-year-old firm whose collapse ranks alongwith Drexel Burnham Lambert as one of the biggest in Wall Streethistory. Founded in 1923 by Joseph Bear and Robert Stearns at 100 Broadwayin New York, ...
Fenty's Fitness for Office; The Discipline That D.C. Mayor Brings to Cycling, Running Also Marks Politics, Some Say
May 30, 2008; ... It's a part of his routine that Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has triedto keep private from Washington. Many know that Fenty (D), a triathlete, likes to start hismornings with an early run three times a week. But what's littleknown are his twice-weekly midday cycling and swimming ...
FILM Silverdocs Returns More t ...
May 30, 2008 ... FILM Silverdocs Returns More than 100 films from 63 countries. Afew free films as well as a spate of ticketed events. A symposiumfeaturing Spike Lee. That's what the annual weeklong festival ofdocumentaries promises when it returns to Silver Spring June 16-23.The best quality of the best ...
High Court in Texas Backs Sect's Parents
May 30, 2008; ... The Texas Supreme Court affirmed yesterday that state officialsshould not have seized scores of children from the ranch compound ofa polygamist sect, agreeing with an appellate court that the group'sbeliefs were not, by themselves, proof of abuse. The decision, issued yesterday ...
Northern Virginia
May 30, 2008 ... FILM "The Graduates" No, Mrs. Robinson doesn't make a cameo inthis film, a frathouse comedy created by two brothers from Columbia.This is a coming-of-age film, too, but it's about a band of crasshigh school seniors (and one pathetic 20-something chaperone)spending Senior Week in -- ...
Goggin Keeps Short Game Short, Leads Memorial
May 30, 2008 ... Jack Nicklaus always envisioned the Memorial as a northernversion of the Masters, from the superb course conditions to super-slick greens, from caddies wearing white coveralls to grounds soimmaculate that nary a cigarette butt is to be found. He got his wish yesterday, at least ...
Graham Is Convicted Of Lying to Investigators; Jury Reaches No Verdict on 2 Other Counts
May 30, 2008; ... Track coach Trevor Graham was convicted in federal court in SanFrancisco yesterday on one count of lying to agents in a federalsteroids probe, but a 12-person jury could not reach a verdict ontwo other counts, providing federal prosecutors with only a partialvictory. Jurors found ...
Hospital Has a New Name and Outlook; Southeast Facility's Turnaround Continues, Officials Say
May 30, 2008; ... In a moment of celebration yesterday, Greater Southeast CommunityHospital ceased to exist and United Medical Center was announced asthe new identity and hope of a facility that less than a year agoseemed on the verge of collapse. The name change, by owner Specialty Hospitals of ...
Trustee Had Family Tie To Incoming President [Correction 6/5/08]
May 30, 2008; ... The chairman of Howard University's Board of Trustees recusedhimself from voting on the school's new president during a recentlyconcluded search because the candidate had been his brother-in-lawdecades ago, school sources said. Faculty Senate President Theodore Bremner said his ...
Error Costs Virginia Tech In Debut at Women's CWS
May 30, 2008 ... Virginia Tech dropped its debut in the Women's College WorldSeries, 1-0, to Texas A&M yesterday in Oklahoma City. The only run came in the sixth inning, when Hokies third basemanCharisse Mariconda threw wildly to first on Megan Gibson's grounder,allowing pinch runner Andrea Tovar ...
Harman, 89, to Retire After Five Decades At Stereo Firm Helm
May 30, 2008; ... Sidney Harman said yesterday he will retire in July as chairmanof Harman International Industries, ending a five-decade tenure asthe head of the high-end sound equipment maker he founded here. "I have worked hard to ensure the constructive continuation ofthis company in both spirit ...