The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, June 1:
Bolt, Out Of the Blue, Sets Record; Unheralded Jamaican Breaks 100- Meter Mark
Jun 01, 2008; ... -- Like a bolt out of nowhere, Usain Bolt is the world'sfastest man. The Jamaican runner, who doesn't even consider the 100 meters hisbest race, set the world record Saturday night with a time of 9.72seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix, two-hundredths of a second fasterthan the ...
Bush Talks to Graduates About Redemption
Jun 01, 2008; ... Delivering the final commencement address of his tenure,President Bush told supporters and protesters at Furman Universityhere Saturday that he was far from "a model citizen" when he leftcollege but that "it is never too late to recover and get back ontrack." In a lighthearted ...
High Schoolers' Taste of the Bigs
Jun 01, 2008; ... School Without Walls center fielder Brock Brown estimates thathis team played only eight games or so all season, not includingforfeits, and the times the Penguins did take the field, it was onmostly frayed diamonds around the city. His experience yesterday in the all-star game of ...
St. Albans Captures First D.C. Baseball Classic; Simons, Bowman Lead the Bulldogs Over Wilson to Finish Dream Season
Jun 01, 2008; ... It was the middle of the season when Sam Simons realized that hehad a lengthy hitting streak going, posting base hits in 36consecutive games. That streak came to an end in the regular seasonfinale, but Simons made sure the most important streak stayed intactfor top-ranked St ....
Oakton's LoRusso Seizes 1st Outdoor Championship
Jun 01, 2008; ... The official fired the starter's pistol on the "k" in "on yourmark," catching Joe LoRusso by surprise. Expecting a longer pausebetween the command and the start, he was rocking backward into hisstance at the line when the start of the race was signaled. But nothing at the Virginia ...
Fla., Mich. Delegates Each Get Half a Vote; Compromise Prompts Anger From Clinton Campaign
Jun 01, 2008; ... After hours of emotional testimony and sometimes contentiousdebate, Democratic Party officials agreed yesterday on a pair ofcompromises to seat Florida's and Michigan's delegations to theirnational convention. But a part of the deal drew an angry reactionand the threat of a subsequent ...
Basra's Wary Rebirth; Before, Religious Hard-Liners Enforced a Harsh Rule; Now, Freedoms Have Returned -- but for How Long?
Jun 01, 2008; ... Mohammed Zaki's black hair glistened with gel, his muscular bodybulged through his T-shirt, and on his chin, he sported a wisp ofgoatee. He held the hand of his girlfriend, Sabreen Jawad, whose cascade of hair was unfettered by an Islamic head scarf. The soundsof violins and saxophones ...
Amid Controversy, Tigers Shine; Brentsville Awarded Crucial Points After Timing Error in 800
Jun 01, 2008; ... When the Brentsville girls won the Virginia AA track and fieldchampionship Saturday at Harrisonburg High, the reaction to theschool's first track and field title of any kind could have beenmore upbeat. But it was difficult for the Tigers to react to the title withuninhibited joy ...
Wilson's Ba Claims His Fourth Straight DCIAA Title
Jun 01, 2008; ... Four years of dominance concluded quietly for Wilson seniorArnaud Ba. Before a small crowd yesterday at Takoma Recreation Center, Bablasted one last serve deep into the service box. Bell senior DentonBelmar's return soared over the baseline. With that, Ba became the first ...
Padres 7W: Baek (1-0) L: Sad ...
Jun 01, 2008 ... Padres 7W: Baek (1-0) L: Sadler (0-1)Giants 3 (13 INNINGS) San DiegoABRHBIBBSOAVGTotals45710779 -- Gerut cf612001.235Iguchi2b522010.261Giles rf422220.300AdGonzalez 1b412122.284Kouzmanoff3b600000.268Greene ss510113.214Barrett c500100.208McAnultylf201011.213Corey ...
Athletics 1W: Millwood (3-3) ...
Jun 01, 2008 ... Athletics 1W: Millwood (3-3) L: Duchscherer (4-4) S: C. Wilson (11)Rangers 3 OaklandABRHBIBBSOAVGTotals3317109 -- TBuck rf400002.145Crosbyss402000.264Cust dh400004.255ErChavez 3b401000.125EBrownlf400001.255Ellis 2b412001.234DBarton ...
Also Available
Jun 01, 2008 ... Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, by NatanSharansky (PublicAffairs, $26.95). Why a state founded on ethnicidentity is compatible with democracy. Golda, by Elinor Burkett (Harper, $27.95). A new biography aimsto reveal the woman behind the ...
Occupied Territory; Against all odds, a dedicated veterinarian maintains the only public zoo in Palestine.
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE ZOO ON THE ROAD TO NABLUS A Story of Survival from the West Bank By Amelia Thomas PublicAffairs. 293 pp. $24.95 There were no zoos on the WestBank when I was a teenager growing up in Ramallah in the late 1970sand early '80s. The only zoo I had ever visited was in ...
Washington Area Bestsellers
Jun 01, 2008 ... Paperback Fiction 1 THE HOLLOW (Jove, $7.99). By Nora Roberts The "Sign of Seven" trilogy proceeds apace with somethingsinister in a Maryland town.3 2 THE GOOD GUY (Bantam, $7.99) By Dean Koontz. A bar patron, mistaken for a hit man, decides towarn the intended ...
Mr. Law and Order; A biographer aims to restore the reputation of Nixon's attorney general.
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE STRONG MAN John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate By James Rosen Doubleday. 609 pp. $35 John Mitchell was Richard Nixon's attorneygeneral from 1969 to 1972 and campaign manager in both of Nixon'selections to the presidency. He was also the first chief ...
A Relative Stranger; An insane psychiatrist believes his wife has been replaced by an identical copy.
Jun 01, 2008 ... ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES By Rivka Galchen Farrar Straus Giroux. 240 pp. $24Rod Serling, strolling through agallery of distorted portraits, should introduce Rivka Galchen'sfirst novel. Atmospheric Disturbances takes place in the twilightzone of Leo Liebenstein's highly ...
A biography of the world's most famous sex manual.
Jun 01, 2008; ... THE BOOK OF LOVE The Story of the Kamasutra By James McConnachie Metropolitan. 267 pp. $27.50 Years ago, a bunch of us weresitting around drinking when I heard a friend murmur two sentences Ihave never forgotten. "You know, guys, sex is the greatest thing inthe ...
Angry Man; Nixon's America was a land of rebellion and reaction. [Correction 6/27/08]
Jun 01, 2008 ... NIXONLAND The Rise of a President and The Fracturing of America By Rick Perlstein Scribner. 881 pp. $37.50 There is so much literature aboutvarious aspects of Richard Nixon -- his foreign policy, hisdomestic policy, his rise to power, his time in power, his ...
Indiana Jane
Jun 01, 2008 ... THE KING'S GOLD An Old World Novel of Adventure By Yxta Maya Murray Harper. 406 pp. Paperback, $14.95 The King's Gold is the secondouting for Yxta Maya Murray's feisty Lola Sanchez, a Californiabookshop owner with an encyclopedic knowledge of South Americanhistory ...
Creation Myths; There Are Two Versions of Israel's Birth. Both Are Wrong.
Jun 01, 2008 ... 1948 A History of the First Arab-Israeli War By Benny Morris Yale Univ. 524 pp. $32.50 In a zero-sum world, one side's gainmust be exactly balanced by another's loss. In such a world,violence is inevitable, compromise is betrayal, neutral observersare enemies, and ...
A Miraculous Victory,; A controversial Israeli historian looks back at the 1948 war of independence.
Jun 01, 2008 ... 1948 A History of the First Arab-Israeli War By Benny Morris Yale Univ. 524 pp. $32.50 Both accounts contain elements oftruth. Neither one was constructed for the sake of veracity,however. Each was useful in mobilizing members of a particular tribeto sustain the ...
My friend Jason Shinder was 5 ...
Jun 01, 2008; ... My friend Jason Shinder was 52 when he succumbed to leukemia lastmonth. A poet, Jason also founded the Writer's Voice program at NewYork's West Side YMCA, which spread nationwide, furthering poetry'sfar-flung infiltrations. Jason's poem "One Day I Will Die" enjoinsus to hug each instant ...
After the Fall; What comfort can the game of cricket provide after the devastation of 9/11?
Jun 01, 2008 ... NETHERLAND By Joseph O'Neill Pantheon. 256 pp. $23.95 In Joseph O'Neill's third novel,Netherland, there are two great love objects: the city of New Yorkand the game of cricket. Hans van den Broek, the novel's Dutchnarrator, seeks solace in both the place and the sport ...
June 2-8, 2008
Jun 01, 2008 ... Noon. Jim Webb, current U.S. senator from Virginia, discusses hisnew book, A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America, atthe National Press Club, Holeman Lounge, 529 14th St. NW. RSVP at202-662-7129 or opus@press.org. 7 P.M. Novelist and Yale University law professor ...
America Under Attack; A chronicle of chaos and heroism at the Pentagon.
Jun 01, 2008 ... FIREFIGHT Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 By Patrick Creed and Rick Newman Ballantine. 486 pp. $27 It took only eight-tenths of a second forAmerican Airlines Flight 77 to strike the outer wall of thePentagon, penetrate the concentric E, D and C Rings, ...
Sex, drugs, a Greek mathematician and mastodons.
Jun 01, 2008; ... In keeping with her popular previous volumes Stiff and Spook,Bonk shows Mary Roach to be a meticulous researcher with a passionfor the details most likely to make you queasy. Roach travels to Seattle to watch researchers tracking blood flowto the clitoris of a woman studying porn ...
The Locavore's Dilemma.
Jun 01, 2008; ... It's trendy these days to be a locavore -- to know where yourfood comes from, and, ideally, to make sure the source isn't farfrom home. Writers like Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver havehelped make locavorism the latest thing, but back in 2005, two youngjournalists hatched an ...
Short Stack
Jun 01, 2008; ... For our blog -- Short Stack -- Book World editorial assistantMary Morris invited Jan Scruggs to pick his favorite books thathonor our vets. Scruggs is founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorialand president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund; he recentlywrote the foreword to "The ...
Rent-A-Spy; Three quarters of the U.S. intelligence budget now goes to outside contractors.
Jun 01, 2008 ... SPIES FOR HIRE The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing By Tim Shorrock Simon & Schuster. 439 pp. $27 Not long ago I had lunch with arecently retired senior CIA officer who worked himself into anexpletive-laced rage over private contractors who had taken up ...
Scott McClellan looks back on one of the most painful experiences of his life.
Jun 01, 2008; ... WHAT HAPPENED Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception By Scott McClellan PublicAffairs. 341 pp. $27.95 "I still like and admire George W.Bush," writes Scott McClellan, who served Bush for two years andnine months as White House press ...
Wayne Brady, Filling In the Blanks
Jun 01, 2008; ... Wayne Brady calls himself "a throwback to an earlier age, aperformer who's doing it all." This summer alone, he's recording a new CD of soul songs andcontemporary tunes scheduled for release in September; performinghis live variety show Thursdays through Mondays at the Venetian ...
An Abandoned Oasis Of American Comfort In Tiny Guinea-Bissau
Jun 01, 2008; ... Down a rutted road behind the Hotel Libya, past the aggressiveNigerian vendors selling cheap sneakers hanging from the branches ofa mango tree, I found the embassy of the United States of Americasitting empty as a heartache. The last American diplomats left this West African ...
Climate Bill Underlines Obstacles to Capping Greenhouse Gases
Jun 01, 2008; ... When the Senate takes up landmark climate legislation this week,its backers can be sure of just one thing: The obstacles they faceshow how hard it will be to enact a meaningful cap on greenhousegases -- probably under the next administration. The next administration, not this ...
Around the Nation
Jun 01, 2008 ... NEW YORK -- Buildings officials gathered for an emergencysafety summit Saturday as dozens of workers dismantled the remainsof a towering construction crane that collapsed and killed twopeople Friday. Acting Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri said he is "deeplydisturbed" by ...
Pentagon Overseer Calls for Larger Staff; Inspector General Says That Shortages Leave Spending Largely Unchecked
Jun 01, 2008; ... The Defense Department's inspector general says he needs morestaff and money to monitor sharply rising spending by the Pentagonon the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the broader fightagainst terrorism. While that spending increased by more than 50 percent betweenfiscal 2001 ...
U.S. Campaign to Promote Abstinence Begins; Groups Are Enlisting Parents in Effort to Lobby for Changes in Sex Education
Jun 01, 2008; ... Proponents of sex education programs that focus on encouragingabstinence are launching a nationwide campaign aimed at enlisting 1million parents to support the controversial approach. The National Abstinence Education Association, a Washington-based advocacy group, said that it ...
Currie Rose to Power Above the Fray; Md. Senator in FBI Investigation Is Known for Political Style Marked by Courtesy
Jun 01, 2008; ... In Prince George's, a county of turbulent, bare-knuckle politics,Uly Currie has always stood out: modest, likable, a dean of AfricanAmerican lawmakers in the Maryland Senate. If anyone would succumb to the temptation to abuse public office,it would not be Currie, many of his ...
Bhutto Dealt Nuclear Secrets to N. Korea, Book Says
Jun 01, 2008; ... Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, on a state visitto North Korea in 1993, smuggled in critical data on uraniumenrichment -- a route to making a nuclear weapon -- to helpfacilitate a missile deal with Pyongyang, according to a new book bya journalist who knew the slain ...
Capital Crescent Trail Puts in Speed Limits to Slow Cyclists
Jun 01, 2008; ... Lance Armstrong wannabes be forewarned: Starting this week, thespeed limit on the Capital Crescent Trail in Bethesda will be 15mph. Tour de France training? Take it elsewhere. Park officials are installing speed limit signs along the trailin an effort to slow down riders who they ...
Conflicting Feelings as Elementary School Marks Its End
Jun 01, 2008; ... The plastic champagne glasses were filled with sparkling cider asPrincipal Brearn Wright Jr., sporting a tuxedo for the occasion,proposed a toast to the last days of Clark Elementary. "We're not going to shed tears tonight," he said to thesmattering of students, parents and staff ...
QUOTABLE "It felt good throw ...
Jun 01, 2008 ... "It felt good throwing the ball. I'm happy with it." Yankees C Jorge Posada, on making two strong throws to secondbase in an extended spring training game yesterday in St.Petersburg, Fla. It was the first day he was allowed to throw to thebases in a game since being sidelined with ...
THE LINEUP; Batting Average in May
Jun 01, 2008 ... A position-by-position look at the best and worst in the leaguethis month through Friday (minimum 75 plate appearances): BEST POSPLAYER (Team)Avg.CRod Barajas (Blue Jays).3801BJustin Morneau(Twins).346 2BAkinori Iwamura (Rays).3453BRamon Vazquez(Rangers).375SSJason ...
Dr. g's tips
Jun 01, 2008 ... Metrorail Delays The Metrorail switch replacement at Mount Vernon Square,continuing to cause delays on the Green and Yellow lines thisweekend, has one more weekend to go. The Nationals are out of townthis weekend but will be back when the switch project wraps upFriday night ...
Parking On Lawns Faces Ban In Loudoun
Jun 01, 2008; ... The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will considermaking it illegal to leave cars parked on front lawns, a practicethat some say contributes to neighborhood blight. Board Chairman Scott K. York (I) said he introduced the measureafter years of complaints from residents ...
Teens Try to Spark Science Bug in Children; With Lizards and Blizzards, Festival Shows the Cool Side of Nature
Jun 01, 2008; ... After wandering through the colorful booths at Osbourn Park HighSchool's Earth Jubilee science celebration, 7-year-old KendrickPeoples was full of newly learned science facts. "Did you know it takes 70 days to wrap a mummy?" the Signal HillElementary School second-grader said ....
THE LOTTERIES; May 30
Jun 01, 2008 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 5-1-5 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 8-8-5-8 Lucky Numbers: 0-1-6 D.C. 4: 9-1-1-5 Rolling Cash 5: 7-10-16-28-29 Daily 6: 4-9-21-25-27-30 *38 Day/Pick-3: 0-2-2 Pick-4: ...
Turning Scrap Metal Into Gold; As Price of Steel Soars, Old U.S. Ships Are Becoming a Hot Commodity
Jun 01, 2008; ... The air tastes like pennies at this gritty port at the southerntip of Texas, where ships' final voyages end and steel is reborn. Recycling is big business here, on a scale that counts inthousands of tons, not pounds. This is where torch-wielding workersstrip ships' decks and cut ...
Breaking Loose From the Grid; Electric Independence Saves the Environment -- and Money
Jun 01, 2008; ... With energy prices going through the roof, an alternativelifestyle powered by solar panels and wind turbines has suddenlybecome more appealing to some. For architect Todd Bogatay, it hasbeen reality for years. When he bought a breezy patch of scrub-covered mountaintop withviews ...
Tigers' Willis Is Back to Start, for a While
Jun 01, 2008 ... Dontrelle Willis never broached the topic of returning to thestarting rotation with Manager Jim Leyland, content just to be backwith the Tigers after a rehab stint in the minors. But Willis will be back in a modified starting role Tuesday whenDetroit plays in Willis's home town of ...
Turns Out Chrysler's Cap Fits the Customer
Jun 01, 2008; ... It seemed a silly scheme, one at odds with the supposed fuelconservation goals of our nation, when it was announced early lastmonth. I said as much in this space on May 11 when I criticizedChrysler's "Let's Refuel America" program, which offers to cap fuelprices at $2.99 a gallon for ...
Mothers, Children Able to Bond Through Prison Nursery Programs
Jun 01, 2008; ... Three-week-old Kevin fussed in mother Melissa Lankey's arms untilshe started singing softly to him, "Jesus loves me, this I know, forthe Bible tells me so." The newborn began dozing within seconds. "That's kind of our little song. It usually calms him rightdown," Lankey ...
An Interactive Sign-Language Lexicon
Jun 01, 2008; ... Even though Joan Nash has been using American Sign Language formost of her life and has made a career of teaching deaf and hearing-impaired children, she is sometimes stumped when she encounters asign she has never seen. She can't just look it up in a dictionary. At least not ...
Nuts & Bolts; 2008 Infiniti G37 Journey
Jun 01, 2008 ... Complaints: The G37 Journey feels heavy and ponderous in tightcity traffic. The automatic seat-belt extender for the frontpassenger's seat kept getting stuck, a problem that could discourageseat-belt use by the front-seat occupant. Ride, acceleration and handling: It's Dr. Jekyll ...
QDear Tom and Ray: I was dr ...
Jun 01, 2008 ... QDear Tom and Ray: I was driving home in my beloved 2003 Toyota Prius on Friday. Iturned right a few blocks from my house, and the wheel froze in theturned position. I had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting aparked truck. With all my might, I forced the wheels straight ...
One That Makes It Easy to Transgress
Jun 01, 2008; ... It was a memorable week. My brother-in-law, John Curry, diedafter a long illness. Loretta, John's widow and my sister, showed usthe beauty of unconditional love. Several longtime friends andcolleagues announced their departure from The Washington Post. . . .And Ria Manglapus, my ...
Waves From Food Crisis Spread; In Cambodia, Schoolchildren Soon Will Forgo Crucial Lunches
Jun 01, 2008; ... At dawn in a ramshackle elementary school in rural Cambodia, thechildren think of only one thing: their stomachs. They anxiouslyawait the steaming buckets of free rice delivered to their desks. But in just days, they will no longer get free breakfast from theU.N. World Food ...
This Is Your Brain On Words; Mother Tongue Registers Differently Than Others
Jun 01, 2008; ... No one can read our thoughts, for now, but some scientistsbelieve they can at least figure out in what language we do ourthinking. Before we utter a single word, experts can gauge our mothertongue and the level of proficiency in other languages by analyzingour brain activity ...
CORRECTION
Jun 01, 2008 ... In the May 25 Magazine, there were 13 differences between theoriginal and altered photographs in the Second Glance puzzle. Towardthe bottom left of the altered photograph, a panel on a ...
ERA Volquez, Cin ... 1.46 ...
Jun 01, 2008 ... ERA Volquez, Cin 1.46 NEXT: Wednesday vs. Philadelphia WINS Webb, Ari. ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Jun 01, 2008 ... BATTING C. Jones, Atl .409 YESTERDAY: 2-3 TODAY: vs. Cueto 0 AB HOME RUNS Utley, Phil ...
The Diplomat Who Touches All the Bases
Jun 01, 2008; ... Officially, for the last 61/2 years, Ryozo Kato's title inWashington has been ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary ofJapan to the United States of America. Unofficially, he's just "a baseball nut." This week, upon leaving the most prestigious post a Japanesediplomat ...
Celtics Bring Home East Title; Pistons Fall In Game 6, Lakers Await In NBA Finals
Jun 01, 2008; ... Celtics 89, Pistons 81 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions The Boston Celtics were 1-7 on the road in the playoffs when theytook the court here Friday night for Game 6. But they were able towin not only their second road game of the playoffs, but come frombehind in the ...
O's Fall Apart in 13th, Red Sox Pick Up Win
Jun 01, 2008; ... Red Sox 5, Orioles 2 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions The Baltimore Orioles held the Boston Red Sox scoreless for 11consecutive innings Friday night, an accomplishment that couldreasonably allow them to expect victory. They played for nearly fivehours, the kind of ...
Shoulder Injury Sidelines Red Sox' Matsuzaka
Jun 01, 2008 ... Daisuke Matsuzaka was placed on the 15-day disabled list Fridayby the Red Sox, who opted to take a cautious approach after an MRIexam revealed a mild strain of his right rotator cuff. Matsuzaka was examined in Boston by Thomas Gill. It is the firsttrip to the DL by Matsuzaka, who ...
Nationals Overcome The Odds in Phoenix; Harris's 3-Run Homer in 7th Snaps a Tie
Jun 01, 2008; ... Nationals 7, Diamondbacks 4 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions No matter how Washington Nationals Manager Manny Acta configuredthis matchup in the hours before Friday's game, the odds forecasteddoom. The Diamondbacks had a pitcher who dominated ...