The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, June 15:
For Richer or for Poorer; Inequality widens under Republicans and shrinks under Democrats.
Jun 15, 2008 ... UNEQUAL DEMOCRACY The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age By Larry M. Bartels Princeton Univ. 325 pp. $29.95 The most important issue rarely mentioned on the campaign trailthis year is the gap between rich and poor in America. It isimportant for two ...
Washington Area Bestsellers
Jun 15, 2008 ... Paperback Fiction 1 STEP ON A CRACK (Vision, $9.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. A throng of dignitaries iskidnapped by terrorists.2 2 HIGH NOON (Jove, $7.99). By Nora Roberts Heady emotions from past trauma surface when a top hostagenegotiator finds ...
Wild Men; A reclusive young man asks his only friend to help him disappear.
Jun 15, 2008 ... THE OTHER By David Guterson Knopf. 256 pp. $24.95 David Guterson caught everybody'sattention in 1994 with his bestselling first novel, Snow Falling onCedars, a fierce love story wrapped around a suspenseful murdertrial. But that intricately plotted book seems more and more ...
How We R.I.P.; The cemetery as a mirror of society.
Jun 15, 2008 ... THE AMERICAN RESTING PLACE Four Hundred Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds By Marilyn Yalom Photographs by Reid S. Yalom Houghton Mifflin. 336 pp. $30 Last fall, attendants watching thesecurity monitors at Disneyland noticed a ...
Literary criticism as showy acrobatics.
Jun 15, 2008; ... THE DELIGHTED STATES A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators,Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied byMaps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes By Adam Thirlwell Farrar Straus Giroux ....
You Are What You Buy; Examining the psychology of personal consumption.
Jun 15, 2008 ... SNOOP What Your Stuff Says About You By Sam Gosling Basic. 263 pp.$25 BUYING IN The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy And Who We Are By Rob Walker Random House. 291 pp. $25 In 1942, as the United States wasentering World War ...
Nearly 30 years after my da ...
Jun 15, 2008; ... Nearly 30 years after my daddy's death, I can still miss him withthroat-clenching force. As a child, I shadowed him through poolhalls, but -- with time and alcohol -- he eventually dwindledinto a form that fit nowhere except on a barstool at the Veterans'Club. Maybe vets of that ...
Letters; Begging to Differ
Jun 15, 2008 ... Since my book The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets ofWatergate presents a revisionist account of Watergate, and thusconstitutes a frontal assault on the Woodward-Bernstein version ofevents, I never expected The Washington Post, so invested inprevailing mythology, to send me any ...
June 16-22, 2008
Jun 15, 2008 ... 7 P.M. Political commentator and syndicated columnist George Willdiscusses and signs One Man's America: The Pleasures andProvocations of Our Singular Nation at Politics and Prose Bookstore,5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919. 7 P.M. Jonathan Miles, cocktail columnist for the New ...
The Great Escape; During the chaotic final year of World War II, a Prussian family races for safety across Europe.
Jun 15, 2008 ... SKELETONS AT THE FEAST By Chris Bohjalian Shaye Areheart. 372 pp. $25 Perhaps our tumultuous times havesomething to do with the enduring popularity of World War II assubject matter for both books and films. In recent years, novelistssuch as Richard Bausch, Louis Begley, ...
Debt be not proud and other tenets of the world of money.
Jun 15, 2008; ... Economics, like math, is something most people rationalized theywould never need to know after graduation. But with gas pricessoaring, home values sinking, consumer debt rising and jobsvanishing, it is hard to deny that economics affects our daily livesand livelihoods. While pundits and ...
Dangerous Minds; A journalist follows four young teachers in a failing Los Angeles school.
Jun 15, 2008 ... RELENTLESS PURSUIT A Year in the Trenches with Teach For America By Donna Foote Knopf. 338 pp. $24.95 Marvin Bressler, chair of the PrincetonUniversity sociology department, was intrigued by Wendy Kopp, aslender undergraduate from Dallas who came to see him in 1988 ....
Bankrupt Nation; A financial journalist explains why all our debts are coming due.
Jun 15, 2008 ... WHILE AMERICA AGED How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, And Loom as the Next Financial Crisis By Roger Lowenstein Penguin Press. 274 pp. $25.95 For a married couple, talking aboutmoney can be hard. But ...
Movers and Shakers
Jun 15, 2008; ... "If ospreys had a bumper sticker," writes David Gessner, "itwould be, We move for food." Bird migration, of course, isn't quitethat simple, and in Soaring With Fidel, Gessner explores itscomplexities. Equipped with little more than a pair of binoculars,he follows ospreys as they make ...
Road Trip!; How piling the kids into the car became the quintessential American vacation.
Jun 15, 2008 ... ARE WE THERE YET? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations By Susan Sessions Rugh Univ. of Kansas. 240 pp. $29.95 Mention "family vacation" to ababy boomer and you're likely to conjure memories of car trips. Myown are bittersweet. Each sweltering July, Dad got ...
Millennial Voters; Are 18- to 29-year-olds newfangled liberals or self-defining independents?
Jun 15, 2008 ... YOUTH TO POWER How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's ProgressiveMajority By Michael Connery Ig. 203 pp. Paperback, $14.95 PARTY CRASHING How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence By Keli Goff BasicCivitas. 294 ...
"I was born country and that's what I'll always be." [Correction 6/ 27/08]
Jun 15, 2008; ... SING ME BACK HOME Love, Death, and Country Music By Dana Jennings Faber and Faber. 257 pp. $24 Dana Jennings was born in the fallof 1957 to 17-year-old parents who had married only eight daysearlier. "The first thing they bought of any consequence was a grayand ...
The Sounds of Peace
Jun 15, 2008 ... THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO By Steven Galloway Riverhead. 235 pp. $21.95 In this elegiac novel inspired by anactual event during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992, Steven Gallowayexplores the brutality of war and the redemptive power of music.Crafted with unforgettable imagery ...
Across Arab World, Gold Begins to Lose Its Luster as Prices Skyrocket
Jun 15, 2008; ... Abdul-Rahman al-Nasser owns a gold store with case after case ofglittering necklaces, earrings and bracelets. All it lacks iscustomers. Shoppers are buying just one set of gold for weddings these days,instead of at least two for the bride and another for the futuremother-in-law ....
History and a Cheesesteak to Go; Philly Tour Guides Get Lessons in Both Past and Present
Jun 15, 2008; ... As postgraduate degrees go, Lorna Howley's requires an intimateknowledge of the arcane and mundane. How many people, after all, have to know Ben Franklin's itineraryon the day he arrived in Philadelphia and the closest place to getan authentic Philly cheesesteak? It's all ...
N.Y. Governor Embraces Disability; Time in Spotlight Helped Paterson Confront His Blindness
Jun 15, 2008; ... As a young man, David Paterson never looked for dropped changebecause he didn't want people to see a blind man crawling on thefloor for nickels and dimes. He didn't use a white cane, either: itwould make him a target in his New York City neighborhood. But now he's 54, and in a ...
Connecting Points A and B, With Space Between
Jun 15, 2008; ... It was a good day to smell summer, the sweetness and funk of it.We drove into Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The aroma of honeysucklemixed with the decay of road kill, a pungency at once inviting andoffensive. "Should I raise the windows?" "No," said Mary Anne, my wife. "I ...
THE LINEUP; Career Interleague Batting Average
Jun 15, 2008 ... A position-by-position look at the best and worst in the leaguethrough 2007 (minimum 100 plate appearances): BEST POSPLAYER (Team)Avg.CKenji Johjima (Mariners).3281BChris Shelton(Rangers).337 2BJamey Carroll (Indians).3233BAlex Rodriguez(Yankees).318SSMichael Young ...
States Find Yearly Hurricane Forecasts of Little Use
Jun 15, 2008; ... Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrownear the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-monthhurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there,breathlessly awaiting his every word. It's a lot like Groundhog Day -- and the results ...
Sun Is About to Set on One California Nude Beach
Jun 15, 2008; ... Nicole Archuletta looked down at her naked body and shrugged. "No tan lines," said Archuletta, 25, sitting in a beach chair onthe sand next to her husband, Kevin. "It's just natural." On a recent weekday, Archuletta was just one of a handful ofbeachgoers who stripped down to ...
Page Three : Father's Day Memories
Jun 15, 2008 ... Three dads, three very different memories. One never knows what will evoke a childhood memory. Sometimesit's a smell. Like the other day when the waft from a scented candlereminded me of walking past fragrant honeysuckle on the way toelementary school. Fifty years have passed since ...
Lakers Start the Recovery Process
Jun 15, 2008; ... Reprinted from yesterday's editions It no longer seems to be a matter of if but when the Los AngelesLakers will lose to the Boston Celtics. It could happen Sunday inGame 5 or Tuesday in 6. It may even take seven games. But failureappears to be imminent. None of the 28 teams ...
About This Series Today: B ...
Jun 15, 2008 ... Today: Boom Forces converge to fuel the biggest American housing boom sincethe 1950s: plunging interest rates, exotic new Wall Streetsecurities that flood the mortgage industry with cash, and easierloan packages for immigrants and others with ...
Quotable "It's a challenge, ...
Jun 15, 2008 ... "It's a challenge, but we won't give in to the fight. I reallybelieve good things can still happen this season." Indians Manager Eric Wedge, whose team has five key members onthe disabled list Athletics: DH Frank Thomas, on the 15-day DL, has been told toback off all baseball ...
A Real Masterstroke
Jun 15, 2008; ... Eat your heart out, Augusta National. The U.S. Open has stolenthe Masters' thunder. The mightiest, most moving roars of the golf season -- thosethat resound for a true athletic hero, and echo through the decades -- now carry out far over the Pacific Ocean, not through ...
Matsuzaka Will Pitch in Minors Next Week
Jun 15, 2008 ... Red Sox RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka will pitch in a minor league gamenext week as part of his comeback from a sore shoulder. Matsuzaka threw yesterday before the start of Boston's seriesagainst the Reds. He's eligible to come off the 15-day disabled listanytime. Manager Terry ...
Former Cemetery Owner Convicted in Theft Scheme
Jun 15, 2008; ... For more than a decade, Larry Deffenbaugh took his customers'money and agreed to put a certain percentage in trust, to be usedlater to pay for burial services. But prosecutors say the former Calvert County cemetery ownerspent most of the money on car payments, fishing equipment ...
In Marrakech, an Oasis Devolves Into a Mirage
Jun 15, 2008; ... Abdellilah Meddich's childhood memories of the famous palm groveof Marrakech are of a "magical" place, a lush desert oasis offlowers, animals and farmers who tended tree-shaded plots. No longer. Today, the unique and vast World Heritage site is "nothing likeit used to be when ...
Rockies' Aaron Cook VS. White Sox' Jose Contreras
Jun 15, 2008 ... BatterABHHRBBSOOBPSLGAVGOrlando Cabrera52010.500.400.400CarlosQuentin62101.333.833.333Nick Swisher31101.3331.333.333TobyHall30000.000.000.000A.J ....
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Jun 15, 2008 ... HOME RUNS Utley, Phil 22 YESTERDAY: 0 HR TODAY: vs. Boggs Never before faced RUNS Berkman, Hou 62 YESTERDAY: 1 ...
THE LOTTERIES; June 13
Jun 15, 2008 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 1-9-0 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 5-3-1-5 Lucky Numbers: 8-1-1 D.C. 4: 3-0-0-1 Rolling Cash 5: 7-19-29-31-34 Daily 6: 11-18-24-26-34-36 *22 Day/Pick-3: 6-4-4 Pick-4: ...
'I Should Have Been Dead'; Drug Addiction Nearly Cost United's Quaranta His Career, and More
Jun 15, 2008; ... Santino Quaranta's right hand was throbbing, the consequence of aToronto player stepping on him during D.C. United's home opener inearly April. The swelling spread past his wrist and toward thefreshest and most poignant tattoo on his ink-covered upper body: "10-23-07," a timestamp ...
Immigrant Found a Harsh Reality In the U.S.; Pr. George's Teens Charged in Death Of Immigrant Man
Jun 15, 2008; ... Aboubacar Camara came to the United States more than a decadeago, hoping for opportunities he was unlikely to find in his smallWest African country. But life in this country proved difficult, according to friendshere and his sister in Guinea. Trained in banking and finance, ...
Woods Within 1 Shot Of Lead; Second-Round 68 Pressures Appleby
Jun 15, 2008; ... Reprinted from yesterday's late editions With a majestic eagle on his fourth hole of the day and astunning run of four birdies on the first five holes of his secondnine Friday, Tiger Woods answered any and all questions about thesoundness of his surgically repaired left knee or his ...
Nuts & Bolts; 2009 Dodge Journey R/T
Jun 15, 2008 ... Complaint: With fuel prices cresting $4 a gallon for regularunleaded gasoline, consumers might be tempted to go for the baseJourney SE with the 2.4-liter, inline four-cylinder, 173-horsepowerengine. Shoppers making that decision will get better fuel economy,but they'll also get a slug of ...
Dear Tom and Ray: Twice now ...
Jun 15, 2008 ... Dear Tom and Ray: Twice now, I have left a late-evening rehearsal without releasingthe parking brake on my 2007 Toyota Corolla Matrix and driven 10miles home (50 mph on the freeway for most of it) before discoveringmy error. Please tell me what horrible things I have done to my ...
Yankees' Stadium Bid Gets More Scrutiny
Jun 15, 2008 ... A congressional subcommittee is examining the Yankees' bid foranother $350 million in public financing for their new stadium, amove that broadens the question of whether taxpayers should financeprofessional sports venues. Domestic Policy Subcommittee Chairman Dennis J. Kucinich ...
A Shift That's Sticking
Jun 15, 2008; ... Dear readers: I write this to praise high fuel prices, not to condemn them. We are a nation without an energy policy and so happily wouldhave remained had it not been for the misery of gasoline at $4 agallon. We would have continued our wasteful ways, content to expend ...
Fenty Sought Help on Trinidad; Legal Chief, Others Helped Design Checkpoint Plan
Jun 15, 2008; ... Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's demand for a bold solution to a burst ofviolence in Northeast Washington led to the creation of theneighborhood checkpoint program that now is drawing criticism frommany residents, D.C. Council members and civil liberties groups. Interviews and documents ...
BMX Underdog Claims Place on Olympic Squad
Jun 15, 2008; ... Mike Day wasn't the favorite to win the sole Olympic berth atstake Saturday when the country's top BMX riders faced off in thesport's first U.S. Olympic team trials. His chief rival, Donny Robinson, won last summer's test event onthe hair-raising BMX course in Beijing, where the ...
Cubs Have Plenty of Motivation To Make a Push for Sabathia
Jun 15, 2008 ... The Chicago Cubs, with baseball's best record, appear content tolook to their bench, primarily Reed Johnson, to fill in duringAlfonso Soriano's expected six-week absence. But that doesn't meanthey are planning to stand pat as the July 31 trade deadlineapproaches. One rival ...
Teams rarely admit to drafting for need in baseball's June amateur draft, but five took college relievers in the first round this month -- a record -- as the allure of quick-fix bullpen help apparently was too great. Unlike starting pitchers or position players, relievers drafted out of college tend to zoom to the majors quickly, like these five recent examples:
Jun 15, 2008 ... Chad Cordero, 2003, Montreal Expos. In June, Cordero was closingCollege World Series games for Cal State Fullerton. By August, afterbeing the 20th overall pick, he was pitching in the majors -- after just 26 minor league innings. By summer 2004 he was the Expos'closer, and by 2005 -- ...
Stat With Goofy Name Has Some Value; VORP Inching Its Way Into the Mainstream Of Baseball Lexicon
Jun 15, 2008; ... The time has come, you traditionalists, grizzled holdouts and old-school .300-hitter-lovers, to let a little VORP into your lives.C'mon, don't be scared. You can still have your batting average,particularly when a Chipper Jones comes along and extends a springflirtation with the hallowed ...
Many of our subjects have spoken vaguely of the adjustments that got them over the proverbial hump. But Rowand, the Giants' all-star center fielder, not only details the 2004 swing overhaul that changed his career, he shows us what he means.
Jun 15, 2008 ... "I had always been a 'spinner,' rotating on my back foot. Eventhrough the minor leagues, I could hit a fastball, [and]occasionally I'd get to a hanging breaking ball or hanging change-up. But it wasn't until Greg Walker, the hitting coach [for theChicago White Sox, where Rowand began his ...
SERIES TO WATCH
Jun 15, 2008 ... RED SOX AT PHILLIES Tomorrow-Wednesday, Philadelphia Division leaders with ...
3 UP & 3 DOWN
Jun 15, 2008 ... BIG PAPI Red Sox' star DH becomes naturalized as U.S. citizen in Bostonceremony. Story hits a snag when Red Sox Nation refuses to recognizedual citizenship. JESUS FLORES Nats C, pegged for Class AAA this season, cements big leaguestarting job with strong performance ....
Captive Pandas Bouncing Back After Quake; Concern Persists in China For Wild Bears' Welfare
Jun 15, 2008; ... The man traces the panda's paw with his finger as she laps milkyformula from a metal bowl. He strokes her head and tries to wipe hersnout when she finishes, but she bats his hand away and curls into aforward roll, hiding her face. Then she turns to nip his boots,beginning a favorite game ...
QUOTABLE "It's like I told ...
Jun 15, 2008 ... "It's like I told him, 'Welcome back to the 'Nati, bro!' He lovesit here in Cincinnati. That was really cool." Boston 1B Sean Casey on teammate Kevin Youkilis, who singled,doubled and hit a tiebreaking homer in the 10th before 140 relativesand friends in Cincinnati, where he was a ...
Keeping Their Eyes On Lennon's Specs; Cubans Tend Statue After Thefts
Jun 15, 2008; ... All he needs is love -- and someone to keep an eye on hisglasses. Ever since thieves twice swiped the iconic round-rimmedspectacles from Havana's John Lennon statue eight years ago, fourretirees have rotated 12-hour, round-the-clock shifts to ensure theydon't go missing ...
Men in Need of a Little 'Me' Time, Too; Pedicures and Pampering at a Manassas Spa
Jun 15, 2008; ... Bottles of O'Doul's sit on tables, and the pshssssst of soda cansbeing opened is heard as half a dozen men grab a drink. The lowmurmur of small talk about family, work and the weather fills theroom, and the scent of buffalo wings lingers in the air. Sounds like a night out with ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Jun 15, 2008 ... BATTING Bradley, Tex .330 YESTERDAY: ppd. TODAY: vs. Maine 2-4, HR, 2 BB, 0 K HOME RUNS Hamilton, Tex 18 YESTERDAY: ...
Underdog Claims Place on Olympic BMX Squad
Jun 15, 2008; ... Mike Day wasn't the favorite to win the sole Olympic berth atstake Saturday when the country's top BMX riders faced off in thesport's first U.S. Olympic team trials. His chief rival, Donny Robinson, won last summer's test event onthe hair-raising BMX course in Beijing, where the ...
Travelers Share in Airlines' Pain; Rising Fuel Costs Mean New Charges, Fewer Flights
Jun 15, 2008; ... For the past decade, airlines have lavished U.S. air travelerswith more and more flights to far-flung domestic destinations atrock-bottom prices. But the rising cost of fuel, which has alreadyroiled the nation's driving experience, is threatening tofundamentally alter the way Americans ...
O's Burres Survives Bad Start for Ugly Win
Jun 15, 2008; ... Orioles 9, Pirates 6 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Early in Friday's night's game, Baltimore Orioles Manager DaveTrembley and pitching coach Rick Kranitz debated how long to stickwith the struggling Brian Burres. The left-hander, already in themidst of a three-game ...
Conrad Reviews Loan, Decides ...
Jun 15, 2008 ... Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) saidyesterday that he is donating $10,500 to charity and refinancing hisloan on an apartment building after he reviewed documents showingthat he received special treatment from Countrywide Financial Corp. Conrad said it appears ...
Dominion Va. Customers Are Bracing for Bigger Bills
Jun 15, 2008; ... Beginning next month, millions of Dominion Virginia Powercustomers will probably see their electric bills rise by at least 18percent, the largest one-time rate increase in three decades, to payfor soaring fuel costs. And it won't stop there. Dominion is looking to make up for ...
Dr. G's TIPS
Jun 15, 2008 ... Action Alert Metro said the fax and e-mail alerts indicating that last Mondaywould be a Code Red day for air quality obscured the box containingthe "Red" designation. But given that the alert program triggersfree bus rides in the suburbs, the transit authority displayed adistinct ...
New Sensations; A sampling of series premieres through July [Correction 6/27/08]
Jun 15, 2008 ... All dates and times subject to change WIPEOUT June 24, 8 p.m., ABC UNSCRIPTED | Two dozen contestants compete each week in anextreme obstacle course loaded with challenges such as the Dreadmilland Dizzy Dummy, with the winning human cannonball/pinball/pinatataking ...
What to Watch
Jun 15, 2008 ... Sunday: SURVIVING HISTORY 10 p.m. on History Some of mankind's most creative devices are re-tested in this newweekly series, which tries to understand the past through itsinventions. Master craftspeople from Scarefactory Inc. of Columbus, Ohio,rebuild ...
Career Results: The Families in the Room; Patients Throw Party for Fertility Specialist Who 'Really Seemed to Care'
Jun 15, 2008; ... Carolin Ringwall's eyes darted around the room, taking in theinfants, toddlers and a teenager whom she had helped bring into theworld -- a testament to her 18 years as one of the Washingtonarea's most prominent fertility nurses. "Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!" Ringwall, 65, ...