The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, July 27:
Proud Cowboys Still Tall in the Saddle; At a Reunion, 'Old-School' Riders Relate Their Traditions to a New Generation
Jul 27, 2008; ... Ron Williams is doing everything he can to make sure his twograndsons love horses as much as he does. He's teaching 7-year-oldDemarie how to ride, and he watches rodeos with 17-year-old Robert. "This is the legacy I'm trying to hand down," he said in PrinceGeorge's County yesterday ...
GM's Miscue: Thinking the Future Was Bigger
Jul 27, 2008; ... It seems such an obvious error in hindsight. General Motors four years ago convened a global product seminarin Fayence, France. It was a grand affair meant to display thebreadth of GM's automotive competence in vehicles large and small .. . and "small," in this case, included some ...
Dear Tom and Ray: A friend o ...
Jul 27, 2008 ... Dear Tom and Ray: A friend of mine has a 1997 Honda CR-V, which he bought used afew years ago. It is generally in good shape but sometimes theengine starts to race, and the car refuses to slow down. My friendhas to step on the brakes very hard to get the car to slow down.Usually, ...
Nuts & Bolts; 2009 Ford Flex Limited
Jul 27, 2008 ... Suggestion: The Flex currently comes in three trim levels -- SE, SEL, and Limited, all with 3.5-liter V-6 engines. Ford shouldconsider a diesel version in the higher-priced Limited models. Evenat the generally higher prices for diesel-powered vehicles, here'sbetting that Ford would sell ...
An Aptly Named Wagon, Minivan and SUV
Jul 27, 2008; ... Angola Road is best driven with caution, especially at night whenit twists into the darkness, sometimes seeming to disappearaltogether. It is a rural road in this Hudson Valley settlement, awinding affair with two opposing lanes often bereft of shoulders orguardrails. You pay ...
Islamic Democracy; Two law professors offer very different assessments of sharia.
Jul 27, 2008 ... THE FALL AND RISE OF THE ISLAMIC STATE By Noah Feldman Princeton Univ. 189 pp. $22.95 ISLAM AND THE SECULAR STATE Negotiating the Future of Shari'a By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Harvard Univ. 324 pp. $35For more than 20 years, Islamists inLebanon, ...
Washington Area Bestsellers
Jul 27, 2008 ... PaperbackFiction1THE SHACK (Windblown, $14.99) By William P. Young. A father's faith is challenged after theabduction and murder of his daughter.62STEP ON A CRACK (Vision,$9.99) By James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. A throng of dignitaries iskidnapped by terrorists.83DOUBLE ...
Medical Drama; What it takes to run a hospital whose patients speak 67 different languages.
Jul 27, 2008 ... HOSPITAL Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior,Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids By Julie Salamon Penguin Press. 363 pp. $25.95 One thing is clear from Hospital,an account of a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center inBrooklyn: ...
Day; The melancholy, troubled life of a hard-working pop singer and natural actor.
Jul 27, 2008 ... DORIS DAY The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door By David Kaufman Virgin. 626 pp. $29.95David Kaufman comes right to the point atthe start of his life of Doris Day: "Day has been largely andunfairly neglected by cultural arbiters." Day's career is not something ...
Celluloid Dreams
Jul 27, 2008 ... "Giulietta has put Villalonga's corpse in one of our suitcases.We are in a large hotel, they're giving us a different room, I'mafraid that the young bellhop lingering next to the big suitcasewith the dead body might suspect something." This is the kickoff toFederico Fellini's account of ...
Battle Cry of Freedom; As the Civil War approaches, a free black family in Georgetown must fight for real liberation.
Jul 27, 2008 ... STAND THE STORM By Breena Clarke Little, Brown. 321 pp. $24.99 I loved this book. I loved thesepeople: The Coats family of Stand the Storm are quasi-free Negroesliving in Georgetown just before, during and after the Civil War.Breena Clarke has written another stirring work ...
Dangerous Women; A crazy narrator, her clairvoyant aunt and their bewitching tale.
Jul 27, 2008 ... THE LACE READER By Brunonia Barry Morrow. 390 pp. $24.95 Brunonia Barry's first novel is acompendium of women's issues stitched into a murder mystery inmodern-day Salem, Mass. Originally self-published, The Lace Readerlater became the subject of a multi-million-dollar ...
Murder Most Foul; Following a deadly polonium trail from London back to Russia.
Jul 27, 2008 ... THE TERMINAL SPY A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal, and Murder By Alan S. Cowell Doubleday. 432 pp. $26.95 The gruesome murder of ex-KGB agentAlexander Litvinenko in London in November 2006 transfixed theworld. The photograph of a recently vigorous man rendered ...
Allen Grossman's poetry is tet ...
Jul 27, 2008; ... Allen Grossman's poetry is tethered to an antiquity that he bothhonors and subverts. His pastoral poems, for instance, fly in theface of the form's historic purpose first set out by Theocritus inIdylls and followed by Virgil in Ecologues. For them, pastoralportraits of rustic shepherd ...
July 28-August 2, 2008
Jul 27, 2008 ... 6:30 P.M. Veteran photography editor Leora Kahn discusses andsigns Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan (featuringthe work of eight distinguished photojournalists -- from MagnumPhotos, VII, Sipa Press, Panos and VU' -- who have covered theconflict in Sudan for the last ...
Excerpt
Jul 27, 2008 ... What is a character? I am thicketed in qualifications: if I saythat a character seems connected to consciousness, to the use of amind, the many superb examples of characters who seem to think verylittle, who are rarely seen thinking, bristle up (Gatsby, CaptainAhab, Becky Sharp, ...
U-turn in the Sand; An American strategist argues against quick fixes in the Middle East.
Jul 27, 2008 ... A PATH OUT OF THE DESERT A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East By Kenneth M. Pollack Random House. 539 pp. $30 Kenneth M. Pollack, a Middle Eastexpert at the Brookings Institution, has written an authoritativenew book that spells out the full range of threats ...
Bitter Homecoming; A journalist argues that veterans aren't receiving much-needed benefits.
Jul 27, 2008 ... VETS UNDER SIEGE How America Deceives and Dishonors Those Who Fight Our Battles By Martin Schram Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's. 306 pp. $25.95 Government agenciessuffer all too often from mind-bogglingly abstruse procedures andbureaucratic malaise, but Martin ...
Young adult novels about life on the fringes.; Novels about kids, and kittens, who live on the fringes.
Jul 27, 2008; ... Rescued from a London slum, 17-year-old Ivy begins posing as anartist's model for her savior, a minor painter and neighbor to a Pre-Raphaelite master. Sound like a fairy tale? Julie Hearn topplesevery trope in her deliciously Dickensian novel. Both artists areself-involved and ...
Paper Bronco; A journalist experiences firsthand the performance anxiety of pro athletes.
Jul 27, 2008 ... A FEW SECONDS OF PANIC A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL By Stefan Fatsis Penguin Press. 340 pp. $25.95 Stefan Fatsis, who has coveredsports for the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio, spentthe summer of 2006 training as ...
The Real Thing; A leading literary critic explores the ways writers try to capture life on the page.
Jul 27, 2008 ... HOW FICTION WORKS By James Wood Farrar Straus Giroux. 265 pp. $24 James Wood is a critic who isbrilliant on the literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries andextremely harsh toward the writers of the postwar and early 21st. Asa reviewer for the New Republic for many ...
Down But Not Out
Jul 27, 2008 ... NORTHLINE By Willy VlautinHarper Perennial.192 pp. Paperback, $14.95 Willy Vlautin'sNorthline tells the story of Allison Johnson, a young, pregnantwoman who leaves her abusive neo-Nazi boyfriend, goes to Reno, sellsher baby and tries to get her life in order by working at ...
The story of booze, hooch, brew and the veritas in vino.
Jul 27, 2008; ... DRINK A Cultural History of Alcohol By Iain Gately Gotham. 546 pp. $30 Iain Gately, a British writer who six yearsago published Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic PlantSeduced Civilization, now turns his attention to booze, a subject,it goes without ...
They Succumbed to Killer Instinct; TV TRIVIA | JUMPING THE SHARK
Jul 27, 2008 ... 1. The phrase "jump the shark" -- which refers to the point atwhich a TV show begins to decline in quality -- has its origins in anepisode of Happy Days in which Fonzie (Henry Winkler, left) jumpsover a shark while doing what? 2. Some thought Desperate Housewives may ...
Ask TV Week
Jul 27, 2008 ... Got a question about your favorite star or show? E-mail tvweek@washpost.com. Q: Will Bones and Shark be in the fall lineup? -- Rick Zimmerman Acapulco, Mexico A: "Bones," starring ...
Priming the Partisans
Jul 27, 2008 ... YearPartyDate VP AnnouncedOpening of Convention1988DJuly 12July181988RAug. 16Aug. 151992DJuly 9July ...
As Boy Sank in Pool, Calls To 911 Went Unanswered; Pr. William Officials Unaware of Some Service Disruptions
Jul 27, 2008; ... A 14-year-old boy had passed out in a Prince William Countyswimming pool and was sinking to the bottom of the deep end. Anearby swimmer yelled for help, and a lifeguard dived in to savehim. Two people grabbed phones and called 911. Then called again.And again. The boy was still ...
THE LOTTERIES; July 25
Jul 27, 2008 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 6-4-0 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 5-3-5-6 Lucky Numbers: 1-2-3 D.C. 4: 4-3-9-3 Rolling Cash 5: 3-5-11-28-34 Daily 6: 8-22-23-26-27-28 *14 Day/Pick-3: 3-8-1 Pick-4: ...
Giving His Share to Boost Annual Fair; Loudoun County Man Helps Event Change With Times
Jul 27, 2008; ... Every year, Terry Corle arranges his work schedule so he has aweek off at the end of July. He doesn't do it to accommodate a family vacation or because it'sa good time to take a break from the Virginia Farm Bureau inLeesburg, where he sells insurance. He uses the days off to ...
Samuel Hurt During Eagles' First Full Practice
Jul 27, 2008 ... Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel left yesterdaymorning's practice with a strained hamstring. Samuel was hurt while working in seven-on-seven drills during theteam's first practice in full pads this summer. Coach Andy Reid said Samuel, who did not practice in ...
Online, a Community Gathers to Concoct A Neighborhood Eatery
Jul 27, 2008; ... When Sharon Greenspan went on a cross-country trip last year, shemade sure to take photos of the restaurants she liked and to keepthe menus. It was the easiest way to remember that "lasagna" ofzucchini, spinach and pine nuts she ate in Asheville and the creamycoconut shake she tasted in ...
Same Song for Lannan, Nats; Rookie Pitches Well, but Lack of Offense Results in Loss
Jul 27, 2008; ... Dodgers 3, Nationals 2 Reprinted from washingtonpost.com On all sides, the odds closed in on John Lannan, narrowing hismargin for error into nothing. He tried to block such big-picturethoughts. He tried, all the while, to rediscover his composurebefore he ran out of ...
Economy Goes Down the Drain; Wis. Resort's Biggest Draw, Its Lake, Is Lost in Torrential Storm
Jul 27, 2008; ... Not a cloud in the sky and the temperature is flirting with 90degrees. Usually, it doesn't get any better than this for the TommyBartlett water-ski show. But only about 200 people fill the 5,000-seat stadium on theshore of Lake Delton this day. No jet boats towing human pyramids ...
Weathering the Storm After Katrina; New Orleans Doctor Resumes Career After Murder Charges Are Dropped
Jul 27, 2008; ... Trapped in a hospital with 2,000 people in the aftermath ofHurricane Katrina, Anna Pou recalls her throat burning from therancid smell. Toilets had backed up, and temperatures in the eight-storybuilding reached almost 110 degrees because the windows did not open. Power had ...
Around the Nation
Jul 27, 2008 ... Republicans on Saturday blocked the Senate from considering abill next week that would nearly double federal aid to help the poorpay heating and air-conditioning bills. Although a dozen Senate Republicans support the measure, mostvoted with GOP leaders who would rather spend the ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Jul 27, 2008 ... BATTING Kinsler, Tex .326 YESTERDAY: 2-4 TODAY: vs. Eveland 1-3, .333 SLG PCT. HOME RUNS Quentin, Chi 26 YESTERDAY: 1 ...
ERA Haren, Ari. ... 2.56 ...
Jul 27, 2008 ... ERA Haren, Ari. 2.56 NEXT: To Be Announced WINS Webb, Ari. 13-4 YESTERDAY: ...
On the Money Trail, Twice the Challenge; In Debt, Clinton Seeks New Donors While Urging Old Ones to Back Obama
Jul 27, 2008; ... Most of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former campaign advisershave returned to their old lives, taken extended vacations or movedon to something new. But not Jonathan Mantz. Mantz is still Clinton's national finance director, a once-illustrious job that now carries the ...
QUOTABLE "We're used to havi ...
Jul 27, 2008 ... "We're used to having to get ready for him. People talk aboutadditions around the trade deadline. That's a pretty good one." Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, on the return of David Ortiz to theRed Sox' lineup Blue Jays: OF Vernon Wells (strained hamstring) took battingpractice ...
LEADERS Totals Do Not Include Yesterday's Games
Jul 27, 2008 ... BATTING C. Jones, Atl .369 YESTERDAY: DNP TODAY: vs. Blanton Never Faced HOME RUNS Howard, Phil 30 YESTERDAY: ...
QUOTABLE "That ball was hit ...
Jul 27, 2008 ... "That ball was hit well. I don't know if I can hit a ball muchbetter." Rangers OF Josh Hamilton, whose three-run homer gave him a majorleague-leading 103 RBI in his 100th game Indians: Activated RHP Fausto Carmona and demoted LHP AaronLaffey to Class AAA Buffalo. Purchased IF ...
Yankees' Sidney Ponson VS. Red Sox' Jon Lester
Jul 27, 2008 ... vs. Red Sox (career) BatterABHHRBBSOOBPSLGAVGDustin Pedroia330001.0001.6671.000CocoCrisp84001.500.500.500Kevin Youkilis94001.444.556.444DavidOrtiz36162104.563.722.444J.D. Drew73000.429.571.429MannyRamirez4719177.481.511.404Alex ...
Gritty O's Find That Tough Isn't Enough; Burres Battered by Baseball's Best Team
Jul 27, 2008; ... Angels 6, Orioles 5 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions As hope continues to fade for the Baltimore Orioles, Manager DaveTrembley is tiring of questions about his team's resolve. He doesnot want to answer whether attention will wane or confidence ...
Coming This Week in the Extras
Jul 27, 2008 ... News about your community, including home ...
Yankees' Andy Pettitte VS. Red Sox' Tim Wakefield
Jul 27, 2008 ... vs. Red Sox (career) BatterABHHRBBSOOBPSLGAVGJacoby Ellsbury53001.600.800.600KevinYoukilis167142.571.750.438Manny Ramirez7432477.482.703.432SeanCasey198001.421.421.421Mike Lowell187021.429.444.389J.D.Drew238219.375.696.348Jason ...
Nationals' Wild Thing Is Now a Sure Thing
Jul 27, 2008; ... Reprinted from yesterday's editions In Houston on May 7, Joel Hanrahan had his wildest game of a wildyear. In 21/3 innings that night, he walked five batters -- thoughtwo were intentional. His command looked much like it had on April 9and April 15, both games in which he walked ...
Avian Botulism Killed 24 Ducks, Park Service Says
Jul 27, 2008; ... The mysterious deaths of 24 ducks and ducklings found floating inthe Capitol Reflecting Pool yesterday has been traced to avianbotulism, a disease caused by bacteria in hot water that is notcontagious to humans, a spokesman for the National Park Servicesaid. "Human beings are ...
Cambodian Vote: Economic Gains vs. Democratic Goals; National Elections Expected to Extend Premier's Tenure
Jul 27, 2008; ... After almost four decades of war and poverty, life is looking upin Cambodia. Skyscraper construction in the capital, promising oil explorationand fast-growing international tourism are starting to produce abetter standard of living in a country where a third of the 14million ...
Homes To Honor Va. Tech Victim
Jul 27, 2008; ... Since her death last year, Erin Peterson has been showered withhonors. Her high school basketball team created an award in hermemory. The private school she attended through eighth grade namedits gym after her. A foundation set up in her name has grantedthousands in ...
Advice for DriversT ...
Jul 27, 2008 ... Timing: The program is scheduled to begin tomorrow. At first, itwill be in effect only during overnight hours, so the operators canbecome familiar with the system while traffic is at its lightest.Later, they will deploy it during the day, when most commuters usethe Beltway and bridge ....
As Food Prices Soar, Bolivia Looks Beyond Coca; President Offers Incentives to Farmers to Also Grow Rice, Corn
Jul 27, 2008; ... Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spentmillions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sowtheir fields with less-potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. The unlikely advocate for change is Bolivian President EvoMorales, who as leader of a ...
DR. G'S TIPS
Jul 27, 2008 ... 'Local' Color Metro's new red-and-silver buses display the word "Local" ontheir sides to indicate the type of service. As older buses arerepainted, they will carry the new colors and lettering, too. The express bus services that the transit authority plans tointroduce will ...
A Beltway Change Tomorrow
Jul 27, 2008 ... Slow down to get there sooner? That's not a concept familiar toWashington area drivers. But it's a theory behind the trafficcontrol program that officials with the Woodrow Wilson BridgeProject plan to launch tomorrow night. Drivers on the CapitalBeltway between the new ...
Tightening Beltway Speeds &# ...
Jul 27, 2008 ... The problem: The last major phase of the Wilson Bridge projectinvolves reconstruction of the Telegraph Road interchange on theVirginia side of the Capital Beltway, west of the new bridge.Planners knew they'd face a problem maintaining traffic flow andsafety through a work zone where the ...
Remote Native Villages in Alaska Struggle Without Police Officers
Jul 27, 2008; ... In the four hours it took Alaska State Troopers to arrive at theEskimo village of Nunam Iqua, a man had choked and raped his 13-year-old stepdaughter in front of three younger children. He hadalready beaten his wife with a shotgun and pistol-whipped a friendafter an evening drinking home ...
Teachers' Take Up Nurses' Duties During Staffing Squeeze
Jul 27, 2008; ... During the past two school years, teacher Julia Keyse had toenforce an unusual rule in her kindergarten and first-gradeclassroom: No interrupting while she pricked Caylee's finger tocheck her blood sugar and adjusted her insulin pump. "They were so good. They would just sit and ...
China Group Asserts That It Bombed Buses; Officials Play Down Claims on Video, Which Includes Threats to Olympics
Jul 27, 2008; ... A group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party has released avideo asserting responsibility for deadly bus bombings last week inChina's western Yunnan province and other recent incidents, andthreatening attacks during the Olympic Games. The Chinese government, which has warned ...
After 60 Years, Voices From the Holocaust; Families Find Loved Ones, Answers in Nazi Files
Jul 27, 2008; ... A mother and child separated. A father's war wound. An uncle'sname on a list. The unrelated and disparate items are among the discoveries madeby 40 Jewish genealogists who spent the past week plumbing a troveof Nazi documents made public after 60 years. For genealogists of ...
A Life Cut Short, Long Recognized; Fallen Manassas Officer Honored 20 Years Later
Jul 27, 2008; ... John David Conner III was in an exceptionally good mood when hereported to the Manassas police department for work the night ofJuly 24, 1988. The father of four had just been promoted to sergeant, lost 20pounds and bought a new home with a backyard swing set that he waseager to ...
Indians Trade for World Series Winner Reyes
Jul 27, 2008 ... Anthony Reyes, who won Game 1 of the 2006 World Series for St.Louis, was traded by the Cardinals on Saturday to the Indians forminor league RHP Luis Perdomo. The 26-year-old Reyes has split this season between theCardinals' bullpen and the starting rotation at Class AAA ...
WINS Lee, Clev ... 14-2 NE ...
Jul 27, 2008 ... WINS Lee, Clev 14-2 NEXT: Wednesday vs. Tigers GAMES PITCHED Green, Sea ...
Yankees Acquire Nady, Marte From the Pirates
Jul 27, 2008 ... The Yankees acquired OF Xavier Nady and left-hander reliever Damaso Marte from the Pirates last night, bolstering their offenseand bullpen ahead of next week's trade deadline. Nady and Marte were coveted by several teams, and New York partedwith top outfield prospect Jose Tabata ...
Conn. May Have Produced a Model for Public Campaign Financing
Jul 27, 2008; ... Sen. Barack Obama may have abandoned public financing for hispresidential campaign, but in Connecticut, legislative candidatesare lining up to get campaign cash from the state government. About 70 percent of the Nutmeg State's candidates for GeneralAssembly this year are expected ...
Mark Burnett, Keeping It Real
Jul 27, 2008; ... Mark Burnett expects the first line of his obituary to read:Found the American Dream. Not the mastermind behind "Survivor," "Are You Smarter Than a 5thGrader?" and "The Apprentice." Not the man who made reality TV astaple of American network programming. "Think about it," the ...
Burnett's Bio
Jul 27, 2008 ... Born: July 17, 1960, in London Family: Married to actress Roma Downey; three children Jobs before TV: Paratrooper, nanny, T-shirt ...