The Washington Post back issues from Friday, November 14:
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Nov 14, 2008 ... BANKING Goldman Sachs Group and leaders of other major U.S. banks, underpressure from Congress to justify their compensation after receivingcash injections from the government, told a Senate panel thatemployees' pay would be slashed this year. Goldman's payouts to employees ...
In Transition
Nov 14, 2008 ... Current Job: Economics professor, University of Chicago. Credentials: Member of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee;research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research;former special consultant for Internet policy for the JusticeDepartment's antitrust division; former ...
Herrity Enters Race for Chairman; Republican Urges Fiscal Restraint in Contest to Replace Connolly
Nov 14, 2008; ... With one of the most renowned names in Fairfax County politics,Supervisor Pat S. Herrity launched his campaign yesterday for boardchairman two decades after his father held the same office. Herrity, 48, is one of just two Republicans on the 10-memberboard and faces Democrat Sharon ...
Hi, Carolyn: Lately I find m ...
Nov 14, 2008; ... Hi, Carolyn: Lately I find myself feeling resentful when wealthier friendstalk about their latest travel excursions, expensive meals, massagetherapists, renovation projects -- things I can't afford. Theymean well and are good people, but they seem to have no idea howtough it is ...
Contemporary-Art Sale Disappoints at Christie's
Nov 14, 2008; ... Lehman Brothers chief executive Richard S. Fuld Jr. and his wife,Kathy, sold a collection of 16 drawings Wednesday night for $13.5million, below the low estimate of $15 million, at a Christie'sInternational sale in New York that reflected the slide in financialmarkets. The ...
Transition Team Chock Full of Bundlers; Public Interest Advocates Fret About the Appearance
Nov 14, 2008; ... Though they worked behind the scenes in Barack Obama's campaignfor president, bundlers who raised millions of dollars for his WhiteHouse bid are starting to land significant posts on his transitionteam. At least nine of the volunteer fundraisers whose wide networks ofcolleagues, ...
Crisis Puts the Brakes on Brazil's Go-Go Economy
Nov 14, 2008; ... The go-go outlook that propelled Brazil onto the world stage inrecent years has crashed into hard economic realities. The financialmeltdown that began in the United States has pummeled the stockexchange, battered commodity prices, weakened the local currency andsqueezed credit, putting ...
Teixeira Attracts Odd Suitor in Nats
Nov 14, 2008; ... If you thought the lowly Tampa Bay Rays vanquishing the BostonRed Sox in the American League Championship Series last month wasbaseball's ultimate David-over-Goliath moment, imagine a scenario inwhich the Washington Nationals, losers of 102 games and immeasurableamounts of local goodwill ...
EARNINGS Figures in millions (except per-share figures)
Nov 14, 2008 ... ePlus Inc.Ticker: PLUS Headquarters: HerndonSecond QuarterYear toDateFiscal year20092008% Chg20092008% ChgRevenue$196.9$225.0-12.5$379.1$463.7-18.2Profit$6.4$4.9+32.2$10.1$9.9+2.5 Earnings pershare$0.74$0.59+25.4$1.18$1.180NOTE: Quarter ended Sept. 30.Intersections Inc.Ticker: ...
Step One Is Just the Start
Nov 14, 2008; ... With their trade for Scott Olsen and Josh Willingham this week,the Nats finally took an initial, though still far from sufficient,step to increase payroll, improve their major league productimmediately and give the city, their fans and even their ownexecutives the support that any team ...
Confessed Police Killer Lionized by Thousands in China; Crime Seen as Blow Against Oppression
Nov 14, 2008; ... Yang Jia slipped into the Zhabei Police Station in north Shanghaithrough the service entrance. A knife in his right hand and a maskover his face, he fatally stabbed four police officers on the firstfloor and one each on the ninth and the 11th before finally beingsubdued. Yang, ...
Capitals Report
Nov 14, 2008 ... OpponentTVTonight7vs. New JerseyCSNTomorrow7at NewJerseyCSNWednesday10at AnaheimCSN ALL GAMES ON WFED (820 AM, 1500 AM) ONLINE COVERAGE Capitals beat ...
No Free Lunch; Congress must demand radical reform in return for any bailout of GM.
Nov 14, 2008 ... THE IMPENDING collapse of General Motors presents Congress andthe president with a choice between two domino effects, bothpotentially damaging to the U.S. economy. If the federal governmentdoes not lend GM money and the company goes bankrupt, therepercussions will spread throughout the ...
Lottery Mystery; Why won't the D.C. Council ratify a contract that was won fair and square?
Nov 14, 2008 ... MEMBERS OF the D.C. Council have been told that switching to anew vendor for the city's lucrative lottery business will savemillions of dollars. They've been told that the city will get abetter product and improved service. Now comes a ruling assuringthem of the integrity of the bidding ...
Submarines and Whales; The Supreme Court strikes the correct balance.
Nov 14, 2008 ... DON'T FRET too much about the whales. At least not yet. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) sued the Navy in2007, arguing that sonar training exercises off the SouthernCalifornia coast would harm marine mammals, including dolphins,whales and sea lions. Federal courts in ...
Maryland
Nov 14, 2008 ... FOR FAMILIES Steppin' Up: Youth Step Teams Show Their SkillsLocal teams from Dance Place, Taratibu Youth Association and Joe'sMovement Emporium are among those who break it down tonight in whatJoe's is billing as its first step show. $7; students, $5. 7:30 p.m.Joe's Movement Emporium, ...
The District
Nov 14, 2008 ... EXHIBIT "Fixation" This show, whose sponsors include PhilippaHughes's Pink Line Project and Ten Miles Square (run by DCist'sHeather Goss), is sure to be a FotoWeek DC highlight. We'reparticularly looking forward to it because of its focus on the city -- and because the opening party ...
Back at Home After Katrina, a Family Questions How to Move On
Nov 14, 2008; ... Q.Our family of five recently moved back to our home, which wasdamaged in Hurricane Katrina, but the children and I hated to leaveour new friends, schools, church and work. We decided that it was better for us to be together, however,since my husband, a university professor, had ...
ON STAGE "86 Minutes to Ponde ...
Nov 14, 2008 ... ON STAGE "86 Minutes to Ponder": Rick Maue and David London Thisshow next Thursday at the Writer's Center in Bethesda is one wecan't wait to share. It's two shows, actually: Maue's "PsychicPhenomena . . . and other lies" is a performance that will, if allgoes well, skewer ideas of the ...
A Chat With South Asian Literati
Nov 14, 2008 ... At the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Manil Suri is aprofessor of math. In either a testament to the work or a gesture ofhumility, he notes on his academic Web site, "This is the only jobI've ever had." It's true only if "best-selling author" does not count as a ...
Most Charges Voided in Alleged Extortion
Nov 14, 2008; ... A federal judge yesterday dismissed 12 of 14 charges against aD.C. government clerk accused of pocketing thousands of dollars inlate fees for elevator licenses. The action by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton came asprosecutors finished presenting evidence in the week-long trial ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Nov 14, 2008 ... SOUTHEAST A teenager was killed and a man was critically wounded last nightduring a shooting in the parking lot of a Southeast D.C. apartmentcomplex, District police said. Officers found a 15-year-old boy and a man in his 40s sufferingfrom multiple gunshot wounds in the ...
Cheh Digs In Heels On Voting Software; Smooth Elections Don't Erase Concerns
Nov 14, 2008; ... The District's Board of Elections and Ethics ran a smoothoperation on Election Day but it's hard to ignore the problemsleading up to the vote as well as those faced during its reportingof the returns, D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh said yesterday. Cheh (D-Ward 3), head of a ...
Around the Nation
Nov 14, 2008 ... GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- An agreement signed Thursday lays thegroundwork for removing four hydroelectric dams from the KlamathRiver to help one of the West Coast's most beleaguered salmon runsand end a long-standing environmental dispute. Removal of the PacifiCorp dams is expected to ...
Saving a Civil War Legacy In Va.'s Shenandoah Valley; Deal Protects Land On Which a Decisive Battle Was Fought [Correction 11/20/08]
Nov 14, 2008; ... In 1762, the Huntsberry family settled the land along Redbud Run,outside Winchester, with a deed from Lord Fairfax. Eight generationslater, Bob Huntsberry spent his summers there as a child, findingrusted Minie balls that had been fired from the muskets of Civil Warsoldiers. He grew up ...
Abduction, Robbery Probed
Nov 14, 2008; ... D.C. police are investigating a brazen abduction and robbery thatunfolded Wednesday night in the Congress Heights neighborhood ofSoutheast Washington. Police said three masked men, all holding handguns, forced a 57-year-old man into his car in the 3800 block of Second Street ...
Democrats Cling to Hope For 60 Seats in the Senate
Nov 14, 2008; ... In a strange turn of events, the Democrats' pursuit of afilibuster-proof majority in the Senate -- left for dead afterlast week's election results -- is now back on course. The road to 60 seats will now go through an Anchorage electionoffice, the Minnesota state courts, a ...
Watching the Market
Nov 14, 2008 ... Top available free agents 1B Mark Teixeira LF Manny Ramirez LF Adam Dunn SS Rafael Furcal LHP CC Sabathia RHP A.J. Burnett RHP Derek Lowe RHP ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Nov 14, 2008 ... REAL ESTATE Developers of a prominent downtown site said yesterday that theyclosed a $194 million construction loan to build an office buildingat the corner of K Street and Connecticut Avenue NW. The loan was provided by a consortium of six banks, led by ChevyChase Bank ....
CORRECTIONS
Nov 14, 2008 ... Today's Weekend section, which was printed in advance, listsincorrect phone numbers for more information about CongressionalChorus performances tomorrow at the McLean Community Center andSunday at the Church of the Epiphany. The best phone number for thepublic to call is 301-229-4045 ....
Soldiering Was Part of Guardsman's DNA; 3rd-Generation Service Member Reunites With Granddad in Burial at Hallowed Ground
Nov 14, 2008; ... The military was in Kevin Grieco's blood; his father andgrandfather had served. So when he decided to join up and become athird-generation soldier, it wasn't surprising, his wife said. Yesterday, Grieco was reunited with his grandfather as he wasburied at Arlington National ...
Indians' Lee Captures AL Cy Young Award
Nov 14, 2008; ... Cleveland Indians left-hander Cliff Lee became one of the mostunlikely Cy Young Award winners in history yesterday, being namedthe American League's best pitcher one year after a miserable seasonthat saw him demoted to the minors and left off the team's playoffroster. "It feels ...
2 Sought in Slaying Arrested in Houston
Nov 14, 2008; ... U.S. marshals in Houston stormed a city bus yesterday andarrested two fugitive gang members wanted in connection with thefatal shooting of a 14-year-old honor student aboard a MontgomeryCounty bus this month, authorities said. "It's kind of poetic justice that they were arrested on ...
Role of Federal Tech Czar to Be Defined by Obama
Nov 14, 2008; ... The most talked-about tech job in government is one that neverbefore existed. On the campaign trail, Barack Obama said he would appoint thenation's first chief technology officer who would, according to hisWeb site, help federal agencies use technology "to make governmentwork ...
In Transition
Nov 14, 2008 ... Current job: Economic policy director for President-elect BarackObama. Credentials: Former director of the Hamilton Project, aninitiative that develops policy proposals to achieve shared economicgrowth; visiting scholar at New York University's Wagner school;nonresident senior ...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Nov 14, 2008 ... RUSSIA Russia's battered stock markets suffered another chaotic day oftrading, as regulators shut the exchanges in response to fallingshare prices, then reopened them -- a practice that is wearingthin with investors. The MICEX closed down 7.6 percent, at 598.4points. The other ...
A Celebrity Architect's Latest Offering
Nov 14, 2008 ... mexico A crime reporter in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez wasshot dead Thursday as he warmed up his car, in the latest killing ofa journalist amid a rising wave of drug violence. Armando Rodriguez, a reporter for El Diario newspaper, hadcovered crime in the city for ...
Chevy Chase Bank Attracts Suitors; Bethesda Institution in Talks With Citigroup and Others
Nov 14, 2008; ... Chevy Chase Bank, part of the fabric of the Washington businesscommunity for nearly four decades, is in discussions with potentialbuyers, according to people familiar with the situation. The Bethesda financial institution has attracted the interest ofseveral larger banks including ...
Afghanistan War Deaths
Nov 14, 2008 ... Total number of U.S. military deaths and names of the U.S. troopskilled recently in the Afghanistan war, as announced by thePentagon: 622In hostile actions:In non-hostileactions:Fatalities407215Tallies may be incomplete because of lags in reporting Spec. Cory J. Bertrand, 18, ...
The World
Nov 14, 2008 ... An enormous, 1.8-mile-thick cloud of soot, particles andchemicals hangs above Asia, threatening food supplies and health,the United Nations said yesterday. The haze, caused by auto exhaust,the use of fossil fuels, and slash-and-burn ...
Aid to Fannie, Freddie May Top Expectations; Firms' Health Has Worsened During Crisis
Nov 14, 2008; ... The first of the Bush administration's major financial takeovers,the seizure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is poised to get moreexpensive and some analysts are warning that it may ultimately costmore than the government has suggested. Mounting troubles in the financial and housing ...
U.S. Soldier, 18 Others Die in Afghan Bombing
Nov 14, 2008; ... An American soldier and 18 Afghan civilians were killed Thursdayafter a suicide bomber rammed his car into a convoy of U.S. militaryvehicles in a busy market in eastern Afghanistan. The blast occurred about 8 a.m. in the district of Bati Kot, ineastern Nangahar province. The bomber ...
A Baby Boom for Obama's Name
Nov 14, 2008; ... In her dream last year, Isha Kallay, a hair stylist in Cheverly,beheld Barack Obama standing atop a hill, giving a speech to amultitude. The light of the moon and the stars shone upon him. Hewas magnificent. "When I turned around, Hillary Clinton was down the hill,"recalls ...
Father of the Follies
Nov 14, 2008; ... ZIEGFELD The Man Who Invented Show Business By Ethan Mordden St. Martin's. 335 pp. $32.95 "Flo liked his erotica neat and fulfilled, not coy andgibbering," Ethan Mordden writes close to the beginning of thisengaging, often gnomic, information-packed biography ...
Election Over, Workers Can Break Out the Campaign Buttons
Nov 14, 2008; ... The Hatch Act, which regulates the political activity of federalemployees, isn't as restrictive as some workers think. It mightsurprise them that the law even allows wearing and displayingcampaign items on the job -- as long as it's after the election. So you now can break out ...
Northern Virginia
Nov 14, 2008 ... CONCERT Kirov Orchestra Tonight, the famed 18th-century Russianorchestra returns to George Mason with conductor Valery Gergiev andpianist Alexei Volodin in a program that includes Prokofiev's"Cinderella" Suite No. 3, Op. 109, and Beethoven's Piano ConcertoNo. 4. 8 p.m. George Mason ...
Gloom Goes Up Around Globe as Signs Point Down; Big Economies in Recession, Group Says
Nov 14, 2008; ... Evidence of a broad global recession continued to accumulateyesterday, with U.S. officials reporting a spike in jobless claims,Germany confirming that its economy has shrunk for six consecutivemonths, and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperationand Development projecting a ...
Va. Bollywood Investor Admits $33 Million Fraud
Nov 14, 2008; ... He was an icon in the local Indian community, a flashy movieproducer who invested millions in Bollywood films and brought Indianmusical acts to the Washington area. Vijay K. Taneja had an aura about him, a celebrity image thatmade people trust him, according to people who know the ...
Bush Warns of Aggressive Economic Regulation; On Wall St., He Defends Bailout
Nov 14, 2008; ... After presiding over some of the most dramatic marketinterventions in U.S. history over the past two months, PresidentBush came to Wall Street on Thursday to urge world leaders not toventure too far down a path of government interference in capitalisteconomies. Speaking to a ...
Obama Ties Automaker Rescue to Regulation
Nov 14, 2008; ... Top advisers to President-elect Barack Obama are helping to draftan auto industry rescue plan that would bring new governmentoversight, including the possibility of an auto czar who couldensure the money was being used wisely. Aides said Obama is also open to an oversight board ...
FDIC Details Plan To Alter Mortgages; Treasury Opposes Using Bailout Funds For Proposal to Ease Monthly Payments [Correction 11/20/08]
Nov 14, 2008; ... Officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. yesterdaydetailed a plan to prevent 1.5 million foreclosures in the next yearby offering financial incentives to companies that agree to sharplyreduce monthly payments on mortgage loans. The proposal, which has the support of leading ...
Johnson Hopes for Fast Return
Nov 14, 2008; ... Less than a day after suffering a hip injury in the first periodagainst the Carolina Hurricanes, Washington Capitals goaltenderBrent Johnson was optimistic he won't miss any playing time. Thoughhe was held out of practice as a precaution, Johnson said heanticipates backing up Jose ...
AIG to Pay Millions To Top Workers; Move Comes on Heels Of Revised Bailout
Nov 14, 2008; ... American International Group plans to pay out $503 million indeferred compensation to some of its top employees, saying it musttap the funds to keep valuable workers from exiting the troubledinsurance giant. News of the payments to top AIG talent comes as the federalgovernment ...
CIA Chief: Iraq Not Main Front; But Hayden Says Al-Qaeda Remains Greatest Threat to U.S.
Nov 14, 2008; ... CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday that al-Qaedaremains the single greatest threat to the United States but thatIraq is no longer the central front in the broader war on terrorism. "Today, the flow of money, weapons and foreign fighters into Iraqis greatly diminished and ...
Fund Chiefs Back Oversight; Managers Tell Lawmakers They Would Give Data to Regulators
Nov 14, 2008; ... Five of the world's wealthiest billionaire hedge-fund managerssaid yesterday that they would support greater oversight of theirsecretive $2 trillion industry, as momentum grows in Congress forstricter control of an essentially unregulated corner of thefinancial world. "The ...
Gardner-Webb at Virginia Tech
Nov 14, 2008 ... PLAYING WITH EXPECTATIONS: When Virginia Tech entered the ACCfive years ago, there was skepticism about how the Hokies wouldadjust in men's basketball, but Coach Seth Greenberg has one of themost consistent teams in the conference. Last season, the Hokieswere picked to finish 10th in ...
Horse Tests Positive for Herpesvirus
Nov 14, 2008; ... A 2-year-old filly that showed signs of neurological distressWednesday at Laurel Park has tested positive for equine herpesvirus,the Maryland Department of Agriculture reported yesterday. The announcement put the racing industry throughout the mid-Atlantic on high alert, with ...
Iraqi Urges Passage of U.S. Deal; Shiite Leader Breaks With Government, Says Pact Is Essential
Nov 14, 2008; ... Iraq's interior minister has criticized the country's politiciansfor not approving an agreement that would allow U.S. troops tooperate in Iraq after the end of the year, and called theircontinued presence crucial. "The security agreement is important for Iraq to ban and ...
Biden Names His Chief of Staff; Klain, a Veteran Democratic Staffer, Had Same Role for Gore
Nov 14, 2008; ... Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. turned to one of themost experienced Democratic staffers in Washington yesterday innaming as his chief of staff Ronald A. Klain, a longtime trustedadviser with an intimate knowledge of how the White House operates. Klain, a Harvard-trained ...
Hillary Clinton as Mrs. Foggybottom?
Nov 14, 2008; ... There's increasing chatter in political circles that the Obamacamp is not overly happy with the usual suspects for secretary ofstate these days and that the field may be expanding beyond Sen.John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), Sen.Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and ...
A Survivor Of Terror Aids Other Victims; Justice Hire Hopes To Cut Red Tape
Nov 14, 2008; ... Clutching tender ribs, a kidney pocked with shrapnel, teacherPatsy Spier came to Washington in early 2003 seeking justice, onlymonths after her husband was killed in an overseas terrorist ambush. The Colorado woman, whose main grasp of government came from ahigh school civics ...
A Selective Invisible Hand
Nov 14, 2008 ... It's nice to see AIG get a big cut in the interest rate on the loan the American taxpayers are handing it ["Government AgainExpands AIG Rescue Plan," Business, Nov. 11]. What happened to the concept that high-risk clients have toaccept higher interest rates when they borrow ...
The Bad Economy's Gift to Colleges
Nov 14, 2008 ... The Nov. 11 Metro article "Struggling Economy Puts Colleges in aTight Spot" highlighted some of what local colleges are doing toweather the economic storm. Largely missing from the discussion --here and nationally -- are ways to control costs. Historically,lower state funding has ...
A Case for D.C. Rights
Nov 14, 2008 ... Those who oppose giving District residents voting representationin Congress ignore the fact that the District has a largerpopulation than Wyoming has ["Backers of Voting Rights Face Split,"Metro, Nov. 10]. Why should Wyoming -- with a population of about523,000 -- have two senators ...
Goodwill for Mr. Obama
Nov 14, 2008 ... Timothy A. Heberling [letters, Nov. 11] asked those who did notsupport Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential election to show"goodwill" toward the president-elect. Is Mr. Heberling referring to the "goodwill" that Democratsextended to then ...