The Washington Post back issues from Wednesday, December 10:
A Missile System Not Worth Defending
Dec 10, 2008 ... The Dec. 6 editorial "Mr. Putin's Bluff" suggested that "anyretreat" on European missile defense "will be taken by the Kremlinas a victory" and therefore should not be considered. There, ifyou'll excuse the term, is old Washington thinking at its worst.Continue the Bush administration's ...
Bridge
Dec 10, 2008; ... A new term having begun, my friend the English professor foundhimself teaching graduate-level courses. "How are your students doing?" I asked. "Grad school," the prof sniffed, "the snooze button on the alarmclock of life." Two players were snoozing today. After West's ...
DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor ...
Dec 10, 2008 ... DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor release 12/10/08 bc-stewart-bridge 12/10 TMS Original DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor release 12/10/08 WHO'S GOT THE BUTTON? By FRANK STEWART Tribune Media Services A new term having begun, my friend the English professor ...
Trial by Absurdity; The alleged authors of Sept. 11 seek death -- and a propaganda coup -- in a flawed legal system.
Dec 10, 2008 ... THE PROCEEDINGS at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,have again become a forum for the absurd. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of theattacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and four others are scheduled to be triedby military commission for their roles in the ...
Mr. Blagojevich's Arrest; After the governor of Illinois is accused of trying to sell a Senate seat, the state needs to find a way to fill it honestly.
Dec 10, 2008 ... ACOURT will determine whether Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich isguilty of a "public corruption crime spree" that would make "Lincolnroll over in his grave," as colorfully alleged by U.S. AttorneyPatrick J. Fitzgerald yesterday. Certainly, Mr. Blagojevich seems tohave immersed himself in ...
Crush Coming; It's safe to predict that Inauguration Day will bring record crowds -- and coordination problems -- to the region.
Dec 10, 2008 ... "I DON'T think anybody knows what's going to happen. . . . [But]this inauguration is going to be very big." That bit of under- andoverstatement from D.C. tourist honcho William A. Hanbury prettymuch sums up the quandary facing the battalion of local, regionaland national officials in ...
Gridlock Working in Nats' Favor
Dec 10, 2008; ... Boxed in by the massive case of gridlock that has stymiedbaseball's elite free agent market, the Washington Nationals haveturned their attention away from highly coveted first baseman MarkTeixeira -- who seems likely to wait deep into the winter beforesigning -- and toward other ...
Senior Makes Leap to Get Jump on College; Va. Tech Recruit Green Transferred From Millbrook to Paul VI to Prep for ACC
Dec 10, 2008; ... Paul VI Catholic guard Erick Green emerged from the home lockerroom last week with teammates he was still getting to know andjogged around a gymnasium where he had played just once in hisdecorated prep basketball career. In the sparse crowd that dotted the bleachers at the ...
Lawmakers Grill Mortgage Chiefs; Former Fannie, Freddie CEOs Explain Moves Into Risky Loans
Dec 10, 2008; ... Former Fannie Mae chief executive Franklin D. Raines,encountering accusations from a congressional panel yesterday thathe and his colleagues acted irresponsibly in making decisions thatled to the housing crisis, blamed the federal regulator that oversaw his company for failing to rein in ...
DISTRICT BRIEFING
Dec 10, 2008 ... EMPLOYMENT The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington has laid off 20employees and eliminated five other positions, an organizationspokeswoman said yesterday. The staff reductions, which are the result of a 20 percentdecline in revenue, will not affect services at BGCGW's ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Dec 10, 2008 ... ASSOCIATIONS The National Association of Home Builders said it will eliminate52 jobs and cut $11.5 million from its operating budget. Half of the positions to be eliminated are vacant, and thelayoffs will take place "immediately," Jerry Howard, chief executiveof the ...
Arlington Man Accused of Killing Acquaintance During Argument
Dec 10, 2008; ... An Internet security consultant was charged with murder yesterdayin the shooting death of an acquaintance during an early morningargument in the Arlington County home he was renting, police said. Willie Donaldson, 35, was charged in the shooting of LoudounCounty resident Matthew ...
Soldier's Dedication To Family, Duty Recalled
Dec 10, 2008; ... Anthony Davis never met a stranger. He was a charismatic soldierwith a big heart, a man gifted with a deep vocabulary, a commandingvoice and "the gift of gab," his wife said. Anna Davis described her husband as a humble and giving man and adevoted and dedicated husband, father and ...
THE LOTTERIES; December 9
Dec 10, 2008 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 5-4-8 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 2-7-8-2 Lucky Numbers: 4-3-9 D.C. 4: 7-0-4-4 Rolling Cash 5: 1-10-14-28-30 Daily 6: 14-23-24-25-30-31 *8 Day/Pick3: 7-1-0 Pick-4: ...
FBI Says Illinois Governor Tried to Sell Senate Seat; Blagojevich Charged With Bribery, Conspiracy
Dec 10, 2008; ... Federal prosecutors charged Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D)yesterday with engaging in a series of illegal schemes intended toenrich himself, including an attempt to sell the Senate seatrecently vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. In conversations riddled with coarse language ...
Vote on Detroit Bailout Nears; Measure Would Create Car Czar To Oversee Rescue
Dec 10, 2008; ... The White House and congressional Democrats yesterday reached an"agreement in concept" on a plan that would throw a governmentlifeline to the faltering Detroit auto industry but require the autogiants, their workers and creditors to quickly negotiate a path toprofitability or face the ...
De La Hoya Mulling Decision To Retire
Dec 10, 2008 ... The man who calls Oscar De La Hoya his best friend said thefighter is out of the hospital, with no broken bones, and willreturn to his Puerto Rico home before finalizing his probabledecision to retire. "No one can make that decision for him," said Richard Schaefer,chief executive ...
'I Was Tempted by Demons,' Suspect Says; A Montgomery Woman, 83, Is Dead, and Two Landscapers Are Jailed
Dec 10, 2008; ... Forty-eight hours after he had allegedly beaten and burned todeath 83-year-old Lila Meizell, Ramon Alvarado put on his new whiteleather shoes and headed to La Frontera, a Mexican-style cantina atthe edge of a Montgomery County strip mall. It was the day after Thanksgiving, and ...
Brazen Words on Tape Left Agents 'Shocked'
Dec 10, 2008; ... As the noose tightened, month by month, Gov. Rod Blagojevichseemed to know he was in trouble. "You gotta be careful how you express that and assume everybody'slistening. The whole world's listening," Blagojevich said in aconversation secretly taped by the FBI. "I would do it in ...
Many Government Contractors Bring Home Little Bacon, Report Finds
Dec 10, 2008; ... If you think of well-paid, highly skilled people like brainyengineers at Lockheed Martin or tough Blackwater gunmen in Iraq whenyou hear the phrase "government contractors," think again. Many contractors do grunt work and don't get paid much for it,says a report by the Center for ...
Boys' Top 20
Dec 10, 2008 ... Last season's ranking in parentheses. Stags feature a super-talented back court led by senior NajiHibbert (Texas A&M) and junior Josh Selby (Tennessee). Mustangs reloaded, adding C Mouphtaou Yarou (Villanova) and topjunior G Terrence Ross. With three Division I ...
Online and Mobile
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Around the Nation
Dec 10, 2008 ... CHICAGO -- Bank of America said Tuesday that it will extendcredit to a Chicago window and door maker whose workers haveoccupied the factory for five days. The bank said that it is willing to give Republic Windows & Doors"a limited amount of additional loans" to resolve claims ...
Credit Unions to Get Federal Assistance; Most Institutions Are Healthy Despite Crisis
Dec 10, 2008; ... The federal government plans to pump billions of dollars into thenation's credit unions in a bid to stabilize an industry longconsidered to be sheltered from the problems shaking other kinds offinancial institutions. The National Credit Union Administration said yesterday that ...
In New Sign of Investor Fear, T-Bill Yields Go Negative
Dec 10, 2008; ... Here's how nervous investors have become: At one point yesterdayafternoon, people were willing to pay the Treasury to keep theirmoney safe for three months. News of weak balance sheets at some of the world's largestcompanies sent stocks tumbling, and investors fled once again to ...
Appeals Court Rejects Craig's Attempt to Pull Back Guilty Plea in Sex Sting
Dec 10, 2008; ... A Minnesota appeals court yesterday rejected Sen. Larry E.Craig's latest effort to withdraw his guilty plea, 18 months afterthe Idaho Republican was arrested in a Minneapolis airport bathroomduring an undercover sex sting. Since pleading guilty in August 2007 to ...
Yesterday's Results at Wash ...
Dec 10, 2008 ... Yesterday's Results at Wash. 107 Detroit 94 at Cleveland 114 Toronto 94 Utah 99 at Minnesota 96 at Chicago 105 New York 100 at Houston 92 Atlanta 84 S.A. 133 at Dallas 126 (2OT) at Phoenix 125 Milw. 110 Orlando 109 at ...
CORRECTION
Dec 10, 2008 ... A photo caption with a Dec. 7 Style & Arts article misidentifiedthe actor ...
Continue Pressing Al-Qaeda, Bush Urges
Dec 10, 2008; ... President Bush yesterday urged President-elect Barack Obama to"stay on the offensive" against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groupsand said his own administration had "laid a solid foundation" formeeting emerging threats around the world. Addressing cadets at the U.S. Military ...
Justices Question Withholding Of Evidence in Capital Case; Tenn. Prosecutors Didn't Turn Over Proof of Killer's Drug Use
Dec 10, 2008; ... The Supreme Court's oral arguments in Cone v. Bell yesterdaybegan with exasperation, Justice Antonin Scalia incredulous thatlawyers were at it again on behalf of a brutal murderer who thecourt twice has said could be put to death. "How long has this case been going on?" Scalia ...
Dear Carolyn: Before I met m ...
Dec 10, 2008; ... Dear Carolyn: Before I met my boyfriend, I had a long list of things I wantedin a husband. Now I'm in love with a sweet guy who loves me verymuch, but who doesn't have some of the important things on my"list." If I leave him, I could regret it forever, but if I don't, Icould miss ...
Texas Holds Off Villanova at Jimmy V Classic
Dec 10, 2008 ... A.J. Abrams scored 26 points and Damion James added 16 to leadNo. 6 Texas to a 67-58 victory over No. 15 Villanova last night inthe Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York. Abrams, who had 18 points in the second half, and James, theLonghorns' two leading scorers, ...
Truth, Consequences
Dec 10, 2008; ... For NFL coaches, honesty is the worst policy. Their rule ofthumb, almost to a man, is: Try everything else first. The truth isalways a Hail Mary. But every rule has its exception. Meet Jim Zorn. From the day hearrived to coach the Redskins, he's said what's on his mind, indetail, ...
For Another Family, a Case of Mistaken Identity
Dec 10, 2008 ... A landscaping company that bears the same name as two men accusedof killing an 83-year-old woman in Montgomery County is strugglingwith the mistaken perception that it is connected to the slaying,one of its owners said. Naomy Alvarado said the family business, Frederick ...
Capitals Report
Dec 10, 2008 ... DayTimeOpponentTVTonight7 vs. BostonCSNFriday7 vs.OttawaCSN+Saturday7 at MontrealCSN+ ALL GAMES ...
A League That Can Play in Washington
Dec 10, 2008 ... The Dec. 7 article "Obama Assembles an Ivy-Tinged League"confirmed that President-elect Barack Obama is redeeming his promiseto bring change to Washington. Unlike the past eight years, the nextfour evidently will bring us governance by men and women who learnthrough reading, not ...
S. Koreans Have New Regard for U.S. Beef
Dec 10, 2008; ... South Korea's beef over U.S. beef is finally over. So are the months of anti-beef rallies and riots that paralyzeddowntown Seoul this year and cost South Korea an estimated $2.5billion. So are the human chains of concerned housewives surroundingmeat lockers containing U.S. beef. So ...
It Was Here Prosky Had True Presence
Dec 10, 2008; ... Robert Prosky was round, and so was his talent. His name on acast list was like the guarantee on the label of a premium brand: Asyou sat and waited for him to appear, you knew you could count onsomething solid, packed with flavor. Lovers of TV drama will remember him as the ...
Filling Ill. Senate Seat Gets Trickier
Dec 10, 2008; ... The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on briberycharges relating to the appointment of a senator to replace BarackObama turns what was already a difficult situation into one fraughtwith political peril. Under Illinois law, Blagojevich has sole power to choose ...
D.C. Team Makes It To the Big Time
Dec 10, 2008 ... Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell, above right, celebrates atFedEx Field with Dunbar High School football players, who won a ProGame Day Experience contest sponsored by Powerade and hosted byCampbell. At right, the Redskins quarterback offers tips to the D.C.school's players during the ...
Truck Leads Police on Wild Md.-Va. Chase
Dec 10, 2008; ... A truck driver wanted for violating probation more than a decadeago led police on a 30-mile chase yesterday that began on Interstate270 in upper Montgomery County and followed the Capital Beltway intoVirginia before the driver crashed near Tysons Corner, authoritiessaid. The ...
FCC Chairman Abused Power, House Probe Finds
Dec 10, 2008; ... Congressional Democrats yesterday sharply criticized the FederalCommunications Commission, calling it a dysfunctional agency led bya chairman who manipulated and withheld data and reports to advancehis own policy positions. The Democratic lawmakers made their accusations in a ...
Live From Iceland, or Possibly Greenland, It's the DipNote Tweet Show!
Dec 10, 2008; ... There's only six weeks left in the Bush administration, but LoopFans know that political appointees are not about to collect theirpaychecks and just kick back in local bars. Au contraire! They'regoing hyperspeed to fulfill their duties before the inauguration. Take Deputy Assistant ...
Around the World
Dec 10, 2008 ... ukraine Ukraine's pro-Western governing coalition, rooted in the 2004Orange Revolution, was reinstated Tuesday after months of deadlock,with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko likely to remain in her job. The announcement all but ruled out for now the notion of a snapelection, ...
The World
Dec 10, 2008 ... Demonstrators staged a mock ministerial meeting outside theEuropean Union Council building in Brussels this week to press fortroops to be sent to conflict-ridden ...
Montgomery's Christmas Tree Law
Dec 10, 2008 ... I am not a bit surprised that Montgomery County sets limits onwhen Christmas trees can be sold ["Early Christmas Tree Sales?Heavens, No," front page, Dec. 5]. There is hardly anybody in thiscounty who doesn't want to regulate every action taken by theirfellow residents. People want to ...
Four Members Of Centreville Heroin Ring Plead Guilty
Dec 10, 2008; ... Four young Fairfax County men pleaded guilty yesterday toconspiring to distribute heroin as part of a ring operating inCentreville, and two of them admitted supplying the drugs thatkilled 19-year-old Alicia Lannes. The guilty pleas came less than three weeks after nine Fairfaxmen ...
Senators Cite Security, Oppose Inauguration Week Bar Hours
Dec 10, 2008; ... Two U.S. senators involved in the planning of President-electBarack Obama's inauguration objected yesterday to the emergency lawapproved by the D.C. Council that will allow bars and nightclubs tostay open all night, warning that the plan could strain lawenforcement resources. In ...
Israeli Wall Fuels Migration; Palestinians With Economic, Social Services Ties to Jewish State Are Integrating Neighborhoods That Won't Be Blocked by Barrier
Dec 10, 2008; ... Samih Bashir, a Palestinian lawyer, plans to move early next yearto a large house with two living rooms, three bathrooms and a bigbackyard where his four children can play. It is in a Jerusalemneighborhood called French Hill -- a part of the city that Israelsays will never become part ...
Wasting Food, Droopy Waistbands
Dec 10, 2008 ... Kindness seems in short supply this week, but the well of petpeeves is bottomless, so we thought we'd share a few of them. Have you paid attention to how our supermarkets deliberatelywaste food? Daily they cull fruits with slight bruises and wiltingvegetables. Not long ago, ...
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Dec 10, 2008 ... ECONOMY The chief executive of American Airlines says any federal plan toboost the economy should include help for the aviation industry,including more spending on runways and a better air traffic controlsystem, but not necessarily direct aid to the carriers themselves. "The ...
'Butterfingers Angel': Oh, Holy Cow
Dec 10, 2008; ... The late William Gibson, the Tony-winning playwright of "TheMiracle Worker," served up a couple of kinds of crazy in his 1975take on the Nativity story: Mary's a loud brat, the angel is allthumbs, and Herod is a power-mad whack job. Even the full title of the show, now getting an ...
Girls Behaving Badly
Dec 10, 2008; ... A BLESSED CHILD By Linn Ullmann Translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Death Knopf. 307 pp. $24.95 Two staples of high school reading -- John Knowles's "ASeparate Peace" and William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" -- havegenerated decades of literary ...
Hootie And a Hollerin'; Rucker Finds Unlikely Success In Country Music
Dec 10, 2008; ... The Hootie Guy has hung up his cowboy hat. It just doesn't fit Darius Rucker anymore, now that the Hootie &the Blowfish frontman has gone country. "The last eight years with Hootie, I wore a straw cowboy hat onall our shows," Rucker says of his standard headgear with the ...
Arena Stage Banks on Bankhead
Dec 10, 2008; ... Citing the sudden unavailability of a lead actor, Arena Stage hasreplaced Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth" as the finalshow of its season. The show was to run May 29-June 28. For that same slot at theLincoln Theatre, Arena will bring in "Looped," a play about ...
Danaher Expands Job Cuts by 700, Will Close Another Factory
Dec 10, 2008; ... The manufacturing conglomerate Danaher said Monday evening thatit will take further measures to cut costs as the global economicdownturn hampers its ability to grow through acquisitions and slowsits sales. The District company said it will cut a total of 1,700 jobs andclose 13 ...
No Credit for Doing the Right Thing
Dec 10, 2008 ... So we consumers are no longer buying on credit ["Retailers Reporta Crisis in All Aisles," front page, Dec. 5]. We are saving as muchof our money as possible. We are investing more in reliable, ifunexciting, bonds. We are being required to live in homes we canafford. Isn't this ...
Law Students Set the Etiquette Bar Low
Dec 10, 2008; ... Dear Miss Manners: I have just started law school, where professionalism is part ofthe education. At this point, I would be grateful just for respectand common courtesy. The trouble arises in one class where there are no assignedseats. One of my classmates saves a seat for ...
Her Nose Knows the Importance of Children's Hospital
Dec 10, 2008; ... One day late in summer, Rahul Shah got up early, breakfasted on adoughnut, then pondered the day ahead. A pediatric ear, nose andthroat surgeon at Children's National Medical Center, Dr. Shah had ahalf-dozen cases that day. Most were what he called "bread-and-butter" cases -- removing ...
Student Gets Life in German Train-Bombing Plot
Dec 10, 2008; ... A Lebanese college student was convicted and sentenced to life inprison Tuesday for his role in a 2006 plot to plant suitcase bombson two German commuter trains. Youssef Mohammed el-Hajdib, 24, was found guilty by a Germancourt in the city of Duesseldorf of attempted murder and ...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Dec 10, 2008 ... ELECTRONICS Sony is slashing 4 percent of its worldwide workforce, reining inspending and shutting plants as it tries to ride out a recessionthat is battering Japan's export-reliant manufacturers. The companysaid it will shut five or six of its 57 factories and eliminate8,000 ...
Driving to New York? Give the Kids a Break.
Dec 10, 2008; ... Rest stop? There will be no resting involved for my energetic 3-year-old son. My goal is for him to go, go, go before being loadedback into his car seat. Every holiday season, our travels take us from Washington to myin-laws' home in the New York area. Even at other times of the ...
Kina Leads Navy to 8th Win in 10 Games
Dec 10, 2008 ... Kaleo Kina scored 20 of his game-high 26 points in the final 15minutes to help Navy rally to beat Mount St. Mary's, 68-65, lastnight in Emmitsburg. Kina shot 10 for 15 from the field and added seven rebounds andfour assists for the Midshipmen (8-2). The Mountaineers (3-5) ...
The Bungles Return to Cincinnati; Backsliding Team Faces Offseason Questions of Coach's Status, Quarterback's Health
Dec 10, 2008; ... They are back to being the same old stumbling and bumblingCincinnati Bengals. The respectability to which Marvin Lewis andCarson Palmer elevated them just a few years ago is a quickly fadingmemory. Now the questions are: Will Lewis hang around as their coachbeyond this season to ...
In India, Muslims Mark a Somber Eid; Celebrations Subdued After Mumbai Siege
Dec 10, 2008; ... Ahsaan Qureshi, one of India's most popular comics, usually hostsa posh party to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. His wifegets her hands decorated with red swirls of henna. His childrendress in their swankiest clothes, eating sweets and setting offfirecrackers late into the ...