The Washington Post back issues from Wednesday, February 18:
Georgetown at South Florida
Feb 18, 2009 ... When: 7 p.m. Where: Sun Dome, Tampa. Records: ...
Together in Hallowed Ground; 2 Soldiers Were Missing More Than a Year After Iraq Ambush
Feb 18, 2009; ... On May 12, 2007, an Army patrol south of Baghdad was attacked byenemy forces using automatic fire and explosives. When the fightingwas done, four U.S. soldiers were dead, and three were missing. The body of one missing soldier was found in less than two weeks,but the search for the ...
LOCAL BRIEFING
Feb 18, 2009 ... LABOR Smithfield Foods said it plans to cut 1,800 jobs and close sixfactories -- including one in its Virginia hometown -- as partof a restructuring that comes during an overall slump in the meatindustry. C. Larry Pope, the chief executive, said the nation'slargest pork ...
How Auto Restructuring Will Affect Consumers
Feb 18, 2009; ... General Motors and Chrysler delivered their plans for survivalyesterday to the White House in order to receive billions of dollarsin loans. Here are some answers to questions about how theirrestructuring could affect what's in your garage. QWill the warranty on my car or truck be ...
Capitals Report
Feb 18, 2009 ... DayTimeOpponentTVTonight7:30vs. MontrealCSNFriday7vs.ColoradoCSNSunday 12:30vs. PittsburghWRC-4 ALL GAMES ON WFED (820 AM, 1500 AM) ONLINE COVERAGE Rookies Karl Alzner and Jay ...
CORRECTIONS
Feb 18, 2009 ... A Feb. 16 Page One article on the political battles overPresident Obama's economic stimulus plan incorrectly described theroute Winston Churchill took to power in 1940. Churchill becameBritish prime minister after a fellow Conservative, NevilleChamberlain, resigned. A photo ...
Budget Mire Forces Calif. Senate Lockdown
Feb 18, 2009; ... Locked inside the state Capitol until they pass a $42 billionpackage to fill a mammoth budget gap, California lawmakers carriedsleeping bags and extra socks into the ornate Senate chamberTuesday, settling in for a long stalemate in a state where politicalparalysis is becoming a way of ...
EPA May Reverse Bush, Limit Carbon Emissions From Coal-Fired Plants
Feb 18, 2009; ... The Environmental Protection Agency will reopen the possibilityof regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants,tossing aside a December Bush administration memorandum thatdeclared that the agency would not limit the emissions. The decision could mark the first ...
NEWS & NOTES
Feb 18, 2009 ... Saints Release RB McAllister Popular running back Deuce McAllister was released by the NewOrleans Saints yesterday in a move that reduced the team's payrollas free agency approaches. McAllister, the Saints' all-time leading rusher with 6,069 yards,was due more than $7 ...
Treasury's Auto Adviser Led Other Rescues
Feb 18, 2009; ... Algoma Steel was in trouble in the early 1990s. The company, which employed thousands of unionized workers inSault Ste. Marie, just across the Canadian border from Michigan, washeaded toward bankruptcy and needed a major restructuring tosurvive. Massive layoffs seemed inevitable ....
CHAT REWIND | MICHAEL WILBON: THE CHAT HOUSE
Feb 18, 2009 ... QuestionAnswer NBA 8 and counting: I can think of two generalmanagers that have frankly blown it. Steve Kerr in Phoenix and ErnieGrunfeld in D.C. Ernie for not being truthful on his assessment ofthe team to fire Eddie Jordan; and Kerr . . . instead of tradingAmare Stoudemire, I would ...
An Unwelcome Possession
Feb 18, 2009; ... BODY SURFING By Dale Peck Atria. 417 pp. $26 The virginal teenagers and swooning vampires of StephenieMeyer's "Twilight" series wouldn't last long in Dale Peck's violent,overheated supernatural thriller, "Body Surfing." The author ofseveral previous novels, as ...
Around the Nation
Feb 18, 2009 ... The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday required makers ofnew nuclear power plants to design the reactors so they canwithstand the impact from a commercial jetliner. The commission's approval of the regulation concludes more thantwo years of deliberations over the potential ...
Burris Admits to Fundraising Attempt; Senator Now Says He Tried to Solicit Money for Blagojevich
Feb 18, 2009; ... In the latest in a series of shifting accounts of his conduct,Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) told reporters that he tried to raisemoney for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the same time he was askingBlagojevich to appoint him to the Senate. Burris said he contacted "some people" about ...
Advocates Determined to See Whistleblower Protections Pass
Feb 18, 2009; ... Advocates for stronger whistleblower protections who were jumpingfor joy not long ago are a bit more subdued because those measureswere not included in the stimulus package President Obama signedyesterday. Gleeful when the House passed the protections for federal workersand ...
Buy-Buy, Mr. Burris; The appointed senator from Illinois should go.
Feb 18, 2009 ... WHEN THEN-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in Decemberfor, among other things, allegedly trying to auction off the U.S.Senate seat left open by Barack Obama's election to the presidency,we feared that whomever Mr. Blagojevich eventually chose would betainted by the ...
Alison Des Forges; Bearing witness to Rwanda's horrors, no matter who the victims were.
Feb 18, 2009 ... THE NEWS stories about Alison Des Forges, who died Thursday inthe crash of a Colgan Air plane near Buffalo, naturally focused onher role in trying to prevent, and then to document, the genocide ofsome 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda in 1994. She was fearless andrelentless in that ...
Rough Road Ahead; With a nudge from the Obama administration, GM, Chrysler and the UAW make progress.
Feb 18, 2009 ... GENERAL MOTORS and Chrysler worked up to the last minuteyesterday to produce the interim restructuring plans that they owedthe Treasury Department in return for the next installment of the$17.4 billion rescue loan the Bush administration promised inDecember. Yet, as the companies laid ...
Capitals vs. Canadiens
Feb 18, 2009 ... When: 7:30. TV: Comcast ...
A-Rod Takes Us Out for a Spin
Feb 18, 2009; ... The FBI watches ESPN, too. So, by amazing coincidence, the story Alex Rodriguez told usyesterday was exactly the kind of tale he would have to tell if hedid not want a visit from anybody wearing a badge or carrying asubpoena. Who needs friends like the new ones that Barry and ...
Yesterday's Results at Wash. ...
Feb 18, 2009 ... Yesterday's Results at Wash. 111 Minnesota 103 at Indiana 100 Phila. 91 at Orlando 107 Char. 102 (OT) Milwaukee 92 at Detroit 86 at New York 112 S.A. 107 (OT) N. O. 100 at Okla. City 98 at Houston 114 New Jersey 88 at ...
The Man With a 'Tale' That Just Keeps On Going
Feb 18, 2009; ... Chazz Palminteri says about 80 percent of his solo show "A BronxTale" -- about growing up in a Mafia-run neighborhood in the early1960s -- is true. "The other 20 percent is embellished. . . . I saw the killingexactly the way you saw it in the movie," says Palminteri, ...
Geronimo Descendant Pursues Spirited Fight
Feb 18, 2009; ... Geronimo, the great Apache warrior, is not resting in peace. In the sort of news conference that most likely could happenonly in Washington, Geronimo's great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo,announced a lawsuit against the U.S. government yesterday to recoverhis famous ancestor's ...
Opportunity Knocks, and Fehr Welcomes It
Feb 18, 2009; ... It's something Eric Fehr has experienced each time he's taken thenext step in his career. Now it's happening for him in the NHL. Holes in the defense appear wider. The net looks larger. Thegame's pace seems slower. And, of course, the puck goes in the netwith greater ...
Rodriguez: 'I Blame Myself' for Steroid Use; Star Says He Received Drugs From Cousin
Feb 18, 2009; ... A contrite and emotional Alex Rodriguez, perhaps the preeminenthitter of his generation, sat nervously behind a table here Tuesdayafternoon and said he injected a performance-enhancing drug forthree seasons earlier this decade, an admission that became part ofa public self-flagellation ...
Meet Nate Ball
Feb 18, 2009 ... Kids can meet Nate Ball on Saturday at the National BuildingMuseum, 401 F St. NW, as part of Discover Engineering Family Day.Drop in between 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to check out Lego Robot races,build newspaper bridges, concoct slime, participate in other ...
He Has an Inventive Mind; Engineer Loves Finding New Solutions to Problems
Feb 18, 2009 ... Nate Ball liked to build things when he was kid. He made muddams, launched bottle rockets and once nearly burned down the housetrying to make rocket fuel. Now he is 25 and an engineer. If helooks familiar, it's probably because you've seen him on the PBS TVshow "Design Squad." It's ...
Lights Out At School For At-Risk D.C. Kids
Feb 18, 2009; ... City Lights Public Charter School's closure at the end of themonth will leave a hole in Mike Green's life where something goodused to be. The school is broke, and Green is losing a family. "You don't get no love from your parents, you come in here, it'sall love," said Green, 20, a ...
GM, Chrysler Seek Billions More in Aid; Firms to Cut 50,000 Jobs, Drop 6 Brands
Feb 18, 2009; ... General Motors and Chrysler, two flagships of traditionalAmerican manufacturing, reported yesterday that the decline of theU.S. economy has outpaced their bleakest expectations of just twomonths ago, forcing them to significantly boost their request forbillions of dollars in government ...
Hoyas See Need to 'Relax and Play'
Feb 18, 2009; ... In too many games of late, Georgetown's offense has ground to ahalt. Far too often, those lapses have come when it mattered most. A typical sequence: The Hoyas race toward the basket, theiropponent in pursuit, and stop as if they've hit an invisible wall.They pass the ball around ...
Jurists Decry Loss of Rights; International Panel Says 'War on Terror' Has Diluted Principles
Feb 18, 2009; ... An international group of judges and lawyers has warned thatsystemic torture and other abuses in the global "war on terror" have"undermined cherished values" of civil rights in the United States,Britain and other countries. "We have been shocked by the damage done over the past ...
Son Retraces King's '59 India Pilgrimage; U.S. Civil Rights Activist Honors Gandhi
Feb 18, 2009; ... Fifty years after his parents, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.and Coretta Scott King, traveled to India to study Mahatma Gandhi'sphilosophy of nonviolence, Martin Luther King III is in India toretrace his late father's footsteps. "It is really a special mountaintop experience to be ...
British Lawyer Convicted In Case Tied to Berlusconi
Feb 18, 2009; ... An Italian court convicted a British lawyer Tuesday of acceptinga $600,000 bribe in exchange for false testimony in corruptiontrials involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The conviction is a political embarrassment for Berlusconi, abillionaire businessman, whose ...
Md. Death Penalty Is No Easy Target; Public Opinion, Legislative History Against O'Malley
Feb 18, 2009; ... As he asks lawmakers today to support his bill to repealMaryland's death penalty, Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) will be headingdown a road rife with political pitfalls with no clear path towardsuccess. A majority of Marylanders still support capital punishment. TheGeneral Assembly ...
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Feb 18, 2009 ... GAMING Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for bankruptcy protectionovernight before the casino operator's bondholders could present aninvoluntary petition. The Chapter 11 petition, filed days after founder Donald Trumpquit the board, listed assets of $2.06 billion and debt of ...
Carolyn: My only sibling, m ...
Feb 18, 2009; ... Carolyn: My only sibling, my brother, is getting married in a few months.Our father passed away a few years ago, and since then, we havegotten really close. When I get married, I plan to have my brotherwalk me down the aisle. I recently learned that his fiancee, whom I have ...
The World
Feb 18, 2009 ... In Lahore, Pakistan, a devotee whirls at the shrine of Data GanjBakhsh, an 11th-century Sufi Muslim scholar and cleric. Thousands ofpeople from all over the ...
Orioles' Guthrie Will Pitch for U.S. in WBC
Feb 18, 2009 ... Two years ago, Jeremy Guthrie was hoping to stick in the majorsas a reliever after being claimed off waivers by the Orioles. Next month, Baltimore's staff ace will be pitching for Team USAin the World Baseball Classic. Guthrie, who has been included on theprovisional roster, will ...
Iran Accuses 7 Jailed Leaders of Bahai Faith of Espionage
Feb 18, 2009; ... Seven leaders of the Bahai faith who have been detained for morethan eight months in Iran have been officially accused of espionage,a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary said Tuesday. "Next week, an indictment will be issued and will be discussed incourt," judiciary spokesman ...
No. 19 Purdue Routs No. 6 Michigan State
Feb 18, 2009 ... No. 19 Purdue finally broke through against an elite opponent,beating No. 6 Michigan State, 72-54, last night in West Lafayette,Ind. The Boilermakers lost to Duke and Oklahoma early in the season,and entered this game without a win over a team in the current ...
A Seven-Course, Seven-Stop Manhattan Meal
Feb 18, 2009; ... "I Got Your Atkins Right Here!" says one sign. "Low Fat F%&#@That," reads another. Only in New York City: rice pudding withattitude. Rice to Riches (37 Spring St., 212-274-0008,www.ricetoriches.com) is one of more than half a dozen "singlecuisine" spots in or around Greenwich ...
GOP Rift Over Howell Worsens; Support of Smoking Ban Further Irks Va. House Caucus
Feb 18, 2009; ... House Speaker William J. Howell so surprised his fellowRepublican delegates by changing his mind and supporting a ban onsmoking in restaurants and bars that his second in command brokeranks and refused to back him. House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith's dissent provided ...
Swift, Steep Downturn Crosses Globe; Markets Are Hammered as Hope Fades for Quick Recovery
Feb 18, 2009; ... Markets around the world plunged Tuesday as evidence mounted thatthe global economic crisis is worsening. Japan is suffering its worst downturn in 35 years. The Britisheconomy is facing its sharpest decline in almost 30 years. Germanyis slumping at its worst pace in nearly 20 ...
On WSSC Board, a 'Pathetic' Stalemate; Feud Between Pr. George's, Montgomery Members Holds Up Manager Choice
Feb 18, 2009; ... Decades of acrimony between the Montgomery and Prince George'scounty commissioners who oversee suburban Maryland's beleagueredwater system have come to this: The three Montgomery members say they so distrust their PrinceGeorge's colleagues that they now boycott monthly meetings ...
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Charges Against Blackwater Guards
Feb 18, 2009; ... A federal judge yesterday refused to throw out charges againstfive U.S. security contractors accused of killing 14 Iraqi civiliansin a busy Baghdad square in 2007. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina came in anearly legal challenge brought by lawyers representing ...
Unfinished Eyesore; Abandoned Arlington Building Frustrates Neighbors as County Weighs What Action to Take
Feb 18, 2009; ... When Mark Churchill purchased his upscale townhouse on some ofArlington County's most prime real estate in 2004, he bought into aneighborhood vision that revolved around a centerpiece of condos andshops just minutes from the District. Instead, the view fromChurchill's kitchen window for ...
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Feb 18, 2009 ... ENERGY Russia and China signed a $25 billion energy deal in Beijing thatwill involve China securing oil supplies from Moscow for the next 20years in return for badly needed loans. China's Development Bank will lend $15 billion to Rosneft,Russia's state-owned oil company, and ...
Artist Arrest Spurs Forum On Violence
Feb 18, 2009; ... The mood was electric at Union Temple Baptist Church last nightas more than 150 people gathered to discuss the arrest of R&B singerChris Brown for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, fellow pop starRihanna. "No matter who you are, you shouldn't put your hands on afemale," said ...
Around the World
Feb 18, 2009 ... kosovo Jubilant ethnic Albanians poured into the streets Tuesday to markthe first anniversary of Kosovo's independence from Serbia, asnationalist Serbian lawmakers joined their ethnic kin in northernKosovo in dismissing the celebrations. The tiny, mostly ethnic-Albanian territory ...
Clinton Says U.S. Seeks Unity With Muslim World; Burma, N. Korea Also Major Topics in Tokyo
Feb 18, 2009; ... Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that theObama administration will make "a concerted effort" to restore theimage of the United States in the Islamic world and will seek to"enlist the help of Muslims around the world against theextremists." Clinton, who on ...
EARNINGS Figures in millions (except per-share figures)
Feb 18, 2009 ... United Therapeutics Corp.Ticker: UTHR Headquarters: SilverSpringFourth QuarterYear to DateFiscal year20082007% ...
TODAY'S NEWS
Feb 18, 2009 ... President Barack Obama yesterday signed into law a plan meant tocreate jobs, encourage people to spend money and in general feelbetter about the economy. The president went to Denver's Museum of Nature & Science toemphasize that his plan will help promote environment-friendly ...
Vanity Tag Fans Find a Bumper Crop of GR8 Plates
Feb 18, 2009; ... Monday's column about Bruce Powers's infatuation with vanitylicense plates inspired readers to share their own sightings. Frank McNeirney of Bethesda said his all-time favorite is one hesaw when he lived in Arlington in the mid-1980s. "It was affixed toa car that Chrysler made ...
In the Wheat Fields of Kenya, a Budding Epidemic; Stem Rust, Vanquished by Science Five Decades Ago, Has Returned in a Destructive New Form
Feb 18, 2009; ... A virulent new version of a deadly fungus is ravaging wheat inKenya's most fertile fields and spreading beyond Africa to threatenone of the world's principal food crops, according to the UnitedNations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Stem rust, a killer that farmers thought ...
Man Who Bilked Homeowners Enters Plea in Shooting Spree; Suspect Acknowledges Evidence Is Sufficient for Conviction in Late-Night Attacks
Feb 18, 2009; ... Jeffrey S. Koger knew the authorities were on to him -- that hehad stolen more than $3 million from homeowners associations. Withhis world collapsing, and after a night of heavy drinking, Kogerwent on a bizarre shooting spree in Alexandria and Fairfax Countylast year that left three ...
Federal City Digest
Feb 18, 2009 ... Crime may not pay, but blowing the whistle on it just might. A whistleblower working for a global shipping-container firmunder contract with the federal government to move cargo to U.S.troops in Iraq and Afghanistan was awarded $5.2 million under aprovision of the Federal False ...
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Feb 18, 2009 ... While rates of drug-resistant staph infections appear to be onthe rise in general, hospitals are making progress in curbing atleast one source of infection in some of their sickest patients,U.S. health officials said ...
Federal Diary
Feb 18, 2009 ... Joe Davidson>> Advocates for government whistleblowers were glumafter protections were ...
Healthy Competition for the Top FDA Post
Feb 18, 2009 ... The Obama administration, though a tad slow on nominations thismonth, is moving with some dispatch to fill the post of Food andDrug Administration chief. After all, the FDA has a huge part of theaction when it comes to ensuring that the food we eat and the drugswe take are safe. And ...
The Building That Runs Rings Around the Wiliest Generals
Feb 18, 2009; ... Getting lost in the Pentagon is a time-honored tradition. GeorgeC. Marshall did it. So did Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Richard B.Cheney. Even in the best of times, navigating the Pentagon is not easyfor the uninitiated. Newcomers have always been daunted by the 17miles of ...
Lead in Water Harmed Sons, D.C. Man Claims
Feb 18, 2009; ... A Capitol Hill father of twin boys sued the D.C. Water and SewerAuthority yesterday, claiming the children's ongoing health problemscan be tied to high concentrations of lead in drinking water. John Parkhurst filed suit in D.C. Superior Court in a case thathe hopes will become a ...
Lending Picture
Feb 18, 2009 ... December lending, in millions of dollars, and percent changesince October for the four banks receiving the most federal aid. Mortgage Originations DecemberChangeBank of America 15,410 -12.5Citigroup 5,545 -20.1J.P. Morgan Chase ...
Would Darwin Still Say 'I Don't Know'?
Feb 18, 2009 ... Rick Weiss's Feb. 12 op-ed, "Something Darwin Didn't Know," wasfactual and well written. But several key points regarding Darwin'sviews on the existence of God were ignored. Darwin's wife was very religious, and he went to great lengthsnot to offend her and to accommodate her ...
Why UDC's Students Are Upset
Feb 18, 2009 ... While the Feb. 12 Metro story "Students Fume at Tuition Proposal"represented the issue fairly, some of the most germane points madeby students were missing. I'm an alumnus of the University of the District of Columbia. Ifnot for UDC's open enrollment and affordable tuition, I ...
Helping Schools Help Homeless Students
Feb 18, 2009 ... I was pleased to see your article on homeless children in ourpublic school systems, though it was painful to read ["Schools FaceSharp Rise in Homeless Students," Metro, Feb. 8]. It is important toremember that many students bring more challenges to the classroomthan any teacher or ...