The Washington Post back issues from Monday, April 20:
Suddenly Susan: Singer's Town Is Agog
Apr 20, 2009; ... Before fame came to town, before all the satellite trucks andfans that come with overnight stardom, Susan Boyle could walk herworld in five minutes. And she did, daily. She's never had a driver's license, neverreally needed one in this little cuddle of a Scottish village whereshe ...
Brentano Weaves Warhorses and Wuorinen
Apr 20, 2009; ... The Brentano Quartet is known for its sense of exploration. Ithas given concerts juxtaposing music and the spoken word;interleaved the movements of a Mozart quartet with pieces by Webern.On Friday night at the Library of Congress, it lived up to itsreputation with a vivid, challenging ...
Make a Date
Apr 20, 2009 ... MAKE A DATE Did you know the largest library in the world islocated near you? It's the Library of Congress, and it marks animportant date in its history on Friday. Today it has more than 142million items in its collection and 650 miles of bookshelves! If thewarmer weather makes it hard ...
EVER WONDERED why some have curly hair and others straight hair?
Apr 20, 2009 ... Hair is something that people of all ages spend a lot of timethinking about. It is one of the first things you notice about yourself when youlook in the mirror to get ready for school. And it is one of the first things you see about other people. Hair is also the body ...
Talking a Green Streak; Music & Antics Lift Earth Day Concert, but Too Much Hot Air Drains Energy From Its Message
Apr 20, 2009; ... Earth Day on the Mall slogan: Climate change we can believe in! They staged another environmental-themed party on the Mall -- and this time Mother Earth proved to be a much more agreeable host. A year after an electrical storm forced organizers to end theevent early, the free ...
Series Schedule
Apr 20, 2009 ... Game 1April 15New York 4, Washington 3Game 2SaturdayNew York 1,Washington 0Game 3Today, 7 p.m.at New YorkComcast SportsNet,VersusGame 4Wednesday, 7 p.m.at New YorkComcast ...
Adapted from a recent online ...
Apr 20, 2009; ... Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hi, Carolyn! I am engaged to a single dad of two daughters, 11 and 13. My owndaughter, "Lauren," is 9 with a very gentle, sensitive personality.Her would-be stepsisters TERRORIZE her to the point where she hatesbeing around them. They ...
Strip Searches in School; The Supreme Court must weigh the rights of students against the duty of school officials to protect safety.
Apr 20, 2009 ... SAVANA REDDING was 13 years old and in eighth grade in Arizona in2003 when she was strip-searched by two female school officials.Savana had been accused by a friend of handing out prescription-strength ibuprofen and over-the-counter anti-inflammatory pills -- possession, use and ...
Only for the Privileged Few?; Members of Congress value school choice -- for themselves.
Apr 20, 2009 ... ANEW SURVEY shows that 38 percent of members of Congress havesent their children to private school. About 20 percent themselvesattended private school, nearly twice the rate of the generalpublic. Nothing wrong with those numbers; no one should be faultedfor personal decisions made in the ...
A Bus to Nowhere; In Falls Church, a transit boondoggle
Apr 20, 2009 ... EASING TRAFFIC gridlock in the Washington area isn't an either-or proposition. More mass transit is desperately needed, but busesand trains alone won't clear clogged roads. Transit projects such asthe Purple Line, a light-rail line in Montgomery and Prince George'scounties, are ...
Where 'Energy-Efficient' Works
Apr 20, 2009 ... Robert J. Samuelson claimed that President Obama's vision forAmerica's 21st-century economy set aside "the standard logic ofeconomic progress" ["Obama's Economic Mirage," op-ed, April 13]. He argued that Mr. Obama's proposed "cap-and-trade" programamounted to a tax on fossil fuels ...
Defending Against Pirates
Apr 20, 2009 ... Piracy in the Indian Ocean has long been a frequent item in ThePost and many other publications. However, I have yet to see anymention of an approach that twice proved effective against similarhazards: convoys. In both the first and second world wars, ships crossing theAtlantic, ...
A Better Approach to Student Loans
Apr 20, 2009 ... Private student loan companies are forcing Congress and Americato choose between providing a new direction to help all of usachieve the American dream and subsidizing those companies that havetaken advantage of college students for years ["The Student LoanIndustry Pushes Back," Economy & ...
Welcome to the Real World
Apr 20, 2009 ... Why do I not feel at all sorry for the Coughlin family in Ashburn["Pay Cut Sharpens Family's Focus; Spenders Become Savers to ProtectTheir Home and Children," Metro, April 15]? They admittedly didn't save for the future and spent money handover fist on unnecessary things (impromptu ...
Anti-Gay Sentiment That Smears the Military
Apr 20, 2009 ... The four retired military men who shared their anti-gay prejudice["Gays and the Military: A Bad Fit," op-ed, April 15] unfairlysmeared all Americans who bravely serve our country in the armedservices by suggesting that our soldiers, sailors, airmen andMarines are incapable of functioning ...
D.C. Area Families Take Green to the Extreme; Eco-Enthusiasts Step on Some Toes in a Bid to Reduce Their Carbon Footprints
Apr 20, 2009; ... Near Leesburg, a woman parks her hybrid car and erases itscomputer memory. She doesn't want her husband to find out she'sgetting just 30-something miles per gallon. In Takoma Park, a dirty plastic to-go container forces a woman toface down her brother. He thinks she should wash it ...
Capitals vs. Rangers
Apr 20, 2009 ... Rangers lead series, 2-0 Game 3 in New ...
Mission Possible: Win Four; Caps Head to New York With 2-0 Series Deficit
Apr 20, 2009; ... First, a history lesson, lest the Washington Capitals believe thetask they are undertaking is too much to handle. Just three seasonsago, the Carolina Hurricanes dropped the first two games of theiropening-round playoff series to the Montreal Canadiens, both athome. The Hurricanes had ...
Gay Grabs the Spotlight, and a Record
Apr 20, 2009 ... Brian Gay shot a 64 to win the Heritage by a record 10 strokes inHilton Head Island, S.C., and break the PGA Tour event's scoringmark. It was Gay's second tour title, his first coming last year at theMayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico. But that event was played oppositethe World ...
Take Me Out to the Gall Game
Apr 20, 2009; ... We are now 230-odd years into the American experiment and onething is clear -- like the Roman Empire before us, we love ourgames! (Fact: When Nero fiddled, he was in a luxury box at theColosseum.) New York, the most sophisticated sports town in Sports Nation,brings us two ...
Americans Lining Up in Boston
Apr 20, 2009; ... For the first time in decades, U.S. fans could be cheering achampion of their own at the Boston Marathon on Monday. It's even possible Americans could be celebrating two winners:Ryan Hall, from California, has the fastest seed time in the field,and Kara Goucher, from Oregon, is ...
World Digest
Apr 20, 2009 ... MEXICO Gunmen ambushed a prisoner transfer convoy in western Mexico,killing eight officers in a failed attempt to free a high-level drugcartel member, police said Sunday. At least 20 assailants launched a running gun battle Saturdayagainst a column of vehicles escorting nine ...
Nation Digest
Apr 20, 2009 ... TEXAS A man was charged with manslaughter Sunday, a day after he lostcontrol of his car while using his cellphone. The vehicle plungedinto a rain-filled ditch in Houston, killing five young passengers. Chanton Jenkins, 32, faces four counts of intoxicationmanslaughter, one ...
Emanuel Rejects Trial for Memos' Authors
Apr 20, 2009; ... The Obama administration opposes any effort to prosecute those inthe Justice Department who drafted legal memos authorizing harshinterrogations at secret CIA prisons, White House chief of staffRahm Emanuel said yesterday. Some analysts and lawmakers have called for investigations ...
Study Finds Some Youths 'Addicted' to Video Games
Apr 20, 2009; ... A new study concludes that children can become addicted toplaying video games, with some skimping on homework, lying about howmuch they play and struggling, without success, when they try to cutback. In what is described as the first nationally representative studyin the United ...
Staggered by Family's Destruction; Md. Town Anguished, Baffled After Man Kills Wife, 3 Children and Self
Apr 20, 2009; ... On a day when members of Holy Family Catholic Community parishordinarily would have seen Francie Billotti-Wood volunteering in thechurch nursery, people in Middletown were left with agonizingquestions about what could have gone so wrong in a family with suchoutward promise. The ...
'17' Going On No. 1
Apr 20, 2009 ... Here are the top movie ticket sales Friday through Sunday, withestimated weekend receipts, and total receipts since the movieopened. The number of weeks opened is in parentheses. WeekendTotalinmillions of dollars1.17 Again (1)24.024.02.State of ...
What Was the Civil War Really About?; Obama Era Brings New Angle to a Longtime Pedagogical Question As Region's Students Begin Springtime Lessons on the War Between the States
Apr 20, 2009; ... The Civil War began 148 years ago this month with the assault onFort Sumter and ended when rebel forces surrendered in 1865, but thebattle over how to teach the conflict to new generations ofAmericans has never stopped. Ask Northerners the cause of the war, and the answer often is ...
A CIVIL WAR QUIZ [Correction 4/29/09]
Apr 20, 2009 ... 1) Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: a) Freed all slaves b) Freed all slaves living in Southern states c) Freed all slaves in areas still in rebellion against the United States d) Promised to free all slaves when ...
Improvement on Tests More Telling Than Pass Rates
Apr 20, 2009; ... Sarah Fine, a 25-year-old English teacher at Cesar Chavez PublicCharter School on Capitol Hill, vividly recalls a conference withthe mother of a 10th-grader who read at a third-grade level. "Shawn is a real asset to our class because he's so wellbehaved," Fine told her, "but I ...
Area Teams in Sweden For Computing Contest
Apr 20, 2009; ... Teams of students from two Washington area universities have goneto Stockholm to compete tomorrow with squads from throughout theworld in a high-powered computer programming contest known as the"Battle of the Brains." One of the three-member teams represents the University ...
Iran's Leader Urges That Reporter Be Treated Fairly
Apr 20, 2009; ... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called yesterday for fairlegal treatment of Iranian American reporter Roxana Saberi, who wassentenced over the weekend to eight years in jail on charges ofspying for the United States, the official Islamic Republic NewsAgency reported. In a ...
Rule Changes May Help LTE Keep Contract
Apr 20, 2009; ... The D.C. government has rewritten its requirements for a newlottery provider, putting more emphasis on quality and less on costin a continuing tussle over the $120 million contract. The changes, finalized this month, could benefit LotteryTechnology Enterprises in its struggle to ...
ZOO CLUES
Apr 20, 2009 ... Can you identify the animal in this photograph? It will befeatured next week in Zoo Tales, the photographic and cinematic viewof the National Zoo that appears on this page and on our Web site,www.washingtonpost.com/zootales. If you can identify the animal, send an e-mail ...
Iraq Elects Parliament Speaker After Nearly 4 Months of Delay
Apr 20, 2009; ... Iraq's parliament ended months of political paralysis by electinga prominent Sunni lawmaker as its new speaker Sunday. Meanwhile,attackers fatally shot seven people in an old market area of Baghdadin a new spree of violence in the Iraqi capital. The selection of Ayad al-Samarraie ...
Around the Horn
Apr 20, 2009 ... Today's game to watch: Orioles at Red Sox, 11 a.m. (MASN)Athletics: 3B Eric Chavezreturned to the lineup after missing five games with a sore rightshoulder. Rays: CF B.J. Upton left yesterday's game against the White Soxafter two innings with right quadriceps ...
HR Call Backed Video Review
Apr 20, 2009 ... Umpires used the first video review of the season to rule thatJorge Posada's drive to right field was a home run in the Yankees'game against the Indians. Posada was pinch-hitting yesterday when he sent a fly to rightoff Jensen Lewis. Trevor Crowe leaped at the wall, but the ball ...
What to Watch
Apr 20, 2009 ... Washington gets back to the grind. President Obama and Secretaryof State Hillary Rodham Clinton are back in the States, Congress isback in town (though only the Senate is in session), and the SupremeCourt starts hearing oral arguments again. Obama will hold his first Cabinet ...
Senate Returns to Consider Nominations-in-Limbo
Apr 20, 2009; ... Looks like showdown time in the Senate this week, probably thisafternoon, on the nomination of veteran diplomat Christopher Hill tobe ambassador to Iraq. Republican Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) andLindsey O. Graham (S.C.) had written President Obama to urge him to"reconsider" the ...
U.S. Border Screening Under Fire
Apr 20, 2009; ... Civil liberties groups are renewing calls for the Obamaadministration to change screening at border posts by limitingquestions about Americans' political beliefs and religious practicesand establishing a process for U.S. citizens and residents who aremistakenly included on terrorist ...
How a Villager Became the Queen of All Media
Apr 20, 2009; ... The Internet has not seen anything quite like Susan Boyle, whoseonline popularity is headed straight to the history books. The video of Boyle's performance in the reality show "Britain'sGot Talent" has set the record for the number of views in a week --and shows no sign of slowing ...
Mean Streets, Meaningful Start
Apr 20, 2009; ... SHADOWS STILL REMAIN By Peter de Jonge Harper. 275 pp. $25.99Peter de Jonge is best known for having co-written three of James Patterson's bestsellers, but we are going toforgive him that, for two reasons. First, because it is aninconvenient but inescapable fact that writers ...
A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF; Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run
Apr 20, 2009; ... Inside a cavernous assembly hall in downtown Washington,dignitaries gather twice a year for routine meetings of theInternational Monetary Fund. Before long, though, the room couldtake center stage in the IMF's transformation into a veritableUnited Nations for the global ...
Face Time
Apr 20, 2009 ... MONDAY Maryland Technology Development Corp. Funding Briefing.Briefing on state and federal programs that provide financialsupport for developing technologies for commercialization incollaboration with Maryland universities and federal laboratories. 2 to 3:30 p.m., Prince George's ...
Local Players Like the Outlook for Web Video
Apr 20, 2009; ... Online video has come a long way since kids with cameras starteduploading homemade clips to YouTube about four years ago. More households now have access to high-speed Internet. Thatgrowth has coincided with an increasing number of broadcast networksand niche cable stations that ...
Appointments
Apr 20, 2009 ... Allstate of Fairfax named Mark Green assistant field vicepresident. Trusted Computer Solution of Herndon named Kenneth A. Kopf,former chief legal officer and vice president of contracts forCubic, general counsel and director of contracts. Marriott International of Bethesda ...
Bankruptcies
Apr 20, 2009 ... These firms recently filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court's localclerk of court offices. Under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code, a company isprotected from claims by creditors while it attempts to reorganizeits finances under a plan approved by the court. In a ...
CienaStephen B. AlexanderChie ...
Apr 20, 2009 ... CienaStephen B. AlexanderChief technology officerApr.15Sold5,000$8.28368,120Tessco ...
Contracts
Apr 20, 2009 ... CACI International of Arlington won a $38 million contract fromthe Army to supply program management support for an intelligencesystem. General Dynamics of Fairfax won a $14.5 million contract from theArmy to support Pacific region installations. Stanley of Arlington won a ...
Lily Allen: All-Smoking, All-Drinking, All-Dancing
Apr 20, 2009 ... Lily Allen was full of cigs and giggles at the 9:30 club onFriday night. When the English pop star wasn't singing, she lavishedgirlish laughter and secondhand smoke upon the crowd, and alsopranced around in a tiny romper and demurely called out drinkorders. "Would it be possible ...
THE LOTTERIES; April 19
Apr 20, 2009 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 2-5-5 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 4-2-3-9 Lucky Numbers (Sat.): 6-7-4 Lucky Numbers (Sun.): 0-1-8 D.C. 4 (Sat.): 3-5-3-3 D.C. 4 (Sun.): 8-2-9-2 Rolling Cash 5 (Sat.): ...
Costly High-Risk Car Insurance Resists Change in Md.
Apr 20, 2009; ... Accident-prone drivers and those with no record on the roadalways pay more for insurance. But in Maryland, the price of being abad risk is especially steep -- as much as 30 percent higher thanin other states. That's because of interest and fees charged on what most high-risk ...
'Menopause, the Musical': Not So Hot and Not Very Cool
Apr 20, 2009; ... Flash: "Menopause, The Musical" isn't very good. Nor is it trying to be. Creator Jeanie Linders has said she wasprimarily interested in stripping the stigma from a subject longkept hush-hush, and she has succeeded wildly with this accessibleyet forgettable collection of song ...
Daniel Wagner
Apr 20, 2009 ... Position: President of business services at Herndon-based XOCommunications. Career Highlights: Executive vice president of enterprise andcollaboration services and chief information officer at GlobalCrossing; president and managing director at Global Crossing UK. Age: ...
Childhood in Prison Camp Led to 'Empire of the Sun'
Apr 20, 2009 ... J.G. Ballard, 78, best known for the autobiographical novel"Empire of the Sun," which drew on his childhood detention in aJapanese prison camp in China, died April 19 in London. The cause of death was not immediately announced, but prostatecancer was diagnosed in 2006. Mr ....
Air Force Colonel Worked in Procurement
Apr 20, 2009 ... David J. Burke, 75, a retired Air Force colonel who was anauthority on weapons procurement and later became an executive withDigital Equipment Corp., died April 13 of esophageal cancer atStanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif. After livingfor many years in Alexandria, he ...
CORRECTION
Apr 20, 2009 ... The April 19 obituary of Raymond Grace incorrectly stated that hewas the chief executive of ...
Richard 'Dick' Baker Clothin ...
Apr 20, 2009 ... Richard "Dick" Baker, 62, the former wave rider who reinventedSouthern California's iconic Ocean Pacific surf brand in the 1990sand in doing so helped spread surfing fashion styles around theworld, died April 14 at a hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., about50 miles southeast of Los ...
Mike Tokumasu Navy Garage Su ...
Apr 20, 2009 ... Mike Tokumasu, 93, who was the supervisor of a Navy garage formany years, died April 12 at his daughter's home in Brookeville. Hehad Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Tokumasu began working as a civilian employee of the NavyDepartment in about 1947 and took care of limousines and ...
Obama Closes Summit, Vows Broader Engagement With Latin America
Apr 20, 2009; ... President Obama concluded a summit of the hemisphere's leadersSunday by articulating a broad new agenda for Latin America and theCaribbean, having gained momentum in his bid to repair relationswith some of the region's shrillest critics of the United States. In a news conference at ...
A World Of Trouble For Obama
Apr 20, 2009; ... New American presidents typically begin by behaving as if most ofthe world's problems are the fault of their predecessors -- andBarack Obama has been no exception. In his first three months he hasquickly taken steps to correct the errors in George W. Bush'sforeign policy, as seen by ...
Who Will Face Down the Gun Lobby?
Apr 20, 2009; ... Try to imagine that hundreds or thousands of guns, includingassault weapons, were pouring across the Mexican border intoArizona, New Mexico and Southern California, arming criminal gangswho were killing American law enforcement officials and other U.S.citizens. Then imagine the ...
Palin's Personal Choice
Apr 20, 2009; ... I'd like to thank Sarah Palin for her bravery in explaining theimportance of a woman's right to choose. Even braver, the Alaskagovernor made her eloquent case for choice at a right-to-lifefundraising dinner. That was not, of course, Palin's intention in revealing that ...
Our Depression Obsession
Apr 20, 2009; ... The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most momentous economicevent of the 20th century. It was a proximate cause of World War II,having fed the Nazis' rise in Germany. It inspired a new Americanwelfare system as a response to mass misery. Everywhere, itdiscredited unsupervised ...
What Burma Needs From the White House
Apr 20, 2009; ... When President Obama was elected, I was filled with hope thatAmerica would regain the moral standing to aid those who areimpoverished and oppressed around the world. I have since rejoicedto see him reversing the most obnoxious policies of the Bushadministration -- by ending torture, ...