The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, June 7:
DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor ...
Jun 07, 2009 ... DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor release 6/7/09 bc-stewart-bridge 06/07 TMS Original DAILY BRIDGE CLUBFor release 6/7/09 A HIGHER POWER By FRANK STEWART Tribune Media Services My ebullient 8-year-old daughter Bessie could have been theprotagonist in ...
Rebels Overtake Cavaliers in 12 Innings
Jun 07, 2009; ... Mississippi 4, Virginia 3 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions The Virginia baseball team squandered opportunities againstMississippi on Friday. And as afternoon turned to early evening atOxford-University Stadium, freshman Steven Proscia sought tocapitalize for a ...
Loudoun Valley Stays Composed, Moves On; Williams Delivers in the Circle, at Plate for Vikings
Jun 07, 2009; ... As the innings ticked away in the Virginia AAA softball statesemifinal yesterday, Loudoun Valley lived on the edge. Mired in ascoreless battle of wills between pitchers and defenses with SouthCounty, the Vikings were the first to show signs of the pressure. Two uncharacteristic ...
Chantilly Tops Kempsville in Semifinal
Jun 07, 2009; ... With five minutes left before halftime of Chantilly's 3-0Virginia AAA state semifinal victory at Westfield yesterday, threeKempsville defenders spread themselves across a six-yard gap betweenChantilly senior midfielders Katie Menzie and Cortlyn Bristol. The defenders stared at ...
Crockett, Poquoson Shut Out Potomac Falls in Semifinal
Jun 07, 2009; ... Kyle Crockett threw a complete game five-hitter and Poquosonended Potomac Falls's season with a 3-0 defeat in Saturday'sVirginia AA state semifinal at Calfee Park. The Islanders (27-1) chased Potomac Falls senior starter MichaelDetaranto just six batters into the top of the first, ...
Howard Off Center In Game 1
Jun 07, 2009; ... Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Dwight Howard's unofficial welcome to the NBA came in the secondmonth of his rookie season, in the rudest fashion, as the fresh-faced teenager with braces lifted both arms and slid in front ofKobe Bryant to contest the drive. Bryant, not ...
Recession Takes Toll on Programs for Veterans
Jun 07, 2009; ... The wail of bagpipes at Memorial Day events honoring servicemenand women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan rang hollow for somemilitary veterans this year. In Michigan and elsewhere, once-sacrosanct veterans programs areno longer safe from the knife as tax revenue continues sliding ...
Ex-Indians Owner Jacobs Dies at 83
Jun 07, 2009 ... Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Richard E. Jacobs stepped up along with his brother in the 1980sto rescue Cleveland's baseball franchise, which was struggling underweak financial backing and poor fan attendance at an outdated,mammoth stadium. Under his leadership, ...
Cavaliers Even Up Series; Virginia Shakes Early Deficit to Force a Decisive Game 3
Jun 07, 2009; ... Virginia 4, Mississippi 3 The crowd behind the bullpen in left field had been jeeringVirginia reliever Matt Packer and his teammates for much of thegame. But as he made the slow jog to the mound in the top of theninth inning, Packer tuned out the boos. "I like to imagine all ...
Mustangs Return to Final
Jun 07, 2009; ... In the Virginia A girls' soccer semifinals, defending statechampion George Mason defeated Wilson Memorial, 3-0, to advance totoday's championship at 10 a.m. at Radford University. The Mustangs got goals from sophomore Violet Miller, freshmanLeah Roth and senior Mayssa Chehata as ...
Nuts & Bolts; 2009 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG
Jun 07, 2009 ... Complaints: It's thirsty as heck. Also, the Mercedes-Benz COMANDnavigation and infotainment system is unnecessarily complicated touse. Ride, acceleration and handling: On roads where the S63 AMG canbe driven the way it was engineered to be driven, it offers superiorperformance ...
Broad Run Subdues Orange to Advance
Jun 07, 2009; ... Through 52/3 innings of Saturday's Virginia AA state semifinalmatchup between Orange and No. 7 Broad Run at Veteran's Field inBissett Park, the two-time defending state champion Spartanscouldn't figure out Hornets starting pitcher Michalah Sacre. The sophomore allowed just one hit ...
Dear Tom and Ray: I have ...
Jun 07, 2009 ... Dear Tom and Ray: I have a 1991 Ford F-150. It won't turn over, despite numerousattempts. I've taken the battery to AutoZone, and they say it's goodand it's fully charged. When I turn the ignition, it just grunts atme. After two or three grunts, all systems are unresponsive ....
Spartans Victimized Career Outing
Jun 07, 2009; ... Eighteen times West Springfield batters stepped into the box toface Menchville senior reliever Jharel Cotton yesterday in aVirginia AAA semifinal at Westfield. Twelve times they struck outagainst the Monarchs' No. 3 pitcher in a 6-5, season-ending loss. Cotton acknowledged that he ...
Bulldogs Falter Without Murnane
Jun 07, 2009; ... Westfield senior Sean Murnane stood on the sideline as histeammates warmed up before yesterday's Virginia AAA boys' soccerstate semifinal against Cox. Murnane, the All-Met player of the Year, limped over to the groupjust as the starters lined up to be introduced. It was one of ...
Wilson Bridge Bike Path Gets Rolling; Users Contemplate Connecting Trails
Jun 07, 2009; ... Shortly after noon yesterday, about 100 cyclists pedaled throughthe streets of Old Town Alexandria to do something they had neverbeen able to do before: Bike the 1.1-mile span of the Woodrow WilsonBridge into Maryland. "To the bridge!" cried an elderly bystander, pumping his fist ...
In Britain, A Desperate Brown Is Hanging On; Premier Burdened Timing, Events
Jun 07, 2009; ... Two years ago, Gordon Brown entered 10 Downing Street for thefirst time as prime minister and promised, without a smile, to "trymy utmost." The brainy, stone-faced Scot was the perfect tonic for a Britishpublic jaded after a decade of his flashy predecessor, Tony Blair.Within a ...
Iraq War Casualties
Jun 07, 2009 ... Total number of U.S. military deaths and names of the U.S. troopskilled recently in the Iraq war, as announced by the Pentagon: 4,314 Fatalities In hostile actions: 3,454 In nonhostile ...
Bullpen Holds for a While, but Folds in 10th
Jun 07, 2009; ... Mets 3, Nationals 1 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Maybe you've heard that the Washington Nationals have the worstbullpen in the major leagues. True enough, though that collection ofrelievers didn't quite obey the role Friday night. Fact is, theyknow they are the ...
General Motors Likely to Have Last Laugh at Critics
Jun 07, 2009; ... Dear readers: After 33 years at The Washington Post, I am taking the company'slatest, and possibly its last buyout offer. That means I'll besigning off from duty as a full-time Washington Post staff writer,which will result in the probable end of the "Car Culture" column onthese ...
Potomac Falls Rolls Into State Title Game
Jun 07, 2009; ... Senior forward Asa Fox and the rest of his Potomac Fallsteammates had heard the refrain during their run to the Virginia AAstate semifinals. The first 10 minutes of the second half was a chunk of timePanthers Coach Dave Gryder had emphasized as being critical duringthe Region II ...
Backers of 'Single-Payer' Insurance Challenge Democrats
Jun 07, 2009; ... When President Obama convened a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho,N.M., last month, he wanted to talk about credit card reform. Butmany in the crowd had a different agenda. "So many people go bankrupt using their credit cards to pay forhealth care," the first questioner said to ...
Unemployment Rises, but Pace of Job Losses Slows; Jobless Rate Reaches 9.4 Percent in May
Jun 07, 2009; ... Employers are slashing jobs at a more measured rate than inrecent months, the government said Friday, the strongest evidenceyet that the economy is no longer in a state of near-collapse. The nation lost 345,000 jobs in May, far fewer than economistshad expected. As more people went ...
Mr. Moran on the Attack; The Virginia gubernatorial candidate gets it wrong on transportation funding and R. Creigh Deeds's record.
Jun 07, 2009 ... IT WOULD have been hard to imagine even a few weeks ago thatformer Alexandria delegate Brian J. Moran would feel the need to gonegative against rural state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds. But withTuesday's Democratic primary fast approaching, and with Mr. Deeds'spopularity apparently surging, Mr ....
Buried Code; The unexamined federal regulation in a House energy bill
Jun 07, 2009 ... THE RUNNING joke in Washington is that nobody has read the 900-plus-page energy bill sponsored by Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.)and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), which the House will consider incoming weeks. What you hear from its backers is that its cap-and-trade provisions would create ...
Manassas Merchants Pin Hopes on Street
Jun 07, 2009; ... When Manassas officials cut the red ribbon draped across BattleStreet late last month, it didn't just symbolize the completion of afreshly paved street, some Old Town business owners said. Instead, they said, it represented the opening of a new venuethat will help revitalize the ...
The Week Ahead
Jun 07, 2009 ... The Montgomery County Council's Transportation, Infrastructure,Energy and Environment committee will receive a briefing on aforensic analysis of the Dec. 23 water main break on River Road inPotomac. The House Committee on ...
Nerdiness Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Jun 07, 2009; ... A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to finish the sentence, "Youknow you're a nerd when . . . " Anthony Harris had this to say: Nerdy. Who's a nerd? That's relative, and in my view, not particularly relevant,especially in black Chicago in the 1970s. It's March ...
THE LOTTERIES; June 5
Jun 07, 2009 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 1-8-6 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 6-0-2-3 Lucky Numbers (Thu.): 1-7-5 Lucky Numbers (Fri.): 7-1-7 D.C. 4 (Thu.): 2-1-1-5 D.C. 4 (Fri.): 1-9-6-1 Rolling Cash 5 (Thu.): ...
Wilson Bridge Bonuses
Jun 07, 2009 ... The Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project had a goodie for everyone thispast week. Well, nearly everyone. The transit crowd is still waitingfor two bridge lanes to be converted for bus or rail use. But fordrivers, cyclists and walkers, there was progress at the TelegraphRoad interchange and on ...
Kidnappings Surge In a Pakistan Beset On Multiple Fronts; Militancy, Economic Woes Breed Insecurity
Jun 07, 2009; ... The three gunmen forced the car carrying the Hindu filmmaker tostop along the bumpy street, then injected him and his driver with asedative. The driver woke up a few hours later. The filmmaker was gone. Six months later, in April, Satish Anand was recovered in Bannuin ...
Pr. William Middle School Principal Is Honored
Jun 07, 2009; ... Potomac Middle School Principal Benita Stephens knows herschool's place in the community. With a high-poverty student body inan economic recession, the school is a hub for social services, notjust education. "I worry more this year than I've ever worried before" aboutstudents' ...
Value Trumps Freshness As the French Retrench; A Brisk Business in Food Past Its Prime
Jun 07, 2009; ... Bargain hunters in a grocery store northeast of Paris squint asthey scan figures stamped on shrink-wrapped chunks of Gruyere andbags of green olives. They're not zeroing in on the price, certainto be low in a place that specializes in surplus goods offloadedfrom big-name supermarket ...
Freedom for the Uighurs; The courts must intervene if the political process fails to provide justice for 17 Chinese Muslims.
Jun 07, 2009 ... THERE IS STILL a small window of opportunity for President Obamato do right by 17 men who have spent years behind bars even thoughthey should never have been imprisoned. If the president fails totake action, then the courts must. These men, ethnic Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, ...
D-Day Plus 65; On the Normandy beaches, a foundation was laid -- at a terrible price.
Jun 07, 2009 ... EARLY ON IN the Normandy invasion, time was denominated day byagonizing day as the Americans and British and their allies pushed into France, fighting every step of the way: D-Day plus one, D-Dayplus two . . . . advancing inch by inch, it seemed. Now it's countedin years -- 65 of them ...
It's No Time For Magic Star To Disappear
Jun 07, 2009; ... Reprinted from yesterday's editions When asked that staple of sports-bar questions, "If you couldhave any player in basketball to start a team with, who would youpick?" Lakers Coach Phil Jackson gave an answer that stunned many ofus a few weeks ago. Dwight Howard, Jackson said, ...
History Lessons; What the Montgomery County Council should consider before it changes the rules for identifying noteworthy sites
Jun 07, 2009 ... MONTGOMERY County Council member Michael Knapp (D-Upcounty) isright in one respect: The current process of historical preservationin the county is not optimal. His proposed fix deserves discussion;it raises important issues about owner notification and the county'sbacklog of unreviewed ...
Leesburg Reaches Deal on Power Line; Town to Get $2 Million From Dominion
Jun 07, 2009; ... Dominion Virginia Power has agreed to pay Leesburg $2 million inexchange for easements that the utility needs to build atransmission line. The settlement follows a year of negotiations between town andDominion officials. The Leesburg Town Council has long opposed theplanned ...
The Settlement Rift; President Obama has delivered a necessary shock to Israel's right-wing government. Will he now compromise?
Jun 07, 2009 ... IN THE WEEKS before President Obama's Cairo address to the Muslimworld, his administration opened a striking public breach with theIsraeli government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Even aside from anypossible usefulness for courting Arab opinion, this was probablynecessary. Mr. Netanyahu, who ...
Shane Gives Stuart a State Crown; Chaillo Caps Freshman Year Triumphantly
Jun 07, 2009; ... Down two games in the third and decisive set of the Virginia AAAchampionship, Justin Shane found himself in an uncomfortableposition. Forget giving up a second-set tiebreak to Mills Godwinsenior Kyle Parker, Shane had never even trailed in a match allseason and the typically stoic ...
Church Helps Spartans Advance
Jun 07, 2009; ... Throughout the first half of Saturday's Virginia AA statesemifinal against Courtland, No. 2 Broad Run had been unable to findthe back of the net and entered the final 40 minutes determined tobe more effective with its opportunities. And at the tail end of two attacks that initially ...
Handley Tops Spotswood For Third Title in a Row
Jun 07, 2009; ... Handley's girls' tennis team won its third straight Virginia AAstate championship Saturday morning in style with a 5-0 sweep ofSpotswood at Radford University. Moments after junior Katie Gordon supplied the clinching point ina 6-4, 6-2 decision over Delaney Westwood at No. 3 ...
O's Izturis Headed To DL After Surgery
Jun 07, 2009 ... Orioles SS Cesar Izturis is going on the disabled list afterundergoing an appendectomy. Izturis had the surgery Friday night in San Francisco aftercomplaining of severe stomach pains earlier in the day. He was stillin the hospital yesterday and was expected to be released today ...
Borel Can't Beat Summer Bird; In Belmont, Jockey Short of Personal Triple Crown
Jun 07, 2009; ... The Belmont Stakes has always had a cruel and sneaky sense ofhumor. The track nicknamed "Big Sandy" is so gorgeous andpicturesque that it almost encourages its competitors to dream big,right before it punches them in the face, steals their wallet andbreaks their heart. Few ...
CORRECTION
Jun 07, 2009 ... A June 6 A-section article on the transfer of two prosecutorsmisstated the name of the Justice Department unit that policesviolations of ethics rules. It is the Office of ProfessionalResponsibility. The Washington Post is committed to correcting errors that appearin the ...
The Nominee's Jurisprudence
Jun 07, 2009 ... CASE Hayden v. Pataki, 2006 ISSUE: Whether a New York law that bars felons from voting,combined with historic discrimination in the criminal justicesystem, violates the Voting Rights Act. SOTOMAYOR POSITION: A lower court dismissed a lawsuit filed byblack and Hispanic ...
Patients Struggle to Find Marrow Donors; Number of Racial, Ethnic Combinations Makes Matching Almost Impossible
Jun 07, 2009; ... If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percentchance of finding a bone marrow donor who could cure his leukemia. But because the 28-year-old bodybuilder is one-quarter Japanese,his doctor warned him the outlook was grim. Glasgow's backgroundwould make it almost ...
In Lebanon, New to Politics but Not to Loss; Candidates Continue Cause of Slain Relatives
Jun 07, 2009; ... Sami Gemayel's name alone may have made politics his destiny. Hisgrandfather was a leader of almost feudal power in Lebanon'sChristian community. His uncle and father were presidents. But theoutspoken 27-year-old never envisioned running for parliament,especially not as one of the ...
Staying Safe in the Pool
Jun 07, 2009 ... After Memorial Day, many Washington area parents breathe a sighof relief as pools are open and their children have a safe place tospend a summer day. Or at least that is what the Freed family ofDavidsonville, Md., thought. On June 22, 2006, Debbie Freed dropped her 5-year-old ...
Close to Home
Jun 07, 2009 ... WASHINGTON The Post believes ["Ticket Tussle," editorial, June 1] thatmotorists are unjustifiably upset over the District's stepped-upparking enforcement. I disagree. On April 27, my car was ticketed by D.C. parking enforcement forbeing illegally parked during street ...
Adams Morgan Is Helping Itself
Jun 07, 2009; ... Terry Lynch ["A Better Balance in Adams Morgan," Local Opinions,May 31] should stick to the Downtown Cluster of Congregations. Those of us who live here and are deeply involved in our communityalready understand the tragic effects that an overabundance of oneuse, alcohol, can ...
I've Got the Cap and Gown. Now About That Job . . .
Jun 07, 2009; ... After four years at George Washington University, I expected thatmy life would magically come together. I was aware that we collegegraduates often struggle to figure out what to do, but now we'restruggling just to find employment. Among my friends, the few who have jobs next year ...
'I Know It'll Be My Last Trip'; 65 Years After A Landing That Changed The World, WWII Veterans Take a More Peaceful Trip To France
Jun 07, 2009; ... They've been back before. They've walked the beaches, inhaled thesweet salt air, looked up their old friends in the cemeteries.They've tried to retrace their steps from the beach inward,remembering the gunfire, remembering the dead who didn't make itpast the shoreline. But this ...
DR. G'S TIPS
Jun 07, 2009 ... A Bridge Too Far At the start of the week, I thought our big traffic story wouldbe congestion on the 14th Street bridge. A year-long resurfacingproject has begun on the northbound bridge, something very likely toslow drivers on that natural bottleneck, even though four lanes ...
Shaq Casts His Shadow Over Finals Franchises; Lakers, Magic Try To Eclipse Legacy
Jun 07, 2009; ... His 7-foot-1 shadow hovers over an NBA Finals that features theLos Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic, his first two teams, andShaquille O'Neal lurks behind the scenes, revealing his thoughtsonly in short outbursts via Twitter. O'Neal became a household name, movie star and ...
Magic at Lakers
Jun 07, 2009 ... NBA Finals Game 2: Today, 8 p.m. Where: Staples Center in Los ...
World Digest
Jun 07, 2009 ... MEXICO The death toll from a fire at a day-care center in northernMexico rose to 35 children with at least 40 more hospitalized, manywith life-threatening burns, Mexican authorities said. Mexican President Felipe Calderon said he has ordered aninvestigation into Friday's fire ...
2 Bodies, Debris Linked to Air France Flight; Discovery Narrows Vast Atlantic Search Area, May Offer Clues to What Went Wrong
Jun 07, 2009; ... Brazilian searchers recovered two bodies and several pieces ofdebris Saturday that officials said were from an Air France jetlinerthat plunged into the Atlantic during a violent thunderstorm. The discovery provided French investigators with their firstindication of the exact area ...
Washington Freedom at Los Angeles Sol
Jun 07, 2009 ... When: Today, 6 p.m. Where: Home Depot Center, Carson, Calif. TV: Fox Soccer Channel. Records: Freedom (3-2-3, 12 points); Sol (6-1-3, 21 pts.) Info: The Freedom makes its second trip to Los Angeles to playthe Sol; the teams met on March 29 in the WPS inaugural ...
Kuznetsova Cruises to French Open Title
Jun 07, 2009; ... Svetlana Kuznetsova never struck Dinara Safina as a Grand Slamchampion in the making when they were kids in Russia. Kuznetsovashowed up for matches toting a 2-liter bottle of soda and wearingrock band T-shirts. As of Saturday, Kuznetsova owns two major titles -- and that'stwo ...
Men's Singles Final
Jun 07, 2009 ... Who: Roger Federer vs. Robin Soderling ...
Bettencourt and Wilson Share Lead at Memorial
Jun 07, 2009 ... Matt Bettencourt ran off four straight birdies Saturday on thesuper slick greens of Muirfield Village, survived a few scarymoments on the back nine and wound up with a 4-under-par 68 for ashare of the lead in the Memorial. Two-time tour winner Mark Wilson had a 69 to match ...
HOT Lanes Would Continue Incentives for Carpoolers
Jun 07, 2009 ... This is Part 2 of a letter questioning the High Occupancy Tolllanes Virginia has proposed for the Interstate 95-395 corridor. Dear Dr. Gridlock: The Virginia Department of Transportation's assumption is thatvery few drivers will pay the toll since it could get expensive.They ...
Around the Horn
Jun 07, 2009 ... Today's game to watch: Phillies at Dodgers, 4 p.m. (WTTG-5)Angels: A former executive ispart of a Major League Baseball investigation into skimming ofsigning bonuses for Latin American prospects, SI.com reported. ClayDaniel was fired this week as director of international scouting ....
Around the Horn
Jun 07, 2009 ... Mets at Nationals, 1:30 p.m., MASNBraves: 3B Chipper Jones leftlast night's game against the Brewers in the fifth inning afterexperiencing dizziness. Indians: RHP Joe Smith, on the disabled list with a strainedright rotator cuff, is expected to return "in the next couple ofdays," ...