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Julian Bond ought to have a word with Don Imus: "Thanks." Mr. Bond, the national board chairman of the Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said as much when he alluded to the embattled radio showman during opening ceremonies of the 98-year-old organization's annual convention last week. "While we are happy to have sent a certain radio cowboy back to his ranch, we ought to hold ourselves to the same standard," Mr. Bond said to enthusiastic applause.

The NAACP has named a 15-member search committee to find a replacement for former president and CEO Bruce Gordon, who resigned from the Baltimore-based civil rights organization in March. The committee, made up of activists, scholars and business people, is working with the San Francisco-based firm HNCL Search. Along with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Chairman Julian Bond, the committee includes: Patrick R. Gaston, president of Verizon Foundation; Mary Frances Berry, the Geraldine R. Segal professor of American social thought and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania; Heather Booth, president of the Midwest Academy, a national training center for social change; Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Lamell McMorris, managing partner of the Washington-based firm Perennial Sports and Entertainment; and Ralph G. Neas, president emeritus of People for the American Way. Additional committee members include board members the Rev. Wendell Anthony, Cora Breckenridge, Gina Clayton, the Rev. Theresa A. Dear, David E. Goatley, Aubrey Hooper, Adora Obi Nweze and Jesse H. Turner Jr. Gordon's abrupt departure after 19 months on the job came after repeated clashes with board members over the organization's philosophy and leadership style.

DETROIT -- The NAACP youth director who conceptualized the civil rights organization's mock funeral for the N-word is among the more than 70 staff members who are losing their jobs because of financial troubles - prompting a protest yesterday outside the office of the group's chairman. Amid the organization's 98th annual convention, the group of young NAACP members demanded a meeting with Chairman Julian Bond to discuss their concerns and to try to reverse the staff cut. Without Victoria Lanier, the regional youth field director, the organization will lose a vital link between young membership and the administration at the Baltimore headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, they said.

WASHINGTON 50 BEST GIRLFRIENDS GETAWAYS IN NORTH AMERICA National Geographic / $15.95 Author and travel expert Marybeth Bond believes women travel differently than men. To the women profiled in this fun book, travel of any kind is the ultimate adventure, whether power shopping in Santa Fe, N.M., or canoeing in the wilderness of Maine. As research for the book, Bond interviewed 50 women about their personal travel experiences, from Louisiana to Wyoming's Grand Tetons, from Key West, Fla., to Quebec City.

On April 25, 2007, HAROLD GREY BOND of New Market, MD, loving husband of Laurel K. Bond, devoted father of Amy VonRinteln, Jennifer Gorham (John) and Elizabeth Bond (Daniel Moss). Also survived by four grandchildren, a brother, three nieces and cousins. Family will receive friends at Hartzler Funeral Home, 11802 Liberty Road, Libertytown, Saturday from 12:30 P.M., until time of Memorial Service at 1:30 P.M. Memorial contributions may be made to Frederick Memorial Hospital Cancer Patient Assistance Fund, Regional Cancer Therapy Center, 501 W. Seventh Street, Suite 1A, Frederick, MD, 21701.

DETROIT -- Those who question the need for an NAACP in the post-civil rights era need only look at the Supreme Court's recent decision concerning integration in public schools or the federal government's botched response to Hurricane Katrina, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said last night in a speech kicking off the organization's 98th annual convention. "As we find ourselves refighting battles we thought we had already won, we are reminded that the NAACP is as needed now as ever before," Bond said to a crowd of several thousand at the Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center.

Bruce S. Gordon announced his resignation yesterday as president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, less than two years after taking the helm of the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said in a statement that the Baltimore-based organization was sad to see Gordon go. But some board members and a source affiliated with the NAACP said tensions between Gordon and board members over his vision and leadership style contributed to his departure.

Call summer 2007 the season of the three-peat. After Spider-Man 3 comes the deluge: Shrek the Third arrives on May 18, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End on May 25, Ocean's Thirteen on June 8, The Bourne Ultimatum on Aug. 3, and Rush Hour 3 on Aug. 10. And three-peats in disguise add to the flood. The new Hairspray (July 20) is the third Hairspray: a reimagining of the Broadway musical hit based on John Waters' 1988 film sensation. The Nicole Kidman-Daniel Craig sci-fi movie, The Invasion (Aug.

F. Hooper Bond, a former law firm partner and Talbot County school board member, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at Memorial Hospital in Easton. He was 78. Born and raised in Baltimore's Mount Washington neighborhood, Mr. Bond graduated at 16 from St. Paul's School in 1944. He then enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1946, Mr. Bond enlisted in the Army. He was based at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, according to his family. After a brief stint in the Army, Mr. Bond returned to Hopkins to finish his studies and joined the campus ROTC program.

The right-hand man to legendary Maryland Comptroller Louis L. Goldstein is leaving his state post to become chief of staff for Anne Arundel County Executive Janet S. Owens.Marvin A. Bond, 49, will assume the job March 4, bringing what political observers say is enviable expertise in management, a Rolodex that reads like a Who's Who of Maryland politics, intimate knowledge of fiscal matters and experience in dealing with the public.Owens, a Democrat, began courting Bond moments after her November victory.

A federal judge has denied a Baltimore man's motion to unseal court documents from a political corruption case against former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell. "The motion is procedurally defective," the case has been closed and the man filing, William Bond, is "not entitled to have any documents unsealed," U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz wrote in an opinion filed Thursday. The documents Bond sought referred to criminal activity alleged against a third party. Bond, who plans to appeal the decision, said in an interview that he filed the motion to prove a point about a "continuing pattern of behavior of ethical misconduct" by an attorney he's dealt with in a copyright infringement case.

National Aquarium in Baltimore, whose bond rating was downgraded by a major Wall Street firm this week, said Wednesday that the nonprofit has been taking steps to improve its financial condition during tough economic times. Moody's Investors Service cut the aquarium's rating from "A3" to "Baa1," which is still an investment-grade category but a move that makes it more expensive to borrow money. Moody's cited concerns about the aquarium's diminishing financial resources due to recent investment losses, using funds from the group's foundation arm to finance capital projects and pressure on attendance as well as exposure to debt with a variable rate.

On June 11, 2009, ERNESTINE, wife of the late Theodore Bond. Friends may visit the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue, on Monday after 8:30 AM. The family will receive friends at Family Life Ministries, 2320 Reisterstown Road, on Tuesday at 1`0:30 AM. Funeral Services will follow at 11 AM.

Fashion is certainly the passion with Baltimore's social set these days. Fashion-themed fundraisers have been popping up all over. Among the latest, the first-ever VIP shindig last weekend prior to Maryland Institute College of Art's annual Student Fashion Show. No sooner had MICA board chair Fredye Gross, and fellow fashionistas Suzi Cordish, Wendy Jachman and Terry Morgenthaler, organized the get-together, than all 100 tickets sold out. Guests got to enjoy a buffet as well as take part in a silent auction that offered new and barely used wearable treasures (size 81/2 Jimmy Choos, anyone?

Members of the Baltimore City Council asked the legal department Monday to find ways to use a recently uncovered surplus of nearly $40 million toward closing next year's budget gap, though finance officials belive the extra money must go toward reducing the next city bond purchase. "There is clearly a consensus that we want to use this money," said Councilman James B. Kraft. "Why can't we be creative?" The comptroller's office disclosed last week in an audit that $39.7 million worth of partial property tax payments had been piling up in a city account for about a decade.

The General Assembly's ethics adviser has counseled state lawmakers that they should disclose when they or an immediate family member serve on the boards of organizations seeking bond funding through legislation. In a memo written late Monday in response to an article in The Baltimore Sun, William G. Somerville told lawmakers they should file a form that discloses the unpaid positions and asserts their ability to "act fairly, objectively and in the public interest" with regard to the bills.

Starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko. Directed by Marc Forster. Released by MGM. $29.95, blu-ray $34.95. ** 1/2 (2 1/2 STARS) dvds Quantum of Solace is a fine modern spy thriller, but it's not much of a James Bond film. Despite all the fuss a few years back about his being the first blond Bond, Daniel Craig is just fine as the unflappable 007. His steely-eyed glare suggests all manner of powerful emotions beneath emotions beneath the surface, and Bond has been nothing if not a powder keg waiting to be lit. But in Quantum of Solace, the 22nd "official" Bond movie (not counting 1983's Never Say Never Again, which was made by a rival studio, and the 1967 farce Casino Royale)

State lawmakers, using a system of patronage that persists in Annapolis despite tight budgetary times, are seeking to direct hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to projects at nonprofit organizations they help run. In Baltimore, Del. Hattie N. Harrison has requested $75,000 for the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition and an affordable housing development. The Democrat is president of the nonprofit, and her son, Phillip, is employed as a counselor there. Sen. Robert J. Garagiola, a Montgomery County Democrat, wants as much as $250,000 to expand the BlackRock Center for the Arts, a theater and teaching venue where he sits on the board and his daughter takes jazz classes.

Legislative leaders may revoke as much as $44 million in bond money earmarked for nonprofits and local capital projects as they work to craft a more austere budget than envisioned by Gov. Martin O'Malley. The at-risk bond funding has been authorized for projects around the state over the past quarter-century but has never been spent. House Speaker Michael E. Busch said yesterday that his chamber would likely seek to withdraw $14 million for several dozen projects that had been promised bond money dating to 1984.

On January 7, 2009 Delphine C. Bond (nee Colliflower), devoted wife of the late Edward J. Bond, III; beloved mother of Edward J. Bond, IV and his wife Bonnie, and the late Bruce Bond; loving grandmother of Sherry Capobianco and Holle Boone; great grandmother of Nicholas Capobianco, Caitlyn Boone, and Jordyn Boone; and dear sister of Howard "Ted" Colliflower. A memorial service will be held on Friday, January 16, 2009 at 11:00 A.M. at St. Paul's Evangelic Lutheran Church 1609 Kurtz Ave., Lutherville, MD 21093.