Brill

Last month, when Dot Brill headed toward the finish line of the 400-meter -- at the National Senior Sports Classic IV in Baton Rouge, La., she was fighting exhaustion and the collapse of rubbery legs.But the shouts from the bleachers -- "Put your head down, Dottie!" and "Pump your arms!" -- encouraged the 67-year-old runner to give it her all. She did, breaking a national record of 123.7 seconds with a time of 121.8 seconds and winning a gold medal."I sat on the finish line; I couldn't have gone another inch," recalls the Columbia resident.

Her husband had left her, she had two kids and no income and she dreaded the thought of welfare.But with no job skills and nowhere else to turn, Janet Brill stood in line at the Howard County Department of Social Services in Ellicott City, promising herself that welfare would not become a way of life for her family."

On Monday, June 19, 2006 ANITASWEREN (nee Brill) beloved wife of the late Herbert J. Sweren, loving mother of Barbara "Bobbie" Goodman and the late E. Dennis Sweren, devoted sister of the late Dr. Leonard Brill. Loving grandmother of Herbert J. Sweren, David J. Sweren, Kendra Sweren Keiser, Deborah Joyce Goodman and Jonathan D. Goodman, beloved great-grandmother of Brandyn Sweren, Austin Sweren, Alexa Keiser and Roxanne Keiser. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS. INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mt. Wilson Lane on Tuesday, June 20 at 2 P.M. Interment Mikro Kodesh Beth Israel Congregation Cemetery, Bowleys La. Plase omit flowers.

Scott Jory Brill, one of two defendants in the Ashley Nicole Mason homicide case, was indicted yesterday by a Howard County grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder. In a separate proceeding yesterday, a trial date was set in Howard County Circuit Court for Frederick James Moore, the other defendant in the stabbing death Nov. 3 of the 14-year-old Long Reach High School freshman. Moore, 21, whose address has been given variously as the 6600 block of Eberle Drive in Baltimore and the 8800 block of Tamar Drive in Columbia's Long Reach village, was charged Dec. 16 with first-degree murder.

This is an edited excerpt of the last extensive interview conducted with John F. Kennedy Jr. It was published in the March issue of Brill's Content magazine.BRILL: In the current issue [of George magazine] you've got [former] President Reagan on the cover. Is that something where you said, "Let's do that?"KENNEDY: What really happens is, we have meetings with the senior staff and in a kind of Socratic method, we vet the ideas. And the ones that stand up under that scrutiny, and the ones [for]

THE REAL scandal propounded by Steven Brill's celebrated article on media coverage of the investigation into the president's private life is the origin of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's probe.If Mr. Brill is right, it is a conspiracy, though hardly a vast one. This is far more important to the nation than Mr. Brill's much-discussed finding that Mr. Starr's office leaked much of the material from the secret tapes to the news media.According to Mr. Brill's thoroughly researched, 28-page expose in the inaugural issue of his magazine, Brill's Content, the caper began with literary agent Lucianne Goldberg coaching disgruntled government secretary Linda Tripp on how to produce material that might get her a book contract.

A few weeks after 14-year-old Ashley Nicole Mason was fatally stabbed and strangled, Frederick James Moore wiped down the inside passenger side of a blue Ford Escort while his friend, Scott J. Brill, smoked a cigarette, Brill's sister testified yesterday. "I said, `Why are you cleaning the car?'" Crystal Brill, 16, said during the first day of testimony in Moore's murder trial in Howard County Circuit Court. "He said it was dirty." It was in that car -- and in that seat -- that prosecutors are alleging that Ashley took the last ride of her life during the early morning hours of Nov. 3, 2000.

WASHINGTON -- Striking back at a magazine article that accused him of illegal leaks to the press, independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr fired off an irate 19-page letter yesterday, asserting that the author's "reckless and irresponsible attack borders on the libelous."The letter signaled an extraordinary effort by the special prosecutor to control damage from what is widely regarded as a public relations blunder. In an article published in Brill's Content, a new magazine about the media, Starr acknowledged that he and his deputies had leaked information about the Monica Lewinsky investigation to reporters.

A Howard County jury of seven women and five men will begin hearing testimony this morning in the murder trial of Frederick James Moore, the second of two men accused of fatally stabbing 14-year-old Ashley Nicole Mason more than a year ago. Attorneys for both sides spent the bulk of yesterday selecting jurors to hear what is expected to be a week of testimony from up to 18 witnesses. But although forensic evidence, including DNA testing, is expected to link Moore to the crime scene, it was unclear yesterday how prosecutors plan to tie the 22-year-old Baltimore man to the stabbing itself.

NEW YORK -- Legions of attorneys from New York to Los Angeles must have grumbled to themselves, over the last 15 years, "If only Steven Brill had become a lawyer."But the Yale Law School graduate says he "never thought about practicing law for a minute." In an interview in his midtown-Manhattan office, Mr. Brill recalls that, during his last year in law school in the mid-1970s, the career-guidance director told him that "I was the only student in the last several years who had never shown up in the placement office.