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"He's beginning to look a lot like Tony Mandarich." Mike Freeman Writing at CBSSports.com, comparing New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush to an all-time draft bust

When the Top 11 perform on American Idol tonight, the big questions will be: Will Sanjaya Malakar finally get kicked out this week? Who will the theme suit the least? Who will forget the lyrics? Will Chris Sligh rearrange another song into oblivion? Will Blake Lewis beatbox or not? Will Ryan and Simon ditch their juvenile sparring over who might be gay? Will Randy finally find "the yo factor"? Who will bust out with unnecessary dance moves? Only time will tell.

FREDERICK -- Frederick's Board of Aldermen will consider removing from City Hall a bronze bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery. The statue of Taney, who lived about 20 years in Frederick, "does not belong in front of the city center," Democratic Alderwoman Donna Kuzemchak said Thursday. Four of the five aldermen agreed to start the discussion by asking the city staff to investigate the possible removal of the bust from the spot it has occupied in front of City Hall for 75 years.

HISTORY teaches us about the great explorers -- men who sailed off to discover new lands and became famous forever.Seldom do we hear about the poor fools who sailed off and sank before discovering anything.It's the same way with mutual funds, where nascent, immature, undiscovered funds are often treated like a prize. But for every Internet fund, which emerged from nowhere due to eye-popping performance, there is more than one Teddy Roosevelt Total Return, unknown and unloved to the day it was killed off.There are thousands of funds below the public's radar screen, too small to make the newspaper fund listings, some operating without ticker symbols (the letter code for an exchange-traded fund)

A thousand semiclad men and women ran screaming across the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy yesterday toward a lard-slathered column of granite.Why? Because that's how it was done last year and each of the 80 years before that. At this training ground for future military officers, tradition is like a mascot.To the cheers of thousands, academy freshmen spent two sweat-soaked hours and 20 slip-sliding minutes getting one midshipman to the top of Herndon Monument. But what yesterday's crowds missed was the numerous, lesser-known customs and rituals that have become the tics of this 153-year-old institution.

By signing as a free agent with the Orioles last week, Mike Timlin left a club that had competed for the title of baseball's biggest bust this season after crumbling under the weight of heavy expectations. In its place he joins a club that had competed for the title of baseball's biggest bust after crumbling under the weight of heavy expectations.Different address, familiar ground.Timlin made his first appearance in Baltimore yesterday since accepting a four-year, $16 million offer and ending his association with the Seattle Mariners.

I THINK telecommuting is a bust as a workplace lifestyle.My sister, fed up with clients calling during dinner time and at bedtime, finally kicked her telecommuting lawyer husband out of the house, trussed like a goose in his multiple phone lines.My spouse, facing a drive to work that might soon double, won't even consider telecommuting. He believes the fire dogs need to be in the firehouse when the siren sounds.And, ending the ultimate telecommuting experiment, 200,000 people who were told to work at home during the Atlanta Olympics hopped back in their cars the Monday morning after and were glad to do it.The notion that we were all going to save the environment and smooth the conflicts between work and home by sitting at a computer terminal in a bathrobe and slippers until the kids arrived home from school is a bust as a trend.

CARROLL COUNTY SHERIFF John Brown got caught running a numbers game, that is a political game to boost the number of drug arrests made by his department last year.The county sheriff's drug strike force counted 137 arrests in the first 11 months of last year. The number of persons actually arrested was 48. Mr. Brown explains that FBI crime reporting rules define each charge against an arrested person as one arrest. Thus, six charges against one suspect equal six arrests.Other law enforcement officials don't agree with that definition, however, and its statistical inflation of crime-busting activity.

I secretly dread trying on swimsuits because I have a flat chest and heavy thighs.When I went shopping recently, the saleswoman insisted I try on a padded top to "fill me out."I left the store empty-handed. Any ideas about enhancing my bust without padding. Any ideas?There are ways to use design to your advantage. Look for suits with draping or shirring across the chest. Both give a natural roundness. Bold patterns or prints are also effective. A brilliantly colored, eye-catching pattern on the bust will visually build it up and give the illusion of fullness.

RAVENS IS a cool name for a football team. It'll be an even cooler logo. But before you go casting a vote for the black bird in The Sun's telephone poll, you should be aware of the plumed peril.It's going to bring out the literary worst in sportswriters.They'll try to control themselves, but the lure of the poetic allusion will be too strong. Phrases from ''The Raven'' will beckon like Sirens, and no amount of editorial admonition can protect Baltimore sports fans from an almost constant stream of snippets from Poe's classic verse.

A federal judge sentenced Trenell D. Murphy to 20 years in prison Friday for possession with intent to distribute about 90 pounds of cocaine that Baltimore police said they found in the back of his Chevy truck in February - the department's largest coke bust. Murphy's sentence, though significant, was "substantially lower" than the guideline range of 24.3 to 30.4 years, despite his having been found a "career criminal," with four major felony convictions since the age of 17, noted U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg.

After failing to persuade a federal judge to suppress 90 pounds of drug evidence - the Baltimore Police Department's biggest cocaine bust - defendant Trenell D. Murphy has abandoned plans for a jury trial, his attorney confirmed Monday. He is expected to plead guilty to a drug-dealing charge during a rearraignment this afternoon. The shift comes in part because Murphy, 34, could get a lighter sentence for "acceptance of responsibility," said attorney M. Gordon Tayback. But as part of the plea agreement, they retained the right to appeal the court's recent decision to keep the cocaine in evidence.

So, a former city police commissioner is miffed at the sitting city police commissioner for hyping a drug bust. Five years ago, Kevin P. Clark stood in front of the TV cameras and hailed the seizure of 338 pounds of cocaine, describing it as one of the largest in recent years. A week ago, Frederick H. Bealefeld III stood in front of the TV cameras and hailed the seizure of 90 pounds of cocaine, describing it as the biggest in the Baltimore Police Department's history. Clark called the newspaper to complain.

The letter arrived, mayor to mayor, wishing the newly elected Sheila Dixon the usual "cordial congratulations" and wishes of "great success" on the "demanding and challenging" task she faced. Then the note veered from boilerplate municipal correspondence into far stranger territory: The mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, wanted to send his Baltimore counterpart a statue of someone he considered among the greatest artists of the 20th century, someone with ties to both their cities, someone who would unite the citizens of two otherwise far-flung towns in a lasting bond.

Americans are more concerned these days about the economy than at any time in more than a decade, and editorial cartoonists have been happy to jump on the bandwagon, poking fun at economically clueless politicians, Federal Reserve officials and housing bust victims. Last week, 42 percent of the public paid very close attention to news about the economy, down only slightly from a 15-year high of 45 percent the previous week, a Pew Center survey shows.

"He's beginning to look a lot like Tony Mandarich." Mike Freeman Writing at CBSSports.com, comparing New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush to an all-time draft bust

FREDERICK -- Frederick's Board of Aldermen will consider removing from City Hall a bronze bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery. The statue of Taney, who lived about 20 years in Frederick, "does not belong in front of the city center," Democratic Alderwoman Donna Kuzemchak said Thursday. Four of the five aldermen agreed to start the discussion by asking the city staff to investigate the possible removal of the bust from the spot it has occupied in front of City Hall for 75 years.

FREDERICK -- A bronze bust of Roger Brooke Taney stares sternly ahead, as if he were watching the two cherubs frolicking in the fountain in front of City Hall. Author of the inflammatory Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, Taney has been immortalized here for 75 years, largely ignored by passers-by. But as Frederick has grown and become more diverse, a small band of residents is looking to move, or remove, this tribute to the Supreme Court chief justice who once resided in the city, saying his racism can no longer be condoned - even in the context of history.

When the Top 11 perform on American Idol tonight, the big questions will be: Will Sanjaya Malakar finally get kicked out this week? Who will the theme suit the least? Who will forget the lyrics? Will Chris Sligh rearrange another song into oblivion? Will Blake Lewis beatbox or not? Will Ryan and Simon ditch their juvenile sparring over who might be gay? Will Randy finally find "the yo factor"? Who will bust out with unnecessary dance moves? Only time will tell.

A raid on a home in Northwest Baltimore resulted in two arrests and the confiscation of 30 pounds of marijuana, more than 1,000 prescription pills and $1,000 in cash, city police said yesterday. Police said they seized the drugs--with a street value of $112,000--at a home in the 2900 block of W. Cold Spring Lane after a tipster reported drug activity at the residence two weeks ago. On Friday night, the Northeastern District's narcotics unit raided the home about 6:30 p.m., police said.