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Policy at Food LionA Sept. 23 article in The Sun, titled "A wage law with no teeth," contained some information that is not only misleading, but false.As a vice president of Food Lion Inc., I feel I owe it to my fellow 30,000 stockholders and fellow 60,000 employees to set the record straight.The article cited testimony before a House subcommittee by Food Lion employees regarding allegations that we "routinely forced employees to work off-the-clock."What the article did not say was that our indications from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)

''Camille Claudel,'' showing at the Charles, is the story of Claudel's very long descent into madness. The film, two and one-half hours long, should run no more than 90 minutes, but director Bruno Nuyten apparently wanted us to share in all this agony, which we do.Claudel, who lived from 1864 to 1943, was collaborator then mistress to Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor. He already had a family, but that didn't deter Claudel who, when Rodin refused to leave his wife and children, began her ride to hell.

Richard Zaworski of Baltimore requested a recipe for Oyster Pot Pie. "Years ago," he wrote, "my mother made it for my family and we enjoyed it a great deal, but no one can remember the recipe." Marlene Zaworski Mundie, no address given, responded. "I have had this recipe for a few years, but it is not a family recipe. My husband loves it. It is especially good when it snows outside. The white sauce can also be used for chipped beef." And, noting the name of the man seeking the recipe, she added, "Maybe I'll find a lost relative."

The Baltimore County Department of Social Services has received $45,000 in public and private grants to help low income residents avoid eviction.The grants come at a time when evictions are increasing in the county and when the state is poised to cut a program that has steered thousands of Marylanders through emergencies such as eviction.Reacting to these new problems, the County Council last week approved a measure that would move $20,000 from a federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program to the Social Services Department.

Mon dieu and zut alors! Zee Franch, zey are a funny peeple, non?No. They're not very funny at all in "Camille Claudel" (opening at the Charles today), the two-hour film biography of the French sculptress who slept with and fought with Auguste Rodin and ended her days with a three-decade stint in the madhouse. There's enough artistic suffering in this film -- crying and gnashing and freezing and going mad and being cold and dirty -- to stuff a Christmas goose with.Still, it's not quite as overdramatized as it might have been, nor as high toned.

A 5-foot-11 senior forward, Calhoun led the No. 3 Cavaliers to four wins in the opening week of the season, including a 62-52 win over Holy Cross that avenged a one-point loss last season. She averaged 9.3 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, 1.8 blocks and 3.5 steals for the week that also included wins over then-No. 11 Roland Park, 49-37, then-No. 12 Seton Keough, 46-34, and Williamsburg Christian, 56-38. She had 11 points, 14 rebounds, six assists, five steals and two blocks Sunday in the win over Williamsburg at the Beast of the East Showcase at St. Frances.

C. S. Marie;, a retired engineer who helped design the optics for the first video camera to relay images of the moon and the Arctic ice cap, died Nov. 22 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Northwest Hospital Center in Randallstown. The Pikesville resident, whose passions ranged from ham radio to bee keeping to Civil War history, was 84. Camille Stewart Marie; was born in 1918 in Babylon, N.Y., and was raised in Baltimore. He had received his first radio operator's license from the Federal Communications Commission by the time he graduated from St. Paul's School for Boys in 1936.

YEAR'S END usually means a time for reflection. As I think back on 1998, I have to ponder if Greg Kane was as downright ornery as some readers said he was.Why, one critic wanted to know, did I single out Camille Cosby for criticism in a couple of July columns, which were written in response to her USA Today column charging that America had taught the killer of her son, Ennis Cosby, to hate blacks.I wrote those columns because the last I checked, Camille Cosby had not cornered the market on grief.

A historic Baltimore Catholic school will name its community center in honor of Bill and Camille Cosby, the biggest donors in the school's 184-year history and fierce champions of education, the school announced Friday. St. Frances Academy, which serves 162 primarily low-income high school students, will host the comedian, his wife and their relatives in a ceremony at the St. Frances Community Center on April 20. In addition to giving $2 million to St. Frances in 2005 to support its scholarship program, Camille Cosby also has a strong connection to the founders of the Baltimore school, having been educated by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the oldest order of African-American nuns in the country, for seven years.

WHEN BALTIMORE COUNTY Director of Social Services Camille B. Wheeler was forced to resign last week after 19 years, her many supporters protested that she had been made a scapegoat for the starvation death in June of 9-year-old Rita Fisher. But County Executive C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger, who wanted her gone, has been careful not to blame her for the department's oversight of the tragic Fisher case.Her fall likely has more to do with her fervent independence clashing with the executive's preference for teamwork and his desire to exercise his own personality and beliefs in the social services realm.