NEWS
By Paul Lamb | May 13, 2007
VALLEJO, Calif. -- My mother is getting older now and is often sick. This is hard to take, as she has always been so strong and emotionally present in my life. Now that she is not as frequently in full bloom, a part of me is afraid and a part of me is sad. Her hand is slowly letting go of mine, and I am not sure what I will do when she lets go altogether. I am not a mama's boy. Far from it. My mother has never coddled me or tried to keep me sheltered from the world. If anything, the opposite is true.
SPORTS
By Gary Lambrech | April 16, 1999
Total draft picks: SixBreakdown: First round, 10th overall; second round, 11th pick, 42nd choice overall; fourth round, 10th pick, 105th choice overall; fourth round, compensatory pick, 129th choice overall; fifth round, 12th pick, 145th choice overall; seventh round, 10th pick, 216th choice overall.1998 record: 6-10, fourth place in the AFC CentralMajor needs: Wide receiver, quarterback, running back, cornerback, defensive tackle, offensive line, safety.First-round scenarios: The Ravens have cooled on the idea of trading up. That would cost them additional picks, and they have too many needs to address throughout the draft.
NEWS
By Erika Niedowski | October 2, 1998
Howard County Police Chief Wayne Livesay moved last night to answer the questions -- and quell the concerns -- of Harper's Choice residents at an anti-crime community meeting in the wake of two near-fatal shootings in that village last month.Joined at the Swansfield Neighborhood Center by Capt. Mike Kessler, the Southern District commander, Livesay told more than 30 residents and community leaders that the two shootings, which took place near the village center 24 hours and a block and a half apart, appear to have involved drugs in some way, and may have been related.
NEWS
June 17, 1998
SOME neighborhoods have a reputation for crime that is worse than they deserve. That has been the predicament of Harper's Choice village in Columbia for too long.Efforts are being made not only to reduce criminal activity but also to improve the area's appearance and vitality. Still, the community must fight the perception -- even among many of its residents -- that it is an unsafe place to live.That issue was discussed last week during a two-day public forum on the remaining crime problems in Harper's Choice.
NEWS
By William Pfaff | July 26, 1998
PARIS -- President Clinton was elected in 1992 promising to give the United States a needed national-health insurance system. The battle that followed pitted advocates of a single-payer state system, on the Canadian or European models, against the private insurance industry, ending in a qualified victory for the latter.Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, wrote in the New York Times a few days ago that the original Clinton proposals "would have limited our choice in doctors, cost millions of jobs and created new bureaucracies and tax increases."
NEWS
By Harold Jackson | October 11, 1998
WHAT A conundrum. The concentration of "affordable housing" in Columbia's village of Harper's Choice may be a factor in the amount of crime that occurs there.But crime in Harper's Choice helps increase fears that block efforts to build more lower-priced houses and apartments in other parts of Howard County.It should be stressed at the outset that Harper's Choice is not a dangerous place. Walk its streets and you will see children playing and adults jogging carefree along tree-lined sidewalks.
NEWS
By Howard Libit | February 11, 1996
By conventional wisdom, Harper's Choice Middle School should be one of Howard County's lower-performing schools.It's the county middle school with the highest percentage of students with limited English skills, the second-highest percentage of special education pupils and the third-highest percentage of students eligible for free lunches.So why was Harper's Choice the only middle school in Howard to meet five of the six standards on the most recent round of the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP)
SPORTS
By Doug Brown | December 19, 1996
A last-minute flurry of wheeling and dealing has given the Spirit the No. 1 pick in today's National Professional Soccer League draft.After securing the Edmonton Drillers' No. 4 selection for cash on Monday, the Spirit yesterday dealt the pick and an undisclosed amount of cash to the expansion Toronto Shooting Stars for their No. 1 choice in the first and fourth rounds.The Spirit will go into the draft, conducted via conference call, with a territorial choice, Nos. 1, 6 and 12 in the first round of the regular draft, No. 12 in the second and third rounds and Nos. 1 and 12 in the fourth.
NEWS
June 23, 1996
PRESIDENT CLINTON, in another move to co-opt a Republican issue, has vowed to block United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali from another five-year term. His White House spokesman, Mike McCurry, describes the U.N. headquarters in New York as a building "stuffed with too many bureaucrats and stuffed with too much waste and inefficiency." Bob Dole, a constant critic of the 73-year-old Egyptian statesman, will have a tough time topping such undiplomatic language.Politics aside, the president is fully justified in taking this action.
NEWS
By Paul West | July 7, 1996
As metro editor of the Washington Post, Bob Woodward used to exhort his young charges to produce stories so astonishing that readers would cry "Holy Sh**!"Woodward has passed the "Holy Sh**!" test numerous times himself. The reporter who almost singlehandedly brought down the Nixon presidency is now an enormously successful author. His behind-the-scenes Washington blockbusters typically yield a slew of astonishing revelations.His latest, "The Choice" (Simon & Schuster. 426 pages, $26.), is about the 1996 presidential race.