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'Project Runway' season 6 set to air The way has finally been cleared for Lifetime to air season six of Project Runway starting this summer. The episodes, which have already been taped, were held back as the producer, the Weinstein Co., battled with NBC Universal, owners of the show's former home, Bravo, over rights to the series. NBC Universal said in a statement issued Wednesday: "NBC Universal, the Weinstein Company and Lifetime have resolved their disputes. The Weinstein Company will pay NBCU for the right to move Project Runway to Lifetime.

LOS ANGELES -- So, these comedians walk into a comedy club, and a nasty dispute breaks out over who is stealing jokes. The audience laughs, but the comedians don't seem to find it funny at all. The scene was the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip earlier this year, and on stage were Carlos Mencia, the host of Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia, and stand-up comic and Fear Factor host Joe Rogan. Mencia let it be known he was upset that Rogan had been mercilessly bashing him as a "joke thief" and derisively referring to him as Carlos "Menstealia."

TO THE young lions of the civil rights era, he was the old man. And it fit. The life of W.E.B. DuBois bridged the defining events of the African-American experience. He was born only three years after the end of slavery and died hours before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.In the intervening years, the old man nursed a dream of his own, one that despite his 95 years and his prodigious output as sociologist, author, editor and activist, he could not fulfill. He called it the Encyclopedia Africana -- the first encyclopedia of African peoples -- and he envisioned it "covering the chief points in the history and condition of the Negro race" around the world.

Have you ever seen a children's show on commercial television that told kids not to buy the stuff they see advertised on TV? I never had -- until I screened the pilot for "Little Bill," a new prime-time animated series created by Bill Cosby that premieres tonight at 8 on the Nickelodeon cable channel."

Ravens owner Art Modell said he may contact entertainer Bill Cosby, a friend who has expressed past interest in owning part of an NFL franchise, about purchasing a share of the team.Modell is looking to sell 20 to 30 percent of his franchise to pay down its debt. He wants to retain control of the team and pass it on to his children.Modell has hired an investment bank to pursue a partner. A prospectus is being prepared, and Modell plans to complete the deal by early next year. Modell said he hasn't determined a price yet -- estimates have ranged from $100 million to $150 million -- but he wants someone he can work comfortably with.

Playing on hurting legs and without All-Metro point guard Derrick Snowden down the stretch, top-ranked Archbishop Spalding escaped last night with a 46-44 victory over No. 8 McDonogh, which played without 6-foot-5 standout David Lunn.In a rarity for him, Snowden (nine points) fouled out on a touch violation with 2: 29 remaining and his team leading 45-41. Host Spalding (6-3) built three seven-point leads in the third period, but for most of the game, the margin was less than four.With their top player, Lunn, a second-team All-Metro forward last season, in street clothes, the visiting Eagles (5-4)

Comedian Bill Cosby has no interest in being a part-owner of the Ravens, a spokesman said yesterday.Ravens owner Art Modell, who is looking for a partner to buy a part of the team so he can pay down its debt, had said Cosby might be someone to approach about investing.Cosby, a friend of Modell's, was a member of a group of investors that Modell backed in an unsuccessful bid for the expansion franchise in Cleveland."He loves watching the Ravens play and he thinks they have a wonderful stadium, but he does not have an interest or any plans to buy any part of the club," said Cosby spokesman David Brokaw.

McDonogh's Thurgood (T.C.) Cosby Jr. said he discovered his football legacy by accident."My dad and I were walking through a mall one day when I was about 10, and this guy comes up and starts talking about how great of a football player my dad was," said Cosby, 17, an Ashburton-area resident who found out that his father had played professionally for a few years.The elder Cosby, 54, starred as a running back-linebacker at City College in the early 1960s, helping build a near four-year winning streak under then-coach George Young (now vice president of the New York Giants)

When 13th-ranked Mount St. Joseph visits top-ranked Gilman tomorrow for a critical Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference football game, Peter and Rita Abiamiri, parents of three sons in the game, might be rooting for a tie.Two of their sons, 6-foot-3, 200-pound Rob, a senior, and 6-2, 180-pound Paschal, a sophomore, will be suiting up for Mount St. Joe. But the youngest Abiamiri, 6-4, 210-pound freshman Victor, 13, will be wearing a...

"Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America," by Randall Robinson. Dutton. 240 pages. $25.95.There's no way, if you're an honest human, to get through "Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America" without feeling naked and ashamed.And so it's understandable why America's dad, Bill Cosby, carried Randall Robinson's memoir throughout Monday night's episode of "Cosby." It's understandable because you haven't been able to let go of "Defending the Spirit" either.If you're lucky, you never will.

David Copperfield sued for sexual assault A Seattle woman has sued magician David Copperfield, contending he sexually assaulted and threatened her while she was a guest on his private island in the Bahamas. Copperfield's lawyers, Angelo Calfo and Patty Eakes, deny the allegations and say the lawsuit is "extortion for money, plain and simple." No criminal charges have been filed. The Seattle Times describes the woman as a 22-year-old fashion model and former Miss Washington USA contestant.

Linda L. Cosby, a retired registered nurse who owned and operated a Baltimore County case management company, died June 9 of pneumonia at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The Arnold resident was 66. Linda Lee Cosby was born in Southhampton on Long Island, N.Y., and raised in Towson. After graduating from Towson Catholic High School in 1960, she earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Catholic University of America in 1964. She also did graduate studies in community nursing at the University of California at Los Angeles in the mid-1970s.

'Project Runway' season 6 set to air The way has finally been cleared for Lifetime to air season six of Project Runway starting this summer. The episodes, which have already been taped, were held back as the producer, the Weinstein Co., battled with NBC Universal, owners of the show's former home, Bravo, over rights to the series. NBC Universal said in a statement issued Wednesday: "NBC Universal, the Weinstein Company and Lifetime have resolved their disputes. The Weinstein Company will pay NBCU for the right to move Project Runway to Lifetime.

On March 14, 2009, SAMUEL COSBY. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 AM where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 11:30 AM. Funeral services will follow at 12 PM.

On November 11, 2008, BURK COSBY, beloved brother of Bernard Cosby. He is also survived by a host of relatives and friends. There will be no viewing of remains. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday 3 to 4 PM at the Chatman-Harris Funeral Home, 5240 Reisterstown Road. Interment private.

With the election over, the TV schedule returns to some semblance of normal. But expect the networks to break into news programming as events dictate - we do, after all, have a president-elect. AMERICAN HEROES PBS takes a look at those who have received one of the nation's highest awards in Medal of Honor, a documentary co-produced by Ken Burns' Florentine Films. Produced and directed by Roger Sherman, Medal of Honor profiles several people who have won the award. Starting with Sgt. Paul Smith, the first soldier to win the medal in the Iraq war, Sherman follows the award back to its roots in the Civil War. (9 p.m., MPT, Channels 22 and 67)

Bill Cosby was the big draw at yesterday's Park Heights block party, despite the controversy the actor-pitchman has stirred up since switching from soft-selling Jell-O to hard-selling a message of black self-responsibility. He's been scolding African-Americans, particularly the men, for years: Take care of your kids - heck, marry the mother of your kids - don't drop out of school, stop committing crimes, get a job, fix your own community instead of blaming outside forces. But if Cosby thinks this message is news to anyone at the Park Heights Barber Shop, a short walk up the street to this neighborhood institution would set him straight.

Ebony Paige wasn't sure what Bill Cosby would talk about yesterday in Park Heights, but she figured the speech would be poignant and funny, something worth bringing her two daughters and goddaughter to hear. What Cosby delivered to the hundreds who gathered in the 4500 block of Park Heights Ave. was a 40-minute plea for attendees to empower themselves by attending community college. Cosby also told the audience to encourage their children and other relatives to do the same. Cosby, using Baltimore City Community College President Carolane Williams as his sidekick, told the crowd, "You may have dropped out of school for whatever reason, but you now realize that's not going to do it. We got something for you. We got community college for you. You may feel so broke, so poor and think, 'I can't become a doctor, I can't become ... ' But we got something for you: community college."

Bill Cosby comes to town tomorrow to speak at a Park Heights block party. Should we expect the genial actor/author/Jell-O pitchman or the tough-talking, black self-reliance preacher? Or perhaps someone else entirely: the camera-shy celeb. "NOTE FOR MEDIA: Video photography will not be permitted during Mr. Cosby's remarks," reads the news release from Mayor Sheila Dixon's office. "Still photography will be permitted during the first 3 minutes." What's with the attempted media blackout?

Just announced Dark Star Orchestra -- 9:30 Club in Washington Nov. 30-Dec. 1. 800-955-5566 or tickets.com. Trans-Siberian Orchestra -- Verizon Center in Washington on Dec. 16. Also, at 1st Mariner Arena on Jan. 6. 410-547-7328 or ticketmaster.com. Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime -- Rams Head Live on Jan. 4. 410-244-1131 or ramsheadlive.com. Mo'Nique -- Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Dec. 1. 410-547-7328 or ticketmaster.com. Daughtry -- U.S. Naval Academy's Alumni Hall in Annapolis on Nov. 10. 410-293-8497 or tickets.