Diana

BUSINESS DOW +119.01 13,357.74 NASDAQ +31.06 2,596.36 S&P +16.35 1,473.99 SUN INDEX +4.24 347.40 NATIONAL Scandal embarrasses GOP At the start of the week, it was unlikely that many people outside of Idaho and Washington, D.C., had heard of Sen. Larry E. Craig. But after Monday's disclosure of a guilty plea in a men's-room sex sting, Craig became the target of jokes and a national embarrassment to a Republican Party facing an election next year. pg 1A Warner won't run in 2008 Republican Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia, one of the most influential voices on military matters in Congress, announced he would not run for re-election, paving the way for a battle between Democrats and Republicans to claim his seat.

DOUG ULMAN always knew he wanted to teach. He planned to teach history, but a twist of fate has channeled his strong spirit into deeper waters.Now he teaches about cancer.The Ellicott City resident graduated from Centennial High School in 1995. He was a dynamo: soccer team captain, Howard County Student Government Association president, student representative to the school board.Ulman was home for the summer after finishing his freshman year at Brown University when his life changed.Then 19, he was jogging on a hot August night with his older brother, Ken Ulman, when he felt a constriction in his chest.

A federal judge in Baltimore has rejected a request by the father of Princess Diana's boyfriend for classified National Security Agency documents he believes could shed light on the fatal car crash that killed the couple.In a six-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Frederic N. Smalkin said it would be "extremely ill-advised" to grant the request of billionaire businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, who might have wanted to present the documents in an inquiry by a French magistrate into the 1997 crash in Paris that killed his son Dodi Al Fayed, Princess Diana and the couple's driver, Henri Paul.

As People celebrates its 25th anniversary, the weekly that wrote the book on personality journalism is more popular and profitable than ever, with a circulation of 3.6 million and another estimated nine pass-along readers for every issue sold.People leads the industry with annual ad revenues of nearly $627 million.Here are People's 10 best-selling newsstand covers:1. "Good-bye Diana," Sept. 22, 1997: 2.992 million sales2. "John Lennon, 1940- 1980: A Tribute," Dec. 22, 1980: 2.644 million3.

"Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess," by Sally Bedell Smith. Times Books. 368 pages. $24.Diana Spencer, later Diana, Princess of Wales, appears to have lived more for other people than for herself, to a degree unusual even for celebrities.When she became the bride of Prince Charles in 1981, the heady combination of Cinderella wish-fulfillment and Anglophilia got thousands of Americans out of bed at 5 a.m. to watch nuptials ever after described tediously in the press as a "fairy-tale wedding."

Two years ago, John F. Kennedy Jr. sat down to reflect on celebrity, death and the existence of God.It wasn't the first time we were offered an intimate glimpse of the 38-year-old presidential namesake. From the time he was a toddler, his life's landmarks have been publicly shared: his salute at his father's funeral; his exuberant exit from a church following his 1996 wedding to Carolyn Bessette; his gentle touch of his mother's tombstone.We were also privy to his mundane moments: his shirtless Frisbee games; his Central Park spat with Bessette; his strolls with his dog, Friday.

If you check into "California Suite," as depicted by the Pasadena Theatre Company, you will find fascinating company among the guests in Rooms 201 and 203 of the Beverly Hills Hotel.Neil Simon's characters are amusing, wise, witty, touching, and introspective as they explore past and present relationships with friends, lovers and mates.The first segment, "Visitor from New York," is classic Simon with Hannah's put-downs of former husband Billy, once a New Yorker, now a youthful and fit Californian.

LONDON - On his swim trunks are the letters "W.O.W."They stand for "William of Wales," but the monogram also pretty well sums up the popular sentiment here for the eldest son of the late Princess Diana - the most likely heir to her title of lead character in the continuing national melodrama.It is hard to look at William, with his blond locks, shy ways and brilliant blue eyes, and not see an image of his mother.He has demonstrated a grasp of her "common" touch, while showing signs that he is developing a charisma of his own. On the day of his mother's funeral last year, William graciously received flowers handed him by mourners outside Buckingham Palace, a notable personal touch given the awkwardness exhibited by his royal relatives.

You might think NBC has invented a new programming genre.Monday night, it will present a highly publicized two-hour special about Diana, Princess of Wales, on the first anniversary of her death. The program is produced and, in the words of NBC, "lovingly presented" by Richard Attenborough, who won an Academy Award for his direction of a little film called "Gandhi" and was made a lord by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993. NBC and Attenborough are calling "Diana" a "documentary tribute," which might seem confusing to some viewers.

There is a scene in the CBS miniseries "Mama Flora's Family" that features Flora Palmer (Cicely Tyson) at age 69 walking into a Tennessee coffee shop, attempting to integrate its lunch counter.As the scene started to unfold, my first thought was that I'd been here before. And I had, with Tyson as Miss Jane Pittman integrating a water fountain in the acclaimed 1974 made-for-TV movie, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman."And the model for Pittman, according to director John Korty, was Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus.You might think that's bad: television just recycling the same stories over and over, seemingly with no new ideas.

WNBA Finals, Game 5 Fever@Mercury 8 p.m. [ESPN2] Indiana missed a chance Wednesday night to clinch in front of Colts stars Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne. Let's see if the Cardinals' Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald show up tonight in Phoenix for the decisive fifth game. What would they see? Maybe a Hail Mary basket put up by the Fever's Katie Douglas, near left, or the Mercury's Diana Taurasi.

In July 2007, Diana Ramsay and her partner, Michael Greene, purchased a home that would transport them from city to county - from vertical to horizontal. Putting their 15-foot wide, three-level rowhouse with rooftop deck in Federal Hill behind them, they jumped headfirst into a new lifestyle in the form of a sprawling ranch home in Ruxton. "We wanted a home that would be special not only for us, but also for family and friends," Diana Ramsay said. "The home needed to feel like a sanctuary with multiple outdoor areas for social gatherings."

On July 18, 2009 JOHN M. beloved husband of Vivian M. Green, dear father of Mark and Stephen Green and Lynn Willingham, stepfather of Dennis Beecher, Denise Brown and Diana Beecher; also survived by 12 grandchildren and one great-grandson. Friends may call at the Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Tuesday and Wednesday from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Services will be held on Thursday at 10 a.m. in St. John's Lutheran Church, Third and Washburn Avenues. Interment in Maryland State Veterans Cemetery, Crownsville.

On June 7, 2009 RONALD devoted brother of Dolores Bilenki and the late Shelby Burns; uncle of Debra Kramer, Diana Simms, Lisa Merkey and Michael Bilenki. Also survived by 10 grandnieces and nephews as well as three great-grand-nieces. Services will be held Friday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Curtis Bay at 7:30 p.m.

Knowing offers mumbo jumbo on an apocalyptic scale. It's a thick, lumpy stew of devices from the sci-fi/fantasy mainstream and the lunatic fringe. The movie starts in 1959, with the packing and sealing of a grade-school time capsule, and jumps ahead to 2009, when the capsule is opened. As it recklessly mixes tropes from Chariots of the Gods, disaster movies and Steven Spielberg's space fantasies, it makes you feel as if you're witnessing That '70s Movie: The Doomsday Edition. The director, Alex Proyas (I, Robot)

The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of The Dog in the Manger is so lucid and lusty, so sumptuous, funny and achingly felt, that its sole failure of vision is all the more puzzling. With consummate skill, director Jonathan Munby explores each nuance and unravels every twisted strand of Lope de Vega's 17th-century tragi-comedy from Spain's Golden Age - with one exception. Michael Hayden is a dexterous performer, but I think he's wrong for the romantic male lead, and the miscasting obscures a major theme.

On February 15, 2009 DIANA LYNN ROSSKOPF leaving behind three children Michael, Heather and Timothy; two grandchildren Elyssa and Michael II; mother Joan, four siblings and many loved ones. Family will receive friends Thursday, February 19 from 7-9 p.m. at the Daugherty Family Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 2601 Mountain Road in Pasadena where a funeral service will be celebrated at 8 p.m. during the visitation. Interment private.

[Paramount Home Video] Starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes Directed by Saul Dibb. $29.98, Blu-ray $39.99. ** dvds The Duchess, in stores Saturday, may be lovely to look at, but even Keira Knightley's best efforts can't shake up this curiously inert film, the tale of an 18th-century British lass who married into the aristocracy, only to find the marriage doomed her to a life of little more than servitude to her vain, pompous husband. Knightley, corseted and wigged beyond any reasonable measure, is Georgiana Spencer, who starts off thrilled that she is to be betrothed to the esteemed Duke of Devonshire.

Living a stone's throw from a railroad track in Relay, Ray and Diana Chism have surrounded their historic home with boxwoods, roses, azaleas and other flowering perennials. You can see their garden at baltimoresun.com/gardener.

He was an unlikely media star, a rumpled, Columbo-like character out of The Front Page. That appearance made him a throwback in the unsettling transition from print to electronic to cyber communication. In an earlier time, the stereotype demanded a fedora with a "PRESS" card tucked under the band. But he was a hack with a TV profile. He was more than a dogged reporter. He was an exemplar of media power. His face and his Sunday morning presence sold his books with Oprah-like power. The Tim Russert story - the story of his life and of his sudden passing - commanded headlines the way presidents and their passing do. The continuing accounts of his life are reminiscent of the Princess Diana story and its painful grip on the world's attention.