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ADVERTISING GKV Communications announced the selection of Kevin H. Kempske, currently a senior vice president and director of public relations, as a partner in the Locust Point-based advertising, branding and public relations agency. He joined the firm in 1998 from CF Industries Inc. Carton Donofrio Partners Inc. appointed Sharon Gallacher, a former senior partner with MindShare, as vice president and director of media services for the Baltimore-based marketing communications firm. She will manage media strategy, measurement, buying and planning.

About two dozen of Maryland's most violent juvenile sexual offenders would be housed at Sheppard Pratt Health System in Towson, under a proposal that officials of the psychiatric hospital released yesterday.Sheppard Pratt, which is trying to adjust to a shrinking patient load brought by changes in health care, wants to house male offenders in an empty building on its bucolic 100-acre property ,, along Charles Street.Hospital officials said security would be a priority, with fences, locked doors, motion detectors and video cameras.

NEW YORK -- Attorney Sam Eber scoured the edges of the World Trade Center rubble, his eyes darting over wads of dirty paper in search of any familiar shred. Somewhere amid the billions of sheets that rained down as the twin towers collapsed are files for a divorce case. "There are 10-year-old phone records showing the husband calling his girlfriend," Eber said. "The phone company doesn't have them anymore. My client didn't make copies." Along with the loss of life and property here Sept.

Anyone who has ever hunted for parking in Little Italy on a balmy Friday night, anyone who has craned to see the Inner Harbor fireworks over the throngs of July Fourth revelers, anyone who has licked a syrupy cold snowball on a hot city street -- they know. Baltimore's got its summertime allures. But to rank the city one of the Top 10 summer destinations for 2005 in the world -- the whole, entire world -- as Frommer's, the travel guide company, just did? Positioning it up there with Barcelona, Belize and Puerto Rico?

'TC W. Byron Forbush II, who has spent much of his career and most of his life at Baltimore's Friends School, announced yesterday that he will retire in June 1998 after 38 years as headmaster.A fixture in independent education locally and nationally, Forbush is by far the longest-serving headmaster in Maryland, and perhaps in the country. His father, Bliss Forbush Sr., also led the Quaker school, from 1943 to 1960.He announced his long-rumored retirement at a meeting of the school's more than 200 staff and faculty members yesterday afternoon, and in a letter to parents of the school's 990 students, which was mailed yesterday.

Joseph P. DeSantis, an educator and college administrator, died of a heart attack July 29 within a block of his office at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 W. Baltimore St. He was 61.Mr. DeSantis had been a specialist in post-secondary and adult education since 1976 in the Division of Career, Technology and Adult Learning. He was a liaison between state and community college faculty and administrators.In 1970, he was appointed dean of community services at the new Howard Community College.

Rosie Page, 5, laughed out loud at men and women old enough to be her grandparents dressed as elves and chipmunks, singing and dancing their way through an hour and a half holiday show."

Back to school means different things to different people. For parents, it signals a return to the routines of packing lunches, catching buses, supervising homework and car pooling to this or that practice.Teachers are back to planning lessons, grading papers and teaching new students. Students are getting acquainted with new teachers, making new friends and settling into the routine.Student athletes have made the team and have been working hard at practice now for a month or more. Cheerleaders are preparing new pyramids and crowd-pleasers.

A span of 30 seconds early in the first quarter of Friday's Class 1A state semifinal between defending state champion Dunbar and pesky Owings Mills provided more than a hint of things to come. Dunbar's 6-foot-4 junior forward Aaron Parham followed a miss with a thunderous dunk. After the No. 4 Poets got another stop at the defensive end, junior guard Rodrick Harrison spotted up on the left baseline and found nothing but net for a 3-pointer. In a rematch of last year's state championship game, the Poets once again proved bigger and stronger, quicker and more skilled, and simply too much for No. 14 Owings Mills to handle.

IMAGINE Cleopatra marrying Stanley Kowalski on the set of "Peter Pan."The bride will be wearing a yellow Valentino dress. The groom will be dodging sheriff's officers trying to serve a bench warrant for drunken driving. In the background, Michael Jackson will be singing (one hopes) "Beat It." Bubbles, the chimp, will be ring bearer, if he can find something that isn't backless.It's the newest installment of The Liz Show. In our last episode, stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Taylor wed ruggedly handsome Virginia Sen. John Warner in a sunset wedding on a knoll in the state whose motto is: "Virginia is for lovers."