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An unidentified man died in the third-floor dormer of a vacant rowhouse at 25 S. Exeter St. during a two-alarm fire early yesterday. Baltimore Fire Department Battalion Chief Hector Torres said two people were seen leaving the small house as the fire was reported at 6:35 a.m. By the time firefighters arrived, the house was in flames, Torres said. The fire burned through the roofs of the adjoining homes on either side. The homes stand across Exeter Street from the now-vacant Flag House public housing projects, which are scheduled for demolition.

On June 1, 2005, NICK MEZZANOTTI. Memorial Service celebrating the life of Nick Mezzanotti will be held by his family and friends on Saturday, June 18, 11 A.M. at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, 227 S. Exeter Street, Baltimore. All are invited to attend.

The area around Exeter Street is a happenin' place to be these days. What with new office buildings and residences sprouting up, businesses like Bin 604 Wine Sellers and Whole Foods Market have found a ready and waiting clientele. And what hip locale doesn't come with its own sushi joint? Enter -- this week, in fact -- Chiu's Sushi Japanese Restaurant. Right next door to the aforementioned wine shop on Exeter Street in the Inner Harbor east. Chiu's may be the new kid on the block, but its owner has been around it a few times.

On September 3, 2003, MARY PELLEGRINI SHANAHAN, beloved wife of the late William P. Shanahan; devoted mother of Patricia Miedusiewski, and her husband American Joe Miedusiewski; and dear sister of Anna Pellegrini. She is also survived by beloved godchild, Irid Naver, and 20 loving nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Sterling-Ashton-Schwab Funeral Home, Inc., 736 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville, MD (one-half mile west of beltway exit 14), on Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M., where a Christian Wake Service will be held on Sunday at 3 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday at 10 A.M., at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, Stiles and Exeter Streets.

The death of Edmund Perry is a tragedy at once uniquely American and undeniably universal.It is the story of the strong pulls of loyalties, the constant battle between finding your identity as a member of a group or as an individual, all filtered through the peculiar lens of the black experience in America.Perry was a promising junior high student in Harlem, chosen -- as his brother had been before him -- for a program that sent kids with such potential and drive to elite prep schools.He went to the most elite of the elite, Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire, encountering people who came from a world of established white wealth, a place he had stereotyped as much in his mind as they had stereotyped Harlem in theirs.

On September 3, 2003, MARY PELLEGRINI SHANAHAN, beloved wife of the late William P. Shanahan; devoted mother of Patricia Miedusiewski, and her husband American Joe Miedusiewski; and dear sister of Anna Pellegrini. She is also survived by beloved godchild, Irid Naver, and 20 loving nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Sterling-Ashton-Schwab Funeral Home, Inc., 736 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville, MD (one-half mile west of beltway exit 14), on Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M., where a Christian Wake Service will be held on Sunday at 3 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday at 10 A.M., at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, Stiles and Exeter Streets.

On June 1, 2005, NICK MEZZANOTTI. Memorial Service celebrating the life of Nick Mezzanotti will be held by his family and friends on Saturday, June 18, 11 A.M. at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, 227 S. Exeter Street, Baltimore. All are invited to attend.

If you think all made-for-TV movies end in simplistic, upbeat, candy-cane conclusions, watch "Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story" at 9 tonight on WMAR-TV (Channel 2). The docudrama about the 1985 shooting death of a young, African-American scholar from Harlem goes out of its way to see the tragedy from several points of view, and it is willing to end without any neat resolution.As a teen-ager, Perry received a scholarship to the Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the nation's most prestigious prep schools.

EXETER, N.H. - Financier Carl C. Icahn got clearance July 1 to exercise an option to buy at least $50 million in securities or assets of Tyco International Ltd., according to a U.S. Federal Trade Commission document that became public yesterday. Icahn isn't obligated to purchase Tyco shares or assets, and the document doesn't show if he has. The FTC must be notified of intent to do so if the transaction would include assets with voting rights that have a value of more than $50 million.

EXETER, N.H. - Tyco International Ltd., bowing to shareholder demands for greater transparency in accounting, said yesterday that it plans to split into four companies and shed $11 billion in debt. "It's absolutely surprising," said Mark Demos, an analyst with Fifth Third Investment Advisors, which owns Tyco shares. "It goes against the grain of Tyco's message over the past decade." The breakup reverses the strategy of Tyco chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski, who oversaw $64 billion in acquisitions and whose methods were compared to those at General Electric Co. Kozlowski will head the electronics and security-systems company that remains after Tyco spins off its health care, fire protection and flow control, and financial services units.

The area around Exeter Street is a happenin' place to be these days. What with new office buildings and residences sprouting up, businesses like Bin 604 Wine Sellers and Whole Foods Market have found a ready and waiting clientele. And what hip locale doesn't come with its own sushi joint? Enter -- this week, in fact -- Chiu's Sushi Japanese Restaurant. Right next door to the aforementioned wine shop on Exeter Street in the Inner Harbor east. Chiu's may be the new kid on the block, but its owner has been around it a few times.

EXETER, N.H. - Financier Carl C. Icahn got clearance July 1 to exercise an option to buy at least $50 million in securities or assets of Tyco International Ltd., according to a U.S. Federal Trade Commission document that became public yesterday. Icahn isn't obligated to purchase Tyco shares or assets, and the document doesn't show if he has. The FTC must be notified of intent to do so if the transaction would include assets with voting rights that have a value of more than $50 million.

EXETER, N.H. - Tyco International Ltd., bowing to shareholder demands for greater transparency in accounting, said yesterday that it plans to split into four companies and shed $11 billion in debt. "It's absolutely surprising," said Mark Demos, an analyst with Fifth Third Investment Advisors, which owns Tyco shares. "It goes against the grain of Tyco's message over the past decade." The breakup reverses the strategy of Tyco chief executive L. Dennis Kozlowski, who oversaw $64 billion in acquisitions and whose methods were compared to those at General Electric Co. Kozlowski will head the electronics and security-systems company that remains after Tyco spins off its health care, fire protection and flow control, and financial services units.

An unidentified man died in the third-floor dormer of a vacant rowhouse at 25 S. Exeter St. during a two-alarm fire early yesterday. Baltimore Fire Department Battalion Chief Hector Torres said two people were seen leaving the small house as the fire was reported at 6:35 a.m. By the time firefighters arrived, the house was in flames, Torres said. The fire burned through the roofs of the adjoining homes on either side. The homes stand across Exeter Street from the now-vacant Flag House public housing projects, which are scheduled for demolition.

BYE, BYE, Bagby.By year's end, if all goes according to plan, the old furniture company showroom at Fleet and Exeter streets will be transformed into downtown Baltimore's newest office complex.The $12 million conversion is the latest project of Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, a local construction and development firm that has led the effort to recycle the American Can Co. complex on Boston Street and other city landmarks, and Sylvan Learning Systems."We've moving forward," developer C. William Struever said yesterday.

EXETER, N.H. -- "I haven't been here since Monday. Won't be back 'til tomorrow," Bob Dole told supporters the other day when he arrived for a TV debate in Manchester, N.H.Presidential candidates always have plenty of time for New Hampshire, even when there appears to be more important business elsewhere -- as there is now, in Congress, where it's make-or-break time for the Republican revolution.The Kansas senator's three visits in four days may seem excessive, especially with the primary election more than four months away.

EXETER, N.H. -- "I haven't been here since Monday. Won't be back 'til tomorrow," Bob Dole told supporters the other day when he arrived for a TV debate in Manchester, N.H.Presidential candidates always have plenty of time for New Hampshire, even when there appears to be more important business elsewhere -- as there is now, in Congress, where it's make-or-break time for the Republican revolution.The Kansas senator's three visits in four days may seem excessive, especially with the primary election more than four months away.

CHARGE, THEY SAID!: Dundalk resident Gloria Williams was so excited when she heard her name called as the winner in a $10,000 Holiday Shopping Spree contest last weekend at the White Marsh Mall, she had a hard time getting out of her chair.The prize in the contest, sponsored by WPOC-FM, was a Gold Mastercard with a $10,000 line of credit with one stipulation -- it had to be spent on the same day.So off Gloria went on a whirlwind "shop till you drop" campaign purchasing such items as furniture, china, clothes, stereo systems and diamond jewelry.

If you think all made-for-TV movies end in simplistic, upbeat, candy-cane conclusions, watch "Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story" at 9 tonight on WMAR-TV (Channel 2). The docudrama about the 1985 shooting death of a young, African-American scholar from Harlem goes out of its way to see the tragedy from several points of view, and it is willing to end without any neat resolution.As a teen-ager, Perry received a scholarship to the Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the nation's most prestigious prep schools.

The death of Edmund Perry is a tragedy at once uniquely American and undeniably universal.It is the story of the strong pulls of loyalties, the constant battle between finding your identity as a member of a group or as an individual, all filtered through the peculiar lens of the black experience in America.Perry was a promising junior high student in Harlem, chosen -- as his brother had been before him -- for a program that sent kids with such potential and drive to elite prep schools.He went to the most elite of the elite, Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire, encountering people who came from a world of established white wealth, a place he had stereotyped as much in his mind as they had stereotyped Harlem in theirs.