SPORTS
By DAVID STEELE and DAVID STEELE,david.steele@baltsun.com | December 14, 2008
Mike Tomlin thinks heaping praise on NFL players for connecting with a new, young, inexperienced coach quickly, and to great success, sells those players short. "These guys know, when faced with a new coach, that the coach's sole intentions are to win and to put them in position to win," the Steelers' second-year head coach said last week from Pittsburgh. "I think there's mutual respect between players and coaches across this league and in this game. I think a lot of times people expect the worst, when, more times than not, players give you the benefit of the doubt and are ready to follow."
NEWS
By Julie Scharper and Matthew Hay Brown and Julie Scharper and Matthew Hay Brown,Sun reporters | April 18, 2008
Jack Rosenthal awoke yesterday in a panic. The 16-year-old had overslept, missing the bus to Washington for an event with great historical and spiritual significance to him - Pope Benedict XVI's first Mass in the U.S. as pontiff. The teen's father rushed him from their Harford County home to Greenbelt to ride the Metro to Nationals Park. The lanky Calvert Hall College student hurried through the security checkpoints and joined tens of thousands of other Catholics gathered in prayer. That's when he felt the anxiety ebb and a sense of the sacred wash over him. "I just had chills the entire time," said Jack, a member of St. John the Evangelist in Hydes.
NEWS
By Nick Madigan and Nick Madigan,Sun reporter | March 6, 2008
The two smallest children, always inseparable, were little enough to fit into a single coffin. Their brother, a few years older, got one to himself. Surrounded by bright flowers and SpongeBob SquarePants balloons, the two white caskets lay at the foot of the altar yesterday at City Temple of Baltimore, before a mourning throng that punctuated its grief with wails, chants and reverent responses.
NEWS
By New York Times News Service | October 29, 2006
SELLERSBURG, Ind. -- In an appearance that amounted to his first traditional campaign rally of the election season, President Bush told wildly cheering supporters here yesterday that Democrats did not want to investigate, prosecute or even detain terrorists and had no plan for Iraq. And, introducing a relatively new line in his election-year stump speech, Bush criticized the "activist" New Jersey Supreme Court's ruling this week that same-sex couples were entitled to the same legal rights and benefits as heterosexual couples.
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By STEPHEN G. HENDERSON and STEPHEN G. HENDERSON,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | May 21, 2006
Shopping in India, darling, is as important a cultural experience as sightseeing," a wise friend told me before I traveled there this spring. Taking her advice to heart, I left with one suitcase, and returned with three. Each was nearly bursting with tablecloths, napkins, bedspreads, pillow covers, tunics, trousers, slippers, carved wood, plates, bowls and psychedelic posters depicting Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva and other Hindu gods. I'd even commissioned the manufacture of an enormously quirky beach umbrella -- its interior and exterior are different patterns of hand block-printed fabric -- under which four adults, perhaps more, can seek a shady respite from global warming.
NEWS
By EILEEN SOSKIN and EILEEN SOSKIN,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | April 28, 2006
Do not speed on your way to hear the Eroica Trio performing the final concert of the 2005-2006 Candlelight Concert series. Do be sure you leave your house in plenty of time so that you are not late for the 8 p.m. concert tomorrow at Smith Theatre on the campus of Howard Community College. The Eroica Trio, known for its brilliance, exuberance and energy, will be speeding through some of the most difficult passages in its program, not because trio members can but because it will be musically appropriate.