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"The Education of Oscar Fairfax," by Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin. 225 pages. $21.95 Rarely is it possible to single out the stupidest thing ever written about someone, but in the case of Louis Auchincloss, the booby prize undoubtedly goes to a piece published a quarter-century ago in the New York Review of Books. The author, boggling at the undeniable fact that Auchincloss' novels are all about New York's moneyed families, wrote, "I can believe the upper class is human ... but fiction seems the wrong medium for the privileged life, which belongs, if anywhere, in the spreads of Country Life or the New York Times society page, or in the moments of awed intrusion that TV likes to purvey."

A Towson judge improperly gave instructions to a jury in May 1991, which led to an $8.3 million loan-fraud verdict against Fairfax Savings Association, attorneys for the Baltimore bank argued in the Court of Special Appeals in Annapolis yesterday."

On August 29, 2005 IRENE A. MILLER, passed away in Inova Fair Oaks Hospital, Fairfax, VA. She resided in Chantilly, VA, formerly of Northwood from 1966-2003. She was born January 24, 1907 in Calvert County, MD to the late Robert and Annie Laveille Johnson. She had been married for over 31 years to Chester A. Miller, Sr., who died in 1962. Mrs. Miller worked at the Lord Baltimore Press and was a homemaker. Surviving is a son and daughter-in-law, Chester A. Miller, Jr. and Lavinia N. Miller, six grandchildren Isaac Miller of Mount Clair, NJ, Deanna Miller of Vienna, VA, Helena Dryden of Gaithersburg, MD, Heather Miller of Santa Monica, CA, Olivia Berry of Atlanta, GA and Andria Miller of Fairfax, VA and a sister Ethel Heckner of Parkville, MD. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Lambert, Claggett and Clyde Johnson and two sisters May Wilson and Anna Johnson.

On November 29, 2003, VICKI JOHNSON OBERLEITNER; beloved wife of Michael S. Oberleitner; devoted daughter of Betty and John Meier; adored mother of Ava; loving sister of John, Scott and Chris. Also survived by countless extended family and friends. Friends may call at the Witzke Funeral Home of Catonsville, Inc., 1630 Edmondson Ave. (1 mile west of beltway exit 14) on Friday from 7 to 9 PM. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at Catonsville Presbyterian Church, 1400 Frederick Road at 10:30 AM. Interment Fairfax Memorial Park, 9900 Braddock Rd., Fairfax, VA. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Vicki's name to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 43025, Baltimore, MD 21236-0025.

On January 3, 2004 LUNETTE ELIZABETH, at her home in Catlett VA., after a long battle with cancer. She was a graduate of Towson University in Early Childhood Education and of George Mason University. She was a devoted Elementary School Reading Specialist. At parochial schools, as well as Fairfax and Fauquier County Virginia Public Schools; wife of Joseph S. Crisafulli, mother of Paul J. Crisufulli (Susan) of Glastonbery Conn., and John M. Crisafulli (Teresa) of Knoxville Tenn.., daughter of Martin F. and Mary Carolyn Eichhorn of Perryville MD., sister of Karen Anne Calloway of Baltimore and Mary Carol Durange of Charlestown MD., grandmother of Michael T. and Eva T. Crisafulli.

A Baltimore bank has appealed a jury decision saying it should pay the former owners of Sherwood Square mall in Westminster $8.6 million in damages.The case will be heard in the Court of Special Appeals, court officials said. A hearing date has not been set.In May, a Baltimore County jury found that Fairfax Savings Association defrauded Charles Ellerin of Boca Raton, Fla., and Louis Seidelof Baltimore by inserting provisions into loan documents without thepartners' knowledge.In 1982, the partners borrowed $5.7 million from Fairfax to buy Sherwood Square and renovate it. They were unsuccessful with the project, and in 1985 they filed for bankruptcy.

A year ago Tavon Johnson, 19, was living in a homeless shelter with his half-brother, his dreams of a college education having little chance of ever coming true.But that was before the Meade High School senior, who has custody of his half-brother, Gajuan, 13, taped a segment of the "Montel Williams Show" and Mr. Williams offered to pay for the educations of both young men."It's exciting," Tavon said after taping the show to air Monday on WMAR-TV Channel 2. "I never thought this much would happen to me after being in the newspaper.

Alfred Tolins, a retired structural engineer and former Columbia resident, died from complications of Alzheimer's disease Saturday at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The Guilford resident was 81. Mr. Tolins was born in Philadelphia and raised there and in Brooklyn, N.Y. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from City College of New York, and later earned a master's degree in administration from George Washington University. During World War II, Mr. Tolins enlisted in the Army and served as a rifleman under 3rd Army Gen. George S. Patton Jr. Wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, he was decorated with the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

FAIRFAX, Va. -- On Oct. 24 last year, as the sniper task force questioned two suspects who had just been arrested, the longest-tenured commonwealth's attorney in Virginia was having a great round of golf. "Two great things happened that day," said Fairfax County's chief prosecutor, Robert F. Horan Jr. "I had a hole in one, and these two turkeys got caught." The golf stroke won him a Mercedes-Benz -- the car he has been driving every day to the courthouse where he has been preparing the death penalty case against sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo.

FAIRFAX, Va. -- After being evicted from his apartment last year, Larry Chaney lived in his car for five months in Erie, Pa. As he passed the time at local cafes, he always put a ring of old house keys and several envelopes with bills on the table to give the impression that he had a home like everyone else. While Michelle Kennedy was living in her car with her three children in Belfast, Maine, she parked someplace different each night so no one would notice them, and she instructed the children to tell anyone who asked that they were "staying with friends."