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They remembered Mary-Marguerite Kohn's enthusiasm and service, even her style - one mourner recalled "a large, bright yellow brimmed hat, terrific dangling earrings. " There was hardly an empty seat Tuesday inside the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore, as family, friends, colleagues and congregants packed a memorial service for Kohn, who died from gunshot wounds sustained from a Thursday shooting at her church in Ellicott City. Kohn, 62, the church's co-rector, and Brenda Brewington, 59, the church's administrative assistant, were shot inside St. Peter's Episcopal Church offices.

Friends said they were like an old married couple, comfortable and serene as they strolled through snowy Central Park or lolled by the shores of Martha's Vineyard on long summer weekends.In fact, when Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died late Thursday night of cancer, the official statement named three "family members" who were by her bedside: her two children, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John F. Kennedy Jr., and Maurice Tempelsman, the man who has been like a husband to her for the last decade and a half in all but name.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - By the U.S. government's account, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali used his time studying in Saudi Arabia to plot the assassination of President Bush. But to supporters here, the young man's studies at Saudi Arabia's University of Medina were nothing more than a spiritual break before a settled life in American suburbia. Two divergent stories about Abu Ali emerged yesterday as the 23-year-old student from Northern Virginia sat in federal custody. To U.S. officials, the young man is a shadowy would-be assassin who hatched a plan with an al-Qaida member in 2002 and 2003 to shoot the president or kill him with a car bomb.

They called the 5-year-old girl Lee-Lee.The 4-year-old boy was nicknamed Man-Man.They were brother and sister and five days dead.Lee-Lee and Man-Man lay side by side in twin, ivory-colored coffins at Brown's Funeral Home yesterday.Their pictures, wreathed in flowers and placed on top of each coffin, showed the same wide, innocent eyes, the same chipmunk cheeks. They looked like two adorable little children.Best to remember them that way.And maybe that is why nobody, but nobody, talked about the horrible way Lee-Lee and Man-Man -- Reva Shalita Moore and Anthony Jamar Moore -- died.

For most of us, using the Internet to make a phone call doesn't make a whole lot of sense. After all, you can make a real, honest-to-goodness phone call anywhere in the country and chat for 20 minutes for less than a buck by using one of those "10-10" long-distance outfits. The audio quality of the public telephone network is excellent, and you don't have to put up with flaky software, echoes, lags, voices that break up in midsentence, balky servers and all the other hassles that Internet telephony involves.

It was 1898.That year, photographs using artificial light sources were taken for the first time, the United States fought Spain over Cuba in the Spanish-American War, and Sadie Howard was born Aug. 1 in Washington, D.C.That child -- now Sadie Lipscomb and a resident of Edgewater -- turned 100 several days ago.A widow who has outlived three of her five children, she has lived in Anne Arundel County for about one-fourth of her long life.She has 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

HEART TO Heart, an ecumenical cardiac care group for patients and their families, is meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Room 116 of Linthicum Heights United Methodist Church, 200 School Lane.Deborah Van Orden, a registered nurse and case manager in the cardiac unit of North Arundel Hospital, will discuss the psychological and emotional aspects of heart disease, explaining how the disease affects the patient, family and others in the life of the patient.Nan Duerling, the group facilitator, said she is "amazed how quickly the group has grown" since its inception in the fall.

FAMILY FRIENDLY is the way Cathy's Creative Kids' Corner in Carrolltown Center is viewed by many in the Eldersburg community, not only by the busy parents whose children enjoy the services there, but also by an organization known as FEMALE.FEMALE will present the Kids' Corner with its annual Family Friendly Business Award today.Cathy Schroeder developed her business around the needs and desires of families and offers many programs for young children. She offers a drop-off service where children can make crafts for an hour or two while parents tend to errands; a once-a-month time from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. when children can be entertained and occupied while parents enjoy a date; and a program geared toward young children for whom a preschool program may not be the right choice.

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. -- There's no crying in baseball and there were no tears at the residence of Johnny Oates yesterday. No bitterness was served here.The day before, Oates had officially been informed that he was no longer manager of the Orioles. There was disappointment and hurt, but not complete surprise.After he got the news, Monday became "Family Day" for Oates. He issued a brief statement through the Orioles' office and, except for two personal phone calls, spent the day with those closest to him.Wife Gloria and daughters Laurie, an elementary school reading teacher, and Jenny, a 15-year-old high school sophomore, got the up-close-and-personal treatment.

DALLAS -- Mickey Mantle's desire to keep his battle with lung and abdominal cancer a private one was enforced yesterday by family and friends.Mantle's normally candid son David was especially tight-lipped yesterday over his father's medical condition as he emerged from his father's 16th-floor suite at Baylor University Medical Center."