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Mount Hebron's Pat Halter and Wilde Lake's David Briefel, both first-team All-Metro soccer players, have signed letters of intent.Halter received a half athletic scholarship to attend Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va.. Briefel will attend Cornell, an Ivy League school in Ithaca, N.Y. that does not award athletic scholarships."

Talk Talk T.C. Boyle Viking / 340 pages / $25.95 What's the cost of being 20 minutes late for a dentist's appointment? Running a stop sign? Having a cross word with your boss? In the real world, maybe an extra hour in the waiting room; a $40 ticket; getting the fish-eye for a week at work. But in T.C. Boyle's new novel, Talk Talk, these inconsequential events do not pass into the realm of the quickly forgotten. Instead, they are the small jagged snips that unravel three people's lives.

Pat Halter undoubtedly is the best player on a Mount Hebron soccer team that is having a stunning 7-3-1 season.Already this Vikings team has five league victories -- the most in school history. And Halter, a junior midfielder, scored the game-winning goal in four of those five wins.By far the biggest of those goals was the one in the first league game against Oakland Mills, which was 4-0 and ranked No. 3 at the time. Mount Hebron was 2-2-1.Halter scored the game's only goal by following up a missed shot by teammate Mike Stromberg.

FLANDREAU, S.D. - Rep. Bill Janklow, a South Dakota Republican who is nearly always blunt, tough and sure, leaves no bland impressions. Here, in the state he has presided over in one way or another for decades, people either adore him or detest him. "He gets the job done," said Eddie Hansen, a Democrat who said he regularly set aside party loyalty to vote for Janklow in whatever office he happened to be seeking. Janklow is "straight to the point - some would say arrogant - and I like that," said Hansen, 53, as he bought breakfast here recently.

Midfielder Pat Halter, goal-less in the regular season, scored twice in the first 25 minutes yesterday as UMBC rolled past Monmouth, 5-0, in the first round of the Northeast Conference men's soccer tournament in Catonsville.Halter, a Mount Hebron product, added two assists as the Retrievers (18-0-1) took a 3-0 halftime lead and cruised into tomorrow's 1 p.m. conference-championship game against Mount St. Mary's at UMBC Soccer Stadium.The Mountaineers (11-6-2), who lost, 3-1, to UMBC last Sunday, had no problems in beating disorganized, listless Fairleigh Dickinson, 2-0 yesterday, also at UMBC, with Duncan Gladwin scoring one goal and setting up the other.

Who's hot Jim Thome is the first Indians player to hit 40 or more homers three times. Who's not Shane Halter of the Tigers is in an 0-for-13 slump. Line of the day Jim Thome, Indians 1B AB R H RBI HR 3 2 3 2 2

Mount Hebron coach Scott Conroy chewed out his fifth-ranked Vikings following their 2-0 victory over No. 15 River Hill yesterday."He was angry because we gave them so many direct kicks and corner kicks," said Vikings midfielder Pat Halter, who assisted on both Mount Hebron goals. "He thought that was the only way they could score on us."A light rain fell on the Vikings as they sat on the track after the game and listened to their coach. Conroy said that they dribbled too much after getting the 2-0 lead and that they failed to put River Hill away with a third goal.

FirePleasant Valley: Firefighters responded at 8: 17 p.m. Tuesday to a brush fire on Halter Road. Units were out 10 minutes. They responded again at 9: 10 p.m. for 31 minutes.Taneytown: Firefighters responded at 8: 57 p.m. Tuesday to a trash fire on Francis Scott Key Highway. Units were out 30 minutes.Union Bridge: Firefighters responded at 2: 51 a.m. yesterday to a house fire in the 12700 block of Bunker Hill Road, Frederick County. Units were out 38 minutes.Pub Date: 5/21/98

Columbia Phoenix coach Dave Nesbitt promised he would dance if his girls won the under-18 Maryland Cup championship. And after yesterday's come-from-behind, 4-1 victory over the Calverton Kickers in Westminster, the slightly rotund Nesbitt complied, doing a jig in the field's center circle."

Talk Talk T.C. Boyle Viking / 340 pages / $25.95 What's the cost of being 20 minutes late for a dentist's appointment? Running a stop sign? Having a cross word with your boss? In the real world, maybe an extra hour in the waiting room; a $40 ticket; getting the fish-eye for a week at work. But in T.C. Boyle's new novel, Talk Talk, these inconsequential events do not pass into the realm of the quickly forgotten. Instead, they are the small jagged snips that unravel three people's lives.

Who's hot Jim Thome is the first Indians player to hit 40 or more homers three times. Who's not Shane Halter of the Tigers is in an 0-for-13 slump. Line of the day Jim Thome, Indians 1B AB R H RBI HR 3 2 3 2 2

Please, no," they whisper as they head out to the mall. "Not again." Each spring, it seems, women's swimsuit designers unveil creations meant for rail-thin pre-adolescents. And each spring, real women with real shapes get stuck either putting on the same, threadbare suits they've been wearing for years, or else stuffing themselves sausage-like into whatever is the season's hot thing. But this summer promises a glimmer of hope. "Women tend to view swimsuit shopping as painful and traumatizing," says Suze Yalof Schwartz, executive fashion director at Glamour magazine.

Midfielder Pat Halter, goal-less in the regular season, scored twice in the first 25 minutes yesterday as UMBC rolled past Monmouth, 5-0, in the first round of the Northeast Conference men's soccer tournament in Catonsville.Halter, a Mount Hebron product, added two assists as the Retrievers (18-0-1) took a 3-0 halftime lead and cruised into tomorrow's 1 p.m. conference-championship game against Mount St. Mary's at UMBC Soccer Stadium.The Mountaineers (11-6-2), who lost, 3-1, to UMBC last Sunday, had no problems in beating disorganized, listless Fairleigh Dickinson, 2-0 yesterday, also at UMBC, with Duncan Gladwin scoring one goal and setting up the other.

At the Pimlico Race Course on the city's northwest side, trainers spend up to $70 on halters and about $40 on lead shanks, or leashes, for their horses.But lately it appears that those same halters and leashes are winding up on the schnozzles of pit bulls and Rottweilers -- compliments of a band of thieves.At Pimlico, where horses are kept in about 20 barns, equipment has been disappearing -- literally from under the animals' noses -- for about a year. But the thefts have increased sharply in the past several weeks, prompting trainers to demand tightened security from management.

FirePleasant Valley: Firefighters responded at 8: 17 p.m. Tuesday to a brush fire on Halter Road. Units were out 10 minutes. They responded again at 9: 10 p.m. for 31 minutes.Taneytown: Firefighters responded at 8: 57 p.m. Tuesday to a trash fire on Francis Scott Key Highway. Units were out 30 minutes.Union Bridge: Firefighters responded at 2: 51 a.m. yesterday to a house fire in the 12700 block of Bunker Hill Road, Frederick County. Units were out 38 minutes.Pub Date: 5/21/98

LONDON -- To Roman Halter, the trail of Nazi loot begins with the menorahs and candlesticks dropped by frightened Jews as they were herded from ghettos to death camps more than 50 years ago."For years, nobody wanted to listen to us," said Halter, 70, who was born in Poland and survived death camps, forced labor and the Allied bombing of Dresden, Germany.But now, the world is hearing about the gold and trying to compensate the victims.The first-ever world conference on Nazi gold concluded yesterday with a call for a speedy accounting of one of the 20th century's most notorious financial crimes, the looting of Europe by Hitler's Third Reich.

FLANDREAU, S.D. - Rep. Bill Janklow, a South Dakota Republican who is nearly always blunt, tough and sure, leaves no bland impressions. Here, in the state he has presided over in one way or another for decades, people either adore him or detest him. "He gets the job done," said Eddie Hansen, a Democrat who said he regularly set aside party loyalty to vote for Janklow in whatever office he happened to be seeking. Janklow is "straight to the point - some would say arrogant - and I like that," said Hansen, 53, as he bought breakfast here recently.

It was bound to happen. As heavily padded shoulders become passe, shoulders the real kind are becoming prominent as a fashion focus.In fact, shoulders and backs have emerged as spring's favorite erogenous zones, good news for women who like the breezy bare look but are uncomfortable showing too much leg or cleavage.It's easy enough to bare the shoulders and the back in traditional ways halter dresses and strapless cocktail attire. But designers are giving women less obvious options, as well.

Columbia Phoenix coach Dave Nesbitt promised he would dance if his girls won the under-18 Maryland Cup championship. And after yesterday's come-from-behind, 4-1 victory over the Calverton Kickers in Westminster, the slightly rotund Nesbitt complied, doing a jig in the field's center circle."

I am 17 and split my life between my divorced parents. Last week I went to a cocktail party at my boyfriend's house in Malibu, Calif. Since I had nothing to wear, I borrowed my stepmother's black lace dress.I thought I looked great, but at the beach house, I overheard a woman say the only way a girl could look modern in black lace is "to wear it with sneakers." I didn't know what she meant, but I was so humiliated, I left.Tell me, what should a tall, string-bean, 17-year-old wear to look modern at grown-up parties?