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IF SOMEONE mentions the names of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, most folks would readily identify them as the two people who were killed by either O. J. Simpson or some as yet unidentified party in July 1994.Now here's a question: Who's Philip Woldemariam?Don't be embarrassed if you don't know. You really have to search to find out anything about the guy.Mr. Woldemariam was only 20 years old when a man pumped two bullets into him in Los Angeles' Woodbine Park on the evening of Aug. 25, 1993.

Ed Reed should have been in Hawaii this week, getting ready to play in yet another Pro Bowl. Instead, the Ravens highly decorated safety sat in Luling, La., grieving over the loss of a younger brother in a tragedy that left critical questions unanswered. At a news conference in which authorities said the body pulled from the Mississippi River late Tuesday almost certainly was that of 29-year-old Brian Reed, it was left for Ed to serve as family spokesman and guiding light. Reed, in obvious distress, spoke of "a loving kid" and doting father who got caught up in the "worldly ways" of our time.

Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Competition, one of the world's most prestigious musical contests and one of the most accurate predictors of future success, awarded second- and third-prize medals yesterday to Peabody Conservatory piano student Stephen Prutsman and to former Peabody student Bryan Ganz. They were the only two Americans in a field of 81 players to reach the finals in the monthlong contest that Belgians regard with the enthusiasm that Americans reserve for the World Series or the Super Bowl.

BOOKS BY TWO professors at Johns Hopkins University are among 25 finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards this year. Allen Grossman's seventh book of poetry, "The Ether Dome and Other Poems," was nominated in the poetry category, and Robert Kanigel's second book, "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan," was nominated in the biography/autobiography category.Grossman began teaching poetry and poetics at Hopkins last fall after 34 years of teaching at Brandeis University.

DOVER, Del. -- Jackie Campbell of Delaware State (6-10, 8-18) had game-highs with 23 points and 14 rebounds as it topped visiting Coppin State, 62-52, in a Mid-Eastern Conference womens basketball game yesterday. Delaware State improves to 6-10 in the conference.August Kenner scored 13 points and Monica Benson 12 in a losing effort against host for Coppin State, which falls to 6-20 overall, 6-20 in the MEAC.Towson State 78, Radford 60RADFORD, Va. -- Senior guard Megan Gebbian scored a career-high 24 and grabbed a career high 11 rebounds to lead Towson State (16-10, 11-7)

A Louisiana man who was staying at a Holiday Inn in the 6600 block of Ritchie Highway Thursday afternoon told county police that someone broke into his truck parked on the lot and stole $107,000 worth of electronic equipment, officials said.Jack Baird Irion, 41, of Kenner, La., discovered the theft about 6:30 p.m., police said. The items stolen included an $80,000 side scan sonar unit and a $15,000 geometrics magnetometer, Mr. Irion told police. The truck and the stolen property belong to R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates of New Orleans, police said.

Years ago, a district salesman for the Kenner Products toy company came up with the idea of a working toy oven for kids. Company executives greenlighted the project on one condition - it had to be perfectly safe. And so in 1963 they introduced the light-bulb-powered Easy-Bake Oven and created an American pop culture standard. Yesterday, nearly 1 million Easy-Bake Ovens were voluntarily recalled by Easy-Bake (now a subsidiary of Hasbro Inc.) because children can catch their fingers in the oven's opening and get burned.

Food, Inc. **** ( 4 STARS) Documentary maker Robert Kenner rarely sacrifices humanity for horror or humor for sarcasm in this vivid, even playful expose of American supermarket food and fast food. He stimulates our eyes and engages our sympathies as agricultural heroes as well as journalists Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan lay out the reasons for buying healthy food. A perfect dinner-date movie - if you eat at a place that uses local and organic food. Opening next Friday A Perfect Getaway: (Rogue)

IT HAS BEEN 10 very long years since the Maryland Governor's Commission on Black Males declared that "the African-American male is slowly but surely becoming an endangered species" and put forth recommendations to address the problem. "We have people who are dying physically, emotionally and spiritually," said then-state Del. (now-Rep.) Elijah E. Cummings, who had put in three years as chairman of the panel. Despite a lot of talk, almost nothing has happened in the public schools to alter the situation, and now a new task force has been named to "gather some of the best minds in the state to help us develop strategies," said Nancy S. Grasmick, state schools superintendent.

On August 9, 2003 JOSEPH M. MILLER, M.D., of Timonium, beloved husband of the late Mary Alice Miller (nee Case) loving father of Joseph M. Miller Jr., M.D. of Kenner, LA., Dorcas S. Miller of Chelsea, ME., K. Scott Miller, M.D., of Mt. Pleasant, SC., and John M. Miller of Wake Forest, NC. Cherished grandfather of J. Matthew, III, Katherine M., Amy E., Melissa E., Phillip N., Casey M. and J. Luke Miller. The family will receive friends in the LEMMON FUNERAL HOME OF DULANEY VALLEY INC., 10 W. Padonia Rd. (at York Rd)