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Albert Mosley is in a wheelchair, unable to walk and barely able to move his arms. He says it's because a Baltimore officer threw him headfirst into the concrete wall of a police district holding cell. Yesterday, almost two years after he was injured, Mosley filed a $40 million police brutality lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court against the police officer, Bryan Kershaw. "I don't want the police to get away with this," said Mosley, 54. Mosley's lead attorney, William H. Murphy Jr., said such violence is "rampant" in the Police Department and pointed to a jury verdict last year that awarded a similar amount to a man whose neck was broken during a 1997 arrest.

On March 13, 2005, Harvey Barnsley Kershaw, Jr; beloved husband of Lois Mae (nee Ruby); devoted father of Robert Barnsley Kershaw and John Harvey Kershaw. Also survived by two granddaughters, Leah Radcliffe Kershaw and Julia Talmadge Kershaw. A memorial service will be held Saturday, 11:00 A.M., on Saturday, April 2, 2005, at Emmanuel Church, Baltimore at Cathedral Streets and Read Streets. Please omit flowers. Memorial contributions may be made to Mc Donogh School, Mc Donogh, Maryland 21208 or Johns Hopkins Hospital, 660 Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland.

Harvey Barnsley Kershaw Jr., who rose from teller to chairman during nearly half a century with Provident Bank, died of pneumonia Sunday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Ruxton resident was 87. As the bank's president, Mr. Kershaw made it a point to answer all his phone calls personally by announcing his name - without even a customary hello - as the line rang. He also believed that the bank's customers, whom he described as hard-working Baltimoreans, liked to have their savings noted in a passbook.

On September 13, 2004, EDWIN REGES SR., of Brooklyn Park. Capt. US Army Ret. WWII Veteran. Beloved husband of Marie L. Kershaw (nee Frye); devoted father of Edwin R. Kershaw, Jr. and his wife Carol; loving grandfather of Bryan and Danielle Kershaw and great-grandfather of Elijah John Kershaw; dear brother-in-law of Elizabeth Geis (nee Frye). The family will receive friends at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 237 E. Patapsaco Ave. (Brooklyn) on Wednesday, from 6 to 9 PM. Services will be held in St. John Lutheran Church (Brooklyn)

Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw had a distinguished military career in the Confederate army, the high point being his role in the surprise attack at Cedar Creek. Kershaw was a South Carolina lawyer who attained his rank in the early days of the Civil War through his social status. His competent fighting throughout the war helped him rise through the ranks to become a major general. Under the command of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early, the Confederate army launched a coordinated attack against the Union troops in the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 19, 1864.

Maj. Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw's part in the surprise attack on Union forces at Cedar Creek was to cross the creek and drive back the Union center. The planning for Kershaw's advance occurred the night before. Confederate Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon and mapmaker Jedediah Hotchkiss had climbed to the top of Massanutten Mountain to Signal Knob on Oct. 17, surveying the position of the Union army at Cedar Creek. This climb took several hours and, once at the top of the signal station, Gordon and Hotchkiss devised a plan of attack.

The essential message in Ian Kershaw's epic, two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler -- easily the best ever written -- is the uniqueness of the Nazi catastrophe. The man who seduced the German people of his generation, rendering them complicit in unspeakable horrors, was unique. So was the Nazi state he created, the World War he instigated and the Holocaust he unleashed against the Jews of Europe. "Unique" is a word that should be used warily. The dictionary defines the word as "one and only ... having no like or equal ... unparalleled."

Kati Kershaw, operations director and on-air personality at classical radio station WBJC-FM (91.5), has tried more than once to create a single signature style for herself. She just can't do it. Her life, her appearance, her personality is "definitely a study in contrasts," says Kershaw, 33. Just when "my colleagues at work think they have me pinned down, you can't really pin me down. No way. I really love it all." The product of an "eclectic household," where there was no television but plenty of classical and bluegrass music, Kershaw -- and her wardrobe -- reflects that multicultural background.

Rex and June Kershaw's dream began as a vague desire to find an old dwelling and make it into their retirement home. That vague desire eventually became a massive project which is still under way in Rock Hall.To date, Mr. Kershaw, with the occasional assistance of his two sons, has spent more than 10 years and $60,000 refurbishing the huge, 100-year-old Queen Anne-style Victorian that his wife and their daughter, Lisa, found in Kent County back in December 1988.The Kershaws' journey began in the mid-1960s in their native New Zealand, where they built a 45-foot, steel-hulled ketch.

"Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris," by Ian Kershaw. Norton & Co. 700 pages. $35.He was Nature's twisted masterpiece. In a life of 56 years, millions adored him with a fervor worthy of the gods. When, finally, he plunged from pinnacle to perdition, more millions cursed his name as a symbol of pestilence. In all of history, there never was a man like Adolf Hitler. There have been tyrants of equal power, such as Stalin and Mao, but none combined the same measure of spellbinding oratory, political cunning and genocidal obsession.