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Rhona P. Dorf, former owner of a women's apparel shop who later worked in real estate sales, died of complications from dementia Thursday at Ruxton Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was 76 and had lived in Cheswolde and Owings Mills. Rhona Pollack was born in Baltimore and raised on Anoka Avenue. She was the daughter of James H. "Jack" Pollack, the legendary Baltimore political boss and head of the Trenton Democratic Club, who died in 1977. "She was very close to her dad and listened to all of the politicians who called at the house.

The eternal summer dilemma -- the mountains or the shore -- occurs for presidents as well as lesser mortals. Bill Clinton settled it in what is becoming his trademark way. He went to both. In the gusher of criticism being leveled at him for spending last week at that very symbol of Eastern Establishment privilege and leisure, Martha's Vineyard, it is being overlooked that he began his vacation the week before in modest digs at Beaver Lake on the Ozarks Plateau in his home state."Modest" is a relative term.

Moves Baseball INDIANS: Traded IF Ricky Gutierrez to Mets for player to be named. Optioned P Cliff Bartosh to Triple-A Buffalo. Assigned P Dave Lee, P Matt Miller, C Brian Luderer, IF Zach Sorensen and OF Ernie Young to minor league camp. REDS: Optioned P Brandon Claussen to Triple-A Louisville. ROCKIES: Released IF Damian Jackson. Basketball CLIPPERS: Placed G Quentin Richardson on injured list with back spasms. Signed G Randy Livingston to 10-day contract. HAWKS: Signed C Jason Collier for remainder of season.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Not to be outdone by the U.S. Davis Cup Dream Team of top-ranked Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, Billie Jean King was hoping to drop a bombshell of her own today by announcing the Federation Cup team that will face the Netherlands next month.Encouraged by Monica Seles' apparent interest in playing in the Olympics in 1996, King, the team captain, said she intended to speak with Seles last night about her availability for this year's Fed Cup matches. King, speaking during the Lipton Championships, also planned to recruit Jennifer Capriati, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The federal government used hurricane aid money to pay funeral expenses for at least 203 Floridians whose deaths were not caused by last year's storms, the state's coroners said. The deaths include a Palm Beach Gardens millionaire recovering from heart surgery who died two days before Hurricane Frances, a Miami baby not born when the storm arrived, and a Port Charlotte man who died of cirrhosis and heart failure five months after Hurricane Charley. In two other cases, coroners could find no record of the people dying.

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- She looked like the old Steffi Graf, winning the first set 6-0. But Graf wasn't playing the old Gabriela Sabatini yesterday in the Lipton tennis tournament.The Sabatini of the '90s is a confident player who does not run out of hope or energy. The improved Sabatini climbed out of the hole and beat Graf again 0-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1.Sabatini now challenges Monica Seles in tomorrow's final. Seles, the defending champion and the No. 1 player in the world, trounced Mary Joe Fernandez 6-1, 6-2 in last night's semifinal.

After two days of hiding out in the FBI's weather protection program, breezes made a grand entrance yesterday on the final day of the Sperry Top-Sider National Offshore One-design regatta. With winds out of the northwest at 15 knots, all 19 classes got in two races. In the case of sailors aboard J/35, C&C 115 and Beneteau 36.7 class boats, that was the only competition they saw during the three-day event in Annapolis. Annapolitan Greg Fisher aboard the Leading Edge defended his J/22 class title by holding off a challenge from the 2005 winner, Peter McChesney, aboard Palmer Legal Staffing.

WIMBLEDON, England — This was a cranky Rafael Nadal, an aching Nadal, a Nadal who asked for a trainer to treat his arm and his thigh, whose dialogue with his coach and uncle, Toni Nadal, caused chair umpire Cedric Mourier to twice admonish the No. 2 seed to knock off the chatter. And still Nadal, the 2008 Wimbledon champion who missed the chance to defend his title last year because of a knee injury, tapped into his reserve tank of energy, took to heart whatever advice he was getting from Uncle Toni and, for the second match in a row, won a five-setter.

ResultsAt Wimbledon, EnglandMen's singles, first roundJim Grabb, Tucson, Ariz., def. Emilio Sanchez, Spain, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Thomas Enqvist (9), Sweden, def. Albert Chang, Canada, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1. Sandon Stolle, Australia, def. Diego Nargiso, Italy, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. Bohdan Ulihrach, Czech Republic, def. Carlos Costa, Spain, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Andrei Olhovskiy, Russia, def. Hendrik Dreekmann, Germany, 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. Danny Sapsford, Britain, def. Peter Tramacchi, Australia, 7-5, 6-4, 6-3. Jakob Hlasek, Switzerland, def. Andrei Chesnokov, Russia, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Richard Krajicek, Netherlands, def. Javier Sanchez, Spain, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Shuzo Matsuoka, Japan, def. Christian Ruud, Norway, 6-1, 6-0, 6-2. Marc Rosset (14)

Florida is home to more than half of the nation's Top 10 beaches -- including Grayton Beach, the best spot in America for sun, sand, surf, safety and solitude, according to an annual rating by a leading beach expert.Located beside the Gulf of Mexico on the Florida Panhandle, Grayton Beach replaced Hapuna, Hawaii, on the 1994 Best Beaches Survey by Stephen Leatherman, director of the University of Maryland's Laboratory for Coastal Research."Grayton Beach is kind of the perfect beach, if there is one. It's a well maintained state recreational area, has good facilities for visitors, sugar white sand, a lake nearby and beautiful, clean aquamarine water," says Mr. Leatherman, a geologist who has been dubbed "Dr. Beach" by his colleagues.