Lieberman

On Satudary August 18, 2007, RHONA LIEBERMAN (nee Tamres); beloved mother of Faith Smith, Marilyn Jacoby both of Baltimore, Allen Lieberman of Jackson, MS and Stacie Prince of Hoover, AL; dear mother-in-law of Jason Smith, Sr, Tonya Lieberman and Todd Prince; devoted sister of Shirley Talles of Baltimore, MD and the late Florine Lafferman, also survived by eleven loving grandchildren and one loving great-grandchild. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS.', INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd, at Mt. Wilson Lane on Tuesday August 21 at 12 Noon.

STATESMANSHIP doesn't happen often in Washington these days, so when it is on display, as it was when Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut took to the Senate floor to chastise President Clinton for moronic behavior, lying and dissembling, people take notice.Twenty-four years after Barry Goldwater led a delegation of Republicans to the White House to tell Richard Nixon his time in office had expired, Mr. Lieberman may soon find himself in a similar position, walking "the last mile" to inform President Clinton of the ultimate in political capital punishment.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's hometown reacted with relief to his extraordinary rebuke of President Clinton on the floor of the Senate on Thursday, with both Democrats and Republicans saying that he spoke for them, and that it was about time someone did.Danny Charleston, 53, a bus driver for Connecticut Transit who voted for Clinton twice, said he watched the speech live on CNN, flipped the channels to catch clips Friday morning, then listened...

DUBLIN, Ireland -- After several weeks of avoiding the word and under mounting criticism from leaders in his party, President Clinton said yesterday that he was "sorry" for his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky matter.Clinton's comments came one day after Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, delivered a forceful speech from the Senate floor in which he called the president's actions "immoral," "disgraceful" and deserving of formal public rebuke.During a photo opportunity yesterday with Irish Premier Bertie Ahern, Clinton said, "I've already said that I made a bad mistake, it was indefensible, and I'm sorry about it."

Dr. Sidney Lieberman, a retired dentist who with his wife donated more than 40 works of art to Towson State University as a memorial to their two sons, died Nov. 11 of cancer at his Northwest Baltimore residence. He was 83.In 1983, the couple began donating art from their collection to Towson State, from which both graduated in 1932. The Lieberman Room on campus was dedicated in memory of their son Richard, 23, who died in a 1968 scuba diving accident.In 1971, their son Ronald, who worked at the Social Security Administration, died of a heart defect.

Annette Lieberman, a pioneering publicist for Planned Parenthood in the days when Baltimore papers wouldn't print the phrase "birth control," died of a heart attack Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Mrs. Lieberman, a cancer patient for the past five years, was 76."She was a type-A, double-plus personality, always going, on the phone constantly," said her son Reform Rabbi Elias Lieberman of Falmouth, Mass. "She had reserves of energy that I don't have a clue where they came from."During her long years in the public eye, "Netsie" Lieberman was TTC president of the Central Scholarship Bureau, organized video archives of Holocaust remembrances, was development officer for the Park School and did public relations for local Jewish groups.

The key figure in a ring that imported more than $150 million worth of marijuana to the Mid-Atlantic region over 15 years avoided trial yesterday by pleading guilty to a drug charge.Christopher Joseph Ecker, 43, of Rockville entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Under a plea agreement, he could be sent to prison for 63 months to 78 months."I felt this was a reasonable agreement," Ecker said outside the courtroom as family members awaited him.Ecker was to stand trial with Michael A. Lieberman, an attorney who has been indicted on a money-laundering charge in connection with the drug ring.

David Lieberman has a nautical passion. Photos of lighthouses taken on trips adorn the walls of his waterfront home, and a sun room collection features sea lanterns and an engine room telegraph from an old ship.But in the stone-walled side yard is something that has raised his passion to new heights -- 23 feet to be exact.Standing amid three pine trees is a 5,000-pound lawn ornament -- a surplus Coast Guard navigational beacon, sans light -- that is the envy of Mr. Lieberman's Hopkins Creek community just off Middle River in Essex.

Until yesterday, Marsha Lieberman and her nephew, Robert Hartlove, were unheralded heroes.They saved a boy from drowning in February on icy Hopkins Creek, but Mrs. Lieberman said, "I just didn't want to tell anyone about it," and Robert had yet to share the tale with fellow students at Sparrows Point Middle School. They also saved the boys friend.But Mrs. Lieberman's husband, David, a merchant marine officer, shared the story with friends in the Coast Guard. And yesterday, Mrs. Lieberman and Robert received overdue honors for the deed in a ceremony at the Coast Guard's Hawkins Point yard.

Mark H. Lieberman, the business executive who led a $178 million leveraged buyout of Londontown Corp. in 1988, stepped down yesterday as chairman and chief executive of the Eldersburg garment manufacturing company.The resignation was effective immediately."He decided to take early retirement," said James Haneschlager, vice president of human resources. "He's been working since he was 12, and now he wants to do other things, maybe even go fishing."A statement released by the privately held company said that Mr. Lieberman "plans to remarry shortly, and they plan to pursue only personal interests, and expand charitable organization involvements, that responsibilities with the corporation have made impossible in the past."

Teacher wants acid thrown on attackers KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : A 23-year-old teacher burned in an acid attack on 15 schoolgirls and instructors wants the Afghan government to throw acid on her attackers and then hang them. Kandahar's governor said yesterday that authorities had arrested 10 alleged Taliban militants in the Nov. 12 attack and that several had confessed to taking part. Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi said the men would be tried in open court, a pledge that pleased Nuskaal, a first-year math teacher who suffered acid burns on her shoulders.

WASHINGTON - When Sen. Joe Lieberman broke from his longtime Democratic allegiance to back Republican John McCain for president, some rank-and-file Democrats were angry. And after Lieberman spoke at the Republican National Convention and criticized Barack Obama, they were practically apoplectic. Once Obama won and Democrats cemented their grip on Congress, the talk quickly turned to punishing the senator from Connecticut, who just eight years ago was the Democratic nominee for vice president.

On Satudary August 18, 2007, RHONA LIEBERMAN (nee Tamres); beloved mother of Faith Smith, Marilyn Jacoby both of Baltimore, Allen Lieberman of Jackson, MS and Stacie Prince of Hoover, AL; dear mother-in-law of Jason Smith, Sr, Tonya Lieberman and Todd Prince; devoted sister of Shirley Talles of Baltimore, MD and the late Florine Lafferman, also survived by eleven loving grandchildren and one loving great-grandchild. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS.', INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd, at Mt. Wilson Lane on Tuesday August 21 at 12 Noon.

Mignon N. Lieberman, who donated works of art to Towson University as a memorial to her two sons, died in her sleep July 1 at her Phoenix, Ariz., home. The former Mount Washington resident was 93. Mignon Newman was born in Baltimore and was a 1931 Western High School graduate. She received a degree at what is now Towson University, where she met her future husband, Sidney Lieberman, a dentist. After their 1938 marriage, they worked together at his Eutaw Place dental practice, which moved to Park Heights Avenue in 1955.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert moved yesterday to shore up his unpopular center-left coalition by adding a far-right party whose leader has advocated annexing parts of the occupied West Bank. Avigdor Lieberman, head of the hawkish Yisrael Beiteinu party, announced the deal after meeting with Olmert. "We are joining the government," he said. Olmert said Lieberman will be given the rank of deputy prime minister and be put in charge of dealing with "strategic threats" to Israel, including Iran's nuclear ambitions.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, the rebuked Connecticut Democrat, returned to Capitol Hill yesterday for the first time since last month's humiliating defeat in his home state primary. And if it's possible to embrace someone without actually touching them, that's what his used-to-be friends in the Senate did. In Hollywood, they call it an air kiss. "It's great to be back, glad to be here," a smiling Lieberman said, stepping off an elevator and heading to a luncheon with fellow Senate Democrats, who, as only polished politicians can, chatted and chortled with him over roast beef and chicken while deftly ignoring the reality that most of them consider him politically radioactive.

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Facing Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's independent candidacy, Republican officials at the state and national level have made the extraordinary decision to abandon their official candidate, and some are actively working to help Lieberman win in November. Despite Lieberman's position that he would continue to caucus with Democrats if re-elected, all three Republican congressional candidates in Connecticut have praised Lieberman and have not endorsed the party's nominee, Alan Schlesinger. An independent group with Republican ties is raising money for Lieberman, who has been a strong supporter of President Bush on the Iraq war. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, although he has said he would support the Republican nominee, is not planning to campaign for him and allowed two of his aides to consult with the Lieberman camp before the Aug. 8 Democratic primary.

I said goodbye this weekend to someone who is leaving for Iraq soon. She's in the Army and will be serving in a noncombat role in what should be a very safe part of Baghdad. I don't mean to inflate our connection - we're somewhere between acquaintances and friends - but because she's only the second military person I have personally known to go off to the war, she makes it less the out-of-sight, out-of-mind conflict than it sometimes seems to have become for me. And for a lot of other people, I suspect.

WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. John Edwards was the first national Democrat to congratulate anti-war candidate Ned Lamont on his primary victory over Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, but the phone call wasn't really about Connecticut. Edwards is aggressively pursuing his party's presidential nomination, and his call was a reflection of Lamont's emergence as a liberal hero and nod to the new reality of this election year. Anti-war fever is raging. Democrats, especially those on the left, are angry and aroused, and candidates ignore them at their peril.