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A Towson cardiologist and his former employer disputed claims during a civil trial Tuesday made by 21 plaintiffs who allege that the doctor performed unnecessary stent procedures to treat heart patients. Dr. Mark Midei, St. Joseph Medical Center and Catholic Health Initiatives are being sued in Baltimore County Circuit Court by former patients of Midei, who claim that the doctor completed an excessive number of the procedures and that the hospital failed to provide any oversight, leaving the patients with lasting medical complications.

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the most frequently heard forecast was: "This changes everything. " Americans would live in constant fear of the next attack, many pundits predicted. The desire for safety would spawn a security state that would trample constitutional freedoms. The economy would take a long-term hit. American life would never be the same. Most of those dire predictions didn't come true, of course. The U.S. economy rebounded quickly. Civil liberties came under stress, but fears of a surveillance state weren't realized.

On November 5, 2003, REVERENDEUGENE P. McMANUS, S.S.J., beloved son of the late Martha (nee Dwyer) and John McManus, dear brother of Dr. Robert McManus and his wife Jean of South Hampton, N.Y. and the late John McManus and Agnes Shannon. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. A Mass of Christ The High Priest will be held at St. Joseph Manor, 911 W. Lake Ave., on Sunday at 7 P.M., where a Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday at 11 A.M. Interment New Cathedral Cemetery. Friends may call on Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions to The Josephite Society, 1130 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202, will be appreciated.

A Towson cardiologist and his former employer disputed claims during a civil trial Tuesday made by 21 plaintiffs who allege that the doctor performed unnecessary stent procedures to treat heart patients. Dr. Mark Midei, St. Joseph Medical Center and Catholic Health Initiatives are being sued in Baltimore County Circuit Court by former patients of Midei, who claim that the doctor completed an excessive number of the procedures and that the hospital failed to provide any oversight, leaving the patients with lasting medical complications.

On September 5, 2003, STUART L. MCMANUS; loved and cherished by many friends. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26A) on Sunday, from 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated in Immaculate Conception Church (Ware Avenue) on Monday at 10 A.M. Interment Druid Ridge Cemetery.

James P. McManus Jr., a retired newspaper advertising representative who worked with those recovering from substance abuse, died Monday of multiple organ failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. The longtime Lutherville resident was 78. Mr. McManus was born in New York City and raised in Riverdale, N.Y. After graduating from Riverdale Academy in 1949, he began his studies at Middlebury College. He left college and enlisted in the Army, where he served with an infantry unit in Korea. After being discharged, he returned to Middlebury, where he earned his bachelor's degree in political science in 1953.

The Rev. Joseph L. McManus, the retired pastor of a Loch Raven Village Roman Catholic church and a Towson University chaplain, died of heart disease Saturday at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 76. Born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington, he attended the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Parochial School and was a 1948 Loyola High School graduate. Father McManus, who attended Loyola College and received his religious education at St. Mary's Seminary, was ordained in 1956. He became an associate pastor at Immaculate Conception Church in Towson and remained there until 1977, when he was named chaplain at the Towson University Newman House.

Positively Fifth Street, by James McManus. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 416 pages. $26. Positively Fifth Street explores those two most American of pastimes -- poker and murder. It is the story of Texas no-limit hold 'em -- the ultimate high-stakes card game -- and the sharpies who flock to Las Vegas every spring for a showdown in the World Series of Poker. And it is the story of the grisly murder of Ted Binion -- a heroin addict and roustabout whose father founded the World Series and who dies, in classic Vegas style, at the hands of a stripper and her boyfriend.

You could say that Sean McManus was born for the job of network sports president and he wouldn't argue with you.How could he? McManus, who takes over the helm of CBS Sports for David Kenin starting Dec. 16, has been all over the inside of sports television his entire life, even beyond his lineage as the son of ABC's Jim McKay, the most revered sportscaster of our time."

Members of the Advertising and Professional Club of Baltimore awarded one of Maryland's most popular and best known citizens, Jim (McKay) McManus with its Distinguished Service to Humanity Award at an Omni Hotel luncheon yesterday.The ballroom was filled with friends and an array of Maryland politicos there to pay homage to this 12-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster -- even Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke found the time to pop in and give Jim a citation. Jim and his wife, Margaret, sat at the head table with club presidents Michael and Lois Hodes; program chair Clarisse Mechanic; State Comptroller Louis L. Goldstein; City States Attorney Stuart O. Simms; City Council President Mary Pat Clarke; racing czar Joe DeFrancis; Notre Dame College President Sister Rosemarie Nassif; and the outgoing president and CEO of St. Joseph Hospital Sister Cecilia Irwin, who is retiring after nearly 20 years.

Ten years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq, a decision that almost everyone now ranks as one of the worst foreign policy blunders of our time. Why "almost"? Former President George W. Bush and his top aides still maintain that the invasion was a good idea, even though the premise on which the war was based - that Saddam Hussein had acquired weapons of mass destruction - proved false, and even though the ensuing war claimed the lives of more than 4,500 Americans and an estimated 127,000 Iraqis.

Charles E. McManus Jr., a retired Crown Cork and Seal Co. executive and longtime Towson resident, died Thursday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 98. The son of the chairman of Crown Cork and Seal Co. and a homemaker, Charles Edward McManus Jr. was born and raised in New York City, and also raised in Spring Lake, N.J. He was a 1932 graduate of the old Barnard School for Boys in New York City and earned a bachelor's degree in 1936 from Bard College. After college, Mr. McManus went to work for Crown Cork and Seal Co. in its machine shop.

Today's topic: the billions (yes, with a "b") that will be spent on advertising in this year's presidential and congressional campaigns, and what kind of messages that money is sending. Like jazz, blues and musical comedy, the political ad is a uniquely American contribution to the arts, only less uplifting. Some turn into classics, like Ronald Reagan's 1984 "Morning in America" ad or the 2008 will.i.am music video based on Barack Obama's "Yes, we can" speech. Whatever your politics, you had to admire their artistry.

Having recently been allowed by the government to finally legally wed my longtime partner, I read with interest your article about the declining proportion of Americans who are married ("Let's revive marriage in America," Jan. 3). It saddens me that so many young people feel that they couldn't make a marriage last. Yes, it does take work; but it is worth it. Author Mike McManus is also correct that having a marriage based in some sort of religion helps. But on visiting the author's website to learn more, I was dismayed to find that his advice to couples was just a ruse to spread his views bitterly opposing same-sex marriage.

A year ago, the tea party movement looked like an irresistible wave sweeping through the Republican Party. Anyone who hoped to win this year's GOP presidential nomination, it seemed, would need to embrace tea party activists' stringent demands for smaller government, lower taxes and deep cuts in spending. But in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, the three candidates who hewed closest to the tea party line - Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich - sank straight to the bottom of the pack.

A year ago, soon after the Tunisian uprising, I demonstrated my powers of prediction in a column about the democracy movement in the Arab world. The revolution in Tunisia, I wrote, "arose from local circumstances that don't foretell what will happen anywhere else. " Three weeks later, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak fell, and the Arab Spring was in full bloom. This brings me to the subject of today's column: a confession of my year's errors and omissions (along with a mention of one or two things I got right)

An avid gourmand, Laura McManus has spent the past 12 years as president of Mackenzie Ltd., a gourmet food mail-order company that sells various items such as crepes and caviar. Her job takes her around the world sampling fine foods, although she says her favorite is Spanish food, especially paella. "We try so many foods every week. ... I get to try so many amazing weird things." McManus, 39, lives in Ruxton with her husband, George McManus, who owns J.J. McDonnell & Co. seafood company in Jessup, and daughter Madeline, 7, and son Will, 4. 1. Dinner with noted wine critic Robert Parker "I love his sensible, educated approach to writing about wine, and I'd love ideas on how to expand my wine collection."

Halfway through cocktails before a fund-raising dinner with Vice President Al Gore, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings sidled up to the hostess of the event at a mansion in Mount Vernon -- the heart of his Baltimore congressional district."

Of the 44 U.S. presidents, all but a handful have been affiliated with a relatively narrow list of traditional Protestant denominations. Eleven were Episcopalians (12 if you count Thomas Jefferson, whose adult beliefs are a subject of debate), eight were Presbyterians, four were Methodists and four were Baptists. Others included Congregationalists, Dutch Reformed and Disciples of Christ. President Barack Obama attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation with traditional Protestant roots despite its untraditional pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In Washington, Mr. Obama has attended services at mostly black Protestant churches.

All 88 of the senior football players honored at Wednesday night's 48th annual Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner are just as comfortable discussing literature, science or mathematics as they are dissecting a Wing-T offense or a safety blitz. The event, presented by the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame at Martin's West, also unveiled five regional scholarship winners among the players from Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard and Baltimore counties.