New Boss

COLLEGE PARK — New Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said Thursday that football coach Ralph Friedgen is doing "a fantastic job" under trying circumstances, but that it would be premature to guarantee that Friedgen will return next year if the team keeps winning. "He's 4-and-1 right now," Anderson said in an interview. "Continue on that path, I don't think we'll be having this discussion. " Anderson was less enthusiastic about the "coach-in-waiting" plan that his predecessor, Deborah Yow, negotiated under which Friedgen is to be succeeded by offensive coordinator James Franklin by January 2012 . "I'm going to go out on this limb: I can't see how this (plan)

COLLEGE PARK — New Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson said Thursday that football coach Ralph Friedgen is doing "a fantastic job" under trying circumstances, but that it would be premature to guarantee that Friedgen will return next year if the team keeps winning. "He's 4-and-1 right now," Anderson said in an interview. "Continue on that path, I don't think we'll be having this discussion. " Anderson was less enthusiastic about the "coach-in-waiting" plan that his predecessor, Deborah Yow, negotiated under which Friedgen is to be succeeded by offensive coordinator James Franklin by January 2012 . "I'm going to go out on this limb: I can't see how this (plan)

The new boss has arrived at AAI Corp. and, in the words of at least one employee at the Cockeysville defense contractor, "his presence is being felt."Richard E. Erkeneff, a former senior executive of McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Los Angeles, was hired by United Industrial Corp. to head the restructuring of AAI, its struggling Baltimore County subsidiary that traditionally accounts for about 80 percent of the parent's annual sales.Mr. Erkeneff succeeded Thomas V. Murphy, who resigned under fire as president and chief executive in April after a sharp drop in AAI's earnings.

Orioles outfielder Corey Patterson is accustomed to the mercurial ways of big league baseball. He's been a can't-miss prospect, overhyped bust, rejuvenated castoff and veteran journeyman. In 2010 alone, Patterson was a spring training invitee for the Seattle Mariners, out of work completely, an Orioles farmhand, and a major-league starter. Now, he is back to being a reserve, in the starting lineup Thursday for just the fourth time in August. "For me, I just come in every day and I still do my same routine mentally and physically.

FRIDAY is Paul J. Evanson's big day. He gets options to buy 1.5 million shares of Allegheny Energy and, by my calculation, Allegheny stock units worth about $25 million. Evanson is Allegheny's new boss. As of Friday his pecuniary interests, as the compensation consultants like to say, are aligned with those of his shareholders. The question is how he will pursue them. His company, owner of Allegheny Power, is an embarrassment. Run into the ground by then-CEO Alan J. Noia, Allegheny stopped paying dividends on common stock a year ago, ending a string of more than 50 years of regular payouts.

Just as you thought you were about to finally clinch that promotion or raise, you hear that your boss is leaving. Rumor has it that his replacement wants to restructure your department. Now you're wondering if you'll even have a job at Lean & Mean Inc. three months from now.While many people sit back and wait for the new boss to contact them, it's much better to take the initiative. The more you show your willingness to take orders from the new leader, the greater the likelihood that you'll become part of his or her team.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Memo to: The New Cabinet.Subject: The New Boss.Congratulations on being selected to join President-elect Bill Clinton's administration. Better take a minute to study the terrain. You are now working for a man who relaxes with 500-page policy tomes (interrupted by occasional detective novels), who thinks nothing of calling advisers at midnight to bat around an idea, who sends back 30-page memos to get the exact source of a statistic on page 29.And don't be fooled by his outward affability.

New Orioles manager Phil Regan has solid baseball credentials. He was a quality player, he has managed many years in the winter leagues and he was considered one of the premier pitching coaches when he was plucked from the Cleveland Indians organization yesterday.But to the players he inherits on the Orioles roster, he is largely an unknown quantity."I guess that's good," first baseman Rafael Palmeiro said when he learned the identity of his new boss, "but I don't really know that much about him. I didn't really know he was out there until people started to bring up his name."

There is no insurance against the unknown. But if there were, the employees at USF&G Corp. might be selling it to each other.With the appointment of Norman P. Blake Jr. as the new chairman, chief executive and president at the Baltimore-based insurance company, the quiescent days at the slow-moving giant are over."

Gary W. McLhinney quit yesterday as chief of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police -- one day after his new boss ended his practice of assigning armed officers to escort sports and entertainment celebrities to and from gates at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. He will be replaced by Marcus Brown, the Baltimore Police Department's deputy commissioner for operations, Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari said yesterday. McLhinney said yesterday that his resignation was not prompted by Porcari's decision to end the escorts, nor was he asked to resign.

After almost 14 years as the voice of the Baltimore County police, Bill Toohey will leave the department on Friday, take a week off, and start a new job on Feb. 1. Toohey, a former radio reporter and spokesman for two U.S. senators, is to be the communications director for the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, which coordinates programs, grants and research for public safety and corrections agencies. "It's a great expansion of my professional world and I'm really looking forward to that," said Toohey, 64, who was informed in November that he was being let go from the police department to make way for a uniformed officer.

Series My Name Is Earl: : Betty White guest stars as the "crazy witch lady" from Earl's childhood. (8 p.m., WBAL-Channel 11) Bones:: The investigation of the petrified body of a pregnant 16-year-old athlete leads Booth and Brennan to the discovery of a pregnancy pact. (8 p.m., WBFF-Channel 45) The Office:: Michael's plans for his 15th anniversary bash at Dunder Mifflin get sidetracked by the no-nonsense new boss (Idris Elba). (9 p.m., WBAL-Channel 11) Supernatural: : Castiel and Uriel ask Dean to use the torturing skills he learned in hell to extract information from Alastair.

When John Harbaugh makes that walk down the steps from McDaniel College's field house to the practice field, he'll be under the microscope for the rest of the year, and the tone for the 2008 season will be set during the next 25 days of training camp. The eyes of an entire city will be on Harbaugh, the Ravens' first-year head coach, but he'll be scrutinized more by his players, who are trying to develop a feel for the new boss. Harbaugh has had at least six minicamps, and he established a rapid tempo for practices.

WASHINGTON -- The weeklong cavalcade that will accompany Army Gen. David Petraeus' return to Washington today will look much like his pivotal visit in September: formal testimony, talk show appearances, and lots of charts and graphs. But this time, the U.S. commander's presentation to Congress on Iraq collides head-on with a raging presidential campaign and two Democratic candidates demanding almost the opposite of his advice. The change could prove jarring. For more than a year, Petraeus had the benefit of a commander in chief who was invested heavily in the same manpower-intensive strategy that he has advocated.

The nameplate might as well be a name scribbled on a piece of paper. In pencil. Is it really worth memorizing anymore? The Orioles' manager - Brand X. The new boss - the old boss. The old nightmare - the new reality. The most amazing thing isn't that Sam Perlozzo lasted less than three months into what would have been his second full season as manager of the Orioles; it's that anyone thinks a managerial change really matters. The Orioles' canning their field boss in late June is like a mechanic replacing the propeller on a plane that has no wings.

I can see why Bob Ehrlich, a competitive guy, would want to reclaim the governor's mansion four years from now. And why, given the ridiculous cost of campaigns, he'd start raising money now. What I don't get is, what's in it for Womble, Carlyle, the law firm serving as the ex-gov's Elba-on-the-Patapsco? "Kendel, Drew, Josh and I have settled into our new home just outside of Annapolis and I've started an exciting new job with a large law firm," Ehrlich writes in a recent fundraising letter that notes his campaign headquarters will stay open.

After 30 years at the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Washington, Carol House knows all about the rewards of a job well done. But she's also acquainted with the elephant lurking behind every promotion that she or a colleague has ever received: Not only must they navigate new jobs and responsibilities, they also must forge new relationships with superiors and - perhaps most difficult - with the people they used to work with but who now work...

A manager at General Electric assumed she had a bright future at the company. That is, until she got a scathing performance review from a new boss. He called her "aggressive and abrupt," and suggested that she "needed to smile more in the hallway."The woman was shocked. In her three years as a computer scientist for G.E., she had received nothing but positive evaluations. Unfortunately, the new boss' review marked a turning point. Each time there was a possibility for a raise or promotion, he blocked her career path.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush will swear in the country's second national spy chief today, handing Mike McConnell an unfinished experiment in intelligence reform as wartime intelligence becomes the focus of increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill and in Washington. There will be an acute need to show results in an endeavor many lawmakers and intelligence professionals say has lagged, and McConnell, a retired admiral and former National Security Agency director, will have less than two years to deliver, current and former intelligence officials said.

Gary W. McLhinney quit yesterday as chief of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police -- one day after his new boss ended his practice of assigning armed officers to escort sports and entertainment celebrities to and from gates at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. He will be replaced by Marcus Brown, the Baltimore Police Department's deputy commissioner for operations, Transportation Secretary John D. Porcari said yesterday. McLhinney said yesterday that his resignation was not prompted by Porcari's decision to end the escorts, nor was he asked to resign.