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JACKSON, Miss. -- The story of the Hederman family and the Clarion-Ledger newspaper should have been written by Faulkner. It is a tale of a man burdened by ancestry. Familial loyalty and duty are stained by revulsion toward the past. The corrosive effects of racism are deeply felt, the scent of decay is strong.And Mississippi itself is a protagonist.The Hederman family ran what probably was the most racist newspaper in the nation. Some of its past reporting, when reviewed today, is nearly unbelievable.

Those who hold bankrupt United Airlines' stock may joke that it's not worth the paper it's printed on. But it's no joke: Wall Street believes the stock is worth about 50 cents. At the same time, the going rate for the paper: $29.95, because unlike wanting a stake in the company, a growing number of people want to buy the paper. Those people are aeroscripophilists. They scour the Internet and tables at traveling fairs for financial papers such as stocks and bonds, specifically those with ties to aviation.

If paper and photocopies are the currency of education, then Howard County teachers say their supplies resemble the budgets of most Americans -- there's never enough to go around.And nowhere is this more evident than in Howard's elementary )) schools, where some teachers keep their paper secured under lock and key, many scrounge for scraps and all try to never discard a piece of paper without using both sides.Such limits on basic supplies stand in stark contrast to Howard's affluent image and the county's relatively high level of spending on education.

Robert Victor Dallmus, the retired owner of a paper goods business who served stall vendors in Baltimore's market system and area seafood houses, died of Parkinson's disease complications Dec. 14 at Oak Crest Village. The former Towson resident was 93. Born in Baltimore and raised near Clifton Park, he was a 1934 Polytechnic Institute graduate. He earned a degree at the old Baltimore College of Commerce. During World War II, he was a boatswain's mate in the Coast Guard and was stationed in Puerto Rico, St. Lucia and Trinidad, among other places.

WASHINGTON -- The chaplain of the Marine Corps has distributed to senior military officers a position paper that says homosexuals in the armed forces are a "physical and psychological" threat to other troops.The six-page paper, which has won praise from the Marines' top general, staunchly defends the armed forces' ban on gay men and lesbians, arguing that repealing the prohibition would hurt recruiting, undermine morale and increase the number of AIDS cases in the military."In the unique, intensely close environment of the military, homosexual conduct can threaten the lives, including the physical (e.g.

What Dianna Richards remembers most about her grandmother, Marguerite L. T. Mills, is her energy. For 15 years, Mills used that energy to run the Severna Park Voice, which she founded in 1981. But she died last November of heart failure at age 78.Now Richards has picked up where her grandmother left off. The 22-year-old Severna Park resident is the new publisher of the monthly neighborhood newspaper."It's been a great experience so far," Richards said. "It's been exciting to be involved with the community and the people in the community."

DURING THE SEVEN decades of Soviet existence, Pravda, despite its circulation in the millions, never was the country's biggest newspaper. But as the official organ of the Communist ** Party, it was by far the most important. Dozens of satellite plants printed and delivered it, making sure party apparatchiks in 15 republics knew what the day's truth was, according to the Kremlin.This once-mighty paper has now suspended publication for the fifth time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its owners, two millionaire brothers from Greece, accuse the paper's editors and staff of working little, of boozing too much and publishing "nothing worth reading."

Local residents living in affluent neighborhoods will begin receiving a free tabloid newspaper next spring, published by a Denver corporation owned by billionaire Philip F. Anschutz. The Baltimore Examiner will be the third in a chain of free papers - the others are The Washington Examiner and The San Francisco Examiner - owned by Anschutz's Clarity Media Group, which intends to start similar periodicals in dozens of other American cities. In Baltimore, Clarity Media Group plans to deliver most of its 250,000 papers to specific ZIP codes, but also has purchased 2,000 newspaper racks to be placed around town.

Babe Ruth is looking down from a baseball diamond in the sky, and he is laughing.He is laughing because he has read the 90 papers that will be presented at Hofstra University's conference April 27-29 commemorating Ruth's 100th birthday. Academics from across the country have written about half of the papers, using their diverse scholarly backgrounds to find religious imagery in Babe Ruth movies, to analyze Ruth's behavior using Freudian psychology and to compare him with characters in Shakespearean tragedies.

Stacked to the rafters in the sprawling metal sheds around the South Locust Point marine terminal in Baltimore are some of the basic ingredients of the American holiday shopping season: paper used to make glossy catalogs, cosmetics packaging, greeting cards and the cartons that hold 12-packs of beer. Today, the state plans to announce that it has signed a deal with a Finnish company to bring enough of the rolls and piles to stuff the stockings of everyone in Baltimore with the equivalent of a half-ton of paper.