NEWS
By William Safire | April 26, 1991
Washington -- WHITE HOUSE chief of staff John Sununu, mileage champ in the Air Force's frequent flier program, sortied into town, saw the world scene turning sour and decreed: Let education rise to the top of the agenda.The Department of Education promptly popped its plans for an "America 2000 strategy"; the media dutifully scheduled takeouts and Sunday TV shows; the Congress warily extended its cooperation. Attention was paid; now on to the next subject.Wait.As Education Secretary Lamar Alexander says, "In an era of nine-second sound bites and 100-hour wars, we're talking about a nine-year crusade."
ENTERTAINMENT
By Mike Pride and Mike Pride,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | August 31, 2003
Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express, by Christopher Corbett. Broadway Books. 288 pages. $23.95. The Pony Express was a flop. It lost vast sums from the start, even at a cost of $5 per letter. Eighteen months after the first rider spurred his horse west from St. Joseph, Mo., the telegraph, the real wonder of its time, connected coast to coast. Two days later, the Pony Express closed down. But in a country hungry for lore, it had a second life. The Pony Express was American enterprise, personal grit and Manifest Destiny rolled into one. And it never lacked for mythmakers eager to inflate reality into legend.
SPORTS
By Ross Peddicord | June 17, 1991
Jimmy Richardson, a well-known trainer on the Maryland circuit for nearly 40 years, died after he collapsed from an apparent heart attack at Pimlico yesterday.Richardson, 62, was atop a pony leading a horse to the post for the fifth race, when he suddenly fell from his mount near the finish line.Rescue workers tried to revive him, but he died after being taken to Sinai Hospital.Richardson, his wife, Sally, and five children have all at various times been involved in Maryland racing in a number of capacities.
NEWS
April 27, 1995
The annual Montpelier Spring Festival will be held from noon to 6 p.m. May 7 at the Montpelier mansion grounds, Route 197 at Montpelier Drive in South Laurel.The festival is sponsored by the South Laurel Recreation Council volunteers, who are celebrating 25 years of service to the community.This year's festival includes a concert by the National Concert Band of America, country western dancing, arts and crafts, free rides on the Remax hot air balloon, free pony rides and a children's parade.
NEWS
By ELLEN GOODMAN | January 13, 1995
Boston. -- Maybe I'm feeling too mellow this morning, although not quite mellow enough to invite Mrs. Gingrich to tea. But from my post outside the infamous Beltway, the first sight of partisans spoiling for another fight is surprisingly unwelcome.We're not even two weeks into the new -- that's new, not Newt and puhleeze trash that headline! -- Congress. We've already had the ethics flap: the $4.5 million dollar book advance. We've already had the appointment disaster: the hiring and firing of historian Christina Jeffrey.
NEWS
By Jay Apperson and Jay Apperson,Staff writer | January 22, 1992
An Annapolis man dubbed the "pony-tail robber" admitted yesterday toa string of robberies at county businesses last January and February.Gregory Lloyd Gasper, 36, pleaded guilty to five counts of robbery in county Circuit Court. In exchange, prosecutors will recommend no more than 17 years in prison at his sentencing, scheduled for March27.Assistant State's Attorney Frederick M. Paone said Gasper, using a toy gun and passing off a taped bundle of flares as a bomb, robbed a Gambrills dry cleaning shop, a Glen Burnie sub shop, a Crofton doughnut shop and grocery stores in Arnold and Severna Park.