NEWS
By Susan Gvozdas and Susan Gvozdas,Special to The Sun | October 21, 2007
Racine Williams stretched out her arms and began rotating like a pinwheel in slow motion. With a rhythmic, tick-tock quality, the 41-year-old perfectly cartwheeled to the left, and back to the right across the conference room of her Millersville office. Despite huffing and puffing through the last 50, she kept going until she reached a new personal record of 300. Her third annual cartwheel-a-thon Friday raised only $1,100, a third of her first outing. But Williams still takes on this odd, seemingly dizzying challenge because it's a cause she works for daily.
BUSINESS
By LAURA SMITHERMAN and LAURA SMITHERMAN,SUN REPORTER | May 4, 2006
Venable LLP, the law firm that traces a 100-year history to its origins in Baltimore, announced yesterday changes in its highest ranks that elevated Karl A. Racine to managing partner, making him one of only a handful of black lawyers to lead a major firm. Racine replaces James L. Shea, who will succeed Benjamin R. Civiletti as chairman. Civiletti, a former U.S. attorney general, will remain on the firm's board and lead its charitable foundation while continuing his practice. The 470-attorney firm, which is based in Washington and has offices from New York to Virginia, specializes in corporate law, complex litigation, intellectual property and government affairs.
NEWS
By Jennifer Blenner and Jennifer Blenner,SUN STAFF | May 18, 2003
Commuter bus line No. 420/731 from Perryville to Baltimore-Washington International Airport, the only metro bus line in Harford County in the midday, is proposed to be cut by the end of the month. Alonza Williams, Maryland Transit Administration spokesman, said the decision to discontinue service results from low ridership - an average of 33 people a day ride the bus. He said fares must cover at least 40 percent of a bus line's costs, which this line is not doing. The MARC Penn Line serves Perryville, Aberdeen, Edgewood, Martin Airport and Baltimore's Penn Station with continuing service to BWI. Bus route 420/731 began running Nov. 5, 2001, and operates Monday through Friday.
SPORTS
By Candus Thomson and Candus Thomson,SUN STAFF | November 22, 2002
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - For someone used to going downhill fast, it still stuns Olympic bobsledder Jean Racine how quickly she got to the bottom last winter. In a blink, the young woman with the bright eyes and quick wit, the athlete with a future paved in endorsements, was turned into a soap opera villain, "Mean Jean," who elbowed aside her teammate and best friend in a greedy grab for the gold. "I knew I was going to take heat, but when it came ... " her voice trailing off and her lower lip quivering slightly.
SPORTS
By Candus Thomson and Candus Thomson,SUN STAFF | February 6, 2002
SALT LAKE CITY - Bonny Warner, the veteran bobsled driver whose ride to the Olympics was derailed by the athletic equivalent of corporate raiding, found a soft landing. Warner, who did commentary during the 1998 games in Nagano, Japan, will resume that line of work for NBC. She will be providing the color for her event. "They realized that bobsled is going to be a huge story, and who can tell it better in an objective format than me?" she said. But given the soap opera that surrounded the selection of the women's team, can Warner bite her tongue?
SPORTS
By Candus Thomson and By Candus Thomson,SUN STAFF | December 20, 2001
Ja-Ra and J-Da are splitsville, and the Olympic world is a-buzz. Jean Racine and Jen Davidson, the two-time world champions in women's bobsled and closest friends, were everyone's pick to take the gold medal in Salt Lake City. The pair had already done ads for the "Got Milk" campaign, gotten their faces on cereal boxes and appeared in Sports Illustrated, GQ and Glamour magazine. Then a little thing like winning got in the way. Last weekend, Racine, as the driver of the sled and team leader, abruptly ended the four-year partnership with Davidson, the braker and pusher, because, Racine said, Davidson wasn't measuring up. Davidson was replaced by Gea Johnson, a former NCAA champion heptathlete and a walk-on this season.