SPORTS
By Tom Keyser | February 14, 2005
Rainbow Blue, the Maryland-born pacing filly, was named standardbred Horse of the Year last night at harness racing's annual awards ceremony at Caesars Atlantic City, N.J. Stabled at Harrington Raceway in Delaware, Rainbow Blue, who was 3 last year, won 20 of 21 races and edged Windsong's Legacy, who won trotting's Triple Crown, in voting for harness racing's highest honor. Rainbow Blue is the second straight standardbred Horse of the Year bred by Winbak Farm in Cecil County. The Winbak-bred No Pan Intended won Horse of the Year last year.
NEWS
By Peter A. Jay | May 2, 1996
HAVRE de GRACE -- William Colby, mysteriously missing and presumed drowned in the waters of southern Maryland, was described in several recent news stories as a ''former spymaster'' -- a term inevitably applied to anyone who served as chief of the Central Intelligence Agency.To journalists, former spymasters come in two models, the gray and the colorful. Mr. Colby, though he was no desk jockey and had parachuted into occupied France during World War II, was perceived as the former. His personality and appearance were lacking in flamboyance, and so his assigned image in the press was that of a bureaucrat, not a swashbuckling secret agent.
NEWS
By MICHAEL OLESKER | June 25, 2004
THEY BROUGHT back a rainbow at Druid Hill Park two nights ago, and everybody called this a great symbol of the city's rebirth. They were partly right. There were maybe 300 people gathered by the great reservoir there, and it was dark, and such a thing is not supposed to happen. Muggings are supposed to happen after dark. This is part of our municipal folklore. But the mood was utterly serene, and the crowd included delighted children, and people of all colors, and such facts take us beyond mere symbols.
NEWS
By Joan Jacobson and Joan Jacobson,SUN STAFF | February 23, 2001
Tess McNew reluctantly glances out her bedroom window in the stately mansion known as Rainbow Hall. Below her second-floor window is one of two gnarled ming trees Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave to then-Brigadier Gen. Douglas MacArthur 75 years ago, when the World War I hero and his wife lived in this elegant Georgian-style home just above the rim of the Green Spring Valley. A soft-spoken lady with snow-white hair, McNew is preparing to leave the Baptist Home, the retirement community that took up residence in Rainbow Hall in 1963, and now is closing because of financial problems.
NEWS
By Erika Niedowski and Alice Lukens and Erika Niedowski and Alice Lukens,SUN STAFF | April 23, 1999
Gay and lesbian high school students in Howard County will be singing and dancing "Under the Rainbow" next month in Columbia at the first same-sex prom held in the county.The alternative prom is being sponsored by the Howard chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), a national nonprofit organization."It's really positive for the kids to know that there's a place that they can go to and have fun like they would at [their high school] prom," said Dorina Stanislaw, 18, a Centennial High School senior from Ellicott City who plans to attend the event with her girlfriend, Jennifer Roorda, 20, a 1997 Centennial graduate.
FEATURES
By Tim Smith and Tim Smith,SUN MUSIC CRITIC | November 6, 2003
The people and the professionals have spoken - and awarded Peabody Institute faculty member Christopher Theofanidis the 2003 Masterprize for his orchestral work Rainbow Body. Theofanidis returned to the Baltimore campus yesterday fresh from his victory in this unique international composition competition in London, where he received the prize of 25,000 British pounds (about $42,000). His colleagues in Peabody's composition department, including Peabody director Robert Sirota and British-born composer Nicholas Maw, surprised him with a champagne toast.