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So, Elisa, where ya going?Elisa Davidson has heard it a hundred times. Named the volleyball Player of the Year by the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post, the Glenelg High senior knows it comes with the territory."

JOHN H. CHAFEE'S legacy to Rhode Island and the nation includes cleaner air and better health care.His greatest gift, though, may be an image of what it should mean to be a U.S. senator.Mr. Chafee, who died Monday at age 77, was a Republican. But partisanship ranked low in his senatorial priorities. He is hailed as a beacon of service in a time shrouded by corrosive strategies of political advantage.A flinty, patrician New Englander, he had a sense of humor as well as the prickly resilience to endure defeat and come back.

ANNAPOLIS -- Heed the storm clouds in Rhode Island and use the hindsight from Maryland's own 1985 thrift crisis, a legislative agency warned yesterday. Abolish the private insurer of state-chartered credit unions was the agency's message to lawmakers.The insurer, the Credit Union Insurance Corp., is strong, acknowledged Karen Morgan of the Department of Fiscal Services, in fact stronger than its federal counterpart, the National Credit Union Administration fund.But the Maryland Savings-Share Insurance Corp.

Towson (1-3, 0-1 CAA) at Rhode Island (1-3, 0-1 CAA) Time:: 1 p.m. Radio:: 1570 AM Series: : Rhode Island leads 5-4. Last meeting:: Towson won, 37-32, on Oct. 11, 2008. What's at stake: : The Tigers want to break their 13-game road losing streak. Towson hasn't won away from home since 2007. A victory would also end Towson's six-game losing streak against Colonial Athletic Association teams. Its last CAA win was over Rhode Island on Oct. 11, 2008. Towson is coming off a 57-7 loss to New Hampshire and has been outscored 133-51 this season.

YOUR MAY 23 editorial proclaiming Baltimore's billboard laws dead in the water after a recent First Amendment decision by the Supreme Court is overly pessimistic.Baltimore's laws restricting the placement of billboard ads for alcohol and cigarettes in specific neighborhoods in the city (which were passed two years ago) are radically different from the Rhode Island law recently struck down by the Supreme Court in 44 Liquormart.That case involved a total ban on off-site price advertising for alcohol products enacted in the 1950s.

THE SUPREME COURT'S order for a lower court to review Baltimore's ban on billboards promoting cigarette smoking came as no surprise; in May, the court issued a similar order for the city's ban on liquor billboards in some city neighborhoods. In both cases, the review was prompted by the court's decision in a Rhode Island case, which included new guidelines for weighing the constitutionality of limitations on commercial speech.In that decision, the Supreme Court threw out a 40-year-old Rhode Island law banning all public advertising of liquor prices.

Charlie Brown, Edgewood SPORT BASKETBALL BOYS STATS -- Brown, a starting guard, ranks third on the team in scoring at 12.5 points per game. He scored a season-high 21 points in a victory over Bohemia Manor three weeks ago. Brown has been a major contributor to the Rams' 11-game winning streak. SIDELINES -- Brown and his family moved to the county from Rhode Island in September. He enjoys music and working with computers. Brown, also a member of the football team, is unsure which sport he will pursue in college.

ST. LOUIS -- His Rhode Island teammates were gone. So were the coaches. But Cuttino Mobley remained. Bent over at the waist, his eyes staring dejectedly at the floor, Mobley got a good feel for the Stanford celebration around him. It was a celebration that, minutes before, he thought he'd be a participant in.But it was Stanford whopartied yesterday, taking advantage of an epic Rhode Island collapse that was as sudden as it was unexpected. It resulted in a 79-77 win that gave the Cardinal the Midwest Regional title and a trip to San Antonio for next week's Final Four.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to give state and local governments new constitutional guidance on how far they may go to control advertising about liquor and beer.The ruling that emerges in a case from Rhode Island may affect a Baltimore billboard ordinance that is designed to discourage liquor ads in residential neighborhoods.There is a widening debate within state and local government circles, and in lower-court lawsuits, over how to square the First Amendment's protection of "commercial speech" with the 21st Amendment's grant to the states of broad authority over liquor distribution.

On Thursday, December 16, 2004, ROSALYNE J. GREENHOUSE (nee Joseph); loving wife of Harold "Hal" M. Greenhouse; beloved mother of Vickie Greenhouse of Vermont, Jack Greenhouse of Germantown, MD, and the late Joel Greenhouse; beloved sister of Hannah Moss of Los Angeles, Ca, Ruth Fischer of Rhode Island and Albert Joseph of Cleveland, Oh; loving grandmother of Meghan Greenhouse and Sarah Joy. Services at SOL LEVINSON AND BROS, INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road,...