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So, do you believe that "Seinfeld" news?No, not the fact that the Four Horsemen of Neuroticness - Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer - are finally riding off into the sunset after this season. That probably should have happened a couple of seasons ago, before the show stopped being really funny.No, I'm talking about the fact that the NBC brass - the same geniuses who sent Letterman packing a few years back - proudly announced that they were ready to pay Jerry Seinfeld $5 million per episode to crank out one more season of shows about nothing.

Jake Einstein is getting out of the radio biz again.The longtime guru of Maryland's alternative radio scene and former owner of both WHFS-FM (99.1) and WRNR-FM (103.1) is set to get rid of his last station, Annapolis' WNAV-AM (1430).In fact, Einstein already has leased the station to a company headed by TV personality and part-time Severna Park resident Pat Sajak, whose Sajak Broadcasting took over operation of the station Jan. 2. Einstein expects to complete negotiations to sell WNAV to the "Wheel of Fortune" host soon.

Today we consider American Joe Miedusiewski (Met-A-Chef's-Ski): Nice guy, Pat Sajak hair, popular state senator from Southeast Baltimore, Friend Of Bill. But governor? I don't get it yet. What's his campaign motto going to be? "Vote for me. Clinton shot pool in my bar"?All this talk about American Joe running for governor started back in September, at the senator's annual crab feast at the Steelworkers Hall. There was a rumor circulating that AmJo might run for governor next year. It was quickly dismissed by most who heard it -- until Don Donaldo, the Lord High Governor, stood to endorse him. Very weird.

American Joe Miedusiewski is working hard to -- any doubts that he is serious about seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 1994.The 44-year-old state senator from East Baltimore already has taken his populist message to Cecil and Dorchester counties. He has hired aides and leased space for a campaign headquarters.Most important, at least in political circles, he raised more than $100,000 last night with a single event.Mr. Miedusiewski was host to more than 100 of his closest friends -- including Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak -- at a $1,000-a-head fund-raiser at Haussner's Restaurant in the heart of Highlandtown, his political backyard.

Sajak boat theft linked to 2 othersThe people who stole television game-show host Pat Sajak's boat also are suspected of taking two boats from an Arnold marina, the Maryland Natural Resources Police said yesterday.All three boats have been recovered, police said. Mr. Sajak's 26-foot Sea Ray cabin cruiser, which had been taken during the weekend from the Bluff Point Marina in Severna Park, was found Tuesday at the Cypress Marina on the Magothy River.The two other boats, a 23-foot Maxum runabout and a 29-foot Cruiser cabin cruiser, were found yesterday morning in Stoney Creek in Pasadena, both abandoned and dragging their anchors.

I am not unsympathetic to people who are utter failures.I realize not everyone can be a success, just as not everyone can be handsome, just as not everyone can be me.Which is what I tried to keep in mind as I watched the first week of Chevy Chase's new talk show.As I am not a TV critic, I am under no obligation to review new shows.But when certain debuts go beyond mere failure and enter the range of debacle -- Joe McGinniss' new biography of Ted Kennedy, for instance -- they take on wider societal implications that the rest of us may learn from.

Los Angeles -- When NBC picked unknown Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman as host of its "Late Night" show, most people thought it made about as much sense as the San Francisco Giants asking the team's water boy to take over in center field after Willie Mays left.As it turns out, even Mr. O'Brien admits there are times when he asks himself, "What the hell have I done? Am I going to be able to do this?"Yet, starting tonight, the 30-year-old writer-turned-performer will be host of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," following in the steps of a show-business legend who made the time slot a gold mine for NBC.The network took its lumps for putting so much faith in a young man whose only real performing work has been in the Los Angeles comedy ensemble known as The Groundlings.

When did being host of a late-night talk show become brain surgery?First, the Chevy Chase debacle on Fox last week. And, now, Conan O'Brien's opening night Monday as David Letterman's replacement on NBC, which was almost as bad.Nervous and jittery to the point where it's painful to watch, he plied guests with questions that ran the gamut from "So, what's up?" to "So, how's it going?" Then he was too distracted by nerves and cues from his director to listen to the answers.Even considering opening-night jitters, O'Brien shows very little promise of ever being able to deliver a monologue or engage the audience in any kind of conversation.

Horse racing might be called the sport of kings, but it attracted a different sort of crowd yesterday: a rapper, a chicken magnate, a game-show host and three women whose claim to fame is saying, "Uh huh!" in a television commercial.Hammer, Frank Perdue, Pat Sajak and Diet Pepsi's "Uh huh girls" were among the celebrities off to the races yesterday for the 117th Preakness at Pimlico Race Course."This is a nice change of pace," Perdue said. "It's something different from chasing chickens around all day."

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- It is early in the morning when Bob Kerrey enters the American Legion Post just off Elm Street, but a goodly crowd is already seated on folding chairs spread around the scuffed linoleum floor."

The scene is familiar to millions of television viewers - Pat Sajak calling names and cracking jokes by a spinning wheel. But yesterday, Sajak, who has hosted Wheel of Fortune for a quarter of a century, found himself not in a Hollywood studio but a county government building in Glen Burnie. And his assistant was not the beaming Vanna White, but someone a bit more businesslike: Anne Arundel County Sheriff Ron Bateman. Sajak, who has a home in Severna Park, and the sheriff taped an episode of Anne Arundel County's Most Wanted, which airs on local public access cable.

If you hit it off with Mark Kresel - and chances are you will - he'll eventually want to know one thing: "Can I give you a birdhouse?" He'll ask in a voice husky with sincerity: "Can I?" The 58-year-old textile salesman has bestowed his handmade creations on the woman who sold him his daily Dunkin' Donut, his barber, his doctor and dozens of clients in exotic locations throughout Russia, South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Everyone in his Fork neighborhood - all up and down Catalpa Road, which is not a short street - boasts an original Kresel.

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Outreach Center lists activities Baltimore Washington Medical Center will offer activities at its Arundel Mills Outreach Center, between Dave and Buster's and Entrance 4: Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., computerized neck and back screenings. Monday, 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., free blood pressure screenings. Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., blood pressure screenings. Sept. 14, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., foot screenings. Sept. 18, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., county Department of Aging will offer information on its services.

Hospital schedules August activities Harbor Hospital will offer the following activities: Today, 6 p.m., "How to Lose 10 Pounds a Month," LifeResource Center, 2990 S. Hanover St., registration, 410-350-2563. Tomorrow, 5:30 p.m., "Dinner with the Doc, The Aches of Arthritis," Ecker Business Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, registration. 410-350-2563. Aug. 30, 11 a.m., "Diabetes Q&A," LifeResource Center, 2990 S. Hanover St., 410- 350-2563. Free immunizations offered to students The Anne Arundel County Health Department has announced that immunization requirements for children in preschool through ninth grade have changed this year.

Pat Sajak strides into the Annapolis radio station that he owns, slips on a pair of radio headphones and begins taping a two-minute commentary on the subject "Life is a risky business." His script, on everyday risks, was inspired by a friend scolding him for eating a hamburger and french fries. "You weigh the risks against the rewards, the drawbacks against the pleasures, and the yogurt against the ice cream," he says in a clear, ebullient voice as the tape rolls. In the best of modern worlds, he adds, knowing that eating a candy bar would take precisely 12 seconds off your life would come in handy: "Then you could make an intelligent decision."

Screenings, exhibits set at Arundel Mills Baltimore Washington Medical Center has scheduled the following free activities at its Arundel Mills Outreach Center, between Dave and Buster's and mall entrance No. 4: Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., computerized neck and back screenings. Monday, 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., blood pressure screenings. Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., blood pressure screenings. May 11, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., foot screenings. May 18, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., blood pressure and lung capacity screenings.

Healing arts group schedules programs American Healing Arts Alliance is sponsoring these programs: May 2, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Natural Healing Wellness Center, 100 Annapolis St., West Annapolis. Lecture on how energy kinesiology can help chronic pain and stress. Registration. 410-956- 0055. Second Tuesday of the month, Meditation and Healing Exchange, Peace Point, Edgewater, 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Peace Dove Meditation, and 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Healing Hearts exchanges. 410-956-0055 for registration and directions.

THERE WERE GOWNS GALORE at the Gala for the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation. The get-together at Baltimore's Marriott Waterfront Hotel was formal fun at its best. Scarcely an ankle was in sight at the pre-party VIP soiree. Almost every woman there wore a floor-length dress. However, the gown most talked about was that of foundation vice president Lesly Sajak. Two days before, her gala attire had received national attention. When Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak filled in for Regis Philbin on the Live with Regis and Kelly TV show, he asked the audience to choose which frock his wife should wear, and had her model one in white and another in black.

For nearly a quarter-century, he's been there for people facing the highest-stakes puzzles of their lives. Why shouldn't Pat Sajak help us crack workaday riddles, too? You know, those nagging questions that come up all the time but somehow elude answers. Like, why do some people give their kids such goofy names? Why are moviegoers so noisy and rude? Or why - and I'm just throwing this one out there - would anyone want a ceramic Dalmatian? Sajak plumbs mini-mysteries of daily life in two-minute commentaries, called "I've Been Thinking ... " on WNAV in Annapolis and WTTR in Westminster.