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Legg Mason Inc. plunged further into commercial mortgage banking yesterday, announcing it had purchased the $1.6 billion mortgage-servicing division of Chevy Chase-based B. F. Saul Co."The addition of B. F. Saul Co.'s commercial mortgage division is a good strategic fit for Legg Mason," said Raymond A. Mason, the company's chairman."We are able both to increase our mortgage-servicing portfolio and add strong new mortgage-banking capabilities in the Virginia and Washington, D.C., area.""The transaction is the sale of servicing rights to the loans, not the loans themselves," said Peter Sellwood, a B. F. Saul vice president who will become executive vice president of Legg Mason's mortgage-banking operation.

Legg Mason Inc. plunged further into commercial mortgage banking yesterday, announcing it had purchased the $1.6 billion mortgage-servicing division of Chevy Chase-based B. F. Saul Co."The addition of B. F. Saul Co.'s commercial mortgage division is a good strategic fit for Legg Mason," said Raymond A. Mason, the company's chairman. "We are able both to increase our mortgage-servicing portfolio and add strong new mortgage-banking capabilities in the Virginia and Washington, D.C., area.""The transaction is the sale of servicing rights to the loans, not the loans themselves," said Peter Sellwood, a B. F. Saul vice president who will become executive vice president of Legg Mason's mortgage-banking operation.

Weinberg & Green LLC, an 80-year-old Baltimore business law firm that shrank from about 150 lawyers in the early 1990s to fewer than 70 amid a shrinking legal market, said yesterday that it will merge with Philadelphia-based Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul LLP.Charles O. Monk II, managing general member of Weinberg & Green, said the combination with a firm more than twice its size will create a premier mid-Atlantic region firm with 222 lawyers and clients from...

On Friday, March 24, 2006, PEARLLEFTON (nee Belferman) beloved wife of the late Saul Lefton, beloved mother of Audrey Lefton of Baltimore, MD, and Dr. Ronald Lefton of Virginia Beach, VA, mother-in-law of Billy Lipman and Lenore Lefton, beloved sister of Richard Belferman of Bethesda, MD, and the late Phil Belferman and Renee Dodd, adored grandmother of Jason Saul Lefton, Brian Jeffrey Lefton, David Saul Lefton and Lauren Rachael Lefton, loving aunt of...

Two men suspended in baskets painting the inside of a 90-foot water tank at the BGE power plant in Pasadena yesterday got a scare when one of the baskets fell, leaving the worker suspended by just a harness.Baltimore Gas and Electric spokesman Darcel Guy said that neither worker was hurt, but county EMS/Fire/Rescue workers spent about 45 minutes getting them out of the tank after a rescue attempt by BGE workers failed.Gilberto Saul and Mark Boucher of M P Industrial Coating in Sparrows Point were contracted to sandblast and paint the inside of the tank at the power plant in the 8000 block of Fort Smallwood Road.

Words are revered - literally - in Bee Season, a drama in which a couple's marriage unravels as their daughter advances in a national spelling bee. While such reverence for language is refreshing, and leads to some beautiful imagery (including an opening lifted straight out of Fellini's La Dolce Vita), the film ultimately is a letdown, leaving too many questions unanswered and ending in a gesture that doesn't really solve anything. But most problematic is the film's reliance on Kabbalah, a mystical offshoot of Judaism in which words are vested with a spiritual resonance.

On May 21, 2004, EDWARD BASHOFF; loving husband the late Lottie Bashoff (nee Spector); beloved father of Saul Bashoff of Owings Mills, MD; devoted brother of Dorothy Leon of Baltimore, MD and the late Blanche and Louis Bashoff, Mary Levy, Mamie Mc Grane, Joseph Bashoff and Bessie Marks; loving grandfather of Genna Faye and Sheryl Rose Bashoff. Services and interment at Hebrew Friendship Cemetery, 3600 E. Baltimore St. on Sunday, May 23, at 9:30 AM. Please omit flowers. Arrangements by SOL LEVINSON & BROS, INC.22

"Karoo," by Steve Tesich. Harcourt Brace. 432 pages. $24.The title character of Steve Tesich's farewell novel "Karoo" is afflicted with what he calls drunk disease. But to rework an old gag, getting drunk is not Saul Karoo's problem. Not getting drunk is.For most of his life, Karoo has used alcohol, cigarettes, adulterous affairs and general irresponsibility to define himself. "That crazy Karoo." Like others in his profession, Saul Karoo has been nicknamed Doc, but he's no healer, he's a hack, a rewriter of movie scripts that producers have bought but don't like.

Could you really kill someone by hacking his pacemaker? An alarmed researcher in Australia thinks so, and really, isn't that enough cause to dial down your "Homeland" disbelief index? It should be, because -- despite a few head-scratching incongruities -- it would be a shame not to have enjoyed one of the show's most gripping installments yet. In Episode 10 of Season 2, Abu Nazir kidnaps Carrie, Brody abets the apparent murder of Vice President Walden and Saul tips his hand too far in challenging the motivations behind the CIA's strategy on this terror investigation.

The Taneytown City Council last night passed an ordinance that will make it legal to build on lots existing before June 1972 that the town had previously considered too small to develop.Mayor Pro Tem W. Robert Flickinger said the proposal would affect about 22 lots.Under the new law, lots smaller than 7,500 square feet could be developed if the buildings could meet other requirements, such as setbacks from streets.Also last night, Steven D. Saul of the Community Map Co. of Pottsown, Pa., asked the council to distribute a map of the city that his firm would prepare.