Schlesinger

Demolition begins today on the remaining units at the empty Riverdale apartment complex in Essex, once a high-crime area and a nagging eyesore.County Executive C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger will be joined by U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes and other officials as workers begin clearing the site in the 1800 block of Eastern Blvd."

A YEAR after his publicized dispute with government archivists and the children of John F. Kennedy, Rob White has found a new and possibly permanent home for what is believed to be the largest private collection of Kennedy memorabilia in the world -- the Florida International Museum in St. Petersburg.(The what? Yeah, there is such a thing.)White, a Catonsville resident at the time, made national news last year when he offered items from his collection for auction in New York. The Kennedy children threatened legal action to stop the sale and were able to save several personal items from the auction block and have them installed in the Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.

Former workers at the Riverdale Village apartments in Baltimore County have described to federal investigators a pattern of bid-rigging and kickbacks totaling at least $500,000 at the now-condemned complex, according to search warrant affidavits.Repair prices were routinely inflated, according to one handyman, who said he kicked back nearly $50,000 annually in deals with companies linked to Riverdale's landlord. Another worker said she was instructed to have windows and other equipment sent from the complex to other properties controlled by the landlord.

Federal authorities are combing through thousands of records seized as part of an investigation of the condemned Riverdale Village Apartments in eastern Baltimore County and the property's landlord, Florida real estate mogul Richard M. Schlesinger.Stephen M. Schenning, first assistant U.S. attorney for Maryland, said agents from the FBI and U.S. Postal Service seized the paperwork Wednesday from two locations on Orville Road in Essex and the boarded-up rental office at Riverdale in the 1800 and 1900 blocks of Eastern Blvd.

GRILLING A whole fish is one of life's big challenges. At least for me.So many things can go wrong, most resulting in fish fragments falling in the fire. Yet when you are successful, the fish has amazing flavor, and you have a pleasing sense of accomplishment. And so you keep at it.Along the way many carcasses may fall, but eventually that golden moment of graduation arrives when you feel confident that a whole fish can be entrusted to your care -- that you can send this sizzling morsel to the dinner table not only tasting like a fish but also looking like one.I was heartened recently when Chris Schlesinger told me that he, too, had made many involuntary offerings to the grill fires.

After months of wrangling over the run-down Riverdale Village apartments, the absentee landlord agreed yesterday to allow Baltimore County officials to speed condemnation and the relocation of dozens of remaining residents.The agreement in court came as tomorrow's deadline neared on Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.'s plan to shut off utilities to the sprawling Essex complex, which once had more than 1,100 apartments. Now, 75 apartments are occupied, awaiting the last wave of an intense relocation campaign.

The tenants of Florida real estate mogul Richard M. Schlesinger's now-vacant Riverdale apartment complex in Essex may be long gone, but his commercial renters in the tiny shopping center next door are still struggling with him.A recent effort to clean the parking lot and cut overgrown trees and weeds around the Mars supermarket there had help from the store's workers, Baltimore County and a private trash hauler -- but not from Schlesinger, the landlord."

With the residents gone from the dilapidated Riverdale apartments in Essex, county officials will begin today the daunting job of transforming the complex into a new residential community.Today, Ruppersberger administration officials are to speak by phone with representatives of Capital Asset Research Corp., the Florida company that paid Riverdale's $211,000 tax bill last month in a bid to take over the condemned property.Tomorrow, public works crews will begin cleaning trash and debris left Wednesday, when the last of Riverdale's residents moved out after gas, electric and water service were turned off. They also will secure the 16 buildings against vandals and squatters.

Gerry F. Case Jr., 19, Loyola College studentA Mass of Christian burial for Gerry F. Case Jr. will be offered at 11 a.m. today at St. Andrew by the Bay Roman Catholic Church, 701 College Parkway, Annapolis.The Loyola College of Maryland freshman and former Broadneck High School lacrosse star died Saturday of meningococcemia at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. He was 19.He is survived by his parents, Gerard F. Case Sr. and Effie A. Case of Arnold; a brother, Joseph G. Case of Arnold; his paternal grandmother, Thelma A. Case of Baltimore; an uncle, Charles Case of Baltimore; an aunt, Sister Angela Francis, S.S.J.

Baltimore County dropped yesterday $1 million in housing code fines levied against the owner of the condemned Riverdale Apartments in Essex, saying the county did not give the owner formal notice to fix the problems before issuing the violations.But the county is pressing ahead with $510,600 in fines pending against Florida real estate mogul Richard M. Schlesinger, whose corporation owns half the 1,140-unit complex in the 1900 block of Eastern Boulevard.The county's decision to drop the fines was made public in a legal brief by Douglas N. Silber, assistant county attorney, submitted at a hearing of the county Board of Appeals yesterday.

I wonder what the late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. would have made of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's recent pandering to Lone Star secessionists. I'd love to hear what he'd say about Sarah Palin's flirtation with the Alaskan Independence Party and its disdain for the rest of the United States. Way back in 1991, Mr. Schlesinger wrote a bestselling book, The Disuniting of America, in which he argued that multiculturalism was threatening the integrity of the nation. "The cult of ethnicity," he wrote, culminated in an "attack" on a commonly shared American identity.

On April 24, 2009, Steven Schlesinger Interment will be held in Israel, please omit flowers. In mourning at 2415 Sugarcone Road (Greengate). Baltimore, MD 21209 (Sunday and Monday at 7pm).

In a pale yellow room in the Schlesinger home in Arnold, sunlight pours in through two long windows. Avery, 3, is running her neon-colored toy around the edge of the coffee table, making engine noises. Her pink-framed glasses are slipping down her nose, her short brown hair a mess of tangles. She seems unaware that everyone in the room is talking about her. Her father is sitting in an armchair, her mother sinking into an overstuffed couch next to a 23-year-old woman from Germany she met two days ago. In another room, Avery's brother and sister are watching a cartoon, and its sounds flitter in and out of the conversation.

On November 9, 2008, EMILY SCHLESINGER (nee Kemp), age 93, mother of Emily Hamilton, Kemp Schlesinger, Fran Johnson and Martin Schlesinger. Also survived by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at Broadmead, 13801 York Road, Cockeysville at 10:30 a.m. November 22.

The American historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who died on Wednesday night, was the kind of public figure who is far more familiar in France and the United States than in Britain. He was a public intellectual, a class of person who came to prominence in the Enlightenment (to which both France and the U.S. owe so much), but who still remain relatively rare in this country, notwithstanding Stefan Collini's substantial recent argument to the contrary. Mr. Schlesinger not only contributed massively to his own field of study - presidential power - he also felt it natural and proper to play a fully engaged part with his own times.

For Americans of a certain age, the death last week of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. marked the passing of the last eloquent articulator of America's 20th-century liberal dream, following the departure last May of his good friend John Kenneth Galbraith, a like-minded economist. A distinguished scholar, Schlesinger painted vast portions of the nation's history with vivid award-winning portraits of populist leaders from Andrew Jackson to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Robert F. Kennedy. In a post-World War II era when Americans were suspicious of liberals with Communist leanings, Schlesinger articulated a muscular anti-Communist version of liberalism as a founder of Americans for Democratic Action.

Facing Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's independent candidacy, Republican officials at the state and national level have made the extraordinary decision to abandon their official candidate, and some are actively working to help Lieberman win in November. Despite Lieberman's position that he would continue to caucus with Democrats if re-elected, all three Republican congressional candidates in Connecticut have praised Lieberman and have not endorsed the party's nominee, Alan Schlesinger. An independent group with Republican ties is raising money for Lieberman, who has been a strong supporter of President Bush on the Iraq war. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, although he has said he would support the Republican nominee, is not planning to campaign for him and allowed two of his aides to consult with the Lieberman camp before the Aug. 8 Democratic primary.

On December 7, 2004 MARJORIETRUMBOWER of Eldersburg MD; devoted wife of the late William H. Trumbower; loving mother of Gwendolyn East and her husband Dennis, Sandra Lee Trumbower, Beth Jespersen and her husband Nils; cherished grandmother of Faith East, Sara Schlesinger, Kirsti Jespersen, Amber Schlesinger and the late Eirik Jespersen. Friends are invited to call Loring Byers Funeral Home Inc., 8728 Liberty Road, (2 miles west of beltway exit 18), on Thursday, December 9, 2004 at 1 P.M. Graveside Services will be held at 1:30 P.M., at Lake View Memorial Park.

THEY DIDN'T STACK naked Iraqi prisoners in a human pyramid or shove black hoods over detainees' heads or capture this disturbing conduct in photographs. But senior Pentagon officials and military commanders in Washington and Iraq nonetheless bear responsibility for the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners because of their own failures and miscalculations. That's the critical assessment of an independent panel that reviewed the role of top civilian and military officials in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

WASHINGTON - The unexpectedly fierce hostilities that flared in Iraq soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein helped pave the way for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, with U.S. forces ill-equipped and undermanned to handle a growing insurgency and a burgeoning detainee population. That was one of the central themes to emerge from the report issued yesterday by an investigative team of three Army generals on the mistreatment of detainees at the infamous prison outside Baghdad. U.S. forces thought they would be operating in "a relatively non-hostile environment," the report says.