Tess

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Tess DeanehanBryn Mawrcross countryDeanehan finished as the top freshman and Maryland runner at the Foot Locker Championships in the Bronx, N.Y. She placed 17th overall in a time of 19: 26.

Teresa "Tess" CrockerSchool: Mount De Sales Academy for GirlsHometown: ClarksvilleAge: 17Tess, a senior at Mount De Sales Academy in Catonsville, has a grade-point average of 3.62 in mostly honors and advanced placement courses. Her schedule this year includes advanced placement English, European history and Latin.Tess has been a member of the National Honor Society for two years. She is president of the Student Government. She is vice president of the Drama Club and contributes to Images, the school literary magazine.

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Wendy Wasserstein's "The Sisters Rosensweig" is a play in which everything is recognizable -- on the surface.When the curtain goes up at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, designer John Lee Beatty's chintz-covered drawing room set elicits appreciative applause.The main characters seem familiar, too. There's Sara, a driven, assimilated Jewish-American banker living in London, played by Mariette Hartley with the exacting propriety this compulsive character demands.And there's her sister, Gorgeous, bedecked in label-bearing designer knockoffs.

It's here, the worst new series of the TV season premieres at 9 tonight on WBAL (Channel 11). It's called "Touched by an Angel" and there's absolutely nothing divine about it.Well, OK, some might think Monica Downey ("A Woman Named Jackie") is pretty divine to look at. But CBS has Downey playing such a twinkie role that you wonder if her character, an angel named Monica, is on downers or something."I don't have any vices," Monica says tonight, "except I hate to wear shoes except when absolutely necessary."

She was getting her feet wet in more ways than one."It was pouring during the race, it was windy and it was cold. It wasn't too pleasant," said Rosalind Taylor, who won Sunday's Lady Avia 8K in 29 minutes, 34 seconds.Taylor and 134 other finishers braved adverse conditions to complete the run from the Inner Harbor to Fort McHenry and back.But Taylor also is making a return to running after a winter of injuries."I didn't run indoor track," she said. "I hurt [a] hamstring and then I hurt my back so I was in the pool for about a month."

San Jose, California. -- Dick Tracy's wife is suing for divorce. Yes, after 45 years of marriage (and 18 years of courtship), Tess is sick of the hatchet-nosed detective's long hours, and ready to start a new life.vTC What's next? Will Robin file a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his ''guardian,'' Batman, for sexual abuse, seduction, negligence? (And what about Rex Morgan's sexual orientation? He's been dating his nurse, June Gale, for at least 30 years, without so much as a good-night kiss.

Maryland reserve sophomore outside linebacker Tim Fosque was arrested Wednesday night by campus police for allegedly stealing a computer, campus police said last night.Fosque, from Neptune, N.J., allegedly took the computer Sept. 22 from the Lee Building on campus with the help of a friend.He allegedly paid the friend $200 to help remove the computer from a desk. Fosque was charged with theft over $300 and breaking and entering.The computer in question was discovered at his home in Laurel during the execution of a search-and-seizure warrant, said Sgt. Paul Tess of the campus police.

THE COVENANT OF THE FLAME.David Morrell.Warner.452 pages. $19.95. Environmental magazine writer Tess Drake was too busy for love. It seemed that suddenly, people responsible for destroying the environment themselves were getting destroyed. And while Tess didn't condone the actions, they were demanding her full attention. Then she met Joseph, an enigmatic, gray-eyed stranger who swore he could never be her lover but would always be her friend.When Joseph's burned body is found, Tess decides to find out who he was and why he was killed.

Knockout: An FBI Thriller Catherine Coulter (Putnam, $26.95) Threatened by her maniacal uncle, Blessed, telepathic 7-year-old Autumn Backman seeks the help of famous crime-fighting husband and wife, FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. Along with Sheriff Ethan Merriweather, Savich and Sherlock give chase in order to find the two before Blessed absorbs her into his ever-growing army of corrupted children. A Rogue of My Own Johanna Lindsey (Pocket, $25.99) Lady Rebecca Marshall becomes a maid of honor in Queen Victoria's court, where she is drawn into a web of noblewomen spies.

The Agency By Ally O'Brien St. Martin's Press / 320 pages / $24.95 If you have hitherto regarded literary agents as mousy types, Ally O'Brien will change your view. The Agency is a delicious mash-up of chick-lit and thriller, kind of what The Devil Wears Prada might have been if written by John Le Carre. Chief among these miscreants is our heroine, Tess Drake - smart, ambitious, impulsive and sexy, and possessed of a singularly dirty mouth and snarky attitude. She's also a bit slutty, as she will tell you. Repeatedly.

Want some Ravens autographs? Drive out to Mount Airy, in Carroll County. There you'll find Earl Raven, 57, his wife, Nina, and their two kids. The Raven family moved to Maryland five years ago and fit right in. Visiting the Inner Harbor for the first time, Raven's daughter Tess, 11, pointed to a banner overhead and said, 'Look, Dad, they're welcoming us.' " "Home of the Ravens," it read. R-A-V-E-N During the team's good seasons, like this one, Marie Raven of Laurel has no trouble making dinner reservations.

Unwed motherhood, alcoholism, lack of education, a hypocritical church - the themes that swirl around Tess of the D'Urbervilles just keep going around and around and coming back at us. Perhaps, that is why Masterpiece Theatre - now simply Masterpiece Classic - keeps coming back to Tess. Two versions - one by Roman Polanski in 1980 and a second with Justine Waddell in 1998 - have already wowed the critics. But a new, four-hour version arrives tonight on PBS and concludes next Sunday. This Tess is a star vehicle for the actress playing the title role, and Gemma Artertot is more than fine enough to carry trouble and travail that was a woman's lot in 19th-century England.

On February 3, 2007, RUTH A. RYAN (nee Young) beloved wife of Alfred L. Ryan, Sr; devoted mother of Alfred L. Ryan, Jr, William G, Ryan, Warren P. Ryan and his wife Kala, sister of Alma E. Wall, Dorothy M. Diehl and the late George D. Young, Jr, dear grandmother of Shannon, Shawn, Niki and Tess Ryan, also survived by nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26) on Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Church of the Nativity, 20 E. Ridgely Road, Lutherville, on Wednesday February 7 at 10 A.M. Interment will follow in Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

On February 17, 2006, CARL LOUIS SUHRSTEDT; beloved husband of the late Jean Adair Suhrstedt. He is survived by sons, Tim Suhrstedt and his wife Deborah Scott and Tom Suhrstedt and his wife Sheila; grandchildren, Hana, Leah, Tess and Carl; sisters, Barbara Brown and Madeline Royal. Family will receive friends on Sunday, February 19, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 at STERLING-ASHTON-SCHWAB-WITZKE FUNERAL HOME OF CATONSVILLE, INC., 1630 Edmondson Avenue. Funeral Services will be held Monday, February 20, at Catonsville Presbyterian Church, 1400 Frederick Road, at 10 A.M. Interment will be private.

For Karen Williamson and her daughter, Tess Russell, persuading manufacturers to produce women's shoes in sizes 10, 11, 12 and up was no easy feat. Sizes larger than 9 have long been considered hard to sell. But the Baltimore-based duo knew of what they spoke. Russell wears a size 11. Many of her friends do, too. "There are so many women out there with big feet," Williamson said. "So we went to designers and said, 'If we can order enough, will you make these bigger sizes?' " And that's how Barefoot Tess, an online shoe store for women with big feet, was born.

On December 12, 2004, ETHEL MARIE FLEMING (nee Murphy); beloved wife of the late Winter "Bink" M. Fleming, Jr.; devoted mother of Richard C. D. Fleming and his wife Sarah B. Smith, of St. Louis, MO; loving grandmother of Caitlin Smith Fleming and Tess Smith Brooks Fleming, both of St. Louis, MO; dear sister of the late Terence Joseph, Jr., James Louis, Francis and Boyd Murphy, Helen Herbert, Margaret Herbert, Kathleen Fowler, Nola Cunabaugh and Mary Murphy....

Holiday Hot Nostalgia, the current production at Toby's Dinner Theatre, is the perfect present for anyone who loves American popular music -- a lively tour through five decades of favorite songs. It starts with a nod to the season ("Sleigh Ride, Winter Wonderland"). Then a 1938 number called "Thanks for the Memory" carries the audience back to the big-band era. "Tuxedo Junction" gets a jazzy performance by Felicia Curry. "Sing, Sing, Sing" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"

On November 15, 2004, SHIRLEE LUSKIN MOLOTCH (nee Berger), beloved wife of the late Paul Luskin who was killed during World War II, and the late Nathan Molotch, beloved mother of Fran Mink of Owings Mills, MD, Harvey Luskin Molotch of New York, NY, and Stephen Luskin Miles of Lutherville, MD, devoted sister of Ira Berger, and Stuart Berger, loving grandmother of Jacey Cohen, Shana Molotch, Noah Molotch, Paula Miles-Shockett, Scott Miles, Thuy Langrill-Miles and...