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Dear Mr. Greenspan: As your personal coach I must tell you: You're getting whiny. I know, I know. You're still angry that people blame you for the 1990s bubble and the 2000-2002 stock crash. Get over it. Or at least do a better job of hiding it. We've heard your excuses - what? - three, four times. And they're pretty good excuses. But you're repeating yourself, Mr. Chairman. We know you were focused on inflation, not stock bubbles. We know you don't think bubbles can be identified until after they pop. We know you'd rather mop up post-bubble trouble than try to prevent it and perhaps trigger a premature recession.

As Maryland State Police disbanded an anti-abortion rally along a crowded road near the center of Bel Air, a sergeant told a colleague that the 18 arrested protesters could "sit in a cell for an hour ... and two or three or four and rot. " The same trooper, during another conversation from the Bel Air barracks, said of the group holding signs depicting gruesome images of aborted fetuses, "I am about ready to tell them to get the hell out of...

Residents hoping to save time and money on their appeal of the protracted Waverly Woods zoning case cannot do it by transcribing the testimony themselves, Howard Circuit Court Judge Cornelius F. Sybert Jr. has ruled.Jean Iampieri Quattlebaum, Peter Burdette and Robert Donohue, who are appealing the Waverly case on behalf of a group called Citizens Allied for Rational Expansion, had wanted a person of their choosing to do the transcript.The county contended before Judge Sybert on July 2 that only Zoning Board clerk Robin Regner or her designate can do the transcribing -- an after-hours labor Ms. Regner estimated would cost about $10,000.

I am not sure that the learned Dean Julius Isaacson Professor at the University Baltimore School of Law Steven P. Grossman exercised his dry wit ("GOP presidential field outdoes itself," Dec. 6) with the same voracity when Barack Obama claimed that there were 57 U.S. states during the 2008 presidential campaign. It's on tape too! And how does one "misspeak" with regard to the number of states after being "educated" at Columbia and Harvard universities? Speaking of which, why does the person who promised the most transparent presidency in the history of the republic keep his college transcripts and writings out of public view?

Transcripts of interviews with firefighters and the women with whom they are accused of having on-duty sex indicate the illicit activity was more widespread than Annapolis officials had publicly divulged.City officials said they only charged the public safety officials -- five city firefighters and two city police officers -- where corroborating evidence could be found.But the transcripts released indicate that as many as nine firefighters may have been involved in on-duty sex four or five years ago, and some incidents may have occurred more recently.

Of the 26,177 words spoken during the opening statements of Ruthann Aron's lawyer and the subsequent questioning of two witnesses, "hit man" was used 11 times.Two seconds after the words left attorney Barry Helfand's lips for the first time, they appeared on the screens of five laptop computers in the Montgomery County courtroom. A minute after that, the words were on a piece of paper in Helfand's hands.Real-time transcription in Aron's murder-for-hire trial has captivated lawyers, courtroom staff and the presiding judge, Paul McGuckian, a first-time user.

Punch up: www.highbeam.com Why it clicks: Once a quarter, corporate executives give a public overview of their company's performance and prospects during a conference call with stock analysts. Listening to those calls can be a tedious and time-consuming exercise for even the most dedicated investor. But there is an easier alternative: Read the call transcript instead. The download: Some companies generously post transcripts on their own Web sites, typically within a week or two after the conference call is held.

Opponents of the massive Waverly Woods II development are again crying foul over county zoning procedures -- this time over the $10,000 cost of hearing transcripts needed for two pending court appeals.Residents of the Marriottsville and Woodstock areas near the 682-acre development filed two lawsuits May 3 appealing the March 22 Zoning Board decision that changed rural, one-home-per-three-acres zoning to a mix of commercial and more dense residential zoning.To appeal, they must have 16 hearings transcribed, a job that the Zoning Board's administrative assistant, Robin Regner, estimates will cost $10,000 at $4.50 a page.

Seeking a stronger link between high school and the rest of students' lives, the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education urging businesses to require high school transcripts as part of their hiring processes. "For students, we are sending the message that what you do in school counts that getting by is not good enough and that attendance and punctuality really do count," said June E. Streckfus, the group's executive director. The program, Achievement Counts, was to be announced today at the business roundtable's annual meeting.

As prosecutors were decrying defense lawyers' efforts to bring politics into Nathan A. Chapman's fraud trial this summer, they were working privately to introduce their own evidence of political intrigue involving the Baltimore businessman. According to previously sealed transcripts of the trial's bench conferences released yesterday, the government asked U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. to let them tell jurors about Chapman's connections with Ronald White -- the Philadelphia lawyer who was indicted on corruption charges along with the former Philadelphia city treasurer.

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 1, 2011 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON OSAMA BIN LADEN East Room 11:35 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

Ron Smith complains that the media "won't let" Donald Trump be elected president ("Donald Trump will never be president," April 21), but in fact he is not a serious candidate and deserves no serious coverage unless he acts like one. Not only does he show a poor grasp of the hard questions of policy and pander to racists with his fatuous demands for birth certificates and transcripts, he has no political web site. A search for contact information turns up only the business site, which includes an explicit note that unrelated emails will not be answered or forwarded.

School officials fear that college admissions were compromised for more than a dozen seniors at Baltimore's prestigious Western High School because the school failed to send complete application materials. "Shortly before the spring break, I learned that some college admissions materials required from the school — transcripts, school profiles, and recommendations — were not received by all of the colleges to which our students applied," Principal Alisha Trusty wrote in a letter, posted Friday on the school's website and sent home with students who may have been affected.

Perhaps you saw the report on Drudge about "closet-gate,"  which broke this weekend , in which staffers for Vice President Joe Biden constrained a Florida journalist to closet during a fundraiser at a wealthy developer's house. But what you haven't heard about -- until now -- is the 4-minute phone call that preceded that deprivation of freedom. Through our well-placed sources at the White House, we present to you the entire transcript of that phone call between party host Alan Ginsburg and the vice president.

Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. : It's a consequential race, obviously, because when you elect an executive, executives count. Executives impact lives. They impact business cycles, they impact the ability to create jobs in a particular state. They impact taxpayers. They impact our vision and our future. So that's the reason we have so much interest in this debate, that's why there are all the signs and bumper stickers running around, that's why all the TV commercials are running as well. Governors count.

The first televised interview with Tiger Woods since November aired on Golf Channel tonight at 7:30 ET, during a special, 30-minute edition of Golf Central, and will be replayed by the network throughout the night and in its entirety on www.GolfChannel.com. Kelly Tilghman sat down with Woods today at the world No. 1 golfer's home course, Isleworth Country Club in Windermere, Fla., just outside Orlando. Kelly Tilghman: Tiger, you've been a master of control your entire life, how did things get so out of control?

Mayoral candidate Mary W. Conaway refused yesterday to release her college transcripts to resolve questions over how she attended a Washington seminary full time while working as register of wills.Conaway, 56, received a master of divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, which she attended full time from 1988 to 1991.First elected register of wills in 1982, Conaway said she completed the courses at night and on weekends at the school, which is an hour from her downtown Baltimore office.

Maryland's ninth-graders will begin hearing about the importance of grades and attendance from a new source this fall: successful young business people."

G ood afternoon. I want to thank you all for coming today so I can provide to you and to the citizens of Baltimore an update regarding transition activities currently under way. Before I begin I would like to thank all of the many city officials, staff, citizens, community leaders and elected officials, not just in Baltimore and Maryland, but throughout the country who have expressed to me their sincere desire to support the city of Baltimore and...