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Before he even attended a college class, Chris Burgess told friends and reporters that he'd probably only stay at Duke for two years. As the most celebrated player of a recruiting class that also included Elton Brand, William Avery and Shane Battier, Burgess figured he would be ready for the NBA after his sophomore season.Only part of his prediction turned out to be true.Burgess, a 6-foot-11, 255-pound center, wound up playing a backup role for most of his two seasons with the Blue Devils.

State Sen. Christopher J. McCabe considers himself something of a minimalist, as politicians go.The 42-year-old Ellicott City Republican says he's not eager to start programs or pass laws, the accomplishments that are traditionally the stuff of politics. He says he'd rather see government do less."What I primarily try to do down in Annapolis is be an advocate for families," says McCabe, a father of three. "Keeping the growth in size of state government in check is important to families because it means there's less pressure to raise taxes."

Despite parent protests, Brooklyn Park Elementary School will have a new principal in September: Donald Leuschner will replace Michael Trippett, who had been at the school for 11 years.Trippett's transfer, as well as dozens of other reassignments, were announced during Wednesday's school board meeting in Annapolis.The promotions, transfers and retirements are part of routine moves to accommodate school staffing needs. Trippett will be principal at Deale Elementary.'Very disappointed'"I guess we are just very disappointed in the process.

An article in yesterday's editions of The Sun incorrectly reported when former White House aide Mary Ellen Glynn learned of the reasons for Monica Lewinsky's transfer from the White House staff to the Pentagon. Glynn did not learn of the details of the transfer until this year.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 1/29/98

The only inmate ever to escape from the state's "Supermax" prison has been transferred to lesser security, after officials said he showed he was complying with the prison's behavior modification program.Harold Benjamin Dean, who is serving a sentence of life plus 105 years for a 1981 robbery and murder and for escape, was transferred Jan. 24 to the Maryland House of Correction Annex in Jessup, a maximum-security prison.Dean, 45, escaped Nov. 30, 1991, from the East Baltimore prison, formally called the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, by squeezing through an 8-inch by 22-inch cell window, then jumping onto the roof.

Loyola lacrosse coach Joe McFadden said that Boys' Latin, his team's No. 1-ranked opponent in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship game tonight at 8 at Johns Hopkins, is being helped by athletes who have transferred "with athletics as a priority," not academics."

The renovation of Broadneck High school is the entree for this Sunday's sports smorgasbrowse.A ruling by the brass on Riva Road has brought Severna Park into the equation. Severna Park may lose quite a few outstanding boy and girl athletes to the Bruins as a result of the latter's new digs.Broadneck is set to reopen in August with a ninth grade for the first time. The Board of Education has announced that ninth-grade students currently attending Severna Park who formerly attended Belvedere Elementary from communities other than Manhattan Beach must transfer to Broadneck this fall.

The use of a transfer player from Wesley (Del.) College will not cause unbeaten Western Maryland College to forfeit its seven football victories, Centennial Conference executive secretary Steve Ulrich said last night.Ulrich said that he and the NCAA are satisfied that neither Green Terror coach Tim Keating nor any representative of the school did anything to encourage the Westminster-area player to transfer to Western Maryland this season.Ulrich said he spoke with the NCAA's director of legislative services, Athena Yiamouyiannis, yesterday and gave her the details of the transfer.

Bobby Sabelhaus, a Parade All-American quarterback for McDonogh School in 1994, is still weighing a decision whether to return to the University of Florida or transfer, and he may not play college football again until 1998."

After an 11th-hour amendment, a bill enacted over the weekend by the General Assembly that bans new mega-bars from Little Italy to Canton also prohibits the transfer of liquor licenses into the neighborhood around the Cross Street Market in South Baltimore.The amendment was added by Del. Brian K. McHale, a Baltimore Democrat, on the House floor Friday. It bars the transfer of licenses into an area bounded by Fort Avenue to the south, Hanover Street to the west, Henrietta Street to the north and Light Street to the east.

Maryland sophomore guard Marah Strickland, a two-time Baltimore Sun Player of the Year out of Towson Catholic, will transfer after the spring semester, her family confirmed yesterday. The 6-foot Strickland, who started 23 games for the Terps and averaged nearly nine points, has not decided which college she will attend next year, her mother said. "Marah has a few schools in mind," Joanna Strickland said. "Really this just happened [recently]. She actually just sat down and expressed an interest in leaving."

Q: My late aunt left me some shares. What must I do to put them in my name? When can I sell them? - M.S., via the Internet A: Almost every state offers transfer-on-death securities registration that lets an individual name someone to inherit his or her stocks, bonds or brokerage accounts without probate. Registration is with the brokerage house while the beneficiary is alive. "If transfer-on-death is not set up ahead of time, it is more complicated," said Molly Balunck, certified financial planner and vice president with Spero-Smith Investment Advisors in Cleveland.

I am the co-executor of an estate of a relative and was left the house in the will. We have been unable to sell the house. I've been paying the mortgage and costs for a couple of years. I recently decided to move into the house. Will the mortgage companies (original and equity lenders) transfer the house into my name and qualify me for a new mortgage based on my credit? Is it possible to avoid closing costs? What is the best way to approach the mortgage companies? What is the best and easiest way to transfer ownership of the house to me?

The good news is that no matter how many ways you dissect it, Gus Gilchrist's transferring out of Maryland before ever playing a game cannot be filed under S, for "Stuff Gary Williams Has Done to Wreck the Program." This can't, shouldn't, reflect on him, even if it piles on one of the more miserable springs he has experienced in College Park. Try to use it to fuel the fire raging in some quarters against Williams, and you'll come up dry. Yeah. That's the good news. Too bad it can't overshadow the bad news.

It seems as though every ticket I buy -- except plane tickets -- can be transferred to someone else. I understand the airline's need to know who is on a plane, but they must have the ability to change the passenger name on a reservation. Why are plane tickets nontransferable? Ask a simple question; get an answer that's so complicated it takes a professor of economics to explain it. On its face, this seemed like a pretty easy question. Surely, this just had to be a government regulation.

. BEIJING --Talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program were halted by China late yesterday after they stalled over the unexplained failure to release from a Macao bank up to $25 million that North Korea had demanded be returned before it continued negotiations. Christopher R. Hill, the assistant secretary of state who is leading the U.S. team at the disarmament talks, confirmed that the transfer of the frozen money had been delayed by technical banking issues and said Chinese officials were working to transfer the money from Banco Delta Asia.

Sacramento, calif. -- Tasty meals. A room with a view. Cable TV. In one of the more unusual marketing campaigns undertaken by state government, California prison officials are asking inmates to bid adieu to their cellmates and transfer to lockups elsewhere in the country. As part of the recruitment drive, wardens are screening a film extolling the virtues of out-of-state prisons - and reminding convicts of the violent, overcrowded, racially charged conditions they face in California. "You get 79 channels here - ESPN!"

Deadly trend continues in city Baltimore remained one of the deadliest cities in America last year, with 275 homicides recorded in 2006, up slightly compared with the number of killings in 2005. Miller backs tougher emissions Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller threw his support behind legislation to require tougher emissions standards for new cars sold in the state. Meanwhile, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler pledged at his swearing-in ceremony to do battle with those who spoil the environment, signaling a more aggressive approach for the agency.

Dozens of parents at Mount Washington Elementary bombarded Baltimore school system officials with phone calls yesterday, protesting the impending transfer of the teaching assistant in a prekindergarten class. At the Northwood Appold Community Academy charter school, about 75 people rallied last night to demand that five teaching assistants who received transfer notices be allowed to stay. "We've got everything we want in place here," said Chris Forrest, a father of two Northwood Appold students.

We were strangers, two women lying in hospital gowns in adjacent beds with only a curtain to separate us. Two strangers awaiting the most intimate exchange. The fertility clinic offered each of us the chance to have a child. A decade of floundering in a barren sea buffeted by false hopes and bitter disappointments had brought me there. At 46, after three previous attempts at getting pregnant with the best science had to offer on two continents, it was likely to be my last chance to have a baby on my own. I was anxious, distracted and permanently on hold.