Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from June 1999

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from June 1999

'Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945,' by David M. Kennedy; Oxford University ($39.95).
June 30, 1999... ``Freedom from Fear'' is an excellent title for David M. Kennedy's history of the United States in the Great Depression and World War II. The book captures the essence of the era and of Kennedy's framing of it a society striving to...

Rethinking Jesus: The spiritual battle over who he is reignites as another millennium approaches.
June 30, 1999... After 2,000 years, one question still sparks heated debate: Who is Jesus? Is Jesus the embodiment of God and the key to the world's salvation _ or was he merely one of many wise human teachers? These age-old questions are burning...

Supreme Court seems to have forgotten about people.
June 30, 1999... ALEXANDRIA, Va. _ How is it that we take care of each other? How is it that we live into the commandment of loving our neighbor, in order for us to love God? These are hard questions that we face each and every day of our lives, with...

Chalee Tennison sings for other divorced moms.
June 30, 1999... ``I'm normal,'' said Chalee (pronounced sha-LEE) Tennison in a phone call this week from her home outside Nashville. ``A lot of women have been divorced and are raising kids.'' Those women are Tennison's target audience, those who...

This weekend a good time to appreciated freedom of religion.
June 30, 1999... On this Fourth of July weekend, the nation's religious roots are sprouting some fragrant flowers, but there also are some troubling weeds. Let's stroll through the garden: X X X Can members of two religions, with strikingly different...

Piecework is a practice that should be stopped.
June 30, 1999... Silicon Valley's major and minor employers are not Nike Inc., a company that reaped riches for its shareholders partly on the backs of underpaid, badly treated Third World workers. They aren't running the kind of sweatshops here that have so...

Flyby of plutonium-fueled space probe cause for anti-nuclear protests.
June 29, 1999... PASADENA, Calif. _ A space probe powered by 72.3 pounds of plutonium, one of the deadliest substances on Earth, is hurtling back toward our planet and reawakening the vigorous controversy that accompanied its launch two years ago. Bound...

U.S. disarming of Guantanamo minefields complete, sources say.
June 29, 1999... GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba _ U.S. Marines have finished digging up and disarming the American minefields at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The Miami Herald has learned. U.S. authorities, however, are reluctant to announce the...

Lawmakers don't have a clue on dealing with teen violence.
June 25, 1999... Let me see if I've got this straight. Random violence turns schools into shooting galleries. We see in some children a soulless selfishness that terrifies us. There is a crisis. So the House of Representatives, in a vivid display of the...

Investigation reveals how Serb paramilitaries helped army depopulate Kosovo.
June 25, 1999... We commend to your attention the following exclusive report by Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent Paul Salopek, which will appear on Page One of Sunday's Tribune. The full story will move to KRT clients Friday night, embargoed for Sunday...

A successful challenge of Florida's school-voucher program could be costly.
June 23, 1999... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ A successful constitutional challenge of Florida's new ``tuition vouchers'' could jeopardize millions of dollars in state money that already flows to churches for social services and education, and even Medicaid funds that...

`The Best American Short Stories of the Century,' edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison; Houghton Mifflin (768 pages, $28).
June 23, 1999... The plethora of ``best of'' lists making the rounds this year are a fun way to keep track of where we have been in this century, and perhaps to gauge where we're going _ if we don't take them too seriously. ``The Best American Short...

Key dates in Hemingway's life.
June 23, 1999... 1899 _ July 21: Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Ill. 1917 _ Graduates from high school, summers in Michigan. _ October: Begins work as a cub reporter at The Kansas City Star. Lives with uncle at 3705 Walnut St....

Note to Forbes' richest: You don't need it all.
June 23, 1999... ``The man who dies... rich, dies disgraced.'' _ Andrew Carnegie It's not that I have anything against money. Hey, I'd love to have enough of the green stuff to ensure that my heirs and I never want for anything again. It might be fun to...

A look at school prayer in the future.
June 23, 1999... It's 2001. In the aftermath of school shootings and public outrage at the decline in morality in the country, Congress passes and the president signs into law a bill requiring prayer at the start of every school day. The law also states...

Fliers' kin seek to freeze AT&T assets.
June 18, 1999... Lawyers for the families of four men killed by Cuban fighter jets in 1996 served legal papers on AT&T Corp. on Thursday seeking to freeze some $18 million in assets the company owes Cuba. The legal maneuver came one day after a...

Poker fever rages in S.C., report says.
June 18, 1999... WASHINGTON _ The first federal study on gambling in more than 25 years points to South Carolina as a prime example of video gaming gone wrong. The report by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, to be released Friday, outlines...

Health department lifts swimming advisory on most of Grand Strand.
June 18, 1999... MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. _ The state health department lifted Thursday night a swimming advisory for all of Georgetown County and most of Horry County, but Myrtle Beach city officials questioned why it was issued so quickly. The state...

Despair beyond Kosovo: World must aid people displaced by civil wars.
June 18, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Saturday, 6-12: X X X Kosovo's refugees are in the headlines and in our prayers. Colombia's aren't. Neither are Sudan's, Angola's, or Afghanistan's and that must change. ...

Youth to retrace civil rights freedom ride to honor the dead.
June 18, 1999... GREENSBORO, S.C. _ They are the ``freedom riders'' of a different time, most born years after the first buses of civil rights workers roared into the storm to test desegregated interstate facilities in the South. The earlier riders of...

More than a century after he first asked his congregation ``What would Jesus do?'' Charles Sheldon's book on the subject is one of the best-selling novels of all time.
June 17, 1999... Most American probably have never heard of Charles Sheldon. But ask if they've ever heard of ``WWJD'' and... well, who hasn't seen the bracelets, key chains and bumper stickers asking the question: ``What Would Jesus Do?'' That...

Homosexuality a growing concern among Southern Baptists in recent years .
June 16, 1999... ATLANTA _ The minister behind the Southern Baptist boycott of the Walt Disney Co. ended his effort Tuesday to shift the denomination's 2000 convention from Central Florida. ``In all honesty, we've given up on moving the convention from...

Ethnic Albanians celebrate their deliverance.
June 16, 1999... PRISTINA, Yugoslavia _ For the ethnic Albanians of the Bregu I Diellit neighborhood, the agony of war has given way to an ecstatic peace. It is like a fantasy too good to be true. Each day, more and more of the Serb police and military...

Yugoslav military withdrawing from tense Kosovo.
June 16, 1999... PRISTINA, Yugoslavia _ NATO officials said Tuesday that the Yugoslav military would meet a crucial midnight deadline for removing its forces from southern Kosovo, but violence flared in several parts of the province as the NATO deployment...

Clinton, allied leaders must hammer out economic aid details for Kosovo.
June 16, 1999... PARIS _ With the struggle over Kosovo entering a precarious new phase, President Clinton and key allied leaders will have little time to cheer their victory over Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic when they gather in Germany for their...

U.S. envoy to explain how China's embassy in Belgrade came to be bombed.
June 16, 1999... BEIJING _ On a mission that could materially affect America's battered relationship with China, a U.S. envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to explain how China's embassy in Belgrade came to be bombed during the NATO air campaign against...

House to entertain three possibilities for restricting gun sales.
June 16, 1999... WASHINGTON _ House Republican leaders are structuring this week's congressional debate on a controversial gun control bill so legislators have three options for curbing gun-show sales to felons, deranged persons and underage buyers. One...

Kosovars come out of hiding, describe massacre of 140 at Studime.
June 16, 1999... STUDIME, Yugoslavia _ Besim Grxhalin said he lay flat in the bed of a truck in this village, with children lying on top of him, while the Serbs killed his people. When the shooting stopped, he said, he leaped from the truck and ran away in...

Yugoslav troops leave Pristina to meet deadline.
June 16, 1999... PRISTINA, Yugoslavia _ Thousands of Yugoslav troops and police pulled out of the central Pristina area of Kosovo on Tuesday to meet a midnight NATO deadline for withdrawal, as ethnic Albanians reported at least a half-dozen mass killings...

Family found dead in Kosovo pool hall.
June 16, 1999... DJAKOVICA, Yugoslavia _ The tiny pool hall is unremarkable, a family business like any other in this once-bustling city in western Kosovo. That is, its windows are shattered. The chairs and tables are toppled and smashed. And the ceiling is...

Parks awarded Congressional Gold Medal.
June 16, 1999... WASHINGTON _ Rosa Parks, the department store seamstress who in a moment of quiet defiance inspired the civil rights movement, was honored on Tuesday with a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award granted by Congress. Parks...

Kosovo village a stark example of terror against ethnic Albanians.
June 16, 1999... RIBARI VOGAL, Yugoslavia _ Safeta Grcaliu turned when she heard the shots. The 17-year-old ethnic Albanian was fleeing toward the hills with her sisters, told that Yugoslav soldiers who had stormed into their Kosovo village at dawn would...

Teacher files grievance, charges principal too lenient with troublesome pupils.
June 16, 1999... MIAMI _ Fidelma Leonor Cobas was dumbfounded when she returned to class and found three of the four students who had spiked her water with a poisonous flower waiting for the day's lesson to begin. The other student isn't in her class. ...

An anguished parent waits to exhale.
June 16, 1999... So you are paying a few bills and folding some laundry and everything is fine, until you go downstairs and look at the clock and suddenly nothing is fine. Your 8-year-old daughter is missing. Not missing, just late, you tell...

Teens learn they can't hide from world's problems.
June 16, 1999... FORT MILL, S.C. _ The teens can run, but many learn in the end that they can't hide. More than 9,000 young people came to the Christian pop music concert at Paramount's Carowinds on a recent weekend not just to sing and cheer, but to...

`Big Brother': Still a menace at 50.
June 16, 1999... Fifty years ago this week George Orwell's ``1984'' was published, a book that lent its title, as well as many phrases, to everyday parlance. There must be myriad folks who never cracked the cover of ``1984'' yet who have exclaimed,...

Industry observers say that businesses have not tapped into older population.
June 16, 1999... When it comes to credentials in the computer industry, Robert Rossheim's are tough to beat. A programmer for 53 years, Rossheim, 73, has worked with everything from vacuum tubes to the Pentium III. He helped program some of the world's...

Yahoo's surfing team sets course for content.
June 16, 1999... Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo Inc.'s Internet directory chief, is trying to explain what her team of Web surfers does. Raising her voice above the muted roar of several dozen diners packed into the Palo Alto restaurant, she points her fork at a...

Breasts: Society is obsessed with them, and women are objectified by them.
June 16, 1999... American women lift and separate, cross their hearts and wonder how they can make themselves more shapely. They spend millions of dollars a year on booster bras, minimizing bras, creams, prostheses and surgery to shape, smooth, augment,...

`Is America Breaking Apart?' by John A. Hall and Charles Lindholm; Princeton University Press (162 pages, $19.95).
June 16, 1999... The agonies of the former Yugoslavia make one wonder whether we might someday face the tragedy of the former United States of America. Spanish-speaking South Florida, following intense e-mail strategy sessions, forms a breakaway state...

`Juneteenth,' by Ralph Ellison; Random House (348 pages, $25).
June 16, 1999... This book's burden is the author's name: Ralph Ellison. Forty-seven years after his first phenomenal novel, ``Invisible Man,'' readers want and expect so much. ``Invisible Man'' remains a must-read book for anyone interested in high-quality...

Squatters' rights for Russia in Kosovo stalemate: They gain a bargaining chip _ and distraction from atrocities.
June 16, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, 6-16: X X X Think of Russia's surprise seizure of the airport in Pristina, Kosovo, as a continuation of negotiations by other means. Unorthodox? Yes. Risky? No...

Programs focus on the best in kids in order to fight bad influences.
June 16, 1999... DALLAS _ Steven and Heather are spending the summer filling in some of the emotional holes in their lives. Steven, 17, was arrested a few months ago for burglarizing a home. Heather, 14, was arrested a few weeks ago for calling in a fake bomb...

Fallout over Muslim headware, citizenship questions reaches from Texas to Turkey.
June 16, 1999... DALLAS _ The thread that holds together the contradictions of Merve Kavakci's life runs through a silk scarf. The scarf, known as a hijab, is a traditional head covering for Muslim women. Her devotion to wearing it led Kavakci, daughter...

Merger worries advocates of disabled.
June 15, 1999... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Over the past few years, a Louisville, Ky., corporation has been buying companies throughout the Carolinas _ and across the country _ that help people with special needs such as mental retardation. ResCare Inc., founded...

USGA might make Pinehurst No. 2 even tougher.
June 15, 1999... PINEHURST, N.C. _ My ears deceive me. My eyes betray me. What I hear and what I see must be lies. No. I am assured that the reports are true. Golfers are accusing the United States Golf Association of going soft. These barbs come...

Once-plentiful water supplies draining away.
June 15, 1999... Aquifers are shrinking in Eastern North Carolina. Cabarrus County spent $25 million on a new reservoir but declared a water shortage last fall. Treated sewage will water the greens at Hilton Head, S.C., golf courses. And pleas...

Bond strong between Goff sisters.
June 15, 1999... BILOXI, Miss. _ Misty and Kristy Goff look alike, sound alike, laugh alike and move their hands and heads the same way when they talk. They have the same friends, belong to the same organizations, work in the same place and wear the...

Teens will be carded at movie theaters; effectiveness will depend on enforcement.
June 15, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Saturday, 6-12: X X X Call it the chicken-soup theory of policy making: It can't hurt, might help. The First Daddy's instincts are on target _ President Clinton says that...

Great expectations for George W. Bush: Front-running Texas governor must earn success, not expect it.
June 15, 1999... The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Tuesday, 6-15: X X X For months the shadow of Texas Gov. George W. Bush has loomed large over the dozen or so of his fellow Republicans scrambling to be regarded as serious...

If you're job-hunting, you can't afford to ignore the Internet.
June 15, 1999... If you're looking for a job these days, you can't afford to ignore the Internet. With an estimated 24,000 recruiters advertising, who wouldn't look there? But whether an electronic job search will land you the position you want is...

Retirement: Plan a good life, not just the needed financing.
June 15, 1999... Forget all those life-planning, motivational, goal-setting seminars. What most of us are after can be summed up in three sentences from a new play by John Glore. The lines are delivered by a butler in response to an irritated young woman...

A lesson in sensitivity: Gay schoolchildren take verbal abuse daily. Teachers and administrators can learn what to do about it.
June 15, 1999... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ ``I hear it every day, every hour. Multiple times in an hour... `You queer!''' Peter, a gay Coral Springs High School junior, isn't exaggerating. Gay bashing freely occurs on school campuses everywhere, according...

Ideas for making schools safe.
June 15, 1999... The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network offers these ideas on making schools safe for students: _Hold public hearings to assess the needs, concerns and life experiences of gay youth, their families and school staff. _Schools...

Advice to schools on how to stop the name-calling.
June 15, 1999... In April, after the Littleton, Colo., high school massacre, USA Today reported that school tension began at Columbine High more than a year ago ``as seemingly harmless name-calling.'' Then, this quote from a Columbine track athlete about...

'Hurricanes' second in series of Disaster Preparedness paginated pages.
June 15, 1999... Hurricane season runs from June through November, and some forecasters predict this could be the worst summer in years. William Gray, one of the nation's leading hurricane forecasters, has said he believes a new 20-year cycle of fierce storms...

Reviews of Geri Halliwell's `Schizophonic,' `Tarzan' soundtrack and more.
June 15, 1999... GERI HALLIWELL ``Schizophonic'' (Capitol) It's been a year since Gerigate. Do you remember where you were when news first hit that Geri ``Ginger Spice'' Halliwell had bailed out of the Spice Girls? In the interim, the planet has...

Immigration, not racism, behind trend of segregation in public schools today.
June 15, 1999... MIAMI _ Students nationally still attend segregated public schools, and poor ethnic minority children are becoming more isolated in schools with fewer resources than their white peers enjoy, according to a Harvard University study. The...

Witness: `We don't teach black children'.
June 15, 1999... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ A Charlotte-Mecklenburg associate superintendent said in federal court that she found black students trailing behind whites on state exams and few black students enrolled in advanced high school courses when she arrived in...

MANY KOSOVO REFUGEES EAGERLY RETURN DESPITE WARNINGS THAT IT'S NOT SAFE.
June 15, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Tuesday, June 15, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com ...

MANY KOSOVO REFUGEES EAGERLY RETURN DESPITE WARNINGS THAT IT'S NOT SAFE.
June 15, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Tuesday, June 15, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com KRT Photo...

Tex Cobb, lawyer floor Sports Illustrated with suit.
June 15, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ If you're looking for the ultimate Odd Couple, forget Oscar Madison and Felix Unger. An even more seemingly mismatched pair is Randall ``Tex'' Cobb, the big, scruffy former heavyweight contender and sometime movie actor, and...

MANY KOSOVO REFUGEES EAGERLY RETURN DESPITE WARNINGS IT'S NOT SAFE.
June 15, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Tuesday, June 15, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com ...

Drug companies' leftovers not always good for donation recipients.
June 15, 1999... A relief convoy arrived in Tirana, Albania, last month bearing tons of antacids, antibiotics and multivitamins, all donated by American drug companies. But the shipment, destined for Kosovar refugees encamped on the Yugoslav border, also...

MANY KOSOVO REFUGEES EAGERLY RETURN DESPITE WARNINGS IT'S NOT SAFE.
June 15, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Tuesday, June 15, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com ...

Gar Heard to get Wizards job.
June 15, 1999... SAN ANTONIO, Texas _ Gar Heard, a veteran NBA assistant coach and former player, will become the next head coach of the Washington Wizards, agreeing to a three-year deal worth approximately $1.2 million per season, according to league...

Born to run _ Hearn had early need for speed.
June 15, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ Talk about being born to race . . . Richie Hearn's mother was still racing Corvettes in California when she was pregnant with the future FedEx CART series driver. ``My mom [Christy Jeffries] raced in the ladies division...

Trouble brewing: Duval nearly burned out of Open.
June 15, 1999... PINEHURST, N.C. _ David Duval enjoys skiing and snowboarding, hazardous hobbies that aren't recommended for someone who has earned more than $9 million in the past five years for his ability to hit a golf ball. Making coffee, though... ..

Gar Heard to be named Wizards coach.
June 15, 1999... SAN ANTONIO _ Gar Heard, a veteran NBA assistant coach and former player, will become the next head coach of the Washington Wizards, agreeing to a three-year deal worth approximately $1.2 million per season, according to league sources. ...

Phil Jackson's agent confirms Lakers deal is imminent.
June 15, 1999... The deal is all but done. Phil Jackson's agent, Todd Musburger, confirmed Monday that an agreement that will make Jackson the Lakers' next coach is imminent. ``Could something derail us? Anything's possible,'' Musburger said. ``Do I...

Federal to permit mutual fund investing for community reinvestment projects.
June 15, 1999... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ A Fort Lauderdale group has received permission from federal regulators to seek investment in a mutual fund for community reinvestment projects. If the group is successful, proponents of affordable housing and...

NBA commissioner David Stern could have solution to NCAA's going-pro-early issue.
June 15, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ Make the basketball players ineligible as freshmen again and all will be well. The idea is so tantalizingly simple, an evocative black-and-white snapshot in a chaotically multicolored world. The word is out now than an NCAA...

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich pulls strings without yanking them this season.
June 15, 1999... SAN ANTONIO _ By now, everybody knows Jeff Van Gundy. He's the rumpled, balding ``lifer'' coach of the New York Knicks, the guy who stubbornly refused playing time to Marcus Camby, who decided Latrell Sprewell was best suited as a sixth man....

Hornets say they will keep Derrick Coleman, thank you.
June 15, 1999... SAN ANTONIO _ Larry Brown, the 76ers coach, wouldn't mind having Derrick Coleman back. With Coleman and Anthony Mason, the Charlotte Hornets would seem to be overstocked at power forward. Does any of this add up? Feelings within the...

GAME 4 IN BUFFALO.
June 15, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Sports Budget for Tuesday, June 15, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com Sports desk supervisor: Sports Editor Tom Peterson, 202-383-6088, tpeterson(AT)krtinfo.com KRT...

Cynthia Cooper the best player on best team in WNBA.
June 15, 1999... ORLANDO _ Cynthia Cooper always believed that women's professional basketball was coming to the United States. She just wasn't sure whether it would come in time. Cooper, 36, spent 11 years playing professionally in Europe before the...

New Boxing Hall of Fame member Bob Arum says sports needs a private commission.
June 15, 1999... PHILADELPHIA _ Bob Arum had only five minutes at the International Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremony Sunday in Canastota, N.Y., to explain how he thinks boxing can retake its place among the world's major sports. So the thousand or...

Keith Jackson to return to ABC Sports to call a limited number of college football games this fall.
June 15, 1999... CHICAGO _ Whoa, Nellie on that retirement. Keith Jackson isn't quitting after all. In what might be the shortest retirement in history, ABC announced Tuesday that Jackson will be back in the booth next fall. He will do 12 or 13 Pac-10...

SERBS WITHDRAW AS DEADLINE NEARS; ALBANIANS REPORT MORE MASS KILLINGS.
June 15, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Add to News Budget for Tuesday, June 15, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Nation & World Editor Sharon Buck, 202-383-6087, sbuck(AT)krtinfo.com ...

Displaced people who don't cross border harder to help.
June 14, 1999... TURBO, Colombia _ When nations such as Yugoslavia expel citizens, creating sudden masses of refugees, it captures headlines around the world. But a number of dramatic movements of people _ like those in Colombia _ have been lightly...

Black swimmer Sabir Muhammad a trailblazer in the water.
June 14, 1999... CHARLOTTE _ One of the odder facts about the U.S. Olympic team is this: It has never included an African American swimmer. Sabir Muhammad believes he can change that. Muhammad, 23, is a 6-foot-7, 205-pound swimmer with a degree in...

AFI list raises question: What makes a screen legend?
June 14, 1999... What makes a movie star? Or a screen legend? Tuesday night, the American Film Institute claims it's going to tell us. In a special three-hour CBS special, the Los Angeles-based AFI, the nation's best-known film education center, will pay...

FINALS OPEN WEDNESDAY IN SAN ANTONIO.
June 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Sports Budget for Monday, June 14, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com Sports desk supervisor: Sports Editor Tom Peterson, 202-383-6088, tpeterson(AT)krtinfo.com KRT Photo...

NATO TROOPS FIND 3 MASS GRAVES NEAR KOSOVO VILLAGE.
June 14, 1999... Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service News Budget for Monday, June 14, 1999 KRT News Desk: 202-383-6080, news(AT)krtinfo.com News desk supervisor: Managing Editor Fred Povey, 202-383-6089, fpovey(AT)krtinfo.com KRT Photo...