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...suspects, Fred Pidge, 23 years old, of Waltham, and Francis B. De Meo, 30 years old, of Brookline, were apprehended April 12 by police in Newport News, Va., as they were allegedly attempting to burglarize a private home. Centrella said that the Virginia charges would probably be dropped "because the charges here are much more serious...
...listen to broadcast radio weekly, and radio remains the top broadcast medium after TV for advertisers who want to reach a mass market. Radio ad sales in Arbitron markets are forecast to rise 5.5% this year, to $14 billion, according to BIA Financial Network, a media consultancy in Chantilly, Va. Yet as more consumers tune to stations like Radioparadise, those numbers could slip. Goldsmith's thoughtful playlists are organized by musical theme, moving from, say, a bluesy Tracy Chapman tune to a Latin-blues Carlos Santana track to a rock-blues number by the Hellecasters. He heeds listener feedback...
...Known World is set in fictional Manchester County, Va., in 1855. Its center post is the life and death of Henry Townsend, a black man, born a slave, who gains his freedom and becomes a slave master himself. How, the book asks, could a black man make another black man his property? Jones circles his subject warily rather than charging straight at it: the novel begins with Henry's death, then loops around to follow him from childhood. We meet Henry's former owner, who became his mentor, and his father, a good, dignified man who is horrified at what...
...counter the ever intensifying climate of terror? Not by military means. The war in Iraq is proof of that." ROBERT R. NEWELL Nellysford, Va...
...real roots of this terrorism? The radical Islamists hate us because we are in their countries, owing to America's increasing need for oil. If the U.S. had a Department of Alternative Energy, we might someday be able to eliminate the Department of Homeland Security. ROBERT R. NEWELL Nellysford, Va...