washingtonpost.com - AlabamaAlabamaFilibuster Fray Lifts Profile of Minister- May 8, 2005 In his home town of Pearland, Tex., Baptist minister Rick Scarborough was tireless in promoting his conservative Christian way of thinking.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45667-2005May8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/a... Want Kids to Read 'Get Them Laughing'- May 8, 2005 In the early 1970s, Christopher Paul Curtis graduated from high school and decided there was no reason to go to college if he could work in a car factory and make enough to buy himself a cassette player with five-foot-high speakers and a pale lemon Camaro with a houndstooth interior.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17437-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Factory Orders Up in March- May 8, 2005 U.S. factory orders rose 0.1 percent in March, to $378.2 billion, the Commerce Department said. Orders fell 0.5 percent in February, the department said. It previously reported an increase in February. Orders for capital goods excluding aircraft fell 4 percent in March after falling 2.1 percent in February. Those bookings so far this year are still 10.4 percent higher than they were in January to March 2004.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35445-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/a... Md. Panel Hesitant on Video Game Limits- May 8, 2005 Proponents of sale restrictions, similar to a measure proposed in the District, argue that explicit games have incited a wave of violence across the country.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18432-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/a... Hoyer Reviewing His Travel Records- May 8, 2005 House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) is reviewing privately financed trips he made after Republicans suggested that he might have violated House rules by not reporting the travel within 30 days.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18657-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Jet in N.J. Crash Was Too Heavy, NTSB Says- May 8, 2005 A business jet that ran off the runway and crashed into a warehouse near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey last month was too heavy to take off, according to a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61683-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... US Airways Cuts May Have Cleared Way For a Merger- May 8, 2005 America West Holdings Corp. began its talks with US Airways Group Inc. about a possible merger more than a year ago but was reluctant to move forward aggressively until US Airways reduced its labor costs significantly, a former US Airways executive said yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7462-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/a... At 'Regina,' a Vanishing Audience- May 8, 2005 After about 40 anesthetizing minutes of "Regina," the woman seated behind me in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall offered up her worried review.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28631-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Music Producers to Honor Rosa Parks- May 8, 2005 Attorneys for civil rights icon and a group of music producers settled a dispute over the use of her name by the hip-hop group OutKast.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54589-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... GOP Constituents Caught In Battle Over Subsidies- May 8, 2005 A Bush administration proposal that would cut billions in subsidies to big cotton growers has set off a battle in Republican congressional ranks that pits budget cutters and against traditional agricultural interests.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15353-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/a... |