The Wire: November 7, 2006

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  Lottery
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  Sheeran will lead U.N. food program

  NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan today will nominate Josette Sheeran, a senior State Department official and former managing editor of The Washington Times, to be executive director of the World Food Program, U.N. officials said.
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  Deadline may end false-arrest lawsuit

  Andre Wallace faces the distinct possibility that the legal system that wrongly kept him in jail for a third of his life will now tell him that he waited too long to seek compensation.
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  Allen, Webb cite fate of Senate

  For up-to-the-minute results, news, and analysis, make WashingtonTimes.com your home for election night.
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  Surveys, estimates put Ortega in lead

  MANAGUA, Nicaragua — After 16 years and three failed re-election bids, former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega appears poised to return to power amid jubilation from some and cries of foul play from opponents of the Sandinista leader both here and in Washington.
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  World Scene

  GENEVA — The International Committee of the Red Cross yesterday called for an immediate halt to the use of cluster bombs in conflicts around the world and for countries to destroy their stockpiles.
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  Metro Briefs

  A fire Sunday night in Adams Morgan that left three persons injured was caused by arson, police and fire investigators said.
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  Gore backs Cardin; pastors endorse Steele

  For up-to-the-minute results, news, and analysis, make WashingtonTimes.com your home for election night.
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  FTC not sweet on junk-food ads targeting children

  Marketing strategies that feature SpongeBob SquarePants or use the latest adventure game for PlayStation to sell junk food to children will face increased scrutiny from the federal government next year.
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  Daybook

  Votes at the Crawford Fire Station, Crawford, Texas. Returns to Washington.
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  Inside the Beltway

  Talk about an “A-list” headlining the American Spectator’s Robert L. Bartley dinner (and dancing) Nov. 15 at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, although the evening’s master of ceremonies will no doubt be a bit uncomfortable when introducing the keynote speaker.
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  Inside Politics

  “We are told by careful pollsters that half of the American people believe that American troops should be brought home from Iraq immediately. This news discourages supporters of our efforts there. Not me, though: I am relieved. Given press coverage of our efforts in Iraq, I am surprised that 90 percent of the public do not want us out right now,” James Q. Wilson writes in City Journal.
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  Around the Nation

  SCOTTSDALE — A trailer containing thousands of wedding gowns worth an estimated $3 million was stolen from a charity that grants the dying wishes of women with breast cancer.
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  Bush ends 10-state blitz to keep a GOP Congress

  For up-to-the-minute results, news, and analysis, make WashingtonTimes.com your home for election night.
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  N. Korea preliminary talks eyed

  TOKYO - Japan and the United States hope to convene North Korea’s five interlocutors in the six-party talks for preliminary discussions during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this month in Vietnam, Japan’s foreign minister said yesterday.
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  Polls give GOP election eve lift

  For up-to-the-minute results, news, and analysis, make WashingtonTimes.com your home for election night.
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  'The people rule,' for a day, anyway

  And now to the hour when conservatives will either scare the Republicans straight, or send them all to bed with neither a smile nor supper.
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  Wizards report

  The game with Orlando had special meaning for new Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson.
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  Packers fearsome in 1930s

  It isn’t often the 1930s Green Bay Packers come up in conversation. There’s little nostalgia, after all, for that period in pro football history, that era of dropkicks and scoreless ties. But let’s spend a couple of minutes with Curly Lambeau and Co. this morning, if only because the Indianapolis Colts have wakened their ghosts.
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  For defense, a question of safety

  As the Washington Redskins celebrated their wild, last-second victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, Adam Archuleta sat in front of his locker, a lonely figure with bowed head
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  Victory doesn't change anything

  After the Washington Redskins evened their record at 2-2 with a dramatic overtime victory against the Jacksonville Jaguars last month, feelings of exhilaration, relief and optimism filled Redskin Park the next day.
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  Finding no Magic formula

  ORLANDO, Fla. — The mastery continued, this time because of a backup guard.
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  Georgetown nabs No. 8 AP ranking

  Georgetown cracked the top 10 in the Associated Press’ men’s basketball preseason poll yesterday for the first time in more than a decade.
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  Ending the slide

  Will Bowers looked up from his seat last month to contemplate what really is the most significant question facing the Maryland men’s basketball program. It isn’t who will play point guard or who will provide offense inside. At least with those concerns, the Terrapins easily can identify potential solutions.
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  Caps' big rally overhauls Senators

  Toward the end of the first period last night, with Ottawa enjoying what should have been an insurmountable lead over Washington, the Senators started making fun of the Capitals, chuckling and making snide remarks.
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  Really pointless

  With every NBA season, there are a few rites of passage — Rasheed Wallace’s first technical, Mark Cuban’s first tantrum and the arrival of the “Official NBA Register.”
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  Caps report

  Goalie Olie Kolzig was taken out of the game in the first period. That last happened March 2, 2006, at Ottawa with the Caps headed toward a 7-1 loss.
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  On television, lacrosse and democracy

  A few thoughts on a number of interesting things this week …
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  Too few machines slow Maryland vote

  Renee Whitlock of Bowie was hoping to beat the Election Day rush by arriving at her polling station to vote at 6:45 a.m.
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  Hail, Google

  
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  Britney Spears files for divorce

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears filed for divorced Tuesday from Kevin Federline, officials said. The Los Angeles County Superior Court filing cites “irreconcilable differences,” said court spokeswoman Kathy Roberts.
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  Cardin, O'Malley win in Md.

  BALTIMORE — Maryland chose a white anti-war Democrat over a black Republican for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat yesterday, a blow to Republican efforts to recruit black winners in the midterm elections.
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  Md. results could be delayed

  BALTIMORE (AP) - An expensive, strident and apparently very close race for governor was put in the hands of Maryland voters today.
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  Williams' deputy resigns

  The District’s deputy mayor for children, youth, families and elders has resigned from her position, officials said today.
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  Walker also to join Pittsburgh Opera

  The Pittsburgh Opera has appointed Antony Walker, current artistic director of the Washington Concert Opera, as its artistic director as well. Mr. Walker’s appointment is scheduled to begin immediately. He plans to retain his current post with the Washington Concert Opera, much to the relief of opera aficionados here.
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  Handel's countertenors

  The Washington Concert Opera, under the baton of Artistic Director Antony Walker, gave a stirring performance of Handel’s rarely heard opera “Orlando” Sunday evening at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium. The performance was distinguished by the appearance of not one, but two countertenors in starring roles.
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  Taking Names

  Pop star Britney Spears has filed for divorce from her dancer husband, Kevin Federline, according to court documents published yesterday.
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  Minority melting pot?

  Rumors of racial hatred swirled around the small farm town of Tifton, Ga., last fall after four blacks were arrested in the deadly robberies of six Mexican immigrants. In a single night at different trailer parks, the men were shot and beaten to death with a baseball bat as they slept.
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  Turkish Web celeb wants Borat justice

  A Turkish Internet celebrity is so sure he was the inspiration for Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” character that he’s traveling to London seeking an apology and a way to get paid from the film’s surprise success.
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  Tuning In

  Fox plans to make the most of the return of “American Idol,” Cox News Service reports.
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  Culture Briefs

  “One could have assumed that Sen. John Kerry, who has reason enough to wake up whimpering and biting his knuckles when he reflects on past embarrassments, had learned this lesson. He’s almost spoiled for choice in the matter — from the cringe-making ‘reporting for duty’ to the sickly discovery that he had been part of a ‘band of brothers’ rather than a bunch of killers, to the phantom ‘Christmas in Cambodia.’
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  300 letters awash in piety

  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A fisherman who found a bag of 300 letters to God, many addressed to a New Jersey minister, floating in the ocean off Atlantic City will give most of them to the late clergyman’s daughter.
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  D.C. deputy mayor submits resignation

  The District’s deputy mayor for children, youth, families and elders has resigned from her position, officials said yesterday.
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  Science and food safety

  Food poisoning from food contaminated with microorganisms is very common: 76 million cases and 5,000 deaths annually in the United States, according to government figures.
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  Spooking seniors

  We seniors (yes, we’re both in that club) have in our later years any number of things to be concerned about that go to the welfare and happiness of our children and grandkids, prevention of identity theft, power outages due to natural phenomena like hurricanes or floods, whether there will ever be a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, sales scams via telemarketing or online fraud, home security and the like.
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  Stem cells two ways

  The vagueness of the term “stem cell research” is one of the biggest problems in the ongoing stem cell debate. Writers, debaters, scientists, public figures and politicians should differentiate between “embryonic stem cell research” and “nonembryonic stem cell research” in order to keep the meanings clear.
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  Playing medi-scare again

  The liberal activist group Families USA issued a flawed study last week on the Medicare prescription drug benefit that simply does not reflect reality. The report says the drug benefit as currently designed endangers millions of seniors by imposing financial penalties and creating considerable anxiety.
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  Korea's unsettle situation

  The American diplomat who helped the Chinese to persuade the North Koreans to return to the negotiations over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions had it exactly right: “I have not broken out the cigars and champagne quite yet.”
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  Election aftermath

  As this is written, we do not know the outcome of yesterday’s elections — and may not for some days due to recounts and court challenges. Nevertheless, we can safely predict certain things will occur.
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  Back the Sunnis?

  British Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston famously explained in 1848: “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” It would be wise to step back from the day-to-day reporting on Iraq and consider what “perpetual” interest led to the U.S. intervention. President Bush set this out in his 2002 State of the Union address, “The United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.”