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KING’S HEARINGS IN CONGRESS
A pivotal moment for Muslim Americans
Missing woman’s body found at Benham Falls
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By David A. Fahrenthold and Michelle Boorstein The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — It won’t be on the official agenda. It might not even be asked out loud. But it may be the most important question during a congressional hearing today on homegrown Islamic terrorists. How should America talk about Muslim Americans? Even in the tense months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, public discussions of Islamic extremists were usually accompanied by a careful disclaimer that a peaceful religion had been hijacked. But fueled by the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre, controversy over a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero and a series of high-profile arrests of homegrown terrorists, conservatives in particular have grown increasingly bold in criticizing Islam itself. They have objected to mosques, banned sharia law, attacked passages in the Koran. See Muslim / A5
DAVID BRODER 1929 - 2011
Remembering D.C.’s political reporting star By Adam Bernstein The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — David Broder, 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most respected writers on national politics for four decades, died Wednesday at Capital Hospice in ArDavid Broder, lington, Va., of the Pulitzer complications Prize-winning from diabetes. Washington Broder was Post political often called reporter and the dean of the columnist, Wa s h i n g to n died Wednespress corps — day at 81. a nickname he earned in his late 30s in part for the clarity of his political analysis and the influence he wielded as a perceptive thinker on political trends in his books, articles and television appearances. In 1973, Broder and The Washington Post each won Pulitzers for coverage of the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Broder’s citation was for explaining the importance of the Watergate fallout in a clear, compelling way. See Broder / A4
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Deschutes County Search and Rescue members, from right, Capt. Marc Mills, Chuck Christopher, Lt. Scott Shelton and Teri Shamlian coordinate search efforts out of an incident command trailer near Benham Falls. The body of Carly Phillips was found at the lower end of Benham Falls on the Deschutes River at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Carly Phillips, 26, appeared to be alone; no signs of foul play By Kate Ramsayer
after she did not return. Police and family members A 26-year-old woman who was started searching areas where reported missing Tuesday was they thought she might be, said found dead in the Deschutes River Capt. Marc Mills with the DesWednesday afternoon. chutes County Sheriff’s Office. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s At around 10:30 p.m. Phillips’ Office said the body of Carly Philbrother-in-law found her black lips was found at the lower end of Carly Phillips Subaru Outback parked at the Benham Falls at about 5:30 p.m. Benham Falls day-use area. Authorities said there are no signs “We started calling out our of foul play. Search and Rescue folks around 11, 11:30 Investigators will look into the cause of [Tuesday] night,” Mills said Wednesday Phillips’ death. An autopsy is scheduled for afternoon. “They searched all night, down today. on the river bank. We got a fresh crew out Phillips left her parents’ Bend house about 8 o’clock this morning.” around 2 p.m. on Tuesday to run errands, Phillips’ car was parked in a snowy area, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Family and crews found shoe prints leading from members called police at around 7:30 p.m., her car to the river, Mills said. The Bulletin
Search crews included Deschutes County patrol officers and Search and Rescue personnel, swift water rescue searchers, rescue personnel with the Bend Police Department and a helicopter from Leading Edge Aviation. Phillips’ body was found just before dark, when authorities planned to call off the search for the day. Phillips’ parents moved to Bend in 2002, Mills said, and Phillips recently moved here from Montana to be with them. It does not appear that anyone else was with Phillips on Tuesday evening, he said. Kate Ramsayer can be reached at 541-617-7811 or kramsayer@bendbulletin .com.
Deschutes County departments that receive money from property taxes have been instructed to prepare for a 4 percent cut in those funds starting in July. Departments affected include the Clerk’s Office, the Dis- “You’re talking trict Attorney’s about a serious Office, the As- and noticeable sessor’s Office degradation of and the Veter- service levels ans Services that I believe Office. The would likely be impact of the unacceptable proposed cuts to the local is largely un- development clear, although community.” District At- — County torney Patrick Administrator Flaherty said Dave Kanner, it could force on the possihis department bility of deeper to lay off one budget cuts prosecutor. Meanwhile, the county is freezing nonunion employees’ wages and salaries starting in July. County Administrator Dave Kanner called for the cuts because officials believe the continued decline in property values will mean a drop in property tax revenue. This year, the total taxable assessed value of property in Deschutes County is expected to decrease by 3.4 percent, Kanner said. “What it tells us is that our single largest general fund revenue source is going into decline next year, and we need to plan accordingly,” Kanner said. Most departments will be affected by the general fund cuts, and those that do not receive general fund money — for example, the Road Department and the Department of Solid Waste — are “having their own problems” with declining revenue, Kanner said. See County / A4
MEMORY COMPETITION Kelly Kohlman, 16, a junior at Hershey High School, works on memory recall in Hershey, Pa. The USA Memory Championship will take place Saturday; Hershey is the threetime defending champion.
Half the game is mental, and so is the other half By John Branch New York Times News Service
HERSHEY, Pa. — There is a narrow little room inside the sprawling brick tangle of Hershey High School, not far from the dual smokestacks of the famous chocolate company. The door is not numbered, and the walls have no windows. A teacher named Colette Silvestri spends Thursday afternoons inside, leading her team in practice. She times a group of students staring hard at pieces of paper, or sometimes at a deck of cards or pictures of people they do not know. The students memorize all they can, usually in 15-minute stretches of tedious silence. Then they spill their memory to recall, say, 120 random words in exact order. (That is roughly the length of this
article to the end of this sentence, but with the words shuffled.) Or maybe they will try to match 159 unfamiliar names to photos of strangers or recall 227 exact words, capital letters and punctuation of a poem read for the first time. Those are, after all, the national records held by members of the Hershey memory team. Hershey is the three-time defending champion in the high school division of the annual USA Memory Championship, the 14th of which takes place in Manhattan on Saturday. Of the national records established in five major individual memory events, Hershey students hold three. “It’s unbelievable,” said Tony Dottino, founder of the national competition. Dottino is frustrated that there have never been more than four high school
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teams competing at the national championship. In his mind, memory teams are a perfect fit for high schools, given the studying and testing students go through. “I’m banging my head against the wall getting more kids involved,” he said. For now, the model program can be found in central Pennsylvania, planted
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