ON MAY 29, 2008, D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) met with representatives of a District business who were pressing their bid for the city’s lottery contract. Allegations have emerged, most recently in a report by D.C. Inspector General Charles J. Willoughby, that the council member offered to drop his opposition to the group’s bid if one of its members would agree to withdraw from a separate real estate deal with Metro, on whose board Mr. Graham sat. As this page reported Wednesday , Mr. Graham flatly denied that he ever made such an offer. Read full article > >

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Jamie Mackie cancels out Danny Graham’s first half goal to secure a point for QPR in a gripping game at the Liberty Stadium.

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Partisan warfare has erupted over Richard Cordray, Obama’s nominee to lead a new consumer finance watchdog, whom Republicans filibustered in the Senate last week, raising concerns that the agency would become a “ Stalinist ” enemy of Wall Street. But waiting in the wings is another Obama nominee who’s long raised hackles of the country’s biggest financial institutions. And this time, Republicans have resoundingly embraced him. Read full article > >

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham was released from hospital Tuesday after spending six days recovering from pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said. Doctors decided to let the 93-year-old evangelist go home after he responded well to antibiotics and physical therapy to increase his strength after his latest illness, said Nancy Lindell, a spokeswoman for Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. Read full article > >

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Hospital officials say the Rev. Billy Graham is continuing his “successful” treatment for pneumonia. A statement from Asheville’s Mission Hospital on Saturday afternoon said Graham’s pulmonologist reports he is maintaining the improvement he showed on Friday. The 93-year-old evangelist will continue physical therapy to help his strength and mobility. Doctors said Graham stood and walked Friday during a physical therapy session. No date is set for his discharge. Read full article > >

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NC hospital: Evangelist Billy Graham continues to show improvement in treatment for pneumonia

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham was admitted to a hospital Wednesday near his home in western North Carolina to be tested for pneumonia after suffering from congestion, a cough and a slight fever, his spokesman said. The 93-year-old evangelist was taken to Mission Hospital in Asheville, spokesman A. Larry Ross said. His personal physician, Dr. Lucian Rice, said he was in stable condition. Read full article > >

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PHILADELPHIA — Former FBI director Louis Freeh, tapped to lead Penn State’s investigation into the child sex-abuse allegations against a former assistant football coach, said his inquiry will go as far back as 1975, a much longer period than a grand jury report issued earlier this month. Freeh was named Monday to oversee the university board of trustees’ internal investigation into the abuse allegations that ultimately led to the ouster of longtime football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier. Read full article > >

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PENN STATE COACH Joe Paterno is gone. So too is the university’s longtime president, Graham Spanier. The Nittany ­Lions are gearing up for a game this week against Ohio State, having lost Saturday’s home game against Nebraska. Students are refocusing attention on their studies. Things seem to be quieting down after a week in which the State College, Pa., campus was rocked by allegations of child sexual abuse and the institution’s seeming indifference. However, there can be no return to normalcy until every detail of this painful episode is uncovered and disclosed. Read full article > >

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Penn State faces more questions about Sandusky case

Rachel Donadio on the Greek government’s potential collapse, and Graham Bowley on the market reaction to worries that last week’s debt deal may be a casualty.

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Graham Morris took photos of Janet Hodgson when she was apparently posessed by the Enfield Poltergeist in the 1970s.

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It’s easy to see why Martha Graham’s “ Appalachian Spring ” endures as one of the classics of modern dance. The story of a bride and groom starting a new life in a new land with guidance from a stoic pioneer woman and a fiery preacher, it captures an experience that is uniquely American and laces it with infectious but earnest optimism. Read full article > >

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Graham Dilley, a hero of the 1981 Ashes Test win over Australia at Headingley, dies aged 52 after a short illness.

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Tania Dunbar celebrated a first in her 13-year Army career Sunday: She donned her uniform and proudly introduced Deborah Graham as her wife, not the “cousin” who had previously joined her around Fort Stewart in Georgia. The formal end Tuesday of the military’s 18-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on service members revealing their homosexuality has allowed the couple to share the news that they married in the District in May. Read full article > >

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President Obama gave one of the most impassioned speeches of his presidency when he addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. Too bad so many in the audience thought it was a big, fat joke. “You should pass this jobs plan right away!” Obama exhorted. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) chuckled. “Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary — an outrage he has asked us to fix,” Obama went on. Widespread laughter broke out on the GOP side of the aisle. Read full article > >

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Police have named a suspect in a double homicide in Columbia Heights. Wanted posters hanging in the neighborhood show the face of Irving Harris Johnson, 25, who police say is the lone suspect in the shootings of Jimmie Lee Simmons III, 32, and Dominique Barber, 31, of Northwest. They were killed in the 1400 block of Parkwood Place on July 9. Barber, Simmons and a third man were shot in the head shortly before 6 a.m. outside a house that neighbors and D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) say is notorious for late-night drug-dealing and gambling. The third man is still being treated for his injuries, Graham said Tuesday. Read full article > >

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