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Obituary: William C. Patrick III oversaw the top-secret U.S. biological warfare program at Fort Detrick, Md., working with some of the world’s deadliest diseases. B6


D.C. school enrollment appears to


have risen A gain would represent a big breakthrough for the struggling system


BY BILL TURQUE AND DANIEL DE VISE TheD.C. public school system’s enroll-


ment has increased this fall after nearly four decades of losses, city officials planned to announce Tuesday. School leaders offered few specifics.


But any gain over last year’s 44,467-stu- dent countwould represent a significant educational and symbolic breakthrough for the long-struggling system, which just last week endured the embarrass- ment of hearing from President Obama that it was not a suitable option for his daughters. School officials confirmed in a brief


statement Monday that 73 of the sys- tem’s 123 schools saw increases. Some schools in every ward show gains, based on an unaudited count of students that awaits an accountant’s review. Schools ChancellorMichelle A. Rhee andMayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) have called a morning news conference to discuss the numbers. Rheewas hired in 2007 partly in hope


that her aggressive menu of reform could reverse a half-century of decline in the District’s public school population. In 1960, D.C. public schools served 146,000 students, more than triple the number now. “I think people are putting more and


more trust in the school system. My oldest went to a private school, and I’m back in the public systembecause of the trust that I have,” said Leticia Long, PTSA president at Woodrow Wilson High School in NorthwestWashington. Enrollment dwindled as families fled


to the suburbs and,more recently, to the parallel universe of D.C. charter schools, which are tax-funded but independently


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Gray: ‘Onus is on me’ to assure D.C.’s wary voters


BY TIM CRAIG Minutes after D.C. Council Chairman


Vincent C. Gray won the Sept. 14 Demo- cratic mayoral primary, residents in large swaths of Northwest Washington sent diremessages on community e-mail groups and Facebook. The missives predicted plummeting


property values, rising crime and a swift return to a government that couldn’t collect trash, fix streets or provide stu- dents with textbooks. “Are you . . . kidding me DC?” one


local businessman posted on Facebook the day after the election. “Back to the Marion Barry days we go.” Graywon asmuch as 80 percent of the


vote inpredominantly black areas east of the Anacostia River. But in the city’s wealthier neighborhoods, which are mostly white, Gray couldn’t muster 20 percent. His worst showing, 13 percent, was in a precinct near Duke Ellington School for the Arts in Georgetown. “They really hate him,” one local


political strategist, who asked not to be identified in order to speak freely, said about voters in upper Northwest. “They think he represents a turning back of the clock.” Gray advisers dispute that the prima-


ry vote reflected distaste for Gray, sug- gesting instead that it was based on strong identification withMayor Adrian M. Fenty and his policies. But in a city long divided by class and


geography, Gray faces a challenge to his “one city” vision for the District while trying to govern in a way that keeps his base happy. Gray’s advisers recognize that two years ago President Obama


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Latest subpoena seeks scientist’s e-mails


BY ROSALIND S.HELDERMAN


richmond—The University of Virginia said Monday that it would continue to fight state Attorney General Ken Cuc- cinelli II’s efforts to obtain documents related to a climate scientist’s work, just hours after Cuccinelli reissued a civil subpoena for the papers. The new Civil Investigative Demand


revives a contentious fight between Cuc- cinelli (R),avocalglobalwarmingskeptic, and Virginia’s flagship university over documents related to the research ofMi- chaelMann,whoworkedat theuniversity from 1999 to 2005. A judge blocked Cuc- cinelli’s first bid to obtain the documents. Mann, whose research concluded that


the earth has experienced a rapid, recent warming,works at Penn StateUniversity. Cuccinelli has been trying to force the


public university, technically a client of his office, to turn over documents related toMann’swork sinceApril.Cuccinellihas said he wants to see the documents to determine whether Mann committed fraud as he sought public dollars for his work. But the universitywent to court rather


than comply, and inAugust, a Charlottes- ville area judge set aside the attorney general’s original demand. Inanewsubpoena sent to theuniversi-


ty last week, Cuccinelli asked that the school turn over all e-mails exchanged betweenMann and 39 other scientists as well as betweenMann and his secretaries and research associates. But, unlike in April, when Cuccinelli


asked for information about five of Mann’s grant applications, this time the attorney general limited his inquiry to just one $214,700 grant that Mann re-


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Former president Jimmy Carter works on a home with city and state officials,Habitat forHumanity leaders and volunteers in the District.Homes will be built or repaired there and in Baltimore, Annapolis,Minnesota and Alabama.


As life experiences of gay teens illustrate, the world is still far from accepting


T


rina Cole remembers the head-to- toe, white linen outfit she wore to junior prom.


And how the outfit looked after she


was attacked, how the cranberry juice her classmates threwat her as they yelled and screamed and shoved her in front of everyone made it look as though she were bleeding, even though it only felt that way. Rejection, harassment and


humiliation—first by her conservative Washington family and then by tormentors in high school and at a college inWest Virginia—have left scars all over her arms. “I used to think of suicide. And I used


to cutmyself,” Cole, now 19, told me, rubbing her hands over the raised crisscrosses and lines up and down both forearms. This is not how it was supposed to be


for this generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens who are coming out in an era when mainstream future dreams—marriage, kids, homeownership, PTA superstardom— are in their grasp. They have Ellen as a Covergirl, Ken


Mehlman out of the closet, Rachel Maddow reading the news, Rosie sharing family craft tips, Queer Eyes helping divulge style secrets and Will and Grace to explain it all toMom and Dad.


But what happened across the


country in the past couple of weeks, when four gay students killed themselves after being mercilessly bullied at school, shows how little has changed for many teens. The most recent case was the suicide


of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a student at RutgersUniversity whose roommate


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Members of theRutgersUniversity community participate in a candlelight vigil for freshman Tyler Clementi, whose suicidal plan was disclosed on Facebook.


PETULA DVORAK


allegedly videotaped him during a sexual encounter with another man and broadcast it on the Internet, both outing and humiliating a quiet, bright young violinist with one, cruel keystroke. Clementi jumped to his death off a


NewYork bridge, bidding farewell via Facebook. “I had people calling us all week,


shocked this was still happening,” said AndrewBarnett, executive director of a


Washington area support group called SMYAL, the SexualMinority Youth Assistance League. “There this feeling in the older LGBT community that coming out is easier for youth now than it was for them,” he said. “And that’s just not always true.” Nine out of 10 students reported


being harassed because of their sexuality last year, according to a report by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight EducationNetwork. Today, the average age that kids come


out is 13, Barnett said. Although they are more confident, emboldened and proud, they are coming out in a world that will still beat the crap out of them. That still condemns


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McDonnell vows trims to make liquor plan work


BY ANITA KUMAR


richmond—Gov. Robert F.McDonnell vowedMonday to use dozens of propos- als to streamline government to replace the $47million Virginiawould lose from privatizing the state’s 76-year-old liquor monopoly. But it’s still unclear exactly how he will do that. State officials have approved about


four dozen proposals to trim state gov- ernment, but have not said how much most of themwould save. Fred Malek, chairman of the Gover-


nor’s Commission on Government Re- form and Restructuring, estimates that the proposals would save more than $100 million by December, but only a handful of financial estimates are avail- able so far. They include having employees at 25


agencies work 10-hour days four times a week, for a $3million savings; eliminat- ing the Rail Advisory Board, $10,000; and changing the way transportation departments sendmail, $714,000. “There are numerous other govern-


ment reformswe are advocating simulta- neously with ABC privatization and those reforms will make up much more than the $47million,’’McDonnell said at news conference. “We will make up $47 million plus some.” McDonnell (R) has proposed doing


what no other state has done—privatize sales of distilled spirits from wholesale


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Post columnist Tracee Hamilton will be online Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. to discuss the Redskins and other local teams.


VIRGINIA Protests at Arlington


Motorcyclists stage a protest against one held by members of a fundamentalist Kansas church at a SEAL’s burial. B5


Handyman in chief B EZ SU


JOHNKELLY’SWASHINGTON When we moved more slowly


Reed Martin has devoted himself to resurrecting the forgotten hobbies of the past. He is obsessed with how Washington entertained itself from the 1920s to the ’50s. B2


Climate research legal fight


heats up CUCCINELLI WANTS PAPERS FROM U-VA.


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