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Not as loud, voter anger still clear to Democrats
In rural Virginia district, incumbent Perriello sees the frustration deepen
by Karen Tumulty
charlotte court house, va. — The crowds that have been showing up for Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello’s town halls have been smaller and more polite than the angry throngs he saw during last August’s raucous congressional re- cess. Catcalls about socialism and death panels have given way to substantive and pointed questions — about the intricacies of the new health-care law and financial regulations, finding alternative energy sources, and that most perennial of Vir- ginia problems, traffic. Most of all, people want to talk about the economy. Virginia’s largely rural 5th Congres- sional District, first represented in Con- gress by James Madison, is a good place to see what Democrats across the country are up against in 2010. In this district where unemployment is running in the double digits, “what you’re seeing is a deeper anxiety,” Perriel- lo said Thursday after his second town hall in two days. “Can I just get through this quarter, and this month, and pay my bills? Can we ever get back” to where things used to be? Gale-force outrage — both the real kind and the kind manufactured for tele- vision — has faded this August. There is still the occasional outburst: On Satur- day, the Lynchburg Tea Party Patriots hastily called a rally outside a Perriello town hall in Fork Union to demand that he vote against $26 billion in aid to state and local governments when the House reconvenes briefly this week.
But when the shouting dies down, it becomes possible to hear something else, something Democrats know is an even greater threat to them this fall.
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Texting generation doesn’t share boomers’ taste for talk by Ian Shapira
Jane Beard and Jeffrey Davis didn’t re- alize how little they speak to their chil- dren by phone until they called AT&T to switch plans. The customer service agent was breathless. The Silver Spring couple had accumulated 28,700 unused minutes. “None of the kids call us back! They will not call you back,” said Beard, a for- mer actress who with her husband coach- es business leaders on public speaking. A generation of e-mailing, followed by
an explosion in texting, has pushed the telephone conversation into serious de- cline, creating new tensions between baby boomers and millennials — those in their teens, 20s and early 30s.
Nearly all age groups are spending less time talking on the phone; boomers in their mid-50s and early 60s are the only ones still yakking as they did when Ma Bell was America’s communications queen. But the fall of the call is driven by 18- to 34-year-olds, whose average monthly voice minutes have plunged from about 1,200 to 900 in the past two years, according to research by Nielsen. Texting among 18- to 24-year-olds has more than doubled in the same period, from an average of 600 messages a month two years ago to more than 1,400 texts a month, according to Nielsen. Young people say they avoid voice calls because the immediacy of a phone call
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he recipe for opening a successful restaurant generally does not call for stewing in federal court. But there was Roberto Donna — the re- nowned Italian chef who is racing to re- vive his former flagship restaurant, Gali- leo, along with his own battered reputa- tion — in Courtroom 22A at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Wash- ington on Wednesday, his brow furrowed, his massive arms folded. Donna, an outsize figure in the food world whose financial and legal problems have blown up like a souffle in recent years, sat alone at the defendant’s table, no longer able to pay a lawyer to defend him. Across the room sat three ex-em- ployees who say Donna violated labor laws and owes them and eight other plaintiffs thousands of dollars each. Theirs is one of a slew of lawsuits, tax problems and other complaints that have hit Donna in the past few years. “There’s this much truth,” Donna said angrily weeks earlier, holding his hands just inches apart as he left another hear- ing at the courthouse, “and the rest is lies.”
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Debt and lawsuits leveled Roberto Donna’s empire. He seeks acclaim once more with Galileo III.
Donna once cooked nightly for politi- cos, celebrities, Beltway power brokers and just plain foodies at Galileo and its wildly acclaimed, cutting-edge restau-
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rant-within-a-restaurant, Laboratorio del Galileo, both of which closed in 2006. Ga- lileo was such a hot reservation in the ’80s that then-Vice President George H.W. Bush famously couldn’t get a table. Lately,
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uss Grimm, the corner- stone of the Washington Redskins’ famed Hogs offensive line from 1981 to 1991,
was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Saturday. Grimm is the first Hog to enter the Hall and joins two other Joe Gibbs-era players, Darrell Green and Art Monk, both of whom were enshrined two years ago. Grimm addressed his fellow Hogs directly at one point during his speech, and said: “Your names are gonna be embroidered on the inside of this jacket so I always remember the things we went through, the tough times we had and good times we celebrated.” STORY, D1
STARTING FROM SCRATCH The chef’s chance at a renaissance
however, the chef has spent far more time in law offices and courtrooms than in the kitchen, particularly since his last restau- rant, Bebo Trattoria, went belly-up in April 2009 after falling deep into debt, in- cluding a half-million dollars in unpaid rent. Now, the beleaguered James Beard
Award-winning chef slouched in his chair as he listened to his former personal as- sistant and publicist testify about payroll and accounting problems at Bebo, the Crystal City restaurant that closed last year despite having opened to critical praise. “You can point your finger any- where on the menu,” Washington Post dining critic Tom Sietsema wrote in 2006, “and come up with a success story.” At Bebo, former employee Elizabeth
Scott said, paychecks bounced, some checks were distributed without Donna’s signature, pay periods kept shifting. Earnings were underreported, and em- ployee withholdings weren’t sent to the Internal Revenue Service. Donna listened to the litany of allegations and shook his head, apparently in disgust. In a deposition last fall, Donna, 49, said he is reduced to paying “my expenses to survive.” He testified that he was four months behind on his $9,500-a-month mortgage; he owed at least $70,000 on credit cards; his leased Hummer was be-
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kabul — Gunmen killed 10 members of amedical team, including six Americans, traveling in the rugged mountains of northern Afghanistan, demonstrating the reach of insurgents far from their tra- ditional havens and shocking the expatri- ate community here. The attack was one of the deadliest on civilian aid workers since the war began in 2001. That it occurred in Badakhshan province, a scenic mountain redoubt con- sidered a peaceful refuge from the war, added to growing concern that the Tali- ban has seized on northern Afghanistan as its latest front. The dead have not been officially iden-
tified, and the bodies not yet returned to Kabul, but Afghan and Western officials said the victims were thought to be mem- bers of a medical team working with a Christian charity group that has decades of experience in Afghanistan. That team, from the International Assistance Mis- sion, lost contact with its office in Kabul on Wednesday, two days before the at- tack, said Dirk Frans, the group’s exec- utive director. “We’ve got a team that has gone miss-
ing, and then there are 10 people found dead. At the moment we’re working on the assumption that this is the same team,” Frans said. The Taliban quickly asserted responsi-
bility for the killings, saying the medical workers were “foreign spies” and were spreading Christianity. But police offi- cials have not ruled out robbery as a mo- tive, as the victims were stripped of their belongings after they were shot. The team members — six Americans,
one German, one Briton and four Af- ghans — were returning from neigh- boring Nurestan province, where they
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