M V Public library use soars amid slowing economy | Dance Classes Swing • Salsa Ballroom Survival Dancing 4 weeks $49 703-528-9770 Next to dancefactory.com VA SQ Metro A PUBLICATION OF | PLAN YOUR NIGHT AT WWW.EXPRESSNIGHTOUT.COM | SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 | Thursday ROB CARR/AP A guard stands at a checkpoint in New Orleans. New Orleans residents return after Gustav | U.S. commits $1B for recovery from war | Will Campbell turn into a star CHARLES DHARAPAK/AP this year? | Sen. John McCain greets Levi Johnston, left, the boyfriend of Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, second from left in Minnesota on Wednesday. ‘This nonsense is over,’ McCain camp declares of criticism victim of gender bias in the media. “This nonsense is over,” senior cam- Trip-hop? Pop? As Sarah Palin prepared tions about how rigorously McCain and his paign adviser Steve Schmidt declared in Ambient for the speech of her life Wednesday, John campaign explored the background of a can- the statement. McCain’s campaign called for an end to ques- didate who may get the nation’s second most With a quickly arranged news conference electroni- tions about its review of her background and powerful job. It also suggested that Palin is a and a fresh television ad, McCain’s team also ca? Tricky derided a “faux media scandal designed to sought to counter Democratic criticism that continues to destroy the first female Republican nomi- the first-term Alaska governor is too inexpe- nee” for vice president. rienced to be president . Surrounded by fellow defy catego- The Arizona senator’s campaign set the Republican women, former Massachusetts rization. tone for the day early with a written statement Gov. Jane Swift bemoaned “an outrageous that stood out for its admission that Palin is smear campaign” against Palin and said: “She under siege — it condemned “this vetting con- is more prepared than Barack Obama to be troversy” — and for its attempt to blunt ques- president of the United States.” ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC THAT THE REDSKINS WILL MAKE THE PLAYOFFS THIS SEASON? !k4G?A4BBk(#!'kC7DAB30H ThTOpeners 38B6DBC8=6 0D2C8>=B 4fffb 9dSVT3^Tb]½c2PaT 0Q^dc(((?TaRT]c 0]S0Wb ?^bXcXeT5TTSQPRZ 0VXP]c\TRWP]XRP[b_XSTafPbWd]V A New York man has been charged with selling $80,000 worth of stolen FTS]TbSPhUa^\PSXbdbTSQdX[SX]V Victoria’s Secret bras online. Prosecutors say 41-year-old George Tutaya was X]cWTRT]cTa^U;XeTa_^^[4]V[P]S arraigned Tuesday on charges of possessing stolen property. He faces up to X]_aT_PaPcX^]U^acWTbcPac^UPUXeT seven years in prison if convicted. A telephone call to his attorney hasn’t been SPh_XTRT^UbcaTTccWTPcTa8]!% returned. 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Romney and paign call for change — but not the tion, urged voters on Wednesday ernors in America — and the most then Huckabee did the same. change the Democrat wants. MELINA MARA/TWP to send him to the White House, popular.” The McCain campaign had “We need change all right,” the BC?0D;<8== for the “safety and security of your She’s been governor for two announced that Giuliani would former Massachusetts governor ¼>dcaPVT^dbB\TPa½ family,” as Giuliani put it. years, after eight as mayor of tiny be the keynote speaker at the con- said. “Change from a liberal Wash- Female Republicans embraced identi- The three planned to tell the Wasilla, but Giuliani said she’s vention, and he was to have spoken ington to a conservative Washing- ty politics with gusto Wednesday, tout- Republican National Convention ready for the vice presidency. “She Tuesday night in that role. But the ton.” 0? ing the virtues of presumptive vice pres- idential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin and suggesting that any attempts to ques- <8==40?>;8B<8==kCF8=28CHB4AE824 tion her qualifications amounted to bla- <XRWXVP]<P] tant sexism. In a “hear me roar”-style press con- 2WPaVTSX]?[^c ference, a parade of elected officials and GOP operatives issued a lengthy C^0ccPRZA=2 defense of the Alaska governor’s cre- <8==40?>;8Bk A Michigan man dentials, and former Massachusetts was charged in what authorities governor Jane Swift said Palin has said was a scheme to use Molotov been the target of “an outrageous smear cocktails to attack the main arena campaign.” for the Republican National Con- “She has taken on the corrupt spe- vention. cial interests in Washington and Alaska. Matthew Bradley DePalma, 23, She has stood up for families and made of Flint was charged Saturday with a difference,” Swift said. “She is more one count of possessing unregis- prepared than Barack Obama to be tered firearms after a two-month the president of the United States. ... investigation, the U.S. Attorney’s The Republican Party will not stand by Office announced Wednesday. while Sarah Palin is subjected to sexist Authorities said DePalma attacks.” 9D;84C48;?4A8= attended an event in Waldo, Wis., in July called the CrimeThinc Con- STEPHAN SAVOIA/AP STEPHAN vergence, and told an FBI source ?02:437>DB4) Sen.