I came across Renaldo Nehemiah's name the other day. He was a local hero and one of the most dominant track athletes of all time when he hurdled for the University of Maryland in the late-1970s.
I see Nehemiah's name every now and then, since he's still around here, working for the McLean-based sports [...]

As Washington Post readers learned over the weekend, staff writer Brigid Schulte has a hectic life. She's got two kids, a demanding job, and all manner of time-consuming chores that run her ragged throughout the week.
The grind, in Schulte's words:

Howard Kurtz this morning tells the tale of some high-stakes negotiations between Washington Post brass and the Pentagon over the paper's fresh scoop on the war in Afghanistan. The story, by legendary Postie Bob Woodward, conveyed the dire assessment of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan: Without troop [...]