Word: anacostia
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...comeback is about feeding an epic ego and replenishing his bank account on the $92,500 salary city council members are paid. But after winning 58% of the votes in a September Democratic primary that included seven candidates, including the incumbent, Barry just finished his fourth week councilman representing Anacostia, one of DC?s poorest areas...
...Fear pierced the walls of the White House Tuesday afternoon, when the remote postage facility that handles White House mail tested positive for anthrax. The Anacostia Naval Station, located miles from the presidential residence, is serviced by the Brentwood post office where two employees were diagnosed with inhaled anthrax. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer expressed "confidence" that no one at the White House had been exposed to the bacteria. Environmental tests at the White House are negative...
...obtain self-rule until 1974. In recent years, Washington once earned the dubious honor of being the murder capital of the U.S., and it mimics the Third World with its two distinct societies: the affluence of the mostly white northwest and the equally extreme poverty of mostly black Anacostia, where infant mortality is twice the national average...
...nation's poorer areas, however -- places like Washington's Anacostia neighborhood, the hollows of Appalachia or Miami's Liberty City -- families with IBM Activas, NEC CD-ROM drives, modems, Internet connections and all the other paraphernalia so beloved by computer users are few and far between. Therein lies one of the most troubling aspects of the emerging information age. In an era in which success is increasingly identified with the ability to use computers and gain access to cyberspace, will the new technology only widen the gap between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, blacks, whites and Hispanics? As Commerce...
...crutches with no teeth wouldn't get cast. When they called me back, I thought it was just keeping up appearances." Brooks is a natural, with a commanding presence and instant believability. He is enough at ease offstage to question the script's accuracy about Anacostia, where he has lived since he was three: "We didn't have any rich black man, mean or otherwise. This play deals in pleasant generalities without getting down to the aches and pains...