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...started with a traditional barbecue in Arlington, Virginia, right across the river from downtown D.C. While some of our crowd of about 15 took the Metro to the Mall to stake out a spot for our picnic blankets, the rest of us went to Adams Morgan to drop off a car at someone's house. We didn't realize the walk back to the Capitol was a good 40 blocks, and we were pretty tired by the time we fought our way through the crowds on the Mall...
When we reached the statue where we were supposed to meet everyone else, they weren't there. We found out later that they were waiting in blocks-long lines at the Metro station, waiting to get farecards. The Mall on the Fourth of July is the definition of a logistical nightmare...
...Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...
...Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted out of the district's Metro system...
...postal and utilities employees, have brought the country to a virtual standstill to protest the government's new social-welfare reforms. University students are striking and marching to demand more teachers and resources. Algerian radicals have conducted a wave of terrorist bombings, and soldiers carrying machine guns patrol the Metro and train stations. The unemployment rate is 11.8%, one of the highest in the industrialized world. After only six months in office, conservative President Jacques Chirac has seen his approval rating collapse. Meanwhile--as if there weren't enough problems at home--much of the outside world is still...