Word: potomac
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Cooper captained both her soccer and basketball teams as a senior at Richard Montgomery High School in Potomac, Md. Starting for three years primarily as a sweeper or midfielder, Cooper was an All-State and All-South honoree last year...
...river that runs through Breena Clarke's accomplished first novel, River, Cross My Heart (Little, Brown; 245 pages; $23), is the sluggish brown Potomac, benevolent on the surface but treacherous beneath. Along with other young African Americans from their Georgetown neighborhood, Johnnie Mae Bynum and her sister Clara are forced to use the river as a swimming hole owing to a race ban at their local pool. It's the 1920s, and the girls are part of a steady migration from the fields of the rural South to the streets of bustling Washington. Things are supposed to be better there...
Members of such a Beltway family would have as good a chance as not to pass Ethel Kennedy, Bobby's widow and still the exuberant duchess of Hickory Hill, while driving to work along the Potomac River parkways. And if in the media or a lobbying business (a reasonable likelihood in that neighborhood), he or she would sooner or later sit down with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy or his son, Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy, now in the House leadership, to make a little political rain. Naturally, while attending one of those rites of pretentious power, like the Alfalfa Club...
...Potomac, Md., native fell in the love withthe game playing CYO basketball at age six.Sisters Kristen, 28, and Andrea, 25, paved theway, but it was her father, a Bronx native and CYOcoach himself, who schooled Miller in the basics.And she needed the help. In the "hotbed ofbasketball" that is Washington, D.C,. high schoolathletics, games sold out and a host ofplayers--including five of the starters onMiller's team at Our Lady of Good Council--wentdivision...
...Asia. Out would be the old-style model of "military regions" and "group armies" that were designed to support massive human waves in punishing ground attacks. In would be a joint-forces model copied, in many respects, from what currently sits in that five-sided building on the Potomac. Insiders in Beijing say top Chinese brass tried to sell the idea to President Jiang Zemin last year, but he vetoed the plan as too radical--especially on top of all the other changes he had instituted in the P.L.A...