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...avant-garde. Riley has meticulously checked off a list of student groups to meet with, lassoing them into the UC legislative process. By integrating a strong base of student support, Riley has been able to succeed where her predecessors failed. Democracy LaneRiley grew up on Democracy Lane in Potomac, Maryland, and the road’s appellation predicted her life’s route. Riley believes that Democracy lane “instilled” in her the value of tearing down barriers to “outsiders,” such as people outside the UC. In 2005, Riley...
...Take the first airplane. On Dec. 8, 1903, Samuel Pierpont Langley, a leading government-funded scientist, launched with much fanfare his flying machine on the Potomac. It plummeted into the river. Nine days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright got the first plane off the ground. Why did these bicycle mechanics succeed when a famous scientist failed? Because Langley hired other people to execute his concept. Studying the Wrights' diaries, you see that insight and execution are inextricably woven together. Over years, as they solved problems like wing shape and wing warping, each adjustment involved a small spark of insight that...
...Maryland where he sent his children and a sniper school for Israelis on the West Bank. His three Washington restaurants, now closed, were hemorrhaging money, and he was always working on a half-baked business idea, such as starting an indoor lacrosse league or a ferry service across the Potomac. "Jack lived pretty much right at his means," says a former associate who was familiar with his personal finances. "He never saved money. He lived check to check." In one of his 2003 e-mails to Scanlon, Abramoff even sounded desperate: "Mike!!! I need the money TODAY! I AM BOUNCING...
Hometown: Potomac...
...learn it, you just perfect it.”Holsey was already attracting attention in the Washington metro area as early as 1999, when as a 14-year-old she scored 18 points in an ISL championship win against Bullis High School in her hometown of Potomac, Md.She had played basketball since second grade. But for Holsey, who enjoyed testing her mettle in all kinds of sports while growing up with the neighborhood boys—“baseball, tackle football, basketball,” she says—hoops remained a second thought.“If you?...