Word: potomac
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...longer afford the failed containment policy of the past decade, which consisted of sanctions, no-fly zones in the north and south and periodic bombings, there is no real agreement on how or how quickly to achieve "regime change" in Iraq. For all the tough talk along the Potomac, the only war now being waged is the one involving the White House, State Department and Pentagon over how and when to move against Saddam...
...interactive games on his PC, a daughter downloading No Doubt tunes, a husband looking up recipes for ribs--networking is the way to go. "The No. 1 reason why home users are networking is to share broadband," says Chris Amori, the owner of Amori Network Solutions, based in North Potomac, Md., and the expert who came to O'Neill's rescue. In-Stat, a market-research firm based in Scottsdale, Ariz., expects the number of home networks in North America to jump to 9.8 million by year-end, up from 4.2 million at the end of 2000, as broadband services...
...will be this year's Lenny Skutnik? Ever since January 1982, when Ronald Reagan paused during his first State of the Union address to point to the man who had pulled an Air Florida plane-crash survivor out of the icy Potomac River, the practice of introducing surprise guests at the big speech has been an annual presidential routine. President Bush will almost certainly have a hero or two from Sept. 11--a New York City fireman, a policeman or perhaps the widowed spouse of one of the brave passengers who brought down Flight 93--in the balcony sitting next...
...first line goes: ?Rage?Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus? son Achilles/ murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses?. America?s Civil War produced its share of popular compositions, from the war songs of the North (?The Battle Hymn of the Republic? and ?All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight?) to the fighting odes of the South (?Oh I?m a Good Old Rebel?). Civil War-era songs such as ?When This Cruel War Is Over?(1863) still have a melancholy resonance even today: ?Weeping, sad and lonely, hopes and fears, how vain!/ When this cruel war is over praying...
...increased security, no heightened alert around the Capitol for fully half an hour after the New York attack. Senate minority leader Trent Lott was drafting a press release to condemn the attack when he looked outside his window and saw black smoke billowing up from across the Potomac. He didn't wait for an evacuation order. He gathered up his top staff and security detail and headed out of the Capitol, shocked to find that tourists were still walking into the building while he was fleeing...