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...bear to lose. The project attracted a national volunteer network, which produced 25,000 different banners, many with pictures of children or pets or sunsets. Tied together, the banners formed a ribbon that stretched 15 miles--long enough not only to encircle the Pentagon but also to cross the Potomac and wind around the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol and the Ellipse behind the White House...
...rising water forced the National Park Service to close the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln monuments, and K Street in historic Georgetown was awash, as a giant low-pressure system moved up the Atlantic Seaboard last week, unloading ten to twelve inches of rain into the James, Potomac and Roanoke river basins. But while Washington was getting its feet wet, parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland were devastated...
Watching the temperature mount in the Potomac Valley, one can see an instructive parallel from more than a century ago, when the South's General Robert E. Lee turned his forces east toward Gettysburg. In his great string of victories, Lee had almost always chosen the ground and the time of battle. But at Gettysburg he found his enemy there ahead of him and in the best position. Lee's stubbornness and his belief in his cause led him to attack despite the caution of those who wanted to slip away and fight the battle on their terms...
...computers. It bought Crum & Forster, the big insurance company, which had heavy losses in 1984. Now Xerox is moving toward the land. During the next decade, it will oversee development of a residential and commercial community on 2,267 acres of prime real estate it owns along the Potomac River near Leesburg, in Loudoun County, Va. Total investment by developers: $8 billion to $10 billion. The site is expected to have 20 buildings to be used as headquarters of various corporations, as well as 1,800 homes selling...
...junior from Potomac, Md., scored 23 points on 9-for-14 shooting and handed out eight assists. She matched Pritchard shot-for-shot early in the first half, once scoring 10 points...