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...change of administrations has its matter-of-fact brutality). But Georgetown, tucked to the side of all that, to the west of the rawness, has its trees and old brick row houses, with Montrose Park to the north and the C & O canal and the Potomac to the south, and a certain embowered resonance that suggests the secrets and traditions of power. Its axes, M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, have gone noisy and commercial, and an awful Laura Ashley/Ralph Lauren gentrification has crept in everywhere. But Georgetown still has intimacy, beauty, poignancy...
Just 15 miles across the Potomac River from the marble and granite monuments built during 224 years of democracy, the acronyms of Washington have been newly scrambled. You won't find the FTC, the FBI or the DOD; but you can't miss the shiny new glass-and-stone headquarters of UUNet and PSINet, AMS and UUcom, commercial titans of the new Washington. You can't miss the new-economy entrepreneurs in their Lexuses and Land Rovers doing deals on cell phones as they zip around I-66 and Routes 7, 50 and 123. And you certainly can't avoid...
...Beltway had to be dragged into the political fray by Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Manatt struggled for years to organize the executives but didn't get it done until a conference of business leaders from the Potomac River region last year led to a breakthrough. "It was a difficult sell, and it still isn't easy," Manatt says...
BRANDY THOMAS, 32 Four years ago, while his co-workers were enjoying a dinner cruise on the Potomac River, Brandy Thomas was on deck brainstorming with a colleague about how to help businesses take advantage of the Internet. Both men suddenly realized no one was monitoring copyright violations on the Net and that as a result corporations were losing millions of dollars in revenue. That led them to the concept for Cyveillance, a sort of dotcom Web sleuth founded in 1997, which uses its proprietary NetSapien Technology to scour the Net for misuse of brand names, copyright infringements and clues...
...stock has significantly increased from its all-time low. He's still got enough left to move ahead with a $100 million pledge to set up an "online, Ivy League-quality university." And, oh, yes, there's been no cancellation of his planned $50 million mansion on the Potomac--modeled partly on the White House and partly on the Palace of Versailles...