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...Washington school system, students speak 127 languages and dialects; across the Potomac, in Fairfax County, Virginia, that figure is more than...
...real people who write about real things," she says. "I'm hoping that by the end of my term people will think of a poet laureate as someone who's out there with her sleeves rolled up and working, not sitting in an ivory tower looking out at the Potomac...
...came and went as the President labored to produce a new budget, then struggled to win its approval. On June 30, while biking home, Thompson stopped on Memorial Bridge over the Potomac and proposed. The Tuscany trip would be a honeymoon. The two, each marrying for the first time, would leave for Italy Sept. 11, after their wedding in Georgetown. When Congress recessed Aug. 7, White House sources pushed the target back to mid-September. Tuscany was out, so the couple planned a honeymoon weekend in a Virginia 18th century countryside...
Politeness makes sense to the politicos. Neither this city nor its suburbs have any native industry--you won't find many meat-packing plants in Georgetown or in posh Falls Church, Va., Potomac, Md.--and the bird-to-victim ration is high...
...after he joined the Clinton Administration. Last Tuesday afternoon, six months to the day since his boyhood friend had taken the oath of office and everything seemed possible for the men from Hope, Foster passed through the iron gate of the White House in his gray Nissan, crossed the Potomac River to a Civil War fort preserved as a national park in Virginia, and apparently put his father's antique .38-cal. Colt revolver in his mouth and ended his life, leaving those who knew him in stunned and uncomprehending grief...