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...Darren Star surprised his large, tight-knit family in suburban Potomac, Md., by moving to far-out Los Angeles. Within a few years, he wrote and sold the script for Doin' Time on Planet Earth, a film about a teenager who thinks he's from outer space. After that, Star never looked back. Today, at 30, he draws a six-figure income as the creator of Beverly Hills, 90210, the Thursday-night melodrama that has captured the teen audience by portraying youthful angst and L.A. glitz. Star owns a house in the Hollywood Hills, drives a Porsche convertible, lifts weights...
...Crimson further expanded its trophy case on Saturday by defeating Princeton and MIT to capture the Compton Cup in Washington, D.C. Harvard then returned to the course on Sunday to win its second consecutive Potomac International Regatta championship...
Sawgrass, perhaps the snazziest discount mall to date, was built by Western Development Corp. based on the firm's two earlier successes: Potomac Mills in suburban Virginia and Franklin Mills on the fringes of Philadelphia. Each attracts 1 million bargain-hunting shoppers a month. "Western is doing something daring and truly different, gambling that this might be the future of malls in America," says Terry Dunham, publisher of Value Retail News, which tracks the outlet industry from Clearwater, Fla. Western has plans for four more discount malls: near Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Ontario, Calif. Not to be outdone, Benderson Development...
...lawyer and former vice president of Potomac Electric Power Co., Dixon, 46, had demanded Barry's resignation as soon as he was arrested in January on a charge of drug possession. She turned the campaign into a referendum on his legacy, even as her opponents avoided attacking the mayor by name, mindful of his continuing popularity with some constituents. In a city where close to 85% of the voters are Democrats, Dixon is heavily favored to defeat her Republican opponent, former D.C. police chief Maurice T. Turner Jr., in the November election. If so, she would be the first African...
...National Archives Building in Washington 20 years after he died, in 1945. But as his place in history has grown, so too has the demand for something grander. Next year ground will at last be broken on a "gardenesque" layout of granite walls and waterfalls near the Potomac River...