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...have never seen so many dogwalkers around here," quipped store manager Sabina Dankova, 35, sipping coffee and dragging on a cigarette outside her house. Proud of having Hollywood's most glamorous couple as temporary neighbors while Jolie was in town to film her next action flick, Dankova sounded a solemn note: "I hope [the paparazzi] do not bug them too much, so they do not move...
There exists just one viable refuge from the whole macabre orgy: the Farnsworth Room. Soft lighting and a standing ban on laptops make this genteel area a solemn sanctuary from the pandemonium outside. Rediscover your pen and move upstairs, and watch as all your despondency dissipates...
...gathering, women can remove their veils and both sides dance among themselves. A less popular option is to hold a dinner rather than a proper reception, as men and women are permitted to have meals in one another's company. But without music, these gatherings also end up being solemn affairs that don't include some traditional rites of an Iranian wedding, like the "knife dance," in which the bride must retrieve a blade from the partygoers in order to cut the cake...
...their jobs well, they are eventually replaced. The District is full of out-of-state plates and people born elsewhere. I never understood why Barry didn’t go away.And when I was young, Washington was also a magical place, full of gleaming white buildings and solemn memorials and mysterious black government sedans. But the press surrounding Barry’s rises and falls directed me, for the first time, to the uglier aspects of the city. Beyond the postcard images and the floods of tourists lay crime and violence so severe that many dubbed Washington the murder capital...
...wake of last week’s horrific shooting spree at Virginia Tech, which left 32 victims dead along with their killer, analyses of what went wrong have proliferated almost as quickly as solemn condolences. Blogs, newspapers, and television talk shows are abuzz with discussions about critical failings on the part of school and government officials. One of the most damning revelations, reported by The New York Times on April 21, revealed that federal regulations ought to have prohibited the killer, Seung-Hui Cho—who had previously been ordered by a judge to receive psychiatric treatment?...