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...With reporting by Paige Akin/Richmond, Va.; Melissa August/Washington; Alice Jackson Baughn/Bay St. Louis, Miss.; Paige Bowers/Atlanta; Joe Kirwin/Brussels; Terrence Murray/Paris; and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
Phillips, 44, first came up with the idea for such sessions while studying political philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Several days a week after class, he and other students would meet with a favorite professor at a local watering hole. Often other people at the bar would overhear their heated discussions and join in. "I thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful just to have these great conversations all the time?'" he says...
...What happens in Iraq has the potential to be either a wonderful victory for democracy or a blight on America's foreign policy record." SARAH J. LIPPITT Alexandria, Va...
...cheese." This popular photo prompter of the English-speaking world is thought to have begun in British public schools around 1920, though society portraitist Cecil Beaton preferred his subjects to mouth the word "lesbian." Just as perverse, the French often opt for "le petit oiseau va sortir," Spaniards say "patata," while the Japanese have adopted the English term "whisky." As the relator of such delightful trivia, the latest elicitor of the smile is author Angus Trumble, whose A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal...
SENTENCED. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, 43, to death; for terrorizing the D.C. area with a three-week sniper spree in October 2002 that left 10 people dead; in Manassas, Va. His accomplice, LEE BOYD MALVO, 19, was sentenced to life in prison without parole...