January 18, 2009
SO DAMN MUCH MONEY The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government By Robert G. Kaiser Knopf. 398 pp. $27.95 "Earmarks" and "pork" have become rallying cries against the failures of our government. The Office of Management and Budget, defining an earmark as spending that members ......
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January 11, 2009
The small white bungalow on Backlick Road, near a major Fairfax County intersection, seemed like an unlikely spot for a sweatshop. But when police and federal agents burst in, they found several women hunched over industrial sewing machines, cranking out counterfeit designer clothing, working off......
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December 07, 2008
Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......
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November 23, 2008
The next time one of Butch Warren's bass solos inspires a couple to look each other in the eyes and see something new, the thanks should be directed not only to one of the great jazz players of the past half-century, but also to a shopkeeper in Wheaton, a TV news producer whose usual focus is the Wh...
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She starts off with a poem titled "Round Like Bubbles": "Round like a big fat green birthday balloon kissing the sky," Gayle Danley begins, then turns her backside to the audience of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at Deerfield Run Elementary School in Laurel and adds, "Why can't I have a round......
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She starts off with a poem titled "Round Like Bubbles": "Round like a big fat green birthday balloon kissing the sky," Gayle Danley begins, then turns her backside to the audience of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at Deerfield Run Elementary School in Laurel and adds, "Why can't I have a round......
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May 25, 2008
6 P.M. Robert Jensen , a professor of media law, ethics and politics at the University of Texas (Austin), discusses and signs Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, 202-387-7638....
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May 11, 2008
10:30 A.M. Joan Bauer reads from and discusses Peeled , her new YA novel featuring a savvy student newspaper reporter, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919....
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