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...But many viewers at home quickly zeroed in on what was around her neck: a delicate chain with four letter charms: V-O-T-E....
...After growing up in the Washington, D.C., area and getting his MBA at the University of Utah, he’d come out to California in the late 1970s and never left....
...Buying guide ● Maryland’s Eastern Shore is located on the Chesapeake Bay, a large river estuary ● The area is 75 miles east of Washington DC and 80 miles south of Baltimore ● The historic centre of St...
...But the real story is in the footnotes, in which Franzen laments the state of modern media and confesses his sins as a Fulbright scholar in Berlin....
...A diverse collection of commissioned and gifted paintings lines the corridors in all directions from the school’s centrepiece, a bronze sculpture of Pierre L’Enfant, architect of Washington D.C....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...But the average one-way commute into the big city will be at least an hour by road, which is the only real option; 83 per cent of its citizens will drive it alone, 10 per cent use a car pool and the rest...
...An announcement from the SEC on Wednesday, emphasis (and a bit of chuckling) ours: Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Baltimore-based business consultant...
...I find London infuriating but –with the possible exception of New York – couldn’t think of anywhere else I’d rather live....
...For every Fifth Avenue, there’s a Mumbai slum; for every Sorbonne, there’s a D.C. high school guarded by metal detectors....
...In March 2002, fresh out of college, I got a job at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, DC....
...Today, Mr Greenspan has publicly recanted a central tenet of his economic creed and Mr Rubin is more likely to be portrayed as a Wall Street villain than a Washington wise-man....
...At the peak of his powers, in the 1930s, he was advertised as “The Wonderful Monarch of Mystery” and had performed for George V, George VI and Edward VII at Buckingham Palace; and for Presidents McKinley...
...It has to be a residence of “substance,” as the Sheikh might stay there when in the capital, rather than his usual suite at George V....
...He says that the bargain properties are located on streets further away from the Eastern Promenade. “The houses right off the Prom are very nice and very expensive, and most of them have water views....
...SJG Properties, which already has two buildings in north-west Washington with “no vacancies per se”, is building another at 15th and H streets to open next year....
...That may calm nerves at the US State Department, but this will nevertheless be a race Washington will be watching closely....
...A friend at the Italian embassy could not help but notice after the elections that Italy has 11 consulates across America, nine of them in blue states....
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