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Loudoun tops the nation in 25-to-34-year-olds with hefty incomes

Kunal Shah is just 28 and already living large. He jets monthly to such fun places as Vegas or Montreal. He owns the D.C. nightclub Eyebar, a Mercedes-Benz and a Denali SUV. This Story Fresh faces, thick wallets Home is in the suburbs for Washington's ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mercedes-Benz,  Donald J Trump,  Census Bureau,  BMW,  Facebook Inc.

Green Beret, Marine honored at Arlington Cemetery

Staff Sgt. Mills, 24, of El Paso, who died in September, was one of two servicemen buried with full military honors Tuesday at Arlington, laid to rest to the mournful sound of taps and the crack of a rifle salute. The other, Lance Cpl. David R. Baker, 2 ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mark Baker,  University of Texas,  Dallas Cowboys,  David Baker,  James Baker

Returning hunger for retail therapy thaws out credit cards

Aba Kwawu vowed she'd buy only one or two classic pieces for work that would last her for years. So what was she doing recently at the cash register of a Washington boutique, credit card in hand, agonizing over whether to buy a flashy designer purse ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  Nordstrom, Inc.

Middle-Class Residents Finding Themselves With Hat in Hand

The Germantown woman was loading boxes of food from the Manna food bank into a shiny sport-utility vehicle one recent afternoon when she was approached by a donor dropping off food. This Story Whole Foods to Food Banks The New Needy "What group are ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  29 Sep 2009

Home Opener Leaves Redskins Fans With Mix of Hope, Heartburn

By the time Washington eked out a 9-7 victory over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday, the sunburned burgundy-and-gold throng that turned out for a perfect day of tailgating and football was chanting "Let's go, Redskins" -- apparently forgetting ...

From ANNIE GOWEN AND MATT ZAPOTOSKY, The Washington Post,  20 Sep 2009
Related Topics: St. Louis Rams,  Jason Campbell,  FedEx,  Jim Zorn,  Albert Haynesworth

D.C.'s Safe Harbor of Reinvention Lures Scandal-Tainted

Second acts? Turns out Washington isn't a bad place for 'em. Almost lost amid the news that former House majority leader Tom DeLay is going to be hoofing it on "Dancing With the Stars" was the intriguing tidbit that former New York Times ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jayson Blair,  Tom DeLay,  Monica Lewinsky,  Linda Tripp

Pregnant Women in D.C. Area Cautious About Swine Flu Vaccination

They are usually urged not to drink coffee, sip wine or pop aspirin. But now pregnant women find themselves high atop the federal government's priority list for those who ought to receive the new swine flu vaccine -- a prospect that some mothers-to-be ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Anthony S. Fauci,  Georgetown University

Keeping Up Appearances After a Layoff Can Be Hard Work

For weeks after he was laid off, Clinton Cole would rise at the usual time, shower, shave, don one of his Jos. A. Bank suits and head out the door of his Vienna home -- to a job that no longer existed. This Story Lying Low After a Layoff Half a Tank: ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Jaguar

Social Security to Pay Back Millions in Benefits to People Flagged in Screening

The Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals, ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  12 Aug 2009

Lying Low After the Layoff

He was careful to stay away until 5 p.m., whiling away the hours at the library or on a park bench in a wireless Internet hot spot. If he had to stay home, he stashed the car in the garage. When he lost his job as a business development manager with ...

From ANNIE GOWEN, The Washington Post,  11 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Jaguar

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