ON a recent cross-country visit to my parents in California, I came down from my old childhood bedroom, still bleary with jet lag, and was startled by the sound of a boy’s laughter from my parents’ room. I tiptoed to the door and heard my father’s low ...
I was her eldest grandson and her first grandchild to marry, but when I went to Jerusalem in August 2001, it had been 14 years since I last saw my grandmother. We almost didn’t go: Arab-Israeli violence in the weeks before my wife and I left made for a ...
WASHINGTON Over the objections of cabdrivers, the District of Columbia is set on Thursday to scrap its seven-decade-old method of calculating taxi fares. Conventional time-and-distance meters will replace a system based on geographic zones. The ...
WASHINGTON: Street preachers have worked the corner of H and Eighth in Northeast Washington for decades, calling to the hungry, the addicted and the homeless over a chorus of sirens and bus noise. But times are changing, and as H Street becomes the ...
WASHINGTON Street preachers have worked the corner of H and Eighth in Northeast Washington for decades, calling to the hungry, the addicted and the homeless over a chorus of sirens and bus noise. But times are changing, and as H Street becomes the ...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — A decade and a half after a videotaped cocaine arrest that would have ended most political careers, former Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. has won yet another election. Madame Tussauds asked 600 Washingtonians who they wanted in a wax ...
WASHINGTON, June 25 — A District of Columbia administrative law judge who filed a $54 million lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaner over a pair of missing pants will not get a penny, a court here ruled today. Judge Judith Bartnoff of Superior ...
Many afternoons find Mr. Goodwin kneeling on some gritty sidewalk here, appraising a faded A.T.M. receipt, a tuft of dryer lint, the scraps of a torn-up letter. Neat streets he doesn’t mess with. His own neighborhood is a bore. “It’s obscenely clean,” ...
WASHINGTON, April 20 — In its hunt for slogans to lure tourists, the nation’s capital has never lit on the elegance of a “Virginia Is for Lovers” or the panache of a “What Happens Here, Stays Here.” “A Capital City” was fine for a while, until ...
NORWELL, Mass., March 27 Their bedrooms are strewn with the everyday flotsam of a teenager’s life: heaps of unfolded laundry and a bottle of “passion” red nail polish, muddy soccer cleats and the box for Madden N.F.L. 2002, a video game. But after a ...
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