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  1. Plugged In Nationally, Tuned Out Of the District

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Aug 20, 2008

    Harold Ickes is the prototypical insider, a career political operative who knows as much about how Washington works as anyone.

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  2. Ellington Comes Out Ahead in Coin Tossup

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jun 20, 2008

    The people of the District of Columbia have spoken. And the winner is: Duke Ellington.

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  3. An Elementary History Lesson

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Virginia - Jun 19, 2008

    When Janet Wiggins was a student at Loudoun's all-black Banneker Elementary School in the 1950s, she used hand-me-down textbooks from white students. Her school didn't have a library, so she checked out books every

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  4. Voting on D.C. Commemorative Quarter Opens

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - May 24, 2008

    The District launched online voting yesterday for the local figure whose likeness will appear on the city's commemorative quarter, despite the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts' criticism that the designs are too cluttered.

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  5. Evans Switches Support To Obama

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - The District - May 22, 2008

    D.C. Council member Jack Evans knows how to party -- and how to send a message.

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  6. Capital Stories

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Jonathan Yardley - May 16, 2008

    WASHINGTON

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  7. The District's Quarter Finalists

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - May 3, 2008

    Duke Ellington resting his elbow on a piano. Benjamin Banneker getting ready to peer through a surveyor's transit. Frederick Douglass sitting at a writing table.

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  8. Windows on the Past of 'Black Middleburg'

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro Business - Mar 7, 2008

    For more than 100 years, St. Louis, a village in western Loudoun County, was defined by race. It was settled by freed slaves in the late 19th century and, until recently, when Loudoun's growth brought an influx of

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  9. Mint Rejects Voting Rights Message

    washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Feb 28, 2008

    The U.S. Mint wasted no time in rejecting the District's idea for a commemorative quarter yesterday, saying a proposed inscription protesting the city's limited representation in Congress would be unsuitable "as an

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