Mountains can never meet, but people can meet again. — Swahili proverb The mountain was just as I remembered it: high and stark, dusky black against the blue sky. Its name was Meru and, like its sister to the east — Kilimanjaro — it was the remnant of an extinct volcano. It had a steep grade on one side, which gave way to foothills and then to the city of Arusha. On the other was a long slope that rolled out into lakes and plains. Read full article > >

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In Tanzania, an American English teacher reconnects with his students

Viola Herms Drath had been to the Blue Star Mothers convention the week of Aug. 8, and she spoke excitedly about an upcoming family dinner at the Prime Rib on K Street and her great-granddaughter’s first birthday. She was pleased that, even at 91 years old, her calendar was so full. But by the end of the week, she was found dead. Read full article > >

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Viola Drath: A remarkable life hijacked

The jazz virtuoso Chick Corea commandeers the Blue Note for most of November, performing in a retrospective of the many styles he has mastered.

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Critic’s Notebook: Chick Corea, Jazz Chameleon, in All His Colors

Congressman Leonard Boswell had kenneled his two Rottweilers for the night. Just before bedtime, the 77-year-old Democrat put on his blue-striped robe and removed his hearing aid, turning down the volume on what had been a loud mid-July week of debt-ceiling drama on Capitol Hill. He was getting a glass of water in the kitchen, and even without his earpiece, he could sense some commotion on the main floor of his farmhouse. He rushed to the nearby bedroom to check on his wife of 56 years, Dody. She was in bed — nothing wrong. Read full article > >

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Iowa congressman and his family retell how they fought off a gun-wielding robber

Preview and live commentary of AFC Wimbledon against Luton Town in the Blue Square Bet Premier play-off final at Eastlands.

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AFC Wimbledon v Luton Town

Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers became the 30th pitcher in major league history to throw multiple no-hitters on Saturday, and the second one to do so this week. Verlander’s second career no-hitter led his team to a 9-0 win over the Blue Jays on…

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Sheri Holman’s new novel, “Witches on the Road Tonight,” begins in the dangerous fall of 1940. Hitler’s army has moved with bewildering speed across the Continent, and Tucker has been drafted. He is due to report soon at Fort Dix, but before he goes, he lands an assignment with Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration, a six-week road trip through Virginia — a last hurrah, as it were — in the company of a provocative photographer named Sonia. They’re to create a WPA travel guide to the region, and their route takes them deep into the secretive silence and sublime vistas of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a setting which Holman splendidly evokes in all its eerie beauty.

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Review: Sheri Holman’s novel ‘Witches on the Road Tonight’

The football coach parks his car around 7:30 a.m., and reaches for his dark suit jacket. He slips it on, covering up the Washington Redskins logo stitched on one wrist of his blue dress shirt, a remnant from his previous job. He pulls a leather bag from the back seat, which also features the emblem of his former team, and walks briskly to work.

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Locked Out: Former Redskins assistant Chris Meidt is called down another aisle in life

The Washington Capitals entered Thursday night’s contest against the Columbus Blue Jackets with six healthy defensemen. They exited it with an overtime win that pushed them over the 100-point plateau for the third consecutive season but with another injury on the blue line and discouraging details about a player already on the sideline.

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Capitals vs. Blue Jackets: Jason Chimera scores in overtime to lift Washington to victory

Alfred Thayer Mahan’s worrisome influence on Beijing’s maritime strategy.

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The ‘blue national soil’ of China’s navy

Alfred Thayer Mahan’s worrisome influence on Beijing’s maritime strategy.

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The ‘blue national soil’ of China’s navy

Pirates boarded an American yacht off the coast of Oman three days after the boat’s owners split off from the relative safety of a sailing group traversing a dangerous section of the Indian Ocean, according to the group, the Blue Water Rally.

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Hijacked yacht split from group

The question is anything but new. In ” Arrow in the Blue ,” a 1952 book that summarizes the bitter lessons of 20 years of frustrated hopes and lost chances recorded by historiographers under the moniker “inter-war period,” Arthur Koestler reminisces: read more

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Zygmunt Bauman | Does "Democracy" Still Mean Anything? (And in Case It Does, What Is It?)

Washington – U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, co-chairman of the Blue Dog coalition of conservative Democrats, voted “no” last year when President Barack Obama’s health care reform proposal came before the House. So did U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell. But when the Republicans vote today on repealing the health care law, both Shuler and Kissell, Democrats from North Carolina, will side with their fellow Democrats to keep the law. read more

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Two Blue Dogs Explain Why They Oppose Repeal

The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers, for bankers, and it has served them well. Out of the blue, the Fed came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free credit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit crisis has plunged state and local governments into insolvency, but the Fed has now delivered its ultimatum: there will be no “quantitative easing” for municipal governments. On January 7, according to The Wall Street Journal , read more

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The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street