When David Nevins was in elementary school in Bethesda, he’d spend every afternoon playing basketball with his best friend. Then one day the boy was gone. His family had moved to Florida, seemingly without explanation. It wasn’t until years later that Nevins understood his friend’s father had been a lawyer for President Nixon and wanted to get out of Dodge. That was his first introduction to the ways of Washington. Read full article > >

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On ‘Homeland,’ Showtime’s David Nevins seeks to get his native D.C. right

RADFORD, VA. — Brittany Perry, a senior at Radford University, saw her friend Ross Ashley regularly in the past few weeks. The two used to work together as stagehands at the university’s Bondurant Auditorium, and he’d walk her home after late-night productions. Perry said nothing had seemed amiss with Ashley. No drugs. No money problems. No mental-health issues that he spoke about. Read full article > >

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Va. Tech gunman described by Radford classmate as a ‘typical college kid’

“These programs have worked in the past. Republicans know they’ve worked in the past. But when you have a goal, your only goal is to follow your leader. And that leader, my friend Mitch McConnell, his goal is to defeat Obama. Of course they don’t want to do anything that’s constructive.” –Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Oct. 17, 2011 Read full article > >

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Harry Reid’s claim that the GOP won’t ‘do anything that’s constructive’

Liam Fox insists he is fully focused on his job as defence secretary following fresh claims about the role played by his friend Adam Werritty.

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I’m back to normal working – Fox

Ferran Adria looks tired and distracted. He’s milling around Westend Bistro by Eric Ripert , waiting for his friend and former acolyte Jose Andres to arrive, so we can start our interview proper. Adria’s dress is casual, almost thrown together: a gray T-shirt and black jacket that match his thinning salt-and-pepper hair. He has a paunch that protrudes from his jacket, a professional hazard. Read full article > >

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Ferran Adria follows the path of what’s next

In the Ritz-Carlton Hotel meeting room in Georgetown, Will, a cancer survivor, and his friend Seth are talking to a reporter: WILL: It’s been six years, cancer-free. SETH: He’s still in remission, though. WILL: Still in remission. Read full article > >

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Finding comedy in cancer

Rob Jones and his friend Ivan Kander grew up in western Loudoun County making movies together. Kander shot comedies, action films, school projects — all kinds of stories — with a clunky old camcorder, always starring Jones. “I always wanted to be the person telling the story,” Kander said. “Rob always wanted to be the person in the story.” Jones joined the Marine Corps and became a combat engineer. Last summer, while searching for IEDs in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan , he triggered an explosion that blew off most of his two legs. Read full article > >

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Marine from Loudoun County stars in documentary about recovery

One evening last month, my friend Rachel texted me from a Starbucks, where she was hanging out while waiting for the locksmith to show up. She’d returned from a day at work to find she had accidentally locked her keys in her car. Bummer, I said. “Also, I left the headlights on,” she said. Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Raising stupidity to an art form

On the evening of Sept. 8, Chamica Adams and a friend planned to attend a $10, open-bar happy hour at the District Lounge and Grille, a popular Adams Morgan hangout. So when Adams picked up her friend, according to her attorney, the two had worked out a plan that her friend would serve as the designated driver for the evening. Over the next 90 minutes, while partying at the bar and restaurant in the 2400 block of 18th Street NW, attorneys say Adams had three drinks: two Tequila Sunrises, a combination of tequila and orange juice, and a green zombie, OJ with four types of rum, including a splash of 151-proof rum. Read full article > >

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Md. woman gets 3 years in fatal Adams Morgan drunk driving crash

The funeral of a man shot dead with his friend while on holiday in Florida is to take place in his home town of Northampton later.

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Adapted from a recent online discussion. Ask your friend if she wants to be one of those people I hear from almost daily, who love their kids and like and respect their spouses, but feel stuck because there’s no love in the marriage; they’re more like roommates. The roommate feeling makes the idea of staying in the marriage unbearable, but the fondness, the respect and the kids make the idea of leaving the marriage unbearable. Plus, many people do marry for average only to meet someone who genuinely suits them better. Then what will she do? Read full article > >

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He’s a good man. But he’s not a hottie.

After David Foster Wallace took his life in 2008, his editor, Michael Pietsch, traveled to the author’s home in Claremont, Calif., to go through what remained of his unpublished writing and to see what kind of shape it was in. It would have been surprising had the prolific Wallace — who wrote essays, short stories and journalism in addition to novels, and whose previous novel, “Infinite Jest” (1996), was more than 1,000 pages long — not left something behind for his friend to retrieve.

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David Foster Wallace’s ‘Pale King’: Plot takes back seat to mood and ideas

Britain is an “all-weather friend” to Afghanistan and will remain involved in the country after troops leave in 2015, David Cameron says.

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Cameron pledges Afghan friendship

What fate awaits the man who denied the friend request here? Two cousins in Long Island got into a spat over a denied Facebook friend request-which ended with one cousin mowing the other down with her van. Melanie Spanopoulos, is accused of running her…

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Facebook Spat Leads to Car Rundown

I understand why people want politicians to be nicer to each other on cable television. It’s not an overwhelming concern of mine, but I understand it. However, please don’t tell us that the corrosive state of political discourse in this country has much of anything to do with the shootings in Tucson. This is the latest information on Jared Loughner’s interior life; it does not seem as if he has been operating under the influence of Roger Ailes: The new details from Mr. Gutierrez about Mr. Loughner — including his philosophy of anarchy and his expertise with a handgun, suggest that the earliest signs of behavior that may have ultimately led to the attacks started several years ago. Mr. Gutierrez said his friend had become obsessed with the meaning of dreams and their importance. He talked about reading Friedrich Nietzsche’s book “The Will To Power” and embraced ideas about the corrosive, destructive effects of nihilism — a belief in nothing. And every day, his friend said, Mr. Loughner would get up and write in his dream journal, recording the world he experienced in sleep and its possible meanings. “Jared felt nothing existed but his subconscious,” Mr. Gutierrez said. “The dream world was what was real to Jared, not the day-to-day of our lives.” And that dream world, his friend said, could be downright strange. “He would ask me constantly, ‘Do you see that blue tree over there?’ He would admit to seeing the sky as orange and the grass as blue,” Mr. Gutierrez said. “Normal people don’t talk about that stuff.”

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Blue Trees and Orange Skies, Or, the Mind of Jared Loughner