A quotation by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , clumsily shortened when inscribed in granite on his memorial at the Tidal Basin, will be replaced and his full words restored, officials said Friday. Interior Secretary Kan Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis said the correction to the so-called “drum major” quotation will more accurately reflect King’s original meaning in a sermon he delivered two months before he was assassinated. Read full article > >

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Martin Luther King Jr. quotation to be replaced on memorial

The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.

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Cancer Center, in Lawsuit, Says a Doctor Appropriated a Discovery

Ask Kevin Green about his research into Wellington Villa, south of Alexandria, and his eyes light up mischievously. A resident of the mile-long enclave tucked between the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Potomac River a few miles south of Old Town, he rattled some of the area’s long-timers by challenging a beloved piece of neighborhood lore. Read full article > >

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Where We Live: Wellington Villa

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea’s power brokers publicly declared Kim Jong Un the country’s supreme leader for the first time at a massive public memorial Thursday for his father, cementing the family’s hold on power for another generation. A somber Kim, dubbed the Great Successor, attended the memorial as he stood with his head bowed at the Grand People’s Study House, overlooking Kim Il Sung Square, named for his grandfather who founded modern North Korea. Read full article > >

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Kim Jong Un declared ‘supreme leader’ of NKorea at father’s memorial in mass show of support

Eighty years after it was dedicated in front of President Herbert Hoover and World War I hero Army Gen. John J. Pershing, the once dilapidated and neglected D.C. War Memorial reopened Thursday after a months-long restoration. The elegant, columned, 47-foot-tall domed structure just west of the World War II Memorial honors the 20,000 Washington residents who served in World War I, and the 499 who died during the 1914-1918 conflict. Read full article > >

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D.C. memorial to World War I reopens

Two hundred fifteen bridges in the Washington region are structurally deficient, including three of the five major bridges that cross the Potomac into Washington, according to a report released Wednesday. The group Transportation for America said the Key Bridge, the Memorial Bridge and the 14th Street Bridge all need immediate repair. More than 215,000 vehicles cross them on an average day. The 14th Street Bridge is scheduled to undergo a complete overhaul in the next four years. Read full article > >

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Key Bridge, 14th St. Bridge among 215 area bridges rated structurally deficient

President Obama urged the nation Sunday to celebrate the dedication of the memorial to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by continuing to press for the goals and hopes of the “black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams” and helped make the nation “more perfect.” Read full article > >

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President Obama speaks at MLK Memorial dedication

National September 11 Memorial finally opened.

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Ground Zero Marks 10 Years

It’s only fitting that during the week we were to dedicate the memorial in Washington to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., an earthquake would hit the region and the entire East Coast would be bracing itself for a hurricane.

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Martin: MLK memorial richly deserved

In the 1960s, as the Civil Rights Movement grew and as the civil rights workers moved from community to community, a strong body of music grew also. A number of songs were directly linked to the freedom songs, born in slavery, and kept alive through the informal oral traditions and the melodies of the southern black churches. Some were updated for the fight against segregation. Others responded to a tragedy in a community, and were written out of anger or love for a person on the civil rights battlefield. As the dedication of the memorial to Rev. Martin L. King approaches, Arts Post reviews music from the period. Read full article > >

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Music of the Movement: Bernice Johnson Reagon and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov loses a defamation case against the head of Russian human rights group Memorial in a verdict that surprises observers.

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Chechen leader loses libel case

“ The Hangover Part II ” may have been characterized by most critics as a swap-Tyson’s-tiger-for-a-smoking-monkey rehash. But that didn’t stop summer moviegoers from buying tickets. The sequel to 2009’s “The Hangover” earned $105.8 million over the long Memorial Day weekend, making it the No. 1 movie in the country. With its lucrative Thursday screenings, its total gross now stands at an estimated $137.3 million. Read full article > >

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‘Hangover Part II’ wins weekend box office, reaffirms America’s love of a rehash

President Barack Obama travels to Arlington, Va., and places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns on this Memorial Day. (May 30) Read full article > >

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Obama places wreath at Tomb of the Unknowns

President Obama attends a ceremony at the military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, as America honours its war dead on Memorial Day.

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Americans pay tribute to war dead

Politicians will be in plentiful supply this Memorial Day as the ramp-up to the 2012 presidential election begins in earnest.

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Memorial Day brings out candidates