Posts Tagged ‘room’

US webcam student to learn fate

Monday, May 21st, 2012

A US student who used a webcam to secretly film his room-mate in a gay encounter is set to be sentenced by a judge.

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High-tech vs. no-tech: D.C. area schools take opposite approaches to education

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

The sixth-graders are lighting up the room with their MacBook Airs, flipped open to Google, Wikipedia and YouTube for a physics assignment. Their classroom is decked out with touch-screen whiteboards, tablets and powerful WiFi connections able to handle a school full of children online at once. Read full article > >

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The Case of the Missing Cultural Identity

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Her chins quivered and arms jiggled as she knowingly bellowed so everyone in the room would catch her remark, “Oh, so you’re one of THOSE girls, haan?” One of those girls? Umm, sure.

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A court’s conundrum: When same-sex partners want to split

Monday, April 9th, 2012

When Jessica Port showed up in court Friday to pursue a divorce, she first stopped to consult with her lawyer. Then she crossed the room to hug her ex, chatting happily until it was time to be seated. Read full article > >

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Eva Rodriguez: Why the health-care law might stand at the Supreme Court

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

This much is clear after two hours of Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of the individual mandate , which I was in the room to hear: The president’s health-care bill won’t rise or fall on a question of law, but on how the majority of justices define the health-care market. Read full article > >

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A bedroom makeover for newlyweds

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

After Rachel and Rob Gibson married in October, they wanted their bedroom to feel “different and special.” They’ve lived in their Bethesda apartment since 2009 and call the room a “hodgepodge of old furniture” from their single days. Read full article > >

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A bedroom makeover for newlyweds

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

After Rachel and Rob Gibson married in October, they wanted their bedroom to feel “different and special.” They’ve lived in their Bethesda apartment since 2009 and call the room a “hodgepodge of old furniture” from their single days. Read full article > >

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Greenspan image tarnished by newly released documents

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

The leaders of the Federal Reserve went around the room saluting Alan Greenspan during his last major meeting as chairman of the central bank Jan. 31, 2006. Then Timothy F. Geithner, at the time the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now Treasury secretary, made a prediction. Read full article > >

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Mike Shanahan leaves Redskins’ final team meeting to troops

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

When players filed into the auditorium at Redskins Park for a final time Monday, they spotted a man at the front of the room who was about to share quite a story — one that had nothing to do with the disappointing season, an offseason that promises plenty of change or what the next year might hold for a beleaguered franchise. Read full article > >

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With the Plan B decision, the Obama administration broke its promise

Friday, December 9th, 2011

It was a proud moment, in the East Room of the White House, on a beautiful spring day in March 2009. In the room were leading scientists, Nobel laureates, the president’s science adviser and heads of organizations that had fought in support of scientific integrity in research and in government. I was excited to have been invited to watch President Obama sign a memorandum on scientific integrity . Read full article > >

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Arkansas football player, 19, dies

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

University of Arkansas authorities say they see no “suspicious circumstances” surrounding the death of a 19-year-old football player who was was found dead in his room Sunday.

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Chicago police say former Weezer bass player Mikey Welsh discovered dead in hotel room

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

CHICAGO — Former Weezer bass player Mikey Welsh, who also found success in his second career as an artist, died in a Chicago hotel room, police said Sunday. Chicago spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said Welsh was supposed to check out of the Raffaello Hotel at 1 p.m. Saturday. When he didn’t, hotel staff went to his room, entered it and found him unconscious and not breathing, Kubiak said. Read full article > >

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Italy’s Berlusconi in ‘sex boast’

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Italian newspapers publish transcripts of phone calls in which PM Silvio Berlusconi allegedly boasts of women queuing up outside his room.

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National Pinball Museum looks at the game’s history

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Colorful lights blink frenetically in the darkened room. Noisy bells and voices fill the air. Dozens of pinball machines vie for your quarters. At first glance, it’s clear: This glorious pinball arcade is worthy of the greatest wizard. But take a closer look and you’ll see that this room is also an interactive shrine and just one corner of the 14,000-square-foot National Pinball Museum in Georgetown. Read full article > >

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Chevy Chase pays tribute to wife, calls out Robert Redford, at National Wildlife Federation gala

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Leslie E. Kossoff Jayni and Chevy Chase meet a wallaby, courtesy of National Wildlife Federation naturalist Dave Mizejewski.Something kind of fun happened at the National Wildlife Federation’s 75th anniversay gala Wednesday night when Chevy Chase realized he was suddenly the most famous person in the room.

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