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In Oak Bluffs, Mass., sits a summer haven where the black elite go to get away.
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It has been 32 years since Eck and Wayne Winterrowd found a 23-acre woodland at the base of the Green Mountains in Vermont and named it North Hill.
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Afghanistan's voters went to the polls on Aug. 20, 2009, after the top presidential contenders spent weeks holding rallies and campaign speeches. Voter turnout in the capital was noticeably lower than in the 2004 presidential election, possibly due to fears of Taliban attacks.
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A 10 story high tent for the Cavalia Equestrian Show takes shape in an open area of Pentagon City.
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Don Hewitt, the creator and driving force behind CBS's long-running news magazine "60 Minutes" has died at the age of 86.
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Attacks, including two bombings near the finance and foreign ministries, kill dozens of people and wound hundreds in the bloodiest day in Baghdad since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from cities.
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This week's events from around the world, captured in photographs.
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In March 2007, the luxury Jefferson Hotel in downtown Washington closed for major renovations. Since then, the market has changed dramatically, with a brutal recession severely hampering tourism and consumer spending. With millions of dollars invested in upgrades, a big question looms: If you rebuild it, will they come?
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Columnist and political commentator Robert D. Novak died Tuesday, August 18, 2009.
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Some people facing financial stress are attempting to sell burial plots -- often at steep discounts -- to bring in cash.
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Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) has faced countless protesters and jeers at town halls across the state focusing on health care reform. With a democratic primary around the corner, Specter aims to prove his allegiance to his new party while also maintaining his legendary maverick political record.
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The idea of roughing it has taken on a new meaning as amenities such as camp butlers and air mattresses with built-in MP3 players become increasingly common in the woods. Hardcore campers derisively call it "glamping" -- as in a camping experience short on hardship, but long on "glamour."
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Laura Steins lives in a New York suburb where Wall Street's boom years pushed the standard of living to astonishing heights.
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A glimpse at the changing natural environment and how humans may be impacting it.
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A look at this week's amazing moments in sports.
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The 91st PGA Championship, played at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.
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After five months of fruitless job searching, Ohio-resident Janet Morgan found work in a place she never intended: North Dakota.
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The 91st PGA Championship, played at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.
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President Obama stopped in Colorado as part of a tour through a few western states to tout his health-care reform plan and offer a realistic description of what his bill will do.
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Several decades in the making, the first sections of the Intercounty Connector are slated to open in the fall of 2010.
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The fields near Bethel, N.Y. that hosted the Woodstock music festival 40 years ago have become a pilgrimage site for veteran hippies as well as their children and grandchildren.
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The iconic music festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend.
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The 91st PGA Championship, played at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, a member of the Kennedy political dynasty died Tuesday, died August 11 after suffering strokes during the last year. Shriver was instrumental in the creation of several organizations such as the Special Olympics and other charities.
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Madison Marshall, 14, trains for an all-female amateur boxing event at Rosecroft Raceway in Maryland.
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Annette Hibbert wasn't looking for a serious relationship, but then she met Tim Nelson -- and took a chance on love.
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Geese, lions, owls, an Alpaca, seals, tropical fish, March of the Penguins, a monkey and other critters.
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More than 1,300 entries poured into our 10th annual contest, meaning we had some tough decisions to make. From Alaska to Kenya, Italy to India, explore this year's breathtaking winners.
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A Maryland tennis center is testing the idea that almost anyone can be made into a champion.
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The Redskins open their preseason schedule with a 23-0 loss in Baltimore.
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Hazeltine National Golf Club, in Chaska, Minn., hosts the 91st PGA Championship.
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Les Paul, 94, a guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar, multitrack recording and a string of hits, died Thursday in White Plains, N.Y.
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President Barack Obama confers 16 individuals with the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 12, 2009.
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Longtime independent logger Clarence "Sunnyman" Primm is struggling to keep from laying off his crew as the economic downturn continues to ripple through his industry and Alabama community.
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This week's events from around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico and Jordan, captured in photographs.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of John F. Kennedy, devoted her life to helping the mentally disabled and founded the Special Olympics as a showcase for their abilities.
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A new movie notwithstanding, Julia Child's kitchen, reassembled in 2002 after being moved from her Cambridge, Mass., home, is the star attraction at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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As members of Congress meet with constituents during the August recess, strong emotions on proposed health reform are turning town hall meetings into demonstrations and shouting matches during a critical month in the debate.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins her tour of Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, seeking to strengthen relations and aid conflict-torn African nations.
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Islamic law, known as Sharia, was introduced to Northern Nigeria nearly a decade ago. However, few of the reforms many Nigerians hoped for have come to pass.
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Washington-area residents and visitors sought respite today as temperatures soared well into the 90s.
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Typhoons Morakot and Etau hit East Asia, causing some of the worst weather in the region in half a century and triggering floods and landslides.
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Several smaller monuments and memorials around town are being restored this year. One, the statue of Union Gen. George B. McClellan at Columbia Road and Connecticut Avenue, soon will be revealed after several months of work.
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The 4,800-square-foot facility features everything from a gas pump and real car to brick and sand surfaces to help patients in physical therapy relearn everyday tasks. All the murals depict real areas in Baltimore to help patients feel more at home.
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President Obama took a trip to Mexico for a two-day summit of North American leaders on various issues impacting the United States and neighboring Mexico and Canada.
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A look at this week's amazing moments in sports.
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A band of Calvert County volunteers gives more than 50 wounded soldiers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center a chance to get out of their rooms and into boats on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Real Madrid defeats D.C. United before 72,368 Sunday at FedEx Field.
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High school students met with Holocaust survivors to create artwork that will forever remind us of the atrocities of World War II.
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Business is booming at an outplacement firm that teaches companies how to execute mass downsizings and helps guide laid-off employees through the crisis.
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During a recent evening in a conference room at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, a group of job seekers met with Susanne Rhow of the 5 O'Clock Club. The weekly meetings help the job seekers prepare everything from resumes to their "two-minute pitch." The job seekers were looking for work in a range of industries, from art to legal. Some had been laid-off by previous employers and others wanted help in switching careers.
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court on August 8, making her the first Latina and third woman to serve on the nation's highest court. Though Sotomayor faced intense questioning from Republicans, the Senate approved her nomination by a wide margin.
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A tour helicopter carrying five Italian tourists collided with a small plane Saturday over the Hudson River, and authorities believe all nine people aboard were killed.
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Two young men and seven women are the first class of D.C. Scholars from the District's public classrooms who, based on their academic records and on personal interviews, are installed in various offices in the White House and in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Robin Givhan focuses on one of the boys, Clayton Armstrong.
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Every summer, Bill Duggan, owner of Madam's Organ bar in the District, brings 40 city kids to his homes on the Delaware shore, a generous impulse that has become a tradition.
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With some compromise, Monesha Madison and Jonathan Lever made their part-time relationship a full-time priority.
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This week's events from around the world, captured in photographs.
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Action from the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park.
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The ice cream costs, but the joy is free of charge
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A journey into the dark, brutal and surprisingly friendly world of death metal.
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Remembering the life of the writer-director behind '80s teen classics like "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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Hippos, wallabies, squirrel monkeys, a giant python, a foraging flamingo and more.
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Since its creation in 2003, the Green Zone -- a heavily fortified haven in war-torn Baghdad for American soldiers, defense contractors and diplomats -- has been a potent, frequently attacked and sometimes surreal symbol of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
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American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had been detained for nearly five months in North Korea, were reunited with their families on American soil after a carefully negotiated rescue mission by former U.S. president Bill Clinton.
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World War II veterans traveled from Brown County, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., to visit the monuments dedicated to their service during times of war.
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General Motors auto factories in Anderson, Ind., once employed 25,000 people. But as the U.S. auto industry has slumped, the Anderson factories have gone dark.
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"American Idol's" Paula Abdul is calling it quits after eight seasons on the top-rated reality TV talent show.