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...McAfee, former religious liaison for the Clinton White House, may have the most original idea for you: the church at Fort Myer, the Army base just across the Potomac in Arlington, Va. "I grew up an Army brat," she says, "and I think the Obamas could solve a lot of potential problems by going to a military chapel. They wouldn't have to worry about security because it's already on an Army base. It would fit in with Michelle Obama's commitment to military families. The congregation is racially diverse, because it's drawn from members of the military...
...Arlington County, Va., training session for poll workers on Halloween, the 60 people who showed up were handed a 109-page manual and asked to take a seat. The crowd included a middle-aged man in a business suit, an elderly woman walking with a cane, a mother and son, and a woman wearing a sexy-maid costume...
...Dress professionally. "Be conscious of your personal hygiene," the Arlington trainees were told. "Wear comfortable but clean and decent clothing. Nothing revealing...
...like and respect each other and their opinions," Ray Mulliner, a longtime Hormel adviser, told me recently. "It's nothing more than like-minded donors getting together to share strategies." When I mentioned that similar organizations on the right had received press scrutiny - I was thinking of the Arlington Group, a coalition of movement conservatives - Mulliner angrily rejected the comparison: "You have no reason to be curious about this. You're going to write a piece that's going to start a fire that needs to get put out, and it's going to cost a lot of money...
...finished, caught off guard by the subprime crisis. Such bedroom communities have been the worst hit in the state by the economic downturn; before the market plunge, high gas prices and highway congestion topped the list of concerns for those commuting to Washington or the northern Virginia cities of Arlington and Alexandria. This is the new face of Virginia - and the South - one where white working-class voters are being replaced by booming Hispanic and Asian populations and white college students outnumber white seniors 21% to 13%, according to a new Brookings Institution study...