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Just a month or so ago, those of us from inside the Loop were getting misty-eyed, remembering the days when Chris Webber and other up-and-coming players came to Washington to play with Juwan Howard. We watched controversy swirl as despite the team's allegedly growing depth, they sank lower and lower in hoop respectability...
...child, Mary Fowler was deeply religious but knew women were unwelcome in the pulpit, so she settled for becoming a deacon. After working as an office manager and raising three children, Fowler "accepted the call" in her 50s. Encouraged by her male pastor, she enrolled at Howard University, where she earned a master's degree in divinity in 1997 at age 63. For the past two years, Fowler has led a congregation of 65 at Mary's Missionary Baptist Church in Washington. Her special mission: unwed mothers. Each female member of her congregation takes a mother and child under...
...19th century. We've seen his type many times before: one of those restless individualists who helped settle the rapidly expanding American continent. Yet the trek he makes during more than 40 years--from Manhattan Island down the Ohio River Valley to St. Louis, Mo., and beyond--in Howard Korder's extraordinary new play, The Hollow Lands, leaves most of the romance behind. The journey is populated by criminals and charlatans and half-crazed messiahs; there are coldblooded shootings that go unpunished, families separated without even a pause for goodbye, dreams that always seem just off the map. "I have...
There is an across-the-board increase in demand, says John Howard, president of the Porter Square Neighborhood Association...
...Certainly no one is against the students in the neighborhood," Howard says, adding that their effect on his Porter Square neighborhood is difficult to determine...