Word: va
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...crying face was the cover of a D.C. political paper. But that, she says, was nothing compared with the tears she had shed three years before, when Tipper drew scorn from libertarians and artists for her campaign to clean up music lyrics. Within the walls of their Arlington, Va., home, Tipper's efforts led to fights. "It was like the embarrassment everyone has if their parents pick them up from the eighth-grade dance," Karenna says. "It was like that on acid...
...Office of Public Safety has set aside $1 million in federal money to help schools identify potential bullies and aid their victims. Beginning this fall, teachers statewide will use a curriculum created at Wellesley College that tackles bullying as early as kindergarten. Administrators at Liberty Middle School in Ashland, Va., started a similar program last year. Each week teachers meet with a group of 14 students and perform activities designed to promote interpersonal skills. Administrators have also created zero-tolerance disciplinary guidelines...
...Tower Club. "The synergy of telecommunications and the Internet has created a boom." And this is a boom with cultural as well as economic consequences. The thousands of companies that dapple suburban Maryland and Virginia don't face the Pentagon or the Treasury anymore: they face Fairfax County, Va., where the real money is. "The best thing governments can do is stay out of the way," says a prominent northern Virginia venture capitalist, voicing a common if ironic sentiment in the heart of the region that created the Internet. But official Washington isn't about to disappear. Administration officials, Senators...
...cares? Last year a local techie in blue jeans and a sports shirt walked into Ferrari of Washington, a former furniture dealership located discreetly in a glass-and-brick office park in Sterling, Va. The buyer knew exactly where he wanted his new car to go: in his living room. Sales manager Ralph Cestero knew just what to do. He collected the $225,000 price on the 550 Maranello and arranged delivery. "We took the car over," Cestero relates, "and saw that he had removed a wall of his house and built a large ramp up to the living room...
...venture-capital funding, the political battle over high-tech immigration policy, e-commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading the dotcom wealth in northern Virginia. "Shannon is absolutely the No. 1 tech reporter in Washington," says Christie Hart, marketing manager at the Draper Atlantic venture-capital firm in Reston, Va. "She takes all the high-tech jargon, the acronyms, the slang, and makes it readable and understandable." Born in New York City and raised in Maryland, Henry studied English at Boston University and got a master's degree in journalism and public policy from American University in Washington. Five years...