Independent voices from the TWT Communities
A new gasoline rationing plan that lets motorists fill up every other day went into effect in New York on Friday morning, as utility crews made some progress erasing outages that put thousands of homes and businesses in the dark in a region still reeling from Superstorm Sandy.
Motorists increasingly desperate for a fill-up fumed in long lines at gas stations and screamed at each other Friday as fuel shortages in Superstorm Sandy's wake spread across the metropolitan area.
A Jewish World War I veteran was allegedly spared — for a while, at least — from Nazi persecution thanks to a letter that claimed Adolf Hitler wanted him protected, a German Jewish newspaper reported.
There is a popular cartoon that has been making the rounds of real estate appraisers' offices for the past decade or so, featuring views of a home from the perspective of different pairs of eyes. The homeowner sees the home one way, the buyer, another, the real estate agent, yet another, and the appraiser, another way yet.
In many neighborhoods throughout the Washington area, nothing says community more than streetwide decorating, when just about everyone on the block gets together and starts stringing up holiday lights. But decorating for the holidays can take on a life of its own, whether you are coordinating your displays of twinkling white lights with your neighbor or taking a more individual approach with pulsating colors and inflatable snow globes on the lawn.
Well, you're standing on the stage listening to Beverly Sills' mother coach the great soprano in Russian dialect, and somehow you wind up at a birthday party for her - the mother, that is - and eventually you get to know Beverly very well, to the point of lunching with and receiving correspondence from her, as well as various confidences, and so it goes, apparently, if you're Garry Wills.
Construction will begin next summer on a stalled project to rebuild four D.C. libraries that have been closed for more than two years, city officials announced yesterday.
Construction will begin next summer on a stalled project to rebuild four D.C. libraries that have been closed for more than two years, city officials announced yesterday.
