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Land Barren: Japanese Billionaire Is Raising Eyebrows, Razing Houses

Land Barren: Japanese Billionaire Is Raising Eyebrows, Razing Houses

Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series on Japanese real estate investor Genshiro Kawamoto an…

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Land Barren: Who is Genshiro Kawamoto?

Land Barren: Who is Genshiro Kawamoto?

Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series on Japanese real estate investor Genshiro Kawamoto a…

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Land Barren: Since 2005, Dozens of Violations at Billionaire's Properties

Land Barren: Since 2005, Dozens of Violations at Billionaire's Properties

Editor's Note: This is the last in a three-part series on Japanese real estate investor Genshiro Kawamoto and…

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Tulsi Gabbard's Leftward Journey

Tulsi Gabbard's Leftward Journey

WASHINGTON - "Gabbard" is a loaded name in Hawaii politics, synonymous with steadfast socially conservative v…

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Could Hawaii's 2nd District Go From Most Liberal to Most Conservative?

Could Hawaii's 2nd District Go From Most Liberal to Most Conservative?

WASHINGTON - Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann stands out as the most socially conservative Democrat in th…

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By tweeting about a developing story, could you be inciting a riot?

By tweeting about a developing story, could you be inciting a riot?

You're probably not going to like this, but we're facing bigger Twitter problems than @GuyAdams having his ac…

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I Can’t Be the Only One Who Loves Dulles Original

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By Adrienne LaFrance Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
A couple of years ago, squinting into the morning sun on a Dulles International Airport people mover after a red-eye from London, I found myself chatting with a flight attendant. Looking at the tired travelers packed in around her, she said in her British accent that she always dreaded flying through Washington.
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Thank God for Mel Brooks

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By Adrienne LaFrance Verified
| The Atlantic Verified
If you want to understand Mel Brooks, and I mean really understand him, a good place to start is with Nikolai Gogol’s unfinished masterpiece Dead Souls. This is the 1842 novel that Brooks, at his most sentimental, has returned to again and again and again. If you know even a little bit about Gogol and a little bit about Brooks—each is a brilliant, obsessive, absurdist maximalist in his own way—this connection will make immediate sense.
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Use It or Lose It

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By Adrienne LaFrance Verified
| Reader Supported News
Freedom of speech, and of the press, can be guaranteed only if Americans exercise their rights. Even in an age of unintended metaphors, few can compare to the scene that unfolded one winter morning five years ago on a street corner in downtown Washington, D.C. A group of men gathered in front of the seven-story building at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street Northwest, just a short walk from the Capitol, and prepared for an act of careful destruction.
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