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Green & Glover: Book club

Sep. 16, 2009
Book club Two highly anticipated reads with Washington back stories made their debut this week. The first is "True Compass," the memoir of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy's sons Teddy Jr., 47, and Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island Democrat, 42, have been making the...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler