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: An airport design that worked when it opened

displayComments:true!Philip Kennicott wrote an interesting review of the new PBS program “Ten Buildings that Changed America” [“Kennicott wrote, “No mention is made of how locals mostly loathe the moving lounges at [Eero] Saarinen’s Dulles Airport.” When the airport opened, we loved the mobile lounges. The airline timetables showed mobile lounge departure times. We simply crossed the main concourse...

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Editorial Board: IRS shake up had better be thorough

initialComments:true! pubdate:05/17/2013 18:47 EDT! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:5/31/13 6:47 EDT! currentDate:5/17/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:true!to lead the Internal Revenue Service, has a record of shaking up stolid federal bureaucracies. When he gets to his new agency, he shouldn’t hold back.are any indication, the IRS doesn’t just need a shake-up — it requires a veritable...

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Editorial Board: Obama a new Nixon? Oh, get serious.

displayComments:true!STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent, directed from the White House and Justice Department a concerted campaign against those he perceived as political enemies, in the process subverting the FBI, the IRS, other government agencies and the electoral process to his nefarious purposes. Mr. Obama has done nothing of the kind....

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Editorial Board: GOP focus on phony issues misses needed reforms

initialComments:true! pubdate:05/16/2013 19:14 EDT! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:5/30/13 7:14 EDT! currentDate:5/16/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:true!REPUBLICANS AND conservative media obsessed with what they regard as the Obama administration’s scandalous coverup of the nature of the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11 have offered a shifting series...

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Editorial Board: Congress should clarify authorization for war

displayComments:true!THE OBAMA administration’s political and legal authority to wage war against al-Qaeda has steadily eroded. Both liberal and conservative members of Congress have challenged the administration’s lack of transparency in conducting drone attacks against alleged al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Foreign allies as well as adversaries have asked whether the United States...

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Editorial Board: European Union economic crisis grinds on

displayComments:true!to much of the continent — with little prospect of short-term relief. Now comes fresh evidence that hardship is having political repercussions: A,” in which Europeans’ “faith in the European Union as an institution has fallen sharply.”It’s no surprise that only 43 percent of Britons surveyed by Pew expressed a favorable view of the E.U.; Britain has always been aEditorials represent...

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Editorial Board: Burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Virginia

FOR ALMOST A WEEK, the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, remained at a funeral home in Massachusetts because no cemetery or community would accept it. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) was right when he said the search for a resting place had become a “circus” and a disservice to the victims of the April 15 bombing, which killed three people and left more than...

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Editorial Board: Obama administration hopes Putin will deliver Assad

displayComments:true!SECRETARY of State John F. Kerry began his attempt to revive the United States’ Syria policy several months ago by emphasizing the need to “.” The Syrian ruler clearly had no intention of stepping down and saw no need to negotiate a political transition. So, Mr. Kerry said, the United States and its allies would take steps to bolster the opposition so as to alter the regime’s ...

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Editorial Board: Damage to press freedom likely outweighs national security gain

displayComments:true!WHEN THE Justice Department launched its investigation of alleged leaks of national security information by the Obama administration a year ago, we were skeptical. The history of such probes is mainly a tale of dead ends and unintended negative consequences. That this effort to criminalize a leak was launched amid an election-year uproar seemed especially inauspicious.Our forebodings...

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Editorial Board: Ken Cuccinelli wants to scrap local business taxes

initialComments:true! pubdate:05/14/2013 20:31 EDT! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:5/28/13 8:31 EDT! currentDate:5/14/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:true!(at a minimum) in state tax cuts, though he neglects to explain how he would do so without reducing funding for services that rely on state government.— would likely force counties and cities to increase local real estate taxes....

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