Summary
Here's the biggest little story from last month: Former first lady Laura Bush is the honorary chairwoman of an effort to restore the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Anyone who has been to the capital in the past 20 years or so knows why: The National Mall is a national embarrassment.
It is a weed-choked, scrubby strip of green that functions, for all intents and purposes, as the nation's front lawn. Stretching from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, the mall sets off some of the nation's most moving and popular sites the way that rust sets off a pearl.See the full content of this document
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Its broken sidewalks and stagnant pools tell visitors something about us -- s...
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