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When the stern, inquiring face of Katharine Graham graces the cover of your paper, a certain irony starts to penetrate every line of copy you review. There she sits, frozen in time behind her desk at the Washington Post, surrounded by portraits of presidents, dignitaries, celebrities and the like. On my desk, i have a snapshot of a goat and a forboding pin-up of Lincoln. Graham printed the Pentagon papers. She navigated Watergate. She ran the Washington Post for over two decades. i’ve barely been alive two decades, and last issue i misprinted the dates of a community meeting by a full year (See “Errata,” page 9). Still, there is an awe being among such great company, and it is enlightening and humbling to familiarize yourself with the greats of your trade. A painter studies rembrandt. A poet reads Frost. An editor looks to Katharine Graham. i am grateful for her life and work, and it is an honor to be able to tell her story and champion her legacy into the future.-Ari Post, Editor

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Tens of thousands of progressive activists gathered at the Lin-coln Memorial for the One Nation Working Together rally on

Saturday Oct. 2, 2010. One Nation Working Together is a social movement of individuals and organizations committed to put-ting America back to work and pulling America back together.

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Timothy Basil Ering signs a book for Paige Young of Kennett Square Pennsylvania. The 10th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Bill Loggins (Vienna VA) and Rick Orli (Arlington VA) are mem-bers of the 82nd Orta Janissaries from the Sienkiewicz Society Living History

Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with Elizabeth Warren, Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the Capitol in Washington DC on September 29, 2010.

1. A giant polar bear was spotted walking down Constitution Ave. on Capi-tol Hill in Washington DC, but it didn’t escape from the zoo. Supporters of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, calling themselves the Alaska Wilderness League, gathered with Arctic animal mascots and this large-scale, two-person polar bear puppet named Snowflake – as a visual representation of the wildlife that begin their lives on the Arctic Refuge and its Coastal Plain on September 28, 2010. The Arctic Refuge is a national treasure and one of our last remaining great wild places – it provides crucial denning habitat for the endangered polar bear, and breeding grounds for numerous species of birds, as well caribou, muskoxen, wolves, grizzly bears, Dall sheep, and many other species. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the refuge.

2. A Turkish businessman, murat Aksu, succeeded in entering the guinness Book of Records by preparing the longest shish kebab in the world. The shish kebab which cost about $3-4,000 and measured 18 feet 7 inches, was distrib-uted to the visitors. Oct 3, 2010 3. Rev. Al Sharpton at the Lincoln memorial for the One Nation Working Together rally on Saturday Oct. 2, 2010.

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Change in Direction for WNO

Washington National Opera (WNO) saw change last week, in response to General Direc-tor Placido Domingo’s September 27 announce-ment that he would not be renewing his contract when it expires in June. As a result, Tuesday saw the appointment of Philippe Auguin to the position of music director of the Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Domingo has served as General Director since 2003 and brought the Washington Nation-al Opera to a new level by bringing on national stars and doing big productions. However, the company still struggles financially, and the ab-

sences of Domingo, while performing and di-recting at the Los Angeles Opera, did not help. Domingo will complete his commitments with the Washington National Opera through June 2011, which included the timely appoint-ment of new Musical Director Philippe Auguin. This came after Heinz Fricke retired a month ago and announced he would be unable to over-see the latest production of Strauss’ opera, “Sa-lome,” due to health problems. Auguin will make his first appearance as mu-sic director October 7, the opening night of “Sa-lome.” He made his debut at Washington Na-tional Opera conducting “Gotterdammerung,” in November 2009. “From the moment I stepped onto the po-dium, I felt a special rapport with the talented musicians of the Orchestra,” stated Auguin. “Considering the outstanding success of our collaboration last fall, and the exceptionally warm reception we received from Washington audiences, I am convinced that the Orchestra and I have a great future together, one that will be marked by artistic excellence and growth. I am honored and delighted to accept this direc-torship, my first in the United States.”

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National geographic goes Live

The fall season of “National Geographic Live!” events is in full swing, featuring presentations by world-renowned explorers, scientists, pho-tographers and performance artists. The lineup includes concerts, documentary screenings, in-sightful discussions and more. Among the upcoming events are The Last Man on the Mountain with author Jennifer Jor-dan (October 7), My Father, the Captain with ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau (October 8), and The Last Speakers with linguist K. Da-vid Harrison (October 12). The Last Man on the Mountain, shares its ti-tle with Jennifer Jordan’s new book, which tells the story of American socialite Dudley Wolfe. In 1939, Wolfe perished attempting to summit K2—abandoned at 25,000 feet. Wolfe was its first victim, and his remains were only recently discovered by Jordan in 2002. Her presentation promises to be both entertaining and moving. For more information on these and other Na-tional Geographic events, visit Events.Nation-alGeographic.com. All of the programs being offered will occur in the Grosvenor Auditorium of the National Geographic Museum.

Jewish Literary Festival Approaching

The 12th Annual Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein

Jewish Literary Festival will run from October 17 to the 27 throughout DC, and as always it promises to highlight the year’s finest Jewish literature and authors. Many of these emerging and established writers earned accolades from The Washington Post and The New York Times. Their selected works span an assortment of genres, including history, humor, politics, and children’s fiction. The festival opens at the Washington DCJCC, on October 17 at 7:30pm, with a staging of “Strangers in a Strange Land,” directed by Der-ek Goldman. The performance highlights this year’s overarching theme: the Jewish Diaspora. Another event sure to attract a diverse audience will be the film screening of “Sayed Kashua: Forever Scared,” on October 18 at 7:30pm. In it Kashua, an award-winning author and screen-writer, reflects upon the everyday challenge of being both Arab and Jewish. Closing night, October 27 at 7:30pm, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein will discuss the problems of living rationally when religious impulses fill the world around us with Ron Charles, Senior Editor of The Washington Post’s “Book World”. Critics agree, Goldstein’s recent novel “36 Ar-guments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction” is quite a read. Plenty of other authors will be featured daily, over the course of the festival.For information on obtaining a festival pass, ticket prices, locations, and times visit www.WashingtonDCJCC.org/LitFest or call (202)777-3251. Join the Washington DCJCC in perpetuating Jewish identity while bolstering DC’s bond with its Jewish community.

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That small room in the National Portrait Gallery hous-ing “One Life”, the series of exhibitions begun since the completed renovation of the Reynolds Center, may be one of the biggest rooms in the whole building. “One Life”, after all, attempts to squeeze into a small,

square room a summation of an entire American life with a mini-mum of artifacts, paintings and photographs. Not an easy task when you’re dealing with the previous tenants. There was Walt Whitman, the outsized poet of the outsized American experience; Thomas Paine, the inspiring, iconoclastic political pamphleteer of inspiration for the American revolution; there was most recently Elvis Presley, king of rock and roll, an entire American cultural invention unto himself. There was Abraham Lincoln. No one sentence would suffice. There was the first Katharine, the grand dame and Dame of American movies, Katharine Hepburn, or Katharine the Great. And there is today the other Katharine, Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, who made the Post one of the truly great newspapers of the world in what may arguably have been the last golden age, the Indian summer of the newspaper business. Probably no previous subject of the “One Life” series means quite so much to the current residents of this city as this one – even Lincoln or Elvis. Katharine Graham, as a prominent figure, as a publisher of a national newspaper, as a deeply powerful and influential national and international figure, rose to real promi-nence in 1963 when she became the publisher of the Washing-ton Post after the shocking and tragic suicide of her husband Phil Graham. At sea in a role she never anticipated, even though she grew up in the world of the Post her father had bought in the 1930s, she learned quickly and adapted, overcame painful shyness, and in a unique partnership with Managing Editor Ben Bradlee, guided the paper in short order through the risky and courageous business of printing the Pentagon Papers (though the New York Times fell into the same category), exploding Wa-tergate onto the front pages of a major newspaper, and after-wards, surviving an almost ruinous printers’ strike in the 1970s. She was, as it turned out, tough. That’s certainly the impression you get from the first photo-graph you see upon entering the exhibition – the famous, iconic, dramatic, almost forbidding black and white portrait taken by Richard Avedon in March of 1976. She stares at the camera sternly, challengingly, even quizzically. Her arms are folded. Her mind appears made up about some-thing. She has, for want of a better word, a certain gravitas there, earned honestly and with great difficulty in a world completely dominated by men, even in the ‘70s. It’s not an entirely inviting image to an exhibition, but it takes care of summing up Graham as, by that time and certainly for the rest of her life, one of the most powerful women—people—in the world. “It’s not something you could leave out,” says Curator Amy Hen-derson, who normally organizes exhibitions on popular culture icons like…say, the other Katharine, Katharine Hepburn. “The im-age is iconic, and it shows that toughness, that courage which let her accomplish what she did. It’s a way in. But we wanted to do a lot more. We wanted to show a little bit of what made Katharine Graham the woman and person she became.” The “We” Henderson refers to was a notable duo of consultants who knew Graham intimately. Pie Friendly, a researcher at the National Portrait Gallery, knew Graham socially through her hus-band and father-in-law, journalist and writer Alfred Friendly Jr., and former Post Managing Editor Al Friendly, respectively. Liz Hylton, Graham’s personal assistant, provided access to photos and memorabilia and anecdotal material. “It was just us three ladies,” Henderson said. “The Washington Post and the Graham family were tremendously helpful.” “We all knew each other,” Friendly said. “You would always cross paths through the paper, schools, parties and social occasions. I respected and admired her tremendously. She was a woman in a man’s world, truly. She was straight forward, honest. You cannot imagine what it must have been like for her, but she did more than persevere. She made the Post a great newspaper. It was just tremendous fun working on this, it really was. And mind you, she fired my father-in-law and replaced him with Ben Bradlee.” Henderson was obviously limited in terms of space, so there’s a lot more that could have found its way into a larger exhibition. But what resides tells her story, fleshes her out, and portrays Gra-ham in full.

at the National Portrait Gallery

PHILIP AND KATHARINE GRAHAM’S WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHby Edward Jean SteichenGelatin silver print1940Sheet: 25.4 x 20.3cm (10 x 8”)Mat: 45.7 x 35.6cm (18 x 14”)Donald E. Graham© Joanna T. Steichen. Used with permission

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“It’s interesting going through these photo-graphs—of which there were a lot,” Henderson said. “You get a sense of a woman, a girl, who was raised in a privileged world, was raised in her father’s newspaper business [working as a reporter]…who met and married a man she ab-solutely adored, and wanted nothing more than to be a wife, a mother, raise her children and do good deeds, and perhaps be a social leader. She never expected to be what she became. It re-quired reinvention of the most difficult sort.” When Henderson talks about Graham—whom she never met, she will tell you—cer-tain words recur with regularity, as they do when you talk with Pie Friendly: “forthright-ness, honesty, integrity, courage, resilience.” These are, of course, all qualities that elicit great admiration, without necessarily reveal-ing a human being so much as a statue. The pictures and artifacts, carefully selected by the trio of women, accomplish that job, even if the two videos (for the NPG’s Living History se-ries by former director Mark Pachter) in which Graham talks about Watergate and the Penta-gon Papers don’t entirely do so. There are many pictures, for instance, in which some form of the Graham sternness of the Avedon image are repeated: Graham with her editors, Graham at a meeting of the Associated Press National Board, Graham unsmiling in lots of photos. But there are also a lot of portraits of Graham smiling, laughing with her head thrown back, and the smile and laugh show a woman trans-formed: a fun loving person in the moment. It’s a pretty dazzling smile she’s got there. And not one easy to acquire given the charismatic but self-absorbed nature of the dazzling Agnes Ernst Meyer, her mother, shown in a haunting photograph taken by no less a photographer than Edward Steichen. Her father, Eugene Meyer, while he encouraged and obviously

loved his daughter, was rarely accessible and often distant. And there was the kinetic, hyp-notic Phil Graham, who became publisher of the Post and absolutely swept Katharine away, until his instability began to overtake him. What did she achieve? Take a look at the AP meeting portrait: a semi-circular made up en-tirely of men who look somewhat like the cast of “Mad Men” in late middle age, minus cock-tail and cigarettes. And there is Graham, alone as a woman, but uncommonly self-assured. In her memoir, she wrote that she accepted life in a man’s world but then ended up leading a change in that world. Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, and the Post’s growing reputation as a writer and reporter’s paper under Graham’s leadership, steered the paper into a stratosphere occu-pied by few publications. Both the Pentagon Paper publication and, even more so Watergate, were dangerous times for the Post, but also thrilling and mem-orable times. In a way, the Post helped bring down a president, and the movie version of the Woodward-Bernstein saga “All The Presi-dent’s Men” did not change that perception. Graham herself began to become an influen-tial social lioness, and you can see her light up like a Christmas tree with Jacqueline Kennedy in New York, and at the black and white ball thrown by Truman Capote in her honor. The infamous—therefore treasured—show-down with then-Attorney General John Mitch-ell, in which he blustered that Kate had gotten her tit in a wringer, resulted in a gift of a min-iature wringer and small jeweled replicas of a wringer and a breast, which she wore proudly and with grand humor. They are among the artifacts on view, which also include the first hand-written page of her Pulitzer Prize-win-ning memoir and the mask she wore to Tru-man Capote’s black and white ball. The strike was difficult for Graham and in squashing the union she acquired, unfairly said a Post reporter, a reputation for ruthless-ness. “Not so, not so,” said Robert Kaiser, who wrote the official story on the strike for the Post, “without any interference from her.” “That was undeserved. She was the ideal publisher if you were a reporter.” For most of us who were not Posties, the paper nevertheless was a daily presence in its headiest period, and Graham, for George-towners, living in her mansion, was an un-crowned queen. When she passed away, the funeral at the National Cathedral and subse-quent wake at her home seemed like one last gathering for which she had called upon the world to come. And the world came. The exhibition, which gets all the right things in that small room, seems particularly poi-gnant in a time when the idea of great news-papers seems more memory, and a memory without a future at that. You feel almost glad that she’s not here to see the confusion and decline and predicted disappearance of news-papers in the 21st Century. On the other hand, she might have found a way to prevent all that, to persevere. That Avedon picture, that look, those crossed arms seem to indicate that she just might have done it.

KATHARINE GRAHAM GREETING NANCY AND RONALD REAGAN AT AN R STREET ...by Unidentified ArtistGelatin silver printDecember 12, 1980Sheet: 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10”)Mat: 35.6 x 45.7cm (14 x 18”)Estate of Katharine Graham

KATHARINE GRAHAM AND WASHINGTON POST EXECUTIVE EDITOR BEN BRADLEE...by Associated PressGelatin silver printJune 30, 1971Sheet: 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10”)Mat: 35.6 x 45.7cm (14 x 18”)Estate of Katharine GrahamCourtesy AP/Wide World Photos

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Rachel Widder- 301-986-1679; Delia McCormick- 301-977-7273

City SpacesAdams Morgan. Exciting renovated TH with

fabulous outdoor space, rooftop deck with panoramic views, 3 Brs, 3.5 Bas, 2 parking

spaces. $1,150,000Eric Murtagh- 301-652-8971; Karen Kuchins- 301-275-2255

Stately & SpaciousAU/Spring Valley.Sparkling 5 Br, 4.5 Ba colonial on over 1/3 ac w/ new gourmet kitchen/ fam rm, library, exquisite details, scr porch, lg entertain-

ing spaces, 2-car garage, steps to shopping. $1,495,000

Mary Lynn White- 202-309-1100

Spectacular Renovations

Georgetown/ Cloisters. Beautiful 4-lvl brick TH w/ elevator & garage; 4 Brs, 4.5 Bas, 2

frpls, MBR w/ new luxury bath, hdwd flrs. $1,495,000

Guy-didier Godat-202-361-4663

Rooms With a ViewAdams Morgan/ Columbia Hts. The

Imperial. Renov 1 Br apt w/ sweeping views; LR/DR, NEW kitchen w/ s,s,

appls, Icestone counters; spa-like bath, hdwd flrs, huge closets. $305,659

Melanie Friedson- 301-346-9207; Michael Makris- 703-402-0629

Old World Charm

Tilden Gardens.Sunny, spacious 1 Br apt with classic detailing, renovated kitchen, sep din

rm, good closets. Walk to Metro.Beverly Nadel- 202-236-7313; Melissa Brown- 202-469-2662

Sunshine & SpaceCleveland Pk/ McLean Grdns. Sun-

filled apt w/ 3 exposures, redone kitchen, 1 Br w/ updated Ba. Walk to Metro, shops, restaurants, pool.

$339,000Catarina Bannier- 202-487-7177

Modern Luxury & StyleLuxury New Homes Division,

Town of Chevy Chase. this brilliant home offers comfort, luxury and fine finishes from award-

winning Chase Builders- large dramatic rooms, it will take your breath away! $1,999,000

Karen Kuchins- 301-275-2255; Eric Murtagh- 301-652-8971

Sophisticated Styling

Dupont. Spectacular renovated townhouse with open liv rm/ din rm/ chef’s kitchen; 3

Brs, 2.5 Bas, roofdeck, family rm, spacious

in-law suite; 2 parking spaces

$1,599,000Ellen Abrams- 202-255-8219

Brightwood Gem

Sparkling total renovation of classic TH, open 1st

flr has LR w/ gas frpl, din rm, hdwd flrs, kitchen w/ granite; 3 Brs, 2 Bas, fin lower lvl w/ rec rm, home ofc; gar

parking. Walk to Metro. $405,700Shawn Goldstein- 202-329-1493

Elegant & SpaciousKent.Beautifully crafted colonial on a beautiful,

quiet cul de sac: transverse hall. lg liv rm and din rm, library w/ frpl, country kitchen w/ granite counters & island; deck; 4 Brs 5.5 Bas; 2-car

garage. $1,995,000Ellen Rodin- 202-255-9411;

Beverly Nadel- 202-236-7313

True CraftsmanshipFabulous townhome c. 2003,by Gibson Builders w/ 4,400 sqft and 4 flrs of living space has 5 Brs, 4.5 Bas, designer kitchen w/ island, family room

with 10’ coffered ceilings & fieldstone frpl, gorgeous MBR suite; 2-car garage. $1,425,000

Delia McCormick- 301-977-7273

Hillside HavenKent. Perfectly sited colonial

w gracious 1st flr, 4 Brs, 3 Bas, updated kitchen/ family room; finished

lower lvl. $1,200,000Lucinda Treat- 202-251-4000; Penny Mallory- 202-251-6861

Sparkling & SpecialChevy Chase, DC. Inviting Dutch colonial has renov kitchen w/ s.s.

appls, 4 Brs, 2.5 renov Bas, lower lvl private ofc; scr porch, lovely grdn w/

koi pond; garage. $749,000Martha Williams- 202-271-8138;

Rachel Burns- 202-384-5140

City ViewsArlington/ Rosslyn. Terrific 4 lvl TH w/

3 Brs, 2.5 Bas incl 2 MBRs, 2 frpls, renov kitchen, landscaped patio, sep

ofc, parking, views. $699,000Rachel Burns- 202-384-5140;

Martha Williams- 202-271-8138

Elegant EnclaveGeorgetown/ Hillandale.Spacious 3 Br, 3.5 Bath

w/ elevator to all 4 flrs; 2-story LR w/frpl, dramatic MBR, kitchen

w/ bkfst rm, lovely patio; comm. tennis & pool.

$1,425,000John Nemeyer-202-276-6351