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Driving up Massachusetts Avenue beyond Dupont Circle and Sheridan Circle one quickly comes across Embassy Row — the expanse of real estate stretching up towards the National Cathedral occupied primarily by the embassies and residences of the many countries that maintain diplomatic relations with the U.S. And while the houses and buildings speak of stately tradition, what happens within may not. Law students at American University’s Washington College of Law are taking to the courts…

Editor’s Note: With the breaking news out of Chile that a retired army chief suspected of human rights violations under dictator Augusto Pinochet has flung himself from a 18th floor balcony at a Santiago apartment tower to his death (say that in one breath?), we thought it was odd timing that we were working on a profile of a monument remembering another violent passage from the Pinochet era right here in D.C.: The Embassy Row…

Now that Ivorian mobs are ruling the streets of Abidjan (with machete-armed locals looking for French nationals and the French downing the entire air force of Cote d’Ivoire), DCist laments the surge of violence in the troubled West African nation. With the latest flashpoint, we’re curious what’s going to happen to the long-troubled embassy of the West African country on Massachusetts Avenue near Sheridan Circle. Long an eyesore, construction on the Ivorian embassy has been…

Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry couldn’t make a Sudan Campaign protest at the Sudenese Embassy yesterday because of a bad foot, but pledges to make another one on another day. As DCist has reported, numerous politicians, religious figures and ice cream’s Ben and Jerry have been arrested at the embassy, located on Massachusetts Avenue near Sheridan Circle. Barry is running for the D.C. City Council, trying to reclaim is old ward seat in Anacostia….

Anyone who’s anyone in the human rights sector seems to be getting arrested these days at the Sudanese Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue near Sheridan Circle. Just yesterday, the founders of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream were arrested on the embassy steps protesting the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Dafur region, something the House of Representatives classified as “genocide” in a recent resolution. Who will be next? Crosswalk.com says the arrests are becoming “trendy.” Those arrested so…