Apr 12, 2007
When Calamity Recedes, Life Must Go On
Early in Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams, a film from Bosnia-Herzegovina, a woman tearfully recalls the day Serb soldiers stormed her Sarajevo home, ordering her and her family – whose faces she says she has now forgotten – to leave. She’s part of a support group for women who lived through the mid-1990s genocide that killed at least 100,000 and displaced the better part of two million people. Another woman in the room suddenly…
Feb 09, 2005
Will Federal Lands Be Ceded to District?
(Written by DCist contributor Martin Austermuhle) The Post reports today that President Bush’s proposed budget for 2006 includes funds to study the prospects of relocating the Coast Guard Headquarters, now located in Southwest, to the 300-acre St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast, as well as the possible construction of a federal bioterrorism and forensics lab on the 67-acre site of the former D.C. General Hospital. District officials expressed cautious optimism, noting that both could serve to…