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June 28, 2011 Building collapses / Media / Publicity / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

How to ‘Scandalize’ your book group—either the online or in-person kind

The Solomon Scandals is fiction—a mix of suspense, tragedy and satire—but more than a little history lurks within in it.

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September 3, 2010 Building collapses / GSA / Sen. Ribicoff / Skyline Plaza / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

The Solomon Scandals novel vs. online gossip about Skyline Towers and the intel community

The Solomon Scandals is a novel, but two actual events helped inspire it and are the topics of online gossip

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November 29, 2008 Uncategorized

The ACTUAL Telegram?

A friend and I had just seen a movie with a soft-spoken and obscenity-free editor, a balding Boy Scout of

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November 29, 2008 Sen. Ribicoff

Sen. Ribicoff’s spooky investment

Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, the late Connecticut senator who also served in President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet, secretly held a $20,000

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