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"Metro spokesman Steven Taubenkibel says the transit agency needs to replace an entire switch in the tracks at Pentagon City over Labor Day weekend. The repairs will require prep work that will slow down trains significantly after 10 p.m. starting this Sunday. Other repairs are likely to cause delays for those riding Metro to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport over Labor Day weekend."

—no author listed, "Latest D.C. news, sports, business and entertainment," The Associated Press, August 6, 2009.

"Dan Aykroyd signing autographs and posters at the Pentagon City Costco on Saturday afternoon. The 'Saturday Night Live' alum (black shirt, vest, jeans) was promoting his new wine from a Canadian vineyard. Who knew? We figured him for a beer guy, too."

—Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, "No Ring on Her Left Hand," The Washington Post, September 14, 2009, p. C03.

“Prosecutors on the case clashed with a special counsel who sharply criticized them for questioning Lewinsky without her attorney present during a pivotal Jan. 16, 1998, interview at a Pentagon City hotel.

“I wouldn’t have touched her with a 10-foot pole,” said the lawyer hired to examine the episode, Jo Ann Harris, breaking her silence about her findings on the effort to lure in Lewinsky for questioning. “The minute she says, ‘Can I call my lawyer?’ you stop…. And when she says it for the sixth or seventh time, you really stop….There are limits.”

—Josh Gerstein and John F. Harris, “Monica's back—says Clinton lied,” Politico, December 17, 2009.

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