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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Johnny Depp, Lady Gaga, Chris Rock, Miley Cyrus and other celebrities.
 
Get up close and personal with famous faces, including George Clooney, Natalie Portman, Brooke Shields and other celebrities.
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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including George Clooney, Natalie Portman, Brooke Shields and other celebrities.
 
The 83-year-old writer, composer, director, actor and producer becomes a Kennedy Center Honoree.
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The 83-year-old writer, composer, director, actor and producer becomes a Kennedy Center Honoree.
 
 
A look at the career of the revered actor and director, one of this year's Kennedy Center Honorees.
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A look at the career of the revered actor and director, one of this year's Kennedy Center Honorees.
 
Adored by critics and revered by his fans, Bruce Springsteen adds another highlight to his career when he receives a Kennedy Center Honor Sunday night.
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Adored by critics and revered by his fans, Bruce Springsteen adds another highlight to his career when he receives a Kennedy Center Honor Sunday night.
 
On the day he turns 89 Dave Brubeck will be a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, just another award that confirms his status as the great living jazz legend.
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On the day he turns 89 Dave Brubeck will be a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, just another award that confirms his status as the great living jazz legend.
 
Legendary opera singer Grace Bumbry broke down racial barriers and set standards in a genre, where during the early years of her career, she was one of very few minorities.
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Legendary opera singer Grace Bumbry broke down racial barriers and set standards in a genre, where during the early years of her career, she was one of very few minorities.
 
Sparks didn't immediately fly for Mohammed Soleimani and Shahrzad Rostami, but his persistence would eventually win her over.
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Sparks didn't immediately fly for Mohammed Soleimani and Shahrzad Rostami, but his persistence would eventually win her over.
 
Amid charges of marital infidelity, golfer Tiger Woods, known as one of the world's most private and image-conscious sports stars, finds his personal life exposed and scrutinized like never before.
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Amid charges of marital infidelity, golfer Tiger Woods, known as one of the world's most private and image-conscious sports stars, finds his personal life exposed and scrutinized like never before.
 
In the Auto-Tune era, DJs and clubgoers eschew Top 40 for vintage sounds from Otis Redding to James Brown to Tina Turner.
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In the Auto-Tune era, DJs and clubgoers eschew Top 40 for vintage sounds from Otis Redding to James Brown to Tina Turner.
 
The Hubble Space Telescope's newest images show a violent and awesome universe where stars far outshine our humble earth.
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The Hubble Space Telescope's newest images show a violent and awesome universe where stars far outshine our humble earth.
 
Whether you're just starting or just finishing your holiday shopping, we've got you covered. Here are our picks for some of the best gift ideas in town.
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Whether you're just starting or just finishing your holiday shopping, we've got you covered. Here are our picks for some of the best gift ideas in town.
 
Lots of retail giants stock piles of identical pendants and glitzy cocktail rings. But an undercurrent of lesser-known designers and local boutiques are focusing on the elusive One Great Piece. Here, a sampling of these splurge-worthy baubles.
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Lots of retail giants stock piles of identical pendants and glitzy cocktail rings. But an undercurrent of lesser-known designers and local boutiques are focusing on the elusive One Great Piece. Here, a sampling of these splurge-worthy baubles.
 
While making gift lists, consider toys that will get kids off the couch and on their way toward the 60 minutes of daily physical play recommended for all children and adolescents.
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While making gift lists, consider toys that will get kids off the couch and on their way toward the 60 minutes of daily physical play recommended for all children and adolescents.
 
Details continue to trickle out about Virginia couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi and the president's state dinner.
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Details continue to trickle out about Virginia couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi and the president's state dinner.
 
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The Healing Fields
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A President's Retreat
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Newseum
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A selection of the best images by Post photographers this year.

Featuring the best work by multimedia journalists and interactive designers at washingtonpost.com.

Five years after the Taliban fled Kabul under the cover of night, signs of fragile but real progress abound. Simple pleasures once prohibited -- song and dance, the flutter of kites -- have resumed. And for the first time, women and girls once repressed under Taliban rule are able to take better control of their lives and their futures.

The Aswan High Dam is the starting point for a 690-mile journey along the river, through Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.

Alberto Korda was born Alberto Diaz Gutierrez in Havana in 1928, the same year as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Korda captured the celebrated photograph of Che during his work as personal photographer to Fidel Castro. In the book 'Cuba by Korda,' available Sept. 15, 2006, rare photos of Fidel Castro and Guevara, as well as the stories behind the photographs.

In the 25 years of the epidemic, treatment has improved, but the issues of social isolation, and, often, economic instability remain.