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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Kristen Stewart, Colin Farrell and other celebrities.
 
Wednesday's Country Music Assocation Awards in Nashville served as the coronation of Taylor Swift as country's reigning queen. The 19-year-old singer won four awards including the evening's biggest honor, entertainer of the year, becoming the youngest ever to capture the prize.
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Wednesday's Country Music Assocation Awards in Nashville served as the coronation of Taylor Swift as country's reigning queen. The 19-year-old singer won four awards including the evening's biggest honor, entertainer of the year, becoming the youngest ever to capture the prize.
 
Darvin Moon, a logger from western Maryland, is back in the spotlight as one of the two finalists in this year's World Series of Poker No Limit Texas Hold 'em main event.
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Darvin Moon, a logger from western Maryland, is back in the spotlight as one of the two finalists in this year's World Series of Poker No Limit Texas Hold 'em main event.
 
 
Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Jim Carrey and other celebrities.
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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Jim Carrey and other celebrities.
 
Divorce had made Julie Avetta hesitant about tying the knot a second time. Then, she met Andrew Martin and found love all over again.
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Divorce had made Julie Avetta hesitant about tying the knot a second time. Then, she met Andrew Martin and found love all over again.
 
Maryland basketball's Greivis Vasquez is a star in College Park -- and a bright hope back home in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Maryland basketball's Greivis Vasquez is a star in College Park -- and a bright hope back home in Caracas, Venezuela.
 
Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar is the coolest new neighborhood bar on H Street NE, with a funky New Orleans-inspired decor, a lush patio, DJs spinning wide-ranging musical selections and an eclectic crowd.
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Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar is the coolest new neighborhood bar on H Street NE, with a funky New Orleans-inspired decor, a lush patio, DJs spinning wide-ranging musical selections and an eclectic crowd.
 
Soft scarves, cozy sweaters and well-worn boots are showing up on fashionable types from Chevy Chase to Chinatown and everywhere in between. Here, they share their style inspirations.
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Soft scarves, cozy sweaters and well-worn boots are showing up on fashionable types from Chevy Chase to Chinatown and everywhere in between. Here, they share their style inspirations.
 
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Verizon Center Monday night for another evening of rock-and-roll salvation that found the capacity crowd matching Springsteen's boundless energy.
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Verizon Center Monday night for another evening of rock-and-roll salvation that found the capacity crowd matching Springsteen's boundless energy.
 
A look at the former Republican vice presidential nominee through the years
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A look at the former Republican vice presidential nominee through the years
 
At an all-girls chess tournament, area students show they can make all the right moves.
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At an all-girls chess tournament, area students show they can make all the right moves.
 
Jessie Cohen, known around the world as the "panda photographer" for the hundreds of published photos she shot of them at the National Zoo, died Oct. 24 of breast cancer at her home in Silver Spring. She was 57.
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Jessie Cohen, known around the world as the "panda photographer" for the hundreds of published photos she shot of them at the National Zoo, died Oct. 24 of breast cancer at her home in Silver Spring. She was 57.
 
Centreville comes to grips with the destructive grasp of drugs on its young people.
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Centreville comes to grips with the destructive grasp of drugs on its young people.
 
Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Tom Hanks, Alicia Keys, Alec Baldwin and other celebrities.
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Get up close and personal with famous faces, including Tom Hanks, Alicia Keys, Alec Baldwin and other celebrities.
 
Check out how some Washingtonians dressed for the holiday festivities.
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Check out how some Washingtonians dressed for the holiday festivities.
 
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Scene In: Howard Homecoming
At Howard Homecoming's annual Yardfest, Fashion Show and Step Show, students and visitors show their style.

The Healing Fields
The Healing Fields
Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.

A President's Retreat
A President's Retreat
During his presidency, Abraham Lincoln often sought refuge from official Washington in a 36-room retreat on the grounds of Soldier's Home, an armed forced retirement community. A seven-year, $17 million restoration of the historic space known as President Lincoln's Cottage is now complete.

Fashion Weed
Fashion Week
INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.

Newseum
Newseum
An interactive tour of the news history museum that opens April 11 in its new, $450 million building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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MULTIMEDIA: The New Museum Opens in New York - The three levels of gallery space in the New Museum feature bare white walls and flat lighting. The artwork is arranged on cement floors, which have been allowed to crack. Art Critic Blake Gopnik reviews the art.
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.