02-11-2010, 02:25 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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The Snowpocalypse: February 2010
And so, on that fateful day, it had begun: They caused us to turn against each other, en masse... Oh! the horror.
2,000 join in snowball fight at Dupont Circle in D.C.
The Dupont Circle battle began with the burst of an air horn, then snowballs began raining in every direction. Hundreds watched from the perimeter of the circle, standing on park benches and snapping pictures with their phones. Others coordinated mass launches of snowballs toward the circle's fountain, which a thick mass of people seemed to be trying to defend. People shrieked, bellowed, ducked, ran and laughed -- a lot.
"We're running out of snow!" yelled one young combatant. "Impossible!" cried another. As if to prove it, he jumped up and grabbed a tree limb, causing a fresh supply of ammunition to fall to the ground.
 
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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