From The Huffington Post: The news of his passing came as quite a shock, particularly because I've recently moved to Washington DC and since I've yet to install a TV or internet in my new place, and have been largely consumed with tracking down lost luggage and missing movers, I haven't been as connected to current events as I typically like to be. If not for a text from my sister, I might not have heard the news at all.
DC, I'm discovering, is a city with an almost irresistible momentum. On my second day in town I found myself at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner where I heard speeches from the likes of Senator Rand Paul, the Daily Show's Larry Wilmore and perhaps most memorably Congressman Anthony Weiner, who is shockingly hilarious in a very Brooklyn way.
I hadn't known about the Correspondents dinner until I received a generous impromptu invitation from some of my new colleagues in town and having just arrived from Los Angeles "sans luggage," I had to make swift moves in order to find a same-day tux rental and get geared up in time to make my first DC event. Within minutes of arriving I found myself speaking with one of Secretary Clinton's deputies at the State Department about some of their Public Diplomacy initiatives.
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