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President Biden has promised to put science back at the heart of the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet the man he has chosen as his White House coronavirus czar is not a scientist, but rather a management consultant and investor known to former Obama administration staffers as “Mr. Fix It” for his ability to turn around failing government projects.
Jeff Zients will be the coordinator of the president’s COVID-19 task force, a position that will give him oversight of everything being done across the federal government to tackle the virus, including deciding travel restrictions and managing the vaccine supply chain.
Photograph by Andrew Beaujon.
Lee Highway may get renamed for Mildred & Richard Loving. Woodrow Wilson High School could be renamed for its first Black teacher. The Washington Football Team renamed itself Washington Football Team. A profound reckoning over the United States’ awful racial history made 2020 a big year for rebranding relics of Washington’s past. Herewith, some more of the things around town that got renamed or are in the process of (maybe? probably?) being renamed.
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A DC wine bar initially abandoned plans to name itself after a Tagalog word for a group of friends, but then it decided to stick with it.
Hanukkah kicks off with new look due to pandemic Grocers, delis adapt to challenges to provide food while events are conducted virtually Follow Us
Question of the Day Rabbi Levi Shemtov, from left, Jacob J. Lew, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov light the National Chanukah Menorah on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 20, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times) . more > By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Peter Shelsky, owner of the deli Shelsky’s of Brooklyn, says his chef has been stooped over a vat of oil day-after-day preparing for Hanukkah this year.