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Baseball fans observe a moment of silence for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before the start of a game between the Rakuten Golden Eagles, a Japanese professional team based in Sendai, northeastern Japan, and the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The 2011 pro baseball regular season kicked off on Tuesday in Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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Players of the Rakuten Golden Eagles, a Japanese professional team based in Sendai, northeastern Japan, observe a moment of silence for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami before their baseball game against the Lotte Marines in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The 2011 pro baseball regular season kicked off on Tuesday in Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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In this March 11, 2011, photo released on Monday, April 11, 2011, by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the access road at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is flooded as a tsunami hits the facility following a massive earthquake in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Brandon Webb's hiring by the D.C. Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services only added fuel to the fire in his mother's scandal, Ms. Webb says.

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Carolina Hurricanes' Erik Cole (26) and Tampa Bay Lightning's Martin St. Louis struggle for possession of the puck during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, April 9, 2011. Tampa Bay won 6-2. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Residents of Mapleton, Iowa, on Monday clean up debris left by a weekend tornado that roared through the town of 1,200 with 130 mph winds. At least 14 people suffered minor injuries, but no one was killed. (Associated Press)

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Evacuees observe a moment of silence Monday at 2:46 p.m., exactly one month after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. (Bloomberg)

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Mark Miles, Chairman of the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee, responds to a question during a news conference in Indianapolis, Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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Uncontrolled wildfires burn near Fort Davis, Texas, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. A fast-moving wildfire spread to more than 60,000 acres in Presidio and Jeff Davis counties, where it destroyed about 20 homes in Fort Davis. (AP Photo/Billy Marginot)

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Buddhist monks pray at a tsunami-destroyed area in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, April 11, 2011, one month to the day after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the city. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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From left, Jordan Crowe, Raegan Fulmer and Natalie White pray on Friday near a stretch of Highway 129 in Duncan, S.C., where Aaron Shawn Hill, 18, died in a car crash. The teenager was killed in a wreck on a stretch of highway named in memory of his father, a soldier slain in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski places a candle at the memorial dedicated to his twin brother, Lech, and the other passengers who died in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Banners and placards are held aloft during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw on Sunday marking the first anniversary of the plane crash in Russia that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Poland is still deeply divided over the investigation into the crash. A year later, 42 percent of Poles now see Polish-Russian relations as "bad." (Associated Press)

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A Polish officer salutes at the site of the plane crash in western Russia that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and more than 90 others a year ago. A ceremony marked the anniversary. (Associated Press)

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A Japanese Buddhist monk prays at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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Injured people are carried out of a shopping mall after a shooting in Alpen aan den Rijn, 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, April 9, 2011. A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon at a shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least four people dead and wounding 16 others, Dutch officials said. (AP Photo/www.regio15.nl)

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Colorado Avalanche captain Adam Foote announces his retirement from hockey at a news conference in Denver on Friday, April 8, 2011. Foote, 39, is wrapping up his 19th season in the NHL. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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Japanese people line up to buy food at a supermarket with no electricity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, on Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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The Christina, a boutique condominium with 14 renovated homes in the District's Brightwood neighborhood, offers two-bedroom homes ranging in price from $198,900 to $269,900.

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The Remington Place model has a center-island kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite counters, a walk-in pantry and a breakfast area.