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Marion Barry

Last Saturday, Washington Mayor Marion Barry, left town last Saturday, on a personal hiatus, he said, to recover from a spiritual and physical breakdown. He says he took "inventory" of himself and found that he needed spiritual healing because he began to see "tell-tale signs of spiritual relapse and physical exhaustion." Where do these code words come from , though? Robert Siegel talks with Washington Post editor Richard Leiby (LIBE-ee) about the incorporation of "reformation and transformation language into DC politics.

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