This is what longtime resident Susan Trinter, editor of the Foggy Bottom News, said in a Washington Post story earlier this year: "There seem to be many more students living off-campus now.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

"It is good.I am enjoying it. I wish I was out there, but they seem to be doing a good job.

VOA: standard.2010.06.13

"There didn't seem to be any sense that the country is in a fragile situation that institutions aren't working."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

"I don't actually expect that there will be a Palestinian state, not because of Israel's recalcitrance but because Palestinians don't seem to really want it,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

There definitely does seem to be an indication that that is happening.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05