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How Good Is the Washington Monument?
Our critic takes a walk through the Washington Mall.
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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.