Sepideh Sarreshteh of Falls Church and her father, Daryoush Sarreshteh, in a photo taken several years ago. Daryoush Sarreshteh died Nov. 8 in his daughter's home, two days after what his family says was a harsh five-hour interrogation at Dulles Airport. (Courtesy Sepideh Sarreshteh) On Election Night last month, Daryoush Sarreshteh, 73, and his wife Sakineh, arrived at Dulles International Airport after 11 hours of flying from Tabriz, Iran, where he was once the mayor. They were looking forward to seeing their daughter and granddaughter in Falls Church. Sakineh Sarreshteh is a naturalized U.S. citizen and Daryoush Sarreshteh had a green card, though he had not been in this country in three years.

The three-year absence apparently caught the eye of someone at Customs and Border Protection at Dulles, because “legal permanent residents” are supposed to be, well, residents. They took the Sarreshtehs into the back and began to question them. According to Sakineh Sarreshteh, this involved a great deal of shouting and intimidating in English, which neither understood. The detention and interrogation lasted for more than five hours, with their confused family waiting elsewhere in the terminal, and it seemed to stagger Daryoush Sarreshteh. He emerged just before midnight, pale and fearful, his wife said.

Two days later, he suffered what appears to be a sudden heart attack and died in his daughter’s home in Falls Church. His family believes the interrogation by the Customs officers killed him.

“They took him from us,” Sakineh Sarreshteh said the other day, speaking through her daughter, Sepideh Sarreshteh. She said she believes the forceful interview was fatal, “because of the five hours of stress. He’s not going to come back. Please don’t do this to other parents and innocent people.”

Customs officials don’t believe they acted inappropriately.

“Customs and Border Protection empathizes with the grief this family is feeling toward the untimely loss of Mr. Sarreshteh,” spokesman Stephen Sapp said. “We wish to assure them that Mr. Sarreshteh’s admissibility review was of a routine nature, and that CBP strives to treat all travelers with respect and in a professional manner.”

Sepideh Sarreshteh and her mother, Sakineh Sarreshteh of Iran, hold the passport of Daryoush Sarreshteh, who they say was interrogated for five hours after landing at Dulles Airport last month. Two days later, he apparently had a heart attack and died. (Tom Jackman - The Washington Post)

James Allison spent nearly two years either living in his pickup truck or in homeless shelters in Northern Virginia in 2009 and 2010. While he did, he wrote poetry to capture the experience, and the poetry has now been published. (Tom Jackman - The Washington Post) Four days in my truck motel

the hands of time moving backwards

my life stalled in reverse

— from “Life in Reverse,” by James Allison

Throughout his life, James Allison always wrote poetry. Filled dozens of notebooks with it, but never published anything as his life wound from northern Indiana to northern California to Northern Virginia.

The cover of the poetry book "Dark Waters" by James Allison, written while he was homeless in Northern Virginia in 2009 and 2010. (James Allison - Amazon.com) Then in 2009, at age 55, he suddenly had a dramatic, compelling subject: homelessness. His own. He was living in his 1999 Mazda pickup truck, spending most of the next two years parked in church or shopping center parking lots, and living during the coldest months in homeless shelters.

Sitting in the driver’s seat of that pickup truck, often in the morning, Allison would pull out a pen and a notebook and record what he saw, what he felt and what he feared. He eventually found a job and a place to live, and this year he published “Dark Waters,” a volume of poetry which captures the despair, and the moments of hope, of living on America’s streets in the 21st century.

The Shadowood condominium complex, on South Lakes Drive in Reston, has been ordered to stop charging fees for rules violations because its original master deed doesn't allow it. The court ruling has implications for condo and homeowner associations across Virginia. (Elizabeth Razzi - The Washington Post)

UPDATE, Monday, 9 a.m.: In Saturday’s condo board elections, Shadowood’s owners defeated both the incumbent secretary and treasurer, replacing them with two new officers. The next election, for board president Olivia, is in March.

ORIGINAL POST: In Reston, there is a condominium complex called Shadowood that has written itself into Virginia history. For years, the Shadowood Condominium Association imposed fees for things like calling the management office or having the wrong color blinds. It towed tenants’ cars for unpaid fees — on the day before Thanksgiving. It turned off the heat or air conditioning to apartments of owners who were in arrears or in violation of its many rules.

Last year, a Fairfax County judge permanently enjoined Shadowood from doing any of that stuff. The association appealed to the state Supreme Court, using its own members/victims’ money to pay its lawyers. This summer they lost there too, enshrining Shadowood in Virginia law under the concept that you can’t make up rules and impose fees if they are not in the development’s original master deed. That ruling has earth-shaking consequences for thousands of condo associations across the state, real estate lawyers say.

So many of the owners of the 450 condos in Shadowood, at the intersection of South Lakes and Soapstone drives, are interested in changing their association leadership. But the officers who run Shadowood, in particular longtime board president Brian Olivia, are still in charge. An election is scheduled for two of the five officers on Saturday, but with an interesting set of rules for who may run, and it will be interesting to see if the vote changes anything.

Olivia is the target of a lot of ire, but he defends his positions calmly and in detail. He, and his lawyers, believed that state law allowed condo associations to impose fees in order to keep people from dumping trash or paying late, but that the Virginia courts reached a new, different view. Now, Olivia says, he has no way to enforce the rules in Shadowood, late fees are not being charged, and “it’s the Wild West around here.”

Michael Farris, president of Patrick Henry College in Purcellville in western Loudoun County. He is shown here in his role as chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, speaking about his opposition to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Capitiol Hill last month. (Chip Somodevilla - GETTY IMAGES) A new blog launched this past summer called “Queer at Patrick Henry College,” written anonymously by several former students of the Purcellville-based institution for home-school grads. Without any notoriety, the blog might have toiled in relative anonymity, exploring the idea of homosexuality at a Christian college where it is, uh, frowned upon.

But then the president and founder of the school, Michael Farris, sent a threatening note to the bloggers, saying he would sue if they didn’t stop the unauthorized use of the college’s name. And now, Queer at Patrick Henry College is out there, blogospherically as well as sexually.

Trevor Baratko in the Loudoun Times-Mirror has the full story, and he spoke with both Farris and the anonymous bloggers. Farris told him homosexuals can’t exist at Patrick Henry and that he thought the blog was a hoax. The site apparently is blocked on the Patrick Henry wi-fi network. Baratko then met the bloggers and saw at least one genuine Patrick Henry diploma.

Last week, Farris sent the blog a note on its Facebook page, saying, “This page is in violation of our copyright of the name Patrick Henry College... you must remove this page at once. On Monday, we will began (sic) the legal steps to seek removal from Facebook and from the courts if necessary.”

The next day, Farris retracted his threat, also publicly on Facebook. The combination of threat/non-threat attracted the attention of other blogs, New York magazine and others, as well as a number of supportive messages for the blog on Facebook. The blog’s goal is to help create a support network for lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgendered-questioning (LGBTQ) students at Patrick Henry. We’ll see if they take advantage of this brief burst into the spotlight.

Wolfe Glick of McLean as he appears in the new Pokemon video games. In real life, he does not have blue hair. Yet. (Pokemon Company International) You may recall that Wolfe Glick, a junior at McLean High School, is the two-time reigning U.S. champion of the Pokemon video game, and in August he came in second in the world championship. Now, he has reached a level never before seen in Pokemon: He has been placed IN the actual game.

The real Wolfe Glick, 17, playing in the Pokemon World Championships, masters division, last August. He came in second, and earned a spot in the new video version of the game. (Pokemon Company International - PCI) This is not another remake of “Tron” or an episode of “The Simpsons.” For the first time, Pokemon has named some of their in-game trainers (the humans who actually direct the pocket monsters, or “Pokemon”) after the actual top players of today. Players of Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 can download the game for Nintendo DS or 3DS, reach the world tournament in Driftveil City, and then take on a series of actual champions such as Glick and three-time champ Ray Rizzo, and go against Glick’s actual lineup of Cressella, Heatran, Thundurus, Hitmontop, Exeggutor and Terrakion. Pokemon people know what all that means. My in-house consultants, ages 7 and 9, say it’s awesome.

“It’s really a huge honor,” said Glick, now 17. “It’s cool to be immortalized in your favorite video game. It’s beyond cool.” Glick said he didn’t receive any money, but “I don’t really feel a need to be paid. I don’t play the game to win money.” He did not get to see the game until it was released last month, and he said the in-game human characters all look the same.

Glick is still running track, acting in school productions like “Les Miserables,” and doing the other stuff teenagers do. And he’s got a regional Pokemon tournament coming up next month as he resumes his quest for a national title. Now how would you like to play against a guy who is actually IN the game? That’s got to be a little intimidating.