The Maryland men’s basketball team has lost starting point guard Pe’Shon Howard for the rest of the season after the sophomore tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during practice Thursday. Read full article > >

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Even though I didn’t know Yeardley Love, I feel that we had a lot in common. Our early lives were both marked by privilege. We both discovered and tested our strength in the burgeoning world of female athletics. We both went away to college — looking forward to bright futures as strong, able women — and were drawn to charismatic athletes from similar worlds of affluence and entitlement. Read full article > >

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Yeardley Love’s story — and mine

Police chiefs everywhere say that smartphone robberies are rocketing. They’ve offered cash rewards, set up decoy crews in subway stations and urged iPhone owners to be wary. But the robberies keep coming. Now, police in the Washington area and elsewhere are expressing their frustration in plain terms, publicly asking regulators and wireless-network operators to allow stolen devices to be shut down remotely through unique identification numbers within them. Read full article > >

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Smartphones’ remote shutdowns would reduce robberies, Lanier says

Police chiefs everywhere say that smartphone robberies are rocketing. They’ve offered cash rewards, set up decoy crews in subway stations and urged iPhone owners to be wary. But the robberies keep coming. Now, police in the Washington area and elsewhere are expressing their frustration in plain terms, publicly asking regulators and wireless-network operators to allow stolen devices to be shut down remotely through unique identification numbers within them. Read full article > >

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Smartphones’ remote shutdowns would reduce robberies, Lanier says

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Tears rolled down George Huguely’s face and his shoulders shook as he watched the videotape of his statement to police on the morning he was charged with murdering Yeardley Love. His wailing sounded in the courtroom from a TV screen as he repeated dozens of times “she’s not dead” and “there’s no way she’s dead” in the 25 minutes after detectives finally told him Love was dead. Jurors leaned toward the screen to watch, with one wiping her eyes. Read full article > >

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George Huguely’s videotaped statement played for jury

Republicans are expressing fresh concerns that Mitt Romney is limping toward the presidential nomination, suffering new blows at the very moment he needs to grow stronger if he is to take on President Obama in November. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign stuck in lukewarm

The small airport that houses what some here call Smithfield’s “dirty secret” lies just beyond the town’s outskirts, where tobacco warehouses and car dealerships give way to pine forests and then, abruptly, an imposing 10-foot-high fence. Read full article > >

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Ten years later, CIA ‘rendition’ program still divides N.C. town

“When you include the number of people who have quit looking for work because they’re convinced the Obama administration’s economy is so bad they can’t find a job, it jumps up to about 12 percent. When you include the number of people who have part-time jobs who wish they had a full-time job, it’s at 16 percent or 17 percent. I mean, this is an administration which has actually shrunk the workforce fairly dramatically. In the last year, it’s the lowest male participation rate in the labor force since the 1940s — so right after World War II.” Read full article > >

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The unemployment number: Is Gingrich right that it’s flawed?

Back in August, Texas Gov. Rick Perry — a man who appeared to have a serious chance at becoming the next president — was saying his state would treat Ben Bernanke “pretty ugly” if he didn’t stop printing money. But Bernanke’s reception in front of the Senate Budget Committee was quite a bit, well, prettier. “I believe when history has been written, you will be a critical figure,” enthused Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). “Your role has been prominent in preventing the complete collapse of the financial system. For that I am grateful.” And Nelson wasn’t alone. The hearing quickly turned into a total Bernanke lovefest. Read full article > >

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A bipartisan Bernanke lovefest

John Wall hunkered down into his defensive stance, looking over his shoulder for New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler. Trying to anticipate a screen, the Washington Wizards point guard jumped back as Knicks counterpart Jeremy Lin did a crossover dribble. And before Wall could turn his head, Lin was already blowing past him toward a wide-open lane. Read full article > >

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Wizards vs. Knicks: Jeremy Lin and Tyson Chandler outduel John Wall and Washington

If you are not prepared to go to war, you cannot threaten that “nothing is off the table” as you search for diplomatic solutions. Thus there are completed plans, updated daily, at Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv and at the Pentagon for carrying out attacks on Iranian facilities in a last-ditch effort to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Read full article > >

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At the Pentagon and in Israel, plans show the difficulties of an Iran strike

Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, one thing is increasingly clear: Boy, do the Republicans miss communism. For Republicans, being anti-communist didn’t merely mean opposition to the Soviets and their ideology. That kind of anti-communism was all but universal in the United States, from the Republican right to the small, democratic socialist left (and encompassing European socialists as well). For the 45 years after World War II, however, anti-communism was also the Republicans’ ultimate wedge issue in U.S. politics. Read full article > >

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A scaled-back ethics bill headed toward likely passage in the House on Thursday despite complaints from senators that Republican leaders had jettisoned several key provisions that won overwhelming Senate support last week . Read full article > >

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UN Chief Ban Ki-moon says the Arab League plans to revive its mission to Syria and accuses Damascus of stepping up “war on its own people”.

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Veteran singer June Tabor wins four prizes at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in Salford, three of which are shared with her collaborators The Oysterband.

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Singer Tabor sweeps folk awards