Pepin . Soltner . Torres . Lucchetti . Richman . Andres . The names represent a culinary pantheon in America — the kind of icons fit to rise up out of those “Iron Chef” silos embedded in the stage. Until recently, all but the last superstar chef of that pack also answered to the title of dean, as in leaders of New York’s International Culinary Center , nee French Culinary Institute. Read full article > >

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You can call him Dean Jose Andres

Although I would rather the Muslim community had been a bit more cautious before rushing to judge the Alawadi case as a hate crime, the reason so many Muslims and non-Muslims hastily attributed the murder to Islamophobia is that we all recognize that anti-Islamic rhetoric in America today is vociferous enough to lead to this kind of tragedy. Alawaidy’s murder followed at the heels of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, and we began to question whether racial and religious stereotyping had gone too far.

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On Shaima Alawadi, Family Violence, and Hate Crimes

Tim Stanley says Mitt Romney may be exactly the kind of candidate the Republicans need in 2012

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Like the documentaries “Kony 2012” and “Bully,” the grim speculative fantasy “The Hunger Games” has been a Web sensation in recent weeks, garnering the kind of pre-opening buzz and advance ticket-sales that make the most cynical Hollywood studio suit giggle like a schoolgirl. Read full article > >

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‘The Hunger Games’ brought faithfully, if un-spectacularly, to life

Like the documentaries “Kony 2012” and “Bully,” the grim speculative fantasy “The Hunger Games” has been a Web sensation in recent weeks, garnering the kind of pre-opening buzz and advance ticket-sales that make the most cynical Hollywood studio suit giggle like a schoolgirl. Read full article > >

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‘The Hunger Games’ brought faithfully, if un-spectacularly, to life

In the crime-scene photographs, the grill of the SUV is awash in blood and the suicide bomber’s leg lies severed on the road. These are not the kind of images you’d expect to see in a politician’s scrapbook. Read full article > >

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In Pakistan, surviving suicide bombings is part of a political family’s life

The majority of the baseball world had deemed the Washington Nationals the odds-on favorite to land first baseman Prince Fielder , the kind of free agent slugger who could transform them from a team on the rise to a contender that had arrived. And then Tuesday afternoon came, and the Detroit Tigers made a stealth bid, one the Nationals had no intention of approaching. Read full article > >

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Prince Fielder chooses Detroit Tigers over Washington Nationals

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — In a small, borrowed office a block from where he once led Iceland , Geir Haarde skips the small talk and gets right to the point. “This is not the kind of situation I want to be in,” says the 60-year-old former prime minister, dressed in a tidy gray suit and blue tie. “I am getting famous for all the wrong reasons.” Read full article > >

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Geir Haarde, Iceland’s ousted leader, awaits trial over role in financial crisis

But before he does, Lucas has one last mission. He wants to prove that with “Red Tails,” he can still make the kind of movie everyone in the world will want to see.

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George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits

For a young company, Constellation Theatre sure can feel old. Its current offering, a revival of George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man,” is the kind of unremarkable production you’d expect to encounter in the repertory of a fussy little troupe in some provincial outpost where the pastor’s bored wife needs a pastime. Read full article > >

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In a Silver Spring living room, on a Friday afternoon, in the kind of damp, chilly weather that really calls for a good book, three women are plotting. One of these women is Valerie Tripp. “I really think we want to say that it’s as okay for boys to be into design or dance” as they are into bugs or bicycles, she says. “No interest or passion is the sole property of any one person or gender.” Read full article > >

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‘American Girl’ author creating series for boys

Last month, The Post’s Vanessa Williams wrote a story about what Yale University professor Elijah Anderson calls a “cosmopolitan canopy,” a space where diverse groups of people mingle comfortably. We asked readers where in our region they experience this kind of diversity; following here and on Page C3 are a few of their responses. Read full article > >

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Destinations in the Washington area’s ‘cosmopolitan canopy’

Leading Republican strategists say that if he is serious about a presidential race in 2012, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is running out of time to build the kind of national campaign and fundraising organization he will need. But, they added, the tough-talking governor immediately would become a top-tier candidate with a real chance of winning the GOP nomination. Read full article > >

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For Chris Christie, a big opening but challenges await

The Federal Reserve’s latest push to revive the economy this week had a key aim: Drive low mortgage rates even lower to strengthen the ailing housing market and help cash-strapped borrowers get out from under higher-interest loans. But that attempt to throw a lifeline to struggling homeowners faces a stark reality: Despite historically low interest rates, the very people most in need of the kind of relief that could come from refinancing their homes have found it difficult to qualify. Read full article > >

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Fed drive to lower mortgage rates may fall short

Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and former Obama administration official, announced Wednesday morning via Web video that she will challenge Republican Sen. Scott Brown for his seat in Massachusetts. Warren began her first day of campaigning at a subway stop in South Boston — an area filled with the kind of conservative Democrats that Warren, a 62-year-old Oklahoma native,must win over. Read full article > >

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Elizabeth Warren announces bid for Senate seat in Massachusetts