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Huntsman Girls: CPAC Rejected Us

Real Madrid head the list of the richest football clubs in the world for the seventh year in a row, says a Deloitte survey.

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We’ve got our list of the best events you should check out this weekend . Some of our favorites: the reopening of the French Galleries at the National Gallery of Art, a parade to mark the early days of the Year of the Dragon and Monster Jam at the Verizon Center. Read full article > >

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We’ve got our list of the best events you should check out this weekend . Some of our favorites: the reopening of the French Galleries at the National Gallery of Art, a parade to mark the early days of the Year of the Dragon and Monster Jam at the Verizon Center. Read full article > >

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Plan your weekend: Chinese New Year Parade, French Galleries

What are you going to do with an extra day off? Start making plans for celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day and see our list of the best events this weekend . Some of our favorites: a screwball take on “Romeo and Juliet,” a one-of-a-kind culinary journey and the return of the Ward 8 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade. Read full article > >

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Plan your weekend: ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ a dinner with Carole Greenwood

Fuel is now the top U.S. export. The Associated Press reports that America is on pace to ship out more gasoline, diesel and jet fuel than anything else in 2011. (Aircraft, motor vehicles, vacuum tubes and telecom equipment were next on the list of top exports.) Granted, this is only for refined petroleum products — and those exports are still dwarfed by America’s much, much larger imports of crude oil. Still, it’s the first time fuel has been our top export in 21 years. So how did this happen? Read full article > >

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America’s top export in 2011 was . . . fuel?

You’re swamped with lists. To-do lists, shopping lists, top-10 lists, best-of lists. It’s too much. There’s only one list that matters. That is the List. Capital “L.” The List is an annual Style section tradition dating to 1978 , when former Post fashion editor Nina Hyde began sorting life into INs and OUTs: Read full article > >

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The List is life

Are you a last-minute holiday shopper wondering what to get that political junkie in your family? Boy have you come to the right place. Over the weekend, we asked Fixistas for their favorite political books of 2011 . We got lots of great suggestions on the blog as well as via Twitter and Facebook. We did our best to provide as full a list as possible below. Remember that these are suggestions from readers; we don’t endorse any particular viewpoint represented in these books) Lots of you nominated books that didn’t come out in 2011 so that’s why you don’t see them on the list. Read full article > >

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It’s not too late to get a gift for that barbecue hound on your list. If you need stocking stuffers, consider the basics: pastry brush, long-handled tongs, hard-bristle grill brush. If you want something different, try the ideas below. At this late hour, you might need to pull the ol’ note-in-a-box trick, but most are available in local stores. Read full article > >

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We’ve rounded up our list of the best events this weekend , from a free show by local rock royalty to a celebration of the return of pro basketball. See a few highlights here, and read the full list . “ Billy Elliot the Musical ,” based on the movie about an ballet-loving English boy whose dreams are threatened by his miner father’s disapproval, is beginning a month-long stay at the Kennedy Center. Read full article > >

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Best events this weekend: ‘Billy Elliot,’ Wizards Fan Fest, Fat Trel

Christopher O. Ward’s departure will add to the list of positions that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo must fill.

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Port Authority’s Director, Christopher Ward, Is Said to Be Leaving

A morning mix of entertainment headlines… Tyler Perry is the highest paid man in entertainment according to yet another list in the endless parade of Forbes lists. He earned $130 million between May of 2010 and May of 2011, ranking him ahead of Jerry Bruckheimer , Steven Spielberg and Simon Cowell . In a bit of gender irony, Perry collected some of that cash by dressing up as a woman: Madea. ( Forbes ) Read full article > >

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Tyler Perry tops list of highest paid men in entertainment; ‘Bachelor Pad’ winners revealed

Reed Doughty tried to list them all. Of course, there was Adam Archuleta and Sean Taylor. Omar Stoutmire and Pierson Prioleau. Add Oshiomogho Atogwe and DeJon Gomes to the list now, too. In all, he could barely rattle off half their names. From Archuleta and Taylor to Atogwe and LaRon Landry, Doughty has played with 17 safeties since joining the Washington Redskins . With few exceptions, most didn’t hang around Washington for very long. “That sounds like 25 years worth of guys,” Doughty said. “It’s only been six.” Read full article > >

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Safety Reed Doughty is Redskins’ reliable backup plan

Almost every generation has a hotbed of intellectual and artistic growth. Paris, London, San Francisco… the list continues. These places have served as the Petri dishes for society, providing an ephemeral glimpse at the times that, sooner or later, change. So it may come as a surprise that a city isolated in nearly every sense of the word — geographically, politically, culturally — has evolved into a hotbed for underground music: Tehran.

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Rock Band Kiosk Confronts Iranian Cultural Angst

Every year the list of the most complained about adverts gives insight into the themes that people find offensive.

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