Another installment in my ongoing efforts to lose more readers by re-telling old jokes as bad poems. *** The Delicacy, in the style of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Rhyme and punishment

While eyes are on the Iranian people to storm up in an uprising similar to the Arab Spring, Iran is hibernating in a Persian winter. Yes, it’s true, the sleepy nation talks in its sleep (that is the ongoing protests of the highly educated young Iranians on Facebook, Twitter and blogs) but, there isn’t going to be a Persian Spring any time soon.

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Don’t Wake Iran Up; It’s the Persian Winter

NFL playoff teams made an on-the-field case over the weekend for the ongoing need to play something resembling sturdy defense to advance in the postseason, even in this pass-happy age of offensive pyrotechnics. Read full article > >

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NFL playoffs 2012: Defenses make their case as some of the high-powered offenses go home

The single most important thing to understand about the ongoing debate over the payroll tax cut is that it’s not about the payroll tax cut. This has gotten somewhat confused in the current contretemps over whether the extension should be for two months or one year, but if this were actually about the payroll tax cut, there would be no argument over the length of the extension. Read full article > >

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The ‘payroll tax cut’ debate is not about the payroll tax cut

TOKYO — Radioactive debris from melted fuel rods may have seeped deeper into the floor of a Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear reactor than previously thought, to within a foot from breaching the crucial steel barrier, a new simulation showed Wednesday. The findings will not change the ongoing efforts to stabilize the reactors more than eight months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was disabled, but they harshly depict the meltdowns that occurred and conditions within the reactors, which will be off-limits for years. Read full article > >

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Simulation shows deeper meltdown at tsunami-hit Japan nuclear reactor than previously thought

In his ongoing effort to reach the widest audience possible to boost his political fortunes, President Obama hit the late night television circuit Tuesday, taping an appearance on the top-rated Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The Comedian-in-Chief got comfy in Leno’s guest couch for three segments that will air on Tuesday night’s show at 11:35 p.m., and he got off at least one good one-liner. Read full article > >

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Obama cracks one-liner, gets serious on Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Three women were jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their contributions to the ongoing struggle for democracy in Yemen and to peace in Liberia. Yemeni opposition leader Tawakkul Karman, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee were hailed as deeply courageous and visionary leaders who have peacefully sparked reform in societies usually dominated by men. Read full article > >

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Tawakkul Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee win Nobel Peace Prize

The House Oversight Committee is expanding its probe of the Obama administration’s rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks, according to a letter it sent to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. The investigation led by committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) reflects the ongoing battle between House leaders and the administration over the extent to which EPA can address climate change without congressional input. Read full article > >

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Issa probes EPA’s role in limiting vehicles’ emissions

In their ongoing quest to eliminate academic achievement gaps, Montgomery County educators are seeking help from the Magic Kingdom. It is not enough, they realized, to spend more on poor children or to promote college-level classes for all if school employees are not fully committed to the cause. So Maryland’s largest school system sent a delegation to Disney’s complex in Orlando a few years ago for a lesson in motivating employees from a company that specializes in making dreams come true. Read full article > >

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To inspire, schools take a page from Disney

President Obama is scheduled to visit CIA headquarters on Friday to thank the rank and file for their help in capturing Osama bin Laden . White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that Obama will meet with “a broad range of the intelligence community” to thank them for their ongoing work, especially on helping locate the former al Qaeda leader. Carney said Obama decided to make the trip shortly after bin Laden’s death. Read full article > >

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Obama to thank CIA workers Friday for helping find Osama bin Laden

Despite the ongoing conflict, residents of Misrata are working hard to bring life back to normal in the city.

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VIDEO: How life in Misrata is adapting to conflict

New details have emerged in the ongoing saga embroiling IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. According to his accuser, a hotel housekeeper at the Sofitel New York in Manhattan, Strauss-Kahn emerged completely naked from the bathroom of his…

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Strauss-Kahn Arraigned in Court

A day after officials at Arlington National Cemetery acknowledged discovering more problems with burials in the ongoing scandal there, members of Congress sharply questioned Army officials Thursday about why the cemetery’s former leadership wasn’t disciplined more severely.

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As more problems appear at Arlington, Congress asks for accountability

Sony Corporation is considering shutting down some of its premises in Japan because of the ongoing power shortages.

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Sony considers two-week shutdown

New York Times reporters are answering questions from readers about the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan.

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Green: Q. and A. on the Nuclear Crisis in Japan