Protesters chanted for the overthrow of the ruling military council on Friday, reflecting rising unease over the course of the country’s fitful democratic transition.

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Anxious Egyptians Jam Tahrir Square in Protest

MANCHESTER, N.H. Over the course of this presidential campaign, there has been one consistent reservation many Republican voters — and others — have expressed about GOP front-runner Mitt Romney . They question his authenticity. They don’t know if they can trust him. They wonder who he really is. On Sunday, on a debate stage in Concord, N.H., the former Massachusetts governor may have reinforced those doubts. Twelve hours after skating impressively through another debate with his rivals for the Republican nomination, Romney delivered a far less effective performance. Read full article > >

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For Mitt Romney, authenticity remains an issue

A federal jury on Tuesday acquitted Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie of all charges in a case in which he was charged with engaging in a five-year bribery scheme. Federal prosecutors accused Currie (D-Prince George’s) of conspiring with two grocery chain executives to use his office do a series of government favors for Shoppers Food Warehouse. He was paid $245,000 over the course of more than five years. Read full article > >

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The 17-year-old boy who was shot in Georgetown on Halloween night has died, District police said Tuesday. The teenager, who was identified as Tyronn Vincent Garner of Southeast, was one of six people injured in the outbreak of violence in the District on Oct. 31, when five separate shootings took place over the course of about five hours citywide. Read full article > >

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Teen shot on Halloween in Georgetown has died

In the West Wing, Chief of Staff Bill Daley’s new role is being sold as addition rather than subtraction: He has taken on more ambassadorial duties and asked Pete Rouse to take on more day-to-day managerial duties. This transition has been happening over the course of the last month. It was formalized yesterday. Read full article > >

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President Obama’s former top adviser on manufacturing has been tapped by the nation’s letter carriers to develop new business ideas for the U.S. Postal Service . Ron Bloom, who helped restructure the automotive industry and has negotiated several large labor deals over the course of his career, served until August as Obama’s top manufacturing policy adviser . He announced Sunday that he will advise the National Letter Carriers Association as the 280,000-member union attempts to strike a new multi-year deal with the cash-strapped Postal Service. Read full article > >

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JOHNS CREEK, GA. — When Tiger Woods stuffed his approach shot to within three feet of the pin Thursday morning at Atlanta Athletic Club’s 14th hole, the full brunt of a brutally hot day hadn’t yet settled over the course, and there was no telling what was to come in the first round of the PGA Championship . At that moment, after he rolled in his third birdie in his first five holes, the possibility existed that Woods — absent from contention so often recently — was back. “I was having mechanical thoughts through those holes, and I figured I was 3 under, I can start letting it go now, and just play by instinct and feel,” Woods said. “And [I] just screwed up my whole round. I’m not at that point where I can do that yet.” Read full article > >

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INDIANAPOLIS — Dan Wheldon ’s experience over the course of 200 grueling laps, and JR Hildebrand ’s lack of it entering the final turn Sunday resulted in a drama-filled finish befitting of the centennial anniversary of the Indianapolis 500. Wheldon snatched the lead — and what appeared to be a certain triumph — from Hildebrand when the 23-year-old rookie wrecked on the front straightaway, about 1,000 feet from the checkered flag. As tens of thousands of fans looked on in stunned disbelief while Hildebrand’s mangled race car slid along the concrete retaining wall, Wheldon crossed the start-finish line at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to earn his second victory in open wheel racing’s marquee event . Read full article > >

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For a week-long art project that ended Sunday, D.C. collector and patron Philippa Hughes hosted Agnes Bolt, a Pittsburgh-based artist and graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, in her home. The visit, an art performance, was meant to test the boundaries of the artist-collector relationship. Testy might be the best word for the mood at Hughes’s 14th Street NW condo over the course of a week. “It has been awkward,” Bolt says. “I didn’t think it through when I agreed to it,” Hughes says. Read full article > >

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The eminence of stage and screen wrote scripts such as “West Side Story” and “Gypsy” over the course of an eight-decade show-business career. Read full article > >

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Arthur Laurents dies at 93

Multiple times over the course of this season, the Washington Capitals characterized stinging defeats and growing pains from a new style of play as lessons that would help guide them through the playoffs.

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Rant on Twitter for 20 minutes, pay it off for three years. Courtney Love’s Twitter tirade against fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir has ended in a settlement: the Hole frontwoman will pay Simorangkir $430,000 over the course of the next three years….

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Courtney Love Settles Twitter Suit

Frank Rich, who over the course of a three-decade career at The New York Times was theater critic, magazine essayist and Sunday Op-ed columnist, is leaving the paper to join New York magazine.

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Before you Potter nuts start freaking out thinking the franchise will continue and reboot itself for TV, let us warn you that it’s not what you think. Ever wonder how Harry Potter began – not in terms of the character, but where the idea for Potter came from? Author J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother when she first came up with the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride, and now she’s worth over $500 million after penning the 7-book series and assisting on the wildly successful film franchise. Now, after watching young Harry Potter grow up over the course of eight different movies, folks will finally get the chance to see how it all began when a new TV film based on the life story of J.K. Rowling hits the boob tube at some point next year (we… Read More Read Comments

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‘Harry Potter’ Origins Story to Hit TV?

Before you Potter nuts start freaking out thinking the franchise will continue and reboot itself for TV, let us warn you that it’s not what you think. Ever wonder how Harry Potter began – not in terms of the character, but where the idea for Potter came from? Author J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother when she first came up with the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride, and now she’s worth over $500 million after penning the 7-book series and assisting on the wildly successful film franchise. Now, after watching young Harry Potter grow up over the course of eight different movies, folks will finally get the chance to see how it all began when a new TV film based on the life story of J.K. Rowling hits the boob tube at some point next year (we… Read More Read Comments

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