HIGHER EDUCATION IS both crucial to America’s economic competitiveness and hard for many students and their families to afford. Annual tuition and fees rose $1,800 over the past five years at public four-year institutions and $3,730 at private schools, according to the College Board. Net tuition, after factoring in financial aid, held steady over that period, but that shows only that rising costs ate up most of the additional federal, state and private scholarships. Read full article > >

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Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the Army’s vice chief of staff, is leaving the Army in much the same manner that he served in it over the past decade: as an iconoclast. The general, who retires Tuesday, used a final interview with The Washington Post to argue that the law banning women from combat jobs in the military was an unnecessary anachronism — and that women are already effectively serving in combat roles. Read full article > >

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Gambling everything, thousands of Haitians have made their way to small towns in the Brazilian Amazon over the past year in a desperate search for work.

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URBANDALE, Iowa — Rick Santorum’s Iowa campaign headquarters, situated in the sleepy back corner of a suburban office park outside Des Moines, is suddenly a very busy place. Over the past few days, 15 new phone lines have been installed to accommodate his growing legion of volunteers. Traffic on his Web site is quadruple what it was two weeks ago, with most of the clicks coming from Iowa. And while his staff doesn’t talk numbers, they say that Thursday was the biggest fundraising day yet for a presidential campaign that until recently was fueled by little more than one man’s refusal to face reality. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — Although the power stayed on all through the topsy-turvy weather patterns of the fall, the city’s theater district has found a key ingredient in the making of plays and musicals in perilously short supply this season: electricity. Only in the guise of a crowd-drawing Aussie star and his giddy show-tune revue, “ Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway ,” has there been any genuine megawatt surge on the stages of this town. A few other nights among the ones I sampled over the past few months have set off some sparks: the Kennedy Center’s revival of “ Follies ,” finishing up a run at the Marquis Theatre as an odds-on Tony nominee; Jon Robin Baitz’s smashingly composed political family dust-up, “ Other Desert Cities ,” at the Booth; actors Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, cavorting ably and mischievously in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s staging of David Ives’s theater game “ Venus in Fur ” (a version of which was produced at Studio Theatre last spring). Read full article > >

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Republicans on Capitol Hill are increasingly worried about the potential of a Newt Gingrich presidential nomination, fearful that the former House speaker’s reputation for volatility could drive away independent voters and jeopardize GOP prospects for controlling Congress in 2013. Just a few months ago, Gingrich was an afterthought in the campaign. But his sudden rise over the past month has given pause to congressional Republicans who thought President Obama’s troubles with the economy could firm up their majority in the House and a new majority in the Senate. Read full article > >

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Anyone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife must not live in Washington. Rarely, however, has reincarnation been so lucrative as it has for the man who now tops some polls for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich transfigured himself from a political flameout into a thriving business conglomerate. The power of the Gingrich brand fueled a for-profit collection of enterprises that generated close to $100 million in revenue over the past decade, said his longtime attorney Randy Evans . Read full article > >

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A young mother accused of two bank robberies and a carjacking in Northern Virginia over the past week was mingling with gang members and living an itinerant existence, moving from hotel room to hotel room before the crime spree, according to a family member. Stephanie Lynn Schwab, 26, of Manassas had slept at the family member’s Front Royal home two nights before she allegedly walked into a Commerce Bank in Manassas on Friday, implied she had a gun and demanded money. Read full article > >

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GUAM — As he hopscotched across the Asian Pacific over the past nine days, President Obama cast himself as a leader determined to protect American interests and spread American values, willing to project power and take political risks for the sake of a better future.  It was a message that returned a degree of lift and optimism — and the notion of American exceptionalism — to the president’s political oratory, elements that have been largely absent in recent months as he has focused on the grinding task of creating jobs and curbing unemployment at home . Read full article > >

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TORONTO — Rather than take out the frustration of yet another loss on the ice here Friday, the Washington Capitals canceled their practice and were given the day off to recharge mentally as much as physically. After charging to a 7-0 start to the season, the Capitals have rediscovered their mortality over the past four weeks. They are 3-6-1 in their past 10 outings and 1-4-1 in the last six heading into Saturday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Read full article > >

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David Cameron returns to east London’s technology cluster and highlights its rapid expansion over the past year.

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Research suggesting pay for the directors of the UK’s top businesses rose 50% over the past year receives a robust government response.

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Pay for directors of the UK’s top businesses rose 50% over the past year, a report suggests.

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Pay for directors of the UK’s top businesses rose 50% over the past year, a report suggests.

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President Barack Obama collected $43 million for his 2012 re-election campaign and helped raise an additional $27 million for the Democratic National Committee over the past three months, according to an email sent to supporters by campaign manager Jim Messina this morning. “If I could sum up this last quarter in a few words: You came through,” wrote Messina. He added that more than 600,000 people had donated to the campaign over the between July 1 and Sept. 30 and that 98 percent of the contributions were $250 or less. Read full article > >

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