On a chilly afternoon at a community clinic in Southeast Washington, three young doctors are busily laying the foundation for the health-care law’s success. Jacob Edwards flips through a manual on skin conditions, diagnosing a rash that looks like chicken pox. Jessica O’Babatunde consults her supervisor on treating an adolescent’s obesity, which is literally off-the-charts. And Julie Krueger peppers 3-year-old Daphauni with questions at her physical: How do you spell your name? What did you eat for breakfast? What’s your favorite vegetable? (Cheese.) Read full article > >

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Success of health reform hinges on hiring 30,000 primary care doctors by 2015

Karaoke is an art form. For something that literally anyone can try, it’s remarkably easy to screw up. You select your song, stride to the mike and before you know it, things fall apart. Maybe you realize, moments too late, that you only know the chorus of the song you chose. Maybe you pick “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Classic! What could go wrong?) and find yourself stranded onstage for a few back-to-back forevers with nothing to do during the guitar break. Maybe in an effort to be “drunk enough to sing” you crossed over into “too wasted to stand” territory. Happens to the best of us. Read full article > >

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Karaoke tips from ‘Josephine Tonight’ star Zurin Villanueva

Karaoke is an art form. For something that literally anyone can try, it’s remarkably easy to screw up. You select your song, stride to the mike and before you know it, things fall apart. Maybe you realize, moments too late, that you only know the chorus of the song you chose. Maybe you pick “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Classic! What could go wrong?) and find yourself stranded onstage for a few back-to-back forevers with nothing to do during the guitar break. Maybe in an effort to be “drunk enough to sing” you crossed over into “too wasted to stand” territory. Happens to the best of us. Read full article > >

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Presidential contests are inherently an expectations game, and because of that, the expectation is that Saturday’s contest in Nevada doesn’t mean much. Rightly or wrongly, when a state isn’t competitive, we generally discount its broader impact on the presidential race. Read full article > >

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Do Nevada’s caucuses matter?

Presidential contests are inherently an expectations game, and because of that, the expectation is that Saturday’s contest in Nevada doesn’t mean much. Rightly or wrongly, when a state isn’t competitive, we generally discount its broader impact on the presidential race. Read full article > >

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Goodbye, Willy Loman and Sweeney Todd. Hello, Peter Pan and Astro Boy. Local theaters that don’t generally put on family-friendly shows are taking a tip from popular kid-focused venues, including Imagination Stage and Adventure Theatre, and staging their own age-spanning entertainment. Read full article > >

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Goodbye, Willy Loman and Sweeney Todd. Hello, Peter Pan and Astro Boy. Local theaters that don’t generally put on family-friendly shows are taking a tip from popular kid-focused venues, including Imagination Stage and Adventure Theatre, and staging their own age-spanning entertainment. Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich sought to rally his grass-roots coalition against the heavy campaign machinery of a resurgent Mitt Romney.

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Romney and Gingrich Scrap Amid Shifting Fortunes

MOSCOW—The opposition movement that began to emerge here after last month’s parliamentary elections is dashing toward its next confrontation with the authorities this week, trying to rally supporters, develop strategy and groom leaders as it goes along. Read full article > >

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MOSCOW — Russia’s restless electorate bestowed a big bouquet of votes on the country’s Communists last month, putting the party of Lenin at a crucial turning point where it can either rally a new generation behind its red banners or stay reliably on the sidelines, repeating the old slogans and mourning the past. Read full article > >

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Russian Communists at familiar crossroads

Fathers are increasingly the primary caregivers in their children’s lives. We all know that. But knowing it doesn’t mean we’ve accepted it culturally. For instance, what do we call this emergent group of homemakers? Read full article > >

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It is an achievement of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements to have raised large issues of economic freedom and economic inequality. It is a paradox that their arguments have generally been vague, ideological and unhelpful. Read full article > >

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As Western countries rally against Assad.

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Russia Refuses to Support Syrian Intervention

In a downtown D.C. office building hard by a Starbucks and a busy construction site, China’s most ambitious effort to become a global power in English-language TV news is literally taking shape. For months, Chinese and American workers have been constructing a multi-floor TV studio complex on New York Avenue NW. Within a few weeks, China Central Television (CCTV) — the nation’s state-run international broadcaster — intends to originate news broadcasts produced by a staff of more than 60 journalists hired in recent weeks from NBC, Bloomberg TV, Fox News and other Western news organizations. Read full article > >

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After months of hand-wringing, social conservative leaders finally gave collective voice Saturday to their unhappiness that Mitt Romney might be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. If not quite a stop-Romney movement, the decision to try to rally support for Rick Santorum represents an open expression of their frustrations. Read full article > >

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Is social conservatives’ embrace of Santorum too late?