An unusual week for Howard University athletics concluded Friday when the school reinstated all of the student-athletes it had ruled ineligible a week earlier. The school said in a press release that all of its five spring sports teams would “compete as scheduled for the remainder of the season.” Read full article > >

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Howard University reinstates all student athletes

Ted Heller’s brazen, often hilarious and always disturbing new novel, “ Pocket Kings ,” is a hybrid love letter and suicide note to 21st-century publishing. Forget coffee spoons, his anti-hero Frank Dixon measures his life in Amazon rankings. And as “Pocket Kings” begins, according to the most angst-inducing algorithm in the world of letters, Dixon is America’s 711,653rd most-popular novelist — and falling. Dixon’s first two novels, neither of which he is able to think about “without being overwhelmed with pride, despair, bewilderment, and rage,” were published to modest acclaim and then promptly dispatched to the remainder warehouse. Now he can’t find a publisher for his third novel, the first pages of which early readers, including his wife and literary agent, have found so offensive that they can’t continue. Read full article > >

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Book World: In ‘Pocket Kings,’ by Ted Heller, a love-hate relationship with publishing

Washington Redskins running back Tim Hightower will miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee, Coach Mike Shanahan said Monday. Hightower, who started five of six games this season and leads the Redskins with 321 rushing yards and a touchdown on 84 carries, suffered the injury in the third quarter of Washington’s 33-20 loss to the Carolina Panthers Sunday. Read full article > >

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April 8th. That’s the deadline for Republicans and Democrats to reach a deal on funding for the remainder of 2011. No deal? Then the government shuts down. And if I were a betting man, that’s where my money would be right now.

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Wonkbook: Budget negotiations breaking down