CAIRO — Under a blistering sun, Egyptians flocked to polling stations around the country Wednesday morning to elect a new president, launching the country’s most consequential vote in modern history . “It’s the most beautiful day, Egyptians are voting,” said Haitham Abd el Zaher, 37, who brought his son Yousef, 10, to the polling station in the Agouza district of Cairo so the child could watch history unfold. “I want to show him the joy Egypt is experiencing.” Read full article > >

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Keep your eyes peeled for the Mothership on Wednesday. That’s when Parliament’s legendary 1975 funk album “ Mothership Connection ” is cleared for landing on the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry, a collection of recordings deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” Read full article > >

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Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry adds new picks

Public opinion continues to shift in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll , which also finds initial signs that President Obama’s support for the idea may have changed a few minds. Read full article > >

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President Obama won his 34th and 35th consecutive Democratic primary contests on Tuesday night, claiming victories in Arkansas and Kentucky. But his margin was surprisingly small in Arkansas — a state in which he was opposed by Tennessee lawyer John Wolfe, who had previously been on the presidential primary ballot in Louisiana, Missouri and New Hampshire and will be on the ballot in Texas next week. Wolfe has also run unsuccessfully for Congress four times. Read full article > >

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Three decades after private-equity firms transformed American business, American politics is finally catching up — breathless and bewildered. For the past week, the spotlight of the presidential campaign has fallen on Mitt Romney’s 15 years as an executive at the private-equity firm Bain Capital. President Obama has at times portrayed Romney, his likely GOP challenger, as a kind of pinstriped vampire who sucked profits out of hapless companies while factories closed and workers suffered. Read full article > >

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JPMorgan Chase has spent upward of $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years. On Tuesday, the bank received a healthy dividend on that investment. Its chairman, Jamie Dimon, has admitted that the firm was “sloppy” and “stupid” in making trading bets that lost $2 billion. But Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee wouldn’t hear of it; they preferred to blame government. Read full article > >

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Senators put federal regulators, not JPMorgan, on the hot seat

Four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals for engaging in inappropriate conduct in Colombia last month, a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents’ hiring of prostitutes. Read full article > >

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Eugene J. Polley, an electronics engineer who revolutionized American leisure by inventing the first wireless TV remote control, a gadget that also featured the first mute function to silence the more obnoxious sounds of television, died May 20 at a hospital in Downers Grove, Ill. He was 96. Read full article > >

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Eugene J. Polley, engineer who invented the first wireless TV remote control, dies at 96

During a recent online discussion, lots of people had questions about student loan debt. Here are my answers to a couple I didn’t get a chance to address. One person wanted to know whether when carrying student loan debt — in this case at 7 percent — you should dip into your savings to pay it off. The reader wrote: “The debt would be paid off in a year at my current payment rate. Since the interest rate is so high, I’d like to raid my savings to just be rid of it. My job is stable, so otherwise I’d keep my savings just in case I had a car repair, a needed new roof, etc. What do you think?” Read full article > >

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During a recent online discussion, lots of people had questions about student loan debt. Here are my answers to a couple I didn’t get a chance to address. One person wanted to know whether when carrying student loan debt — in this case at 7 percent — you should dip into your savings to pay it off. The reader wrote: “The debt would be paid off in a year at my current payment rate. Since the interest rate is so high, I’d like to raid my savings to just be rid of it. My job is stable, so otherwise I’d keep my savings just in case I had a car repair, a needed new roof, etc. What do you think?” Read full article > >

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Student loans require homework

Barack Obama might embarrass himself tonight. Well, not embarrass himself as much as be embarrassed by the Arkansas presidential primary results. See, the president isn’t very popular in that state — he has essentially zero chance of carrying it in November — and there’s a no-name candidate on the ballot, and so there’s some speculation that the president might do very poorly indeed . Read full article > >

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Jonathan Bernstein: The primaries that matter today

“My college education,” wrote Robert Benchley in 1927, “was no haphazard affair. My courses were all selected with a very definite aim in view, with a serious purpose in mind — no classes before eleven in the morning or after two-thirty in the afternoon, and nothing on Saturday at all. That was my slogan. On that rock was my education built. As what is known as the Classical Course involved practically no afternoon laboratory work, whereas in the Scientific Course a man’s time was never his own until four p.m. anyway, I went in for the classic. But only such classics as allowed for a good sleep in the morning. There is such a thing as being a studying fool.” Read full article > >

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Alexandra Petri: College is too difficult

When the Woodgrove girls’ lacrosse team completed a stunning district title run last May, their on-field celebration lacked the traditional championship banner. The first-year school hadn’t purchased one yet. Read full article > >

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For some time now, commercial barbecue sauce has been progressing from its Dark Ages, when slow-smoked meats were tortured with bland, sweet, corporate slathers, to a more enlightened era of complex boutique sauces flavored with everything from habaneros to peaches. The homemade sauces in our second annual Smoke Signals barbecue sauce recipe contest reflect that evolution. Read full article > >

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A trio of winning sauces in our 2nd annual Smoke Signals barbecue sauce contest

There’s a usual route for firms that want to market a generic drug: Buy samples of the brand-name version and run tests to show regulators that the generic is identical. If the firms can’t get their hands on the samples, they can’t get to the starting line. Read full article > >

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Generic-drug makers’ complaints over distribution law provoke investigations