The “Power Players” editions of “Jeopardy!” — taped in D.C. last month — will be broadcast Monday night through Friday at 7:30 on WJLA ABC 7. To warm up, read my behind-the-scenes profile of host Alex Trebek , take our quiz on the 28-year-old show and view the following photo gallery of Trebek through the years. The lineup of celebrity contestants, plus outtakes from my interview with Trebek, are after the jump. Read full article > >

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‘Jeopardy! Power Players’ schedule announced

By the time our waitress cut us down to size, we’d already eaten the following: fried sturgeon “sushi,” maple-marinated herring with potatoes, organ meat terrine with maple buckwheat blini, foie gras in puff pastry with bechamel and cheese, lobster souffle with potatoes and smoked beef, and a meat pie containing four kinds of pork — and “garnished” with three kinds of offal. Read full article > >

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The Impulsive Traveler: Spring in Montreal, as sweet as maple syrup

CAIRO Diplomatic versions of the three-cushion shot in billiards are perilous, but let’s suppose you could accomplish the following: Lift the stature of Egypt’s fragile transitional government, support Israel’s desire for Arab recognition, reanimate the Palestinian peace process and deal a blow to Iran. Read full article > >

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The Mideast’s new game

My colleague Annys Shin has some intriguing news this morning about local squirrels, acorns and Hurricane Irene. Really. She sent me the following report: To release, or not to release? That’s the question for some local squirrel rehabilitators, who after being deluged with baby squirrels tossed out of trees by Hurricane Irene face the unpleasant dilemma of whether to turn them loose to face possible starvation due to an acorn shortage. Read full article > >

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The coming squirrel famine

Radiation lowered the risk of recurrence over the following 10 to 15 years, researchers said.

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Study Finds Benefit to Radiation After Breast Cancer Surgery

Exposure to heavy traffic fumes raises heart attack risk for the following six hours, researchers discover.

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Car fumes ‘trigger heart attacks’

DES MOINES, Iowa — Start your stopwatches. The next seventy-two hours are by far the most important of the 2012 Republican presidential race, to date. In the next three days, the following events will occur: * Eight Republican candidates will take the stage tonight in Ames for the second major debate of the presidential primary fight. It will be the debut appearance on the stage for former Utah governor Jon Huntsman . Read full article > >

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Three years ago, Justin Hicks stood in the fairway on the sixth hole at Torrey Pines Golf Course on the outskirts of San Diego and heard the following from a pair of spectators outside the ropes: “That’s Justin Hicks. That’s the guy leading the U.S. Open.” Hicks looked down, knocked that around in his brain — I am leading the U.S. Open — and tried to collect his thoughts. His world ranking at the time: 722. His job status: a conditional member of the minor league Nationwide Tour, meaning he couldn’t gain entry into all the events he wanted to play. His route to the Open: through a local qualifier, in which he finished as an alternate, then into a sectional qualifier when someone else dropped out. There, he reached a playoff and birdied the first hole — a berth. And when he sat in a news conference after that first round, having made seven birdies and shooting 68 to lead the Open, someone asked: “Who are you?” Read full article > >

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U.S. Open 2011: From nobody to leading the Open

The result of May’s Welsh assembly election will not be known until the following day, with votes not being counted in north Wales until then.

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Election result delayed by north

Calling all underwater and Sanctum fans! The James Cameron-produced underwater 3D adventure will be in theaters soon and to help you

Calling all Jason Statham fans!

New Delhi, India – Consider the following scenario: A much-admired man points out gross human rights violations committed against tribal peoples — including alleged rapes, murders, etc. But the state consistently seeks to cover up the incidents this man exposes, and instead uses a colonial-era law against free speech to sentence him to life in prison. If this were China and its Nobel Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo, it would come as no surprise. But, brace yourself, this is cuddly India we’re talking about. read more

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Indian Justice: Punishment by Trial?

Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro return with the laughs in Little Fockers, opening Wednesday, Dec. 22, and to introduce you to the new generation of little ones, we’re giving away $50 in Fandango Bucks to five lucky winners. You can check out our exclusive limited edition Focker designs here. All you have to do to enter is post a comment to this blog post [one comment per entrant, please] with your answer to the following question: What’s your favorite Ben Stiller comedy and why? Enter one comment from now until 11:59 p.m. PST, on Dec. 24, 2010, and we’ll randomly select five winners to receive free Fandango Bucks! And, since we’re in the spirit of giving, we’re also giving one lucky person $500 in Fandango Bucks this week for our Gift for Free Sweepstakes.

A December 9 article in the Wall Street Journal began with the following sentence: “After touring bases in eastern Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that he was confident the war strategy was working, rejecting doubts that have been voiced by some inside the administration as the White House finishes work on a review of the campaign.” “There is no doubt the security climate is improving,” Gates told a press conference in Kabul. read more

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Why Do We Take Petraeus’ Rubbish Seriously?