HOPKINTON, N.H. — On the eve of Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, Mitt Romney shopped for votes in a quaint country store and cast himself as a champion of the middle class. Jon Huntsman Jr. released his foreign policy agenda. Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum journeyed from town to town searching for some spark to ignite their struggling campaigns. Read full article > >

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“Music for a while / Shall all your cares beguile,” as English poet John Dryden put it, but who shall beguile the cares of the musicians? Shortly after the Scottish tenor Paul Agnew had sung Henry Purcell’s setting of that text, in a beguiling concert at La Maison Francaise on Monday night, the harpsichordist accompanying him, Beatrice Martin, felt faint and asked her colleagues to pause the concert in the middle of a dance from Purcell’s G Minor Suite. Read full article > >

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On Thursday, the Metro board is scheduled to take up a staff request to schedule hearings across the D.C. region on proposed changes to dozens of bus routes . If the board approves, the hearings could be scheduled for the week of Oct. 10. Then the board would have to decide whether to accept or modify the proposals. Service changes would take effect by the middle of 2012. Read full article > >

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Metro proposes changes to Metrobus system

Maybe it’s time for Democrats to go easy on Mitt Romney. The usual calculations would lead to the opposite conclusion. In political campaigns, you always hope the opposing party nominates the most extreme of its possible candidates, thereby surrendering the middle of the electorate. And in this sense, Rick Perry’s candidacy is a Texas-sized gift to President Obama. Read full article > >

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FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. — Battling back into contention for what would have been her fourth U.S. Open championship after a lackluster first set, Serena Williams was involved in yet another officiating controversy Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Whether the sport’s biggest star was appropriately disciplined or unjustly penalized for shouting “Come on!” in the middle of a point will be debated from some time to come. Read full article > >

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U.S. Open: Samantha Stosur wins title over Serena Williams, who finds herself in officiating controversy

Don’t tell Jonathan Franzen. The population of the world, rather than stabilizing around nine billion in the middle of the century as previously expected, is now projected by the United Nations to hit 10.1 billion by century’s end. The world population…

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In the middle of a golf and country club community in Gainesville, where rows upon rows of neat new homes sit on what was farmland less than a decade ago, it can be easy to forget there’s another Virginia.

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Virginia General Assembly to convene legislative redistricting session

Contributions from Koch Industries and its employees put freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) in the middle of a broad partisan battle over the role of corporate money in U.S. politics.

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The details of a review of UK nuclear safety ordered after the Japanese crisis will be published by the middle of May, officials say.

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The details of a review of UK nuclear safety ordered after the Japanese crisis will be published by the middle of May, officials say.

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The details of a review of UK nuclear safety ordered after the Japanese crisis will be published by the middle of May, officials say.

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The Dow Jones industrial average fell 51.24 points by the close of markets Monday, pulling off a late rally after reaching a six-week low in the middle of the day. Analysts blamed the poor performance on worries from the Japanese quake: General…

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A police negotiator made a number of attempts to contact Derrick Bird in the middle of his Cumbrian shooting rampage, an inquest hears.

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Officer sent texts to gunman Bird

A British oil worker, stranded in the middle of the Libyan desert with some 300 others, has said the UK government is ignoring their desperate pleas for rescue.

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Horses are not something you expect to see in the middle of a built-up housing estate, but one community in Bradford has more than 100 animals grazing on its patches of grass.

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