Kabul holds many glimpses of its Soviet past hidden in plain sight around its jumbled hillsides — sobering artifacts that now confront the United States and its allies as they begin pondering what their own legacy might be.

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Kabul’s Soviet Ruins Offer a Reminder of Imperial Ambitions

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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Child’s play: Find family-friendly theater in unexpected places

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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Child’s play: Find family-friendly theater in unexpected places

When Mitt Romney said that his federal tax rate was about 15 percent, many wrongly assumed that their own rate was higher.

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News Analysis: Why Americans Think the Tax Rate’s High, and Why They’re Wrong

BEIJING — Chinese and Japanese leaders have unveiled initiatives to tighten financial links between East Asia’s economic giants and sometime rivals — measures that could expand use of China’s tightly controlled currency abroad. During a visit to Beijing by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, the two governments said in a surprise announcement Sunday they will encourage use of their own currencies in bilateral trade, which now is conducted mostly in U.S. dollars. Read full article > >

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Chinese, Japanese leaders unveil deals on bond sales, currency to tighten finance ties

BEIJING — Chinese and Japanese leaders have unveiled initiatives to tighten financial links between East Asia’s economic giants and sometime rivals — measures that could expand use of China’s tightly controlled currency abroad. During a visit to Beijing by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, the two governments said in a surprise announcement Sunday they will encourage use of their own currencies in bilateral trade, which now is conducted mostly in U.S. dollars. Read full article > >

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Despite fire from senators in their own party, House Republicans pushed for talks on a long-term bill.

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House Republicans Refuse to Budge on Payroll Tax Cut

Afghan forces will assume control of their own security in 18 new areas, bringing half of the country’s population under the government’s authority, officials said Sunday.

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Afghan Troops Will Expand Security Control

Long before Occupy Wall Street, the Sisters of St. Francis were quietly staging an occupation of their own, and have become one of the most surprising groups of corporate activists.

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Sisters of St. Francis, the Quiet Shareholder Activists

English councils have been conned out of at least £7m by criminals using information published on their own websites, a survey says.

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Councils ‘lose £7m in bank scam’

According to a September New York Times/CBS News poll, only 6 percent of voters said most members of Congress deserved re-election, and only a third thought their own member should be re-elected.

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Voter Rage Has Congress Worried About Job Security: Its Own

The Cardinals, who led the National League in runs scored, won the fifth game of their division series on Friday because their own ace, Chris Carpenter, beat the Phillies at their own game.

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Cardinals 1, Phillies 0: Cardinals’ Carpenter Outdoes Halladay to Oust Phillies

Rosylyn M. Brock is chairman of the board for the NAACP and no fan of the Tea Party. But at a town hall meeting at Howard University this week, she gave them some props. “They took our playbook,” she said, “went door to door and educated their constituents.” The Tea Partiers didn’t get caught up in hope and change advanced by President Obama that they didn’t believe in. Wrongheaded as they may be, they worked on their own game. Read full article > >

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NAACP Chairman: Tea Party ‘took our playbook’

Most of looting took place in their own London neighborhoods.

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U.K. Rioters Poor, Jobless Youth

Astronomers reported that for each of the Milky Way’s 200 billion stars, there are at least two Jupiter-size planets, many on their own or only distantly bound to a star.

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Billions of Lonely Planets, Adrift in Space