HBO’s “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” airing Monday night, is quite the slab of literary ham. Intending to recreate the torrid romance between two of the 20th century’s most talented writers, this fanciful but slapdash movie instead portrays a couple who engaged in a decade or so of grudge sex, using civil wars and populist uprisings as their preferred marital aids. Read full article > >

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‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ on HBO: Swept away

China’s most popular Twitter-like service, Weibo, adopts a new contract limiting the types of messages its users can post.

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Twitterati spot the newlyweds.

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Zuckerberg Honeymoons in Rome

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in an interview broadcast Sunday that the United States would have an enduring presence in Afghanistan after 2014, when there will be a major troop drawdown . He also pushed back against reports that the Taliban is gaining strength in that country. Read full article > >

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Memorial Day serves as the unofficial start of summer for most of America, with many trekking out to the beach and soaking up some sun. Here at Wonkblog, we’re taking a different sort of trip: a journey through the science of a visit to the beach. It’s not quite seaside reading, but scientists have learned a decent amount about how we change when we’re close to water. So, without further ado, here are a few of their most choice findings. Read full article > >

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A shark attack probably won’t kill you, and other lessons from the science of the beach

BEIRUT — The Syrian government denied on Sunday that its forces were responsible for the deaths of dozens of people , including 32 children, in a village in central Syria allegedly during a fierce artillery bombardment. Read full article > >

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the militant-infested northwestern city of Peshawar, hundreds of businessmen recently marched in a mock funeral procession — but not to protest bombings or kidnappings. The “corpse” they carried was an electric meter. Read full article > >

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Pakistan’s power crisis may eclipse terrorist threat

“Mommy, is this a dream?” An 8-year-old girl steps out of the late-May sun beating down on a Georgetown parking lot and right into her own little version of heaven — a food truck. Except this truck isn’t selling ice cream or cupcakes. She has climbed into a sartorial treasure chest filled floor to gilded ceiling with high-end jewelry, clothing and accessories — all housed inside what was once a potato chip delivery truck. Read full article > >

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The glamorous life of a (fashion) truck driver: Behind the scenes of ‘The Styleliner’

Tim Duncan walked out of the visitor’s locker room at Staples Center and stopped to chat with Chris Paul after the San Antonio Spurs completed their four-game annihilation of the Los Angeles Clippers last week. But the conversation kept getting interrupted so that Duncan could joke around with Paul’s 2-year-old son, Chris. Read full article > >

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The convictions last week of two of Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s former campaign aides have scrambled local politics in the nation’s capital, dimming Gray’s influence and brightening the political prospects of some other city leaders. Read full article > >

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Mayoral ambitions surfacing early in D.C.

HAMERSVILLE, Ohio — The first dollar Rick Doyle ever earned as a $3 million-a-year dealer of after-market motorcycle parts is tacked to the wall of a dusty barn in rural Ohio, where two custom-built bikes have been pushed to the corner, forgotten. There is nothing here now except a 10-year-old tractor. The biker calender above the desk still reads February 2006. Read full article > >

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Some after-market motorcycle parts don’t meet safety or environmental standards, experts say

MOSCOW — The Udmurts fell short. The singing grannies who hail from the Udmurt region of central Russia have captured plenty of hearts but couldn’t quite win the Eurovision Song Contest , held Saturday evening in Baku, Azerbaijan. Read full article > >

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At Eurovision, Sweden’s Loreen bests the Buranovskiye Babushki

MILWAUKEE — Evan Bradtke, a 20-year-old college student, spends time these days working out of a small, windowless room in a nondescript suite of offices a few miles outside Madison, Wis. Hour after hour he calls voters, urging them to turn out on June 5 to support embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker . Read full article > >

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The feuding has commenced again, complete with shootin’, spittin’ and cussin’ (not to mention corncob pipes and moonshine). But the hills where the latest Hatfields vs. McCoys skirmish has flared up are not in the Appalachians, where the battle dragged out over decades near the West Virginia/Kentucky border. Read full article > >

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Hatfields and McCoys square off again — but on unfamiliar terrain

The red clay of Roland Garros isn’t impressed with raw power. It rewards stamina, agility and the resolve to hit ball after ball until an opponent either wilts or short-circuits in sheer frustration. None of these qualities has made Serena Williams the most dominant player in women’s tennis over the last decade. But on the eve of the 2012 French Open , the 30-year-old Williams looks the favorite to win her 14th Grand Slam title on a surface that has never played to her strengths. Read full article > >

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