Are you ready to call the election? Mitt Romney certainly isn?t, nor for that matter is President Obama. But a few hardy academics have done so. Out now are a baker?s dozen forecasts produced by political scientists that predict the outcome in November.
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Preparations for the release of ?The Casual Vacancy,? ?Harry Potter? author J.K. Rowling?s first book for adults, have been far from casual: Several publications have described ironclad non-disclosure agreements and security procedures more befitting of the crown jewels than a 512-page manuscript.
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The Obama campaign has attacked Republican Mitt Romney this week for having investments in China, saying it is inappropriate for a presidential nominee to be investing so much money there.
Former Ohio governor Ted Strickland (D), a campaign co-chairman, said it ?defies logic.? ?It may not be illegal, it may not be unethical, but it is unseemly,? he said in an interview. ?It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.?
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Are you ready to call the election? Mitt Romney certainly isn?t, nor for that matter is President Obama. But a few hardy academics have done so. Out now are a baker?s dozen forecasts produced by political scientists that predict the outcome in November.
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NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman held a private meeting for the second straight day Saturday.
Yemen?s leader said Saturday that he personally approves every U.S. drone strike in his country and described the remotely piloted aircraft as a technical marvel that has helped reverse al-Qaeda?s gains.
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Tap is an earthy, feet-on-the-ground style of dance, yet it helps lift the drama ?Fly? at Ford?s Theatre. Omar Edwards plays a figure called the Tap Griot, and as the show?s opening montage of black American history plays out on screens behind him, Edwards pounds hard, fast rhythms of agony and anger on the floor.
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A GLANCE AT THE news from China on Friday might suggest a political system reacting properly to high-level wrongdoing. The former boss of Chongqing, Bo Xilai, once one of China?s most powerful regional figures, was expelled from the Communist Party and, according to official news media, faces charges of corruption. Earlier, Mr. Bo?s wife was convicted and given a suspended death sentence for the murder of a British businessman. Mr. Bo is a son of one of the party?s revolutionary founders, so his punishment must have been an agonizing decision for the secretive party clique that rules China.
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WAYNE, Pa. ? Mitt Romney journeyed to a military college here Friday, aiming to make Pennsylvania a more competitive election battleground and tearing into President Obama on foreign and domestic policy in a speech delivered before a backdrop of stoic, uniformed cadets.
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The world waited anxiously on Monday as Christine Lagarde took the stage at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. As managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Lagarde plays a pivotal role in stemming the economic crises that have hobbled much of the developed world. Too harsh an assessment and markets could jolt and stall the faltering recovery; too cavalier an approach and the urgency Lagarde sees as necessary for a turnaround could be undercut. She chose her words carefully.
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Bill Self could be roaming the sideline at Allen Fieldhouse well into the next decade.
The sequel to Carmageddon has had its midnight premiere, and Los Angeles transportation officials are hoping the weekend proves as successful as last year's first edition.
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For the first time in his career, Tiger Woods will sit out a Ryder Cup session, relegated to the role of cheerleader while the rest of his teammates carry on at Medinah Country Club on Saturday morning.
A little trick of the trade among 21st-century journalists: Shortly before calling your interview subjects, check for any new doings on their social media accounts.
In this case, Neil Gaiman is tweeting about his wife?s bum.
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The Sept. 25 Metro article ?Former treasurer to Brown fires back? might have left readers with inaccurate impressions regarding my campaign finances. Here are the facts:
1. Upon discovering that my campaign was the victim of an apparent misappropriation of funds in June, I immediately notified the Metropolitan Police Department and the District?s Office of Campaign Finance and asked for an investigation.
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BERLIN ? Amid a growing sense that Europe is slipping back into instability after months of relative calm, Spanish leaders unveiled sweeping spending cuts and new taxes Thursday in a last-ditch attempt to get their country?s finances on track. But they were silent about whether they would seek a formal bailout to prop up their turmoil-wracked economy.
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The recovery is still shaky at best. Disapproval of Obama on the economy ? the number one issue in this election ? continues to run high, though that?s changing. Large majorities of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track. How can Obama possibly be winning ?
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Remember hipsters? That cultural relic of the aughts, whose lifespan was marked by derisive irony, faux working-class affectations, and a now-cliche hankering for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer? As an urban tribe, they are dead ? decisively dead ? having out-mainstreamed themselves back into the mainstream, an ouroboros of meta pop cultural references and sneering disdain for itself.
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Indiana Senate race moves to ?tossup?
Voter ID laws in all 50 states ? in 1 map
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Sarah Jessica Parker will make her first appearance on ?Glee? Thursday night as a Vogue editor and mentor to young Kurt Hummel. Coincidentally, that event syncs up with another important date in SJP TV history: the debut of her first series.
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Of course Reese Witherspoon named her new son Tennessee James Toth. In the ever-competitive field of celebrity baby naming, the preferred way these days of imbuing your offspring with an air of down-home authenticity or jet-set panache is a name lifted from the atlas. The trend may have started some 20 years ago with Bono?s daughter Memphis but has picked up speed lately ? to the point that Beverly Hills kindergarten rosters will soon sound like troupes of scrappy vaudvillians or the platoon from an old war movie.
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The Cleveland Indians have fired manager Manny Acta after the team collapsed from contention.
Tradition decrees that the first concert of a big orchestra?s season includes a bunch of traditional crowd pleasers ? often, these days, with one contemporary work to demonstrate to the local critics that you are in fact a forward-thinking citizen of the music world. Next week, the National Symphony Orchestra will open with Beethoven and Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss and Sarasate.
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Fact checkers get a lot of grief these days, some of it well deserved. But when their craft is done well, they can be invaluable. In fact, my colleague Glenn Kessler doesn?t just check facts, he lays out the facts of the Libya embassy attacks that the rest of the media and, frankly, the Romney campaign have neglected to do. Kessler begins:
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RALEIGH, N.C.
North Carolina is giving Steve Cooksey some choices. He can stop speaking. Or he can get a PhD in nutrition, or a medical degree, or a bachelor?s degree in nutrition and then pass an examination after completing a 900-hour clinical internship. Or he can skip this onerous credentialing, keep speaking and risk prosecution.
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In seven-plus minutes of chatter with CNN?s Joe Johns, failed Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich gave us three reasons why we need more of his punditry on the cable dial.
1) Fearlessness mixed with a touch of illogic and pedantry. As Mediaite?s Noah Rothman notes, Gingrich ?savaged? Mitt Romney?s campaign, calling it ?overly methodical.? He also made the somewhat rote criticism that the campaign hadn?t found a ?thematic way of explaining itself and laying out in a clear, crisp way the difference between Romney and Obama.? Thematic, huh? To this novice political analyst, Romney, whether he?s trying to or not, has perhaps outlined too drastic a difference between himself and President Obama.
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I?m often critical of the Washington National Opera, and recently I?ve written quite a bit about bel canto singing and how they should do it better. Well, let me recant. The Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a bel canto opera on Monday night, Donizetti?s ?L?Elisir d?Amore,? and it was definitely worse.
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From Amy Gardner in Ohio:
President Obama tried to press his advantage against Mitt Romney in Ohio today, hammering away at his opponent?s proposal to give tax relief to the wealthiest Americans, his opposition to the auto bailout and what Obama called Romney?s ?new-found outrage? over China trade policies, given the Republican?s personal investments in Chinese companies.
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SWANTON, Ohio ? Just when you thought Mitt Romney couldn?t catch a break, he got �one.
It came in the form of a Boeing 737 named Ely, which flew in loaded with Ohio veterans returning from a day-long tourist trip to Washington.
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The hardest working man in Washington doesn?t sit at a government desk on Capitol Hill or field grounders on the waterfront or whip up elegant embassy dinners on Massachusetts Avenue. No, he clocks in nightly at a theater in a forest of office buildings and pours himself, liquidly and athletically, into a role that is, in every sense of the word, a killer.
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Yesterday I was reduced to shaking my fist at the polls.� It?s never good when your argument is that the polls are flawed. But this story restores my faith in the idea that the polls are a crock.� It gives a valid analysis of the oversampling of Democrats.�
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Miami Dolphins running back Reggie Bush, upset with pre- and post-game comments made by the New York Jets, expressed no pity Tuesday toward the Jets, who lost star cornerback Darrelle Revis to a season-ending knee injury.
Surprised when Scarlett Johansson, of all people, got a prime speaking role on the closing night of the Democratic National Convention? You shouldn?t have been. The young actress is a true believer who has written some big checks for the president?s reelection campaign: $14,000 last spring to the Obama Victory Fund.
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