Peter Terpeluk Jr., Republican fundraiser and former ambassador, dies at 63

Peter Terpeluk Jr., a powerhouse fundraiser for the Republican Party who served as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg and as finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, died Aug.�23 at his home in Chevy Chase. He was 63 and had a heart attack, his wife said.

After working as an official with the Small Business Administration in the early 1980s, Mr. Terpeluk formed a consulting business in Washington in 1986. He quickly became a leading fundraiser for Republican candidates and was a finance co-chairman in the presidential campaigns of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

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Giants' Osi, Tuck travel, likely to play vs. Cards

Defensive ends Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck flew to Arizona with the New York Giants and likely will play against the Cardinals on Sunday.

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D.C. politicians and their losing ways

?Tell Tony Williams to start warming up.? That would be my order from the dugout if I were managing this error-prone enterprise called ?Team Washington.?

?Course, I?m not. And this is no game.

Ten months in, the tenure of Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) and the Kwame Brown-led D.C. Council has been a political debacle. The city?s executive and legislative branches are operating under a cloud. It doesn?t help that the city?s so-called independent chief financial officer, Natwar Gandhi, is embroiled in a lawsuit related to the D.C. lottery that alleges that he wrongfully terminated and retaliated against a whistleblower, Eric Payne, former contracts director in the CFO?s office. A Gandhi spokesman, David Umansky, declined to comment on the lawsuit, but he told The Post?s Mike DeBonis, ?The procurements were transparent, open and done strictly according to the law.? Gandhi may end up in the clear, but the lawsuit only adds to the picture of a city out of ethical control.

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Why Europe?s crisis matters to U.S.

An American economic recovery now faces only two obstacles. Unfortunately, they are considerable: the broken politics of the United States and the broken politics of Europe.

Given the gleeful polarization of the U.S. political class, any positive action on the economy may require a clarifying presidential election. But across the Atlantic, the test comes now. Can Europe contain an unavoidable financial meltdown to its weakest members?

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Take a chance on ABBA dance video game

Ubisoft to trot out a Wii game based on the Swedish supergroup's music in November. Knowing me, knowing you, we are going to like this one.

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Cooking Off the Cuff: Full of beans

As I?ve said before, pre-cooked dried beans are one of the more versatile, time-saving things you can keep in your refrigerator. I won?t go through all the dozens of applications: Pick up just about any general cookbook and look up ?Beans? in the index.

To give one simple example, you can go from basic cooked beans to fabulous bean soup in just a few minutes: Chop some vegetables, saut� them in butter or oil, add beans and bean broth (and maybe some fresh herbs and extra liquid), and you?re done. It?ll take an extra 40 seconds if you decide to thicken the soup by pureeing some of the beans.

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HHS?s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values

The Department of Health and Human Services proposed some regulations a few weeks ago to implement a part of the 2010 health-care law, and it asked concerned parties to file comments on the regulations by Friday. In a section of the Affordable Care Act that didn?t get much public attention during the debates last year, Congress asked HHS to prescribe a list of ?preventive services for women? that health-care plans across the country would have to provide to subscribers at no additional cost.

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