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| Mitt Romney warms to Marco Rubio as young senator cultivates relationship |
| Sen. Marco Rubio has been cultivating a relationship with Mitt Romney and his intimates, landing some of the 2012 Republican nominee’s top advisers and donors and persistently courting others as he readies an expected 2016 presidential campaign. Read full article » |
| Facing new test, Cuba’s revolution circles back |
| HAVANA — At the gates of the city’s largest cemetery, a feverish 34-year-old Fidel Castro was rallying rifle-toting militiamen to battle. It was April 16, 1961. The Bay of Pigs invasion was underway. The Americans were behind it. Read full article » |
| To fix inequality, Democrats are pushing unions |
| Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was reclining in his Capitol hideaway, ticking through ideas to improve education, immigration, infrastructure and government-funded research, all in hopes of reviving the middle class. It was a five-point plan, and the fifth point, which he conceded needed some political messaging help, was this: “I’d make it easier,” the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate said, “to form unions.” Read full article » |
| Man killed by police in Metro transit tunnel rushed at officer, officials say |
| A Metro Transit police officer fatally shot a man inside a rail tunnel Thursday night after the man — pants-less and shoe-less — rushed at her holding a large tree branch, according to two officials familiar with the investigation. Read full article » |
| Chris Christie will make entitlement reform central to a White House bid |
| New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) told leading GOP policy analysts this week that he will make overhauling Medicare, Social Security and other long-term entitlement programs a centerpiece of his likely presidential campaign, according to participants in the talks. Read full article » |
| Videos replace essays and test scores for some kids’ college applications |
| Mitchell Moran-Kaplan did the usual drill for most of his college applications. But for Goucher College, the 18-year-old grabbed a digital camera last fall and went for a drive, gathering footage for a two-minute video that aimed to explain what he’s all about. Read full article » |
| ‘Larger than life’: Special Operations Marines recall teammates killed in helicopter crash |
| In the hours after a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of the Florida Panhandle on March 10, some of the Marine Corps’ most elite members learned that their force had suffered a catastrophic loss. The aircraft had gone down in thick fog near Santa Rosa Sound, a narrow body of water west of Eglin Air Force Base where the Marines had gone to train. Read full article » |
| Ending her ‘Wild’ ride: Cheryl Strayed ponders life after a bestselling memoir |
| They had come to worship at the altar of Cheryl.Cheryl, their mentor, their confidante, their “inspiration,” they kept saying. “Just such an inspiration.”And here she was, on stage at National Geographic’s headquarters in Washington Wednesday night, her name and her book cover projected onto a wall behind her: Cheryl Strayed, “Wild.” Read full article » |
| POLITICS |
| Bill Clinton is incredibly popular. How much will that help Hillary’s 2016 campaign? |
| Bill Clinton is almost certainly the most popular person in American politics. A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showed that 56 percent of people have a positive view of the former president while just 26 percent hold a negative one. That makes him more popular than George W. Bush (35/39) and President Obama (44/43). It also makes him more popular than his wife; 44 percent of Americans have a positive view of Hillary Clinton while 36 percent have a negative one. Read full article » |
| Obama visits Phoenix VA facility at heart of scandal |
| President Obama’s visit to the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital that was the epicenter of last summer’s nationwide scandal highlighted the work that VA must still do to weed out incompetent executives and win back the confidence of veterans. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Hillary Clinton’s secret mess |
| On March 2, the story broke that Hillary Clinton had possibly violated e-mail regulations while secretary of state. You could almost hear the collective gasp in Washington: Oh, no, here we go again.But the next evening, Clinton was feted at the Emily’s List 30th-anniversary gala dinner as though nothing had happened. Only the trumpets were missing from what felt like her coronation as the Democratic presidential nominee and, possibly, the next president of the United States. Read full article » |
| A Reagan approach to climate change |
| The trend of disappearing summer sea ice in the Arctic is clear even though there is always some variability from year to year. Severe winter weather underscores the importance of keeping track of significant trends. Here are the numbers, according to Julienne Stroeve, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., as reported in the Economist in February: Read full article » |
| Five myths about college sports |
| 1. College sports provide enormous profits for schools.College athletics generate eye-popping sums of money. The NCAA sold 14 years of TV rights to its March tournament for $10.8 billion in 2010, and athletic programs routinely generate more than $20 million per year for a school in ticket sales. In 2013, the University of Texas athletic department pulled in $165.7 million. It’s logical to think that the universities’ non-athletic programs benefit from all that money. Even the Chronicle of Higher Education has made the connection, writing that “there is no revenue in training doctors and lawyers, [but] colleges and universities make a substantial, direct and immediate income from their student athletes.” Read full article » |
| Love in translation: He spoke French. I spoke English. Google to the rescue. |
| ‘You met, and then?” people say when they ask how my husband, Nico, and I got together.“And then,” Nico says, somewhat embarrassed: “Google Translate.”We met in 2010 at a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I was reporting on the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that year. He, a U.N. peacekeeper from France who spoke practically no English, and I, an American with equal amounts of French, communicated with a lot of pantomime. But once we’d started “talking,” we stuck close by each other, him leading me across the lobby by the hand at one point. We kissed that night. Read full article » |
| LOCAL |
| D.C. area forecast: A soggy and mild Saturday, then cooler and breezy on Sunday |
| It’s expected to rain much of today, but we just might be able to salvage the evening. Read full article » |
| Two arrests in NW bank robbery; FBI , police ‘following all logical leads’ |
| A bank on upper Connecticut Avenue NW was robbed Friday by a masked man with a gun and the FBI later said it had made two arrests. A terse statement from the FBI made no connection with three men being sought in connection with at least eight recent bank robberies in this area. However, the FBI said that after the Friday arrests law enforcement was “following all logical leads.” Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Suddenly-slumping Capitals handled by Dallas at home, 4-2 |
| When Friday night’s debacle reached its breaking point — after the Dallas Stars had dented the Washington Capitals for three power-play goals, boos rained from the upper reaches of Verizon Center and enough had become enough — Coach Barry Trotz looked left and summoned help. Anything, he would say later, to steer away from disaster. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings for March 14 |
| NBA7 p.m. Sacramento at Washington»Comcast SportsNet, WNEW (99.1 FM),WFED (1500 AM)7 p.m. Boston at Indiana»NBA TVNHL1 p.m. Boston at Pittsburgh»NHL Network Read full article » |
| No. 23 Georgetown unable to overcome 21-point deficit, falls to Xavier, 65-63 |
| NEW YORK — The 23-ranked Georgetown men’s basketball team failed to solve nemesis Xavier for a third consecutive game, this time losing, 65-63, following a furious second-half rally that came up agonizingly short in the semifinals of the Big East tournament Friday night at Madison Square Garden. Read full article » |
| Big Ten tournament: Maryland’s bench rises to occasion; Michigan State up next |
| CHICAGO — Maryland’s Mark Turgeon said earlier this week that instead of following the coaching trend of shrinking his rotation in March, he planned to expand his. Delving into his bench was necessary if the team wanted to win three games in three days, he said, and it looked like a sound approach during Friday night’s 75-69 win over Indiana. Maryland arrived at its first Big Ten Tournament well-rested after clinching a double-bye, and it had a number of pivotal contributions from its second unit in the win. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| There was a time in Washington when anyone could just look up J. Edgar Hoover’s home address |
| There was a time in Washington, a half-century or so ago, when things were different, when Republicans and Democrats talked to each other, where they lived near each other and where the 1963 Congressional Directory included the home address of nearly every senator, congressman and senior government official. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| Do experts and the public think differently about the apocalypse? |
| In this day and media-saturated age, you can’t go about your business without encountering chatter about the apocalypse. And over the past month, two different takes about the end of the world have come out. It’s interesting to compare and contrast them. Read full article » |
| Texting has made us less trusting, more selfish |
| Consider the following two situations.In the first scenario, a man and a woman sit across from each other at a romantically lit table in a fancy restaurant texting — looking down and talking to others, maybe each other — but rarely glancing up except to place drink and food orders. Read full article » |
| Cheating in schools is rampant. But there’s an easy fix. |
| Today, cheating is ubiquitous.Here’s just a recent smattering: the current controversy over Asian students’ SAT scores, a cheating scandal in an Atlanta school district, and new research that suggests college courses might actually encourage cheating. Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| France lost the Battle of Waterloo, but it won the war over a commemorative coin |
| The French may have lost the Battle of Waterloo 200 years ago, but they've won at least one clash over how to commemorate it.The famous battle in 1815 marked the final defeat of French dynamo Napoleon Bonaparte, his continental ambitions snuffed out by a coalition led by the British and their Prussian allies. It took place near the town of Waterloo, less than 10 miles south of Brussels. A huge artificial hill, dubbed Lion's Mound, stands as a memorial at the site. Read full article » |
| The ‘Republican Party’ is coming to France |
| France may soon have its own Republican party. And although the country is often decried as far too socialist by U.S. Republicans, surveys predict it to immediately become one of the most popular French parties. Read full article » |
| BUSINESS |
| What to do with $10,000? Try an old-fashioned ‘coffee can fund.’ |
| If I were given $10,000 today, how would I invest it? I would build a coffee can portfolio. As you’ll see, it is an elegant and simple solution to a set of knotty problems.Those problems are largely behavioral issues of our own making. For example, most investors tend to buy high and sell low, the opposite of what you should do. Read full article » |
| The income gap between bosses and workers is getting even bigger worldwide |
| Income inequality has become a hot-button political issue in the United States. The size of Wall Street bonuses has been compared against the median household income. More and more companies are upping the pay of minimum-wage workers amid growing protests. And someday soon, companies are expected to be required to disclose the ratio of pay between CEOs and their median employees. Read full article » |
| Saying yes to a $1,357 dress: What Americans spent on weddings in 2014 |
| “For richer or for poorer,” the traditional wedding vow goes. But when it comes to hosting the wedding itself, having a bigger bank account at your disposal certainly helps.A new survey of 16,000 brides by XO Group, which owns wedding website TheKnot.com, found that the average cost of a wedding excluding a honeymoon was $31,213 in 2014, a five-year high. When adjusted for inflation, that spending is not quite equal to pre-recession highs, but it is getting close. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| This is Lockheed Martin’s new way to get supplies to the space station — and beyond |
| Lockheed Martin unveiled a new spacecraft Thursday evening that it says could not only ferry supplies to the International Space Station but also become a habitat for astronauts in deep space.The nation's largest defense contractor is one of several high-profile companies competing for the NASA contract, which also reflects how robust the commercial space industry has become. A few years ago, NASA decided to outsource the resupply mission by hiring two contractors -- Elon Musk's SpaceX and Orbital ATK -- to take groceries and experiments to the orbiting space laboratory. Read full article » |
| Steve Jobs once said ‘Apple will never make a TV again.’ That doesn’t mean it won’t. |
| We all got a sneak peek into "Becoming Steve Jobs," a forthcoming biography by Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli's on Friday, thanks to excerpts Cult of Mac's Luke Dormehl gleaned from the book preview on Amazon, as well as some previews from Fast Company itself. Read full article » |
| The ‘Moneyball’ effect on K Street: The influence game gets scientific |
| A few clicks of a mouse will show you that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has co-sponsored more of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bills than any other senator’s over the past four years — 22, to be exact. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Kathy Griffin doesn’t want to make fun of people’s bodies. Here are all the times she did. |
| After only seven episodes, Kathy Griffin is leaving “Fashion Police.” This is an odd twist. The outrageous comedian doesn’t usually leave a show willingly. By her own admission, she’s the one getting fired or black-balled from television. Even stranger is her reasoning: Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: Woman wants passive-submissive husband to step up |
| Adapted from a recent online discussion.Dear Carolyn:My husband is so passive he will put up with almost anything to avoid conflict. Recently, our adult son has begun cursing at me when he’s angry with me. My brother-in-law, similarly, called me an extremely offensive name in my husband’s presence. Both times, I reacted. Husband acted as though nothing occurred. Read full article » |
| A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced |
| On March 4, I met with Michael Graves to discuss his decades-long career and the life he had built in Princeton, N.J. Eight days later, the internationally acclaimed architect and designer died at age 80. The piece is Graves’s final tribute to his beloved town, but it is also my appreciation of Michael Graves, who shared his talents and whimsy with the world but always kept his heart in Princeton. Read full article » |
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