The Washington Post - 2012-09-21

• Smile, Washington! After 79 years, you’re in the playoffs.
• Metro’s Smartrip campaign rolls out slowly
• Education overhaul largely bypasses Congress
• Major hospitals omitted from ‘top performer’ list
• Kaine assailed on tax remark
• Japan makes a shift to the right
• A jury convicted an Ohio Amish sect leader and 15 followers on federal hate-crimes charges in connection with beard-cutting attacks on Amish people.
• Many U.S. multina tional corporatio­ns, including Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, have exploited weaknesses in the tax code to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes on overseas profits, a Senate panel report said.
• The Obama administra­tion paid $70,000 to buy ads on Pakistani television disavowing the YouTube video that mocks the prophet Muhammad, the State Department said.
• Stimulus targets
• Federal housing officials are weighing how best to recoup as much as $2.4 million linked to financial mismanagem­ent during the administra­tion of now-imprisoned former Prince George’s county executive Jack B. Johnson.
• The average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages — 3.49 percent — matched its record low this week, and the rate on 15-year mortgages — 2.77 percent — hit a new record.
• Arlington National Cemetery has been transforme­d into a topnotch institutio­n in the two years since officials uncovered mismanagem­ent and misidentif­ied graves, a report said.
• Voter outreach
• The last of the 33,000 “surge” forces that President Obama ordered to Afghanista­n in 2009 have withdrawn, leaving 68,000 U.S. troops in the war zone, the Pentagon announced.
• The State Department will open a new inquiry into last week’s deadly attack on a diplomatic post in Libya, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
• Prosecutor­s dropped their legal fight to see a notebook that accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes sent to a psychiatri­st.
• Ink on paper:
• The Syrian military bombed a gas station in a northern town, killing at least 50 people, opposition groups said.
• Checks totaling nearly $2.5 billion were to mailed to more than 1,200 victims of Bernard Madoff’s fraud.
• Wal-Mart is phasing out the sale of Amazon’s tablets and e-readers, following a similar decision by Target.
• Mrs. Jesus, is it really you?
• Happening today
• As war wanes, armor to suit women
• U.S. soldier loses bid to stay in Canada
• Obama mocks Romney on ‘47 percent’ remark
• Looks like Akin isn’t bowing out
• Economy to be big debate issue
• Accusation­s fly over e-mail flap
• Attack ads in Missouri
• Colo. may have most closely watched election official
• Ryan urges GOP House colleagues to be optimistic
• Republican­s say they’ll retreat on taxes if Obama wins
• Romney campaign’s cash flow hits a snag
• Issa urges penalties in botched gun case
• Brown, Warren focus jabs on taxes in first debate
• Slain agent’s parents slam report on ‘Fast and Furious’
• Shops in India shut doors in protest
• 2 freed Americans return home
• President appoints 10 new governors
• Violence ups ante for Tunisia’s new rulers
• Egypt’s protests highlight leaders’ political tightrope
• U.S., Asian nations in trade talks without China
• ALSO IN BUSINESS
• “Macy’s has Apple fever.”
• Bank of America to cut 16,000 jobs
• A review roundup: Experts test-drive the new iphone 5
• Low jobless claims may not be good news
• Senate panel looks into high-frequency trading on Wall St.
• Tempest brews over tax credit for wind power
• CBO skeptical of electric-vehicle effort
• Another leg on shuttle’s last journey
• President Obama’s education measures
• Gridlock? Confirmed. Judges? Still waiting.
• Panel plans a hearing on Waters allegation­s
• Congress’s database gets online makeover
• Whose vision?
• India, a nation on the verge
• Romney’s class warfare
• Don’t give up on Libya
• Virginia’s abortion war
• Intervenin­g in Syria
• The ‘Show Me Your Papers’ State
• TAKING EXCEPTION
• Tough tasks for teachers
• Free speech vs. offended sensibilit­ies
• A threat to children’s health
• Racial strides, in reverse
• War with Iran comes easily
• Collapse of the Cairo Doctrine
• A better deal for teachers
• Ideology without promise
• Broken bootstraps
• Keeping the nation’s art dry
• Central High classmates remember slain student
• Man who had role in principal’s killing is fatally shot
• Gropers also victimize those who believe in them
• A look back at the CBC
• Health rates to rise
• Foundation leader has focused on justice, education
• 6therootdc. com
• Black Caucus, pastors to discuss same-sex unions
• Metro sued over delay in displaying pro-Israel ads
• Wounded student pushed others aside
• Jackson nominated for federal court seat
• School staff unaware boy, 3, left campus
• U-MD. joins online educationa­l venture
• Man dies from being shot five years ago
• School gets grant for problem gambling
• Father, son charged over fake iphones
• Man convicted in fatal stabbing
• Health premiums’ rise is modest but unwelcome
• Letter carriers honor heroes
• Extended pay freeze nets financial angst, frustratio­n
• The Fed Page, A20
• For Yeardley Love’s mother, pain inspires new advocacy
• John H. Moling III
• George R. Wilson
• Convicted in killing of U.S. drug agent
• John C. ‘Jake’ Broderick
• Court rejects pastor’s ouster from Jericho City of Praise
• Elmer ‘Bud’ Harmon
• A royal visit
• Schools may face tighter standards
• Remains found near VRE tracks not human, officials say
• Dancing to the heart of America
• Suu Kyi’s common cause
• A ‘West Wing’ reunion — not scripted by Sorkin
• America’s Attic is refashioni­ng its image
• Evoking the calm of a Japanese garden
• Getting political on ‘The View’
• A family deals with Mao’s deception
• IN OTHER NEWS . . .
• LOVE, ETC.
• Lou Diamond Phillips
• The long-lasting effects of infidelity
• Reconnecti­on with an old friend leads to static online and off
• HIGHLIGHTS
• Up in the air, looking incomplete
• The Nats’ road to .600, historical­ly less traveled
• Defense yielding too much ground
• Keeping Griffin healthy needs to be a priority
• Magic number 8
• United ends road skid
• Hardly smooth sailing
• Woods has his say with play
• Capri Sun makes Niles Paul’s day — but gives his teammates the stiff-arm
• Embattled Gillispie steps down at Texas Tech
• Atwater’s sons follow a different path
• Mystics are preparing to call it a wrap
• Jets’ Revis says he’s playing vs. Dolphins
• Cooley still waiting for the right offer
• AROUND THE AREA
• Dorsey sisters power Good Counsel to win
• North Point at No. 15 Patuxent
• Yorktown at Hayfield
• Tuscarora at Loudoun County
• Umpire apologized to Johnson for blown call
• The end is in sight
• NATIONALS VS. BREWERS
• Cardinals extend season-long dominance
• Jones’s homer lifts O’s to an 11-inning victory
• PERSONNEL DEPT.
• Rizzo starts lobbying effort
• 2012 DODGE DURANGO
• inspiratio­n starts here.
• TThe Master has epic scale and scope but a story that’s flawed.
• Madonna takes the stage at Verizon Center on Sunday and Monday.
• Our literary scene goes beyond this weekend’s book festivals.
• NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL
• SEND HOLIDAY EVENTS TO US
• FREDERIC YONNET
• ZOO’S ROCK-N-ROAR
• DC VEGFEST
• DULLES DAY FAMILY FESTIVAL AND PLANE PULL
• ANDREW MCCARTHY
• U.S. ARMY FIELD BAND
• OUR TOP PICK:
• THE DOWNLOAD
• Fela’s beats continue to inspire
• SUN KIL MOON
• BETH ORTON
• CORIN TUCKER BAND
• WILD NOTHING
• For Families
• Check out our new online look
• SPECIAL EVENTS
• Et cetera. . .
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• THE STORY BEHIND THE WORK
• DON’T MISS
• Galleries and Art Spaces
• GALLERY OPENING OF THE WEEK
• Ode to the Smokey Joe
• We want your Redskins bars
• Brother, can you spare a laugh?
• Mini Reviews
• COMINGS AND GOINGS
• A reunion you won’t regret
• A thriller for fans to judge
• Unlikely love in a college escape
• A tryst of a film, not built to last
• A restrained, distant affair
• Also Playing
• A macho twist on buddy cops
• A dish served with emotion
• Chase provides all of the thrill
• Strong message, shouted softly
• A multiplex in a modernist milieu
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