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Students in Bryantown, Md, transfer to a second school bus on Tuesday after their bus couldnt make it up a steep hill. The regions first snowfall of the year left between 1 and 3 inches of wet snow, with worsening conditions expected overnight and throughout the day on Wednesday.

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On the eve of a key vote, President Obama privately promised Republicans he stands ready to accept changes in the $825 billion economic stim-ulus legislation, invoked Ronald Reagan to rebut conservative critics and urged law-makers to put politics aside in the interest of creating jobs.

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closed-door meetings with House and Senate Republicans on a trip to the Capitol that blend-ed substance with political symbolism.

Republicans who attended the sessions said the president did not agree to any specific changes but did pledge to have his aides con-sider some that GOP lawmakers raised dealing with additional tax relief for businesses.

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One person on the recordings assures Blagojevich that a horse-rac-ing track owner is good for it and just has to decide what accounts to get it out of. Another assures him the track owner knows he must keep his commitment soon.

Blagojevich replies with com-ments like good and good job. Legislation sought by the racing industry had been sent to the gov-ernors desk, and on the tapes, he says to reassure a racing lobbyist

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has thus far refused to appear at his impeachment trial, choosing instead to defend himself in a flurry of New York media appearances.

Ill. governor discusses horse-racing law with lobbyist in private call

office, listened intently as the fuzzy, indistinct conversations echoed through the room. Neither the gov-ernor nor the others on the call the governors brother and chief fundraiser Robert Blagojevich and former chief of staff Lon Monk specifically mentions money.

As Blagojevichs private words took center stage in Springfield, the governor remained in New York for the second day of a media tour focused on portraying the impeach-ment as unfair.

In the end, a lot of it was talk and exploring ideas, Blagojevich said. I never, ever intended to vio-late any criminal law.

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12 from Feb. 17. The Senate unani-mously approved the idea Monday night, in a victory for the Obama administration and Democratic lawmakers who argue that too many Americans wouldnt be ready to get digital broadcasts by Feb. 17.

Nielsen Co. estimates that more than 6.5 million U.S. households that rely on analog sets to pick up over-the-air broadcast signals could see their TVs go dark next month if the shutdown is not postponed.

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An official in President Obamas administration reached out to Citigroup on Monday to reiterate

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Today our worst fear was real-ized, Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Kenneth Garner said. Theres just so many ways you find alterna-tives to doing something so horrific and drastic as this.

Ervin Antonio Lupoe and his wife, Ana, also a medical technician, worked at Kaiser Permanente Medi-cal Center West Los Angeles.

In the letter he faxed to a TV sta-tion, Ervin Lupoe claimed he and his wife both had been fired and that she suggested they kill them-selves and their children.

In note to TV station, man says he and his wife just lost their jobs

L.A. Deputy Police Chief Kenneth Gar-ner called the family slaying horrific.

KABC TV reported that the man claimed in the fax that a medical center administrator rebuffed them when they showed up to work, told them to file a union grievance and said, You should have blown your brains out.

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Obama cited his Muslim back-ground and relatives practi-cally a taboo issue during the U.S. presidential campaign and said that one of his main tasks was to communicate to Muslims that the Americans are not your enemy.

The interview on the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel aired Tuesday, as Obamas new

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Delegation gives cash to relatives of 15 dead, including a militant

in three cases in the last month. Karzai has repeatedly warned the United States and NATO, saying such deaths undermine his gov-ernment and the international mission.

In Washington, Defense Secre-tary Robert Gates echoed Karzais concerns, telling a Senate com-mittee that civilian casualties are doing us enormous harm in Afghanistan.

Col. Greg Julian, the top U.S. spokesman in Afghanistan, led Tuesdays delegation into the vil-lage of Inzeri, a small collection of stone and mud homes set high in a

An American soldier gives $1,500 in Afghan currency to an Afghan villager for vil-lage repairs after a U.S. raid killed 15 people in Inzeri, Afghanistan, on Tuesday.

steep, rocky valley. Insurgents have a strong presence in the region just 30 miles north of Kabul.

A raid the night of Jan. 19 killed 15 people in Inzeri, including a tar-geted militant commander named Mullah Patang. Afghan officials admit that Patang was killed, but villagers say civilians also died.

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your skis toward the black slope called Le Corbeau the Crow and f lash down its near-vertical mogul field in a display of down-hill derring-do.

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crossing the invisible frontier from France into Switzerland, where the patrons of the Chalet Neuf cafe provide a hot spiced-wine welcome while you contemplate how next to avoid any death-defying antics on your winter holiday. Whether youre a manic mountain thrill-seeker or a

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Haywood had 10 points and nine rebounds. Butler and DeShawn Ste-venson scored eight points apiece. Within a few days, coach Eddie Jor-dan would get the nod to lead the East squad at the All-Star Game.

It was a great team. Had a great buzz. Awesome point guard, Ste-venson said. I want to get back to them days, joking, laughing.

That may take awhile.This Monday, Washington moved

into sole possession of last place in the NBA with a 103-87 loss to the Phoenix Suns. Butler and Jamison

combined for 55 points, but Are-nas, Haywood and Stevenson were merely injured spectators, watching a team that gives every indication it will keep a firm grip on its new title of worst team in basketball.

And clinging to the hope that somehow, someday, some way the Wizards will recapture the magic of two years ago.

Thats how I always look at it, Butler said Tuesday. That why its so mind-boggling right now. I feel like Im being Punkd and Im looking for Ashton Kutcher because I just

cant believe we can go from that to this. Every time, Im, like, Brendan, you hand hurts for real? Gilbert, youre really not ready yet? Its to that point.

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Everyone knows that were a championship contender if every-bodys healthy, Butler said. Thats no secret. I dont think anybody wants to see us healthy in the play-offs.

The downfall started when Jami-son got hurt, then Butler, then Are-nas, ruining the second half of the 2006-07 season. Butler missed 24 more games due to various injuries last season, but the big blow came when Arenas went down with a knee injury that has required three surgeries in 18 months. He and Haywood (torn wrist ligament) have yet to play this season and are nowhere close to returning. 9>B4?7F78C40?

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Recent studies of the brain tissue of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Tom McHale showed he had

Doctors: Concussions impact could lead to Alzheimers, dementia

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the condition.)Several doctors and research-

ers have been saying for more than two years that repeated blows to the head in football games leads to debilitating later-life afflictions like dementia.

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Blatche said he felt his knee pop when ONeal bumped him along the baseline late in the fourth quarter of Monday nights 103-87 loss to the Phoenix Suns. ONeal was called for a foul, and Blatche needed assistance to get back on his feet before eventually hopping down the tunnel to the locker room.

Blatche, who has yet to miss a game this season, has 23 starts and is averaging 10.1 points and 5.4 rebounds.

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The squad has proven good enough to defeat Connecticut on the road and dominate archrival Syra-cuse at home. But it didnt look like the same team with such impressive wins took the floor against West Virginia last Thursday or in Sun-

No. 25 Georgetown looks to end 3-game slide versus Cincinnati

cent in their last two losses and made just five 3-pointers combined.

Of more concern may be the teams ef for t and execution. Announcers in the West Virginia and Seton Hall games said George-town appeared to be outworked. At the very least, the teams body lan-guage has betrayed the two-time defending Big East champions.

Thompson noticed the trend last Thursday. We got shots that normal-ly go in the basket and didnt, and I think we got frustrated, he said.

days upset at Seton Hall.Having lost three straight games,

Georgetown has fallen to No. 25 in The Associated Press rankings. Next up is Cincinnati on Wednes-day night for the Hoyas (12-6, 3-4), who suddenly need a win to return to .500 in the Big East.

Were in a hole, Thompson told reporters after Sundays stunning 65-60 loss to Seton Hall. Were in a rut. Were in a bad situation.

After making 59 percent of its shots and 57 percent of its 3-point-ers against Syracuse, Georgetown has gone cold from the floor. The Hoyas didnt shoot more than 40 per-

Coach John Thompson III answers questions after the Hoyas loss Sunday.

Still, the coach wasnt overly concerned at least outwardly after losses at new No. 1 Duke and a tough Mountaineers club. Today was a blip; it wasnt the norm, Thompson said last Thursday. We hadnt seen that.

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but this time in relation to poli-tics not governmental so much as human.

Its about how people interact together; the politics and agenda-setting that come into play whether youre talking about men or women, the music industry, the world, Arie says.

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(1220 250 520) 750 1030HOTEL FOR DOGS (PG) (1215 245 510) 730 1000THE UNBORN (PG-13) (140 440) 755 1035BRIDE WARS (PG) (135 435) 745 1020NOT EASILY BROKEN (PG-13) 735 PM 1025 PMLAST CHANCE HARVEY (PG-13) (125 425) 715 945MARLEY AND ME (PG) (1245 PM) 615 PMVALKYRIE (PG-13) (1230 325) 625 915THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (PG-13)

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The D.C. area boasts a polyglot pop-ulation, which makes for eclectic and varied wedding ceremonies. Whether youre Chinese-American and seeking a cheongsam dress for the big day or are Jewish and need a chair for the hora at your recep-tion, theres probably a local vendor who can help you out. Here are a few folks who can turn age-old tradi-tions into modern moments.

10A00CMidge Harmon began receiving the calls years ago. South Asian couples were interested in renting a white mare from her company,

Harmons Hayrides and Carriages, for a Baraat ceremony. The Baraat is literally a procession from the grooms home to the ceremony hall, says Vinodhini Kudva, president of Wedding and Event Professionals for South Asians (Dcwepsa.com) and founder of Events by Design, an event-planning company in Potomac Falls, Va., that special-izes in South Asian weddings. It symbolizes the passage.

In the past, the groom would ride from his familys home to his brides familys home. These days, the trip can be just a symbolic lap around a venue site.

Six years ago, Midge bought a white mare to accommodate these requests. Due to high demand her company provides horses for about 100 weddings a year she has since purchased two more.

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A fairy-tale wedding cake commands center stage, frosted with more bling than the bridesmaids (and, honestly, its selection might have involved more deliberation). But for all their fondant finery, bridal confections can be supremely impersonal. Cue the grooms cake, a Southern tradition thats part concession prize for a good-sport husband-to-be, part sugary window to his soul. People get bogged down with wedding planning; grooms cakes are a way to lighten the mood, says Stephanie Baker, a Falls Church pastry pro who tells couples to keep just two restrictions in mind the limitations of creativity and the law of gravity. Before visions of armadillo grooms cakes a la Steel Magnolias give you cold feet, look around town: Sculptural inspiration is as rich as those endless layers of buttercream, from stately memorials to only-in-D.C. personalities. :0C84:=>A>EB:H

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on U Street. Stephanie Baker (of her aptly named bakery, Stephanie the Baker) pays tribute to this quintessential D.C. landmark (and occasional presidential hangout), trading chili for sweet old-fashioned flavors such as French vanilla and devils food. $8 per slice, minimum 30 servings. (354-A W. Broad St., Falls Church; 703-536-2200)

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it: Wedding planning can be a bear. Enter Tian Tian, the zoos lovable papa panda bear and arguably the citys fuzziest celebrity in his confectionery likeness by baker-artist Tracey Alston of Cakes by Tracey in Waldorf, Md. $12 per serving; price is lower sans bamboo and edible accessories. (Cakesbytracey.com; 301-638-9191)

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5D==HE0;4=C8=4B)After their October 2007 vows, Jason and Catherine Schoenborn, left, and pals posed for pho-tog Nicole Wolf at the Maine Avenue Fish Market. Other duos go for photo booths or snapshot setups, which yield cheeky shots like these, above, by Love Life Images.Paparazzi shoots,

photo booths and other ways to get wild wedding picsYears later, when they thumb through their wedding photos, even the edgiest brides and grooms can sometimes find themselves looking as stiff as cake toppers, in albums that could have been produced on an assembly line.

Weddings really bring out the traditional in a lot of people, says photographer Mindy Belcher of Sterling, Va.s Ever After Visuals (Everaftervisuals.com). When the moms start getting involved, they want it to look like their wed-ding, and their wedding had a lot of [posed] formal shots.

New directions in event pho-tography, however, show that altar-bound couples are finally getting more comfortable flaunt-ing their alternative sides. Trends point toward capturing the lighter side of the festivities and the true

outdo Tyra Banks.I didnt go the lingerie route.

I was thinking more pinup [girl] with boy shorts and vests, says Bowie, Md., 30-something Daphne Love, a management analyst who worked with photographer Allison Britton (Abrittonphotography.com). She surprised her husband, Brandon, with the boudoir photos when they first saw each other on their wedding day last October. He was shocked, stunned and really proud, she says.

Grooms are also getting into the pre-wedding act by enlisting pho-tographers to capture the propos-al, paparazzi-style, and then sur-prising their bride with the photos afterward. [This trend] is on the rise, confirms Rebecca Crumley, weddings photo editor at the Knot. Some couples really love it. What

drops, its no surprise that local couples carve out time for a photo tour on their wedding day. For stay-at-home mom Sara Willi, 29, and Donovan Kuehn, 39 director of operations and outreach for the National Association of Alcoholism Counselors and Trainers repre-senting the city was a must. On their wedding day in October 2006, the Capitol Hill couple hit spots such as Meridian Hill Park and the White House, where they posed in mock protest with poster board signs. We always joke that George W. Bush brought us together, says Willi, who met her husband at a demon-stration against the Iraq war.

When selecting locales, keeping it personal is key. Otherwise, the shots can end up looking like outtakes from a touristy vacation to the nations capital. I dissuade [my brides] from embarking on some magical mystery tour or postcard trip, says Alexandria, Va., photojournalist Matt Mendelsohn (Mattmendelsohn.com). Its got to feel real.

bride wouldnt want a photo of when she first got the ring?

To document the actual wed-ding day, couples are looking for a breezier style one thats a step beyond the photojournalism thats been in vogue for the past decade. Id say there are more attempts to inject humor into the photos, says Kara Corridan, executive editor of Modern Bride and Elegant Bride. Maybe its a destination wedding and the groomsmen have on crazy pirate hats or sombreros. Maybe the bride and groom want something ironic, like an homage to the high school prom shot.

To get her clients to loosen up, Fairfax, Va., photographer Nicole Wolf of SOTA Dzine (Sotaweddings.com) encourages couples to bring along their friends and stray from the church and hotel. Last fall, she ended up at the Maine Avenue Fish Market with a boisterous bridal party, their hands full of crabs. The pictures were hilarious, she says.

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personality of the participants from documenting the less stuffy rehearsal dinner and arranging ber-ironic group shots (think a Sopranos ad campaign) to shoot-ing in unconventional locales such as wine cellars and graffiti-embla-zoned alleyways.

Before their I do day, some cou-rageous brides even go in front of the lens to get up close and (really) personal for a boudoir session a series of intimate portraits, typically in a bedroom setting. Until recent-ly, I had been against it. I blame it on the whole Glamour Shots idea rose in the teeth, feather boa, shudders Julie Raimondi, editor in chief of Brides Washington, D.C. But in the rig