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    KNAPP: Beyond 2014 in Afghanistan

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    Texas' Ballet Austin is taking a performance about intolerance and the Holocaust on an international tour, visiting Miami, Washington and Israel over the next year.

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    Within a small rectangle of light, nearly a dozen dancers writhed and convulsed on the stage, pressed together by imaginary walls denoting some kind of death chamber.

  • THUMBS DOWN: Tiger Woods, once the crowd favorite of the PGA tour circuit, now must endure disapproval for scandal in his personal life and diminished pro-tournament play. The question: Can he redeem himself? (Associated Press)

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  • FILE - This Sept. 26, 2010, file photo shows Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre being interviewed after an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions,  in Minneapolis. With the NFL investigating whether he sent lewd photos of himself to a Jets game hostess while he played for New York in 2008, Favre said Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010,  that his cherished, league-record streak of 289 straight starts could be in danger if the pain in his right elbow gets any worse.(AP Photo/Andy King)

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  • FILE - In this March 11, 2008 file photo, former Disney chief Michael Eisner participates in a question and answer panel at the SXSW Film and Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Eisner on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, downplayed reports that he is being considered to head media company Tribune Co. after it exits bankruptcy protection.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

    Eisner downplays reports he may run Tribune

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  • Unity at home

    There have been a number of prominent congressional leaders of both parties in recent days decrying the "surge" to be an utter failure with such proclamations as, "This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq." These statements fuel the drive to order a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Whether the government — which means the totality of both the administration and the Congress — ultimately chooses to pursue this course of action or not, it must be done so with a clear and sober understanding of the likely end results, both near and long term; a failure to do so could produce unintended consequences that may ultimately prove more dangerous to the United States than anything we presently face.

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