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    2010 Holiday Gift Guide - Best in video games

    A gift guide to the best in video games including the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, NBA 2K 11, Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition and Golden Eye 007.


  • New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez (6) and teammate Santonio Holmes (10) celebrate after they connected for the game-winning touchdown during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Houston Texans at New Meadowlands Stadium, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010, in East Rutherford, N.J. The Jets won 30-27. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

    Sensational Sanchez an exciting leader for Jets

    Meadowlands Mark has even Broadway Joe on his feet cheering these days.


  • 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)

    Tiger stuck in the rough, needs new game

    For years, Tiger Woods was a top-10 fixture on celebrity marketing power rankings alongside A-list stars. Today, in the Davie-Brown Index, he ranks somewhere in the 2,000s, beside troubled singer Amy Winehouse, rocker Tommy Lee, early '80s TV star Erik Estrada and Horatio Sanz.


  • In this May 16, 2008 photo, the exterior of a passenger terminal building at Robin Hood Airport, Doncaster, England. A man who was convicted and fined for tweeting that he planned to blow up an airport will take his case to Britain's High Court in a test of the limits of free speech on the Internet, his lawyers said Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Attorneys for Paul Chambers said prominent human rights lawyer Ben Emmerson has been instructed to lead the legal challenge to Chambers' conviction. (AP Photo/Anna Gowthorpe, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

    Twitter tirades test limits of freedom of speech

    What's a tweet, between friends? The law says sometimes it's a threat.


  • Illustration: Koran by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    MONAWAR: Taliban's 'Burn a Koran Day'

    I have always said that the Taliban are a bunch of hypocrites and unsophisticated individuals that used Islam as an ideology to promote a fabricated cause, attract like-minded criminals and inflame the emotions of innocent civilians. Furthermore, the Taliban have miserably failed to demonstrate that they are good for a progressive, democratic Afghanistan. Certainly, my notion of partiality is questionable since I have a clear aversion for the Taliban and what they stand for - but perhaps my prejudice is justified.


  • Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher leaves the field after losing to the Washington Redskins 19-16 in overtime in an NFL football game on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Frederick Breedon)

    Young hurts right thumb in Titans' loss

    An injured Vince Young tossed his shoulder pads and No. 10 jersey into the stands after Tennessee's 19-16 overtime loss to the Washington Redskins on Sunday.


  • Britain's Andy Murray reacts to losing a point against Spain's Rafael Nadal during their semifinal single tennis match of the ATP World Tour Finals at O2 Arena in London, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

    Bishop apologizes for royal wedding comments

    A British bishop has apologized for making offensive comments about the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton _ saying he gives their marriage about "seven years."


  • Britain's Andy Murray reacts to losing a point against Spain's Rafael Nadal during their semifinal single tennis match of the ATP World Tour Finals at O2 Arena in London, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

    Bishop apologizes for harsh royal wedding comments

    A British bishop apologized Monday for his "deeply offensive" comments in which he gave Prince William's upcoming royal marriage to Kate Middleton about "seven years."


  • Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, poses prior to a press conference in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, when WikiLeaks revealed previously secret files on the Iraq war -- the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)

    WikiLeaks: New release 7 times size of Iraq logs

    WikiLeaks' next release will be seven times the size of the Iraq war logs, already the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history, the website said Monday.


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