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Americans probably won’t be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it’s not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, f lag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation’s fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War. Officials in New York and Washington say they would be happy to help stage a big celebration, but Pentagon officials say they haven’t been asked to plan one.

Most welcome-homes have been smaller-scale: hugs from families at military posts across the country, a somber commemoration by President Obama at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

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Two New York City councilmen, Republicans Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo, have called for a tickertape parade down the stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last week that he was open to the idea but added, “It’s a federal thing that we really don’t want to do without talking to Washington,

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and we’ll be doing that.”

Ignizio said he had been told by the mayor’s office that Pentagon officials were concerned that a celebration could spark violence overseas and were evaluating the risk.

The last combat troops in Iraq pulled out more than a week ago.

About 91,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are in Afghanistan. Many U.S. troops who fought in the Iraq War could end up being sent to Afghanistan. BEN NUCKOLS AND SAMANTHA GROSS (AP)

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“A lot of the people I’m around are not Romney fans, but they are kind of acknowledging they think he’s going to be the nominee, and that they’ll plug their nose and vote for him,” said Gwen Ecklund, Republican chairwoman in GOPheavy Crawford County in conservative western Iowa.

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Mindful of that, Romney is entering the final phase of the Iowa campaign with a confident air — and a push to win the contest after trying to lower expectations. He spent heavily here in 2008 only to lose big. THOMAS BEAUMONT (AP)

Starting in 2012, the government will charge a new fee to your health insurance plan for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best.

The goal of the research, part of a little-known provision of President Obama’s health care law, is to answer such basic questions as whether that new prescription drug advertised on TV really works better than an old generic.

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Israel said it targeted militants before they could carry out an attack on the border between Israel and Egypt. (AP)

Syria Churns as Monitors Arrive Bloodshed continues as protesters fill city after tanks fall back 8[_hkj Tens of thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs on Tuesday, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising.

The pullback was the first sign the regime was complying with the League’s plan to end the ninemonth crackdown on dissent.

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activists showed forces firing on protesters even while monitors were inside the city. Syrian tanks had been heavily shelling Homs for days, residents and activists said, killing dozens even after Assad signed on to the Arab League plan, which demands the government remove its forces from city streets, start talks with opposition leaders and allow rights workers and journalists into the country.

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8WYaijeho After agreeing to the Arab League’s pullback plan on Dec. 19, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime intensified its crackdown on dissent; government troops killed hundreds in the past week and Syria was condemned internationally for flouting the spirit of the agreement.

On Monday alone, security forces killed at least 42 people, most of them in Homs. (AP)

stopped the bombardment and pulled some of its tanks back.

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Amateur videos show residents of Homs pleading with the visiting monitors for protection.

“We are unarmed people who are dying,” a resident shouts to one observer. Seconds later, shooting is heard from a distance as someone screams: “We are being slaughtered here.”

Given the intensified crackdown over the past week, the opposition has viewed Syria’s agreement to the Arab League plan as a farce.

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If the United States insists that the insurgents establish a liaison office in Qatar, “we are agreed,” Karzai said in a statement.

Earlier this month, Kabul recalled its ambassador to Qatar over reports that the Taliban was planning to open an office there.

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The ban came in response to a lawsuit filed by Samira Ibrahim, 25, one of seven women who said they were subjected to humiliating virginity checks after being detained by the military at a sitin in March. At the time, the ruling generals denied that soldiers had conducted such tests.

A general was later quoted as saying that tests had been carried out to protect soldiers from accusations of rape. Last week, the mili-

8WYaijeho$$$ Samira Ibrahim, 25, has been one of the most outspoken about her experience and the most dogged about holding someone accountable. The young woman posted a video on YouTube in which she said that after she was detained March 9, she was electrocuted with cattle prods, accused of being a prostitute, forced to strip in front of soldiers and then examined by a man in front of laughing soldiers. The military doctor who conducted the test will face a hearing in a military court Jan. 3, according to state television. (AP)

tary announced investigations into the incidents.

The generals’ management of the country’s transition period has drawn intense criticism, but the reports of mistreatment of women by the military have incensed Egyptians. In recent crackdowns on protesters, soldiers were filmed beating women and in at least one case partly stripping off a woman’s clothing.

The court’s prohibition of the practice Tuesday represents a significant victory for women, rights groups and legal experts said.

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De ;Wio <_n Islamabad’s wild pigs have virtually no predator with the exception of the occasional leopard or poacher. Officials have resorted to mass killings in the past, but dealing with a burgeoning pig population in an urban environment is difficult: Shooting is not an option, and poisoning has seen limited success. Islam considers pigs dirty and unfit for human consumption. Potential bodily harm to residents remains the main concern with the roaming boars. Adult males can grow to 200 pounds and are equipped with protruding tusks. (T WP)

and up until last year it awarded hunting licenses. Still, the local porcine population has continued to rise. Now officials have all but given up trying to contain the intruders.

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But like numerous big-city may-

ors, Gray’s tolerance for activism is being tested by protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which shows little sign of retreating in the District.

Gray is generally supportive of the cause, but he says he is bewildered by how the movement has ended up known as much for its tents as for its demands.

“What is frustrating for me, and I think of my own causes, is, what is the desired outcome here?”

Gray said. “Where are you trying to get to?”

With Occupy D.C. about to enter its fourth month, Gray is struggling to balance his embrace of protest as a tool for social change and his obligation to run a city where demonstrations present a near-daily challenge to local officials.

“You don’t want to be a hypocrite,” said Gray, a fierce partisan who last year used a derogatory pun to refer to tea party members and who was initially intrigued

by Occupy’s young, liberal protesters.

The mayor’s evolving view of

the Occupy camps in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square offer a window into not only his leadership style and political upbringing, but also the challenges protesters face in winning converts to their campaign to reduce income inequality and the inf luence of corporations.

Gray’s struggle puts him in the company of activist mayors in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Richmond and Oakland, Calif., who in many cases got their start in politics after championing a cause, only to find

themselves pitted against a new generation of political anger.

With both Occupy D.C. camps on National Park Service property, Gray doesn’t face the same stress as some of his counterparts in deciding whether to order police to dislodge the encampments.

But D.C. police must monitor the sites and track protest marches, responsibilities that Gray said are straining some city resources and piling up police overtime.

For now, Gray remains conflicted. “We want to support the movement, but we are not going to tolerate breaking of the law,” said Gray, who said he cannot quite define acceptable civil disobedience but thinks Occupy protesters have gone too far. TIM CR AIG (THE WASHINGTON POST )

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At times, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has appeared as if he could be a father figure to the Occupy protesters, including welcoming them to the District in his remarks at a Christmas celebration at city hall, attendees said. At other times, he has come across as a cranky neighbor. Last week, he sent a letter to the director of the National Park Service demanding that the city be reimbursed $1.6 million for costs accrued during the protests. (T WP)

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C[jhe H_Z[h =[ji É8WYa ed JhWYaÊ D.C. man is upbeat 4 months after a train accident took his foot Victor Robinson had been missing one of his most treasured possessions during his months in a D.C. hospital: a silver Superman ring, a nod to the nickname his friends had given him.

One recent morning, his mother passed the ring to him as he sat in his wheelchair and stared at a pair of parallel bars at United Medical Center in Southeast Washington.

“Good job, Victor,” physical therapist Kevin Colvin said. “Now do 20 lifts to strengthen that hip and thigh.”

Four months ago, a Metro train

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struck Robinson, 42, after he had an epileptic seizure and fell onto the track bed at the Friendship Heights station.

Robinson is one of 13 passengers struck this year by Metro

trains, according to the transit authority. In such cases, Metro often reports that the person was on the tracks intentionally. Robinson, however, was just waiting on the platform.

At the start of his physical therapy, Robinson had a bit of an attitude. He didn’t want to do exercises, a reaction typical sometimes of patients who have lost limbs or been in a tragic accident.

But as he started to see progress, Robinson became more upbeat, outgoing and like the Victor his family and friends had known.

In October, Robinson left the hospital for a day to attend Quality Trust’s annual meeting. He received a standing ovation when he entered the ballroom at Gallaudet University.

“I’m back on track,” he told well-wishers.

He also plans to keep using Metro’s trains to get around town.

“I’m not upset about losing my foot,” he said. “I’m happy I’m getting a new one.” DANA HEDGPETH (THE WASHINGTON POST )

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The inspections did not reveal any problems, Stessel said, and the transit authority continues to search for “the root cause” of the incident that happened during the morning commute on Dec. 20.

Metro general manager Richard Sarles had ordered a review of the system’s 190 5000 series rail cars, about 18 percent of the fleet.

(THE WASHINGTON POST )

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Jason Feldman’s Star and Shamrock, a Jewish-Irish tavern in Washington’s H Street corridor, has to be the only bar in the District where battery-operated menorahs are on each table, fried matzoh balls are served with He’Brew drafts and Hanukkah has been proclaimed hip.

“My bubby would be proud,” said Feldman, using the Yiddish word for grandmother.

On the first night of the eightday Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, Feldman, 37, was wearing a backward Mets cap and eating a hot pastrami on rye at a carved wooden bar.

Feldman is the grandson of Holocaust survivors, “but I was born in Brooklyn, raised in Jersey and my father is now in Boca,” he laughs. He moved to Washington in 1999 and worked as a bartender for several years.

With the opening of his own bar, Feldman has become Washington’s best-known Heebster — a contraction of Hebrew hipster. It’s a term that was probably coined in Heeb magazine, a subversive

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The new D.C.-based website Gather the Jews, taking its name from the Book of Esther, is also bringing young Jewish professionals together.

“The young Jewish scene here has seen a real rebirth. It’s really robust,” says Jed Ross, 31, of Georgetown. “There’s so much more goi ng on now a rou nd Washington for t he nonreligious Jewish hipster.” E M I LY WA X (THE WASHINGTON POST )

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Montgomery County police are investigating as a homicide the death of a 24-year-old man in White Oak. Police say the man was found shot to death before 7 a.m. Tuesday in the 11400 block of Stewart Lane. Police have identified the victim as Franklin Ikechukwu Amobi of Silver Spring. There was no word Tuesday on any potential suspects. (AP) 8EM?;" C:$

Pr. George’s Weighs Land Development Options A board weighing the fate of 200 acres of property near Bowie State University is expected to make a recommendation next year about what to do with the land.

Among the options for the county-owned land are a mixed-use development and a training facility for the Washington Redskins. The Washington Post reported that the board is expected to make a recommendation next year to the Prince George’s County council. (AP)

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Resort Tuesday in Oxon Hill, Md. Gingerbread houses and men can be decorated daily until Jan. 8 in the atrium of the hotel.

Some Washington residents are pushing a new site for a possible national World War I memorial. The Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia is suggesting Pershing Park on Pennsylvania Avenue as a memorial site. Members are concerned about the possibility of D.C.’s World War I memorial being co-opted as a national memorial.

The war is the only major 20thcentury conflict that doesn’t have a memorial in Washington. There is a memorial on the National Mall to D.C. residents who fought, and a bill before Congress seeks to designate the memorial as a national memorial. (AP)

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Roethlisberger May Play In Steelers’ Season Finale Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says injured quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and center Maurkice Pouncey have a “shot” to play in the regularseason finale against Cleveland. Both players sat out last Saturday’s 27-0 victory over St. Louis with high ankle sprains. Veteran Charlie Batch passed for 208 yards in place of Roethlisberger, while a series of injuries forced Trai Essex to take snaps at center for the first time. (AP) FHE 87IA;J87BB

Bucks’ Gooden to Sit Out 1 Game for Flagrant Foul Bucks forward Drew Gooden will miss Milwaukee’s first home game for his flagrant foul in the season opener. The NBA said Tuesday that Gooden had been suspended without pay for that night’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Gooden was ejected late in the third quarter Monday for clocking Gerald Henderson in the head with his arm as the Bobcats guard attempted to make a driving layup in Charlotte’s 96-95 win. (AP)

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Hoyas guard Jason Clark (21) drives to the basket against Memphis on Dec. 22 at Verizon Center in D.C. Clark is one of two seniors on the team; the other is center Henry Sims.

De <[Wh =e_d] <ehmWhZ Ahead of Big East play, Hoyas have gelled into a solid unit with roles everyone understands C[dÊi >eoWi >eefi At the start of the season, no one knew what to expect from this year’s young Hoyas team. Now, as No. 12 Georgetown (10-1) begins conference play with a game against Louisville on Wednesday, everyone expects the team to just keep doing what it’s been doing: winning.

“I think everyone knows what’s expected of them,” coach John Thompson III said, alluding to the Big East battles ahead. “They know they have to perform and everyone is comfortable. We have a group right now I think that really believes in what we’re doing and how we’re doing it and that’s a good thing.”

For a team with so many young players, the Hoyas have shown a surprising consistency no matter

who is on the floor — something they hope to take into conference play. Thompson is proud there haven’t been “big ebbs and flows” during the team’s games.

Senior Jason Clark has done his part to inspire the team’s young players, scoring his 1,000th career point in Georgetown’s game against IUPUI on Nov. 28.

Making splashes of their own are junior Hollis Thompson (averaging 14.9 points, 6.1 rebounds per game) and senior Henry Sims (12.5 points, 5.5 rebounds per game).

But Georgetown’s veterans are not the only ones making a mark for the Hoyas.

The freshmen have played a lot of minutes, especially in games in which Georgetown was ahead by

more than 20 points. (Georgetown ended six of 11 games with a plus20 margin.) Mikael Hopkins and Jabril Trawick have gotten decent playing time, but the star freshmen have been Otto Porter and Greg Whittington. Porter is averaging 26.8 minutes (more than starters Sims and Markel Starks) in 11 games, and he is second on the team in rebounds.

Thompson said from the beginning of the season that the freshmen would get reps simply because they would have to. They’ll be even more necessary in conference play, and seeing the team’s production level remain steady once the freshman hit the floor has been encouraging. “There is very little dropoff,” Thompson said.

The coach has resisted calling timeouts during games in order to allow his floor generals to call orders — “Who’s going to step up, who’s going to talk, who’s going to try and make adjustments on their own?” Thompson says — because that experience making in-game adjustments will come in handy during Big East play. Clark said his teammates push each other at practice, and that, too, has led to better communication during games.

“Nobody on this team is afraid; the young guys go at the older guys,” the senior said. “The older guys go back to the young guys.

I don’t think anybody is afraid of anybody. When we step off that court, we’re still a team.”

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count on him to add size and athleticism in the lane.

Howard, however, was effusive in praising Len and warned that big things should be expected.

“I can’t really put into words the difference he’ll make,” he said.

“With Alex on the court, we really look like a different team.”

The Terps get ready to take the court before a 71-62 victory over North Carolina-Wilmington on Nov. 13. in College Park. The Terps are 7-3 with three games before ACC play.

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The Maryland Terrapins get all of three games with their full roster intact and on the court before

the arrival of ACC play.

During these three games in seven days — against Albany, Samford and Cornell — the Terrapins (7-3) must find a rotation, a rhythm and a chemistry.

They welcomed sophomore point guard Pe’Shon Howard back from a broken foot last Friday and the result was a disjointed, reckless affair in which Maryland flirted

with becoming the only team in 10 games to be bested by the Radford Highlanders.

Seven-foot-one Russian freshman Alex Len debuts against Albany on Wednesday, having served his 10-game suspension for violating the NCAA’s amateurism rules.

“It’s like we’re starting over,” first-year coach Mark Turgeon said Friday. “It’s a guessing game.”

Though Howard has been injured, most of the players shared the court with him last year and have a feel for his style of play.

Learning Len’s game will be a revelation.

He’s been practicing with the team since the NCAA announced his suspension, but how he’ll be integrated into the game-day schemes and how he’ll react to the college game won’t be known until the sneakers hit the floor.

Turgeon insisted before the season that Len was not a “savior,” but the team will nonetheless

Maryland has lacked a recognizable identity this season. The introduction of Len provides depth in the low post and a complement to incumbent big men James Padgett and Ashton Pankey.

“As a coach, you’ve got to play the best players,” Turgeon said. “I’m just trying to figure it all out.”

Can Howard’s presence temper and focus Stoglin? If not a savior, can Len at least be an occasional game-changer?

Maryland has three games to find out. DEREK TURNER

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Before the lockout, Saunders gave Blatche a book titled “The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player.” Blatche has said he read about half of it. At media day following the lockout, owner Ted Leonsis said: “I talked to Andray, and he understands that the fan base, media are all looking to take cues on can his focus and dedication match his skills.”

Blatche did not speak to reporters Tuesday. (AP)

ward he wasn’t being used to the best of his abilities. He scored 11 points on 5-for-13 shooting and was called for a technical for exchang-

ing words with Kris Humphries.

“You can’t keep having me pickand-pop and shooting jump shots,” he said in the locker room. “Give me

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It took only one game for the newlook Washington Wizards to resemble their same old dysfunctional selves.

Andray Blatche took to Twitter on Tuesday to, in effect, criticize the way his criticisms were criticized following the Wizards’ season-opening loss to the New Jersey Nets.

“Every body need to shut up I didn’t call out my coach or team mates I said I had a bad game need it n the post instead of jump shots,” Blatche tweeted.

Blatche wasn’t happy after the 90-84 defeat in which the Wizards blew a 21-point lead, saying after-

the ball in the paint. That’s where I’m most effective at. I’ve been saying that since training camp.”

Blatche has been known to be a bit of a wild card during his seven seasons in the Wizards locker room, but this outburst was exceptional because he had introduced himself as “your captain, Andray Blatche” to the crowd during a pregame speech — and because the team is only one game into the season, playing under the theme “New Traditions.” If this keeps up, the Wizards could somehow manage to make even a lockout-shortened season seem long.

“It’s disappointing,” coach Flip Saunders said Tuesday. “But, look, we were all disappointed.” (AP)

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I’m not coaching any more after that.” (AP)

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JL B_d[kf COLLEGE FOOTBALL (4:30 P.M., ESPN) If a bowl game was happening in your backyard, would you open the blinds to watch it? Now’s your chance to learn, as Toledo takes on Air Force in the Military Bowl at RFK Stadium.

HOYAS (7 P.M., ESPN2) The No. 12 Hoyas open Big East play with a road tilt against the No. 4 Louisville Cardinals, who are undefeated so far.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL (8 P.M., ESPN) Texas is bowl-bound once again after a year away from postseason play and faces Cal in the Holiday Bowl.

CAPITALS (8 PM, MASN) The Caps face off against the Rangers in the Rangers’ second-to-last tune-up before the Winter Classic against the Flyers.

WIZARDS (7:30 P.M., CSN) After blowing a huge lead to lose their home opener to the Nets, the Wizards look to get off the schneid in a road game against the Hawks.

COLLEGE HOOPS (9 P.M., ESPN2) No. 15 Mississippi State travels to Dallas to play No. 6 Baylor on a neutral site at American Airlines Arena.

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“This record isn’t about one person. There might be just one name that goes in ledger under the record, but it’s really about the team,” Brees told his teammates. “I want everyone to feel a huge part of this, that this record would not have been possible without them.”

Brees set the NFL mark for yards passing in a season, breaking a record Dan Marino held for 27 years, and New Orleans wrapped up the NFC South title with a 45-16 victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night.

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Brees nearly topped Marino three years ago, finishing with 5,069 yards passing. But that pursuit rang a little hollow because the Saints were 8-8.

This time, Brees’ prolific passing has led New Orleans (12-3) to the playoffs and a legitimate shot at the Super Bowl.

“We all want this [record] very badly,” Brees began, “but it’s all about winning and we know if we just focus on that, all that other stuff will take care of itself.”

Brees threw for 307 yards and four touchdowns, the last a 9-yard strike to Darren Sproles that set the record with 2:51 to go.

It was Brees’ final pass of the game and it gave him 5,087 yards passing — with one game left.

Marino finished with 5,084 yards for the Miami Dolphins in 1984.

Minutes after Brees broke the record, Marino offered congratulations on Twitter. “Great job by such a special player,” Marino wrote. (AP)

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Louis C.K. was already my favorite thing about comedy in 2011. Had there been any doubt, though, Dec. 10 would have settled it. That Saturday, he started selling his fourth stand-up special, “Live at the Beacon Theater,” himself, for $5, at Louisck.net.

As of Dec. 21, C.K. said he’d grossed more than a million dollars from the experiment. He’s keeping $220,000 for himself; the rest is going to expenses, charity and bonuses 8o HkZ_ for his staff. If he =h[[dX[h] makes another million, he’ll donate more.

C.K., 44, has the rare show-business career that took off later in life.

He’s been a stand-up and a TV writer since his 20s, but only recently has the general public caught on.

C.K.’s humor is raw and honest, with a touch of absurdity. He can cut through the world’s crap like a great satirist, make you cry during an emotional USO tour on FX’s “Louie,” and remain likable when admitting he wants to beat up one of his daughter’s first-grade classmates.

Yet he has the self-awareness to know the laughs could stop anytime.

“I’ve got a year left, then I’m back to being just like you,” C.K. says in his special. “But for now, yeah, it’s pretty good.”

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Over television’s 60-some years, very few continuing horror series have truly taken hold in this country. “Dark Shadows” survived five years in the 1960s by blending camp and soap opera. Joss Whe-

don succeeded by making “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” into a “Beverly Hills, 90210” of the undead. “True Blood” pins its allure on sex.

Then there’s “American Horror Story,” the brainchild of “Glee” creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, which finished its addictively off-kilter first season last week on FX. Against every single odd, this haunted-Hollywood saga managed to take all the horror cliches in the book and spin a thought-provoking stew of compelling originality.

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“Just like this year, every season of the show will have a beginning, a middle and an end,” Murphy said. (AP/E XPRESS)

things that happened there.

Pretty much everything you’ve seen in every horror show rears its head here. There’s the child’s ball that rolls into the scene, the blankeyed twins from beyond the grave, and the magnificently undulating Steadicam work.

Yet, “American Horror Story” works brilliantly. Here, the living seem kind of dull but there’s major character development among the dead. The house that belonged to Ben and Vivien Harmon and their daughter Violet (Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton and Taissa Farmiga) is not a single-family dwelling.

It is occupied by the people who have lived there — and died there — over the decades.

Ultimately, “American Horror Story” is a fresh take on the tale of the immigrant experience. Death is the undiscovered country of destination, the place where people must build their world anew. It took the entire first season, but this much about the show has become clear: Dying is a starting point for exploring the human condition.

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tin Bieber, Diddy, Daft Punk, Nick Cannon and LeBron James.

This year, 50 Cent, Quincy Jones and Ludacris released their own line of headphones.

Dre says he is offended when he sees people using generic headphones. “It’s almost like a knife in the heart,” he said while promoting the headphones last year.

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by Dre. The cheapest set costs $100; the most expensive pair is $500.

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Bon Iver, the Grammy-nominated band from western Wisconsin, will appear in a fitness DVD. Personal trainer Jeff Rogers met frontman Justin Vernon several years ago while playing basketball at an Eau Claire YMCA. Noticing "something wasn't right," the personal trainer discovered the singer was suffering from sciatica.

Rogers offered to show Vernon workouts to strengthen his lower back. Eventually the entire band joined in, taking Rogers' workouts on tour.

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Games We Play The Winter Games at Dumbarton House are hardly athletically strenuous — no hockey, no curling, no iceketball. Instead, you’ll be sitting inside with warm drinks, cookies and old-timey games like whist, marbles and skittles. (Not the candy.)

Presiding over the event are “historic dance mistresses” Jackie Geschickter and Pat Sowers, who often teach at Dumbarton. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street NW; 10 a.m., $5-$10; Dumbartonhouse.org.

Rock Hashanah Any unusual crossover act has a period in which it’s enough to just be a novelty. Matisyahu, Hasidic rapper, has long passed that point and coasted into the period in which his music has to be legitimately excellent to attract an audience. Good thing it is. His reggae-inflected rap style mixes traditional Jewish sounds with modern music. 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW; 7 p.m., sold out; 202-2650930, 930.com. (U St.-Cardozo)

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Affianced Couple Soon to Officially Be ‘The Legends’ John Legend will no longer be a bachelor: He’s engaged. The singer’s publicist said Tuesday that Legend proposed to his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, recently in the Maldives. Legend has won nine Grammys and released four albums. Teigen was named “rookie of the year” in the Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue last year. She also has a food blog. Legend turns 33 Wednesday. (AP)

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Britain’s Prince Philip returned to the royal family’s country estate Tuesday after a spell in the hospital undergoing treatment for a blocked coronary artery. Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s 90-year-old husband, spent four nights in the hospital recovering from a coronary stent procedure. For the first time in years, he missed the royal family’s traditional Christmas festivities. (AP)

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“And it’s kind of fun to play in that environment.” Humphries’ coach, Avery Johnson, said he isn’t sure why the crowd booed. (E XPRESS)

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