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On Love: 'The purest heart of anybody I'd ever met' Nov 30th 2012, 21:12 Emotions were running high for Lauren Wasserman the day before her 27th birthday in September 2008. The public relations manager was excited to be taking the train from Washington to her hometown, Baltimore, where she'd spend the weekend celebrating with family. But this birthday was a fraught one. She was entering her late 20s, was yet to have a serious boyfriend and had begun to wonder about her prospects for romantic happiness. Read full article >> Kid-friendly movie guide Nov 30th 2012, 20:20 December is a busy time with family and friends getting together, decorating for the holidays and actually celebrating. But it's also a great chance to get the whole family together to go to the movies. Look at our list of suggestions and tell your parents you'd really like some "quality family time." Read full article >> Carolyn Hax: Being sensitive to newly single friends; dialing down jealousy Nov 30th 2012, 19:23 Hello, Carolyn: A few of my close friends have recently gone through difficult breakups; meanwhile, I'm newly in love after many years of being more-or-less-happily single. I'm trying to balance grad school, being a good friend, and developing this great new relationship, but a couple of comments from my girlfriends have made it clear I'm not really balancing the last two very well. Read full article >> Dustin Hoffman on movies, manhood and the art of compromise Nov 30th 2012, 17:32 Dustin Hoffman is sitting alone in the sunny corner of a restaurant in Brentwood, looking as though he's deep in prayer. Soon after his lunch companion arrives, the object of his worship rings with the lilting notes "Are You Havin' Any Fun?," a jazz standard that figures prominently in his new movie, "Quartet." Read full article >> Ballerina Natalia Makarova: 'Being spontaneous, it's what saved me' Nov 30th 2012, 16:54 A cluster of birch trees grows outside Natalia Makarova's house. She planted them years ago in the clearing that slopes away from her dance studio. "My corps de ballet," Makarova says with affection, introducing the trees with a sweep of her slightly crooked fingers. Read full article >> Read this: Susan Rice, prankster; Ben Affleck Nov 30th 2012, 16:53 Other interesting stories in The Washington Post: Ever hear about the time Susan Rice punk'd her Russian counterpart by posting in the UN Security Council offices a picture of his face on the Grinch's body? Manuel Roig-Franzia reports that many debate whether this was "undiplomatically inappropriate or unconventionally charming." (We wonder: Do the Russians even know what the Grinch is?) Many fascinating details about the maybe-next secretary of state in this profile. Revelation: The standout high school point guard still has never played basketball with Obama. Read full article >> David Letterman: 2012 Kennedy Center Honors Nov 30th 2012, 15:46 The man leaps out of the shadows and into the light, a silver blur in a white shirt and violet tie. He bounds across the stage toward his desk, brakes and turns and scampers back stage right, grabs the microphone by its cord and swings it around, letting it thunk on the ground next to his caramel-colored loafers as the CBS Orchestra plays frantically. The audience is on its feet. A fake cityscape frames the man as he hits his mark: a red sticker on the iridescent-blue stage floor of the Ed Sullivan Theater in midtown Manhattan. Read full article >> All eyes on Susan Rice now that she's presumptive front-runner to become secretary of state Nov 30th 2012, 03:58 Susan Rice was miffed, all right. Her frequent foil, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin — an outsize personality whom she might be yelling at one moment, then laughing with the next — was at it again. This time, he was mocking her pet project to let youths from around the world ask the U.N. Security Council questions via video link-up. Read full article >>

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