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CHINA DEVOTES enormous sums toward blocking information from reaching its people. Thousands of government workers and the equivalent of billions of dollars are required to maintain the world’s largest cordon on the Internet, censor the news media and black out information that the ruling elite considers threatening to its monopoly on power.

If the Washington Redskins’ players do indeed believe that Mike Shanahan should remain their coach, as a number of veterans have expressed in the last two weeks, they sure didn’t show it Sunday against the visiting Kansas City Chiefs.

Temperatures remain in the upper 20s to lower 30s, and they’re not likely to go up much through most of the night.

Political waves have crashed on one party or the other repeatedly in recent years. In 2006, 2008 and 2010, large numbers of House seats traded sides — Democrats reaped the benefits in ’06 and ’08 while Republicans gained a whopping 63 seats in ’10 — thanks to a political environment heavily tilted in one direction and orbiting around a handful of big, national issues.

Karma can be an odd duck. Consider the case of Ohio State and Coach Urban Meyer. After announcing last Sunday that senior offensive guard Marcus Hall would play in the Big Ten championship game in the wake of his embarrassing behavior in the Buckeyes’ win at Michigan the previous day, Meyer reversed himself.

Eliseo Medina sits in what looks from the outside like a big, white party tent on the edge of the Mall. But inside, this is an encampment for fasters, adorned with a photo of Gandhi and an ash-colored old shoe found in the Arizona desert.

Even as it takes its last breaths, the Bowl Championship Series will provide one final weekend of potential chaos. Could it have ended any other way?

SEOUL — Vice President Biden’s trip to Asia was the perfect opportunity for a politician with a reputation for verbal gaffes to show off his serious political chops. A skirmish between China and Japan thrust him into the role of international mediator on the eve of his departure.

Krystine Rivera had a bad day at work Thursday and was waffling over whether to head out for a seven-mile run. She decided to go for it. And then her day, as she says, “got astronomically worse.” She was hit by an airborne deer.