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Odds Are, It's Not Your Lucky Day expressnightout.com | @wapoexpress NOVEMBER 28, 2012 A PUBLICATION OF TWP NEWS, ENTERTAINMENT, ARTS, LIFESTYLES FREE DAILY Wednesday LOVING THE LOSERS Die-hard Wizards fans stick with their team no matter what 13 ‘MARK OF THE BEAST’ School IDs that track whereabouts spur a backlash in Texas 3 ‘DANGEROUS’ DIRECTION Odds Are, It’s Not John Malkovich’s ‘Liaisons’ alights at Lansburgh Theatre 19 Your Lucky Day. Sorry, but you’re more likely to be killed by a vending machine am47 | 32 pm than you are to win tonight’s $500M Powerball jackpot 11 FOR EXTENDED FORECAST, SEE PAGE 29 THINKSTOCK/EXPRESS ILLUSTRATION 2 | EXPRESS | 11.28.2012 | WEDNESDAY DAVID PARKER/GETTY IMAGES eye openers CHOICES Reading ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Stirred Up Too Many Questions A zookeeper in Poland keeps two orangutans calm in the evenings by reading them bedtime stories. The Sun reported Tuesday that keeper Michael Krause reads Jane Austen or Charles Dickens to Albert for at least a half hour to help him sleep better at night. Albert’s play- ful partner, Raya, prefers German fiction, thrillers and drama. Before the idea for the nightly readings began, the primates would always cause trouble. 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In dent Barack Obama will make a public To 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez, 2005, the American Civil Liberties case for his strategy for dealing with the the tracking microchip embedded Union raised concerns about a simi- looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Phila- in her student ID card is a “mark of lar initiative at a California school. delphia suburbs Friday as he pressures the beast,” sacrilege to her Chris- That same year, a suburban Houston Republicans to allow tax increases on tian faith — not to mention how it school district began putting the the wealthy while extending tax cuts for chips in its student IDs. Ronald Ste- pinpoints her location, even in the families earning $250,000 or less. (AP) school bathroom. phens, executive director of the non- NEW YORK But to her San Antonio school profit National School Safety Cen- district, those chips carry a poten- ter, predicted “it’ll be the next wave” Fla. Man Claims Abuse, in schools. (AP) tial $1.7 million in classroom funds. BOB OWEN/AP Sues Ex-Elmo Puppeteer In Texas, school funding is based on Anson Jones Middle School eighth-grader Tira Starr shows her microchip-embedded An anonymous Flori- daily attendance. The more students ID badge. Inset: A computer screen uses the GPS-like badges to monitor students. ents balked at the SmartID, the da man has sued the seated in homeroom, the more state school agreed to remove the chip ex-Elmo puppeteer dollars the school receives. that has forged rare like-minded- but still required her to wear the who resigned amid Starting this fall, the district “How often do ness between religious and civil badge. The family refused on reli- sex allegations, say- in Texas is experimenting with a you see an issue liberties groups. gious grounds, stating in a lawsuit ing Kevin Clash met $261,000 program that uses “loca- where the ACLU “Are we creating a generation that wearing the badge was tan- Clash him in New York after tor” chips in student ID badges at and Christian that is going to be acclimated to tamount to “submission of a false trolling gay telephone John Jay High School and Anson fundamentalists that kind of government tracking? god” because it still indicated her chat lines seeking underage boys for Jones Middle School, allowing Is that really something we want participation. sex. The lawsuit seeking unspecified administrators to track the where- come together?” to do in America?” said Jay Stan- On Wednesday, a judge is expect- damages was filed Tuesday. (AP) abouts of 4,200 students with GPS- — CHRIS STEINBACH, CHIEF OF STAFF ley, senior policy analyst with the ed to decide whether Northside HARRISBURG, PA. like precision. Hernandez’s refus- FOR REPUBLICAN REP. LOIS KOLKHORST, American Civil Liberties Union, Independent School District can al to participate has launched a WHO FILED A BILL TO OUTLAW USE OF GPS- to a San Antonio website Monday. transfer her to a different campus. Big Changes Suggested LIKE TECHNOLOGY IN TEXAS SCHOOLS debate over privacy and religion When Hernandez and her par- PAUL J. WEBER (AP) For Pa. Child-Abuse Laws Pennsylvania should enact sweeping changes to its child-abuse laws, the Smoke-Screen: A federal judge Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say Pennsylvania Task Force on Child Pro- they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking’s health effects, including the death of an average tection said Tuesday after a year of study of 1,200 people a day. 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GOP Senators Still Critical of Rice Lawmakers: Meeting with the ambassador Still in the Running Despite lingering hasn’t resolved issues questions over her response to the Beng- Washington hazi attack, Susan Three GOP senators said Tuesday Rice has emerged they are more troubled than ever as the front-runner with comments made days after on a short list of candidates to suc- the deadly Sept. 11 raid in Libya by ceed Secretary of State Hillary Rod- Susan Rice, the U.N. ambassador ham Clinton, with Sen. John Kerry, and President Barack Obama’s pos- D-Mass., seen as her closest compe- sible choice for secretary of state. tition. Rice will meet Wednesday with Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Gra- Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who is ham and Kelly Ayotte met privately in line to become the top Republican with Rice and acting CIA Director on the Foreign Relations Committee, Michael Morell on her explanations and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. (AP) of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, that killed ing up to the attack,” McCain said. a U.S. ambassador and three other The three insisted that they need Americans. more information about the Liby- Rice told the lawmakers that the an raid before they even consider initial assessment of the cause of Rice as a replacement for Secretary the attack five days later was wrong. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The senators were not mollified. White House spokesman Jay “We are significantly troubled Carney said there were “no unan- by many of the answers that we got swered questions about … the talk- and some that we didn’t get con- ing points that she used.” BRADLEY cerning evidence that was lead- KLAPPER AND DONNA CASSATA (AP) See the new exhibit / spymuseum.org / 800 F ST NW The amount ConAgra Foods is paying 007 TM and related James Bond Trademarks © 1962-2011 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation.
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