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>> The National Park Service said that most of the unidentified oily substance found on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in September has been removed. [AP/WJLA]

Good morning, Washington. It's Friday, and the city is still reacting to yesterday afternoon's announcement about how our new taxi meters are going to work. We already told you about the $4 flag drop, which many people are already saying is too high, and the fact that taxi roof lights will go on and off automatically to indicate whether a cab has a passenger, which everyone seems to agree is long overdue. One more thing...

>> Right there is the Laura Sessions Stepp Credo: Laura doesn't "get it" so the "social culture" is broken. [DCeiver] >> Don't miss the ABC News coverage of the 5-year anniversary of the D.C.-area sniper shooting spree. What do you think of Lee Boyd Malvo's apology? [ABC News] >> Oh c'mon, don't you get it? Kids can say they're going to "The Library" and not be lying! It's totally hilarious. [Free Ride] >> Regarding...

>> The Frederick Douglass Bridge is expected to re-open this Thursday, a week ahead of schedule. [WTOP] >> Nationwide S.A.T. scores fall, but local students fare worse than others; however, more students are taking the test than ever before. [Post] >> The Post revamped their Style section this week, and according to yesterday's online chat, it will include a new "Studio" feature that will showcase local artists and galleries. The City Paper is not...

MONDAY: Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her latest book, Peony in Love. 7 p.m. We had to yell "STOP THE PRESSES!" for this one. Laura Sessions Stepp, our favorite Washington Post personality, will be at Arlington Central Library to promote her latest book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both. For those of you unfamiliar with...

>> "The D.C. inspector general's office has confiscated computers from the offices of the National Capital Revitalization Corp., the quasi-public agency that develops District land in low-income areas and that the city plans to abolish by September." [WaPo] >> One of the victims of the Unifest crash may have died. [City Desk] >> "Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered...

>> Dan Bartlett finally resigned. [WaPo] >> Jessica Cutler spent all her money. [WaPo] >> John Hinckley can now attend Nationals games. [AP] >> Laura Sessions Stepp must be stopped. [DCeiver] Photo by ctankcycles...

>> Looks like this morning's hellish Red Line delays were caused by an electrical malfunction involving the much-storied third rail. Sparks and smoke were first reported on the tracks between Dupont Circle and Woodley Park Stations at 7:15 a.m., forcing both north and southbound trains to share one track for two hours. Delays continued after the issue was resolved, as backed-up passengers filtered onto inbound trains. [Washington Post] >> One blogger tells the harrowing tale...

>> The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) opens tonight with a special tribute to Academy Award winning Executive Producer John Daly (Terminator, Platoon), and DCist will be there. Daly will be presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the film industry. Having trouble choosing between which of the 139 films being offered this year? DCist will have a slew of reviews over the course of the festival. We're especially excited about DCIFF's move...

TUESDAY Got someone in your life who neatly fits within the Young Adult demographic? They’d be pleased as punch to meet China Mieville, whose new fantasy novel, Un Lun Dun, reads like a Pan’s Labyrinth without all the blood-spatter and heavy overtones of European fascism. And, yeah, you grown-ups will probably dig it as well. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY There was a time when “hooking up” really meant something....

>> Do college students like having fun? Well, DO THEY!? Sounds like a job for Laura Sessions Stepp! Pull-quote highlight: "[Professor Frederic D.] Homer and graduate assistant Rodney Wambeam wanted to know what students meant when they said they were in college to have fun. They wanted to know why students rarely included classwork in that definition. What they heard surprised them." That means if Stepp, herself, was surprised, it could potentially bring the total...

Among local journalists, no one had the blogosphere reaching for their sarcasm tags like the Washington Post's Laura Sessions Stepp. You may remember the apex of her collected letters from last May, when the Style Section editor condemned numerous column inches to death by publishing her infamous "wingman" article. The article, deemed by Rusty at Why.I.Hate.DC to be "The Most Asinine Article" ever, casts Stepp as an odd amalgam of The Glass Menagerie's Amanda Wingfield and Heinlein's Valentine Michael Smith--a sort of hyper-prudish, endlessly fascinated alien being struggling to grok Earthly mating practices that the rest of us pinks figured out two decades ago. A brief perusal of her past works confirms her presence on our planet since at least 1999.

It’s no surprise that "A Bud for the Ladies" is one of the most emailed articles of the day on the Post's website. Younger readers in particular must be sending it to each other asking why, if wingmen have been around so long, its worthy of such a lengthy feature today. Maybe it’s simply to point out that once this year’s college graduates start work and join the real world, "They may actually have...