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• Check out this recent report about a video tape of volunteer firefighters in Landover, Md. behaving very, very badly. Too bad the tape itself is from four or five years ago. [Fox 5]
• A stolen volume of William Shakespeare’s collected plays, published in 1623 and worth about $2.5 million, has been recovered following antiquarian detective-work by experts at the Folger Shakespeare Library. [WaPo]
• Oh yeah, apparently the Capitol Visitor Center is officially going to open on Dec. 2. Suuuure it is. [AP]
• Who does the new executive editor of the Washington Post look like most? Duh, it’s totally Teller. [Fishbowl DC]
• Snakes in a motel room! [WaPo]
• Mayor Fenty, once the biggest critic of the Nationals stadium deal, is sticking up for the Lerners in their contract dispute with the city. [D.C. Wire]
• Dan Snyder’s Six Flags franchise is about as close to Chapter 11 bankruptcy as you can get without actually having declared it. [City Desk]