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  • Good news for architecture buffs: officials have ruled out a plan to place an entrance to the new Metro station at Dulles International Airport at the arrivals ramp — such a placement would have required the alteration of the airport’s iconic facade.
  • Courtland Milloy on the Redskins: yup, still a racist nickname.
  • Infuriating: a 68-year-old Germantown woman who was sexually assaulted in June says that she was assaulted again by the same man in her home this morning.
  • A (superbly-named, if I do say so myself) Virginia legislator is planning on introducing a bag tax measure, reports Jenny Rogers.
  • Rend Smith tells the story of federal agents questioning former Jim Graham chief-of-staff Ted Loza at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Loza’s trial on bribery and corruption charges begins in March.
  • Two construction workers were injured today when a two-by-four fell on their heads while they were working on renovations at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School.
  • D.C.’s new youth rehabilitation strategy: yoga and tai chi?
  • You think forecasting whether or not we’ll get snow a week in advance is tough? Capital Weather Gang takes a guess at what D.C. weather might be like in 2076.
  • The Examiner’s Yeas & Nays reports that the Mayflower hotel’s bar will be closing its doors on January 15.
  • Test tube pandas are born in China. Are you paying attention, National Zoo?