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  • Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine, Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana receive their Kennedy Center Honors. [Post]
  • “The fare structure is fair, the fare structure is equitable, the fare structure promotes economic efficiency.” [PlanItMetro]
  • Woman strikes deer with SUV, airborne deer strikes jogger. Women survive, deer dies. [NBC4]
  • D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton will attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral. [WAMU]
  • Councilmember Jim Graham will announce his reelection plans at 10 a.m. today. [Twitter]
  • Parks and Recreation employee reportedly fired, another placed on leave after reported rapes at the Wilson Aquatic Center. [NBC4]
  • More Kaya Henderson to New York rumors. [WNYC]
  • Virginia man attempts to sell wife, motorcycle on Craigslist. [Gawker]
  • It’s the curse. THE CURSE, I SAY! [Post]
  • This Day in DCist: Eddie Murphy was attached to an HBO biopic about Marion Barry. That never happened. Because this is a cold, cruel world.