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Most Viewed Articles on washingtonpost.com 1) Cheerleaders get fired up about Salahi Before she made it into a White House state dinner without an official invitation, Michaele Salahi made it onto the Redskins alumni cheerleading squad -- without ever having been a Redskins cheerleader. 2) The company Tiger keeps If Tiger Woods had avoided the scandalous episode that now envelops him and has forced him to plead for privacy he would have become the great exception. While Tiger is the first professional athlete to be smoked out quite this way in the Internet age, where salacious gossip is more eagerly consu... 3) An energy answer in the shale below? The first time Chesapeake Energy tried to buy mineral rights from Diana Whitmore, a 74-year-old retired real estate broker in southern New York, it offered her $125 for every acre of land plus a 12 percent royalty on whatever natural gas it extracts. 4) In neighborhood beefs, they bring the muscle Nancy Schwartz Bloom's modest proposal was a hit when she posted it on her neighborhood e-mail group list in Glen Echo. The idea: Open a small, high-end market in the Sycamore Store, an unoccupied building at MacArthur Boulevard and Walhonding Road that had served for decades as the local grocery... 5) Washington Times cuts in staff, coverage cue new era The Washington Times, which gained a strong foothold in a politically obsessed city as a conservative alternative to much of the mainstream media, is about to become a drastically smaller newspaper. 6) Salahis won't talk, but lawmakers do The White House tried to put the whole Salahi incident to rest Wednesday night. 7) This will not end well A halfhearted embrace of a half-baked nonstrategy makes a loss in Afghanistan likely. 8) Comcast, NBC announce $30 billion merger Comcast and NBC Universal announced their much-anticipated $30 billion merger on Thursday morning, heralding a deal that would create a new entertainment powerhouse with a vast distribution network and a rich trove of television and movie programming. 9) Job creation made hard A bad situation made somewhat worse by Obama. 10) Justice Dept.'s second in command is stepping aside Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden, the Justice Department's second in command, will step aside Feb. 10 to return to private law practice in Washington. UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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