Articles filed under Washington Post
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What Google's Chrome ad blocker means for users, advertisersFeb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Google, already one of the dominant players in the online advertising world, may soon have even more power in that space. It is now taking on the challenge of determinin...
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In the Olympic reality show, the co-stars are named 'Mom' and 'Dad'Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - The mom already had hugged the dad, and already had received congratulations from people to her right and her left and behind her, and then sh...
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Jacobellis still doesn't have Olympic gold, placing fourth in snowboard crossFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - BONGPYEONG, South Korea - All around her, right before the finish line, there was chaos. Later, she would say she saw shadows all around her. She saw other riders in her...
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Curling fan etiquette 101: Babies, yes. Music, no. Mumbling, yes. Chanting, no.Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Does the world, in all its variety, contain any curling hooligans? Are there ever curling riots or, at the very least, episodic bursts of curlin...
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Daly can leave skeleton at peace this timeFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - DAEGWALLYEONG, South Korea - The night before what will probably be the final runs of his Olympic skeleton career placed him 16th in the men's skeleton final Friday, Ame...
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Like many great champions, Mikaela Shiffrin is compelling, and human, in defeatFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Mikaela Shiffrin, paragon of success, is a mysterious treasure, a wondrous skier who exists for us to marvel but not understand. At her best, ...
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Aly Raisman responds to 'devastating' accusations of hypocrisy for SI swimsuit issueFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - To Aly Raisman, her withering words to Larry Nassar at his sentencing hearing for sexual abuse last month were of a piece with her decision to pose for this month's Spor...
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Threats, hoaxes, anxiety and arrests: An uneasiness in schools after Florida shootingFeb 16, 2018 12:00 am - The day after a gunman fatally shot 17 people at a South Florida high school, many of America's teenagers went to school, as always, returning to routines that usually f...
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2 women said they were racially profiled at an Applebee's. It closed days later.Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - A Missouri Applebee's franchise that was criticized last week after two black women said they were racially profiled while dining there is now permanently closed. Why th...
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The insanity of ski jumping: Where on earth did this sport come from?Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - Kevin Bickner, an Olympian from Wauconda, pointed to his brain and stated the obvious. "You have to have something loose up here," he told Minnesota's Star Tribune the o...