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Oscars can't compete with real-life dramas

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefing reporters regarding the

Photo credit: AP | Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefing reporters regarding the sequester, at the White House in Washington. (Feb. 22, 2013)

Ellis Henican

Newsday columnist Ellis Henican Ellis Henican

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And the winner is . . . hmmm.

Maybe there isn't a winner this time.

New York is celebrating its third straight snow-watch weekend. Hollywood is celebrating itself. And Washington has nothing to celebrate at all. How much fun is that?

If you went by the calendar, this should be a weekend of great excitement. Speed-demon stock cars are zooming dangerously around the high banks at...

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