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Radley Balko | 5.12.2009 7:30 AM


– The answer to the GOP's woes is . . . Gary Sinise?

– Travel company Orbitz launches national campaign to open Cuba to U.S. tourists.

– Plugging the holes in forensic science.

– Social Security and Medicare may fail faster, sooner than originally thought.

– Iran releases jailed journalist.

– Federal deficit expected to top $1.8 trillion this year, four times last year's record.

– Student claims he was suspended from medical school because professor, students took offense at him referring to himself as a "white African-American." He's white, originally from Mozambique, and later became a U.S. citizen.

Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.