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burly guy carried Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the field after she wrenched her ankle Tuesday night. In the final innings of the Congressional Women’s Softball game, the Florida Democrat was pushing her team to close a double-digit deficit when she slid into second base. At GW Hospital, doctors diagnosed a sprained ankle and a broken fibula.
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State Department seal. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) has one of the cooler stories: She broke her left leg last month while visiting Gitmo! (Just a fall, everyone says.) She’s still making the rounds in a cast.
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And then . . . it was back to being a congresswoman. Yesterday, in a soft cast and crutches, Schultz went to her usual 8:30 a.m. scheduling meeting. And she made it to 10 votes, skipping only an early-morning procedural vote. And you know why? Because that is how the ladies of Capitol Hill do it! The walking wounded women of Washington — there are suddenly a lot of them, strangely — have been carrying off their injuries with swagger. There’s Sonia Sotomayor, whose broken ankle (she tripped at an airport last month) did not keep her from six meetings on the Hill that day; this week, for her Supreme Court nomination hearings, she got them to jack up her walking cast so she could walk smoothly with a spiked heel on her good foot. Hillary Clinton’s busted elbow (cracked in a fall at the State Department) kept her out of circulation for several days last month; but speaking at the U.S. Agency for International Development this week, she rocked a righteous sling with the
Murkowski (R-Alaska), who tore her ACL, MCL and her lateral meniscus when she tumbled on a mogul run at an Alaska ski slope in March. She took her gimpy leg onto a red-eye and made it back to D.C. for a vote the very next morning! Off crutches now but still in
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pain, said her spokesman. She’s only missed one vote.
Jonathan Beeton, Schultz’s
communications director, said life as a limping congresswoman has been eye-opening. Two months ago, she chaired a committee looking at accessibility on the Hill. “It’s one thing to read about in a report,” he said, “it’s another thing when you’re on crutches and get to doors that can’t be opened automatically.” Oh, and “she wants to stress that she was safe at second.”
Schultz was safe, but not sound, at second base at the softball game.
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Harry Reid, left, and Paul Tetreault, center, sign museum rehab plans.
BY GERALD HERBERT — ASSOCIATED PRESS
Murkowski, above left, and Sotomayor compared their injuries at a meeting last month. Clinton’s sling is State Department-approved.
BY MARK WILSON — GETTY IMAGES BY PRESTON KERES — THE WASHINGTON POST
DOONESBURY By Garry Trudeau
Serena Williams, hoisting a glass.
HEY, ISN’T THAT . . . ?
K Serena Williams at Fly early Wednesday morning. The Wimbledon champ (orange halter dress, diamond heart necklace) celebrated the Washington Kastles win with owner Mark Ein and former Redskin Shawn Springs. Drank . . . water. Really, they tell us.
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Arenas got an Obama souvenir.
THIS JUST IN
K If you hoped to buy the autographed seat President Obama sat in to watch the Wizards beat the Bulls 113-90 — sorry! Wizards star Gilbert Arenas already got it. The team planned to auction off POTUS’s courtside seat from the Feb. 27 game to raise money for its Wizards Care charitable arm, bidding to start this week. But when Arenas (who sports an Obama tattoo) heard about it, he made a bid that exceeded their goal: $25,000. Sold!
And They’re Lovin’ It
Abe Lincoln always draws a crowd. Plenty of VIP history buffs — Harry
Reid, Byron Dorgan, Ed Markey, Catherine Reynolds, Chris
Matthews, Roy Blunt — came to Ford’s Theatre Tuesday night for the opening of its revamped museum on Lincoln’s life and death. Guests toured the exhibit (including the gun that killed the 16th president and the clothes he wore that fatal night), stood in the presidential box where he was shot and dined on the historic theater’s stage. A question from Michigan’s Carl Levin: “Do you know where the actual chair Lincoln was assassinated in is?” Greenfield Village, outside of Detroit — Henry Ford bought it for his private collection. Ford’s Theatre Director Paul Tetreault is already negotiating to bring every artifact (that chair, the bed where Lincoln died) back to Ford’s by 2015, the 150th anniversary of the death.
It’s All About Abe,
KWed: Robert Redford, 72, to
his longtime German girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars, 51, in Hamburg this weekend, a rep for the minister who performed the ceremony told reporters. No comment from the couple. She’s an abstract artist who’s been with the movie star since the ’90s, and he’s — well, he’s Robert Redford! It’s his second marriage.
BY CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS — REUTERS
BY EVAN AGOSTINI — ASSOCIATED PRESS
Redford and Szaggars wed at the Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany.
ASK AMY
Dear Amy:
I am confused about the relationship I have been in for the last seven months. My boyfriend has told me that he needs space, which I know is the classic line for “I don’t want to be with you any longer,” but in the next breath he will say, “I’m not breaking up with you.” I am so confused about what he actually wants. In the last month, I stayed with him for three nights and saw him for three hours on another occasion. I used to stay with him at least three days a week. I don’t know how much more space I could possibly give him without actually not being with him at all. I fell in love with him quickly, and he has told me on a couple of occasions that he loves me too (he is not the type to say it), so I have taken it to heart that he does. Can you please help me figure this out? I don’t want to lose him or push him away. And what is it you think he is trying to tell me?
Confused in Toledo
You want confusing? The cap- and-trade bill is confusing. Your sit- uation? Not so much. You correctly translated your
boyfriend’s desire for “more space,” but you have decided to ig- nore his obvious statements and behavior because you seem to care more about his needs than your own.
Let me clarify. You are no longer a girlfriend. You are now a booty call.
This guy is pretty good at get- ting what he wants, and you need to follow his lead and work harder to get what you want: a committed relationship.
The next time he says, “I’m not breaking up with you,” tell him, “I know. I’m breaking up with you.” And then do it.
Dear Amy: Three days ago I broke up with my
boyfriend of almost two years. I’m obviously still sad and upset, but I know I made the best decision for both of us, and I certainly will get over it at some point.
My question is about his mother. I’m going to miss her! Sometimes people forget that a hard thing about a breakup is the secondary people you lose. Iwant to send her a note or e-mail expressing how much I valued her friendship and that although it has ended with her son, I want her to know that there are no hard feelings and that perhaps we can still keep in touch. Is this appropriate, or should I accept that everything about that
relationship is “broken” and move on?
Missing His Mom
simple.
Send a note. On paper. And keep it It should cover basic ground; you
could say how much you enjoyed get- ting to know her and how sorry you are that the relationship with her son didn’t work out. Then you can say, “I’d love to keep in touch if you’re inter- ested.”
Remember — please — that moth-
ers love and are loyal to their sons like nobody’s business. They don’t always react well to the girl who dumped their boy. But if this mother is someone with amature, adult perspective, she’ll look for a way to keep a cordial friendship with you.
Dear Amy:
I am 44, and my daughter is 23. She is gay, and I have treated her and her partner the same way I treat my son and daughter-in-law. Everyone acknowledges this. I respect their commitment to each other and am joyful that they are very happy. However, I cannot accept the fact that she just got “married.” She has now informed me that she needs to terminate her relationship with me because I will not accept her marriage. She is aware of my position on gay marriage. The suggestion to agree to disagree is not an option. What say you?
Wondering
Many parents would be delighted for their kids to choose marriage. A wise parent knows that forcing off- spring to choose between them and a romantic relationship often results in the younger person choosing the latter. Your daughter knew the risks she
was running in terms of her relation- ship with you when she and her partner chose to marry. She did it anyway. You may assume that she is as stubborn as you are.
Because you rule out the option of “agreeing to disagree,” you really left your daughter no option but to termi- nate the relationship. I can only urge you to try harder to find a way to recon- cile. If your daughter chooses to have children, you might want to have a rela- tionship with them.
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Hi Carolyn: My boyfriend is leaving next
week to work at an archaeological site in Europe for 21
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We’re both 26. Basically, he’ll be on the side of a cliff with bad/no reception, and he’ll be able to go into the local town every Friday. He feels confident that our relationship will be fine, that we can talk/e-mail on Fridays. I am nervous, Carolyn! Seems
like a long time not to see someone. I am planning to stay focused on my life — work out a lot, travel a little — while he’s gone. How can I best approach this (extremely) long-distance period of our relationship? Advice? P.S. I love him.
Va.
Two and a half months? A “long time not to see someone”? Piker. Approach it by pointing out to
yourself that if you can’t pull to- gether a rewarding 10 weeks in his absence, then you’ve probably grown dependent upon him to an
Adapted from a recent online discussion.
CAROLYN HAX
unhealthy degree, which will be a lot tougher on your relationship with him in the long run than this temporary, closed-ended separa- tion will be in the short-. Also remember that feeling sor- ry for yourself is an emotional nonstarter, since it’s essentially deciding to make the worst of a bad situation, instead of the best. If you feel a bout of self-pity com- ing on, maybe you can take a mo- ment to imagine military families, who this decade have been facing multiple, life-threatening, year- plus-long separations, often while raising small kids. You’ve got the right idea with focusing on your life, travel, etc., but it can’t just be about killing the time till he’s back. Time with him, time without him, it’s all time — and when it’s gone, it’s gone. Make sure you really live it. And miss him. Nothing wrong with that.
Hi Carolyn: I understand why you would call
me a piker and say it’s not a long time. I have enough of a life to have a fulfilling summer. I guess I
Well, you can be nicer to your- self: “Hey, insecurities, would you please keep it down in there? I’m trying to enjoy myself.” This will never, ever, ever be as easy as it looks in print, but it is al- ways always true: If he falls for someone else, he will have done you a favor.
He’s either blown away by you, or he isn’t. He either sees it as a privilege to remain faithful to you, or he doesn’t. You either have something that renders this separation as a blip, or you don’t. You want only the former, and
you want it only if it’s mutual. So often the things we regard as problems are actually solutions.
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was really more worried about the fact that he might forget about me, what with all the grad students (many girls) running around in scuba gear at their isolated cliff site. He did insist he wants to be monogamous. Am I being silly and insecure? Should I just tell myself to shut up?
Va. Again
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