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BREAKING NEWS: Too Close to Call in Early Iowa Voting

Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are in a dead heat with about a third of the precincts reporting in the Iowa GOP caucuses

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Dear Prudence: In Love With the Nanny

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In Love With the Nanny
In a live chat, Dear Prudence advises a woman whose ex has fallen for their sitter.
By Emily Yoffe
Posted Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012, at 08:19 PM ET

Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com weekly to chat live with readers. An edited transcript of this week's chat is below. (Sign up here to get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week. Read Prudie's Slate columns here. Send questions to Prudence at prudence@slate.com.)

Emily Yoffe: Happy New Year! I look forward to the 2012 dilemmas.

Q. Dating the Nanny: Over Christmas my ex-husband Matt confessed his love for Maggie, the nanny we hired shortly after our divorce. Maggie worked for us for three years, until she graduated in June. Our kids adore her. I came to trust and love her. Matt tells me they slept together twice before June and "battled some powerful feelings" for one another before that. They began dating in June, and now he could see himself marrying her someday. I feel like Matt kicked me in the stomach. I cannot imagine watching him and Maggie as a couple. In fact, I never want her around my kids again. At the same time, I know Maggie loves our kids. And Matt seems to genuinely love her. I'm happily remarried, and I don't want him to be lonely. I'm just not sure I can overcome the sense of betrayal I feel. My sister pointed out that I couldn't ask for a better woman to be around my kids, but I feel like all the good things I knew about Maggie are false. Can you give ...

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Politics: Ron Paul?s Long Game

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Ron Paul's Long Game
The libertarian's looking good in Iowa, and he won't just be a one-state wonder.
By David Weigel
Posted Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012, at 10:07 PM ET

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa—"We're already done with Iowa," Eric tells me after Ron Paul's latest speech. "We were done weeks ago."

What does he mean? He opens his MacBook Air and clicks on a spreadsheet with information about the 3.5 million glossy campaign documents he's printing up for the "Ron Paul Super Brochure Precinct Blast." Eric has started to fill orders for people in later primary states—6,849 for a volunteer in South Carolina, a few hundred for someone in Florida, where Eric lives. (Eric doesn't want to give a last name, as this would "take credit" away from project funder Curt Schultz.) Order a batch and you get your name printed on the back, in case you want to mail them to voters.

"It's not hidden, like a Super PAC," says Eric. "It's all transparent."

Everyone in Iowa will tell you that Ron Paul's Iowa campaign isn't Iowan enough. The other campaigns all say it, and reporters speculate about it. It's an important piece of the Iowa-caucus-doesn't-matter-anymore argument we'll hear if Paul wins the caucuses.

Unlike so much campaign chatter, this story is true. Talk to the man's supporters—I followed Paul on a north-central Iowa "whistle stop tour"—and you inevitably run into Minnesotans, South Dakotans, Illinoisans, and Wisconsinites, none of whom can caucus on Tuesday night. You see Indiana license plates on cars with "LEGALIZE THE CONSTITUTION" stickers. There are people who drive ...

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Arts: The Movie Club

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Can you admire a movie without enjoying it?
By Dan Kois
Posted Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012, at 08:18 PM ET

Dana! Stephanie! Michael!

"Is there a difference between loving a movie and loving the experience of watching?" Stephanie asks in her excellent dispatch, and that's a question that's been much on my mind this year. In my experience, there is. That's why on my ballots in the Indiewire and Village Voice polls I named Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff) my best director. The austere, challenging (for me, anyway) Meek's, a sort of handmade Western starring Michelle Williams as a pioneer wife whose little party is lost in the Oregon badlands, was a fine example of a film that, in the end, I liked quite a bit, even though I had trouble enjoying the experience of watching it. I liked it because it has specific artistic ambitions and because it fulfills those artistic ambitions, in part, by frustrating the audience's viewing experience. It's a unified piece of work; Reichardt's accomplished something real that stuck in my head for a long time—that even forced me to wrestle, publicly and embarrassingly, with my own shortcomings as a viewer.

So Meek's, like Melancholia, was for me a film that didn't offer enjoyment in the moment but did inspire affection as time went on. Are there films that work in the reverse? Films that offer enjoyable viewing experiences, but then afterward provoke disdain? Of course! How about apparent Oscar front-runner The Artist, a charming piece of work that never tires, never bores, never in its ...

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Moneybox: Weak-Willed? There?s an App for That.

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Weak-Willed? There's an App for That. 
Meet GymPact, a new company that wants to charge you for not exercising.
By Matthew Yglesias
Posted Tuesday, Jan 03, 2012, at 09:10 PM ET

Welcome to January, the month of broken promises. Each December we take stock of our lives and decide where we'd like to see improvement, confirming our aspirations with New Year's resolutions.

Sadly, resolutions are shattered as swiftly as they're made: You're probably already wavering on that one to skip dessert. Change, after all, is hard. If you really wanted to act differently you probably wouldn't need a resolution to persuade you to change. But perhaps there is a way to use a different set of incentives to persuade us to behave ourselves. The new startup GymPact is betting on the idea that Americans want to get better at resolving. To put it another way, they believe there's a market for a service that will do little more than charge you money for not going to the gym.

The fundamental problem of weakness of the will has plagued mankind from time immemorial. The ancient Greeks had a special word for it, akrasia, which comes down to us in part because Plato found it so vexing that he decided it was impossible, writing that "no one goes willingly toward the bad, or what he believes to be bad" and that apparent instances must in fact represent some form of ignorance. Modern behavioral economists, less interested in the metaphysical issues, call it "time-inconsistent preferences" and have simply documented that it occurs systematically in ways that undermine the neoclassical modeling assumptions of humans as rational utility maximizers. We ...

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Fracking and Earthquakes; LA's Bizarre Arson Case; Wendi Deng Twitter Hoax; and more from The Slatest.

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Oil Prices Rise as Iran Warns US Over Aircraft Carrier

Oil Prices Rise as Iran Warns US Over Aircraft Carrier

Obama administration rejects Iran's demand not to return carrier to Persian Gulf.

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Fracking Blamed for Ohio Earthquakes

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State shuts down injection well after 11 small quakes in past year.

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LA Arson Spree Followed Arrest of Suspect's Mother

LA Arson Spree Followed Arrest of Suspect's Mother

Burkhart's mom is wanted in Germany for defrauding breast augmentation surgeon.

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Mosque Firebombing Suspect in Custody

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NYPD staked out car of man accused of hitting five buildings with Molotov cocktails.

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Wendi Deng Twitter Account is Fake

Wendi Deng Twitter Account is Fake

Rupert Murdoch's wife did not actually chastise the mogul on Twitter.

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Iraq Vet Suspected in Mt. Rainier Shooting Confirmed Dead

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Eric Holder's Risky Gamble To Block a Voter ID Law in South Carolina

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Dennis Rodman's Hilarious, Terrible Plan To Start a Topless Women's Basketball League

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