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I confess that my palate normally turns even more jaundiced when the word "famous" is part of a restaurant's name. However, this is one barbecue place where the product actually lives up to the bragging rights.

Founder Dave Anderson spent the better part of 25 years scouring the country looking for the perfect blend of smoke, meat quality and sauce before he created his own style of sauce blend and smoking technique. Today, the restaurant offers five styles of sauce and smoked meats that can be eaten sans sauce, the mark of high quality products.

Anderson's St. Louis-style spareribs won the title of best ribs in America at the Great American Rib Cookoff, while its rich and sassy sauce scored the best barbecue sauce in America award at the American Royal Barbecue contest in Kansas City, Mo. Overall, Anderson has won more than 200 awards nationwide. Not bad for a rural country boy from the upper Midwest!

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Alberto Fujimori speaks of returning to the presidency in Peru and he's running for Senate in Japan. But his hopes of staying out of prison depend on a court in Chile.

In an interview with The Associated Press late Wednesday, the former Peruvian leader confirmed he had accepted a small party's offer to run for parliament in Japan "because we do not have a presidential election in Peru soon.

"I still have my followers in Peru, and many of them are happy because a political party in such an important country as Japan has called on me to run. This is something very important for them," said Fujimori, who holds both Peruvian and Japanese citizenship.

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GWEN hates the question. She get asks the question at every event on the campaign trail, With each passing day of the campaign it stings more. "What makes you think you can do this?"

She thinks the question stinks, and she wants to encourage other women considering running for public office to fight the slings and arrows thrown at female candidates. GWEN is not merely one women; she is every women who has ever picked up a phone and asked someone to cut a $5,000 campaign contribution check for herself. The women of Get Women Elected Now GWEN want their to see their sisters in office, yet recent trends seem discouraging. Referring to herself in the third-person singular, the members of GWEN want to change the gender dynamics of Northern Virginia politics.

"You would think that women today would find running for office more acceptable," said Lois Walker, former Alexandria City Council member and one of the founding member of GWEN. "But thats obviously not the case or youd see more women running for office."

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Jupp Derwall, who coached the West German soccer team to victory in the 1980 European Championship and a second-place finish in the 1982 World Cup after a controversy-laden run to the title game, died Tuesday in St. Ingbert, Germany. He was 80.

His death was announced by the German soccer federation.

Derwall coached West Germany from 1978 to 1984. His teams had a 45-11-11 record, posting a German-record 23 consecutive victories.

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You may still own one. It was a teeny paperback with a gargantuan following. Its pages and chapters spawned seminars and support groups. It was considered an überhip trend, a renaissance, a movement and the single girl's gospel. If you don't own one, someone you know does possibly your mother or maybe someone's mother from Chile to China. It was published in 27 languages.

But Wednesday night at the hip and trendy restaurant Cyclone Anaya in Midtown, 26-year-old Sydney and her hip and trendy gang of single girls were not so hip to it. "The Rules? Is that a book?" she asked.

It seems, more than a decade later, that The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right are all gender-wrong.

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