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Sports

2:44 am

Thu March 28, 2013

Deflections: The Unofficial Stat That Measures Success

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Head coach Rick Pitino of the Louisville Cardinals is adamant about recording his team's deflections. It seems to be paying off: The Cardinals have been doing well during the NCAA tournament.

By Mike Pesca

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 11:08 am

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The Louisville Cardinals are among the teams dominating at this year's men's Division 1 NCAA basketball tournament, which resumes Thursday night. The team credits harassing, active defense for its wins.

But there's something else at work, too: deflections. The team puts a lot of stock in them, though deflections aren't an officially tracked statistic.

The Salt

2:43 am

Thu March 28, 2013

Reviving The Spirit And Schmaltz Of The Jewish Deli

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Nick Wiseman, partner at DGS Delicatessen, inspects the kitchen as an employee prepares pastrami sandwiches for lunch in Washington, D.C.

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Barry Koslow, DGS executive chef, demonstrates the proper technique for rolling a matzo ball. His take on traditional matzo ball soup for Passover includes roasted bone marrow.

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Just before lunchtime, people line up outside DGS Delicatessen on Connecticut Avenue in D.C.'s Dupont Circle. It's been open for just four months, and some customers say the nation's capital was overdue for a Jewish delicatessen.

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Barry Koslow worked as a chef cooking other cuisines before turning his talents to his cultural roots.

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Koslow shows Morning Edition host David Greene how to boil the rolled matzo balls. The chef says he has rolled hundreds of these starchy orbs each day during Passover.

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A selection of DGS' pickled offerings, including carrots, mushrooms and egg. DGS makes all of its pickled and smoked offerings in-house.

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"There's this whole movement of people wanting to make everything from scratch," Koslow says. Restaurant workers prepare their own mustard by the gallon. A batch this size is about enough to last through the weekend crowds.

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DGS' signature pastrami sandwiches and pickles.

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The kitchen and front seating at DGS during lunch.

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An earlier generation of deli owners, and relatives of the DGS partners, keeps watch over a to-go bag at the restaurant's walk-up counter.

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Koslow grabs ingredients from the walk-in refrigerator that houses all of the deli's pickled vegetables and smoked meat. "We'll pickle anything," he says.

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The finished matzo ball soup is a centerpiece of DGS' Passover meal.

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Nick Wiseman, partner at DGS Delicatessen, inspects the kitchen as an employee prepares pastrami sandwiches for lunch.

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DGS' signature pastrami sandwiches and pickles.

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Barry Koslow, chef of DGS Delicatessen, demonstrates the proper technique for rolling a matzo ball. He has updated the traditional Passover meal with ingredients such as bone marrow.

By Padmananda Rama

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 9:55 am

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Hear David Greene's Story

On a recent morning, just south of Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle, about a dozen people are lined up outside a restaurant waiting for its lunchtime opening.

Jon and Ralph Rosenbaum are at the front of the line and are the first to be greeted by DGS Delicatessen general manager Brian Zipin, who leads them down a white tile hallway and seats them at a small table against a brick-exposed wall.

The Record

2:42 am

Thu March 28, 2013

The Many Sounds Of 1993 Bay Area Rap

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A still from the video for E-40's 1993 song "Practice Looking Hard," in which rappers like The Coup's Boots Riley (second from right) and Tupac (not pictured) also appeared.

Originally published on Thu March 28, 2013 7:27 pm

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Food

6:25 am

Wed March 27, 2013

Mount Vernon Visitors Can Sip History

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A batch of George Washington's straight rye whiskey is being made in a reconstruction of his old distillery. Historians who have tasted it say it's very bad rye whiskey.

Europe

6:15 am

Wed March 27, 2013

Winter Olympic Organizers Worry About Snow Shortage

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In Russia, they've started stockpiling snow for 2014 after an unusually warm winter in the city of Sochi. The snow is being stored high up in the mountains, and coated with a "special thermo seal" to prevent it from melting.

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