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Columnist Mark Shields:

My favorite Washington, D.C., TV news anchorman is ABC's Gordon Peterson, who one night when required to give one more meaningless prime-time promo for the station's late-night newscast read it this way: "Astronauts back on the moon, fire in Bethesda, Redskins in trouble," before adding on his own, "Verbs at 11:00."

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