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Georgetown University students were treated to a heaping dose of adorable on Friday afternoon when Butler Blue, Butler University’s droopy-faced mascot bulldog, traipsed through campus to spend some quality time with his counterpart, Jack.

Jack, Georgetown’s bulldog mascot, and Butler got to know each other amongst D.C.’s most famous landmarks, along with their understudies, Jack Jr. and Trip.

But it wasn’t all fun and games — the canines took a bit of warming up to one another. “They’re bulldogs, and we were creeping on Jack and JJ’s turf, so it got a little tense at moments,” The Butler dogs’ owner, Michael Kaltenmark, told the Burlington Free Press. “Most of that was indoors. Once they got outside, nobody was really territorial. They really got along okay.”

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WASHINGTON — The steady flow of officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission into top corporate jobs feeds a regulatory culture of weak law enforcement and preferential treatment for big banks, according to a new report from the Project on Government Oversight.

The group, a non-partisan investigative watchdog, said information it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows 419 former SEC employees filed at least 1,949 disclosure statements revealing that they planned to represent a private-sector client with SEC business from 2001 to 2010. SEC employees are only required to file disclosure statements for the first two years after leaving the agency.

The flood of former SEC officials pressing the agency to go easy on their new private sector clients has influenced the outcome of dozens of cases in which the SEC issues official waivers exempting companies from standard penalties, the report said. These waivers appeared especially generous in cases involving repeat offenders — companies that the SEC sanctions for multiple violations within a few years.

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Where’s a cute automatic Japanese robot snowplow when you need one? When nasty nor’easters like February 2013’s “Nemo” blanket huge stretches of America’s northeast with up to three feet of snow, a GPS-equipped robotic snow shovel like Yuki Taro would come in mighty handy.

After Winter Storm “Nemo” passed through the Northeast this weekend, snow-bound residents shared these adorable photos of pets in the snow.

Some crazy animal antics took place this week, such as a raccoon that climbed up a crane in Seattle, an amazing video of a cat riding a sheep and the heartbreaking news that the world’s longest cat died.

A number of discoveries took place as well. Scientists may have found a clue to the demise of dinos (and subsequent rise of mammals), and a new study suggests that moles can locate food by smelling in stereo.

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To bring some Latino flavor to the 55th Grammy Awards celebration, Colombian star Juanes conquered both the Latin and Anglo worlds with a bilingual performance of Elton John’s romantic hit “Your Song.”

The singer also took home the award for “Best Latin Pop Album, Rock or Urban Album” for his “MTV Unplugged Deluxe Edition” album earlier in the day.

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