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• The big-screen version of the HBO series will reunite Jeremy Piven, Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon and Kevin Connolly.

• 8. WHERE RUSSIA IS BREAKING ITS 'ZERO WASTE' OLYMPIC PLEDGE
• Moscow's promise to hold the cleanest games ever is being buried in an illegal landfill outside Sochi.

• 9. CARDS HANDING THE BALL TO ROOKIE PITCHER
• St. Louis, facing a must-win Game 6, is hoping for one more October gem from Michael Wacha.

• 10. HEAT GET RINGS, THEN HOLD OFF BULLS
• Miami puts up the title banner for the 2013 NBA championship before beating Chicago 107-95.

AP News in Brief
Sebelius heads to Hill to defend health law and her job as problems plague website's rollout

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eager to cast blame, lawmakers are preparing to grill President Barack Obama's top health official over problems with the rollout of the government's health care website.
• A growing number of Republicans in Congress are calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to step down or be fired because of problems consumers are having signing up for insurance coverage on the government's new website.
• On Wednesday, Sebelius heads to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, her first appearance before Congress since state-based health exchanges opened for business on Oct.
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• Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Health Committee, on Tuesday joined the list of GOP lawmakers calling for Sebelius to go.
• "Taxpayers have spent $400 million to create exchanges that, after 3½ years, still don't work," Alexander said. "No private-sector chief executive officer would escape accountability after such a poor performance."
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