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"(CNN) -- Orlando's police chief on Monday named a Florida man as the \"primary suspect\" in the case of the man's missing ex-fiancee, who hasn't been seen since the two appeared on an episode of \"The People's Court.\"",
"Police Chief Paul Rooney identified Dale Smith Jr., who relatives say is the father of two of Michelle Parker's children, as the lone suspect in the case.",
"\"We had to look at every aspect of the case before we could come out publicly and state that Mr. Smith is our primary focus,\" Rooney said at a news conference.",
"\"We will not rest until Michelle is found.\"",
"Although Rooney publicly identified Smith in the case, no charges have been filed.",
"The woman was last seen driving near Orlando on November 17, shortly after \"The People's Court\" segment that had been taped months earlier aired.",
"Her last known communication was a brief, seemingly innocuous text message to her brother that same day, according to the official Facebook page devoted to her case.",
"Attempts to reach Smith by phone -- at numbers believed to be his and that of his parents -- and social media -- via Facebook e-mail, on a profile believed to be his -- for comment on Monday's developments and the case generally have thus far been unsuccessful. .",
"He has refused authorities' offer to take a polygraph test in the case, Rooney told reporters.",
"Parker's mother, Yvonne Stewart, said in Monday's news conference that the naming of Smith as a suspect is \"huge.\"",
"She urged him to come forward more earnestly, in hopes that his information will lead to her daughter.",
"\"This is a sad day, really, but I think it was inevitable,\" Stewart said.",
"\"(Michelle is) so beautiful, she doesn't deserve this.\"",
"Rooney acknowledged that authorities recently searched Smith's parents' house, though he didn't \"want to go into evidence that we seized or didn't seize.\"",
"Parker's black Hummer SUV was found a day after she was last seen, according to the Facebook page.",
"She is described as white, 33 years old, roughly 5 feet 5 inches tall with short dark brown hair.",
"Her sister, Lauren Erickson, earlier told HLN's Nancy Grace that her sister and Smith met about five years ago.",
"They were estranged, and \"The People's Court\" episode revolved around their dispute over who'd get a $5,000 engagement ring, with Judge Marilyn Milian eventually suggesting they split the proceeds and stay apart from one another.",
"Erickson said that her sister was devoted to her children, whom she, her mother and the rest of the family have not seen since Parker's disappearance.",
"\"She would never do anything to leave them.",
"They are her world,\" Erickson said.",
"\"They`re the reason that she was working two jobs and going to school full time -- so that she could give them a better life.\"",
"On Monday night, brother Dustin Erickson told HLN's Vinnie Politan that for all the talk about Smith, his main focus is on his sister.",
"He and other family members urged people to continue distributing fliers, spreading the word about Parker and looking for her at every opportunity.",
"\"My biggest thing is that I still need to search for my sister,\" Dustin Erickson said.",
"\"She is still missing and I still need to find her.\""
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"Dale Smith Jr. is a suspect in Michelle Parker's disappearance, a police chief says .",
"She was last seen November 17, the day she and Smith were on \"The People's Court\"\nHer mother calls the naming of Smith as a suspect \"sad\" but \"inevitable\""
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's mother says she's hoping Dr. Conrad Murray will get the harshest sentence possible, four years in a state prison, in the death of her son.",
"\"I don't believe that he intended for Michael to die,\" Katherine Jackson told CNN Monday.",
"\"He was just taking a chance.\"",
"A jury found Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter three weeks ago, and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor set Tuesday for his sentencing.",
"Pastor, who sent Murray directly to jail after he was convicted this month, has a choice ranging between probation and up to four years in a state prison.",
"But measures to relieve California prison and jail crowding could significantly shorten his time locked up.",
"Prosecutors successfully argued that Murray's reckless use of the surgical anesthetic propofol to help Jackson sleep, without proper monitoring equipment, led to the pop icon's death.",
"Testimony during his trial revealed that Murray gave propofol nearly every night in the two months before the singer's death on June 25, 2009, as Jackson prepared for his comeback concerts set for London the next month.",
"Katherine Jackson and several of her children will be in court for the sentencing Tuesday, but her grandchildren Prince, Paris and Blanket will not.",
"They'll be at school, she said.",
"She was uncertain whether anyone from the family would speak in court, but she was interviewed by a probation officer who will include her thoughts in the report to the judge, Jackson said.",
"Murray's elderly mother, Milta Rush, wrote a letter to the judge asking for mercy, saying \"his compassion and his soft heartedness for others led to this dilemma.\"",
"Prosecutors are asking for the maximum four years behind bars, and they want Murray to pay Jackson's children more than $100 million in restitution.",
"Defense lawyers want probation, not prison time.",
"Each side will have a chance to present oral arguments Tuesday, but their positions were detailed in sentencing memos filed with the judge last week.",
"Murray has \"displayed a complete lack of remorse\" about Jackson's death, and is, \"even worse, failing to accept even the slightest level of responsibility,\" deputy district attorneys David Walgren and Deborah Brazil wrote.",
"The prosecutors cited Murray's decision not to testify in his own defense, even while he was giving interviews for a documentary that aired days after the verdict.",
"\"In each of these interviews, the defendant has very clearly stated that he bears no responsibility for Michael Jackson's death,\" the prosecutors said.",
"\"Moreover, the defendant has continued to express concern only for his individual plight and portrays himself, not the decedent, as the victim.\"",
"\"I don't feel guilty because I did not do anything wrong,\" Murray said in the documentary quoted by the prosecution.",
"\"Finally, the defendant consistently blames the victim for his own death, even going so far as to characterize himself as being 'entrapped' by the victim and as someone who suffered a 'betrayal' at the hands of the victim,\" the prosecutors said.",
"Jackson's death came as he was preparing for a series of comeback concerts in London, which the defense argued pressured the singer to seek sleep or risk having the concerts canceled.",
"The prosecutors contend in their sentencing memo that Murray should be ordered to pay Jackson's three children restitution for the subsequent \"wage and profits lost,\" as provided under California's \"victim's bill of rights\" law.",
"The singer's \"estate estimates Michael Jackson's projected earnings for the 50-show O2 concert series to be $100,000,000,\" the prosecutors said.",
"With nearly $2 million in funeral expenses and 10% interest added each year, the prosecution is asking Pastor to order Murray to pay Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson more than $120 million in restitution.",
"While it is doubtful that Murray, who is unlikely to ever practice medicine again, could pay much of that sum, it could prevent him from reaping financial benefits from any books, interviews or film projects in the future.",
"Defense lawyers, in their sentencing memo, said Murray is suffering \"manifold collateral consequences\" because of the felony conviction.",
"The memo included a biography of Murray that described him as \"a self-made man of humble origins,\" who paid his own way through medical school without scholarships or family funds.",
"\"He was raised in a home that lacked indoor plumbing or electricity, and he walked to school barefoot for his first couple years of school,\" the defense said.",
"He worked as a doctor for 20 years, with \"no prior contacts with the law,\" and many of his patients were elderly in low-income, underserved communities, the defense said.",
"\"It seems reasonable that the transgression for which he is to be judged should be viewed within the context of the larger life of which it is a part,\" it said.",
"The defense challenges the prosecution's contention that Murray is not remorseful.",
"\"Dr. Murray wishes to make it unmistakenly clear to everyone that he deeply mourns the loss of Michael Jackson's life, and he profoundly regrets any mistakes or oversights on his part that may have contributed to it,\" the defense said.",
"The judge should also consider \"the manifold collateral consequences that Dr. Murray has sustained as a result of his mistake,\" the defense said, including the loss of his medical career, the public disgrace and loss of privacy.",
"\"Dr. Murray has been described as a changed, grief-stricken man, who walks around under a pall of sadness since the loss of his patient, Mr. Jackson,\" the defense said.",
"The defense memo included a letter from Murray's elderly mother, Milta Rush.",
"She sat in court for much of her son's trial, just a few feet away from Jackson's mother.",
"\"I sympathize with Mrs. Jackson as a mother,\" Rush wrote in a letter to the judge.",
"\"I sense she was very close to her son.",
"I really wanted to approach her personally and tell her I am sorry for the loss of her son, but I was unsure if she would be receptive, and I did not want to take the chance of violating court rules.",
"I am sorry for all her loss.\"",
"While Murray's mother told the judge her son is \"saddened and remorseful\" about Jackson's death, she said \"his compassion and his soft heartedness for others led to this dilemma.\"",
"The defense contends that Murray was trying to help Jackson, who was desperate for sleep so he could be ready for rehearsals.",
"\"His compassionate intentions should not be overlooked,\" it said.",
"\"The victim was a willing recipient of the medications administered,\" the defense said.",
"\"In fact, Mr. Jackson had repeatedly begged Dr. Murray for propofol to overcome his insomnia so that he could sleep.\"",
"Murray does not pose a safety threat to the public, it said.",
"\"The likelihood of recurrence is essentially nonexistent since Conrad Murray's medical license has been suspended.\"",
"Aside from the arguments of what Murray deserves, the defense contends that California's prison and jail crowding mean that \"neither the space nor the public funds exist to continue imprisoning nonviolent, nondangerous offenders who do not need to be incapacitated for the sake of public safety.\"",
"\"Dr. Murray is clearly such a defendant,\" the defense said.",
"\"He is an individual who remained free on bond for more than two years prior to the jury verdict, adhering assiduously to all of the bond conditions that had been imposed.\"",
"If Murray takes up a state prison or county jail cell, it \"may mean that someone else with higher potential for violence will be released,\" the defense said.",
"Instead, the defense proposed that Murray could be sentenced to community service along with probation.",
"\"Though he will perhaps not again be a doctor qualified to make diagnoses, he could educate and counsel patients about heart care and disease prevention,\" it said.",
"\"There are many nonprofit clinics and organizations that would benefit from his participation, if ordered to perform community service as a condition of his sentence and a means of 'putting some water back into the public well.'\""
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"Katherine Jackson's thoughts on Dr. Conrad Murray are in a report prepared for the judge .",
"Murray's \"compassion and his soft heartedness\" led to his troubles, the doctor's mother says .",
"Murray could get anything from probation to four years in prison Tuesday ."
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"(CNN) -- Egypt is on the roller-coaster of transition.",
"It's a bumpy and hair-raising ride to a destination unknown.",
"But the country is moving.",
"And in that, there's hope. In Tahrir Square last Friday, I was struck by the carnival atmosphere: Vendors sold candied apples and baked yams; young boys hawked red, white and-black hats and flags; a crowd gathered to watch cartoonists chalk an oversized military general dressed as Santa Claus.",
"Activists of all political shades shouted poetry and enthusiastic speeches, leading crowds in chanting: \"The people want the end of the military regime!\"",
"\"The people want a civilian regime!\"",
"\"We are all one!\" But by Saturday, Tahrir Square had become a battleground.",
"Crowds shrunk to die-hards throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, while security forces volleyed tear gas and rubber bullets.",
"From the 18th floor of the locked-down Intercontinental hotel (a barrage of tear gas having abruptly aborted my attempt to speak to those at the edges of the square), I watched as the square cleared out, battles moved to side streets, and then the atmosphere turned quiet.",
"Briefly. Demonstrators regrouped.",
"Political leaders across the spectrum aired televised condemnation of the police and support for the protesters.",
"And people started streaming again through the streets, across a nearby bridge, and back into the square.",
"It was a sight reminiscent of the nail-biting days of January.",
"With such off-and-on violence, and rising numbers of dead and injured, some may wonder if democracy is worth it -- or even possible.",
"Many Egyptians are no longer as beamingly optimistic as they were last spring.",
"Then, they dreamed of blooming democracy and booming economies.",
"Today, they want stability.",
"Tourism has slowed to a trickle, and taxi drivers, hotel workers and souvenir vendors shake their heads at the demonstrators.",
"Capital is fleeing, and foreign reserves drying up.",
"As people speak their minds, many others -- from liberals to conservatives — feel uneasy.",
"Large numbers of bearded men and covered women, demanding a regime based on Sharia law, frighten Christians and Muslims alike.",
"Clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims create fear that religious strife will rend Egypt's multireligious society.",
"And women especially worry that their freedoms are at stake.",
"Liberals, far less numerous, can also be intimidating.",
"Many in Egypt believe they do not understand or accept \"real\" Egyptian society and threaten to corrupt it.",
"Last month, a female blogger posted nude pictures of herself and others in a sensational appeal to expand freedom of expression.",
"It led many to complain that too much freedom would corrupt Egyptian society.",
"Anger against America and Israel also worry many.",
"A 20-something Egyptian, working for a foreign corporation in Egypt, pulled me aside in Tahrir Square to explain that former President Hosni Mubarak had known where to draw the line.",
"These people, he exclaimed, gesturing to those around him, don't understand the hadud, or limits.",
"Like others, he said he worries they would trade Egypt's welfare for the Palestinians' cause.",
"But even amid conflict and uncertainty, there's hope.",
"Egyptians who desperately want to escape from nearly 60 years of military-backed authoritarian rule have what it takes to do so.",
"Egyptian nationalism is strong.",
"Airwaves are filled with nationalist songs, and Egyptian flags abound.",
"Friday's calls to end the military regime mingled with expressions of nationalism.",
"Huge crowds chanted in unison: \"Christians and Muslims, we're all Egyptians, we are all one,\" and, most directly, \"Ana Masri!\"",
"(\"I am Egyptian!\") There is also strong respect for elections.",
"At Tahrir Square, parties and candidates took advantage of the gathering to distribute pamphlets and urge demonstrators to vote for pro-revolutionary forces.",
"And even with the descent into violence, forces across the political spectrum have urged elections to begin as scheduled.",
"Debates are intense.",
"Egyptians in the square hotly contested the nature of the Egyptian military and goals for the future.",
"The Salafi Hizb al-Nur (\"Party of Light\") called for a regime based on Sharia law; the Popular Front appealed to secular nationalism; and the Muslim Brotherhood demanded a civilian, democratic regime with respect and freedoms for all.",
"As one in Friday's crowd argued, many Egyptians may need to develop respect for diverging opinions.",
"Yet this is true in many nascent democracies.",
"Political forces also are well-organized.",
"The Muslim Brothers not only can bring people onto the streets, but also send them home when the time is right.",
"They were critical in rallying crowds last week, where they maintained a space for women to avoid being crushed and jostled by men and a pathway for demonstrators to navigate the crowd.",
"And they were instrumental in returning crowds to Tahrir late Saturday night.",
"Other forces, too, are gaining strength.",
"In fact, Tuesday's crowds -- despite the Brothers' refusal to participate in the demonstrations -- show that others, too, can mobilize forces.",
"With a strong sense of nationalism, hotly contested debates, a belief in electoral democracy and organized political forces, Egypt has what it takes to form democracy.",
"It just won't be easy or fast. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ellen Lust."
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"Ellen Lust: Egypt in bumpy transition; daily Tahrir Square goes from festive to combative .",
"She says some there worry democracy might not be worth it; social conflicts so challenging .",
"She says optimism has faded for many in face of worries over economy and Islamist control .",
"Lust: Still, Egypt has essentials for democracy: strong nationalism, faith in elections ."
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"(CNN) -- He has met the United States' former First Lady, and an audience with Barack Obama awaits, but the American that world champion boxer Amir Khan really wants to face next is proving a bit more elusive.",
"The British fighter has set his heart on becoming the planet's best pound-for-pound pugilist, and for him that means taking on the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. -- who, as a five-division champion, once laid claim to that coveted crown.",
"Khan, 24, unified the WBA super and IBF light welterweight world championship belts in July by defeating American Zab Judah in Las Vegas in July, while Mayweather recently returned to the ring after a 16-month absence.",
"Six-time world champion Mayweather has won all of his 42 fights as a professional, 26 by knockout, and emerged victorious from a controversial contest with Victor Ortiz on September 18.",
"But the fight many boxing fans want to see is Mayweather against eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao -- the Filipino rated by Ring Magazine as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world.",
"\"Floyd Mayweather pound for pound is probably one of the best fighters in the world,\" Khan, who won an Olympic silver medal in the lightweight category at the Athens Games in 2004, told CNN.",
"\"Me and Manny both want to fight him, but that will never happen because at the moment he doesn't want to fight either of us.",
"But it will come to a stage when the pressure will be so much on Floyd Mayweather that he'll have to take the fight.\"",
"Khan doubts that a match-up between his Golden Boy stablemate Mayweather and Top Rank's Pacquiao will ever happen, with disagreements over drug-testing and money having previously prevented the fight.",
"\"You've got two different promotion teams, and for them to agree on terms for a fight is very difficult,\" he said.",
"\"Firstly, you've got Mayweather saying that Manny has to take so many drug tests and blood tests, then Manny talking about the purse.",
"But that fight will generate about $100 million each, so it's a lot of money to say no to.\"",
"Mayweather, 34, and Pacquiao, 32, have both occupied the position of best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, and Khan is aiming to emulate the success enjoyed by the decorated duo.",
"\"I want to be known as a legend in the sport and I want to win everything.",
"I want to be a pound-for-pound champion of the world, and every morning when I wake up that's what drives me to the gym to train hard,\" he said.",
"\"When I'm tired in the gym, that's what pushes me, because I want to be the best there is.",
"And, I'm nearly there. I'm only 24, I'm the unified champion, I'm a two-time world champion, and I've done it so young.",
"But I want to achieve more.\"",
"Khan has seen his international profile increase in the last 18 months, having fought in the U.S. on three occasions since making his American bow against Paulie Malignaggi at New York's Madison Square Gardens in March 2010.",
"It would now appear even politicians are starting to sit up and take notice of the Bolton-born fighter, with Khan having recently met U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and now being lined up for an audience with President Barack Obama later this year.",
"\"I was invited to go to the state building,\" said Khan.",
"\"Hilary Clinton invited me and my team.",
"It was an honor to be part of that event.",
"It was about the Muslim sportsmen who were influential and who do good things in the Muslim community.",
"\"I enjoyed it and they want me back over there in December probably to meet Obama, so it's good times.",
"\"When they first got talking about it, I thought they were just pulling my leg, but they were quite serious about it, and I thought 'Wow'.",
"I might never get the chance to go to the White House or meet Obama again, so I'm going to make the most of it.\""
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"Boxing champion Amir Khan tells CNN he wants to face Floyd Mayweather .",
"The Briton says he doesn't think Mayweather will ever face Manny Pacquiao .",
"Khan has set his sights on becoming world's best pound-for-pound fighter .",
"The 24-year-old will meet U.S. President Barack Obama later this year ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- A pipeline that supplies gas from Egypt to Israel exploded Monday in the northern Sinai Peninsula near Bir el-Adb, an Egyptian security official said.",
"The explosion appears to be an act of sabotage, said Gen. Saleh al-Masri, the head of security in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula.",
"\"It is an act of sabotage, but the army and members of Egyptian Natural Gas Company are on the scene trying to understand what happened,\" al-Masri said.",
"The explosion has shut off the flow of gas to Israel and Jordan, said Ayman Jahin, a general manager at the gas company.",
"It is the third such attack on Egyptian pipeline infrastructure since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak's government earlier in the year.",
"The first two attacks resulted in a halt in the flow of gas to Israel, which receives about 40% of its natural gas from Egypt.",
"The army cordoned off the area around the explosion, asking onlookers to return home,\" Mohamed Sabry, a freelance journalist at the scene, told CNN.",
"He said flames could be seen shooting into the sky hours after the explosion.",
"Firefighters were working to contain the fire, he said.",
"Delivery of Egyptian gas to Israel came to a halt after an April attack on a pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula.",
"The flow of gas through the pipeline to Israel was restored in early June.",
"In February, a gas pipeline in El Arish that sent natural gas to Jordan was set on fire, shutting off the flow of gas to not only Israel but but Syria, Jordan and Lebanon as well.",
"The issue of gas sales to Israel has become highly controversial in Egypt with various allegations circulating that Israel received below market prices for the gas and that Egyptian government officials enriched themselves on the deal.",
"The Israeli government and Israeli investors in the pipeline have categorically denied below market pricing for the gas and last month one of the major investors released a statement expressing public frustration that the Egyptian government was not moving more quickly to get the gas flowing again and threatened to pursue legal action.",
"The pipeline between Egypt and Israel became operational in 2008 and the arrangement represents one of the major economic agreements between the two countries.",
"CNN's Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"Flow of gas to Israel and Jordan from Egypt has been shut off .",
"The army has cordoned off the area and asked onlookers to leave .",
"It is the third such attack since Mubarak's government was toppled .",
"Israel receives approximately 40% of its natural gas from Egypt ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could be executed if he is convicted of ordering the killing of protesters, Egypt's justice minister says.",
"\"One of the charges he is facing is complicity in the killing of martyrs and issuing the orders for premeditated the killing of those people,\" said Justice Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz al-Juindy.",
"\"This is a charge with a harsh punishment -- the death penalty.\"",
"In his first television interview since taking office, the new justice minister said last week that Egyptian courts would not shy away from sentencing Mubarak to death if he is found guilty.",
"\"If the crime is proven, then the court will not hesitate to issue the death sentence,\" he said.",
"\"A judge may have mercy if there is a reason for that, but I don't think in this case there is any argument for clemency whatsoever,\" the minister added, calling it \"a horrible crime, to kill 800 citizens who were asking for their rights and hoping to topple a corrupt regime that caused the ruin of Egypt.\"",
"Mubarak resigned in the face of popular protests in February after more than 30 years in power.",
"He has been in poor health and living in the southern Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh since then.",
"Prosecutors last month shelved plans to move him to a military hospital in Cairo, saying Mubarak's doctors said the transfer could be life-threatening.",
"Adel Saeed, the prosecutor's spokesman, said April 26 that the Interior Ministry made the decision after Mubarak's medical team submitted a report that determined he would be at risk if he were moved.",
"But Justice Minister al-Juindy said Mubarak's health was \"good,\" according to reports he had received.",
"Mubarak \"suffers some heart irregularities known as atrial fibrillation, but his pulse and pressure are fine.",
"His heart rate is 65 per minute, which is considered like an athlete,\" the official said.",
"\"Of course he's facing questioning for the first time in his life, so this is affecting him psychologically,\" the minister added.",
"He will be required to appear in court when the time comes, al-Juindy said.",
"\"His appearance in court will be mandatory,\" he said.",
"If Mubarak is too sick to appear, \"in this case, the prosecutor visits him, and this is a procedure we follow with any sick suspect.",
"The suspect must be given a chance to put forward his defense, so that the trial can be fair.\"",
"He is also being probed on allegations of corruption and misuse of state funds.",
"\"There are reports that the former president's wealth is in the billions, and indeed it is billions,\" the justice minister asserted.",
"So far \"we can't ascertain the exact amount, but the investigation is underway,\" he said.",
"Mubarak's trial will show that the rule of law is supreme in the country, al-Juindy said.",
"\"The law is respected in Egypt and is applied on everyone without any exception,\" he said.",
"\"This is very important because Egypt now has become a country were the law is sovereign.\""
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"The crime carries the death penalty, and courts will not hesitate to use it, Egypt's justice minister says .",
"Hosni Mubarak is in good health, the minister says .",
"Mubarak was forced from office by protesters after more than 30 years in power ."
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"(CNN) -- For nearly 30 years, one man has dominated Egypt.",
"Hosni Mubarak, 82, has survived would-be assassins and ill health, crushed a rising Islamist radical movement and maintained the peace with neighboring Israel that got his predecessor killed.",
"His government's continued observance of the Camp David accords with Israel is the cornerstone of what peace has been achieved in the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict.",
"Following the revolt that toppled Tunisia's longtime strongman, demonstrators in the streets of Cairo are standing up to riot police and chanting, \"Mubarak, Saudi Arabia is waiting for you.\"",
"Experienced observers say it's the most most significant challenge to his rule yet.",
"It's far from clear, however, that the demonstrators have the support or the coordination to bring down the man critics have called Egypt's last pharaoh.",
"\"He's been in power a very long time, and he is very wily,\" said Juan Cole, a Middle East historian at the University of Michigan.",
"\"He's developed all kinds of techiniques for dealing with opponents that have proven relatively successful.\"",
"But longtime observers of the region say the stability Mubarak has purchased has come at the cost of entrenched poverty and repression in the Arab world's most populous nation.",
"\"Egypt is a broken country,\" Fawaz Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern relations at the London School of Economics, told CNN.",
"\"It used to be the jewel of the Middle East.",
"It's the capital of its cultural production.\"",
"But now, Gerges said, \"Egyptians have no outlets.",
"They don't feel that they have a sense of hope for the future.\"",
"Mubarak was a Soviet-trained pilot who was chief of staff of Egypt's air force during the 1973 Mideast war.",
"The early success of Egyptian pilots against Israel made him a national hero, and then-President Anwar Sadat made him vice president in 1975.",
"Six years later, Sadat died in a hail of gunfire at a military parade, killed by Islamic militants from within the army's own ranks after he took the dramatic step of making peace with Israel.",
"Upon assuming office, one of Mubarak's first acts was to declare a state of emergency that allowed barred unauthorized assembly, restricted freedom of speech and allowed police to jail people indefinitely.",
"He has made extensive use of those powers in the ensuing decades.",
"The Egyptian army put down riots by disgruntled police officers in 1986, and he threw an estimated 30,000 people in jail when jihadists carried out a string of attacks on tourists.",
"\"He pretty much wiped them out,\" Cole said.",
"\"It's not an accident that they were in Afghanistan instead of Egypt.\"",
"And the government has also penetrated opposition movements so thoroughly that \"If five people sit down to plot something, the fifth person writes a report to Hosni Mubarak about it,\" he said.",
"The result is \"a regime that has very little legitimacy, but presents itself as something there's no point in trying to change,\" said Nathan Brown, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at George Washington University in Washington.",
"But Brown said the January 14 overthrow of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power, has changed the thinking of many in the region.",
"\"I think what the events in Tunisia did was take that sense that nothing could ever change and lead a few people to question it,\" he said.",
"Mubarak has headed off a similar movement before, in 2005, when Egyptians mounted large-scale protests to demand fundamental and widespread reform.",
"He intimidated the leaders of the officially banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, harassed middle-class demonstrators and managed to pick off the leadership of those protests, Brown said.",
"But the current movement \"has no real leadership, so it can't be decapitated the same way,\" he said.",
"\"If Mubarak decided tomorrow, 'I'll sit down and engage with you,' it's not clear who that 'you' is.\"",
"Mubarak won four terms as president in elections that were considered formalities.",
"His fifth, in 2005, was Egypt's first multi-party presidential vote, but it was widely criticized as a \"sham,\" Cole said.",
"Meanwhile, the country's economy stagnated for the first 20 years of his rule.",
"Development has picked up in the past decade, fueled by a move away from state control and by billions in tourist dollars, but its gains have been \"very unevenly distributed.\"",
"About 40 percent of Egyptians currently live in poverty, Gerges said.",
"The aging autocrat has escaped at least two assassination attempts, including a close call in 1995 when Islamic militants opened fire on his motorcade at a pan-African conference in Ethiopia.",
"And in recent years, he has had several bouts of illness but has never picked a vice president.",
"He is widely believed to have anointed his son Gamal as his successor, but no formal announcement has been made.",
"In 2003, he collapsed while delivering a televised speech to the Egyptian parliament -- returning later to blame his illness on the flu.",
"He had back surgery in Germany in 2004, returning in 2010 to have his gall bladder removed.",
"He has largely withdrawn from public view in recent years and has not addressed his country during the current crisis, Brown said.",
"His situation is being closely watched overseas, particularly in the United States.",
"In the past decade, Egypt has been major player in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and it contributed troops to the U.S.-led coalition that drove Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991.",
"It gets about $1.3 billion in military aid from Washington every year, second only to Israel, and has received nearly $30 billion in economic aid since 1975, according to State Department figures.",
"But it opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 -- and while sticking with Camp David, Egypt's ties with Israel amount to a \"cold peace,\" Cole said.",
"President Barack Obama noted Thursday that Mubarak has been \"very helpful on a range of tough issues,\" but he said he has pushed the Egyptian leader to take steps toward reform.",
"\"You can see these pent-up frustrations that are being displayed on the streets,\" Obama said.",
"He urged the Egyptian government to avoid resorting to violence to put down the demonstrations, adding, \"I think it's very important that people have mechanisms in order to express legitimate grievances.\"",
"Brown said Mubarak probably has to endorse some political form to survive.",
"But he will have to do it \"extremely carefully, so it's not seen as a desperate measure of last resort.\"",
"Cole said Mubarak could bow to one of the protesters' demands and lift the state of emergency.",
"\"Egypt does have a fairly liberal constitution and it does enshrine a lot of rights in it,\" he said.",
"\"But it's just a piece of paper.",
"It's sidestepped by the emergency.\"",
"If lifted, \"The judges and the courts in Egypt are very feisty, and they will take on the government.\"",
"He could also hold a free and fair presidential election this year, \"but it's asking a lot,\" Cole said.",
"But Gerges said the Middle East has seen \"the barrier of fear\" removed since the events in Tunisia.",
"\"Arabs really no longer feel terrified of the security apparatus, regardless of whether Mubarak remains or goes,\" he said.",
"\"We're going to have a new era of politics.\""
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"(CNN) -- Pandora, the music-streaming service that's a soundtrack for many a desk-bound music lover, rolled out a slate of changes Wednesday, even as a host of up-and-comers are emerging in the online music space.",
"\"New Pandora,\" according to a post on the music service's blog, is \"more responsive, easier to use, and better integrated with the friends and music lovers in your life.\"",
"\"For the last two months we've been gradually rolling a preview of the new site out to our listeners, taking their feedback, fixing bugs and making improvements here and there,\" Tom Conrad, Pandora's founder, said in the post.",
"\"With all those little fixes and refinements in place, today we're rolling out the new site for everyone.\"",
"Among the new features on the site, which uses what creators call the \"Music Genome Project\" to predict users' tastes based on the songs they've already liked, are: .",
"-- Simplified station creation .",
"-- A bigger focus on social interaction.",
"Enhanced user profiles let friends \"like\" or comment on what they've been listening to and share songs or stations with friends on Pandora as well as on Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites.",
"-- More information about the song that's playing and its artist -- including lyrics and detailed biographies.",
"-- Removing the 40-hour per month listening cap to let users listen for as long as they want for free.",
"(An \"abuse prevention limit\" of 320 hours a month still exists, so if you plan to listen for more than 13 entire days, watch out).",
"The social changes will roll out to users over the next few days, according to the blog post.",
"Users may edit what others can see using Pandora's privacy settings page.",
"The changes also place ads more prominently on Pandora's pages.",
"As of July, Pandora had 100 million registered users and 36 million monthly active users.",
"Eric Mac of PCWorld gave the Pandora overhaul high marks.",
"\"The new design certainly feels a lot less 2005,\" he wrote.",
"\"It has a clearer, more intuitive user interface that includes a large control bar at the top of the screen with the familiar play, next track, thumbs up, and thumbs down buttons.",
"Loading times do seem faster, although not always instantaneous as promised.\"",
"The overhaul comes as sites like Spotify and turntable.fm have emerged as hot new commodities in the increasingly crowded online music space.",
"And Facebook is expected to unveil a free music service as early as Thursday -- potentially leveraging its massive user base as an audience."
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"Site gets new look, retooled controls and a new focus on social interaction .",
"The 40-hour per month cap on free listening was also removed .",
"The changes come as sites like Spotify, Turntable.fm and even Facebook enter online music ."
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"(CNN) -- Israel has issued a rare statement of \"regret\" for the recent deaths of several Egyptian security personnel, hours after Egypt said it was recalling its ambassador.",
"Egypt's government posted a statement Saturday saying its ambassador would be withdrawn until Israel conducted an investigation into what it called \"indiscriminate shelling\" that led to the deaths of at least three security forces in its Sinai region on Thursday.",
"Later in the day, the statement was taken down without explanation.",
"Top-level Israel security officials met Saturday with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who quickly issued a statement vowing that Israel would conduct a military investigation, followed by a joint examination with the Egyptian military, of the incident.",
"\"We regret the deaths of members of the Egyptian security forces during the terror attack on the Israeli-Egyptian border,\" Barak said.",
"\"The Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty has great importance and much strategic value for the stability of the Middle East.\"",
"The tense situation between Israel and Egypt comes amid heightened tensions in the region following Israeli strikes in Gaza after a series of attacks in southern Israel on Thursday that targeted buses, cars and soldiers.",
"An Egyptian military official said Israeli forces may have been targeting militants near Egypt's border with Gaza when they struck and killed the Egyptian security personnel.",
"On Saturday, the Mideast Quartet -- the United Nations, the United States, Russia, and the European Union -- condemned Thursday's \"premeditated terrorism\" attacks on Israel, and warned that it remains concerned about the situation in Gaza.",
"It also expressed concern about the security situation in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.",
"\"Recent commitments by the Egyptian government to address the security situation in the Sinai are important, and the Quartet encourages the Egyptian government to find a lasting resolution to the issue of Sinai security,\" it said.",
"No one in Israel's armed forces intentionally acted to harm Egyptian security personnel, Amos Gilad, a defense official involved in maintaining Israel's relationship with the Egyptian military, told Israeli Radio on Saturday.",
"He also stressed the strategic importance of the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries.",
"Outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday to protest the killings and demand Egypt sever its ties with Israel.",
"Egyptian state-run TV showed protesters burning Israeli flags and chanting \"Egyptian blood is not cheap.\"",
"Israel believes that the attacks had their roots in Gaza, but were coming out of the neighboring Egyptian region of Sinai.",
"\"The Egyptian control over Sinai is weakening and this is probably the reason that this attack that originated in Gaza has made it all the way down here,\" Barak said Thursday.",
"The Egyptian claims of Israeli forces killing three of its security members and injuring four surfaced Thursday, the same day Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza.",
"Senior Egyptian military and security forces told CNN that two members of the Central Security Force and one military officer were killed in clashes east of Ras Al-Naqab, 13 kilometers north of Taba.",
"At the time, an Israeli helicopter was in the area chasing militants in the aftermath of the attacks on Israelis, said Gen. Saleh Al Masry, head of security in North Sinai Province.",
"\"The Israeli ground troops engaged with armed militants 200 meters from the Egyptian border which may have also led to casualties on the Egyptian side,\" said Lt. Col. Amr Imam, the Egyptian army spokesman.",
"\"We have reinforced our border guards and raised the level of alert.\"",
"The rising tensions also come as questions are being raised in Israel about the Egyptian military presence in the demilitarized zone in Sinai, which was created under the terms of the Camp David Agreement signed in 1978 between Egypt and Israel.",
"Since the overthrow of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, the security situation in Sinai has deteriorated.",
"Senior Egyptian officials said several weeks ago that more than 23,000 prisoners escaped from prisons in Egypt in late January and February because of the breakdown in regime authority.",
"Additionally, travel between Egypt and Gaza has become much easier since the Military Council reopened the border crossing at Rafah in late May.",
"But along with traders -- and Gazans just wanting a break from their cramped sliver of territory -- there are signs that Islamist groups are taking advantage of weaker security.",
"The crossing is the only land passage out of Gaza not directly under Israeli control.",
"Egypt claims it has been cracking down on terror groups in its portion of the Sinai, exchanging fire with militants on its side of the border.",
"\"The security at border has not been affected by the revolution, and no one from Egypt has crossed through to conduct the attacks on Israel,\" said Khaled Fouda, the governor of Southern Sinai, an Egyptian province.",
"He said the distance between where the Egyptian forces were attacked and the border of Egypt was too far to allow the sort of attack against the Israelis that sparked the strikes on Gaza.",
"CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali, Talal Abu Rahma, Guy Azriel, Ben Wedeman, Salma Abdelaziz and journalist Mohamad Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report ."
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"Egypt posted a statement saying it would recall its ambassador; statement later removed ."
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"(CNN) -- A monument to communism, the Palace of Culture and Science dominates Warsaw's skyline.",
"But soon the city's most prominent piece of architecture, a \"gift\" from Josef Stalin in the 1950s, will be joined by a building that will reflect the spirit of 21st century Poland.",
"Designed by Daniel Libeskind, Zlota 44 is the star architect's first project in the country of his birth.",
"Currently under construction the 54-story luxury apartment building that is supposed to resemble an eagle, Poland's nation symbol, is situated opposite the Palace of Culture and Science and close to one of the city's few synagogues that survived the Second World War.",
"Explore more with Eye on Poland .",
"Many see it as a statement of the country's desire to continue its revival and redefine its identity.",
"\"Now this world-recognized architect is coming back to Poland and building a symbolic structure in front of the Palace of Culture, a symbolic structure of communism,\" said Alicia Kosciesza of the Zlota 44 project.",
"Libeskind left Poland with his parents as an emigrant to the U.S. when he was 13, but he has seen his homeland transformed since his childhood.",
"\"I grew up under the gray skies of communism, a depressed society, a totalitarian regime.",
"A dismal period really.\"",
"he said. \"I return now and it's a new country, it's a renaissance.",
"Skies are blue, people have light in their eyes, there's energy.\"",
"Libeskind commonly accentuates the positives and transformative affects that buildings can have.",
"From the Jewish Museum in Berlin, to his role as Master Planner for the new World Trade Center buildings in New York, his structures have engaged and inspired many and made him one of the world's most sought-after architects.",
"\"The re-building of Warsaw shows that despite the horrors (of the past) it's a beautiful city,\" he said.",
"\"It wasn't rebuilt perfectly (after the Second World War), but it's a city that has always had the spirit of something positive.\"",
"Libeskind's Polish roots and formative years living in the U.S. as an immigrant are experiences that have shaped his attitude and were a direct inspiration for his plans for the World Trade Center.",
"\"This is a place that needs to have a spiritual feeling, this isn't just a piece of real estate anymore,\" he said of the World Trade Center site.",
"\"(When visiting 'Ground Zero') I looked South and I saw the Statute of Liberty and I saw myself arriving on that ship (when I was 13) and I thought, '\"That's what America is like, that what this site is about.'",
"It's how to connect that memory, that tragedy with the incredible city of New York.\""
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"Architect Daniel Libeskind's new building transforming Warsaw .",
"Residential high-rise is Polish-born American's first project in Poland .",
"Under construction opposite communist-era Palace of Culture .",
"Some hope that it will be symbolic of Poland's revival ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Demonstrations that began with quiet determination on the internet more than three weeks ago erupted into riotous jubilation Friday evening, moments after it was announced that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was stepping aside.",
"Protesters swarmed army tanks that had been deployed to keep order, banged drums, blew whistles and frantically waved Egyptian flags in celebration.",
"They danced in circles and chanted.",
"Processions of cars made their way down city streets, drivers honking horns and waving flags.",
"Fireworks erupted outside the presidential palace in Cairo and in the streets of Alexandria.",
"Some men and women dropped to their knees and began to pray.",
"\"I did not believe it at first,\" Egyptian-American Sarah el-Helewsaid.",
"\"I feel complete joy.\"",
"\"Freedom!\" crowds chanted outside the white carved walls of the presidential palace.",
"\"God is great!\" they shouted in Tahrir Square.",
"On the front lines of the movement, protester and actor Khalid Abdallah, best known for his role in \"The Kite Runner,\" expressed complete shock at Mubarak's decision to step down, but said Egyptians now feel like \"destiny is in their hands,\" and he praised supporters of their struggle.",
"\"Thank you to everyone who has stood in solidarity with us,\" Abdallah told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.",
"He said Egyptians are grateful for those who \"told our true story.\"",
"Abdallah recounted seeing and hearing the voices of children.",
"\"Hold your head high,\" Abdallah said they chanted, \"you're an Egyptian.\"",
"Fears that the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic umbrella group, could hijack Egypt's pro-democracy movement have made headlines during the 18 days of protests in the country, but the group has stated more than once that they are not seeking power.",
"On Friday, they celebrated the news of Mubarak's departure with the rest of the Egyptians.",
"\"We are opening a new bridge now on history,\" Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Essam El Erian told CNN.",
"\"This is [a] critical moment.\"",
"Erian said of the pro-democracy revolution that he said he believes will shape the future of Egypt.",
"In Alexandria, Fatima Puskar, an American living with her Egyptian husband, Emad, said she was watching Egyptian state TV when news of Mubarak's resignation was announced.",
"\"We could hear people, even before the end of the statement I heard people outside of the window shouting and honking their horns,\" she said.",
"Omar Sultan of Cairo said he felt like he played a role in forcing Mubarak to resign by taking part in demonstrations.",
"\"Everyone is very happy.",
"No one imagined this day would come,\" he said.",
"\"I've never been prouder to be an Egyptian.\"",
"Two of the main bridges connecting east and west Cairo were like parking lots as people got out and began hugging and dancing.",
"\"Life is great now.",
"I think I will have a much better future now.",
"It is a different era,\" a 17-year-old girl named Fatima told CNN.",
"The news of Mubarak's resignation, and the revolution that led to the announcement, has also sparked a renewed spirit and proud voice for Egyptians.",
"\"I stopped writing -- as a journalist -- because I felt there was nothing to write about,\" said Salah Marakby, a 76-year-old retiree.",
"\"But I feel now that the pyramid of corruption has fallen.",
"I want to go back to writing now!\"",
"One of the movement's key activists, Wael Ghonim, credited ordinary Egyptians for persisting through historic and sometimes violent protests that led to the first ouster of an Egyptian leader since 1952.",
"\"Congratulations Egypt the criminal has left the palace,\" said Ghonim, who was jailed for a week and a half by the Mubarak regime and whose emotional commentary after his release helped galvanize protesters.",
"Addressing Mubarak and his allies, Ghonim said the country should hold them accountable for their actions, including the deaths of protesters killed during what had been peaceful demonstrations.",
"\"I just want to say to Hosni Mubarak and to Omar Suleiman and to all those people who thought that being in power means you can oppress people, you know, hard-luck guys, you know, at the end of the day, we have a choice and we've made our choice,\" he said.",
"\"They convinced us for 30 years that Egypt had died, that there was no more Egypt,\" he said in an interview with CNN, referring to the nearly 30 years of autocratic rule under Mubarak.",
"\"We were all looking for Egypt and thank God we found her today.\"",
"Ghonim, who helped set up the initial Facebook page calling for protests, said it was time to celebrate, and said he has confidence that Egypt will not fall into dictatorship again.",
"\"Today, I am telling you Egypt is going to be a democratic state,\" said Ghonim, who is on leave of absence from his job at Google.",
"Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition figure, showed his support for Mubarak's decision to step down through Twitter.",
"\"Egypt Today is a free and proud nation.",
"God Bless,\" was posted by ElBaradei Friday night on the social media website.",
"Amre Moussa, secretary general of Arab League, said he is optimistic that the country is on the right path.",
"\"We have achieved what the people wanted,\" he said.",
"\"Now we must build a new Egypt.\"",
"The future many Egyptians had dared to imagine seems much brighter now.",
"\"No matter how hard things are,\" Abdallah said, \"you can get through and you can keep dreaming.\"",
"\"Today is our time,\" a 46-year old woman told CNN.",
"\"We have learned that it is not too difficult to change.",
"Sadly, some people died on the way.\"",
"Egypt's ambassador to the United States spoke with CNN Friday about the what it will take to form a new democratic government and whether future elections will be fair and open.",
"\"Certainly the voice of the people has been heard loud and clear,\" Sameh Shoukry said.",
"\"It will be the ballot box and the voice of the Egyptian people that will determine the direction of any future governments.\"",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"You can keep dreaming,\" says Egyptian actor Khalid Abdallah .",
"\"Today is our time,\" one woman tells CNN .",
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"Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Marianela Galli waited 34 years for the men who killed her family to be punished.",
"On Wednesday night, inside a packed courtroom in downtown Buenos Aires, she learned their fates.",
"\"We have justice and these people are going to jail and I can finally walk in the streets without them,\" she said.",
"Sixteen former Argentine military officers received sentences ranging from 18 years to life in prison for their roles in human rights abuses committed during Argentina's 1976 to 1983 dictatorship.",
"The bloody era, when the military used kidnapping, torture and murder to silence dissidents, became known as the \"Dirty War.\"",
"The seven-year junta claimed an estimated 30,000 lives.",
"Galli's parents and grandmother were among the victims.",
"On June 12, 1977, 16-month-old Marianela, her mother, Patricia, her father, Mario, and her grandmother, Violeta, were kidnapped from their home in Buenos Aires.",
"They were taken to the Argentine Naval Mechanics School, known as ESMA, the largest and most notorious of dozens of detention centers operated by the Argentine military at that time.",
"After three days in captivity, the military released Galli and gave her to her father's family.",
"Her parents and grandmother remained inside the ESMA, where they endured two months of torture before being drugged and then thrown alive from an airplane into the chilly waters of the South Atlantic.",
"Thousands perished in the weekly Wednesday \"death flights,\" and most of their bodies were never recovered.",
"\"I don't have my parents with me. I don't have my grandmother with me. They changed my life against my will and there is nothing I can do about it,\" she said.",
"Marianela Galli´s story is remarkable, but it is not unique.",
"Five-thousand people passed through the white-washed walls of the ESMA.",
"Most were never seen again.",
"The conclusion of the two-year ESMA trial on Wednesday night provided a sense of closure for victims' family members and friends, thousands of whom braved chilly spring temperatures outside the courthouse to watch a judge read the sentences on a big-screen television.",
"\"This trial took many years to happen, but thankfully our former president, Nestor Kirchner, embraced the human rights cause.",
"That is why we are here today,\" said Tati Almeida, a member of the human rights groups Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose son, Alejandro, was \"disappeared\" by the military.",
"The silent marches staged by victims' mothers and grandmothers first brought the world's attention to the atrocities taking place in Argentina in the late 1970s.",
"They have continued their efforts to seek justice for the victims ever since.",
"\"This is a very emotional moment for me.",
"It will take me several days to process it.",
"Because from the first accounts I gave years ago up until now, repeatedly testifying and testifying, we now finally have the first sentences,\" said Munu Actis, a survivor of the ESMA detention center.",
"As Judge Daniel Obligado read out the sentences, the loudest jeers were reserved for Alfredo Astiz, a former Navy captain whose boyish looks and deceitful ways earned him the nickname the \"Blonde Angel of Death.\"",
"Astiz worked as a Navy spy, gaining the trust of human rights activists and then choosing which ones to target for disappearance.",
"Astiz has been unrepentant for his actions, saying he was simply following orders.",
"\"This is not justice, this is a lynching,\" he said shortly before his sentencing.",
"Astiz received a life sentence for his role in the deaths of renowned Argentine writer and journalist Rodolfo Walsh, French nuns Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, and Azucena Villaflor, one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.",
"Mario Galli, Marianela Galli's father, had come up in the naval ranks together with Astiz before deciding to leave the military because of their increasingly violent tactics.",
"It was a decision that ultimately cost him his life.",
"A French court sentenced Astiz to life in prison in 1990 for the kidnapping and killing of two French nuns.",
"But he remained free for more than a decade.",
"For many years, an amnesty law in Argentina giving former military officials immunity from prosecution over human rights abuses protected him.",
"Galli recalls seeing him one night in 1998 when she was working as a waitress at a Buenos Aires restaurant.",
"Astiz walked in at 1 a.m. and ordered a coffee.",
"\"I felt absolutely helpless when I saw him.",
"I couldn't believe that this man who had helped kill my parents was allowed to be free,\" she said.",
"The ESMA trial was just one of many taking place in Argentina.",
"Amnesty laws protecting former military officers were stripped in 2005 under the leadership of the late president Nestor Kirchner.",
"His wife and successor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has also been a vocal proponent of putting former officers on trial.",
"This human rights initiative has helped bolster support for Fernandez, who was re-elected to a four-year term on October 23rd with 54 percent of the vote.",
"\"The Kirchners are the ones who have made these trials happen, and I am eternally grateful to them for it,\" Jorge Morresi said after the sentencing on Wednesday.",
"His cousin was \"disappeared\" in 1977.",
"The sentencing of the officers took more than one hour to read.",
"When it was finished, thousands outside the courthouse hugged, cried, danced and sang.",
"As she embraced her aunt, Monica, who raised her following her parents' death, Marianela Galli reflected on the historic day that she had long hoped would arrive.",
"\"This is a different kind of sensation.",
"I am sad, and very happy because justice is coming, finally,\" she said."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama announced Friday that states will be allowed to opt out of certain requirements imposed by the controversial No Child Left Behind law, the landmark education reform initiative passed with broad bipartisan support a decade ago.",
"The administration will immediately begin reviewing state applications to waive various demands imposed by the law in return for credible commitments to close lingering achievement gaps.",
"\"Higher standards are the right goal.",
"Accountability is the right goal.",
"Closing the achievement gap is the right goal,\" Obama said at the White House.",
"\"But experience has taught us that in its implementation, No Child Left Behind has some serious flaws.\"",
"Among other things, the law, which passed 2001, requires public schools to meet targets aimed at making all students proficient in reading and math by 2014 or face stiff penalties.",
"The Department of Education has predicted that, without waivers, up to 82% of the nation's schools could miss that target and end up facing penalties including the loss of federal education dollars.",
"Obama blasted Congress for failing to change the law, a failure that forced the administration to act on its own, the president said.",
"\"We can't afford to wait for an education system that isn't doing everything it should for our kids,\" Obama said.",
"\"We've got to act now and harness all the good ideas coming out of our states (and) coming out of our schools.\"",
"A senior administration official speaking to reporters on a conference call Thursday said the law \"is hurting children by denying the children most at risk the resources they really need.\"",
"Under Obama's reforms, states will be encouraged to enact accountability standards that don't treat all schools the same.",
"Specifically, schools will have to implement new teacher and principal accountability standards.",
"Local districts will have to set basic guidelines to evaluate a teacher's performance based on a number of factors, not simply student performance.",
"\"The purpose is not to give states and districts a reprieve from accountability, but rather to unleash energy to improve our schools at the local level,\" Obama said in a separate statement released by the White House.",
"One of the major criticisms of the current No Child Left Behind guidelines is that it encouraged schools to lower standards rather than improve.",
"The new guidelines \"should reduce the pressure to teach the test and the narrowing of the curriculum,\" one administration official said.",
"Six months ago, the administration sent Congress its plan to revamp No Child Left Behind.",
"That legislation, however, has stalled.",
"The administration insists it hasn't enacted the new changes alone.",
"Instead, it has reached out and received input from 45 states that helped develop the new guidelines for opting out of No Child Left Behind standards.",
"In addition, senior administration officials told reporters that 44 states and the District of Columbia are working to adopt a common set of state-developed college and career-ready standards.",
"Some critics fear the new guidelines will ultimately give the federal government an even larger role in states' education decisions.",
"Administration officials deny the accusation, instead maintaining that the new guidelines will actually give states more flexibility, including how to spend 20% of their Title I money, which funds low-income education and can account for as much as a billion dollars nationwide.",
"Currently, No Child Left Behind requires states spend that portion of federal education dollars on tutoring.",
"The administration says many states and school districts are already moving toward the new guidelines.",
"States can file a request for a waiver from the requirements by mid-November and the waivers could be granted in early 2012.",
"CNN's Lesa Jansen and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report ."
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"Moncks Corner, South Carolina (CNN) -- Every day, before sunrise, Zubaidah Gibbs wakes to pray, then spends hours more singing praises to God under a tree outside her home.",
"She reflects on the setting and thanks God for the beautiful environment around her in this small Southern town.",
"But this Muslim woman wasn't always at peace with herself, or her religion.",
"Her 55 years have been a journey from wanting to be white to being proud to be black; from the urban North to the rural South; from studying religions to finding a community in Islam.",
"As a young girl in the 1960s, \"I would have done anything in the world to be white with blue eyes and blonde hair with small lips,\" Gibbs said.",
"\"I didn't hang out with girls who were dark like me, because I felt like they were ugly like me.\"",
"She became more comfortable with her race as a teenager, when she heard a different message: James Brown singing \"Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!\"",
"\"I was, like, 'Wow, this is interesting,'\" she said.",
"\"I started getting rid of [my relaxed hairstyle] and accepting my hair natural, and I was a little bit more comfortable with myself.\"",
"But her pride in her roots didn't fill the void she felt in her heart.",
"She was still searching for connections that transcended ethnicity.",
"Her mother, a Christian, encouraged Gibbs to visit various churches around her home in New York, some led by Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses and Catholics.",
"She was 17 when a blind date with a Muslim man ended at a mosque.",
"\"I heard the adhan [call to prayer] playing, and I saw the people with their long garbs on, and the sisters -- and I just didn't want to leave,\" she said.",
"That same year, she embraced Islam, attracted to the message of peace and its disregard for color.",
"\"Islam helped me to identify with the beauty within as well as outside.",
"...It balanced me out because now I understand who I am as a human,\" Gibbs said.",
"Gibbs' spiritual journey had only begun.",
"At age 42, she moved from New York to South Carolina to escape the crowds of the city with her four children.",
"She didn't know of a mosque in the little town where she'd settled, Moncks Corner, but was reluctant to go 30 miles south to Charleston.",
"So, she prayed about it. One day, Gibbs said, she saw men in kufis, traditional African skullcaps, building what looked like a little house on what had once been known as the \"whites-only\" side of Moncks Corner.",
"She discovered it was to be a mosque, just as she'd prayed for.",
"Today, the mosque, Masjid Muhajarun Wal Ansars, is a small white brick building whose members are mostly African-American.",
"They practice mainstream Islam, like 2.45 million other American Muslims, not Nation of Islam, a separate religious tradition associated with black Muslims.",
"Here, they marry Islamic ritual, racial understanding and traditional southern culture.",
"At the mosque, Gibbs met a spiritual mentor, Sheikh Harun Faye.",
"Faye was born in Thies, Senegal, and came to South Carolina in 1994 after marrying an American.",
"\"I belong to a very large family, and generation after generation all we have done is to lead people to the way of God,\" Faye said.",
"\"So, when I got here, the first thing I wanted was a mosque where I can call the people to God and teach them Islam.",
"And that is what I do.\" He opened the mosque in 1996, with five people.",
"The congregation now consists of more than 150 members.",
"Gibbs was among its first members.",
"She was initially attracted to the mosque's welcoming nature, open-door policy and community outreach.",
"Over the last 14 years, the mosque has assisted thousands of people in need, many of them homeless and ex-convicts.",
"\"Anybody, Muslim, non-Muslim, you know, African-American, non-African-American, anybody who comes and knocks on that door and said 'I'm hungry,' or 'I can't pay my light bill,' or 'I need to lay down here and sleep,' we don't care who you are, where you come from.",
"You could be the worst crook in the world, we really wouldn't know,\" said Imam Rasheed Nurudin, the prayer leader of the mosque who fills in when Faye is absent.",
"The mosque's fusion of black American and Islamic culture has allowed members like Gibbs to harmonize her identity and connect with a message of unity.",
"\"When I came and listened to the sheikh and he spoke about God and the Prophet Mohammed, it wasn't about 'black power this,' and 'black man that,'\" Gibbs said.",
"\"It was about humanity. It was about God. \"It's like you have a veil when you come into the mosque and all of a sudden the veil is lifted and you can see like you've never seen before.",
"Everything looks different.\"",
"The center is a unique cultural crossroads in the deep South, said Anisah Bagasra, an instructor at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, who has studied the mosque and how its members incorporate Islamic rituals into their daily lives.",
"\"When you go for their Eid [holiday] dinners in particular, this is where you really see both Southern hospitality emerge and ... southern home cooking, but everything's halal, so it shows that religious mandating as well,\" said Bagasra.",
"\"[It] represents a growing trend in contemporary Muslim communities in the United States in terms of that fusion of traditional cultures with the American culture, while maintaining a pride in their Islamic identity.\"",
"Gibbs enjoys the duality and expresses her culture through her clothing, head scarf and singing West African-influenced Islamic prayers, a practice uncommon in other mosques.",
"\"It makes me feel happy.",
"It makes me feel a serenity that words cannot describe, because I'm closer to God with the community,\" she said.",
"\"Everyone is singing and praising God together.\"",
"For Gibbs, finding a mosque in the rural South was key to her inner peace.",
"It fulfilled the spiritual companionship she'd been seeking for years, she said.",
"\"This community means a family that I never had and a strength that I never knew,\" she said.",
"\"[It] meant opening up doors that were shut in terms of my self esteem, in terms of my direction, my aim ... my destiny.\"",
"She paused to rearrange her scarf, and her eyes began to water. \"I'm happy.\""
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"Zubaidah Gibbs struggled with her race and religious identity early in life.",
"In rural Moncks Corner, S.C., she joined a mosque that helped her feel whole.",
"The predominantly African-American, 150-member mosque combines traditional Islam with southern culture."
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"Karachi, Pakistan (CNN) -- Do not mistake eight-year-old Bilal Ahmed's skin-and-bones body, his beguiling smile and his big beaming eyes for weakness.",
"Bilal changes when he steps into a boxing ring.",
"When the pint-sized Pakistani fighter climbed into a shabby old ring at an outdoor youth center, his smile turned into a stone cold scowl.",
"At the sound of the bell that marked the start of round one, his tiny fists at the end of his stick-like arms turned into pain-inflicting projectiles, pounding away at his opponent.",
"\"I want to hit my opponent,\" says Bilal, minutes before the fight.",
"\"All I think about is winning.\"",
"Bilal is obsessed with winning because, to him, boxing is more than a sport.",
"It's the one chance he has to escape Lyari, one of the poorest, toughest and most dangerous neighborhoods in the sprawling southern port city of Karachi.",
"Drug and gang violence is rampant here, killing nearly 100 people this year alone.",
"\"There is shooting at night,\" Bilal says.",
"\"I wake up and go to my mom.",
"When I grow up I'm going to take my family away from here.\"",
"But for Lyari's boys, the future is often bleak.",
"Many here blame the government for failing to keep neighborhoods safe and a broken school system for robbing children of the chance to succeed.",
"For decades boxing has given thousands of Lyari's kids what the government has not -- a safe place to grow, learn and chase a dream.",
"African immigrants brought boxing to Lyari in the 1940s, when Karachi was still part of British-ruled India.",
"More than 70 years later, 22 boxing clubs, run by volunteers and private donations, have made this neighborhood Pakistan's boxing factory.",
"\"This is the second Cuba,\" says the head of the local boxing association, Asghar Baloch, referring to the Caribbean nation that has produced some of the best boxers in the world.",
"\"If these kids weren't here, they would be with guns and arms,\" he says.",
"\"If we continue our positive activities, we will get positive results.\"",
"Positive results at Lyari's boxing clubs aren't necessarily trophies and victories in the ring.",
"They're polite, healthy children who laugh and play, children who finish school.",
"But on this night it's all about winning for Bilal, who's taking on a bigger and taller opponent at an important tournament.",
"His opponent overpowers him in the opening round but Bilal stands his ground.",
"Round two is too close to call but Bilal wins the third and final round with lightning quick combinations and powerful right hooks.",
"The referee raises Bilal's arm in victory and back comes the big smile on the skinny little kid whose dream for a better life lives on."
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"Bilal Ahmed is from Lyari, one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Karachi .",
"Drug and gang violence is rampant here, killing nearly 100 people this year alone .",
"For decades boxing has given thousands of Lyari's kids a new focus .",
"African migrants brought boxing to Lyari in the 1940s when Karachi was part of British-ruled India ."
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"(CNN) -- President Barack Obama spoke with Egypt's president moments after Hosni Mubarak addressed his country, telling the Egyptian that he must make good on his promises and avoid a violent response to the thousands of protesters in the streets.",
"With parts of his capital ablaze, Mubarak said he was asking his government to resign and would soon announce a new one, pledging to address the concerns of thousand of Egyptians protesting in Cairo's streets.",
"\"I just spoke to him after his speech,\" Obama said, \"and told him he has a responsibility to give meaning to those words, to take concrete steps and actions that deliver on that promise.",
"Violence will not address the grievances of the Egyptian people.",
"Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.",
"\"This moment of volatility has to be turned into a moment of promise,\" Obama said.",
"The U.S. president repeated his administration's call for the Egyptian government to restore access to the internet and cell phone service and urged \"concrete steps that advance the rights of the Egyptian people.\"",
"Obama's remarks, delivered from State Dining Room, were the strongest yet from the United States.",
"\"There must be reform,\" he said, \"political, social and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people.",
"\"In the absence of these reforms,\" he said, \"grievances have built up over time.",
"\"The United States will continue to stand up for the rights of the Egyptian people and work with their government in pursuit of a future that is more just, more free and more hopeful,\" he concluded.",
"In his remarks, Mubarak was clear that he had no intentions of stepping down -- yet his resignation is what the protesters are demanding.",
"And privately, U.S. officials fear that Mubarak may be in over his head as protests against his 30-year rule showed no signs of ending.",
"A senior administration official said the White House saw Mubarak's address as \"hardly conciliatory and highly disappointing, but what did you expect?\"",
"It's clear, the official said -- speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter -- that Mubarak believes he can ride this out, \"and this time, we're not so sure that is the right assumption.\"",
"Administration officials had hoped Mubarak would promise an immediate and open dialogue, the official said.",
"Before the speech, senior U.S. officials had similar thoughts, worrying that the Egyptian government may not realize all it is up against or what the protesters are saying.",
"Mubarak, they said, has two choices: to embrace meaningful reforms or to continue the crackdown.",
"The United States is being very careful not to be too tough on the Egyptian leader directly, the senior officials said, because they fear that might drive the government into a survivalist mentality, causing a further crackdown.",
"The officials said conversations with the Egyptian government are taking place across the U.S. administration, including with U.S.",
"Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey, who has participated in several videoconferences with Washington during the day.",
"A senior State Department official said, \"our initial impression is that he emphasized security far more than reform.\"",
"\"We'll see what the implications for the government reshuffle are, but he was not particularly forthcoming in the speech,\" said the official, who couldn't speak on the record because of the sensitivity of the situation.",
"Earlier, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration is \"very concerned\" about the situation in Egypt, adding that at risk could be economic and military aid from the United States.",
"\"This is a situation that will be solved by the people of Egypt,\" Gibbs said.",
"\"We are watching very closely the actions of the government, the police and all of those in the military.\"",
"The United States will review its \"assistance posture\" to Egypt based on events that take place in the coming days, he said.",
"Gibbs declined to elaborate how the United States might alter relations with a key ally in the region but urged restraint as massive demonstrations have resulted in widespread property damage, including at the offices of Egypt's ruling party.",
"That building was burned and ransacked by protesters in Cairo on Friday, Nile TV reported.",
"A CNN witness saw the building ablaze.",
"Gibbs said the collective consequences of the government's actions will be the subject of a review in determining whether the U.S. will alter assistance toward Egypt.",
"\"Within that review is military\" assistance, Gibbs said.",
"Egypt receives about $1.3 billion in military aid from Washington every year, second only to Israel, and has received nearly $30 billion in economic aid since 1975, according to State Department figures.",
"\"The die is cast,\" said Leslie H. Gelb, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.",
"\"The administration has made clear that it leans toward the demonstrators.\"",
"Gibbs said, \"we've reach a point where the grievances of the people have to be addressed through concrete reforms\" but would not elaborate on the potential fallout if the Mubarak government -- considered a strategic ally in the region -- does not survive the protests.",
"\"We don't know who these people are or if they are at all capable of putting a government together,\" Gelb said, cautioning of a power vacuum left by the possible collapse of the three-decade-old government.",
"Often considered a crucial power broker in the Middle East, Egypt has played major roles in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and in controlling the Suez Canal, a strategic passageway for trade across the region.",
"Earlier Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Egypt's government \"to allow peaceful protests and reverse the unprecedented steps it has taken to cut off communications.\"",
"\"We are deeply concerned about the use of violence by Egyptian police and security forces against protesters, and we call on the Egyptian government to do everything within its power to restrain its security forces,\" Clinton said Friday, referring to the unfolding crisis in several Egyptian cities where tens of thousands of demonstrators clashed with state security forces.",
"\"At the same time, protesters should also refrain from violence and express themselves peacefully,\" she said.",
"\"As a partner, we strongly believe that the Egyptian government needs to engage with the Egyptian people immediately,\" Clinton said.",
"\"They need to view civil society as their partner, not a threat.\"",
"Servers of Egypt's main internet provider were down early Friday, including servers for the Egyptian government's sites and for the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.",
"Early Friday, Gibbs said that he is \"very concerned about violence in Egypt,\" tweeting that the \"government must respect the rights of the Egyptian people & turn on social networking and internet.\"",
"But at least one internet service provider, Noor, was still working.",
"The U.S. State Department on Friday urged Americans traveling abroad to \"defer non-essential travel to Egypt.\"",
"\"U.S. citizens in Egypt should remain in their residences or hotels until the situation stabilizes,\" the agency added in a written travel alert.",
"The agency warned that Egyptian security forces may block off the area around the U.S. Embassy as a result of massive demonstrations that have set vehicles ablaze and resulted in widespread property damage.",
"\"U.S. citizens should not attempt to come to the U.S. Embassy or the Tahrir Square area at such times,\" the statement said, urging Americans to carry identification and a working cell phone.",
"Delta Air Lines spokeswoman Susan Elliott said Friday that the carrier's last flight from Cairo will depart on Saturday, and all other Cairo service is indefinitely suspended as a result of the civil unrest.",
"President Barack Obama has requested \"multiple briefings\" on Egypt, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Friday.",
"He has not called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the target of the protesters' anger, \"but there is daily contact between the U.S. and Egyptian governments through various channels, including the embassies and other organizations in which Obama's messages and concerns are relayed,\" Vietor said.",
"Former Clinton Defense Secretary William Cohen said Obama is likely reluctant to call Mubarak \"without it appearing that we are directing what Mubarak should do and he is responding to the control of the United States.\"",
"\"I think that, if anything, one might ask why hasn't President Mubarak called President Obama and said, 'Are you with me or against me?'",
"I mean, that would be a call that might also be worthy of consideration,\" Cohen said.",
"Obama has urged the government and demonstrators to refrain from violence as protests continued.",
"\"It is very important that people have mechanisms in order to express legitimate grievances,\" he said this week.",
"Vice President Joe Biden said on \"PBS NewsHour\" on Thursday that Mubarak should listen to protesters but rejected claims that the embattled Egyptian president is a dictator.",
"Still, Biden said, \"violence isn't appropriate, and people have a right to protest.\"",
"Obama received information on Egypt from national security adviser Tom Donilon on Friday and is expected to receive additional updates throughout the day.",
"He noted Thursday that Mubarak has been \"very helpful on a range of tough issues,\" but he said he has pushed the Egyptian leader to take steps toward reform.",
"On Wednesday, Gibbs said the U.S. administration was \"monitoring quite closely the situation in Egypt and continue to do so, obviously, in Tunisia.\"",
"The protests in Egypt started after weeks of similar disturbances sparked a revolution in Tunisia and forced then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country.",
"\"This is an important time for the government to demonstrate its responsiveness to the people of Egypt in recognizing those universal rights,\" Gibbs said.",
"CNN's Elise Labott and John King contributed to this report."
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"Privately, officials worry that Mubarak may be underestimating the protests .",
"Mubarak asks the government to resign .",
"Gibbs said the U.S. will review its \"assistance posture\" to Egypt ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Even as he charges into his re-election battle, President Barack Obama has a festering weakness on a flank that, by all accounts, ought to be rock solid: the one held by African-American Democrats.",
"Their support for his programs, belief in his leadership and enthusiasm for another term is softening just as he needs it most.",
"In the past few weeks, the president has been chastised by the Congressional Black Caucus for avoiding troubled inner-city districts, peppered with tough questions on BET, and suffered plummeting poll numbers among black voters.",
"That last item is critical.",
"During the 2008 election, their turnout was massive and their support almost unanimous.",
"Now, however, a Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that black voters with a \"strongly favorable\" view of Obama dropped from 86% to 58% in just five months.",
"\"Patience is running out,\" says Reginald Daniel, a professor of sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara.",
"Daniel has written extensively about race and politics.",
"\"People are disappointed because I think their expectations were way too high to begin with.\"",
"Many political analysts sum up those \"expectations run amok\" this way: White voters heralded the election of a black president as a sign that long-standing racial gaps were closing, and they expected Obama to play a post-racial role; a president for everyone, who just happened to be black.",
"Meanwhile, many African-American voters just as clearly saw his election as a great leap forward and hoped the presence of a black president in the Oval Office would bring a new level of understanding, acknowledgment, and relief for their community's problems.",
"\"Finding a middle ground is almost an impossibility,\" Daniels says.",
"\"It's just the worst position to be in.\"",
"The driving problem, however, is neither black nor white -- it is green.",
"Joblessness, bad for everyone, is much worse in African-American communities, where unemployment is pushing 17%, the worst since the 1980s.",
"That is what triggered the revolt in the CBC and those stinging questions during that TV interview.",
"The president is pushing back, pointing out that his initiatives, such as health care reform and the recent jobs bill, especially help lower-income families, many of whom are black.",
"On BET, he quickly dismissed talk about a dearth of specific programs for minorities.",
"\"What people are saying all across the country is we are hurting and we've been hurting for a long time,\" the president said.",
"\"The question is: How can we make sure the economy is working for every single person?\"",
"He also insisted that even if black leaders are grousing, it's not really about him or his policies.",
"\"There's always going to be somebody who is critical of the president of the United States.\"",
"And at a CBC fundraising dinner he raised eyebrows by telling members to quit complaining and start \"marching\" with him for change.",
"But if the reaction of Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, is any gauge, he'll have to do a lot more selling.",
"She summed up his comments in a word: \"Curious.\"",
"To be sure, most African-Americans still support Obama.",
"Political analysts do not expect a massive shift of their votes to the Republicans; and even the president's most adamant black critics often follow their barbs with a quick salve, saying African-American voters ultimately will not oppose him.",
"Still, the danger for the White House is not that black citizens will vote against Obama, but that they won't vote at all.",
"A lackluster turnout in just a few key states could tip the electoral balance against him.",
"What's more, every moment he spends making sure black Democrats come to the polls increases his risk of alienating white voters, and is time lost winning over independents, whom he also must have.",
"Politically, it is hard for a candidate to tiptoe through such a black-and-white minefield.",
"For a president, it is even tougher."
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"In recent weeks, Obama's support among blacks has been beset by troubles .",
"Among them: CBC scolding, hardball questions on BET, black jobless numbers .",
"He faces a balancing act in the 2012 campaign in appealing to various blocs .",
"Sociologist Reginald Daniel: \"Finding a middle ground is almost an impossibility\""
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"Paris (CNN) -- A judge placed France's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, under the guardianship of her grandson on Monday, her lawyer said.",
"Bertrand Favreau, one of Bettencourt's lawyers, said Jean-Victor Meyers, the eldest grandson of the 88 year-old woman, has been designated her guardian.",
"\"It is a very disappointing decision that's for sure.",
"It will be hard for me to tell her this decision because it will be unbearable for her,\" Favreau said.",
"Last year, Bettencourt's daughter, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers, declared in court that her mother was not mentally competent to handle her own affairs.",
"Bettencourt-Meyers accused a photographer of bilking her mother out of a billion euros.",
"Bettencourt was friends with the photographer, Francois-Marie Banier, and allegedly gave him the money.",
"The daughter took the case to court in an effort to recover the funds.",
"She later dropped the suit.",
"In a statement Monday, Bettencourt-Meyers and her two sons, Jean-Victor and Nicolas, acknowledged the ruling.",
"\"Their action has always been guided by the sole wish to see their mother and grandmother truly protected,\" the statement said of the three.",
"\"It is a great relief for them today that (the judge) has recognized their position.\"",
"In an interview published Sunday in France's Journal du Dimanche, Bettencourt said she was worried about the judge's decision on Monday.",
"\"I'm trembling, all I can do is pray.",
"Do you think the judge will agree with my daughter?\"",
"said Bettencourt in the interview.",
"\"I'm not going to sleep well tonight.",
"I have a feeling I'm going to be squashed.\"",
"Favreau plans to consult with Bettencourt on appealing the ruling and ask that its enforcement be suspended.",
"CNN's James Partington contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Bettencourt's daughter, grandsons say the ruling is a \"relief\"\nBettencourt's daughter says her mother is not mentally competent to handle her own affairs .",
"Her lawyer plans to consult with Bettencourt to appeal the decision ."
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"(CNN) -- \"A calculated, cold-blooded predator.\"",
"That was how Connecticut Judge James Bentivegna described a then 22-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky on December 20, 2002, when the defendant was sentenced after being convicted on 12 counts of burglary.",
"Today, Komisarjevsky -- now 31 -- sits in a Connecticut courtroom, where a jury will weigh his guilt on murder charges, and potentially pave the way for a death sentence.",
"Prosecutors say that on July 23, 2007, Komisarjevsky and an accomplice, Steven Hayes, invaded the home of Dr. William Petit, raped and strangled his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, molested one of their daughters, and set the house on fire before attempting to flee.",
"Hawke-Petit and her daughters -- 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit -- died in the invasion of their Cheshire, Connecticut, home.",
"Dr. William Petit, although severely beaten, managed to escape and crawl to a neighbor's residence.",
"Hayes was sentenced to death in December, after being convicted of 16 out of the 17 charges related to the three deaths.",
"Both suspects had lengthy criminal records when they were arrested for the Petit invasion.",
"Komisarjevsky's long rap sheet, in particular, suggest that he was a troubled young man with a penchant for nighttime burglary and crystal meth.",
"Officials with the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to speak with CNN, citing a gag order in the case.",
"But over 200 pages of Komisarjevsky's parole records have been released, which -- along with previous court testimony -- help paint a picture of the accused.",
"One of his former attorneys, William Gerace, said that Komisarjevsky came from a close, religious family.",
"But at the age of 14, he began using drugs -- the same year, he claims, that he found out that he was adopted.",
"By 18, Komisarjevsky had found his drugs of choice: crystal meth and cocaine.",
"He told the parole board that he stole money and electronics from upscale homes to feed his drug habit.",
"Yet a transcript from his 2002 sentencing paints Komisarjevsky as more than just the average thief.",
"According to a police statement read aloud in court that day, Komisarjevsky admitted that he broke into his first house when he was 14 years old.",
"\"I always wore gloves, with the exception of one incident when I was 14.",
"I always acted alone.",
"Approximately a year and a half ago, I acquired night vision goggles...",
"I used the night-vision equipment during the burglaries (over) the past year,\" he said, according to the transcript.",
"Gerace, who was Komisarjevsky's defense attorney at the time, stressed that a need for money, to pay for drugs, drove his client.",
"But he admitted that the way he went about it was unusual.",
"\"Ninety-nine percent of burglaries are (committed by) junkies -- there's nothing romantic about what they do,\" said Gerace.",
"\"That was the first time I'd seen something as exotic as that.\"",
"Komisarjevsky confessed that he only broke into homes at night and never during the day -- a point stressed by prosecutors in the 2002 trial.",
"They said his affinity for breaking into people's homes at night showed that he wanted a confrontation, since that was the time when the residents were the most likely to be at home.",
"Speaking during his December 2002 sentencing, Komisarjevsky appeared repentant.",
"He addressed the court saying, \"I've turned my back on my faith in God and my family.",
"And in doing so, I fell flat on my face and deep into hard drugs...the crimes I committed was weighing so heavily on my shoulders.\"",
"But the judge was not moved by Komisarjevsky's show of remorse, sentencing him to nine years in prison plus six years of special parole, which has greater restrictions than typical probation.",
"In April 2007, he was paroled.",
"And three months later, Komisarjevsky was arrested for the Petit home invasion and murders.",
"What happened then, and what may have driven Komisarjevsky, remains a mystery to Gerace, his former attorney.",
"\"He was a very complex young man.",
"I don't think I've met anyone quite that complex, and I sensed there was an abundance of issues that had to be dealt with,\" Gerace said.",
"\"I wish him well, and I hope the jury makes the right decision.\""
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"Five years later, after being released on parole, he was accused of murder .",
"Prosecutors say he killed a Connecticut woman and set a fire that killed her daughters ."
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"(CNN) -- After an eight-year hiatus, Buffy is back!",
"Not really, but for some fans of Sarah Michelle Gellar it's the closest they can get at this point.",
"The actress made her highly anticipated return to TV on Tuesday night in The CW's \"Ringer.\"",
"Playing ex-stripper Bridget and her wealthy twin sister Siobhan, Gellar's characters are a far cry from her days as the now-iconic vampire slayer on \"Buffy.\"",
"But fans of the late supernatural series agree, they'd follow the actress just about anywhere: And that includes her new film noir-type soap.",
"Though The CW's programming tends to skew a bit younger, \"Ringer,\" which was originally created with CBS in mind, maintains a more adult quality.",
"Potentially perfect for fans of Joss Whedon's cult hit, many of whom have likely matured with Gellar, now 34.",
"\"This is a good way for fans who loved 'Buffy' to sort of continue on with [Gellar],\" Hollywood.com's TV editor Kelsea Stahler said.",
"\"Because they're older, I think it can appeal.",
"We don't need vampires or werewolves or the forbidden love between her and Angel.",
"You already love her.",
"The drama is there.\" The anticipation helps, too.",
"Gellar went off the air on a high note after \"Buffy\" -- and stayed off.",
"Despite a TV movie, a couple of voiceovers on popular animated series and roles in two film franchises -- \"The Grudge\" and \"Scooby-Doo\" -- the actress chose to lay low while beginning a family with husband Freddie Prinze Jr.",
"The pair welcomed their daughter Charlotte in September 2009.",
"\"The hiatus actually worked wonders for her,\" Stahler added.",
"\"A lot of 'Buffy' fans were teens when 'Buffy' was first on.",
"They grew up with her -- through 'Cruel Intentions,' 'The Grudge.'",
"And when she went off the grid to do her family thing, people started to miss her as opposed to tossing her aside as a has-been.\"",
"Like TV bloggers and industry insiders predicted, \"Ringer\" reeled in a solid audience for The CW.",
"However, its 2.7 million viewers don't quite compare to the 3 to 5 million viewers who tuned into The WB-turned-UPN to watch \"Buffy\" each week in the late '90s and early 2000s.",
"But TV consumption is a different beast from when Gellar first graced the small screen.",
"Anywhere in the 2 million viewers range is standard for programs on The CW, which spawned from the aforementioned networks.",
"\"'Buffy' fans are incredibly loyal,\" Daniel Malen, the editor of tvaddict.com, said before the show's premiere, adding, \"They're 100% going to watch 'Ringer.' ...",
"I'm Sure The CW will be happy with [Tuesday's] numbers.\"",
"And Gellar's involvement isn't just appealing for viewers.",
"Her \"Ringer\" co-stars are equally as thrilled to have her aboard.",
"\"When we knew Sarah Michelle was attached, that was the biggest draw to the project -- as much as the brilliant script that we both read,\" Ioan Gruffudd, who plays Siobhan's husband, said at Comic-Con.",
"\"The package was just too attractive to turn down.\"",
"And as if \"Buffy\" fans weren't enough, throw in fans of \"LOST's\" Nestor Carbonell, who plays FBI agent Victor on the show.",
"\"It's smart casting,\" Stahler said.",
"\"They've picked people who are really going to bring [viewers] along with them.\"",
"But, as Malen says, \"It's easy to get someone to tune in, but people have to enjoy the show.",
"Whether or not the 'Buffy' fans stick around, we'll see.\"",
"Ryan McFadden, who runs buffyfans.com, said he's sure it will take some time before he can fully separate Gellar from Buffy in her new roles, but he's thrilled to welcome her back to TV.",
"Of course, he adds, there is a chance it won't live up to \"Buffy.\"",
"And Gellar knows it.",
"\"You can't top 'Buffy,' \" Gellar, who is also co-executive producer of her new series, told EW prior to \"Ringer's\" debut.",
"\"There's no reason to try.",
"It lives in that world, so you have to do something that's interesting for both the audience and for me as an actor.",
"And that's not necessarily the easiest thing to find after a show like that.\"",
"Get more geeky news and musings at the CNN Geek Out blog .",
"Perhaps unsurprisingly, \"Ringer\" was met with mixed reviews.",
"The Hollywood Reporter is among the many outlets to compare Gellar's characters to Buffy, noting, \"[Gellar's performance] hardly lends confidence that she's capable of being the cornerstone of such a show.\"",
"The consensus of most reviews being, \"give it a few episodes.\"",
"A boating scene shared by both of Gellar's characters attracted a good amount of negative criticism.",
"Stationary clouds and calm water for miles backs the scene, which New York Magazine describes as \"the Sea of Bad Production Values.\"",
"\"They might have gotten stuck in the Comically Phony Visual Effects trade wind and been unable to navigate the difficult waters of the Fake Backdrop Strait,\" the article states.",
"But, for \"Buffy\" fan Kelly Creamer, Gellar can do no wrong.",
"\"I noticed [the green screen] a bit, but honestly, it was fine to me,\" she said.",
"\"I mean, it didn't look that bad. ...",
"It didn't affect the performance.\"",
"It's just nice to spend time with Gellar again each week, Creamer added.",
"\"It feels like family -- the same kind of comfort.\""
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"\"Ringer\" reeled in a solid audience for The CW -- 2.7 million viewers ."
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"(CNN) -- A hiker found the body of a skydiving instructor missing for nearly four months, police in Moab, Utah, said Wednesday.",
"The state medical examiner's office positively identified the remains found Sunday near the west Kane Creek area as those of David Brown, 37, according to a police statement.",
"\"It's an extremely rough area,\" Moab Police Chief Mike Navarre told CNN Salt Lake City affiliate KSL.",
"\"It's hard to climb around in there, to walk around in there, even from the air to see something from there; it's not surprising to me that we didn't find him on those first searches.\"",
"Police are awaiting further autopsy results.",
"\"Throughout the investigation, we have found no signs of foul play,\" Navarre said.",
"An acquaintance who helped in the search told CNN in July that Brown left behind cash, a passport and his driver's license.",
"Brown disappeared June 29 in the vicinity of Skydive Moab, northwest of the town, said owner Clint MacBeth.",
"MacBeth found Brown's personal items, including an unspent paycheck.",
"Brown's family in Halifax, Nova Scotia, filed a missing person report after he disappeared.",
"According to MacBeth, friends initially assumed Brown had gone to Las Vegas to visit his girlfriend.",
"But they later realized he wore only shorts, a T-shirt and sneakers, making him unequipped to deal with 100-degree-plus temperatures, MacBeth said.",
"Moab is known for its red-rock landscapes and proximity to Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park."
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"David Brown was last seen in late June near Moab, Utah .",
"The skydiving instructor left behind cash, passport and driver's license .",
"Police said they do not suspect foul play ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- While acknowledging the hard-hit black community and budding criticisms in its ranks, President Barack Obama said in a speech Saturday night to the Congressional Black Caucus that he wouldn't give up -- and urged members of the black community to join him to jump-start the still-sluggish economy.",
"\"I expect all of you to march with me, and press on,\" Obama said.",
"\"... Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.",
"We are going to press on.",
"We've got work to do.\" The unemployment rate among African-Americans is 16.7%, nearly double the national average, while 40% of black children live in poverty.",
"Such facts have made fiscal reforms a priority for caucus members, some of whom -- most of them Democrats -- have criticized Obama for not doing enough on the issue.",
"They include Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, who at a caucus \"jobs' tour town hall\" in Detroit this month described the unemployment rate among blacks \"unconscionable.\"",
"She said the strategy to fix it was unclear, adding that the caucus was \"getting tired\" of waiting for one.",
"She questioned the president's decision to focus on the Midwest during a three-day jobs bus tour in August, stating that the 3 million who live in Iowa -- and are mostly white -- are roughly equal in number to the African-Americans who are out of work.",
"She suggested that Obama's administration seemed more keen to focus on that politically important state than on the black community.",
"\"Are the unemployed in the African-American community, including almost 45% of its youth, as important as the people of Iowa?\"",
"she asked in the statement she released ahead of the president's speech before a joint session of Congress in which he announced his jobs plan.",
"In his speech Saturday, Obama called the situation for many blacks \"heartbreaking, and it's frustrating.\"",
"But he also touted achievements of his administration -- such as on the earned income tax credit, anti-foreclosure programs and consumer financial protections -- for making a difference, while admitting more work lies ahead.",
"\"In these hard years, we have won a lot of fights (and) we've done a lot of good,\" he said.",
"\"But we've got more work to do. People are still hurting.\"",
"As to the criticism, the president said that \"nobody feels the burden more than I do.\"",
"But in a rousing end to his speech, he said he knew addressing problems wasn't going to be easy.",
"One of the chief lessons from the civil rights movement is that \"you can't stop\" in the face of challenges, he said.",
"\"The future rewards those who press on, with patience and determination,\" he said.",
"\"Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes.\"",
"Obama promoted his recently proposed American Jobs Act during his speech, as well as his tax reform efforts to pay for the bill in part by closing loopholes and effectively having some wealthier Americans pay more in taxes than they do currently.",
"As he did in a nationally televised speech several weeks ago, the president repeatedly used the phrase \"pass this jobs bill\" in promoting its various measures -- including efforts to bolster small businesses, rebuild schools and bridges, and hire back teachers, firefighters and police.",
"In an apparent swipe at Republicans, he urged politicians to fight as hard \"for ordinary folks as you do for all your contributors.\"",
"\"We have to make sure that everyone in this country gets a fair shake, and a fair shot, and a chance to get ahead,\" he said.",
"Obama insisted that having \"the folks who have benefited the most ... pay their fair share\" in taxes must be part of any solution, adding, \"This is all about fairness.\"",
"The president has proposed a $4,000 tax credit to employers for hiring long-term unemployed workers and higher credits to companies that hire veterans who have been unemployed for at least six months.",
"He also wants to see unemployment insurance extended to prevent 5 million Americans from losing their benefits and stronger programs to help the long-term unemployed through counseling and job training.",
"A number of caucus members -- including Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri and fellow Democratic representatives like John Lewis of Georgia and Frederica Wilson of Florida -- released statements of support for the American Jobs Act after the president's speech, as did other black leaders, such as Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.",
"Waters also praised the plan in TV interviews after the speech, though she said she and other caucus members wished the plan was \"even bigger\" and that she hoped the kind of help proposed would get to the people who need it most.",
"More than anything, some black caucus members have said that it is imperative that Obama not only propose a plan, but stick to it.",
"Some of the group's staffers have said they hope the White House learned from experiences in past bills, such as the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul, an instance in which they claim the administration did not negotiate from a position of strength.",
"One thing that the administration appears intent on doing is not ignoring black voters, which overwhelmingly supported him in his 2008 presidential bid.",
"Obama recently met with black journalists and with the leaders of organizations that serve the community -- the NAACP's Ben Jealous, the National Urban League's Marc Morial and the Rev.",
"Al Sharpton from the National Action Network.",
"He also has taped an interview with BET Networks, set to air Monday, in which he is expected to specifically address the \"increase of unemployment among African-Americans since taking office, the current economic crisis, the political landscape around the 2012 presidential election\" among other issues, according to the network.",
"At a panel this month with black media group Interactive One, one of the president's top advisers, Valerie Jarrett, called the unemployment rate in the black community \"unacceptably high\" and said the president understood that \"inaction is not an option.\"",
"In remarks to the panel, the president said 20 million African-American workers would benefit from his jobs bill proposal to cut the payroll tax in half, a measure he said would save the average family $1,500 a year.",
"\"It helps out-of-work Americans, including the 1.4 (million) African-American folks and their families who are out of work, by extending unemployment benefits to help support them and their families while they're looking for work,\" the president said.",
"\"And it also reforms the training programs that are available so that they can build real skills and connect to jobs.",
"And that will particularly help the long-term unemployed.\""
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"NEW: Obama stresses \"fairness,\" while admitting \"we've got more work to do\"\n\"Stop grumbling, stop crying,\" the president advises .",
"With the black jobless rate at 16.7% in August, it's major concern for officials .",
"Obama has recently been meeting with black journalists, leaders ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Ricki Lake has made no secret about which former \"Dancing with the Stars\" contestant she looks up to as she competes on the show.",
"But Lake, 42, who continuously says she's \"hoping to pull a Kirstie Alley,\" needs to stop focusing on other people's accomplishments and inspire herself, according to her ballroom partner Derek Hough.",
"\"I told her, 'No more,' \" Hough, 26, told PEOPLE backstage after Monday night's show.",
"\"I said, 'This is about you. This is now time.' \" \"I'm me, I know, I know,\" Lake said in response to her partner's comments.",
"\"That's probably good advice.",
"I really love working with Derek.",
"He's such a good teacher, and I'm learning so much.",
"He encourages me. I feel like I'm learning that way.",
"He's really intuitive with me.\"",
"It sure seems like Lake is finding her own confidence.",
"The actress and talk show host ended up atop the leader board on Monday after earning 23 points for her lively jive.",
"\"Each week I'm here, I'm feeling better and better about my body and about what I can do,\" Lake said.",
"\"I'm having the time of my life.\" See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Ricki Lake has said she's \"hoping to pull a Kirstie Alley\"\nDerek Hough said \"This is about you.",
"This is now time\"\n\"I feel like I'm learning that way,\" Ricki Lake said ."
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"(Parenting.com) -- When your toddler is hurt and screaming and emotions are bubbling over, it can be hard to tell if a situation is a true emergency, something that can be treated in your doctor's office or an issue you can handle at home.",
"\"It's always better to call the pediatrician before going to the ER for anything but life-threatening emergencies,\" says Lara Zibners M.D., a pediatric ER doctor and author of \"If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay.\"",
"We spoke to pediatric ER doctors about the most common accidents and whether your child's doctor will deal with the issue over the phone, have you come into the office or call the ER to alert them that your child is on the way.",
"What if your baby pulls up on the coffee table and then yanks a mug of hot tea on herself?",
"Head to the ER if the burn covers a large part of her body; if it's on her face, hands, feet or genitals; or if it's a third-degree burn, which is pretty unlikely from a hot beverage.",
"Otherwise, treat her at home and act fast.",
"Since the first thing to do is get the hot liquid off the body, Dr. Zibners recommends removing the wet clothing and plunking her into a cool shower.",
"\"If it's only a small part of the hand or arm that's been burned,\" she says, \"running cool water over the limb in the sink for 10 to 15 minutes or until the pain subsides will stop further injury and provide immediate pain relief.\"",
"Keep the area in water until it's cool to the touch, then treat the burn.",
"At-home burn basics .",
"If she has a first-degree burn (the skin is red), follow these tips: .",
"DO: After the burn has cooled, cover it loosely with a dry bandage or clean cloth.",
"DON'T: Apply ointments (or butter).",
"This could cause infection or trap heat and make the burn deeper.",
"Do not break any blisters.",
"This could allow bacteria into the wound.",
"What if your toddler topples off his changing table?",
"The goose egg is huge, and he's hysterical.",
"Head to the ER? For kids older than 12 months, you can take a watch-and-wait approach.",
"Dr. Zibners says most kids who bump their heads are fine, and the size of the bump rarely has anything to do with the extent of the injury.",
"There are loads of blood vessels in the head and face, so the swelling can be dramatic.",
"Keep an eye on him for the next few hours to make sure he doesn't limp or favor one arm, vomit or become unusually sleepy or especially irritable.",
"If you see any of these signs, call the doctor as they could mean something more serious.",
"And, of course, if your child is motionless or unconscious or refuses to move after his fall, call an ambulance right away.",
"The exception: Dr. Zibners says any child under a year of age who experiences more than a minor bump should always be checked out by a physician because injuries are harder to detect when the patient can't talk.",
"Parenting.com: How to decode that strange rash .",
"Diaper duty .",
"The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these guidelines for safe diaper changing: .",
"- Choose a changing pad with a concave middle to keep baby in place.",
"- Always buckle the safety strap.",
"- Keep diapering supplies within your reach (but out of baby's).",
"What if another kid bites your baby and the skin is broken?",
"Call your pediatrician right away.",
"She may decide to send you to the ER, depending on the location of the bite and its appearance.",
"(She might prescribe an oral antibiotic.)",
"Otherwise, wash the wound immediately and thoroughly with soap and warm water and then apply an antibiotic ointment and bandage.",
"\"Human bites are among the dirtiest of all wounds due to bacteria normally found in the human mouth,\" says Karen Frush M.D., a pediatric emergency room doctor and chief patient safety officer at Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina.",
"\"Thoroughly washing the skin with soap and water is the best thing a parent can do to effectively reduce the bacteria load found in the wound.\"",
"Parenting.com: How gross is it?",
"Your germiest situations analyzed .",
"What if someone sideswipes your car?",
"Your child is strapped into his safety seat, but he's upset and crying.",
"Head to the ER? Only if he doesn't calm down after a reasonable amount of time, say 15 or 20 minutes.",
"\"With children age 5 and under who are properly restrained in an age-appropriate car seat, the likelihood of injury is small in a non-or low-impact situation,\" says Dr. Frush.",
"But if your child won't stop crying, bring him to the emergency room.",
"\"That may mean he was subjected to unusual force, and a doctor can figure out if there are any injuries,\" she adds.",
"Generally, though, if your child is moving his arms and legs, the best thing to do is remove him from his car seat, try to calm him and make sure he's OK.",
"Warning signs .",
"Sometimes symptoms take a few hours to appear.",
"Call the doctor if you notice these signs: .",
"- Blood in his urine (which could be a result of injury to the upper or lower urinary tract).",
"- Bruising over his chest or belly from the straps.",
"- Refusing to move or turn his head.",
"- Refusing to bear weight.",
"What if your toddler falls, bites her tongue and it's bleeding buckets?",
"Head to the ER? Only if it's still bleeding after 10 or 15 minutes of applying direct pressure with a clean washcloth.",
"The tongue is full of blood vessels, so it'll bleed a lot, which may scare her (and you!).",
"\"With young children [applying direct pressure] is often very difficult, so it may be helpful to encourage her to suck on an ice pop, which can also provide pressure on the tongue and sometimes help stop the bleeding,\" says Dr. Frush.",
"She adds that tongues usually heal nicely and it's very rare a child will lose enough blood from a tongue injury to become anemic.",
"Parenting.com: 9 pediatric emergency essentials .",
"To treat a tongue bite .",
"DO: Dampen a clean washcloth with cool water, seat your child on your lap, then press the washcloth over the injured area of the tongue.",
"Feed her cold foods, such as frozen yogurt.",
"DON'T: Give your baby any acidic or salty foods while her tongue is healing because it will sting and make the pain worse.",
"Get 2 FREE YEARS of Parenting magazine - Subscribe Now!!",
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"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"Most kids who bump their heads are fine .",
"\"Human bites are among the dirtiest of all wounds due to bacteria,\" Karen Frush said .",
"Sometimes symptoms take a few hours to appear ."
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"(CNN) -- A leading figure in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party, the UMP, has dismissed any suggestion that ex-International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was set up when he was arrested on charges of sexual assault in New York in May.",
"\"To imagine that what would have happened to Mr. Strauss-Kahn would be the object of some sort of complicity from the UMP, it seems too hard to believe,\" said Jean-Francois Cope, secretary-general of the UMP party.",
"Charges against Strauss-Kahn were dropped in August after questions were raised over the credibility of his accuser, hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo.",
"However, the scandal ended both his career at the IMF and any hope of the leading Socialist politician challenging Sarkozy in next year's presidential election.",
"Now an article in the New York Review of Books says Strauss-Kahn suspected a cellphone that disappeared just before his arrest had earlier been hacked.",
"It also describes CCTV footage showing employees of the Sofitel hotel appearing to celebrate after the maid reported the alleged attack.",
"A female friend of Strauss-Kahn allegedly warned him that an email he had sent had been read at UMP offices in Paris.",
"If this was the case it meant, according to the New York Review of Books, \"he had reason to suspect he might be under electronic surveillance in New York.",
"He had already been warned by a friend in the French diplomatic corps that an effort would be made to embarrass him with a scandal.",
"The warning that his BlackBerry might have been hacked was therefore all the more alarming.\"",
"The author of the New York Review of Books story, Edward Epstein, told Agence-France Presse: \"I didn't say it was a political conspiracy but I would say that people wanted to find evidence of an indiscretion of his that could derail either his (French presidential) candidacy or even (his work at) the IMF.\"",
"One of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, William Taylor, also told the news agency his client was possibly \"the target of a deliberate effort to destroy him as a political force.\"",
"However, Taylor did not say exactly who might be to blame.",
"In France, right-wing politicians described the entire story as pure fantasy.",
"\"For me, if there are facts, if there is clear evidence, of course, it goes without saying that conclusions will have to be drawn,\" said the UMP's Cope.",
"\"As long as they are only rumors, gossip, allegations on the basis of anonymous testimony, which we know absolutely nothing about, you can understand that we remain a little more reserved and certainly not fooled.\"",
"In a television interview following his return to Paris, Strauss-Kahn confessed to a \"moral weakness\" and an \"inappropriate relationship\" with Diallo, but denied any violence or aggression.",
"Strauss-Kahn still faces a civil suit from Diallo in New York, but he has asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing his job gave him immunity from civil cases.",
"The New York hotel where the alleged incident was reported also dismissed the story as \"inaccurate and speculative.\"",
"The Sofitel hotel chain released a statement saying: \"The article states that two Sofitel employees were seen 'celebrating' on tape for three minutes.",
"In fact, the incident in question lasted only eight seconds and both employees categorically deny this exchange had anything to do with Mr. Strauss-Kahn.",
"\"Sofitel Luxury Hotels has cooperated with law enforcement authorities for the entirety of this case as was its civic and legal obligation.",
"As the civil trial remains pending in the U.S., it would not be appropriate to comment on the facts of the case.\""
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"French president party denies claim Dominique Strauss-Kahn was set up .",
"Ex-IMF chief arrested on charges of sexual assault in New York; charges dropped .",
"Scandal ended his career at IMF and political ambitions in France .",
"DSK's lawyer says his client possibly \"target of a deliberate effort to destroy him\""
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"(CNN) -- Champions League newcomers Manchester City are still waiting for their first win in the competition as a double from Mario Gomez gave in-form Bayern Munich a 2-0 Group A victory at the Allianz Arena.",
"Bayern went into the match on the back of nine successive victories and they always looked dangerous in the first half, with Bastian Schweinsteiger volleying over the crossbar from close range in the 36th minute.",
"However, the home side took the lead just two minutes later when goalkeeper Joe Hart did superbly to keep out shots from Frank Ribery and Thomas Mueller, but Gomez was on hand to stab home from three meters out.",
"And the same player added a second goal on the stroke of half-time when Daniel Van Buyten's header was wonderfully saved by Hart, only for Gomez to be on hand again from close range.",
"City could find no response after the break, and a bad night for them was made worse when manager Roberto Mancini later confirmed that former captain Carlos Tevez refused to come onto the pitch in the second half after being named only as a substitute.",
"An angry Mancini told reporters: \"I asked him to go on and help the team.",
"We have 11 players -- maybe he was disappointed because he didn't play from the start.",
"If I have my way he will be out of the club.\" The result leaves Bayern top of the table with a maximum six points from their two games, with Napoli second on four points after the Italian side beat Villarreal 2-0 in Naples.",
"They opened the scoring in the 14th minute when Marek Hamsik chested down Ezequiel Lavezzi's cross at the back post, before firing home with his left foot.",
"And Edinson Cavani added a second from the penalty spot just three minutes later after Lavezzi was fouled by Gonzalo Rodriguez in the area.",
"Big-spending City, who are joint top of the English Premier League with five wins and a draw from their six games so far, are back in third with just a single point following their opening home draw against Napoli, while Spanish side Villarreal are bottom of the group without a point, or a goal, so far.",
"Meanwhile, 2010 champions Inter Milan made it two wins out of two under new coach Claudio Ranieri with a thrilling 3-2 Group B victory at CSKA Moscow.",
"Ranieri replaced Gian Piero Gasperini last week, and began his San Siro tenure with a 3-1 Serie A win at Bologna over the weekend.",
"And Inter showed they had got their shock opening 1-0 defeat by Trabzonspor out of their system, by repelling a CSKA fightback to secure their first victory in the tournament.",
"Brazilian defender Lucio fired Inter ahead from the edge of the box after just six minutes and the Italian side doubled their lead midway through the half, when Giampaolo Pazzini netted from close range after fine work from Yuto Nagatomo.",
"However, the Russian side pulled a goal back on the stroke of half-time with a well-placed Alan Dzagoev free-kick and Brazilian Vagner Love levelled with 13 minutes remaining with a low drive.",
"But, just a minute later, Mauro Zarate converted from Esteban Cambiasso's pass to give Inter a vital victory.",
"The other group match saw Trabzonspor and Lille share a 1-1 draw in Turkey.",
"Moussa Sow opened the scoring for the French side when he converted Eden Hazard's pass from a tight angle, but the home side earned a draw in the 75th minute when Gustavo Colman scored from the penalty spot after Mathieu Debuchy handled in the area.",
"The result sees Trabzonspor top the group with four points, ahead of Inter on three, Lille on two and CSKA Moscow on a single point.",
"Premier League leaders Manchester United needed a last-gasp Ashley Young goal to rescue a 3-3 Group C draw at home to Swiss side Basel, in a thrilling match that saw United squander a comfortable two-goal lead.",
"United took a 16th minute lead when Danny Welbeck, in for the injured Wayne Rooney, was left unmarked in the area to score off the post, and the young England international added his second just a minute later when side-footing home a Ryan Giggs pass.",
"But United took their foot off the gas and Basel pulled a goal back when Fabian Frei lashed home in the 58th minute after the United defense were slow to clear a corner.",
"And, just two minutes later, Basel drew level when Frei's right-wing cross was superbly headed home by his namesake Alex Frei.",
"Basel looked to have stolen a famous victory when they went ahead in the 75th minute after Antonio Valencia fouled Marco Streller in the area and Alex Frei scored the resulting penalty.",
"But Young's late header from Nani's cross rescued a point for United, although they surrendered their 20-match winning run at Old Trafford in all competitions.",
"Benfica beat Otelul Galati 1-0 in Romania in the other group game, which leaves Basel and Benfica level on top of the group on four points, with Manchester United third on two points after drawing their opening two matches.",
"Real Madrid are top of Group D with a maximum six points from their two matches, after a 3-0 win over Ajax at the Bernabeu.",
"Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 25th minute when he converted a fine flowing move that saw five players involved.",
"And the Spanish giants doubled their lead four minutes before the break when Kaka fired home a left-foot shot into the bottom corner of the net from Ronaldo's pass.",
"The home side secured the points early in the second half when Kaka found Karim Benzema, who found the net from 10 yards out.",
"Lyon are second in the table with four points after they beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 at the Stade de Gerland in their 100th Champions League game.",
"Bafetimbi Gomis opened the scoring with a sublime chip and Bakary Kone sealed the points from close range.",
"Ajax are third in the group with a single point, while Zagreb are bottom after losing their opening two matches."
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"Mario Gomez scores twice for Bayern who have a maximum six points from two games .",
"Former City captain Carlos Tevez refuses to come onto the pitch as a second half substitute .",
"Manchester United score a last-gasp equalizer to earn a 3-3 home draw with Basel ."
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"(CNN) -- This weekend some of the world's highest-paid sportswomen will battle for supremacy in Ireland, with the most prestigious team prize in their sport up for grabs.",
"Golf's Solheim Cup is the female equivalent of the Ryder Cup, but it has yet to garner such a big reputation, despite a rich history and intense competition over the years.",
"With this in mind, CNN gives the lowdown on a great sporting event that deserves your attention... From humble beginnings: .",
"To trace the origins of the competition, we need to go back to 1959 and a garage in Redwood City, California.",
"It was in this garage that a 48-year-old Norwegian engineer and golf lover, fed up with the putters he was using to play the game, decided to use his in-depth knowledge of science to manufacturer his own putters by hand.",
"From these humble beginnings, the world famous PING brand of golfing equipment was born.",
"That man was Karsten Solheim and it was he, alongside his son John and the U.S. and European ladies golf tours , who developed the concept of a women's team event between the two continents.",
"The inaugural tournament, bearing Solheim's name, was held in 1990 at the Lake Nona club in Florida.",
"Two teams of eight players faced each other, with the American side running out comfortable winners 11 1/2 to 4 1/2.",
"In 1996 the tournament was increased to 12 players per side, a number that stands to this day and it has become the leading team event in women's golf, with players earning their place either through their own tour money lists, or as a captain's pick -- exactly the same as in the men's Ryder Cup.",
"There have been 11 tournaments in total, with the United States leading 8-3, but the European team have not won any of the six competitions played on American soil.",
"The football-loving legend: .",
"No look at the Solheim Cup can be taken without mentioning Laura Davies.",
"Quite astonishingly, the Englishwoman, who turns 48 next month, has appeared in all 11 previous tournaments and, once again, she is a member of the European team at Kileen Castle.",
"Davies is a phenomenon in women's golf.",
"As well as her achievements on the course -- which include winning four majors amongst her 81 victories -- she has been a flag-bearer for promoting the game, most notably when, in 2004, she became the first woman to compete on the men's European Tour.",
"Davies is sports daft and is a keen racehorse owner as well as an avid follower of Liverpool Football Club.",
"However, her love of football got her into trouble with tournament organizers in the 1996 Evian Masters, when she was fined for watching a match on a portable TV during the final round of that tournament.",
"It didn't seem to hamper her game -- she won that particular tournament by four strokes!",
"Swedish legend Annika Sorenstam appeared in eight Solheim Cups, winning 22 of her 37 matches, while compatriot Sophie Gustafson, another member of the current side, and European captain Alison Nicholas have also starred in eight tournaments.",
"As for the Americans, you have to look hard to find a bigger legend than Juli Inkster.",
"Despite reaching the age of 51 to become the oldest-ever competitior, the Californian is once again facing the European side this year, her ninth appearance in the event.",
"Breaking the mould: .",
"The Solheim Cup has never really seen a player like Christina Kim before.",
"Not only is the 27-year-old Californian a lucky charm for the United States, appearing in the winning teams of 2005 and 2009 -- claiming five out of eight points in the process -- her infectious personality, undiluted enthusiasm, larger-than-life character and wacky dress sense has been a highlight of recent competitions.",
"Kim is known for her bawdy sense of humor and occasional bouts of bad language that occasionally land her in hot water with golfing authorities.",
"Describing her fist-pumping celebrations in the 2009 Solheim Cup, former LPGA star Dottie Pepper wrote in a column for Sports Illustrated: \"I know Christina Kim loves the galleries and is a ham, but she should be a little more respectful of the game.",
"In the NFL, she would have been given 18 excessive celebration penalties.\"",
"Despite becoming the youngest-ever player to reach $1 million in career earnings, Kim has not won on the LPGA Tour since 2005 and last year her autobiography, \"Swinging from My Heels: Confessions of an LPGA Star\", was released to critical acclaim.",
"Chaos and controversy: .",
"Don't be deceived by the genteel nature of women's golf.",
"The passion and will-to-win is as high as the men, but that spilled over into acrimonious scenes in 2003.",
"The Barseback Golf and Country Club in Malmo, Sweden provided the setting for the eighth Solheim Cup and the first to be played away from either the United States or Great Britain.",
"Scotland's Catriona Matthew secured victory for Europe on the 17th green, resulting in wild scenes of celebration.",
"However, there were still quite a few singles matches still out on the course, including Norway's Suzann Pettersen against American Cristie Kerr.",
"An excited Pettersen incurred Kerr's wrath by encouraging the crowd to make more noise in celebration as Kerr was about to putt on the 15th green.",
"Kerr missed the putt and Pettersen won the hole.",
"But, sensing her opponent's annoyance, Pettersen turned to Kerr on the 16th green and conceded the match, before joining the European celebrations.",
"The same thing happened between the aforementioned Laura Davies and opponent Meg Mallon on the 14th hole but, as the match was all square, the pair both walked up to the tournament referee to concede at the same time, causing confusion.",
"The Beth Daniel-Mhairi McKay match also came to an abrupt end with the score in the balance resulting in American captain Patty Sheehan telling reporters: \"I have never seen that before.",
"All of a sudden, everyone just quit.",
"It wasn't quite right.\"",
"Trophy on trophy: .",
"Appropriately enough, as the tournament is in Ireland this year, the Solheim Cup trophy is made of Waterford Crystal glass, which originates just down the coast from the Killeen Castle resort.",
"The urn-shaped trophy is 19 inches high, weighs more than 20 pounds and sits atop a wooden base.",
"It was designed in 1990 for the inaugural tournament, but what makes it unusual is an engraving of the trophy on the trophy -- a panel on one side of the crystal is engraved with the Solheim Cup logo, and the logo incorporates the trophy itself.",
"Following the men: .",
"The competition is now a complete mirror image of the men's prestigious Ryder Cup, involving the same amount of players, format, points on offer and rivalry.",
"But with the American team bidding for a fourth successive victory, the pressure is on for the Europeans to stop the rot, especially as another defeat will increase the clamor for the tournament to be changed to allow Asian players to compete.",
"Asian golfers rule the roost in the women's game, with six of the world's top 10 players coming from the continent.",
"In 1979, worried by the one-sided nature of the competition, Ryder Cup organizers decided that their biennial competition between the United States and Great Britain should be altered to make it Europe instead of Britain.",
"The change completely altered the nature of the event, making it closer and more exciting.",
"Another American victory, taking their overall lead to 9-3, will certainly intensify that particular debate."
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"The Solheim Cup takes place this weekend between Europe and United States .",
"It is the 12th edition of the biennial tournament with the U.S. leading 8-3 .",
"England's Laura Davies is the only player to compete in every Solheim Cup .",
"American Juli Inkster, 51, is the oldest Solheim Cup competitor ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- As Markus Winkelhock took to the sodden track of last week's European Grand Prix in Nuerburgring he went where one Winkelhock had been before, his father Manfred Winkelhock.",
"Nico Rosberg (left) gets a pep talk from his world championship-winning father at this year's Monaco Grand Prix .",
"Winkelhock junior's first grand prix -- and possibly last for some time, now that Christijan Albers' vacated Spyker seat has gone to Sakon Yamamoto -- will be talked about for years to come.",
"His decision to run on extreme wet tires on lap three saw him leading the race by 33 seconds before the race was suspended for the second time.",
"And, although his race ended with hydraulic failure, and future drives in Formula 1 are by no means certain, he joins the rare club of drivers who have led a grand prix on their first race.",
"It was at Nuerburgring that his father Manfred Winkelhock raced his last Formula 1 grand prix.",
"Never a contender -- he scored only two points from 47 starts -- he was nevertheless a popular driver with the home crowd.",
"Sadly, eleven days after the 1985 German Grand Prix at Nuerburgring, Winkelhock was killed driving a Porsche 956 at a World Sportscar event in Mosport Park, Canada.",
"Manfred's brothers Joachim and Thomas Winkelhock were also racing drivers; Joachim entered seven grands prix in the 1989 season but did not pre-qualify, so didn't race.",
"\"My father did his last F1 race at the Nuerburgring and now I'm doing my first,\" said Markus last Sunday, \"that is something special.\"",
"Underneath his Spyker overalls, Markus wore a chain around his neck, as he always does when racing.",
"On it was the wedding ring belonging to the father who died when Markus when only five years old -- a good luck talisman given to him by his mother.",
"Formula 1's history has many such tales of sons following fathers into racing careers -- and in some cases the second generation drivers lost their fathers at an early age.",
"Fatalities have been so rare in F1 in the last two decades that it's easy to forget quite how dangerous an activity it once was.",
"Canadian Jacques Villeneuve had celebrated his eleventh birthday a month before his father Gilles, the legendary Ferrari driver, died in practice before the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.",
"Such was his status in Canada, that his remains were returned to his homeland aboard a jet of the Canadian Air Force, on the request of the government.",
"Knowing the dangers inherent in the sport, Villeneuve junior entered F1 in 1996.",
"He started his first race from pole position and just missed out on the top step of the podium to his Williams team-mate, Damon Hill.",
"In his next season Villeneuve junior achieved what his father rightly should have done, he won the World Championship.",
"Hill too was the son of a racing legend.",
"Graham Hill was champion in 1962 and 1968.",
"With the dashing demeanor, and pencil moustache, of a World War 2 flying ace, he projected an image of the true sporting Brit.",
"But, behind the scenes, he was a tempestuous man who could be both vain and reckless.",
"Graham Hill died in 1975, when Damon was 15.",
"It is often assumed that the sons of famous drivers who follow their fathers into the sport are drifted into their seats on a wave of nepotism and inheritance.",
"Not true of Damon, who had to work as a motorcycle courier in London to pay for his start in motor racing.",
"Graham Hill didn't die racing.",
"He died trying to land a Piper Aztek airplane in fog.",
"The plane was not properly registered or insured and Hill died along with his five passengers (including Tony Brise, who was racing for Hill's F1 team at the time).",
"The families of the bereaved had no choice but to sue the estate of Graham Hill for compensation.",
"Another F1 champion to sire a racing son was American Mario Andretti.",
"He won the 1978 world championship for Lotus and also having a successful career in the US oval circuits in both Champcar and NASCAR.",
"His son Michael entered F1 in 1993, paired with Ayrton Senna at McLaren.",
"But, despite his success in Champcar, Andretti junior failed to make an impression in Formula 1 and was replaced, after just 13 races, by Mika Hakkinen.",
"He would be the last American to compete in F1 until the appearance of Scott Speed in 2006.",
"The current F1 grid contains one F1-sibling and one F1-offspring.",
"Ralf Schumacher, of course, is brother to seven-times world Champion Michael (and living proof that driving talent isn't necessarily inherited).",
"And Williams driver Nico Rosberg is the son of Keke Rosberg, the Finnish driver who won the world championship for Williams in 1982.",
"Three-time world champion Jack Brabham's son, David raced for Brabham and Simtek in 1990 and 1994 without ever scoring points.",
"And two-time champion Emerson Fittipaldi's son Christian raced for three seasons in the early 1990s, scoring a total of 12 championship points.",
"Are there other sons-of-champions waiting in the wings?",
"Tomas Scheckter, son of Jody Scheckter the 1979 world champion, tested for Jaguar in 2001 but was fired.",
"He now races in the A1GP series and looks an unlikely F1 contender.",
"1992 world champion Nigel Mansell has supported the racing careers of sons Leo and Greg, who have both raced in single-seat racing formulae but, again, without looking obvious F1 contenders (though Greg is only 19).",
"And four-time world champion Alain Prost's son Nicolas has had some success in the feeder formulae but, at 25, is considered old compared with young blood such as Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel.",
"Nelson Angelo Piquet, son of three-time championship winner, Nelson Piquet is a test driver for Renault.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"F1 has a history of father and son racers .",
"Six sons of world champions have raced in Formula 1 championships ."
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"Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- South Sudan's government has gained control of a remote town that had been under attack by fighters from a rival tribe, the nation's information minister said Monday.",
"Some of the thousands who fled into the bush have begun to return to Pibor, said Barnaba Benjamin, South Sudan's minister of information and broadcasting.",
"Earlier Monday, a military official said that roughly 4,000 army and police reinforcements were on the way to Pibor after weekend attacks.",
"The United Nations also said it sent a battalion of peacekeepers to Pibor last week amid reports that members of the Lou Nuer tribe were marching toward the town, home to the Murle tribe, after attacking the village of Lukangol.",
"Ethnic tensions in the South Sudan state of Jonglei have flared as tribes fight over grazing lands and water rights, disagreements that have dissolved into cattle raids and abduction of women and children.",
"Fighters first struck Pibor on Saturday, attacking a portion that was out of the reach of U.N. peacekeepers, said Col. Philip Auger of the South Sudan army.",
"Benjamin said there were no casualties and no direct confrontation between the two tribes there, because most of the Murle had fled when they heard the Lou Nuer were approaching.",
"The nonprofit group Medecins sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, was still trying Monday to reach 117 of its 130 aid workers who fled into the bush along with the populations of Pibor and Lukangol before the attack, said Sarathy Rajendran, head of the group's South Sudan mission.",
"Rajendran said the organization was afraid for its workers' safety and \"very concerned\" for the people of Pibor and Lukangol.",
"\"We believe tens of thousands are currently displaced without access to water, food and health care,\" he said.",
"\"The situation is tense.",
"We don't know what is happening on the ground, so we are monitoring the situation.\"",
"The nonprofit's clinic in Lukangol was \"burned and looted,\" spokeswoman Emily Linendoll said, adding that its Pibor clinic \"has been targeted.\"",
"The attack on Pibor follows reports last week that Lou Nuer fighters raided Lukangol, burning it to the ground and forcing thousands to flee toward Pibor.",
"At least 50,000 people have fled the violence in the state that began last year, said Quade Hermann, chief of radio at Radio Miraya, a U.N.-backed radio station in South Sudan.",
"She similarly said that the town of Pibor is secure now, though the situation there remains fluid.",
"The people who fled remain scattered, and the United Nations is working on a plan for how to distribute humanitarian aid, Hermann said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week urged the groups to work with the government of South Sudan to find solutions.",
"South Sudan's vice president, Riek Machar, is leading an initiative to bridge the differences between the Lou Nuer and Murle tribes, including encouraging the armed groups to disband and go home, the United Nations has said.",
"The violence in Jonglei state is the latest to rock South Sudan, which officially gained its statehood in July after separating from the north."
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"NEW: At least 50,000 people are said to have fled from the violence in Jonglei .",
"Information minister: Some of the thousands who fled have started to return to Pibor .",
"Earlier, an official said roughly 4,000 reinforcements were being sent to Pibor .",
"The town had been under attack by fighters from a rival tribe ."
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"(CNN) -- Fourteen times in nine years, Sgt.",
"1st Class Kristoffer Domeij had left his family behind and headed out on deployment as an Army Ranger, taking part in hundreds of combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, all before his 30th birthday.",
"His most recent tour turned out to be his last.",
"The veteran soldier's death rattled his commanders, as well as those in his native San Diego.",
"His former football coach, Jeff Carpenter, remembered Domeij as diligent, funny, passionate and team-oriented.",
"\"I told my classes that I was incredibly sad to begin with and incredibly angry,\" said Carpenter, who besides being an assistant coach the past 18 years is also a social sciences teacher at Rancho Bernardo High School.",
"\"Just the fact that it happened to someone like him -- it's hard.\"",
"Domeij, 1st Lt. Ashley White and Pvt.",
"1st Class Christopher Horns all died Saturday in Kandahar province when an improvised explosive device blew up near their assault force, according to a U.S. Army Special Operations Command news release.",
"The trio's death is far from unprecedented: According to CNN's count, based on U.S. military reports, there have been 1,811 U.S. troops killed during Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan that began in October 2001.",
"Each person, each death, is unique.",
"In Domeij's case, that translates to a man whom his unit commander described as \"irreplaceable\" -- on the battlefield and in life.",
"\"He was one of those men who known by all as much for his humor, enthusiasm and loyal friendship as he was for his unparalleled skill and bravery under fire,\" said Lt. Col. David Hodne, head of the 75th Ranger Regiment's 2nd battalion.",
"\"This was a Ranger you wanted at your side when the chips were down.\"",
"Domeij distinguished himself as a person as much as he did as a player while in high school, his former coach recalled.",
"\"He was just a great kid,\" Carpenter said, describing his great sense of humor and engaging personality.",
"\"And we knew, as coaches, that no matter what, this was a kid who was going to play hard and (all) out.\"",
"Carpenter said he wasn't surprised when Domeij told him he was going to enlist.",
"\"It made all the sense in the world,\" the coach said, given Domeij's proven dedication to and ability to thrive as a member of a team.",
"So Domeij joined the Army in July, a few months after graduating high school and not long before the September 11 terrorist attacks.",
"Nine months later, he became part of the Ranger regiment.",
"Domeij was based at that unit's headquarters at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, where his role was as a joint terminal attack controller.",
"The person in this position often advances into harm's way, directing allied combat aircraft on where and when to strike.",
"His regiment's commander, Col. Mark Odom, called Domeij \"technically and tactically competent\" as well as critically important.",
"\"His ability to employ fire support platforms made him a game-changer on the battlefield -- an operator who, in real terms, had the value of an entire strike force on the battlefield,\" Odom said in the news release.",
"The military culture is very much ingrained in the Southern California culture in which Domeij grew up.",
"Much of the Pacific fleet is based there at U.S.",
"Naval Base San Diego.",
"A large Marine base at Camp Pendleton is about 30 miles northwest of Rancho Bernardo High, with the famed Marine Corps Air Station Miramar about 11 miles south.",
"The parents of many of that high school's students -- whose enrollment was about 3,000 when Domeij attended -- are in the military, Carpenter notes.",
"Yet while multiple students enlist each year, Domeij's death is the first his coach can recall since Rancho Bernardo opened in 1990.",
"Carpenter said he'd kept in touch with his former player since graduation, knowing full well that was in Special Operations and in harm's way.",
"But he said neither he nor were others in the community was prepared for the news.",
"\"This was really hard,\" Carpenter said.",
"\"I don't know if we knew how to deal with it.\"",
"The thousands of veterans who live in the area know the dangers and trauma of war all too well.",
"That's one reason why they have made it a priority to look out for those now serving overseas, Frank Csaszar said Friday from VFW Post 3788 in San Diego.",
"\"The returning troops coming back home the current wars, we give them a group hug,\" said Csaszar, an Army veteran who served during the Vietnam War.",
"\"We're right there, and we support them.\"",
"In Domeij's case, such support now will be extended to his surviving family.",
"He leaves behind his wife, Sarah, and daughters Mikajasa and Aaliyah, both of whom now live in Lacey, Washington.",
"He is also survived by his mother, Scoti Domeij of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and his brother, Kyle Domeij of San Diego.",
"According to Carpenter, Domeij never relished the spotlight and probably would not want it now, upon his death.",
"But as with other troops who have died in combat, Carpenter said, the recognition is well-deserved.",
"\"Some of this attention would probably bother (Domeij), because he felt he was a guy doing his job, which he believed in,\" the coach said.",
"\"But these guys are heroes.\""
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"NEW: Coach says Kristoffer Domeij's death has been hard on community .",
"Domeij was one of 3 killed days ago while on a mission in Kandahar province .",
"He joined the Army in 2001 and became a Ranger the next year .",
"His unit commander calls him \"irreplacable\" in combat and in life ."
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"Las Vegas (CNN) -- President Barack Obama traveled to Las Vegas on Monday to launch a Western trip that mixes campaigning with presidential business -- and an appearance on \"The Tonight Show.\"",
"After a campaign event at The Bellagio hotel and casino Monday afternoon, Obama met with homeowners at a private residence to announce new efforts to help homeowners with refinancing.",
"The government's Home Affordable Refinance Program will be changed to make it easier for homeowners to capitalize on current low interest rates by refinancing old, high-interest mortgages.",
"The new rules will allow homeowners who owe more than 125% of the market value of their homes to get the new loans.",
"\"So let me just give you an example.",
"If you've got a $250,000 mortgage at 6 percent interest rates, but the value of your home has fallen below $200,000, right now you can't refinance.",
"You're ineligible,\" Obama said, according to a copy of his remarks released by the White House.",
"\"But that's going to change.",
"If you meet certain requirements, you will have the chance to refinance at lower rates, which could save you hundreds of dollars a month, and thousands of dollars a year on mortgage payments.\"",
"In addition, Obama told the gathering,\"there are going to be lower closing costs, and certain refinancing fees will be eliminated -- fees that can sometimes cancel out the benefits of refinancing altogether.\"",
"The changes also will allow consumers to shop around for better rates beyond their original lenders, he said.",
"Learn why the program probably won't help the real estate market .",
"The president then traveled to Los Angeles, where he was expected to deliver remarks at two more campaign events.",
"On Tuesday, Obama will tape an appearance on \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,\" according to the White House.",
"The last time the president appeared on the show, in March 2009, he caused controversy by attempting to poke fun at his poor bowling skills -- evident during a 2008 campaign stop.",
"He told Leno he bowled 129 in the White House bowling alley and said his bowling skills were \"like Special Olympics or something.\"",
"Before the show aired, the president called Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver to apologize, White House officials said, and stress his intention was not to humiliate the disabled.",
"Shriver called Obama's apology \"sincere and heartfelt,\" but noted in a written response, \"This is a teachable moment for our country.\"",
"After the \"Tonight Show\" taping, Obama will travel to San Francisco for a fundraiser, according to the White House.",
"On Tuesday night, he will be in Denver to push his jobs agenda.",
"Other private fundraisers will also be sprinkled in, officials said.",
"A Democratic official estimates the campaign will haul in more than $4 million from six fundraisers in three states.",
"It's the second time in less than a month that Obama has headed west to push for jobs and raise campaign cash.",
"A senior campaign official noted the importance of spending time in the region, saying the \"campaign has already established an extensive operation in Western states.\"",
"And they expect to make \"heavy investments there.\"",
"The official singled out Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, where the campaign has offices and field staff.",
"In 2008 Obama won decisively in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico, but lost to Republican John McCain in McCain's home state of Arizona.",
"This time around the economy remains under heavy downward pressure despite efforts by the Obama administration to turn things around.",
"In Nevada, home prices have plummeted by 53% since the peak, and according to online real estate site Zillow, 85% of the state's homeowners owe more than their homes are worth.",
"At his fundraiser at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas Monday, the president acknowledged that \"things are tough right now,\" but he reminded the audience of some 300 supporters of his accomplishments.",
"\"As tough as things are right now, we were able to stabilize this economy and make sure it didn't go into a great depression,\" the president said.",
"While the campaign is targeting key Western states, officials realize every vote will be critical.",
"\"Our goal in 2011 is to build the biggest organization possible to compete on the widest playing field possible in 2012,\" the campaign official said.",
"CNN's Alex Mooney, Dan Lothian, Lesa Jansen and Jessica Yellin contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Americans' clicking fingers must be sore.",
"Analysts have begun providing their final tallies for Cyber Monday sales, which found that people piled more in their virtual shopping carts than ever before.",
"Monday was the highest-grossing online shopping day in U.S. history, with spending reaching $1.25 billion, according to market research firm comScore.",
"That's up 22% from the previous record, which was last year's Cyber Monday.",
"Online shopping for the month of November has hit $15 billion, a 15% increase compared to last year, comScore says.",
"Discounting efforts by some online retailers, including Amazon.com and Apple, in the hopes of bringing some of the mall's Black Friday magic to the Web appear to have paid off.",
"With a 26% jump over last year, the day after Thanksgiving saw the highest increase in spending compared to 2010 than any other period in November, according to comScore.",
"However, online spending on Cyber Monday still outpaced Black Friday by a healthy margin, the research says.",
"Even without significantly slashing prices, some retailers saw a jump in customers coming to their websites on Monday.",
"For example, Sony saw a dramatic increase in traffic and sales on Monday.",
"Sony Electronics President Phil Molyneux said many Americans may have overcome some concerns about the struggling economy.",
"\"There's a pent-up demand from consumers,\" Molyneux told a roomful of reporters in San Francisco on Tuesday.",
"\"There's a demand, and consumers need to feel that they can spend again.\"",
"They seem to be feeling it, and their digital wallets are feeling lighter."
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"ComScore: Cyber Monday was the biggest U.S. online shopping day ever .",
"Consumers spent $1.25 billion on Monday, the research says .",
"Some retailers saw a Cyber Monday spike even without offering big discounts ."
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"DUBLIN, Ireland (CNN) -- Michael D. Higgins, a 70-year-old poet and politician, was elected Ireland's new president on Saturday.",
"Considered an elder statesman, the Irish Labour Party candidate-turned-president elect is a former government minister.",
"He is to be Ireland's ninth head of state and is scheduled to be inaugurated on November 11, one day after President Mary McAleese leaves office.",
"McAleese has been head of state 14 years, completing two seven-year terms.",
"The other six candidates -- including former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness -- have all conceded defeat.",
"McGuinness's campaign had been dogged by questions about his past ties to the IRA, an armed group that fought against British authorities in Northern Ireland but has since renounced violence.",
"He had been consistently third in opinion polls, while businessman and reality TV star Sean Gallagher had been vying alongside Higgins for the top spot.",
"Critics blamed Gallagher's performance in the country's final televised debate for his collapse in the polls.",
"McGuinness is expected to return to his role as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister.",
"The long counting process started Friday with Higgins confirmed as the winner late Saturday."
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"Michael D. Higgins is elected Ireland's new president .",
"He is to be Ireland's ninth head of state .",
"President Mary McAleese has been head of state 14 years .",
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"(Rolling Stone) -- Maybe you thought since Adam Sandler is playing boy-and-girl twins in \"Jack and Jill\" that the movie would be double the fun.",
"Ha! On a scale of 1 to 10 on the laugh meter, \"Jack and Jill\" is a negative 10.",
"A total bust, a stupefyingly unfunny and shamelessly lazy farce packed with cringe-worthy jokes and overt product placement.",
"L.A. ad exec Jack Sadelstein (Sandler the guy) is gritting his teeth over a holiday visit from his loudmouthed, overweight twin Jill (Sandler in drag, showing an unfailing grasp of the obvious).",
"The siblings pick at each other relentlessly between Jill's bouts with farting and dropping chimichanga bombs.",
"No peace, even with the help of Jack's peacemaker wife (Katie Holmes looks so trapped in this thankless role you ache to save her).",
"It's odious to watch the movie make fun of Jill's looks, weight, and flatulence problems only to switch gears into gooey sentiment at the end and tell us we should love her.",
"\"Jack and Jill\" wants to have its hypocrisy and eat it too.",
"Look, I'm not a Sandler hater.",
"He was terrific in Judd Apatow's \"Funny People\" and Paul Thomas Anderson's \"Punch-Drunk Love.\"",
"And I still treasure fun memories of \"Billy Madison\" and \"Happy Gilmore,\" made before Sandler turned cynical and contemptuous of his audience.",
"\"Jack and Jill\" plays like the kind of crap Sandler's comedian character skewered in \"Funny People.\"",
"The plot is a stew of half-baked ideas that quickly turns rancid.",
"Jack has problems at work; his company will go under if he can't persuade Al Pacino to play himself in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial.",
"Watching the Oscar winner bust a move and freestyle rap while he extols the virtues of sipping a Dunkachinno is to witness desperation incarnate.",
"Sandler and director Dennis Dugan must have something on \"The Godfather\" to make him lower himself to these depths.",
"\"Burn it,\" says Pacino after watching the commercial Sandler creates.",
"\"No one must ever see this.\"",
"The same goes for the movie.",
"Rolling Stone rating: Zero stars .",
"See the full article at RollingStone.com.",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo arrived Wednesday at the International Criminal Court in The Hague to stand trial for his role in his country's post-election violence that killed thousands.",
"\"It is exactly a year since the presidential election that led to one of the worst episodes of violence Cote d'Ivoire has ever known,\" said Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the court's chief prosecutor, using the French name for the country.",
"\"In December last year, we put Mr. Gbagbo and the others on notice.",
"Today, we are following up.\"",
"The former president's initial appearance is scheduled for Monday, the ICC announced.",
"Gbagbo, 66, was flown out of the northern Ivoirian city of Khorogo, where he had been under house arrest, on an Ivoirian government airplane Tuesday evening, said his adviser, Toussaint Alain.",
"Alain called it an illegal transfer.",
"\"The international court has taken an illegal action.",
"This is a political decision rather than a decision of justice,\" Alain said.",
"The action comes a week before parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Ivory Coast.",
"Three political parties in an umbrella coalition (CNRD) with Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien issued a statement saying they would boycott the elections as a result of Gbagbo's transfer.",
"Last month, Moreno-Ocampo arrived in Ivory Coast to meet with government and opposition leaders and began an inquiry into the West African nation's post-election violence.",
"In his application to the judges for authorization to investigate possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, Moreno-Ocampo cited sources who said at least 3,000 people were killed, 72 people disappeared and 520 others were subject to arbitrary arrest and detentions since the November 28, 2010, election that resulted in the violence.",
"Gbagbo, the incumbent, refused to cede power even though challenger Alassane Ouattara was internationally recognized as the winner.",
"Months of bloodshed ensued.",
"The political stalemate was settled by Gbagbo's capture in April by forces loyal to his rival, and he has been detained in the north of Ivory Coast.",
"Gbagbo refused to accept the results of U.N.-certified elections.",
"Human Rights Watch issued a statement saying Gbagbo is \"the first former head of state taken into custody by the ICC.\"",
"President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have also been subject to ICC arrest warrants, but al-Bashir has not come into ICC custody, nor did Gadhafi, who was killed in October during Libya's revolution, Human Rights Watch said.",
"\"The ICC is playing its part to show that even those at the highest levels of power cannot escape justice when implicated in grave crimes,\" Elise Keppler, senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.",
"The court charged Gbagbo with four counts of crimes against humanity, \"namely murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence, persecution and other inhuman acts.\"",
"\"This is a big day for the victims of (Ivory Coast's) horrific post-election violence,\" Keppler said.",
"\"That Laurent Gbagbo now has to answer to the court sends a strong message to Ivoirian political and military leaders that no one should be above the law.\"",
"CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"The transfer of Laurent Gbagbo to The Hague is \"illegal,\" his aide says .",
"A three-party coalition says it will boycott the elections .",
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"(CNN) -- The St. Louis Cardinals finished their improbable run Friday night with a convincing 6-2 win, beating the Texas Rangers and giving the franchise another World Series championship.",
"Instead of the furious comebacks the Cards have been known for this year, the Cards grabbed a commanding lead in the fifth inning Friday and held on.",
"\"We got it. It is unbelievable,\" outfielder Allen Craig said.",
"\"This is an unbelievable group of guys.",
"I am just glad to be a part of this.\" Craig, who caught the last out of the game, was more than a part of it.",
"He hit a home run in the third inning of Friday's game and stole a home run from Ranger Nelson Cruz leaping over the wall to bring the ball back.",
"Another one of the stars of Friday's game was Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, who had two hits and knocked in two RBIs.",
"Another St. Louis star was hurler Chris Carpenter, who continued his undefeated postseason run by stymieing the Rangers for six innings Friday.",
"Rangers pitchers were plagued with wildness Friday and throughout the series.",
"In the fifth inning, the Cardinals were able to get two runs and jump to a commanding 5 to 2 lead without getting a hit, capitalizing on Rangers' walks.",
"The win gives the Cards their 11th World Series championship.",
"The Cardinals last won the championship in 2006.",
"Friday's win may have seemed a little melodramatic compared to the instant-classic World Series game Thursday, when the Cardinals displayed their never-say-die attitude.",
"The Cardinals were pushed to within their last strike in the ninth and 10th innings only to come back and erase two-run deficits both times.",
"They finished the comeback in the 11th inning beating the Rangers 10 to 9 on David Freese's walk-off home run.",
"Freese was named the most valuable player of the series.",
"\"This is a dream come true,\" Freese said.",
"\"This is why you keep battling.\"",
"Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa said the fans, cheering and supporting, helped his team to the muster the strength to comeback so many times.",
"\"It is amazing, incredible,\" La Russa said.",
"\"This is for you, fans. Thank you so much.\"",
"Comebacks are nothing new for the Cards, who made a furious dash just to reach the postseason.",
"The team erased a 10.5-game deficit with the Atlanta Braves in the last month of the regular season just to make it to the playoffs.",
"They punctuated that comeback by taking the must-win last two games of the season and stealing the National League wild card from the Braves.",
"Once in the playoffs, the Cards defeated division champs Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies.",
"Both feats defied oddsmakers."
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"The St. Louis Cardinals win 6-2 in Game 7 .",
"The win gives the Cardinals 11 World Series championships .",
"Cardinals' David Freese named World Series MVP .",
"\"This is a dream come true,\" Freese says ."
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"(CNN) -- Alex Ferguson's quarter of a century in charge of Manchester United has been rich and varied and, of course, accompanied by a glittering list of trophies.",
"From the joyous highs of European Champions League triumphs in Barcelona and Moscow, to the lows of bust-ups with David Beckham and watching Jose Mourinho pip him to two titles, every moment has been played out in the full glare of the media spotlight.",
"With countless memorable quotes and games under his belt, Ferguson will celebrate his 25 years in charge of the Premier League champions on Sunday, a day after his side face Sunderland in their quest for a record 20th league title.",
"Here, CNN World Sport chronicles the key moments of his momentous reign at Old Trafford as he survived an indifferent start to his United career to become one of the most successful managers the English game has ever seen."
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"Will Tidey chronicles the top 25 moments of Alex Ferguson's Manchester United career .",
"Ferguson will reach 25 years in charge of Manchester United on Sunday .",
"The Scot has won 37 trophies in his quarter of a decade at Old Trafford ."
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"(CNN) -- The chaotic scene unfolded with flash-bang grenades, rubber bullets and clouds of smoke.",
"Canisters whizzed through the air amid deafening booms.",
"Marine Lance Cpl.",
"Scott Olsen went down.",
"\"Medic! Medic!\" someone yelled.",
"Olsen, 24, had seen his share of war in two tours of Iraq as a Marine.",
"He was lucky, returning home physically unscathed.",
"But Tuesday evening, near the corner of 14th Avenue and Broadway in Oakland, California, Olsen went down.",
"The video images went viral: streams of crimson flowing down Olsen's head, his black T-shirt adorned with a white dove of peace, the war veteran carried to a hospital.",
"And with that, the Occupy movement had a face.",
"\"We are all Scott Olsen,\" declared its website.",
"\"It's ironic,\" said his uncle George Nygaard, that Olsen should be the poster child for this movement.",
"Ironic, said Olsen's Marine buddy and current roommate Keith Shannon, that a young man who fought for American freedoms should be injured exercising those same freedoms at home.",
"He was 14 at the time of the September 11 attacks and graduated in 2005 from Onalaska High School with the same sense of patriotism that drove so many young men and women to join the military.",
"He was working at Lindy's Subs and Salads when he decided to enlist.",
"Soon, he was in Twentynine Palms in the Mojave Desert for training and the next year on his way to war.",
"Olsen deployed twice with the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment to Iraq's Anbar province, site of some the war's fiercest battles.",
"Shannon said they often encountered makeshift bombs in their 2006 tour during which 15 of their fellow Marines died.",
"Nygaard said Olsen told him about a couple of close calls, one in which he rolled over a roadside bomb that somehow failed to detonate.",
"Olsen had always been a quiet, shy kid, Nygaard said.",
"A computer whiz, not a jock.",
"And not the type of young man his friends had expected to become an activist.",
"But war touched Olsen as it does almost everyone who comes that close.",
"After his last tour of Iraq, he returned home with serious misgivings and gravitated to Nygaard, a former Marine himself who had returned from Vietnam feeling similarly.",
"In small-town Wisconsin, uncle and nephew talked to each other about the larger issues of war.",
"\"He came back thinking there were better ways to deal with things than war,\" Nygaard said.",
"Olsen's parents, Nygaard said, didn't always understand the change in their son.",
"But Nygaard felt an affinity for the young man.",
"\"I am so much more proud of him now than when he was in (the Marine Corps), because he followed through on his convictions,\" Nygaard said.",
"Those convictions led Olsen to Madison this year to join protests of a bill by Gov.",
"Scott Walker to weaken organized labor in Wisconsin.",
"\"Scott thought the workers were getting screwed,\" said Nygaard, who was on the streets with his nephew.",
"This summer, Olsen's friend Shannon helped him get a job at OPSWAT, a technology firm in San Francisco.",
"By then, Olsen had become deeply involved with Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War.",
"At one event, he stood with a poster that read: \"32 veterans will try to commit suicide every day and 18 will succeed.\"",
"\"He worried deeply about his fellow brothers and sisters who are veterans,\" Nygaard said.",
"That's what prompted him to join the Occupy movement, first in San Francisco and then across the bay in Oakland, Nygaard said.",
"Olsen knew there were many veterans among America's down and out.",
"For the past three weeks, he was working during the day and out all night at the Occupy protests, Shannon said.",
"He came home only three or four times to the Daly City apartment the two shared -- mainly to do laundry.",
"Still, the laid-back Olsen was never a screamer.",
"He felt strongly about economic injustice and wanted to add his voice quietly to the fight.",
"And so, Tuesday night, he was standing there, almost at parade rest, when he went down, witnesses said.",
"He suffered a skull fracture and was in fair condition in the intensive care unit at Highland Hospital, a hospital spokesman said.",
"Shannon and Nygaard said Olsen was conscious and communicating by writing on a notepad.",
"Shannon said he has been told Olsen has asked to see him, but doctors have limited visitors.",
"Olsen's parents were with him at the hospital.",
"Meanwhile, Oakland police are investigating how Olsen was hurt.",
"Protesters gathered for a vigil in his name.",
"National outcry over police treatment of the protesters -- many others were injured or sickened by tear gas -- prompted Oakland Mayor Jean Quan to take responsibility for those who were hurt.",
"And Scott Olsen became a household name.",
"But back in Chaseburg, Wisconsin, Nygaard worried for his nephew.",
"Concussions, he said, can come back to haunt you, even after you get over the bruises.",
"A lot of veterans know that from Iraq and Afghanistan, where head injuries have been common.",
"Only Olsen's luck ran out here, in America.",
"Nygaard just hopes his nephew will recover to tell his own story.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"Scott Olsen returned from two tours of Iraq without injury .",
"But he suffered a fractured skull in the Oakland protests .",
"The videos went viral, and Olsen became the face of the movement .",
"His uncle says Iraq changed his nephew's views on war ."
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"London (CNN) -- Singer Charlotte Church on Monday blasted the News of the World tabloid for its decision to publish a lurid story about her father having an affair while her mother was getting treatment for mental illness.",
"\"They knew how vulnerable she was and still printed a story like that, which is just horrific,\" she said.",
"The former child star also spoke of her anger at finding out her phone may have been hacked by a private investigator working for the Rupert Murdoch tabloid.",
"The investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, had details of her phone and those of her parents, friends and former boyfriends, Church said police had told her.",
"She was testifying before a wide-ranging British government-backed inquiry into press ethics and practices in the country.",
"Sparked by the revelation that News of the World tabloid hacked into the voice mail of a murdered 13-year-old girl in search of stories, the Leveson Inquiry has been hearing from high-profile figures for more than a week.",
"Church described how upset she was at the leak of the news of her daughter's birth, the rifts it caused with her family and friends when she accused them of revealing the details, and her later guilt at realizing the source was probably hacking, not leaks from those close to her.",
"And she said falsehoods published in the press were particularly damaging because readers believe there are rules to prevent that from happening, \"So if they see it in print, it must be true -- and that's not the case.\"",
"Former Tony Blair spokesman Alastair Campbell is due to testify later this week, but a written copy of his opening statement appears to have leaked online.",
"Paul Staines, who blogs as Guido Fawkes, posted what he said was a copy of Campbell's testimony in which he speculates about the possibility that the Daily Mirror found out though phone hacking that Tony Blair's wife was pregnant.",
"\"I think it is at least possible that this is how the stories got out,\" Campbell says in the statement published by Staines.",
"Campbell said on Twitter Sunday he was \"genuinely shocked someone has seen fit to leak my statement to Leveson.\"",
"The Daily Mirror is not a Murdoch paper.",
"Piers Morgan was editor of the paper at the time of Cherie Blair's pregnancy, and he now hosts the show \"Piers Morgan Tonight\" on CNN.",
"Morgan, who has vigorously denied ordering phone hacking, is due to testify before the Leveson Inquiry at a later date yet to be determined.",
"Celebrities who have already testified before the inquiry include \"Harry Potter\" author J.K. Rowling and \"G.I.",
"Joe\" actress Sienna Miller, who both complained of being hounded by paparazzi.",
"Actor Hugh Grant also appeared before the panel, and he implied that police leaked information to the tabloid press.",
"He also accused the Mail on Sunday of hacking.",
"Police investigating phone hacking by journalists say that about 5,800 people, including celebrities, crime victims, politicians and members of the royal family, were targets of the practice by journalists in search of stories.",
"It involves illegally eavesdropping on voice mail by entering a PIN to access messages remotely."
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"NEW: People believe rules prevent falsehoods from being printed, Charlotte Church says .",
"Charlotte Church says a private investigator had her phone details .",
"Former Tony Blair spokesman Alastair Campbell is due to testify later this week .",
"Police say 5,800 people were targets of journalists looking for stories ."
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"(CNN) -- Next time a friend of yours calls up asking for their spare key, they may be looking for a Facebook password.",
"On Thursday, Facebook began testing a tool called Trusted Friends.",
"It lets a user specify between three and five pals on the social network (no more, no less) who can be counted on to pass along a special code if the user somehow gets locked out of his or her account.",
"It's essentially another way to regain access to your Facebook page if you forget your password.",
"The option will show up on the \"account settings\" page for some of Facebook's 800 million users during the next few weeks, the company said in a statement.",
"When someone who has enabled the feature is unable to login using the normal means, they can click \"forgot my password\" and request that keys be sent to their specified friends via Facebook message.",
"The user must then retrieve all the codes, or keys, and enter them into fields on Facebook's password-recovery page to log back in, a Facebook spokeswoman said in an e-mail.",
"This makes the process sort of like a scavenger hunt, although one with a less-than-exciting reward.",
"The Trusted Friends feature will not be mandatory.",
"It joins other account-recovery features such as the ubiquitous \"forgot my password\" and security questions, as well as less conventional methods, like identifying friends' faces in pictures or recovering passwords via text message.",
"Facebook also began testing another security feature on Thursday for setting different passwords on each site that takes Facebook credentials."
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"One allows users to specify people who can help with account emergencies .",
"Users must collect three to five keys from friends in order to log in ."
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"(CNN) -- English Premier League form side Tottenham are on the brink of going out of the Europa League after Greek outfit PAOK Salonika claimed a shock 2-1 Group A victory at White Hart Lane.",
"Tottenham have been in superb form in recent weeks, winning nine of their last 10 league games to move up to third place in the table.",
"However, their European form has not been as strong, and this month's 1-0 reverse at Rubin Kazan was followed by another defeat on Wednesday to leave Harry Redknapp's side needing PAOK to win their last game next month in order to help Tottenham achieve qualification through to the last 32.",
"The visitors went ahead in the sixth minute when an unmarked Dimitris Salpingidis guided the ball home from Giorgos Georgiadis' right-wing cross.",
"And PAOK doubled their lead seven minutes later when Stefanos Athanasiadis tapped home from close range after more suspect Spurs marking.",
"The home side pulled one back seven minutes before the break when Luka Modric scored from the penalty spot after Konstantinos Stafylidis was dismissed for handball on the line.",
"However, despite having a numerical advantage for the whole of the second half, Tottenham failed to find the goal they needed.",
"The result means PAOK are top on 11 points and have qualified for the last 32 knockout stage.",
"Russian side Rubin Kazan are second on 10 points after thrashing Shamrock Rovers 4-1 in the other group game.",
"For Spurs to qualify, they will now need to win heavily at Shamrock in their final match, and hope Rubin Kazan are beaten at PAOK in the other tie.",
"Also through to the last 32 are 2010 winners Atletico Madrid, after the Spanish side won 1-0 at Celtic in Group I thanks to a superb long-range strike from Turkish international Arda Turan on the half-hour mark.",
"The other match between Rennes of France and Italians Udinese ended 0-0, a result that means Atletico have qualified with 10 points ahead of the final round of matches.",
"Udinese are second on eight points and they will secure their place in the knockout round if they draw at home to Celtic in their final game, with the Scottish side needing a victory to progress.",
"Group C is the only group where both qualifiers have now been decided, after PSV Eindhoven won 3-0 at Legia Warsaw.",
"That result means both sides have gone through, on 13 points and nine points respectively.",
"Romanians Rapid Bucharest needed to beat Israeli side Hapoel Tel-Aviv at home to retain any hope, but they were beaten 3-1.",
"Another side to reach the knockout stage is Standard Liege, who saw off Germans Hannover 2-0 to make it three wins and two draws from their five Group B matches so far.",
"The Belgian outfit are on 11 points, three ahead of Hannover, who need a point from their final match against Vorskla Poltava to also secure qualification.",
"Ukrainian side Metalist Kharkov continued their impressive run of form in the competition, thumping Austria Vienna 4-1 to secure their qualification from Group G with 13 points from their five matches.",
"Malmo and AZ Alkmaar drew 0-0 in the other match to leave Alkmaar needing to beat Kharkov in their final match to join their opponents in the last 32.",
"However, there is all to play for in Group H, with any two of three teams still able to qualify.",
"Last year's beaten finalists Sporting Braga beat Birmingham City 1-0, while a remarkable match in Slovenia saw Bruges of Belgium fight back from 3-0 down to win 4-3 in injury time against Maribor.",
"That means Bruges and Braga are level on 10 points and they play each other in the final match.",
"A draw there will see them both qualify with Birmingham, who are three points behind in third place, needing to beat Maribor in their final match and hoping the other game does not end in a draw.",
"There was a suprise result in the English League Cup quarterfinals, where Manchester United were beaten 2-1 at home by Championship side Crystal Palace in extra time.",
"That result means Palace now play fellow-second tier side Cardiff City in the semifinals, while Premier League giants Liverpool and Manchester City face each other in the second semifinal."
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"Tottenham on the brink of Europa League elimination after a 2-1 defeat by PAOK Salonika .",
"They need to win their final Group A match and hope PAOK beat Russians Rubin Kazan .",
"2010 winners Atletico Madrid clinch their place in the last 32 after a 1-0 victory at Celtic ."
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"(WIRED) -- Google's Maps team has made fantastic advances in surveying and mapping seemingly every square inch of navigable ground on the planet.",
"But for mobile users, those maps have always stopped just short of indoor spaces -- until now.",
"Google Maps 6.0 for Android launched Tuesday with a bold initiative: indoor mapping.",
"Partnering at launch with a selection of businesses and public service structures, the new mobile Maps version allows users to see the entire layout of a mapped building, switch between floor plans if the structure has multiple levels, and locate indoor points of interest like retail stores, bathrooms and ATMs.",
"Obviously, indoor mapping is only useful when the building you're navigating is big enough to warrant it.",
"To this end, Google has partnered with more than 25 major businesses that handle large crowds on a regular basis -- major travel sites like San Francisco International and Chicago's O'Hare airports, as well as giant retailers like Macy's and Bloomingdale's.",
"Considering the layers of thick concrete and steel holding up some of these buildings, it's been difficult for Google to get its location-aware technology up to snuff.",
"\"GPS is unreliable and doesn't work well indoors,\" said Maps project manager Steve Lee in an interview.",
"\"We used similar information to how we've implemented the navigation 'blue dot' feature in the past, and we've been able to improve the accuracy indoors, at an accuracy of about 5 to 10 meters.\"",
"While half of the initiative begins in U.S. structures, Google is simultaneously launching in Japan, covering Tokyo's massive underground subway network and retail shopping centers (an area where new visitors definitely need a map).",
"While version 6.0 isn't covering U.S. transit, Lee says the Japanese transit coverage \"can give us a sense for what's in store for the future.\"",
"While it's just a beginning, Google has also launched a beta tool that allows businesses to upload their own floor plans to the Maps database.",
"Slowly but surely, Google hopes to entice more businesses and major indoor areas of interest -- both small and large -- to opt in for indoor mapping.",
"Of course, these are private spaces, not freely accessible public roads, so it's an initiative for the long haul.",
"The update is currently available in the Android Market for phones and tablets running Android version 2.1 and up.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2011 Wired.com."
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"New mobile Maps version allows users to see the entire layout of a building .",
"Google has partnered with more than 25 major businesses ."
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"(CNN) -- The Arkansas weatherman found last week in a hot tub alongside a man's lifeless, naked body is hoping autopsy results and other evidence will soon clear his name, his lawyer said Monday.",
"Mark Hampton said his client, Brett Cummins, resigned Friday from his position as a meteorologist at KARK, which is based in Little Rock.",
"\"The station was getting continuing inquiries, and Brett thought it would be best if he resigned,\" Hampton said, adding that the resignation was done orally after his client contacted the station.",
"In a statement on its website, KARK confirmed that Cummins' tenure at the station ended Friday afternoon.",
"Authorities have not charged him, or anyone else, in the death of Dexter Paul Williams, 24.",
"Christopher Barbour, 36, said he awoke Monday morning in his home outside Little Rock to find Williams' body at the bottom of an empty tub, his face blue and purple and a chain around his neck, a Maumelle Police Department report said.",
"Cummins, 33, was asleep next to the corpse, whose head was lying behind the meteorologist's shoulder, Barbour told police, according to a report by Officer Gregory Roussie.",
"The witness said he awakened Cummins, who screamed and ran to the living room, where he vomited next to the couch after noticing Williams' discolored face and cold skin.",
"The previous night, Williams and Cummins arrived together at Barbour's house, Barbour told police.",
"Once there, the three had drunk alcohol and snorted illegal narcotics, though Barbour could not identify the drugs, according to the report.",
"Last week, Williams' family issued a statement through their lawyer Thomas Nichols that said, \"Dex had a very loving but trusting heart.",
"Anyone who knew him would agree that he was easily influenced.\"",
"Hampton had identified Williams as Cummins' friend, but on Monday the lawyer said that -- heeding his advice -- the weatherman had not contacted the dead man's family.",
"No arrests had been made, but an investigation is under way, Lt. Jim Hansard said last week.",
"\"We don't have a crime -- yet,\" he said.",
"\"That's part of the investigation.\"",
"Arkansas State Crime Laboratory Director Kermit Channell said Monday that Williams' autopsy examination \"should be finished up,\" anticipating that a final report will be ready \"in the next week or so.\"",
"After that, it will up to the local law enforcement agency overseeing the case -- the Maumelle Police Department -- to decide whether the autopsy results will remain confidential or be released to the public, Channell said.",
"CNN's Joe Sutton contributed to this report."
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"Given all the inquiries to KARK, Cummins \"thought it ... best\" if he quit, adds the attorney .",
"He was found in a tub one week ago alongside a dead body, according to a police report .",
"No one has been arrested, and lawyer says he hopes inquiry will clear his client ."
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"(CNN) -- Reports have surfaced again in the past week that Facebook is working on a phone.",
"The latest news on the long-rumored project is that Facebook has abandoned its plan to work on both the hardware and software, as Apple does, and instead will partner with hardware manufacturer HTC.",
"The Facebook phone's software, meanwhile, will be a modified version of Google's Android.",
"The question is: Why? Why would a social network want to compete in the cell phone business?",
"And how can it, given that Apple, Google and others already seem to have the market wrapped up?",
"Does anyone want a Facebook phone?",
"Perhaps Facebook users are clamoring for a new socially connected phone?",
"Nope. Judging by the reaction to the news around the Web this past week, a good number of tech commentators and Facebook users aren't the slightest bit keen on the idea of Facebook releasing a cell phone.",
"Privacy concerns are among the top objections.",
"Facebook already has enough information about us, some people fear, and buying a Facebook phone would surely provide the social-networking giant with even more control over our personal data.",
"In fact, an informal poll found that 80% of respondents did not want a Facebook phone.",
"Only 7.8% said they'd consider it.",
"If there's very little demand for a Facebook phone, then why pursue the idea?",
"To find the answer, it helps to consider the biggest growth sectors in consumer technology.",
"While social networking is a large-scale trend, the growth of mobile phones is perhaps a larger one.",
"Other tech giants -- Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google -- have all made their claims here.",
"Facebook has not. In fact, Facebook is a laggard in mobile networking: Its iPad app launched a full 18 months after the groundbreaking tablet debuted.",
"That's a lifetime in the fast-paced world of tech.",
"App stores .",
"This mobile megatrend breaks down into a series of smaller trends.",
"Take app stores, for instance.",
"The app store is now the dominant way to distribute software to devices: The companies that manage these stores control the future of computing.",
"Facebook's Silicon Valley rivals, Apple and Google, own the largest app stores, while Amazon is likely to see success building its own app store on top of Google's Android.",
"Facebook once looked to be the winner in app distribution -- the Facebook Platform showed huge promise -- but now it must go through its competitors to get its software on these devices.",
"By building its own alternative to mobile app stores, either on top of Android or using HTML5 apps on the Web, Facebook might get back in the game.",
"Mobile payments .",
"It's often been said that if Facebook were a country, it would be one of the most populous in the world.",
"Facebook would love for that \"country\" to have an economy to match, and that means having all its users embrace Facebook Credits.",
"Meanwhile, using your phone instead of your credit card is set to be a huge trend in 2012 thanks to the addition of \"tap to pay\" technology in some handsets.",
"It's the biggest change in payments technology since the credit card, and Facebook Credits doesn't stand a chance.",
"Instead, rival Google is plowing ahead with Google Wallet, which when combined with Google's Android operating system could make Google a leader in this hot market.",
"Social networking .",
"Could the growth of mobile Web browsing undermine Facebook's leadership here?",
"Facebook's closest competitors for the social crown are Twitter and Google+.",
"So what would happen if Google were to put Google+ right into Android, the world's most popular mobile operating system?",
"For Facebook, that could be disastrous.",
"Google+ would come baked in to your phone, but getting Facebook would require an additional download.",
"A win-win? So why is Facebook making a phone if nobody wants to buy one?",
"Perhaps because it has to: If Facebook can't compete with Google and Apple in mobile technology, it may find itself on the losing side of some of consumer tech's greatest battles.",
"I, for one, support the effort: If Facebook succeeds, we all benefit from more competition in the smartphone market.",
"And if Facebook fails, we lose nothing.",
"I'd even be willing to bet on the likely outcome.",
"Facebook won't dominate the phone market, but it will figure out new ways to make our phones and our applications more social.",
"That sounds like a positive outcome for all."
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"Informal poll: 80% of respondents don't want a Facebook phone .",
"Facebook Credits don't stand a chance against \"tap to pay\" tech in some handsets .",
"Despite its size, Facebook lags in mobile networking .",
"Cashmore: If Facebook succeeds, we all benefit; if it fails, we lose nothing ."
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"Pascagoula, Mississippi (CNN) -- A lack of screening of oil spill cleanup workers meant a sex offender got a job, and left him free to rape a colleague according to a Mississippi county sheriff.",
"A CNN investigation into the incident reveals that basic background checks were not done on those hired to remove oil from the beaches in and around Pascagoula.",
"Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd told CNN he was shocked when he met with the head of BP security for the area several weeks before the alleged rape took place.",
"He said the BP representative told him that only drug screenings, not background checks, were being conducted on the cleanup workers.",
"\"I said, 'You're kidding me.'",
"He said, 'No.' He said, 'There's so many of them, we were told to do drug screens and that was it.'",
"And I said, 'Well, that's not good at all.'",
"\" Byrd said he told the BP official that \"you're going to have every type of person coming in here looking for a job, and you're going to have the criminal element in here, and we're not going to know who we're dealing with if we don't do background checks on these people.\"",
"\"It's sad because you got a victim now by a sex offender, and he's in our jail.",
"Had we have known this, he would have been arrested before the crime could have been committed,\" said Byrd, who also said that if asked, his department would have done the background checks for free.",
"Rundy Charles Robertson, 41, who faces charges of sexual battery and failure to register as a sex offender, is in the Jackson County, Mississippi, jail with bail set at $505,000.",
"He told police that he had consensual sex with the woman.",
"He has not yet entered a plea.",
"Robertson has a criminal history dating back to 1991, according to police records.",
"He was put on the national sex offender registry for a 1996 conviction for contributing to the delinquency of a minor in Louisiana.",
"He is also on probation after being convicted in 2003 in Georgia for cruelty to children.",
"Read Boudreau's blog post on background checks for spill workers .",
"Robertson had been supervising a crew of cleanup workers, including the alleged victim.",
"She told CNN he offered to take her home one day in June because she was not feeling well.",
"However, she said, when he dropped her off, he asked to use the bathroom in her motel room.",
"When he came out, she said, he raped her.",
"The woman told CNN she is scared and angry that this happened.",
"\"If they would have ran the background checks, they wouldn't have a man like that working,\" she said.",
"\"Emotionally, it's really, really messed me up.",
"I get real upset at times, I go through anxiety.",
"I feel angry, I feel dirty.",
"I don't understand what gave him the right to take something -- or felt he could do what he wanted. ...",
"I'm scared. I'm real scared.\"",
"She said she was laid off and is now unemployed.",
"\"I find it unbelievable because BP and their subcontractors had relationships with all local law enforcement,\" said Adam Miller, the woman's attorney.",
"\"They had the opportunity and the ability to clearly check all of these people that they were hiring and bringing in to ensure the safety of the public.\"",
"He said since the incident happened in June, it's been \"a living hell for her.\"",
"\"She gave up her housing where she was living to come here,\" Miller said.",
"\"Now she's been raped, she doesn't have a job, and everybody walked away.\"",
"BP hired a company called Miller Environmental Group for the beach cleanup project.",
"Miller hired Aerotek to find workers.",
"In a statement to CNN, BP spokesman Robert Wine said, \"BP does conduct full checks on its employees, and under normal business conditions can make it a part of the contract for full backgrounds to be conducted by our long-term contractors.",
"This was not done for all contractors in this response; the responsibility lies with the employing company for their own staff.",
"The requirement on sub-contractors to BP's contractors is one further step beyond BP's scope of control.\"",
"Jeff Reichert, the general counsel for Aerotek, the company that hired Robertson, said his company was only following the contract it had with Miller Environmental Group, which did not require background checks.",
"\"We are a staffing company.",
"Our policy is at the client's request,\" Reichert said.",
"He said only drug screenings and physicals were done.",
"\"We are not liable for anything that happens,\" he said.",
"\"Once we deliver the people to be supervised by our client, we don't have anything to do with them anymore.\"",
"He said, \"I don't know what Miller [Environmental Group's] obligation to BP is.",
"It's BP's project.",
"We are providing them the people they asked for per the contract.\"",
"In a statement sent to CNN on Thursday afternoon, Aerotek said that about 23 days after the incident, Miller \"informed Aerotek that it wanted criminal background checks conducted on current and future temporary employees assigned to the oil spill clean-up effort.\"",
"However, a tropical storm hit the area, and \"all Aerotek temporary workers assigned to the clean-up efforts at this site were terminated.\"",
"\"Aerotek's thoughts and support continue to go out to the alleged victim and her family,\" the statement said.",
"CNN contacted Miller Environmental Group but did not get an immediate response.",
"Leonard Nelson, who was Robertson's manager at Aerotek, said, \"There were quite a few, quite a few drug dealers from what I saw, people from all walks of life.",
"There was no way that there was any kind of comprehensive background checks done.",
"There's no way. You had guys walking in who actually had collars on, you know, the bands for house arrests. ...",
"I don't know about you, but that strikes me as people you don't want working here.\"",
"Several other police departments on the Gulf Coast contacted by CNN said they conducted background checks.",
"Euris Dubois, chief of police in Grand Isle, Louisiana, said he contacted BP and contractors about background checks.",
"\"My residents in Grand Isle were concerned about these people,\" Dubois said.",
"\"Everybody was kind of scared.",
"So we started running background checks.\"",
"He said about one-fourth of the workers had a criminal history, but most of the crimes were misdemeanors.",
"He said there were three registered sex offenders who were closely supervised by his officers.",
"In LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, the sheriff's office screened about 1,500 workers and found 20 sex offenders and others with active arrest warrants, Sgt.",
"Lesley Hill said.",
"\"Many workers who heard of the screenings did not show up for work,\" she said.",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"Suspect is jailed in Mississippi, charged with sexual battery, not registering as sex offender ."
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"Bangkok (CNN) -- More than two months of floods and 8 million people affected -- the disaster in Thailand is immense; the aid effort a challenge.",
"Much of the effort appears to be internally driven.",
"Thais across the country are donating food, water and clothing to help their countrymen in the worst-hit areas.",
"Donations have far surpassed previous years.",
"Floods happen every year here, but these are the worst in half a century and have left at least 283 dead.",
"The Thai military and aid groups share the responsibility of distributing the life-saving supplies.",
"In the ancient city of Ayutthara, one of the worst-hit regions, military trucks move slowly down the main street, cutting through a constant river of water, passing out aid to those who can get close.",
"Anyone who has a boat is using it to transport aid or to help neighbors carrying their possessions as water levels rise and engulf homes.",
"Those who don't have a boat are making do with rubber tires or even slabs of Styrofoam.",
"There is a true sense of teamwork between the communities.",
"The Bangkok suburb of Sam Kok is sandwiched between the overflowing Chao Phraya River and the 2.5-meter floodwalls that are so far successfully protecting the inner and commercial part of the capital.",
"The water here has nowhere to go and levels are rising fast.",
"La Sinsap, 60, has had to move into the local temple as his house is completely submerged.",
"He says the situation is dire and help is not getting there fast enough to those who don't live on the main street.",
"\"It's very bad around here,\" he told CNN.",
"\"We don't have enough to eat.\"",
"Temples are playing a significant role in the disaster.",
"Thailand is overwhelmingly Buddhist and many temples, although flooded themselves, have some dry floors on higher ground and have opened their doors to those in need.",
"Monk Somkuan Thanajaro says it will take a long time to fix the waterlogged temple where Sinsap is staying.",
"Huge Buddhas sit in stagnant water along what was once a river bank.",
"The worry is if the water doesn't recede soon, the damage to these historic monuments could be permanent.",
"But Thanajaro's first concern is helping his community, many of whom are now sleeping in the temple.",
"\"Whenever we get donations, we share it all with the villagers,\" he says.",
"The international community is responding to the disasters playing out across Thailand.",
"China has donated $1.5 million and the United States $1 million.",
"The U.S. is also sending 26 helicopters to help the relief effort, invaluable as more roads turn to rivers and become impassable.",
"United Nations agencies also are on standby, activating their assessment teams and contingency planning in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.",
"The World Health Organization has offered emergency health kits."
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"8 million people are affected by the floods, which have killed 283 people .",
"Thais are leading the aid effort, providing their countrymen with food, water and clothing .",
"Temples have become a place of refuge for those whose homes are submerged ."
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"(CNN) -- The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), a body which represents soccer players in England and Wales, has sent ex-professionals a guide on how to handle mental health issues following the death of Wales manager Gary Speed.",
"Speed, who made over 500 appearances in the English Premier League during a 22-year playing career, was found dead at his home on Sunday, sending British football into mourning.",
"Although it is not known whether Speed was struggling with depression or any mental health issues, the PFA, which is linked to a similar body in Scotland, has taken the step of making \"The Footballers' Guidebook\" available to 50,000 former players.",
"The guide, which includes comic strip style drawings and case studies from former players, was sent to current players in July.",
"\"Whether you're a king, a prince or a pauper, or a top sports star or the man in the street -- everybody is a human being and can have issues that they need help with,\" PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor told CNN.",
"The issue of depression in football was highlighted by the death of German national team goalkeeper Robert Enke, who took his own life in 2009 after a long struggle with the illness.",
"\"The PFA are going to do even more work to try and make sure that people know they can turn to somebody in such times,\" explained Taylor.",
"\"We've got to do all we can.\" \"The death of Gary is so devastating , we've got to do all we can to make sure it doesn't happen again.\"",
"Speed represented Leeds United, Everton, Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers in England's top flight, before dropping into the second tier to play for, and later manage, Sheffield United.",
"The former midfielder is the most-capped outfield player in Welsh history, having played for his country on 85 occasions.",
"As a manager, Speed guided Wales to 45th in the world rankings, their highest position.",
"A minutes applause will be held before all of this weekend's English Premier League matches in honor of Speed."
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"The PFA have sent 50,000 members advice on coping with mental illness .",
"The decision comes in the wake of Wales' manager Gary Speed's recent death .",
"It is unclear whether Speed was experiencing depression or any mental illness .",
"The guide was issued to current professional players in July ."
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"Niger (CNN) -- Dark shadows were lifting themselves off the sidewalk, slowly stretching, shaking the slumber from their limbs.",
"It was 6:15 a.m. in Niger's capital, Niamey, and I was setting off on a 12-hour drive, leaving its lush boulevards for Agadez, the sands of the Sahara, the desert trails to Libya, and the chaos Moammar Gadhafi's war there is causing.",
"The sun had yet to raise itself over the roofs but already the first hints of day were breaking the sleep of the destitute at the roadside.",
"I have seen poverty before, but even shrouded in the predawn gray, there is no mistaking it: People with little of anything save a public place to lay their heads.",
"Despite tough lives, the people here are warm, welcoming and hospitable.",
"\"Bonjour,\" they say, hinting at their recent French colonial past.",
"It seems to have overlaid, in part at least, their far earlier conversion to Islam.",
"\"As-Salaamu Aleikum,\" the Arabic greeting, is rarely used.",
"Long French loaves -- not Arabic flatbread -- are on sale at tiny stalls.",
"We've already passed through the checkpoint on the outskirts of the capital before the countryside begins to take shape.",
"Gendarmes in what look like fading French military fatigues checked the car's documents and a man in orange overalls took a few dollars' road toll for the 950 kilometers, or 600 miles, we will drive.",
"The rope blocking our way across the road was dropped and we were released onto a strangely empty highway.",
"Slowly the countryside began to show is colors.",
"Gray shaded to blue, to a dark olive green.",
"Then in an instant the sun smothers everything, washing away the stains of the night.",
"Our journey lurches into gear, no longer feeling like we're sluggishly passing anonymous vegetation.",
"Our momentum, at least in our minds, increases as we streak past the newly revealed rich green towering maize, the thickly leaved luxuriant trees.",
"This land is green and fertile.",
"Everything is vibrant in a way Timothy Leary could truly appreciate.",
"In the villages, strange, bulging, round mud buildings - like an oversize, slightly squashed rugby ball - mingle with mud and straw shacks.",
"They have no door, only a scant straw roof: grain stores hinting at the bounty of the land.",
"Village after village, we pass them.",
"The more there are, the bigger they are, the more grain is held and the more prosperous the people who own them.",
"Lest this give an illusion of wealth, consider this: Most children we see are barefoot, and that's almost half Niger's people.",
"Within a few hours of leaving the capital, none of the villages have electricity, running water, sanitation, a building that's not made out of mud and straw.",
"The slightly larger towns have slightly more.",
"But that's all. The farther we go, the villages become fewer and farther between.",
"The muddy ponds, courtesy of the recent rains, shrink, and the striking longhorn cattle and goats jostle for a place to slake their thirst.",
"The tarmac on the highway begins to break apart.",
"We slam into potholes, lurching, juddering forward.",
"The bright greens are gone, the vegetation paler and browner here.",
"The great trees have shrunk to tiny shrubs.",
"We are still 200 miles from Agadez.",
"Grass covers some of the land, the grain huts are long gone, and quickly so is the road.",
"We are no longer dodging potholes, we are driving in one big long one.",
"The cell phone service that has surprisingly kept us company so much of the journey has also disappeared.",
"In over a hundred miles, we pass but two tiny towns.",
"This is what it means to be remote, where the land and sun are so unforgiving none can live, and this is where the bonds that tie a nation together begin to fray.",
"The crowds that gathered about the car with rounded faces we saw in the morning have by afternoon given way to the thinner, lighter features of the Touareg.",
"Those features are often hard to see, shrouded as they are by turbans that wrap around the face.",
"By instinct, by life, by tradition, they are desert mountain people.",
"Twice in the past two decades, they've risen up in armed rebellion against the government.",
"Some joined Gadhafi's forces over the border in Libya.",
"The government in Niamey worries Libya's war will create instability in Niger.",
"Officials publicly say they fear Gadhafi's weapon stockpiles could be falling into al Qaeda's hands.",
"Privately there's another fear, that the newly liberated guns could one day be turned on the government in another Touareg rebellion.",
"But for now a Touareg rebellion seems the more distant possibility, because al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is exploiting the Arab spring and every crumb of opportunity that might fall unnoticed from the battlefield.",
"Their drug-, gun- and people-smuggling routes through the sparsely populated land we are crossing are hungry for the sustenance turmoil can bring.",
"The more confusion and chaos there is, the easier it is to keep their networks hidden.",
"It is these last few miles to Agadez that worry us the most.",
"Al Qaeda has kidnapped several foreigners in this remote region in the past few years.",
"We don't want to be unlucky names added to the list.",
"While our driver is holding up well, almost 12 hours at the wheel, our fuel light has been on for a while.",
"We've been running on reserve.",
"He stops to top up the tank from a solitary liter bottle of fuel we purchased earlier in the day.",
"There have been no milestones for a while and the sun is edging down to the dirt of the desert.",
"We're hoping Agadez will soon come into view.",
"How far can a four-wheel-drive off-road truck go on a liter of gas?",
"Then we see a red-topped stone marker come into view.",
"It reads 30 kilometers, 20 or so miles, to go.",
"And not a soul around.",
"We're racing the sun, our dwindling fuel and our fears.",
"Each bend in the road I hope will be our last.",
"Can the red light on the fuel gauge be any brighter?",
"Probably not; it's a trick of the fading light easily worked on tense, tired eyes.",
"Then, as if by clockwork, almost exactly 12 hours after we left Niamey, Agadez slips into view - low, dusty, dilapidated, but a delight to see.",
"Uniformed gendarmes and a man in orange overalls greet us at the checkpoint, lower the rope and wave, their job for the day almost done; there can be few more drivers behind us.",
"The litter-strewn streets are cluttered with vendors packing up their shabby wares.",
"Dust and smoke cloud the air, making it hard to see much of this town.",
"With better light tomorrow we'll get a good look at this place where Gadhafi is rumored to have spent millions paving roads, putting up lights, even building a hospital.",
"A few hours later as I settle in to my bed, I can only wonder at the irony.",
"Gadhafi is out there somewhere on the run, and I'll be getting a good night's sleep in the Agadez hotel he built."
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"Moammar Gadhafi is rumored to have spent millions on Niger's infrastructure ."
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"(CNN) -- Inter Milan's defense of their Serie A title may have taken a fatal blow with a 1-0 defeat at arch-rivals Juventus Sunday night.",
"It left Leonardo's men eight points adrift of city rivals AC Milan, who romped to a 4-0 home win over Parma 24 hours earlier, but they still have a game in hand.",
"Alessandro Matri scored the winner for improving Juve in Turin after 30 minutes to improve their chances of claiming a Champions League spot.",
"Frederik Sorensen's cross was missed by Ivan Cordoba and Matri headed home from close in.",
"It was only the second defeat for Inter under their new Brazilian coach who replaced Rafael Benitez and they offered little as an attacking threat.",
"The best chance came eight minutes from the end as Samuel Eto'o played a one-two with Wesley Sneijder but Gianluigi Buffon came out sharply to block the Cameroon star's effort.",
"Earlier, Lazio maintained their title bid with a 2-0 win at Brescia to stay third, seven points adrift.",
"Goals from Alvaro Gonzalez after 18 minutes and Libor Kozak just before the hour mark secured three vital points for the capital side.",
"Coach Edy Reja asked the fans to be patient after his side have slipped in recent weeks.",
"\"We were top and then second and then we lost a few places but there are times throughout a long season in which it's normal to have a bad spell,\" he told AFP.",
"Udinese also kept up their pursuit of a European place with a 3-0 win at struggling Cesena.",
"Antonio Di Natale scored a double allied to a strike by Gokhan Inler as they stay fifth.",
"But Palermo saw their hopes nosedive with a shock 4-2 defeat at home to Fiorentina."
] | [
"Juventus beat Italian champions Inter Milan 1-0 in Serie A clash .",
"Alessandro Mati heads winning goal on the half hour mark .",
"Lazio stay third after a 2-0 win at Brescia but seven points behind leaders AC Milan ."
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"(CNN) -- German Bundesliga side Schalke have announced Huub Stevens as the replacement for recently-departed coach Ralf Rangnick, on the same day that former Danish international Michael Laudrup left his role as coach of Spanish club Real Mallorca.",
"Rangnick, 53, guided Schalke to the semifinals of the European Champions League last season but left the Veltins Arena earlier this month, citing fatigue as his reason for leaving the club.",
"Dutchman Stevens, 57, previously spent six years as Schalke coach between 1996 and 2002, guiding the Gelsenkirchen outfit to a UEFA Cup triumph against Italian giants Inter Milan in 1997.",
"Stevens, who has also had spells in charge of Hertha Berlin, Hamburg and PSV Eindhoven, has signed a two-year deal.",
"\"Huub Stevens, who coached the Royal Blues from 1996 to 2002, has returned to his former stomping ground with immediate effect,\" read a statement on the club's official website.",
"\"Stevens has put pen to paper on a contract to 30 June 2013.\"",
"Schalke currently sit fifth in Germany's top division, having won four and lost three of their opening seven matches.",
"As Schalke appointed a new coach, Laudrup ended his one-year tenure in charge of Mallorca.",
"Laudrup, who represented Denmark on 104 occasions, announced his decision to leave the club at a press conference on Tuesday.",
"The former Spartak Moscow coach made the decision due to his relationship with club owner Lorenzo Serra Ferrer becoming damaged beyond repair.",
"\"This situation cannot continue like this,\" Laudrup, 47, said.",
"\"From now on, Mallorca will be whatever it is Serra Ferrer wants.\"",
"Laudrup guided Mallorca to a 17th-place finish last season as the one-time Copa del Rey winners avoided relegation by just one point.",
"The club sold star midfielder Jonathan de Guzman to Spanish rivals Villarreal in August and Laudrup saw his assistant Erik Larsen sacked on Monday.",
"\"Yesterday one of my assistants was fired,\" he said.",
"\"Once again, it is very difficult -- if not impossible -- to find the peace required to work here.",
"\"The team is hurt by this situation.",
"What we need is calm and I cannot go home every night, angry, disappointed.",
"I have a family.\" Laudrup's final game in charge was a 2-1 win over Real Sociedad on Sunday, and his former charges travel to Osasuna on Saturday."
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"Huub Stevens hass returned to Schalke after departure of Ralf Rangnick .",
"Dutch coach Stevens previously had a six-year spell in Gelsenkirchen .",
"Michael Laudrup has left Spanish outfit Real Mallorca .",
"Laudrup resigns after disagreement with club's owner ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- The much anticipated trial of former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib El Adly has been postponed until August 3 -- the same day Egypt's ousted president is scheduled to stand trial.",
"El Adly and former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak face charges of killing pro-democracy protesters during the revolution that started six months ago.",
"El Adly's trial at a Cairo court was expected to be carried live on state television Monday.",
"This is second time the trial was postponed amid frustrations among protesters in Tahrir Square who demand speedy trials and swift judgments for detained officials from Mubarak's regime.",
"Judge Adel Abdel Salam Gomaa announced the postponement to a court room packed with people -- many of whom had already learned about the decision on Egyptian State TV.",
"\"The decision was leaked by the lawyers before the hearing and broadcast before the defendants and judge even entered the court -- which was a big mistake, \" said Aly Hassan, a judicial consultant with the Ministry of Justice.",
"El Adly appeared with a blue uniform because he had been sentenced to 12 years for corruption charges.",
"Six of his former assistants, who were also set to stand trial for allegedly killing protesters, appeared in white suits.",
"The authorities asked all journalists to leave the court except for Egyptian TV staff in charge of broadcasting the trial.",
"\"Do they expect us to believe that Mubarak will appear with Adly in two weeks at a court when he has been in Sharm el-Sheikh for six months?\"",
"said Noor Noor, an activist and son of presidential candidate Ayman Noor.",
"The 83-year-old ex-ruler fell into a coma earlier this month, Mubarak lawyer Farid El Deeb told CNN.",
"He later regained consciousness, said Mohamed Fathalla, the head of the Sharm el-Sheikh facility where Mubarak was recuperating.",
"Hassan said Mubarak and El Adly are expected to be tried in the coastal city due to security issues.",
"More than 800 protesters were killed during the Egyptian revolution when pro-democracy protests forced Mubarak to step down on February 11.",
"CNN's Amir Ahmed contributed to this report."
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"Former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib El Adly faces charges of killing protesters .",
"His new trial date is the same day as ousted President Hosni Mubarak's trial .",
"Protesters are angry after demanding speedy trials and swift judgments on regime members .",
"Six of El Adly's former assistants are also accused of killing protesters ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- As some opposition groups met with the Egyptian government in an effort to find a diplomatic solution to its political crisis, reports continued to surface of security forces detaining journalists and human rights activists.",
"On Sunday, an Al-Jazeera English correspondent was detained by the military on Sunday, though Egyptian leaders insisted that journalists and others were free to carry out their work in Egypt.",
"He was released later that night, Al-Jazeera said.",
"Al-Jazeera English's Cairo-based correspondent, Ayman Mohyeldin, was detained from early Sunday afternoon until night, network producer Tristan Redman told CNN.",
"Another correspondent, Sherine Tadros, was held at a military checkpoint near the television station, but released within the hour, he said.",
"Mohyeldin was near Tahrir Square, the focal point of protests against the Egyptian government, when he was detained.",
"Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq told CNN that authorities have been told \"not to bother\" human rights activists and journalists working at anti-government protests.",
"If there have been such problems, they are \"not intended,\" Shafiq told CNN's Candy Crowley.",
"Arrests of journalists and human rights activists \"are not allowed at all.\"",
"A U.S. embassy spokesperson in Cairo told CNN that the American government has raised the issue of the treatment of journalists with the Egyptian government \"consistently, and will continue to do so.\"",
"Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's ambassador to the United States, also said the Egyptian government is opposed to violence against journalists of human rights workers.",
"\"The government has denied its involvement in acts of violence and has promised a full and wide investigation that will be transparent and that will find those responsible,\" he said on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" Sunday.",
"All forms of violence have been condemned, he said.",
"Asked whether the government had ordered a crackdown on journalists, Shoukry said, \"I think that whatever the case, we must resort to a full investigative process.\"",
"He said that such accusations were based on \"assumptions\" and not proof.",
"A leading international human rights group says military police raided the offices of Hisham Mubarak Law Center late last week and arrested some 35 journalists and human rights activists documenting the crisis in Egypt.",
"They were freed Friday after nearly two days in military custody, Amnesty International said.",
"\"We welcome the news that these activists have been freed, but we are outraged that they were detained in the first place and by the manner in which they have been treated,\" said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa director.",
"He said the whereabouts of several other activists detained in separate incidents are unknown.",
"\"The Egyptian authorities must now carry out an urgent independent investigation into why human rights activists monitoring protests in Cairo were targeted in this way, and who gave the orders for it,\" Smart said.",
"In recent days, some have accused President Hosni Mubarak of orchestrating the assaults to suppress international coverage of bloodshed by pro-government operatives against peaceful protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square.",
"Journalists attempting to cover unrest in Egypt also reported being beaten, arrested and harassed by security forces and police on Thursday, leading to sharply limited television coverage of the protests.",
"Along with Al-Jazeera, other news outlets -- including the BBC, Al-Arabiya, ABC News, the Washington Post, Fox News and CNN -- said members of their staffs had been attacked or otherwise targeted.",
"Besides Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch also reported that staffers were detained.",
"U.S. State Department officials told CNN earlier that they had information that Egypt's Interior Ministry was behind the journalist detentions, citing reports from the U.S. Embassy in Egypt.",
"CNN's Pierre Bairin and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday challenged Republicans to \"fight as hard for middle-class families as you do for those who are more fortunate,\" telling a Pennsylvania crowd to push Congress to extend the payroll tax cut enacted a year ago.",
"Obama met with a family in Scranton, the birthplace of Vice President Joe Biden, then spoke at a nearby high school in what will be a battleground state in next year's presidential election.",
"Sounding the populist themes of his re-election bid so far, Obama complained that congressional Republicans were out of touch with mainstream American support for his jobs bill that included an extension of the payroll tax cut.",
"He noted Senate Republicans previously blocked debate on the plan, saying that \"their actions lately don't reflect who we are as a people.\"",
"A loud cheer erupted when Obama described the Democratic proposal to extend and expand the reduced payroll tax rate by saying: \"It is paid for by asking our wealthiest citizens to pay their fair share.\"",
"Noting the hard-line Republican opposition in deficit reduction negotiations to any tax increases for the wealthy, Obama urged the audience to ask its elected representatives \"are you willing to fight as hard for middle-class families as you do for those who are more fortunate?\"",
"\"Send your senators a message,\" Obama said to cheers.",
"\"Tell them don't be a grinch.",
"Don't be a grinch. Don't vote to raise taxes on working American during the holidays.\"",
"Economists say the payroll tax cut -- part of a congressional spending deal negotiated last December -- has contributed to the nation's economic recovery.",
"Congressional Republicans have indicated support for extending the lower payroll tax rate for another year, but differ with Obama and Democrats on covering the more than $200 billion price tag.",
"A Democratic bill under consideration by the Senate would assess a 3.25% tax on income above $1 million a year to cover the cost.",
"Republicans reject any tax increases and offered their alternative later Wednesday, calling for a freeze of federal salaries, reducing the federal workforce and preventing millionaires from getting food stamps and unemployment benefits.",
"\"Republicans will put aside their misgivings and support this extension, not because we believe as the President does that another short-term stimulus will turn this economy around ... but because we know it will give some relief to struggling workers out there who continue to need it nearly three years into this presidency,\" Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Wednesday on the Senate floor.",
"The Democratic surtax would hit wealthy Americans who create jobs, McConnell added, arguing such a strategy made no sense.",
"The debate, he said, is about \"whether we should help those who are struggling in a bad economy by punishing the private sector businesses that the American people are counting on to help turn this economy around.\"",
"The White House pushed back against the Republican argument.",
"Spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters traveling with Obama to Pennsylvania that the White House was open to Republican ideas on the legislation.",
"At the same time, Earnest noted that Republicans have defended Bush-era tax cuts for millionaires but now raised questions about helping ease the tax burden of working-class Americans.",
"On Tuesday, the new chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Alan Krueger, told reporters that the proposed surtax on incomes above $1 million \"would hit very few small businesses.\"",
"\"The vast majority -- one figure I saw was 99% of individuals with small business income -- would not be affected by this,\" Krueger said.",
"According to the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 121 million families have benefited from the payroll tax break, with an increase in take-home pay of $934 for the average worker.",
"Moody's Analytics estimated in August that letting the tax cut expire would reduce growth by as much as 0.5%.",
"It called extending the cut one of the \"most straightforward\" ways to \"reduce some of the coming fiscal restraint.\"",
"The Democrats' bill would extend and expand last year's tax break.",
"Payroll taxes, cut to 4.2% from 6.2% last year, would be lowered to 3.1% to provide middle class families with up to $1,500 more in their paychecks next year, Democrats said.",
"Their measure also would partially extend the break to employers, hoping that might spur hiring.",
"The price tag of the bill is about $265 billion, paid for by the 3.25% surtax on annual income above $1 million, according to Democratic aides.",
"Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada noted Tuesday that polls show a majority of Republican voters think wealthy Americans should pay more in taxes.",
"\"The only place in America that people don't want a fair system is Republicans here in the Senate,\" Reid said.",
"By contrast, the Republican plan would continue the 4.2% payroll tax rate for a year and pay for it by imposing a three-year freeze on federal salaries and reducing the federal workforce by 10% through replacing workers when they quit or retire.",
"In addition, the plan would require Americans earning $750,000 a year or more to pay higher premiums for Medicare, and also prevent millionaires from getting food stamps or unemployment compensation.",
"According to a Republican aide, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found that the Medicare, food stamp and unemployment provisions would save $9 billion over 10 years, mostly from the Medicare part.",
"A statement by Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson said the Republican plan would never pass i the Democrat-controlled Senate, \"but now that Republicans have reversed their position on the middle-class tax cut, we look forward to working with them to negotiate a consensus solution.\"",
"Obama's trip Wednesday was his 17th to Pennsylvania since taking office.",
"Obama won the state by a 10-point margin in 2008, but Pennsylvania is seen as largely in play in the 2012 contest.",
"A Franklin and Marshall College poll taken in early November indicated Obama ahead of potential Republican rivals in Pennsylvania in hypothetical 2012 general election showdowns.",
"However, many voters surveyed said they hadn't yet made up their mind about whom to support in the presidential election.",
"CNNMoney's Jeanne Sahadi and CNN's Ted Barrett, Kate Bolduan, Kevin Liptak and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Republicans propose spending, benefit cuts to pay for payroll tax cut extension .",
"A Democratic proposal would tax millionaires to pay for expanding the payroll tax cut .",
"Republicans oppose such a surtax and offer an alternative plan .",
"Failure to extend the payroll tax cut will cost average families about $1,000 a year ."
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"(Mashable) -- Stuart Hughes, the British jeweler known for his expensive remakes of popular gadgets, is at it again, this time with a diamond-clad iPhone 4 with a price tag of 5 million pounds, or roughly $8 million.",
"The handmade bezel contains approximately 500 individual flawless diamonds that total more than 100 carats.",
"There's 53 additional diamonds in the back, and the main navigation button is made of platinum, holding a single cut 7.4 carat pink diamond.",
"If you know diamonds, all of this probably means something to you.",
"To us, it just sounds really, really expensive.",
"Only two of these will ever be made, so don't worry: if you buy one, the chances of bumping into someone who has the exact same phone at a party are quite slim.",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(Parenting.com) -- Just as her son, Mason, is walking and gabbing like a champ -- the star of TV's \"Keeping Up With the Kardashians\" reveals the first rookie mistake that caused her to freak out and the new-mom moment that truly embarrassed her (thanks, sister Kim!)",
"'I make my own baby food' My mom bought me this amazing baby-food maker, the Beaba.",
"(Says mom Kris Jenner: \"Who knew she would be that excited about a baby-food maker?",
"I bought her a million handbags, and I never got that reaction.\")",
"I steam and puree fruits and vegetables, and they last for like four days.",
"Mason pretty much loves everything.",
"I gave him red beets, and it got all over his face, which made the funniest picture.",
"He also loves sweet potatoes, carrots, and yams.",
"Sometimes I mix pureed peaches, pears, bananas, or apples with plain yogurt or an all-natural organic jelly.",
"I have this great book called \"Super Baby Food\" that's full of ideas.",
"I should be on this Mason diet!",
"Parenting.com: Adorable outtakes from Kourtney and Mason's New York photo shoot .",
"'I have no desire to go out' Unless I'm working, I can't be away from him without feeling guilty.",
"It doesn't feel good or natural to be, so it's a struggle.",
"My friends keep saying, \"You and [boyfriend Scott Disick] should go out and eat or do something.\"",
"Recently my sister Kim watched Mason so we could go to dinner.",
"It took so long -- actually, it probably didn't take so long, but to us it felt like it took long -- we were like, should we just get pizza and go home?",
"Scott says he doesn't need to wine and dine me anymore.",
"We would be just as happy having a slice of pizza sitting in bed with our son.",
"'Mason sleeps in bed with me' If I've had a long day, then I have that time at night, which is really important to me.",
"Mason did fall on the floor once by mistake.",
"It was the worst moment.",
"I freaked out and looked online [to research the dangers associated with a baby falling off the bed].",
"He was fine but crying, so I e-mailed the doctor at four in the morning.",
"He wrote me right back, yet I stayed up all night to watch him sleep to make sure he was okay.",
"I've since lowered our mattress to the floor.",
"I put pillows all around the floor, too.",
"I am doing the best that I can, and I feel really confident in that.",
"Unless someone has walked in your shoes, you really can't judge.",
"Everyone needs to make the best choice for their life.",
"He's such a happy baby, and I really think sleeping together has something to do with that.",
"Parenting.com: 15 breastfeeding celebrity moms .",
"'I'm still nursing!'",
"I have to eat every couple of hours since I'm nursing.",
"If I don't, my body freaks out.",
"I went a little crazy for a week exercising to prepare for a photo shoot, and after that I was like, this isn't worth it.",
"I was exhausted and dehydrated.",
"I need to have energy for my son, and I haven't worked out since.",
"I take Mason on a lot of walks.",
"Carrying him around is like carrying 20 pounds all day.",
"'If I'm not working, neither is the nanny' I don't want to judge, but I've also met women who think it's cool to be out or away from their baby, and I don't get that, either.",
"When I am out or away, that's when I most want to be with Mason.",
"I do have help when I'm working.",
"It's important to have one person I trust, so I know Mason is taken care of.",
"But every time I am not working, he is with me.",
"Even on an airplane, he is with me even if the nanny is also on the plane.",
"Any time I can have with him, I am lucky to have.",
"I also have a big family.",
"Out of everyone, I call [stepfather and famous Olympian Bruce Jenner] for help the most.",
"He's the best babysitter in the world, and a perfect role model for him.",
"He takes Mason to the car wash for \"man time.\"",
"Parenting.com: Celebrity moms with tattoos .",
"'My mom is a pro (she's had six kids!",
"), but I don't rely on her as much as people think' I really don't.",
"I make my own choices.",
"When I was pregnant, she would say, \"You need [to buy] this and this.\"",
"I remember telling her that people used to have babies in caves.",
"If I don't have something, it's not a big deal.",
"\"She's independent, she knows I've had six kids, but she wants to do her own thing,\" Kris Jenner says.",
"\"She is showing she can do it on her own. And by the way, I am impressed.\"",
"'We don't really follow a set schedule' I was struggling with that for a while, wondering what is the best thing.",
"I think you do whatever fits your lifestyle.",
"Some people have things planned from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., which works for them.",
"But honestly, the best thing for Mason is just to be with me.",
"When we are out, we just have so much fun. If we are cruising around, and he is napping in the car, it's not the worst thing in the world.",
"Parenting.com: Which baby strollers are celebs pushing?",
"'Mason comes first, and if that makes me unprofessional at times, so be it' Especially during the first three months, I didn't care if I was late.",
"We were on his schedule. Nothing is more important than Mason.",
"'Being the oldest in my family, you would think I would have been in tune with kids.",
"I had no clue' I think motherhood is just about instinct.",
"I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.",
"Scott and I changed his diaper together, but after a day, it was like \"Oh!\"",
"I got it. Even before, I had never really held babies.",
"When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college.",
"I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.",
"Parenting.com: The 8 most common discipline mistakes and easy ways to avoid them .",
"'My sister Kim is responsible for my first public -- and very embarrassing -- 'new mom' moment' Kim wanted to go shopping at Bergdorf Goodman, so we agreed to meet there.",
"When we pulled up to the store, Kim had already arrived, so there were like ten paparazzi waiting.",
"It was my first time taking a taxi with Mason.",
"I had to tell the driver to wait because I had to get the stroller out of the car.",
"I got Mason first, threw my bags on the ground, and was trying to get the stroller out.",
"I'm smiling and trying to open the stroller, but it wouldn't open.",
"On top of all the paparazzi, about another 40 people are now standing there staring at me struggling.",
"Then one lady asked if I needed help.",
"I said, \"Yes, I would love that!\"",
"Everyone goes through that.",
"I can't wait for the day that my sisters find out how hard it is.",
"They try to tell me \"do this and do that,\" but they just don't know!",
"Get 2 FREE YEARS of Parenting magazine - Subscribe Now!!",
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"All rights reserved.",
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"Kourtney Kardashian makes her own baby food for her son Mason .",
"Kardashian: \"Unless I'm working, I can't be away from him without feeling guilty\"\nShe e-mailed doctor at 4 a.m. after the baby fell off her bed ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Jonathan Hanson and Katina Wright are determined to give their infant daughter a bright and stable future despite the cloud of uncertainty they face after years without steady work.",
"Once successful real estate agents making six figures, Hanson and Wright are now living on the poverty line.",
"\"We made some good money,\" Hanson said.",
"\"But with new regulations in real estate and different laws and just the amount of foreclosures on the market, it literally took our business away.\"",
"The last few years have been a downward spiral, says the Atlanta couple, who have been living off their savings.",
"They've sold jewelry and cars, and now they're trying to sell their home to survive.",
"Every day, they are faced with a tough decision.",
"\"You have to pick and choose what you want to do,\" Hanson said.",
"\"It's either eat that day or pay a bill.\"",
"They're not alone. Millions of American families have slipped into what the U.S. Census Bureau defines as poor.",
"About 46.2 million people are considered to be living in poverty, 2.6 million more than last year.",
"\"Those that are in dire need, they'll sell all their personal belongings to survive,\" said Sal Dimiceli, one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2011.",
"Through his weekly newspaper column, Dimiceli hears from dozens of people each week who are facing hard times.",
"And for decades, he has made every effort to help them get back on their feet.",
"Through his nonprofit, The Time Is Now To Help, Dimiceli has provided about 500 people a year with food, rent, utilities and other necessities.",
"\"We get them back on a track (so) that ... their pride is given back to them,\" Dimiceli said this year.",
"\"They can catch up.\" There haven't been this many Americans living in poverty since 1993, according to the Census Bureau.",
"More than 15% of the population is now considered poor.",
"The rate is 22% for children, meaning at least one of every five U.S. kids is living in poverty.",
"\"If you qualify as being in poverty today, then you're really in deep poverty,\" said Mark Bergel, founder and executive director of A Wider Circle, a Maryland-based charity that provides furniture and other basic necessities to needy families.",
"Bergel told CNN's Lisa Sylvester that the numbers used to define poverty today are extremely low and \"based on an outdated formula from the '60s.\"",
"The Census Bureau defines an individual as poor if they make less than $11,139 a year.",
"The dollar amount rises for every member added to the household.",
"For example, the average family of four is considered poor if they make less than $22,314.",
"For a family of three like Hanson, Wright and their daughter, the threshold is just a little more than $17,000.",
"\"There's a lot of people suffering,\" said Karen Lee, a financial planner and author of several books, including \"Simple Steps to Help People Get Unstuck Financially.\"",
"Lee said it's important for people who've never faced poverty to keep a positive outlook and believe that things can get better.",
"\"I have seen people go from riches to rags to riches to rags,\" she said.",
"\"You can rebuild, and you can completely change careers and rebuild.\"",
"That's what Hanson and Wright are doing.",
"Hanson is betting on a new business he started: building security cages for air conditioners to prevent copper theft.",
"Wright is teaching herself Web development.",
"\"I literally threw my Rolodex away, because it was all real-estate-related,\" she said.",
"\"It's no longer of any use to me.",
"So being able to let go is going to be a person's biggest advantage.\""
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"Many families face tough decisions every day on bills and basic necessities .",
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"(CNN) -- A first-half hat-trick by Lionel Messi helped Barcelona to a 5-0 win over Mallorca at the Nou Camp on Saturday.",
"The Argentina international opened the scoring after 13 minutes with a spot kick after Emilio Nsue had handled the ball in the penalty area.",
"Eight minutes later he tapped in after a miscue from Adriano before completing his hat-trick on the half-hour mark, expertly guiding home a cross from Dani Alves.",
"Twenty-year-old Issac Cuenca scored his first senior goal for the club five minutes into the second half, while Alves rounded things off with a superbly taken goal in injury time.",
"A ninth-minute goal from Argentina striker Higuain earned Real Madrid a 1-0 win at Real Sociedad on Saturday night.",
"The win puts them one point ahead of Barcelona at the top of La Liga with 25 points, although Levante will depose them if they win at Osasuna on Sunday.",
"Two goals from Frenchman Sofiane Feghouli and one for Aritz Aduriz earned fourth-placed Valencia a 3-1 win over Getafe, while Villareal were comfortable 2-0 winners over Rayo Vallecano -- Bruno Soriano and Borja Valero scoring goals in either half.",
"Meanwhile in Italy, Juventus remain top of Serie A after a 2-1 win at Inter Milan on Saturday.",
"All the goals came in an action-packed first half with Juve taking an early lead thanks to a 12th minute strike from Mirko Vucinic.",
"Maicon equalized for the hosts in the 28th minute, but it wasn't long before the visitors were back in front -- Claudio Marchisio scoring in the 33rd minute.",
"The win gives Juve a two-point lead at the top of Serie A, but that will be reduced to one point if Udinese beat Palermo on Sunday.",
"Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice as AC Milan beat Roma 3-2 at the Stadio Olimpico to send the reigning league champions up to second in the table.",
"The Swedish striker opened the scoring in the 17th minute before Nicolas Burdisso equalized for the home side in the 28th minute.",
"Alessandro Nesta restored Milan's lead two minutes later before Ibrahimovic made it 3-1 in the 78th minute to all but clinch three points.",
"Bojan Krkic pulled one back for Roma three minutes before the end but it wasn't enough to deny the Rossoneri vital away points.",
"Napoli lost ground with the league leaders as they went down to a 2-1 defeat at Catania.",
"Edinson Cavani had given Napoli the lead after just 27 seconds, but goals from Giovanni Marchese in the 25th minute and Gonzalo Bergessio three minutes after the break were enough to earn the home side all three points.",
"Napoli played half the match with 10 men after Mario Santana was sent off shortly before half time."
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"(CNN) -- Clashes were reported Friday in Bahrain's capital on the eve of parliamentary elections in the country.",
"Security forces were sent to rallies to deal with what the Interior Ministry called \"illegal acts which resulted from demonstrations,\" the state news agency reported.",
"The ministry said that saboteurs and outlaws stormed the City Center mall in Manama Friday afternoon, \"intent on sowing chaos and terrorizing shoppers,\" according to the Bahrain News Agency.",
"Those arrested will face legal action, officials said.",
"The ministry blamed the rallies on \"instigative calls posted on social networking sites.\"",
"Unspecified arrests and injuries were reported in the clashes.",
"It was not clear late Friday how many involved pro- or anti-government protesters.",
"There also were unconfirmed reports of tear gas used by security forces on demonstrators.",
"City Center was back to normal late Friday, according to the Interior Ministry.",
"A march on the Lulu Square area of Manama brought a halt to traffic in much of the capital.",
"A heavy police presence was evident as people prepared to vote Saturday.",
"Residents of some villages have vowed to boycott.",
"The elections are being held to replace 18 seats that were vacated by Al-Wefaq, the country's largest opposition party.",
"The party vacated the seats to protest the treatment of demonstrators during February's unrest in Bahrain.",
"An opposition group called The February 14 Coalition said it planned to launch protests on Friday and Saturday in the newly named Martyr's Square, the site formerly known as Pearl Roundabout.",
"\"Just like all other freedom-loving people living in real democracies across the globe, we, the people of Bahrain have the right to choose the way in which we are governed,\" the group said.",
"The Youth Coalition of February 14 announced it would be holding a sit-in demonstration at the same location.",
"Addressing an opposition rally in Tubli, a village south of Manama, Thursday, Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Al-Wefaq party said, \"when we talk about democracy we want democracy like that of Westminster, France, and America, not the democracy of Saddam Hussein, nor the democracy of Zine El Abidine, nor the democracy of Gadhafi.\"",
"Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, president of Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority, said he expected voter turnout to be encouraging Saturday, according to the state-run Bahrain News Agency.",
"Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was attending the U.N. General Assembly in New York.",
"On Thursday he spoke about the need for reforms \"aimed to provide decent living conditions, security and tranquility in a society of peaceful coexistence.\""
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"\"The people of Bahrain have the right to choose the way in which we are governed,\" group says ."
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"(CNN) -- Iranian media outlets have \"systematically stirred up\" widespread contempt toward the country's 300,000-strong Baha'i religious minority, the group says.",
"The Baha'i International Community issued a report Friday entitled \"Inciting Hatred: Iran's media campaign to demonize Baha'is.\"",
"The report \"documents and analyzes more than 400 media items over a 16-month period.\"",
"The result, the Baha'is say, is an \"insidious state-sponsored effort\" to discredit the Baha'is with \"false accusations, inflammatory terminology, and repugnant imagery.\"",
"Iranians officials at the United Nations and in Tehran could not be reached for comment.",
"Among \"recurring themes\" in media coverage about Baha'is, the report said, is that they are \"anti-Islamic,\" a \"deviant\" and \"cult-like\" sect, agents of Zionism, spies for Israel and the West, morally corrupt and an influence in the shah's government, toppled in 1979.",
"New themes have emerged in recent months, the report says.",
"The report says the Baha'is have instigated opposition to the regime, influenced \"anti-regime\" Iranian human rights activists, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, controls or influences foreign broadcasters, such as the BBC and Voice of America, and helped plan and participated in the 2009 Ashura protests against the presidential elections earlier that year.",
"The group also said the media \"uses brainwashing to entice Muslims away from their faith,\" and \"security attractive young women to lure converts.\"",
"\"This anti-Baha'i propaganda is shocking in its volume and vehemence, its scope and sophistication,\" said Bani Dugal, Principal Representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations.",
"\"It's all cynically calculated to stir up antagonism against a peaceful religious community whose members are striving to contribute to the well-being of their society,\" she said.",
"\"The parallels between the campaign of anti-Baha'i propaganda in Iran today and other state-sponsored, anti-religious campaigns of the past are undeniable.",
"History shows us that such campaigns are among the foremost predictors of actual violence against religious minorities -or, in the worst case, precursors of genocide.\"",
"The Baha'i faith, founded during the 19th century in Iran and now with 5 million to 6 million adherents worldwide, is a monotheistic religion that focuses on the spiritual unity of humanity.",
"But Iran's Shiite Muslim ruling ayatollahs regard the faith as blasphemous because its founder, Bahaullah, declared himself to be a prophet of God.",
"Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed was the last prophet of God.",
"The group said the anti-Baha'i messages are \"originates with and are sanctioned by the country's highest levels of leadership, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\"",
"Iran, however, claims that international media are an arm of a Baha'i conspiracy.",
"Those claims are \"both ludicrous and funny, if it wasn't so sad,\" said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, the program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists' Middle East and North Africa program.",
"\"Any international media outlet that carries news that is not identical to the Iranian government's line is accused of being an agent of fill in the blank: The Baha'is, the Americans, the Mossad.\"",
"The U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom -- an independent, bipartisan federal agency -- regularly documents the Iranian regime's actions toward the Baha'is.",
"A USCIRF official said the Iranian government's media campaign to denigrate and vilify the Baha'i community is part of its long-standing policy to not only incite violence against Baha'is but also to seek a slow death of the community's very existence in the country.",
"\"The longer you wear down a community by demonizing them, intimidating them, depriving them, and arresting and imprisoning them - the hope is that you achieve your goal of total eradication,\" said Dwight Bashir, deputy director for policy and research at USCIRF.",
"The Baha'i report cities more than 200 \"specious and misleading articles\" by the semi-official Kayhan newspaper.",
"USCIRF also singles out Kayhan.",
"\"Among those responsible for this media initiative has been Hossein Shariatmadari, managing editor of the government-controlled Kayhan newspaper, who was appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei himself,\" Bashir said.",
"\"Kayhan's articles about the Baha'i community have been a combination of vitriol and falsified information that has served to justify many of the egregious actions taken by the government against members of the community.",
"As a consequence, USCIRF has urged the U.S. government to add Shariatmadari to its sanctions list of Iranian officials responsible for severe violations of human rights, including religious freedom,\" said Bashir.",
"Faraz Sanei, Iran researcher with the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said rights groups have long documented the government's \"systematic campaign, both in law and practice, to target Baha'is and \"deprive them of of their ability to freely manifest the beliefs and teachings of their faith.\"",
"Sanei said the \"report provides valuable insight into the mechanics of a less documented and more insidious element of this campaign - anti-Baha'i propaganda propagated by official and semi-official media outlets, and the degree to which hate speech further exposes an already vulnerable minority group to discrimination and attacks by private actors.\""
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Six months after the improbable revolt that toppled one of the world's longest-serving rulers, protesters are once again camping in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand speedy change.",
"The president they ousted, Hosni Mubarak, faces a possible death sentence if he survives a variety of ailments that have left him hospital-bound since April.",
"The tourists who once flocked to the pyramids of Giza and the beaches of the Red Sea have yet to return, and the joblessness and poverty that fueled the protests is deeper than before.",
"The result is a revolution that remains incomplete, with the coalition that formed in Tahrir Square splintering over different visions of a post-Mubarak future.",
"But few dispute that the uprising launched on January 25 has changed an ancient nation in a fundamental way.",
"\"I am optimistic about the future.",
"We can't go back,\" said Lillian Wagdy, a photographer who was taking part in the protests.",
"\"The wall of fear has fallen, and the people will now demand their rights and stay on the streets.\"",
"And Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, said Egyptians have undergone a \"psychological rapture\" since the revolution.",
"\"The psychology of the citizen has changed,\" he said.",
"\"Millions of voiceless people have regained their voices ...",
"It's changed the relationship between sons and fathers and fathers and daughters.\"",
"The protests lasted 18 days, growing despite clashes with police and pro-Mubarak gangs.",
"The armed forces refused to intercede on Mubarak's behalf, and he handed over power to a council of generals on February 11.",
"The generals suspended Egypt's constitution and named a civilian caretaker government, but remain the final authority in Cairo.",
"That's one of the things that rankles the protesters who have made camp in Tahrir Square since a fresh round of protests in June.",
"\"For me to leave Tahrir, the ruling generals need to listen to our demands and take action to ensure them,\" said Mustafa Sadek, a 16-year-old high-school student taking part in the protests last week.",
"\"We also want a clear schedule, a path to elections and reform.",
"We want a plan that lays out the future.\"",
"Rajia Omran, a lawyer and human rights activist, said the revolution \"isn't going too bad.\"",
"But she said patience will be needed for months or even years to come.",
"\"It will take 5 to 10 years to evaluate the revolution,\" said Omran, whose group helped organize the first protests.",
"\"Nobody can evaluate it now.",
"Any evaluation now is premature.\"",
"With liberals, nationalists, leftists and Islamists now split over whether elections or constitutional reforms should come first, Gerges said the protesters are realizing an old lesson: \"Revolutions are messy.\"",
"But those debates are \"a healthy sign that civil society is still alive.\"",
"\"My worry is the cleavages are much deeper than we think, and the question is, will there be a government that will be able to govern in the next two or three years?\"",
"Gerges said.",
"\"If you don't have a consensus on what the future is, you won't be able to govern.\"",
"Jumana Shehata, a former media consultant at the National Council for Human Rights, has been critical of the path the revolution has taken.",
"She said secular political parties need more time to organize as a counterweight to the long-suppressed Muslim Brotherhood.",
"\"Right now, the Muslim Brotherhood is the only strong party, and we need more diversity,\" she said.",
"But Gerges said the Brotherhood has its own divisions, with younger members \"closer to the nationalists and the liberals and the leftists than the old guard.\"",
"The military's decision recent decision to delay parliamentary elections until November is a concession to the secular groups, said Shadi Hamid, an analyst at the Qatar-based branch of the Brookings Institution.",
"Hamid said that vote \"will clarify matters,\" demonstrating which of the competing factions \"have the support and capability to push things forward and challenge the military's hold on power.\"",
"Shehata took part in the January protests at Tahrir Square and said most Egyptians still support the revolution, but are \"fed up\" with the new demonstrations.",
"\"I understand the chaos after a revolution, but I don't see the people in Tahrir now as revolutionaries,\" she said.",
"And Hamid called the renewed protests a \"frightening turn\" in post-revolutionary Egypt.",
"\"More and more, the military staff is being portrayed as an enemy of democracy and an enemy of the transition, at least among the people in Tahrir Square,\" Hamid said.",
"Neither side appears willing to back down, \"and it increasingly looks like the interests of both sides are in some ways impossible to reconcile.\"",
"Egypt's military has been the backbone of the state since 1952, when Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that toppled the country's monarchy -- and the generals will likely try to keep much of that influence in any new government, said Nathan Brown, a Middle East analyst at George Washington University.",
"\"There's no question the military does not want to be responsible for collecting the trash and running the schools and the health-care system and the economy, which is a mess,\" Brown told CNN.",
"\"They don't want civilian oversight when they do go back to the barracks, and they don't want to lose a privileged position in Egyptian political and social life.\"",
"But that sort of privilege may be harder to come by in the new Egypt.",
"During the March referendum on changes to the country's constitution, Brown said, newspapers carried stories about VIPs who showed up at polling places where long lines had formed, expecting to be allowed to vote ahead of the hoi polloi.",
"\"Every time this happened, they were told, 'Wait a minute, this is a different country now.",
"You've got to wait in line,'\" he said.",
"\"It's a less deferential, less hierarchical place than it used to be.\"",
"Hamid said the most realistic outcome is that the military will keep \"some control\" over international affairs and defense policy in a new government, as well as its extensive economic interests.",
"But he said the generals appear to be boxing in the debate over their own authority in advance.",
"At the same time, Egyptians are awaiting a reckoning with Mubarak and some of the leading figures in his former regime.",
"Mubarak and his ex-interior minster, Habib al-Adly, are accused of ordering police to use live ammunition on protesters -- a charge that could carry a death sentence upon conviction.",
"Several other figures, including Mubarak's two sons, face public corruption charges.",
"And Wagdy said some of the generals need to be in the dock as well.",
"\"The main generals were part of the Mubarak regime and part of the corruption,\" she said.",
"\"We need to dig into their files and prosecute them.\"",
"Gerges said the show trials that followed the 1952 coup \"did a great deal of damage to the whole question of justice,\" and warned that similar treatment of Mubarak would be \"horrible for Egypt.\"",
"\"I do hope that the Egyptian judicial system and Egyptians resist the temptation for vengeance and give Mubarak and his cronies a day in court and due process,\" he said.",
"And Shehata said what Egypt needs is a process like South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which those responsible for human rights abuses became eligible for amnesty if they came forward and testified truthfully about their actions.",
"\"I don't believe it is right to call everyone who worked in the old regime as corrupt,\" she said.",
"\"You either agree in the system and let the law decide about the people, or you take matters into your own hands and act like they are acting.\"",
"This story is based on reporting done by journalist Ian Lee in Cairo, Egypt, and CNN's Matt Smith in Atlanta, Georgia, who wrote it."
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"Rome (CNN) -- Seven people have died and seven others are missing after rains triggered severe flooding in northern Italy, civil protection officials said Friday.",
"Especially hard hit was the tourist-popular Cinque Terre region on Italy's northwest coast.",
"The Italian Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in the flood region, which means 65 million euros ($91 million) will be put aside to deal with the disaster, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.",
"A special cabinet meeting was called Friday to discuss the situation, the Italian government said.",
"Heavy rains continued to fall Thursday night in Milan and other spots across the southern European nation, according to the Servizio Meteorologico, Italy's official weather agency.",
"The agency gave an alert about intense, widespread rainfall -- potentially with strong wind gusts and hail -- in the regions of Calabria and Basilicata in southern Italy, as well as the eastern part of Sicily.",
"Meanwhile, Monterosso al Mare -- between Genoa and Pisa in the Cinque Terre region of Liguria -- has been \"isolated, accessible only by sea\" because of earlier rains and floods, Mayor Angelo Betta told the news agency ANSA.",
"So, too, is the nearby town of Vernazza, with even bulldozers and cranes still not able to reach it.",
"That said, Betta reported some progress Thursday thanks to round-the-clock efforts by emergency workers and volunteers to clean up the town.",
"One volunteer in that community died in the flood Wednesday.",
"\"The situation is much better compared to yesterday,\" Betta said.",
"Italy's Defense Ministry noted Thursday on its website that 348 military personnel have deployed to the provinces of Massa Carrara and La Spezia to assist in the wake of flooding here.",
"Three people were killed after a house collapsed in La Spezia, an ANSA report said.",
"ANSA also reported that prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation related to the deaths of two people from flood-related injuries in Aulla.",
"Authorities are assessing whether their deaths had anything to do with faulty work that may have caused the Magra River to overflow.",
"The weather has also caused major travel headaches throughout the region.",
"A mudslide that trapped a truck driver, who was eventually freed, has caused the A12 highway in Liguria to be blocked since Tuesday.",
"Train services in Liguria have been halted, too, due to mud and debris on the tracks.",
"CNN's Hada Messia and Marilia Brochetto contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The death toll rises to seven and a state of emergency is declared .",
"348 Italian military personnel are dispatched to help in flood-ravaged areas .",
"Cinque Terre town is \"isolated, accessible only by sea,\" its mayor says .",
"The storms have caused transportation problems across Liguria ."
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"Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (CNN) -- The arduous Middle East peace talks continued on Tuesday in Egypt, where officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority \"have begun a serious discussion on core issues,\" a top U.S. diplomat said.",
"\"They have agreed to begin first on working to achieve a framework agreement for permanent status.",
"That work is now well under way,\" said U.S. special envoy George Mitchell.",
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas attended the sessions, along with Mitchell and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.",
"Officials met for an hour and 40 minutes in bilateral and multilateral meetings.",
"Mitchell briefed the media after the session and said the goals remain a two-state solution, condemnation of violence and working toward security, and a resolution of all issues.",
"He reiterated the Obama administration's position that Israel should extend the moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank, a hiatus scheduled to end later this month.",
"\"We believe we are moving in the right direction overall,\" he said.",
"The parties are aiming toward resolving all core issues within the next 12 months in a process that kicked off recently during a meeting between Netanyahu, Abbas and Clinton in Washington.",
"Issues separating both sides include Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the future of Palestinian refugees, Israeli security, and the status of Jerusalem.",
"Clinton and Mitchell are expected to continue talks with the leaders in Jerusalem on Wednesday.",
"Tensions are growing over the issue of possible new Israeli settlements in the West Bank.",
"Netanyahu is under pressure from the Palestinians and the Obama administration to extend a 10-month moratorium on building Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank territory.",
"That moratorium is set to expire September 26.",
"Palestinians have said the construction would torpedo the talks, but Israel says some construction is likely.",
"Acknowledging that the settlement issue is sensitive in Israel, Mitchell said both sides have a responsibility to continue the meetings and he called on Abbas to take steps to advance the talks.",
"\"All issues ultimately must be resolved by the parties themselves,\" Mitchell told reporters.",
"\"The United States will, as we've said on many occasions, be an active and sustained partner throughout the talks and will, when necessary and appropriate, make proposals and provide encouragement to the parties.",
"In the end, matters must be resolved by parties themselves and we hope and expect that they will do so.\"",
"Mitchell said he wouldn't divulge many details about the talks, noting the importance of confidentiality and sensitivity.",
"But he did say \"our vision is for a two-state solution.\"",
"\"That includes a Jewish, democratic state of Israel living side by side in peace and security with a viable, independent, sovereign and contiguous state of Palestine.",
"But of course, this is one of many sensitive issues the parties need to resolve themselves and that's the point of negotiations.",
"The parties will reach agreement on all major issues.\"",
"Prior to arriving in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Tuesday morning, Clinton said if there are no negotiations, there will be no security for Israel and no state for the Palestinians.",
"This isn't Clinton's first time to participate in an attempt to secure a two-state solution.",
"As first lady, though not a principal negotiator, she traveled to the Middle East to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in support of President Bill Clinton's policies on the issue.",
"The president eventually hosted Israeli and Palestinian leaders at Camp David, Maryland, for what proved to be unsuccessful final-status talks.",
"Now, as secretary of state, Clinton has a second chance and a more direct platform to help the parties reach a comprehensive settlement.",
"Should Clinton help shepherd an agreement, it would \"fulfill a longtime desire to succeed in this area,\" said Ned Walker, who was U.S. ambassador to Israel during part of President Clinton's second term.",
"\"She has something of a long history of being involved\" in the region, said Walker, who also used to be an assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs.",
"\"This would be a great fulfillment for her personally and for the administration and the country.\"",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman, Jason Hanna and Laurie Ure contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Egypt .",
"NEW: A \"serious discussion\" of core issues has started .",
"NEW: Mitchell says \"we believe we're moving in the right direction overall\"\nTensions are high over the issue of building Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank territory ."
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"Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (CNN) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, under investigation in the deaths of protesters, remained Saturday in a Sharm el-Sheikh hospital where he has been receiving treatment since Tuesday, officials said.",
"Earlier, a military official told CNN that Mubarak had been transferred to a military facility in Cairo.",
"However, later in the day, an official with the military in Cairo said the former leader is still in the hospital in the Red Sea resort town.",
"Hospital and police personnel had insisted that Mubarak was still being treated at the facility and hadn't moved from a heavily guarded section of the building.",
"\"As long as Mr. Mubarak is here, we will stay here,\" said police Capt.",
"Karim Yusuf, one of the dozens of riot police standing in a human chain outside the Sharm el-Sheikh hospital.",
"Justice Minister Mohamed Abdel Aziz had earlier said that when the former leader's health improves, he will be imprisoned.",
"Despite his health issues, Mubarak has been questioned and been under investigation by the Egyptian prosecutor-general's office since Tuesday.",
"He is being investigated in connection with the deaths of hundreds of activists during the recent uprising that led to his departure from office February 11.",
"He is also under investigation for allegations of corruption and misuse of state funds.",
"Mubarak has been treated at the hospital since Tuesday for heart palpitations and blood pressure problems and is listed in stable condition, officials said.",
"He and his sons were taken into 15-day detainment Tuesday, according to a Justice Ministry spokesman.",
"His sons are in custody in Cairo.",
"Aziz also said Mubarak's wife, Suzanne, will be questioned by the ministry's Office of Illicit Profiteering.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson, Mohammed Fadel Fahmy and Dina Amer contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A military official says Mubarak is receiving treatment at hospital .",
"A military official said earlier that Mubarak was moved to a Cairo military facility .",
"The former leader is under investigation for the deaths of activists .",
"He is also the subject of a corruption probe ."
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"(EW.com) -- Henry Winkler is often called the Nicest Man in Hollywood, but now he's also known as an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE).",
"He was awarded the honor from the Queen this week in recognition of his services to children with dyslexia and special educational needs.",
"According to the British Embassy in Washington, he's spent much of the last two years touring the U.K. to educate about dyslexia and other learning difficulties.",
"Winkler, who was diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult, is also the author of 17 children's books centered on Hank Zipzer, a boy with dyslexia who overcomes his struggles at school and with bullies.",
"There are two things I love about the press release: One, that \"Happy Days\" the show is never actually mentioned, although Sheinwald sneaks in a reference (\"Henry Winkler is living proof that difficulties can be overcome and that for those suffering disability and self-doubt, happy days can nevertheless lie ahead\").",
"And two, the sense of formality that insures you will also not see the words \"the Fonz\" or \"Fonzie\" (\"Mr. Winkler's portrayal of Arthur Fonzarelli garnered him two Golden Globes and three Primetime Emmy nominations\").",
"What I love about this in general is that it's just another wonderful, unexpected line on Winkler's résumé.",
"It's kinda like the first time you read that he was an executive producer on \"MacGyver\" or heard that he saw the short film that \"Better Off Dead\"... writer/director Savage Steve Holland had made about having suicidal thoughts after his high school girlfriend dumped him for the captain of the ski team and gave him an office so he could write it as a feature.",
"It's easy to just think of Winkler as \"The Fonz\" instead of as a man who's also done multiple Adam Sandler movies, \"Arrested Development,\" and \"Childrens Hospital\" among other things (like wear orange shirts on \"Royal Pains\").",
"Every now and then we like to stop and remember.",
"See the full story at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Henry Winkler was awarded the honor from the Queen this week .",
"He's spent much of the last two years touring the U.K. to educate about dyslexia .",
"Winkler was diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult ."
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"(CNN) -- Football's world governing body FIFA has called for greater security to be provided after three players from Algeria's national football team were injured when Egyptian fans threw stones at the team bus as it arrived in Cairo on Thursday.",
"The north African arch-rivals meet on Saturday in a crucial World Cup qualifying game in the Egyptian capital, as the group-leading Desert Foxes aim to qualify for the tournament for the first time since since 1986 at the expense of the reigning African champions.",
"FIFA delegate, Walter Gagg, witnessed the incident and told reporters: \"We saw that three players had been injured -- Khaled Lemmouchia on the head, Rafik Halliche above the eye and Rafik Saifi on the arm.",
"\"These weren't superficial injuries.",
"With the stitches needed, we will have to see if these players can play.",
"The team doctor has still to make a decision on that.\"",
"Gagg confirmed Algeria's goalkeeping coach had been concussed after the windows of the coach were smashed by stones thrown by fans.",
"FIFA announced their concerns following the incident in a statement on their official Web site which read: \"FIFA's Organizing Committee for the FIFA World Cup have asked the Egyptian Football Association and the highest national authorities ... to confirm the implementation of the necessary additional safety and security measures at any time for the Algerian delegation.",
"\"Last week, FIFA had officially written to the Football Associations of Algeria and Egypt to express its firm wish that the preliminary competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa ends as it began, in the spirit of fair play with the necessary cooperation of all the parties.\"",
"The two north African neighbors have a history of intense competition -- the two sides locked horns in 1989 in a final qualifier for the World Cup hosted by Italy, a match that was followed by riots.",
"Egypt, despite winning the last two Africa Cup of Nations, are on the brink of failing to qualify for the World Cup that will be held on African soil for the first time in 2010.",
"The Pharaohs need to win by three-goals to book their place in South Africa, a two-nil win will leave the teams equal on goal difference forcing another play-off to take place on neutral ground."
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"Three of Algeria's players are injured as Egyptian fans throw stones at the team bus in Cairo .",
"FIFA call for strengthened security to be provided for the ccrunchWorld Cup qualifier between the two north African rivals .",
"The last time the two sides met in a qualifier riots followed the game .",
"Algeria lead African qualifying Group C which leaves Egypt need to win by three goals to progress ."
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"(CNN) -- The recent incident involving Chelsea and England captain John Terry and Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand has seen the issue of racism in football dominate the headlines.",
"The decision by London's Metropolitan Police to launch an investigation into what occurred during the October 23 match follows allegations made by Manchester United's Patrice Evra of racial abuse from Liverpool striker Luis Suarez during an English Premier League clash.",
"These two incidents are just the latest in a year which has seen the issue of race and football at the forefront of coverage of both club and international soccer."
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"London's Metropolitan Police are to investigate incident between Terry and Ferdinand .",
"Man Utd's Patrice Evra has also accused Liverpool's Luis Suarez a using a racial slur .",
"2011 has seen numerous incidents a racism in football ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a short tour of Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday.",
"During the anti-government demonstrations that eventually led to the ouster of long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the square was a rallying spot for protesters who transformed it from a bustling urban center into a fortified campground.",
"The walking tour lasted about 10 to 12 minutes, with crowds of people stopping her to shake her hand.",
"She later met with Prime Minister Essam Sharaf.",
"\"To see where this revolution happened and all that it has meant to the world is extraordinary for me,\" Clinton said.",
"\"It's just a great reminder of the power of the human spirit and universial desire for human rights and democracy.",
"It's just thrilling to see where this happened.\"",
"On Tuesday, Clinton issued a strong statement of praise for Egypt's political revolution, declaring she was \"deeply inspired\" by the dramatic change and promising new assistance for America's longtime Middle East ally.",
"Clinton pledged $90 million in emergency economic assistance during a meeting in Cairo with Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Araby.",
"She is the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Egypt since the overthrow of Mubarak.",
"\"The United States will work to ensure that the economic gains Egypt has forged in recent years continue, and that all parts of Egyptian society benefit from these gains,\" a State Department statement noted.",
"While in the region, Clinton is also scheduled to visit neighboring Tunisia to express support for that country's revolt."
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"NEW: The United States is pledging $90 million in emergency economic assistance .",
"Tahrir Square is home to the demonstrations that led to the ouster of long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak .",
"Clinton's tour lasts less than 15 minutes ."
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"(CNN) -- Egyptians and activists around the world took to the streets in various cities Saturday to show their support for the protests currently underway in Egypt and to join the call for President Hosni Mubarak to step down.",
"Outside the Egyptian Embassy in London, people rallied, chanted, hoisted banners and demanded change.",
"One sign, written in red ink, read: \"From The Nile, To the Sea -- Egypt Soon Will Be Free!",
"Freedom for Egypt!\"",
"\"People were clearly voicing their anger at President Mubarak's regime but similarly they were also very passionate about their demands for democracy and political reforms,\" said Amedeo d'Amore, who attended the London protest.",
"Demonstrators chanted: \"One, two, three, four, we don't want Mubarak anymore!\"",
"d'Amore said in an e-mail to CNN.",
"Elsewhere in Europe, protesters in Geneva shouted slogans in Arabic, French and English, chanting, \"Get out, Mubarak!\"",
"according to Courtney Radsch, who attended the demonstration there.",
"Radsch sent CNN a video of the protest that showed a crowd of people carrying signs that read, \"Freedom.",
"Social Justice.",
"Democracy\" and \"Free Egypt.\"",
"Protests also took place in cities throughout Canada.",
"About 150 protesters gathered outside the Egyptian consulate in Montreal, CNN affiliate CTV reported.",
"In Toronto, a downtown rally drew more than 500 people, it said.",
"Ahmed Khalifa, who helped organize the Toronto protest, said he was encouraged by the protests in Egypt and stressed their significance.",
"\"We are witnessing a great change in history,\" he told CTV.",
"\"It's like the fall of the Berlin Wall.",
"We are watching Egyptian people and Middle Eastern people telling us that 'we want freedom.'",
"\" Anti-Mubarak demonstrations were also held across the United States."
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"Protests are held in London, Geneva and Toronto .",
"In Geneva, people chant slogans in Arabic, French and English ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- The Cairo Criminal Court approved a freeze on the assets of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and upheld a travel ban against him Tuesday as the nation moves forward in pressing corruption charges against the ousted leader.",
"Mubarak's attorney, Samir Shishtawi, said he has filed an appeal.",
"Egypt's Supreme Court is considering lifting the secret status that shields Mubarak's accounts and holdings, which could potentially unleash a flood of information.",
"Mubarak, who is believed to be living at his residence in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, is wanted for questioning in a corruption case.",
"Attorney General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud issued an order freezing the assets of Mubarak and his family on February 28 and prohibited them from leaving the country.",
"Mahmoud ordered the freeze for property owned by Mubarak, his wife, Suzanne, his two sons Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, and their wives and children, state-run EgyNews reported.",
"The seizures include \"movable properties, real estate, stocks, bonds and various financial assets.\"",
"It wasn't immediately clear how the order differed from an earlier order.",
"Mubarak, through his attorneys and in official filings, has described reports of immense wealth as \"fabrications and baseless rumors.\"",
"Mubarak resigned February 11 after 18 days of protests against his rule.",
"Egyptian politician Mustafa Bakri, who has led the fight to press corruption charges against Mubarak, said he believes the former president will stand trial.",
"Bakri, a member of Egypt's parliament who lost his seat after filing corruption cases against various officials, provided documents indicating Mubarak's family has secret bank accounts totaling more than 200 million Egyptian pounds ($147 million), according to EgyNews.",
"\"This is the second stage of the revolution,\" Bakri told CNN.",
"CNN's Nima Elbagir and journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"Cairo's Criminal Court approved the freezing and seizure of Mubarak's assets .",
"He is expected to be brought to Cairo for questioning .",
"Mubarak resigned February 11 after 18 days of protests against his rule ."
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"(CNN) -- Long a pillar of Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule over Egypt, Omar Suleiman now sits at the top of the pyramid as its de facto president.",
"Under pressure from street demonstrations calling for his ouster, Mubarak named his veteran spymaster to the long-vacant vice presidency in late January.",
"Suleiman quickly became the face of the government's reform pledges, announcing talks with opposition leaders and promising swift reforms.",
"But Mubarak's February 1 announcement that he would step down when his term ends in September failed to satisfy the crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other cities.",
"Attacks on demonstrators by pro-government crowds in the following days failed to dislodge the demonstrators, whose ranks were bolstered when thousands of workers in several industries went on strike Thursday.",
"After a day of intense speculation, Mubarak repeated that he would remain in office to serve out his term -- but he announced that he was delegating power to Suleiman, who quickly urged Egyptians to go home and get back to work.",
"\"We call upon you to unite, and to think rationally and to look forward to the future,\" Suleiman said in a televised speech that followed Mubarak's.",
"But the vice president, whose agents are among the fingers of Mubarak's iron hand, wasn't seen as much of an improvement by opposition figures.",
"\"Mubarak is only one part of this regime,\" human rights activist Gigi Ibrahim, one of the Tahrir Square protesters, said.",
"\"People have been here for 17 days, and they are not for Suleiman either.",
"Mubarak has lost all legitimacy, and now him handing over the power to the vice president is as illegitimate as Mubarak being in power.\"",
"And in Alexandria, protesters met the announcement with chants of \"No to Mubarak, no to Suleiman.\"",
"A former general who trained under both the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War, Suleiman took over Egypt's Mukhabarat intelligence agency in 1993.",
"He is credited with leading Mubarak's efforts to crush an Islamic insurgency in the 1990s.",
"That earned him the ear of Western intelligence officials thirsting for vital information about regional terrorist groups, and he became a key intermediary in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.",
"\"He is basically your main go-to guy in Egypt,\" former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin said.",
"Suleiman has been \"helpful in many arenas,\" including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.",
"McLaughlin said.",
"A 2006 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, disclosed by the WikiLeaks website in January, called intelligence collaboration with Suleiman \"probably the most successful element\" of the U.S. relationship with Egypt.",
"But that relationship is \"a little like being in bed with the Mafia,\" author Ron Suskind told CNN's \"Parker Spitzer.\"",
"\"If someone knocks on your door at night and you disappear, Omar Suleiman is probably behind it,\" said Suskind, whose 2006 book \"The One Percent Doctrine\" detailed the Bush administration's post-9/11 counterterrorism policies.",
"\"He is a feared man, and certainly not a man with any legitimacy when it comes to rule of law or any of the principles we prized in America.\"",
"In 2002, al Qaeda captive Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi \"was tortured rather dramatically\" by Suleiman's agents, Suskind said, yielding a \"confession\" that Iraq had trained the terrorist group in the use of chemical and biological weapons.",
"His assertion was a key point in the Bush administration's arguments for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but he recanted it once back in U.S. hands.",
"That sort of history leaves an opening for critics to question U.S. support for democratic change in Egypt, Suskind said.",
"\"The fact is, we are allied with the people they're trying to overthrow, and right now the United States hasn't done much to separate those bonds,\" he said.",
"Suleiman had long been mentioned as a possible successor to Mubarak, along with the aging ruler's son, Gamal.",
"A 2007 U.S. cable called his loyalty to Mubarak \"rock solid,\" and some analysts viewed his vice presidential appointment as a way for Mubarak to make a graceful exit.",
"Suleiman is even credited with saving Mubarak's life.",
"On a state visit to Ethiopia in 1995, Mubarak was to have traveled in a normal vehicle but Suleiman insisted that the president's armored Mercedes be flown in from Cairo.",
"Accounts of an assassination attempt on Mubarak vary but it's believed that Suleiman was sitting next to Mubarak when a hail of bullets pinged off the car.",
"The bond forged that day cemented their relationship.",
"But Suleiman's attempts at dialogue with opposition parties were derided by protesters, and the Obama administration criticized the talks for including too few opposition groups.",
"Vice President Joe Biden told Suleiman on Tuesday that Egypt needed \"immediate, irreversible progress\" toward meeting protesters' demands, and leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said Suleiman and Mubarak \"are twins.\"",
"\"This is an act of deception at a grand scale,\" ElBaradei said.",
"Nathan Brown, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at George Washington University, said Mubarak's Thursday speech did him little good.",
"Not only was it too little, too late, he said, but his announcement that he was ceding power to Suleiman was buried in an \"incredibly patronizing\" speech.",
"\"Had he done this a couple of weeks ago, it actually may have done something,\" Brown said.",
"But now, he said, \"All the constitutional, legal tools are in their hands, and it doesn't' do them any good.",
"So I don't think they're sure what to do.\"",
"CNN's Matt Smith, Saad Abedine and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"Omar Suleiman, the former intelligence chief, now wields most power in Egypt .",
"An opposition leader dismisses him as Mubarak's \"twin\"\nSuleiman has had close ties with U.S. officials ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Eight American tourists -- six women and two men -- were killed in a traffic accident Sunday while on a tour bus in Aswan, Egypt, the country's interior ministry said.",
"An additional 19 American tourists and two Egyptians -- the bus driver and a tour guide -- were injured.",
"A total of 116 American tourists were traveling in three tour buses.",
"The interior ministry said the middle bus -- carrying 37 of the tourists -- crashed into a parked dump truck loaded with sand.",
"Video of the crash site showed one side of the bus completely sheared off, with some seats dangling from the vehicle's shell.",
"Dried blood could be seen on some of the crumpled wreckage.",
"Twelve of those injured were taken to Nasser Medical Institute in Cairo, according to the hospital's head, Dr. Bahaa Al-deen Ziad.",
"Two of the crash victims are in the hospital's intensive care unit in critical but stable condition, Ziad said.",
"The 10 others were admitted to the hospital in stable condition and are being examined by doctors with specialties in neurosurgery, orthopedics and plastic surgery, he said.",
"Aswan is a popular tourist site in Egypt located about 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away from Cairo.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Cairo issued a statement Sunday saying it was \"deeply saddened\" by the accident.",
"\"The embassy has confirmed that the injured are being moved by military transport to Cairo, and has mobilized staff to identify and to assist those Americans involved,\" the statement said.",
"\"Consular services will be provided to assist any American citizens who have been affected and their families, in coordination with the Egyptian government.\"",
"Embassy staff members in Egypt are available for questions or concerns.They can be reached in Cairo at 011 202 2797 3300."
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"19 American tourists and two Egyptians are injured ."
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"(CNN) -- Khaled Abdel Nasser, son of late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a key figure during a 1980s Egyptian revolt, is dead, a spokesman for the Egyptian general prosecutor said Sunday.",
"He was 62. Nasser was battling liver disease and went into a coma two weeks before his death on September 15, said Adel Saeed, the prosecutor's spokesman.",
"He was accused of organizing a revolt against Egypt's peace treaty with Israel, signed in 1979, and also grabbed headlines after being tried in connection with the deaths of two Israeli diplomats in Egypt.",
"He was eventually acquitted.",
"The late president's eldest son was an engineering professor at Cairo University and had lived in Yugoslavia.",
"Nasser was married to Dalia Fahmy, the sister of former oil minister Sameh Fahmy, who is currently facing trial for alleged corruption involving the exportation of gas to Israel."
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"Khaled Abdel Nasser was the oldest son of President Gamal Abdel Nasser .",
"He was accused of organizing a revolt in Egypt in the 1980s .",
"He tried and acquitted in connection with the deaths of two Israeli diplomats in Egypt ."
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"Rome, Italy (CNN) -- A northern Italian region has approved a measure to pay women from low-income families not to have abortions.",
"Authorities from the Lombardy Region, on Italy's border with Switzerland, approved the creation of a 5-million euro ($6.1 million) fund aimed at providing help to low-income families, the region said on its website this week.",
"The fund would grant about 4,500 euros ($5,500) a year to a woman who changes her mind about having an abortion because of economic reasons.",
"The woman would receive 250 euros ($306) a month for 18 months, according to the site.",
"\"We want to help the family, maternity, and birth rate, removing the obstacles as much as possible, beginning with those of an economic nature that make it more difficult to choose in favor of life,\" said the region's president, Roberto Formigone.",
"The option of accepting the check will be presented to women in abortion clinics during the consultations they have prior to having an abortion, the site said.",
"The region's health department said economic reasons were the predominant reason that woman have abortions.",
"Critics attacked the measure as \"a short-term solution to a long-term problem,\" according to Italian media.",
"The fund is called \"Nasko,\" a play on the Italian word \"nasco,\" which roughly translates to \"I'm being born.\"",
"About 128,000 abortions are performed in Italy every year, according to the Italian Health Ministry.",
"That compares to 195,743 in England and Wales last year, according to the British Department of Health, and 846,181 in the United States in 2006, according to the most recent figures reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- When Catherine al-Talli was 13 years old, a group of strangers came knocking at her family's home in Syria.",
"It was 1992. Her mother let them in, and feverishly they explained that earlier that day they saw Syrian security forces surround al-Talli's father, a democracy activist, at a bus station.",
"\"They told us that 10 of them, the forces, had their guns out and they were all around my father.",
"They kidnapped him and pushed him into a car,\" she recalled.",
"Though they were just children, she and her siblings knew exactly what had happened.",
"They knew their father risked his life as an activist who opposed the Syrian regime.",
"He was paying for that, and now too would their family.",
"It's hard for al-Talli to talk about her father.",
"Shortly after the regime changed hands in 2000 from father to son, he was released from prison.",
"But al-Talli's father had been tortured, forever scarred and changed.",
"\"This is difficult to talk about,\" said al-Talli who became a human rights attorney and activist, inspired by her father's work.",
"\"It's really hard to find your dad kidnapped because of his doing good.\"",
"Until a few months ago, father and daughter were living in Syria.",
"But their activism had made them both targets, and they're now temporarily living in the United States.",
"They watch the horror of their country on the nightly news.",
"On Thursday, the United Nations announced that the number of people killed since protests began this year against the regime of Bashar al-Assad had surpassed 4,000.",
"More than 300 children have lost their lives, and the U.N. reports that children have been specifically targeted, and some tortured to death.",
"According to a September U.N. report, the human suffering behind those numbers looks like this: .",
"Security forces opening fire on a funeral procession in Dar'aa, a city near the border with Jordan; security force snipers on rooftops picking off demonstrators in Damascus; the bodies of those missing, including children, being returned to their families with their bodies torn apart by torture.",
"Water tanks, food supplies, electricity -- everything needed to survive has been targeted by Syrian army and security forces, according to the report.",
"Thousands of people have been arrested.",
"More than 14,000 are reported to be in detention as a result of al-Assad's crackdown on the opposition, Pillay said, and at least 12,400 people have fled their homes to neighboring countries.",
"U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay cited a report released Monday by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry which concluded that security and military forces \"committed crimes against humanity\" against civilians.",
"Syria officially denied access to commission investigators but they still managed to interview 223 victims and witnesses, including military and security forces who had defected.",
"Foreign journalists have been blocked from entering Syria.",
"Al-Assad told a British paper that Syria \"will not bow down\" and that any potential foreign military action against his country would lead to \"very dire\" consequences.",
"But the bloodshed and the blocking of journalists and rights workers will not discourage protesters, al-Talli said.",
"\"The Syrian people have known what the price of freedom would be,\" she said.",
"\"They knew it would be very high.",
"\"We know that the rest of the world understands that.",
"They believe that the international community will not let the al-Assad regime commit more crimes.\"",
"Al-Talli has participated in demonstrations against al-Assad, including the March 16 rally in Marjeh Square in Damascus when 150 protesters held pictures of their imprisoned relatives.",
"While demonstrating in mid-May, she was detained by security forces who took her cell phone and her professional attorney identification, she told CNN.com.",
"\"I don't them, 'You cannot arrest me without [reason], I'm a lawyer.'",
"They didn't listen.\" Al-Talli said she was held in a cell in Damascus for 48 hours in the same government building where he father had spent time behind bars.",
"She believes that because she was a well-known activist and attorney, her case was pushed to a judge and she was released within a week.",
"From May to September, al-Talli went into hiding, sleeping in different places constantly.",
"She felt that the government was constantly watching her and monitoring her cell phone conversations, a tactic that the al-Assad regime is reportedly using to track and thwart opposition strategy.",
"She chose to leave Syria in September and relocated in the United States.",
"She continues to talk with her friends in Syria, all of varying religious and tribal backgrounds.",
"She insisted that it's a falsehood spread by al-Assad's regime that the fighting in Syria is between tribes and religions.",
"\"I have stood next to people of all religions,\" she said.",
"\"I am Christian. I have stood beside Muslims, Christians, Alawis, Druze and Sunnis.",
"This is not about our differences.\" Andrew Tabler, an American journalist, scholar and Syria expert, has lived in the country and experienced firsthand the growth of discontent against al-Assad, who become president in 2000 when his father, Hafez al-Assad, died after ruling for 29 years.",
"Tabler's new book, \"In the Lion's Den,\" is an in-depth look at the Assads, as well as a deep-dive analysis of Washington's long fraught relationship with Syria.",
"Bashar al-Assad and his British wife, Asma al-Assad, were perceived for years as reformers, by and large.",
"They touted social-service nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and spoke about reliance on civil society.",
"The NGOs were efforts to stem what the regime understood as a huge threat -- frustration and restlessness among Syria's young population and the lack of jobs and opportunities in the country, Tabler said.",
"\"Determination has been growing for some time.",
"Now, did we expect [the protesting] to go on this long?",
"No. I don't think anyone did,\" he said.",
"Tabler said he believes sanctions imposed recently on Syria will weaken the Assad regime.",
"The European Union stepped up sanctions against the nation's oil industry by blacklisting state-owned firms that oversee exploration and trade.",
"The U.S. Treasury on Thursday sanctioned two government-controlled entities and two high-ranking Syrians, including Mohammad Makhlouf, al-Assad's uncle and father of long-serving financial adviser Rami Makhlouf.",
"Rami Makhlouf is already under U.S. sanctions.",
"Another was Aus Aslan, a Syrian general.",
"Turkey has also imposed sanctions against regime insiders.",
"\"In terms of Syria running out of money, they'll have an impact,\" Tabler said.",
"\"These are comprehensive [sanctions] and they will have a tremendous impact.",
"Will the regime be over tomorrow?",
"Not at all. That's going to take some work and time.",
"But the death toll for November is the highest it has been so far so that means it's getting worse, not better.\"",
"During her exile, al-Talli has met with British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt to stress that the protests will continue until al-Assad's regime ends.",
"In October she joined the Syrian National Council, an opposition coalition created during the 2011 uprising.",
"The Council was formed in Istanbul last month and encompasses representatives of local committees inside Syria and exiled personalities, as well as Islamist and secular representatives.",
"Al-Talli wants to continue speaking out.",
"One day she'll return to Syria.",
"\"We called our revolution the Syrian Dignity Revolution,\" she said.",
"\"We decided as Syrian people to go into the street and get our human dignity back.",
"We will not go back to our homes without it.\""
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"(CNN) -- When tens of thousands hit the streets to decry an authoritarian regime -- calling for its overthrow, trying to overrun police, setting fires -- one might expect the arrival of army tanks would be met with fear, consternation and violence.",
"But not in Egypt. The warm embrace that demonstrators gave troops this week illustrated the military's respected and central role in Egyptian society.",
"This fact makes the armed forces potentially a kingmaker in the current crisis, while also showcasing its challenge to somehow re-establish security without undermining its popularity.",
"\"How they behave on the streets is going to matter a whole lot,\" said Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank.",
"\"That's going to be the dilemma: Can they maintain the order without antagonizing the public that they need?\"",
"The ascendance began in 1952, when the military helped overthrow Egypt's ruling monarch.",
"Its support for a constitutional democracy and its performance in various wars and battles earned it the admiration of many Egyptians.",
"\"There's a good reason that the Egyptian military is held in pretty high esteem,\" said Peter Bergen, a CNN national security analyst, author and fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security.",
"\"The army has done relatively well.\"",
"All males between ages 18 and 30 must serve one to three years, as the CIA World Factbook notes, meaning almost every family in Egypt has some personal connection to the military.",
"Still, one of the military's biggest assets in the eyes of everyday Egyptians may be that it is not the widely reviled security force.",
"The U.S. State Department has frequently blasted Egyptian police for torture and otherwise depriving citizens of their civil rights, including in its most recent 2009 Human Rights Report.",
"\"They're held in great disdain by their own population, for very good reason,\" Bergen said.",
"\"They know that security forces have tortured literally thousands of people ... for almost any reason.\"",
"This animosity boiled over this week, when angry demonstrators burned and ransacked police stations.",
"On Friday, there were reports of casualties after police fought back citizens' attempts to take the Interior Ministry in Cairo, the security forces' headquarters.",
"Just blocks away, in Tahrir Square, it was a very different and far more festive scene: Joyous demonstrators gathered near troops and embraced them, sometimes literally.",
"This showering of love on the military, which were deployed Friday to patrol the streets for the first time since the mid-1980s was repeated many times over throughout Egypt.",
"Video footage from Cairo showed some protesters celebrating by scaling tanks, with no repercussions.",
"Many of them smiled and shook hands with troops on patrol, with one soldier even cradling a baby and posing for a picture.",
"In Alexandria, where at least 2,000 gathered in Raml Square on Saturday, protesters chanted, \"The military and the people together will change the regime.\"",
"That said, these same demonstrators were demanding the overthrow of President Mubarak -- a former hero in the Air Force and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.",
"He has largely surrounded himself politically with other veterans, including Saturday's appointment of Omar Suleiman (a former lieutenant general in the army) as vice president, the first time Mubarak has tapped someone for that role in his 30 years in power.",
"Experts aren't surprised Mubarak has moved to align himself with the military even more so, recognizing the armed forces' place in Egypt.",
"Still, by doing so, he also created a quandary for the military: Do they back Mubarak, whom they report to?",
"Or do they support the people, having largely been among them not long ago and wanting to preserve their reputation?",
"Andrew Pierre, a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, said he expects top military officials to remain loyal to the president.",
"But the rank and file are a different story, especially if they are called on to beat back civilians.",
"\"They're military people for two years or so, and I don't know that they will be willing to shoot their brothers and sisters and families on the streets,\" Pierre said, adding that midlevel officers may be most torn and ultimately determine what happens.",
"Through the first five days of the crisis, the 450,000-strong armed forces appeared to trying to have it both ways: refraining from acting against demonstrators, but at the same time vowing to bring order.",
"Still, even as it vowed to enforce a curfew from 4 p.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Sunday, there were no signs of the military doing anything to the hundreds who roamed the streets regardless.",
"Telhami, though, thinks that ultimately the military may have to decide where it stands: behind Mubarak or the protesters.",
"And their decision, many believe, will determine Egypt's future.",
"\"It's all going to depend ... on where the military will be,\" he said."
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"This is in sharp contrast toward how they've approached the much reviled national police .",
"The military is well represented in Mubarak's government .",
"An expert says the military must decide how to keep order without antagonizing the public ."
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"(CNN) -- They lined up hundreds strong to touch the dirt.",
"Some fell to their knees, clutching the gritty stuff as though it were a long-lost child.",
"Others lifted it to their lips to savor a taste of the home they left behind decades ago.",
"Exiles -- who face never returning to Tibet as long as it is under Chinese rule -- stood on Tibetan soil this week, fulfilling a desire that has burned within since they fled westward across the Himalayas.",
"Only, this week, they were able to do it in Dharamsala, the Indian hilltown that functions as the de facto capital of the refugee community.",
"The display was the work of New York artist Tenzing Rigdol, 29, who clandestinely trucked in sacks containing 22 tons of dirt from Tibet to Dharamsala to construct his installation.",
"He did not want to disclose details of the soil's journey, fearful of the repercussions of the act of smuggling.",
"All he would say is that it was a \"complicated process that took 17 months.\"",
"Rigdol then spread the dirt over a stage the size of a basketball court and called it \"Our Land, Our People.\"",
"He invited Tibetans to walk on his dirt, write on it or pick up a microphone to express themselves.",
"He knew it could never be the same as actually returning to Tibet, but perhaps, he thought, it would spark a sliver of that feeling.",
"He thought of his father on Wednesday when the installation opened and people lined up, many overwhelmed with emotion.",
"The only wish his father had was to see Tibet one more time.",
"But he fell ill in 2007 and died.",
"A father's unfulfilled wish drove his artist son to create something that would allow the displaced to be able to \"return\" home again.",
"And others like him, who were born outside of Tibet, to finally feel native earth they have never had under their feet.",
"\"There are so many like my father who wanted to return,\" Rigdol said.",
"\"And many more who have never been to Tibet.\"",
"Tenzin Dorjee, 31, remembers receiving cell phone texts at 4:30 in the morning when his excited friend first came up with his idea.",
"The message was so long that it got broken into three.",
"\"He was saying he had this idea to transport a large amount of soil from Tibet,\" Dorjee said.",
"\"I was blown away.",
"My first reaction was: how is that possible?\"",
"But then Dorjee began visualizing the project and how much of an impact it was sure to have on Tibetan exiles.",
"\"The implications,\" he said, \"seemed historic.\"",
"Known as the \"roof of the world,\" Tibet is a remote Buddhist region governed by Communist China.",
"Beijing claims its sovereignty over Tibet goes back centuries and views the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as a separatist.",
"About 150,000 Tibetans live in exile, a majority of them in Dharamsala, according to their governing body.",
"The Dalai Lama set up residence there after Chinese forces crushed a 1959 Tibetan uprising.",
"The Dalai Lama summoned Rigdol to his residence after the opening of the installation Wednesday, Rigdol said.",
"Rigdol carried with him some of the Tibetan dirt.",
"Using his index finger, the Dalai Lama, wrote Tibet in the dirt and blessed the soil.",
"Meanwhile, monks in their flowing maroon and saffron robes queued up, as did parents holding babies.",
"\"It was very exciting,\" said Tenzing Geche, 22, a monk who was a baby when his family left Tibet.",
"He touched the dirt and felt a connection like no other.",
"\"I felt I was back in my own country,\" he said.",
"Tenzing Tfuengue, 17, has never been to Tibet -- he was born and raised in India.",
"He has longed to go to Tibet, feel the air there, drink the water, see the land that possesses his soul.",
"\"Today, (Rigdol) made it a little bit possible,\" Tfuengue said.",
"For Lhadon Tethong, 35, a Canadian visiting family in Dharamsala, the installation was bittersweet.",
"It was completely inspiring at one moment and in another, as she watched elderly Tibetans fall to the ground, sadness overcame her.",
"\"I am normally better with words than this,\" she said, unable to complete her sentence.",
"There was no overt political statement in Rigdol's art, but some Tibetans hoped it would inspire resistance to Chinese rule.",
"China blames Tibetan unrest on the exiled community.",
"But no matter the consequences, Rigdol's art will carry on.",
"The installation will stay up until Friday.",
"But when it closes, Tibetan exiles will be allowed to take some of the dirt with them, a reminder always of the land they long to see."
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"The dirt was spread on a stage so Tibetans could walk on it .",
"Rigdol's father died without ever seeing Tibet again ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- As fighting continued in the Libyan cities of Ajdabiya and Misrata Sunday, a rebel spokesman questioned the commitment of NATO's mission there.",
"Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi were bombing Ajdabiya from 40-50 kilometers (25-31 miles) away, Libyan rebel spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah told CNN.",
"The loyalists who were bombing the city \"have no problem with the weather conditions there,\" referring to unconfirmed reports that NATO airstrikes were halted in the area due to weather conditions.",
"Gadhafi's forces are using Grad missiles and mortars, \"and sometimes we feel that NATO wants to use any excuse out there so they don't carry out their duties,\" he said.",
"NATO did not immediately respond to a CNN inquiry about its operations Sunday.",
"Earlier, however, the NATO press office told CNN that it does not discuss ongoing operations and would not confirm or deny any reports.",
"The most official report from NATO states that it conducted 142 sorties on Saturday, of which 42 were strike sorties.",
"U.S. allies face unease without U.S. at helm .",
"Meanwhile, in Misrata, six people were killed and 47 injured in Sunday fighting, Abdulmolah said.",
"Misrata remains in control of the rebels, he said, though they are still fighting some 200 to 300 Gadhafi troops inside the city.",
"\"We are confident that we will be able to liberate the city completely and rescue our civilians who are being targeted by the madness of Gadhafi's death squads,\" he said.",
"The rebel spokesman also criticized NATO's role in Misrata.",
"\"We still need NATO's assistance, but we don't understand what they are up to,\" he said.",
"In one instance, rebel fighters pushed back Gadhafi's squads to a shoe factory, from where they were bombing residential areas in the city, he said.",
"NATO refused to bomb the shoe factory because it is a civilian facility, he said.",
"In the end, the rebels pushed the loyalists out of the shoe factory, which they burned after abandoning.",
"\"We can't understand (NATO's) excuses,\" Abdulmolah said.",
"\"We want to save our population from being murdered by these merciless death squads.",
"Earlier, an opposition member said loyalists were using bombs that look like perfume bottles.",
"Photographs indicated they were shells fired from a grenade launcher that either did not explode on impact or were deliberately masked and placed in populated areas.",
"The lethal weapons have blown off people's limbs and killed children, the council member said Saturday.",
"The report came a day after Human Rights Watch reported its members saw three cluster bombs explode Thursday night in a Misrata neighborhood.",
"The activist group said it inspected debris and interviewed witnesses about two other apparent cluster bombings.",
"The Libyan government has denied the use of such bombs, which are banned internationally because of their indiscriminate nature and ability to harm civilians after a conflict ends.",
"In the Lubyan capital, Tripoli, hundreds of chanting supporters waved green flags and pledged loyalty to Gadhafi after thunderous explosionsbelieved to be NATO airstrikes pounded targets in the capital.",
"\"I have a message to NATO and to the United Kingdom and France,\" a man wrapped in a green flag said Saturday night.",
"\"We say to them, we will kill you if you come to our land.\"",
"Others chanted, \"go go Sarkozy,\" referring to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.",
"France is one of the nations taking part in the coalition airstrikes.",
"\"Everyone here will die for Moammar Gadhafi,\" a young man said.",
"The supporters gathered at Gadhafi's compound in the capital hours after NATO apparently hit targets in Tripoli and its outskirts Saturday night.",
"Libyan forces reacted with anti-aircraft fire.",
"With no signs of an end to the war, immigrants have scrambled to flee the nation.",
"International Organization for Migration said Saturday that a boat rescued 1,200 migrant workers and their families who had been stranded around the port cit of Misrata.",
"The area has been bombarded daily by Gadhafi's forces, according to witnesses.",
"Witnesses have reported dire conditions in the city, including food shortages and the fear of pro-Gadhafi snipers taking aim at anyone walking on the streets.",
"At least 700 people have died since violence erupted in Misrata two months ago, a medical director said.",
"Despite weeks of aerial bombardment by international fighter jets, Gadhafi remains defiant and has rebuffed global calls to stop attacks on civilians.",
"At a news conference in Benghazi, the deputy chairman of Libya's Transitional National Council appealed to the international community to help prevent further tragedy.",
"He said 1.5 million Libyans were under attack every day.",
"\"We already have warned before that the regime was threatening real massacres against innocent civilians,\" Abdul Hafiz Ghoga told reporters.",
"\"The international community is now witnessing what this regime is capable of.",
"The destruction in Misrata and other cities is unacceptable.\"",
"NATO has said it needs more precision fighter jets because loyalist maneuvers have made airstrikes much more difficult without harming civilians.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah, Fred Pleitgen, Saad Abedine, Salma Abdelaziz, Mitra Mobasherat, Hamdi Alkhshali and Bharati Naik contributed to this report ."
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"Fighting continues in Misrata, Ajdabiya .",
"Hundreds gather at the Libyan ruler's compound in Tripoli .",
"The rally comes after explosions believed to be NATO airstrikes hit targets .",
"Libyan forces react with anti-aircraft fire ."
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"CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Languishing in a Cairo prison last year, a prisoner noticed that every day, the prison staff would clean the adjacent cell, even though there was no one in it.",
"Why, the prisoner asked his guards, did they do it?",
"It's for Barack Obama, they responded.",
"Because when he loses the election, he'll surely be thrown in jail, so this way, a cell will be ready for him.",
"Every day, the prisoner said, he prayed in his cell that Obama would win.",
"The prisoner was Ayman Nour, a liberal politician who in 2005 ran against and lost to Egypt's aging ruler, Hosni Mubarak, in the country's first multiparty presidential elections.",
"Soon afterward, he was convicted of electoral fraud and sent to jail.",
"He was released earlier this year.",
"Nour said he had received an invitation from the American Embassy to attend President Obama's address to the Muslim world at Cairo University on Thursday.",
"He said he doesn't plan to attend, but will watch it on television.",
"\"That way,\" he said, \"if I hear something I don't like, I can always change the channel with my remote control.\"",
"The way that Nour prayed for an Obama victory, but will not go to hear him in person, is typical of the ambiguities in how many in Egypt and throughout the Muslim world view Obama's much touted address to the world's nearly 1.5 billion Muslims.",
"Watch shopkeepers say what they want from Obama » .",
"On the one hand, at least in Egypt, Obama is the most popular American president in years.",
"Almost everyone you meet is almost starry-eyed over the new American leader.",
"On the other hand, the region has a long history of disappointment with the United States.",
"Egyptian reformists look back bitterly on their experience during the Bush administration, which, after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, launched an initiative to push for political liberalization in the Middle East.",
"In 2005, then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a speech that sent a shockwave through Egypt.",
"Journalist Ethar El-Katatney recalled, \"She said that in the last 60 years, the U.S. pursued stability at the expense of democracy.",
"We all said, 'wow!' \" The mounting American pressure on the dictators, the demonstrations, the rediscovery of long-lost voices raised against authoritarian regimes like Egypt's sparked talk of an \"Arab spring,\" a long-overdue blossoming of freedom and democracy in the political desert of the Middle East.",
"But the Bush administration's passion for Arab democracy cooled dramatically when Egypt's powerful Islamist network, the Muslim Brotherhood, made stunning gains in parliamentary elections in late 2005.",
"And the passion went stone cold in January 2006, when the militant Palestinian Islamic group Hamas was swept to power in democratic elections in Gaza and the West Bank.",
"Sensing Washington's worry, Arab dictators and their ruthless security services saw their chance, and slowly started to squeeze the brave few who had been calling for change.",
"Award-winning Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas experienced the thrill of the \"Arab spring,\" but since then has had plenty of run-ins with Egypt's secret police.",
"He has no illusions about what matters to the United States, Obama's charisma notwithstanding.",
"Watch how Egyptians are looking for concrete results » .",
"\"It's OK for these countries to be oppressive,\" he said, \"as long as they are allies [of the United States], as long as they are not communists, as long as they allow investment, as long as they allow McDonald's and Hardee's and whatever businesses to be open here.",
"But if they are dictators, [the United States] doesn't care about human rights, as long as they are allies, as long as they keep peace with Israel, it's OK.\" \"We have a fundamental problem with America,\" Nour said in an interview at his flat Monday.",
"\"America always takes positive steps, then setbacks happen, and usually America puts its interests above its principles.\"",
"Watch Egyptian youths give their views on Obama's trip » .",
"And this is what Obama may want to keep in mind when he addresses the Muslim world from Cairo.",
"People here are eager for concrete initiatives, not a rousing speech with no follow-up.",
"This is a region that has often had great faith in the good intentions of the United States, only to watch as that faith was betrayed.",
"\"It can't be all rainbows and roses,\" said El-Katatney, the journalist.",
"\"We don't want any more grand promises.",
"Obama talks brilliantly, but we've become a bit cynical.\""
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Ali Landry and her husband, director Alejandro Monteverde, welcomed their second child Saturday in Los Angeles -- a boy named Marcelo Alejandro -- the actress's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.",
"Shortly after announcing her pregnancy, the former Doritos spokeswoman, 38, told PEOPLE in June that she was using grilled cheese sandwiches to battle morning sickness.",
"At the time, Landry also said she would be \"really nervous\" if she had a boy.",
"Turns out, she had a big boy: Marcelo was 8 lbs and 21 inches long at birth.",
"Landry and Monteverde, 34, also have a daughter, 4-year-old Estela.",
"See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Ali Landry and her husband welcomed their second child Saturday .",
"Marcelo Alejandro was 8 lbs and 21 inches long at birth .",
"Landry and Monteverde, 34, also have a daughter, 4-year-old Estela ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Egypt's attorney general issued an order Monday freezing the assets of former President Hosni Mubarak and his family and prohibiting them from leaving the country.",
"Attorney General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud ordered the moves after Mustafa Bakri, a member of Egypt's parliament who lost his seat after filing corruption cases against various officials, provided documents indicating Mubarak's family has secret bank accounts totaling more than 200 million Egyptian pounds ($147 million), according to EgyNews.",
"\"I submitted the corruption documents on Sunday night and on Monday morning I was called in by the public prosecutor for investigation, and he asked me to rush to his office.\"",
"Bakri told CNN.",
"\"The attorney general, himself, went over the documents in my possession and then issued his orders to bar Mubarak and his family from travelling and to impound their assets.\"",
"Mahmoud ordered the freeze for property owned by Mubarak, his wife Suzanne, his two sons Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, and their wives and children, EgyNews reported.",
"The seizures include \"movable properties, real estate, stocks, bonds and various financial assets.\"",
"It wasn't immediately clear how the order differed from a similar one reported last week.",
"Mubarak, through his attorneys and in official filings, has described reports of immense wealth as \"fabrications and baseless rumors.\"",
"But Bakri said the documents he provided to Mahmoud \"are the first solid and concrete evidence on the fortune collected illegally by Mubarak and his family.\"",
"Mubarak, who resigned February 11 after 18 days of protest against his rule, is believed to be staying at his residence in Sharm el-Sheikh.",
"CNN's Mustafa Al-Arab and Saad Abedine contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Former lawmaker says documents he filed are \"solid and concrete\" evidence of wrongdoing .",
"Egypt's attorney general orders the assets of former President Mubarak and his family frozen .",
"Mubarak's family is also prohibited from leaving the country .",
"Mubarak resigned February 11 after 18 days of protests against his rule ."
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"(CNN) -- Iran has detained six documentary filmmakers on accusations that they worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Persian service, activists said on Monday.",
"The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged authorities to end the \"ongoing intimidation and arrest of filmmakers and journalists\" and called on diplomats and journalists in New York to press President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his country's rights record during his reported visit to New York this week.",
"\"These arrests prove yet again that President Ahmadinejad and his intelligence apparatus have no tolerance for independent filmmakers and journalists,\" Aaron Rhodes, a spokesman for the group, said in a statement.",
"\"If the president expects the international community to respect his right to speak in New York, then he should be forced to explain why filmmakers and media are subject to repression in Iran,\" he added.",
"Citing sources, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said the six documentary filmmakers were detained over the weekend and taken to prison.",
"It said a pro-government news agency accused the filmmakers of working for BBC Persian and spying for the service.",
"The BBC said Monday that no one works for the Persian service inside Iran and noted that the arrests came one day after the service broadcast a documentary on Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.",
"The documentary was an in-house production and none of the detained filmmakers worked on it, the BBC reported.",
"In a news story posted on its website, the BBC quoted its language service chief, Liliane Landor, as saying the arrests are part of the \"ongoing efforts by the Iranian government to put pressure on the BBC.\"",
"Also Monday, the Iranian minister of culture and Islamic guidance told the semiofficial Iranian Students' News Agency that the intelligence ministry is responsible for providing details on the filmmakers' case.",
"\"BBC Farsi was a major actor in the disturbances during and after the elections,\" Seyed Mohammad Hosseini told the agency, referring to the 2009 presidential elections.",
"\"It agitated and guided the people in the hopes to create problems for the country.",
"This is why the representative office of the BBC was shut down in Tehran at that time.",
"Those who are working legally in Iran must now pay close attention and be very careful.",
"We do not plan on supporting a network that engages in anti-Iran activities and works against the interests of the country,\" he said.",
"That office of the BBC was reopened and remains open.",
"CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report."
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"BBC says no one works for it inside Iran .",
"Rights activists say Iranian government can't tolerate independence ."
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"(CNN) -- U.S. Air Force officials called off their response late Friday afternoon at a Tucson, Arizona, base after reports that an armed man had entered an office building, the U.S. military branch said in a statement.",
"Earlier in the day, a U.S. military official told CNN that a gunman was believed to be holed up in a building at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.",
"This precipitated the Air Force to call for a lock-down -- which began at 10:30 a.m. -- \"following the unconfirmed sighting of\" such a man.",
"No shots were ever fired and law enforcement teams are on site, said the official, who had direct knowledge of the situation from conversations with base officials but did not want to be identified.",
"In fact, at 6 p.m., Col. John Cherrey -- who commands the Air Force's 355th Fighter Wing -- told reporters that no gunman or weapon was ever found.",
"He added that the building, where the gunman was once thought to have entered, has been secured after authorities went through it room-by-room.",
"The announcement came about two hours after the Air Force stated that its officials had \"terminated\" their response to the incident.",
"All base personnel were leaving via a \"controlled release.\"",
"\"With the help of the Tucson emergency services communities, Airmen were successful in maintaining the safety and security of the Desert Lightning Team,\" the Air Force said, alluding to the name used for Air Force personnel based in the arid southern Arizona locale.",
"Earlier, Tucson Police Sgt.",
"Maria Hawke said in an e-mailed statement that members of the department's SWAT team, hostage unit and bomb squad are near the site on a \"stand-by\" basis in case they are needed.",
"But she said that they are \"not actively engaged in any enforcement, investigative or other activity.\"",
"And Manuel Johnson, a Phoenix-based spokesman for the FBI, added that some agency personnel have been dispatched to the base to help, if needed.",
"Shortly before noon Friday, Staff Sgt.",
"Caitlyn Jones confirmed that there was a security situation at the base and that it was on lock-down mode.",
"\"It has been reduced to a single point of entry,\" she said.",
"Borman Elementary School, which is located inside the base, was put on lock down at 11 a.m., said Karen Bynum, executive assistant to the Tucson school district's superintendent.",
"Its 501 students were confined to their classrooms, with all perimeter doors locked.",
"But shortly after 4 p.m., off-base parents were allowed onto the base to pick up students at the school and Sonoran Science Academy, according to a statement from the Air Force.",
"On-base parents were told to \"take the most direct route\" to locations where their children may be.",
"The incident occurs nearly two years after 13 people were killed in a shooting spree at the Fort Hood army base in Texas.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr, Terry Frieden, Tina Burnside and Alta Spells contributed to this report."
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"NEW: An Air Force official says no gunman was found and the site is \"secure\"\nThe lock down was initiated hours earlier after \"unconfirmed sightings\" of an armed man .",
"FBI agents, along with Tucson police, were dispatched to the Arizona air base to help .",
"No shots were fired and no one was hurt, a U.S. military official says ."
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"(Parenting.com) -- Brace yourself for yet more stark economic news: babies may be suffering from more diaper rash in this down economy, reports Advertising Age, which is labeling \"America's baby bottoms\" as the \"economy's latest casualty.\"",
"Yes, that's right: tiny heinies as the latest economic indicator, according to Ad Age.",
"Here are the hard numbers: the Centers for Disease Control reported that the number of babies ages 2 and under fell 3% last year while disposable diaper sales slipped a whopping 9%.",
"And yet, there was a 2.8% increase in diaper rash cream, despite fewer babies.",
"Parenting.com: How to potty train in one week .",
"The inverse relation between diaper and rash ointment sales started in 2009 but has intensified in the last year, according to data from Deutsche Bank.",
"The average American baby bottom sees 6.3 diapers a day, and with parents shelling out an average of $1,500 a year for diapers, it's easy to see why some might turn a blind eye to a slightly damp diaper (especially when disposable diapers are so absorbent nowadays).",
"Parenting.com: Our favorite cloth diapers .",
"And of course, parents are doing everything they can to meet their families' needs with less money, but is it really at the expense of their tots' tushes?",
"We wouldn't be surprised if other explanations beyond parents skimping on diaper changes included folks making the switch to increasingly popular cloth diapers, others pushing potty training earlier, which Pampers marketer Procter & Gamble suggested, and even just more aggressive marketing efforts on the part of diaper cream makers and retailers.",
"Parenting.com: Huggies debuts new camo designer diapers .",
"Has the economy caused you to change your diapering strategy in any way?",
"Get 2 FREE YEARS of Parenting magazine - Subscribe Now!!",
"Copyright 2011 The Parenting Group.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"CDC reports disposable diaper sales fell a whopping 9% last year .",
"There was a 2.8% increase in diaper rash cream, despite fewer babies .",
"Parents shell out an average of $1,500 a year for diapers ."
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"(CNN) -- A video purporting to be from a vigilante group whose goal is the eradication of the Zetas cartel from the state of Veracruz, Mexico, has surfaced on the Internet, but its credibility remains unproven.",
"Five masked men dressed in black appear on the video, sitting behind a long table.",
"The spokesman explains that they are a group called the \"Mata Zetas,\" or Zeta Killers.",
"They describe themselves as an \"extermination\" force that works as the armed front \"of the people and for the people.\"",
"The speaker says that the group's only goal is to kill members of the Zetas, a ruthless cartel whose area of influence includes the eastern state of Veracruz.",
"Members of the Mata Zetas are prohibited from committing crimes such as extortion or kidnappings, according to the video.",
"The video was released via YouTube days after 35 bodies were found in two trucks during rush hour in the city of Boca del Rio.",
"But is the video really evidence of the birth of a vigilante group in Veracruz?",
"In the video, the speaker does not claim responsibility for the 35 deaths.",
"It is also not the first time that a seemingly grassroots group emerged in Veracruz as a counterbalance to the cartels.",
"In 2007, a group named the \"Gente Nueva,\" or New People, made itself known through menacing notes, web-posted videos, torture and executions and quasi-patriotic rhetoric.",
"The group left notes next to bodies, claiming that the victims were Zetas or supporters of the Zetas.",
"But U.S. officials with knowledge of the group said Gente Nueva was not a vigilante group but a facade for the Sinaloa cartel, which at the time was battling the Zetas and Gulf Cartel in Veracruz.",
"The Zetas and Gulf cartel have since split into warring factions.",
"Mexico's attorney general's office responded with a statement saying that it would investigate the video and any group that tries to take justice into its own hands.",
"\"The only path to reach long-lasting security and peace is through the rule of law and strengthening of our institutions,\" the statement said.",
"In October of last year, another possible paramilitary group surfaced in Michoacan state.",
"A group calling itself the \"Pelotones Omega\" distributed fliers indicating its members would fight against kidnappers, murderers and other criminals."
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"The group says its goal is to exterminate the Zetas cartel from Veracruz state .",
"Authorities say that they will investigate any group that takes justice into their own hands ."
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"Miami (CNN) -- Kris Rakowski put the dog out late Friday and looked to the skies above his Maple Grove, Minnesota, residence.",
"He saw lights -- a bunch of them.",
"\"They almost looked like fireballs or fireflies, strobing,\" Rakowski told CNN Saturday.",
"The art director, 35, who first began looking for possible signs of a plummeting U.S. satellite around 10 p.m., grabbed his camera.",
"He's pretty sure the photos he submitted to CNN's iReport were pieces of the satellite, which entered the Earth's atmosphere around that time.",
"\"It was a once in a lifetime opportunity,\" he said.",
"NASA said the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite's debris fell to Earth between 11:23 p.m.",
"ET Friday and 1:09 a.m.",
"ET Saturday.",
"The satellite passed over Africa and North America and likely landed off the West Coast of the United States, NASA said.",
"\"The precise re-entry time and location of debris impacts have not been determined,\" NASA said.",
"\"Twenty-six satellite components, weighing a total of about 1,200 pounds, could have survived the fiery re-entry and reach the surface of Earth.",
"However, NASA is not aware of any reports of injury or property damage. \"",
"NASA officials said it's possible the satellite pieces hit the Pacific Ocean.",
"Initial reported sightings of the disintegrating satellite had not proved credible because they were not near the proper track, the agency said.",
"Reports of suspected sightings emerged from San Antonio, where a TV photographer caught images of bright objects darting rapidly in the night sky, and from Hawaii, where Robert Jeffcoat saw what he believed were two chunks from the satellite.",
"Jeffcoat was running errands when the first flying object left a thick, white trail that lingered in the sky for about 20 minutes, he said.",
"A second object followed the same path and was \"massive,\" he said.",
"\"It was like a comet, but smoke,\" he said.",
"\"I'm guessing it landed in the ocean, the way it was going.\"",
"Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris team in Houston said before the rubbish fell that there was no way to know exactly where the pieces would come down.",
"\"Part of the problem is, the spacecraft is tumbling in unpredictable ways, and it is very difficult to very precisely pinpoint where it's coming down even right before the re-entry,\" Matney said.",
"NASA said space debris the size of the satellite's components re-enters the atmosphere about once a year.",
"Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell noted that the satellite is far from being the biggest space junk to come back.",
"\"This is nothing like the old Skylab scare of the '70s, when you had a 70-ton space station crashing out of the sky,\" McDowell said.",
"Pieces of Skylab came down in western Australia in 1979.",
"Jeffcoat said he was amazed his home of Paia, Maui, seemed to be an ideal place to watch hunks of a satellite rain from the sky.",
"\"Of all the places in the world where it could hit, here it was, in Maui,\" he said.",
"\"It was quite weird.\"",
"CNN's John Zarella, Holly Yan, Phil Gast and Mike Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"A man in Hawaii says he thinks he saw pieces fall from the sky .",
"About 26 pieces, some weighing hundreds of pounds, were expected to survive re-entry .",
"It is not clear exactly where the pieces might have landed ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- He performed at Ellen DeGeneres' wedding this past summer, and he's as quick-witted as Adam Sandler.",
"Could Joshua Radin be the next great wedding singer?",
"Joshua Radin got a push from old friend Zach Braff, but has been making his own fans.",
"\"No, don't say that,\" the singer-songwriter says good-naturedly.",
"\"Wedding singers play covers and they're usually Motown songs.",
"I don't know any Al Green.\"",
"Maybe not -- and Al Green didn't record for Motown, either -- but Radin hopes to put a little love in your heart with his sophomore album, \"Simple Times.\"",
"\"It's about my whole life.",
"Every song I write is an honest account of my life.",
"They're sort of like journal entries,\" he says.",
"\"So this one's about falling in and out of love, it's about my friends, it's about my family.",
"It's about the world we live in.\"",
"Radin's world has been anything but simple these past few years.",
"Since actor Zach Braff -- a buddy from Northwestern University -- promoted the Cleveland, Ohio-born musician's tunes on the TV sitcom \"Scrubs,\" Radin's vulnerable lyrics and whispery delivery have caught on.",
"Primetime programs like \"Grey's Anatomy\" and \"American Idol\" also used his music, and before long Radin had a debut album -- 2006's critically acclaimed \"We Were Here\" -- and a reason to hit the road.",
"Radin (who has a loud, hearty laugh for a guy whose songs are pretty melancholy) dropped by CNN's New York offices to talk about how he landed that wedding gig, and some of the unusual surfaces he uses to jot down lyrics.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"Watch Radin cause hearts to melt » .",
"CNN: A lot of your songs are about heartache and heartbreak.",
"Are you sad all the time? Joshua Radin: No, not at all.",
"Just tired. CNN: Why so tired? Radin: Because I play a lot of shows all the time.",
"When you're trying to get your music out to as many people as humanly possible, you gotta go places ... all the time, and talk about it and play songs and you get a little less sleep than you might like.",
"It's cool. But in terms of the heartache I guess I get my sad out by writing songs.",
"CNN: How do you get your happy out?",
"Radin: Hanging out with people I like.",
"CNN: Speaking of people you like, Zach Braff [is] a big buddy of yours ... Radin: Never met him.",
"CNN: Liar! Radin: He's a very close friend and he's been very supportive.",
"CNN: Some might say that without Zach Braff's support you might not have come to the fore as you have ... Radin: I wouldn't even be born.",
"CNN: Do you sort of feel like you are going to be indebted to him for the rest of your life?",
"Radin: No, he's pretty much indebted to me.",
"I mean he got to launch my career (laughs).",
"I'm just kidding. CNN: You sang at Ellen DeGeneres' wedding.",
"How did that come about? Radin: I played her show in January and she came up to me after we soundchecked the song [\"Today\"] and said, \"That's the song I want to walk down the aisle to.\"",
"And I thought she was just being nice, really.",
"And then about two days before the wedding -- I was on tour -- I got a call saying she wanted me to come in and she was going to have her wedding for a very intimate gathering at her house.",
"And she wanted me to play about five or six of my songs ... CNN: The happy ones, I hope.",
"Radin: Yeah, I only have about five or six songs about falling in love.",
"The rest are about falling out of love or about politics or something ... things that maybe wouldn't be great for a wedding.",
"And I'd never played a wedding.",
"[I] had never really gone to any weddings ... but I sang six of my own songs and it was really cool.",
"[There were] about 20 people sitting around a couch in her living room, and Portia [de Rossi] and Ellen were sitting in two chairs right in front of me and I got walked in.",
"I was Ellen's surprise for Portia.",
"CNN: Tell me about the single.",
"Radin: It's called \"I'd Rather Be With You.\"",
"It's a little love song.",
"I wrote it about my ex-girlfriend right after we broke up and I was missing her.",
"But the song doesn't sound sad.",
"It's sort of about someone who waits on you a long time to make a decision and then after it's over, how we all want something more ... after it's gone.",
"The video is just me and Katrina Bowden, the actress from \"30 Rock,\" and we shot it on Super 8 so it's real grainy and looks like an old home movie.",
"It was Zach's concept.",
"CNN: You started out as a screenwriter ... Radin: Sort of.",
"I started out as a painter and an art teacher for kids.",
"That's what I studied in school and I taught fifth through seventh grade in Chicago.",
"And then I lived in New York for about six years writing screenplays.",
"And then about four years ago I wrote my first song.",
"CNN: So in terms of expressing yourself artistically, songs are where you feel at home?",
"Radin: At the moment.",
"I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium.",
"Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.",
"It's like choosing production on a song; whether [you use] drums or piano or guitar ... you service the song.",
"So in terms of the medium I guess I service the sentiment.",
"If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.",
"I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.",
"CNN: What would you say is the best setting to listen to your music?",
"Radin: Driving in the car on a road trip.",
"Riding the subway.",
"Traveling. It's traveling music.",
"CNN: Because you're a traveler?",
"You're a bit of a nomad? Radin: I am and I write my songs usually while I'm walking around.",
"Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that.",
"I jot down lyrics wherever I am.",
"Usually it's on a vomit bag on an airplane or something.",
"[I] just look for a pen (laughs)."
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"(CNN) -- The hefty last meal ordered but not eaten by an executed Texas inmate brought a complaint from a state senator and the end Thursday to the practice of special menus.",
"Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, wrote Thursday that he opposed the practice of providing a last meal of choice to the condemned.",
"\"It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege.",
"One which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim,\" Whitmire wrote.",
"The Democrat, who represents Houston and parts of north Harris County, said \"enough is enough\" after Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet with other ingredients, a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream and a pound of barbecue with a half-loaf of white bread.",
"The meal request also included a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, a pizza and three root beers.",
"Brewer declined to eat the last meal Wednesday, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark.",
"Whitmire, in asking the state to stop special requests, said he would seek the change by law if necessary.",
"\"I believe Senator Whitmire's concerns regarding the practice of allowing death row offenders to choose their last meal are valid,\" Brad Livingston, executive director of the Department of Criminal Justice, said in statement released Thursday.",
"\"Effective immediately, no such accommodations will be made.",
"They will receive the same meal served to other offenders on the unit.\"",
"Brewer, 44, was executed for his involvement in the infamous racially motivated 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr. CNN's Phil Gast contributed to this report."
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"Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered extensive last meal and didn't eat it .",
"State senator said allowing such a request was \"ridiculous\"\nChief of criminal justice department orders change to protocol .",
"Brewer was executed for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr."
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"(CNN) -- A phone hacking scandal may have cost Rupert Murdoch his biggest-selling newspaper in 2011, but the billionaire media mogul managed to end the year with a modest addition to his empire -- an account on Twitter.",
"Within 48 hours of debuting with tweets about family, work and politics, Murdoch had pulled in more than 45,000 followers and stirred internet debate over why the 80-year-old was now embracing a technology often used to attack him.",
"The tweets also raised doubts that the notorious technophobe was writing the messages himself.",
"Twitter creator Jack Dorsey -- one of only four people being followed by Murdoch -- however insisted that the media mogul was writing \"with his own voice, in his own way.\"",
"Murdoch appears to have made his Twitter debut on New Year's Eve with a couple of brief comments on books including the biography of late Apple boss Steve Jobs, which he called \"interesting but unfair.\"",
"These were followed by praise for cinema releases \"We Bought a Zoo,\" and \"The Descendants,\" both produced by Murdoch's Fox Movies.",
"These fueled suspicions that Murdoch's Twitter account was being used as a publicity tool to help improve his image after a damaging year.",
"\"Could be brilliant News Corp PR operation,\" Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff tweeted after earlier commenting: \"Might be somebody who knows Murdoch, but it's not Rupert (he doesn't use a computer unassisted nor get his own email).\"",
"Others claimed that the voice of the tweets, as well as their faltering grammar and punctuation, were unmistakably Murdoch.",
"\"You can tell by the tweets he's doing it himself,\" wrote CNN's Piers Morgan, a former editor of one of Murdoch's newspapers.",
"A spokesperson for Murdoch's News Corp. confirmed to CNN the account is genuine.",
"The account could offer new insight into a businessman whose life has been under intense scrutiny this year after revelations that journalists at News of the World, one of his most profitable newspapers, illegally accessed the voicemail messages of scores of celebrities and public figures.",
"Twitter played a prominent role at the height of the scandal when it was used to pressure advertisers into boycotting the paper.",
"Commentators said the loss of revenue was a key factor in Murdoch's decision to shut the paper down.",
"Murdoch's subsequent appearance before a British parliamentary inquiry into phone hacking also caused a sensation on Twitter, particularly after his wife, Wendi Deng, pounced on a man who tried to attack him with a foam pie.",
"There were echoes of Murdoch's parliamentary appearance -- which he called the \"most humble day day of my life\" -- in New Year pledges which he tweeted in a January 1 message to Dorsey.",
"\"My resolutions, try to maintain humility and always curiosity.",
"And of course diet!\"",
"But there were also signs that the media mogul was still getting to grips with social media.",
"Reports suggested he was forced to quickly delete one post -- possibly after Deng leapt to his aid once again.",
"The Sydney Morning Herald -- a fierce rival of his Australian publications -- was among news outlets claiming that Murdoch was guilty of \"tweeting-before-thinking\" for suggesting that the British have too many holidays for a \"broke country.\"",
"The message was apparently removed, but not before someone tweeting as Wendi Deng implored: \"RUPERT!!!",
"delete tweet!\"",
"A further post on the unverified Deng account later added: \"EVERY1 @rupertmurdoch was only having a joke pROMSIE!!!\"",
"[sic] . Murdoch also follows an account that appears on the surface to be Google CEO Larry Page but is actually run by a man in Virginia.",
"It's not clear whether Murdoch realizes he's not following the real Larry Page.",
"Among other tweets by Murdoch, who also follows Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and Silcon Valley entrepreneur and British businessman Alan Sugar, were an expression of support for Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The investigation into the suicide bombing that killed 17 people on Saturday suggests it was the work of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, an Afghan official said Monday.",
"\"We have some contacts and some evidence on the ground and some information about the vehicles used and the people used,\" Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said, stressing that the results of the investigation were preliminary.",
"\"This is another sophisticated attack by the operatives of the Haqqani network, and we are also optimistic to arrest some of their operatives in Kabul in the days ahead,\" he said.",
"However, a spokesman for international forces in Afghanistan, which lost nine troops in the attack, said they have no indications yet that the Haqqani network was involved.",
"\"All we have seen so far is that the Taliban have claimed responsibility.",
"That doesn't necessarily mean that it was them, but we have no other indications,\" said Brig.",
"Gen. Cartsen Jacobsen.",
"\"The case has to be looked at.\"",
"Another International Security Assistance Force spokesman, Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, added that their intelligence at this point gave no indication of the involvement of the Haqqanis.",
"The Saturday attack killed 13 people in a NATO convoy and four Afghan civilians.",
"Nine of the 13 were American, including five U.S. troops.",
"The blast also claimed the lives of two British civilians, a Kosovo national and a Canadian soldier.",
"U.S. officials have been increasingly vocal about the threat posed by the Haqqani network in recent months, arguing the organization has ties to Pakistani intelligence and enjoys safe havens in the country from whence it is able to launch attacks across the border in Afghanistan.",
"In September, then-U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen called the Haqqani network a \"veritable arm of Pakistan's intelligence.\"",
"A Pentagon report on the war in Afghanistan released last week said that the ability of insurgents to flee to safe havens in Pakistan was the biggest risk to the effort to stabilize Afghanistan after nearly a decade of war.",
"The report singled out the Haqqani network as one that has carried out major attacks.",
"Founded in Pakistan to fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Haqqani network has been blamed for killing more than 1,000 coalition and Afghan forces, including attacks on the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Kabul.",
"Pakistani officials have rejected claims that they support the group, but acknowledge that they are in contact with it.",
"This month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged that U.S. representatives met with Haqqani officials to discuss the possibility of negotiations that would end hostilities."
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"New York (CNN) -- As snow fell across New York harbor, Isabel Belarsky said she clutched her mother, Clara, aboard a passenger ship that puttered toward Ellis Island, and wondered what their new lives would bring.",
"The year was 1930. About a week earlier, the 10 year-old girl from what is now called Saint Petersburg, Russia, had embarked on a transatlantic journey with her Ukrainian parents from the French port city of Cherbourg, escaping what she described as Jewish persecution at the start of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.",
"On an island near Manhattan stood the copper colossus that would etch her first memories of the new world.",
"\"It was a wonderful sight,\" she said of the Statue of Liberty, which marks its 125th anniversary Friday.",
"The idea for the monument is thought to have been first conceived at a 19th century dinner party among French aristocrats, historians say, who sought to pay tribute to American liberty.",
"And while the French gift is also widely believed to have at least in part catered to domestic politics, for many it quickly became a symbol of hope and promise in America's post- Civil War period.",
"\"The arrival on Ellis Island is the fulfillment that you know something good is going to happen to you,\" said Belarksy, now a 91-year-old widow living in a Russian enclave of Brooklyn, New York.",
"Her family became part of the more than 12 million immigrants processed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954, according to the U.S. National Park Service.",
"Adjacent to Ellis towers Lady Liberty, measuring more than 305 feet from base to torch.",
"Originally, the statue was supposed to be an Egyptian peasant girl that would have stood at the entrance of Egypt's then-new Suez Canal, historians say, but plans would later evolve into the Roman goddess that would instead adorn New York harbor.",
"\"The sculptor, (Frederic) Bartholdi, was very clever,\" said Edward Berenson, professor of history and director of the Institute of French Studies at New York University.",
"\"He put (the statue) where he did because its right at the narrows of New York harbor, so he knew that every boat that came into New York would have to come really close to it.",
"People felt like they could reach out and touch it,\" he said.",
"Inspired perhaps by Egypt's colossal statues during his own travels to Cairo, Berenson added, Bartholdi sought to build a monument of his own in a tribute to American liberty and its new found emancipation of slaves.",
"The statue rests atop a sculpted wrangling of broken chains on New York's Liberty Island.",
"Only years later, Berenson argues, did the monument come to symbolize immigration to the broader public, despite the structure's engraved plaque bearing the now famous poem by Emma Lazarus, who asks for the \"huddled masses yearning to breathe free.\"",
"Like many who made the perilous journey, Belarsky said she had often wondered what kind of life was waiting for her on the shores behind the copper monument.",
"\"It was quite frightening,\" she recalled.",
"\"The three of us, my father, my mother and I, wanted for someone to come with money or to tell us whats next.\"",
"And though a U.S. law passed six years earlier had largely restricted immigration, her father, Sidor, had managed to secure three tickets to America by way of a talent scout who visited the Leningrad conservatory where he had performed as an opera singer.",
"\"He had such a beautiful voice,\" she said.",
"Their travel permit, however, was only temporary.",
"Sidor had acquired a six-month visa to teach at Brigham Young University, said Belarsky.",
"Still, the young family would nonetheless settle more permanently in a west Manhattan apartment.",
"And unlike many who eventually returned to their homelands in Europe, the Belarskys decided to leave Saint Petersburg -- then known as Leningrad -- behind.",
"\"Authorities were starting to clamp down and consolidate the social state and Soviet power around Stalin,\" said Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.",
"\"As an opera singer, you might not have wanted to start singing Soviet anthems.\"",
"So the young family left Russia without plans to return, Belarsky added.",
"And though many immigrants entered the United States through Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Orleans and Miami; historians say steamship companies most often cruised into New York harbor, commonly making the Statue of Liberty the first land sighting for new arrivals.",
"\"Everybody spoke of the golden land,\" said Belarksy.",
"\"Come to America where there's gold on the streets, until they came here and they had to live in walk-up tenement houses,\" she said, referencing hardships often endured in overcrowded city buildings.",
"Immigrants also commonly faced unsanitary and unsafe work conditions on docks and in factories as America's need for industrial labor grew.",
"\"If you think immigration is unpopular now,\" said Berenson.",
"\"If anything it was even more unpopular in the 1890s and the first part of the 20th century.\"",
"Successive immigrant waves, however, still rushed to America's shores through Ellis Island and past the Statue of Liberty, often buoyed by the prospect of economic opportunity, he added.",
"\"I think it took a while for people to think of themselves as Americans,\" said Berenson.",
"\"For an awful lot of people, what they wanted was to think of themselves as whatever they were originally, and as Americans too.\"",
"Anniversary celebrations of the Statue of Liberty will be marked Friday by a series of official speeches and web cams, provided by Earthcam, that are expected stream video footage from the torch.",
"The following day the statue will close for renovations, though Liberty Island will remain open, according to the National Park Service."
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"Friday marks the 125th anniversary of the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty .",
"A Russian immigrant recalls her Ellis Island passage in 1930 .",
"The Statue of Liberty was a French gift .",
"Web cams are expected stream video footage from the torch ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- With Manchester United continuing their top form from last season and aiming for what would be a remarkable clean sweep of trophies this year, it's only appropriate that we should profile a blog somehow linked to the Red Devils.",
"Fan focus: The Republik of Mancunia blog is popular with Manchester United supporters.",
"The Republik of Mancunia blog focuses on the Old Trafford club and is updated daily with a keen following among thousands of Manchester United fans.",
"Authored by Manchester-born and raised 25-year-old Scott (who prefers to remain anonymous), the blog began in the 2005-2006 season.",
"Scott, also known as \"Scott the Red,\" told CNN that before starting the blog he had been published on several football sites, and then \"fell into\" creating the Republik of Mancunia web site.",
"\"I love talking about United and I'm an argumentative guy, so getting to write my opinions down about the latest goings on is something I really enjoy doing.",
"\"(In 2005-2006) I was also getting on soapbox about the fact we were not in decline, which the current media at the time seemed to think we were,\" he said.",
"Scott said running a blog was a very difficult and time-consuming task, though he enjoyed the interaction with other fans.",
"\"I imagine if I wasn't in love with the club, I'd have given up on it long before now.",
"It takes up a lot of time and you get people who support other teams having a go at you on a daily basis, sometimes United fans and all!\"",
"Scott said the readership of his blog, and also contributions to his Manchester United forum came from areas as widely spread as Europe, Africa and even as far as Asia and South America -- with a strong base at home in the United Kingdom.",
"\"I find it odd thinking of some lads thousands of miles away and hours apart sat at a computer and reading my latest rant.",
"I like it though!\""
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"CNN's Football Fanzone profiles a football blog every month .",
"In March the profiled site is the Republik of Mancunia blog .",
"The Republik of Mancunia is a dedicated blog for Manchester United fans ."
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"(CNN) -- Longtime talk show host Larry King says he's joined an effort to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers.",
"\"It would be a thrill of a lifetime to be a part owner, a partial owner, of a team I grew up rooting for as a child in Brooklyn,\" the former host of CNN's \"Larry King Live\" said Wednesday.\"",
"\"To go to a ballpark and have an owner's box, to even have a say in a possible trade -- are you out of your mind?\"",
"he asked rhetorically.",
"King says he's part of group of investors interested in acquiring the franchise, despite its apparent financial troubles and unresolved contract issues with Fox Sports.",
"Major League Baseball, which took charge of the team in April, has been embroiled in legal battles over future media rights after baseball Commissioner Bud Selig rejected a $3 billion television deal with Fox.",
"The beleaguered club then filed for bankruptcy in June and has since drawn a number of high-profile buyers into the bidding process after team owner Frank McCourt agreed to sell.",
"A court hearing over the Dodgers' future media rights is scheduled for December 7.",
"King's investor group, meanwhile, is led by insurance agent Dennis Gilbert, who also works as a special assistant to Chicago White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.",
"\"What bigger thrill?\"",
"asked King, a native of Brooklyn, New York, which the Dodgers once called home.",
"The team, formerly known as the Trolley Dodgers because of the maze of trolley cars that Brooklynites once dodged in the streets, eventually shortened its name, then and moved to California, kicking off its first L.A. season in 1958, to the dismay of many New Yorkers.",
"\"The emotional part would be that they'd have to carry me out,\" King said of his possible part-ownership stake in the team."
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"King says he's bidding as a part of an investor group .",
"The former CNN talk show host is a native of Brooklyn, where the Dodgers once played .",
"The club filed for bankruptcy in June, and owner Frank McCourt agreed to sell ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Melissa McCarthy is no longer just a bridesmaid.",
"She's the bride. The \"Mike & Molly\" Emmy winner and \"Bridesmaids\" scene-stealer has some big plans on her plate -- from launching her own plus-size fashion line to getting hockey's prized Stanley Cup (for a movie) -- during what is already a stellar year for her.",
"But none of her professional plans can top her favorite pastime, being mom to her two daughters with actor-husband Ben Falcone: Vivian, 4, and Georgette, 1½.",
"McCarthy tells the Hollywood Reporter that being a mother actually helps her feel less insecure about her looks.",
"\"The stupid stuff like what I wear or how I look I can't control, so I just try not to give too much energy to it,\" she says, calling her body a work in progress after giving birth to Georgette.",
"\"At 20, I would have been like: 'Don't they like me?",
"Was it my hair?' At 41, I think the things that define me, I hope, are a lot more than those kinds of petty things.\"",
"As for those red-carpet moments, \"Trying to find stuff that's still fashion-forward in my size is damn near impossible.",
"It's either for like a 98-year-old woman or a 14-year-old hooker, and there is nothing in the middle,\" McCarthy wisecracks.",
"Case in point: trying to outfit herself for the Emmys, which required sifting through \"nine million dresses with taffeta or shiny bows.\"",
"The final result was McCarthy's own line that she is co-designing with couturier Daniella Pearl.",
"Hosting SNL This Weekend .",
"Fans needn't fret, however -- she'll still be doing comedy, including hosting this weekend's \"Saturday Night Live.\"",
"She psyched for this, too, admitting to having an emotional reaction when the producers invited her to do it.",
"\"I went into such an embarrassing, weird, inappropriately loud cry,\" says McCarthy.",
"\"I'm bent over, literally, in the rug section of Living Spaces, wailing.\"",
"Also ahead: starring in and co-writing a movie with \"Bridesmaids\" scribe Annie Mumolo, which is about hijacking the Stanley Cup to cheer up her sick husband; costarring with Jason Bateman in a movie comedy (still in the talking stage); and appearing in Judd Apatow's as-yet-untitled \"Knocked Up\" spin-off -- and that, reportedly, is only for starters.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Melissa McCarthy as two daughters with actor-husband Ben Falcone .",
"McCarthy says that being a mother actually helps her feel less insecure about her looks .",
"McCarthy will be hosting this weekend's \"Saturday Night Live\""
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"(CNN) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter has unveiled a raft of reforms aimed at restoring credibility to world football's ruling body, which has been hit by a succession of scandals over the past decade of his tenure.",
"Accusations of corruption came to a head in the lead-up to last December's vote to award hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, with two high-echelon officials banned for life.",
"The fallout continued last week as Caribbean Football Union members were suspended and fined for their involvement in the cash-for-votes scandal which saw Blatter's only election rival banned for life before the June 1 ballot.",
"While former Asian Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam is taking legal action against that punishment, his former fellow Executive Committee members have agreed to establish three new task forces and a \"good governance committee\" in order to clean up the sport's administration.",
"Blatter revealed at a press conference in Zurich on Friday that he hopes they will be implemented by 2013.",
"\"We've been ambitious in our roadmap,\" the 75-year-old said.",
"\"By 2013 we should have lived up to the requests made by the national associations in 2011.",
"That is the goal we have set for ourselves.\" Germany's Football Association president Theo Zwanziger will chair the task force dedicated to revising FIFA's statutes, while Claudio Sulser will oversee any reforms of the Ethics Committee of which he is chairman.",
"The group focused on transparency and compliance will be headed by New Zealand FA president Frank van Hattum and Paraguay counterpart Juan Angel Napout, and German football legend Franz Beckenbauer will continue to lead the Football 2014 task force which began its work in May.",
"The good governance committee will be established at the ExCo's next meeting on December 16-17, and will have representatives from throughout the football world -- such as players, referees, fans, clubs, national associations -- and from outside, including politicians lawyers, marketing partners.",
"Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been involved in an advisory role, but will not be on the committee as Blatter said he wanted to have currently active politicians instead.",
"\"We needed to strengthen the Ethics Committee, so we have a task force which will focus on its independence and how to strengthen it,\" Blatter said.",
"\"What is most important right now, we also need to provide it with guidelines that don't come from football and not from the Executive Committee and members of different confederations or the Ethics Committee, but from the national associations.",
"They wanted to see something being done.",
"\"The transparency and compliance task force will be made up of presidents of national associations, and they will identify the problems with which the national associations are faced with respect to FIFA.\"",
"Blatter said the ExCo members, several of whom have faced accusations of corruption in the past decade, were unanimous in agreeing on the proposed roadmap.",
"\"There is only one question mark -- will we be able to live up to the details of it?",
"I feel very happy that the Executive Committee is completely in step with what we want to achieve with the national associations,\" he said.",
"\"We are moving forward with a FIFA that, especially due to the Good Governance Committee, will allow us in 2013 or even before to present an image other than the one we have currently.\"",
"Blatter, who said there would be a push to include at least one woman on the all-male ExCo for the first time, revealed that court documents from the 10-year-old case involving FIFA's former marketing partner ISL would be released.",
"FIFA officials Ricardo Teixeira, Nicolas Leoz and former president Joao Havelange were accused of receiving payments from ISL, which folded in 2001.",
"The ExCo will examine the case in December and make the files available to an independent body for scrutiny.",
"\"The court has said there are people involved, but no Swiss people -- only foreign people,\" Blatter said.",
"He denied claims that FIFA was a corrupt organization, but claimed that any large body will always have corrupt elements.",
"\"Some people are corrupt, some people are even more than that, but can you say that all are?",
"At the end of the day in FIFA, which has 300 million participants, you will always find some violence, doping, corruption, you cannot avoid it, but that does not mean that the whole organization is like that.\""
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"Football's governing body FIFA reveals plans to target corrupt activity .",
"President Sepp Blatter unveils proposals for three new task forces .",
"\"Good governance committee\" will bring together their recommendations .",
"FIFA to release court documents over ISL marketing company corruption case ."
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"(CNN) -- As Japan's disaster evolves, so too are the measures taken to mitigate the chaos.",
"One such initiative comes from U.S. military contractor iRobot, which will help Japan's army incorporate robots into their recovery efforts.",
"The company joins at least two Japanese robotics teams on the ground in the quake- and tsunami-ravaged country, one of which operates an 8-meter-long, snakelike robot with a camera.",
"iRobot, based in Bedford, Massachusetts, is donating four ground-based models to the Japan relief effort: two PackBots and two Warriors.",
"The PackBot is an agile, battle-tested unit that's been used for bomb dispersal, recon and other tactical operations.",
"Depending on its configuration, it weighs 45 to 60 pounds and is known for being highly customizable.",
"\"Not every robot works in every situation,\" says iRobot Vice President Tim Trainer, \"so they have to be configured appropriately.\"",
"In Japan, the PackBot will be outfitted with HazMat sensors and deployed in areas of nuclear uncertainty, such as the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to search for chemical, biological or radiological anomalies.",
"The larger Warrior model is a 347-pound robot that can traverse rubble or wreckage and carry up to 200 pounds.",
"For this mission, it will be configured with firefighting capabilities that allow it to deploy fire hoses or clear away rubble.",
"It complements the PackBots' agility and scanning capabilities with the muscle to physically neutralize hot zones.",
"Both the PackBot and the Warrior are remote-controlled from a distance of 800 meters (about half a mile).",
"The PackBot transmits data about hazardous conditions to an operator in real time.",
"Because Japan's relief workers face massive piles of impenetrable rubble, the robots might also play a key role in general search-and-recovery efforts, as the PackBot did at New York City's ground zero in the aftermath of 9/11.",
"A dual track system on both units enhances mobility and makes it possible for them to navigate areas humans can't safely reach.",
"The Packbots and Warriors are accompanied by six iRobot employees who will train Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force in their use.",
"The units can be operated with an Xbox or PlayStation controller in a straightforward plug-and-play fashion.",
"Once in the field, robots that enter nuclear hot zones aren't necessarily expected to make it back out, as contamination could render them unsafe for later.",
"But by going where relief teams shouldn't, they might prevent additional, unnecessary human casualties.",
"\"This is why we got into robotics,\" said iRobot's Trainer.",
"\"To keep people out of harm's way.\"",
"Katie Linendoll is a technology expert, a TV personality and a CNN contributor.",
"Follow her on Twitter @KatieLinendoll."
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"U.S. company iRobot has donated four ground-based robots to help with recovery efforts .",
"The PackBot is an agile, battle-tested unit used for bomb dispersal .",
"The Warrior is a larger, heavy-load bearing, 347-pound robot ."
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"(CNN) -- After traveling all year for business meetings or conventions and taking vacation to cover a child's inconvenient half days at school, many harried Americans are left with a dilemma.",
"With a few weeks left in the year, their remaining precious vacation days are about to expire.",
"The average American worker has about six paid vacation days left unused at the end of the year, according to Hotwire.com's American Travel Behavior Survey, conducted earlier this year.",
"It's time to use 'em or lose 'em.",
"For the flexible traveler able to jump on a plane over the next two weeks, discounts are plentiful.",
"That's because business travel is winding down for the year while many leisure travelers are saving their pennies for holiday expenses.",
"Hotels and airlines are cutting prices and bundling discounts to fill rooms and seats that would otherwise go unsold.",
"\"It's a great time to get last-minute deals if you're flexible and have time available,\" says Fiona O'Donnell, senior lifestyles and leisure analyst for the Mintel Reports Group.",
"Here are a few deals: . Winter in the wine country (West Coast) Winter is Cabernet season in the Napa Valley and hoteliers are celebrating the end of harvest with discounted winter room rates.",
"While new wine ages in recently-filled barrels, the legendary Napa Valley Lodge in Yountville, California, has packages with room rates starting at $195 (Sunday through Thursday) and $245 (Saturday and Sunday) that include wine tasting passes, a bottle of wine, continental Champagne breakfast buffet and 20% off spa treatments.",
"In contrast, Summer rates can start at $300/night.",
"This offer is good now through January 31, 2012.",
"Other Napa Valley offers, including restaurant month and vintner discounts are also available.",
"\"The harvest season might be over, but there are still plenty of reasons to visit wine country in winter,\" says Anne Banas, executive editor of Smarter Travel.",
"\"Not only will the wines warm you up, but wine tastings and dining options offer plenty to do indoors.",
"Plus, you can often find good discounts on hotels and B&Bs, often 30% to 50% off regular season rates.\"",
"Winter in wine country (East Coast) Bundle up and head to the Finger Lakes region of New York, where the wine scene is low-key and travelers celebrate the cold with cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing.",
"Banas recommends Atwater Estate Vineyards and the New York Wine and Culinary Center on Canandaigua Lake.",
"Winter travelers can receive discounts or free nights with participating hotels and inns as well as discounts at local wineries and restaurants through March 31, 2012.",
"San Francisco --or Washington -- here we come .",
"Even cities where hotel prices increased this year are experiencing a lull between the holidays.",
"Prices for San Francisco hotels have jumped 22% over 2010, due to convention bookings and domestic and European visitors, says Hotwire.com's Clem Bason, president of the Hotwire Group.",
"But rates for the first few weeks in December are down by about 10% from peak prices, according to Hotwire.",
"The nation's capital is almost always busy doing the people's work, so hotel prices tend to remain high in good times and bad.",
"However, government also slows down around the holidays.",
"Prices in Washington are down about 15% from peak rates, according to Hotwire.",
"\"We love sending people to D.C. when the weather is OK because there are so many free attractions in the area,\" says Bason.",
"\"You can see a lot of our nation's history for free.\"",
"Portland's perks .",
"Portland, Oregon, has a \"Portland Perks\" winter special designed to lure travelers to this food-obsessed and environmentally green Oregon city: $50 cash received upon check-in, free overnight parking, complimentary continental breakfast for two and a Portland Perks coupon book.",
"This offer at select hotels requires a two-night minimum stay and is valid for travel from November 1 to December 30, 2011.",
"Set sail for the Caribbean .",
"With many cruise ships already committed to trips to the Caribbean this month, cruise lines are dropping prices on any remaining empty rooms, says Amy Chlebeck, a travel consultant with Minneapolis-based Carlson Wagonlit Travel.",
"Cruises departing Miami or Fort Lauderdale for three- to 10-day trips are available.",
"Check with your favorite cruise line if you've sailed before.",
"Travelers who aren't familiar with the different cruise lines may want to hire a travel agent to help sort through the options, says Chlebeck.",
"Some cruises cater to singles, while others target families or older couples.",
"And some ships have better food than others.",
"Shop until you drop . If we can't convince you to take a break from the holiday frenzy, how about a trip that takes care of your shopping needs?",
"For travelers looking for cold weather, Minnesota may also offer the opportunity to play in the snow.",
"You might not even need to rent a car when booking a Mall of America travel package.",
"Hotels near the enormous Bloomington, Minnesota, mall often offer transportation to and from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and the mall.",
"Check individual hotel offers at the Mall of America website."
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"The average American worker doesn't use about six paid vacation days annually .",
"Napa Valley hotels are celebrating the end of harvest with discounted winter rates .",
"Hotel perks include free wine, overnight parking and spa discounts ."
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"Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged global leaders Monday to launch a multibillion-dollar climate fund agreed to last year in Cancun, Mexico.",
"The U.N. chief made the call as he attended a conference of climate vulnerable countries held here in the Bangladesh capital.",
"Representatives from 20 countries attended the ministerial level meeting inaugurated by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.",
"Ban said, \"We are in the middle of a serious economic crisis.",
"But even in these difficult times, we cannot afford delay.",
"We cannot ask the poorest and the most vulnerable to bear the costs.\"",
"\"The Green Climate Fund needs to be launched in Durban.",
"An empty shell is not sufficient,\" he said.",
"\"Governments must lead the way to catalyze the $100 billion dollars per annum from public and private sources that was pledged to 2020,\" he said.",
"He urged the governments to find a compromise on the Kyoto Protocol on climate change at a Durban climate conference and to make a broader comprehensive climate agreement possible in the future.",
"\"Durban must complete what was agreed last year in Cancun,\" he said at the Climate Vulnerable Forum-2011.",
"The two-day CVF conference began Sunday, aiming to reach consensus on various climate issues and an agreement to work together at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) to be held in Durban, South Africa, beginning November 28.",
"Ban said adaptation must be a priority for all countries, but especially the most vulnerable.",
"\"They need help with resources and technology,\" he said.",
"The conference of the alliance of the 26 most vulnerable countries to climate change, ended with the adoption of a 14-point Dhaka Ministerial Declaration.",
"Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina expressed her frustration over a slow and inadequate progress of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process to confront the daunting challenges of climate change, and she called for setting criteria to prioritize vulnerable countries based on their risks and lack of coping capacities.",
"\"We see no evidence of direct and easy access to funds and technology, and conditions and criteria seem to favor countries that have greater capacities... most vulnerable countries are failing to access whatever support that are being realized,\" she said.",
"The CVF members expressed their determination to stand indivisible to face causes, consequences and collateral effects of climate change in their declaration.",
"They reiterated firm resolve to work collectively with the other Parties to the UNFCCC towards limiting foreseeable global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking global green house gas emissions by 2015.",
"Briefing reporters after the conference, the Bangladesh state minister for environment and forests, Dr. Hasan Mahmud, said, \"We have decided to raise our voice together on various contentious issues in Durban\".",
"The declaration said climate change induced displacement of people has become a major concern, and the relocation and rehabilitation of those people is putting enormous pressure on infrastructures and service facilities, as well as causing tremendous social stresses.",
"It said migration is a viable adaptation strategy to manage risks during displacement and relocation and affected populations should be offered enhanced options leading to a dignified and diversified livelihood.",
"The Climate Vulnerable Forum was founded at the initiative of the Maldives in 2009 and 26 countries, mostly from the group called the Least Developed Countries, have joined the forum so far.",
"The CVF members include Antigua, Barbuda, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Kenya, Kiribati, Liberia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Vietnam."
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"The ministers come from nations considered most vulnerable to climate change .",
"An important world-wide climate change meeting is coming up in South Africa .",
"The ministers agreed to stand united on a number of climate issues ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Some \"Occupy\" demonstrators who've clashed with police in New York City have migrated south as the new year begins, joining their colleagues in the nation's capital where authorities continue to allow protest camps at two locations.",
"\"We're here because we got pushed out of New York, but we're also here because this is the heart of where all politics happen,\" said a protester who would not give his name.",
"\"Police know me,\" he explained, as he tried to repair a tarp torn free by high winds early Monday.",
"He said he has been joined by a handful of other Occupy Wall Street demonstrators pushed out by New York police.",
"On New Year's Eve, New York City police arrested 68 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at their longtime camp in Zuccotti Park.",
"The young man, who said he left the Wall Street location weeks ago after authorities began to pressure protesters to leave, reflected on a strategy for the new year as he spoke Monday at the larger of two encampments in Washington -- at a small downtown park known as McPherson Square, near the White House .",
"\"I think (the movement's) most important stage right now is to inform the American people, before we can give any kind of particular answer or one message,\" he said.",
"\"This is still, relatively, in my opinion, a young movement, and I don't think it's so much that it's anybody having the same answers but everybody asking the same questions right now,\" he told CNN, speaking on camera with most of his face concealed by a heavy winter scarf.",
"Among the questions being asked include those from a ranking U.S. congressman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, demanding to know why protesters have been allowed to make camp in the first place.",
"Issa, in a letter two weeks ago to the U.S. Department of Interior, said he believes the camping is illegal.",
"But the National Park Service, which is in charge of McPherson Square, has applied the most liberal interpretation of rules against overnight camping, and officials instead consider the makeshift tent city a \"24-hour vigil.",
"A handwritten bulletin board maintained by the protesters Monday noted it is \"Day 93\" of the demonstration there.",
"At a second location in Washington, known as Freedom Plaza, the National Park Service in recent days extended a required permit through the end of February, acting just before it was to expire on New Year's Day.",
"The extension may further provoke Issa, who chairs a House panel on government reform.",
"His December 13 letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar expressed concern that the tent city in McPherson Square has ruined some of a $400,000 restoration project at the park, paid for with economic stimulus money.",
"Issa said the National Park Service has allowed \"the Occupy DC movement to ecologically damage the park significantly over the past two months, by camping and killing the newly planted grass\" at the location.",
"Protest organizers and supporters have distributed straw around the tents to deal with mud that followed heavy rains last month.",
"Other areas where grass remains now show signs of damage from the tents and tarps blocking sunlight.",
"National Park Service spokeswoman Carol Johnson told CNN the protesters in McPherson Square do not require a permit because their group contains fewer than 500 people and is considered a 24-hour vigil.",
"Police in the area have said their enforcement so far has been to keep city streets clear of protesters, and to respond to petty crime that may take place around the camps.",
"CNN's Greg Seaby contributed to this report."
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"Congressman questions continued forbearance ."
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"(CNN) -- When designer Sam Lessin started working at Facebook he wanted to make a point.",
"So he printed his Facebook profile page and stretched it out in the company's California offices.",
"There it was, multiple years of his life, on a scrolling piece of paper.",
"A story big enough to cross the room.",
"It's a story you'd never see on Facebook.com, he argued, since pretty much all the status updates and photos he'd posted over the years were hidden beneath a gray button at the bottom of the page: \"Older Posts.\"",
"\"All of the stories you've shared over time just fall off a cliff at the bottom of your (Facebook) wall and effectively disappear,\" company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on stage at an event for Facebook app developers in San Francisco, where this story was retold.",
"That, in a nutshell, is why Facebook on Thursday unveiled a completely rethought version of its profile pages: To surface all the events and stories that are hidden from view because they happened too long ago.",
"The fact that this is even something up for discussion is significant.",
"Facebook, as The Atlantic's Rebecca Rosen pointed out, is trying to be the \"forever\" social network.",
"All its predecessors, from Friendster to MySpace, vanished almost as quickly as they appeared.",
"Now Facebook is saying it wants to be the website where you document the most important events of your entire life, presumably from birth to death, not just this year or next.",
"That's something audacious and new in this ephemeral era of social networking.",
"The vehicle for this lifelong sharing, according to Facebook, is called \"Timeline.\"",
"\"We wanted to design a place that feels like your home,\" Zuckerberg said on stage Thursday, wearing a gray T-shirt and one of those ear-clip headsets you see on Old Navy employees.",
"\"Where you tell your story online is really personal.",
"You invest a lot of time in it and you curate it.",
"You link to it and you tell all your friends to find you there.",
"So we wanted to make Timeline a place you're proud to call your home.",
"So Timeline is a completely new aesthetic from Facebook ... so you can express who you really are.\"",
"Or, more succinctly: \"Timeline is the story of your life,\" Zuckerberg said.",
"In the coming weeks, Facebook is going to start replacing peoples' profile pages with a new blog-like template, where photos and check-ins and status updates are strung along the backbone of chronology -- days, months and, here's the big leap, years.",
"The site's users can customize this page as they'd like, clicking a heart button to make photos appear at double their normal size, for example, or deleting catty comments from ex-boyfriends or girlfriends.",
"Facebook's robots take care of the rest.",
"The site's equations prioritize your memories, letting the stuff they determine to be insignificant fade into the recesses of time, and shining a digital light on moments they determine to be the most life-alteringly crucial.",
"This goes all the way back to birth.",
"When the 27-year-old Zuckerberg unveiled this page design, he scrolled to the bottom of his Timeline and there it was: a photo of him as a baby.",
"It was as if he was hinting at a future when a person's entire existence could be cataloged and preserved, all on Facebook.com.",
"That sparked some chatter online.",
"\"So it's easier for kids to put more of their lives online that they'll regret later in life,\" tech analyst Michael Gartenberg wrote on Twitter.",
"Anyone who has friends of a child-bearing age likely realizes that many kids already have Facebook pages almost from birth -- or, at the very least, their early lives are detailed on their parents' pages.",
"Timelines, which highlight all of a Facebook user's years, may make this even more apparent.",
"Furthermore, as Douglas Crets at the blog ReadWriteWeb says, those of us who crossed out of infancy before the dawn of Facebook could use Timelines to recreate our pasts on the social network: .",
"\"This new format allows you to go back in time to periods in your life that happened before there was a Facebook, making your Facebook profile into a graphically intense version of your entire life,\" he wrote.",
"TechCrunch called the Timeline \"the story of your life on a single page.\"",
"If you want it to be. Bill Barol at Forbes wrote that Facebook users should be skeptical of this concept: .",
"\"The news isn't that Facebook has figured out a new way to package your life and present it back to you,\" he wrote.",
"\"The news is that no one blinks at the notion of a giant company being the custodian of your memories.",
"At least that's what Facebook is banking on.",
"Timeline is your life, their way.",
"\"That is, if you want to fill in the details.\""
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"Mark Zuckerberg unveils new profile pages called \"Timelines\"\nThe aim: For people to document their entire lives on one page .",
"Facebook CEO: \"We wanted to design a place that feels like your home\"\nForbes writer: Facebook users should be skeptical of concept ."
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"(CNN) -- The man accused of killing 77 people in a terrorist rampage that shook Norway last summer is insane and cannot be sentenced to prison or preventive detention, but can be confined to a mental hospital for the rest of his life, police said Tuesday.",
"Anders Behring Breivik suffers \"grandiose delusions\" and \"believes he is chosen to decide who is to live and who is to die,\" Prosecutor Svein Holden announced.",
"Police said psychiatrists had determined that the 32-year-old man was psychotic at the time of the attacks and during 13 interviews experts conducted with him afterward.",
"The doctors also found him to be paranoid and schizophrenic, police said.",
"The experts reached their conclusions after 36 hours of interviews with Breivik, police said.",
"The extension of Breivik's confinement under a compulsory mental health care order will be reviewed by a court every three years, police said.",
"The court will consider whether he still represents a danger to society.",
"Breivik had not been told of the psychiatrists' findings, police said.",
"His lawyers were expected to relay the news.",
"The decision underscores the difference between the justice system in the United States and that in Norway, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.",
"\"In the United States, it is extremely difficult to establish successfully an insanity defense,\" he told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"You can be paranoid, yet still able to control your behavior and be legally responsible.\"",
"In cases like the mass killing in Norway, \"there tends to be a tremendous amount of pressure from the public and maybe politicians as well to lock someone away for as long as possible, and bring justice to the victims,\" Fox said.",
"Breivik is accused of killing eight people in Oslo and 69 who were among 700 mostly young people attending a Labour Party youth camp on nearby Utoya Island.",
"He has pleaded not guilty but admits carrying out the attacks, the judge handling his case has said.",
"Breivik is described by authorities as a right-wing Christian extremist.",
"A 1,500-page manifesto attributed to Breivik posted on the Internet is critical of Muslim immigration and European liberalism, including the Labour Party.",
"The manifesto predicts that a \"European civil war\" will lead to the execution of \"cultural Marxists\" and the banishment of Muslims.",
"Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said in the aftermath of the attacks that his country had been fundamentally changed, but vowed that Norway would remain \"an open society.\"",
"Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang said Norwegians would respond to the violence with equally powerful weapons: \"We're going to punish him with democracy and love,\" he told CNN shortly after the killings.",
"Still, memories of the slaughter on the island, where many of the campers survived by hiding behind rocks, remained acute on Tuesday.",
"\"I will always have mixed feelings when I go back, of course,\" Labour Party member Eskil Pedersen told a reporter.",
"\"I think about the 22nd of July and the dreadful things that happened that day, but I have been here every year and every summer since 2000.",
"A lot of my time as a youth has been here on this island.",
"I have very many good memories as well.\"",
"He said a memorial will be built there.",
"\"Our aim is to reclaim Utoya, take it back as an island, have activities, have a summer camp here,\" he said.",
"Relatives of some of the victims expressed disappointment at the decision on Breivik, a journalist from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. told CNN.",
"\"They have looked forward to seeing him getting a sentence for the rest of his life for the acts he has committed,\" correspondent Tomm Kristiansen said.",
"Public reaction is mixed, said journalist Olav Mellingsaeter.",
"Most people are surprised, not angered, by the findings, he said.",
"\"We must trust that the psychiatrists have done a thorough job,\" a 30-year-old student told the reporter.",
"A 36-year-old woman said, \"As long as he does not escape, I do not care where he's kept.\"",
"At his trial in April, Breivik will have the opportunity to present evidence, police said.",
"He has been in custody since his arrest on Utoya Island on the day of the killings, which marked the deadliest attack in Norway since World War II.",
"CNN's Tom Watkins, Richard Allen-Greene and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"Victims' families are disappointed that Anders Behring Breivik is ruled insane .",
"Breivik will still face trial next year .",
"He is accused of killing 77 people in a gun and bomb rampage .",
"The July massacre was the deadliest attack in Norway since WWII ."
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