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"New York (CNN) -- The parents of a missing Virginia college student plan to travel to New York on Thursday to assist in his search.",
"Ian Hunter Burnet, a 22-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University student, went missing days after arriving in New York City to celebrate New Year's Eve, authorities said.",
"Burnet left Richmond on a bus bound for New York on December 26, according to his father, Mark.",
"He planned to stay with a fellow college student and her friend in an apartment in Harlem, his father said.",
"\"He went up just to have a post-Christmas tourist visit to New York City and celebrate New Year's Eve.",
"He was intending to have a short time there and then return back to Virginia,\" the father said.",
"According to Burnet's father, Burnet and a friend had made plans to hang out together back in Virginia on January 2, but Burnet never made it back.",
"The last communication he had with his son was December 28.",
"\"I received a routine type of text talking about touring in New York,\" he said.",
"Some other news outlets have reported that Burnet told friends he was not having a good time in New York, but his father said that was something he had not heard.",
"\"I wish I knew more,\" he said, \"If I did, I might be able to understand what happened.\"",
"What investigators do know is that the friends with whom Burnet was staying say they last heard from him on December 30.",
"\"Ian was communicating via text with them and the last bit of information that we had was that he was just stepping out to go out for the evening.",
"And we don't have any information other than that,\" the father said.",
"\"It's very frustrating,\" said New Kent County Sheriff Farrar W. Howard, whose Virginia office is leading the investigation in conjunction with Virginia State Police and the New York City Police Department.",
"\"Nobody has seen him since the 30th.\"",
"Burnet's father said that his son, who graduated as valedictorian from New Kent County High School and was on a full scholarship to study engineering, was looking forward to classes starting back on January 17.",
"He said Burnet had lived on his own for years, was independent and would have no reason to simply run away.",
"Authorities retrieved Burnet's phone at the apartment where he was staying, but for Burnet to be without his phone is not uncommon, according to his father.",
"\"He didn't really like talking on the phone.",
"He would send texts and surf the Web, but he didn't like to carry a lot of valuables on his person,\" the father said.",
"Authorities say Burnet did take his driver's license and credit cards with him the last time he left the Harlem apartment.",
"\"Who knows what's going through a 22-year-old's head?\"",
"the father said.",
"\"But he would not want us to worry.",
"If he was out there, he would get in touch with us.\""
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"Ian Hunter Burnet, 22, left Virginia to celebrate New Year's Eve in New York .",
"He stayed with friends in Harlem, who last heard from him December 30 .",
"His parents have set up a Facebook page asking for information .",
"Ian Burnet is 5 feet, 10 inches and weighs 160 pounds; he has brown hair, green eyes ."
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi has been crowned world footballer of the year for a third successive time after claiming FIFA's Ballon d'Or award at a ceremony in Zurich.",
"The Argentina forward beat Barcelona teammate Xavi and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo to the prestigious title.",
"Messi, 24, becomes only the fourth player in history to claim three awards, matching the feat of current UEFA president Michel Platini and Dutch duo Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten.",
"\"It's a great personal pleasure for me,\" Messi said, after receiving his award.",
"Who are football's top January transfer targets?",
"\"It's the third time I've won it.",
"It's just an amazing honor.",
"I want to thank everyone that's been involved with me -- my team-mates, trainers, physios, the coach (Pep Guardiola) and everyone at Barcelona.",
"\"I'd also like to thank the Argentina national team as well.\"",
"Messi enjoyed another glittering year with Barcelona, winning the Spanish league title, the European Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.",
"Rooney defiant as Man City appeal Kompany red card .",
"Xavi, who also missed out on the Ballon d'Or behind Messi last year, said his teammate could be one of the best footballers the game has ever seen.",
"He told the ceremony: \"He's still young, only 24, and I think he's going to break all the records that exist in this sport.",
"He's going to be one of the best footballers in the history of the sport.''",
"Messi's club manager Pep Guardiola was crowned manager of the year for masterminding victories in four separate competitions, including the FIFA Club World Club which confirmed Barcelona as the best team on the planet.",
"He said: \"I want to dedicate this award to the thousands of people who, through more than a hundred years, have worked for FC Barcelona and helped develop one of the best clubs in the world.",
"\"It's a privilege and an honor for me to be a part of this excellent, amazing club.\"",
"Brazilian striker Neymar, who plays in his home country for Santos, was named winner of the FIFA Puskas Award, named after legendary Hungary striker Ferenc Puskas, for the goal of the year.",
"Japan's Homare Sawa was crowned FIFA Women's World Player of the Year after she captained her country to the Women's World Cup title in Germany, while her manager Norio Sasaki was named coach of the year for women's football.",
"FIFA also selected their team of the year: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Dani Alves (Barcelona), Gerard Piqué (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Nemanja Vidic (Manchester Utd), Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), Xavi (Barcelona), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Wayne Rooney (Manchester Utd)."
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"Lionel Messi crowned world footballer of the year after winning Ballon d'Or award .",
"Barcelona and Argentina striker claims the award for the third successive year .",
"Messi won four titles with Barcelona in 2011 including the Champions League .",
"Messi's club manager at Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, is named coach of the year ."
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"(CNN) -- A friend of an elderly Arkansas couple has been charged with forcing the wife to try to rob a bank with a fake explosive device, police said Thursday.",
"Authorities in Fayetteville arrested 60-year-old Paul Bradley on Thursday, three days after 73-year-old Betty Davis walked into a bank there and told a teller she had a bomb fastened to her ankle.",
"Her husband, Dean Davis, said he has known Bradley for some time.",
"\"I had coffee with him all last week,\" said Davis, whom police said had been tied up in the couple's home while his wife was forced to go to the bank by a masked assailant.",
"\"One morning he paid for my coffee, and I'd like to see him and pay him that back.\"",
"Bradley has been charged with aggravated burglary, theft of property, aggravated robbery and kidnapping, Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder told reporters.",
"He said Bradley strapped the phony bomb onto Betty Davis and took her to the bank to force her to withdraw money from her account.",
"Once inside, she told a teller about the plot and that she had been followed to the Arvest Bank branch.",
"\"I felt like I needed to get out of that bank and get everyone out of danger,\" Betty Davis said.",
"\"If he did what he said he was going to do, he would blow it up and hurt all those people.\"",
"After Betty Davis talked to police, they went to the couple's home and found Dean Davis tied up, police said.",
"The assailant wore a mask and said little, so the couple was unable to identify their attacker at first.",
"\"I would have never imagined that of him and never thought he would do something like that,\" Dean Davis said.",
"Helder said that authorities \"couldn't have had better victims than the Davises.\"",
"\"They were very calm and collected, and she helped us identify the vehicle,\" he said.",
"The FBI assisted in the investigation, Fayetteville police spokesman Sgt.",
"Craig Stout said.",
"Police expect to bring additional charges against Bradley, including extortion, he said.",
"In March 2011 Bradley received a suspended sentence for his involvement in a scheme to defraud local residents of thousands of dollars, Helder said."
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"Police say Paul Bradley forced a friend's wife to attempt a bank robbery .",
"\"I had coffee with him all last week,\" her husband said .",
"The woman told tellers she had a bomb strapped to her ankle when she went in .",
"Their assailant wore a mask and said little, so they were unable to identify their attacker at first ."
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"Jos, Nigeria (CNN) -- An Islamic militant group in northern Nigeria has claimed responsibility for attacks that killed at least 25 people in a rash of violence against the country's minority Christians, officials said, after it issued an earlier ultimatum that gave Christians three days to leave the area.",
"Gunmen opened fire on residents Friday, killing at least 15 people who were mourning the deaths of two slain businessmen, said Rev.",
"Paul Alhamdu, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria.",
"At least eight people were also killed on Thursday in a church shooting in northeastern Nigeria, a pastor at the church said, as sectarian violence spirals and the country is shaken by angry protests over fuel subsidies.",
"Gunmen attacked the Deeper Life church in Gombe, the capital of Gombe state, Thursday evening as worshipers held a prayer meeting, according to the Venerable Joseph Ninyo, a pastor with the Anglican Diocese of Gombe.",
"He said at least 20 people were being treated at a hospital, one of whom is in intensive care.",
"\"Many tried to run but were gunned down,\" eyewitness Konson Danladi said.",
"\"I was just outside the church when the men came and started shooting, and I ran.\"",
"Police said the militant group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for both attacks, but CNN could not immediately confirm the claims.",
"The church targeted in Gombe is attended predominantly by Ibo Christians from southern Nigeria.",
"Boko Haram has been blamed for months of widespread bloodshed in Nigeria, with churches and police stations among the targets.",
"The group also claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on churches on Christmas Day.",
"The rising tide of violence led Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a partial state of emergency in four northern states, in a bid to contain Boko Haram, whose name means \"Western education is a sin.\"",
"The latest sectarian attack comes as Nigeria also faces a nationwide wave of popular protests over the removal of a gas subsidy that had kept prices artificially low.",
"What is behind Nigeria fuel protests?",
"Union leaders have called for a national strike beginning Monday if the government does not reverse the decision, which resulted in the cost of a liter of gasoline more than doubling virtually overnight.",
"Furious Nigerians have already taken to the streets this week, staging \"Occupy Nigeria\" protests and mass demonstrations across the country, and there have been calls from some quarters for the president to be impeached.",
"Are you there? Send your images or video .",
"Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of about 167 million people, is regularly voted among the most corrupt countries in the world, and citizens complain that the money saved by ending the fuel subsidy is highly likely to be siphoned off by a few and salted away into offshore accounts.",
"The government has said the money will be used to fund infrastructure projects, such as building refineries so Nigeria can produce its own gasoline rather than having to import it.",
"Tires burn, protesters flood Lagos .",
"Elizabeth Donnelly, with the Africa Programme at London-based think tank Chatham House, told CNN the two issues together -- the sectarian violence and the fuel subsidy protests -- present the biggest challenge yet for Jonathan, who was elected president last year after taking the reins in 2010 when the former president died.",
"Although the government struck a blow against Boko Haram in 2009 with the capture of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf, it has since become more of a \"franchise,\" or umbrella organization, for the actions of individual groups, making it harder to manage the problem, Donnelly said.",
"Protesters make demands known .",
"\"We can trace these sorts of attacks to issues of underdevelopment, poverty, lack of resources and so on.",
"The fact that it's framed in religious language is worrying,\" she said, particularly given the sectarian violence that has broken out in Nigeria in recent years.",
"The country's leadership needs to rise above politics and use the kind of language that will bridge the growing gap between different parts of Nigerian society, she said, rather than just treating the problem as a security issue.",
"But the challenge of restoring calm will be compounded by a widely felt skepticism toward government, from a population too used to corruption and political maneuvering.",
"That skepticism has grown since Jonathan came to power, Donnelly said, in part because of his lack of governing experience.",
"The fact that he is southern also plays into tensions between the mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian and animist south.",
"\"It's a very challenging time for Nigeria, and for Goodluck Jonathan, it's a very interesting moment.",
"It could be when he and his team really prove themselves -- or where everybody's suspicions about his lack of ability could be proved right,\" she said.",
"Resolving the tough times shouldn't be solely up to Jonathan's government, though, Donnelly added.",
"State and local administrations, as well as religious leaders, must also play a part in resolving tensions.",
"Meanwhile, the fuel subsidy protests could prove a trigger for wider violence, she warned, as the large crowds may become targets for people who want to launch attacks.",
"Clashes could also break out between protesters and police.",
"And while not directly linked, the two issues have common threads that must be tackled if calm is to be restored, she said.",
"\"The reason the protests are happening is that so many Nigerians live such difficult lives.",
"They don't have a lot of money, they do worry about putting food on the table, and the smallest change in fuel prices makes an enormous difference to them,\" she said.",
"\"Boko Haram has grown in a region where there's very little in the way of development and public services, and not much in the way of industry or opportunity.",
"\"Nigeria is really grappling with these issues at the moment, both political and economic.",
"It is a developing democracy, and these issues are part of it creating this new identity.\"",
"Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, agrees that economic discontent is at the heart of the unrest, in a country where many live on less than $2 a day and are less well-off than their grandparents.",
"\"It's people who are fed up, the have-nots seeing the haves continue to do well at their expense,\" she told CNN from Washington.",
"\"The core issue is not Boko Haram, and Christians versus Muslims, it's economic inequality -- and unless and until the government is able to address that, they will continue to have these tensions increase.\"",
"Journalist Hassan John in Jos, and CNN's Laura Smith-Spark and Stephanie Busari in London contributed to this report."
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"Sectarian violence and fuel policy protests are tests for the president, an analyst says .",
"Gunmen attacked the Deeper Life church in Gombe as worshipers met for a service .",
"An eyewitness describes how people were gunned down as they tried to flee .",
"An Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has been blamed for other attacks on churches ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Death sentences plunged this year and the number of executions continued a steady decline as a result of \"growing discomfort\" felt by many Americans on the application of capital punishment.",
"Only 78 people were sentenced to lethal injection so far this year, the first time that number has dropped below 100 since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, according to a study published Thursday by the Death Penalty Information Center.",
"Death sentences last year were at 112, and have declined by nearly 75% from 15 years ago, when more than 300 individuals were condemned.",
"The center's annual report also showed only 43 people were executed in 2011, down three from last year, and a 56% decline from 12 years ago, when nearly a hundred people were put to death.",
"\"This year, the use of the death penalty continued to decline by almost every measure,\" said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the center, which opposes the death penalty.",
"He said executions, death sentences, public support and the number of states with the death penalty all dropped from previous years.",
"\"Whether it's concerns about unfairness, executing the innocent, the high costs of the death penalty, or the general feeling that the government just can't get it right, Americans moved further away from capital punishment in 2011.\"",
"In January, the Illinois legislature voted to repeal the death penalty, replacing it with a sentence of life without parole.",
"In doing so, Illinois became the fourth state in four years to abandon capital punishment.",
"The death penalty has now been abolished in 16 states.",
"In November, Oregon Gov.",
"John Kitzhaber halted a pending execution and declared that no other executions would occur while he was in office.",
"\"I am convinced we can find a better solution that keeps society safe, supports the victims of crime and their families and reflects Oregon values,\" he said.",
"\"I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer.\"",
"But perhaps the loudest outcry was in Georgia, which executed Troy Davis despite serious doubts about his guilt and an international campaign to save his life.",
"Thursday's report said the Davis case exposed the deep concerns over the death penalty.",
"\"In many ways the death penalty today resembles the system struck down in 1972, when the (Supreme) Court could find no justification for the small number of death sentences and executions chosen arbitrarily from so many eligible cases,\" the report said.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Poll conducted in October found that for the first time in recent memory, more Americans favor a sentence of life in prison over the death penalty for murderers -- 50% to 48%.",
"That's not to say that Americans want to abolish the death penalty entirely.",
"Other polls have shown majorities generally favor it, but CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said his analysis shows there is a difference between thinking the government should have the death penalty as an option and actually wanting to see it applied.",
"The decline in the number who prefer the death penalty as the punishment for murder may be related to the growing number who believe that at least one person in the past five years has been executed for a crime that he or she did not commit.",
"In 2005, when a solid majority preferred the death penalty, 59% believed that an innocent person had been executed within the previous five years.",
"Now that figure has risen dramatically, to 72%.",
"Davis drew widespread support for his claims that an innocent man was being put to death, after federal and state courts had rejected his calls for a new trial.",
"Since Davis' conviction in 1991, seven of the nine witnesses against him recanted their testimony, and no physical evidence was presented linking Davis to the killing of a Savannah police officer.",
"However, a federal judge concluded the death row inmate \"vastly overstates the value of his evidence of innocence.\"",
"A Texas execution in July also attracted international attention.",
"Mexican national Humberto Leal Garcia was convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl.",
"A world court found the state violated his rights by not giving Leal access to his home country's consulate upon his arrest in 1994, as required by an international treaty.",
"U.S. and Mexican officials, along with a variety of human rights groups, urged Texas to delay the execution, but to no avail.",
"Texas continues to lead the nation as the busiest death penalty state, with 13 executions this year.",
"Alabama was next with six, and Ohio with five.",
"No more are scheduled until next month.",
"Thirty-four states have capital laws, but only 13 states carried out that ultimate punishment in 2011.",
"In addition, several states with capital punishment laws did not sentence anyone to death in 2011, including Indiana, Maryland, Missouri and South Carolina.",
"Another high-profile murder convict in Pennsylvania saw his death sentence commuted.",
"Prosecutors decided this month not to give Mumia Abu-Jamal a new capital sentencing hearing.",
"He was convicted of murdering Philadelphia police office Daniel Faulkner, but has long claimed his innocence as a victim of what he called a racist criminal justice system.",
"He will spend the rest of his life in prison.",
"California voters could decide next year whether to abandon the death penalty.",
"That state has the highest death row population -- 721 people -- but no one has been executed there since 2006, when a court-ordered moratorium was declared.",
"But one state that rarely has applied the death penalty could see two notorious killers receive that punishment.",
"Steven Hayes was sentenced to death in Connecticut in December 2010, and a jury this month recommended the same punishment for Joshua Komisarjevsky.",
"They were found guilty of home-invasion killings that left a mother and her two daughters dead.",
"State legislators had contemplated abolishing capital punishment, but these defendants may have caused some rethinking, to allow the practice for only the worst of crimes.",
"Connecticut and New Hampshire are the only New England states with the death penalty, but only one person has been executed in the region since 1960."
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"Death sentences in the United States are below 100 for the first time since 1976 .",
"Only 43 people have been put to death in 2011, down 56% from 12 years ago .",
"A poll conducted in October found 50% of Americans favor a sentence of life in prison .",
"California voters could decide next year whether to abandon the death penalty ."
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"(CNN) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has scored the endorsement of Bob Dole, who lauded the former Massachusetts governor in an ad Sunday in Iowa's The Des Moines Register newspaper.",
"The public endorsement comes one day after the Register -- Iowa's largest newspaper -- backed Romney in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and just over two weeks before Iowa's critical presidential caucuses on January 3.",
"In his advertisement, Dole said Romney is the GOP candidate is best suited to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012.",
"\"I've known Mitt and his family for decades.",
"His parents instilled in him a strong work ethic, rock-solid conservative values, and a deep sense of service to others,\" the former Kansas senator and 1996 GOP presidential nominee wrote.",
"\"These traits -- which have shone through in both the debates and in my own visits with him -- will serve him well in the White House.\"",
"Dole also said Romney \"rescued a flailing Winter Olympics when it was mired in financial scandal.\"",
"And as governor of Massachusetts, Dole wrote, Romney \"managed to both balance the state's budget and cut taxes while dealing with an overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature.\"",
"The Register's editorial board said Romney was the most qualified candidate competing in the caucuses.",
"While the paper didn't endorse Romney during his last run for president in 2007, the editorial board said voters now face a different GOP field and Romney \"has matured as a candidate.\"",
"\"Rebuilding the economy is the nation's top priority, and Romney makes the best case among the Republicans that he could do that,\" the editorial board wrote.",
"The board hailed Romney for his \"solid credentials,\" saying he was the most likely candidate to see through \"knee-jerk, ideological\" perspectives and \"bridge the political divide in Washington.\"",
"Taking issue with the two other top-tier candidates, the paper claimed Romney stood out against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whom the board called \"an undisciplined partisan who would alienate, not unite, if he reverts to mean-spirited attacks on display as House speaker.\"",
"It also criticized Texas Rep. Ron Paul as someone with a libertarian ideology that would \"lead to economic chaos and isolationism.\"",
"Also significant, the board somewhat defended Romney against a line of attack taken by opponents who criticize him as a \"flip-flopper.\"",
"\"Though Romney has tended to adapt some positions to different times and places, he is hardly unique.",
"It should be possible for a politician to say, 'I was wrong, and I have changed my mind',\" the paper wrote.",
"But the paper still reserved questions over his changing tune on issues such as abortion and said it was up to the voters to decide \"whether such subtly nuanced statements express Romney's true beliefs or if he's trying to have it both ways.\"",
"While the paper's endorsement is highly coveted, it does not necessarily spell success for a candidate.",
"In the last election cycle, the paper endorsed GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who didn't actively campaign in the state and took third place in the caucuses, while former Arkansas Gov.",
"Mike Huckabee pulled off a surprise victory.",
"The newspaper has long endorsed candidates for the general presidential election, but it began making endorsements for the caucuses in 1988.",
"Since then, three of its choices went on to win the contest: Dole in 1996 and 1988 and then-Texas Gov.",
"George W. Bush in 2000.",
"In addition, three endorsees eventually secured the Republican nomination: Dole in 1996, Bush in 2000 and McCain in 2008.",
"Only one of its chosen candidates - Bush in 2000 - went on to win the White House.",
"According to an American Research Group poll taken Dec. 8-11, Romney placed second in the Hawkeye State with 17% of support among likely caucus voters, while Gingrich took first with 22%.",
"Paul tied with Romney at 17% .",
"On Friday, Romney garnered a nod from South Carolina Republican Gov.",
"Nikki Haley.",
"South Carolina's primary, set for January 21, is the first presidential contest in the South and the third overall in the early voting season.",
"CNN's Peter Hamby, Robert Yoon, Oliver Janney and Chris Welch contributed to this report."
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"The two endorsements come about two weeks before the Iowa caucus .",
"Bob Dole and The Des Moines Register's editorial board praise Mitt Romney's credentials .",
"The paper's support is coveted, but a number of previous picks have not won the White House .",
"Romney earlier won the endorsement of South Carolina Gov.",
"Nikki Haley ."
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"(CNN) -- A University of Oklahoma professor has been suspended amid allegations of sexual abuse, school police said Tuesday.",
"\"OU officials acted swiftly to suspend (Dwain Pellebon) from any contact with students and from use of any university facilities,\" said Catherine Bishop of the university police department.",
"\"In accordance with university procedure, he was immediately placed on administrative leave with pay until more of the facts of the investigation are known at which time it could be changed to without pay.\"",
"The 54-year-old associate professor teaches social work.",
"Norman police arrested him Friday on two complaints of rape in the first degree and one complaint of lewd acts with a child under age 16, CNN affiliate KFOR reported.",
"Official charges have not been filed.",
"\"We can say there is one alleged victim, and we are working to determine if there are any additional victims,\" Tom Easley with the Norman Police Department said, according to KFOR.",
"An attorney for Pellebon told KFOR that his client denies all the allegations against him.",
"The university's web page says Pellebon teaches a course on human sexuality, described as \"an examination of sexual behavior, gender differences and sexual values.\"",
"CNN's Joe Sutton and Ed Payne contributed to this report."
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"Norman, Oklahoma, police say the professor was arrested last week .",
"Dwain Pellebon, 54, is an associate professor of social work .",
"He faces two complaints of rape in the first degree, one complaint of lewd acts with a child ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer and defense contractor BAE announced Thursday an \"amicable\" end to their dispute.",
"Meyer filed a lawsuit in Texas in June claiming BAE, his former employer, had punished him for objecting to a weapons sale to Pakistan, and had prevented him from finding other work by portraying him as unstable and a problem drinker.",
"The lawsuit against the company and his former supervisor has been dropped.",
"\"BAE Systems OASYS and I have settled our differences amicably,\" Meyer said in a joint statement issued by the company, referring to the company by its full name.",
"Meyer praised the defense firm's support for veterans and generosity to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation.",
"There were no details of any possible monetary settlement.",
"\"During my time there I became concerned about the possible sale of advanced thermal scopes to Pakistan.",
"I expressed my concerns directly and respectfully,\" Meyer said.",
"\"I am gratified to learn that BAE Systems OASYS did not ultimately sell and does not intend to sell advanced thermal scopes to Pakistan.\"",
"The company faced the difficult task of a potentially drawn-out legal battle against an American hero.",
"\"We are pleased that we reached closure in this matter,\" the company said in its part of the joint statement.",
"\"BAE Systems has the highest respect for Sgt.",
"Dakota Meyer, who exemplifies the qualities that make the men and women of our armed services the best in the world,\" the company said.",
"\"We owe him and the many thousands of others who have served and sacrificed for our country our deepest thanks.\"",
"According to the lawsuit, Meyer had objected to the sale of high-tech equipment to Pakistan, which he characterized as \"giving to guys who are known to stab us in the back\" and \"the same people who are killing our guys.\"",
"Meyer was working on thermal optic equipment for snipers and detection of roadside bombs.",
"In his lawsuit he claimed that on-the-job bullying and intimidation began after his criticism of potential sales to Pakistan.",
"President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Meyer, a former Marine Corps sergeant, in September.",
"He was 21 and a corporal at the time of his heroic acts in Afghanistan in 2009.",
"\"The story of what Dakota did next will be told for generations,\" Obama said, describing how Meyer returned again and again to the killing ground of a Taliban ambush, rescuing American and Afghan troops and retrieving the bodies of fallen comrades.",
"\"You did your duty, above and beyond, and you kept the faith with the highest traditions of the Marine Corps that you love,\" the president said."
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"Dakota Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor in September .",
"He had sued a defense contractor that is also his former employer .",
"He said the company had punished him for objecting to a weapons sale to Pakistan .",
"Meyer and the company say the dispute has been resolved amicably ."
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"(CNN) -- A couple of years ago, my daughter and I were playing the classic board game \"Life,\" and her little car reached the roadblock at which everybody -- absolutely everybody -- gets married.",
"Needless to say, given a new set of striking statistics last week that showed a record low of 51% of American adults are married, \"Life\" was designed many decades ago.",
"The study by the Pew Research Center further found that 40% of births these days are to unmarried mothers, and a similar percentage of Americans say marriage is becoming obsolete.",
"My daughter Liliana, who was 8 when we were playing the board game, tossed off this remark as she stuck the tiny blue husband pin into her car: \"When I grow up, I don't think I'll get married.",
"I think I'll just get some sperm.\"",
"How we reap what we sow! Liliana was old enough to know the story of her own origins, and it goes like this: When I turned 39, still single, I resolved to become a mother on my own and bought eight vials of donor sperm.",
"But then I met her father, Sprax, and he agreed to help me have a baby the old-fashioned way.",
"We went through many ups and downs, even splitting up for a couple of years, but finally realized that we loved each other, got back together and went on to have her baby brother.",
"When Liliana was almost 4, we got married.",
"So there I was -- the former single mother by choice, the typical Massachusetts type who deeply believes that there are a hundred great ways to make a family and that life can also be wonderful without one -- and I found myself responding to my daughter: \"That would be fine if you just get some sperm, sweetheart, but you know, being married is actually really nice, too.\"",
"What happened to me? What happened to the independent woman who, by the time she married for the first time at age 44, felt no particular need for a piece of paper from City Hall?",
"It is this. Day in and out, through lunch-packing and play date-making and bath-running, I am struck by a surprising truth: Though the raising of our children constitutes the central activity of our family, it is the love between Sprax and me that constitutes its ineffable core.",
"That sounds like a traditional religious point of view, but we are not religious.",
"I've come to this understanding simply as an observer of my own heart and the family dance.",
"It is, apparently, just an emotional fact of life -- at least, of our life.",
"What baffles me is that I was perfectly able to have Liliana without being in a committed, loving relationship with Sprax, and our semi-family life was really quite happy in that formation.",
"We all got along; Sprax would visit two or three times a week; Liliana got plenty of love and structure.",
"But since he and I reunited, our bond has become the family's invisible center, the axis of its spokes.",
"I did not need a husband.",
"But I need him. LZ Granderson: Love and marriage are not the same thing .",
"So fine, but what difference do the formal \"bonds of matrimony\" make?",
"Usually you hear people talk about commitment, but I can't imagine any greater commitment than sharing children who are still going to need raising for quite a few years.",
"No, what marriage means to me is acceptance, an \"absolute yes\" that makes it bearable to be seen at your worst -- exhausted or flu-ridden or carried away by an ugly bout of selfishness.",
"That \"yes\" launches the creation of an entity, a union, that exists apart from the daily ebb and flow of difficulties and joys.",
"It is nothing but an abstraction, but, to my amazement, it is the most beautiful thing in our lives.",
"So this is my marital equivalent of \"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus\": .",
"\"Yes, Liliana, you can definitely stay single and you'll have loads of company.",
"You by no means have to get married.",
"You can definitely have a fabulous life without marriage, and it would certainly be a huge mistake to rush into anything.",
"\"But I cannot lie: I wish you all that is best in life, and marriage, when it's good, can be one of those things.",
"And if you do get married, at your wedding I'll cry tears of joy -- because I'll know that you're about to enter the gates of one of the most magical places in the world.\"",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Carey Goldberg."
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"She says she'd bought sperm to have baby, then met man who agreed to reproduce with her .",
"She says they had ups, downs, split, got back together, had another baby and got married .",
"Goldberg tells her daughter: It's fine to stay single, but marriage is one of the best things in life ."
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"(CNN) -- China plans to put laboratories in space, collect samples from the moon and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to an ambitious plan released this week aimed at putting the country on the global map for space exploration.",
"China also plans to launch manned-vessels and freighters into space during the coming half-decade, according to a government white paper.",
"The country's eventual goal in the longer term is a manned lunar landing.",
"\"With economic progress, also comes the need for scientific development and exploration,\" said Jiao Weixin, a professor at the School of Earth and Space Sciences at Beijing University.",
"\"By investing in space exploration, China wants to contribute and be a major player in the world on more than one level.\"",
"The Chinese plans announced this week come as the United States has been scaling back its ambitions and funding for space exploration.",
"Since 2003, China has made major breakthroughs in its space program, including becoming the third country after Russia and the United States to put a human in space.",
"It successfully completed a spacewalk in 2008.",
"In November, the successful automated docking and return of an unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou-8, paved the way for the creation of China's future space laboratory.",
"The spaceship blasted off from a launch facility in the Gobi Desert in northwest China, one month after the first space laboratory module Tiangong-1 was launched into space.",
"China says its military-run space program will be used for peaceful purposes.",
"But its activities have set off controversy in the past, like when it shot down one of its dead satellites in 2007, for example.",
"That move alarmed some officials in the United States and other countries and raised concerns about the militarization of the space race.",
"Some experts say a critical gap in Chinese-U.S. space relations is the absence of regularized talks on space security, which took place between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War.",
"\"In this regard, the Obama administration has made overtures at the military-to-military level,\" Clay Moltz, an professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., said in an e-mail response.",
"\"The ball is now in China's court to respond.",
"How it responds may say a lot about its true intentions in space.\"",
"Two more space docking missions are planned for 2012, with at least one of them manned.",
"But despite the progress, some experts say China still has a long way to go in developing its space technology.",
"\"China is still catching up to countries that began their space programs in the 1960s,\" said Jiao.",
"\"It may be impressive to see what China has done in the past decade, but there is still a long way to go.\"",
"The paper also says China will develop technology to monitor space debris, study black holes and develop small satellites for environmental and disaster monitoring and forecasting."
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"Its eventual goal is to carry out a manned lunar landing .",
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"(CNN) -- Jane Fonda told Piers Morgan that Michael Jackson's 1981 visit to her California ranch inspired him to purchase what was to become Neverland Ranch.",
"The actress and author of the new book \"Prime Time\" -- which is about the last third of life -- is a guest on tonight's \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"\"I had a ranch in Santa Barbara,\" said Fonda.",
"\"And he came and visited me once.",
"And I was walking him around.",
"It's how he was introduced to that area -- where he eventually bought Neverland -- is when I had him to my ranch.\"",
"The King of Pop, who was in his early 20s at the time, spent a week on the set of \"On Golden Pond.\"",
"\"He came and he wanted to watch my father and Katharine Hepburn work,\" said Fonda.",
"\"He was interested in becoming a movie actor.\"",
"Fonda also recalled pointing out to Jackson the spot on the ranch's grounds where she intended to be buried.",
"\"I thought he was going to have a meltdown,\" Fonda stated.",
"\"The notion that I could countenance the fact that I was going to die was anathema to him.",
"He just -- he screamed.\" The actress recalled Jackson insisting that he was never going to die.",
"\"He talked about how he would get into an oxygen tank and he thought that was going to keep him, you know, alive forever.\"",
"Fonda told Morgan that she doesn't like the notion that Jackson's 2009 death was a \"Hollywood cliché,\" but that \"it's hard to imagine that someone that was as tormented as he was, you know, could have sort of lived a long and peaceful and natural life.\"",
"Fonda and her father, Henry Fonda, co-starred in 1981's \"On Golden Pond,\" for which they both won Oscars.",
"The film also won Best Picture that year.",
"\"I feel so blessed, Piers, to have been able to have that experience,\" said Fonda.",
"\"He died five months later.",
"I bought the play.",
"I made the movie, because I wanted to work with him.",
"We knew he was dying.\"",
"The actress described her relationship with her father.",
"\"He was a man of profound integrity,\" she said.",
"\"He was a good man. He had good values.",
"He had problems in the relationship department.",
"He had problems with emotions, which is interesting for an actor, a hard time expressing emotions and being around someone who was emotional.",
"It was absolutely terrifying to him.\"",
"Fonda also noted that while her father was difficult, \"he did the best he could; and I was able to tell him that before he died.\"",
"Fonda also stated that \"if there had been Prozac then, I think probably our lives would have been very different.\"",
"The actress also said that she believes that what her father didn't communicate directly to her, he did through the films whose values he held dear, such as \"Twelve Angry Men,\" \"Young Abe Lincoln,\" \"The Wrong Man,\" and \"The Grapes of Wrath.\"",
"Fonda also told Morgan that she knows her dad would have been pleased to know that she married Ted Turner.",
"\"I found out after my dad died that he was fascinated by Ted Turner,\" said Fonda.",
"\"Dad loved the news; and he told a reporter that once interviewed me that he thought that Ted Turner was the greatest guy in the world because he started CNN.\"",
"Turner and Fonda divorced in 2001.",
"\"We had a great time for 10 years,\" said Fonda.",
"\"I am so happy that I got to spend 10 years with him.",
"It ended when it was supposed to end and we're very, very close.",
"I just talked to him today.",
"I told him I was going to be on the show.",
"And I'm so proud of him. He's done so much good work in the world.\"",
"Fonda told Morgan that the current crop of GOP candidates does not impress her.",
"\"They all scare me, frankly,\" said Fonda.",
"\"I get depressed and scared when I look at the Republican debates.\"",
"The actress stated that she's \"worried about anybody getting elected to office who says we have to do away with or privatize Social Security, we have to reduce health insurance; we have to not raise taxes.\"",
"Fonda is hoping that voters reelect Barack Obama, telling the CNN host, \"I hope he gets re-elected.",
"I wish that he would be stronger.",
"I think he will be in his second term.",
"I think he's going to be reelected.",
"I think he's a good man, but I wish that he was tougher on the issues that I care about and that a lot of people care about.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"Fonda on Ted Turner: \"I'm so proud of him.",
"He's done so much good work in the world\"\nShe hopes Barack Obama gets re-elected .",
"Fonda on GOP candidates: \"I get depressed and scared when I look at the Republican debates\""
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"(CNN) -- \"Flowers of War\" has a multitude of advantages over its rivals in the Oscar race for best foreign language film.",
"Most obviously, it stars Christian Bale, who plays an American pretending to be a priest in order to survive the brutal 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking, China.",
"Moreover, Bale's character, and several others, speak English, making the film much more accessible to Academy voters.",
"Lastly, it's the official category submission from China, which just so happens to be the most promising unrealized market for blockbuster Hollywood films.",
"But the Oscars can also be very political, in every possible way.",
"Including the literal sense.",
"Last week, when Bale was roughed-up on camera while attempting to visit Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist who had been under house arrest in China for documenting his country's population-control measures, the Dark Knight actor reminded western audiences of China's less-than-stellar human rights record.",
"If that wasn't enough, Chinese authorities responded strongly to the scuffle, saying that Bale \"should be embarrassed\" by his actions.",
"\"He was not invited to create a story or shoot film in a certain village,\" said a spokesperson for the Chinese government.",
"\"I think if you want to make up news in China, you will not be welcome here.\"",
"Think voters might now be tempted to view \"Flowers of War\" in a different light?",
"The Zhang Yimou film wasn't the race's favorite to begin with -- \"Iran's A Separation\" looks to be the frontrunner -- but this public-relations controversy and China's belligerent response could have a severe impact on the war film's Oscar prospects.",
"Hollywood's interest in access to China's restrictive market is now counterbalanced by a temptation to stick up for Batman.",
"Didn't the Chinese see the Hong Kong scene in The Dark Knight?",
"In the real world, who cares?",
"China has broader interests than a golden statue.",
"But make no mistake: China covets an Oscar that would legitimize its booming movie industry -- \"Flowers of War,\" with a budget of nearly $100 million, is its biggest project ever -- and despite two previous nominations in the category, the country has never won the trophy.",
"Now with its spotlight film's most visible star at odds with the government, the chances of a Chinese Oscar could be dead on arrival.",
"See the full article 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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"Christian Bale plays a pseudo American priest in his new movie \"Flowers of War\"\nThe movie is nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category .",
"Bale engaged in a scuffle while filming and he is now at odds with the Chinese government .",
"China has never won a trophy and now has less chances of winning an Oscar this year ."
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"(EW.com) -- How did the makers of \"I Don't Know How She Does It\" not know that there are two insurmountable problems with their bogus chick flick about the amusing travails of a working mother?",
"The first is that the movie is based on a 2002 novel by British journalist Allison Pearson, and we live in 2011.",
"True, Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) is now an \"investment manager\" in Boston rather than a British hedge-fund shark.",
"Otherwise, Kate.2011 has the same accessories as Kate.2002, including a cute architect husband (Greg Kinnear), two kids who push Mommy's guilt buttons, and various male associates oblivious to commonplace 2011 workforce realities.",
"Into this time warp screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (\"Morning Glory,\" \"27 Dresses\") adds gratuitously bitchy stay-at-home gym-rat mothers and a boss (Kelsey Grammer) who blanches at the word mammogram.",
"Pierce Brosnan plays a fairy-tale New York businessman as princely as he is single.",
"The second insurmountable problem is the difference between Parker's performance as a fortysomething banker, wife, and mother musing (in voice-over) at her computer and her previous performance as a single, thirtysomething girl-about-town in \"Sex and the City\": There is none.",
"I don't know why she does it. EW.com rating: D+ .",
"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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"The movie is based on a 2002 novel by British journalist Allison Pearson .",
"Kate.2011 has the same accessories as Kate.2002, including a cute husband .",
"Pierce Brosnan plays a fairy-tale New York businessman as princely as he is single ."
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"(CNN) -- Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky faces additional child sex charges involving two more alleged victims, bringing the total to 10, according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly.",
"Sandusky was arrested Wednesday and charged with four counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and two counts of unlawful contact with a minor, allegedly involving two men who were boys at the time of the encounters.",
"\"Today's criminal charges were recommended by a statewide investigating grand jury, based on evidence and testimony that was received following the initial arrest of Sandusky on November 5th,\" Kelly said in a news release.",
"Each count is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and $25,000 in fines.",
"The former coach also faces one new count of indecent assault and two counts of endangering a child's welfare, each punishable by up to seven years behind bars and $15,000 in fines.",
"And Sandusky faces a single new count of indecent assault and two counts of corruption of minors.",
"\"As in many of the other cases identified to date, the contact with Sandusky allegedly fit a pattern of 'grooming' victims,\" Kelly said in the news release.",
"\"Beginning with outings to football games and gifts; they later included physical contact that escalated to sexual assaults.\"",
"Sandusky, who maintains his innocence, will face a preliminary hearing at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.",
"His attorney, Joe Amendola, blamed prosecutors for turning the case into \"a media circus,\" adding that Sandusky would have willingly turned himself in.",
"Sandusky surrendered when he faced the initial charges.",
"Amendola, who learned of the new charges from a CNN producer in his office, said he was unhappy prosecutors did not make sure he was aware of the arrest before the media.",
"\"I had a few words with the prosecutor,\" Amendola told CNN's Kathleen Johnston.",
"\"What I told them essentially is, if we are going to play hardball, both sides can play and I was a pretty good pitcher in my day.\"",
"\"The question begs to be asked, why would the attorney general's office decide not to tell me ... and why did they go to his house and take him out in handcuffs?\"",
"Amendola said.",
"\"I think the answer is self-explanatory.\"",
"Amendola said he expected his client might not be able to post the $250,000 bail before Thursday because he didn't have time to make the arrangements.",
"The alleged victims -- identified by authorities as Victim 9 and Victim 10 -- are believed to have encountered Sandusky at The Second Mile charity, a nonprofit organization he founded for underprivileged children.",
"Victim 9 was between 11 and 12 years old when he first met the former coach back in 2004.",
"Sandusky allegedly gave the boy gifts and money and took him to university football games, according to the grand jury presentment.",
"The alleged victim testified he would make overnight visits to Sandusky's home and stay in a basement bedroom.",
"He described a pattern of sexual assaults over a period of years, the grand jury said.",
"\"The victim testified that on at least one occasion he screamed for help, knowing that Sandusky's wife was upstairs, but no one ever came to help him,\" the report states.",
"Sandusky allegedly met Victim 10, then about age 10, in 1997 after a counselor recommended the boy attend the charity \"because of difficulties in his home life.\"",
"That witness said Sandusky performed oral sex on him and indecently touched him in an outdoor pool on campus, according to the grand jury.",
"A grand jury report made public last month detailed 40 charges of rape and molestation against the former coach in a child sex abuse scandal that, at the time, involved eight alleged victims.",
"Wednesday's announcement came on the heels of an attorney's statement on behalf of a 19-year-old man who stepped forward with claims that Sandusky gave him whiskey and sexually abused him, also in 2004.",
"The man pointed to a single incident at the university's football building, according to attorney Chuck Schmidt of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.",
"He was 12 at the time and it allegedly occurred while he was staying overnight during Second Mile activities, the attorney said.",
"It is not clear if the man can be identified as Victim 9.",
"Schmidt says he plans to file a lawsuit against Penn State, the charity and Sandusky in coming weeks.",
"\"He thought he was the only person this had ever happened to and when he found out there were others, that gave him enough courage to come forward,\" he said of his client.",
"The Second Mile, meanwhile, reported Wednesday that it had \"lost significant financial support\" in the wake of the scandal and plans to reduce its staff.",
"\"We at The Second Mile are saddened by the need to make these cutbacks; however, our foremost concerns reside with the victims of the horrific abuse reported by the Attorney General and with the children we serve,\" the charity said in a written statement.",
"Sandusky, the longtime Penn State defensive coordinator, has said he only \"horsed around\" with the disadvantaged boys in his care.",
"An attorney for some of the alleged victims Monday blasted Sandusky's recent interview with The New York Times in which he attempted to clarify his relationships with young people.",
"\"If I say, 'No, I'm not attracted to young boys,' that's not the truth,\" Sandusky said, according to the interview published Saturday.",
"\"Because I'm attracted to young people -- boys, girls.\"",
"His lawyer, who was present at the interview, spoke up at that point to note that Sandusky is \"not sexually\" attracted to them.",
"\"Right. I enjoy -- that's what I was trying to say -- I enjoy spending time with young people.",
"I enjoy spending time with people,\" Sandusky added.",
"\"I mean, my two favorite groups are the elderly and the young.\"",
"The former coach told the paper that prosecutors had twisted his decades of work with troubled youths as part of his charity.",
"CNN's Kathleen Johnston and Susan Candiotti and journalist Sara Ganim contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- The deep financial mess at the U.S.",
"Postal Service has revealed a deep fault line in America about whether we even need the postal system.",
"This week we heard from the \"let 'em shut down, I do all my communicating online\" group.",
"And there are those who want to \"save the art of writing a letter by hand and mailing it.\"",
"We're going to get beyond this divide, right here, right now, with a real-life love story that gets to its destination, as most love stories do, through a route that's never been traveled before.",
"The letter . Our love story begins with a guy in a rush.",
"\"Gimme a ticket for an aer-o-plane.",
"Ain't got time to take a fast train.",
"Lonely days are gone.",
"I'm a-goin' home.\" Why is this guy in such a hurry? \"My baby just-a wrote me a letter.\"",
"The letter. That's why. His baby didn't send him an e-mail.",
"She wrote him a letter.",
"By hand. Put it in an envelope.",
"Found a stamp buried in her drawer.",
"Took it to a mailbox.",
"Double checked, I'm sure, to make sure it dropped in all the way.",
"\"The Letter,\" performed by The Box Tops, Joe Cocker and other artists, is one of the 500 most popular American songs.",
"To get to the bottom of the story, I made a long distance phone call to Wayne Carson, the man who wrote \"The Letter.\"",
"The back story .",
"I asked Carson if he could imagine the guy in his song rushing to the airport -- paying full fare to get home to his baby, who seems to have sent him packing -- if she had sent an e-mail or a tweet.",
"He says he never thought of it.",
"He wrote the song in 1967. Who was the guy, I asked.",
"Was it you? No. \"My dad was in show business for 50 years,\" Carson tells me.",
"\"He fancied himself as a songwriter.",
"Never wrote a hit.",
"He would get into the story.",
"He didn't know when to quit. By the time he got the story told he had four or five pages.",
"He didn't have a song. He had a short story.\"",
"Carson's father handed him one of those \"short stories\" called \"Her Last Letter\" and told him to see if he could do something with it.",
"There was one phrase in there that stuck in Carson's mind that he'd one day come back to.",
"Halfway down the third page.",
"The phrase was \"Ticket for an aer-o-plane.\"",
"And that's the way aer-o-plane was spelled.",
"One day, in his small kitchen, Carson swiveled his chair to his pump organ and just banged out the melody and the lyrics in one take.",
"\"I just put the words together as they came to me.",
"All because of that one word, aer-o-plane, that my dad wrote in the middle of that damn story.\"",
"Just a songwriter in the zone.",
"The plot gets hot .",
"One more question for Carson.",
"\"Do you have a favorite among all the songs you've written? \"",
"\"My favorite song,\" he says, \"is always the last one I wrote. ...",
"I don't have a favorite kid or dog.",
"I have a favorite wife.",
"But then again she's the last one I married.\"",
"Uh oh. I guess I have a couple more questions.",
"How many times have you been married, Wayne?",
"Three, he tells me.",
"His first wife died too young.",
"His second marriage didn't work out.",
"But this marriage... \"What brought us together was songwriting.",
"We wrote two songs together before we actually met in person.\"",
"They did not, if you're wondering, send their lyrics back and forth through the mail.",
"They had a friend in common, a Nashville guitarist, who was the intermediary.",
"The messenger. And then, one night, after one of Carson's shows, a woman comes up to him and says she has a song she'd like him to look at.",
"\"Oh no,\" he said. \"Not another one.\"",
"And then she told him. Her name was Wyndi.",
"Wyndi Harp.",
"The woman he'd been writing songs with.",
"They kept in touch.",
"\"One morning,\" says Harp, \"he called me up and said, 'Would you like to do some writing today?'",
"\" They'd ride around for hours in Carson's blue-green Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan just writing songs.",
"Any car can be romantic when you're making music together.",
"Harp comes up with some priceless titles.",
"\"My Baby's been Fiddlin' With a Brand New Bow.\"",
"That was one of their first together.",
"\"Free Me When You Go.\" \"I'm Not Really Talkin', It's Just My Heart Thinkin' Out Loud.\"",
"Carson and Harp have been married 14 years now.",
"And writing songs together for longer than that.",
"Delivery . Now, the final, final question.",
"Have Carson and Harp ever gone to a mailbox and sent each other a letter?",
"\"We've never written each other a letter,\" says Carson, \"because we've never really been apart that long since we met.",
"... Two weeks was about as long as I could stand to be away from her.\"",
"There's a song there. The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Michael Schulder."
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"\"The Letter,\" a hit song, captures emotions of looking for a stamp, taking letter to mailbox, he says .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- The departure of U.S. troops left many questions lingering in Iraq Sunday, analysts told CNN's \"State of the Union.\"",
"\"There are a lot of things here that are not finished.",
"There are activities in the region that are still sitting on the edge of potential conflict,\" said retired Gen. James Cartwright, former vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.",
"Paul Bremer, a former envoy to Iraq under President George W. Bush, said President Barack Obama had \"placed a very big bet\" by pulling out troops.",
"\"The definition of victory actually was given by the president when he made the announcement we were pulling out.",
"He said a democratic Iraq can be a model for the region.",
"That's right. That's what President Bush also said.",
"And the question is, can a democratic Iraq survive if America pulls out before the job is done?\"",
"he said. Another key question, analysts said, is what neighboring Iran will do next.",
"\"Iran's clearly one of the strategic winners out of this.",
"The United States managed to eliminate one of the two arch-rivals that Iran faced, and so Iran has gained a much stronger position,\" said Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center.",
"\"At the same time,\" she added, \"I think that once the United States withdraws, that the historic tensions between Arabs and Persians along the strategic border are likely to resurface, and that the Iranians will have influence with many of the top leaders in... Iraq, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the Iraqis are going to become the next Iranian province.\"",
"The last U.S. troops in Iraq crossed the border into Kuwait Sunday, marking the end of an almost-nine year war.",
"According to the defense department, 4,487 service members were killed in the war; more than 30,000 were wounded.",
"It is impossible to know with certainty the number of Iraqis who have died in Iraq since 2003.",
"But the independent public database Iraq Body Count has compiled reports of more than 150,000 between the invasion and October 2010, with four out of five dead being civilians.",
"Obama said Monday that the end of the Iraq war means a new chapter in U.S.-Iraq relations, with a focus now on a \"normal relationship between sovereign nations.\"",
"He told visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that the two nations would build \"a comprehensive partnership\" that includes trade relations, support for building up Iraq's democratic capacity and military-to-military ties aimed at helping Iraq rebuild its air force, which was destroyed in the war against Saddam Hussein's regime.",
"\"Our goal is simply to make sure Iraq succeeds,\" he said.",
"Debate was raging about the nation's political future Sunday, as a political crisis erupted in Baghdad that raised fears of more sectarian strife to come.",
"Iraqiya, a powerful political bloc that draws support largely from Sunni and more secular Iraqis, said it was boycotting parliament, a move that threatens to shatter Iraq's fragile power-sharing government.",
"The political bloc contends that al-Maliki is trying to amass dictatorial power, and many believe that the prime minister was simply waiting for the Americans to leave before making his move.",
"\"These old sectarian divides are in many ways deeper than they were even under Saddam Hussein, and the United States can play a certain kind of role in that,\" Wright said, pointing to the importance of diplomatic involvement even after U.S. troops leave.",
"Cartwright said U.S. troops may return to Iraq to help train Iraqi forces.",
"\"It will be interesting to see,\" he said.",
"\"I think the opportunity is there for us to bring forces back in.\"",
"CNN's Moni Basu, Arwa Damon and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"What Iran will do next is a key question .",
"Robin Wright: \"Old sectarian divides are in many ways deeper than they were\""
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"Cairo (CNN) -- When Azza Hilal Suleiman saw Egyptian military pummel the veiled woman, she stepped in to help and got kicked and clubbed by security forces, a beating that was captured in a video that went viral around the world and also showed live gunfire and the violent removal of a Muslim woman's clothing.",
"\"A veiled woman was injured and the army stripped her,\" she told CNN in an exclusive interview from her hospital bed in Cairo, suffering from painful skull fractures and facial cuts.",
"She couldn't stand to see the repeated blows to the woman, who was dragged, kicked, partially stripped and then stomped.",
"\"So I ran and tried to cover her body and pull her out,\" Suleiman said.",
"\"We tried to cover her and pull her away but they beat us.",
"I didn't feel anything after this.\"",
"Suleiman was seen in a red coat in the same video that showed the veiled woman's beating.",
"Security forces rushed toward Suleiman and pushed her to the ground as she ran to the veiled woman's side.",
"\"I was just trying to help her up after they exposed her body,\" she said.",
"Suleiman is one of three people in the video interviewed by CNN, with one of them saying he was shot.",
"A CNN crew also witnessed the security force beatings and shootings and saw other women stripped of some of their clothing.",
"The beatings took place last Saturday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, amid a five-day stretch of assaults by police and defiant protests by demonstrators demanding that Egypt's ruling military cede power to a civilian government.",
"A Health Ministry spokesman said 16 people died, including 14 by gunshots, according to Dr. Hisham Sheeha.",
"The military has denied the use of live ammunition.",
"Photos of the unidentified veiled woman were plastered on the front pages of global and local newspapers and appeared on Facebook.",
"Twitter hashtags #TahrirWoman and #Bluebra emerged.",
"The images stirred worldwide outrage because of the beating and because she was partially stripped in a Muslim society where women cover themselves for modesty.",
"The woman has not been identified.",
"An activist and student, she chooses not to talk to reporters at present, two people who know her told CNN.",
"She had been dressed in a traditional robe and headscarf, but as police clubbed her and dragged her down the street, those articles of clothing were pulled away, exposing her midriff and blue bra.",
"The video showed one of the police officers aiming a foot at her upper abdomen and stamping squarely on it.",
"The beatings and the use of live ammunition against protesters, particularly women, have outraged Egyptians.",
"More than a thousand people gathered in Tahrir Square for a \"Million Woman\" march Tuesday.",
"Women and men holding placards showing pictures of the veiled woman's beating marched through the surrounding streets to denounce the escalating violence by security forces.",
"The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has since expressed \"great regret\" over the mistreatment of women protesters, but it has not apologized for the assaults, a fact that enrages demonstrators.",
"But SCAF reiterated \"its respect and appreciation for Egyptian women and their right in protesting and their active positive participation in the political life.\"",
"Age 48, divorced and unemployed, Suleiman is the daughter of a deceased army general.",
"She wanted to speak to CNN despite her agony.",
"In an earlier visit to the hospital, she indicated how much she was suffering, saying, \"My head is going to explode.\"",
"Others came to Suleiman's aid, such as businessman Ehab Hanna, who was also beaten up and shot after he tried to help the woman with the veil.",
"\"Azza covered her naked body.",
"Then we tried to pull her up to take her to the field clinic.",
"But I was shocked with a sting in my leg, thought it was a rock.",
"I tried to walk but fell to the ground, so they started beating me and Azza relentlessly,\" he told CNN.",
"Hanna said security forces left him alone when they thought he was dead.",
"But when he moved, he was beaten.",
"He said he and other injured people were on the ground for about 30 minutes because ambulances weren't allowed into the area.",
"\"I only found out I was shot in the leg when I arrived to the hospital.",
"They told me the bullet penetrated my knee and ended up in my calf.",
"I saw the Army officer firing his gun, but I thought it was blanks.",
"I did not imagine they would fire live ammo at their people.\"",
"Journalist Hassan Shaheen Mahmoud also is in the video.",
"He told CNN that he is filing a complaint against military leaders because they \"dragged, stripped and beat\" women and journalists.",
"He too said he tried to come to the aid of the veiled woman, who suffered serious cuts and bruises.",
"\"I started to run, but she froze and fell to the ground when another protester bumped into her,\" Mahmoud said.",
"\"I tried to help her get up, but the soldiers were brutal even when I told them I was a journalist.",
"They even continued to beat her after her body was exposed.\"",
"\"I will not remain quiet,\" Mahmoud vowed.",
"One military official showed no sense of remorse.",
"\"What was a woman like her doing in a conflict zone?\"",
"asked the military spokesman, Maj. Mohamed Askar.",
"\"She must have participated in the attacks on the military and the Cabinet.\"",
"Askar questioned why the woman has not come forward to identify herself.",
"\"Our troops do not just attack people for no reason,\" he said.",
"\"If she had nothing to hide then she would have presented herself.",
"Where is she?\" The Egyptian military said it isn't aware of Suleiman's case but will look into it.",
"\"If she comes from a military family then she reserved the right to be transferred to a military hospital even if her father is deceased,\" said Col. Islam Jaffar of the military's morals department.",
"As Wafa Ahmed, Suleiman's sister-in-law, listened to her wailing in pain, she thought of Suleiman's father and other family members, who have served Egypt in the military and government.",
"\"I'm glad her father didn't see this day,\" Ahmed said."
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"A video showed police beating a woman and others trying to help her .",
"The violence occurred in Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday during a stretch of unrest .",
"Twitter hashtags emerged -- #Tahrirwoman and #Bluebra .",
"A relative says of Suleiman's beating, \"I'm glad her father didn't see this day\""
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A delegation of South Koreans traveled to the Communist North Monday to pay their respects to the late leader Kim Jong Il, lying in state at Kumsusan Memorial Palace.",
"The 18-member civilian delegation was led by Lee Hui-ho -- the widow of the former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at nurturing reconciliation between the two Koreas -- and Hyun Jeong-eun, the widow of Chung Mong-hun, the former chairman of Hyundai Group who pushed for heavy industrial investments in the North.",
"\"I hope this helps improve North and South relations,\" Lee said in a statement read by one of her aides prior to her departure at the border.",
"The South Koreans arrived in Pyongyang after passing through the Kaesong Industrial Park, just to the north of the demilitarized zone that separates the two countries, reported the Korean Central News Agency, the North's official news agency.",
"North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un greeted the delegation in Pyongyang, said a statement from the Unification Ministry.",
"The delegation plans to stay overnight.",
"The visit comes at a delicate point in relations between the two Koreas.",
"The death of Kim Jong Il, announced by Pyongyang on December 19, has put the region on edge, as the world waits to see how the leadership succession will play out in the secretive regime.",
"Seoul expressed its sympathy to the North Korean people and gave the green light to Lee and Hyun's group to visit the North.",
"But it said it will not send an official delegation to pay respects to Kim Jong Il.",
"Pyongyang sent delegations to South Korea when the former president Kim and the former Hyundai chairman Chung died in 2009 and 2003 respectively."
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"NEW: Kim Jong Un greets the civilian delegation .",
"The group is led by a former first lady and the widow of an industrial tycoon .",
"The visit comes at a delicate point in relations between the two Koreas .",
"Pyongyang announced Kim Jong Il's death on December 19, putting the region on edge ."
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"(CNN) -- Cuba will pardon more than 2,900 prisoners, the government said Friday, though U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is not among those who will be freed.",
"The decision to release the prisoners follows \"numerous requests\" from their family members and religious institutions, and is a humanitarian gesture, said Cuban President Raul Castro.",
"Among those who might be freed are prisoners over the age of 60, along with those who are sick, female or young with no previous criminal record.",
"With some exceptions, prisoners convicted of spying, terrorism, murder and drug trafficking will not be released.",
"Those who will be freed have already served a \"important\" part of their sentences and exhibited good behavior, according to an official statement published on the state-run website Cubadebate.",
"The jailed American, Gross, will not be among those pardoned, the Cuban Interests Section in Washington said.",
"Gross was jailed in December 2009, when he was working as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project aimed at spreading democracy.",
"Castro has accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet, and this year Cuba's highest court upheld the 15-year sentence imposed on Gross for committing crimes against the security of the state.",
"He has maintained his innocence and said he was trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet.",
"Castro, speaking to the National Assembly, said that 86 prisoners from 25 countries would be among those released in coming days.",
"He cited the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI as one of the motivations behind the move, which he said showed the \"generosity and strength of the revolution.\"",
"The pope has said he plans to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter.",
"In 2010, Castro agreed to free prisoners arrested during the 2003 crackdown on political dissidents.",
"The Caribbean nation has released many of them, as well as other prisoners jailed for \"counterrevolutionary\" activities, ranging from hijacking to arson.",
"CNN's Willie Lora contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Alan Gross is not among those who will be pardoned .",
"Cuban President Raul Castro says prisoners from 25 countries will be freed .",
"The move shows the \"generosity and strength of the revolution,\" he says .",
"The president cites the pope's upcoming visit as a motivation for the release ."
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"(CNN) -- An Iranian-American ex-Marine accused of spying on his ancestral homeland helped develop an electronic translator for U.S. troops but wouldn't have been involved in espionage, a onetime colleague said Wednesday.",
"Iranian state television aired what it called a \"confession\" by 28-year-old Amir Hekmati over the weekend.",
"His family said Tuesday that he was arrested in August while visiting his grandmother and other relatives in Iran, and that his statement had to have been coerced.",
"\"It just doesn't sound like Amir to me,\" said Sherri Condon, a software engineer who worked with Hekmati in 2008 and 2009 on an effort to develop a two-way, hand-held electronic translator.",
"Condon was the lead author of a 2008 paper describing the research.",
"She thanks Hekmati in the acknowledgments.",
"She described him as \"an entrepreneurial guy\" who sent colleagues a holiday card with a quote from Benjamin Franklin: \"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.\"",
"\"I really like him,\" said Condon, who identified Hekmati from the images released by Iranian state television.",
"\"He wasn't too nose-to-the-grindstone, but he really worked and put out good effort on behalf of these programs we worked with.\"",
"The work, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was aimed at improving communications between U.S. troops and local populations -- a problem with which Hekmati had grappled during service with the Marines in Iraq.",
"He appeared in a video that touted the \"souped-up iPods,\" and he described how American troops sometimes lost hours waiting for a translator to help them pose simple questions.",
"\"He knew enough to be very helpful for us, and he was very helpful to us in terms of understanding the context in which the devices might be used,\" Condon said.",
"\"He had the military experience.\"",
"The Arizona-born, Michigan-raised Hekmati joined the Marines in August 2001, after high school.",
"His four-year hitch included an assignment to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and a six-month deployment in Iraq in 2004, according to U.S. military records.",
"In 2006, after leaving the service, he started his own linguistics company and began offering his services as an English-to-Arabic translator, according to Michigan incorporation records.",
"He contracted his services to the military as well as civilian businesses, offering training in cultural competency and working with troops at military bases to promote understanding of and positive communication with people of other cultures, his family said.",
"In 2010, he spent five months working as a research manager for defense contractor BAE, company spokesman Brian Roehrkasse told CNN.",
"And Condon said Hekmati recently worked for a company that produced language-training material for the U.S. military.",
"The United States and Iran have no direct diplomatic relations, but Hekmati's family said he made the trip after obtaining permission from the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington.",
"The interests section has not responded to CNN requests for comment.",
"News of Hekmati's detention is the latest turn in a series of allegations of espionage and plotting between Washington and Tehran, following the capture of a U.S. surveillance drone by Iran, Iranian claims to have arrested a dozen CIA spies and U.S. allegations that Iran sought to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.",
"Hekmati's family said that after his August 29 arrest, Iranian officials told them to remain silent \"with the promise of an eventual release,\" but they went public after Iranian television aired the accusations and Hekmati's statement on Sunday.",
"In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters Tuesday that Hekmati is being falsely accused, but had no further comment.",
"Condon said she fears Hekmati's military history drew him unwelcome attention in Iran.",
"\"I can't begin to imagine what must have been in their minds, but I agree he wouldn't have been involved in any spying,\" she said.",
"She said she has worked with other people who have families in Iran, \"and it's always scary when they go to visit.\"",
"\"They're always worried,\" she said.",
"\"You feel so helpless, because it seems like there's nothing you can do.\"",
"CNN's Brian Todd and Barbara Starr contributed to this report."
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"\"It just doesn't sound like Amir to me,\" a former colleague says .",
"Hekmati's military experience helped in testing translation devices, she says .",
"The Arizona-born, Michigan-raised ex-Marine has been jailed in Iran since August .",
"Iran accuses him of spying; his family and U.S. officials say that's untrue ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Kim Jong Il was the enigmatic leader of the most enigmatic country on earth.",
"Much about Kim's life was, and is, shrouded in mystery.",
"Even the year of his birth -- 1942 -- has been contested by knowledgeable sources in South Korea and Russia, who claim Kim was born a few years earlier but that his official birth date was pushed back to make him exactly 30 years younger than his father, North Korea's founding leader, Kim Il Sung.",
"North Koreans claim Kim Jong Il was born on Mount Paektu, along the North Korean border with China, at a \"secret base camp\" where his father was leading a guerrilla war against Korea's Japanese overlords.",
"Almost everyone else believes Kim was born in Russia, at a Soviet military camp near Khabarovsk where his father had gone into retreat with other Korean and Chinese communist guerillas.",
"But the myth of Kim's guerilla-base birth became full-blown propaganda when he was anointed heir apparent in the early 1980s.",
"After seeing instability and communist backsliding in Russia and China following the deaths of Stalin and Mao respectively, Kim Il Sung chose his son as successor to ensure continuity for North Korea's political system.",
"In some ways, the elder Kim was all too successful.",
"Kim Jong Il led North Korea not to reform and opening, like his Chinese contemporaries, but through economic catastrophe, famine and repeated nuclear confrontations with the United States.",
"Through all of this, the rule of the Korean Workers' Party, the Korean People's Army and the Kim family has been absolute and ubiquitous.",
"When Kim Jong Il took over the reigns of power following his father's death in 1994, he had been preparing for succession for more than two decades.",
"After graduating from Kim Il Sung University in 1964, Kim rose through the ranks of the Korean Workers' Party, focusing on culture and propaganda.",
"As he candidly admitted to a conference of party workers in 1996, economics was never his strong suit.",
"He enjoyed film and the arts, fine food and drink, and kept late hours, but he was not the unstable and intellectually vacuous playboy of South Korean propaganda.",
"He certainly lacked the charisma and outgoing personality of his father, but foreign officials who met him -- including South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright -- described him as intelligent, well-informed, even charming.",
"On the other hand, his country's reputation for unpredictability and provocation was often well-deserved, as North Korea went through a series of confrontations with the United States and the international community over nuclear development, and the economic situation lurched from crisis to crisis.",
"North Korea held two nuclear tests, in 2006 and 2009, in defiance of international condemnation and U.N. sanctions.",
"A year ago North Korean artillery shelled a South Korean island in a confrontation over South Korean military exercises, bringing the two sides to the brink of open warfare.",
"At the same time, the economic situation -- though much improved since the famine years of the late 1990s -- remains highly precarious.",
"If the outside world saw Kim as an enigma and a rogue, his reputation within North Korea is more difficult to assess.",
"Of course, internal North Korean propaganda built up Kim as a hero of near-superhuman abilities, venerated by all his countrymen.",
"But defectors' reports suggest the view of Kim within his own country is more mixed, and while his father is still widely revered, Kim Jong Il is associated with the trauma of famine and crisis in the late 1990s.",
"Kim oversaw limited steps toward economic reform in the early 2000s, but these have since been scaled back.",
"The composition and direction of the post-Kim Jong Il leadership is murky.",
"Kim Jong Il's son and heir apparent, Kim Jong Un, is even more a mystery than his father was when he came to power.",
"It seems likely that in the immediate aftermath of Kim's death, North Korea will be run by a collective leadership, perhaps headed by Kim's brother-in-law Jang Song-taek, as Kim Jong Un is prepared to assume official power.",
"No one outside Pyongyang's inner circle knows what kind of leader Kim Jong Un will be and where he will take the country.",
"If North Korea survives the post-Kim Jong Il transition and its circumstances improve, Kim Jong Il may be remembered as a leader who guided North Korea through a disastrous period and prepared the way for reform.",
"If things go badly, Kim will be seen as the man who oversaw the unraveling of the system his father built and as the face of a failed dynastic communism.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charles Armstrong."
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"Charles Armstrong: Kim Jong Il's life was so mysterious there was even doubt about birth year .",
"Father made Kim successor to forestall change that followed deaths of Mao, Stalin .",
"Armstrong: Economics was one of Kim's weaknesses, and North Korea suffered greatly .",
"Performance of Kim's son could decide the fate of North Korea's dynasty ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities are investigating a letter bomb addressed to the CEO of Deutsche Bank that was delivered to the bank's headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, police said Wednesday.",
"The device, which contained shrapnel, was detected in the bank's mail room around 1 p.m. local time, said New York Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.",
"It did not detonate. \"The return address was listed as a European central bank, which would likely increase the chances of him opening it,\" said Browne, who urged a general increase in mail room security.",
"\"A suspicious letter was received today at Deutsche Bank, addressed to Dr. (Josef) Ackermann,\" said bank spokesman Ronald Weichert.",
"\"In-house departments concerned alerted the police,\" who then launched an investigation.",
"Browne said the incident prompted New York authorities to increase security around Manhattan's Deutsche Bank offices.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Diana Magnay contributed to this report ."
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"It is delivered to the bank's headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, police say .",
"New York's deputy police commissioner says the device was detected in the bank's mail room ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Six people were killed and at least 300 were injured when pro-democracy activists clashed Friday with Egyptian security forces in central Cairo, a government official said.",
"Two of the dead were teenagers and one was an Islamic scholar, said Dr. Hisham Shiha, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health.",
"At least four of the fatalities suffered gunshot wounds, with one person shot in the back of the head, he said.",
"Adel Saeed, a spokesman for the general prosecutor, said an investigation is under way.",
"\"We are questioning 14 men detained at scene of clashes and we have a team now at two hospitals questioning the injured to understand how the injuries were inflicted,\" he said.",
"A separate team was at the morgues following up on the deaths, he said.",
"Meanwhile, people were throwing Molotov cocktails, rocks and glass.",
"Men wearing what appeared to be military uniforms tossed bricks and concrete on protesters from atop a six-story building.",
"A Ministry of Transportation building burned nearby, and tents in an activist encampment in front of parliament caught fire.",
"The military fired warning shots into the air and sprayed water cannons to disperse the crowd.",
"Shiha said nearly 100 people were hurt, including nine who were shot by live ammunition.",
"Saeed said 12 people were charged with destroying public property.",
"Are you in Cairo? Tell us what the mood is like.",
"A Ministry of Interior official denied police were involved.",
"\"This situation has nothing to do with the police or the Ministry of Interior, and we do not have forces at the site of the clashes,\" said Gen. Marwan Mustapha, a ministry spokesman.",
"A doctor at a clinic said he had treated dozens of protesters for cuts and injuries caused by flying glass and rocks.",
"\"It all started when the military arrested one man, and then an hour later he emerged from building barely able to walk from the beating,\" said activist and video blogger Walid Nada.",
"\"His face and body and clothes (were) blotched with blood as the protesters carried him to (a) makeshift hospital.\"",
"Activist Mona Seif identified the beaten man as Aboudi Ibrahim.",
"He \"has no broken bones, but major bruises to the face, cuts and harsh burns from electric shockers.",
"We are filling a police report soon,\" she said.",
"Activists have been camping outside parliament in protest of the military-appointed prime minister."
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"An investigation is under way, a government spokesman says .",
"Glass, rocks and Molotov cocktails are thrown .",
"The beating of an activist sparked the violence, activists say ."
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"(CNN) -- While the visiting national news media focuses on the latest utterances of Republican presidential hopefuls in advance of the January 3 caucuses, many Iowans have found a bone to pick with a journalism professor -- from the University of Iowa, no less -- who wrote: \"Whether a schizophrenic, economically depressed, and some say, culturally challenged state like Iowa should host the first grassroots referendum to determine who will be the next president isn't at issue. ...",
"In a perfect world, no way would Iowa ever be considered representative of America, or even a small part of it.",
"Iowa's not representative of much.\"",
"Iowans are wondering what they did to incur the wrath of Stephen G. Bloom, who for 20 years has taught journalism at the state's flagship university and shared his observations in an article for The Atlantic magazine titled \"Observations from 20 Years of Iowa Life.\"",
"It may be a good thing that Bloom, a native of New Jersey, has been away teaching this semester at the University of Michigan because in trying to explain \"in both a real and metaphysical way, what Iowa is,\" he has drawn the ire of Iowans literally from all corners of the state -- from Sibley and Keokuk (whose mayor has invited him to visit and explain the \"a depressed, crime-infested slum town\" remark) to Decorah to Shenandoah.",
"In the interest of full disclosure, many of my childhood vacations (including winter) were spent visiting my mother's parents in Iowa.",
"I graduated from a college in Iowa, and my first full-time job in journalism was at a newspaper in Iowa, so I admit to a certain fondness for the state.",
"And every four years, as the political spotlight shines on Iowa, I share with colleagues whatever helpful insights I can muster.",
"Blitzer's blog: Turbulence in Iowa .",
"The state is not one large cornfield, but driving along Interstate 80, it can appear that way for long stretches.",
"Visit northeast Iowa along the Mississippi River for proof that the state is not flat.",
"Iowa's farms not only help feed the United States, but also much of the world, connecting this piece of \"flyover country\" to a global view.",
"Still, economists report that agriculture only accounts for roughly one in five jobs in the state.",
"Iowans may be older (the average age continues to increase), whiter and more rural than the United States in general, but its Latino population is increasing and more of its residents are moving to urban areas.",
"Iowa boasts being among the most literate states in the union (though some years ago state officials abandoned a plan to make \"Iowa: A State of Minds\" its license plate slogan).",
"Politically, over the years Iowans have elected some of the most liberal and some of the most conservative members of Congress.",
"Critics cite numerous examples of a snide tone in Bloom's writing.",
"Consider his assessment of employment prospects in rural Iowa: \"Those who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die, those too timid (or lacking in educated) to peer around the bend for better opportunities, an assortment of waste-toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth, or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that the sun'll come out tomorrow.\"",
"What makes Iowa's GOP caucuses unique .",
"And while they wait for that sun to come out, Bloom suggests, these Iowans spend their days stepping in manure from barnyard animals and stuffing their gullets with meat loaf, pork chops and Jell-O molds before heading out to a tractor pull or church.",
"Bloom makes nary a mention of the distinguished academics at the state's universities and colleges, its art museums and orchestras nor even the obvious upgrades to the capital city of Des Moines during the past 20 years.",
"Where he says that \"Iowa is a throwback to yesteryear and, at the same time, a cautionary tale of what lies around the corner,\" critics find many of Bloom's observations to be throwbacks to an Iowa that no longer exists.",
"Many also say there are factual inaccuracies in the article.",
"Sally Mason, president of the University of Iowa, which employs Bloom, objected.",
"\"I disagree strongly with and was offended by Professor Bloom's portrayal of Iowa and Iowans.",
"Please know that he does not speak for the University of Iowa.",
"As president of the university, I have the opportunity to travel far and wide across this great state frequently, and the Iowa I see is one of strong, hard-working and creative people.",
"In this cynical world that can harden even the greatest optimist, the citizens of Iowa continue to believe,\" Mason responded to The Atlantic.",
"\"What defines Iowans are their deeds and actions and not some caricature.",
"When I travel the state, what I see is a land that is rich not only because of its soil but because of how its people are grounded.",
"Iowans are pragmatic and balanced, and they live within their means.",
"This lifestyle, while not glitzy, is humble and true and can weather the most difficult of times,\" Mason said.",
"Sports editor Pete Temple of the Monticello Express newspaper agreed with some parts of Bloom's article, but suggested that \"rather than having some good-natured fun with the quirks and traditions that make rural Iowa life so unique, Bloom's tone is condescending, apparently designed to mock rural Iowa in front of the rest of the nation.\"",
"Bloom, he wrote, \"fails to mention one of rural Iowa's greatest qualities, which is its ability to rise up and come together for someone in need.",
"You have farmers completing a harvest for a neighbor, fund-raisers for families of ill or injured residents, and citizens filling sandbags to ward against an impending flood.",
"Rural Iowans do these things willingly, immediately, and without question.",
"If that's not representative of our nation as a whole, that's a shame.\"",
"Dean Klinkenberg, who writes about life along the Mississippi River, offered this scathing assessment: \"Bloom wrote a poorly reasoned article plagued by factual errors and loaded with big-city stereotypes of country folk.",
"His essay was, ultimately, a lazy piece of incendiary rubbish, which I guess is what passes for journalism today.\"",
"Bloom shared some of his \"fan mail\" with media commentator Jim Romanesko, including this excerpt: \"First I want to apologize for Iowans who may have threatened you.",
"I am a dental student here at the university and grew up in a small Iowa town my whole life (Palo) before coming here.",
"I agree that we have our problems as Iowans but one thing we are is fiercely loyal.",
"Your article is true (for the most part) about rural Iowans but anyone from here, esp us city folk, are going to be upset by that stereotype.\"",
"Bloom defended his work in a letter to the Press-Citizen newspaper in Iowa City.",
"\"Perhaps my article gave some Iowans a moment to refocus their attention elsewhere -- from some of the real issues confronting the state -- Walmart taking over the retail-trade sector, empty storefronts, water pollution among the worst in the nation, factories shutting down, the state's brain drain, undocumented workers taking minimum-wage jobs in the state's under-regulated slaughterhouses, not to mention the tragedy that anyone can see walking into the state's casinos.",
"\"I'm a proud journalist.",
"I still believe in the adage, 'Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.'",
"Today, much of the state is afflicted by a ravaged economy.",
"Iowa's population growth has flat-lined.",
"But I guess it's just more comforting to some Iowans to condemn me for pointing out these issues and others.\"",
"I'll give the last word to Lydia Waddington, a native Southerner who was editor of recently closed Iowa Independent.",
"Of her adopted home state, Waddington wrote, also in The Atlantic, \"It's a way of life trying desperately to sustain itself and justify its own existence.",
"It is battling against national stereotypes that no longer apply while facing newer and much more lethal challenges.",
"\"It's picturesque scenes of idyllic farms and country roads glimpsed through a car window.",
"It's everyone believing they know who and what you are before they go fishing with you and the shirt comes off.",
"As Professor Bloom admits in his own writings, he never took up fishing.",
"Bless his heart.\""
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"Stephen G. Bloom: \"No way would Iowa ever be considered representative of America\"\nHis criticisms draw stinging rebuttals from outraged readers who say he misses the point .",
"University president retorts: \"Iowans are pragmatic and balanced\""
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"(CNN) -- Sheriff's investigators in North Carolina launched a search of a turkey farm they say is owned by Butterball -- the largest producer of turkey products in the United States -- on Thursday after an animal rights organization said it infiltrated the farm and videotaped instances of purported animal abuse.",
"\"The organization Mercy for Animals had conducted a covert operation at the farm and documented mistreatment of animals,\" said Capt.",
"John Kivett of the Hoke County sheriff's office.",
"\"No one has been taken into custody.",
"It's still an ongoing investigation.",
"Nothing has been seized,\" he told CNN.",
"The heavily edited videotape from the animal rights group shows what appear to be employees of the farm kicking, dragging and throwing turkeys.",
"During one section of the tape, someone clearly swings what appears to be a metal object, striking one of the birds.",
"Investigators were trying to determine whether the videotape matches this same facility in Hoke County that they were searching.",
"\"Veterinarians and detectives are inside the birdhouses conducting their investigation and documenting what they see,\" said Kivett.",
"\"We have no way of knowing if the video is of the same place,\" he told CNN.",
"Other sections of the 90-second tape show what appear to be injured, bloodied and, in some cases, dead turkeys.",
"On its website, the animal rights group bills itself as an organization that promotes a vegetarian diet.",
"\"Our investigation found Butterball employees kicking, throwing, dragging and beating birds.",
"We also documented birds suffering from broken bones, bloody open wounds, and many left to die,\" said Nathan Runkle, executive director of Mercy for Animals.",
"The sheriff's department said that Butterball was fully cooperating with the authorities, and that company officials were at the farm.",
"In a written statement, Butterball said the company was working with Hoke County officials in their investigation.",
"\"Butterball takes these allegations very seriously and fully supports the efforts being made on the part of officials.",
"Butterball has a zero tolerance policy for any mistreatment of our birds or the failure to immediately report mistreatment of our birds by any associates,\" the company said in a statement.",
"\"We are performing extensive internal and third-party audits as part of our own investigation.",
"Employees found in violation of Butterball's animal welfare policies will be subject to immediate termination.\"",
"The company statement did not address the existence or the nature of the videotape.",
"Butterball did not return CNN's calls for comment.",
"The animal rights group told CNN that a female member of the organization was hired by Butterball as a driver, and as a worker in the animal sheds.",
"The organization said the unidentified member worked there from the middle of November until the middle of December when the hidden-camera video was shot.",
"\"These animals experience pain and suffering in the same way as dogs and cats.",
"As a civilized society it's our moral obligation to prevent needless cruelty to animals including those raised for food,\" said Runkle.",
"North Carolina law states that any person who intentionally wounds, injures, torments or kills any animal could be guilty of committing a misdemeanor or a felony, depending upon the level of infraction as determined by investigators."
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"Sheriff's investigators launched a search of the farm in North Carolina on Thursday .",
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"Butterball says any employee who violates its \"zero tolerance\" animal abuse policy will be fired ."
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"Las Vegas (CNN) -- For David Shafter, it should have been a dream: A crush of excited people swarming his booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show, where his startup is launching its first product.",
"But all the people hoisting cameras and raising themselves on tiptoe for a better view Wednesday afternoon weren't there to see his robot.",
"They were angling for a peek at pop star Justin Bieber, who was making an appearance at the booth next door.",
"\"We're pretty much shut down,\" said Shafter with a weary look of resignation, as rubberneckers squealed and shouted \"Justin!\"",
"in the background. \"We can't run our demos.\" Shafter's fledgling company, Xybotyx, is making its first appearance at CES to introduce its Xybot, a hockey-puck-shaped robotic device that zips around on little wheels, controlled by an iPhone or iPod Touch.",
"Owners can download apps to their phone that give the robot specific behaviors, like avoiding obstacles.",
"The gadget will go on sale this spring at the quirky price of $111.11.",
"But none of the hundreds of people pressed up against his booth cared about that.",
"They only had eyes for the teen singer with the sideswept hair who was greeting fans nearby at the TOSY booth, where he made an appearance on behalf of that company's new mRobo, a portable speaker that morphs, \"Transformers\" style, into a little dancing robot.",
"Middle-aged tech execs aren't exactly Bieber's demographic, but many onlookers said they were there to get photos or autographs for their teen-age kids.",
"Some people even asked if they could climb atop Shafter's plywood demo table to get a better view.",
"(The answer was no.) \"It's the best of times, it's the worst of times,\" grumbled Shafter's business partner, Xybotyx co-founder Dan McShan, surveying the madness surrounding him.",
"\"We're trying to get him (Bieber) to defect.\"",
"Shafter said he was planning to approach CES officials about compensating him for his lost booth time during Bieber's two-hour appearance.",
"\"It's definitely costing us valuable hours of time with our target audience,\" McShan said.",
"In the meantime, however, Shafter had another plan: If he couldn't beat them, he was going to join them.",
"He placed one of his robots on the floor and, using his iPhone, began navigating it toward Bieber in the hopes of getting a remote-controlled picture.",
"\"I was driving it up to the Bieb,\" he said with a grin a few minutes later.",
"\"I made it about halfway there.",
"But the security guard grabbed it.\""
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"Startup co-founder: \"It's the best of times, it's the worst of times\""
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"Waterville, Maine (CNN) -- Divers in Maine were scouring a river Wednesday in their search for a missing 21-month-old girl, but had found no sign of her in the frigid waters, authorities said.",
"\"We're making progress.",
"I can tell you honestly that as the days go on, our concern grows, as it's been 26 days.",
"But I can also tell you that we remain hopeful that we will bring her back to her home,\" Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland told reporters.",
"The search for Ayla Reynolds focused Wednesday on a half-mile area of the Kennebec River that stretches from downtown Waterville to the Carter Memorial Bridge.",
"Officials said they had received more than 600 tips, but nothing that specifically pointed to that area.",
"The river still has open water despite air temperatures in the teens.",
"Divers in special suits to protect them in the frigid waters rotated in and out of the river, which was around freezing temperature, Maine Warden Service Lt. Kevin Adam said.",
"\"The water is clear.",
"When the sun is out, they can see 4-6 feet.",
"... We picked today because the weather's good and it was the most efficient time to do it,\" he said.",
"The search for the little girl is in its fourth week.",
"Police have said they suspect foul play in the case.",
"\"All we know is that Ayla's missing.",
"We've ruled out no scenario.",
"We've ruled out no one. And we're not going to get into investigative details,\" McCausland said Wednesday.",
"He described the search as the most intense investigation Maine's state police had been involved in for two decades.",
"Ayla's parents are not married and don't live together.",
"Her mother recently completed rehab, family members said.",
"Investigators said both families have cooperated with police.",
"The little girl's father, Justin DiPietro, said he put his daughter to bed at 8 p.m. December 16 and called police the next morning just before 9 a.m. to report her missing, according to authorities.",
"DiPietro's mother, Phoebe DiPietro, told CNN she wasn't at the home the night Ayla disappeared.",
"But she said she fully supports her son, who has said he \"would never do anything to harm\" his daughter.",
"She said she just wants her Ayla returned unharmed.",
"\"I'd give everything I owned if we can have her back,\" she said last week, her voice breaking.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report."
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"Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged closer cooperation on Monday, vowing to fight poverty and imperialism.",
"The two leaders signed a series of accords in the areas of industry, science, technology and politics, the state-run AVN news agency reported.",
"Sitting side by side in front of a room full of reporters, they presented a united front in their opposition to the United States.",
"\"It's clear they are afraid of our development,\" said Ahmadinejad.",
"Earlier, at a welcoming ceremony outside the Venezuelan presidential palace, the Iranian president called Chavez his \"dear brother,\" and said his nation has peaceful intentions.",
"\"Our weapon is logic.",
"Our weapon is culture.",
"Our weapons are human values,\" he said.",
"Chavez pledged to work with his Iranian counterpart to stop the \"imperial insanity\" of the United States, which he described as a \"threat for the world.\"",
"The Venezuelan president mocked concerns from Washington about his country's relationship with Iran, joking that U.S. media reports made it sound as though he and Ahmadinejad would be launching missiles and bombs at the U.S. capital.",
"\"We are not warmongers,\" Chavez said, as the Iranian president nodded in agreement.",
"\"Iran has not invaded anybody.\"",
"It's no coincidence that Venezuela is Ahmadinejad's first stop on a four-nation Latin America tour this week.",
"Despite their cultural differences, Venezuela and Iran have found significant common ground: Both are among the world's top crude oil exporters, and their leaders are strong allies united by a fierce opposition to what they describe as U.S. imperialism.",
"The Iranian leader arrived in Caracas on Sunday and is traveling with his ministers for foreign affairs, energy and economy, according to IRNA, Iran's official news agency.",
"Over the years, the two nations have signed more than 270 accords, including trade deals and agreements on construction projects, car and tractor factories, energy initiatives and banking programs.",
"Chavez has also helped the Islamic republic forge relationships with other members of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, an eight-nation regional bloc Chavez founded.",
"Even before he arrived, Ahmadinejad's plans for a Latin American tour grabbed global attention, as tensions grow between many Western powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.",
"Officials in the United States and other Western nations have ratcheted up sanctions against Iran several times since a November report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said the Iranian government was developing the technology needed to build a nuclear weapon.",
"Last month, U.S. President Barack Obama announced sanctions against Iran's central bank.",
"On Monday the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency confirmed that uranium enrichment has begun at a nuclear facility in northern Iran.",
"Iran says there's a medical purpose behind the nuclear program.",
"But in Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said the confirmation that Iran was enriching uranium to \"a level that's inappropriate\" is \"obviously a problem.\"",
"Not everyone in Venezuela is happy with Ahmadinejad's visit.",
"Diego Arria, an opposition politician, described the trip as a \"provocation\" to the United States and an embarrassment for Venezuela.",
"\"It comes at the worst moment -- at a time when Ahmadinejad is being looked at by the international community with great fear. ...",
"It's bringing the threat to the United States closer to home,\" he said.",
"The Iranian president is scheduled to visit Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador later this week as part of his five-day tour.",
"CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet in Atlanta and CNN's Luis Carlos Velez in Caracas contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Egyptian doctor Amany Sadek was treating patients in a makeshift hospital close to Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday when the building was surrounded by armed forces.",
"The doctors turned their lights off, kept quiet and were unable to let anyone in or out of their doors.",
"\"It was horrible, we could hear shots outside,\" said Sadek.",
"\"We carried on treating patients in the dark.",
"When we opened the doors an hour or so later, we found people desperately looking for somewhere to be treated.",
"\"I was scared and my friends were scared, but you kind of get used to it,\" she said.",
"\"Despite the attacks, the hospital is still one of the safest places to be.\"",
"Sadek is one of the founders of the Tahrir Doctors Society, a group of volunteers that formed after spontaneously treating protesters injured during Egypt's revolution in January.",
"Last Friday, when violence broke out between protesters and security forces after the second round of voting in parliamentary elections, the society set up its makeshift hospital for the fifth time this year.",
"The interior ministry has said at least 100 security officers have been wounded in the clashes.",
"CNN has not been able to independently verify this claim.",
"The field hospital in Omar Makram mosque near Tahrir Square was still in place and stocked with necessary supplies since the last clashes in November.",
"The doctors were able to re-open it quickly to treat victims of the new wave of violence.",
"\"We got a call at 5 a.m. to say the army were attacking people sleeping in their tents,\" Sadek said.",
"\"By the time we got there we found lots of casualties, so we re-opened the hospital and it was ready to go straight away.\"",
"\"We have treated over 1,000 wounded patients since Friday, and lots of people have been transferred to other hospitals for surgery.",
"\"We are seeing all kinds of injuries, many from live bullets.\"",
"The society said on Saturday that one of its members had been shot in the stomach and others had been threatened with arrest.",
"Tahrir Doctors Society currently has about 20 volunteer doctors on duty at any time of the day or night.",
"It's facility is a short distance from Tahrir Square; other makeshift hospitals closer to the scene of the clashes have had more trouble continuing with their work.",
"\"The army attacked one of the other field hospitals.",
"The doctors were told to leave or they would be attacked, and the army took their drugs and burned them,\" Sadek said.",
"\"Others have been surrounded to prevent anyone from entering or leaving.",
"That happens on a daily basis, usually late at night.\"",
"Maj. Mohamed Askar of THE Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said protesters were capturing and wounding soldiers.",
"\"The army soldiers they kidnapped and returned are now in the hospitals.",
"The rebels also captured three officers, tortured them and released them.",
"They were even talking about a prisoner swap,\" he said.",
"Sadek says the violence of the last few days is the worst she has seen.",
"At least 14 people have been confirmed killed in the latest spate of violence.",
"Sadek said: \"This time it's more brutal than ever, more even than in January and February.\"",
"Tahrir Doctors Society was formed by a group of five doctors who met in January during the protests that led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak 18 days later.",
"\"The five of us sitting in a cafe during the revolution.",
"We were talking about the need to change things, and we started the Tahrir Doctors Society,\" said 29-year-old facial surgeon Amhad Farouk.",
"The aims of the society are to provide emergency intervention during clashes or disasters, and to campaign for the right of healthcare for every citizen.",
"Dr Farouk said: \"We do not discriminate between any groups in treating them: we will treat security as well as protesters.",
"We are part of the revolution, and it is the revolutionary spirit to treat everyone equally.\"",
"He added: \"At first we weren't organized enough to keep records, but in the recent clashes we keep records of what happens to each patient.",
"We treated more than 3,000 people in one week.\"",
"Volunteers coordinated thousands of public donations of medical devices and drugs through accounts such as @TahrirSupplies and @TahrirNeeds on the micro-blogging site Twitter.",
"\"We would announce through them what we needed and people contributed millions of pounds worth of supplies,\" Dr. Sadek said.",
"\"Normal people would buy what we needed from pharmacies or factories and bring it down to the square.",
"It was very inspiring.\" The group was able to draw on training its members had received from the international medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres.",
"\"We learned that the safest place for our bigger makeshift hospital was back from the front line, so patients with major injuries could be transferred there from the front line,\" Sadek said.",
"\"Many doctors in the front line units were injured by the gas.",
"It went on for six days.",
"Whenever I ha .",
"d to go to the front line, I wore a gas mask and goggles and still could hardly breathe.\"",
"During quieter times, the Tahrir Doctors Society continues its humanitarian work providing free traveling clinics in deprived areas.",
"A mission that Dr. Farouk said was inspired by January's revolution.",
"\"This is the rise of Egyptian society.",
"All sorts of groups are organizing themselves since the revolution and are getting stronger,\" he said.",
"\"The idea of volunteering is really taking off.\"",
"Dr. Sadek agreed.",
"\"Before the revolution people never thought about volunteering.",
"Doctors were just trying to earn enough to make a living, not participating or sharing,\" she said.",
"\"After the revolution people started to believe in themselves again.",
"Now we have realized we can make a difference and have stopped thinking just on a personal level. It's so satisfying.\""
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"(CNN) -- North Korea kept the world on tenterhooks Wednesday, when the funeral of leader Kim Jong Il was expected to take place in Pyongyang.",
"On Wednesday morning, state television began broadcasting previously aired video of Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un and other mourners paying respects in front of the late dictator as his corpse lay in state.",
"The secretive nation had revealed no details about the funeral, where thousands of North Koreans were expected to file past a glass case housing the body of the elder Kim, revered as a godlike \"dear leader\" by his people.",
"State television on Wednesday morning also showed historical footage recounting the life of Kim Jong Il, from the legend of his birth on a sacred mountain to his years as leader of the communist state.",
"Kim's funeral likely will be modeled after that of his father, Kim Il Sung, in 1994, said Han Park, a professor at the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs who is also director of the Globis Center for the Study of Global Issues.",
"However, the funeral is expected to spotlight his son Kim Jong Un, the man designated the \"great successor\" by the nation's Worker's Party.",
"Questions have been raised about Kim Jong Un's ability to take the reins of the reclusive communist nation, given his young age -- he is thought to be in his late 20s -- and relative inexperience.",
"\"The system will try to make sure that Kim Jong Un, this young man, is a legitimate leader, so probably he will be spotlighted in the funeral procession,\" said Park.",
"While there is no official religion in North Korea, the funeral will probably touch on the Confucian tradition of ancestor worship, Park said.",
"Denny Roy, a North Korea analyst at the East-West Center in Honolulu, said observers outside North Korea will be performing \"the usual Kremlinology -- except in this case it's Pyongyangology.\"",
"They will be watching the ceremonies for clues as to where leading figures stand in the new hierarchy, comparing the event to the 1994 funeral of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung.",
"\"What I expect to see is no sign that there's any hiccup or difficulty in Kim Jong Il's plan to have his son Kim Jong Un succeed him,\" Roy said.",
"Among those expected to be at the side of the \"great successor\" are his aunt and uncle.",
"The late ruler's sister, Kim Kyong Hui, and her husband, Jang Sung Taek, are expected to serve as regents for the young Kim as he builds leadership experience, Roy said.",
"\"They will be very prominently featured in all of the public ceremonies,\" he said.",
"\"They'll have places that are very close to Kim Jong Un.",
"If it was otherwise, it would be a dramatic new development, but I don't expect that.\"",
"The ceremony is to be followed by a memorial on Thursday.",
"The state-run Korean Central News Agency said when the national memorial service is held Thursday, gun volleys will be fired in the capital, Pyongyang, as well as provincial seats.",
"\"All the people will observe three minutes' silence and all locomotives and ships (those on voyage included) will blow whistles and those units with sirens will sound them all at once,\" KCNA said.",
"While the public \"outpouring of grief\" will be present at the funeral, it may not be as overwhelming as it was following the death of Kim Il Sung, said Park, who has visited North Korea frequently and is in close contact with high-ranking officials there.",
"As loved as he might be among the North Korean people, he said, \"Kim Jong Il is no Kim Il Sung.\"",
"Kim Il Sung was much more charismatic, and his death was much more unexpected, he said.",
"While Kim Il Sung was 83 to Kim Jong Il's 69, the elder Kim was thought to be in excellent health.",
"\"Two weeks before his death, (Kim Il Sung) received Jimmy Carter,\" Park said, referring to the former American president.",
"\"In North Korea, no one actually anticipated or suspected the coming of his death ... Kim Jong Il, his health was failing.",
"Everyone knew that.\"",
"The glass case to house Kim Jong Il's body was ready upon his death, he said.",
"In Kim Il Sung's case, \"it took days ... to make that arrangement preparation.\"",
"And John Park, research fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, said Kim Jong Un is \"following a script laid out by his father,\" who had a major stroke in 2008.",
"\"Basically, we are seeing a man who planned his own funeral,\" he said.",
"North Korea has said the funeral will be a \"low-key\" affair, with no foreign heads of state invited, John Park said.",
"That's \"the one factor that Kim Jong Il couldn't control\" -- the possible embarrassment, if invitations were issued, that heads of state might not accept.",
"One point of interest will be who is going to be in the Chinese delegation, John Park said.",
"\"That will be done through party-to-party connection,\" with those attending likely to be a senior representative of the Communist Party of China.",
"There have been rumors that Chinese President Hu Jintao may attend, he said.",
"John Park believes if Hu shows up, he will use the title of party general secretary, not president.",
"And one notable omission from the guest list is Kim Jong Il's oldest son, Kim Jong Nam, who fell from favor after being caught trying to sneak a visit to Tokyo Disneyland using a forged passport.",
"He told Japan's TV Asahi in 2010 that he opposed having his family hold power for another generation, but had \"no objection nor interest\" in the matter.",
"Roy said Kim now lives in the Chinese casino haven of Macau and is \"more or less exiled.\"",
"\"It's rather significant that in a Confucian society, the oldest son won't play a significant role in the funeral,\" he said.",
"\"That speaks to a very strained relationship between him and the current leadership.\"",
"Han Park referred to \"government by legacy\" in North Korea.",
"When Kim Jong Il succeeded his father, he also inherited much of Kim Il Sung's policies and philosophies, which have been \"the backbone of policy-making,\" he said.",
"Because of that, neither he nor Roy said they expect to see drastic policy changes under Kim Jong Un.",
"Observers say upcoming events will also provide North Korea with opportunities to reinforce the succession and provide a window on how smoothly that process is going.",
"Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy for the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote Tuesday that the leader's upcoming New Year's address may already have been written, \"but can be scoured for deviations from the past and for evidence of possible rewriting post-Kim Jong Il's death.\"",
"Kim Jong Un's first birthday as leader, on January 8, may also provide some clues.",
"So could Kim Jong Il's 70th birthday on February 16 -- still within the mourning period -- or the 100th birthday of Kim Il Sung on April 15.",
"CNN's Matt Smith contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- As the leader of Malaysia's reform -- or reformasi -- movement, Anwar Ibrahim has spent much of the past decade in court defending himself against sodomy charges.",
"Once one of former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's closest political allies -- and viewed by many as his heir apparent -- the 64-year old grew up in the politically-charged environment of post-independence Malaysia.",
"He made his name as a student activist in various Muslim youth groups in Kuala Lumpur in the late-1960s, as the country reeled from the protracted Communist insurgency of the Malayan Emergency.",
"Arrested in 1974 in student protests against rural poverty, Anwar was sentenced to 20 months in jail.",
"Despite his firebrand reputation, he later confounded liberal supporters in 1982 by joining the conservative United Malays National Organization (UMNO) led by Mahathir.",
"At the time, Mahathir's ability to bring Anwar on board was seen as a master political stroke, effectively neutralizing a potentially powerful political opponent who risked joining the opposition Parti Islam or PAS.",
"Anwar found not guilty of sodomy .",
"He moved quickly through the political ranks throughout the 1980s, heading several ministries until he became deputy prime minister and the favored lieutenant of Mahathir in 1993.",
"But by the end of the 1990s, the relationship had begun to sour as Anwar became increasingly vocal about what he saw as widespread nepotism and cronyism within the Malaysian government.",
"Protectionist policies set up by Mahathir also came under fire from Anwar, who supported the International Monetary Fund's recovery plan for Malaysia following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.",
"Anwar instituted an austerity package that cut government spending by 18%, cut ministerial salaries and put major infrastructure projects on hold.",
"These mega-projects had been the cornerstone of Mahathir's development strategy and his opposition further strained the relationship.",
"Mahathir, as prime minister, reversed several Anwar decisions.",
"Nevertheless, the tough medicine of the IMF package meant Malaysia emerged from the crisis sooner than its neighbors.",
"It is currently moving away from manufacturing as a base for its economy, and is now a world center of Islamic banking and knowledge-based industries.",
"In 1998, Anwar was fired from the cabinet amid police reports he was under investigation on charges of sodomy -- an illegal act in predominantly Muslim Malaysia.",
"Anwar denied the allegations.",
"Appearing in court with a black eye from a beating while in police custody- an injury that then Inspector General of Police Rahim Noor later admitted in a royal commission he had personally administered -- Anwar pleaded not guilty.",
"After a two-year trial, which also involved corruption charges, Anwar was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in jail for sodomy and six years, served concurrently, for corruption.",
"In December 2004, Anwar was cleared of the sodomy charges, and in 2006 he announced his bid to run for parliament in the 2008 elections after the expiration of a ban from public office related to his earlier conviction.",
"In the 2008 elections, the opposition seriously dented the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition's majority, handing it one of its worst election results since independence in 1957.",
"In what the Malaysian media had dubbed \"Sodomy 2.0,\" the opposition leader -- just months after the 2008 elections -- was again charged with sodomy on the basis of allegations from his aide Modh Saiful Bukhari Azlan who claimed Anwar had repeatedly sexually assaulted him.",
"Anwar dismissed the charges as a sham, saying they were concocted by the ruling coalition in an effort to discredit him.",
"Anwar has consistently claimed that the charges were trumped up and the last desperate act of a government fighting for its political survival.",
"The government, for its part, has denied any involvement in the case against Anwar.",
"\"The fact that the same plot that was hatched in 1998 is being repeated reflects a certain bankruptcy and lack of creativity on their part,\" Anwar told CNN in 2010.",
"\"They must still believe some segment of the Malay-Muslim electorate, who will likely determine the outcome of the next General Election, will be alienated by these charges.",
"I doubt that is the case.\"",
"After a nearly three-year trial, a Malaysian court Monday found Anwar not guilty of the charges against him after the judge said there were questions over whether DNA evidence had been contaminated.",
"Information Minister Rais Yatim hailed the verdict as a victory for Malaysia's judiciary, showing that it was free from government influence.",
"With the government expected to call elections in the coming months, Anwar said he was ready to start campaigning again and challenge the ruling coalition's 50-year hold on power.",
"Anwar has brought together a diverse group of opposition parties, including a conservative ethnic Malay Islamic party, a secular party mainly representative of ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities and his own multiracial party.",
"At the heart of Malaysia's reform movement is the call for a multiracial alternative to the political status quo in the South East Asian nation.",
"Malaysia's controversial policy of bumiputra -- a Malay term which means literally means \"son of the soil\" -- favors the ethnic Malay majority, providing them with preference in employment, business, education and housing.",
"While proponents say the radical affirmative action campaign -- which was instituted in the early 1970s in response to anti-Chinese riots in Malaysia in 1969 -- has lifted many urban Malays into the middle class, critics say that Chinese, Indian and the indigenous Orang Asli have been excluded from the political process.",
"While problems with bumiputra were among the election issues, allegations of government cronyism and nepotism are now high on the list of voter concerns.",
"Dubbed the post-reformasi generation, educated young Malaysians in their 20s and 30s have been leaving the country to take up opportunities overseas.",
"The brain drain is now a serious problem for the coalition government which has embarked on economic reforms, but is accused of doing little to reform the public service or education.",
"According to Herizal Hazri, the Malaysian program director for The Asia Foundation, Anwar's acquittal will give a boost to the speed of reform.",
"\"Anwar still represents the reform agenda,\" he said.",
"\"The anti-corruption drives and drive towards good governance also illuminate a more welcoming view of as to how ethnicities should be treated in Malaysia.\"",
"He said both the opposition and the government were pursuing reforms, swinging the attention of the reform movement towards problems of corruption rather than issues of ethnicity and race.",
"One of the unintended consequences of the Anwar case, he added, was that Malaysia's British-based legal system had emerged as an independent force in a political structure that critics charge has been compromised by decades of cronyism.",
"\"I would have to say that for once I am proud of a Malaysian institution,\" Hazri said.",
"\"The court has been strong enough to make a decision outside of politics and it needs to be applauded.",
"\"The court made its decision based solely on the facts of the case.",
"Today is a victory for the Malaysian judicial system and I hope that it heralds a bright new future,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- Good things come to those who wait.",
"And that's exactly what viewers will be doing when TV's best midseason offering, \"Good Christian Belles,\" aka \"GCB,\" debuts March 4 on ABC.",
"Reminiscent of \"Desperate Housewives\" in its less desperate heyday, \"GCB\" follows Amanda Vaughn (Leslie Bibb), a woman who ruled in high school but has since been humbled by life when her marriage ends in scandal and she has to return home to Dallas.",
"Unfortunately for Amanda, a mother of two, her former \"frenemies\"-turned-socialites and their husbands haven't quite evolved, and they do everything they can to make her life miserable.",
"Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth stars as one of Amanda's rivals, and Annie Potts steals scenes as Amanda's meddlesome mother.",
"The show is based on a best-selling book from Kim Gatlin.",
"While \"Good Christian Belles\" is the best, it's not the only show to look forward to this winter.",
"NBC's \"30 Rock\" is returning at 8 p.m.",
"ET Thursday for a sixth season, TNT's gritty cop drama \"Southland\" will be back at 10 p.m.",
"ET January 17 for a fourth season, and the 11th season of \"American Idol\" resumes at 8 p.m.",
"ET January 18 and 19 on Fox.",
"There are also a slew of new offerings to sort through.",
"For your channel-surfing pleasure, we've selected the good, the bad and the forgettable: .",
"The good . • \"The Firm\" (debuts 9 p.m.",
"ET Sunday, NBC): Based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, this intense and sometimes cluttered courtroom drama, follows attorney Mitchell McDeere (this time played by Josh Lucas of \"The Lincoln Lawyer\" instead of Tom Cruise) a decade after he brought down a prestigious Memphis law firm.",
"Every week, Mitch will fight for his clients but with a twist because the mob wants him dead as does a shadowy organization behind one of his controversial cases.",
"Don't worry. It sounds more complicated than it is, and Lucas is a treat to watch.",
"• \"House of Lies\" (debuts 10 p.m.",
"ET Sunday, Showtime): Don Cheadle (\"Crash\") and Kristen Bell (\"Veronica Mars\") have undeniable chemistry in this testosterone heavy, raunchy comedy about a cutthroat business consultant (Cheadle).",
"• \"Alcatraz\" (debuts 8 p.m.",
"ET January 16, Fox): America's most infamous prison becomes a time-travel portal in this trippy but fun new sci-fi drama from none other than J.J. Abrams (\"Lost\" and \"Fringe\").",
"\"Alcatraz\" stars Sam Neill (\"Jurassic Park\") and Jorge Garcia of \"Lost\" fame.",
"• \"Luck\" (debuts 9 p.m.",
"ET January 29, HBO): The latest creation from David Milch (\"Deadwood\"), \"Luck\" stars Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (\"Rain Man,\" \"Kramer vs. Kramer\") as a gangster of sorts.",
"Hoffman leads a stellar cast that includes Nick Nolte and Dennis Farina in this methodical and fascinating drama about horse racing and the troubled people who inhabit that world.",
"• \"Smash\" (debuts 10 p.m.",
"ET February 6, NBC): Executive producer Steven Spielberg and NBC hope to steal the spotlight from \"Glee\" with this exciting new music-driven drama.",
"\"Smash\" follows a Broadway musical from its planning stages to the big stage and stars Debra Messing and Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston (\"Prizzi's Honor\").",
"The bad . • \"Work It\" (airs 8:30 p.m.",
"ET Tuesdays, ABC): Two unemployed men (Ben Koldyke and Amaury Nolasco) dress as women to get jobs in a sluggish economy.",
"But \"Bosom Buddies\" was better when it debuted in 1980.",
"• \"Are You There, Chelsea?\" (debuts 8:30 p.m.",
"ET Wednesday, NBC): Based on comedic actress Chelsea Handler's best-selling and mostly autobiographical books, this mildly funny new comedy follows a 20-something (Laura Prepon of \"That '70s Show\") who parties as hard as she drinks.",
"What's even less appealing is that Handler stars in the sitcom too but doesn't play herself.",
"Good luck with that. • \"Rob\" (debuts 8:30 p.m.",
"ET Thursday, CBS): This new sitcom isn't offensive because of its liberal use of stereotypes.",
"It's offensive because it is unfunny and unoriginal.",
"\"Rob\" follows a man (Rob Schneider) who marries a Latina and fails to fit in with her family.",
"• \"The River\" (debuts 9 p.m.",
"ET February 7, ABC): Bruce Greenwood (\"Star Trek\" the movie) stars as an explorer and wildlife TV host who goes missing in the Amazon jungle.",
"Leslie Hope (\"24\") plays his wife, a woman determined to find him who heads to the Amazon with a reality TV crew and her son (Joe Anderson of \"The Crazies\").",
"Instead, she finds lots of ghosts and questions.",
"The forgettable . • \"The Finder\" (debuts 9 p.m.",
"ET Thursday, Fox): Geoff Stults (\"Happy Town\") and Michael Clarke Duncan (\"The Green Mile\") star in this dull but well-intentioned spinoff of \"Bones.\"",
"• \"Fashion Star\" (debuts 10 p.m.",
"ET March 13, NBC): In a lopsided attempt to imitate \"Project Runway,\" former supermodel Elle Macpherson has created this reality competition series that features celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson and Nicole Richie. Yawn."
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"(CNN) -- Unlike in the death of any other world leader, reactions from the international community to the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il were somewhat muted.",
"Few countries issued statements in the hours immediately after Kim's death was announced on North Korean state television.",
"And some, like the United States, opted to focus on its relationship with South Korea.",
"AUSTRALIA . Kevin Rudd, Foreign Minister: \"It is at times like this that we cannot afford to have any wrong or ambiguous signaling.",
"This time also presents an important opportunity to the new North Korean leadership to engage fully with the international community.",
"On how to improve their economy in order to properly feed their people and critically on how to deal with the outstanding problem of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.\"",
"CHINA . Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs: \"We were distressed to learn of the unfortunate passing of the senior-most North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, and we express our deep grief about this and extend our condolences to the people of North Korea.",
"Kim Jong Il is a great leader of North Korean people, and is a close friend of Chinese people.",
"... China and North Korea will make joint effort ... to consolidate and develop the ... friendship between the two countries ... and to maintain the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the region.\"",
"CUBA . Cuban state-run newspaper Granma: \"The State Council of the Republic of Cuba has declared official mourning following the death of comrade Kim Jong II, Chairman of the National Defense Committee and Secretary General of the Labor Party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on the 20, 21 and 22 of December.\"",
"FRANCE . Foreign Minister Alain Juppe: \"There isn't much hope.",
"It is a completely closed off regime ... We are very cautious about the consequences of this succession.",
"We hope that one day the North Korean people will find freedom.",
"There are ongoing talks with North Korea ... and we need to keep on talking with China and other participants to make North Korea abandon its nuclear weapon.\"",
"-- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said that France \"reaffirms its commitment to peace and stability in the peninsula and hopes the North Korean regime will evolve in a positive way.",
"... Our thoughts go to North Korean people who have been suffering for years from misery and lack of human rights.",
"... France will carry on its action for North Korean people, especially by supporting humanitarian programs ...\" GERMANY .",
"Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle: \"We hope that a window of opportunity will open for the people of North Korea,\" Westerwelle said during a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.",
"JAPAN . Osamu Fujimura, Japanese chief government spokesman: \"We express our condolences on the news of the passing Kim Jong Il, the chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea.",
"We wish the sudden news would not affect North Korea negatively.\"",
"PHILIPPINES . Department of Foreign Affairs: \"The Government and people of the Philippines convey our condolences to the Government and people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the death of President Kim Jong-Il. ...",
"The Philippine Government values its relations with the DPRK and will continue to cooperate with them to intensify the promotion and maintenance of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, including in the Korean Peninsula, to ensure the region's continued prosperity.\"",
"RUSSIA . Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister: Moscow expects that Kim Jong Il's death won't affect friendly ties between Russia and North Korea, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.",
"SOUTH KOREA .",
"South Korean President Lee Myung-bak: \"For the sake of the future of the Republic of Korea, peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula is more important than anything else.",
"It should not be threatened by what has happened.",
"We must make thorough preparations to maintain peace and stability and continue to work closely with the international community ... All citizens are asked to go about their lives without wavering so that peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula will not be hampered.\"",
"-- South Korea's presidential crisis management director said in a televised statement that Seoul \"will monitor North Korea very closely and will be fully prepared\" and will \"work closely with related countries.\"",
"UNITED KINGDOM .",
"William Hague, British Foreign Secretary: \"The people of N Korea are in official mourning after the death of Kim Jong Il.",
"We understand this is a difficult time for them.",
"This could be a turning point for North Korea.",
"We hope that their new leadership will recognize that engagement with the international community offers the best prospect of improving the lives of ordinary North Korean people.",
"We encourage North Korea to work for peace and security in the region and take the steps necessary to allow the resumption of the Six Party Talks on denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.\"",
"UNITED STATES .",
"The White House: The Obama administration had little to say about Kim's death, noting it was \"closely monitoring reports.\"",
"The White House said President Barack Obama spoke with his South Korean counterpart and had reconfirmed the U.S. commitment to the \"stability on the Korean peninsula, and to the freedom and security of our allies.\""
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"France says there isn't much hope since North Korea is a \"closed-off\" regime .",
"South Korean president asks citizens to \"go about their lives\"\nAustralia: The time presents an opportunity to North Korea's new leadership .",
"Russia says Moscow expects that Kim Jong Il's death won't affect friendly ties ."
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"(CNN) -- Japan's 77-year-old emperor is currently in hospital, several days after coming down with a fever, a spokesperson with the Imperial Household Agency says.",
"Emperor Akihito, a ceremonial but revered figure in the Japan, was suffering from a worsening case of bronchitis and the fever he contracted Thursday, according to the spokesperson, who declined to be identified due to the agency's media protocol.",
"\"He appears to be fatigued and has lost some resistance to fight against sickness,\" the spokesperson said.",
"\"To be on the safe side, he was hospitalized (Sunday night) at University of Tokyo Hospital.\"",
"It is the emperor's second time in a hospital this year, after getting medical treatment in February for extensive tests of his coronary arteries.",
"In recent years some analysts believe Akihito's health has been affected by stress.",
"The issues of no male heir for Crown Prince Naruhito, the continued talk of constitutional changes for females to rule and family rifts over the role of the Imperial Household Agency were speculated to be the cause.",
"Tsugunomiya Akihito was born on December 23, 1933 in Tokyo to Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako Kuniat as their fifth child and first son.",
"According to Japanese legend, he is a direct descendant of Japan's first emperor Jimmu, circa 660 BC.",
"Akihito means \"shining pinnacle of virtue,\" and Tsugunomiya means \"prince of the august succession and enlightened benevolence.\"",
"At about the age of five, Akihito was separated from his parents, in accordance with Japanese custom at the time, and raised and educated by chamberlains and tutors.",
"His youth was packed with events so dramatic that they today seem unimaginable, including Japan's brutal military invasion of China, its foray into World War II and subsequent defeat followed by an unprecedented foreign occupation.",
"Akihito's post WWII private tutor was an American Quaker, Elizabeth Gray-Vining from Philadelphia, who also happened to be the only foreign guest at his wedding.",
"Married to Michiko Shoda in 1959, he was the first Japanese crown prince to marry a commoner (they met playing tennis), despite the fact there was a designated list of about 800 potential candidates.",
"The marriage produced three children; Hiro no miya Naruhito Shinno, Crown Prince Naruhito (born February 23, 1960), Akishino no miya Fumihito Shinno, Prince Akishino (born November 30, 1965), and Nori no miya Sayako Naishinno, Princess Sayako (born April 8, 1969).",
"On November 12, 1990, Akihito ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne -- the oldest hereditary monarchy in the world -- as the 125th Emperor of Japan, one year and ten months after the death of Emperor Hirohito.",
"The position, per Japan's constitution, is defined as \"the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people.\"",
"That said, the office's involvement in day-to-day government affairs tends to be minimal.",
"Akihito broke from precedent following Japan's epic 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami earlier this year, when he gave a historic, televised speech on March 16.",
"In it, he encouraged citizens to put forth their \"best effort to save all suffering people\" and he applauded his countrymen's handling of the crisis.",
"\"I truly hope the victims of the disaster never give up hope, take care of themselves, and live strong for tomorrow,\" he said in a calm and poignant oration delivered from the Imperial Palace.",
"\"Also, I want all citizens of Japan to remember everyone who has been affected by the devastation, not only today but for a long time afterwards -- and help with the recovery.\"",
"CNN Library contributed to this report."
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"The Chrysanthemum Throne is the oldest hereditary monarchy in the world .",
"Akihito is the fifth child and first son of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako .",
"Akihito's interests include marine biology, tennis, playing the cello ."
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"(WIRED) -- Microsoft released an Xbox Live app for iOS devices on Wednesday, bringing features of Microsoft's gaming service to Apple devices for the first time.",
"My Xbox Live lets users edit their 3-D avatars, chat with Xbox Live friends and revel in their achievements.",
"You can also check out more information about the newest apps and games on Xbox, as well as gaming tips and breaking news.",
"Windows Phone users have had Xbox Live services packaged into their mobile experience for a while now, but now iOS users can get a piece of the action.",
"And whether they like it or not, iOS users who download the app are also getting a screen similar to a Windows Phone-style user interface.",
"The iPhone app features the horizontal bar across the bottom of the screen that houses the same sort of circular icons you'd find in a Windows Phone 7 app.",
"Also included: a clever browser-based demo that lets you virtually explore the UI of a Windows Phone from your Android or iPhone handset.",
"While you may already be on a phone of a different OS, it has potential to lure potential defectors over to Microsoft's mobile platform.",
"It's been a good week for Microsoft.",
"On Tuesday, the company unveiled the details of its upcoming Windows Store for Windows 8, the newest version of the world's most popular desktop platform.",
"And on Monday, the company announced that the Xbox was getting a user interface refresh, with dozens of new content channels and the addition of a Windows Phone app you can use to control your Xbox.",
"Microsoft's iOS apps are now icing on top of the cake.",
"Now when are we going to get those Microsoft Office apps on the iPad?",
"My Xbox Live is available free for download on the iPhone and iPad in the App Store.",
"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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"iOS users who download the app get a screen similar to Windows Phone-style interface .",
"My Xbox Live is available free for download on the iPhone and iPad in the App Store ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Among the political threats wielded by Donald Trump in his carnival barker quest for the presidency is that if denied the Republican nomination, he would run as an independent.",
"As an independent myself, I usually cheer the prospect of any independent campaign.",
"It shakes up the arrogant assumption that our elections are wholly owned subsidiaries of the two major parties and their respective special interests.",
"But Trump has already burned his bridges with most independent voters by choosing to go full birther and pander to the far right wing of the GOP.",
"It's a shame because in his purely CEO persona, Trump could have mounted a semi-credible independent campaign.",
"Look at what Ross Perot was able to accomplish with such an appeal nearly 20 years ago or what Mayor Michael Bloomberg has done in New York to date.",
"An independent candidate running on a proven record of executive leadership, job creation and improving American competitiveness could be a serious presidential candidate this time around.",
"Especially because a new Washington Post/ABC poll shows that 41% of American voters now identify as independents.",
"We are the plurality and provide the balance of power in any election.",
"Independent voters tend to be closer to Republicans on economic issues and closer to Democrats on social issues.",
"In other words, they are fiscally conservative but socially liberal.",
"They hate hyper-partisanship and special-interest gridlock in Washington, and they have been deficit hawks since at least the days of Perot.",
"It's perhaps useful to remember that Perot campaigned primarily on reducing the deficit and the debt at a time when America was struggling to get out of a recession and many people thought that Japan was a rising power that would eclipse the United States.",
"Now, many of those same conditions exist, with China taking the place of Japan in the \"Rise and Fall of Great Powers\" narrative.",
"But crucially, Perot was decidedly liberal-to-libertarian in his social beliefs.",
"He was avowedly abortion rights and even back then supported gays in the military.",
"The CEO candidate is usually liberated from social issue litmus tests by saying that what people do in their private lives doesn't affect on-the-job performance.",
"A guy such as Trump could embody the old libertarian line, \"I want the government out of the boardroom and the bedroom.\"",
"Many would cheer.",
"But instead, Trump has done a 180-degree reversal on abortion (like Mitt Romney before him) in the hopes of winning the GOP nomination, because abortion-rights Republicans have become an endangered species despite the endurance of \"individual freedom\" rhetoric.",
"(We can get into how Barry Goldwater's wife co-founded Arizona Planned Parenthood in the 1930s another time.)",
"Even worse, he made a strategic decision to pander to the outer reaches of American politics by embracing thoroughly discredited conspiracy theories to drum up support from the fringe.",
"This has succeeded in the short run, compounded by his already high name recognition.",
"But it will hurt both Trump and the GOP in the long run, while nuking any hope he had of appealing to independent voters.",
"If Trump were to try and run as an independent, he could still win enough votes to poll in the low single digits of the popular vote, as Pat Buchanan did before him.",
"But given his super-rich persona -- now added to his opportunistic endorsement of Obama Derangement Syndrome -- his votes would come entirely out of the Republican nominee's hide, opening the door for President Obama's re-election.",
"In contrast, Perot's independent campaign won 19% of the popular vote in 1992 -- coming in second in terms of all-time independent presidential candidacies to Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party presidential campaign in 1912.",
"They won votes from the vast vital center of the American electorate.",
"Trump would not.",
"Trump has debased himself and any ideas he had of a political career with the serial idiocies he's articulated in this flirtation with a presidential campaign.",
"Of course, there will be a cadre of political consultants who encourage him to run because they see dollar signs in their eyes, not because they are thinking of the good of the republic.",
"This is predictable but pathetic.",
"Independent voters are now the largest and fastest-growing segment of the electorate.",
"At the end of the day, we decide which party will win control of Congress or which candidate will win the presidency.",
"But a candidate who panders to the extremes and parades his own irresponsibility cannot assume that he'll win independent votes just because he slaps the independent label on a self-funded candidacy.",
"A credible independent candidate needs to be a consistent advocate for the principled positions independent voters care about -- reducing the deficit and debt while combating hyper-partisanship.",
"Trump made a decision to inflame polarization in the pursuit of self-promotion.",
"As a result, he sacrificed his right to be taken seriously as well as any claims he had to represent independent voters credibly in the 2012 election.",
"The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of John Avlon."
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"Donald Trump changed his party enrollment this week from GOP to unaffiliated .",
"In a column published in April, John Avlon explores Trump's prospects as an independent candidate .",
"Avlon: Trump's embrace of birther rhetoric would doom his appeal to most independent voters ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- In another Oprah first, the media mogul has chosen a man to join her on the cover of her \"O\" magazine: Dr. Mehmet Oz.",
"Why him? Why now? \"The January issue is all about firsts.",
"I met Dr. Oz in 2003 as his first guest on 'Second Opinion' -- a medical series he and his wife, Lisa, created for the Discovery Channel.",
"Now here we are, over eight years later.",
"... What can I say? I adore Dr. Oz,\" Oprah Winfrey tells PEOPLE exclusively.",
"\"As we toast to a new year and encourage readers to take the first step toward a happier, healthier life, who better to help us get on the right path than my dear friend and America's doctor, Dr.",
"Oz.\" And while America's doctor may have a great bedside manner, the cover interview reveals it's the pillow talk with his own wife that needs some work.",
"\"I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband,\" Oz, 51, tells Winfrey in January's issue.",
"\"I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.",
"I don't listen well when Lisa talks.\"",
"But he recognizes that Lisa is his greatest advocate, and has steered his career in directions he never would have taken.",
"\"It was her vision early on to create the kind of show [\"Second Opinion\" on Discovery Health] we're doing now,\" he says.",
"\"She had a much larger vision for me than I did for myself.",
"We actually had a big spat about this a couple of months ago.",
"It's just one after another of things I do wrong.",
"And I do do them wrong. But she's quick to make sure I own up to it.\"",
"Lisa Oz, 48, has a major career in her own right, having authored three best-selling books, including \"Us: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that Matter Most.\"",
"Dr. Oz sees that book as partly directed at him.",
"\"The reason she wrote 'Us' is that after 25 years of me not listening to pillow talk, she figured if she wrote it down, maybe I'd read it and believe it,\" he says.",
"The January issue of \"O\" will hit newsstands December 13.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Dr. Mehmet Oz joins Oprah Winfrey on the cover of \"O\" magazine .",
"\"I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband,\" Oz, 51, tells Winfrey in January's issue .",
"The January issue of \"O\" will hit newsstands December 13."
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"(CNN) -- Barcelona moved five points clear in Spain as manager Pep Guardiola celebrated his 100th match in charge with a 4-0 victory at home to Racing Santander on Saturday.",
"The injury-hit defending champions brushed off the pre-match loss of star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to romp into a 3-0 halftime lead as they put pressure on Real Madrid to win Sunday's home match against Villarreal.",
"The Swede is in doubt for Tuesday's Champions League trip to German club Stuttgart due to a swollen ankle.",
"Midfielder Andres Iniesta took advantage of some slack defending to pounce for his first goal this season in the seventh minute, hooking home a left-foot effort after the ball ran loose in his 300th outing for the club.",
"France striker Thierry Henry, handed a rare start due to Ibrahimovic's absence, netted a free-kick in the 29th minute after driving a shot through the defensive wall for his first goal this year.",
"Center-back Rafael Marquez marked his return from suspension with a similar effort nine minute later as he curled a set-piece over the wall and in off the post.",
"Barca took their foot off the pedal in the second half, but 18-year-old Thiago scored his first senior goal in the 84th minute with a deflected shot after Lionel Messi set him up with a cutback.",
"Captain Carles Puyol had to go off with a facial injury but is expected to face Stuttgart in the first leg of the last-16 tie.",
"It was Guardiola's 71st victory since taking charge of the Catalan giants, and 14th-placed Racing never looked like inflicting his 11th defeat -- the 10th came against Atletico Madrid last weekend, Barca's first in La Liga this season.",
"Sevilla moved to within a point of third-placed Valencia, who host Getafe on Monday, after coming from behind to beat fellow Champions League hopefuls Mallorca despite having two men sent off.",
"Mallorca, who also had a player red-carded, suffered their first home league defeat this season despite taking a fifth-minute lead through Mario Suarez.",
"Jesus Navas leveled in the 23rd minute but then Sevilla had striker Alvaro Negredo sent off soon after for his second red card in three matches.",
"Mallorca defender Ivan Ramis also saw red on the stroke of halftime for a foul on Didier Zokora, then 11 minutes after the break home goalkeeper Dudu Aouate made his second costly error of the game to let Ivica Dragutinovic's speculative free-kick drift into his net.",
"Substitute Diego Perotti made it 3-1 five minutes later, then Zokora was booked a second time for dissent as sixth-placed Mallorca slumped to a second defeat in six days.",
"Deportivo La Coruna moved above Mallorca into fifth with a 2-1 win against bottom club Xerez, with a penalty from Andres Guardado and another goal by Riki in the first seven minutes.",
"Meanwhile, Jose Mourinho extended his remarkable unbeaten run in home league matches to 130 as his Italian champions Inter Milan held on to draw 0-0 with Sampdoria on Saturday despite having two men sent off.",
"The Portuguese coach, who hosts his former club Chelsea in the Champions League on Wednesday, saw his team go down to nine men with more than half the match to play after Walter Samuel and Ivan Cordoba were red-carded.",
"Argentina defender Samuel was sent off for elbowing striker Nicola Pozzi in the 32nd minute, having already been booked.",
"Cordoba was booked on 34 and 38 as he paid for encroaching at a free-kick and later barging Pozzi.",
"Sampdoria had Giampaolo Pazzini sent off for a second yellow card in the 74th minute but held on for a point that put them fourth above Napoli.",
"Inter, who also had two players sent off in the derby win over AC Milan, extended their Serie A lead to eight points from Roma, who play on Sunday.",
"Genoa joined sixth-placed Juventus on 38 points, 17 behind Inter, with a 3-0 win at home to 10-man Udinese.",
"Robert Acquafresca netted twice for the hosts before Cristian Zapata was sent off for swearing in the 57th minute, and Rodrigo Palacio wrapped up the victory seven minutes later."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration on Monday announced a 20-year ban on new mining claims on more than 1 million acres of public land near the Grand Canyon, a move meant to protect the iconic landmark from new uranium mining.",
"Previously approved operations will be allowed to continue, as will new projects on valid existing claims.",
"\"People from all over the country and around the world come to visit the Grand Canyon.",
"Numerous American Indian tribes regard this magnificent icon as a sacred place and millions of people in the Colorado River Basin depend on the river for drinking water, irrigation, industrial and environmental use,\" said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.",
"\"We have been entrusted to care for and protect our precious environmental and cultural resources, and we have chosen a responsible path that makes sense for this and future generations,\" he added.",
"The administration said the move will give officials more time to monitor the impact of uranium mining on the vital watershed, and in the mineral-rich area in general.",
"Conservation groups cheered the decision, which was slammed by Arizona Gov.",
"Jan Brewer and Sen. John McCain.",
"\"This is a great day for Grand Canyon National Park and all those who care about the park and the surrounding public lands and waters,\" said Sandy Bahr, Grand Canyon chapter director of the Sierra Club, a California-based environmental organization.",
"\"Today's decision protects not only the area around the Grand Canyon, but water that helps feed the Colorado River, which provides drinking water for millions of people downstream.\"",
"Brewer similarly stressed the significance of the park, but argued the move will needlessly cost Arizona jobs and stall economic growth.",
"\"The 20-year ban comes at the expense of hundreds of high-paying jobs and approximately $10 billion worth of activity for the Arizona economy,\" she said.",
"\"Nobody wants to see it (the Grand Canyon) harmed.",
"But I believe that environmental protection and economic growth are not mutually exclusive.",
"We could and should have both.\" The Grand Canyon National Park is a major tourist attraction in Arizona; close to 5 million people visit it each year.",
"McCain, speaking Sunday before the ban's official announcement, said he had expected the decision and was disappointed.",
"\"It's clearly another victory for the radical environmental community,\" he said."
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"The 20-year ban affects more than 1 million acres of public land .",
"The area is rich in uranium .",
"Environmentalists cheer the decision as a way to protect the park and water supplies .",
"Arizona Gov.",
"Jan Brewer says it will stall economic growth ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A congressional panel investigating claims the Dover Air Force Base Mortuary mishandled the remains of hundreds of fallen U.S. military personnel will meet for the first time Tuesday.",
"In November, U.S. Air Force investigators announced they had found \"serious misconduct\" and \"gross mismanagement\" in the handling of remains at the base.",
"The findings came after the Air Force conducted a year-long investigation into 14 allegations of wrongdoing made by whistleblowers involving the remains of four U.S. service members killed in action, the Pentagon official said.",
"The panel, which is being chaired by retired Gen. John Abizaid, has been given \"full authority to review all aspects of mortuary affairs to ensure we are meeting the highest standards of care for our fallen.\"",
"Department of Defense spokesman Capt.",
"John Kirby said.",
"Abizaid retired from the Army in 2007 after leading U.S. Central Command the final three years of his 34-year military career.",
"Last week, the Air Force admitted that it sent more sets of military personnel remains to a Virginia landfill than it originally acknowledged.",
"Backtracking on initial information about how it handled the remains of American service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Air Force said the cremated body parts of hundreds of the fallen were burned and dumped in the landfill.",
"Earlier, the Air Force said only a small number of body parts had been buried in a commercial landfill and claimed it would be impossible to make a final determination of how many remains were disposed of in that manner.",
"The Washington Post broke the story, and the Air Force now confirms that body fragments linked to at least 274 fallen military personnel sent to the base mortuary were cremated, incinerated and buried with medical waste.",
"That procedure was in place between November 2003 and May 1, 2008.",
"The Air Force also said that 1,762 body parts were never identified and also were disposed of, first by cremation, then by further incineration and then buried in a landfill.",
"Congressman Rush Holt, D-New Jersey, Thursday accused the Pentagon of what he called \"willful blindness\" in not acting faster to identify and correct the problems and fully report them.",
"\"For years, this has been handled unceremoniously and insensitively and, I would say, dishonorably,\" Holt said in a telephone interview.",
"He said he had been asking the Pentagon for months about information about Dover, on behalf of a constituent whose husband was killed five years ago.",
"\"They don't get it. They don't understand the degree of dishonor involved in all of this,\" Holt said.",
"Last month, the Defense Department told the congressman that exact numbers could not be determined.",
"\"Without individual case-by-case review, the exact number of Service-directed disposition of subsequent remains cannot be determined,\" said a fact sheet sent to Holt in November.",
"\"It would require a massive effort and time to recall records and research individually.\"",
"When bodies are not intact -- for instance, in the aftermath of a crash or explosion -- a body may be released to the family before some parts have been identified by the Air Force Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.",
"Families can elect to be notified when parts are identified or leave it up to the military to dispose of them appropriately.",
"Since the policy was changed in 2008, the unclaimed body parts are buried at sea.",
"Holt pointed to how the United States spends millions each year searching for the remains of service members missing in action from previous wars, for instance in Southeast Asia.",
"\"That makes us proud to be an American, that we would do that,\" Holt said.",
"\"It is a level of response that honors our soldiers.\"",
"The mistakes at Dover send a different message, Holt said.",
"\"It sends shudders to think that we engage in this kind of desecration,\" he said.",
"But at the Pentagon, aides to Panetta said he is satisfied with how the Air Force responded in regard to the landfill policy and new information about how many of the American fallen were involved.",
"\"I think the secretary is comfortable with the way the Air Force has handled this,\" said Kirby.",
"CNN's Barbara Starr and Charley Keyes ."
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"Service members' body parts incinerated, buried with medical waste .",
"Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base handles remains of returning war dead .",
"An earlier report found mismanagement at the mortuary ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday, three days after he was arrested on a drunk driving charge near his suburban Washington home.",
"In a brief statement released to the media, Babbitt said he had submitted his resignation to his boss, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and that LaHood had accepted it.",
"Babbitt, 65, a former airline pilot and president of a major pilots' union, said serving as FAA administrator had been \"the highlight of my professional career,\" adding, \"But I am unwilling to let anything cast a shadow on the outstanding work done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by my colleagues at the FAA.\"",
"His statement made no mention of his arrest, although it was clearly the event that precipitated his action.",
"Earlier in the day, Secretary LaHood told reporters he was \"very disappointed\" that he had learned about Babbitt's Saturday night arrest only after the Fairfax City, Virginia, police department issued a news release about the incident.",
"In a statement released just minutes after Babbitt announced his resignation, LaHood called Babbitt a \"dedicated public servant and outstanding leader.\"",
"\"I'm proud to say that we have the safest aviation system in the world, and thanks to Randy's stewardship, it became safer and stronger,\" LaHood said.",
"\"He worked tirelessly to improve relations with the labor community and bolstered employee engagement among his 49,000 colleagues at the FAA.\"",
"Fairfax City police arrested Babbitt late Saturday night after they allegedly saw Babbitt driving on the wrong side of the road.",
"The police put out a news release on Monday morning detailing the incident.",
"Babbitt was alone in the car, and was cooperative, police said.",
"He was released on personal recognizance, meaning no bail was required.",
"The police department said Babbitt failed a sobriety test, but they did not release the results of any blood-alcohol test.",
"On Monday, DOT officials appeared to be caught off-guard when the police department, in accordance with its policies, issued a news release saying Babbitt had been arrested.",
"DOT officials Monday afternoon issued a statement saying that Babbitt had asked for a leave of absence, and it had been granted.",
"A court date for Babbitt has been set for February 2 in Virginia.",
"Deputy Administrator Michael Huerta is serving as acting administrator."
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"NEW: FAA head Randy Babbitt resigns after a weekend charge of drunk driving .",
"NEW: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood accepts Babbitt's resignation .",
"Police allegedly saw Babbitt driving on the wrong side of the road ."
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"(CNN) -- From a distance, he appears to be taking a nap.",
"His long, delicate eyelashes are closed as his head rests on a blanket.",
"The 10-year-old boy, however, is not asleep.",
"The turn of his gauze-wrapped head reveals a mass of blood.",
"Maher al-Husseini is dead, reportedly from a sniper bullet.",
"He bled to death.",
"In his own home. \"What is the fault of this child?\"",
"asks a man, whose voice rises in anger on a video posted Friday on YouTube.",
"He kneels down and gestures to the boy, whose hands and ankles are tied.",
"\"What did this child do that they hit him inside his house?",
"This is unacceptable.\" Friday was a day of protest, pain and sorrow in Homs, a center of demonstrations and death in Syria.",
"At least 17 people were reported slain in the city, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an activist group.",
"Women, children and dissident soldiers were among those killed Friday in Syria, the group said.",
"The United Nations said last week that more than 4,000 people have died in Syria since a brutal government crackdown against protesters erupted in mid-March.",
"The unidentified narrator of the video starts the tour of the home upstairs, pointing to a bullet hole on a window frame, then blood on the chair beneath it.",
"He leads the cameraman down blood-spattered stairs to the body of Maher, lying in the family sitting room.",
"The boy wears a maroon sweatshirt featuring a comic character.",
"\"We could not aid the child, we did not know where to take him because of the firing in the neighborhood,\" the agitated man said.",
"\"He kept bleeding for half an hour and we could not aid him.\"",
"The speaker blamed Maher's death on \"thugs\" who fired upon the home in the Mreiji neighborhood.",
"Another man sits in a chair, his head in his hands.",
"\"We are not safe, this government is murderous,\" the narrator says.",
"\"It is killing people, it is killing its own people.\"",
"Near the end of the video, the man leans down and kisses the boy.",
"Watch the YouTube video.",
"WARNING: Graphic content.",
"A longer version of the video shows a woman crying over the boy.",
"Others can be heard in background wailing.",
"The boy is wrapped in a white sheet and carried by men in street towards a cemetery.",
"Some of the men chant \"The martyrs blood will not be lost in vain,\" as the lifeless boy is carried.",
"As the men walk towards the cemetery gunfire can be heard.",
"They get to the cemetery and start digging as gunfire continues to ring out.",
"Another video posted on YouTube features another scene from Homs, a city wracked by eight months of violence.",
"Three shrouded bodies are being carried into a mosque to be laid out alongside Friday worshippers.",
"One is of a boy identified as Nasser Mohammed, 12.",
"A chorus of voices rises as they are brought in.",
"Some shout \"Allahu Akbar!\"",
"(Allah is the greatest).",
"CNN could not independently confirm what was depicted in the videos.",
"Western networks are not allowed inside the embattled country.",
"Out on the streets Friday, Syrian tanks rolled past the wreckage of past confrontations and gunfire echoed.",
"The street battles and demonstrations come as the United Nations and the Arab League continue to press the government of President Bashar al-Assad to allow monitors or observers on the ground.",
"The regime continues to resist those calls -- as it maintains the conflict is with armed terrorists and its own security forces and supporters are the victims.",
"In a rare interview this week with a U.S. television network, al-Assad said he is not responsible for the crackdown.",
"The nation's military forces \"are not my forces,\" al-Assad told ABC's Barbara Walters.",
"CNN's Jim Clancy reported from Beirut, Lebanon."
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"An agitated man describes the death of a boy in Homs .",
"\"What is the fault of this child?\"",
"he asks, speaking to a camera .",
"The boy, 10, was allegedly at home when he was apparently struck by bullet .",
"At least 17 died in Homs, activists say ."
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"(CNN) -- A 14-year-old Filipino-American boy abducted in July by suspected Islamic militants in the Philippines is free, officials said.",
"Kevin Lunsmann was reunited with his mother, the U.S. Embassy in Manila said Monday, without offering additional details.",
"\"It was a tough time.",
"It was a tough five months,\" Kevin's father, Heiko, told CNN affiliate WSET, from the family home in Lynchburg, Virginia.",
"\"I'm just so happy.\" Heiko Lunsmann said the boy had plotted his escape for a while and eventually seized the opportunity some time late last week while his guards slept.",
"He \"was spotted alone\" Saturday about six miles southwest of Lamitan City on the island of Basilan, a stronghold of the Islamic militant group Abu Sayyaf, the official Philippines News Agency said.",
"Army officials turned him over to American forces in the southern Mindanao region, the Philippine government said in a statement to CNN affiliate TV 5.",
"The Philippine Inquirer quoted the Lamitan city mayor, Roderick Furigay, as saying Kevin walked for two days, surviving on candies his captors presumably gave him and on coconuts that he retrieved by climbing trees.",
"\"In this holiday season nothing makes me happier than knowing that an innocent victim is returned to his family in time for holiday celebrations,\" Harry Thomas, the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, said in a weekend statement.",
"\"If ever we are to be inspired by the human spirit, we should take comfort in the courage, commitment and love that the Lunsmann family exhibited during this trying ordeal,\" Thomas added.",
"Fourteen gunmen snatched Kevin, his mother, Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, and his 19-year-old cousin, Romnick Jakaria, in July while they vacationed on the island of Tictabon, authorities said.",
"The abductors forced them to board awaiting boats, which then sped off in the direction of Basilan.",
"Kevin's mother was released by her captors in October.",
"Jakaria was released last month, according to the news agency.",
"Basilan serves as a base for Abu Sayyaf, which wants to establish a separate state for the Philippines' minority Muslim population.",
"The U.S. State Department considers the group a terrorist organization and says it is linked to al Qaeda.",
"The Philippines government has been fighting to contain the militants.",
"Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for several terrorist attacks in the Philippines, including the bombing of a ferry in 2004 that left about 130 people dead, as well as past kidnappings.",
"Basilan's governor called on authorities Sunday to prosecute the alleged kidnappers of the Lunsmann family, according to the news agency.",
"\"The prosecution of kidnappers by a court of law will put a stop to kidnappings,\" the news agency quoted Jum Akbar as saying.",
"Thomas, the U.S. ambassador, said the crime will not go \"unpunished.\"",
"Gerfa Lunsmann was adopted by Americans when she was 9 and grew up in Virginia.",
"She eventually married a German citizen.",
"Both she and the son, Kevin, are U.S. passport holders.",
"Kevin's father told WSET that the boy will eventually share his story of escape, but did not say when.",
"\"I can tell you a lot of things, but I only know that he is a hero,\" he said.",
"Read more about this story from CNN affiliate WSET."
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"NEW: Kevin's father tells CNN affiliate the boy had plotted his escape for a while .",
"\"An innocent victim is returned to his family,\" the ambassador says .",
"Report: Kevin walked for two days, surviving on candies and coconut .",
"His mother and cousin were released earlier ."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- A three-judge panel will hear motions Thursday on whether a federal court decision to invalidate a ban on same-sex marriages in California should be overturned because the judge was gay and in a long-term relationship.",
"Federal District Court Judge Vaughn Walker -- who has since retired -- overturned the voter-approved measure known as Proposition 8 after a two-week trial in 2010, saying gay and lesbian couples were unfairly denied the right to marry.",
"In June, District Court Judge James Ware upheld the ruling by his former colleague.",
"\"It is not reasonable to presume that a judge is incapable of making an impartial decision about the constitutionality of a law, solely because, as a citizen, the judge could be affected by the proceedings,\" Ware ruled.",
"Ware, based in San Francisco, backed the original ruling by Walker that the ban on same-sex marriage in the state was unconstitutional -- a violation of equal protection.",
"Also at Thursday's hearing, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a motion to release the trial video.",
"The 9th Circuit, in a hearing about a year ago, indicated it was inclined to toss out Prop 8.",
"Both sides of the dispute acknowledge the issue of same sex-marriage is likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps within the coming year."
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"A judge ruled the law unconstitutional and later revealed he was gay .",
"Proposition 8 recognizes marriages only between one man and one woman .",
"The case is expected to end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, both sides say ."
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"Liege, Belgium (CNN) -- Flowers, teddy bears and candles mark the spot Wednesday where a gunman tossed grenades into a crowded Liege market square a day before, claiming several lives and wounding scores more.",
"The mood in Place St. Lambert, a square which would normally be bustling with Christmas shoppers, was somber Wednesday as Belgians took stock of an attack unprecedented in their history.",
"Workers at the Christmas market opened up their stalls, housed in wooden cabins, but trade was slow.",
"One woman said they had been told they could start trading later, if they wanted first to pay tribute to the five people killed and 130 wounded before the attacker, Liege resident Nourdine Amrani, apparently took his own life.",
"Market stall holder Julie Six-Bourgoin was still shaking as she talked about Tuesday's attack, calling it \"horrible\" and comparing its effect on the peaceful country to that of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.",
"Other people in the city said that Christmas would not be the same and that they could not understand why the attack occurred.",
"Officials say Amrani, 33, who had no record of mental illness, hurled his three grenades and fired a pistol and semi-automatic weapon from an elevated walkway above a bus stop in the square.",
"The attack seemed to have left the city's people with a new sense of vulnerability, with those waiting for buses Wednesday standing back under the walkway, as if to protect themselves from another aerial assault.",
"Chunks missing from a granite wall testified to the ferocity of the grenade blasts, with bullet holes also pocking the hard surface.",
"One mother who was a few yards away from the gunman when he opened fire said she now feared for the safety of her children.",
"Another recounted how her children had left school early and passed through the bus stop only shortly before it was attacked, narrowly avoiding the tragedy.",
"In a restaurant, near-silence replaced the usual hubbub, as people appeared to withdraw into themselves, reflecting on the tragedy just a day earlier.",
"So far, public anger over the attack seems limited.",
"Few questions have yet been asked about how a man convicted of weapons offenses was able to get his hands on guns and grenades.",
"The owner of one of the city's two main gun stores, which appeared to stock dozens of automatic-style weapons, said he knew Amrani but refused to answer further questions.",
"Police are investigating whether Amrani bought the weapons used in the attack on the black market, said Katrin Delcourt, spokeswoman for the provincial governor's office.",
"She said Amrani, who held a French hunting license under which he bought at least one firearm before his 2008 conviction, was skilled in using and maintaining weapons.",
"A woman, said to be a cleaner in her late 40s, was found dead in a residence next to a workshop where Amrani once grew marijuana, local police said.",
"But he seems to have kept a relatively low profile in the area.",
"Neighbors of Amrani who spoke to CNN said they had seldom seen him around.",
"One man said he had realized Amrani was a neighbor only after recognizing his picture in a newspaper.",
"Amrani, a Belgian citizen, had been released from prison on conditional parole in October 2010 but returned to the attention of police in November this year.",
"He had been asked to attend a police interview on the day of the attack in connection with allegations of sexual offenses, the Liege prosecutor said.",
"So far, public scrutiny has not yet turned to why he was not arrested and brought in for questioning, given his track record.",
"But as the city's shock fades and investigations continue into what led him to launch his deadly gun and grenade rampage, such questions will likely come to the forefront.",
"CNN's Paul Cruickshank contributed to this report."
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"Residents of Liege say they are shocked by the attack and fear for their children's safety .",
"The motivation of attacker Nourdine Amrani, 33, is not known, police say .",
"Neighbors say they saw little of the suspect, who lived in Liege .",
"Amrani, previously convicted of arms offenses, was known to a local gun store owner ."
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"(CNN) -- A North Carolina man was arrested on suspicion of attempting to carry explosives through a security checkpoint at an airport in Midland, Texas, federal authorities said.",
"Trey Scott Atwater of Hope Mills was taken into federal custody Saturday morning after Transportation Security Administration agents spotted what they described as a suspicious item.",
"The item was in his carry-on during X-ray screening at a security checkpoint at Midland International Airport, FBI spokesman Mark Morgan said in a statement.",
"Neither the FBI nor the TSA identified the explosives, though a Midland spokeswoman said the items were \"wrapped in military grade wrapping\" and are in the possession of the Midland Police Department.",
"\"At no time was there any danger to the people at Midland International Airport or the community of Midland, Texas,\" Morgan said.",
"The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated while authorities \"conducted a sweep, and deemed all clear,\" said Tasa Watts, the city spokeswoman.",
"Atwater has been arrested on a federal count of attempting to get on an aircraft with an explosive, Morgan said."
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"TSA says a \"suspicious\" item was detected during X-ray screening .",
"A city official says the item was explosives encased in military-grade wrapping .",
"A portion of Midland International Airport was closed while authorities removed the item ."
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"Erbil, Iraq (CNN) -- Along the road in the semi-autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan frozen oil bleeds out of the rock face.",
"For Todd Kozel, CEO of the independent oil and gas exploration and production company Gulf Keystone, it was an irresistible lure at the time few were daring to invest in Kurdistan.",
"But not all is well in Kurdistan and old arguments with Baghdad over oil power and revenue are likely to loom large as U.S. forces withdraw from the country.",
"Kozel says Kurdistan offers opportunity.",
"\"To be able to compete with majors we have to be able to go places and do things and try to find opportunities that are unconventional,\" he says.",
"\"After that first visit, I never looked back.",
"After visiting Kurdistan in June of 2006 and literally seeing oil running down rocks at a road cut, I was just fascinated.",
"I had to be here and I had to participate.\" At the site where it all began, Shaikhan 1, drill manager Michael Chisnall remembers the day they realized they had hit it big.",
"\"As we carried on the drilling process it was one of those things where I use to say to Todd or send an email everyday with an operational update that we have a big problem.",
"We just cannot stop finding oil.\"",
"Initially they had estimated the Shaikhan field held about a billion barrels of oil.",
"\"It's turned out to be something that we never would have dreamed, that it would be this size.",
"It's now an oil field of 8-13.5 billion barrels and that's one of the largest oil fields covered in this part of the world in history,\" Kozel says.",
"The risk he took turned out to be well worth the reward.",
"\"Our market capital was 45 million pounds (about $70 million) in August of 2009.",
"Our market cap right now is 1.6 billion pounds as a result of the Shaikhan discovery.\"",
"Others have been just as intoxicated by the potential that Kurdistan holds.",
"Oil rigs are mushrooming all over the hills, on the outskirts of cities.",
"The exploration is entirely driven by and reliant on foreign companies able to shoulder the risk.",
"Exxon Mobil, the first of the majors, recently signed its own deal for six plots.",
"It was a deal that elated the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) but it left the central government in Baghdad fuming as oil once again ended up mired in Iraqi politics.",
"The KRG signs profit sharing deals, much to the ire of Baghdad -- which only signs service contracts and views the KRG deals as illegal and unconstitutional.",
"Iraq still doesn't have a hydrocarbons -- or oil and gas -- law.",
"While both sides agree that some revenues are funneled back to the central government, the dispute is over power and authority to sign contracts and the type of contract.",
"Both sides are so far unable to come to an agreement, and Baghdad blacklists any company that signs a deal with the KRG.",
"On December 5, the Iraqi Cabinet approved a revised draft budget for 2012 of 117 trillion dinars ($100 billion), government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement released on Thursday.",
"Projected income estimates exports of 2.6 million barrels of oil per day including 175,000 barrels a day from the Kurdish Autonomous Region.",
"The heightened tensions manifested themselves at a recent oil and gas conference in the capital of Kurdistan, Erbil.",
"The Prime Minister of the KRG, Barham Salih addressed the conference, emphasizing: \"I also say to our partners in Baghdad very clearly, Kurdistan has a constitutional right to develop its own oil resources.\"",
"Speaking on behalf of Baghdad, Moaffak al-Rubaei, former national security advisor slammed back calling the deal illegal, threatening to ban and sue the oil giant.",
"\"In Baghdad some people view this contract to be targeting the federal government, to weaken the federal government and it has some political connotations.\"",
"But the Kurds will not be stopped.",
"\"Development of oil resources in Kurdistan is a contribution to the Iraqi economy,\" Salih told CNN.",
"\"But there is also one other factor.",
"Our recent history is very instructive.",
"There is no way that we will be dissuaded from our constitutional right to developing our resources and allow ourselves to ever again become hostages to the whims of some bureaucrats in Baghdad.",
"We've been there before. Oil was used to strangle our people, to commit genocide.\"",
"In the late 1980s Saddam Hussein led a vicious Arabization campaign against the Kurds, forcibly displacing them from their homes and replacing them with Arabs.",
"Entire villages were razed to the ground.",
"Other places like Halabja were gassed with deadly chemical agents.",
"There is a continuing territorial dispute between the region of Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq, which is under the command of the predominantly Shi'a Arab central government in Baghdad.",
"The current Kurd-Arab tensions don't just center around land, but what's underneath it.",
"Billions and billions of barrels of black gold are in disputed territories, like the oil rich city of Kirkuk, all of which lends to the volatility.",
"The Kurds for their part are extremely worried about the vulnerable state that the U.S. is leaving Iraq in.",
"\"There is one fundamental topic for Iraq, one fundamental challenge,\" Salih says.",
"\"Where do you want to be 10 years from now?",
"Would we want to risk another centralized dictatorship with access to oil resources and turn it into weapons and tear into the communities and the people of Iraq here again?",
"Absolutely not.\" Iraq's tantalizing oil wealth could very easily turn from a blessing into a curse."
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"Fight brewing over who has the rights to sign oil contracts for Iraq's Kurdish region .",
"Exxon Mobil signed a deal with the Kurdish regional government that Baghdad says is illegal .",
"Gulf Keystone says it is working an oil field of at least 8 billion barrels -- one of the largest oil fields covered in this part of the world .",
"As Kurds insist they should sign the oil contracts, they also remember Saddam Hussein attempts to wipe out their communities ."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in Moscow, braving bitterly cold weather to demand fair elections after what they claim were rigged results earlier this month that returned Vladimir Putin's party to power.",
"The protest, organized primarily through social media and word of mouth, comes on the heels of an announcement by President Dmitry Medvedev of sweeping political reforms, an effort to address discontent following the December 4 parliamentary elections.",
"The latest mass protest follows one earlier this month, when tens of thousands of people across Russia turned out to protest the election results that kept Putin's ruling United Russia party in power, albeit with a smaller majority.",
"Police estimated crowds in Moscow at 25,000, while organizers said at least twice as many participated.",
"The protests were considered -- among analysts and political observers -- the largest in Russia in the past two decades.",
"Turnout at Saturday's protests was even greater, organizers said.",
"Besides blasting election results, demonstrators spoke about the presidential vote scheduled next year, repeating a popular refrain: \"Russia without Putin.\"",
"Dozens of protesters were detained across Russia on Saturday, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.",
"Ten activists were held in St. Petersburg, 22 in Nizhny Novgorod, and about 20 in Barnaul, it said.",
"Police put the number of protesters in central Moscow at 29,000, but organizers and RIA Novosti correspondents estimated the real number was several times higher, the news agency reported.",
"Speaking this week before the newly elected parliament members in the Kremlin's St. George Hall, Medvedev proposed that Russia return to direct elections of regional governors; simplify the registration of political parties and presidential candidates; and establish a new editorially independent national public TV channel.",
"Medvedev also called for lifting many of the political restrictions imposed in the past several years by his predecessor, Putin, Russia's current prime minister and a candidate in the March 2012 presidential elections.",
"He also announced a number of new anti-corruption measures and called for the redistribution of power and financial resources from the federal government to local governments across the country.",
"At the same time, he rejected widespread public criticism of the parliamentary elections, which critics say were marred by fraud and other irregularities, and blamed anti-Kremlin opposition figures for their \"attempts to manipulate the people and foment social discord.\"",
"\"We will not allow instigators and extremists to involve society in their reckless schemes, nor will we tolerate interference in our internal affairs from the outside,\" Medvedev said.",
"\"Russia needs democracy, not chaos.",
"We need to have a faith for the future and justice.",
"It is a good sign that society is changing, and citizens are expressing their position more actively, setting legitimate demands to the authorities.",
"It is a sign that our democracy is growing more mature.\"",
"Protest organizers said Medvedev, who announced the reforms during his fourth and final state-of-the-nation speech Thursday, failed to address what authorities are planning to do about the recent alleged voting fraud, as well as whether fair and free elections are guaranteed in the future."
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"NEW: Dozens of protesters are detained, RIA Novosti reports .",
"Tens of thousands brave the bitter cold in Moscow to call for fair elections .",
"The mass protest follows one this month after parliamentary election results were announced .",
"Demonstrators want an investigation into this month's election results ."
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"(CNN) -- Evangelist Billy Graham is showing signs of improvement as he continues to recover from pneumonia in a North Carolina hospital, a spokeswoman for Asheville's Mission Hospital said Sunday.",
"The 93-year-old Graham was admitted to the hospital Wednesday in stable condition.",
"\"Doctors are encouraged by Mr. Graham's significant clinical progress, but have not yet set a date for discharge,\" hospital spokeswoman Merrell Gregory said in a statement.",
"Gregory also reported progress in Graham's physical therapy, saying he is \"walking more in the private corridor outside his room.\"",
"Graham was visited over the weekend by his family, according to Gregory.",
"He also watched on television his pastor deliver his regular Sunday sermon, she said.",
"This is Graham's second bout with pneumonia this year.",
"He was previously hospitalized for the infection in May.",
"Graham, a resident of nearby Montreat, has provided counsel to generations of U.S. presidents beginning with Harry S. Truman and is the founder of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.",
"The Charlotte native has preached to untold millions over six decades, beginning his missionary work in 1944 when he started speaking at rallies for the Youth for Christ Campus Life ministry.",
"Five years later, Graham was holding crusades in tents in downtown Los Angeles.",
"Originally scheduled for three weeks, the crusades drew so many followers they were extended to seven.",
"Graham's \"last crusade\" in June 2005 drew a total of 230,000 people.",
"He described it as his last American crusade, but hedged his farewells during a poignant appearance in Corona Park in Queens, New York.",
"\"We hope to come back again someday,\" Graham announced.",
"\"I was asked in an interview if this was our last crusade and I said it probably is -- in New York.",
"But I also said, 'I never say never.' ..."
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"He is walking more, North Carolina hospital spokeswoman says .",
"Graham was admitted to the Asheville hospital Wednesday in stable condition .",
"No discharge date has been set; he also was hospitalized in May ."
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"(CNN) -- The picture says it all.",
"Curtis D. Tucker was thrilled to receive a Farrah Fawcett poster for his 14th birthday in 1976.",
"The shot of 14-year-old Curtis D. Tucker shows him unrolling one of his birthday treasures in 1976, mouth slightly agape and eyes intensely focused on the gift.",
"The present was one he had fervently requested from his parents and a hot item for many a young, red-blooded male during that bicentennial year: a poster of Farrah Fawcett (then known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors).",
"\"I was a huge Farrah fan,\" said Tucker, now a cartoonist and entrepreneur living in Enid, Oklahoma.",
"\"I had started collecting all of the magazines and pictures and I was basically pinning up every picture that came out of every magazine.",
"Then along came that poster.\"",
"\"That poster\" reportedly became the best-selling of all time -- with more than 12 million copies sold -- and helped make Fawcett one of the last great pinups.",
"A private funeral is scheduled Tuesday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, California, for the actress who died at the age of 62 from cancer.",
"With her famously thick blond hair, red swimsuit, and smile as big and bright as the California sun, the actress was the epitome of the wholesome, all-American girl.",
"\"She was full of life and so happy with that blond hair and that huge smile,\" said Tucker, who isn't sure if he still has the poster in his attic.",
"\"Without that poster, I don't think she would have become what she was.\"",
"That freshness and beauty is what landed her poster on Tucker's, and countless others', bedroom walls.",
"Maria Elena Buszek, the author of \"Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture,\" said pinups \"straddled the line between portraiture and pornography\" and included early stage actresses, the famed models of Alberto Vargas and the most famous pinup of all, Bettie Page.",
"Fawcett has her place in pinup history, said Buszek, an assistant professor of art history at Kansas City Art Institute, School of Liberal Arts.",
"\"The Farrah Fawcett poster really is one of the last iconic pinup images of the 20th century,\" Buszek said.",
"\"By the 1970s, because of the sexual revolution and mores about sexuality becoming looser in the west, the pinup does start to become more nostalgic.\"",
"When the photo was taken, Fawcett had not yet become one of \"Charlie's Angels,\" the role which helped make her a star.",
"She was instead better known for her commercials and ads, most notably -- and not surprisingly -- for Wella Balsam shampoo.",
"Photographer Bruce McBroom shot the now iconic image and told Entertainment Weekly that the starlet was at the time a young innocent from Texas who did her own hair and makeup for the shoot.",
"\"She had no idea of how beautiful and how attractive she was, I'm sure,\" McBroom recalled.",
"\"She was just like apple-pie, girl-next-door kind of girl, and in all the years I knew her she never changed.\"",
"Now Fawcett's image, which was considered racy at the time, is a huge part of nostalgia.",
"Ken Leicht, a manager of Hollywood Book and Poster Company in Los Angeles, said that before Fawcett's death, the poster was most in demand from production companies looking to stage the 1970s.",
"\"That poster, that shot of her, is just one of the definitive images of that time,\" Leicht said.",
"\"Most of the time with the posters, the teen girls are driving the market, and Farrah is probably one of the last ones that was for the guys.\"",
"Leicht said actresses today, with the exception of a few like Pamela Anderson, don't really opt to market themselves using posters anymore.",
"iReport.com: Share your memories of Fawcett .",
"Matt Delzell, group account director for marketing and promotions agency The Marketing Arm, said that eventually the pinup transitioned more into supermodel pictures with the likes of Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Elle MacPherson, as well as the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.",
"Fawcett had the crossover appeal that went beyond just being a model, Delzell said.",
"\"The poster came along at a time when posters were popular and she had the right photographer and took the right photo,\" Delzell said.",
"iReport.com: Fawcett's hairstyle was in high demand .",
"It certainly was the right shot for cartoonist Curtis D. Tucker.",
"He wasn't a big fan of \"Charlie's Angels,\" he said, so he wasn't that distressed when Fawcett left after only a year.",
"After all, he was still able to keep her close.",
"\"The poster was something you had at home that you could look at every day,\" said Tucker, who kept the image up for several years.",
"\"I collected a few other pictures of some of the other Angels, but there wasn't anybody else after Farrah. She was the last.\""
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"(CNN Student News) -- December 13, 2010 .",
"Download PDF maps related to today's show: .",
"• Minneapolis, Minnesota • Ivory Coast • Cancun, Mexico .",
"Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.",
"THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.",
"CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Carl Azuz.",
"This is CNN Student News, coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia, where we saw some unseasonal snowflakes over the weekend...in Georgia!",
"Some parts of the country, though, are dealing with much worse conditions than we are.",
"First Up: Winter Weather .",
"AZUZ: Especially the midwestern U.S. A powerful snowstorm plowed through that part of the country over the weekend.",
"Parts of Wisconsin got more than a foot and a half of snow, the state's governor declaring a state of emergency for more than 70 counties.",
"What that does is help free up emergency workers and resources to help deal with it.",
"Minnesota got hit pretty badly, too.",
"In Minneapolis, the hometown Vikings were supposed to play an NFL game against the Giants yesterday.",
"But this before-and-after picture shows you why that couldn't happen.",
"That is the Metrodome, the Vikings' stadium.",
"On the left is what the roof is supposed to look like.",
"On the right: what it looked like yesterday.",
"The roof caved in!",
"This is a dome that's held up by air pressure.",
"And after it got more than 17 inches of snow, just too much extra weight caused it to fail.",
"Some workers were up on top, trying to shovel off the snow.",
"They're not sure how long it's gonna take for the building to open back up.",
"The Vikings game got moved back until tonight, and it'll be played in Detroit.",
"Holiday Wreath Laying .",
"CORAL VIDAL, FORTMAN, MARYLAND: I took my time and then, after I laid the wreath, I said thank you for your service.",
"And I think it's just awesome being here laying these wreaths.",
"JOHN ROYSTER, WEST POINT, VIRGINIA: I read whose name was there and their dates and said a thank you.",
"These are men and women who have given the ultimate.",
"All gave some, some gave all. AZUZ: Two of the hundreds of volunteers who helped lay wreaths on the gravesites of American troops at Arlington National Cemetery this weekend.",
"It's a tradition that's been going on for nearly 20 years, and it happened at hundreds of other cemeteries across the country.",
"I.D. Me . APRIL WILLIAMS, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D.",
"Me! I'm a West African nation located between Ghana and Liberia.",
"I gained my independence from France in 1960.",
"My official name is Côte d'Ivoire.",
"Many people know me as Ivory Coast, and I'm home to around 21 million people.",
"Political Crisis .",
"AZUZ: Côte d'Ivoire, or Ivory Coast, is in the middle of a political crisis.",
"After a run-off in the country's recent presidential election, both candidates -- the current president and one of his opponents -- declared victory.",
"That's not gonna work.",
"The heads of other West African countries say the idea of two leaders just isn't for Côte d'Ivoire.",
"Christian Purefoy gets us up to speed on the situation.",
"(BEGIN VIDEO) CHRISTIAN PUREFOY, CNN CORRESPONDENT, LAGOS: Sworn in as President of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo stands defiant.",
"The Ivorian people did not elect him president, says the international community.",
"This man, Alassane Ouattara, who has also sworn himself in, is the true president, according to the independent electoral commission .",
"U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: We are in full agreement that Alassane Ouattara is the rightfully-elected president of Cote d'Ivoire, and that former President Laurent Gbagbo should respect the results of the election and peacefully transfer power to his successor.",
"PUREFOY: Since the election results were announced this month, there has been a dangerous stalemate in Ivory Coast, a standoff threatening to degenerate into civil war.",
"In the early 1990s, Cote d'Ivoire, or Ivory Coast, was the economic powerhouse of West Africa and attracted immigrants from across the region.",
"But as that economic success began to falter, people in the south of the country turned on what they saw as immigrants in the north.",
"And in 2002, the country was split by civil war.",
"But now, it seems that weeks of regional and international pressure are forcing Gbagbo to the negotiating table.",
"LAURENT GBAGBO, INCUMBENT PRESIDENT OF IVORY COAST [TRANSLATED]: There's no war, and we need to sit down and talk.",
"If there's a problem, we'll talk about it.",
"But men don't hold discussions when things are still hot.",
"They wait for things to cool down to start.",
"So when it'll cool down, we'll talk. So, there won't be a war. I thank you for all that you have done for the Ivory Coast.",
"We are together and the problems you see now, we will resolve them.",
"PUREFOY: Whatever the discussions, other influential West African leaders say a unity government that includes both leaders is unacceptable.",
"GOODLUCK JONATHAN, PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA: It's immediate, it's immediate.",
"Elections have been declared, somebody has won, so he has to hand over.",
"PUREFOY: But talks do not mean action, and for now, the uneasy standoff between the two presidents continues.",
"Christian Purefoy, CNN, Lagos, Nigeria.",
"(END VIDEO) Climate Conference .",
"AZUZ: Okay, from Africa, we're heading over to Cancun, Mexico, where a two-week conference on climate change ended with an agreement.",
"Representatives from around the world came up with a plan that Mexico's president is calling the start of \"a new era of cooperation in climate change.\"",
"Among other things, the agreement will create a $100 billion fund to help developing countries deal with climate change.",
"You see a lot of people clapping here, but not everyone likes this deal.",
"The government of Bolivia says the agreement won't be effective.",
"And Bolivia claims that wealthier nations bullied other countries into accepting the deal.",
"This Day in History .",
"[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC] .",
"December 13, 2000 -- Al Gore concedes defeat to George W. Bush in the U.S. presidential election .",
"December 13, 2003 -- Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. soldiers .",
"December 13, 2007 -- The Mitchell Report on the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball is released .",
"Blog Repot .",
"AZUZ: In Memphis, Tennessee, a school's trying to get students to pull up their saggy pants by giving teachers zip ties that they'll use as belts on the students' pants.",
"On our blog, 71 percent of you think the \"no saggy pants\" policy is a good idea.",
"Lana likes it, but here's what she has a problem with: \"The wall of shame that shows photos of students with their pants hiked high.\"",
"Most of you don't agree with the photo board.",
"Brandon says that low riding defines certain people, and adds \"if you don't like it, don't look at it.\"",
"And Robert argues, \"Teachers don't have the right to decide what students wear; it should be up to parents\".",
"But Desiree writes that \"everywhere you turn, there are pants on the ground or someone's underwear showing.\"",
"She bets 80 percent of her school doesn't own a belt.",
"Robby calls showing your underwear, \"gross.",
"It would be so embarrassing if a girl saw your underwear.\"",
"And Katia calls saggy pants very unattractive, saying, \"I know I don't wanna see boxers.\"",
"Add your comment at CNNStudentNews.com.",
"Remember, it's first names only!",
"Shoutout . SHELBY ERDMAN, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Williams' history classes at Canyon Vista Middle School in Austin, Texas!",
"What is the name of this trophy?",
"Is it the: A) Hart Trophy, B) Naismith Award, C) Heisman Trophy or D) Cy Young Award?",
"You've got three seconds -- GO!",
"You're looking at the Heisman Trophy, the award for the most outstanding college football player.",
"That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!",
"Heisman Winner .",
"AZUZ: This year's Heisman Trophy winner is Cam Newton, the quarterback from Auburn University.",
"He won the award on Saturday night.",
"Newton has thrown or run for 48 touchdowns this year, leading Auburn to an undefeated season and a spot in the national championship game, and that's coming up in January.",
"But he's also been the focus of some controversy.",
"The NCAA ruled that Newton's father was involved in a pay-for-play scandal.",
"Essentially, he told schools that they had to pay money for Cam to play football there.",
"An NCAA investigation determined that neither Cam Newton nor Auburn knew what Cam's father was doing, so he's been cleared to play.",
"Original Rules Sold .",
"AZUZ: Just how important are the rules in sports?",
"We're about to show you a set of rules that sold for more than $4 million!",
"It's the \"Founding Rules of Basketball,\" written by the man who's considered the inventor of the game: James Naismith.",
"It's a 119-year-old document that was auctioned off last Friday.",
"In the original rules, players could pass the ball, but not run with it; there was no provision for dribbling.",
"And there wasn't any physical contact.",
"Things have, of course, changed a bit since then.",
"The couple who bought the rules is hoping to donate them to Kansas University, where Naismith was a coach.",
"Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, competitions aren't always fun and games.",
"But here's one that sure seems like it is.",
"It's a robotics competition in Maine.",
"But here's the catch: the robots have to be built from LEGOs.",
"350 students participate in the event.",
"They had to use LEGOs to build robots that could complete a series of tasks.",
"By watching it, you'd be pretty impressed.",
"If we had to compete, I don't even know what kind of robot we'd design.",
"Goodbye . AZUZ: There are a few ideas we could toy around with.",
"Not gonna share any of them, though.",
"After all, we wouldn't want to LEGO any of our secrets.",
"Whoo! All right, it's no secret that CNN Student News returns tomorrow.",
"We'll look forward to seeing you then.",
"Remember, this is our last week on the air before the break.",
"Take care. See you soon!"
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"There may not be room for two leaders in Cote d'Ivoire following recent elections .",
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"(CNN) -- The man Chilean authorities accuse of sparking a wildfire that has consumed more than 31,000 acres of a national park said Sunday that he is innocent.",
"\"It is very important to me to say that this wasn't me (who started the fire).",
"They dropped the case on me,\" Rotem Zinger told Israeli army radio.",
"The 23-year-old Israeli national said he was surprised by the way the case against him has unfolded.",
"\"I was not explained what I was accused of.",
"I did not give a testimony.",
"I did not confess. Things rolled out the wrong way through mistranslation.",
"I never intended to admit the blame,\" he said.",
"Zinger is accused of lighting a fire in a prohibited area of the protected Torres del Paine National Park in southern Chile, regional prosecutor Juan Agustin Melendez said.",
"Prosecutors also accuse him of making the situation worse by not reporting to authorities that the fire got out of his control.",
"If convicted, Zinger could face a fine and 41 to 60 days in prison, Melendez told CNN Chile.",
"Zinger will be required to stay in the region during an investigation, the prosecutor said.",
"Authorities will be looking into what caused the wildfire for months, Melendez said.",
"Fierce flames have kept investigators from reaching the location where the fire started, he added.",
"The wildfire has been burning since Tuesday.",
"Hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze, but authorities have said they don't know when the fire will be under control.",
"High winds stoke the flames for most of the week, though rains in the area Saturday gave firefighters some help.",
"\"We could be talking about a week.",
"We could be talking about a month or more,\" said Hugo Knockaert, chief of fire management for Chile's National Forest Corporation.",
"CNN's Guy Azriel, Claudia Dominguez and CNN Chile contributed to this report."
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"\"Things rolled out the wrong way through mistranslation,\" Rotem Zinger tells Israeli radio .",
"The 23-year-old is accused of sparking a 31,000-acre wildfire in a Chilean national park .",
"A prosecutor says the suspect could face a fine and prison time .",
"Authorities have said they don't know when the fire will be under control ."
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"(CNN) -- Britain's Amir Khan has lost his International Boxing Federation (IBF) and World Boxing Association (WBA) world light-welterweight titles after a controversial split points decision defeat to American Lamont Peterson in their showdown at the Washington Convention Center.",
"Khan was given the fight 115-110 on one of the judge's scorecards.",
"However, the other two judges awarded local fighter Peterson the decision by scores of 113-112, enough for Khan to lose his belts.",
"The result proved contentious with referee Joe Cooper twice deducting Khan a point for pushing, in the seventh and 12th rounds, decisions that ultimately turned the fight in Peterson's favor.",
"A stunned Khan was clearly frustrated with the decision, saying in his post-fight interview: \"It was like I was fighting two people in the ring, the referee and Lamont.",
"\"I can see why there hasn't been a big fight in Washington in the last 20 years, because of decisions like this,\" added 25-year-old Khan -- who suffered only his second defeat from 28 professional bouts.",
"Meanwhile, Peterson, who improved to 30-1-1 after his win, said: \"A lot of people thought I was the underdog but I followed my game plan the entire time and it worked.",
"\"It was a long road but all the hard work paid off for me and it couldn't have been a better night.\"",
"Khan dominated the early stages of the fight, knocking down the challenger with a fierce right hand with just 28 seconds remaining of the opening round.",
"However, the fight began to harder to call as it progressed, and the moment when Khan was deducted a point for repeated pushing with his left forearm in round seven proved pivotal.",
"\"Every time I tried to keep him away from me he kept coming in low,\" Khan continued.",
"\"I was the cleaner fighter.",
"He was either going to head butt me or push me all night and the referee wasn't giving me a chance.\""
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"(CNN) -- At least 16 people were killed by security forces across Syria Saturday as unrest there continued, a human rights organizations said.",
"Three people were killed in the city of Homs, where a strong military presence was reported, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.",
"Another three were killed in Hama province.",
"The Local Coordination Committee of Syria reported that Syrian security forces were storming the Damascus suburb of Zabadany and were shelling housing and positioning snipers.",
"The group also announced, in a separate incident, the killing of Dr. Ibrahim Nahel Othman, who they described as \"one of the most important physicians in the Syrian Revolution.\"",
"He was killed by gunfire near the Turkish border, the group said.",
"Another group, the Coalition of Free Damascus for Peaceful Change, said that the doctor was a wanted man because he performed many surgeries on wounded protesters.",
"The reported deaths came amid tensions in Homs -- a center of regime arrests -- as military troops manned more than 60 checkpoints inside the city and surrounded it, according to the Syrian National Council, a leading opposition movement.",
"A feared full-scale crackdown did not happen Saturday, but activists posted a video Saturday that they said showed the military harassing residents of Homs.",
"Mourners on Friday went to bury a 10-year-old boy, Maher al-Husseini, who was allegedly killed by a sniper's bullet in his own home.",
"The video shows the boy wrapped in a white sheet and carried by men in street towards a cemetery.",
"Some of the men chant \"The martyrs blood will not be lost in vain,\" as the lifeless boy is carried.",
"As the men walk towards the cemetery, gunfire can be heard.",
"They get to the cemetery and start digging as gunfire continues to ring out.",
"CNN could not independently confirm what was depicted in the videos.",
"Western networks are not allowed inside the embattled country.",
"The United Nations said last week that more than 4,000 people have died in Syria since a government crackdown against protesters erupted in mid-March.",
"The regime's actions have outraged world powers and sparked sanctions by the Arab League, Turkey, the United States and the European Union.",
"The council said the Bashar al-Assad regime is \"driving violent sectarian incidents to justify this potential murder.\"",
"More than 30 corpses -- all thought to be victims of sectarian violence -- were found Monday in Homs.",
"The city of Homs is in a province of the same name."
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"More deaths were reported throughout Syria Saturday .",
"Video from Homs shows gunfire as mourners try to bury dead .",
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"(CNN) -- Kim Jong Il was a source of misery for North Korea's impoverished people and of fear for a world wary of his belligerent rhetoric -- but as an enduringly bizarre presence on the global stage, he was also an unexpected source of entertainment.",
"While the reputedly ruthless leader was revered by a population weaned on propaganda, outside the hermetic Asian country what were seen as grandiose attempts at myth-making were seized on by popular culture.",
"Online, Kim's death generated Twitter trends that referenced the movies or shows that caricatured him as a villainous clown trapped in the bathos of his own cruel isolation.",
"Kim did little to help his own international image.",
"His eccentric appearances sporting bouffant hair, over-sized sunglasses and a succession of drab boiler suits were frequently viewed as comical counterpoints to the rights abuses of his regime.",
"Meanwhile, as his country's nuclear activities sparked diplomatic tensions, his media mouthpieces -- such as the Korean Central News Agency -- created their own unintentional humor as they swung wildly between angry invective and surreal flatteries of their \"Dear Leader.\"",
"Kim's defining moment in recent popular culture appears to have been his portrayal in the 2004 film \"Team America: World Police,\" a satire on U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign policy.",
"The film's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone paint the dictator as a foul-mouthed but misunderstood Bond villain whose plans for global chaos are constantly frustrated by incompetent underlings or bothersome international officials.",
"In the hours after his death, \"Team America\" references were trending on Twitter, particularly \"Hans Brix,\" a nod to puppet Kim's mispronunciation of Hans Blix, a real-life U.N. weapons inspector who, in the film, is fed to Kim's man-eating sharks.",
"Another key \"Team America\" moment, when Kim ruefully bemoans his isolation in an opulent palace by singing about how he is lonely -- or \"ronrey\" -- was also being heavily referenced on social media.",
"Parker and Stone were no strangers to Kim-based satire.",
"Their \"South Park\" cartoon series cast him as part of a villainous gang that included Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and, incongruously, magician David Blaine.",
"In an appearance on media satire \"30 Rock,\" comedian Margaret Cho played Kim as a North Korean weatherman, delivering the disingenuously upbeat forecast: \"North Korea, everything sunny all the time always, good time, beach party.\"",
"Fellow comic Bobby Lee plays the dictator as host of the \"Kim Jong Il Show\" on MADtv, shooting dead audience members who fail to cheer and delivering punchlines such as: \"Don't cry because I kill your wife and enslave your children.\"",
"Post-death, there was renewed interest in websites that have sought to highlight the strange picture of North Korea created by its propaganda machine.",
"\"Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things,\" is an online gallery of photographs showing the dictator staring at banal objects.",
"The images draw unintentional bleak humor from their repeated and blatant misrepresentation of life under a dictatorship.",
"Among recent entries, Kim can be seen looking at a pink sweater, pointing at a persimmon tree in full fruit, glumly inspecting a statuette of knights on horseback and grinning at a supermarket shelf packed with sausages.",
"Another website has trawled news bulletins on the official Korean Central News Agency to create a \"random insult generator\" that neatly encapsulates the peculiar version of the English language favored by Kim's regime.",
"As regular KCNA watchers can confirm, typical generator exhortations such as \"You bourgeois stooge,\" and \"You reckless human scum, you will be dealt a thousandfold retaliatory blow!\"",
"are eerily close to the real thing."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Authorities on Saturday identified a gunman killed by police after he opened fire at passing vehicles along a downtown street in Hollywood.",
"But they said they don't know why Tyler Brehm, 26, went on a surreal shooting rampage captured on amateur video Friday.",
"The video shows Brehm walking down Sunset Boulevard, wielding a handgun and firing at vehicles, seemingly at random.",
"Brehm fired a \"significant number\" of rounds, wounding three, police said.",
"He then returned to an intersection, where he was confronted by a plainclothes police detective and an off-duty police officer working on a nearby movie set, officials said.",
"\"At that point the police ordered him to drop his weapon and he pointed his gun at the police and an officer-involved shooting occurred,\" police spokeswoman Sgt.",
"Mitzi Fierro said on CNN.",
"Brehm died at a nearby hospital, a police statement said.",
"Christopher Johns filmed much of the five-minute scene from his apartment window and can be heard shouting at Brehm throughout.",
"\"Why don't you come up here?\" he yelled, later describing that he intended to distract the gunman.",
"\"If people down there at point-blank range to the shooter were going to get shot, they were helpless to avoid being killed,\" Johns told CNN.",
"\"Me, I'm four stories up.",
"If I can take any of his attention and divert it towards me ...",
"I would have an opportunity to get out of the way.\"",
"\"I'm screaming anything I can\" in an effort to disrupt the shooting, Johns said.",
"At one point, Brehm spoke with Johns, asking him for ammunition and to call an ambulance.",
"Fierro said it appeared Johns could interact with the suspect without jeopardizing his safety.",
"\"It appears from the video that he was able to distract the suspect and keep him from shooting at additional people before the police arrived,\" she said.",
"Police have contacted Brehm's family back east and are talking to acquaintances.",
"\"So far we haven't been able to piece together really why he did it,\" Fierro told CNN Saturday evening.",
"Three people were injured during Friday's incident, including one man in silver Mercedes-Benz sedan who was shot multiple times in the face and upper torso, Fierro said.",
"Two others suffered minor injuries.",
"The current status of the man in the car was unknown Saturday.",
"\"We're very fortunate that more people weren't injured during this incident,\" Fierro said.",
"Witnesses were stunned by the shooting rampage.",
"\"A car drove by and he just shot right into the car,\" Amy Torgeson told CNN affiliate KABC.",
"\"He was just shooting everywhere.\"",
"Torgeson said vehicles began \"swerving and braking,\" and she sought cover at a nearby bank."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities have identified three of the four women found dead this month in two incidents in Detroit, an investigator with the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday.",
"Three of the women have been linked to a website that accepts ads for escort services, police have said.",
"In the latest case, one of the two women found early Christmas Day in the trunk of a car that had been set afire was identified as Vernithea McCrary, 28, the investigator said.",
"The second victim remains unidentified, said the investigator, who asked not to be identified because he is not allowed to speak on the record to the news media.",
"The bodies of two other women found December 19 have been identified as Demesha Hunt, 24, and Renisha Landers, 23.",
"They were found in the trunk of Landers' Chrysler 300.",
"Causes of death for the four women were pending toxicology results, which typically take six to eight weeks to be completed, the investigator said.",
"The process of identification can be difficult.",
"\"People hear of someone that is discovered that we bring down here and they call down here and inform us that someone is missing,\" the investigator said.",
"\"They give us a description and then they come down if they can be viewed and are recognizable.",
"If not, we ask them to bring a set of dental records for comparison.\"",
"The deaths are being treated as the work of one person or group of people, Detroit's police chief said Tuesday.",
"\"At this point, we are working it as one case or one suspect or set of suspects,\" Chief Ralph L. Godbee told CNN.",
"\"There are too many common links for us not to, at this point, work this as one single investigation.\"",
"Among those links, he said, is the fact that three of the women had placed online ads dealing with \"prearranged adult dating services\" and posted on backpage.com, Godbee told reporters Monday.",
"\"We felt it is imperative to alert the public that deciding to meet unknown persons via the Internet can be extremely dangerous,\" Godbee said.",
"But a lawyer for backpage.com, Steve Suskin, said it was not clear that his company's website was involved.",
"\"Our team has already provided the police with detailed information about the ads that the suspect or others posted on numerous web sites.",
"Law enforcement authorities now have evidence that the investigation appears to connect to at least 30 different ads or other postings on at least 15 different websites, separate and distinct from ours,\" Suskin said.",
"\"We are not aware of the existence of any evidence that would indicate which of these many sites were used by the suspect to establish contact with his victims.\"",
"Backpage representatives have been cooperating with police, the police chief said.",
"Postings on the escort section of the website cost $1.",
"Referring to the advertisements on the website as \"borderline prostitution,\" Godbee said that his priorities lie elsewhere.",
"\"Right now, we want to get to the bottom of how these four individuals passed away, and who had a hand in their demise,\" he said."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Voices recorded by inventor Alexander Graham Bell more than 125 years ago are being heard now, thanks to digital imaging technology.",
"\"It's not high fidelity, but you can definitely figure out what they're saying,\" said Carl Haber of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the scientists working on the project in a laboratory at the Library of Congress.",
"The early audio recordings were made during an intensely competitive time, when scientists were racing to improve on Thomas Edison's phonograph, which was invented in 1877.",
"Scientists like Bell, who worked at his Volta Laboratory in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, were looking to improve both the quality of the phonograph and the nature of the sound to make the product commercially viable.",
"\"I think this is a very critical episode in the history of American invention and innovation and it highlights an otherwise unknown aspect of Washington, D.C., at the end of the 19th century as the center of invention and innovation,\" said Carlene Stephens, curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.",
"Bell sent recordings to the Smithsonian in the 1880s for safekeeping, and to prove his scientific finds in case of patent questions.",
"But there was no playback device, so \"the collection has been silent,\" said Stephens.",
"Enter modern-day scientists Haber and Earl Cornell, who took detailed photos of the discs made in Bell's laboratory and created a virtual playback machine on a computer.",
"\"To be or not to be, that is the question,\" begins one of the recordings from a green wax disc that scientists believe was recorded in 1885.",
"The male voice reading the famous quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet is muddled, but understandable.",
"On a glass disc recording from 1884, a voice can be heard saying the word \"barometer\" several times.",
"And on another type of wax recording from 1885, a man is heard reading a description of a cotton factory in New Hampshire.",
"To get the audio from the discs, the Berkeley scientists put them on a turntable.",
"As the disc slowly turned, as many as 18,000 images per rotation were recorded in the computer.",
"The images were then stacked up to create a digital profile, which, when read by the computer, played back the sound.",
"\"These technologies are very fast and these computers are fast,\" said Haber.",
"\"Ten years ago, we would be struggling with computer storage and computer speed.",
"Today, commercial technology is up to this task.\"",
"There is no physical contact with the historically valuable discs, which helps to protect them for the long term.",
"The scientists in the 1880s experimented with a variety of experimental mechanisms, many of which the Smithsonian has in their collection.",
"Each disc or cylinder plays differently.",
"\"It turns out this record was designed to play from the inside-out, so that's backwards from how we normally play a record,\" said Haber, showing reporters the disc.",
"After the Berkeley Lab scientists had photographed that record, they reversed the information in the computer to play it.",
"Although the scientists at Bell's Volta Laboratory would have been working on a playback device as they were making the recordings, none of those made it into the Smithsonian's archives.",
"Three times during the 1880s, Bell sent sealed tin boxes to the Smithsonian Institution with objects and newspapers to prove that his laboratory had made certain discoveries by certain dates in case a patent dispute arose.",
"None ever did. The sealed boxes were opened for the first time in 1937 in the presence of Bell's family.",
"Bell also donated materials to the Smithsonian during the early 1900s, when he served on the governing board of the museum.",
"Those items, along with materials from Emile Berliner, a competitor of Bell, are stored at the National Museum of American History.",
"Berliner is credited with inventing the gramophone, the first commercially successful disc and playback machine.",
"The museum has about 400 early audio recordings made between 1878 and 1898."
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"London (CNN) -- Three one-time insiders at the defunct News of the World tabloid testified Monday before a British government-backed panel investigating press ethics and behavior.",
"Former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck -- who has been arrested in connection with a police probe into phone hacking -- said he would not talk about illegal eavesdropping because of the arrest.",
"He has not been charged. He appeared at the Leveson Inquiry after the paper's most famous undercover reporter, Mazher Mahmoud, known as the \"fake sheikh\" for the disguise he often adopted to get stories.",
"He described doing stories on prostitution and drug dealing, but insisted repeatedly the tabloid \"never engaged in entrapment.\"",
"He defended his methodology, saying criminals had gone to prison because of his work.",
"\"Exposing criminality gives me great satisfaction,\" said Mahmoud, whose appearance was not televised in order to protect his identity.",
"But he said he had never heard about phone hacking by the News of the World until royal reporter Clive Goodman was arrested for it in 2006.",
"The inquiry was prompted by widespread public outrage this summer at the revelation that the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid had hacked into the voice mail of a murdered 13-year-old girl in 2002.",
"Murdoch's son James, the chief executive of the News Corporation subsidiary that published the tabloid, has repeatedly denied knowing about the scale of illegal eavesdropping at his papers.",
"James Murdoch ordered the paper shut down over the scandal.",
"Former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis also testified Monday.",
"Like Thurlbeck, he has been arrested and released on bail in a police investigation into phone hacking.",
"He argued that Britain's downmarket tabloids were the \"ones that people out there want to read,\" and far outsold so-called quality papers such as the Guardian and the Times.",
"A former News of the World journalist testified last month that the editors of the tabloid knew that their reporters were hacking phones in search of stories.",
"Paul McMullan named Andy Coulson, who went on to become an adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Rebekah Brooks, a Murdoch protege, as editors who were aware of the practice.",
"Coulson resigned as editor of the tabloid in 2007 when Goodman went to prison for hacking the voice mails of Prince William's staff, and he later became Cameron's communications director.",
"Coulson has always denied knowing about phone hacking, saying he quit the paper because he was ultimately responsible for the actions of his staff.",
"The Leveson Inquiry has been hearing from high-profile figures since last month, including celebrities such as \"Harry Potter\" author J.K. Rowling and actor Hugh Grant, both of whom complained about press intrusion into their lives.",
"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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"Former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck refuses to talk about phone hacking .",
"Mahzer Mahmoud says he never heard about phone hacking until an arrest .",
"A government-backed inquiry is looking into British press ethics and practices .",
"The probe was prompted by the hacking of a murdered teen girl's phone ."
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"(CNN) -- Huge crowds assembled in Pyongyang on Thursday at a national memorial service for the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the second day of state-orchestrated ceremonies to mourn the dictator who died earlier this month.",
"The authoritarian regime used a mixture of somber music, hyperbolic speeches, booming artillery fire and blaring horns to honor the man who oversaw 17 years of despotic rule in the secretive nation.",
"The ceremony took place a day after a funeral procession for Kim spent three hours winding through the snow-laden streets of Pyongyang lined with thousands of wailing mourners.",
"Once again, the regime placed Kim Jong Un, the son and chosen successor of Kim Jong Il, at the center of proceedings, proclaiming him the \"supreme leader\" of North Korea -- a fresh indication that the leadership transition is progressing smoothly.",
"The footage broadcast Thursday by North Korean state television showed thick rectangular blocks of people gathered in the snowy expanse of Kim Il Sung Square -- named after Kim Jong Il's father, the founder of North Korea.",
"Kim Jong Un and other senior members of the regime stood solemnly on a viewing platform overlooking the square.",
"During the ceremony, a string of top officials took to the microphone to praise Kim Jong Il's life and reinforce Kim Jong Un's leadership credentials.",
"\"Kim Jong Un is the supreme leader who has inherited Kim Jong Il's beliefs, leadership, courage and guts,\" said Kim Yong Nam, the president of the North Korean parliament.",
"Read about the funeral for Kim Jong Il .",
"\"Kim Jong Il's great achievements will shine forever,\" said Kim Ki Nam, a senior official in the powerful Worker's Party.",
"\"Following our party's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, we are converting our sadness to courage and we will achieve great things.\"",
"Under Kim Jong Il, the country suffered a devastating famine even as it built up its million-strong army, expanded its arsenal of ballistic missiles and became the world's eighth declared nuclear power.",
"He died on December 17, reportedly from a heart attack.",
"News of his death, announced two days later, put the region on edge and set off speculation around the world about the country's stability and future direction.",
"For the time being, Kim Jong Un appears to be rallying support within the regime, despite his young age -- he is thought to be in his late 20s -- and relative inexperience.",
"After the speeches Thursday, a row of heavy guns fired off a salute.",
"Then, a cacophony of horns and sirens went off, drawing the service -- and the last day of official mourning -- to a close.",
"CNN's Tim Schwartz contributed to this report."
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"Artillery fire and blaring horns commemorate Kim Jong Il's life .",
"Speeches at the ceremony proclaim his son Kim Jong Un as 'supreme leader'\nThe service takes place a day after the elder Kim's three-hour funeral procession .",
"His death earlier this month has created uncertainty about the country's stability ."
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"(CNN) -- Bayer Leverkusen regained second place in the Bundesliga on Sunday, with a 4-2 win at home to struggling Stuttgart.",
"Stuttgart twice battled back from behind, but goals in the last ten minutes of play from Stefan Reinartz and Stefan Kiessling ensured victory for coach Jupp Heynckes' side.",
"The 2007 German champions Stuttgart now find themselves joint bottom-of-the-table with Monchengladbach, who inflicted a surprise 2-1 defeat at home to Champions League side Schalke.",
"A goal from Peer Kluge gave mid-table Schalke a second-minute lead, but Gladbach leveled through Marco Reus before Mohamadou Idrissou scored to give his team their first home-win of the season.",
"Just five points now separate the bottom five teams in the Bundesliga, with Stuttgart and Monchengladbach level at the foot of the table with just 19 points.",
"Although up to second place Leverkusen still lie 10 points adrift of league leaders Borussia Dortmund -- who extended their lead with a home win over St. Pauli on Saturday -- but have a three point cushion over third-placed side Bayern Munich."
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"2007 champions Stuttgart now bottom-of-the-table after 4-2 defeat to Leverkusen .",
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"Moscow (CNN) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused U.S. drones and special forces of involvement in the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in comments Thursday.",
"He also attacked U.S. Sen. John McCain over a warning that Russia might follow the same path as Libya, suggesting McCain was not of sound mind following his time as a prisoner during the Vietnam War.",
"Putin's comments were prompted by a question during his traditional year-end question-and-answer program, broadcast live by state media.",
"Responding to a question about McCain purportedly predicting Putin would meet the same fate as Libya's leader, the Russian prime minister described the televised images of Gadhafi's final moments as \"horrible, disgusting scenes\" and pointed to U.S. involvement in his death.",
"\"Is that democracy? Who did this? Drones, including those of the U.S., struck his motorcade and then commandos, who were not supposed to be there, called for the so-called opposition and militants by the radio, and he was killed without an investigation or trial,\" Putin said.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledged the day after Gadhafi's death that \"it was a U.S. drone combined with the other NATO planes that fired on the convoy\" in which the Libyan leader was traveling outside the city of Sirte.",
"But the Pentagon has denied that any U.S. forces were on the ground in a combat role in Libya.",
"When asked about McCain, Putin said he had met the senator from Arizona, but said the questioner's description of him as the prime minister's friend was \"exaggerated.\"",
"He then questioned the mental state of McCain, who ran for U.S. president in 2008, saying he \"was taken prisoner in Vietnam, and was held not just in jail, but was put in a pit where he was kept for several years -- any person under those circumstances would hardly remain mentally sane.\"",
"Shortly afterward, McCain himself jumped into the row via Twitter, posting: \"Dear Vlad, is it something I said?\"",
"and linking to a news story headlining the Russian prime minister calling McCain \"nuts.\"",
"The senator's earlier Twitter posts had linked to news stories suggesting Russia might be in line for its own version of the \"Arab Spring\" but did not appear to suggest Putin would meet the same fate as Gadhafi.",
"Putin's attack may be a response to critical comments made by McCain in the U.S. Senate last week.",
"McCain said his statement was a response to \"the flawed Duma election that just occurred this weekend, and in light of my strong belief that the growing demand for dignity and uncorrupt governance that has defined the Arab world this year may impact Russia as well.\"",
"McCain highlighted \"the unfortunate issue of Russia's continued back-sliding on human rights and democracy\" and said the post-election protests were unsurprising given \"the pattern of corruption and abuse that the Russian government has perpetrated over many years.\"",
"He also criticized Russia's \"absolutely shameless\" blocking of U.N. Security Council action on President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, despite widespread concerns over human rights abuses there.",
"\"The demand for dignity, and justice, and democracy that is shaking the Arab world to its foundations will not be confined to that one region alone,\" he said, but will spread and demonstrate that change is possible.",
"\"And it appears that message may be resonating with people in Russia,\" he added.",
"In his televised remarks, Putin suggested that criticism of Russia was linked to its pursuit of \"an independent foreign policy.\"",
"While his country had more friends than enemies in Europe, he said, \"some would like to sideline Russia so that it doesn't get in the way of those wanting to dominate the globe.\"",
"Putin's latest comments come a week after he blamed the United States for encouraging opposition protests in the wake of Russia's parliamentary elections.",
"He said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had criticized the elections as \"neither fair not free -- even before receiving reports from international observers.\"",
"This had sent a signal to opposition figures, Putin said, who \"with the support of the U.S. State Department\" then began \"active work.\"",
"Clinton responded to those remarks by restating her country's \"strong commitment to democracy and human rights.\"",
"CNN's Phil Black in Moscow and Laura Smith-Spark in London contributed to this report."
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"In response, McCain tweets: \"Dear Vlad, is it something I said?\""
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United and their city rivals Manchester City both made embarrassing exits from the European Champions League on Wednesday.",
"United were beaten 2-1 in Basel to leave the Swiss side and Benfica as the qualifiers from Group C, while City beat Bayern Munich 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium but went out as Napoli won 2-0 at Villarreal.",
"It left Bayern and the Italians to go through from Group A to complete a chastening first experience of Europe's top club competition for Robert Mancini's expensively assembled side.",
"But it was the exit of last year's runners-up United which was the biggest upset, needing only a draw to ensure their passage to the last 16, goals from Marco Streller and Alexander Frei sent them crashing.",
"Real Madrid to topple Barca in 'El Clasico' clash?",
"Phil Jones pulled one back in the 89th minute to set up a frantic finale but they could not force the equalizer.",
"Streller's goal after nine minutes came as a result of defensive uncertainty with goalkeeper David De Gea parrying out a cross which fell invitingly for the scorer.",
"Wayne Rooney wasted United best chance to level and Markus Steinhofer belted the ball against his own crossbar in the second half before Frei nipped in to head home the crucial second goal in the 84th minute.",
"It was the first time Alex Ferguson's men had failed to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League for six years and only the third time in 16 years.",
"\"Of course we're disappointed, there's no other way you can feel,\" Ferguson told Sky Sports.",
"\"It's part of football.",
"You have to deal with the disappointment, and this club has used it as motivation many times.",
"\"These young players will feel disappointed tonight but they'll have to cope with it and go on with their careers.\"",
"Oscar Cardozo scored the crucial goal after seven minutes for Benfica in their 1-0 win over Otelul Galati which left them top of the group.",
"English Premier League leaders Manchester City eased to victory against their understrength Bavarian visitors as David Silva and Yaya Toure struck either side of halftime.",
"But it all proved academic as Napoli left Villarreal pointless after goals from Gokhan Inler and Marek Hamsik inflicted a sixth straight group defeat on the Spaniards.",
"It was the first time Napoli have qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League."
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"Manchester City and Manchester United exit European Champions League .",
"Manchester United lose 2-1 in Basel to seal their fate in Group C .",
"Manchester City beat Bayern Munich 2-0 but Napoli's win eliminates them .",
"Chelsea and Arsenal only two qualifiers for last 16 from English Premier League ."
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"(CNN) -- Prosecutors are investigating police actions during a protest earlier this month in which at least 16 people died, the Office of the General Prosecutor in Kazakhstan said Thursday.",
"At least 80 people were also injured in the December 16 clashes between police and striking oil workers in the oil town of Zhanaozen, according to state media.",
"A 20-day state of emergency was declared following the unrest, which also spilled over to a nearby village, where at least one person died as protesters blocked a passenger train in a show of support for the oil workers.",
"A spokeswoman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Virginie Coulloudon, said Kazakhstan had told fellow OSCE states Tuesday that the general prosecutor's office had started its own inquiry into police actions.",
"Kazakh authorities said the internal security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had also launched an in-house investigation into claims of firearms use by the police, Coulloudon said.",
"\"The conclusions of this investigation, according to Kazakh sources, should be available within a week,\" she told CNN via email.",
"The Kazakh general prosecutor's office said in a statement on its website Thursday that 20 people had been detained over involvement in the unrest in Zhanaozen, with 18 of the arrests ordered by the court.",
"A criminal case was opened Tuesday into the alleged excessive use of force by police who opened fire, it said, but some of the deaths reported from Zhanaozen were not related to the actions of law enforcement.",
"The investigation will be headed by a special prosecutor in order to guarantee its objectivity and measures have been adopted to ensure transparency, the statement said.",
"A separate committee has also been formed, with relatives of those detained among its members, to examine claims of unlawful detention and abuse of detainees, it said.",
"At least one person is being investigated for giving \"false information\" to the media about events in Zhanaozen, the prosecutor's office added.",
"The trouble came as the former Soviet republic celebrated its 20th anniversary of independence and prompted concern that unrest might spread across the oil rich Central Asian nation.",
"The protest was part of a long-running dispute over low pay and the sacking of some workers.",
"Video posted to YouTube appeared to show protesters in Zhanaozen fleeing a large square amid gunfire, as police advance with riot shields.",
"An injured person is seen being beaten with a baton by what appears to be a policeman.",
"The workers' trade union puts the number of dead at 50 to 70 and says as many as 500 were injured, according to European lawmakers.",
"International rights groups have condemned the violence and subsequent emergency measures imposed by the government, including curbs on communications and freedom of movement, and called for a full investigation.",
"The U.S. State Department and a group of 48 European lawmakers also expressed concern.",
"The Kazakh authorities announced Wednesday that 1 million Kazakh tenge ($6,640) would be paid to the families of each of those killed and half that sum to those injured.",
"Analysts say the Kazakh government is keen to prevent discontent over increasing social inequality, in a country where most ordinary people have not shared in the wealth brought by oil.",
"Parliamentary and local elections are due to take place next month.",
"Kazakhstan has often boasted of its stability in a region that has seen its share of conflict.",
"The ninth-largest country in the world by area, it has the largest economy of all the Central Asian states thanks mostly to its natural resources, according to the CIA World Factbook.",
"CNN's Alla Eshchenko, Sarah Jones and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A special prosecutor will head the inquiry to ensure objectivity, the prosecutor's office says .",
"At least 16 people died and scores were injured in the December 16 clashes, state media reports .",
"Kazakhstan, which has large oil reserves, is due to hold elections next month ."
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"(CNN) -- The bodies of 11 more people have been recovered after the weekend collapse of a Russian oil rig in freezing north Pacific waters, a Russian news agency reported Monday.",
"That brings the total number of dead from the Sunday disaster to 16, according to the state news agency RIA-Novosti.",
"There were 67 people aboard the offshore drilling rig when it capsized during a storm in the Sea of Okhotsk, which lies between the Kamchatka peninsula and the Russian mainland, north of Japan.",
"The rig was being towed from Kamchatka at the time, RIA-Novosti reported.",
"Fourteen people have been rescued and 37 others remain missing, the news agency said.",
"The director of the company that owns the rig, Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka, promised at least 3 million rubles ($93,640) in compensation to each crewmember's family.",
"The rig was carrying out work under a contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom, the news agency said.",
"It was drilling a well about 3,500 meters (11,480 feet) deep, RIA-Novosti said.",
"Taimuraz Kasayev, a spokesman for the regional emergencies service, told RIA-Novosti on Sunday the accident poses no environmental danger because the rig's fuel stocks were hermetically sealed and would not spill.",
"The television channel Russia Today reported that the rig was being towed into position when pumps failed, causing it to take on water and sink."
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"(CNN) -- Baseball legend Barry Bonds is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for his obstruction of justice conviction.",
"The hearing at 11 a.m. (2 p.m.",
"ET) will take place in a San Francisco federal courtroom less than two miles from the ballpark where Bonds broke Hank Aaron's major league home run record in August 2007.",
"Federal prosecutors want Bonds, 47, to serve 15 months in prison, according to a sentencing memo filed in court earlier this month.",
"Defense lawyers argued in their filing that the judge should accept the probation office's recommendation that Bonds be sentenced to two years' probation, fined $4,000 and ordered to perform 250 hours of community service.",
"Jurors who found Bonds guilty in April said he was \"evasive\" in his testimony to the federal grand jury investigating illegal steroids use by pro athletes.",
"\"Because Bonds's efforts were a corrupt, intentional effort to interfere with that mission, a sentence of 15 months imprisonment is appropriate,\" the prosecution said in its memo to U.S. District Judge Susan Illston.",
"But jurors, who were deadlocked on three perjury counts, said that it was not proven that Bonds lied when he testified that he had not knowingly used steroids.",
"Prosecutors decided not to pursue a retrial.",
"Prosecutors still argued in the sentencing memo that Bonds' denial that he was \"taking steroids and human growth hormone were patently false.\"",
"Bonds' testimony in December 2003 was part of the investigation that targeted Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson and employees of the California drug testing laboratory known as the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO).",
"The testimony that led to Bonds' conviction came when a grand jury prosecutor asked Bonds if Anderson ever gave him \"anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with.\"",
"Bonds told the grand jury that only his personal doctors \"ever touch me,\" and he then veered off the subject to say he never talked baseball with Anderson.",
"Defense lawyers argued that Bonds thought the creams and ointments Anderson was giving him were made of flax seed oils.",
"Sentences for other athletes convicted in connection with the BALCO investigation have not included prison time.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison and Alan Duke contributed to this report."
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"Defense lawyers request two years' probation, a $4,000 fine and community service .",
"Jurors found Bonds guilty of obstruction of justice in April .",
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"(CNN) -- So you want to become a pro golfer.",
"The top players rake in millions of dollars each year, and you want a piece of the action.",
"Whether you're a promising five-year-old, an amateur trying to make the next step or a professional seeking to kickstart your career, the best way forward is generally to work with the people who've been there and done that.",
"They might not always be cheap, but golf academies offer training techniques that have taken the likes of Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood and Ernie Els to the top of the tree.",
"But fear not, CNN has some tips from one of the sport's leading instructors, David Leadbetter.",
"There are three areas where beginner golfers struggle, he says.",
"First off, you need to hold the club right.",
"\"Most people grip the club too much in the palm of the hand, which creates tremendous tension and doesn't allow the wrist to work correctly,\" says Leadbetter, who helped Nick Faldo go from a nearly man to the winner of six major titles between 1987-1996.",
"\"People who do this wear a hole in their glove.",
"It's important to hold the club out towards the fingers, not the palm.",
"It helps more golfers than you can believe.\"",
"Next, learn how to bow.",
"\"So much of golf is based around how you set your foundations.",
"It's really important that when golfers set up for the ball that instead of having slouchy round shoulders, pull your shoulders down, then your arms can actually get to your chest,\" the 59-year-old says.",
"\"Almost like how the Japanese how bow: rear end out, slightly bend your knees, pull your shoulder blades down and arms resting in your chest, and you're in perfect position.\"",
"From there, it's all about the arms. \"Make sure your arms and chest always stay together through the swing,\" Leadbetter advises.",
"\"Practice little wedge shots -- put a club-head cover or towel under the left armpit and make little half-swings.\"",
"Along with Butch Harmon, Hank Haney and Pete Cowen, Leadbetter is one of the most renowned coaches in the golf world.",
"Their success with major champions such as Faldo, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Greg Norman, Darren Clarke, Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Louis Oosthuizen has helped them launch golf schools around the globe.",
"An hour with Harmon would cost you $600, according to Golf Digest, while Haney charges $500 and Leadbetter brings in $3,500 for a three-hour tuition.",
"But unless you are a top player, or paying hefty corporate rates, it's unlikely you'll get one-on-one time with these gurus.",
"The next best thing is their schools, which range from short workshops to full-year programs for school-age players.",
"These aren't cheap, either.",
"A student accepted into Haney's International Junior Golf Academy, based on Hilton Head Island in the U.S., needs a $7,000 deposit just to reserve their place.",
"However, there are cheaper holiday programs available.",
"Haney, who worked with 14-time major winner Woods from 2004-2010, also lent his name to an academy in China, at the Mission Hills Haikou resort on Hainan Island, where 2005 PGA teacher of the year Peter Krause was installed as head instructor.",
"Harmon, whose father Claude won the 1948 Masters at Augusta, took on Woods as a top young amateur in 1993 and helped transform the American into a global phenomenon -- spending a record 264 weeks as world No.",
"1 -- until their split in 2004.",
"His Las Vegas-based golf school offers three-day courses with the man himself for $5,900 (including four nights' accommodation at Caesars Palace), and a similar package with his staff professionals for $2,400.",
"Junior deals cost just $225, while video lessons are offered for $30 an hour.",
"Leadbetter became a coach after failing to qualify by one shot at the European Tour School as a hopeful young professional.",
"\"I went and studied with some of the top coaches at the time,\" he told CNN of his early days before making his name refining the swing of fellow Englishman Faldo.",
"\"He was a successful player by the time he came to see me, but he realized he needed an extra gear if he was going to win the big ones,\" Leadbetter said.",
"\"He was very much a perfectionist, and the challenge was we didn't see immediate results, it took a couple of years.",
"We had to work through that period where we weren't getting good results, but it all worked out in the end.\"",
"Leadbetter's Florida-based academy, with 36 holes designed by former client Norman, has become the headquarters for a worldwide empire located in 13 countries including Spain and China.",
"Former child prodigy Michelle Wie was one of his most famous students, and he has worked with four players who have reached golf's No.",
"1 position.",
"\"A coach these days is much more than just a swing instructor, you're almost a part-time psychologist as well,\" Leadbetter said.",
"He expects the trend of Asian players dominating the women's pro ranks to spill over onto the men's circuit soon.",
"\"They have the discipline. It's a great sport for the Asian mind: they're very methodical, very even-keeled and have tremendous work ethics.",
"Not only in golf but in all walks of life.",
"It's an ideal sport for them to play.\"",
"Els, another of Leadbetter's success stories, is also helping to teach young players in his native South Africa.",
"The 41-year-old, a three-time major champion and the European Tour's all-time leading money winner, set up a foundation in 1999 that focuses on kids from families with limited resources.",
"His players take on those from Woods' foundation in an annual Ryder Cup-style match play competition.",
"The most successful graduates so far are Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.",
"Oosthuizen stunned the golfing world in 2010 by winning the British Open after making the halfway cut in only one of his eight previous major appearances.",
"\"Things weren't going that great on the farm, and we just heard of this foundation which had just started,\" Oosthuizen told reporters at St. Andrews about his early days.",
"\"It was an unbelievable three years with what Ernie did for me, traveling around the country, helping with expenses, giving clinics, things like that.",
"He's such a good mentor, probably without him I wouldn't have been here.\"",
"Oosthuizen has also worked with Cowen, a coach who helped Northern Irishman McDowell win the U.S. Open last year and Clarke the 2011 British Open.",
"Cowen, who has academies in his native England and Dubai, counts eight-time European No.",
"1 Colin Montgomerie and Oosthuizen's 2011 Masters-winning compatriot Schwartzel among his former clients.",
"He also helped Lee Westwood to become world No.",
"1 last year, and move within striking distance of overhauling Els' European money record.",
"Westwood is another player giving back to the golfing community.",
"The 38-year-old runs clinics at courses across England, and has branched out with sessions in Spain at La Manga.",
"Non-residential academies cost about $235 for three days, with entrants having the chance to win equipment and a day playing with Westwood.",
"Els believes that such schools are vital for golf's continued development.",
"\"I don't think there's another sport that does more for its young participants,\" he wrote on Links Magazine's website.",
"\"Tiger, myself and a lot of other guys on tour all can remember those who helped us when we were growing up.",
"It is why we give back to the game at the junior and grass-roots level.",
"\"The future of the game is bright, but only if we continue to make golf accessible to the younger generation.",
"If we all do our bit, the combined effect is significant.",
"\"I believe that introducing and encouraging a youngster in golf gives them a step up on life's ladder.",
"If they go on to become great players, that's a bonus.\""
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"They cater for young players, professionals and weekend warriors .",
"One-on-one tuition is expensive but cheaper options are available .",
"Working with golf's top names helps coaches establish their empires ."
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"(CNN) -- In a campaign to cleanse its national police force of \"rotten apples,\" Honduras has placed 176 police officers under investigation for a range of alleged crimes, from corruption to murder.",
"All the officers belong to the same police post, which is based in a Tegucigalpa neighborhood known as \"La Granja,\" or the farm, Security Ministry spokesman Silvio Inestrosa told CNN Friday.",
"Officers who worked at the post during the past five years are under investigation, he said.",
"The police scrutiny comes as distrust of police officers reaches new highs, following the killing of two university students, allegedly by police officers.",
"\"As an institution, we have to strengthen the police, but we have to remove the rotten apples,\" President Porfirio Lobo said during a speech Thursday.",
"Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, with a rate in 2010 of 82.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.",
"According to a recent report by the country's own human rights commission, that rate could increase to 86 per 100,000 this year.",
"Despite the high criminality, Hondurans don't always turn to the police for help.",
"According to residents, the police are sometimes to be more feared than criminals.",
"This is the context under which two university students last month decided to flee from police instead of being pulled over.",
"According to the national police, the officers shot and injured one of the students and headed toward a hospital.",
"But along the way, police said, the officers instead decided to take the pair to a different location and execute them.",
"The officers implicated in the killings are from the same district that is under investigation.",
"Already, four officers who have been charged with covering up the killings have appeared before a judge.",
"The four officers accused of actually carrying out the killings are fugitives.",
"The investigations and possible firings of the 176 is latest of a series of steps that the government has taken since the outcry over the killings.",
"Days after the incident, the national police shook up its top ranks.",
"\"In these times of violence it is necessary to have new actions, vitality, energy and teamwork with the benefit of the Honduran people in mind,\" Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla said when he announced the changes.",
"Also, lawmakers on Thursday rewrote the country's policing laws, stripping the national police of its internal affairs department, and handing over such investigations to a new, independent force.",
"Journalist Elvin Sandoval contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- This Veterans Day, like the nine that preceded it, does not come at a time of peace.",
"We are no longer saying thanks to veterans of wars past such as our grandfathers, uncles or those guys who fly black POW/MIA flags twice a year.",
"Now we are thanking our children, our friends from high school and our younger cousins.",
"Every day, someone new is introduced to the hardships of wartime military service or the horrors of combat.",
"These are wars with no clean victories.",
"There are no sailors in New York waiting to grab a passing dame to celebrate victory with a kiss.",
"In the way that people offer their thanks, there is an echo of guilt -- just an echo -- of our country's mistreatment of its Vietnam veterans, and that only a select few have borne this generation's burden of war.",
"That awkwardness with which the thanks is delivered, coupled with some veterans' anxieties about what they have seen or done, can make Veterans Day seem like a show of empty patriotism -- or worse, a slim bandage slapped over a gaping wound of indifference, pity or guilt.",
"Our towns and cities throw parades on this day, often out of tradition and in an attempt to demonstrate anything but apathy toward their war fighters.",
"Unlike parades past -- parades not held during wartime -- these gatherings do not celebrate victory.",
"They directly celebrate service while indirectly celebrating survival.",
"Even that is a messy, ongoing process.",
"A returning veteran stepping off a plane onto U.S. soil is not evidence that the veteran survived the war -- about 20% of all suicides in the United States are committed by veterans.",
"For some returnees, simply making it through another day is their new objective.",
"Life back home can seem remote, confusing or even pointless.",
"Now there is some discussion of restructuring the military pension system and raising the cost of health insurance for future service members to cut costs.",
"That our country needs to get its fiscal house in order is not in question; what should be examined is the tendency of our government to view military service as something comparable to private-sector work.",
"This perspective, when combined with a cynical political understanding that the military will accept any burden, puts additional strain upon our overtaxed fighting force.",
"Consider how our civilian population's experiences on this Veterans Day will contrast sharply with that of the military: .",
"In the U.S., a man will wake up, make breakfast, pack his briefcase and walk to his car worrying about traffic jams.",
"In Afghanistan, an infantryman will wake up, slug down the same food he has been eating for months, check his equipment and climb into his armored vehicle worrying about the road disintegrating beneath him.",
"In the U.S., a hardworking mother of three will cycle her children through the shower, make breakfast and send them off to school before she heads to work.",
"In Iraq, a hardworking military police platoon leader will cycle her 20 soldiers through personal hygiene and the chow hall, and lead the convoy briefing before they go on patrol.",
"In the U.S., a man will work a part-time job in a warehouse, running a forklift and hauling merchandise throughout the night, impatient to reach home.",
"At Bagram Air Field, a soldier waiting for his leave flight back to the States will draw extra duty.",
"His detail will move dead bodies -- dozens of them -- throughout the night, storing them carefully inside of a transport plane.",
"He will be impatient to be done with the solemn yet gruesome task, but when he is finished, he will have to be ordered to take leave.",
"With the images of the dead fresh in his mind, he will be disoriented and not even want to go home anymore.",
"He won't be sure where to go, for that matter.",
"In the U.S., politicians propose cutting military pensions and health benefits.",
"Overseas, veterans see the potential reduction of military benefits and conclude that their service and their sacrifices -- over many years and multiple deployments -- are not a priority to the very politicians (of both major parties) that sent them to war.",
"Like the casualty numbers in Afghanistan, the number of combat veterans keeps rising.",
"Let this Veterans Day -- like the decade of Veterans Days before it -- be an opportunity to hear the stories of our warriors, to ask them honest and respectful questions without fearing them or projecting preconceived notions onto them.",
"Let it be a day where we can see the falsehood in the argument that government cuts should start with those who have already given up so much.",
"Let this holiday be spent celebrating the freedom to live our lives safely and without fear of terrorism or enemy attack.",
"So go to work, send your kids to school, say goodbye for the day to loved ones -- while others ruck up for another mission.",
"And remember: While the wars will not last forever, many are still in the fight and could use more than a few words of thanks when they come home.",
"And over here, some are still, in their minds and in their wounds, over there.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jonathan Raab."
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"Jonathan Raab: Veterans Day more about survival than victory for many of today's troops .",
"He says returning troops face long recovery even as budget woes raise threat of benefit cuts .",
"He says military service is much more taxing and traumatic than a civilian's work .",
"Raab: Americans should remember veterans' sacrifices after decade of war ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Two men circle warily in the center of a colorful gym mat.",
"Each holds a three-foot long wicker stick in one hand and a blunted aluminum knife in the other.",
"A sudden rush and surge of adrenalin.",
"Both are engaged in a swirl of weapons.",
"The air rings to the sound of sticks striking each other and the duller whomp of sticks striking legs, arms and torsos.",
"The battle is engaged at full speed and full power.",
"Punches aren't pulled.",
"When the grueling two-minute bout is over, both combatants display an angry array of bumps, bruises and welts.",
"The fighters embrace and depart the battlefield.",
"Neither has been declared the winner or the loser.",
"The idea of winning or losing is not what the Dog Brothers are about.",
"\"We don't keep score,\" says Marc \"Crafty Dog\" Denny, one of the Dog Brothers' founders.",
"\"No judges, no referees, no trophies.",
"That would be contrary to the way we do things.\"",
"In 1988, Denny and 10 other martial arts enthusiasts formed the loose tribe they called the Dog Brothers.",
"They were all drawn to an obscure form of the combat arts that originated during times of tribal warfare in the Philippines.",
"This form of combat is primarily hand to hand using weapons that were available in the forests and jungles of the Philippines.",
"It is a fighting discipline known in different parts of the world as Arnis, Escrima or Kali.",
"\"In the past it had been a very, very secretive art,\" Denny said, \"a weaponry art that originated in tribal warfare in the jungles.\"",
"Dog Brothers gatherings feature bouts of stick fighting, knife fighting, fighting staffs, even the occasional use of chains and other weapons.",
"Punching, kicking and wrestling also come into play.",
"Combatants wear a fencing mask to protect the eyes and gloves to protect hands, but there is no other padding.",
"Their motto is, \"Higher consciousness through harder contact.\"",
"\"There was definitely a part of me that said, these guys are way out there,\" Roan Kalani \"Poi Dog\" Grimm said with a laugh.",
"At the same time, Grimm found the Dog Brothers' form of extreme martial arts exciting.",
"\"They were applying it in real time and real speed and real power, \" Grimm said.",
"\"A part of myself said, I really want to do this.",
"I want to test myself at this level.\"",
"There are perhaps 200 full-fledged members of the Dog Brothers pack.",
"Members receive a \"Dog\" nickname after they are voted into the pack.",
"The nickname is meant to describe each member's fighting style or personality.",
"However, to become a full member, other members must reach a consensus that the individual has developed his skills and represents his true potential as a martial artist.",
"There are many who have more than a passing interest in the extreme form of martial arts the group represents.",
"That is what attracted Tobias Gibson to a recent Dog Brothers gathering in Los Angeles.",
"Gibson is a 39-year-old political science professor from Missouri's Westminster College.",
"He is a studious looking guy with a scraggly goatee and more than a few extra pounds.",
"Although he had trained for eight years in martial arts, Gibson had never engaged in this kind of all-out combat.",
"\"It's really scary,\" Gibson confessed before his bout, \"I was trying to untie my shoes and I couldn't.",
"My hands were shaking.\"",
"Gibson's bout lasted two minutes.",
"He had been paired with a much more experienced fighter who took care to look after the newcomer's safety.",
"Even so, the professor emerged with a series of welts on his arm and back, a bleeding knot on his forehead and at least one broken finger.",
"The injuries did not dampen his spirits.",
"\"Once you get into the ring it's all good, \" Gibson said.",
"\"I'm in the moment. I was in the moment.\" To Marc \"Crafty Dog\" Denny, the idea is to push your fellow members to be their best but to also know when to stop.",
"\"In a fight of this nature, things can go wrong too quickly to count on a referee to jump into it.",
"And so fighters are within the code of the tribe,\" Denny said.",
"\"We could make this a padded pillow fight but then it would lose its meaning.",
"The danger and risk are necessary to the transformative nature of the experience.\"",
"Denny said he realizes this form of fighting involves a concept that is not for everyone.",
"He said it's not something everybody understands.",
"Grimm certainly understands the calm that can exist at the center of a storm.",
"\"It's never malicious.",
"And people who display that kind of temperament are very quickly weeded out, \" he said.",
"\"I'm completely aware of everything that is going on.",
"Nothing beyond the exact moment exists.\"",
"Grimm laughed at the suggestion that it is a moment of Zen, with an added element of pain.",
"\"A lot of pain if you find yourself a little too Zen and not paying attention to your opponent's stick,\" he said.",
"Whatever the attraction is to this form of extreme fighting, Denny said safety is still paramount.",
"\"The underlying rule is to be friends at the end of the day,\" Denny said.",
"\"Which means that our goal is that no one spends the night in the hospital.",
"Our goal is that everyone leaves with the IQ that they came with.\""
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"(CNN) -- Jeremy Poincenot can no longer read, drive a car or even recognize faces.",
"But the 20-year-old, who lost his central vision two years ago, can successfully hit a small white ball into a slightly larger hole from considerable distance.",
"Chipping from off the green at a tournament in August, the American won a nerve-wracking playoff to officially become the world's best blind golfer.",
"Poincenot, a college student from San Diego, has an extremely rare disease called Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON).",
"And not long ago, he feared he'd never play golf again.",
"He woke up the day before Thanksgiving in 2008 to notice his formerly perfect vision was a little blurry.",
"A routine trip to the optometrist to pick up a pair of glasses ended up with him being diagnosed with a suspected brain tumor.",
"The subsequent holidays were spent having an MRI scan, a spinal tap and then a catheter placed in his jugular as doctors struggled to diagnose the cause of his vanishing sight.",
"It wasn't until his mother discovered it on the Internet that Jeremy was successfully diagnosed with LHON -- a hereditary disease with no treatment and no cure that only affects one in 50,000 people.",
"Lissa Poincenot has since set up the website LHON.org to support fellow sufferers and their families, and to help raise funds for the USC Doheny Eye Institute, where Dr. Alfredo Sadun is researching a cure.",
"Faced with the onset of blindness, Jeremy admits he slipped into depression for a couple of months until one afternoon he was jerked back into action.",
"\"I saw this guy who had just lost his wife and baby daughter when a plane crashed down on his house,\" he told CNN.",
"\"The guy was in a press conference crying, saying 'If anybody knows how to handle something this tragic, please tell me.'",
"I just thought, 'Hey if this guy can make it through this then I can survive having no central vision.'",
"That became my motto: 'Things could be worse.'\"",
"So six months after losing his sight, Poincenot decided to pick up his clubs again.",
"A keen golfer with a handicap of just four, he had played every Sunday since the age of 12 with his Dad Lionel, a club engineer at golf firm Callaway.",
"Blind golf brought them even closer because, unlike the regular version of the sport, it's a team game.",
"Lionel acts as his son's sighted coach on the course, describing the hole he's playing, the bunkers, the water hazards and the dog-legs -- as well as adjusting his son's feet and club-face alignment before every shot.",
"Then he'll point in the direction that the shot should be played, while Jeremy places his chin on his dad's shoulder to get a sense of the correct alignment.",
"\"He's the one who does all the work, lining me up and reading the putts -- I'm just the one who executes the shots,\" Jeremy laughs.",
"They played their first tournament together in Texas, and then qualified from the nationals in California despite a few teething problems.",
"\"He forgot to tell me about a few bunkers, and I wasn't as nice to him as I should have been,\" Jeremy recalls.",
"But before the International Blind Golf Association's World Championships began in Britain in August, Jeremy made a pact with his dad: \"We realized that our attitude needed to improve as a team, so we decided to focus more on having fun rather than stressing out about every shot.\"",
"The new approach clearly worked, because at the end of the first day, Poincenot was tied for third out of 60 competitors and just one shot away from the leader.",
"\"The whole second day, my stomach was in my throat -- I was extremely nervous on every shot,\" he admits.",
"\"But I think Dad was even more nervous than me; after I take my shot he's freaking out watching my ball go towards the rough, while I can't even tell.\"",
"Nevertheless, Poincenot still managed to shoot 89 for a net score of 70, tying him with British champion Simon Cookson.",
"A playoff hole was then required to find the winner.",
"\"I hit my third shot short of the green.",
"Simon also hit his second short of the green but I got a stroke on the hole because I'm a 'B2' and Simon's a 'B3',\" he said.",
"Not every competitor has the same degree of visual impairment, so a three-tier handicap system is used to level the playing field.",
"Those who are completely blind are B1s, while those -- like Poincenot -- with up to six percent of vision are B2s.",
"Cookson, who has 10 percent of his vision, is a B3 -- the category of player with the most sight.",
"Despite this potential disadvantage, however, the international business major from San Diego University had saved the best for last.",
"\"I paced the shot to work out the yardage, and when I got to the pin there was a crowd there watching so I thought, 'You know what, I'm not going to be in this situation many times in my life,' so I waved to the crowd real quick and then got back to my shot.",
"\"I took what I thought was a nice chip and even heard someone in the crowd say, 'That's a nice chip.'",
"Then I heard the ball hit the pin and fall into the hole.",
"My dad shouted, 'It went in!'",
"so I threw my hat in the air and gave my dad a big hug.\"",
"As well as winning his first World Blind Golf Championship, Poincenot has been raising money and awareness of LHON with sponsored bike rides, half-marathons and even sky dives.",
"He is now setting his ambitions on the next tournament in Canada's Nova Scotia in 2012.",
"\"To be able to share being world champion with my dad is incredible, I don't know if it's hit me yet,\" he says.",
"\"It's a great feeling and I hope it will help raise awareness of LHON, because that's the greater purpose of why I do anything.\""
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"He is now setting his sights on the next tournament in Canada in 2012 ."
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"(CNN) -- Kim Jong Un, successor to his father's dictatorship over North Korea, will have to find ways to balance political factions and generate revenue -- or he may not remain in power for long, analysts said Tuesday.",
"Shrouded in mystery and believed to be only in his late 20s, Kim marks the third generation in his family to officially reign over the so-called Hermit Kingdom.",
"\"It's unprecedented in modern times,\" said John Park, an expert on the region with the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.",
"A popular expression, Park said, summarizes one central reason that third-generation dynasties don't occur.",
"\"The first generation makes the wealth; the second generation manages the wealth; the third generation squanders the wealth,\" he said.",
"Kim Jong Il inherited power from his father, a military leader who built a new North Korean economy.",
"Kim Jong Il maintained a fierce grip, partly through building his country's nuclear arsenal.",
"It is unknown whether Kim Jong Un has the skills, knowledge or training to lead his country through the next era.",
"North Korea does not function as a \"normal nation state\" through imports, exports and taxes, Park said.",
"\"Kim Jong Il ran a system that was based on competition among senior officials\" who controlled economic institutions such as trading companies.",
"\"The way to view Kim Jong Un is almost as a CEO of North Korea Inc.,\" Park said.",
"\"He either makes money on a recurring basis or he's out.",
"The fact that he's the youngest son won't matter if he can't produce the cash.\"",
"Christian Caryl, an editor of foreignpolicy.com, said the younger Kim's lack of experience does not bode well.",
"\"I personally put the odds fairly low\" that he will succeed in power, he said.",
"North Koreans \"know much more about the world than they did\" when Kim Jong Il came to power, said Caryl, who last visited a few years ago.",
"\"They've watched DVDs of South Korean soap operas.",
"People know about China -- and China is light years ahead of North Korea.\"",
"\"You can no longer expect people to believe in the Kim name the way they used to,\" he said.",
"The government still deprives its citizens of basic rights and freedoms, and there is little risk of any popular protest against a leader, Park said.",
"If something were to end Kim Jong Un's time in power, it would be battling forces within the North Korean power structure.",
"\"There are different factions and interest groups,\" Caryl said.",
"\"I wouldn't say organized power blocs, but groups that have big business interests now because they've also been trading with China.\"",
"\"These things begin to get complicated very quickly\" for a new leader at the helm, Caryl said.",
"Jayshree Bajoria of the Council on Foreign Relations writes that \"even with a successor, North Korean observers have for some time feared a behind-the-scenes power struggle or nuclear instability after Kim Jong-Il's death.\"",
"Still, \"some experts doubt that Kim's death will lead to chaos,\" Bajoria writes, noting that the country has shown resilience in the past.",
"In the region, analysts and government leaders are looking at early indications in an effort to read the tea leaves.",
"\"Over the span of some 50 hours, North Korea was very effectively able to conceal the death of Kim Jong Il, successfully make the announcement of his death.",
"Seeing that it has gone smoothly so far without any bumps, we can relatively carefully speculate that the leadership is relatively well-grounded,\" South Korean intelligence committee chairman Kwon Young-se said Tuesday in an interview with CNN.",
"\"But at the same time, Kim Jong Un is still very young and has only gone through a short period of time for grooming as an heir.",
"Also, Kim Jong Il died all of a sudden without having been able to fully accelerate the process of the succession.",
"Depending on the balance between the new people that support Kim Jong Un and the older generation that upheld Kim Jong Il, things may not necessarily go smoothly within the leadership,\" he said."
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"Different factions and interest groups could end the younger Kim's reign, an analyst says .",
"S. Korean official: A \"relatively well-grounded\" government seems to be in place ."
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"(CNN) -- The longest debate since humans have been having debates is whether we are good or evil.",
"It underlies the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Jesus and Judas.",
"What is our human nature?",
"Of course, the answer is we can be both good and evil.",
"But what determines which part of our character emerges?",
"About a decade ago, my lab made an unexpected breakthrough in the understanding of good and evil.",
"We discovered that the neurochemical oxytocin makes people trustworthy.",
"We then found oxytocin was responsible for many other moral behaviors, from being generous to sacrificing to help a stranger.",
"Wait -- morality is chemical?",
"In my TED talk, I describe how I made the unlikely discovery of the moral molecule, how I was roundly discouraged from even looking for such a chemical, and what drove me to persist in my search.",
"In these experiments, we tempt people with virtue and vice using money (share with others: virtue; selfishly keep everything for yourself: vice).",
"Using money to understand how and why humans make decisions is a field now called neuroeconomics.",
"Money gives us a convenient way to measure how much someone cares about another person.",
"For example, in one experiment we randomly matched strangers in the lab by computer and put $10 in an account for each of them.",
"In each pair there was a decision-maker 1 (DM1) and a decision-maker 2 (DM2).",
"All participants got these instructions: DM1 can give up some or all of his or her $10 and transfer it to DM2 by computer but cannot talk to, or meet, the other person.",
"Whatever is transferred is removed from DM1's account but is tripled in DM2's account.",
"Then, DM2 gets a computer message identifying how much has been received from DM1 and a reminder of the total in his or her account.",
"Next, the software asks DM2 if she or he wants to send some of this larger pot of money back to DM1.",
"The amount sent back comes out of DM2's account one for one and is not tripled -- it's a pure loss to DM2.",
"For example, if DM1 transfers $8, he or she would keep $2 and DM2 would receive $24 (=3 x $8).",
"The total in DM2's account would be $34 ($24 + $10).",
"If you were DM2, what would you do -- keep it all or share some back with DM1?",
"We found that 90% of DM1s send money and of the DM2s who receive money, 95% return at least some of it.",
"Usually both DMs in a pair leave the lab with more than $10, sometimes much more.",
"The DM1 to DM2 transfer is understood to be a measure of trust, while the DM2 to DM1 transfer measures trustworthiness.",
"By taking blood from participants, we found that the more money denoting trust DM2 received, the more oxytocin his or her brain made.",
"And, the more oxytocin on board, the more money was returned to DM1.",
"All this happened without any face-to-face interactions, revealing how easily the oxytocin system activates.",
"TED.com: How we read each other's minds .",
"Morality has traditionally been the domain of theologians and philosophers, often providing prescriptions of what we must do.",
"But in the past decade, neuroscientists have started analyzing brain activity while people think about, and engage in, moral or immoral acts.",
"These findings have changed the inquiry into morals from prescriptive to descriptive.",
"As I discuss in my talk, I have even done studies that have manipulated brain chemistry in human beings to show that oxytocin directly causes people to be moral.",
"I also talk about what having a chemical that affects morality means for individuals, organizations and entire societies.",
"For example, does \"my chemicals made me do it\" absolve people from legal or moral responsibility?",
"If we have a moral molecule, where does evil come from?",
"By the way, oxytocin doesn't only cause morality in a laboratory setting -- I've done studies in churches, on sports fields and among indigenous people to show that the biology of morality is a human universal.",
"TED.com: The battle between your present and your future self .",
"While neuroscience has provided new insights into our human nature, the philosophy of morality has not gone away.",
"My talk identifies the philosophers whose insights and arguments are consistent with the way oxytocin works in the human brain.",
"Two hit the mark: Aristotle and Adam Smith.",
"Aristotle claimed that the reason to be a virtuous person is because it makes us happy.",
"I found the same thing: Those who release the most oxytocin in the lab are more satisfied with their lives (watch the talk to find out why).",
"And then there is Adam Smith.",
"Yes, the same Adam Smith who is considered the \"father\" of economics was a moral philosopher.",
"In 1759, Smith published a book called \"The Theory of Moral Sentiments\" that nearly perfectly anticipated my findings.",
"Smith's book caused a sensation when it came out because of his radical claim that morality comes from humans' social nature, not from God.",
"Sociality, said Smith, means we inevitably share the emotions of others.",
"This is just what I found: When the brain is flooded with oxytocin, people feel empathy for others.",
"It is this emotional connection that causes most of us, most of the time, to behave well toward each other.",
"I've also found that societies that are more moral (for example, more trustworthy and more tolerant) also have higher standards of living.",
"Smith understood why: Morality undergirds economic exchange, opening up more opportunities for the creation of wealth that individuals in a transaction can share.",
"And, prosperity (perhaps surprisingly) can make societies more moral.",
"All this occurs as part of our human nature, our brains adapting to evolving social environments.",
"So, this ancient and tiny molecule, oxytocin, has taken us from being social creatures to, increasingly, being tolerant, empathic and prosperous ones.",
"Quite a nice trick for a tiny molecule that traces its lineage back at least 400 million years.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Zak."
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"He says oxytocin makes people more willing to help a stranger .",
"Those who release the most oxytocin are the most satisfied with their lives, he says .",
"Zak: Aristotle was right in saying that the reason to be virtuous is that it makes us happy ."
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"(CNN) -- A Mexican woman -- a former inmate in Maricopa County, Arizona -- claims in a lawsuit that sheriff's officers mistreated her during and after her pregnancy, including shackling her while she was in labor and after her Caesarean section.",
"The federal suit filed by Miriam Mendiola-Martinez this week comes days after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, under the leadership of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, engaged in a pattern of discrimination against Latinos.",
"Mendiola-Martinez's suit is against the sheriff's office, Arpaio, the Maricopa Medical Center and unidentified male and female officers, doctors and nurses.",
"Mendiola-Martinez, a Mexican citizen, alleges in the suit she was arrested October 23, 2009, by Scottsdale, Arizona, police, and was booked into Maricopa County's Estrella Jail on charges of identity theft.",
"She was held without bond under Arizona law.",
"According to the police report filed at the time of her arrest, Mendiola-Martinez was accused of using someone else's name, date of birth and Social Security number to obtain work.",
"She was arrested at her place of employment, a department store, while she was vacuuming the floor.",
"When arrested, she was six months' pregnant and had developed gestational diabetes and high blood pressure, according to the suit.",
"On December 10, 2009, Mendiola-Martinez pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit forgery under a plea agreement.",
"Her sentencing was set for December 24.",
"While incarcerated, in what her attorney, Joy Bertrand, called \"two months of hell,\" Mendiola-Martinez says in the suit that she was told by jail staff she would receive a \"special\" pregnancy diet.",
"That diet, she claims, consisted of \"items such as two slices (of) cheese or ham, two slices of bread, indistinguishable cooked vegetables and occasionally a piece of fruit.\"",
"She also said she was given two small cartons of milk a day and a pill that she was told was a vitamin.",
"On days when she was transported to court, Mendiola-Martinez said, she was given no food during the day.",
"In one instance, she alleges in the suit, an officer taunted her and other inmates with his food, telling them there was no food for them.",
"On December 20, four days before her sentencing, Mendiola-Martinez began to have contractions, according to the suit.",
"She was shackled at her ankles and taken to the Maricopa Medical Center, where medical personnel determined she was not in labor and returned her to the jail.",
"By the following day, however, her pain had increased.",
"\"Ms. Mendiola-Martinez had been left in the jail visitation room, in extreme pain,\" the suit says.",
"Guards ignored her attempts to speak to them in Spanish, so she asked an English-speaking person in the room to tell them she needed help.",
"She was again taken to the Maricopa Medical Center, where she gave birth to a son via Caesarean section.",
"She was shackled before and after the surgery, according to the suit.",
"While she was recovering, a male correctional officer \"insisted that she be shackled to the hospital bed,\" and the shackles on her feet were painful, according to the lawsuit.",
"Asked about the allegations in 2010, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brian Lee said in a statement that Mendiola-Martinez \"was not shackled during or directly after her medical procedure.",
"After the procedure, she did have a soft restraint attached on one leg to her bed to prevent escape.\"",
"Maricopa County sheriff's spokesman Justin Griffin referred to the earlier statement when asked about the suit.",
"Lee said Mendiola-Martinez was treated the way any other inmate would be while receiving treatment \"in an unsecured facility.",
"Although she was being held on a Class Three felony, MCSO would have treated other inmates in the same manner.\"",
"Mendiola-Martinez was not initially shackled, thanks to a \"guardian angel\" guard, Bertrand said, but \"she has her C-section, the guards change and this new guard comes in as she's recovering from this major surgery and insists on shackling her to the bed.\"",
"\"It's incredibly painful, it's incredibly dangerous because now she can't move around, she can't avoid clotting, and he refuses to take the shackle off,\" Bertrand said.",
"Mendiola-Martinez was not allowed to hold or nurse her baby, the suit alleges.",
"She was discharged on December 23, but was not given a wheelchair to leave the hospital, the suit says.",
"\"Wearing only a hospital gown, Ms. Mendiola-Martinez was forced to walk through the hospital with her hands and feet shackled,\" according to the suit.",
"Meanwhile, she began to bleed, the suit says.",
"A nurse \"scolded\" the corrections officer for taking her \"so quickly and without Ms. Mendiola receiving her pain medication or discharge paperwork,\" so she was again chained and forced to walk back to the nurse's station, according to the suit.",
"\"Ms. Mendiola-Martinez was in so much pain she could hardly walk,\" the suit says.",
"\"Shackled at her hands and ankles, with a bleeding surgery wound, Ms. Mendiola-Martinez was returned to the Estrella jail.\"",
"She spent the nights following her discharge \"in pain and crying,\" the suit says.",
"Maricopa County Medical Center spokesman Michael Murphy, asked about shackling inmates in labor, said hospital staff defers to law enforcement, according to the suit.",
"Hospital spokeswoman Judy Cane declined comment on the matter Wednesday.",
"\"I'd like to think that any woman held in that jail is going to be treated with respect and dignity,\" Bertrand said.",
"Mendiola-Martinez declined to be interviewed, saying she fears retaliation by the sheriff's office.",
"International standards say using restraints on pregnant women \"is cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, and given medical or other factors impeding pregnant or birthing women from attempting escape or becoming violent, the presumption must be that no restraints should be applied,\" the suit says.",
"\"A woman's privacy and dignity must be respected during labor and birth.\"",
"International standards also say a pregnant woman in her third trimester should not be restrained while being transported, and efforts should be made \"to afford the mother reasonable access to the baby without impeding her movements by restraints,\" according to the suit.",
"The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Medical Association oppose the shackling of women in labor or after delivery, the suit says.",
"The Arizona Department of Corrections, the U.S.",
"Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have all eliminated the practice.",
"The suit claims officers violated Mendiola-Martinez's rights, including her right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment.",
"Hospital staffers' deferring to law enforcement officers regarding the shackling of women in labor and after delivery also \"demonstrates an ongoing policy of deliberate indifference to Ms. Mendiola-Martinez's serious medical needs,\" according to the suit.",
"It also alleges that a U.S. citizen in a similar situation would be less likely to be shackled.",
"\"Ms. Mendiola-Martinez was subject to a lower standard of medical care -- and a higher degree of danger to her and (her) fetus -- than similarly-situated women who are United States citizens,\" the suit says.",
"\"This disparate treatment is consistent with the findings of the United States Department of Justice regarding the systemic bias towards Latinos demonstrated by Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.\"",
"Arpaio is known as \"America's toughest sheriff\" for his stance against illegal immigration.",
"He and his attorneys last week condemned the Justice Department civil rights investigation as politically motivated and a \"witch hunt.\"",
"Mendiola-Martinez seeks a jury trial and damages in the suit.",
"Journalist Valeria Fernandez in Phoenix contributed to this report."
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"Miriam Mendiola-Martinez was arrested for using another identity to get a job .",
"She says she was shackled while in labor and afterward in Maricopa County custody .",
"She says she was also shackled while recovering from a C-section ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- As the United States completes its withdrawal of all military forces from Iraq by the end of the month, Iraq's prime minister made a pitch to leaders of American commerce and industry Tuesday: Iraq is open for business.",
"In an address to American executives at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said his country offers \"limitless\" opportunities for American companies.",
"Al-Maliki said his country is trying to diversify from an energy-dominated economy, to one that focuses on financial, medical, agricultural, educational and infrastructure services as well.",
"The end of U.S. military operations in Iraq heralds the beginning of a \"wider relationship\" between the two countries where \"not generals but businessmen\" will focus on economic and political engagement between the two countries, al-Maliki told the audience.",
"He spoke to more than 400 executives representing a wide range of industries including petroleum, engineering and construction, commercial aviation, architecture, maritime cargo and financial services.",
"As U.S. investment in Iraq has increased since 2008, al-Maliki said Iraq wants to see a much greater presence of U.S. companies in his country to help spur greater spending and investment on the country's infrastructure as a way to better the lives of Iraqis and create more U.S. jobs in the process.",
"Total foreign direct investment in Iraq hit $70 billion for the first months of 2011, according to the chamber.",
"The United States has increased its investment from nearly nearly $2 billion in 2010 to more than $8 billion this year, the organization said.",
"That figure represents 11.6% of all investment entering Iraq, the chamber said.",
"The International Monetary Fund has projected the Iraqi economy to grow at a faster pace than China or India over the next two to three years.",
"Despite growing U.S. investment in Iraq, the chamber continued its own pitch to U.S. businesses of the potential Iraq represents for them, and American workers, before al-Maliki spoke.",
"\"We continue to trail our trading partners with respect to investment and economic engagement in Iraq,\" said Lionel Johnson, vice president for Middle East and North African Affairs at the chamber.",
"The private sector stands to play a crucial role in filling the capacity void left in many sectors of the Iraqi economy following the U.S. military departure, Johnson said.",
"Winning business for American firms in Iraq has not been an easy prospect in the past.",
"Not a single U.S. energy firm secured a deal for oil production at an auction of contracts by the Iraqi government two years ago.",
"Many members of Congress were outraged, and questioned the U.S. investment in Iraq to that point after lucrative multi-billion-dollar contracts went to Russian and Chinese firms instead.",
"In the past year, the United States Business Council in Iraq was established to advance commercial interests for American firms operating in Iraq.",
"Opportunity aside, al-Maliki acknowledged the difficulty of moving his country from the planned economy of the Saddam Hussein era to a market-based system governed by transparency laws and international regulations, not to mention convincing American businesses to invest in a country that still experiences a high volume of violence.",
"He assured his audience that his government was doing all it could to root out corruption and make the country safe for businesses to operate.",
"\"Make no mistake, this is a country that's developing, its commerce is developing, it's going to take time, it's going to take energy,\" Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides told CNN after al-Maliki spoke.",
"\"U.S. companies are going there because they believe they can make money and at the end of the day that's what it is about, and most of these companies have dealt with complicated environments.",
"Iraq is no different, but we have seen huge progress.\"",
"Nides said the \"robust diplomatic staff\" still based in Iraq after the military withdrawal will include large economic and legal teams to work with U.S. companies operating in Iraq.",
"Nearly 40 leaders from the Iraqi private sector made the trip to Washington with al-Maliki to meet with their American counterparts."
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"Al-Maliki talks business with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce .",
"\"Not generals but businessmen\" will build the U.S.-Iraq relationship now, he says .",
"Al-Maliki says Iraq wants to see more U.S. companies in his country .",
"No U.S. energy firm secured a deal at an auction of Iraqi contracts two years ago ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- In 1999, Heather Donahue was unexpectedly catapulted to stardom as a co-creator and costar of the indie horror film \"The Blair Witch Project\" -- who memorably filmed herself crying in terror in the genre-breaking flick.",
"A few short years later, just as unexpectedly, her acting career stalled.",
"And soon she was embarking on the most peculiar of second acts -- that of marijuana grower.",
"\"I took all my stuff into the desert related to my acting career and burned it all,\" Donahue, who turns 37 on Thursday, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer.",
"Well, she did spare one thing: the blue ski cap from the \"Blair Witch\" poster.",
"\"That's the only thing I kept,\" she says.",
"\"I figured if things got really bad, I could always sell it on eBay.\"",
"At the time of \"Blair Witch's\" release, Donahue told PEOPLE that her newfound fame was \"hilarious and overwhelming.\"",
"But soon she became disillusioned.",
"\"The acting projects I was lucky enough to work on weren't always things that I felt good about putting out into the world,\" she says now in a Q&A on her website.",
"\"I didn't see that getting better as I got older.",
"I wanted to change my life, see what else was out there for me, what else I might become.\"",
"She ended up following her then new boyfriend into a strange new life of growing marijuana, mostly for medical purposes -- a journey she relates in her forthcoming memoir, \"GrowGirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot.\"",
"Donahue ended up living for a year in Nuggettown, California, with a bunch of growers and their \"pot wives,\" helping to build grow rooms and tending to the crops.",
"She tells the Inquirer that she was \"always an avid gardener\" and quickly fell into a routine, becoming \"a solitary country girl\" after her years in the fast lane in L.A. She gave up growing pot after deciding to write about it -- and after a friend got busted by the feds.",
"Donahue, who is now on a book tour, is torn about whether marijuana should be legalized.",
"On the one hand, she's worried that corporations might run over the mom-and-pop growers.",
"But at the same time, she thinks it's foolish to outlaw it.",
"\"Cannabis has been intertwined with human culture for thousands of years,\" she says on her website.",
"\"It's here to stay as medicine, as an industry, and as a component of the culture.",
"The idea that such a hearty, useful plant could be legislated out of existence seems pretty foolish, especially in retrospect.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Heather Donahue memorably filmed herself crying in terror in \"The Blair Witch Project\"\nShe quit acting and followed her then boyfriend into a new life of growing marijuana .",
"Donahue ended up living for a year in Nuggettown, California ."
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"(CNN) -- Sebastian Vettel has saluted his Red Bull team after making Formula One history in 2011.",
"The 24-year-old became the elite motorsport's youngest double world champion as the UK-based Austrian marque retained the constructors' title after winning 12 of the 19 races.",
"\"I have had the trophy in my house all year and didn't want to give it back, so this means a great deal to me,\" the German said at the FIA Prize Giving Gala in India on Friday.",
"\"It's hard to put into words how it feels to win again; the team stayed focused and made few mistakes and I would like to thank them for all their impressive efforts.",
"I would also like to thank (engine supplier) Renault who worked so hard all year.",
"\"The history of Formula One means a lot to me and it's special to know that we are now somehow a part of that.\"",
"Vettel clinched his first world title in the final race of 2010, the only time last year that he led the standings.",
"But 2011 was a different story as he won the first race in Australia and sealed the championship in Japan with four grands prix to go.",
"He broke Nigel Mansell's record of pole positions by winning his 15th in the final race in Brazil, where teammate Mark Webber notched his only victory.",
"And in India in October, Vettel became the youngest driver to earn pole, win the race, set the fastest lap and lead from start to finish in one grand prix.",
"\"It's phenomenal what the team has achieved this year,\" Red Bull boss Christian Horner said.",
"\"To win 12 races and take 18 pole positions and 27 podiums to defend our title is something we are very proud of.",
"\"I would like to thank every member of the team, including Mark and Sebastian for all their hard work.",
"Receiving the award tonight is fantastic and a great end to what has been an incredible year.",
"\"Seb's achievement of becoming a double Formula One world champion is incredible; the fact he is the youngest ever to do this is testament to the exciting young talent that he is.\"",
"World rally champion Sebastian Loeb also received his trophy after winning the title for a record-breaking eighth consecutive time.",
"It put him one clear of Michael Schumacher's record seven F1 crowns, giving him some claim to being motorsport's most successful driver.",
"The Frenchman and co-driver Daniel Elena helped Citroen win a fourth successive manufacturers' crown as he and teammate Sebastian Ogier both won five races out of 13 this year.",
"\"What an incredible season!",
"The battle with the other drivers has been intense from the beginning to the end,\" said Loeb, who clinched the title in the final round .",
"\"After a great start to the season we really had to battle hard again at the end of the year; we lost a lot of our advantage and it was like starting from zero all over again going into the final two rounds.\"",
"His compatriot Yvan Muller was officially crowned World Touring Car champion with Chevrolet, who won a second manufacturers' title."
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"F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel proud of history-making year with Red Bull .",
"German dominated as he set a series of records to claim his second world title .",
"World rally champion Sebastian Loeb also received his trophy at FIA ceremony .",
"French driver clinched an eighth successive title for dominant Citroen team ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- NFL player Samuel Hurd has been arrested and charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Thursday.",
"Agents say Hurd, 26, a wide receiver for the Chicago Bears, was arrested Wednesday night after a five-month investigation that began in Dallas, where Hurd once played for the Cowboys.",
"Authorities say he was trying to set up a drug distribution network in Chicago.",
"The complaint states that Hurd met with an ICE undercover agent at a restaurant in Chicago on Wednesday night when, law enforcement officials say, Hurd introduced himself as the person communicating with a confidential informant.",
"Hurd stated that he was interested in purchasing 5 to 10 kilograms of cocaine, at $25,000 per kilogram, and 1,000 pounds of marijuana at $450 per pound per week for distribution in the Chicago area, according to ICE.",
"Hurd said that \"he and another co-conspirator currently distribute about four kilograms of cocaine per week in Chicago but that his supplier couldn't supply him with enough quantity,\" Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.",
"After they finished negotiating, according to the complaint, the undercover agent presented Hurd with a kilogram of cocaine that Hurd accepted.",
"\"Hurd stated that he plays for the Chicago Bears and that he gets out of practice at about 5:30 p.m., after which he would make arrangements to pay for the kilogram of cocaine,\" ICE officials said in a news release, \"Hurd left the restaurant with the bag of cocaine and was arrested shortly thereafter in the parking lot of the restaurant.\"",
"If convicted, Hurd faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $2 million fine for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.",
"CNN's efforts to contact Hurd's lawyers were unsuccessful Thursday afternoon."
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"Officials accuse him of trying to set up a drug distribution network .",
"He accepted a kilo of cocaine from undercover agent, they say ."
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"(CNN) -- The deaths within a week of four women -- three of whom had advertised in an adult personals section of a website -- are being treated as the work of one person or group of people, Detroit's police chief said Tuesday.",
"\"At this point, we are working it as one case or one suspect or set of suspects,\" Chief Ralph L. Godbee told CNN.",
"\"There are too many common links for us not to, at this point, work this as one single investigation.\"",
"Among those links, he said, is the fact that three of the women had placed online ads dealing with \"prearranged adult dating services\" and posted on backpage.com, Godbee told reporters Monday.",
"\"We felt it is imperative to alert the public that deciding to meet unknown persons via the Internet can be extremely dangerous,\" Godbee said.",
"But a lawyer for backpage.com, Steve Suskin, said it was not clear that his company's website was involved.",
"\"Our team has already provided the police with detailed information about the ads that the suspect or others posted on numerous web sites.",
"Law enforcement authorities now have evidence that the investigation appears to connect to at least 30 different ads or other postings on at least 15 different websites, separate and distinct from ours,\" Suskin said.",
"\"We are not aware of the existence of any evidence that would indicate which of these many sites were used by the suspect to establish contact with his victims.\"",
"The most recent deaths were discovered early Sunday, when police found the bodies of two women, burned beyond recognition, in the trunk of a burning car.",
"The victims have been tentatively identified and are believed to be 28 and 29 years of age, Godbee said.",
"Neither body showed obvious signs of trauma, he said.",
"Six days earlier, on December 19, the bodies of two other women were found in the trunk of a car parked at a vacant dwelling, Detroit police said.",
"While autopsy results, including toxicology tests, are not complete, \"we are proceeding as if this is two murder scenes,\" he said.",
"Backpage representatives have been cooperating with police, who plan to get search warrants and trace computer Internet Protocol addresses and cell phone numbers in an attempt \"to start putting this puzzle together,\" the police chief said.",
"Postings on the escort section of the website cost $1.",
"Referring to the advertisements on the website as \"borderline prostitution,\" Godbee said that his priorities lie elsewhere.",
"\"Right now, we want to get to the bottom of how these four individuals passed away, and who had a hand in their demise,\" he said.",
"CNN's Dan Verello contributed to this story."
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"NEW: backpage.com cites \"at least 15 different websites\" linked to the investigation .",
"The bodies of two women were found in the trunk of a burning car .",
"The bodies of another two women were found in a car trunk 6 days earlier .",
"Detroit police say three of the four women had links to online ads ."
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"Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- A major Darfur rebel leader and some of his top commanders have been killed, a Sudanese army spokesman announced on state-run radio Sunday.",
"\"Our armed forces were able to destroy the renegade Khalil Ibrahim, who died along with members of (his group's) leadership that was with him,\" said Alswarmi Khalid, the army's spokesperson.",
"Khalid said Ibrahim and members of his group were surrounded and killed in the Wad Banda area -- along the border between North Darfur state and North Kordofan state -- as they attempted to escape to South Sudan.",
"Fighting between Darfur rebels and the Sudanese army broke out days ago in North Kordofan, as rebels announced an assault on Khartoum.",
"Ibrahim was the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), considered the most powerful Darfur rebel group.",
"The JEM had refused to join the Doha Darfur peace document, signed between the Sudanese government and another rebel group, the Liberation and Justice Movement, this year.",
"A statement posted on JEM's website confirmed Ibrahim's death, but told a different narrative of events.",
"\"JEM announces the martyrdom of its chair and head of its armed forces and offers its condolences to all Sudanese people,\" the statement read.",
"The JEM said Ibrahim was attacked from air by an unknown plane that hit with \"with accuracy unusual for the regime's army's fighters which led to his martyrdom ... which points to the involvement of and a conspiracy by some in the regional and international circles with Khartoum's genocidal regime.\"",
"The rebel group reconfirmed its commitment to remove the government from power."
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"NEW: The JEM rebel group alleges a conspiracy led to the death of its leader .",
"Sudanese army: Khalil Ibrahim and members of his group's leadership were killed .",
"Ibrahim was the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)\nFighting between Darfur rebels and the Sudanese army broke out days ago in North Kordofan ."
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"(CNN) -- European nations could be penalized by being stripped of some powers if they fail to manage their budgets, according to a memo from European Commission President Herman Van Rompuy leaked Tuesday.",
"The confidential memo, sent out to leaders ahead of the final European Council meeting of the year at the end of the week, comes only a day after the leaders of Germany and France agreed in Paris on a new fiscal pact they say will help prevent another debt crisis.",
"But Van Rompuy's proposals, details of which were obtained by CNN, are perhaps even stricter than those of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.",
"The five-page memo proposes that the European Commission could perhaps be given the right to strip voting rights within the European Union from some countries who have been bailed out but are still not meeting their deficit targets .",
"For \"member states that are under an assistance program and have consistently failed to meet the conditionality, the (European) Commission could receive exceptional power such as ex-ante approval of all major economic reforms,\" the document says.",
"As such, the executive arm of the EU could force bailed-out countries, such as Greece, Ireland and Portugal, to comply with deficit regulations, which for the entire EU currently stand at 3% of GDP.",
"Those rules have been in place for many years but EU leaders are looking for a way to have them more tightly enforced in order to restore confidence in eurozone debt.",
"Van Rompuy's proposals indicate continuing differences of opinion with other key decision-makers in Europe over how to handle the region's debt crisis.",
"The proposed change of protocol Van Rompuy has put forward would not need to be fully ratified by all the member states, a person familiar with the plans told CNN.",
"Merkel and Sarkozy, heads of the two largest economies in the 17-nation eurozone, said Monday that their pact, to be presented in detail Friday, would involve amending or rewriting the treaties that govern the EU to force members to manage their budgets in a more structured and coherent way.",
"They are expected to write to Van Rompuy on Wednesday to find out whether their initiative would be embraced by all 27 EU countries or just the 17 that share the single currency.",
"Ahead of that move, Prime Minister David Cameron warned Tuesday he would not sign any reworked EU treaty that does not protect British interests.",
"\"What I'm saying is that if -- and eurozone countries do need to come together, do need to do more things together -- if they choose to use the European treaty to do that, Britain will be insisting on some safeguards, too, and as long as we get those, then that treaty can go ahead.",
"If we can't get those, it won't,\" he told the BBC.",
"Resolving the eurozone crisis is a priority, Cameron said, but he would be going to Brussels to \"defend and promote\" British interests, including the U.K. financial services sector.",
"As the head of the European Commission, Van Rompuy is expected to steer discussions between the member states as they meet for the final EU summit of the year.",
"Both Merkel and Sarkozy ruled out Monday the concept of pooling eurozone debt under so-called \"eurobonds,\" saying such discussions were premature.",
"However, Van Rompuy's memo appears to open the door to such an idea further down the line.",
"He recommends leaders consider \"opening up the possibility in a longer term perspective of moving towards common debt issuance in a staged and criteria-based approach,\" according to the leaked memo.",
"Sarkozy said Monday in Paris that the debt crisis, which has shaken markets around the world, must be resolved by March next year.",
"Meanwhile, Standard and Poor's placed 15 members of the euro currency union on review for a possible downgrade Monday, as the debt crisis in the eurozone continues to worsen.",
"The warning applies to AAA-rated nations such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Luxembourg, the U.S.-based credit rating agency said in a press release.",
"A downgrade of France or another of the region's top-rated nations would have serious consequences for the European Financial Stability Facility.",
"The EFSF, a government-backed bailout fund, could lose its AAA rating if the nations that stand behind it are downgraded."
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"Leaked memo sets out tough measures for countries that fail to manage budgets .",
"It comes a day after the leaders of France and Germany agreed to a new fiscal pact .",
"European leaders are in Brussels later this week for their last summit of the year ."
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"(CNN) -- Liverpool's Uruguay international striker Luis Suarez has been accused of giving \"unreliable\" and \"inconsistent\" evidence to the disciplinary panel which banned him for eight-games for alleged racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra.",
"The findings of the Independent Regulatory Commission were released late Saturday night on the official website of the English Football Association (FA).",
"The detailed 115-page ruling went over the circumstances of the clash between the pair in the match at Liverpool's Anfield ground on October 15.",
"It concluded that Suarez had called Evra a \"negro\" no fewer than seven times during the course of the English Premier League match.",
"The panel heard evidence from both players and also used linguistic experts to examine television footage of the game.",
"Their investigations centered on an incident just before the hour mark after Suarez fouled the French international full-back.",
"Dalglish defends t-shirts supporting Suarez .",
"At a subsequent Liverpool corner, Evra was marking the striker and they became involved in a fierce row.",
"Evra made a complaint to referee Andre Mariner and again after the game, which .",
"prompted the FA investigation.",
"Suarez, who was publicly supported by his manager Kenny Dalglish and teammates, argued before the panel that the use of he word \"negro\" was not offensive.",
"But the commission rejected his arguments in handing down their lengthy ban and a $62,000 fine.",
"\"Mr Evra was a credible witness,\" read its report.",
"\"He gave his evidence in a calm, composed and clear way.",
"It was, for the most part, consistent, although both he and Mr Suarez were understandably unable to remember every detail of the exchanges between them.",
"Blog: Out with the old and in with the new in 2012 .",
"\"Mr Suarez's evidence was unreliable in relation to matters of critical importance.",
"It was, in part, inconsistent with the contemporaneous evidence, especially the video footage,\" it added.",
"However, the commission did not believe Suarez was \"racist\" but had used \"insulting\" words, which was the basis of the FA charge against him.",
"\"We have found that charge proved on the evidence and arguments put before us.",
"The FA made clear that it did not contend that Mr Suarez acted as he did because he is a racist.",
"\"Mr Evra said in his evidence that he did not think Mr Suarez is a racist.",
"Mr Suarez said in evidence that he will not use the word 'negro' on a football pitch in England in the future, and we believe that is his genuine and firm intention.\"",
"Liverpool have until January 13 to appeal, leaving Suarez free to play, including a .",
"English League Cup semifinal first leg tie against Manchester City two days before.",
"They issued a statement on their website to confirm receipt of the commission's report.",
"\"The player, the club and our legal advisers will now take the necessary amount of time to read, digest and properly consider the contents of the 115 page judgment and will make no further comment at present,\" it read.",
"The Suarez affair comes at the same time England captain John Terry is facing a criminal charge of using racist language against QPR defender Anton Ferdinand during Chelsea's EPL game on October 23.",
"Terry has vowed to fight the charges \"tooth and nail\" and like Suarez has received the backing of his club.",
"The FA is postponing its action until the court proceedings are concluded early this year."
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"FA says Luis Suarez gave 'unreliable' evidence in race abuse case .",
"Suarez received eight-game ban and $62,000 fine .",
"115-page report details his exchanges with Patrice Evra .",
"Liverpool still to decide whether to appeal findings ."
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"(CNN) -- A motorcycle competitor has died the first stage of this year's Dakar Rally in Argentina Sunday.",
"Jorge Martinez Boero was only two kilometers from the finish of the 57km special from Mar del Plata to Santa Rosa when he came off his Beta bike with tragic results.",
"Organizers said the 38-year-old from Argentina, who was taking part in the annual event for the second time, suffered a cardiac arrest after his fall.",
"He was treated by medical staff within five minutes of the accident, but died on the way to hospital.",
"In a statement on the official website of the endurance rally, organizers sent their \"heartfelt condolences to his family and loved one's.\"",
"Boero's death was the 21st involving a competitor during the event, which was started in 1979 as the Paris-Dakar rally.",
"It finished in the Senegal capital for 29 times until the organizers brought the event to South America in 2009.",
"This year's event covers 9,000 kilometers and takes in Argentina, Peru and Chile.",
"Cars, motorcycles and trucks compete in their various categories over a series of grueling special stages on difficult terrain.",
"Chilean Francisco Lopez won the opening stage of the motorbike section as the Aprilia rider covered the 57km course in 32 minutes 37seconds.",
"Russia's Leonid Novitzkiy took first in the cars section in a Mini, with NASCAR star Robby Gordon in fifth place in his Hummer."
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"Motorcyclist killed on first stage of Dakar Rally .",
"Argentine competitor Jorge Martinez Boero dies after fall .",
"Organizers say he suffered a cardiac arrest .",
"Boero 21st competitor to die on the rally since 1979 ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- Seventeen people died after drinking a toxic, illegal home-brewed liquor over the New Years weekend in southern India, authorities said Monday.",
"At least 18 people were also poisoned by what authorities have described as contaminated moonshine in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district, P.V.S.",
"Ramkrishna, the district police chief, said.",
"Police in India have been cracking down recently on businesses selling the illegally-made alcohol, Ramkrishna said.",
"In December, authorities arrested 10 people for making contaminated moonshine that left at least 168 people dead in the Indian state of West Bengal.",
"Hundreds more were sickened by it, authorities said.",
"Moonshine is not uncommon in poverty-stricken communities in India because it is cheap to make."
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"(CareerBuilder.com) -- As the year draws to a close, it's not the promise of a new year that brings us the most joy.",
"No, it's the chance to reflect on the past year's most memorable work stories that gives us the most delight.",
"This year's selection of workplace tales ranges from ingenious to inspiring to just plain weird, but they all left their own special mark on pop culture.",
"So without further ado, we present you with our roundup of the weirdest and most notable work stories of 2011.",
"1. His \"winning\" remarks caused him to lose his job .",
"Over the past several years, actor Charlie Sheen has made headlines for his destructive behavior, short-lived marriages and alleged substance abuse.",
"Yet despite the steady drum of rumors and allegations, he continued to show up and dutifully film his TV show, \"Two and a Half Men.\"",
"That is until he had his meltdown. While the seedlings of chaos began to sprout at the end of 2010, things took a turn for the worse in early January, when he was rushed to the hospital for \"stomach pains.\"",
"From there, Sheen became the center of media attention, making news for his bizarre behavior, crazy rants and admittedly addictive catch phrases.",
"There was constant speculation over whether the show would drop him, and he was eventually fired after blasting the show's creator.",
"While Sheen has since cleaned up his act, those few months of insanity are ones we won't soon forget.",
"[Source: People] .",
"2. Rubik's cube expert, prom king and other ways to stand out in your cover letter .",
"There's no shortage of advice on how to develop an effective cover letter, but job seeker Roanald took some of that advice to the extreme.",
"Yes, a cover letter should be attention-grabbing, but using profanity and listing one of his qualities as honorable because he is \"the son of a librarian and a Capricorn\" may be pushing it.",
"Needless to say it's an entertaining read, and it impressed the cover letter's recipients (Chicago bar The Aviary) enough to get him a job.",
"[Source: The Huffington Post] .",
"3. The homeless man with that \"golden voice\" What started as a videotaped interview of a homeless man by Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch videographer Doral Chenoweth soon turned into a widespread Internet sensation.",
"The man in the video, Ted Williams, had a voice any radio or TV announcer would kill for.",
"In fact, earlier in his life, before falling on hard times, he'd attended school for voice acting and did some work in radio.",
"After the video went viral, Williams began receiving job offers and even appeared on NBC's \"Today.\"",
"Yet the sudden media attention was too much for him to bear, and he reverted to drinking and other destructive behavior.",
"While the hoopla has since died down, the homeless man with the silky smooth voice won't soon be forgotten.",
"[Source: The Columbus Dispatch] .",
"4. Playing around on the Internet really can get you a job .",
"Sure, you've been told to \"follow your dreams\" and \"do something you love,\" but it's never really that easy, right?",
"For one Philadelphia native, it was.",
"The Philadelphia 76ers launched a voting contest to name the team's new mascot but didn't use social media to promote it.",
"So self-described \"social media sponge\" Jerry Rizzo took it upon himself to create Twitter handles for the three mascot finalists.",
"At first, the team shied away from the extra social media help, asking Rizzo to hand over the Twitter handles and back away from Twitter.",
"But the CEO soon realized there was a real opportunity to grow the team's social media presence, and ultimately offered Rizzo a social media position with the team.",
"He gladly accepted.",
"[Source: Mashable] .",
"5. A cop who didn't want to be late .",
"Miami police officer Fausto Lopez led other officers on a high-speed chase, all in the name of getting to work on time.",
"While Lopez's dedication to punctuality is appreciated, one can only assume his employer would have preferred he arrive 20 minutes late over getting arrested.",
"6. Oops i(Phone) did it again .",
"In last year's roundup of notable workplace stories, we included the tale of the iPhone 4 prototype that went missing after its owner left it at a bar.",
"Clearly no lessons were learned from that gaffe, because another Apple employee made the same mistake with the iPhone 5 prototype, losing it at a Mexican restaurant.",
"And at least the iPhone 4 was sold for the worthy amount of $5,000.",
"Allegedly the iPhone 5 archetype raked in a measly $200 on Craigslist.",
"Hopefully the next iPhone iteration will be kept under lock and key.",
"[Source: CNET] .",
"7. Gossiping about your co-workers?",
"Use personal email .",
"We've all had those days when we've needed to vent to a fellow co-worker.",
"But doing so continuously, and over company email, may not be the best move.",
"Three Iowa employees learned that lesson the hard way after their boss discovered thousands of their gossipy interoffice emails.",
"Within these emails, the employees in question trashed their co-workers and expressed their general disgust for their jobs.",
"After the disparaging emails were exposed, the employees were fired for \"excessive use of the commission's computer system for emails of a personal nature.\"",
"So the next time you need to let off steam about your workplace, stick to doing so via your personal email account.",
"[Source: MoxieBird] .",
"8. The wrong way to engage employees .",
"Finding fun and creative ways to engage employees is a good thing, right?",
"Not if that includes hosting a contest to guess the next employee to get the boot.",
"The owner of a chain of Iowa convenience stores did just that, encouraging employees to predict the next cashier to be fired for a chance to win a whopping $10 in cash.",
"Do you think any of the employees guessed themselves as the next victim?",
"[Source: On Deadline] .",
"There you have it -- your 2011 workplace year in review.",
"Here's to hoping 2012 brings even more crazy workplace tales.",
"I have a feeling we won't be disappointed.",
"© CareerBuilder.com 2011.",
"All rights reserved.",
"The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority."
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"This year's selection of workplace tales ranges from ingenious to inspiring to just plain weird .",
"Charlie Sheen losing his \"Two and a Half Men\" job tops the list .",
"The owner of a chain of Iowa convenience stores hosted a contest to see who would be fired ."
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"(CNN) -- Two Swedish journalists who were found guilty in Ethiopia of supporting terrorism were sentenced to 11 years in jail Tuesday, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said.",
"\"Our belief was that the court would think they were journalists and they would be released.",
"This is what the prime minister has said before,\" ministry spokesman Anders Jörle said.",
"\"It is not fair that they are sentenced since they are journalists on a journalistic mission.\"",
"\"They are innocent and have been convicted because of their journalistic work,\" said Tomas Olsson, the journalists' Swedish attorney.",
"\"We are very disappointed.\" A court convicted Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye last week.",
"Ethiopian troops captured Persson and Schibbye in July during an exchange of gunfire with a rebel group in the Ogaden, a prohibited region along the nation's border with Somalia, according to state media.",
"Ethiopian officials accused the journalists of being accomplices to terrorism after the government declared the Ogaden National Liberation Front a terrorist group in June.",
"Olsson said the 11-year sentence was the lowest possible one for the crimes they were convicted of.",
"\"The prosecutor sought 18 years imprisonment, so if you look at it that way, it is a positive thing that they got the lowest possible sentence,\" Olsson said.",
"\"But since they are innocent, they are very disappointed.\"",
"Schibbye and Persson have until January 10 to decide if they want to appeal -- a process that could take up to two years -- or if they want to seek a pardon.",
"However, Olsson said, if they want to apply for a pardon the two have to admit the crimes, \"and since they are not guilty then this is not something they'd want to do.\"",
"Fredric Alm at the Sweden-based photojournalism agency Kontinent, for which the two men work, said they \"have a very hard decision ahead of them\" in considering whether to appeal or ask for a pardon, but that an 11-year sentence in an Ethiopian prison \"could effectively be a death sentence for them.\"",
"Alm added: \"The purpose of this verdict is to scare away all journalists from reporting in the Ogaden.",
"But as journalists we have to continue reporting from closed areas.",
"It's a very sad day for press freedom.",
"It's a very sad day but it didn't come as a surprise for us.",
"It's still a political verdict; it's not a real trial.",
"It is the (Ethiopian) prime minister who has decided.\"",
"Persson and Schibbye were convicted on two counts: entering the country illegally and providing assistance to a terrorist organization, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).",
"Press freedom groups say the two were embedded with the rebels while working on a story about the region.",
"Journalists and aid workers are prohibited from entering the Ogaden, where human rights organizations say human rights abuses against ethnic Somalis by rebels and Ethiopian troops are rampant.",
"\"The Ethiopian army's answer to the rebels has been to viciously attack civilians in the Ogaden,\" said Georgette Ganon of Human Rights Watch.",
"\"These widespread and systematic atrocities amount to crimes against humanity.\"",
"Reporters Without Borders criticized the court's decision.",
"\"What are the Ethiopian authorities hoping to achieve?\"",
"the international secretariat of the group asked.",
"\"To discourage anyone from visiting the Ogaden, as these two journalists did?",
"To send a warning signal to the national and international media about the danger of receiving a long jail sentence on a terrorism charge if they attempt any potentially embarrassing investigative reporting?\"",
"\"Our starting point is and remains that they have been in the country on a journalistic mission,\" Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said in a statement last week.",
"\"They should be freed as soon as possible and be able to rejoin their families in Sweden.\"",
"But presiding judge Shemsu Sirgaga said the two \"have not been able to prove that they did not support terrorism.\"",
"\"They have shown that they are esteemed journalists, but we cannot conclude that someone with a good reputation does not engage in criminal acts,\" Sirgaga said.",
"Both journalists pleaded guilty to entering the country illegally through Somalia without accreditation, according to the CPJ, which says Ethiopian officials deny media access without government minders.",
"\"We have documented violations of due process and the politicization of their trial,\" the CPJ said, complaining that the government pronounced the two guilty even before the trial started.",
"Amnesty International called for their release ahead of Tuesday's sentencing.",
"\"There is nothing to suggest that the two men entered Ethiopia with any intention other than conducting their legitimate work as journalists.",
"The government chooses to interpret meeting with a terrorist organization as support of that group and therefore a terrorist act,\" said Claire Beston with the human rights group.",
"In a statement issued in September, Kontinent said that its journalists do not take sides or participate in any conflict and report under international rights regarding freedom of the press, which it believes should be upheld by any government.",
"The trial against the journalists turned into a fight for press freedom in Ethiopia, according to international journalists' organizations.",
"In a letter sent to the United Nations, Reporters without Borders accused Ethiopia of using its anti-terrorism law to lessen press freedom and penalize free speech.",
"\"In the name of the fight against terrorism, the government muzzles dissident and critical voices, thus abusing human rights and fundamental freedoms,\" wrote the secretary general of Reporters without Borders, Jean-Francois Julliard.",
"CNN's Per Nyberg and Sarah Jones contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A long prison term in Ethiopia could be a death sentence, the journalists' agency says .",
"The journalists' attorney says they are \"very disappointed\" by the verdict .",
"The judge says the two failed to prove their innocence .",
"Human rights groups say Ethiopia failed to provide justice ."
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"(CNN) -- Europe, struggling under a debt crisis which has crippled the eurozone's economy, is facing a \"lost decade,\" according to the head of manufacturing giant Hilti.",
"Bo Risberg, chief executive of Lichtenstein-based Hilti, told CNN that Europe is in a critical condition and businesses are likely to face the impact for years to come.",
"\"We will have a very difficult decade, a lost decade you can call it,\" Risberg said.",
"\"Fundamentally there is so much austerity needed in order to get back into a reasonable debt situation it will [continue to] impact the economy in Europe.",
"There will be some tough times ahead.\"",
"Risberg -- head of a company which employs 20,000 people across 120 countries -- says Europe's debt crisis cannot be allowed to worsen.",
"\"What we are seeing now in Greece is practically a default, with a 50% write down [on its debts], but we can't afford that in Italy, Spain and Portugal,\" said Risberg.",
"\"We are just transferring from the more prudent countries to the countries that have big loans -- so it won't work.\"",
"The European Central Bank, which has propped up struggling countries through the debt crisis by buying their debt in the open markets -- thus bringing down the cost of funding -- has come under pressure to do more to save Europe.",
"But Risberg is wary about the ECB becoming more active.",
"\"The answer is not to print money from the ECB,\" he said.",
"Such a move would be \"dangerous,\" he added, saying the potential for hyperinflation would be catastrophic.",
"Risberg said Europeans need to be accept the introduction of austerity measures, noting southern Europe's economy will be \"in very bad shape\" for years to come.",
"\"Those who are agile and flexibility will come out stronger in the crisis -- those who are not will not survive,\" he added.",
"CNN's Emily Smith contributed to this report."
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"Hilti CEO says Europe faces a \"lost decade\" as it struggles under its debt crisis .",
"Bo Risberg is wary of the ECB becoming more active in propping up eurozone economies .",
"He says Europe needs to accept austerity measures ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Veteran sports broadcaster Jim Huber, a former CNN journalist, died Monday at the age of 67.",
"He was recently diagnosed with acute leukemia.",
"Huber, who spent more than 27 years with Turner Broadcasting, most recently worked for Turner Sports' TNT network, covering golf and the NBA.",
"\"We are saddened by the passing of our colleague and friend Jim Huber,\" said David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner Broadcasting.",
"Before his move to Turner Sports, Huber was an anchor for CNN/Sports Illustrated, a 24-hour sports news network.",
"Huber started at CNN in 1984 but began his career in print journalism, covering the NFL at the Miami News, followed by The Atlanta Journal, where he covered the city's professional football and basketball teams.",
"He was also the author of three books, the most recent published in May.",
"\"Four Days in July\" follows pro-golfer Tom Watson's improbable run at the 2009 British Open title.",
"Death of a sports poet .",
"Watson, just shy of his 60th birthday at the time, was eventually beaten in a playoff by fellow American Stewart Cink.",
"Huber's reporting garnered a number of awards, including an Emmy for his \"Olympic Park Bombing\" essay and six Sportscaster of the Year awards from The Associated Press.",
"\"Jim's award-winning talent to write, host and moderate was well known -- but his passion for golf, playing, watching and promoting golf was something that the PGA of America and PGA.com will always hold near and dear,\" PGA.com's John Kim wrote Monday.",
"Huber wrote a weekly column for the Turner Sports website.",
"Levy called Huber \"a gentleman and a wonderful individual,\" and said he \"will be deeply missed.\"",
"Huber is survived by his wife, Carol, and son, Matt."
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"Jim Huber spent more than 27 years with Turner Broadcasting .",
"Most recently, Huber covered the NBA and golf for TNT .",
"His awards include an Emmy .",
"He was also the author of three books ."
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"(CNN) -- Los Angeles Galaxy reached Major League Soccer's (MLS) championship match on Sunday after a 3-1 defeat of Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference final.",
"The Galaxy, two-time MLS Cup winners, reached the deciding game for a record seventh time thanks to goals from captain Landon Donovan, American Mike Magee and Ireland striker Robbie Keane in front of their home fans at the Home Depot Center.",
"Manager Bruce Arena's Galaxy will face Houston Dynamo in the post-season's final match, after Dynamo beat Sporting Kansas City in the Eastern Conference final.",
"The final, which will take place at the Home Depot Center, could be midfielder David Beckham's last match for Los Angeles, with the former England captain's contract expiring at the end of the season.",
"But Beckham, 36, is focused only on the upcoming match with Dynamo, after playing in the MLS Cup 2009 when the Galaxy were beaten by Real Salt Lake in a penalty shoot-out.",
"\"We're happy to be winning the Western final, but we know that there is one more game to go so we're not getting carried away,\" the former Real Madrid and Manchester United star told the league's official website.",
"\"We did that a couple of years ago and we paid for it.",
"We didn't win the MLS Cup final, so hopefully this will be something that we're happy to win [on Sunday], but we know that we've got one more game.\"",
"Galaxy went ahead on 23 minutes when Donovan, 29, converted a penalty after Andy Williams' push on Omar Gonzalez.",
"Dynamo responded almost immediately, striker Alvaro Saborio scoring with a close-range header to equalize after 25 minutes.",
"Beckham, capped 115 times by England, helped Galaxy regain the lead on 58 minutes, his pin-point cross headed home by Magee.",
"Former Tottenham and Liverpool forward Keane secured the win for Galaxy with 22 minutes remaining, wriggling free of his marker before firing a low shot beyond Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimandi.",
"Dynamo needed second half goals from defender Andre Hainault and forward Carlos Costly to see off the challenge of Sporting Kansas City in front of a record crowd at Livestrong Sporting Park.",
"The 16th MLS Cup final will complete the 2011 season and will be played on Sunday November 20."
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"Los Angeles Galaxy have reached the 2011 MLS Cup .",
"Galaxy reached the championship game after a 3-1 win over Real Salt Lake .",
"Bruce Arena's team will face Houston Dynamo in the November 20 match ."
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"Brussels, Belgium (CNN) -- A man who killed five people and himself in a gun and grenade attack in Belgium feared going back to prison and losing the life he had built, his lawyer said Thursday.",
"The attack on a crowded market square in Liege Tuesday by Nourdine Amrani, which also left at least 130 people wounded, shocked the nation.",
"His defense lawyer in Liege, Jean-Francois Dister, told CNN Amrani had called him late Monday and early Tuesday after the police called him in for interview Tuesday afternoon over a sexual assault case.",
"\"It wasn't so much life in prison that bothered him -- he'd served time already -- but it was he'd rebuilt his life on the outside, and he was worried about losing all this,\" Dister said.",
"The lawyer said he was stunned when he heard later that day that Amrani, whom he had known for two-and-a-half years, was responsible for the grenade attack.",
"\"It's very shocking. I don't understand the reason why he did this, and I think I will probably never understand,\" he said.",
"Nonetheless, Dister's comments give the first real insight into what might have motivated Amrani to go on a rampage that targeted people waiting at a bus stop by a busy Christmas market.",
"After the attack, police also found a dead woman in a residence next to a workshop where Amrani once grew marijuana, a local police spokesman said Wednesday.",
"Amrani had previously served time in prison for rape and drug trafficking offenses, his lawyer said.",
"He was released last year.",
"Dister said Amrani was also convicted on weapons charges in 2008 but later acquitted.",
"Liege authorities have not said he was cleared on those counts.",
"Liege prosecutor Danielle Reynders told CNN Wednesday that the police interview involved a sexual assault case, rather than a rumored rape allegation.",
"\"Because Amrani was convicted of rape in 2003, police obviously regarded him as a person of interest,\" Dister said.",
"Dister said his client, who had a Belgian partner whom Dister had met several times, feared losing everything.",
"\"He was someone that was integrated into society.",
"He felt Belgian.",
"I'm not sure if he was a practicing Muslim but he knew about his culture and his roots,\" Dister said.",
"\"When things were going well for him he was very pleasant and good-natured.",
"I never had problems with him.",
"But, that said, sometimes when legal proceedings were dragging on, or he was accused of things he claimed (he) was not responsible for he could become annoyed and agitated -- but it was in words only.\"",
"Dister said Amrani did not to his knowledge take drugs and had not been charged with drugs use.",
"Authorities will conduct an autopsy in part to see whether Amrani was under the influence of drugs during the attack, said a senior Belgian security source who has been briefed on the investigation but did not want to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.",
"It is not yet clear how Amrani, who Reynders said was a Brussels-born Belgian citizen of Moroccan descent, obtained the pistol, semi-automatic rifle and three grenades he used in the attack.",
"Katrin Delcourt, a spokeswoman for the provincial governor's office, described Amrani Wednesday as having significant gunsmith and firearms skills.",
"For a period up to 2008, he held a French hunting license under which he bought at least one weapon, she said, but that license was revoked as a result of the police investigation that led to his conviction on arms and drugs trafficking offenses in 2008.",
"The weapons he owned then were destroyed and police are continuing to investigate whether the arms used in Tuesday's attack were bought on the black market, Delcourt said.",
"One of the weapons he had, a light automatic rifle, is a standard weapon in the Belgian army, she said.",
"Amrani left no explanation for his actions, investigators have said."
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"Amrani's lawyer says his client feared losing the life he had rebuilt after a past prison term .",
"Lawyer Jean-Francois Dister spoke to the gunman shortly before he went on a rampage .",
"The attack in Liege left five people and the gunman dead, as well as at least 130 wounded .",
"Nourdine Amrani had been called to an interview with police over a sex assault case ."
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"(CNN) -- Paul Nicklen makes friends with polar wildlife, photographing seals, polar bears, narwhals and others in remarkable closeups.",
"And Nicklen, a contributing photographer for the National Geographic, is passing along a message from the creatures he sees in the Arctic and Antarctica: They're in trouble.",
"The reason is that the sea ice is disappearing, removing a key element from the environment sustaining life.",
"Nicklen, whose work has been recognized with multiple awards, tracked the rare spirit bear for a National Geographic cover story.",
"From the age of 4, when his family moved to Inuit territory in Canada, Nicklen has explored the region, in later years as a biologist and a photographer.",
"He spoke at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach, California, in March, where he was interviewed by CNN.",
"Watch Paul Nicklen's TED Talk .",
"Nicklen pitched a project to the National Geographic on the leopard seal, a 12-foot long, 1,000-pound creature with a ferocious reputation.",
"He was prepared for hostility but upon spotting one, he was surprised to find it tried to feed him its prey, penguins.",
"\"So I went there terrified of what I might meet in this leopard seal and actually was nurtured and protected and cared for,\" he said in the interview.",
"\"It was the most incredible encounter of my career by far.\"",
"Nicklen said that polar bears could face extinction within 50 to 100 years if ice continues to recede.",
"\"We know the science.",
"We know that ice is disappearing and after a while it just becomes a statistic.",
"And with my photography I want people to understand that if we lose ice, we stand to lose an entire ecosystem.",
"\"This is our one chance at life on this planet.",
"Our planet is in trouble and we are not reacting fast enough.\""
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"Paul Nicklen photographs the wildlife of the polar regions .",
"He says receding sea ice poses major challenge to ecosystem .",
"Polar bears, many other creatures rely on ice to sustain life, he says ."
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"(CNN) -- Let me begin by saying that if Mr. Martin so much as breathes a word about George Blanda, Earl Campbell or Warren Moon, I win this debate.",
"Seriously, they are Tennessee Titans (aka ex-Houston Oilers) and, thus, completely off limits when speaking of the Houston Texans.",
"You may be thinking, \"That's an unsporting way to begin an argument.\"",
"Well, I'm in a pretty unsporting mood after my Cowboys -- again -- choked down the backstretch, looking more like a team playing Five-Mississippi Rush than one of the greatest sports franchises on Earth.",
"But they are still Texas' team.",
"Hell, they're America's team.",
"Don't let anyone tell you differently.",
"Since the glorious days (and hair) of Jimmy Johnson, when Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin owned the NFL -- tallying three Super Bowl victories in the '90s -- the headline has been the same: \"Playoff victory escapes Cowboys.\"",
"There are two unremarkable exceptions, of course, one being when we pounded Philly by 20 in a 2010 NFC Wild Card bout.",
"That's irrelevant to this conversation, but I wanted to take a shot at those ornery Eagles fans so they'll write hyperbolically nasty things about me below.",
"It's how they roll. Back to the conversation at hand ... Mr. Martin argues from a relative vantage point.",
"The Cowboys, quite simply, suck lately.",
"Read why Martin believes Houston is the new face of Texas football .",
"The running backs are like delicate, porcelain dolls.",
"The secondary and o-line look like sieves.",
"Dez Bryant thinks wide receivers get new contracts for spending everything from their first one.",
"Our quarterback ticked off some voodoo priest who now spends his Decembers stabbing the daylights out of his Tony Romo doll.",
"And the team is owned by a megalomaniac who believes prowess as a college football player and oilman qualify him to be the only NFL owner with a general manager title.",
"This, after two playoff wins in 15 years.",
"Yet all this negativity does nothing to tilt the Cowboys' crown.",
"It doesn't even scuff the throne.",
"The Cowboys rule Texas, and no 2002 upstarts from Houston enjoying their first playoffs can take that away.",
"That doesn't mean the Texans haven't done something impressive.",
"Most fans (especially I) would be thrilled to see their team lose its top quarterback, running back, wide receiver, linebacker and cornerback for various stints yet still make the postseason.",
"It's commendable, but I'm afraid it will come to a Cowboys-esque ending Saturday versus the Bengals.",
"I could be wrong, but Las Vegas isn't exactly inspired when you're favored by three at home.",
"Win or lose, Houston has a long road to rival the Cowboys, whose eight Super Bowl appearances are tied for most ever.",
"Our five Super Bowl wins are second only to the Pittsburgh Steelers (hurt to write that).",
"Did I mention Saturday will mark the Texans' first playoff game?",
"Ever? The franchise isn't old enough to have a Hall of Famer.",
"Our Ring of Honor -- What?",
"No Ring of Honor in Houston?",
"-- is rife with legends.",
"In addition to the aforementioned Triplets of the 1990s, there's Landry, Schramm, Lilly, Renfro, Dorsett, Hayes, Staubach and White.",
"Those are just the HOFers. I'm not counting Larry Allen, Drew Pearson, Chuck Haley, Cliff Harris, Don Perkins or Don Meredith (and if anyone has a clue how Ed \"Too Tall\" Jones isn't in the Ring, let me know.)",
"Though down now, the 'Boys used to be mainstays in the playoffs.",
"In the '70s, it was more common to see them in the NFC Championship than not.",
"That's when they became America's Team.",
"I know the moniker riles folks up, and it should.",
"If you aren't a Cowboys fan, then your squad isn't America's Team.",
"I'd be sad and envious, too.",
"Before Packers and Steelers fans start squawking about merchandise sales or some poll their pal e-mailed to them, let me assure you that none other than NFL Films christened us America's Team.",
"Because the Cowboys had so many fans in every city, narrator Bob Ryan was compelled to say during a 1978 highlight film, \"They appear on television so often that their faces are as familiar to the public as presidents and movie stars.",
"They are the Dallas Cowboys, America's Team.\"",
"Ryan said later he thought it was a \"catchy highlight title\" that would never stick.",
"But it did, and that's what we call Dallas now.",
"Get your own nickname.",
"It will take decades or longer before Mr. Martin and I can seriously discuss whether the Texans rival the Cowboys in the Lone Star State (which, to be sure, is a reference to the state flag and not the Cowboys' helmet).",
"Maybe if Houston had bought the Oilers that ill-advised stadium Bud Adams wouldn't have shipped Mr. Martin's boys off to Nashville.",
"Say what you will about our megalomaniac oilman owner, but at least he'd never leave Big D. That's because the Cowboys are part of an elite class of franchise whose brethren include the Yankees and Celtics.",
"No matter how much hatred they inspire, there will be millions who love them.",
"They're in Dallas, New York and Boston to stay.",
"Can you imagine Jerry Jones threatening to move his team to Tennessee and change their name to the Memphis Cowboys?",
"Yeah, me neither."
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"Eliott McLaughlin takes issue with Roland Martin's assertion that the Texans are Texas' team .",
"The Texans are a 2002 expansion team enjoying its first playoff bid against the Bengals .",
"Cowboys' history includes 5 Super Bowls and greats like Staubach, Dorsett, Smith .",
"Dallas was christened America's team by NFL Flims' Bob Ryan during a 1978 highlight reel ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Activists say the U.S. is handing the enemy a victory the longer it allows the detention of enemy combatants at the U.S Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.",
"\"When we leave them at Guantanamo, in a military prison, we give them a status they don't deserve,\" said John Hutson, a former U.S. Navy judge advocate general.",
"\"We make them heroes and martyrs to their friends and colleagues back in terrorist camps,\" he said.",
"Ten years after the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo from what was considered the battlefield in Afghanistan after 9/11, constitutional and judicial experts held a news conference Wednesday to say the Obama administration needs to restore American values of human rights and the rule of law.",
"Hundreds of protesters rallied later outside the White House as part of the event, with organizers saying the rally was to \"call on President Obama to keep his promise and shutter Guantanamo Bay now.\"",
"Under the Bush administration, the United States claimed that Guantanamo Bay detainees are not on U.S. soil and therefore not covered by the U.S. Constitution, and that \"enemy combatant\" status means they can be denied some legal protections.",
"President Barack Obama in January 2009 ordered the camp to be closed within a year, citing security concerns.",
"But as of July of last year, 171 detainees remained at Guantanamo.",
"Their prolonged and murky circumstances were the focus of the Wednesday event.",
"\"There is no case that is so important that we should sacrifice our dedication to human rights and rule of law,\" Hutson said.",
"\"It's not a rule of law unless it applies all the time, and it's not a human right unless it applies to all people.\"",
"Morris Davis, a former chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo, said political interference from back home during the Bush administration blocked any basis for a fair trial.",
"\"Initially I was probably the leading proponent for Guantanamo, and for military commissions,\" Davis, a retired Air Force colonel, said Wednesday.",
"But he eventually resigned after he said the Bush administration pressured him to use evidence he felt was obtained through torture.",
"\"I believed at the time that we were committed to having full, fair and open trials,\" Davis said.",
"\"I resigned when I lost confidence that that was our commitment.\"",
"Obama, in a 2009 speech delivered in Cairo, Egypt, acknowledged that the U.S. had acted \"contrary to our ideals\" in the time that followed the 9/11 attacks.",
"After telling his Middle East audience he had \"unequivocally prohibited the use of torture,\" Obama then said he had \"ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed,\" on a timetable that would have ended about a year ago.",
"\"If we roll up the Constitution every time that there's a difficult factual situation, we might as well roll up the entire democracy,\" said Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.",
"Talat Hamdani, a Muslim American whose son died in the attacks on World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, spoke at the rally in front of the White House.",
"\"We say we are not at war with Islam, yet actions do speak louder than words,\" Hamdani said.",
"\"Guantanamo is a shame -- a disgrace for our nation and we need to set the record straight by leading by example.\"",
"Despite a steady downpour of rain, the large group of protesters -- including some in orange jumpsuits symbolizing the Guantanamo Bay detainee uniforms, marched past the White House and on to the Supreme Court following the rally.",
"CNN's Lindy Royce-Bartlett contributed to this report."
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"Legal activists question a decade of detentions at Guantanamo .",
"Former military JAG says detainees become \"heroes and martyrs\" in terrorist camps .",
"Demonstration outside White House urges Obama to make good on shutdown promise ."
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"(CNN) -- Alabama exacted revenge and clinched the Bowl Championship Series title on Monday night, besting Louisiana State University 21-0.",
"The Crimson Tide cleared up past problems with its special teams, kicking five field goals to become champions of college football.",
"Alabama's stifling defense battered LSU the entire game, holding the Tigers to just five first downs.",
"\"It was great team win.",
"Our defense did a good job.",
"Our offense controlled the momentum and our special teams played well,\" Alabama coach Nick Saban said.",
"Monday's game was a far cry from the two Southeastern Conference rivals' last showdown.",
"Both teams went into that game on November 5 undefeated.",
"College football pundits dubbed it the game of the century and Alabama lost 9-6 in overtime.",
"In that game, Alabama missed four field goals, including one in overtime.",
"This time, Alabama's kicker Jeremy Shelley hit five field goals, giving Alabama a commanding 15-0 lead in the fourth quarter.",
"Crimson Tide's star running back Trent Richardson broke a 34-yard touchdown with less than five minutes left.",
"\"I am happy and proud of my players, the way they responded to the pain and disappointment of losing the last time,\" Saban said .",
"Alabama's offense was dealt a huge blow early in the game.",
"Kick returner Marquis Maze injured his leg in the second quarter after running a 49-yard punt return.",
"Maze, who is also Alabama's big-play wide receiver, left the game and never returned.",
"But Alabama was able to overcome the loss and moved the ball up and down the field all game long, to the chagrin of the thousands of purple-and-gold-clad LSU fans who packed the Superdome in New Orleans.",
"By the fourth quarter, the stands seemed like a sea of crimson as Alabama fans celebrated.",
"The loss ends LSU's undefeated streak, .",
"\"My locker room is hurting right now,\" LSU coach Les Miles said after the game.",
"\"We did not get it going offensively at all.",
"Our defense was on the field a long time.Give credit to our opponents on that.",
"It became very hard to get first downs.",
"This is as painful as anything we have been through.\""
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"Alabama kicks five field goals .",
"Crimson Tide holds LSU to only five first downs .",
"\"I am happy and proud of my players,\" Alabama coach Nick Saban said ."
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"(CNN) -- Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman called it stupid.",
"His rival Ron Paul denounced it.",
"But perhaps most appalled by a \"China Jon\" ad on YouTube were Hindus in America.",
"An amateurish video posted by self-characterized Paul supporter NHLiberty4Paul questions Huntsman's \"American values,\" shows Huntsman, a former ambassador to China, speaking in Mandarin and calls him the \"Manchurian Candidate.\"",
"So why is that so offensive to Hindus?",
"The ad also shows images of Huntsman with his two adopted daughters -- one from China and the other, India.",
"The Huntsmans adopted Indian daughter Asha Bharati from the western state of Gujarat in 2006.",
"The ad asks: \"Share our values?",
"A man of faith?\" as a photograph flashes of Huntsman with an infant Asha Bharati.",
"Both are a wearing a red tikka, a mark associated with the sacred and often seen on foreheads at Hindu ceremonies and temples.",
"The Hindu American Foundation objected to the insinuations made in the video.",
"\"This deplorable ad is blatantly racist and religiously intolerant, and crosses all lines of acceptable political discourse,\" said Suhag Shukla, the foundation's managing director and legal counsel.",
"\"Instead of vilifying Governor Huntsman, he should be applauded for being open-minded enough to raise his adopted daughter as a Hindu,\" she said.",
"Huntsman, a Mormon, is raising Asha \"to learn about and appreciate her native culture and the faiths associated with it,\" his spokesman told CNN last summer.",
"The advertisement was posted on YouTube earlier this week.",
"An e-mail attempt to reach NHLiberty4Paul was not immediately successful.",
"A description accompanying the video states that \"Ron Paul is the only authentic conservative in this race, and the only one capable of bringing authentic change to Washington.",
"He is the only sole alternative to flip-floppers responsible for the costly mistakes of the past.\"",
"At a campaign stop Friday in Concord, New Hampshire, Huntsman told reporters that Paul should disavow the ad.",
"\"If the group is in any way affiliated with his organization, of course he should,\" Huntsman said.",
"\"It's just political campaign nonsense.",
"It happens from time to time.\"",
"He described how his Chinese daughter Gracie Mei was found abandoned in a vegetable market and taken to an orphanage as a newborn.",
"Now 12, Gracie Mei is a fixture on the Huntsman campaign.",
"The GOP contender often endearingly refers to her as his top foreign policy adviser.",
"In all, the Huntsmans have seven children.",
"\"To attack a candidate's family, particularly his young daughters, is completely unacceptable and should be denounced by all Americans,\" said Samir Kalra, director of the Hindu Foundation.",
"Paul, meanwhile, told CNN that he disavowed the ad and had no control of his supporters' actions.",
"\"Of course I denounce it ... but people do that, and they do it in all campaigns,\" Paul said.",
"CNN's Jim Acosta contributed to this report."
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"Posted by a Ron Paul supporter, the ad questions Huntsman's values .",
"It shows him speaking Mandarin and with his two adoptive daughters .",
"\"A man of faith?\"",
"the ad asks before a photo of Huntsman with his Hindu daughter .",
"A Hindu organization calls the ad racist and intolerant ."
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"London (CNN) -- A Claude Monet pastel drawing of London's Waterloo Bridge has gone on display in the Savoy hotel room where it was created 110 years ago.",
"Monet drew the bridge across the Thames during a stay in room 618 at the hotel -- now known as the Monet Suite -- in January 1901.",
"He had intended to paint the view from his balcony in oils, but his art supplies and canvases were delayed on their way from his home in France.",
"On Monday, the picture -- one of 26 pastel views of the river created by the impressionist -- returned, albeit temporarily.",
"It will be exhibited at the hotel until December 16.",
"\"Since opening in 1889, the Savoy has played host to numerous artists, such as Whistler and Picasso,\" said manager Kiaran MacDonald.",
"\"However Monet's views of the Thames are without doubt the most celebrated works of art associated with the hotel.\"",
"The picture is the only one of Monet's pastels of the river not in a museum collection.",
"It is currently owned by a private gallery, Trinity House, and is for sale for a reported $2.32m.",
"Monet (1840-1926) lived in London during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, and visited the city on several other occasions, in order to depict its buildings through the then-famous fog.",
"\"London would be quite ugly if it was not for the fog,\" he wrote in a letter from the Savoy on an earlier stay in 1900."
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"Monet pastel drawing of London's Waterloo Bridge on display at the Savoy hotel .",
"Artist created the picture -- the view from room 618 -- during a stay there in 1901 .",
"He intended to paint the scene in oils, but his supplies were delayed en route from France ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- New Hampshire Republican political pros are not expecting a big surprise when the state's voters cast their ballots in Tuesday's GOP presidential primary, seeing an easy victory for former Massachusetts Gov.",
"Mitt Romney.",
"But the race for second place is much less clear.",
"A CNN survey of 52 New Hampshire GOP insiders found that only one thought Romney would lose the primary, and that was to former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.",
"This group included Republican leaders in both chambers of the state Legislature, local elected and party officials, business and conservative interest group leaders, veterans of previous primary campaigns, GOP political consultants and other party activists.",
"(Those surveyed were granted anonymity for their individual responses to encourage candor.",
"The names of the insiders who participated in this survey appear at the end of this article.)",
"The political insiders also thought that while Romney's margin of victory would be substantial, he would not crack 40 percent.",
"When their predictions for what percentage of the vote each candidate would receive were averaged, Romney came out with a victory of 19 percentage points over Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, followed closely by Santorum.",
"Percentage of primary vote expected .",
"Mitt Romney -- 37% .",
"Ron Paul -- 18% .",
"Rick Santorum -- 16% .",
"Newt Gingrich --12% .",
"Jon Huntsman -- 12% .",
"Rick Perry -- 4% .",
"Others -- 1 % . The CNN insiders closely mirror the most recent statewide poll of likely GOP voters from WMUR and the University of New Hampshire, which indicates a strong lead for Romney, but the same list of other candidates vying for the No.",
"2 position.",
"Second place could be key coming out of New Hampshire and going into the contentious South Carolina primary January 21.",
"\"Other than Romney right now, feels like the junior varsity on the field,\" said one New Hampshire GOP insider.",
"Another said, \"I believe like so many (that) it's Romney's to lose.\"",
"Since finishing second in the GOP presidential primary here four years ago to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Romney has continued to court New Hampshire Republican activists and maintained a home on Lake Winnipesaukee, about an hour north of Manchester.",
"So far, none of the other candidates has been able to knock down Romney in a state with a tradition of humbling front-runners.",
"All the other contenders seem to have significant flaws, at least in the eyes of local party activists.",
"Paul: Too 'wacky'?",
"Paul, who commands a loyal following in the state, faces two of the same hurdles that he faced in Iowa: the view among many in the party -- fair or unfair -- that he can't defeat President Barack Obama in November, and his isolationist foreign policy views, which are anathema to many Republicans.",
"What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Paul in New Hampshire?",
"Perception that he can't win in the general election -- 50% .",
"His stance on foreign policy -- 48% .",
"Paul is too extreme for New Hampshire (volunteered) -- 2% .",
"\"He has a ceiling to grow entirely because of his foreign policy views,\" one New Hampshire GOP insider said.",
"\"He has his bloc; they are passionate and not going anywhere.\"",
"Others said they feel that Paul's foreign policy stance feeds into a broader impression of 76-year-old congressman and his campaign.",
"\"He's often wacky,\" another GOP insider said.",
"\"And his supporters turn off regular voters with their messianic zeal.\"",
"Santorum: Not enough time .",
"Hoping to build on his near-victory in the Iowa caucuses, Santorum has held town-hall meetings throughout the state taking questions from all comers.",
"Doing so earns him points from locals who believe they have a duty to cross-examine White House hopefuls, but it also has led to a number of hard questions about Santorum's strenuous opposition to same-sex marriage, which at times put him on the defensive.",
"Indeed, a slight majority of the New Hampshire GOP insiders said they felt Santorum's stance on social issues was a major handicap for him in the state.",
"What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Santorum in New Hampshire?",
"His views on social issues are too conservative for many Republican and independent voters -- 52% .",
"He doesn't have enough time or money to capitalize on his Iowa caucus showing -- 44% .",
"Both (volunteered) -- 2% .",
"Perception that he can't win the nomination -- 2% .",
"Indeed, one New Hampshire insider said that brief window between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary helps Santorum because it \"minimizes the time for him to spout off on (the) social conservative agenda and turn off late deciders.\"",
"But others said they thought that if he had had more than a week to campaign, Santorum might have been able to at least partially overcome his perceived liability on social issues.",
"\"Despite his social conservative views in New Hampshire, I believe he could gain more momentum here if he had more time because of the kind of grass-roots campaigner he is,\" one GOP insider ventured.",
"\"Not sure he could win, but he could beat Paul.\"",
"Huntsman: Too moderate?",
"If Santorum has a problem in New Hampshire because some of his views are too conservative, former Utah Gov.",
"Jon Huntsman, who was ambassador to China during the first two years of the Obama administration, has to deal with the view that he's too moderate for the state's GOP primary electorate.",
"What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Huntsman in New Hampshire?",
"Perception that he's too moderate -- 50% .",
"Perception that he can't win the GOP nomination -- 40% .",
"His message has been muddled (volunteered) -- 10% .",
"\"Yes, he has appeared too moderate, and yes, he is perceived as someone who can't win the nomination,\" one GOP insider said.",
"\"But the reason that both of those have been obstacles for Huntsman is because his message has been all over the place, with no discipline, no definition.\"",
"Another echoed, \"I think his biggest obstacle has been his campaign's confusing messaging.",
"Within the span of a few months, they tried to convey him as the common-sense moderate and the true conservative.\"",
"Gingrich: Too much of a Washington insider?",
"As for Newt Gingrich, it was clear what his biggest problem was in the New Hampshire -- the view that his business ties to companies such as Freddie Mac left the former House speaker open to the charge that he's part of the influence-peddling culture of Washington.",
"What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Gingrich in New Hampshire?",
"His consulting for the government mortgage-giant Freddie Mac and other interests -- 63% .",
"His personal life -- 27% .",
"Weak staff and campaign in the state (volunteered) -- 8% .",
"Consulting and personal life (volunteered) -- 2% .",
"\"New Hampshire Romney surrogates were pounding him every chance they got,\" one GOP insider said, citing Gingrich's vulnerability on his consulting ties.",
"The CNN New Hampshire GOP insiders were surveyed from Friday to Sunday afternoon.",
"The survey was conducted over the Internet.",
"The New Hampshire insiders were given anonymity for their individual answers to encourage candid responses.",
"Half of the insiders said they were formally aligned with one of the presidential campaigns, and half said they had neither endorsed nor were they working for any candidate.",
"Here are the names of the participants in the survey: Kevin Abbott, Peter Angerhofer, Charlie Arlinghaus, Richard Ashooh, Brad Blais, Travis Blais, Grant Bosse, Jeb Bradley, Peter Bragdon, Jamie Burnett, Amelia Chasse, Paul Collins, Bradford E. Cook, Thomas Cronin, Fergus Cullen, Michael P. Dennehy, Ed Dupont, Stephen Duprey, Jay Flanders, Jim Foley, Matt Hagerty, Erin Hass, Jennifer Horn, Periklis Karoutas, Rich Killion, Corey Lewandowski, John Lyons, Sean Mahoney, Kerry Marsh, Jim MacEachern, Shannon McGinley, Jim Merrill, Nancy Merrill, Betsy Miller, Jayne Millerick, Maureen Mooney, B.J.",
"Perry, Thomas D. Rath, Stella Scamman, Pete Silva, Nick Skaltsis, Dan St. Hilaire, John Stephen, Sharon Sykas, Donna Sytek, Pamela Tucker, Peter Weeks, Karen Umberger, J. Christopher Williams, Chris Wolfe, Will Wrobleski and Paul Young."
] | [
"Mitt Romney is a clear favorite among New Hampshire political pros, insider survey finds .",
"Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman in close race for second place .",
"Insiders say besides Romney, the rest of field feels like \"junior varsity\""
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"(CNN) -- An Australian man sentenced to 500 lashes and a year in prison after his conviction on blasphemy charges in Saudi Arabia is headed home after his punishment was greatly reduced, officials said Thursday.",
"Mansor Almaribe was arrested and convicted in mid November in the city of Medina.",
"Australia had appealed for leniency after popular outcry followed his sentence.",
"Saudi officials responded by pardoning Almaribe from his prison term and reducing the lashing sentence to 75 lashes, the ministry said.",
"\"His corporal punishment was also greatly reduced and administered in a way that did not cause physical harm,\" it said.",
"The ministry did not elaborate on how the lashing was carried out., though observers have suggested the punishment could be done in a largely ceremonial and non-harmful manner.",
"It's unclear if that's what occurred.",
"It's also unclear what the 45-year-old Shia Muslim from Australia's Victoria state said or did to get arrested.",
"Australian officials said they were told Almaribe made comments \"insulting to prophet Mohammed's relatives.\"",
"\"I don't think my dad would even survive 50 lashes not 500,\" his son said last month.",
"\"He goes to the doctor every week for checks ups.",
"He has knee injuries and back injuries from a car accident and he also has diabetes and high blood pressure.\"",
"The family spent weeks searching for the Iraqi-born father of five after he went missing in early November while performing the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.",
"Blasphemy is punishable by up to a death sentence under the strict Muslim law in Saudi Arabia."
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"NEW: Mansor Almaribe received 75 lashes, an Australian foreign ministry spokesman says .",
"Australian officials say they were told he made comments \"insulting\" to the prophet .",
"It's unclear what the 45-year-old Shia Muslim from Victoria state said or did to get arrested ."
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"(CNN) -- Dozens of people died as heavy rain caused flooding and mudslides in Brazil this week, officials said Tuesday.",
"A mudslide early Monday in Sapucaia, Rio de Janeiro, killed at least 13 people, city officials said in a written release.",
"One person died in Laje do Muriae, Rio de Janeiro, city officials said.",
"In the neighboring state of Minas Gerais, at least people 15 died amid the rain as 116 cities have declared a state of emergency, the state-run Agencia Brasil reported.",
"Officials at the site of the mudslide in Sapucaia estimated Tuesday that at least nine people were still buried.",
"Seven cities in the metropolitan Rio de Janeiro area were under a state of emergency.",
"January is traditionally a month with heavy rain.",
"A year ago, more than 800 people died because of floods in the state of Rio de Janeiro.",
"CNN's Shasta Darlington contributed to this report."
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"13 people are killed in a mudslide in Rio de Janeiro state .",
"Officials estimate that nine people remain buried .",
"In the state of Minas Gerais, at least 15 people have died amid heavy rain ."
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"(CNN) -- Visiting New Hampshire, it appears that Mitt Romney is well poised to sweep through the Granite State, and probably South Carolina and Florida, on toward the nomination.",
"But the campaign here suggests that, as he looks toward November, darkish clouds loom on the horizon.",
"New Hampshire voters love to surprise, and perhaps they will again this time.",
"Some 37% remain undecided (according to a WMUR/UNH poll released Friday), and one can never be certain how many independents will vote nor whom they will support -- especially with Romney making several unforced errors in the past 48 hours.",
"Still, he has been a steady front-runner for months: His Massachusetts background makes him nearly a favorite son for many New Hampshire Republicans, and far more than in Iowa, his message of job creation resonates in this hard-hit state.",
"He is almost cruising to victory.",
"So, the first question the press is asking is not whether he will win but by how much.",
"If his vote total is in the mid-30s or better and he wins by double digits, the media will call it a major victory; if above 40, he will \"crush.\"",
"Only if he goes below 30, and that seems unlikely, will be he be seriously hurt.",
"Follow developments on the CNN Political Ticker's live blog .",
"The related question is how others will stack up behind him.",
"If there has been real news so far in New Hampshire, it is the lackluster performance of Rick Santorum.",
"Typically, a candidate who came out of nowhere in Iowa to nearly win (what a difference those eight votes have made) would have built on that momentum in the first primary state.",
"But Santorum appears to have plateaued and may even be fading.",
"That means the conservatives still don't have a darling to rally behind in South Carolina, leaving Romney once again to divide and conquer.",
"Meanwhile, the Jon Huntsman team hopes that he can break through to second in New Hampshire or at least be in a tight cluster with Ron Paul.",
"That would give him a chance to compete elsewhere, especially in Florida (where he first planned to have his headquarters).",
"But the fact that no one is yet challenging Romney for the brass ring this Tuesday means he is closing in rapidly on the nomination.",
"Only one Republican (President Ford in 1976) has ever won back-to-back in Iowa and New Hampshire, and never before has a nonincumbent Republican done it.",
"With a victory in South Carolina, Romney would be 3-0.",
"With most of his rivals already forced to scrimp and save, who could raise enough money to take him on after that?",
"Even so, one cannot escape the sense in New Hampshire that if he is the nominee, Romney and his team still have serious work to do if they want to defeat President Obama.",
"That was instantly apparent Sunday afternoon when Romney appeared with Gov.",
"Chris Christie of New Jersey at a rally in Exeter, New Hampshire, drawing one of the biggest crowds of his campaign.",
"While supportive of their guy, the crowd seemed relatively quiet, almost subdued, a sharp contrast to the electric rallies that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama held four years ago.",
"Granted, the Democrats were locked in a much closer race.",
"But several veterans of New Hampshire politics say that the energy isn't flowing as it has in years past.",
"That is consistent with a Pew poll announced Monday that found only 51% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters nationwide rating this year's candidates as excellent or good, compared to 68% four years ago (and compared to 78% on the Democratic side in 2008).",
"Another striking (and related) impression on Sunday came with the speaking lineup.",
"Normally, as a special guest, Christie would have taken the microphone first, warmed up the crowd, and then introduced the candidate, who would turn up the juice and send people marching into the night.",
"Instead, Romney spoke first, delivering a fairly boilerplate homily before handing off to Christie, who delivered a barn-burner (listening, one got the sense the GOP convention keynote may be in his future).",
"Wisely, the Romney campaign prevented the narrative from becoming \"Romney opens for Christie\" by asking Ann Romney to close out the evening, which she did so with warmth and grace.",
"Still, the odd sequencing begged the question that has been nagging the former Massachusetts governor for what feels like centuries now: Can he connect with voters strongly enough to win a general election?",
"The other issue that arises for Romney is whether he can unite his party behind him.",
"We have seen for some time that this is a fractured, motley field of candidates, but, listening to different campaigns (and their voters), it seems clear that, just as importantly, they may well represent a philosophically fracturing party.",
"More than one united front, the Grand Old Party right now looks more like a group in the midst of a heated battle between at least three camps: the old-line, more moderate \"Establishment\" Republicans (a group that clearly favors Romney), the growing libertarian movement (exemplified by chief hero Ron Paul), and the more communitarian, religious phalanx of social conservatives (who propelled Santorum to near-victory in Iowa).",
"What casts the fissures in the party in such sharp relief is how little fondness these groups seem to have for one another: Not only is it easy to imagine a typical Romney voter looking down his nose at a Ron Paul candidacy, but evangelical voters are exactly the type Romney has so singularly struggled with (as Ron Brownstein notes, he even lost ground with them from 2008 to 2012, judging from exit polls), while Paul and Santorum themselves have appeared substantially more at odds with one another in the debates than either has been with Romney.",
"By contrast, the 2008 election on the Democratic side, while hard-fought between Clinton and Obama, was still a rivalry between two groups of voters who, in terms of policy, ultimately agreed on a great deal.",
"Despite the fact that common wisdom deems Democrats the more diverse coalition, there was little doubt that the party's voters would stand firmly behind whichever nominee was crowned.",
"As with the 2008 race for the Democrats, Romney's biggest advantage this cycle is that the various voters punching ballots in the GOP primaries do have one thing in common: They desperately want a new president in the White House.",
"For many evangelicals and libertarians, opposition to Obama will ultimately outweigh distaste for Romney, if he wins the nomination -- so he is likely to be competitive as the nominee no matter what.",
"But winning the presidency (especially against a campaigner as able as Obama, who has been shoring up his own base of late) requires generating enthusiasm from voters, and governing well requires generating even more.",
"Which underscores a serious concern that Romney and the president should share: that either of them, winning in a squeaker, would be hard-pressed to accomplish much with the country, and their parties, as divided as they are.",
"Both parties talk about a country in need of a level of policy change that would traditionally require overwhelming support from voters, but nothing approaching a mandate is in sight.",
"So even if Romney is on the glide path to the nomination, he still has a lot more work to do.",
"If he wants to challenge Obama and become a successful president, he would need to find a way to unite his ideologically fraying party, and he's definitely going to need to summon enough fire so that Chris Christie can start opening for him.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the authors."
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"David Gergen, Michael Zuckerman: Romney appears to have an edge in GOP contest .",
"They say the question is how well he would fare in a race against Barack Obama .",
"Romney wound up as the opening act for Chris Christie in a New Hampshire appearance .",
"Authors: Romney needs to show he can be the headliner ."
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