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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Tipsters are coming forward with additional information regarding actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death, after authorities announced two months ago they were reopening the case, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said Wednesday.",
"\"After the presser, we got a number of calls, and those calls were intriguing, and we're chasing those down now,\" said spokesman Steve Whitmore.",
"Meanwhile, investigators have yet to re-interview a key witness -- Dennis Davern, the captain of yacht owned by Wood and her then-husband, actor Robert Wagner.",
"Davern offered a new account in November about how Wood's death was reported, saying that Wagner waited hours to call the Coast Guard after Wood went missing off Catalina Island, near the California coast, following an argument the couple had.",
"Whitmore declined to reveal whether detectives plan to talk with Davern, saying he would \"not get into the specifics\" of the investigation.",
"Investigators haven't re-interviewed Wagner either.",
"Authorities have no plans to question the actor at this time, but \"who knows where things may go from here tomorrow,\" Whitmore said.",
"\"The investigation is not closed.",
"It's possible we could yield new information that changes this case,\" the sheriff's spokesman said.",
"\"There are leads we're following up on and have to close them out before we say anything definitive.",
"Sure, there is possible new information that could come out that really changes everything.\"",
"In November, homicide investigators decided to take a new look at one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries after they were contacted by people who claimed they had additional information about the actress' drowning, the sheriff's department said.",
"\"This new information is substantial enough to make us want to take a new look at the case,\" Lt. John Corina said at the time.",
"Corina declined to comment directly on statements made by Davern to some media outlets.",
"When asked if the captain could face charges for possibly lying to authorities during the 1981 investigation, Corina responded: \"That, I can't say.",
"We'll probably end up talking to the captain sooner or later, and we'll assess what he has to say then and now.\"",
"Authorities haven't gone into specifics about who they've interviewed, but did say when they reopened the case that Wagner wasn't a suspect.",
"Wood drowned in the Pacific Ocean on November 29, 1981, off the isthmus of Catalina Island.",
"She once said in a televised interview that her greatest fear was of dark seawater.",
"Her body was found floating in the water about a mile away from the yacht, wearing a long nightgown, socks, and a down jacket, according to police reports.",
"The autopsy report showed the actress had two dozen bruises on her body, including a facial abrasion on her left cheek and bruises on her arms.",
"\"My sister was not a swimmer and did not know how to swim, and she would never go to another boat or to shore dressed in a nightgown and socks,\" said Lana Wood, refering to theories that the actress voluntarily jumped from the boat.",
"Although the county coroner's office ruled that Wood's death was an accident, others say the case hasn't made sense.",
"In 2010, Lana Wood told CNN she believes a highly charged argument between her sister and Wagner on the yacht's back deck preceded Wood's drowning.",
"She told CNN last year she does not suspect foul play.",
"\"I just want the truth to come out, the real story,\" she said.",
"Davern, the former captain of the yacht Splendour, broke his long silence with a detailed account of that day in \"Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour,\" a book he wrote with his friend Marti Rulli.",
"It was published in September 2009.",
"Davern has said he believes Wood's death was a direct result of a fight with Wagner.",
"In a lengthy interview with CNN in 2010, Davern said he now believes the investigation of Wood's death was incompetent and suggested there was a cover-up.",
"He said he regrets misleading investigators by keeping quiet at Wagner's request.",
"Wood and Wagner married in 1957, divorced in 1962, then remarried in 1972.",
"They often sailed their yacht off the coast of California and they invited Wood's \"Brainstorm\" co-star, Christopher Walken, to join them on a sail on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981.",
"The Hollywood rumor mill was abuzz with speculation that Wagner was jealous over Walken, but authorities have said Walken witnessed only the events leading up to an argument between the couple.",
"Wagner admitted his jealousy in his book \"Pieces of My Heart,\" also published in September 2009.",
"He acknowledged that there had been a fight with Wood, writing that he smashed a wine bottle on a table.",
"After Wagner argued with Walken and broke the wine bottle, Wood left in disgust and went to her stateroom, Davern told CNN.",
"Walken also retired to a guest room, Davern added, and Wagner followed his wife to their room.",
"A few minutes later, Davern said, he could hear the couple fighting.",
"Embarrassed, Davern said he turned up the volume on his stereo.",
"At one point, Davern recalled, he glanced out of the pilot house window and saw both Wagner and Wood on the yacht's aft deck.",
"\"They'd moved their fight outside ... you could tell from their animated gestures they were still arguing,\" he said.",
"A short time later, Wagner, appearing to be distraught, told Davern he couldn't find Wood.",
"Davern searched the boat but couldn't find her.",
"He noticed the rubber dinghy also was missing.",
"Wagner shrugged and poured them both drinks, Davern said.",
"He suggested his wife had probably gone off in a temper.",
"Wagner's story, as told in his book, differs from Davern's.",
"He maintains that after the argument with Walken, Wood went to her room and prepared for bed while he and Walken sat on the deck, cooling off.",
"Wagner writes that he went to check on Wood, but she wasn't there.",
"He maintains that he and Davern searched the boat and noticed the dinghy was missing.",
"Wagner assumed his wife had gone ashore on her own, he wrote.",
"He radioed the restaurant on shore where they'd had dinner and called the harbor master to see if anyone had seen Wood.",
"The dinghy was found about a mile away from the yacht, and a mile from where Wood's body was found.",
"Wood's first starring role was as a child in \"Miracle on 34th Street\" in 1947, and she played alongside some of Hollywood's top leading men -- James Dean in \"Rebel Without a Cause\" and Warren Beatty in \"Splendor in the Grass.\"",
"She was nominated for Oscars in both of those films, as well as for \"Love With the Proper Stranger\" (1963), according to IMDb.",
"One of her more memorable roles was as Maria in \"West Side Story.\"",
"Wagner's striking good looks landed him roles in dozens of films in the 1950s and '60s before he hit it big in television.",
"He starred in two popular series, \"It Takes a Thief\" (1968-70) and \"Hart to Hart\" (1979-84), and more recently as Number Two in the \"Austin Powers\" spy spoofs."
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"NEW: Detectives have yet to interview the yacht captain .",
"Wagner waited 4 hours to call the Coast Guard, yacht captain says .",
"Natalie Wood drowned off Catalina Island near Los Angeles in 1981 ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Heather Locklear was in \"medically stable\" condition at a Thousand Oaks, California, hospital Thursday night with her parents at her side.",
"\"She is in no danger and she's going to be just fine,\" Bill and Diane Locklear said in a statement issued by Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center.",
"The \"Melrose Place\" star, 50, was taken to the hospital after the fire department and sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 call at her house northwest of Los Angeles.",
"Reports say she may have mixed alcohol and prescription medication.",
"Los Robles spokesperson Kris Carraway-Bowman declined to disclose any medical information beyond Locklear's condition.",
"The actress arrived at 2:30 p.m. and by 8 p.m. was sleeping, says Carraway-Bowman.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Heather Locklear was taken to the hospital after a 911 call .",
"\"She is in no danger and she's going to be just fine,\" Bill and Diane Locklear said .",
"The hospital declined to disclose any medical information beyond Locklear's condition ."
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"(CNN) -- From his neatly-trimmed goatee to his love of fast cars and flight, it's not hard to see why Indian industrialist Vijay Mallya is often referred to as his country's Richard Branson.",
"He's immensely rich and is frequently photographed at lavish events promoting his Kingfisher brand as a lifestyle choice for India's younger, mobile middle classes.",
"Like Branson, Mallya's stable of businesses also includes an airline -- Kingfisher Airlines -- which risks nose-diving into a sea of debt unless the billionaire can cut costs and lighten its loans.",
"On Tuesday, Mallya said recent flight cancellations reflected the airline's move out of loss-making routes and should not be interpreted as a sign of impending doom, despite a doubling of the airline's second quarter losses announced earlier in the day.",
"Who is Vijay Mallya?",
"The fast-living playboy son of one of India's most successful industrialists was just 28 when he took over the chairmanship of his father's massive beer company in the early 1980s.",
"\"Everybody thought that I'd fritter away what I had inherited.",
"But I was determined to prove people wrong,\" Mallya told CNN in 2007.",
"United Breweries is now one of the world's biggest brewers.",
"It holds about half of the market share for beer in India and claims that every single one of the country's tens of thousands of beer outlets stocks at least one of its brands.",
"Kingfisher Premium Lager is also sold in 52 countries worldwide.",
"But United Breweries is about much more than beer.",
"As well as Kingfisher Airlines, the holding company includes the world's biggest spirits group, United Spirits, as well as interests in the fertilizer business, engineering, property and broadcasting.",
"Of all its brands, Kingfisher is the most iconic.",
"It's the name of a discontinued beer label that the young Vijay stumbled upon when he was going through the UB archives after his father bought the company in 1947.",
"\"Something excited me about Kingfisher, you know, the bird.",
"I saw color, I saw vibrancy, I saw movement, I saw a bit of cheekiness, you know, the kingfisher sort of fishing,\" Mallya said.",
"He revived the beer and later put the bird on the tail of Kingfisher Airlines, which was launched in 2005 and has so far failed to fly into profit.",
"What's up with the airline? Results released Tuesday show the airline's second quarter net loss doubled to 4.69 billion rupees ($93 million).",
"Revenue rose 11 % as the company sought to cut costs, but it was nowhere near enough to deal with the airline's reported debt of 65 billion rupees ($1.3B).",
"Anxious investors have been ditching Kingfisher shares, prompting the company to deny on November 11 that it had sought government aid.",
"It admitted it had asked banks to raise its lending limits, but added that \"Kingfisher does not see any risk to its future or long term viability.\"",
"Flights have been canceled as the company tries desperately to reduce operating costs inflated by rising fuel prices.",
"The cuts have angered travelers as well as employees whose pay was delayed.",
"Despite soaring costs, Indian airlines have been slashing fares to compete with discount prices offered by state-owned Air India.",
"Kingfisher has also invested heavily in the future, ordering five Airbus A380s, the first of which is due to be delivered in 2016.",
"Is it just Kingfisher? Despite a huge rise in the number of Indians taking to the skies, the extra traffic has failed to translate into profits.",
"Private airlines are engaged in a price war with Air India, which is being propped up by government funds.",
"Air India is reported to have asked for another 65 billion rupees ($1.3B) in federal aid, and to have agreed with lenders to cut its annual interest payments by 13 billion rupees, according to Bloomberg.",
"Jet Airways is also reported to be seeking to raise up to $350 million from the sale and leaseback of aircraft this quarter and other asset sales, according to Daily News & Analysis.",
"The industry's struggles come despite impressive figures for passenger growth.",
"According to the Centre for Aviation, India had the fastest growing domestic airline market as of September 2011, recording year-on-year growth of 18.4%.",
"Strong growth is expected to continue as the country's young population becomes wealthier and takes advantage of the fierce competition for their cash.",
"Outside India, high fuel prices are also taking their toll on the global airline industry.",
"The International Air Transport Association expects the industry to make just $4 billion profit in 2011, down 78% from the figure of $18 billion recorded in 2010.",
"What does Kingfisher plan to do?",
"Hours after announcing the second quarter loss, Mallya again insisted the company was not seeking a government bailout.",
"\"We have never done it, we will never do it,\" he said.",
"He said the company had asked its lenders to help with its short-term capital needs and for concessions on interest repayments.",
"Quoting UB Group's chief financial officer, The Economic Times reported that the airline would launch a rights issue of up to 20 billion rupees ($398M) sometime before March 2013.",
"As one of India's richest men, Mallya has plenty of financial clout behind him.",
"As well as dominating the drinks industry, he's a familiar face in the world of sport.",
"He sponsors India's Formula 1 team, Force India, and owns a cricket team in the Indian Premier League.",
"His garages house some 200 vintage cars and he owns the luxury UB City shopping mall in Bangalore, which is filled with top-notch Western brands including Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton and Gucci.",
"It's on a street named after Vijay's father, Vittal Mallya Road.",
"Further down the street, you'll find Kingfisher Towers, \"a super luxury residential project\" boasting 75 flats and a rooftop helipad.",
"The troubles at Kingfisher Airlines mark a low point for the flamboyant billionaire, who is often referred to as the \"King of Good Times\".",
"It remains to be seen whether Mallya's airline can ride out these rough times and stay in the air.",
"Mallya certainly believes it can."
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"Empire includes brewery business, airline, F1 and cricket teams .",
"Kingfisher Airlines is struggling under mountain of debt .",
"Indian airlines plagued by high fuel prices, aggressive discounting ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Though the couple went public with their engagement in October, little is known about the relationship between the daughter of the late grunge god Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean, and her fiancé, Isaiah Silva, frontman of rock band the Rambles.",
"\"We're each other's everything,\" Silva, 26, tells PEOPLE about Cobain, 19, and himself.",
"\"We're homebodies. We don't go out to clubs so you won't find us stumbling out of them with Lindsay Lohan.",
"We stay at home, read books and watch 'Arrested Development.'\"",
"Adds bandmate Mark Kuchell, \"They're quiet and shy.",
"They're a great couple.",
"Frances comes to most of our shows that she can get into.\"",
"One of the last was the band's December set at the Viper Room, where Cobain and Silva were seen looking very loving and affectionate before and after the show.",
"\"I love strong, opinionated, intelligent women,\" says Silva, who spent the first 18 years of his life in the Fullerton Assembly of God group, a faction focused on strict Christian values and the second coming of Christ.",
"\"Women in the [group] were totally oppressed, but I am very pro-woman.\"",
"Silva and his family severed ties with the group when he was 18.",
"Despite Silva's unconventional upbringing, he fought for his individuality when he gravitated toward punk music, learned to play the guitar with pals and \"always had long hair and always dyed it.\"",
"\"I had to grow up much faster than I would have liked,\" he adds.",
"\"I've been through a lot. But now, I'm totally happy.\"",
"Catch the Rambles at SXSW in Texas in March and look out for their upcoming EP, recorded with producer Keith Stegall (Zac Brown Band).",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The couple went public with their engagement in October .",
"\"We're each other's everything,\" Isaiah Silva, 26, tells PEOPLE .",
"\"I love strong, opinionated, intelligent women,\" says Silva ."
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"Las Vegas (CNN) -- Sony says it's not quite game over for the PlayStation 3.",
"Contrary to reports, Sony does not plan to announce a new home video-game console at a trade show in June, said Kazuo Hirai, the company's deputy president.",
"\"We're not making announcements at E3,\" Hirai told a roomful of reporters at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show here Tuesday when asked about plans to announce the PlayStation 4.",
"E3 is the annual convention in Los Angeles where game companies typically make their biggest announcements.",
"The five-year-old PlayStation 3 will have a 10-year life cycle, Hirai said.",
"Sony could still release a new system sometime in the next five years, of course.",
"Sony continued to sell the PlayStation 2 system and games years after the PlayStation 3 debuted in stores.",
"For Sony's next console, the company will not deploy a streaming delivery system like OnLive, or fully cut out disc retailers like Best Buy and GameStop, Hirai said.",
"While Sony has increased the number of games and other media available for download or streaming through its networks, most people cannot be expected to frequently download several gigabytes worth of data, which can be a time-consuming process, he said.",
"Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House said earlier that Sony is not planning to discuss a new console, the website ComputerAndVideogames.com reported on Monday.",
"He also said that physical media, like Blu-ray discs, are currently the optimal way to deliver full games.",
"Sony released a new hand-held game system, the PlayStation Vita, in Japan last month.",
"It plans to start selling the Wi-Fi and AT&T 3G versions of that system in the United States on February 22.",
"Like Microsoft has done with the Xbox 360 through Kinect, Sony is trying to extend the life of the PlayStation 3 through new accessories, like the Move controller wand, and initiatives like 3-D games.",
"There are dozens of 3-D games now available, Hirai noted.",
"\"We are definitely, from a Sony perspective, very committed to 3-D,\" Hirai said.",
"\"It's going to take a little while.\"",
"Sony CEO Howard Stringer, who also attended the gathering on Tuesday, compared the uptake of 3-D gaming and video to that of color television.",
"\"3-D is waiting to happen,\" he said.",
"\"It's an inevitability. So be patient.\""
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"Sony's deputy president says the PlayStation 4 will not be announced at E3 .",
"E3 is a giant trade show for the video game industry .",
"Sony is focused on deploying and supporting its PlayStation Vita hand-held ."
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"Falls Church, Virginia (CNN) -- It's a Tuesday night at Nell and Matt Dillard's suburban Washington home, and the family of four is watching \"Glee,\" a scripted Fox television program.",
"Ninety seconds into the comedy, one of the teenage female characters makes mention of Asian men and their sexual prowess.",
"Nell Dillard immediately looks over at her 13- and 11-year-old boys watching next to her, but she sees no immediate reaction they have gotten the veiled sexually suggestive \"joke.\"",
"\"What's up with that,\" says father Matt Dillard, shaking his head at what he's just heard.",
"\"Why throw that in this show?\"",
"Such are challenges many families face when trying to control the video material their children receive from a range of content providers: TV, radio, Internet, mobile devices, and interactive video games.",
"Now the Supreme Court is poised to take a fresh look at a key aspect of multimedia regulation -- \"indecent\" material aired on the broadcast networks during the supposedly \"family friendly\" prime-time hours of 8 to 10 p.m.",
"Oral arguments in this key free-speech dispute will be held Tuesday.",
"At issue is whether the Federal Communications Commission may constitutionally enforce its policies on \"fleeting expletives\" and scenes of nudity on prime-time television programs, both live and scripted.",
"The agency had imposed hefty fines on broadcasters for separate incidents.",
"An expected ruling by summer could establish important First Amendment guidelines over expressive content on the airwaves.",
"A range of competing interests are at stake: Free speech versus censorship; regulation versus responsibility; art versus indecency.",
"For the Dillards, the specific questions raised by this appeal are just the tip of digital iceberg.",
"\"It's not (like) when we were kids, when there was three networks and PBS,\" Matt Dillard told CNN one recent evening.",
"\"We've had to do the controlling over anything coming over a screen -- a TV screen, computer screen, telephone screen -- anything where there is video content or streaming.",
"We lump all that together.",
"... \"It feels like the Wild West out there, where there is no rating system.",
"We're not asking for a clampdown on free speech.",
"They (media) have every right to that.",
"We're just looking for the tools to help us make the best decisions for our kids.\"",
"The Case . ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are all parties in the case challenging the FCC regulations.",
"A federal appeals court in 2010 for a second time struck down the government's policies, concluding they were vague and inconsistently applied.",
"Pending fines against the broadcasters were dismissed.",
"The government then appealed to the high court.",
"Controversial words and images have been aired in scripted and unscripted instances on all the major over-the-air networks during the past decade, when the FCC began considering a stronger, no-tolerance policy.",
"The changes became known as the Golden Globes rule, for singer Bono's 2003 acceptance speech at the live awards show on NBC, where he uttered the phrase \"Really, really, f---ing brilliant.\"",
"The commission specifically cited celebrities Cher and Nicole Richie for potty-mouth language in the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards, which aired live on Fox.",
"Richie, in an apparent scripted moment said, \"Have you ever tried to get cow s--t out of a Prada purse?",
"It's not so f---ing simple.\"",
"The complaint against ABC involved \"NYPD Blue,\" a scripted police drama, and the CBS complaint involved \"The Early Show,\" a news and interview program.",
"The high court two years ago ruled in favor of the FCC on the issue of \"fleeting expletives,\" concluding federal regulators have the authority to clamp down on broadcast TV networks airing isolated cases of profanity.",
"The court, however, refused at the time to decide whether the commission's policy violated the First Amendment guarantee of free speech, ruling only on its enforcement power.",
"The justices ordered the free-speech aspect to be reviewed again by a New York-based federal appeals court, which subsequently ruled in favor of the broadcasters.",
"The nine-member bench is now ready to take a broader look at the questions presented.",
"In fact, the government helpfully sent to each justice a DVD copy of the \"NYPD Blue\" nudity scene.",
"There has been no word on whether they have watched it.",
"The Justice Department, in its new appeal, lumped both the expletives and nudity cases together, saying the court should decide the free speech questions as one.",
"Explicit language is heard with greater, albeit varying, frequency on cable television, the Internet, and satellite radio, which do not use public airwaves.",
"But the federal government is charged with responding to viewer complaints when \"indecent\" language and images reach broadcast television and radio, which is subject to greater regulation.",
"That is especially relevant during daytime and early evening hours, when larger numbers of families and younger viewers may be watching.",
"The FCC formally reversed its policy in March 2004 to declare even a single use of an expletive could be illegal.",
"In response, a voluntary rating system used by all television networks was revised to warn viewers when material that might be offensive will be aired.",
"The Arguments . Family rights groups say the TV networks and their cable cousins need to be sent a strong message.",
"\"You turn on television today, and the amount of bleeps of profane words, almost sounds like a Morse code signal.",
"There hardly are any safe harbors today, on broadcast television, for children and families,\" said Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council, which helps families make \"informed television viewing decisions.\"",
"\"How does more shock, more f-bombs, more indecency serve the public interest, especially when they know children are watching,\" he said.",
"But the networks and their programming partners worry the FCC policies are \"chilling\" their speech, forcing them to make creative compromises, for fear of sanction.",
"\"When preparing scripts or song lyrics, they now have to concern themselves with whether something can get airplay, whether their best lines can make it on the screen.",
"That inhibits artistic creativity,\" said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, who heads the Media Access Project, a law firm representing actors, producers, writers and musicians.",
"\"The FCC's attempt to broaden its scope has created uncertainty, has created circumstances that force broadcasters to censor themselves needlessly and at the expense of the First Amendment.",
"Time Warner -- the parent company of CNN -- filed a supporting amicus brief in the high court dispute two years ago.",
"The company is part owner of the CW broadcast network and operates several cable networks.",
"The Stakes . For families like the Dillards, there are no easy answers.",
"Nell and Matt admit they sometimes disagree on what their boys should be watching.",
"\"He, as a typical guy, may think it's OK -- some of the potty humor and guy humor -- that I think they don't need to be exposed to quite yet,\" Nell said about certain shows.",
"Matt adds, \"We do have blockers in place that prevent the worst cases, but there are ways to get around that, from the kids' perspective and by the content providers.\"",
"The couple says parental controls and program ratings are not tools that are comfortably reliable and dependable.",
"The Dillards say they maintain ultimate responsibility, but appreciate the fact the government maintains some regulatory control over broadcasts, supplementing their own monitoring.",
"\"It's a business and they (broadcast networks) want advertisers and viewers.",
"They have these cable stations they're competing with, so I think they're are going to push it as far as they can,\" Nell said.",
"\"If you expect a show is going to be rated TV-14, you want to know there is an institution standing there to make sure the network will provide that kind of show, and if they don't, then the FCC can come in and do what they do.\"",
"But, she admits, \"It's hard for us sometimes, and you find you're sort of giving in a little bit with each time you let them (the children) watch something a little different.\"",
"The case is Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations Inc. (10-1293)."
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"The Supreme Court is poised to look at \"indecent\" material aired from 8 to 10 p.m.",
"Among the issues: Free speech versus censorship; art versus indecency ."
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"(CNN) -- Asian champions Al Sadd have qualified for the semifinals of the Club World Cup after beating African champions Esperance of Tunisia 2-1 in Toyota, Japan, in a match marred by crowd trouble.",
"Esperance fans repeatedly clashed with police and stewards, with one supporter also running onto the pitch before being dragged to the ground, after their side had two goals disallowed for offside, and penalty appeals rejected, in an enthraling match.",
"Al Sadd's victory, the fifth successive time the Asian champions have beaten their African equivalent in the tournament, means the Qatari side have secured a dream last four clash with European champions Barcelona on Thursday.",
"Al Sadd went ahead in the 33rd minute when Khalfan Al Khalfan headed home a rebound after goalkeeper Moez Ben Cherifia failed to deal properly with Abdul Kader Keita's long-range drive.",
"And they doubeld their advantage four minutes after the break when Lee Jung-Soo headed a free-kick across goal for captain Abdullah Koni to knock in from close range.",
"Both teams were making their debut in the competition, and Esperance gave themselves hope on the hour mark when Ousama Darragi headed home a set-piece.",
"But, helped by a couple of contentious decisions, Al Sadd held on and will now pit their wits against tournament favorites Barcelona.",
"Meanwhile, in the other fixture played on Sunday, Japanese champions Kashiwa Reysol beat CONCACAF champions Monterrey of Mexico on penalties, after their match had ended 1-1.",
"Ryohei Hayashi netted the winning spot-kick to see Kashiwa through 4-3 on penalties and seal a date with South American champions Santos of Brazil in the other semifinal on Wednesday."
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"Asian champions Al Sadd beat African champions Esperance 2-1 in Club World Cup .",
"The Qatari side now face European champions Barcelona in semifinals of competition .",
"Crowd trouble mars the match with Esperance fans clashing with police and stewards .",
"Kashiwa Reysol, representing hosts Japan, defeat Monterrey of Mexico on penalties ."
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"Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.",
"The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.",
"We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.",
"Brooklyn, New York (VICE.COM) -- While the average American's understanding of the conflict in Kosovo is a simple, two-sided Sneetch-battle between the mountainous region's dominant Serbian minority and oppressed Albanian majority, the reality is a lot more convoluted than a Wikipedia page or morning radio parody of the Beach Boys' \"Kokomo\" can accurately convey.",
"In addition to the Serbs in the north and Albanians in the south, Kosovo is host to a pizza pie of smaller ethnic groups like Gorans, Illyrians, and Roma scattered in enclaves throughout the entire country.",
"During the 1998-1999 war, as the Serbian Yugoslav Army and NATO-backed Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army vied with each other to see who could rack up the most atrocities, these sub-minorities were victims of a disproportionate amount of collateral brutality.",
"Especially the Kosovo Roma, more widely known as \"gypsies.\"",
"Of the 250,000 people displaced from their homes by the fighting, an estimated 90,000 were Roma, a figure which is a little more jarring when you realize the region's total Romani population is just a little north of 100,000.",
"To help them deal with the refugee problem, the United Nations invited Paul Polansky, an American activist for gypsy rights, then working in Prague, to the city of Mitrovica to act as a liaison for the burgeoning community of Roma's so-called Internally Displaced People.",
"\"The UN were having gypsies running into schoolhouses seeking shelter from the Albanians who were chasing them out of their homes,\" says Polansky from his house in Southern Serbia.",
"\"And so they opened a few Internally Displaced People camps, but they didn't know how to work with the gypsies, so they needed an expert to actually move into the camps to live with them and advise them.",
"That's what they brought me to Kosovo to do.\"",
"Polansky was immediately unimpressed by the conditions at the camp he moved into an old French army barracks called Osterode.",
"See the rest of The VICE guide to the Balkans at VICE.com .",
"\"There were about 1,800 tents put up by the 23rd Pioneer Regiment of the British Army.",
"They were put on toxic wasteland.",
"The land itself was lower than the road coming into the camp and so when it rained there was water in all the tents.",
"The only food they were given was flour and beans.",
"They needed water to cook with but there was no water for cooking, no water for cleaning, and when I complained to the UN they said, 'Well, these are gypsies, they know how to look after themselves.'",
"It was a constant fight just to get them to deliver water.",
"We were not guaranteed any security.",
"The Albanians were attacking the camp.",
"We had children die because UN police refused to take them to hospital\" Despite Polansky's efforts, conditions at the Osterode camp continued to deteriorate.",
"The British regiment in charge of protecting the camp was withdrawn and children began to show symptoms of health effects from the campsite's proximity to dumping grounds for industrial waste.",
"\"In 1999, some Danish soldiers on patrol in Mitroviza had shown symptoms of lead poisoning,\" Polansky told us.",
"\"So their blood was taken, and it came back they had extremely high levels of lead poisoning.",
"So in the summer of 2000, a UN medical team took blood tests all over Mitrovica.",
"They found the highest lead levels were in the gypsy camps because they had been built on the tailings stands of the mines and the pollution from the smelter drifted right over their camp.",
"Their blood samples were sent to a lab in Belgium and it was found that the children in these camps had the highest lead levels in medical literature.\"",
"Eventually Polansky got fed up with the UN's administration of the camps (or lack thereof), cut his ties with the organization, and led a large group of gypsies on a protest march to the Macedonian border.",
"The UN responded to his accusations of negligence, saying it was investigating the matter and that they \"do not think that it would be useful to discuss the matter at this time, given that the the review of this matter is ongoing.\"",
"We were curious how this \"matter\" was going, so we decided to stop by the camp and talk to some of the residents who still haven't been evacuated from the site that is killing their children.",
"Twelve years down the road."
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"American Paul Polansky investigated treatment of gypsy refugees of the Kosovo war .",
"Polansky found hundreds of tents placed on 'toxic wastelands'\nPolansky says high levels of lead poisoning were found in the camps ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- Tariq al-Hashimi, Iraq's Sunni vice president, disputes the government's charges that he organized a death squad targeting government and military officials, saying the false claims are politically motivated and he has never and will never be involved in violence.",
"\"Today it is al-Hashimi, tomorrow it will be someone else,\" al-Hashimi told reporters Tuesday in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, where he discussed a warrant issued for his arrest by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated government.",
"Iraqiya, the Sunni-backed but cross-sectarian political bloc to which al-Hashimi belongs, has accused al-Maliki of consolidating power, saying the Shiite-backed political leader has refused to give up control of Iraq's Interior and Defense ministries.",
"\"I have said there is a purpose behind this and there is political assassination and today there is a fabrication to embarrass this man after all he has done over the years and despite all the sacrifices made,\" al-Hashimi said, referring to himself and his efforts to bring about political consensus in the diverse country during the post-Saddam Hussein era.",
"\"After eight years I am rewarded with this.\"",
"The warrant issued for al-Hashimi's arrest is the latest in a series of events that have threatened to destroy Iraq's fragile power-sharing agreement between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, raising fears about the stability of the country even as the last of U.S. troops are withdrawn.",
"The arrest warrant was issued just days after Iraqiya suspended its participation in Parliament amid claims it was being cut out of the political process.",
"The charges appear to be based on the purported confessions of three men, identified as security guards for al-Hashimi.",
"Iraqi state-run TV aired video of the men's confessions.",
"CNN cannot independently verify their identities.",
"An official in al-Hashimi's office, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, said the three men in the videotaped confessions were security guards for al-Hashimi.",
"The official said the men did not look distressed, though they believe they were under some sort of threat to make such confessions.",
"Among the confessions was one by a man who detailed roadside bombings and shootings that targeted government and security officials in 2009.",
"The person speaking said orders at times came directly from al-Hashimi and at times through his son-in-law, Ahmed Qahtan, who is also a senior member of his staff.",
"The man said the improvised explosive devices were produced and kept at an abandoned house belonging to al-Hashimi in the al-Yarmouk neighborhood.",
"He also alleged that the vice president personally thanked him after a number of attacks, and that he was rewarded $3,000 after the first IED attack against a senior Ministry of Health official.",
"The man in the video said al-Hashimi ordered him to map out security locations and checkpoints for the Baghdad Brigade, which protects the Green Zone.",
"He said he was speaking out to \"clear his conscience\" and \"expose this criminal.\"",
"Al-Hashimi said he had been warned to adopt certain political stances or the confessions would be aired.",
"He said foreign political agendas and other countries moved this case against him but didn't elaborate.",
"Iraqiya members and others have said al-Maliki is backed by Iran.",
"Addressing reporters in the country's Kurdish region, al-Hashimi indicated that the claims and the accusations that he engaged in these activities are absurd.",
"He said the case should be transferred to the semi-autonomous Kurdish territory because of its neutrality.",
"He also called for Arab League observers and attorneys from the Arab Lawyers Union to guarantee the fairness of any proceeding.",
"That's because at present, he said, the country's \"judiciary has been politicized and lost its independence years ago and is controlled by the executive authority.\"",
"\"I have big question marks over these confessions they made,\" al-Hashimi said.",
"\"They can be easily disproved and refuted.",
"But despite that, justice must take its course and everyone must resort to it, but on the condition that the requirements for justice are available.\"",
"\"I am ready, along with my security guards, to stand in front of any judge as long as the basic requirements for justice are available,\" he said.",
"Al-Hashimi questioned the legal procedure in the case and said airing confessions violates Iraqi law.",
"He said federal court, and not the criminal courts, should handle charges against an Iraqi vice president.",
"He also raised the issue of political immunity.",
"Parliament members have immunity and cannot be prosecuted in crimes unless their immunity is lifted by the country's Council of Representatives.",
"Al-Hashimi questioned why he doesn't have the same immunity.",
"\"It is strange that an investigation into various, complicated and old crimes committed over the years is concluded within 48 hours,\" said the vice president.",
"\"This proves that the confessions were ready before the arrest of some of my security guards who are suspects; they have worked with me over the past years with the utmost professionalism and no violation or acts punishable by the law were recorded against any of them.\"",
"When asked who is responsible, he said he directs \"the blame ... to Mr.",
"Maliki.\" Since October, Iraqi security forces have rounded up hundreds of people accused of being members of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party or terrorists.",
"Iraqiya says the majority of those people are members of its political bloc and that the prime minister is simply taking out his opponents.",
"The political turmoil in Iraq is raising concerns in Washington, with officials saying they are closely monitoring the reports about the arrest warrant.",
"\"We are talking to all of the parties.",
"We've expressed our concern regarding these developments.",
"We're urging all political sides in Iraq to work out their differences peaceably, politically, through dialogue, and certainly in a manner that is consistent with democratic political processes and international standards of rule of law,\" said Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the State Department.",
"Ambassador James Jeffrey has been in contact with all of the parties in recent hours, she said Monday.",
"Al-Hashimi left Baghdad Monday for the Kurdish region for emergency talks with Shiite Vice President Khudayyer al-Khuzaie and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.",
"The Interior Ministry said al-Hashimi has been banned from leaving the country.",
"The vice president questioned statements from U.S. President Barack Obama, who recently said that U.S. troops were leaving an Iraq he described as democratic.",
"He didn't understand if Obama is being misled or ignoring \"the reality on the ground.\"",
"\"I am a vice president addressing him today and my home is surrounded by tanks.",
"What democracy are you talking about, Mr.",
"Obama?\" CNN's Arwa Damon contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Al-Hashimi disputes the warrant's accusations .",
"The Iraqi vice president to confront allegations that he organized a death squad to target government officials .",
"The charges come amid a political crisis and sectarian tensions ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Carlos the Jackal,\" once among the world's most wanted fugitives, has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a series of fatal bombings in the 1980s, a French court said.",
"The 62-year-old, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was on trial for his role in the attacks on two trains, a train station and a newspaper office in France in 1982 and 1983.",
"The bombings killed 11 and injured more than 100.",
"He was sentenced late Thursday.",
"The Venezuelan-born revolutionary has been serving another life sentence in France since 1997, when he was convicted for the shooting deaths of two French secret agents and an informant in 1975.",
"Ramirez, who was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, first made headlines in 1975 when he led an attack on an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' meeting in Vienna that took at least 60 people hostage, including 11 oil ministers.",
"He was nicknamed \"Carlos the Jackal\" by the press, a reference to the principal character and assassin in Frederick Forsyth's novel \"The Day of the Jackal.\"",
"After two decades on the run, Ramirez was captured in 1994 in Sudan and taken to Paris in a sack.",
"The seven-judge terrorism panel ruled after the trial that began in November."
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"This is a second life sentence for \"Carlos the Jackal\"\nHis real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez .",
"The attacks took place in 1982 and 1983 and killed 11 people .",
"Ramirez was captured in 1994 in Sudan after two decades on the run ."
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"(EW.com) -- \"Joyful Noise,\" a squeaky-clean pop-gospel fairy tale featuring Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah in canned catfights, reflects the inspiration of \"Glee\" and God, in that order.",
"The \"Glee\" side, at least in my book, doesn't exactly amount to a recommendation, but it does mean that the movie's musical numbers are catchy and rollicking and, in their bright sunshiny way, rather soulful.",
"In the small town of Pacashau, Georgia, times are hard -- every other storefront is empty -- but the Divinity Church choir has lifted local spirits by rising to become a semifinalist in the National Joyful Noise Competition.",
"Can these spunky vocalists go the distance?",
"Not until they learn to work together in harmony.",
"Which means that Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), the choir's new director, has to stop feuding with G.G.",
"Sparrow (Parton), widow of the former choir leader, over the direction of the group's music.",
"Vi Rose, feisty and smart-mouthed, favors tradition, while G.G., whose grandson Randy (Jeremy Jordan) is the new songbird on the block, is out to shake things up.",
"Parton now looks like a \"Spitting Image\" puppet (the film makes plastic-surgery jokes about her so that we don't have to), but she still has a way with lines like ''I'd call you stubborn, but that'd be an insult to mules!''",
"\"Joyful Noise\" also finds room for a teenager with Asperger's syndrome (Dexter Darden) who loves one-hit-wonder songs (but can he learn to love himself?",
"), as well as a romance between Randy and Vi Rose's daughter Olivia (Keke Palmer).",
"These two are pretty -- and as bland as balsa wood.",
"But each time the innocuousness starts to get to you, you're woken up by Randy and Olivia's swooning ''Maybe I'm Amazed'' duet, or a kid-choir rendition of Billy Preston's ''That's the Way God Planned It,'' or the final ''I Want to Take You Higher'' blowout.",
"These numbers create a deep river of feeling, even when stuck in the shallow banks of a movie like this one.",
"B- . 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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"\"Joyful Noise's\" musical numbers are catchy and rollicking and rather soulful .",
"The Divinity Church choir has lifted local spirits by becoming a semifinalist in a competition .",
"\"Joyful Noise\" also finds room for a romance between Randy and Olivia ."
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"(CNN) -- Former \"Frasier\" star Kelsey Grammer and wife Kayte Walsh Grammer are expecting twins, the actor said Sunday.",
"He made the announcement backstage at the Golden Globes after winning the award for best actor in a TV drama series for his roll in \"Boss.\"",
"\"I'm really looking forward to meeting these new arrivals in our lives, I really am,\" he said.",
"Grammer, 56, married the 32-year-old former flight attendant in February in New York, just after Grammer's divorce became final from his third wife, Camille Donatacci, who appears on \"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.\"",
"He predicted Sunday that Kayte will be an \"extraordinary\" mother.",
"\"She's one of the most loving, amazing, warm human beings I've ever met,\" he said.",
"Grammer currently portrays Chicago Mayor Tom Kane in the Starz series \"Boss.\"",
"He closed his Globes acceptance speech by thanking his wife \"for the future and what a magnificent year it's been.\"",
"Grammer and Donatacci had two children -- Jude, now 7, and Mason, 10.",
"Grammer also has daughters Spencer, 28, and Greer, 19, from previous relationships.",
"He told CNN's Piers Morgan in October that \"I think (Donatacci) married me because I was Frasier.\"",
"Grammer also told the CNN host that his \"parting gift\" to his third wife was her role in the reality series \"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.\"",
"\"Whether or not it worked well for her doesn't matter,\" Grammer said.",
"\"It was my way of saying, 'Look, you always wanted to be famous.",
"Here you go.' \" CNN's Jack Hannah contributed to this report."
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"Grammer is \"looking forward to meeting these new arrivals\"\nThe \"Frasier\" star married Kayte Walsh Grammer in February .",
"Kelsey Grammer has four other children from previous relationships ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was sworn in for a second four-year term Saturday, extolling her country's economic stability during a time of global crisis.",
"\"We are a new Argentina, but we are also in a new world with more challenges and more decisions to be made in the best interest of our people and society,\" she said.",
"A bulk of her long speech focused on specifics of the Argentine economy that are impressive against the backdrop of a global downturn.",
"Industrialization has created more than 5 million jobs during her administration and minimum wages are the highest in the region, she said.",
"Argentina's economy could see growth of 9% in 2011, she said.",
"Internal growth in the country was one of the main drivers that kept the economy afloat, she said.",
"\"I don't have to read you the consumption statistics.",
"It's enough to go to the streets in any place, in any town ... to know that the domestic market is precisely what permitted us to survive the crisis of 2008 and 2009,\" she said.",
"While she talked a lot about specific economic indicators, Fernandez did not abandon her populist side.",
"\"I am not the president of the corporations,\" she said.",
"\"I am the president of the 40 million Argentinians.\"",
"Fernandez ranks as one of the most popular candidates in Argentina since its return to democracy.",
"She won re-election with more than 54% of the vote.",
"Her presidential campaign was also the first she had to wage without her late husband and former president, Nestor Kirchner.",
"He was president from 2003 to 2007, when Fernandez succeeded him.",
"He died in October of 2010.",
"In an apparent symbol of mourning, Fernandez wore black at her swearing in.",
"And when she took the oath of office, she asked God, country and \"he\" -- referring to her husband -- to hold her to account.",
"Her eyes watered as she said those words.",
"\"As everyone can imagine, today is not an easy day for this president,\" Fernandez said.",
"\"Despite the happiness, despite the overwhelming votes, something -- and someone -- is missing.\"",
"Her second term as president extends to 2015."
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"Fernandez won re-election with 54% of the vote .",
"She was sworn in on Saturday .",
"She praised the country's economy and warned of future challenges ."
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"Panama City (CNN) -- His fate uncertain, Manuel Noriega is being returned Sunday to Panama, nearly 22 years after the former dictator was forcibly removed from office by U.S. forces.",
"Now 77, Noriega is being extradited this weekend from France, which got Noriega in April 2010 after he spent two decades in an American prison.",
"Panamanian officials want him to face justice in the case of the killing of Hugo Spadafora, a doctor and political opponent of Noriega.",
"Noriega was convicted in absentia of being involved with the kidnapping and killing of Spadafora in 1985.",
"After a stop in Spain, Noriega is expected to arrive late Sunday afternoon in Panama City.",
"For almost two decades, Noriega was a major player in a country of critical regional importance to the United States because of its location on the Panama Canal, a key strategic and economic waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans on the narrow isthmus linking the Americas.",
"While in U.S. custody, Noriega suffered from prostate cancer and had a stroke.",
"Authorities have strengthened security to guarantee Noriega's safety in prison, Panamanian Foreign Minister Roberto Henriquez said.",
"\"We have to be ready for all the possibilities in all aspects.",
"Noriega inspires very big emotions, and Noriega's life could very well be at risk in Panama,\" Henriquez said.",
"Judicial officials in Panama will determine whether Noriega can stand trial, Henriquez said.",
"Interior Minister Roxana Mendez said Noriega will receive the same treatment as other inmates at the Renacer prison complex.",
"\"The Panamanian state has no special consideration when it comes to him serving his sentence inside the prison complex,\" Mendez said.",
"\"However, based on our laws, and if there's a valid request from his attorneys, they can ask that he be transferred from the prison to house arrest if the inmate's health is in jeopardy or if the inmate, being over 70 years old, may face risks inside the prison complex.\"",
"Last year, a French court sentenced Noriega to seven years in prison for laundering money through French banks.",
"He also was fined almost 2.3 million euros ($2.9 million), the amount of drug money he was accused of laundering through French banks.",
"Noriega denied the charges.",
"During the trial, defense lawyer Yves Leberquier tried to paint Noriega as the victim of larger geopolitical forces, accusing the United States of placing and moving pawns to serve its interests.",
"The U.S. government has portrayed Noriega as the ultimate crooked cop -- a man who was paid millions by the Medellin drug cartel in Colombia to protect cocaine and money shipments.",
"He was convicted of drug trafficking and other crimes in the United States.",
"Born in 1934, Noriega was abandoned by his parents at the age of 5 and raised by an aunt in a rundown district of Panama City.",
"After failing to get into medical school, Noriega joined the army, studying at Peru's Military Academy of Chorrillos and quickly rising through the ranks.",
"In the 1970s he served as head of military intelligence to Gen. Omar Torrijos, who had seized power in a military coup in 1968.",
"Torrijos died in a plane crash in 1981, and Noriega emerged as his de facto successor.",
"By 1983 he controlled both Panama's armed forces and civilian government.",
"In 1988 Noriega was indicted in the United States on charges of racketeering, laundering drug money and drug trafficking.",
"He was accused of having links to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's notorious Medellin cartel and, in the process, amassing a multimillion-dollar fortune.",
"Amid growing unrest in Panama, U.S. President George H.W.",
"Bush ordered the invasion of Panama in December 1989, claiming that Noriega's rule posed a threat to U.S. lives and property.",
"Noriega fled his offices and tried to seek sanctuary in the Vatican Embassy in Panama City.",
"U.S. troops set up large speakers around the compound, blaring music at all hours, a psychological ploy to rattle the general.",
"He surrendered in January 1990 and was quickly escorted to the United States for civilian trial.",
"During his 2010 trial in France, Noriega said, \"I received high praise from the U.S., Interpol and other countries who all benefited from my fight against drugs.\"",
"CNN's Rafael Romo contributed to this report."
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"The former strongman is expected to arrive in Panama late Sunday afternoon .",
"Panamanian officials want him to face justice there .",
"The former dictator has been convicted of crimes in the United States and France ."
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"Rio De Janeiro (CNN) -- The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to climb Tuesday, surpassing 700, the government said.",
"A helicopter rescued 18 people from a city in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state after rains caused devastating flooding and mudslides in the mountainous region.",
"Four children -- including a 30-day-old baby, were among those lifted to safety Monday.",
"The Air Force said one of them -- 6-year-old Guilherme Carvalho -- summed up the feelings of the group with a simple exclamation: \"Relief!\"",
"But rescuers have not been able to reach some hard-hit areas, and many more people are feared dead.",
"Forecasters predict rain will continue for several days in areas already submerged in water.",
"The death toll from flooding in Rio de Janeiro state has climbed to 710, according to government figures released Tuesday.",
"And thousands are homeless across the state.",
"Other states in the South American country have also seen heavy rainfall.",
"Last week, authorities in neighboring Sao Paulo state said 24 people had been killed by flooding.",
"In Rio de Janeiro state, flooding and mudslides turned the once-picturesque tourist town of Teresopolis into a wasteland.",
"Bodies and belongings remained strewn amongst fallen boulders Monday as family members searched for loved ones in the rubble.",
"Outside a makeshift morgue in Teresopolis -- where the government said at least 292 people had died in flooding -- a crowd of people waited for their turn to identify loved ones.",
"Marco Antonio Siqueira Costa said the last time he saw his brother, sister-in-law and niece was a few days ago, before mud buried their house.",
"\"I think that last meeting was God's way of granting us a farewell,\" he said.",
"Residents in the city donned masks and helped clean streets or deliver first aid.",
"Others combed the city searching desperately for missing loved ones.",
"Meanwhile, experts and officials tried to pinpoint what caused the catastrophe.",
"\"Combine a weather event and environmental irresponsibility and the sum equals a tragedy,\" said Carlos Minc, Rio de Janeiro's environment minister.",
"Minc said he wants to stop construction of homes in high-risk areas, such as river banks or steep mountain slopes -- a practice that he said was encouraged by previous governments.",
"He pointed to Nova Friburgo -- the hardest-hit city, according to government figures, which list 335 deaths due to flooding there.",
"\"We are monitoring river levels, but it isn't enough.",
"In Nova Friburgo, for example, we had warned six hours in advance that the river was overflowing, but...there is no emergency plan or drills with the population so they know what to do in a situation like this,\" he said.",
"Brazilian authorities have been criticized for a lack of disaster planning, and for allowing people to build homes in areas known to become treacherous in the rainy season.",
"They are under increasing pressure to show a strong response.",
"Brazil is scheduled to host the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.",
"CNN's Helena de Moura, Fabiana Frayssinet and Nelson Quinones contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The death toll in Rio de Janeiro state has climbed to 710 .",
"Bodies are strewn among fallen boulders and abandoned belongings there .",
"A government minister says \"environmental irresponsibility\" caused the tragedy .",
"The city of Nova Friburgo is the hardest hit, with 335 deaths reported ."
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"(CNN) -- The man police say kidnapped and brutally murdered a 7-year-old Georgia girl pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.",
"Ryan Brunn entered the plea at a hearing in a Cherokee County courthouse, during which he described in detail how he enticed, molested and killed Jorelys Rivera.",
"The girl's mangled body was found in a trash compactor three days after she went missing on December 2 from an apartment complex in Canton, which is about 40 miles north of Atlanta.",
"Brunn, 20, who worked as a maintenance man at the same apartment complex, was arrested on December 7 and charged with the crime.",
"He told the court he had never talked to Jorelys before the day of her murder.",
"He said he devised a plan after he found one of her skates.",
"Brunn took a picture of the skate and approached her with it, asking if the skate was hers.",
"She said yes, and Brunn promised to take her to it.",
"Instead, he took her to an empty apartment and instructed Jorelys to pull down her pants.",
"He then put tape over her face and cut her throat with a razor.",
"At this point, she was still alive, he told the court.",
"So Brunn took Jorelys to the bathroom and beat her to death with the skate.",
"He said he did not have sex with the girl.",
"Next, Brunn put Jorelys' body in a plastic bag and loaded it into his maintenance golf cart.",
"He put the body in the trash compactor and operated the machine.",
"He then went home and hung out with friends.",
"Later, he again operated the compactor.",
"Increasingly, Brunn told the court, he grew concerned about what he had done.",
"So he took a receipt, wrote on the back of it, \"She is in the trash can,\" and taped it to the compactor.",
"He admitted lying to investigators who had questioned him about the case.",
"Brunn said he knew right from wrong.",
"During his testimony, relatives of the slain girl were visibly upset, crying and shaking.",
"\"I would like to apologize for everything I have done,\" Brunn told her family in court.",
"Last week, he was indicted on 13 counts including murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, false imprisonment, abandonment of a dead body, making a false statement and sexual exploitation of children.",
"According to the indictment, Jorelys was severely beaten and stabbed repeatedly in the face, neck and chest.",
"Brunn's attorney had said previously he planned to plead not guilty.",
"Brunn had no known criminal history, authorities have said."
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"NEW: Ryan Brunn is sentenced to life in prison without parole .",
"NEW: He describes how he enticed, molested and killed Jorelys Rivera .",
"NEW: Brunn, 20, says he cut her throat and beat her with a skate .",
"NEW: He offers an apology to her family in court ."
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"(CNN) -- World number two Rafael Nadal beat Milos Raonic in the second round of the Japan Open for the second successive year on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Tokyo tournament.",
"Defending champion Nadal, top seed for the Ariake Coliseum event, completed a straight-sets 7-5 6-3 triumph without conceding a break of serve against his Canadian opponent.",
"\"His serve was impressive, especially at the beginning of the match,\" Nadal told the ATP Tour's official website of his 20-year-old opponent.",
"\"It was an important victory for me and now I am in the quarterfinals.",
"Physically I feel fine and I have the motivation to keep going and keep practising hard.\"",
"Next up for Spain's Nadal is Colombian Santiago Giraldo, who ended the challenge of Russia's Dimitry Tursunov with a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) win.",
"Second seed Andy Murray powered past American Alex Bogomolov Jr., smashing 11 aces on his way to a 59-minute 6-1 6-2 success.",
"\"It was good,\" said Britain's Murray, who has won 18 of his last 19 matches.",
"\"I wanted to get off to a good start, having played a long match against Marcos Baghdatis in the first round.",
"\"It was good to get the first set in 20 minutes.",
"It was a bit tougher in the second.",
"Against Baghdatis I had a lot of long rallies and tough situations I had to get through, so I am pleased with today's performance.\"",
"World No. 4 Murray's next opponent will be 2002 Wimbledon finalist David Nalbandian after the Argentinean eliminated big-serving Croat Ivan Dodig with a 7-6 (7-2) 6-2 victory.",
"Spaniard David Ferrer also booked his place in the last eight, the third seed coming back from one-set down against Australian qualifier Matthew Ebden to seal a 4-6 6-2 6-2 win.",
"Meanwhile at the China Open in Beijing Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga moved into the quarterfinals by knocking out Chinese wildcard Ze Zhang.",
"World No. 7 Tsonga, top seed for the tournament, continued his quest for a seventh career Tour title with a 6-3 6-4 success in 77 minutes.",
"The 26-year-old's win set up a clash with former world No.",
"1 Juan Carlos Ferrero after the Spaniard beat compatriot Marcel Granollers 6-4 6-4.",
"In the women's draw, Romanian Monica Niculescu continued her unlikely challenge for a second WTA Tour title by inflicting a 4-6 6-1 6-2 loss on fellow-qualifier Virginie Razzano.",
"Niculescu, who defeated French Open champion Li Na in the opening round, will come up against Maria Kirilenko next after the Russian eased to a 6-1 6-2 win over Austria's Tamira Paszek.",
"Second seed Victoria Azarenka was forced to withdraw from her match against Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, meaning world No.1 Caroline Wozniacki is the only top 10 player left in the draw."
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"World number two Rafael Nadal beats Canada's Milos Raonic .",
"Top seed Nadal now into quarterfinals of the Japan Open .",
"Second seed Andy Murray has also reached the last eight .",
"Jo-Wilfried Tsonga into last eight of China Open in Beijing ."
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"(CNN) -- Struck by lightning, caught up in the smell of gas, braving two-inch hail and relentless rain: None of it could stop hundreds of firefighters, police officers, medical personnel, National Guardsmen and more from heading into the devastation around Joplin, Missouri, in a desperate search for survivors.",
"Nor could the fact that many of the first responders searched through the rubble of buildings at the same time many of their own homes had been eviscerated.",
"Amidst the struggles, there were victories: 17 people were rescued Monday, city manager Mark Rohr told CNN's Eliot Spitzer.",
"\"They've lost their homes, but they have been out there for 40 hours saving lives,\" Richard Serino, deputy administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said from Joplin.",
"\"The work they have done ... to say it is to be commended is an understatement.\"",
"Not much more than 12 hours after the tornado touched down, Rohr said that between 400 to 500 firefighters, public works personnel and other municipal employees showed up Monday morning, unasked, hoping to help.",
"The city manager said that the turnout, and the fact many others who have pitched in in other ways, is no surprise in Joplin, a city of 50,050 residents in southwest Missouri.",
"\"Joplin is a city of neighbors helping neighbors,\" he said.",
"\"And with this spirit, we will overcome the hardship.\"",
"Yet the continually confounding weather Monday proved a major challenge.",
"Rohr said that two first responders were struck by lightning while looking through debris -- he did not detail the victims' conditions afterward -- with persistent thunderstorms prompting a temporary halt to the searches.",
"And even by Monday evening, a full day after the twister struck, Rohr said there were \"gas leaks all over the city.\"",
"\"When we drive around, we can smell the gas,\" the city manager said.",
"\"And there are wires down everywhere.",
"You have just got to be careful, as you navigate through the city.\"",
"The challenge doesn't appear likely to get any easier Tuesday.",
"The National Weather Service has said there is a 45 percent chance of another tornado outbreak between 4 p.m. and midnight Tuesday over a wide swath that includes cities like Dallas, Oklahoma City and -- yet again -- Joplin.",
"Those assisting in the rescue effort weren't just from Joplin.",
"Missouri Gov.",
"Jay Nixon noted that some of the more than 1,000 first responders came from Kansas City and other locales.",
"That doesn't include the 110 highway patrolmen and 250 National Guardsmen -- with another 450 on standby -- also on the scene.",
"Dr. Jim Roscoe told CNN that doctors, nurses and others rushed to help, after the tornado ripped through St. John's Regional Medical Center.",
"Even with often impassible roads and treacherous weather, he said that, \"within a matter of hours, we had almost more help than we could put to use.\"",
"\"I just can't begin to tell you,\" said Roscoe, who is heading the hospital's triage unit as it treats and redirects patients coming in for help.",
"\"We've had people coming from several hundreds of miles away, grabbing their stethoscope and anything they could get, and threw it in their car and came.\"",
"Whether treating patients and searching for bodies, those on the frontlines in Joplin also face a significant psychological toll of dealing with devastation that most of them have never seen before.",
"Nixon said they would likely have \"very difficult shifts, (because) there are going to see things out there that are hard to see and hard to stomach.\"",
"Still, voicing a sentiment echoed by officials and residents in Joplin, the governor said it wouldn't prevent the first responders from heading out again, looking for survivors.",
"\"We are going to cover every foot of this town, and we're going to make sure that every person is accounted for,\" Nixon said."
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"Hundreds hit the streets of Joplin, despite thunderstorms, looking for tornado survivors .",
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"Others came from far away, like doctors who rushed to help at a stricken hospital ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan is prepared to gradually reduce the amount of oil it imports from Iran, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Thursday, as the United States seeks to muster international support to put fresh pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.",
"Japan imports 10% of its crude oil from Iran at the moment, Azumi said at a news briefing after meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.",
"The country is ready to decrease that level \"in a planned manner,\" he said.",
"\"What I told the secretary is that we have already reduced Iranian oil imports by 40% in the past five years,\" Azumi said, standing next to Geithner.",
"\"The nuclear development issue is an issue that the international community cannot overlook, so we very much understand the U.S.",
"action.\" The United States is exploring ways to cut off Iran's central bank from the global financial system and reduce the country's oil revenues, Geithner said at the briefing.",
"Washington is in \"the initial stages of consulting with allies around the world about how best to achieve those goals,\" he said, adding that Japan's support was appreciated.",
"\"We are working very closely with Europe and Japan and countries around the world to substantially increase the pressure we bring on Iran,\" Geithner said.",
"The announcement is a plus for Geithner, after his efforts on Iran were rebuffed by senior Chinese officials during his visit to Asian countries this week.",
"\"I think 'small victory' is a fair categorization,\" said Michael Levi, a Council on Foreign Relations' expert on energy policy and national security.",
"From January to September 2011, Iran exported 13% of its crude oil to Japan, according to the International Energy Agency.",
"Levi said Iran is likely to absorb this and find alternatives -- unless those drop out as well.",
"\"As long as Iran has a substantial set of potential buyers, it's going to make as much money as it made before,\" Levi said.",
"Levi said Japan wants to phase out its imports from Iran slowly so it can smoothly transition to other sources.",
"\"That same slow speed gives Iran the opportunity to transition to other customers,\" he said.",
"Geithner had made a similar push for China to reduce its Iranian oil imports.",
"But Beijing said that its imports have nothing to do with Tehran's nuclear program and rejected new U.S. sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct business with the Iranian central bank.",
"There was notably little mention of Iran in the comments made by Geithner and Chinese leaders Wednesday.",
"China relies on imports for half of the oil it consumes.",
"Iran exported 22% of its crude oil to China from January to September last year, the IEA said.",
"Japan's government faces a difficult balancing act, trying to meet the needs of its closest ally and at the same time fuel its energy-strained country.",
"Japan has been facing an energy crisis since last March's earthquake and tsunami, which triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.",
"While making the announcement of plans for a gradual decrease in Iranian oil imports, Azumi did not specify how quickly his country would carry out the action.",
"He said that Japan also needed more time to deal with how to reduce non-crude oil imports.",
"Iran threatened in late December to block the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions were imposed on its oil exports.",
"France, Britain and Germany have all proposed such sanctions to punish Iran for lack of cooperation on its nuclear program.",
"Those countries and others believe Tehran may be trying to develop nuclear weapons, but Iran says its nuclear program is solely for civilian energy production.",
"The strait is a critical shipping lane, through which 17 million barrels of oil passed per day in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.",
"CNN's Jethro Mullen and Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"Japan imports 10% of its crude oil from Iran .",
"Japan is ready to reduce that amount \"in a planned manner,\" the finance minister says .",
"U.S. Treasury secretary says he appreciates Japan's support of efforts to pressure Tehran .",
"Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz if sanctions are imposed ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- After countless rounds of ring and bump-watch, Jennifer Aniston is setting the record straight -- loud and clear.",
"\"Rumor number one: I am not planning to get married any time soon,\" the actress, 42, told Hello!",
"magazine during a press conference to promote \"Five,\" her directorial debut.",
"Aniston, who began dating Justin Theroux, 40, earlier this year adds that the ring she's currently wearing is not of the engagement variety.",
"\"I've been married once, and I don't know if I'll get married again,\" she said.",
"\"But I can tell you that as of this very moment, I have no plan to get married.",
"Got that?\" Aniston didn't stop there.",
"\"And rumor Number two: no, we're not pregnant,\" she said.",
"\"It's just I quit smoking, so I've gained a couple of pounds.\"",
"The private star previously told Elle magazine that she feels \"no desperation\" to have a baby.",
"\"If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.",
"I'm at peace with whatever the plan is.",
"But will you hate me if I say I don't want to talk about my relationship?\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"I am not planning to get married any time soon,\"Aniston said .",
"\"It's just I quit smoking, so I've gained a couple of pounds,\" she said .",
"\"If it's meant to be, it's meant to be,\" the actress added ."
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"(CNN) -- A Russian tanker carrying fuel arrived in the Alaskan town of Nome on Saturday night, the Coast Guard said, as officials started preparations on delivering the much-needed supplies.",
"U.S Coast Guard ice breaker Cutter Healy accompanied the fuel tanker Renda as it made its way through the frozen waters carrying 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products.",
"\"The first step is to ensure the ice is safe for the personnel to walk on,\" said Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow.",
"\"Then they will work to connect the piping and check for leaks.",
"Safety is our primary concern.\"",
"The cutter has broken through almost 300 miles of ice for the tanker on a journey that took them through southern Alaska's Aleutian Islands.",
"The voyage is the first-ever attempt to supply fuel to an Arctic Alaska settlement through sea ice.",
"A company in Nome contracted the Renda to deliver the fuel after ice formed over the Bering Sea following a ferocious November storm that prevented the last delivery of the season via barge.",
"The Coast Guard urged Nome residents not to go out on the ice to watch the operations, saying the behavior of the ice is unpredictable and ice conditions could change.",
"Nome is not in immediate danger of running out of fuel, said Coast Guard Capt.",
"Craig Lloyd, who is coordinating the mission.",
"The town has enough fuel to last until about March, but the delivery was attempted now because it would have been more difficult then, he said.",
"Officials considered flying in fuel, but it would have taken more than 300 flights, each carrying 4,000 to 5,000 gallons, to meet the town's needs, said Jason Evans, chairman of Sitnasuak Native Corp."
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"It is the first-ever attempt to supply fuel to an Arctic Alaska town through sea ice .",
"The Renda made its way through icy water carrying 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products .",
"Nome, Alaska, has enough fuel to last until about March ."
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"Giglio, Italy (CNN) -- The captain of the cruise ship that wrecked off Italy's western coast will be questioned by authorities Tuesday at a hearing, his attorney said.",
"Francesco Schettino is under arrest and may face charges that include manslaughter, shipwreck, and abandoning a ship when passengers were still on board, according to Italian prosecutor Francesco Verusio.",
"Schettino could face up to 15 years in prison, he said.",
"At the closed hearing, a preliminary investigation judge will decide whether Schettino will remain detained.",
"The captain has not yet been questioned, but more than 100 witnesses, including passengers and crew, have been interviewed, the prosecutor said.",
"The captain's attorney, Bruno Leporatti, said in a statement Monday that Schettino was \"shattered, dismayed, saddened for the loss of lives and strongly disturbed.\"",
"But, he said, Schettino is \"nonetheless comforted by the fact that he maintained during those moments the necessary lucidity to put in place a difficult emergency maneuver ... bringing the ship to shallow waters.\"",
"That move, Leporatti said, saved the lives of many passengers and crew members.",
"Italian prosecutors have ruled out a technical error as the cause of the incident, saying the captain was on the bridge at the time and had made a \"grave error.\"",
"Overheard on CNN.com: Worst-case scenario strikes .",
"Late Monday, the head of Italy's coast guard said 29 people remained unaccounted for from the partially sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia -- a sharp spike from earlier estimates of the missing.",
"Coast guard chief Marco Brusco said the whereabouts of four crew members and 25 passengers were unknown, Italy's ANSA news agency reported.",
"Authorities earlier believed that 16 people were unaccounted for.",
"The Costa Concordia hit rocks Friday night just off Italy's western coast, leading to what passengers described as a chaotic and surreal scene to evacuate and the deaths of at least six people.",
"On Monday, rescue efforts were ongoing in and around the mammoth vessel, which was listing on its side off the island of Giglio.",
"The search had been suspended earlier in the day because the vessel began to move, said the island's mayor, Sergio Ortelli.",
"Coast Guard spokesman Filippo Marino said efforts had resumed, adding that rescuers will focus on retrieving the body of a man, presumably a passenger, discovered earlier in the day.",
"However, he said the weather forecast has rescuers worried, as it calls for rising winds.",
"The head of the company that owns the ship said Monday he has not given up hope of finding survivors.",
"\"Hope is the last thing to die,\" said Costa Cruises chairman and chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi.",
"He addressed journalists at an emotional press conference Monday, apologizing repeatedly for the accident.",
"Prosecutors are examining the ship's data recorder and expect to have results within days, Verusio said.",
"They are also considering whether others may share responsibility for the crash with the captain.",
"Foschi placed blame for the wreck squarely on the captain, however, saying Schettino had deviated from frequently traveled routes.",
"\"The captain decided to change the route and he went into water that he did not know in advance,\" Foschi said.",
"He said the company was limited in its ability to investigate the incident because it did not have the data recorder.",
"Schettino, who has been with Costa since 2002, had never been involved in an accident before, Foschi said.",
"He downplayed the possibility that alcohol may have played a role in the crash, saying he did not believe Schettino drank, and that all crew were subject to random drug and alcohol tests by Costa Cruises.",
"The company had said earlier that Schettino may have made \"significant\" errors that led to the wreck.",
"\"The route of the vessel appears to have been too close to the shore, and the captain's judgment in handling the emergency appears to have not followed standard Costa procedures,\" Costa Cruises said in a statement Sunday.",
"The ship had about 2,300 tons of fuel on board at the time of the wreck, Foschi said Monday, adding that so far there was \"absolutely no evidence of fuel leaking into the sea.\"",
"Divers have been searching the skyscraper-sized ship, working underwater in pitch blackness, in hopes of finding the missing.",
"There were roughly 4,200 people on the Costa Concordia when it ran aground.",
"Among those unaccounted for were two Americans.",
"The U.S. State Department identified them Monday as Gerald and Barbara Ann Heil.",
"The U.S. Embassy has requested information from \"anyone with information\" regarding the Heils' whereabouts, the State Department said.",
"The Heils live in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, according to CNN affiliate WCCO, and have four children and 15 grandchildren.",
"Their daughter, Sarah, told CBS Radio in Chicago that the couple was planning to travel after retiring, WCCO said.",
"The disaster's impact on earnings will cost the ship's owner at least $85 million to $95 million in the fiscal year to November, parent company Carnival Corporation said Monday -- not including \"other costs to the business that are not possible to determine at this time.\"",
"Foschi said passengers would get \"material compensation for their loss,\" but declined to go into details.",
"The ship is expected to be out of service \"for the remainder of the current fiscal year if not longer,\" the company said.",
"Schettino joined Costa Cruises as a safety officer in 2002 before being appointed captain four years later, the company said.",
"Even with its admission that mistakes were made, the Genoa-based cruise company defended the ship's crew in the face of criticism on the part of some passengers, who said the crew appeared helpless and overwhelmed as passengers rushed for lifeboats.",
"\"It is becoming clear that the crew of the Costa Concordia acted bravely and swiftly to help evacuate more than 4,000 individuals during a very challenging situation,\" the company said, adding all crew members are trained and the passengers earlier took part in an evacuation drill.",
"Survivors have described the scene -- after the ship hit rocks near Giglio, off the coast of Tuscany, and turned over on its side -- as chaos.",
"\"There was no one taking command,\" passenger Lauren Moore told HLN's Mike Galanos.",
"She said she was having dinner with a group of friends when she heard the crunch of the ship hitting the rock and the crash of plates and glasses falling to the floor.",
"\"It was a terrifying sound and we knew it wasn't normal,\" she said.",
"Moore ran to her cabin and then to board a lifeboat.",
"\"It was so chaotic ... Everyone was basically fighting for his or her own life,\" she said.",
"Some passengers braved the chilly water, with a temperature of about 57 degrees, and swam to safety.",
"Others had no choice and fell in.",
"Nighttime temperatures on Giglio have recently dipped below freezing.",
"Authorities have said at least 20 people were injured, in addition to those killed and missing.",
"There were fears the death toll could rise as rescuers searched the ship, which was nearly 50% submerged and had a gash in its hull, authorities said.",
"Questions and criticism continue about what caused the shipwreck and the adequacy of the response.",
"Speaking on Italian television, the ship's captain insisted the rocks that the Concordia hit were not marked on his map.",
"\"On the nautical chart, it was marked just as water,\" Schettino said, adding that the ship was about 328 yards (300 meters) from shore.",
"But Coast Guard spokesman Cosimo Nicastro insisted that the waters where the ship ran aground were well-mapped.",
"Local fishermen say the island coast of Giglio is known for its rocky sea floor.",
"Nicastro said the Coast Guard was investigating why the ship took the course it did.",
"\"We know where the ship was,\" he said.",
"\"We know it was too close to the island.",
"... We don't know why.\" Built in 2006, the Concordia had been on a Mediterranean cruise from Rome with stops in Savona, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari and Palermo.",
"The ship was carrying about 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members when it ran aground.",
"The dead include two elderly people found Sunday, two French tourists and a crew member from Peru, port authorities in Livorno said.",
"One of the victims was a 65-year-old woman who died of a heart attack, authorities said.",
"The Spanish Foreign Ministry named one of the victims Monday as Guillermo Gual Buades, 68, saying his family had identified him.",
"CNN's Livia Borghese, Hada Messia, Jim Boulden, Al Goodman and Richard Allen Greene contributed to this report."
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"Captain Francesco Schettino will appear before a judge Tuesday .",
"The ship captain's attorney says he is \"shattered, dismayed, saddened\"\n25 passengers and 4 crew members remain unaccounted for, the coast guard says .",
"Rescue efforts are continuing on the Costa Concordia, where at least 6 have died ."
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"New York (CNN) -- As the world mourns the untimely conclusion of professional famous person Kim Kardashian's marriage to professional tall person Kris Humphries, how are you coping?",
"Probably not very well, particularly if you watched their televised $20 million wedding (for which they allegedly spent $0 -- various sponsors took care of the costs for this impoverished but hardworking young couple) on August 20.",
"They were so in love. Sports fans and sex fans alike have shed countless tears over the breakup of a man who bounces a ball for living and a woman who once videotaped herself making sexy time with Brandy's little brother.",
"But while we all acknowledge that Kim and Kris are the greatest living beings on Earth or any other planet, we may not all agree on what lessons to take from this sad state of affairs.",
"Fortunately, as the Voice of My Generation, I'm available to explain the five most important things you and your friends ought to learn from Kim and Kris' impending divorce.",
"1. Providing $400,000 of Perrier-Jouët at one's wedding does not ensure the success of a marriage.",
"You need Cristal for that.",
"2. Fish and relatives stink after three days, but spouses can last 24 times as long.",
"Have you ever been stuck in a car with your beloved family for more than three hours?",
"It's awful, and you probably love them more than any other folks in the world.",
"Kim and Kris made it work for 72 whole days.",
"That's 1,728 hours of uninterrupted togetherness!",
"Rather than tear them down, let's salute them for their longevity.",
"Considering that they probably ran out of new words after the first day, it's pretty amazing they lasted as long as they did.",
"3. Contrary to popular belief, it's a bad idea to marry a dude with the same first name as your mom.",
"Especially when Mom describes herself on Twitter as \"MOM, MANAGER, MOMAGER, LOVER OF LIFE, LOVER OF CHRIST.\"",
"4. If at first you don't succeed ... you'll probably also fail the second time.",
"Like many other members of her generation, Kim fell in love and launched a starter marriage that didn't last so long.",
"I'm talking, of course, about her first marriage -- she married producer Damon Thomas when she was 19 and divorced him four years later.",
"Just remember, third time's a charm.",
"Maybe. 5. One's posterior-to-waist ratio does not correlate to one's marriage-to-divorce ratio.",
"'Nuff said. And now, let the healing begin.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sara Benincasa."
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"Sara Benincasa: Many are trying to cope with news of the Kardashian/Humphries split .",
"She says fans may not agree on the best lessons to take from the breakup .",
"She offers five: For one, the wedding needed better champagne for marriage to last .",
"For another, don't marry someone with the same first name as your mother ."
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"(CNN) -- A British report issued Thursday called for \"decisive action\" to contain the growing problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia.",
"\"We conclude that for too long there has been a noticeable gap between the government's rhetoric and its action,\" said the 210-page report, issued by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee.",
"\"Despite nine U.N. Security Council resolutions and three multinational naval operations, the counter-piracy policy has had limited impact.",
"The number of attacks, the costs to the industry and the price of the ransoms have all increased significantly since 2007.\"",
"Over the past four years, the average ransom has risen from $600,000 to $4.7 million per vessel, with 2011's total outlay reaching $135 million, the report said.",
"Those payments \"should be a matter of deep concern to the British government and to the entire international maritime community,\" said the report, which described the government as \"disappointingly slow to track financial flows from piracy.\"",
"Though some ships have begun taking \"more robust\" measures to defend themselves, pirates still face few repercussions for their actions, it said.",
"In those cases where pirates are detained, some 90% are released without charge, it said, noting that there is no reason why Britain could not assert jurisdiction over suspected pirates.",
"Simply returning suspected pirates to their boats or to land \"provides little long-term deterrence and has demonstrably failed to prevent annual increases in both the number of pirates going to sea and in the number of attacks.\"",
"The report cited Saferworld, a nongovernmental organization that works with grass-roots organizations in Somalia, in estimating that 1,500 to 3,000 pirates operate off Somalia's coast.",
"They typically range in age from 15 to 30 and are almost all male, uneducated and unskilled -- many of them from rural areas, it said.",
"They often carry small arms and travel in one or two skiffs, the report said, citing Capt.",
"David Reindorp, head of the Defense Crisis Management Center at the Ministry of Defense, as its source.",
"\"They will maneuver one of the skiffs to come alongside the vessel and they will throw up a line on a hook, a grappling rope or some form of apparatus by which they can climb up on to the freeboard of the ship.",
"If they are detected during that, they will usually fire at the ship, generally in and around the bridge, aiming either to get the master to slow down or to clear their way on to the freeboard.",
"Once they have got on to the ship, they will proceed to the bridge and take it over.\"",
"Negotiations are typically carried out by satellite phone and usually take three months to a year, it said.",
"Pirates have begun working from larger vessels, mother ships, which are stocked with food and fuel and have extended the areas vulnerable to attack, it said.",
"Though most hostages are released unharmed, 15 died last year, it said.",
"Over the past four years, 3,500 seafarers have been taken hostage and 62 have been killed, it said.",
"The report applauded the government's practice of using a number of different departments to tackle the problem, but said it \"lacks clear leadership\" and urged the government to \"provide a statement clarifying which department has the overall lead on countering piracy.\"",
"There is no lack of targets.",
"Some 90% of the world's traded materials are shipped by sea, and 40% of that -- 28,000 ships per year -- goes through the Indian Ocean, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, the report said.",
"The report put the annual cost of piracy -- including insurance, prosecutions, security and ransoms -- at $7 billion to $12 billion.",
"In a statement, Foreign Secretary William Hague said the report will be discussed next month at a meeting in London.",
"\"We will use the London Conference on Somalia to chart a way forward on the future political direction of Somalia, the vital humanitarian effort and the international community's approach to tackling piracy.\""
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"There is \"gap between the government's rhetoric and its action,\" the report says .",
"The average ransom has risen from $600,000 to $4.7 million per vessel in four years .",
"Report is issued by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee ."
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"(WIRED) -- Motorola is taking another shot at the tablet game with the Droid Xyboard, the company's latest Android device to hit Verizon stores.",
"After getting our hands on one yesterday, we found that it's a solid, well-performing slate that's easy on the eyes.",
"Too bad it has such a stupid name.",
"The 4G Xyboard is Motorola's follow-up to its pricey, not terribly popular Xoom tablet, which was released in February.",
"Available in 8.2-inch and 10.1-inch versions, the Honeycomb-powered Xyboard enters the market hot on the heels of the super-hot Kindle Fire.",
"It's on sale today for $430 (for the 8.2-inch) or $530 (for the 10.1-inch) with a two-year contract from Verizon, with options for 16GB or 32GB of memory on the smaller version, and up to 64GB on the larger one.",
"The first thing that struck me about the Xyboard is its industrial design.",
"Rather than being perfectly rectangular in shape, the 8.2-inch slate has clipped corners, which actually makes it fit more comfortably when you hold it one-handed.",
"The back, too, shows some stylistic creativity.",
"A rubberized outer rim houses a power button and volume rocker, while centered in the back of the tablet is a sheet of dark gray brushed metal held in place by six visible screws.",
"Think robot chic.",
"The positioning of the device's only two buttons makes for a clean appearance, but leaves your fingers searching when it's time to crank up the volume or send it to sleep.",
"The 8.2-inch size, however, is a great compromise between the 7-inch 'tweeners and 10-inch stunners.",
"It's small enough to wield in one hand with ease (the 0.86-pound weight helps with that too), yet large enough that watching a full-screen, HD YouTube video or a movie on Netflix is pleasant.",
"Pair that with Verizon's 4G speeds, and you've got great streaming video quality.",
"The overall experience is smooth, an improvement over many of the past buggy iterations of Honeycomb (perhaps the longer lead time gave Google the room to stabilize).",
"Powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz processor with 1GB of RAM, app loading times are reasonably swift, and swiping from one screen to another on its Honeycomb interface is stutter-free.",
"Unlike HTC and Samsung devices, it's not overly skinned, so you can actually experience the Android OS for what it is, rather than a bogged down, bloated mess.",
"The Xyboard will be eligible for an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade at some point in the future, but for now, it runs Honeycomb very well.",
"Both the 8.2- and 10.1-inch models have a 1280 x 800 resolution display.",
"After turning up the brightness from auto to full, the tablet's battery life dropped from around 20 percent to around 5 percent in less than an hour, so it looks like you'll need to be conscious of your 4G and brightness settings if you don't want your tablet to die on you quickly.",
"If you're one of those people who likes to take pictures with their tablet (read: you are a dork), the Xyboard has a 5-megapixel back-facing camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera on its face.",
"The rear camera's quality is relatively sub-par compared to what you'd get from other comparable cameras, and definitely shoddier compared to the 8-megapixel standard of most 2011 handsets.",
"The colors are bright and close to true to life, but the overall image lacks sharpness.",
"The camera does have some variable settings though, for white balance, color effects, and scene mode.",
"Video quality was also just 'meh': a video taken indoors at the Wired offices was noticeably grainy.",
"Overall, the Xyboard seems like a decent tablet.",
"The slate looks slick and feels good in your hands, and is powerful enough to provide a successful tablet experience.",
"It's a bit of a shame that it's shipping with Honeycomb instead of ICS, but that's certainly not a deal breaker.",
"What's a real shame, though, is that it's available now, and not six months ago.",
"See more Wired reviews on Wired.com .",
"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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"4G Xyboard is Motorola's follow-up to its pricey, not terribly popular Xoom tablet .",
"Honeycomb-powered Xyboard available in 8.2-inch and 10.1-inch versions .",
"Tablet is small enough to wield in one hand, yet large enough to watch a full-screen, HD video ."
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"Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- It wasn't until five months after Army Staff Sgt.",
"June Moss returned from the Iraq war in 2003 that her real battle began.",
"The horrors of the war -- witnessing decapitated and burned bodies amid mass destruction -- led to post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"\"I do notice when I'm stressing out that I start having dreams about what I saw and how I felt,\" says Moss, now 40 and retired from the Army.",
"\"It does come back as if to haunt you.\"",
"The percentage of women in the military has doubled in the last 30 years, with more than 350,000 serving as of 2009, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs' latest figures.",
"With more female troops in combat, there has been an increase in PTSD diagnoses: One in five female veterans suffer from PTSD, according to the VA. As a light-vehicle mechanic, Moss drove across Baghdad and provided security at checkpoints during her combat tour in Iraq.",
"When she returned home, she became overly protective of her two children, fearing that someone was going to kidnap or harm them.",
"At the same time, she hunkered down inside her home, staying in bed, because she says it was too hard to face the most mundane tasks such as shopping.",
"\"It was crazy. I couldn't even do crowds.",
"It reminded me when we were in a marketplace (in Iraq), and we didn't know if somebody was out there to kill us,\" Moss explains.",
"\"I'm back home, and I didn't have to worry about a suicide bomber, but I still felt as if there was one lurking in the mall or the grocery store.\"",
"Six years ago, she cut her wrists to end the pain.",
"Today, Moss has progressed significantly after specialized therapy provided by the local Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California, where the focus is on female vets like herself.",
"\"Women tend to be diagnosed more often, at least with our recent returnees, with depression, whereas men are being diagnosed more often with substance abuse,\" says Natara Garovoy, program director of the Women's Prevention, Outreach & Education Center at VA Palo Alto Health Care System.",
"Garovoy says recent studies show the percentage of women veterans suffering from PTSD is on par with the percentage of men: 20%.",
"\"Women are exposed to combat now more than ever before, and they're proving to be just as resilient to those exposures as men,\" she said.",
"There is no cure for PTSD, only treatment.",
"\"It takes a lot to live with PTSD,\" Moss says.",
"\"I hate to compare it with being an alcoholic, because I'm not one, but that's the best description I can give.",
"You're always one incident from spiraling out of control back to where you were -- being depressed, not coming out of the house, not being able to sleep, having night terrors, night sweats, all those kinds of things.\"",
"Moss attributes an angry outburst in her workplace last year to PTSD, after she says she had become complacent with her treatment.",
"Moss physically struck a fellow employee with whom she was romantically involved.",
"\"I just went off. It went from verbal to physical.",
"And, thank God, I didn't lose my job over it.",
"But I did get in trouble,\" says Moss, who was suspended for three days without pay.",
"\"Those feelings came out of nowhere.\"",
"Moss says she realized that even years later, she needed to actively engage in her weekly therapy.",
"She also turned to her boss, the chaplain at the Palo Alto VA, to focus on her spirituality.",
"\"I'm constantly working on how I'm thinking,\" Moss says of her regimen today, which includes morning meditation, listening to gospel music and exercising.",
"Her new mantra: \"Staying positive and keeping negativity out of my life!\"",
"Moss has lost 40 pounds in the last two years and is pursuing a degree in human resource management at San Francisco's Golden Gate University.",
"Moss beams with pride when she discusses recent steps in her therapy made within the last six months.",
"She went on a trip by herself to Philadelphia while her teenage children went away to camp.",
"She says technology, like video chat, helped her make such a stride.",
"Moss also took her daughter to a concert in October, braving a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd.",
"\"It's a big deal to know that from then to now, I've come a long way,\" Moss says with a smile.",
"\"From head to toe, I'm a better me.\"",
"CNN's Linda Hall contributed to this report."
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"Staff Sgt.",
"June Moss was diagnosed with PTSD after serving in the Iraq war .",
"As more women see combat, more female vets are suffering from PTSD .",
"Treatment helps, but Moss worries about slipping back into depression .",
"Today, Moss has gotten over her fear of crowds ."
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"(CNN) -- Finally.",
"That's all that needs to be said about President Barack Obama's decision this week to stop playing footsie with GOP senators and push through the recess appointments for the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and members of the National Labor Relations Board.",
"Republican are in a tizzy, saying he is establishing a bad precedent with the moves.",
"But frankly, they need to shut up.",
"It has been their shameful and callous actions in holding up countless presidential nominees that has led us to this precarious moment in political history.",
"But let's not act like the Democratic senators are standing on firm moral ground.",
"They were also obstructionists during the final few years of President George W. Bush's second term, and they played the same game of hideaway as the Republicans are doing now, even though the GOP has taken stalling to extraordinary heights.",
"As for President Obama, he has played nice for far too long, unwilling to load up the administration with his nominees through the constitutionally protected avenue of recess appointments.",
"It's hilarious to listen to strict constructionist conservatives talk about the U.S. Constitution as a hallowed document, only to hear their chagrin when someone actually follows it.",
"Every president has the right to make recess appointments, and if you hear the GOP critics, you would swear Presidents George H.W.",
"Bush and George W. Bush didn't use the power of recess appointments to fill vacancies.",
"But they did, specifically with the National Labor Relations Board, the same group that now has three open slots that the GOP has been blocking President Obama from filling.",
"This is a silly, partisan game that I can't stand.",
"Every president should be able to appoint a team to his liking.",
"Yes, the U.S. Constitution says the U.S. Senate gets to \"advise and consent,\" but it says nothing about holding up appointments in perpetuity.",
"It's shameful when a president makes an appointment and that person goes six months to nearly two years before they get a hearing or an up-and-down vote.",
"The U.S. Senate should be able and willing to move a lot faster when filling vacancies, but the partisan divide keeps that from happening.",
"With President Obama in office, the GOP doesn't want to see what they describe as liberal judges appointed to the federal bench.",
"And when there is a Republican in the White House, Democrats voice their anger at conservative judges being appointed.",
"Folks, that's what happens in elections.",
"There are consequences to winning and losing.",
"President Obama's willingness to take on the Congress directly is a welcome departure from the reach-out-and-touch someone philosophy he operated by the last three years.",
"Look, I get bipartisanship -- we should have folks from both parties acting like grownups and getting along -- but if you look at the overwhelming number of Obama appointees being held up, it's clear that this system is broken.",
"Weakness is nothing to be happy about.",
"And too often, President Obama has operated more on the weak and meek side when dealing with Congress rather than as a strong leader with conviction.",
"This decision, coupled with the far more aggressive tone he has taken with his critics, has led to an increase in his poll numbers, and is the kind of fire in the belly his supporters are happy to see.",
"The fear is that the president will fall back into the mode of walking softly with a big stick.",
"Sorry, when folks are misbehaving, you have to whack them upside the head with that big stick in order for them to get the message.",
"The GOP can crow all day about these appointments.",
"They are likely to lose if they challenge the president in court.",
"Maybe their continuing intransigence will keep President Obama operating with a short fuse, ready to explode on the opposition when warranted.",
"Now that's a change in attitude we can believe in.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin."
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"President Obama filled several key posts through recess appointments .",
"Roland Martin says he had to act because Republicans were stalling his nominees .",
"He says Democrats also were wrong in obstructing appointments by George W. Bush .",
"Martin says Obama's new tough approach is long overdue ."
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"(Sunset.com) -- Listen to the ocean from your room in one of these lesser-known inns along California's jaw-dropping Pacific coastline.",
"Coast Guard House Historic Inn in Point Arena, California .",
"Atop a bluff and offering nose-bleed views of the major highway for gray whales --- aka the Pacific Ocean -- is this Cape Cod-style seaside estate from 1901, with slatted ceilings, vintage photographs, and piles of firewood near the basement.",
"Check in: It's hard to shake the Agatha Christie vibe at the windswept inn, what with the grandfather clock ominously stopped at 4:20, a house dog named Winston, and a Friday-night wine and cheese party where you meet the other suspects, ahem, guests.",
"Two cottages and four rooms are shipshape cozy.",
"From $165, breakfast included; two-night weekend minimum; coastguardhouse.com .",
"Explore: Tiny Point Arena isn't exactly booming, but nearby are sand dunes, pocket beaches, the Point Arena Light Station and the great Pinots of Anderson Valley.",
"--Christine Richard .",
"Sunset.com: 33 perfect summer trips .",
"Two Harbors on Catalina Island, California .",
"On the far side of Catalina, away from the main town of Avalon, is Two Harbors, a tiny boaters' haven that feels like an island on the island.",
"Check in: For all the isolation, you don't have to rough it here.",
"In addition to boat-in and walk-in campgrounds, Two Harbors has the Banning House Lodge in the vacation home of Catalina's onetime owners.",
"All 12 rooms have views of the harbor.",
"From $128 . Explore: At Two Harbors, you can snorkel through swaying kelp beds and kayak to hidden coves.",
"Steep trails lead into the Catalina backcountry.",
"Or just stroll across the isthmus and look out over the Pacific: next stop, Hawaii, 2,500 miles away.",
"--Matthew Jaffe .",
"Sunset.com: 10 places for your life list .",
"Timber Cove Inn on Sonoma Coast, California .",
"A narrow ribbon of road clings, against all odds, to a grassy slope that plummets into the Pacific along this overlooked coastline with views to infinity.",
"Check in: It always had the million-dollar spot on a solitary rocky point above the waves, and its rugged lodge look and soaring lounge haven't changed.",
"But with new ownership and a cash infusion, Timber Cove has shed its swinging '70s decor and gone for a more streamlined, romantic look.",
"Private decks are perfect for whale-watching and sharing a Sonoma Coast Pinot.",
"From $169 . Explore: Pull off at Salt Point State Park to ramble by wild-colored succulents and alien rock formations carved by the sea.",
"$7 per vehicle.",
"--Lisa Trottier .",
"Sunset.com: Top 10 national park beaches .",
"Cass House Inn & Restaurant in Cayucos, California .",
"The small surf town of Cayucos has remained miraculously immune to over-development for decades, despite its great wines to the east and white sandy beaches to the west.",
"Check in: The elaborate breakfast (included!)",
"is nearly as good as chef Jensen Lorenzen's seasonally inspired dinner (if it's on the evening menu, the oxtail soup is a must).",
"But the best part about the 1800s Cass House?",
"That would be twin sisters Grace Lorenzen (the innkeeper) and Carla Wingett (groundskeeper), who manage the organic garden and the five impeccably turned-out guestrooms.",
"From $165 . Explore: With sand dunes climbing hundreds of feet above miles-long beaches and eucalyptus-lined hiking trails, the Montaña de Oro park (a 25-minute drive away) is a must.",
"--Jaimal Yogis .",
"Sunset.com: 10 great one-night escapes .",
"Avila Lighthouse Suites on Avila Beach, California .",
"Remember those beach vacations you took with your parents back in the day?",
"Sandy motel floors, over-chlorinated pools and too much junk food?",
"Tiny Avila Beach, smack at the midway point of California's Central Coast, is that throwback beach town, upgraded for your new, adult standards.",
"Check in: Yes, kids love the pool, the giant chess game, even the putt-putt golf green at Avila Lighthouse Suites, but lush landscaping, a location to die for (the motel is maybe 10 steps from the beach), and 54 large guest suites with low-key nautical decor and mini kitchens make the grown-ups giddy too.",
"From $229 . Explore: Avila Beach is tailor-made for strolling around in your flip-flops eating ice cream.",
"But if you tire of that, take a docent-led 3.5-mile hike on Pecho Coast Trail (9 a.m.",
"Sat; free, reservations required) to Point San Luis Lighthouse ($5).",
"--Samantha Schoech .",
"Sunset - Get Your Weekly Guide to Sunset - food, homes and travel.",
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"Timber Cove Inn sits on a solitary rocky point above the Pacific .",
"Like to snorkel or kayak?",
"Check out Two Harbors on Catalina Island .",
"Cass House Inn & Restaurant has an organic garden and five guestrooms ."
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"(CNN) -- Don't be confused, Las Vegas.",
"You did not wake up in a fraternity house.",
"You are not still in college.",
"Those celluloid-ball-throwing, beer-chugging patrons invading the Flamingo Hotel and Casino are not trying to scare you.",
"They are probably just members of Seek and Destroy -- Wednesday night's winners of the annual World Series of Beer Pong.",
"Matt White and Ross Hampton came out on top after 22 games to take home the $50,000 prize, money that the recent Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville graduates will certainly be able to use.",
"\"It'll get me by for now,\" Hampton said after the win.",
"He said the secret to his team's success in the tournament was \"staying sober to play well consistently.\"",
"Not always an easy task in a game with \"beer\" in it name.",
"Beer pong, or Beirut as it is called on many college campuses, is played with two teams standing at opposite ends of a table.",
"At each end of the table, ten 16-ounce cups, filled with roughly 4 ounces of beer or another liquid, are placed in a bowling-pin formation.",
"Each team takes turns tossing beer pong balls (similar to table tennis balls) at their opponent's cup formation.",
"If a ball goes into a cup, the cup is removed from the game, and its contents are usually imbibed by the opponent.",
"The first team to knock out all of their opponent's cups wins.",
"White and Hampton learned to play beer pong the same place most people do -- in college.",
"It wasn't until recently that the two started playing competitively and realized they were actually pretty good.",
"Their move from casual beer pong players to tournament competitors mimics that of National Beer Pong League co-founder Duncan Carroll's decision to establish a competitive beer pong league.",
"But he insists he and his business partners weren't the first ones to think of organizing it.",
"\"We're just the only people to actually carry it out,\" he said, laughing.",
"The world series, in its seventh and largest year, has drawn more than 1,000 players (450 teams) from 48 U.S. states and 14 countries.",
"Organization of a sport which for many college students is nothing more than a mindless drinking game may sound a little far-fetched, but Carroll said it actually came quite easily to him and his college buddies, all members of the Carnegie Mellon swim team in the late 1990s.",
"\"We played a ton of beer pong,\" he said.",
"Despite the popularity of the game on his campus and others, Carroll said there was never really any way to measure a player's skill level.",
"\"There were no organized tournaments,\" Carroll said, \"We figured a lot of people thought they were pretty good, but might wonder, 'How good am I really?'\"",
"After graduating from college with a history degree, Carroll said, his desire to become an entrepreneur paired with the game's widespread popularity made for a perfect fit for the formation of a National Beer Pong League.",
"The league established rules for the game, a regulation-size beer pong table, as well as a national ranking system similar to that for chess.",
"Competitors can move up and down in the rankings based on the ranking of those they beat.",
"No surprise to Carroll, his friends think his job is \"pretty cool,\" but overcoming stereotypes about the game has proved to be one of his greatest challenges.",
"\"People who didn't play beer pong in college don't really get it,\" he said.",
"\"It's tricky trying to convince them it's something that people take seriously.\"",
"Even his own parents have mixed emotions.",
"\"My dad loves it,\" Carroll said.",
"\"My mom thinks it's debauchery.\"",
"Carroll said the tournament attracts a \"mixed bag\" of people who all \"happen to be good at beer pong.\"",
"The National Beer Pong League's latest development is an app for the Android smart phone that he says will bring competitive beer pong to even larger crowds.",
"The most casual backyard beer pong player can log on and track their wins on the league's website.",
"At the end of the day, Carroll said, \"It's really just a sport that happens to involve alcohol.\""
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"Matt White and Ross Hampton win 22 games to take home the prize .",
"The college sport is stepping into the big time .",
"The World Series of Beer Pong is an international event ."
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"New Delhi (CNN) -- In India, milk is used in holy ceremonies, it is offered to the gods, poured over deities and generally considered the healthiest of drinks.",
"But a first-of-its-kind government survey reveals that a stunning 68.4% of milk sold in India does not meet basic government standards.",
"The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India tested milk across the country.",
"It took 1,791 samples -- and of of those, 1,226 were found to be \"non-conforming.\"",
"In seven Indian states, 100% of the samples failed to meet standards.",
"Some samples contained water and milk powders; others included potentially toxic ingredients.",
"\"We found about 14% of the samples which found traces of detergent,\" said V.N.",
"Gaur, the chief executive officer of the food safety authority.",
"In lesser percentages, the tests also found hydrogen peroxide and urea -- a substance found in fertilizer and urine.",
"\"There is a problem and they need to face it head-on and they have to kind of really take some strict action against those people who are violating simple consumer rights of getting a clean glass of milk,\" said Savvy Soumya Misra, the food safety and toxins deputy program manager with the Center for Science and Environment.",
"Doctors say ingested over long periods of time, chemicals like detergent can eat away the lining of intestines, stomach and affect the liver and the kidneys.",
"Just adding water to the milk can pose a real danger in India where waterborne illnesses are commonplace.",
"\"What you get is diarrhea.",
"Vomiting. What we call gastroenteritis,\" said Dr. Suranjit Chatterjee, a senior consultant for internal medicine at Delhi's Apollo hospital said.",
"\"You can get something like cholera.",
"You can have jaundice. There are infections like typhoid fever, which are all part of water-borne infections in this part of the world.\"",
"At a dairy on the outskirts of India's capital, a worker dilution is widely practiced -- but that his plant does not participate.",
"\"A lot of people do it.",
"They add water and take the milk and sell it,\" Ram Prasad said.",
"\"They add water because it increases the quantity of milk and there is more to sell.\"",
"The milk industry in India is a chaotic mix of producers and sellers.",
"Milk comes to the market in many different ways.",
"It can be carried in on the heads of farmers in pails, put in containers which are strapped to a train or a bicycle, or delivered in a massive milk truck.",
"In many places, including the capital, fresh milk is still delivered to homes.",
"The sources also vary: from a family with three cows, to farms with more than 30 cows and buffaloes, to huge dairy plants.",
"Government authorities say 70% of the milk on the market comes from small to medium farms that operate in, what is known, as the \"unorganized sector.\"",
"In the government test, less than a third of the milk samples came from large producers.",
"While India has strict regulations in place to ensure milk safety, consumer advocates say enforcement is so lax it's laughable.",
"\"Well it does reflect that there is a need to strengthen our implementation machinery, Gaur said.",
"\"That need is definitely underlined by this study.\"",
"But, he said, his office has been granted new powers recently and it plans on more surveys.",
"He expects there will be better enforcement in the coming weeks, months and years.",
"Food safety watchdog groups say milk dilution has been around for decades.",
"They hope the milk survey will mean good news for consumers because -- for the first time -- the government itself has revealed the true scope of the problem and pledged to do something about it.",
"CNN's Sumnima Das contributed to this report."
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"In seven Indian states, 100% of the samples failed to meet standards .",
"In most case, the milk is diluted with water and milk powder .",
"In some case, the survey found traces of detergent .",
"Watchdog groups hope the survey will prompt the government to get tough ."
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"(CNN) -- Here's a 21st-century art object if ever there was one: a Japanese film by a French-Vietnamese writer-director based on a 1987 international best-seller named after a 1965 Beatles' song about Scandinavian pine.",
"Well, that's not all the song is about. According to John Lennon, it was conceived as a deliberately opaque reference to an extramarital flirtation (he didn't want his wife to know about it) that went nowhere.",
"The narrator sleeps in the bath, then torches the place in the morning.",
"Tran Anh Hung's lovely but overly languorous film of the acclaimed Haruki Murakami novel catches at the sexual longing and consternation that both the book and Lennon's song evoke: the tantalizing co-mingling of desire, mixed signals and cross purposes that can derail a tentative relationship.",
"Tran (who also wrote the screenplay) follows Murakami's slender plotline with respect bordering on devotion, but fails to find a correlative to the complex, overlapping perspectives that allow the novel to live in both the present and the past -- to enter into the mindset of adolescent angst, and to contemplate it from afar.",
"Instead the film flails between too many lengthy, numb exchanges and a handful of spectacular but histrionic set pieces.",
"Toru Watanabe (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is a freshman at Tokyo University in the late 1960s.",
"He's largely impervious to the political upheaval going on around him, still struggling to come to terms with the sudden suicide of his best friend, Kizuki, on his 17th birthday.",
"In their grief, Watanabe and Kizuki's girlfriend, Naoko (Rinko Kikuchi of \"Babel\"), spend many hours consoling each other, and on her 20th birthday they finally sleep together.",
"The next day, Naoko quits school and retires to a sanatorium, leaving the confused Watanabe to muddle his way through classes.",
"While he and Naoko correspond in long, intimate letters, Watanabe takes up with another girl (or should I say, she takes up with him?).",
"Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) is as self-confident and assertive as Naoko is vulnerable and timid.",
"Watanabe, meanwhile, is a distinctly passive and bewildered protagonist, unsure of what he wants or what his obligations might be to the broken, suicidal Naoko.",
"The performances are credible enough, but neither the passive, vacillating Watanabe nor the neurotic, grief-stricken Naoko are easy figures to identify with, and it's hard to understand why so many women keep throwing themselves at Matsuyama's clay feet.",
"Only Mizuhara's assertive Midori offers any energy, and she's sidelined for much of the movie.",
"While the movie has moments to savor and artistry to spare, these elements don't cohere into a satisfying whole.",
"Tran doesn't speak Japanese, but in other respects he's well-suited to Murakami's world.",
"A Vietnamese brought up and educated in France, best known for \"The Scent of Green Papaya\" and \"The Vertical Ray of the Sun,\" Tran is a cinematic aesthete, very much attuned to melancholy and introspection.",
"\"Norwegian Wood\" features a tumescent score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and stunning cinematography by the Taiwanese Mark Lee Ping-bin (\"In the Mood for Love\").",
"It's so gorgeous to look at that spectators are in danger of swooning in their seats.",
"It's rather irritating that the characters prefer to wallow in misery than admire the natural beauty all around them -- including each other, of course.",
"And that's the trouble. The film feels like a fetish object; almost a series of screen prints, it's a beautiful illustration of the text, but somehow the text itself is lost in translation."
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"Critic: Director follows Haruki Murakami's slender plot with respect bordering on devotion .",
"Protagonist is passive and bewildered, unsure of what he wants, Tom Charity says .",
"He says movie has moments to savor, but these elements don't cohere into satisfying whole ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant is just weeks from operating at full capacity, the country's top nuclear official said Saturday.",
"Feireidoun Abbasi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, also said Tehran has shown its new Iranian-made centrifuges to a representative of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).",
"The Bushehr plant, located along the Persian Gulf coast, will reach its full capacity of 1,000 megawatts by February 1, Abbasi said, according to the country's official news agency, IRNA.",
"The plant was connected to the country's electric grid in September with a capacity of 60 megawatts.",
"At 1,000 megawatts, Bushehr will be able to provide 2.5% of Iran's current electricity consumption, the IAEA said.",
"Abbasi made the announcement about Bushehr while attending a meeting on Iran's nuclear achievements held in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.",
"He told the meeting that Tehran had shown the new generation of its homemade centrifuge machines to the IAEA \"in a bid to demonstrate the ability of Iranian scientists,\" he said.",
"Abbasi said the centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, were shown to the deputy of IAEA, Director-General Yukiya Amano, but he did not say when.",
"It was not immediately clear whether an IAEA representative had in fact been to Iran and seen the centrifuges.",
"The new centrifuges will enable Iran to enrich uranium over the current purity level of 5%, according to experts cited by the news agency.",
"Uranium enriched to between 3% and 5% is necessary to make fuel for reactors.",
"Uranium enriched to 93.5% is considered weapons-grade.",
"The construction of Bushehr -- a civilian, not military, plant -- started in 1975 when Germany signed a contract with Iran.",
"Germany, however, pulled out of the project following the 1979 revolution that created the current Islamic republic.",
"Iran then signed a deal with Russia in 1995, under which the plant was originally scheduled to be completed in 1999, but the project was delayed repeatedly.",
"Bushehr finally opened in August 2010.",
"The United States and other Western nations have expressed concerns that Iran's development of missile and nuclear fuel technology mean it is developing a nuclear program for military purposes.",
"The IAEA said in a November report that it has \"serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions\" to Iran's nuclear program.",
"The agency said it has information indicating Iran has carried out \"activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.\"",
"Iran has denied such allegations, saying the Bushehr plant will be used only to generate electricity and operates under IAEA supervision.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the concern is not the Bushehr plant, but other nuclear facilities like Natanz, in the middle of the country; a facility at Qom, south of Tehran; \"and other places where we believe they are conducting their weapons program.\""
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"Iran's nuclear chief claims the centrifuges have been shown to an IAEA representative .",
"IRNA cites experts who say centrifuges will be able to enrich uranium beyond 5% purity .",
"Uranium enriched to 93.5% is considered weapons-grade ."
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"JACKSON, Mississippi (CNN) -- It's triggered an emotional controversy.",
"The pardons of convicted killers by outgoing Gov.",
"Haley Barbour has forced Mississippians to take a look at an ageless program that employed violent men -- including convicted murderers -- inside the governor's mansion and put those men on a fast track to a full pardon -- and freedom.",
"The program, known as the Governor's Trusty program, is now front-and-center at the Mississippi capitol.",
"No one seems to know how long the program has been in effect, or how it got started.",
"\"It's almost closed,\" said Mississippi state Rep. Bobby Moak, a Democrat who's helping to spearhead legislation to change the program and the governor's power to pardon.",
"\"You can't go into this capitol dome and ask somebody to tell you about that particular program ... to tell you how they're (inmates are) vetted, who is chosen, why they are chosen or anything else,\" Moak told CNN.",
"What is known is that in his final days in office, Barbour signed full and complete pardons for five violent offenders serving life sentences -- including four men who had committed murder.",
"These men were trusties -- selected by the Mississippi Department of Corrections because of their exemplary behavioral record while in prison to work at a variety of jobs, including as servants and handymen in the governor's mansion.",
"CNN was able to track down one of the pardoned murderers in Mississippi.",
"Almost 11 years to the day that he shot his wife in the back and killed her, in front of a room full of witnesses, Anthony McCray spoke with CNN's Martin Savidge.",
"Savidge: \"What kinds of things would you do at the governor's mansion?\"",
"McCray: \"I did housekeeping.",
"Shined door knobs.",
"Washed cars and stuff like that.",
"I cooked with the chef.",
"That's it.\" Savidge: \"How long were you there?\"",
"McCray: \"Three years.\"",
"Savidge: \"What was the change like for going from prison to the governor's mansion?\"",
"McCray: \"Well, first I had to get used to it because I had been in prison so long.",
"I had to adjust to it, but down the road it was OK. Everybody was nice to you, treat you nice.",
"You just do your chores.\" Savidge: \"Better living conditions?\"",
"McCray: \"Yes, sir.",
"Savidge: \"You'd have your own room?\"",
"You'd have your own room. There was six rooms. You'd have your own room. You'd get up and it's time to go to work.",
"You eat your breakfast and go to work.",
"Savidge: \"And this was always at the governor's mansion?\"",
"Savidge: \"Could you leave?\"",
"McCray: \"No. you couldn't go nowhere.\"",
"That prison inmates like McCray -- who pleaded guilty in the death of his wife, Jennifer -- were afforded such a situation is the very thing that infuriates Ronald Bonds.",
"His sister was McCray's wife, gunned down after the couple had argued at an after-hours club.",
"Bonds helped raise his sister's two young children.",
"\"How do you get a convicted murderer ... to go work at the governor's mansion?\"",
"he asked incredulously.",
"\"I don't know what he could have done.",
"You've got some folks that can do some pretty devious things to get what they want,\" he told CNN.",
"\"The governor must not have no grandkids coming in ... cause I wouldn't trust them folks,\" added Bonds, referring to the trusties.",
"Barbour has defended his decision.",
"Barbour says he believes in second chances and that men who committed crimes of passion are least likely to repeat their crimes.",
"\"I have no doubt in my mind that these men have repented, have been redeemed, have come back hard-working to prepare themselves to go out in the world.",
"I have no question in my life,\" he said in an interview with Fox News.",
"\"When my grandchildren are over at the governor's mansion, we trust them to play with and to be looked out for by these people.",
"If I trusted them to be around my grandchildren, I think that makes a pretty plain statement,\" he said.",
"According to the state Department of Corrections, prisoners selected for the program cannot have a drug or a sex-crimes conviction.",
"They must also show that they are interested in bettering themselves while in prison.",
"Women generally are not selected to be a part of the trusty program, because the Corrections Department forbids mixing men and women together.",
"But opponents of the program say it shows tremendous leniency by taking violent individuals out of prison and into the confines of the governor's mansion, where they have their own rooms -- and a path to that fast track to freedom with a pardon.",
"\"It takes 12 people to put somebody in prison and one man (the governor) gets to release him because he gave him a good car wash or served dinner right.",
"It's wrong,\" says Tiffany Ellis Brewer.",
"One of the recently pardoned trusties, David Gatlin, was given a life sentence in the shooting death of her sister.",
"Gatlin was convicted of shooting Tammy Brewer in the head as she held their 6-week-old son.",
"\"It astounds me. I can't even fathom ... because he (Gatlin) lives in his mansion, and he speaks to him, and gets to sit down and talk to the governor, that this man (Barbour) doesn't take into consideration that he shot Tammy in her head with a child in her arms.\"",
"According to the Department of Corrections Inmate Handbook, found online, inmates convicted of murder, and those serving life sentences are ineligible for the program -- raising the question of how and why McCray, Gatlin and others managed to be in the program.",
"A Department spokesperson did not return CNN's calls for an explanation.",
"The men are constantly surrounded by the governor's security staff at the governor's mansion -- considered a secure location.",
"The men who are selected are put through a further background check by the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the agency assigned to protect the governor.",
"According to a law enforcement source, security is very tight.",
"\"One strike and you're out.",
"So they (inmates) are on their best behavior always.",
"Whatever they tell the inmates to do has to be followed.",
"They better be toeing the line,\" the source said.",
"\"They wouldn't choose anyone that might grab a kitchen knife and do something.",
"They have to be people they feel they can watch.\"",
"But the program appears to give these men direct access to the governor -- a privilege that most prison inmates obviously do not enjoy.",
"McCray told CNN he saw Barbour practically every day.",
"\"He'd ask me how my children were doing and stuff like that,\" McCray told CNN's Savidge.",
"\"He'd ask how everybody was doing and I said everybody was doing just fine.",
"And we'd move along.",
"He'd go and do his work and I'd go and do my work.",
"\"If you want to go talk to him, he'll talk to you,\" McCray added.",
"Savidge asked, \"Really, you could just walk up to him and say, 'How are you?'\"",
"\"How you doing, Mr. Haley Barbour?\"",
"McCray responded.",
"\"That's it. He had his work to do, too.\" McCray described the outgoing governor as \"Nice ... nice ... really nice individual guy.",
"Down to earth.\" Asked if he discussed a pardon with Barbour, McCracy responded: \"No.",
"I never asked nothing about that.\"",
"\"It was just assumed that eventually, by working in the mansion you'd get that pardon,\" said Savidge.",
"\"Tradition,\" responded McCray.",
"\"That's what they call it. Before he got into office.",
"It's been going on for years.\"",
"The Department of Corrections said research was still under way to determine how long the trusty program has been going on, but department officials could not say how many inmates have gone through the trusty program, or how many of those trusties were eventually pardoned.",
"But now there's a new governor in town.",
"Former Lt. Gov.",
"Phil Bryant was sworn in last week.",
"Bryant has said the road to a pardon will no longer run through the Mississippi governor's mansion.",
"Bryant would not consent to an interview with CNN, but his director of communications said in an e-mail that changes have already begun.",
"\"The day Phil Bryant was sworn in, the Mansion trusty program ended in its antiquated 50 year old form,\" wrote Mick Bullock.",
"\"Governor Phil Bryant, on Tuesday (last week) discontinued the practice of convicts spending the night on the Mansion grounds and the tradition of pardoning the mansion trusties.",
"Further, he is currently working towards phasing out the use of violent offenders at the Mansion.\"",
"McCray, meanwhile, says he deserves his pardon, despite only serving 11 years of a life sentence for killing his wife.",
"\"Well, it's by the grace of God.",
"That's what God does -- God opens doors that no man can close.",
"I'm a child of God. That's what I believe,\" he told CNN.",
"He also says that Barbour, as governor, had the right to let him go free, as McCray put it, \"When the Lord touched his heart.\""
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"Selected inmates work and live inside the governor's mansion .",
"Controversy over former Gov.",
"Barbour's pardons has put the program in the spotlight .",
"\"It takes 12 people to put somebody in prison and one man gets to release him,\" says a victim's relative ."
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"(Mashable) -- Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will not support the Stop Online Piracy Act, according to a statement released by his office Monday.",
"In the statement, Ryan calls the Internet \"one of the most magnificent expressions of freedom and free enterprise in history\" and says \"it should stay that way.\"",
"According to Ryan, SOPA is an attempted solution to the \"legitimate problem\" of digital piracy, but the bill \"creates the precedent and possibility for undue regulation, censorship and legal abuse.\"",
"Congressman Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, became a target of the Reddit community last month.",
"Reddit users considered Ryan's previous stance on SOPA too vague -- and took issue with the $288,600 that the Congressman had accepted from pro-SOPA groups.",
"Mashable: Fears of SOPA unfounded, bill's sponsor says .",
"Redditors began \"Operation Pull Ryan,\" a grassroots campaign to prevent Ryan's re-election in 2012.",
"The community embraced Ryan's opponent, Rob Zerban, who is running for Congress in November of this year.",
"Zerban returned Reddit's affection, hosting an \"AMA,\" or \"Ask Me Anything,\" where he fielded questions directly from Reddit users.",
"Zerban credited Reddit with influencing Ryan's decision on SOPA.",
"In a statement posted on the social media site, Zerban said: \"Reddit was able to force the House Budget Chair to reverse course -- shock waves will be felt throughout the establishment in Washington today, and other lawmakers will take notice.\"",
"Mashable: U.S. wanted a Spanish SOPA .",
"In fact, Reddit may not have had an impact on Ryan's SOPA decision.",
"Paul's position on the bill was unclear until now.",
"As a conservative Republican who favors smaller government, it makes sense that Ryan would oppose a bill which gives more authority to the Federal government.",
"On the other hand, the bill was introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith, a conservative Republican from Texas, so party labels are not a reliable indicator of SOPA support.",
"Congressman Ryan's office did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.",
"Is the tide turning against SOPA in Congress?",
"Let us know your thoughts in the comments.",
"See the original article on Mashable.com .",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Congressman says bill \"creates the precedent and possibility for undue regulation\"\nMakes sense that Paul Ryan would oppose a bill giving more authority to federal government .",
"Ryan says Internet is an expression of freedom and should stay that way ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazil turned on the style to defeat their South American rivals Chile 3-0 on Monday and set up a World Cup quarterfinal against the Netherlands.",
"The five-time world champions, who showed little of their usual dazzling play during the group phase, sent an ominous warning to their rivals as they comprehensively outplayed Chile in Johannesburg, with Juan, Luis Fabiano and Robinho all on target.",
"\"We have to improve in all sectors of our play, but it was a nice game against Chile,\" Brazil coach Dunga told AFP.",
"\"We have already said we are trying to play the open football which everyone wants to see.",
"The players did well and we got forward a lot.",
"Dutch outclass Slovakia to reach quarters .",
"Brazil, who welcomed playmaker Kaka back from a one-match ban, took the lead after 34 minutes from a straightforward corner routine.",
"Right-back Maicon crossed for central defender Juan, who rose above the Chilean defense to power his header into the net.",
"Brazil's second goal, four minutes later, was more characteristically Brazilian in its style and execution.",
"Robinho carried the ball down the left flank before squaring to Kaka, who cushioned a pass into the path of Luis Fabiano, who rounded the goalkeeper and scored.",
"The third goal, after 60 minutes, stemmed from a swift counter-attack, with Ramires charging down the center with the ball and passing to Robinho, who curled his finish around the goalkeeper.",
"Chile, who reached the semifinals on home soil in 1962, struggled to break down a well-drilled Brazilian back line and were restricted to half chances for Humberto Suazo and Jorge Valdivia.",
"Robinho came close to adding a fourth when he was released down the right, but his low shot was tipped around the post by goalkeeper Claudio Bravo.",
"The victory was Brazil's eighth in a row over Chile, who became the first South American side to go out of the tournament.",
"Brazil will play the Netherlands in the quarterfinals in Port Elizabeth on Friday, July 2.",
"\"We know the Netherlands are a very difficult team to beat and they are very able technically, they play their football like South Americans,\" said Dunga.",
"Meanwhile, the president of the French Football Federation Jean-Pierre Escalettes said he will resign following the country's disastrous World Cup showing.",
"France, the 1998 winners and 2006 runners-up, were eliminated in the group stage after collecting just just one point and scoring one goal in a campaign marred by infighting.",
"\"After a weekend of reflection during which I consulted my elected colleagues and those close to me, I have decided that I must resign,\" Escalettes said in a statement on the federation website."
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"Brazil beat Chile 3-0 in Johannesburg to reach World Cup quarterfinals .",
"Juan, Luis Fabiano and Robinho all score for the five-time winners at Ellis Park .",
"Brazil will meet the Netherlands in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on Friday, July 2 .",
"Escalettes resigns as president of French Football Federation after poor World Cup campaign ."
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"(CNN) -- It has now been certified officially: Germany is special, at least in the eyes of ratings agency Standard & Poor's.",
"According to Standard & Poor's, Germany is the only country in the eurozone which still deserves the prized AAA rating with a stable outlook.",
"Nine other countries, together accounting for more than half the euro area's GDP, were downgraded at least one notch.",
"Given that these countries also provide more than half of the financing of the eurozone bail out fund (the European Financial Stability Facility) it was only logical that this institution also lost its AAA rating.",
"One could be tempted, following the downgrades, to conclude that most euro countries just cannot get their fiscal houses in order.",
"But the opposite is closer to reality.",
"The average fiscal deficit for the euro area was only about 4% of GDP in 2011.",
"This is projected to fall to about 3% in 2012.",
"This is much lower than the double digit figures for the U.S. and UK fiscal deficits for 2011, which are expected to persist through this year.",
"Italy -- hit with a two-notch downgrade -- is actually expected to structurally balance its 2012 budget.",
"\"Excessive\" deficits are thus unlikely to be the root cause of the problem (at least apart from Greece).",
"The motivation for the downgrades given by Standard & Poor's actually cites the excessive attention given to fiscal austerity as one principal reason for the downgrading of a whole swath of euroland.",
"Greek debt talks to resume .",
"So why the downgrade? Is there really such a lack of capital that the remaining deficits, which look modest in comparison to other developed countries, cannot be financed?",
"The answer is surely no.",
"There are enough savings within the monetary union area to finance all public deficits of the eurozone's members.",
"This is because euro area savers are usually loath to invest in foreign currency; and most regulated intermediaries such as investment fund have little choice but to invest in government securities in euro.",
"Further, Europe's investment funds and insurance companies cannot all put their money in a bank account where yields are close to nothing.",
"This is a key reason why reaction in the markets was so muted after the downgrades.",
"So what is Standard & Poor's afraid of?",
"One major problem is Europe's regional split of savings habits.",
"Those in the north -- Germany and the Netherlands, for example -- have an excess of savings.",
"But the area's investors dare not cross the Alps to spend their money in the southern countries such as Italy, Spain and Greece (and maybe soon France).",
"This is why Italian funding costs have gone up so dramatically while the same time, the German government can collect money from investors when it issues short term paper.",
"The collection of savings within national pools means the capital markets have ceased to function in the euro area.",
"The European Central Bank is the only institution able to recycle northern European savings through the euro area.",
"The ECB has thus become the \"central counterparty\" to most north-south lending in Europe.",
"By doing so it has prevented a collapse of the banking system.",
"But the ECB has its limits too.",
"The ECB cannot single-handedly substitute for all private cross border lending.",
"The downwards spiral will continue until these markets begin to function again.",
"This should be the main priority of Europe's leaders.",
"The fiscal compact might be useful to prevent the next crisis a generation down the road, but this will not be very useful if the euro does not survive the present one.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Daniel Gros ."
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"Daniel Gros thinks the eurozone's public finances are still in shape despite downgrades .",
"Gros regards Europe's regional split of savings habits as one of the key problems in the crisis .",
"The European Central Bank has prevented a collapse of the banking system, but it has its limits ."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid piled the pressure on Barcelona by moving six points clear at the top of Spain's La Liga with a 5-1 thrashing of Granada on Saturday.",
"Barcelona, seeking a fourth successive league title, now cannot afford to slip up in Sunday's trip to city rivals Espanyol.",
"Jose Mourinho's Real made the perfect start after the Spanish winter break as Karim Benzema netted twice and Cristiano Ronaldo extended his leading goal tally to 21.",
"It was Real's 14th win in 17 league games for a total of 43 points from a possible 51, with 61 goals for and 16 against.",
"Benzema opened the scoring after 20 minutes after Ronaldo and Mesut Ozil combined well inside the box, but 14th-placed Granada surprisingly leveled soon after as Mikel Rico headed in a cross by Nigeria forward Ikechukwu Uche.",
"Who will be January's top transfer targets?",
"Spain defender Sergio Ramos restored the home side's advantage as he powerfully nodded in Ozul's 34th-minute corner, and Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain made it 3-1 straight after the break with his 13th league goal this season after fullback Marcelo was allowed to surge into the box.",
"Benzema made it safe in the 50th minute as the France forward controlled Xabi Alonso's lofted diagonal pass and fired in a low shot for his 10th in La Liga and 16th overall.",
"Ronaldo finally got on the scoresheet with a minute of regulation time remaining, as the world's most expensive player -- who is on the shortlist for the FIFA Ballon d'Or award to be named on Monday -- fired in from the edge of the penalty area.",
"That took the Portugal captain four goals clear of Barca's Lionel Messi, who is hoping to win his third successive world player of the year title.",
"Fourth-placed Levante face the prospect of losing ground on Valencia after being held to a 0-0 draw by visiting Real Mallorca.",
"Valencia, who trail Barca by four points, can move six clear of their local rivals by winning at third-bottom Villarreal on Sunday.",
"Levante did, however, stay four points clear of fifth-placed Osasuna, who also played out a stalemate at Real Sociedad as both those sides extended their unbeaten runs to six matches.",
"Sevilla can leapfrog the Pamplona-based side with victory at Rayo Vallecano on Sunday.",
"Malaga also had the chance to claim fifth by beating Atletico Madrid in Saturday's late match, but there were no goals in that game either and the home side had to settle for going a point above Sevilla into sixth.",
"Racing Santander moved above second-bottom Sporting Gijon, Villarreal and Vallecano with a 1-0 victory at home to Real Zaragoza that lifted the Cantabrians out of the relegation zone.",
"Bernardo Espinosa's winner in first-half injury time left Zaragoza five points adrift at the bottom of the table."
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"Cristiano Ronaldo scores his 21st goal in La Liga this season to extend lead over Lionel Messi .",
"Messi's Barcelona team must win Sunday's derby at Espanyol or lose ground in title race .",
"Fourth-placed Levante can only draw 0-0 with visiting Real Mallorca earlier on Saturday ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's three children will use their father's shoes and sequined glove to make handprint and footprint impressions in the concrete in front of Hollywood's renowned Grauman's Chinese Theatre this month, Jackson's estate announced Thursday.",
"The January 26 ceremony is part of the promotion for the Los Angeles debut of Cirque du Soleil's \"Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour.\"",
"Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson have been more public in recent months, a contrast to their lives before their father's 2009 death when they were shielded from public view.",
"The children attended the premiere of the traveling Cirque du Soleil show with their grandmother, Katherine Jackson, in October.",
"The \"Immortal\" show is touring the United States and Canada through this year before taking up residency in Las Vegas.",
"Show biz legends who left their handprints and footprints in Grauman's concrete courtyard on Hollywood Boulevard include Fred Astaire, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Poitier, Clark Gable and Mary Pickford.",
"The tradition started in 1928, just a year after the historic theater opened.",
"Michael Jackson's Hollywood Walk of Fame star is on the sidewalk in front of the theater."
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"Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson to take part in January 26 ceremony .",
"It promotes Cirque du Soleil's \"Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour\"\nFred Astaire, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland also immortalized at Grauman's Chinese Theatre .",
"Michael Jackson's Hollywood Walk of Fame star is in front of Grauman's ."
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"Taquaritinga, Brazil (CNN) -- Brazil's orange harvest is nearing its end as workers in the state of Sao Paulo pluck late-blooming fruit from the trees.",
"The yellow-green oranges will be shipped off to nearby juice factories and then shipped around the globe.",
"Those exports rake in $2 billion for Brazil, the biggest orange juice exporter in the world, accounting for 85 percent of global exports.",
"But now, it is not clear if Brazilian orange juice will be allowed into one of its key markets: the United States.",
"Last week, the Food and Drug Administration temporarily halted all orange juice imports after low levels of the unapproved fungicide carbendazim were found in some juice shipments from Brazil.",
"More recently, the FDA said the juice is safe for consumption.",
"Growers in Sao Paulo say they have been using carbendazim for some 20 years and point out that it is allowed -- in low levels -- across Europe and Latin America.",
"It is also allowed in trace amounts in other food products, like nuts, in the United States.",
"\"We didn't even know that it had been banned in orange juice in the United States in 2009,\" Marco Antonio dos Santos, a third generation orange grower, told CNN.",
"Dos Santos, also the president of the Citrus Department at the Agriculture Ministry, says there are alternatives, however.",
"In fact, he and other growers already rotate the use of carbendazim with other fungicides and techniques for preventing diseases like black spot, which make the oranges fall from the trees before they are ripe.",
"He says Brazilian growers don't want to lose the American market, which is their second biggest after Europe.",
"The United States currently buys 15 percent of Brazil¹s orange juice exports.",
"\"If we have to, we'll eliminate this product completely,\" he said as he walked, showing off his 60-acre grove.",
"\"We want to supply the American market, we don't in any way want to lose it.",
"We can adapt to the American system with other products.\"",
"Growers here would take a hit if this latest crop were barred from America.",
"Global orange juice prices would rise, too.",
"But Dos Santos says producers can adapt quickly and could produce the next crop carbendazim-free if it were necessary.",
"While Brazilian farmers and industry leaders don't see a threat to consumers' health, they say the most important thing is that people aren't afraid to drink orange juice."
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"(CNN) -- Nate Ball, an MIT-trained mechanical engineer, wants to find out how things work -- even when they're inside his throat.",
"A two-time NCAA All-American pole-vaulter, former host of a PBS show, entrepreneur and co-founder of a company -- Atlas Devices, which creates powered rope ascenders -- Ball is also a beatboxer.",
"He manipulates his voice to make deep, baritone sounds and robotic noises.",
"He fluctuates from quick staccato beats and deep bass to buzzes and record-scratching sounds.",
"\"Beatboxing is one of the most natural things I can imagine a person doing,\" he said.",
"\"We're rhythmic beings through and through.",
"We walk in rhythm, our hearts beat in rhythm.\"",
"Ball's philosophy is that human bodies are \"incredible machines capable of amazing beauty. ...",
"The possibilities are endless,\" he said at TEDMED, a conference about great ideas in health care in October.",
"\"When I'm beatboxing, it's fun to add elements: scratching like a record, there's beats, talking while you're doing a beat -- which is not easy to do on the fly,\" he said.",
"\"That's what beatboxing is all about. It's about putting together all the crazy noises you can possibly manage and making it sound cool.\"",
"Other than being fun, Ball wondered: How does it all work?",
"To figure out what's happening inside his brain, he went inside an fMRI, an imaging machine that can show brain activity through blood flow.",
"When he performed a beat from memory, his brain activity was different from when he improvised.",
"When he created a beat on the fly, the brain activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in self-monitoring, shut down.",
"But other networks in his brain activated, including the cerebellum, which handles motor coordination, and and the temporal lobe, which is involved in auditory perception and emotional response.",
"But Ball wanted to find out more -- What's happening inside his throat to form those sounds?",
"To get a closer look, he had a fiber optic camera lowered through his nose to investigate at TEDMED.",
"This wasn't his first time getting a laryngoscopy.",
"With the camera inside his body and an image projected onto the big screen, Ball continued to beatbox.",
"The camera showed it wasn't only the vocal cords that help to create sounds.",
"\"Making the robot voice, I thought my vocal cords were vibrating, flapping at a low frequency,\" Ball said.",
"When he growled or let out a deep hum, his arytenoid cartilage and other tissues nearby his vocal cords also vibrated.",
"\"It's fascinating and captivating and gross,\" he said.",
"The video is not for the squeamish, since you can see lots of human tissue and saliva.",
"But it shows how the human body works.",
"\"It's this thrilling edge of discovery,\" he said -- even when it's inside your own body."
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"New York (CNN) -- The young New York student whose tale of hard work and endurance in the face of homelessness has captured many hearts -- and whose recognition in the prestigious Intel science competition has already given her much to celebrate -- will be attending the president's State of the Union speech.",
"\"Well, you know the SOTU attracts the most powerful people in the world, and I think Samantha can teach them a lesson in perseverance,\" New York Rep. Steve Israel said.",
"Israel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has extended his plus one to Samantha Garvey, a 17-year-old homeless science superstar from Brentwood, New York.",
"Garvey was told last week at the shelter her family had been staying in that her study on the ribbed sea mussels of Long Island's salt marshes had earned her semifinalist recognition in Intel's science talent search and a potential $100,000 scholarship.",
"Two days later, after county officials heard Garvey's story, they announced that a three-bedroom home in Bellmore would be rented for the Garvey family as part of Suffolk County's affordable housing program.",
"The Garveys were living in a shelter after being kicked out of their home on New Year's Eve.",
"Israel called Garvey \"an inspiration,\" and said he thought her presence would be an important influence on attendees of President Barack Obama's address on January 24.",
"\"The same people that will praise Samantha with one hand might be the same people that will slash budgets for science and education on the other,\" Israel said.",
"Her story, he said, was one of staying steadfast in the face of adversity.",
"Israel said he had plans for himself and Garvey to meet with multiple White House officials before the speech.",
"The next day, Garvey will find out if she made it to the Intel finals."
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"(CNN) -- Actor Robert Pattinson dropped the f-bomb and singer Justin Timberlake grabbed the breasts of co-star Mila Kunis, who returned the favor by grabbing the pop singer's crotch.",
"And so went the 2011 edition of the MTV Movie Awards, where the outrageous and often sophomoric antics of the ceremony's featured performers tend to grab, so to speak, more attention than the awards themselves.",
"Between the gropes, the profanities and the off-color humor at Sunday night's 2011 version of the annual awards show, actors dispensed trophies to other actors.",
"\"Eclipse,\" the third installment in the teen vampire saga \"Twilight,\" carried the night with five awards.",
"That included honors for Best Picture as well as the Best Male and Female Performance awards, which went to co-stars Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.",
"The movie also carried MTV's Best Fight and Best Kiss awards.",
"Meanwhile the award for best villain went to Tom Felton for his seventh outing as the churlish, bad boy wizard Draco Malfoy in \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.\"",
"Ellen Page claimed the dubious Best Scared-As-(expletive) Performance prize for a supporting role in \"Inception,\" and Emma Stone took top honors in the comedy category for her role in \"Easy A.\"",
"MTV gave actress Reese Witherspoon, who at 35 was likely the most senior award recipient of the bunch, a \"Generation Award,\" in recognition of her career in movies.",
"However, the moment was marred or immortalized -- depending on your point of view -- by an apparent failure of impulse-control by presenter Pattinson.",
"Pattinson, who played Witherspoon's lover in \"Water for Elephants,\" told the audience \"I did (expletive) you,\" uttering a profanity broadcast over the air without a bleep.",
"Pattinson didn't stop there.",
"Moments later he quipped that that Witherspoon might be \"33 percent lesbian.\"",
"Witherspoon wasn't the only celebrity to get ribbed for her fictional or real-life romantic pursuits.",
"Awards host Jason Sudeikis told the audience that actress and singer Selena Gomez had already swallowed three of boyfriend Justin Bieber's baby teeth while kissing the teen singing star.",
"Bieber, by the way, won Best Jaw Dropping Moment Winner for his biopic movie, \"Never Say Never.\"",
"Other awards recipients included: Chloe Grace Moretz, who took the award for Best Breakout Star Winner for her performance as a vulgar child superhero in \"Kick-Ass.\""
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Thai police said Tuesday that they would seek court permission to extend the detention of a Lebanese man they have charged with illegal possession of explosive materials.",
"The move comes amid tension after the United States and Israel warned their citizens in Bangkok on Friday of the possibility of an imminent terrorist attack.",
"The police charged the man, Atris Hussein, on Monday after finding \"initial chemical materials that could produce bombs\" in an area just outside Bangkok.",
"The police said Hussein, who also holds a Swedish passport, led them to the location.",
"The authorities are accusing Hussein of trying to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists and say he is believed to belong to Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim group active in Lebanon that the United States views as a terrorist organization.",
"Hussein will be brought to the criminal court Tuesday, so that the police can request authorization to continue to hold him as they pursue their investigation, said Piya Uthayo, a police spokesman.",
"The charges of illegally possessing explosives carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.",
"Thai authorities said Sunday they were still looking for another suspect of Middle Eastern origin in the case, providing a sketch of his face.",
"The materials found Monday in Samutsakorn, southwest of Bangkok, included 400 boxes of fertilizers weighing a total of more than 4,000 kilograms and 1,500 liters of liquid ammonia nitrate, together with 400 electric fans, according to CNN affiliate MCOT.",
"They were found in a shop house, a type of store common in Southeast Asia that gives onto the sidewalk and also serves as the owner's residence.",
"Based on comments from Hussein, the authorities believe that \"Thailand is only a transit point to send these initial explosive materials to other regional countries,\" said Police General Priewpan Damapong.",
"A U.S. Embassy statement on Friday spoke of \"foreign terrorists\" who may be planning attacks \"in the near future.\"",
"It urged U.S. citizens to exercise caution when visiting public areas where large groups of Western tourists gather in Bangkok.",
"Israel issued a similar alert later Friday.",
"Thailand is a highly popular tourist destination, and Bangkok serves as a major transport hub for the Southeast Asian region.",
"The country has undergone periods of unrest in recent years.",
"It experienced a spate of political violence during anti-government demonstrations in 2010.",
"And Muslim separatists in southern Thailand have long battled government forces in a country that is overwhelmingly Buddhist, with a number of bombings taking place last year."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Just over a week after being hospitalized for \"mild kidney failure,\" Nick Cannon stepped out for the first time with wife Mariah Carey -- and praised her for being his \"hero\" during the ordeal.",
"\"When times are hard, you guys don't see her at 3 o'clock in the morning, getting up in the middle of the night, fixing me soup when my kidneys ain't acting right.",
"Mariah Carey does that,\" Cannon, 31, said onstage before presenting his wife with the Entertainer Award at the 2012 BET Honors taping, held Saturday in Washington, D.C.",
"The show will air February 13 at 9 p.m. Holding 8-month-old son Moroccan -- dressed in a matching mini tux -- Cannon gushed over Carey and at times appeared emotional as he reflected on the woman he calls \"my angel.\"",
"\"It is truly, truly a blessing to be here tonight, and I am humbled and in awe of everyone's presence, but mostly my hero right there,\" he said as Carey, 42, looked on from the front row.",
"\"What most people don't get the opportunity to experience is the true woman; the virtuous person who is my angel.\"",
"A teary-eyed Carey soon returned the adoration, thanking God for having her husband and baby by her side.",
"\"To my incredible husband who [has been] out of the hospital two days -- look at him all strong and healthy and big and too buff for the tux -- it's incredible,\" she beamed.",
"On the mend, Cannon even did an impromptu performance: beatboxing for his son.",
"\"This is what makes Roc the most happy,\" said Carey, dressed in a form-fitting black and nude-colored gown.",
"\"And Miss Monroe Cannon's backstage, darling.",
"We were both sewn into our dresses, so she couldn't make it out.\"",
"\"She's a diva like her mama,\" quipped Cannon.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"It is truly, truly a blessing to be here tonight,\" Nick Cannon said at an event .",
"Cannon gushed over Mariah Carey as he reflected on the woman he calls \"my angel\"\nOn the mend, Cannon even did an impromptu performance: beatboxing for his son ."
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"(CNN) -- The video of four U.S. Marines urinating on three dead Taliban fighters has ricocheted around the world with viral speed, rightly provoking moral outrage abroad and shame at home.",
"The act is a violation of professional military conduct and the fundamental moral requirement in war of showing dignity and respect to the dead.",
"But the desecration shocks, not because it involves any sadistic mutilation of body for prize or trophy, but because the act is so primitive and regressed: Urinating marks territory.",
"The sigh heard in the video is the vanquisher's exuberance in being top dog.",
"Perhaps the Marines felt a need to do something with the enemy bodies that lay at their feet-- to kick them, to spit on them, to urinate on them while they waited for the proper authorities to collect them.",
"But vengeful impulses need to be checked.",
"Command culture, especially in small units like this sniper platoon, sets the tone and helps prevent these lapses of character and the awful consequences that ensue.",
"Desecration of bodies in war is nothing new nor is the public condemnation of it.",
"In Homer's Iliad, Achilles' raging grief at the death of his beloved Patroclus leads to an ugly enactment of revenge.",
"Achilles vanquishes Hector, Patroclus' killer, and then lashing the body behind a chariot, drags his corpse face down three times around Patroclus' tomb.",
"The act transgresses fundamental Greek decorum in war.",
"Homer leaves no doubt about this: \"That man without a shred of decency in his heart.\"",
"He outrages \"even the senseless clay in all his fury.\"",
"The desecration offends the gods, too, and they intervene to insure that Hector's body remains intact despite Achilles' brutality.",
"And all this comes after Hector pleads to Achilles with his last breath: \"I beg you, beg you by your life, your parents, don't let the dogs devour me... give my body to friends to carry home again\" for \"honor with fitting rites.\"",
"The soldier's fear that his body may be despoiled by the enemy or never repatriated is universal and is at the heart of the Geneva conventions and customary international law that prohibit \"outrages against personal dignity.\"",
"Anyone who has watched over the body of a loved one knows that humanitarian treatment has a proper place both toward the living and the dead.",
"Yet we have not always respected that dignity toward our own war dead.",
"Consider the recent reports that the Air Force, in charge of the military mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, shipped and incinerated remains from hundreds of troops over the past decade and dumped them in a Virginia landfill.",
"In one report from The Washington Post, Gari-Lynn Smith was, in her words, \"appalled and disgusted\" when she learned the fate of her husband's remains: \"My only peace of mind in losing my husband was that he was taken to Dover and that he was handled with dignity, love, respect and honor,\" she said.",
"\"That was completely shattered for me when I was told that he was thrown in the trash.\"",
"Why worry about remains?",
"I suspect it is simply because the living return to us -- however war-torn their bodies and souls -- and we want something of that for our dead, so that we can mark an honorable passage from this world.",
"We demand that respect both from others who find our dead and from those explicitly entrusted to the care of their bodies.",
"The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is emblematic of that very need for a return home.",
"Urinating on fresh corpses is repulsive mockery of the dead.",
"This case is one of collective behavior, the act of a foursome or fivesome, where someone should have known better, among them and higher up.",
"The incident brings to mind one that Tim O'Brien recounts in \"The Things They Carried,\" his fictionalized memoir of his Vietnam years.",
"His platoon took sniper fire and ordered an airstrike in response.",
"Shortly after, the unit went to the scene of the strike and found an old man, lying face-up with flies already buzzing around his corpse.",
"They propped the body up against a fence, and one by one, the unit members shook his hand and faked introductions and a toast as part of a mock funeral.",
"Tim is the only one who refrains, sickened by the indecent sport.",
"He's berated for not joining in, but one buddy is admiring: \"You did a good thing today,\" he said.",
"\"That shaking hands crap, it isn't decent.",
"... Should've done it myself. Takes guts.\"",
"Tim demurs: \"It wasn't guts.",
"I was scared.\" It doesn't really matter whether what he did was an act of moral courage or moral disgust.",
"The point is that he's moved by empathy, in this case toward a civilian, but it could just as well have been an enemy fighter.",
"We shouldn't underestimate the power of that empathy and the responsibility military leaders have to keep it alive and well in their troops.",
"I've heard of soldiers finding photos in the pockets of those they've killed and seeing in the face of a daughter or a son or a wife the bitter loss they will suffer.",
"An Israeli who fought in the 1967 Six-Day War told me recently that the thought that raced through his mind when he killed a young Egyptian who was aiming his weapon at him, was \"He has a mother.",
"... What will she do?\" It is that empathy that checks ugly revenge impulses in war.",
"It is at the core of humanitarian rules of war and their constraints.",
"Join CNN Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on Twitter .",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Nancy Sherman."
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"Nancy Sherman: Marines urinating on Taliban corpses shames the U.S., outrages world .",
"It violates military conduct, she said, also the moral duty to show respect toward the dead .",
"Sherman: Desecration of bodies in war is nothing new, but was disdained even in antiquity .",
"Military leaders must cultivate empathy in troops for families of the slain, she writes ."
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"LAREDO, Texas (CNN) -- Rosalio Reta sits at a table inside a Laredo Police Department interrogation room.",
"A detective, sitting across the table, asks him how it all started.",
"Gabriel Cardona, who shows his tattooed eyelids, worked as a hit man for a Mexican cartel.",
"Reta, in Spanish street slang, describes his initiation as an assassin, at the age of 13, for the Mexican Gulf Cartel, one of the country's two major drug gangs.",
"\"I thought I was Superman.",
"I loved doing it, killing that first person,\" Reta says on the videotape obtained by CNN.",
"\"They tried to take the gun away, but it was like taking candy from kid.\"",
"Rosalio Reta and his friend, Gabriel Cardona, were members of a three-person cell of American teenagers working as cartel hit men in the United States, according to prosecutors.",
"The third was arrested by Mexican authorities and stabbed to death in prison there three days later.",
"In interviews with CNN, Laredo police detectives and prosecutors told how Cardona and Reta were recruited by the cartel to be assassins after they began hitting the cantinas and clubs just across the border.",
"Watch how the teens turned into drug cartel hitmen » .",
"CNN has also obtained detailed court records as well as several hours of police interrogation videos.",
"The detective sitting across the table from Reta and Cardona in those sessions is Robert Garcia.",
"He's a veteran of the Laredo Police Department and one of the few officers who has questioned the young men.",
"\"One thing you wonder all the time: What made them this way?\"",
"Garcia told CNN.",
"\"They were just kids themselves, waiting around playing PlayStation or Xbox, waiting around for the order to be given.\"",
"Over a nearly one-year period starting in June 2005, the border town of Laredo, Texas, saw a string of seven murders.",
"At first glance, the violence looked like isolated, gangland-style killings.",
"But investigators started suspecting something more sinister.",
"Then Noe Flores was gunned down in a clear case of mistaken identity.",
"Investigators found a fingerprint on a cigarette box inside the suspected shooter's get-away car.",
"That clue unraveled the chilling reality and led police to arrest Gabriel Cardona and Rosalio Reta.",
"Prosecutors say they quickly discovered these two teenagers were homegrown assassins, hired to carry out the dirty work of the notorious Gulf Cartel.",
"\"There are sleeper cells in the U.S.,\" said Detective Garcia.",
"\"They're here, they're here in the United States.\"",
"The cases against Cardona and Reta -- both are in prison serving long prison sentences for murder -- shed new light into the workings of the drug cartels.",
"Prosecutor and investigators say Reta and Cardona were recruited into a group called \"Los Zetas,\" a group made up of former members of the Mexican special military forces.",
"They're considered ruthless in how they carry out attacks.",
"\"Los Zetas\" liked what they saw in Cardona and Reta.",
"Both teenagers received six-month military-style training on a Mexican ranch.",
"Investigators say Cardona and Reta were paid $500 a week each as a retainer, to sit and wait for the call to kill.",
"Then they were paid up to $50,000 and 2 kilos of cocaine for carrying out a hit.",
"The teenagers lived in several safe houses around Laredo and drove around town in a $70,000 Mercedes-Benz.",
"As the teens became more immersed in the cartel lifestyle, their appearance changed.",
"Cardona had eyeballs tattooed on his eyelids.",
"Reta's face became covered in tattoo markings.",
"(Prosecutors say during his trial Reta used make-up to cover the facial markings.)",
"And both sported tattoos of \"Santa Muerte,\" the Grim Reaper-like pseudo-saint worshipped by drug traffickers.",
"\"These organizations, these cartels, they function like a Fortune 500 company,\" Webb County, Texas, prosecutor Uriel Druker said.",
"\"We have to remember that the United States is the market they are trying to get to.\"",
"In Cardona's interrogation tape, there are clues that \"Los Zetas\" are reaching deeper and deeper into the United States.",
"Cardona is asked, \"Where else are the Zetas?\"",
"And Cardona responds, \"I've heard in Dallas and Houston.\"",
"And that's why the cartel recruited these young Americans.",
"Cardona and Reta could move freely and easily back and forth across the border with Mexico.",
"Just hours before they were arrested, federal authorities taped a phone conversation between them in which Cardona brags about killing 14-year-old Inez Villareal and his cousin, a Cardona rival.",
"Cardona laughs as he describes torturing the two boys and dumping their bodies in large metal drums filled with diesel fuel.",
"He says he made \"guiso,\" or stew, with their bodies.",
"As the call ends, Cardona says, \"There are three left to kill, there are three left.\""
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"One allegedly told police: \"I loved ... killing that first person\"\nPolice detective: \"One thing you wonder all the time is what made them be this way?\"",
"Prosecutors say both teens were given military-style training in Mexico ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- U.S.",
"Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is leading a U.S. delegation to Juba for Saturday's ceremonies marking the independence of South Sudan, the White House said Wednesday.",
"Members of the delegation will include Rep. Donald M. Payne, D-New Jersey and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs Johnnie Carson; U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Princeton N. Lyman; Deputy National Security Adviser Brooke Anderson; Donald K. Steinberg, deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development; Gen. Carter F. Ham, commander of United States Africa Command; R. Barrie Walkley, U.S. consul general in Juba; and Ken Hackett, president of Catholic Relief Services.",
"Two senior administration officials said they expected the Obama administration to announce its intention to name an ambassador to the new nation.",
"Lyman has already traveled to the region to foster a smooth transition between the two countries.",
"He is visiting Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is expected to join former South African President Thabo Mbeki in support of ongoing talks between officials in Khartoum, Sudan, and Juba -- a fast-growing city soon to become South Sudan's new capital.",
"The two men are expected to lend support to a peace agreement that ended Sudan's second civil war, and help moderate potential conflicts over resource sharing, disputed border areas and citizenship matters, the State Department said.",
"Lyman is expected to travel to Khartoum for meetings with senior Sudanese officials, the statement said, and then to Juba to attend South Sudan's independence ceremony.",
"The flurry of U.S. diplomatic activity comes as satellite images released Wednesday reveal a heavy north Sudanese military presence in an oil-rich border region.",
"Images from the U.S.-based Satellite Sentinel Project showed an apparent Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) convoy of \"significant size\" traveling through the town of Kadugli.",
"The monitoring group, started by actor George Clooney, said the convoy was 2 kilometers in length and included about 1,000 troops and heavy trucks carrying artillery.",
"\"Less than a week after signing yet another agreement, the Sudanese regime appears to be ignoring its commitment, holding to form, and positioning military assets for intensified offensive operations,\" said John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, which aims to end genocide and war crimes.",
"\"This cycle will continue to be played out with increasingly destructive results for Sudanese civilians until the international community stiffens its spine and imposes swift and severe repercussions for the endless cycle of violence the Khartoum regime continues to fuel.\"",
"The Satellite Sentinel Project combines satellite imagery analysis and field reports with mapping technology in hopes of deterring the resumption of the bloody and bitter civil war north and south fought for decades.",
"The monitoring group said fighting between the Sudanese forces and the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army has been reported in the city of Kadugli in the past week.",
"Southerners voted for independence in a January referendum, and with the scheduled July 9 date of separation looming, many fear an escalation of bloodshed could bring both sides back to the brink of full-scale war.",
"Violence erupted two months ago along the contested border area of Abyei and subsequently in South Kordofan, a state that lies north of the border but where many people, especially in the Nuba Mountains, are allied with the south.",
"Thousands of people were displaced from their homes, and many fear that, after strict borders go into place with independence, they will not be able to return home.",
"\"South Sudan will be born into crisis,\" predicted Susan Purdin, who oversees International Rescue Committee aid programs in South Sudan.",
"\"Widening violence is triggering more displacement, threatening the lives of vulnerable civilians and hampering access to communities in need while an existing humanitarian emergency grows worse,\" she said.",
"Critical issues -- including oil and the final status of Abyei -- remain unresolved.",
"State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States applauded talks between north and south but remained concerned about the unresolved matters.",
"\"The United States also calls on the parties to end the fighting in Southern Kordofan, and to facilitate unfettered access for aid workers to deliver humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians affected by the conflict,\" Nuland said.",
"Discussions are under way on how to shape the post-independence U.N. mission in South Sudan, created in 2005 with a peacekeeping mandate.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has intervened in pushing the parties to accept U.N. peacekeepers.",
"And the United Nations Security Council will meet next week to discuss whether to recommend a new member state's entry into the global body.",
"Peter Wittig, the U.N. ambassador of Germany, which holds the rotating Security Council presidency this month, said council members will meet July 13 to talk about U.N. admission.",
"If granted, South Sudan would become the first state since Montenegro in 2006 to become a U.N. member.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty, Moni Basu and Nima Elbagir contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- What's to become of me?",
"Eliza Doolittle asks in \"My Fair Lady,\" one of the most successful and popular musicals of all time.",
"That same question is fitting when it comes to Sarah Palin.",
"Because like Doolittle, Palin has and is undergoing quite a transformation before our very eyes.",
"Doolittle's metamorphosis happens on a Broadway stage.",
"Palin's on a political one.",
"And as the plot thickens the audience is captive, wondering if either ingénue will meet the challenge: flower girl or presidential candidate?",
"But unlike Eliza Doolittle, who was a malleable and willing subject, in the ongoing musical that is Sarah Palin, the student has become the teacher.",
"Instead of ruing her lot as an outsider, she embraced it.",
"And by doing so, in just a few years Palin has outmaneuvered, even leapfrogged her Professor Higgins, John McCain.",
"So, regardless of her decision about a presidential run, Palin has positioned herself as the kingmaker of conservative politics.",
"How did she do it? Perhaps by sheer shrewdness or sheer luck, Palin spotted an opportunity early on with a growing chorus of other self-proclaimed outsiders, the tea party, and seized on it.",
"Now, while the Republican straw polls, caucuses and debates play out, Palin simply orbits around it all, eclipsing her show's extras, the supposed front-runners.",
"In fact, it can be argued that some of the front-runners ascended to their current positions because Sarah Palin helped them get there.",
"Because of Palin's celebrity billing, her raising money and campaigning for Michele Bachmann's congressional re-election in 2010 helped to elevate Bachmann's national profile.",
"Just before Palin joined her on the campaign trail last year, Bachmann wrote, \"There is absolutely no one more in tune with the hearts and minds of everyday Americans than Gov.",
"Palin.\" Around that same time, when a politician with barely any name recognition above the Mason Dixon line needed a big name endorsement and some publicity to help get him re-elected, he called on Sarah Palin and she responded.",
"Texas Gov. Rick Perry said then of Palin, \"If there's a bigger endorsement in the Republican universe, I don't know who it is than Sarah.\"",
"That same year, in a stunning display of role reversal, when her former presidential running mate, John McCain, faced an unexpectedly tough senatorial re-election bid, Palin once again became his leading lady.",
"After Palin accepted McCain's invitation, he wrote, \"I'm looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail with my former running mate.\"",
"He went on to say Palin \"energized our nation and remains a leading voice in the Republican Party.\"",
"Bachmann, Perry and McCain aren't the only current or former presidential hopefuls to lavish praise on the former Alaska governor.",
"In what some call a cringe-worthy moment, in 2008 at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, Jon Huntsman nominated Palin as his party's vice-presidential nominee.",
"On the verge of losing his voice from speaking over a crowd yelling, 'Sarah, Sarah, Sarah,' Huntsman said, \"Hockey moms of the world unite.",
"History will be made tonight and her name is Sarah Palin.\"",
"(Applause) \"We are looking for a beacon of light to show us the way.",
"We are looking for an American who represents every one of us, who can relate to the needs of our families and the struggles of our country.",
"We are looking for Sarah.\"",
"That was quite a ringing endorsement.",
"In fact, all of them are. With her accolades caught on video, Palin needn't toil in creating campaign ads against most of the current GOP presidential candidates.",
"\"Just roll the tape,\" could make for another simple yet effective Palin catch phrase -- one of her specialties .",
"And let's not leave Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich out of this cast.",
"While a bit more muted in his praise of Palin, Romney has supported her in the past.",
"In a 2008 CBS News interview, Romney told Harry Smith, \"She's been a positive addition to the ticket.",
"I think she's fired up the base and is drawing out volunteers.\"",
"And that same year Newt Gingrich told NBC News, \"She has a stronger resume than Barack Obama.",
"She's been a real mayor.",
"He hasn't. She's been a real governor.",
"He hasn't.\" That was just the beginning of his supportive monologue about Palin live on cable television.",
"It will be hard for the current field of GOP hopefuls to walk back what came out of their own mouths.",
"They said it but Palin is using it to write her own script and lyrics in just what might turn out to be the presidential campaign of the future.",
"How does it all end? Will she run? Only she knows. But one thing is for sure: Palin loves the drama and the spotlight.",
"And they appear to love her, too.",
"So, the finale of this musical depends on none other than the star, the writer, the producer and the director of the show, Sarah Palin.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Don Lemon."
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"Republican presidential hopefuls often publicly praise Palin .",
"Will Palin use GOP praise to make a play in 2012?"
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"Toyota City, Japan (CNN) -- The head of Toyota Motor Corp. told his employees on Friday that the company must begin again if it is to regain its legacy of quality that helped make it the world's largest automotive company.",
"\"We must make February 24, the day of U.S. congressional hearing, as the day of restart for Toyota,\" said Akio Toyoda, referring to his appearance in Washington before a U.S. congressional committee investigating the recall of Toyota vehicles for problems related to stuck brakes and accelerator pedals.",
"\"We should throw away all our past success and review our value of existence once more,\" he told an assembly of 2000 employees, while 7000 more watched by video.",
"\"I'd like to revisit, not only with words but with action what our real duties are.",
"We must go forward step by step.",
"We must unite and do our best.\"",
"The speech was part of an aggressive charm offensive by Toyoda to bolster the company's image after 8.5 million cars were recalled in North America, Europe, China and Japan in recent months.",
"Toyoda was widely criticized for not appearing in public for two weeks in January as the global recall crisis spiraled.",
"The morale-boosting talk to employees comes a week after his trip to Washington and a visit to Beijing earlier this week to apologize to customers there.",
"\"The quality problems we face now have not been solved yet.",
"And a mountain of work has to be done,\" he said.",
"\"But what I can reconfirm (through the U.S. visit) was not only remorse, but also our strength ... the strength of the bond that all of the Toyota family share,\" he said.",
"The meeting was dubbed \"Urgent meeting for all Toyota --towards the new start of Toyota\" and was organized by Toyota's middle managers, many of whom packed the hall of Toyota's world headquarters wearing their gray work uniforms.",
"They applauded often during the speeches by all five Toyota executives who participated at the U.S. congressional hearings, including Jim Lentz, head of Toyota Motor Sales USA.",
"\"We are confident that Toyota vehicles are safe, and we will do everything we can to ensure that our customers are satisfied with repairs that we are making,\" Lentz said.",
"Lentz added, \"We are going to continue to face with criticisms, and that's going to be a long road ahead.\"",
"Mitsuru Kawai, a Toyota factory head who has worked for the company for 44 years, said after the meeting that it was good \"we could share what the executives went through in their own words.",
"We would like to work as one to serve the customers' demands.\""
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"(CNN) -- Fred Wiseman has been at the forefront of the American documentary scene ever since his bombshell of a first film in 1967.",
"\"Titicut Follies\" may sound like a burlesque extravaganza, but in fact the film was a deeply disturbing expose of life inside a correctional institution for the criminally insane.",
"Since then, Wiseman has built up an extraordinary body of work.",
"It includes nearly 40 feature films, many of them more than three hours long, largely preoccupied with examining the apparatus of social institutions: hospitals, high schools, parks and zoos.",
"All of them are framed according to Wiseman's own rigorous observational style, which involves sustained scrutiny, no voice-over and no interviews.",
"He's into process, not personality.",
"With a Wiseman film, it's up to the viewer to supply the commentary.",
"That's easier when the subject concerns alleged inadequate welfare programs or dysfunctional government institutions.",
"In his last few films, the septuagenarian director has turned his gaze on less overtly political matters: the esteemed Ballet de l'Opera company in \"La Danse\" (2009); an Austin, Texas, training facility in \"Boxing Gym\" (2010); and now, a Parisian cabaret, in \"Crazy Horse.\"",
"In this loose-limbed documentary, Wiseman is more like an impressionist painter -- Degas is the obvious example -- than a social activist or a reporter.",
"He's looking at the human body, at model physical specimens and at perceptions of beauty.",
"\"Crazy Horse\" can be viewed as a series of nude studies built around the contrast between the dancers' casual nakedness backstage and the highly fetishistic, filtered nudity on stage.",
"Surprisingly (and disappointingly), Wiseman foregrounds the latter; we scarcely learn the dancers' names and rarely hear them speak.",
"You might expect marked differences between a distinguished ballet company and a glorified strip club, but Wiseman seems to see them in much in the same light (not literally; the chromatic effects at the club are designed to dazzle, and they do).",
"The Crazy Horse, or \"Le Crazy\" for short, aspires to art with almost comical sincerity.",
"This is Paris, after all, and intellectuals are a prime target audience.",
"Like \"La Danse,\" the new film dedicates most of its running time to rehearsal and performance, interspersed with sometimes tense exchanges behind the scenes involving the creative personnel (in this case, primarily director/choreographer Philippe Decoufle) and management (managing director Andree Deissenberg).",
"The \"artistes\" always want more time, and the shareholders are invariably fixated on the bottom line.",
"Which is understandable at the Crazy Horse, where dancing cheek to cheek means something very different from what Irving Berlin had in mind.",
"(Or did he?) At various points, the people who work there describe it as the best chic nude club in the world, and the classiest.",
"A better description might be the kitschiest.",
"In one routine, Decoufle's dancers enact a \"Barbarella\" number as if it were \"Solaris.\"",
"In another, they parade around in Beefeater bearskin hats and not much else.",
"(If the club had a uniform, it would be a thong -- though high heels and fishnets also feature strongly.)",
"The music is mostly a cheesy mix of classic bump-and-grind and '70s Italian sex comedy.",
"Once or twice, the choreography does break the mold -- to push into the exploratory eroticism of modern interpretative dance -- but at heart, the sensuality celebrated here is as safe and conventional as a Playboy bunny.",
"Does Wiseman disagree?",
"Of course he never says so, but the film is laced with enough subtly suggestive ironies to prick all that oh-so-French pomposity and pretension, without ever undermining the discipline and commitment of dancers and choreographers.",
"\"Be pretty, classy, relaxed -- and calm -- and push your buttocks out,\" recommends a stage manager to a group of new girls before their audition.",
"\"American Idol\" this ain't.",
"Wiseman may be the one documentarian on Earth uninterested in revealing who makes the cut.",
"Still, it's clear this is excellent advice; maybe all you need to know to get by in Le Crazy.",
"Brightly photographed in high definition, the movie is an eyeful all right, but at 134 minutes, it's also a rather lengthy tease."
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"(CNN) -- Speculation about the future of American Airlines has been swirling for months.",
"Still, many travelers were stunned Tuesday to learn that the carrier and its parent company have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.",
"American, American Eagle and all other subsidiaries will honor all tickets and reservations and operate normal flight schedules during the bankruptcy filing process.",
"CNN airline and aviation correspondent Richard Quest weighed in on some of the basic questions about the airline's decision.",
"Why has American Airlines decided to make this move?",
"Richard Quest: They're doing it for one simple reason: The American Airlines cost base is considerably higher than United, Continental, and Delta, which merged with Northwest.",
"Those other airlines did go through Chapter 11 during (past) recessions and they managed to slash their costs.",
"So now American has been struggling for the last few years trying to negotiate, trying to get agreements, trying to get its costs down.",
"But frankly, with oil prices high, with growth slowing down, and with so many other competitive disadvantages, incoming CEO Thomas Horton told me a short while ago they really had no choice.",
"It was time to push the nuclear button.",
"There's no doubt it is a dramatic development for a company that has several billions of dollars in cash.",
"It has good strong hubs.",
"All in all, this is being done purely and simply not because American is going bankrupt -- the planes are still flying, the champagne is still being served in first class, all things will be normal -- it's being done to get down the costs.",
"If I have a ticket now or for six months from now, should I be worried?",
"Quest: There is no danger that American Airlines is going to stop flying.",
"Let's be absolutely crystal clear about that.",
"For the traveling public, this has absolutely no effect.",
"I think many travelers are used to this.",
"They flew United in Chapter 11, they flew Delta, US Airways and all the others in Chapter 11 during those times.",
"Horton told me he hopes the Chapter 11 will last less time than the others, the average being 16 months.",
"If you're flying American, don't worry .",
"Are any changes coming to the airline?",
"Quest: The people who I think perhaps will be watching and be concerned are American's employees.",
"No changes immediately, but longer term, they can expect to see some significant changes in their benefits and in their conditions of employment."
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"American Airlines files for bankruptcy; says it will operate normal flight schedules .",
"CNN airline and aviation correspondent: Move is intended to bring down costs .",
"Quest: I think many travelers are used to this .",
"Quest: American's employees can expect to see significant changes in their benefits ."
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"(CNN) -- Lately it's hard to tell the difference between a presidential debate and \"The Jerry Springer Show.\"",
"Yeah, I know. Some of you have been saying this for months.",
"But my comment isn't a criticism of the candidates, but the live audience.",
"I was hoping this audience \"whoop\" factor would go away over the long debate season, but it has only grown worse.",
"Are they serving alcohol at the debates?",
"It seems like it.",
"In last night's Republican presidential debate, held in the Myrtle Beach Convention Center in South Carolina, the chaotic audience once again played an awkward role in the questions and answers.",
"Why does this matter? On these presidential debates, the vocal live audiences have shown themselves to be more disruptive than productive.",
"And I've seen debate judges (people who should know better) in intercollegiate tournaments have their decisions influenced by a noisy audience — even judges trained to be impartial and objective.",
"In this case, the judges are you, the audience.",
"I know everyone believes they can't be swayed like this, but it still happens (even to me, which is one of the reasons I watch the presidential debates alone.",
"I don't want anyone influencing my analysis).",
"There is even a name for it in the literature.",
"Emotional contagion.",
"And it was apparent Monday night -- fanboys (and fangirls) who were every bit as rabid as a football crowd.",
"The only people missing were face-paint girl and shirtless guy.",
"(Of course, it's hard to tell on television how much of the crowd participated in the cheering and booing.)",
"It was especially annoying because the live audience was booing their disapproval at inappropriate times.",
"Two examples.",
"Juan Williams, one of the moderators, was asking Mitt Romney about his immigration policies when he was interrupted in mid-question.",
"Williams had begun the question by stating that Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico.",
"\"Boo!\" came the shouts from the audience.",
"What? What in the world were they booing?",
"I still have no idea.",
"It could have been Juan Williams, the question, Romney's father, or Romney's position on immigration.",
"It made no sense.",
"Then the live audience ganged up on Ron Paul.",
"Remember, Paul has some of the more unconventional foreign policy positions for a conservative Republican audience.",
"And Paul was not at his best last night (I've heard him defend his argument much more effectively) when explaining his position on the military operation that killed Osama bin Laden.",
"But the audience mistimed its reaction and used most of its vitriol immediately after Paul said the American people wouldn't like it if the United States were treated the same way it treated other countries.",
"Paul reiterated his stance that we should use the golden rule -- do unto others as you would have them do unto you -- when the boos rang out.",
"I couldn't believe it. I was indeed hearing this correctly.",
"The crazed audience at the presidential debate actually booed the golden-freaking-rule.",
"What's next? Helping old women cross the street?",
"\"Boo! ... Villain!\" Puppies? \"Hiss ... Shame!\" And the audience was equally annoying when applauding.",
"Remember: Cheering should prove nothing to you in a debate except that some candidates are better than others at stacking the live audience with supporters.",
"I'm also beginning to wonder if there is an \"applause\" sign that lights up so some of the slower audience operatives will remember when to react.",
"For their part, the candidates handled the live audience pretty well.",
"After all, politicians are used to verbal feedback in public speeches and town hall meetings.",
"My advice today is for the general viewing public at home.",
"Simply keep in mind that the opinions of the live audience are not necessarily reflective of anything, including logic.",
"And try to resist being influenced by overzealous fools watching the debate from the cheap seats.",
"If this continues, we're in danger of letting the loud few influence the silent many watching at home.",
"I certainly hope we can reverse this trend.",
"Because I'd hate to see the next step: Measuring presidential debates by audience noise-meters with a needle that moves up and down.",
"After all, higher decibel levels must indicate better policies.",
"Join CNN Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on Twitter .",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Todd Graham."
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"Todd Graham: GOP presidential debate audiences have gotten more and more raucous .",
"He says this matters because the boos and cheers can sway viewers' opinions .",
"Boos came for Mitt Romney's father being born in Mexico and for the golden rule .",
"Graham: If this keeps up we risk letting the loud few influence the silent many watching at home ."
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"(CNN) -- In the Hezbollah militia strongholds in southern Beirut and south Lebanon, they set off fireworks and fired guns in the air.",
"In the northern Israeli city of Haifa, people waved Egyptian and Palestinian flags.",
"But when Egypt's vice president read President Hosni Mubarak's resignation statement Friday, patrons watching TV in Tavelino Cafe in Amman, Jordan, suddenly turned quiet.",
"The cafe's Egyptian manager \"clearly is not happy about the news,\" said CNN iReporter Johnny Colt.",
"\"Just last night, the man spoke to me at length about Egypt and why Mubarak needed to stay until September.",
"When I asked him how he felt about the Mubarak news, my new friend suddenly told me he cannot speak English and that I should use my computer to find English news.\"",
"Such was the disparity of opinions that could be heard in the Middle East about the events unfolding in Egypt on Friday.",
"So, too, were the responses from world leaders and political organizations -- some of whom ascribed starkly different reasons for the historic significance of the moment.",
"To British Prime Minister David Cameron, Mubarak's departure was an important first step for a nation yearning for democracy.",
"\"Today has been a remarkable day,\" Cameron said, \"particularly for those people in Tahrir Square and elsewhere, who have spoken out so bravely and so peacefully for change in their country.\"",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed Egypt's \"historic moment\" and paid tribute to Mubarak's decision to resign.",
"He called for steps leading to free elections and reforms and urged Egyptians \"to continue their non-violent march to freedom.\"",
"For the government of Iran, Egypt's political earthquake meant something entirely different.",
"\"A new Middle East is taking shape, not the Mideast the West had planned for but one which has been created based on Islamic awakening,\" said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast in an interview with state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.",
"Iran's semi-official Fars news agency called it \"joyful coincidence\" that Egypt's revolution culminated on the 32nd anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution victory.",
"Elsewhere in the region, political groups, some of which are hostile to Israel and the West, were quick to attach the success of the Egyptian revolt to their own aspirations.",
"Mohammed Al-Qubati, a spokesman for Yemen's biggest opposition coalition, the Joint Meeting Parties, said \"the map of the Arab nations will change as a result of the revolution.\"",
"\"Mubarak's fall,\" Al-Qubati said, \"proves that oppression and use of force cannot add life to the current regimes, and time for change has come.\"",
"The Joint Meeting Parties is primarily a coalition of Islamists and Socialists.",
"Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called Mubarak's ouster \"a victory for the Palestinian people.\"",
"Hamas, said Zuhri, \"calls on the new Egyptian leadership to lift the siege of Gaza and to open the Rafah crossing and assure the free movement between Egypt and Palestine and to start the development construction process of Gaza.\"",
"Zuhri's remarks reflected the sentiments of Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza and the West Bank.",
"In Gaza, revelers spilled into the streets, honked car horns and fired guns in celebration.",
"Israel's two major TV channels carried the announcement of Mubarak's departure live, with images from Cairo's Tahrir Square supplemented by their political and Arab affairs commentators debating what the development means for Israel.",
"The headline on the website of Israel's largest newspaper, Yedioth Aronoth, read, \"Mubarak Quits -- Masses Elated.\"",
"The Israeli government said little about the fall of Mubarak.",
"The Anti-Defamation League in New York issued a statement expressing concern about how the political transformation of Egypt will affect Israel and \"what role the Muslim Brotherhood will play in the transition and beyond.\"",
"In Lebanon, public reaction appeared muted.",
"Diners in small cafes watched Arab satellite coverage of the Egyptian street celebrations.",
"For some, it brought back nostalgic memories of the 2005 uprising that kicked the Syrians out of Lebanon.",
"However, a Hezbollah spokesman told CNN, \"this is the true path when the people believe in their resolve\" and it makes all their sacrifices worthwhile.\"",
"The spokesman applauded the \"the steadfastness and unity of the Egyptian people, young and old, men and women, which showed that blood was stronger than the sword.\"",
"Mubarak frequently accused Hezbollah cells of infiltrating Egypt at the behest of Iran.",
"Western leaders have expressed concerns that a post-Mubarak Egypt could become another Iran.",
"Egypt's pro-Western neighbors fear their governments could suffer similar fates if popular uprisings spread to their countries.",
"Few, if any, representatives of those governments publicly uttered such fears on Friday.",
"Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh called Egypt \"a pillar in the region\" and sent along \"wishes for stability, security and prosperity.\"",
"A statement from the United Arab Emirates said its government \"is always keen to foster brotherly, distinguished historic ties with Egypt in a way that serves the interests of the two brotherly countries and their peoples.\"",
"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan released a statement expressing his government's \"hope for a peaceful transition to a participatory and pluralistic order in full respect for human rights.\"",
"Erdogan called on Egyptian military officials to exercise \"common sense and restraint\" in the transfer of power to a new democratically-elected government.",
"So did officials representing Western governments.",
"In the United States, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said \"it is crucial that Mubarak's departure be an orderly one and that it leads to true democracy for Egypt, including free, fair and open elections.\"",
"\"We caution all sides against violence during this transition, and we will be watching the situation closely,\" Reid said.",
"Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for an Egyptian government \"that will continue to respect peace treaties and seek peace in the Middle East.\"",
"Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among others, said their governments were ready to help Egypt make the transition to a democratic society.",
"Merkel said her country would \"support as much as we can the justified requests of the people in Egypt.\"",
"China's government won't be joining Germany.",
"Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ma Zhaoxu said, \"China understands and supports Egypt's efforts to maintain social stability and restore normal order and that the affairs of Egypt should be decided by itself independently without intervention from the outside.\"",
"\"China cherishes the traditional friendship and strategic cooperation with Egypt, and believes that the friendly relations between the two countries will continue to develop in a sound and steady manner,\" the official said.",
"CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr, Hada Messia, Mohammed Jamjoom, Tim Lister, Kevin Flower and Henry Hanks contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is hopeful that star striker Cristiano Ronaldo will return for Wednesday's Champions League clash with Lyon.",
"The Portugal captain will not feature in Saturday's La Liga game at home to Hercules, having sustained a thigh injury during Real's 7-0 defeat of Malaga on March 3.",
"\"I am pretty sure he will play, but I do not like players who are not at 100%,\" Mourinho told reporters at a press conference on Friday.",
"\"If Cristiano had to play tomorrow he wouldn't because he is not fully fit, but I am sure after training on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday he will play next Wednesday.\"",
"Real are looking to qualify for the quarterfinals of the European competition for the first time since 2004, having drawn 1-1 with the French side in the first leg of the last-16 tie on February 22.",
"However, despite recording a 3-1 win over Racing Santander last weekend -- and having an unblemished home record this season and Mourinho with any club for the past nine years -- Real remain 11 points behind defending champions Barcelona in the Spanish league.",
"Mourinho hit out at his arch-rivals, saying that he did not think that the two clubs were receiving the same treatment in terms of their match schedules.",
"\"It's not fair for everyone.",
"One team plays the Champions League on a Tuesday and La Liga on Sunday, and another play on a Wednesday and Saturday,\" he said.",
"\"Real Madrid is not being given the same chances to compete.",
"I am not stupid. We all know that the moment the lead increases the championship is lost.\"",
"Nevertheless, Mourinho said his side would not be taking anything for granted against 18th-placed Hercules, and hoped for a positive result before the home clash with Lyon -- who knocked Real out at the same stage last season before reaching the semifinals.",
"\"Whoever's season is at stake isn't worried.",
"It's not an easy match for us.",
"Their players have a lot of personality and they will expect to earn a positive result,\" the Portuguese coach said .",
"\"We want to remain perfect at the Bernabeu.",
"A solid match will boost our confidence before playing against Lyon.\""
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"Jose Mourinho says Cristiano Ronaldo will probably play in Champions League tie .",
"Portugal striker is not in squad for La Liga game against Hercules on Saturday .",
"Ronaldo picked up a thigh injury a week ago but should be fit for Lyon match .",
"Mourinho claims Barcelona get preference over Real in fixture scheduling ."
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"(CNN) -- Verizon has been touted as having the biggest, baddest, fastest 4G around.",
"It's been this way since the carrier debuted its LTE network in late 2010.",
"But now that AT&T has joined the LTE game, consumers looking for top speeds might consider turning their focus to AT&T instead.",
"If only for a while. Metrico Wireless, a firm that does network and mobile device analytics, took a look at 4G LTE service in the U.S., focusing on two of the nation's largest carriers, Verizon and AT&T.",
"The company's latest report shows that AT&T's average LTE speeds are better than Verizon's (for now at least), and that LTE provides more than five times the performance of the carriers' respective 3G offerings.",
"Metrico used five 4G LTE handsets for its tests: two on AT&T, three on Verizon.",
"On AT&T, the HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket were measured.",
"The HTC Thunderbolt, Samsung Droid Charge and Motorola Droid Bionic were tested on Verizon's network.",
"In stationary download speeds, AT&T's 4G LTE handsets outperformed those on Verizon, but Metrico believes this disparity is likely due to the fact that Verizon's LTE service is more established and has significantly more subscribers using data on it.",
"Indeed, as of April, Verizon had over half a million LTE subscribers.",
"AT&T, meanwhile, just launched its LTE network in five markets this summer.",
"But while AT&T's data speeds were better, web pages actually loaded faster on the three Verizon smartphones tested.",
"\"In general, the subscriber experience is not simply driven by the network or the device, but by the combination of the two,\" the report states.",
"\"Even devices with similar specifications connected to similar network technologies still demonstrate variation in performance.\"",
"This was especially true with regards to video performance.",
"Of the smartphones tested, the Samsung Droid Charge (on Verizon) consistently yielded the highest frame delivery rate, while the Motorola Droid Bionic (also on Verizon) had the lowest.",
"Also, if you're really concerned about web page load times, consider this: All carrier-to-carrier comparisons notwithstanding, both AT&T and Verizon handsets delivered web page load times that were 80 to 85 percent shorter on LTE relative to 3G.",
"What about battery life on an LTE device, notoriously reported as being poor?",
"Well, depending on how you use your device, you may be able to squeeze out a few more hours, as the report found that battery life was heavily related to app use.",
"On the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, you're going to get 300 to 350 minutes of use out of your device, whether you're a power user or someone who's making calls all day long.",
"On the Verizon Droid Bionic, though, those who primarily use their phones for voice calling will gain about 150 minutes of usage over those who spend most of their time on Twitter and Facebook.",
"Verizon's LTE network is currently the largest in terms of nationwide coverage, but AT&T's is set to rival it as it expands.",
"And, indeed, we're finally beginning to see LTE infrastructure build-outs, industry-wide.",
"Joining Metro PCS, Verizon and AT&T in the LTE game is Cricket Wireless, perhaps best known for its budget mobile phone and prepaid plan options.",
"Cricket will offer speeds up to 6 Mbps with a 5 GB data cap.",
"Sprint will begin rolling out its 4G LTE network in mid to late 2012.",
"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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"Alhambra, California (CNN) -- At first, the pool builder thought his Bobcat bulldozer struck garbage as he dug a hole in a residential backyard.",
"After all, in the older neighborhoods of San Marino, California, people used to bury their garbage.",
"But the plastic bag didn't contain trash.",
"Jose Perez, operating the Bobcat with his father as a co-worker, asked his dad what was inside.",
"His father grabbed an 18-inch piece of reinforcement bar to poke around.",
"\"He looked inside it, and he mouthed to me that there were bones in it,\" Perez testified Wednesday in a Los Angeles County court.",
"\"He thought it was a dog, but it didn't look like a dog.",
"\"I told him to drop it, and he did,\" Perez continued.",
"\"It was a human skull.\"",
"As the prosecution witness referred to the plastic bag and the pool digging project in a photograph on a big screen in court, defendant Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, in a blue jail jumpsuit, stared intently at the scene where prosecutors accuse him of murdering a man in 1985.",
"The skull was found nine years later, on May 5, 1994, Perez testified.",
"The testimony was evidence that Los Angeles County prosecutors began presenting during a preliminary hearing for the German-born Gerhartsreiter, who has garnered renown for impersonating a Rockefeller and inspiring a movie about the caper.",
"He is now accused of killing a Southern California man who has been missing since the mid-1980s.",
"Frank Sheridan, a forensic pathologist, testified the skull suffered at least one blow to the forehead and at least two blows to the right side.",
"The several fractures were made at or about the time of death, said Sheridan, who is also the medical examiner of San Bernardino County in California.",
"The shape of two fractures also indicated an object with a curved surface, such as a baseball bat, was used to deliver the blows, Sheridan said under questioning by a prosecutor.",
"\"This individual was alive when these fractures occurred,\" said Sheridan, who examined a reconstructed version of the skull.",
"In his career, he has performed 8,000 autopsies, he said.",
"\"There's a lot of force involved in these blows,\" Sheridan added.",
"\"Each one of them would have rendered the person unconscious.",
"\"The injuries we're talking about here would have very clearly been fatal in the absence of medical care, and they could have been fatal even with medical care,\" he said.",
"At the pool construction site, investigators eventually found nearly the entire skeleton of a man whose height was between 5 feet 4 inches and 5 feet 7 1/2 inches, testified Judith Daye, a physical anthropologist who worked for the Los Angeles County's coroner office and reviewed the bones at the site.",
"The missing bones included a kneecap, four fingers and a few toes, a common occurrence with buried remains, \"especially the hands and feet because the bones are very small,\" Daye testified.",
"Many discovered bones were inside clothing that was wrapped in plastic, such as the pelvis inside jeans and the upper torso bones inside a shirt, Daye testified.",
"The preliminary hearing, to determine whether Gerhartsreiter should be bound over for trial, is expected to last six days, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.",
"Gerhartsreiter, 50, is accused of killing John Sohus, who was 27 at the time of his 1985 disappearance.",
"His mother once owned the San Marino home where the remains were found.",
"During the Wednesday hearing, Los Angeles County Judge Jared Moses rejected a defense request that Gerhartsreiter be referred to as \"Mr. Rockefeller\" in court.",
"The defense attorney said he and other attorneys on the team knew Gerhartsreiter as \"Mr.",
"Rockefeller.\" But the judge said: \"I get individuals in court who have a number of akas,\" a police term meaning \"also known as,\" but \"I have never seen a circumstance in court where a person is referred to by one of his akas.\"",
"Gerhartsreiter, who has led a life of multiple identities, has denied involvement in the Sohus case.",
"At one point in his life, Gerhartsreiter assumed the identity of \"Clark Rockefeller,\" a cultured poseur who never seemed to have a job.",
"A Boston tabloid dubbed him \"Crockefeller.\"",
"A Lifetime movie, \"Who Is Clark Rockefeller?\"",
"starred Eric McCormack as Gerhartsreiter.",
"Gerhartsreiter, who is being held without bail, is serving a Massachusetts sentence for kidnapping his daughter; he was transferred from a prison in that state to California in July, authorities said.",
"In July, one of his attorneys, Jeffrey A. Denner of Boston, said he wasn't aware of any breaks in the 26-year-old Sohus case that would warrant a charge against his client.",
"\"I was personally surprised because there was so much time, and what new evidence could have arisen?",
"We don't know anything,\" Denner said in July after Gerhartsreiter's arraignment.",
"\"Old case, new case -- he didn't do it.",
"We maintain his innocence.",
"He maintains his innocence.\"",
"Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian was the prosecutor at Wednesday's hearing, held in Los Angeles County's Alhambra courthouse.",
"The case involves 9,000 pages of investigative documents and 83 CDs, DVDs and videotapes.",
"The whereabouts of the dead man's wife, Linda Sohus, are unknown.",
"Except for a few postcards that appeared to have been mailed by the couple from Paris in 1985, her friends and family have not heard from her.",
"Gibbons said last summer that her disappearance was still under investigation.",
"Gerhartsreiter has been serving a four- to five-year sentence in Massachusetts for kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter in 2008.",
"That prison term will end in mid-2012, authorities said.",
"Gerhartsreiter will receive credit for that Massachusetts sentence while being incarcerated in California, authorities said.",
"Gerhartsreiter came to the United States from Germany in 1978, according to testimony at his trial for kidnapping.",
"After spending a few years in Connecticut, he moved to Wisconsin, where he married in a green card arrangement using his true name.",
"Gerhartsreiter then relocated to California.",
"He settled in San Marino, a wealthy community near Pasadena, where he lived under the name Christopher Chichester from 1983 to 1985.",
"He posed as a film student and boasted that he was of English royalty, according to Vanity Fair magazine, which profiled him in January 2009 and quoted several people who knew Chichester at the time.",
"As Chichester, he rented a guest house from Ruth \"Didi\" Sohus.",
"Her son John and his wife, Linda, came to live with Didi Sohus during the time Gerhartsreiter lived in the guest quarters.",
"It is unclear what his relationship was with the couple.",
"Didi Sohus told investigators she believed that her son and daughter-in-law were in Europe.",
"She filed a missing person report in July 1985, according to the Pasadena Star-News.",
"Didi Sohus and one of Linda Sohus' friends received postcards postmarked from Paris in mid-1985, purportedly from the couple, but investigators were suspicious of their authenticity.",
"Sohus sold the house in late 1985 after suffering a stroke.",
"She died three years later.",
"Through luminol testing of the guest quarters where Chichester lived, investigators found what appeared to be a large amount of blood.",
"(Luminol causes a glow when it comes in contact with blood.)",
"It is not clear when the luminol testing took place, but police thoroughly searched the house when the remains were found and again after Gerhartsreiter's arrest in the kidnapping case.",
"A former neighbor quoted by Vanity Fair reported that Chichester borrowed a chainsaw from him at about the time the couple went missing.",
"An acquaintance, Dana Farrar, said she \"saw an area of dirt that had obviously been dug up and filled in\" at the time, according to the Pasadena Star-News.",
"When she asked him why, Chichester told her he was having plumbing problems.",
"Sheriff's detectives from Los Angeles County sought Chichester for questioning in early May 1985, but he had disappeared in a pickup truck registered to John Sohus.",
"He resurfaced under yet another identity, that of Christopher Crowe, in Connecticut in the late 1980s.",
"In late 1988, Crowe tried to sell Sohus' pickup truck to a man in Connecticut.",
"When he couldn't produce the proper paperwork for the truck, the prospective buyer reported him to police.",
"Connecticut police soon learned that Chichester and Crowe were the same person, although at that time, no one knew that his true name was Gerhartsreiter.",
"Crowe disappeared before police could question him.",
"He resurfaced in Manhattan in 1993 as Clark Rockefeller.",
"On May 5, 1994, the workers digging in the backyard of the San Marino home to install a swimming pool for the home's new owners discovered the remains.",
"It was not until 2010 that the remains were identified.",
"The investigation heated up again when authorities learned shortly after the 2008 kidnapping that Gerhartsreiter was not Clark Rockefeller.",
"He was arrested in Baltimore, where he was hiding out with his daughter.",
"He had already assumed a new identity: a ship's captain named Chip Smith who, with his daughter Muffy, was relocating to Chile.",
"His second wife, Harvard-educated financial executive Sandra Boss, testified at the kidnapping trial that she spent more than a dozen years with him before growing suspicious that Rockefeller was not who he said he was.",
"They met in New York and were married in Nantucket, Massachusetts.",
"Their daughter, Reigh, was born on May 24, 2001, and her father nicknamed her \"Snooks.\"",
"The couple divorced in 2007 after Boss hired a private investigator to conduct a background check, according to testimony at the kidnapping trial."
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"The fractured skull received at least three blows, a forensic pathologist says .",
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkey's foreign ministry condemned Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry Tuesday for saying that Turkey was a \"country that is being ruled by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.\"",
"Perry made the statement during a spirited debated between Republican presidential candidates in South Carolina Monday night.",
"Most of Turkey was fast asleep during the live broadcast, and Turkish newspapers had already gone to print by the time Perry declared that Turkey had moved \"far away from the country I lived in back in the 1970s United States Air Force.",
"That was our ally that worked with us, but today we don't see that.\"",
"The Texas governor also argued that it was time for Washington to cut foreign aid to Ankara.",
"A spokesman for Turkey's foreign ministry fired back Tuesday, accusing Perry of making \"baseless and improper claims.\"",
"In a statement e-mailed to CNN, Selcuk Unal said presidential candidates should \"be more informed about the world and be more careful their statements.\"",
"\"The unfortunate views of Perry are not shared in any case by Republican party supporters, considering the weak support he has received in public polls and primary elections,\" Unal concluded.",
"U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the State Department \"absolutely and fundamentally\" disagrees with Perry's statements.",
"Turkey is \"Islamic democracy in action,\" Toner added, calling Ankara a \"stalwart ally\" with which the United States has a \"strong partnership.\"",
"\"I am disappointed and concerned that Turkey and its time-tested ties of alliance, partnership and friendship with the United States became the object of misplaced and ill-advised criticism during last night's Republican candidates' debate.",
"Needless to say, the Turkey described in the debate simply does not exist,\" Turkey's ambassador to the United States, Namik Tan, said in a statement Tuesday.",
"He also rejected the idea that Turkey receives significant sums of foreign aid from the United States.",
"\"Indeed, Turkey is a strong and growing trading partner with the U.S. in general, and with Texas in particular, creating thousands of jobs throughout that state,\" Tan added.",
"Top Turkish government officials were unavailable for comment Tuesday, with many of them in Northern Cyprus for the funeral of veteran Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktas, but the country's largely-tabloid press wasted no time in responding to the comments on websites early Tuesday morning.",
"\"The debate that the Republican candidate Rick Perry attended on American Fox TV turned into a scandal that contained very ugly statements about Turkey,\" announced TRT state television.",
"\"Rick Perry: what an idiot,\" tweeted Mustafa Akyol, a columnist with the English-language Hurriyet Daily news.",
"The Hurriyet newspaper also posted a video on its website of Perry drawing a blank in the middle of a prior debate, forgetting in mid-sentence which was the third of three government departments he would cut if elected president.",
"Perry's remarks came on the same day a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman announced that a new NATO radar station, manned by Turkish and American military personnel, went online this month in the Turkish province of Malatya.",
"The radar station is part of a controversial U.S.-led missile defense shield that both Russia and Iran have publicly opposed.",
"For more than 50 years, Turkey has been the only Muslim member of the NATO military alliance.",
"Ankara's relationship with Washington has been turbulent over the last decade, with sharp divisions emerging after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.",
"But that relationship has improved dramatically over the last several years.",
"Turkey has commanded the NATO mission in Afghanistan four times over the last decade, and the United States shares real-time intelligence from aerial drones for the Turkish military's ongoing war with rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party, who operate along the mountainous border between Turkey and Iraq."
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"spokesman says .",
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"Turkey's foreign ministry says Perry made \"baseless\" claims .",
"The relationship between Ankara and Washington has improved recently ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Tuesday said federal officials need to \"keep harping\" on personal responsibility in the wake of the latest claim of inattention by an air traffic controller -- this one reportedly was watching a movie while on duty -- and inaction by his supervisor.",
"The controller has been suspended, pending an investigation, for watching a movie on a portable electronic device while he was working at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Oberlin, Ohio.",
"His front-line manager, who was aware of it and didn't stop him, also was suspended, LaHood confirmed.",
"The incident occurred early Sunday morning, when the audio from the Samuel L. Jackson thriller \"Cleaner\" was transmitted over a radio frequency for more than three minutes.",
"\"The problem was brought to air traffic control's attention by the pilot of a military aircraft using an alternate frequency,\" according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration.",
"FAA policy prohibits the use of portable DVD players and other devices from being used in radar rooms.",
"Stories of derelict controllers keep piling up, even as the head of the FAA and the leader of the controllers' union started a cross-country tour to spread the gospel of professionalism to the rank and file.",
"There have now been incidents in Washington; Knoxville, Tennessee; Reno, Nevada; Seattle; Lubbock, Texas; and Miami in just the past couple of months.",
"Scheduling rules have been adjusted and staffing beefed up to mitigate fatigue among controllers, but in the Ohio incident, fatigue does not appear to have been the issue.",
"Personal responsibility \"really needs to become much more part of our training,\" LaHood told CNN, \"much more of what our (FAA) administrator says to controllers as he travels the country and meets with them.",
"\"I meet with controllers a lot, too, when I travel the country.",
"I visit air traffic control towers and I guarantee it will be part of my message.\"",
"Pressed to explain why such incidents keep happening in spite of officials' insistence that the situation will not be tolerated, LaHood said, \"Well, it won't be.\"",
"\"We've done some things here in the short term like extending rest time from eight to nine hours.",
"We've moved supervisors into positions where we think it's more important to have more supervisors,\" \"And we will continue to do what we have to do to make sure the controllers understand they have to take personal responsibility for this most important safety job they have,\" he said,.",
"CNN Jeanne Meserve, Mike Ahlers, Carol Cratty and Cameron Tankersley contributed to this report."
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"NEW: A controller in Ohio and his supervisor have been suspended .",
"The controller was watching \"Cleaner,\" a Samuel L. Jackson thriller, early Sunday .",
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"(CNN) -- Mammoth cruise ships can be difficult to get around, even in the best of circumstances.",
"In the worst -- which is how one might describe the situation aboard the listing Costa Concordia -- they are near impossible.",
"Yet even before the sun rose Monday, about 120 rescue personnel were out in or around the liner that hit rocks near Tuscany and rolled spectacularly on its side.",
"They were in a race against time, and in a battle with numerous challenges, to try to save survivors or at least recover the bodies of the passengers and crew members who are still missing.",
"Overheard on CNN.com: Worst-case scenario .",
"The search was temporarily suspended by noon Monday, after authorities said the vessel had begun to sway, making it dangerous for the crews.",
"But it resumed a short time later, despite a forecast calling for increasingly strong winds that Coast Guard spokesman Filippo Marino said had rescuers worried.",
"They are \"working in very, very bad conditions,\" said Luciano Roncalli of Italy's national fire service.",
"\"It's cold, of course.",
"It's dark during the day and the night. ...",
"It's really, really dangerous.\"",
"Authorities have said that at least six people died after the Costa Concordia hit rocks Friday night off the tiny island of Giglio, where nighttime temperatures have recently dipped below freezing.",
"A total of 29 people -- four crew members and 25 passengers -- are still unaccounted for from the listing cruise ship, Italian coast guard chief Marco Brusco said Monday, according to Italy's ANSA news agency.",
"That figure includes two of the 120 Americans who were aboard the ship, the U.S. Embassy in Italy said.",
"Now turned on its side, the ship is roughly half-submerged.",
"Rescuers hope is that any survivor has found refuge above water, or perhaps in an air pocket, and can be brought out alive.",
"\"There could still be people locked into compartments ... where they can't physically move because of the twisting of the metal,\" said Butch Hendrick, president of the diving safety company Lifeguard Systems.",
"In its current state, the Costa Concordia resembles a dark, convoluted cave -- with its countless nooks and crannies and few ways to easily escape.",
"Six underwater cave rescue divers are working among the rescue personnel.",
"The divers are likely equipped with twice as much oxygen as regular scuba divers, have a guideline nearby in case they need help finding a way back to safety, and have knives and whatever lights they can carry or wear, said Robert Laird, a co-founder of the International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery group.",
"Still, whatever equipment and precautions they take, \"what they are doing is extremely difficult,\" he said.",
"\"If you do not have the right frame of mind to deal with being in the dark and in tight closed spaces, then you're (in trouble),\" said Laird, who has dived in many caves and ships, though neither he nor his group are involved in the Italian operation.",
"Unlike open water divers, these divers don't have the luxury of coming up for air anytime they want, and they can't count on the help of sunlight.",
"Laird said he expects that, besides being pitch-black, the water in the ship teems with debris.",
"\"They could swim right by a dead body and not even see it,\" Laird said.",
"Rescuers are navigating a seeming labyrinth.",
"The Concordia is practically a skyscraper in two directions: 17 decks high and 951 feet long.",
"Emergency personnel are aiming to look into 1,500 cabins and all around the ship's many other public spaces, including eight bars, five restaurants, four swimming pools, a casino and more.",
"Hendrick, a veteran of many such rescue dives, estimated it could take a couple of weeks for the whole ship to be checked.",
"\"It's enormous,\" said Richard Bordoni, another member of the Italian national fire corps.",
"\"They have to stay safe, and it takes them a long time to go down a corridor.\"",
"Late Sunday, the cruise line said the ship's captain may have made \"significant\" errors leading to the wreck and subsequent rescue effort.",
"\"The route of the vessel appears to have been too close to the shore, and the captain's judgment in handling the emergency appears to have not followed standard Costa procedures,\" Costa Cruises said in a statement.",
"Authorities told ANSA that the captain, Francesco Schettino, has been detained for alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship while passengers were still on board.",
"Speaking on Italian television, Schettino insisted the rocks were not marked on his map.",
"\"On the nautical chart, it was marked just as water,\" Schettino said, adding that the ship was about 300 meters (1,000 feet) from shore.",
"But the Italian coast guard insisted that the waters where the ship ran aground were well-mapped.",
"Local fishermen say the island coast of Giglio is known for its rocky sea floor.",
"\"Every danger in this area is on the nautical chart,\" Coast Guard Capt.",
"Cosimo Nicastro said.",
"\"This is a place where a lot of people come for diving and sailing.",
"... All the dangers are known.\"",
"Survivors recounted a frantic rush by passengers to get on lifeboats, while the crew appeared helpless and unable to cope.",
"\"It was the Marx brothers, watching these guys trying to figure out how to work the boat,\" said passenger Benji Smith, recounting how he made his own rope ladder to save himself and his wife.",
"\"I felt like the disaster itself was manageable, but I felt like the crew was going to kill us.\"",
"Compounding the evacuation problems was that only one side of the boat's lifeboats was available, as the ship was listing.",
"Passenger Laurie Willits, from Ontario, Canada, said some lifeboats on the higher side got stuck, leaving people suspended in mid-air amid the sounds of children crying and screaming.",
"\"It was so crowded, and there was no room for us,\" said Brandon Warrick, who was sailing with his siblings.",
"\"It was just bad, like mad scrambles to get into the lifeboats.",
"Nobody followed any procedure.\"",
"Many questions remain: Why was the ship -- with about 3,000 passengers and 1,000 crew members -- so close in to shore in an area where the seabed is pockmarked with rocks?",
"What happened in the minutes after the ship ran aground?",
"Why was no \"mayday\" distress signal sent?",
"\"Looking at the pictures of the damage, it almost looks as if they saw it at the last minute, and they tried to swing the ship to the right to miss,\" said Chris McKesson, professor of naval architecture at the University of New Orleans.",
"Whatever happened to cause the crash, what's happening now to deal with its aftermath -- and, ideally, get to those still on board -- is now the focus.",
"Those rescue crews have to deal with not just myriad logistical difficulties, but also physical and mental challenges.",
"Emergency personnel in the open-air part of the ship need ropes to get around, because the floor has become the wall in most cases.",
"Whether they are rappelling or swimming, doors may have to be opened upward, not the standard way, given the position of the ship.",
"\"The doors are very heavy, and the windows are very thick, so it's quite difficult to break them,\" said Roncalli of the national fire service.",
"Making one's way around without light and where everything is turned on its side can test even the toughest person's mental makeup.",
"Laird, of the International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery group, notes that many cave diver deaths \"are attributed to panic.\"",
"Even those not underwater face situations in which even a small slip-up can be life threatening, he said.",
"Despite such challenges, Roncalli vowed that rescue personnel were prepared and intent on continuing their mission as long as necessary.",
"\"They keep on working until we are sure that no person is missing,\" he said.",
"\"The conditions are very tough, but we can manage it.\""
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"NEW: The rescue/recovery operation on the ship could take weeks, a diving expert says .",
"Rescue operations resume, despite concerns about the weather .",
"The search was temporarily suspended Monday because the ship started to sway .",
"The Concordia is practically a skyscraper in two directions: 17 decks high and 951 feet long ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 20 people were killed and 200 more were injured Friday in the northern Mediterranean city of Benghazi, Libya's second-largest, said a medical source in Benghazi who was not identified for security reasons.",
"The casualties occurred as thousands of Libyans took to the streets to voice their discontent over leader Moammar Gadhafi, witnesses said.",
"Friday's killings brought to 50 the number of people killed since Tuesday, when the protests began, the medical source said.",
"Amnesty International said security forces had killed at least 46 during the past three days, with sources at al-Jala Hospital in Benghazi saying that the most common injuries were bullet wounds to the head, chest and neck.",
"\"The alarming rise in the death toll, and the reported nature of victims' injuries, strongly suggests that security forces are permitted to use lethal force against unarmed protesters calling for political change,\" said Malcolm Smart, the Amnesty's director for the Middle East and North Africa.",
"CNN was unable to independently verify the information.",
"In front of the main courthouse in a square in Benghazi, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets demanding a change of government, a protester said.",
"He said people were chanting for Gadhafi and his children to get out of Libya.",
"He called Gadhafi's authoritarian rule \"the biggest dictatorship in history.\"",
"Late Friday, a witness said more people were still streaming into the already crowded plaza, with some erecting tents, apparently planning to spend the night.",
"There was no sign in the square of police or military forces except for the presence of three tanks, which were not moving, he said.",
"Another source said that he saw three Libyan army tanks in the square and that young demonstrators were engaging the tank crews in conversation.",
"He said government forces were not visible in or around Benghazi.",
"He added that he visited Al-Jala hospital and that it was \"full of dead and wounded.\"",
"Electricity was lost in parts of the city but had been restored by late Friday, when the city was quiet, he said.",
"Farther east, in al-Baida, thousands of people showed up to bury 13 protesters killed in clashes in recent days, said Mohamed Abdallah of the opposition National Front for the Salvation of Libya, who has been receiving information about Libya from sources there.",
"Plainclothes members of the Revolutionary Committee had reportedly fired at the protesters, Abdallah said.",
"Demonstrations unfolded Friday in other cities as well, he said.",
"CNN has not been permitted to report from Libya and cannot confirm information about the demonstrations.",
"The government maintains tight control of the news media and telephone services, and many people expressed fear of talking openly amid what they described as a climate of fear.",
"CNN has been relying on information from protesters, human rights groups and foreign-based Libyan organizations assessing the situation through their sources on the ground.",
"Libyan state-run television was airing taped images of Gadhafi surrounded by adoring crowds.",
"The demonstrations erupted Tuesday after the detention of a human rights lawyer and spread across the country.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the government crackdowns in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen, which are all embroiled in unrest.",
"\"Wherever they are, people have certain universal rights, including the right to peaceful assembly,\" Obama said.",
"\"The United States urges the governments of Bahrain, Libya and Yemen to show restraint in responding to peaceful protests, and to respect the rights of their people.\"",
"\"The security forces' vicious attacks on peaceful demonstrators lay bare the reality of Moammar Gadhafi's brutal rule when faced with any internal dissent,\" said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director for Human Rights Watch.",
"Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also condemned the crackdown in Libya and other countries \"as illegal and excessively heavy-handed.\"",
"Abdallah, the spokesman for the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, reported that protesters in Benghazi had freed people who had been detained during the first two days of the unrest.",
"He said protesters also set afire a police station and the Revolutionary Committee headquarters in Benghazi, al-Baida and Darna.",
"Gadhafi's regime, however, has sought to portray a different picture of events and sent out tacit warnings via mobile phone texts to Libyans planning to make their voices known.",
"\"The inappropriate use of telecommunications services contradicts our religion ... our customs ... and our traditions,\" said a text from the General Communications Body.",
"Another said: \"We commend the conscious youth who have realized that sedition destroys his family, his city, his country.",
"And we commend our cities who have realized that touching national unity destroys the prospects of future generations.",
"Together for the sake of the Libya of Tomorrow.\"",
"A screen grab of the messages was sent to CNN by Abdulla Darrat, spokesman of Enough Gadhafi, a U.S.-based organization that has been in close touch with people on the streets of Libya.",
"State-run television countered the anti-government protests with coverage of pro-Gadhafi demonstrations.",
"It showed men chanting pro-Gadhafi slogans, waving flags and singing around the Libyan leader's limousine as it crept through Tripoli.",
"Scores of supportive demonstrators packed the roadway and held up pictures of their leader as fireworks burst into the night sky.",
"The images followed reports from protesters, witnesses and human rights activists who described brutality by internal security forces, sometimes dressed in plain clothes.",
"One of the protesters likened the situation in Libya to that which occurred early this month in Egypt, telling Human Rights Watch that \"they are sending baltaqiyyas (thugs) to beat us.\"",
"Libya, like many of its Arab neighbors, is suffering from economic hardship and a lack of political reform.",
"Youth unemployment is high.",
"Gadhafi is acutely aware of popular grievances and has spoken with groups of students, lawyers and journalists in the past few weeks, a source told CNN this week.",
"CNN's Yousuf Basil, Fionnuala Sweeney, Ben Wedeman and Salma Abdelaziz contributed to this report."
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"U.S. president condemns the government crackdowns in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Nearly two years after falling in love, \"American Idol\" alumni Ace Young and Diana DeGarmo are opening up about their relationship.",
"Season 5 heartthrob Young, 31, and season 3's runner-up DeGarmo, 24, met in the spring of 2010 when both signed on to costar in the Broadway revival of the musical \"Hair.\"",
"\"We became best friends through 'Hair,' ironically not through 'Idol,' \" says DeGarmo, who now plays as a New Jersey Mob boss's daughter on the CBS soap \"The Young and the Restless.\"",
"\"It just blossomed into a beautiful relationship.\"",
"The attraction was immediate for Young, who, along with DeGarmo, had to get naked onstage for each performance of \"Hair.\"",
"\"She said, 'You're not looking, right?'",
"\" Young says of the first time they disrobed in rehearsals.",
"\"And I was like, 'Oh no, not at all.' But I was looking, and I was like -- sold!\"",
"But Young had his eye on DeGarmo before that moment.",
"\"I was already interested in her as a person before I got to see her with no clothes on,\" he said.",
"\"But [that] sealed the deal.\"",
"After the musical closed in June 2010, Young, 31, returned to L.A. while DeGarmo, 24, went on tour with the musical \"9 to 5.\"",
"The time apart was difficult, Young says: \"If you love somebody, whenever they're not around, it sucks.\"",
"So when DeGarmo's tour ended last summer, Young found a way to keep her close.",
"\"She came to California and kept saying, 'I'm looking [at] apartments,' \" he recalls.",
"\"And I was like, 'Why don't you just stay with me?' The moment she got here, she realized I wasn't going to let her get an apartment.",
"It was like, either we're doing this or we're not.",
"And, thankfully, she was all in.\" Adds DeGarmo: \"I crashed on the couch -- more like, I crashed in his bed -- and just didn't leave.\"",
"These days, the couple's not only living under the same roof, but working together.",
"They recently formed a music group with two friends called All Access, and Young, who earned a Grammy nomination for co-writing \"Idol\" pal Chris Daughtry's hit \"It's Not Over,\" is also producing country songs for DeGarmo.",
"\"She's my best friend,\" he says.",
"\"To be able to dive in with Diana and help create songs that [tell] her story is amazing.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Santa Ana, California (CNN) -- A judge has postponed an arraignment hearing scheduled for a former Marine accused of fatally stabbing four homeless men in Southern California.",
"The hearing for Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, was postponed Wednesday until February 17 after Judge Donald F. Gaffney granted a defense motion asking for more time.",
"Ocampo, 23, remains jailed without bail.",
"He is in a protective \"suicide blanket,\" defense attorney Randall Longwith said.",
"Longwith told reporters he asked for the delay because he had not been given enough time to meet with his client.",
"Authorities only allowed him to talk with Ocampo for 15 seconds Tuesday, he said.",
"\"There was no basis for a plea at this point.",
"I don't have enough information to even make a plea,\" he said.",
"Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas told reporters Wednesday that Ocampo was a \"serious, vicious killer.\"",
"\"He appears to be lucid, calm, intelligent, somebody who knows what he's doing.",
"And his acts are very intentional,\" Rackauckas said.",
"Describing his brief conversation with Ocampo, Longwith painted a different picture.",
"\"He looked at me. He answered when I asked him questions.",
"It was a flat affect and a distant look in his eyes. ...",
"He looked frightened in there, starry-eyed,\" Longwith said.",
"The attorney said he did not know whether his client had been medicated.",
"He said he hoped to have doctors examine Ocampo as soon as possible.",
"Ocampo faces four charges of first-degree murder.",
"He was arrested Friday night after he allegedly stabbed a transient to death, Anaheim Police Sgt.",
"Bob Dunn said.",
"Rackauckas said Tuesday that prosecutors had not decided whether they would seek the death penalty in the case.",
"Attached to the 1st Marine Logistics Group at Camp Pendleton, California, Ocampo was a corporal and a motor vehicle operator, serving in the Marines from July 2006 until July 2010, and was deployed to Iraq for six months in 2008, according to Marine service records.",
"He received an Iraq campaign medal with one star, a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and a National Defense Service Medal, records showed.",
"Ocampo's family members watched Wednesday's hearing on a video monitor at the courthouse, but did not speak to reporters.",
"The arrest left those who know Ocampo confused.",
"The suspect's father, Refugio Ocampo, who is himself homeless, told the Orange County Register it was hard to believe his son could be involved in the killings.",
"\"I saw him so many times giving the last money he had in his pocket ... to the homeless, to the people that (are) asking for some help.",
"... My son's always been a role model,\" Refugio Ocampo said in a video interview posted on the newspaper's website.",
"Norberto Martinez, a family friend who lives with the veteran's uncle, mother and two siblings in Yorba Linda, California, said family and friends were surprised to learn that the mild-mannered 23-year-old was a suspect in the slayings.",
"Martinez said he watched ballgames on television and went on walks with Ocampo, but avoided talking about the war because it upset the veteran.",
"\"I wouldn't talk to him about Iraq,\" Martinez said.",
"\"Whenever he talked with me, he was normal.\"",
"The four slaying victims are James McGillivray, 50, who was killed December 20; Lloyd \"Jimmy\" Middaugh, 42, who died December 27; Paulus \"Dutch\" Smit, 57, killed on December 30; and John Berry, 64, who was stabbed to death January 13.",
"CNN's Linda Hall, Michael Martinez, Jaqueline Hurtado and Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The parents of a 15-year-old Massachusetts high school student who committed suicide after being bullied by her classmates received a nearly quarter-million-dollar settlement, according to documents made public after a months-long attempt to uncover details of the agreement.",
"The settlement was reached with the town of South Hadley in November of 2010, but it was only made public Tuesday after a reporter successfully sued to gain access to the records.",
"The reporter, Emily Bazelon from Slate Magazine, filed the public records lawsuit on December 2 with assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union, after first requesting the documents in May.",
"Superior Court Judge Mary-Lou Rup on Friday ordered the settlement be made public, adding that Bazelon \"demonstrated that she, in her role as a news reporter, and the public have a First Amendment right to access the information contained in these settlement documents.\"",
"The agreement centers around the case of Phoebe Prince, whose body was found last year hanging in the stairway leading to her family's second-floor apartment.",
"On the day she died, Prince had endured a torrent of verbal abuse that began at the school library and continued as she walked home from school in tears, according to prosecutors.",
"Her parents, Anne O'Brien and Jeremy Prince, received the $225,000 settlement sum after filing a complaint with the state's Commission Against Discrimination in 2010, arguing that South Hadley Public Schools failed to address hazing that preceded their daughter's death.",
"The settlement prohibits Prince's parents from again suing the town over Prince's suicide, but it also binds them to a confidentiality agreement that prevents publicizing details of the agreement.",
"In a letter written to the Slate reporter on May 9, town officials pointed to a confidentiality clause in the agreement as reason for keeping the record sealed.",
"\"I did not want to violate the trust of the people who entered into it with that confidentiality clause in it,\" town counsel Edward J. Ryan Jr. told CNN.",
"Civil rights advocacy groups have since hailed Friday's decision.",
"\"A public document does not become private because the government inserts a confidentiality clause or a nondisclosure clause,\" said Newman.",
"According to the court order, public records are defined as \"all books, papers, maps, photographs, recorded tapes, financial statements\" and other items \"made or received by any officer or employee of any agency.\""
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"(CNN) -- A series of U.S. diplomatic cables from early this year directly accused Syria of supplying advanced weaponry, including SCUD ballistic missiles, to the Shiite militia Hezbollah in Lebanon.",
"U.S. protests to Damascus met with persistent denials, according to the cables, which were published by the WikiLeaks website.",
"At a meeting in February, according to one cable, a senior U.S. diplomat stressed Washington's concerns directly with Syrian President Bashar Asad, \"who bluntly stated that he knew of no new weapons systems going to Hezbollah.\"",
"But just a week later, an urgent note from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the U.S. Embassy in Damascus said the United States had learned of Syrian plans to supply Hezbollah with SCUD-D ballistic missiles, which would magnify its threat to Israel.",
"Clinton wrote: \"I must stress that this activity is of deep concern to my government, and we strongly caution you (Syria) against such a serious escalation.\"",
"To reinforce the point, the cable continues: \"Your interest in avoiding war should require you to exert maximum restraint, including restraining Hezbollah and preventing the group's acquisition of such lethal, long-range weapons.\"",
"Within 24 hours, the senior U.S. diplomat in Damascus met with the vice foreign minister, Faisal al-Miqdad, to convey Clinton's message.",
"The cables described him as \"clearly surprised\" by the allegations.",
"\"Flatly denying any Syrian role in the supply of weapons to Hezbollah, Miqdad contended Damascus supported Lebanese independence,\" a cable says, quoting Miqdad as saying: \"You may hear about weapons going to Hezbollah, but they are absolutely not coming through Syria.\"",
"Miqdad then went on the offensive, according to the cable, asking: \"The most sophisticated weapons are coming to Israel, to be used against whom?\"",
"But the U.S. diplomat in Damascus commented: \"Even a seasoned diplomat like Miqdad could not restrain a raised eyebrow at our mention of the transfer of ballistic missiles to Hezbollah.\"",
"The following day another cable from the secretary of state's office asked U.S. diplomats to rally support from allies for Washington's position.",
"It said: \"We want France, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar to make a renewed push to echo our concerns with Syria.\"",
"Allies should be told that Washington believed \"Syria has provided or will provide guided short-range ballistic missiles to Hezbollah that could target two-thirds of Israel, including Tel Aviv, from launch sites north of the Litani.\"",
"The Litani is a river in southern Lebanon.",
"\"Our information also indicates that Syria has made advanced surface-to-air missile systems available to Hezbollah and has probably provided training on these systems to Hezbollah personnel,\" the cable continued.",
"In April this year, Israeli officials alleged that the transfer of SCUD-D missiles had gone ahead.",
"At the time, State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said: \"If such an action has been taken, and we continue to analyze this issue, clearly it potentially puts Lebanon at significant risk.\"",
"So why would Syria provide Hezbollah with weapons that could destabilize an already volatile region?",
"Another cable tries to answer that question.",
"\"Syrian leaders appear convinced that arming Hezbollah will increase Syria's leverage in bringing Israel to the negotiating table,\" it says.",
"But the top U.S. diplomat in Damascus suggests in a cable that is misguided.",
"\"Syria's actions have created a situation in which miscalculation or provocative behavior by Hizballah could prove disastrous for Syria and the broader region,\" he writes.",
"The U.S. assessment is that Hezbollah is far better-armed than it was in 2006, when it fought a one-month cross-border war against Israel.",
"Referring to its missile and rocket armories, a cable from November 2009 says: \"This capability, if fully used, would represent a quantum leap over the damage and psychological terror Hezbollah rockets caused in northern Israel during the 2006 war.\"",
"Regional analysts believe that Hezbollah has some 40,000 rockets as well as up to a dozen SCUD-Ds from Syria."
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"U.S. cables accuse Syria of supply weaponry including SCUDs to the Shiite militia .",
"U.S. protests to Damascus were met with persistent denials, according to the cables ."
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"(CNN) -- New sprint sensation Christophe Lemaitre became the first Frenchman to win three gold medals at a major athletics event on Sunday as his country finished second in the table behind Russia at the European Championships.",
"Lemaitre, the first white man to break the 10-second barrier over 100 meters last month, helped his 4x100m relay team to triumph in Barcelona and add to the 20-year-old's double in the individual sprints.",
"Martial Mbandjock, who had earlier won two bronzes behind his teammate, snatched victory on the final leg as Italy were beaten back into second with Germany third.",
"France's women's 4x100m team finished second behind shock winners Ukraine, who set the fastest time this year of 42.29 seconds.",
"Poland denied the favored Russians a medal, but their larger neighbors won both the men's and women's 4x400m relay events as they finished with a total of 10 golds and 24 podium placings -- six more than France.",
"Distance double for Britain's Farah .",
"Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad and Bouabdallah Tahri gave France a 1-2 in the men's 3000m steeplechase as Spain's Jose Luis Blanco took bronze.",
"The hosts ended the competition in sixth place with two golds and eight medals overall after Nuria Fernandez and Natalia Rodriguez finished first and second in the women's 1,500m ahead of third-placed French runner Hind Dehiba, while Russian favorite Anna Alminova was back in sixth.",
"Alemitu Bekele denied Turkey teammate Elvan Abeylegesse a 5,000m-10,000m double after passing the tiring former world record-holder on the home straight in the shorter distance, with Portugal's Sara Moreira third.",
"Sprint double for Lemaitre .",
"In the women's high jump, Croatia's two-time world champion Blanka Vlasic won with a late leap of 2.03m to head off Sweden's Emma Green and Germany's Ariane Friedrich.",
"Germany's Christian Reif won the men's long jump with this year's leading mark of 8.47m to comfortably beat France's Kafetien Gomis and Britain's Chris Tomlinson.",
"The British team finished third overall with six golds and 19 medals in total, a record for the team, after also taking silver in the men's 4x400m and bronze in the women's event.",
"Lemaitre claims 100m gold in Barcelona .",
"Poland's Piotr Malachowski won the men's discus from Germany's Robert Harting and Robert Fazekas of Hungary, while Switzerland finally won a medal after Victor Rothlin won the men's marathon in a time of two hours and 15.31 minutes to comfortably head off Spain's Chema Martinez and Russia's Dmitriy Safronov.",
"This is the last time that the event will be held every four years, with the next staging in Finland to start a biennial cycle -- ending just 26 days before the start of the 2012 Olympics in London."
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"Russia finish top of medals table at European Athletics Championships in Barcelona .",
"Russians win 10 golds and 24 medals overall to head off France and Britain .",
"Sprinter Christophe Lemaitre becomes first Frenchman to win three golds at major event .",
"The 20-year-old helps his team win men's 4x100m relay from Italy ."
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"(CNN) -- Mano Menezes has been entrusted to lead Brazil into the next World Cup on home soil in 2014 after being named as the replacement for sacked coach Dunga.",
"The 48-year-old has no experience outside of his native Brazil where he has enjoyed success with Gremo and his current club Corinthians.",
"\"I have the honor to inform you that I was approached by the Brazilian Football Confederation to take over the post of national team coach,\" AFP reported Menezes at a media conference in Sao Paulo.",
"\"I have come here to officially confirm that I have accepted the offer.\"",
"The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said Menezes had been on a three-man shortlist to succeed Dunga and his chances greatly improved after Fluminense refused to release Muricy Ramalho from his contract.",
"The new man in charge was then contacted by Ricardo Teixeira, the head of the CBF.",
"\"Menezes was already on a three-man shortlist, drawn up during the World Cup in South Africa,\" said a statement on the official CBF website.",
"\"And his name was confirmed following talks with Texeira during which he approved the renewal project decided by the CBF pertaining to the 2014 World Cup that Brazil will host,\" it added.",
"Reports in Brazil said the third name on the CBF shortlist was former coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who led Brazil to their 2002 World Cup triumph.",
"Former Portugal and Chelsea coach Scolari will remain at Brazilian club side Palmeiras.",
"Menezes will be officially unveiled on Monday before naming his squad for a friendly against the United States on August 10.",
"Dunga was sacked after Brazil were sent crashing out of the quarterfinals of the World Cup by the Netherlands.",
"They had gone into the finals as South American champions and the world's top-ranked team, but after taking the lead against the Dutch slipped to a disappointing 2-1 defeat."
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"Mano Menezes is the new coach of Brazil in succession to sacked Dunga .",
"Menezes emerged from a three-strong shortlist revealed Brazilian Football Confederation .",
"Dunga was sacked after World Cup quarterfinal exit to the Dutch ."
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"(CNN) -- A Southern California bank robber dubbed the \"geezer bandit\" has struck again, possibly knocking off his 11th bank, the FBI said.",
"The suspect held up a Bank of America branch in Temecula on Thursday.",
"\"During (the) robbery, the robber approached the victim teller and presented a demand note for cash,\" a statement from the FBI said.",
"\"The robber carried a leather case which contained a small caliber pistol that he threatened to use, if the teller did not comply with his demands.\"",
"The FBI believes the suspect is responsible for robbing 10 banks in San Diego County and one in Riverside County.",
"The \"geezer bandit\" has carried a weapon in at least two of the robberies and should be considered dangerous, authorities said.",
"\"In these types of crimes, the potential for violence is significant,\" April Langwell, spokeswoman for the San Diego office of the FBI, said in May.",
"\"The last thing we want to happen is an employee of the bank or a customer to be injured as a result of one man's greed.\"",
"The robber has been described as between 60 and 70 years old.",
"However, there has been some suggestion that he may be wearing a mask to conceal his real age and make him appear much older than he is, Langwell said.",
"He is approximately 6 feet, 190 pounds, of average build and has been known to wear prescription eyeglasses and various hats and caps, including a blue baseball cap with a script style \"P\" on the front.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"Robberies have taken place in Southern California ."
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"(CNN) -- The main airport in St. Louis is expected to operate a full flight schedule Tuesday, less than four days after a powerful tornado tore through the facility, airport officials said.",
"But restoration efforts are far from over at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, where the Friday night storm shattered windows and ripped off part of a roof.",
"\"It obviously just took a couple of minutes for the damage to occur,\" Airport Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"It will take weeks, maybe a couple of months, to clean up all of it.\"",
"Still, Hamm-Niebruegge said efforts to get the facility up and running again have been \"miraculous.\"",
"American Airlines returned to service on Monday, officials said, leaving only Cape Air among the airport's 13 airlines still out of service because of storm damage.",
"Cape Air will resume flights on Tuesday, airport officials said in a statement Monday evening.",
"American and Cape Air were among the hardest hit after the storm, which devastated the airport's C concourse.",
"The tornado damaged 750 homes near the airport, Missouri Gov.",
"Jay Nixon said.",
"And preliminary National Weather Service estimates released Saturday show the tornado packed winds between 111 and 165 miles per hour when it hit the airport.",
"There were no fatalities reported -- a fact that Nixon characterized as \"absolutely amazing.\"",
"At the airport, Hamm-Niebruegge said the facility's design -- and the way people responded to warnings -- played a key role.",
"\"It is a historic building, and it's built very, very well.",
"I think that had a part to do with it, but we also had very early warnings,\" she said.",
"Besides damage to homes and the airport, the strong winds also hit businesses and tore through the roof of a Ferguson, Missouri church, where dozens had gathered on Good Friday to watch the movie \"Passion of the Christ.\"",
"Officials have said inspections of buildings will take several days and hauling off debris will take longer.",
"Elsewhere in Missouri, storms over the weekend left behind water on the runways at a regional airport, forcing authorities to shut down the facility temporarily.",
"The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, located about 100 miles south of St. Louis, has been shut down since Sunday, administrative coordinator Katrina Atkins said.",
"Crews were activating a pumping system to remove the standing water Monday, she said, but authorities had not determined when the airport would reopen.",
"CNN's Tom Laabs contributed to this report.",
"Watch American Morning weekdays 6am to 9am ET.",
"For the latest from American Morning click here."
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"Only Cape Air is still out of service ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was granted bail Thursday after being indicted on charges related to the alleged assault of a maid in his New York hotel Saturday.",
"\"It's a great relief to the family to be able to have him with them,\" defense attorney Bill Taylor said to reporters outside the courtroom.",
"He said his client would spend Thursday night at the jail on Rikers Island before being released Friday.",
"The next court appearance, an arraignment, is slated for June 6.",
"Supreme Court Judge Michael Obus granted the bail on the condition that Strauss-Kahn post $1 million in cash, that he also post a bond for $5 million, that he surrender his travel documents and that he submit to home detention.",
"The announcement came shortly after his indictment on seven criminal charges was announced.",
"They are: two counts of criminal sexual act, two counts of sexual abuse, and one count each of attempt to commit rape, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.",
"In the charge of criminal sexual act in the first degree, Strauss-Kahn is accused of having \"engaged in oral sexual conduct with an individual ... by forcible compulsion,\" the indictment says.",
"\"Under American law, these are extremely serious charges,\" Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance told reporters outside the courtroom.",
"\"The defendant was indicted on all the charges presented to the grand jury,\" he said.",
"Strauss-Kahn resigned from his IMF post on Wednesday.",
"As he entered the courtroom for the bail hearing, he looked at his wife, seated in the front row, and smiled.",
"Strauss-Kahn on Monday had been denied bail, with the criminal court judge saying his attempt to leave the country after the alleged incident made him a flight risk.",
"His lawyer argued Thursday that Strauss-Kahn had been scheduled to leave New York and fly to Paris on Saturday using a ticket he had bought on May 11.",
"Taylor said Strauss-Kahn had called the Sofitel hotel from John F. Kennedy International Airport to locate his cell phone, which he had left in the hotel, then called a second time as his plane was boarding to request that its delivery be hastened.",
"Instead, police at the airport took him into custody.",
"Taylor noted that his client resigned his position as IMF chief on Wednesday, and had surrendered his passport and a U.N.-issued travel document.",
"\"In our view, no bail is required,\" the lawyer said.",
"\"He has one interest at this time and that is to clear his name.\"",
"Taylor added that Strauss-Kahn had agreed to live with his wife in an apartment in Manhattan after his release.",
"Prosecutor John McConnell argued the high-profile economist had no right to bail.",
"\"While there is presumption of innocence, the proof is substantial and it is growing every day,\" he said, adding that the forensic evidence is consistent with an attack and the alleged victim has identified Strauss-Kahn as her attacker.",
"McConnell noted that France does not extradite its own nationals, and said Strauss-Kahn's departure on Saturday from the hotel was in haste, suggesting \"something went on in that hotel room.\"",
"For his part, Obus said he was solely concerned about ensuring Strauss-Kahn returns to face charges.",
"\"We don't want his money,\" he said.",
"\"We just want to make sure he comes back.",
"He has resources to live comfortably in his own country.\"",
"As the hearing recessed, Strauss-Kahn blew his wife a kiss.",
"Meanwhile, Strauss-Kahn's alleged victim, a 32-year-old Guinean maid for the Sofitel hotel, testified before the grand jury on Wednesday, according to an attorney representing her.",
"\"If you've had any experience with someone who has been traumatized by sexual assault, reliving it in your mind is hard enough,\" attorney Jeffrey Shapiro said on CNN's \"American Morning\" Thursday.",
"\"Having to recount it, even to a therapist, is difficult, much less having to talk about it on the record in front of a grand jury.",
"I mean, it's extremely difficult, and nonetheless she's making it through this.\"",
"The case has set French political circles abuzz, as the international economist was widely considered the French Socialist Party's best hope to unseat President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's elections.",
"In a statement released Thursday, Sarkozy called Strauss-Kahn's resignation \"inevitable\" and called for an \"open and transparent selection process\" for Strauss-Kahn's replacement.",
"In a brief letter to the IMF executive board late Wednesday, Strauss-Kahn proclaimed his innocence.",
"He said he was stepping down to \"protect this institution which I have served with honor and devotion, and especially -- especially -- I want to devote all my strength, all my time and all my energy to proving my innocence.\"",
"\"To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me,\" he said.",
"In his letter, Strauss-Kahn said he felt compelled to resign.",
"\"I think at this time first of my wife -- whom I love more than anything -- of my children, of my family, of my friends,\" he wrote.",
"\"I think also of my colleagues at the Fund; together we have accomplished such great things over the last three years and more.\"",
"While the search begins to replace him, the first deputy managing director, John Lipsky, will lead the fund, the IMF said in a statement.",
"\"As acting managing director, John Lipsky will provide able and experienced leadership to the fund at this critical time for the global economy,\" Geithner said in a statement Thursday.",
"\"We want to see an open process that leads to a prompt succession for the fund's new managing director.\"",
"In statements, South Africa called for a candidate from a developing country to be named as Strauss-Kahn's successor, while Brazil called for establishing criteria and conducting a thorough search.",
"On Thursday, Lipsky urged policy makers to work together to strengthen the global economy.",
"\"I deeply regret the circumstances that have made it necessary for me to substitute for the fund's managing director,\" Lipsky said in a speech at the annual meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee in Washington.",
"Prosecutors allege that a naked Strauss-Kahn, 62, chased the housekeeping employee through his suite and sexually assaulted her.",
"But defense attorney Benjamin Brafman disputed the allegation, saying \"forensic evidence, we believe, will not be consistent with a forcible account, and we believe there is a very, very defensible case.\"",
"Strauss-Kahn allegedly committed the offenses at noon.",
"He checked out of the hotel at 12:28 p.m. and went to a previously scheduled lunch about 12:45 p.m., according to a document supporting his motion to approve bail.",
"The lunch was with one of his daughters, according to a source with knowledge of the case.",
"After lunch, he was driven to John F. Kennedy International Airport and boarded an Air France flight that was scheduled to depart at 4:45 p.m., the bail document says.",
"As he sat in first class awaiting takeoff and a planned meeting the next day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, followed by a meeting with European finance ministers on Monday in Brussels, his world of power and privilege came crashing down.",
"Police, alerted by hotel staff to the employee's accusations, ordered him off the plane and placed him in custody.",
"Strauss-Kahn was examined for scratches and DNA samples were taken, and investigators searched for other evidence in the suite, including possible bodily fluids from both individuals, a law enforcement official told CNN.",
"He consented to the testing after investigators prepared a search warrant, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.",
"The official was not authorized to release the information.",
"Strauss-Kahn became embroiled in sexual controversy soon after joining the IMF in September 2007.",
"He acknowledged reports that he'd had an improper physical relationship with a female employee.",
"But the relationship was consensual, an independent inquiry found, and the IMF's executive board concluded in October 2008 that \"there was no harassment, favoritism or any other abuse of authority by the managing director.\"",
"Nevertheless, the board found \"that the incident was regrettable and reflected a serious error of judgment,\" the IMF said in a written statement.",
"On Thursday, the IMF sent reporters updated standards for staff conduct that were approved May 6.",
"Under the organization's new policy on closer personal relationships in the workplace, a supervisor who has an intimate personal relationship with a subordinate must report that relationship to the ethics adviser, his or her supervisor or the human resources department \"to seek resolution of potential conflict of interests and workplace fairness concerns,\" the new standards say.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Adam Reiss contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Strauss-Kahn will spend Thursday night at Rikers Island .",
"NEW: He is to be released Friday .",
"The bail conditions include $1 million cash and $5 million bond .",
"Strauss-Kahn says he felt compelled to resign as chief of the IMF ."
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"(CNN) -- The United States should use the \"utmost caution\" as it makes the Asia-Pacific region a key focus of its newly announced military strategy, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said in a commentary published Friday.",
"On Thursday, President Barack Obama and top defense officials unveiled a new U.S. defense strategy that focuses heavily on the Asia-Pacific region, a fast-growing economic powerhouse with numerous potential flashpoints that the administration has identified as crucial to U.S. interests.",
"While resulting in a leaner force, the new strategy also calls for the U.S. to increase its military's \"institutional weight and focus on enhanced presence, power projection, and deterrence in Asia-Pacific,\" Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday.",
"While welcoming a peaceful U.S. role in the region, Xinhua's commentary Friday warned the United States against acting like a \"bull in a china shop.\"",
"\"The U.S. role, if fulfilled with a positive attitude and free from a Cold War-style zero-sum mentality, will not only be conducive to regional stability and prosperity, but be good for China, which needs a peaceful environment to continue its economic development,\" the Xinhua editorial said.",
"\"However, while boosting its military presence in the Asia-Pacific, the United States should abstain from flexing its muscles, as this won't help solve regional disputes.\"",
"The new defense strategy, which still lacks many specifics, is meant to pare U.S. defense spending by at least $487 billion over the next decade and drops a long-standing doctrine calling for the ability to fight to simultaneous ground wars.",
"The result will be a more \"agile, flexible, ready-to-deploy, innovative and technologically advanced\" force prepared to counter terrorists, rogue states and the threat of nuclear weapons worldwide, Panetta said Thursday.",
"Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the focus on the Asia-Pacific region is crucial.",
"\"The strategy talks about a shift to the future,\" he said Thursday.",
"\"And all of the trends -- demographic trends, geopolitical trends, economic trends and military trends -- are shifting toward the Pacific.\"",
"With U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the focus on the Asia-Pacific region has become a key theme of the administration's foreign policy commentary in recent months.",
"In November, Obama toured the region to highlight its economic and strategic importance to U.S. interests and announced plans to eventually station a task force of up to 2,500 Marines in Australia .",
"\"The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay,\" he said at the time, pledging that the coming defense cuts would not affect the country's military posture in the region.",
"He reiterated that pledge Thursday.",
"\"As I made clear in Australia, we will be strengthening our presence in the Asia Pacific, and budget reductions will not come at the expense of that critical region,,\" he said."
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"U.S. officials announced new defense strategy this week .",
"It makes the Asia-Pacific region a key focus for U.S. military power .",
"Xinhua editorial says U.S. \"should abstain from flexing its muscles\" in the region .",
"\"All the trends\" are pointing toward the Pacific as strategic focus, top U.S. general says ."
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"(CNN) -- Former world number one Justine Henin has ruled herself out of the U.S. Open after sustaining an elbow injury in her Wimbledon exit to Belgian rival Kim Clijsters.",
"It is a shattering blow for Henin, who will also miss her 'Best of Belgium' clash with Clijsters in Brussels on July 8.",
"Henin, who made her comeback to competitive tennis at the start of the year after 18 months in retirement, picked up the injury during her fourth round defeat to Clijsters.",
"Clijsters wins Battle of Belgians at Wimbledon .",
"She suffered the injury when falling early in the first set, but bravely played on in a match that lasted three sets.",
"Henin confirmed the news in a statement on her personal website.",
"\"Following my fall at Wimbledon....I took several medical examinations which have revealed a ligament partial fracture at the right elbow,\" it read.",
"\"There I regret to announce that I can't unfortunately play in Best of Belgium this July 8.",
"I'll be nevertheless present for this wonderful Belgian event which is important for me.",
"\"This injury will keep me away from the courts during a rough period of two months with the consequence the withdrawal of my U.S. round of tournaments, including the US Open.\"",
"The 28-year-old added that she will undergo further medical examinations to decide on when she returns to the WTA Tour later this season.",
"Aside from missing the final grand slam of the year, Henin's exhibition head to head against Clijsters was set to attract a world record crowd of 40,000 for a tennis match.",
"Organizers say they plan to find a replacement player for Henin, who has been beaten three times by Cljisters since her return to action.",
"Clijsters was later beaten by Vera Zvonareva in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, leaving both of the Belgian stars still searching for their first grand slam title at SW19.",
"The U.S. Open begins on August 30 in New York, where Clijsters will be defending the crown she won in sensational fashion in her comeback year in 2009."
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"Justine Henin out of U.S. Open and 'Battle of Belgians' with elbow injury .",
"Henin picked up the injury during her Wimbledon defeat to Kim Clijsters .",
"Henin hopes to return to the WTA Tour later in the year ."
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Police tightened security Wednesday in India's Punjab for the funeral of a preacher whose killing in Vienna, Austria sparked violent protests in the Sikh majority state last week.",
"The body of Rama Sand lies in state in Vienna before being transported to India.",
"Top-ranking officers are camping in Jalandhar district, where Rama Nand will be cremated Thursday, said Parag Jain, Punjab's inspector-general of police.",
"\"Security arrangements are elaborate,\" he told CNN.",
"Nand's body is due to arrive from Vienna early Thursday in Sachkhand Ballan, a monastery dedicated to Guru Ravidass, a 14th-century low-caste Hindu spiritual figure.",
"Guru Ravidass' writings are predominantly found in the primary Sikh scriptures called the Guru Granth Sahib, placed in the sect temples as in the Sikh houses of worship.",
"Sect head Niranjan Dass, who was injured in the Vienna assault, will also be arriving Thursday, Sachkhand Ballan secretary S.R.",
"Heer said. The sikh guru's death led to widespread violence across the Punjab region, which resulted in the army and federal security forces being called in to restore order.",
"Thousands took part in demonstrations across the Doaba region, where protesters attacked public transportation, knocking out train service in some areas.",
"They also blocked a national highway to Jammu, CNN sister network CNN-IBN reported.",
"A number of businesses were ransacked as well.",
"Police reported one death.",
"Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, appealed for calm, in a statement.",
"\"There is no place for violence in a secular society like India's and certainly no excuse whatsoever for the violation of the sacred premises of a (Sikh temple) for narrow sectarian or other purposes,\" India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement."
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"Tensions ease in Punjab after widespread violence over Sikh guru's death .",
"Sant Rama Nand shot dead in temple in Vienna, Austria; another guru wounded .",
"Nand's body is due to arrive from Vienna early Thursday ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama's 30-minute TV ad, which ran simultaneously on broadcast and cable networks at 8 p.m.",
"ET Wednesday, is muscle-flexing that has little precedent, a campaign advertising expert said.",
"Sen. Barack Obama aired a 30-minute campaign ad Wednesday night.",
"\"It's evidence, if you needed any, that the Obama campaign has more money than there is ad time left to buy,\" said Evan Tracey, director of the Campaign Media Analysis Group.",
"\"This is flexing the muscles.\"",
"Tracey estimates that it will cost the campaign \"in the $4 to 5 million range -- at a minimum, $3.5 million.\"",
"But, he said, spending the money is a \"no-brainer\" for the Democratic presidential hopeful.",
"\"The strategic brilliance of this for Obama is that he is going to consume about 24 hours of the news cycle,\" Tracey said.",
"\"It boxes [John] McCain in, takes the oxygen out of the room.\"",
"In the carefully produced infomercial, Obama laid out his plans for the economy and for bringing an end to the war in Iraq.",
"It also featured stories of struggling families in swing states such as Ohio and Missouri and included testimonials from high-profile supporters, including Kansas Gov.",
"Kathleen Sebelius and New Mexico Gov.",
"Bill Richardson.",
"iReport.com: What do you want to ask Sen. Obama?",
"Obama's Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, was not mentioned, nor was the GOP.",
"The spot ended with a brief, live Obama address to a rally in Florida, another hotly contested state in this year's campaign.",
"\"I'm reminded every single day that I am not a perfect man,\" he said.",
"\"I will not be a perfect president.",
"\"But I can promise you this: I will always tell you what I think and where I stand.",
"I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face.",
"I will listen to you when we disagree.",
"And, most importantly, I will open the doors of government and ask you to be involved in your own democracy again.\"",
"There was so much buzz surrounding the infomercial -- which was announced about two weeks ago -- that on Tuesday, Time magazine's Mark Halperin put the ad's two editors on his daily list of the \"five most important people in American politics not running for president.\"",
"Watch more on the Obama campaign ad buy » .",
"Those editors, Erik Smith and Mark Putnam, were \"still in an edit room\" cutting the 30-minute piece Tuesday when he published the list, according to Halperin, Time's editor-at-large and senior political analyst.",
"The ad ran at 8 p.m.",
"ET on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, BET, TV One and Univision, the Spanish-language network, six days before Election Day.",
"CNN declined to run the spot, and talks between ABC and the Obama campaign fell apart.",
"\"We were approached by the Obama campaign and declined their request,\" said Sal Petruzzi, senior vice president for public relations of Turner Broadcasting, CNN's parent company.",
"\"We did not want to pre-empt our programming lineup with a 30-minute spot.",
"We would rather use our air to continue to cover the campaign, candidates and issues like we always do, from all points of view with the best political team on television.\"",
"An ABC spokeswoman declined to comment about the network's talks with the Obama campaign.",
"\"As a matter of policy we don't comment about clients with whom we are doing business,\" said Julie Hoover of ABC.",
"The Obama campaign has bought advertising on ABC in the past, she said, \"but they did not buy the half-hour.\"",
"Obama taped an interview Wednesday with ABC's Charles Gibson, which is to run Thursday, his campaign said.",
"A source familiar with ABC policy suggested the network had offered the Obama campaign a different time slot.",
"\"Hypothetically, we would have offered them equivalent time,\" the source said.",
"\"We don't have to give them the exact slot they are asking for.\"",
"Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said ABC had ultimately offered Obama the slot he wanted, but the campaign turned it down.",
"\"By the time they agreed, we had already committed our resources,\" Burton said.",
"The Obama campaign reported last week that it had raised a record-shattering $150 million in September.",
"Obama has outspent McCain by a huge margin, according to CNN's consultant on ad spending.",
"Between the time the two candidates clinched their party's nominations in the spring and October 25, Obama spent more than $205 million on TV ads.",
"McCain spent more than $119 million, according to TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group.",
"The McCain campaign launched an ad Wednesday attacking Obama for his 30-minute special.",
"\"Behind the fancy speeches, grand promises and TV special lies the truth: With crises at home and abroad, Barack Obama lacks the experience America needs,\" the ad said.",
"The timing of Obama's informercial pushed back the start of a World Series game, provoking a jab from McCain during a Wednesday afternoon appearance in Florida.",
"\"It used to be that only rain or some other act of God could delay the World Series,\" he said.",
"\"But I guess network executives figured an Obama infomercial was close enough.\"",
"The Obama campaign did not ask that the game be delayed, said a spokesman for Fox, which broadcasts the World Series.",
"\"They asked Fox to buy the air time,\" the spokesman said.",
"\"Fox went to our partner, Major League Baseball, and asked if it would be OK to delay the game to take this important political advertisement.",
"They agreed.\" MLB's willingness to delay the fall classic for a political ad shows how very unusual the Obama TV spot is.",
"\"Ross Perot did it in 1992, but it wasn't this close to Election Day, and now you have a very different media consumption environment.",
"You didn't have the cable then,\" Tracey said.",
"\"There is no precedent for this sort of an ad this late in the race.\"",
"CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand and CNN Entertainment's Rachel Wells contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama discusses plans for economy, bringing end to Iraq war .",
"NEW: On ad's timing, McCain says it used to take \"act of God\" to delay World Series .",
"McCain launched an ad attacking Obama for his 30-minute special ."
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"(CNN) -- Defending champion Alberto Contador has issued an apology after he took advantage of his rival Andy Schleck's mechanical failure to seize the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.",
"Schleck, who was leading Astana rider Contador by 31 seconds in the overall standings going into stage 15 on Monday, dropped his chain while launching an attack on the day's final climb and had to stop to repair the problem.",
"Rather than waiting for his rival -- in keeping with the Tour's sporting traditions -- Contador and a group including fellow contenders Denis Menchov and Samuel Sanchez stole a march to the finish, gaining 39 seconds on Schleck.",
"Contador now leads Saxo Bank's Schleck by eight seconds in the overall standings, with Spain's Sanchez two minutes behind the leader in third and Russia's Menchov two minutes, 13 seconds back.",
"See Contador's Youtube apology here .",
"Spaniard Contador was booed by the French crowd as he was awarded the yellow jersey on the podium and was heavily criticized by Schleck.",
"But after reflecting on the stage, Contador issued a video on Youtube saying: \"The race was in full gear and, well, maybe I made a mistake.",
"I'm sorry. \"At a time like that all you think about is riding as fast as you can.",
"I'm not happy, in the sense that, to me, fair play is very important.",
"\"The kind of thing that happened today is not something I like, it's not my style and I hope my relationship with Andy will remain as good as before.\"",
"Luxembourg's Schleck, the runner-up to two-time champion Contador last year, was angered by what he saw as a lack of \"fair play\" and vowed to take \"revenge\" on his rival.",
"\"In the same situation I would not have taken advantage,\" Schleck said, AFP reported.",
"\"I'm not the jury, but for sure those guys wouldn't get the fair play award from me today.",
"\"I'm really disappointed.",
"My stomach is full of anger, and I want to take my revenge.",
"I will take my revenge in the coming days.\"",
"In a similar situation in 2003, Germany's Jan Ullrich was praised for his sportsmanship after he waited for Lance Armstrong to recover from a collision with a spectator in the Pyrenees.",
"Armstrong then surged forward to win the stage by 40 seconds en route to the fifth of his seven Tour victories.",
"The 187.5 kilometer stage from Pamiers to Bagneres-de-Luchon - the second of four stages in the Pyrenees - was won by French champion Thomas Voeckler after a fine solo ride, finishing nearly three minutes ahead of the race favorites.",
"Voeckler's triumph gave France their fifth victory in 15 stages."
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"Contador takes yellow jersey from Andy Schleck in controversial fashion .",
"Contador gains 39 seconds after Schleck drops his chain on final climb .",
"Contador, who did not wait for Schleck, booed as he collects yellow jersey ."
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"(CNN) -- Ireland upset the Australian Wallabies 15-6 at Eden Park Saturday to top Pool C of the Rugby World Cup.",
"It was Ireland's first win over Australia in five attempts at the global showpiece and puts them securely on the path to the quarterfinals after two victories from two matches.",
"Inspired defense in wet conditions frustrated their more fancied opponents, who trail them by three points with two games to play.",
"\"We were mentally in a place where we felt we owed ourselves a big performance as much as we owed the Irish public one,\" Ireland captain Brian O'Driscoll told AFP.",
"\"The Irish played more intelligently, they put us under a lot of pressure and profited from that, particularly in our end of the ground,\" Wallabies' coach Robbie Deans said.",
"Australia were ahead early through a James O'Connor penalty in the 11th minute, but Jonathan Sexton's leveled for the Irish with a penalty of their own before putting them 6-3 ahead with a drop goal.",
"O'Connor put Australia back on level terms before the break, but after the interval Sexton gave Ireland a lead they never relinquished with his trusty boot.",
"Ronan O'Gara came off the bench to kick to further penalties, taking his Irish points tally to a record 1,039 and they almost added a late try as winger Tommy Bowe was pulled up by O'Connor five meters from the try-line.",
"Meanwhile, South Africa made it two wins out of two in the defense of the title with a commanding 49-3 victory over Fiji on Saturday.",
"After their narrow 17-6 win over Wales in their Pool D opener, the Springboks were far sharper and scored tries through center Jaque Fourie, Gurthro Steenkamp, Frans Steyn, Morne Steyn, Tendai Mtawarira and Danie Rossouw.",
"Morne Steyn kicked 16 points with a Frans Steyn penalty the other score.",
"Seremia Bai scored a sole penalty for Fiji, who beat Namibia 49-25 in their opener, but were outclassed here.",
"In the other World Cup match played Saturday, Argentina scored their first win, after a narrow opening defeat to England, with a 43-8 victory over Romania in Pool B, running in six tries."
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"Jonathan Sexton and Ronan O'Gara kick the points to give Irish famous victory .",
"Defending champions South Africa thrash Fiji 49-3 to make it two wins from two .",
"Argentina secure first victory with 43-8 win over Romania ."
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"(CNN) -- India tied the three-Test series with Sri Lanka after V.V.S.",
"Laxman overcame back problems to score an unbeaten century on the final day of the deciding match in Colombo to seal a five-wicket victory.",
"Set 257 to win, the top-ranked tourists made it home comfortably following a fourth-wicket partnership of 109 between Laxman and veteran batsman Sachin Tendulkar, with Suresh Raina's 41 off 45 balls completing a fine turnaround.",
"Laxman followed up his first-innings 56 as he ended the match unbeaten on 103 from 149 balls, scoring his 16th Test ton despite needing the help of a runner.",
"\"He proved today why he is called very, very special,\" Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni told reporters.",
"\"He always comes up with innings that have a huge bearing on the game.",
"\"It was very important for him to score runs as the team needed it most to level the series.",
"I think it is a very special innings.",
"Hopefully, he plays plenty more innings like this for us.\"",
"Laxman, a veteran of 113 Tests, said he had struggled to keep momentum due to his back pain.",
"\"I started my innings well, but during the partnership I had a lot of discomfort and the spasms didn't allow me to move freely.",
"Once I was into my 30s it became very painful,\" he said.",
"\"It was difficult. You don't want to create confusion and also not break the rhythm.",
"If you see, Sachin got out once I took the runner.",
"But I was in such pain that I thought that the best decision in team's interest was to have a runner instead of just giving away the wicket due to pain.\"",
"Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said the turning point was when his side were bowled out for 267 in their second innings the previous day.",
"\"If we had just tried to bat till lunch, the ball would have got softer and we could have scored a lot more runs.",
"But unfortunately, we played some poor strokes,\" he said.",
"\"Otherwise we could have batted out the day and put the heavy roller on today and declared.\"",
"Resuming on 53-3 in their second innings on Saturday, India soon lost nightwatchman Ishant Sharma for four as off-spinner Suraj Randiv claimed his fourth wicket.",
"But Laxman joined Tendulkar, who made a patient 54 off 122 balls -- his 56th half-century in his record 169th Test appearance -- before also falling to Randiv at 171-5.",
"Tendulkar had been dropped by a close fielder when on 18 also off Randiv, who claimed his first five-wicket haul in just his second outing after coming in to replace retired world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan.",
"Raina, who scored 120 on debut in the previous drawn Test, hit the winning runs with a six off Chanaka Welegedara just before the scheduled tea break.",
"Meanwhile, Pakistan reached 19-1 at stumps of the second day of the second Test against England, having bowled out the hosts for 251 in Birmingham.",
"Pakistan, all out for a paltry 72 in their first innings, are still 160 runs away from making England bat again at Edgbaston.",
"The hosts resumed on 112-2 on Saturday, but spinner Saeed Ajmal took his first five-wicket haul to restrict the deficit.",
"However, Pakistan's bowling options were hit when seamer Umar Gul was ruled out of the rest of the match with a torn hamstring.",
"Kevin Pietersen returned to form with 80, but had a lucky escape on 41 when he was given not out in bizarre circumstances.",
"The South Africa-born batsman pulled away from the crease just before Mohammad Asif was about to deliver the ball, signaling he had been distracted by movement behind the bowler.",
"But then he offered a shot after all and chipped a catch to Pakistan captain Salman Butt, who could not persuade umpire Marais Erasmus to change his decision of \"dead ball.\"",
"James Anderson later took his fifth wicket of the match as Butt went without scoring."
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"Laxman scores unbeaten 103 to guide India to a five-wicket victory .",
"Laxman notches his 16th Test century after adding 109 with Sachin Tendulkar (54)\nSri Lanka had reduced India to 61-4 in pursuit of 257 to win on final day of third Test .",
"Pakistan restrict England to 251 in first innings, then end second day on 19-1 ."
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"(CNN) -- Pakistan bounced back to win the third Test against England by four wickets at the Oval in London as veteran batsman Mohammed Yousuf completed a successful return to international cricket on Saturday.",
"The tourists, whose country has been devastated by floods, reduced England's series lead to 2-1 ahead of the final match at Lord's starting next Thursday as Yousuf's experience proved vital.",
"Recalled after receiving an indefinite ban by the Pakistan Cricket Board in March following his role in the disastrous tour of Australia, the former captain contributed 56 in Pakistan's first innings of 308 and then played another solid hand in the successful chase for 148 on the fourth day.",
"Pakistan lost an early wicket and then Yousuf came to the crease at 57-2 after Imran Farhat fell to Graeme Swann for a quickfire 39.",
"The 35-year-old helped Salman Butt (48) put on an invaluable 46 before the captain was also dismissed by the spinner.",
"Pakistan's nerves showed as Azhar Ali was run out for five, then James Anderson claimed his second wicket as he bowled Yousuf for a patient 33 and Swann trapped Kamran Akmal leg before wicket for a duck without offering a shot.",
"Umar Akmal (16) and Mohammad Amir (4) then guided Pakistan to a morale-boosting victory following two heavy defeats as their team mirrored the three-wicket win over Australia last month when chasing 180.",
"\"The boys showed a lot of character,\" Butt told reporters.",
"\"It was a very good effort from the whole team, no one individual can be singled out.",
"Yousuf brought class and calmness to the middle order.",
"The dressing room is confident in this holy month of Ramadan, we would like to draw this series 2-2.\"",
"The 18-year-old Amir was named man of the match after becoming the youngest player to take five wickets in an innings in England, claiming figures of 5-52 as the hosts were bowled out for 222.",
"England added just one run to their overnight total before Amir dismissed last man Stuart Broad for six."
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"Pakistan seeking to level four-match series in England after winning third Test at Oval .",
"Tourists triumph by four wickets in London with a day to spare after chasing 148 to win .",
"Teenage fast bowler Mohammad Amir, unbeaten at end, named man of the match .",
"The 18-year-old is the youngest bowler to take five wickets in Test innings in England ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Hackers have stolen personal information from over 1.2 million customers of the Japanese gaming company SEGA, according to a company statement.",
"The breach occurred Friday and targeted user data from subsidiary \"SEGA Pass\", which is operated by Britain-based SEGA Europe Limited (SEL).",
"The service was \"illegally accessed from outside and personal information of all 1,290,755 customers of the service... were brought outside of the system,\" according to SEGA.",
"The information included names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and \"encoded passwords,\" the statement said.",
"But the company emphasized that it \"does not hold any confidential information such as credit card information.\"",
"SEGA says it shut down service as soon as it confirmed the illegal access and sent affected customers an e-mail apology.",
"The company says it is investigating the cyber break-in.",
"SEGA published the statement explaining the data hacking in Japanese on the Japanese website only.",
"English language users were greeted only with messages that the SEGA Pass service was momentarily down.",
"\"Sorry, the website is temporarily unavailable due to Maintenance work,\" one message says.",
"\"We will be up and running again soon!\"",
"SEGA advertises its privacy measures on a banner at the bottom of its website, which reads \"ESRB Privacy Certified\".",
"The banner links to a privacy statement, which touts user information safeguards including \"the storage of data on secure servers or computers inaccessible by modem.\"",
"In April hackers stole personal user information from SONY's PlayStation Network, which had some 70 million subscribers at the time.",
"Hackers later broke into Sony Pictures website, compromising the accounts of over 1 million users.",
"SEGA creates games that play on SONY's PlayStation as well as on other gaming systems.",
"Yoko Wakatsuki contributed to this report."
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"NEW: SEGA says the affected service does not store credit card numbers .",
"SEGA says the data breach included e-mail addresses and passwords .",
"The company shut down operations and sent out apologies .",
"English language users saw messages that the SEGA Pass site was down for \"maintenance\""
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"Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Costly and frequent travels to Singapore by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for medication were justified because the 87-year-old might be having \"complications,\" his political rival and Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Wednesday.",
"\"The responsibility of the state is to look after its leaders.",
"If the president is sick, he should be attended to,\" said Tsvangirai responding to journalists who were eager to know why his and Mugabe's travel expenses had reached $29 million dollars in eight months, according to government figures published quarterly.",
"The figures represent an enormous sum for a country where the majority of the population struggles to have one meal a day.",
"Official figures show Zimbabwe spends about $5 million a month.",
"Mugabe's and Tsvangirai's travels consume more than $3.6 million a month, the figures show.",
"When quizzed by journalists why the 87-year-old frequents Singapore which accounts for the bulk of the two's travels, Tsvangirai said: \"Whether you like it or not he (Mugabe) may say I was sick and I had to go and seek medical attention.",
"Who am I to question him? I do not want to divulge (his real ailment), what you are trying to draw me is to tell what ailment he is suffering from.",
"Maybe the attention (Mugabe needs) is outside the country.",
"Maybe we do not have the expertise (in Zimbabwe).",
"What do you want him to do? He is not certainly suffering from malaria as you would understand, which we can obtain (treatment for) at the nearest hospital.",
"There might be complications.\"",
"Mugabe, last week flew to Singapore for medical treatment for the eighth time this year, heightening concern over his health.",
"In March, Mugabe's office declared that he had undergone an eye operation to remove cataracts earlier in the year, and that he had just had \"a final review.\"",
"Last month Mugabe's Zanu-PF party set up a committee to probe revelations contained in the WikiLeaks documents that party officials told U.S. diplomats that Mugabe had prostate cancer and would be dead by 2013.",
"The U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that information was allegedly conveyed to the U.S. officials by one of Mugabe's allies, central bank head Gideon Gono.",
"Gono has rejected the claims that Mugabe had prostate cancer."
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"Tsvangirai says travel by Mugabe is justified .",
"Public documents show $29 million in travel expenses in eight months .",
"Most of the travels are to Singapore ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Shortly after Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris ended their engagement in June, the Playboy mogul said Harris let him keep Charlie, their shared Cavalier King Charles spaniel.",
"But now, Hefner, 85, says he and his former fiancée, 25, are still going back and forth about who gets permanent ownership of the pooch.",
"\"We both love the puppy,\" Hefner told PEOPLE on Thursday at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.",
"\"I told her if she wants to keep the ring and the Bentley, then maybe I can keep the puppy.",
"I [hope] we will work it out.\" Hefner, who still insists he \"missed a bullet\" by not tying the knot with Harris -- who was linked to Dr. Phil's son right after the split -- points out, \"The puppy's valuable, but not $100,000 worth.\"",
"Although he is still in talks with Harris about their canine companion, Hefner has moved on in his personal life with Anna Sophia Berglund and Shera Bechard, the women he calls his \"two very special ladies.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com .",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris are fighting over their shared Cavalier King Charles spaniel .",
"\"We both love the puppy,\" Hefner said .",
"\"The puppy's valuable, but not $100,000 worth,\" he said ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Kabul's police chief and chief of criminal investigations have submitted their resignations to the Afghan Interior Ministry, but the ministry ordered them to complete their probe into Friday's suicide attacks first, a ministry spokesman told CNN.",
"The ministry has not yet approved the resignations of Police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahman and investigations chief Abdul Ghafar Sayed Zada, spokesman Ezmary Bashari said.",
"The two were ordered to continue their investigation into deadly blasts that targeted foreigners in the capital city Friday.",
"At least 17 people were killed and many others wounded.",
"Once the investigation into the bombings is complete, the minister of interior will make a decision on the resignations, Bashari said.",
"The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks near the Safi Landmark Hotel in the Shahr-E-Naw neighborhood of Kabul.",
"A number of government and United Nations offices are located there, as well as supermarkets, banks, diplomatic facilities and villas for well-to-do Afghans.",
"An employee at a Kabul hospital said eight Indians and one Pakistani were among the dead.",
"Interior Ministry officials said an Italian was killed, and the Indian embassy said four Indians were killed.",
"The attack started with a suicide car bomb and four suicide bombers with explosive-laden vests, said Taliban spokesman Zaidullah Mujahid.",
"Three of the bombers were killed, he said.",
"About 20 minutes later, a second large explosion occurred.",
"Journalist Matiullah Mati and CNN's Ben Wedeman contributed to this report."
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"Police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahman, investigations chief Abdul Ghafar Sayed Zada quit .",
"Both to continue investigation into Friday's deadly blasts that targeted foreigners .",
"Taliban claimed responsibility for attacks near the Safi Landmark Hotel in Kabul ."
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"(CNN) -- IHOP has filed a lawsuit against a church group called the International House of Prayer claiming that the group is illegally using the pancake house's famous acronym.",
"The legal flap started earlier this month when the International House of Pancakes filed the lawsuit in a federal court in California.",
"The Kansas City, Missouri-based church group \"selected and adopted the International House of Prayer name, knowing it would be abbreviated IHOP.",
"IHOP-KC intended to misappropriate the fame and notoriety of the household name IHOP to help promote and make recognizable their religious organization,\" the lawsuit says.",
"Lawyers from the pancake restaurant say the odds are stacked against the church group and provided the court with pages and pages of documentation of websites, newsletters and signs on buildings where the prayer group allegedly used the IHOP acronym.",
"The use of the acronym infringes on the restaurant's trademark, the restaurant contends.",
"So, IHOP, the pancake house, is asking a judge to get IHOP, the church group, to stop using the letters IHOP.",
"The restaurant says it has used the acronym for more than 30 years.",
"As of Thursday, representatives from the International House of Prayer had not filed a response to the lawsuit, according to court documents.",
"The church group started in 1999 in Missouri and now bills itself as 24/7 place for people to come and pray, according to the group's website."
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"IHOP, the pancake house, says church group is infringing on its trademark .",
"The International House of Prayer was founded in 1999 ."
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"(CNN) -- Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo head to the polls on November 28 to pick a president and parliament in the mineral-rich central African nation.",
"This is Congo's second election since 1997, and analysts consider it the nation's true test of democracy.",
"Congo's history .",
"Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960, and soon after Patrice Lumumba was elected the nation's prime minister.",
"Mobutu Sese Seko seized power in a coup five years later and changed the country's name to Zaire.",
"Sese Seko was toppled in a 1997 coup led by Laurent Kabila, who renamed it the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
"Soon after Kabila was assassinated in 2001, his son, Joseph Kabila, assumed power and announced the formation of a U.N.-led transitional government two years later.",
"He won the 2006 election, making this year's poll the second since the toppling of Sese Seko.",
"The 2006 election overseen by the United Nations was considered a bridge to transition from a dictatorship.",
"Analysts say this year's election is the true test of democracy.",
"What happened in the last election?",
"International observers considered the 2006 poll -- the first free election in Congo in about 40 years -- as generally free and fair.",
"There were some clashes between supporters of the two frontrunners, but no major violence was reported.",
"His main rival Jean-Pierre Bemba, who got the second-highest number of votes, disputed the official outcome.",
"What are the expectations for this election?",
"Kabila is hoping to secure another five-year term as the opposition hopes to persuade voters change is overdue.",
"A series of campaigns have been held nationwide, with some media reports of violence during the period.",
"A U.N. report this month said there has been limited freedom of expression during the campaign period, and urged candidates to respect the constitution and citizens' rights.",
"International, regional and national observers will be at polling stations together with political parties and religious leaders to monitor the electoral process, according to the U.N. Opposition leaders and analysts have also expressed concern about the make-up of the electoral commission.",
"Why is Congo important?",
"Congo's success is vital to the Great Lakes region, which has suffered the effects of the violence in the nation.",
"Violence and rapes are widely reported in eastern Congo, including a holiday season mass rape last year that sent shock waves across the international community.",
"The east remains the epicenter of attacks by anti-government militias.",
"The international community has spent massive amounts of money in an effort to stabilize the vast nation.",
"Despite its rich resources, Congo battles violence and poverty.",
"A decade of conflict between government forces and armed militias left millions dead as a result of the fighting, and hunger and diseases.",
"Millions of others have been displaced, and the international community has decried the use of rape as a weapon in the conflict.",
"Congo is rich in resources, including cobalt, gold, copper and tantalum.",
"The international community has set up laws to ensure that companies buying the resources are not helping fund wars in the nation and neighboring countries.",
"The main candidates .",
"Congo has 11 presidential candidates, including the incumbent, according to local media reports.",
"But only a few stand a chance at defeating Kabila, who has maintained an edge amid the divided opposition.Nearly 30 million people are registered to vote, according to the reports.",
"Kabila has been at the helm since 2001, and his greatest advantage in his incumbency and the divided opposition, according to analysts.",
"Challenger Etienne Tshisekedi is hoping to capitalize on the nation's desire for political change, but he was a major player during the Sese Seko dictatorship, which might count against him.",
"Kabila's former aide Vital Kamerhe is also among the contenders.",
"He is largely credited with being instrumental in his 2006 win but broke with Kabila's party a few years later.",
"Sese Seko's son, Francois-Joseph Mobutu, is also among the contenders."
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"This is Congo's second election since 1997 .",
"Incumbent Joseph Kabila is seen as the frontrunner .",
"Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960 ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkey's fiery prime minister ratcheted up rapidly-escalating tensions with Israel on Tuesday, comparing Ankara's once-close ally in the Middle East to a \"spoiled boy\" and announcing additional sanctions would soon be imposed.",
"\"We are completely suspending all of these, trade relations, military relations, related with the defense industry,\" Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, according to the semi-official Anatolian Agency.",
"\"All of these are completely suspended and other measures will follow this process.\"",
"Asked to clarify whether this meant Turkey will halt more than $3 billion in bilateral trade, an official in the Turkish prime ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity under government protocol, insisted Erdogan was not referring to trade relations.",
"\"He was referring to the defense industry,\" the official said.",
"\"Nothing more than the measures that have been announced so far.\"",
"Last week, Turkey declared it was downgrading relations with Israel, suspending all military agreements between the two countries and giving senior Israeli diplomats less than a week to leave Turkish territory.",
"\"If the current steps are regarded as 'plan B,' there will be a 'plan C,'\" Erdogan said on Tuesday in his first public comments on the matter since Ankara imposed sanctions on Israel.",
"Erdogan's government is incensed that Israel refuses to apologize or pay compensation for eight slain Turks and one Turkish-American.",
"The humanitarian workers and activists were shot dead by Israeli commandos in a botched 2010 raid on an aid convoy that was trying to bust Israel's sea blockade of Gaza.",
"But \"Israel does not want to see a further deterioration in the relationship with Turkey,\" said a senior Israeli government official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.",
"\"There have been a number of proposals on the table to prevent a deterioration and unfortunately they have not been successful, but from our point of view a deterioration in the relationship serves neither side's interests.\"",
"Multiple Israeli sources said they are doing what they can to be responsible and reverse the negative dynamic.",
"Some Israeli officials believe the current troubles between the two countries are minor bumps that can be smoothed out with time and the proper diplomacy.",
"Others believe the deteriorating relationship has little to do with Israel and more to do with a reorientation of Turkish foreign policy towards the Muslim world.",
"A possible Erdogan trip to Gaza is contributing to that school of thought.",
"Diplomats in Cairo and Ankara tell CNN that Erdogan is tentatively scheduled to visit Cairo next week.",
"There is growing speculation in local media that the Turkish prime minister may try to visit Gaza via Egypt's Rafah border crossing.",
"\"This is a process that will continue until the last moment,\" Erdogan said Tuesday, according to Anatolian, when asked about a trip to Gaza.",
"\"We will make the final decision there, talking to our Egyptian friends and brothers.",
"According to that, there may be a trip to Gaza.\"",
"Despite deteriorating political relations between Jerusalem and Ankara, trade has grown substantially between the two countries over the last year, according to Turkish government statistics.",
"On Monday, Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel, gave a speech in which he highlighted the importance of Israel's economic ties with Turkey.",
"He noted that Turkey's economy was the largest in the region, with a gross domestic product in excess of $700 billion, and that Turkey is becoming a key player in regional trade.",
"Turkey is a significant Israeli trading partner, Fischer said, and damage to the trade relationship between the two countries could have serious consequences for Israel.",
"Yigal Schleifer, Washington-based editor at Eurasianet and expert on Turkish-Israeli relations, argues the Middle Eastern \"outsider\" status that once drew Turkey and Israel together into an alliance during the 1990s has changed, as Turkey has grown economically and established closer political ties with Arab neighbors.",
"\"The paths have diverged,\" Schleifer said.",
"\"What you have left is two countries with different visions currently for their position in the region.",
"So Turkey wants to build a more unified region with more open borders that ultimately helps trade and ultimately helps Turkey see itself as a regional leader.",
"Israel sees itself as isolated in the region, increasingly threatened and increasingly concerned with security issues.\"",
"Prior to the report about Erdogan's comments Tuesday, Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli defense official, told Israeli radio that despite the reports, Turkey is not disengaging from Israel.",
"Contrary to what is being reported, he said, the Israeli military attache to Turkey is continuing his work there.",
"CNN's Watson and Comert reported from Istanbul; Flower reported from Jerusalem.",
"Journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy in Cairo contributed to this report."
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"Tensions between the two countries are rising .",
"An official says trade relations will not be suspended .",
"The tension stems from a 2010 raid on a Gaza aid convoy .",
"Israel says it does not want a further deterioration of relations with Turkey ."
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"London (CNN) -- British government ministers secretly advised Libya on how to get convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi released from a life sentence in a Scottish prison, American documents published by WikiLeaks allege.",
"A Foreign Office official explained to the Libyans how to apply for compassionate release for Megrahi after he was diagnosed with cancer, according to an October 2008 U.S. Embassy cable newly published by WikiLeaks.",
"The British government believed Scotland would be inclined to grant the bomber compassionate release, the cable says.",
"Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270, was released in 2009.",
"He is now living in Libya.",
"Then-Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell wrote to Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulati al-Obeidi in October 2008 to explain how to apply for compassionate release, a British official told the U.S. Embassy in London, the cable says.",
"The Foreign Office in London and the office of Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond in Edinburgh did not respond immediately to CNN requests for comment.",
"The British government has always said it was not its decision whether or not to release Megrahi, but that of the Scottish authorities because the bomber was imprisoned in Scotland.",
"Scotland has some control over its own affairs, including justice, but London runs British foreign policy.",
"Some American senators, led by New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, have been furious about Megrahi's release.",
"They said in a report in December that his medical condition did not justify setting him free.",
"The leaked U.S. Embassy cable says Megrahi had been diagnosed with inoperable cancer and that the average life expectancy for someone with his condition was 18 months to two years.",
"It noted that he could have as long as five years to live.",
"The October 2008 American cable is broadly consistent with hundreds of documents about the case declassified by Scotland after Megrahi was released in August 2009.",
"Those documents and American diplomatic cables published earlier by WikiLeaks show that Libya was determined to win the release of Megrahi, warning London that it would react badly if the bomber died in jail.",
"The British have consistently denied that commercial considerations -- such as oil giant BP's desire to drill in Libya -- played a role in Megrahi's release."
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"NEW: The British Foreign Office has no immediate comment .",
"London believed Scotland would free Megrahi on compassionate grounds, a cable says .",
"He's the only person convicted in the Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 270 people ."
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"(CNN) -- Shaquille O'Neal filed a motion Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit in which a former worker accuses the NBA star of hacking into his personal accounts and attempting to frame him for using child porn.",
"Shawn Darling, who was O'Neal's personal computer consultant from 2008 to 2009, said the NBA center acted in retaliation because Darling had proof that O'Neal cheated on his wife with several women.",
"But O'Neal's lawyer claims in the motion that Darling illegally obtained the supposedly incriminating e-mails, text messages and voice mails to support his \"baseless\" lawsuit in an effort to \"extort\" O'Neal and sully his name.",
"\"Darling reveals his true intent and methodology in using the stolen material,\" O'Neal's Miami-based lawyer, Benjamine Reid, writes in the motion.",
"\"The Complaint's rambling, unsupported allegations, through which Darling alleges that he possesses substantial knowledge that would harm the Defendant both in a separate and unrelated lawsuit, as well as in the public eye at large, render Darling's nefarious motive clear.\"",
"The 13-page response, filed Thursday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, also argues that Darling's claims of privacy invasion, racketeering and intentional infliction of emotional distress are unsupported by any legal theory.",
"\"Even if everything he was saying were true, we believe there is no basis in the law to bring the case,\" Reid told CNN Thursday.",
"\"But in this case, none of it's true.\"",
"The salacious 15-page complaint describes O'Neal's alleged dealings with three women and his ex-wife, whom he was divorcing at the time.",
"Darling claims he was drawn into O'Neal's tangled affairs as a computer consultant, eventually acquiring enough information to make him a liability that O'Neal then sought to have arrested, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in August and reported Wednesday for the first time on RadarOnline.com.",
"Reid said the lawsuit came about after O'Neal refused to pay Darling $12 million in return for copies of physical and electronic files that Darling, a convicted felon, stole from O'Neal while he was working for him.",
"Darling's lawyer, however, said the e-mails, texts and pictures in his possession came from accounts in Darling's name that O'Neal asked him to set up for him to use to contact his various mistresses.",
"When O'Neal realized the damning nature of the evidence Darling had, he began working with associates and contacts in law enforcement to have Darling arrested for possessing child porn on his computer, Darling's attorney, Menachem Mayberg said.",
"Darling filed the lawsuit out of a real fear that O'Neal would act on his alleged plans, the lawyer said.",
"\"I don't need anyone to take my client's word for it.",
"I have the evidence: Text messages from Shaq, e-mails complaining about how my client is going to ruin him, \" Mayberg said Wednesday.",
"\"Anyone who says the evidence is not there, he'll eat those words.\"",
"O'Neal, who this summer signed with the Boston Celtics, employed Darling while O'Neal lived primarily in Miami.",
"During that time, Darling performed various odd jobs that gave him access to O'Neal's e-mail and cell phone accounts, the complaint states.",
"Darling's lawyer claims he was hired as an independent contractor for the specific purpose of helping him retrace all the e-mails and texts he'd sent to Alexis Miller, a woman who claimed to have a relationship with O'Neal, and who'd accused him of harassment.",
"\"In the end, my client couldn't get AOL to give him all the information from [O'Neal's] account without getting lawyers involved,\" Mayberg said.",
"\"After that, Shaq used my client and his personal property to send text messages and e-mails to contact his mistresses.\"",
"The lawsuit contains allegations that O'Neal used law enforcement contacts to obtain information about Alexis Miller, and that he hacked into a phone belonging to Vanessa Lopez, erasing messages and changing her password.",
"The lawsuit also accuses O'Neal and an associate of throwing his computer into a lake after Darling performed a \" 'Defense Department' type wipe\" of the computer.",
"Darling also claims that O'Neal believes he has pictures of him with Dominica Westling.",
"As a result, the lawsuit alleges, O'Neal has attempted to \"control\" Darling's actions through threats of violence and attempts to frame him for possession of child pornography and to have him arrested using O'Neal's extensive law enforcement contacts.",
"\"O'Neal knows that Darling not only has knowledge of his bad acts that might be used against him in litigation, but O'Neal also knows that Darling has evidence that shows he cheated on his former wife [Shaunie O'Neal] with many more people than just Vanessa Lopez,\" the lawsuit states.",
"\"Darling is in apprehension and fears for his safety,\" the lawsuit says.",
"O'Neal's lawyer issued a statement after the lawsuit was reported on Wednesday that described Darling as an ex-con who has served time in a federal prison in Wisconsin for misusing Social Security numbers, and said Darling failed to disclose the prison record to O'Neal.",
"An online inmate search of the Federal Bureau of Prisons showed that a man named Shawn Darling was released on March 22, 2002.",
"Darling's lawyer acknowledged his criminal history.",
"\"But that doesn't make him liar,\" he said.",
"O'Neal's lawyer, however, said the case would come down to credibility of the parties involved.",
"Reid said Darling used his position to copy O'Neal's e-mails and communications.",
"Over the past 12 months and through three separate lawyers, he has demanded $12 million for their return, Reid said.",
"When O'Neal refused to cooperate with Darling, he filed the lawsuit, Reid said.",
"The complaint seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial.",
"\"It doesn't take much to file a suit and unfortunately, this seems pretty common in our society.",
"People target celebrities,\" he said."
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"NEW: Shaquille O'Neal files motion to dismiss privacy invasion lawsuit .",
"Former computer consultant says he has proof of O'Neal's affairs .",
"Shawn Darling says the NBA star tried to have him arrested, stole his personal data .",
"Lawyer says Darling copied O'Neal's e-mails, demanded money in exchange for them ."
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"Bogota, Colombia (CNN) -- Members of a Colombian leftist rebel group released two more longtime prisoners Wednesday afternoon, bringing the total released since February 9 to six, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.",
"The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the Spanish acronym FARC, freed Police Maj. Guillermo Solorzano and Army Cpl.",
"Salin Antonio Sanmiguel Valderrama on Wednesday afternoon in a rural area located in the departments of Cauca and Valley of the Cauca in southwest Colombia, the Red Cross said in a news release.",
"Solorzano had spent three years and eight months in captivity; Sanmiguel had been held for two years and eight months, it said.",
"Both men were handed over to former Sen. Piedad Cordoba, ICRC representatives and a member of the group Colombian Men and Women for Peace, the Red Cross said.",
"The freed men were being taken to the city of Cali in a helicopter donated by the government of Brazil.",
"From there, they were to travel to Bogota to reunite with their families.",
"\"It pleases us that the relatives can be with their loved ones whom they have been waiting for for a long time,\" said Christophe Beney, the International Red Cross's chief in Colombia.",
"\"We are very satisfied that, in the end, the agreements assumed by the sides, as much by the Colombian government as by the FARC, have been carried out.\"",
"With the handover, the number of people freed by the FARC since February 9 rises to six, the Red Cross said.",
"The releases came three days after an initial attempt to retrieve the hostages failed when coordinates for their location proved to be inaccurate.",
"Solorzano, Sanmiguel, and police patrolman Carlos Alberto Ocampo were to have be released Sunday, but only Ocampo was freed.",
"Colombian authorities were upset at what they said were wrong coordinates given by the Marxist guerrilla group.",
"In December, the FARC pledged to release five hostages as a humanitarian gesture.",
"Wednesday's releases surpassed that number by one.",
"Some have suggested the hostage releases could fuel renewed negotiations between Colombia's government and the rebels.",
"One of the freed hostages called for dialogue between the government and insurgents.",
"\"Humanitarian exchange is the first step toward a friendly understanding, which permits the return of our brothers deprived of their liberty,\" politician Armando Acuna said last week after his release.",
"But Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has sharply criticized the FARC, accusing the group of having a \"double standard\" and creating an \"absurd media show\" in order to draw sympathy to its cause.",
"He said last week that he was tempted to call off the rescue mission after learning that two workers from the Carton de Colombia company had been kidnapped the night before in southwestern Colombia."
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"The two men were released in southwestern Colombia .",
"They are being taken by helicopter to be reunited with their families .",
"FARC's releases bring to six the number of hostages freed since February 9 ."
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"(Mashable) -- There's no denying that Facebook has had an impact on the way the younger set flirt, fall in love and break up.",
"Now, Seventeen magazine has released a study that depicts just what kind of repercussions the social networking site has had on modern courtship.",
"\"Teens are incredibly social, and Facebook plays a huge role in their love lives,\" says Ann Shoket, editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine.",
"According to the study -- which polled 10,000 guys and girls ages 16 to 21 -- Facebook plays an important part in how amorous teens make a connection.",
"Within one week of meeting a new person, 79 percent of people click \"friend,\" and after adding a new friend; 60 percent of people stalk their crush's profile once a day (40 percent check in on their would-be soulmate several times a day).",
"Moreover, contrary to beliefs that social networking is erroding interpersonal communication, 72 percent of those surveyed said that talking to someone online brings you closer to them IRL.",
"As we have already seen in other studies, Facebook also plays a role in how we fall out of love.",
"Mashable writer Samuel Axon wrote a detailed feature about how Facebook has changed dating for the worse, Facebook dating app AreYouInterested released a study in which 21 percent of respondents said they would break up with someone via changing their statuses, and, most recently, infographic wizard David McCandless came out with a chart that shows popular breakup periods by way of status updates.",
"Seventeen, for its part, reports that 10 percent of people have been dumped over Facebook, and the same number would just change their relationship status to \"single\" to cut a lover loose.",
"The report also depicts the anguish the site can cause after a breakup, citing that 27 percent of people change their connection to their exes after a breakup via blocking (getEx-Blocker for that extra push), hiding him or her on the News Feed or unfriending.",
"Surprisingly, 73 percent of people keep their exes in the friends list.",
"I'd like to see some stats on how many of those 73 percent stalk said ex after the breakup.",
"A couple of other interesting tidbits from the study: .",
"Girls are more judgmental: 43 percent of girls would decide not to date someone based on their Facebook profile, compared to 33 percent of guys.",
"Guys are more likely to keep relationship statuses under wraps: 17 percent of guys don't share their status, compared to 12 percent of girls.",
"Girls think it's exciting to change their relationship status: 50 percent of girls get a kick out of the status change -- one-third of guys agree; 24 percent of guys find it unnecessary, compared to 17 percent of girls.",
"What do you think? Has Facebook affected your love life?",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Seventeen magazine has released a study on Facebook and modern courtship .",
"The study reports 10 percent of people have been dumped over Facebook .",
"Surprisingly, 73 percent of people keep their exes in the friends list ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Thirteen people were killed and 90 wounded in clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Cairo, state-run Egyptian television reported Wednesday.",
"The clashes broke out Tuesday after Copts took to the streets to protest last week's burning of a church.",
"Earlier, Egypt's health minister, Dr. Ashraf Hatem, said the death toll was at nine.",
"Coptic Church spokesman Father Abdelmaseeh Baseet reported six deaths previously Wednesday and said all the victims were Christians.",
"The Egyptian military has launched an investigation into the violence, said Mohamed Askar, armed services spokesman.",
"Those involved in \"the incitement of sectarian hatred or involved in the acts of violence\" will be held accountable \"to the full extent of the law,\" he said.",
"A feud between a Muslim and a Coptic family is said to have led to the church burning in Helwan province last week.",
"In recent weeks, tensions have been high between Egypt's Muslim majority and its Coptic minority.",
"A Coptic church in the town of Alexandria was bombed on New Year's Day, killing 23 people.",
"The Palestinian Islamic Army, which has links to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for what was the deadliest attack on Christians in Egypt in some time -- but far from the only one.",
"Ten days later, a gunman killed a Christian man and wounded five other Christians on a train in Egypt.",
"Also in January, a man was sentenced for his part in an attack on another Coptic church a year ago, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported.",
"About 9% of Egypt's 80 million residents are Coptic Christians.",
"They base their theology on the teachings of the Apostle Mark, who introduced Christianity to Egypt, according to St. Takla Church in Alexandria, the capital of Coptic Christianity.",
"The religion split with other Christians in the fifth century over the definition of the divinity of Jesus Christ."
] | [
"NEW: The death toll is at 13, according to state-run television .",
"The Egyptian military is launching an investigation .",
"Egypt's health minister says 90 were wounded .",
"The clashes break out after Copts protest a church burning ."
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"(CNN) -- One video showed the tiny face of the slain girl wrapped in a shroud.",
"Someone pulled back a bandage to show her bloodied right eye.",
"Her mouth was frozen, slightly ajar.",
"Her vacant face and lifeless head conjured the image of an alabaster bust.",
"Another more gruesome video showed the girl before she was cleaned for burial.",
"She lay sprawled on a pavement, bloodied and disheveled, like a crime victim caught in a tabloid snapshot.",
"The images surfaced Sunday and Monday in Syria, where more than 2,000 people have died in five months of bloody conflict between security forces and anti-government demonstrators.",
"The victim was O'laa Jablawi, a 2 1/2-year-old girl from the besieged port city of Latakia, shot in the eye and killed when she and her parents attempted to flee the besieged city on Sunday in a car that came under fire, activists said.",
"They were among those who fled as security forces cracked down on al-Ramel, a Latakia neighborhood that has been the center of anti-government demonstrations.",
"Syrian security forces told residents to get out during the military offensive, which occurred by sea as well as land.",
"According to human rights activists and anti-government protesters, that's exactly what the girls' parents tried to do -- flee.",
"Activists said she was shot by security forces.",
"The Syrian government has yet to comment.",
"The activists believe her father was shot in the shoulder and possibly detained.",
"The mother's fate is unknown.",
"On one video, a voice shrieks, \"She's just a child.",
"He killed her, the evil Bashar al-Assad,\" a reference to the nation's president.",
"On another, a voice says, \"Look, these are Bashar al-Assad's reforms.\"",
"CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the videos and the reports about them, so it is very difficult to find out how the child died.",
"The United Nations, global leaders, and human rights organizations all have urged the Syrian government to allow humanitarian workers, U.N. representatives and the media access to the country.",
"Those pleas have had no effect.",
"But the videos are the latest in a series of grisly and disturbing images to emerge from the country.",
"Protesters consistently say the government is responsible for the conflict and bloodshed.",
"Syria has consistently blamed the violence in the country on armed gangs.",
"Nevertheless, O'laa was an innocent, caught in the crossfire of an intensifying battle between those calling for freedom and a regime intent on staying in power.",
"Back in May, the U.N. Children's Fund, or UNICEF called on the government to spare civilians, particularly women and children, amid reports of youthful casualties.",
"\"While UNICEF cannot verify the reported cases and events, we are particularly disturbed by the recent video images of children who were arbitrarily detained and suffered torture or ill-treatment during their detention, leading in some cases to their death,\" the agency said.",
"Asked for an update, a UNICEF spokesman said there is \"nothing really to add\" from the May statement.",
"Arwa Damon reported from Beirut, Lebanon; Joe Sterling reported from Atlanta."
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"The girl was killed in Latakia, activists say .",
"She and her parents were trying to leave the city, activists say .",
"Many children have been victims of the Syrian conflict ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Which is scarier?",
"Letting Greece go bankrupt?",
"Or saving Greece from bankruptcy?",
"If you're a European businessman or banker, the answer is obvious: Bankruptcy is scarier.",
"If Greece cannot pay its debts, Greece will likely quit the euro.",
"By quitting the euro, Greece would regain the power to print its own money and inflate its way out of its debt.",
"Now think what that would mean for your business.",
"If Greece quit the euro, people would begin to worry: Who's next?",
"Will Portugal quit?",
"Spain? Italy? France? Do you own a 1000 euro deposit in a Spanish bank?",
"Tomorrow that account could be denominated in new pesetas, at who knows what exchange rate.",
"Better cash out today.",
"Likewise: Better sell your Portuguese and Italian bonds -- not only government bonds, but bonds issued by any agency sponsored by government: water, electricity, transit authorities, and so on.",
"A Greek default would trigger, in effect, a bank run on every governmental institution in southern Europe, the biggest bank run perhaps in the history of the world, bigger even than the run triggered by the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.",
"As I said: scary.",
"But now think like a politician.",
"It's been obvious for some time now what has to be done to avert the bank run: a European Super TARP, a version of the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was used to bail out Wall Street in 2008 .",
"The European Union will have to assume responsibility for the debt of southern European countries.",
"In return, the EU will have to take control of the finances of those countries -- cutting their spending and raising their taxes.",
"The debt assumed by the EU will have to be serviced somehow.",
"That means the EU will need its own revenue stream sufficient to pay for and ultimately retire the southern European debt.",
"In other words, what we're looking at is: .",
"-- A transfer of Greek and other southern European debt to all the people of Europe.",
"-- Big government spending cuts especially in southern Europe, but also everywhere else.",
"-- Higher taxes everywhere to support the southern European debt.",
"-- All of it imposed by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.",
"How'd you like to be the politician who has to explain that to the voters of Bavaria?",
"So now you see why action is so slow.",
"The trouble is, the longer the action takes, the more expensive it gets -- and the less likely the action is to be successful.",
"If the action comes early and if it is decisive and orderly, then it may be possible to force creditors to eat some of their losses.",
"But in a panic, governments will not have time or leeway to negotiate.",
"They'll face a starker alternative: pay in full or default, the same stark alternative the United States faced back in the fall of 2008, which led to unappealing actors such as Goldman Sachs being made whole in backroom deals at the expense of the taxpaying public.",
"And if markets get the idea that the politicians of northern Europe will flinch from the Super TARP, then the bank run could start very fast.",
"Last week, the German parliament voted 440 billion euros in bailout funds.",
"(That's almost $542 billion in U.S.",
"dollars.) Bigger would have been better.",
"The supreme need is to overwhelm the problem -- to show markets that the resources are at hand to pay all obligations -- and thus to gain credibility for tough negotiations so that lenders bear some of the costs of rescue.",
"Americans had better hope that these negotiations succeed, because it's very doubtful that the United States can avoid being dragged into an emergency euro rescue.",
"In 2008, we worried about banks that were too big to fail.",
"In 2011, we have to worry about countries that are too big to be saved by European action alone.",
"If the crisis comes, it will require funds from the International Monetary Fund and very possibly the U.S. Treasury too, like Mexico in 1994 only much, much bigger.",
"And remember how popular that was with the Congress.",
"Better to anticipate -- and to prevent.",
"Act big. Act fast. Act now. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
] | [
"David Frum: If Greece defaults, all of Europe's debts would be suspect .",
"He says the U.S. could be forced to participate in rescuing Europe's finances .",
"Europe's leaders need to take unpopular, dramatic steps to bail out the south, he says .",
"The sooner and bigger the bailout, the better, Frum says ."
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"(CNN) -- A children's show host who was born with one hand is facing criticism from parents over her disability.",
"The BBC is receiving complaints about kids' show host Cerrie Burnell, who was born with one hand.",
"BBC spokeswoman Katya Mira said the corporation has received at least 25 \"official\" complaints recently about Cerrie Burnell, new host of two shows on the BBC-run CBeebies television network, which is aimed at children younger than 6.",
"The official complaints do not count the dozens of negative comments lodged in Internet chat rooms, Mira said.",
"In one chat room, a father lamented that Burnell being on the show forced him to have conversations with his child about disabilities.",
"However, there have also been messages of support for Burnell.",
"What do you think about the complaints?",
"\"We have also received 99 appreciations of her,\" Mira said.",
"Burnell started as a presenter of the shows in late January after acting with theater companies in Manchester, England, and Brazil.",
"A BBC news release in January introducing Burnell made no mention of her disability, but a publicity photo showed the right sleeve of her sweater pulled up, showing her arm stops just below her elbow.",
"The issue has spurred a debate in England among newspapers, columnists and bloggers.",
"Burnell said she has heard the criticism and will not let it bother her.",
"'It can only be a good thing that parents are using me as a chance to talk disability with their children.",
"It just goes to show how important it is to have positive, disabled role models on CBeebies and television in general,\" Burnell said.",
"Michael Carrington, BBC controller of CBeebies, said the company is standing by Burnell.",
"\"Cerrie is warm and natural and we think that, in time, all moms and dads and children will love her as much as we do,\" Carrington said."
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"BBC says it is receiving complaints about TV host Cerrie Burnell .",
"Some say Burnell, who was born with one hand, is scaring children .",
"Burnell says she won't let criticism bother her ."
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities have arrested a 78-year-old man on charges he killed a woman he believed was a witch who had put a spell on him.",
"Santiago Iniguez Olivares is accused of bludgeoning Modesta Navarro Nieves and her husband at their home in the mountainous Guadalupe del Cobre community in April 1998, the Michoacan state attorney general's office said Thursday.",
"The husband survived.",
"Olivares had been on the run until recently, when he returned to Guadalupe del Cobre because he thought the 11-year-old murder had been forgotten, the attorney general's office said.",
"Authorities arrested him while he was walking to a bus station, the Apatzingan Valley Information Agency said on its Web site.",
"According to officials, Iniguez Olivares went into the woman's home, accused her of putting a witch's spell on him and started to beat her with a stick.",
"The woman's husband then came home and Iniguez Olivares turned the club on him before fleeing, the attorney general's office said in a release.",
"Guadalupe del Cobre is a remote village in western Mexico.",
"This is second case in 18 months involving the slaying of someone accused of witchcraft.",
"Authorities arrested a woman in June 2008 in central Mexico on charges that she had killed another woman for similar reasons, La Voz de Michoacan newspaper said."
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"Santiago Iniguez Olivares accused of bludgeoning Modesta Navarro Nieves because he thought she put a spell on him .",
"Olivares had been on the run until recently, when he returned to the area because he thought murder had been forgotten .",
"Authorities arrested a woman in June 2008 in central Mexico on charges she had killed another woman for similar reasons ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- In China -- home of manufacturing companies central to global production of Apple iPhones and iPads -- the death of Steve Jobs' death brought immediate reaction from Chinese netizens and captains of industry.",
"\"When I head the news, I could not hold back my tears,\" wrote Yu Minghong, founder and CEO of New Oriental Education, one of the largest private education service provider in China.",
"\"Because of him, the world has become different.",
"Because of him, the boring world has become alive, the glum world has become creative, because of him a drab world has become colorful.\"",
"Inside four hours of the announcement, nearly 35 million messages on Sina Weibo on Jobs' death and 23 million messages of Tencent QQ Weibo, China's first and second largest microblogging sites.",
"Jobs revolutionized tech industry .",
"\"Jobs is the spiritual leader of our time,\" wrote @Xiongpeiyun on Sina Weibo.",
"\"I like Steve Jobs more than I like Apple.",
"It's a huge loss for the whole world.",
"But his life was complete because he had been looking for and found what he loved.",
"I haven't committed whole heartedly to my life like Jobs had been doing.",
"So, next to him, I feel more ashamed than being sad.\"",
"Wrote @ QUENTIN_SHIH: \"Only those who are so crazy as to think they can change the world can truly change the world.\"",
"\"Certainly Apple has achieved cult-like status amongst young, urban Chinese consumers,\" said Duncan Clark, chairman and founder of BDA, a Beijing consultancy company focused on telecom, media and technology sectors.",
"\"Beyond the general public there is a vast, aspiring entrepreneurial class particular focused on understanding what makes successful business people like Steve Jobs tick.\"",
"To be sure, Apple's relationship with China is complicated.",
"The revelation in recent months that as many as 22 fake Apple stores had cropped around China set new standards for piracy -- even in a nation known for counterfeit technology.",
"\"The fact that Apple stores, not just its products themselves, have been copied, shows that it is not just about hardware.",
"The whole Apple experience is something that consumers aspire to,\" Clark said.",
"\"The world has lost a true hero and I have lost a friend whose dedication to his company, his customers, and our industry is reflected in the fact that he continued to work while dealing with such a devastating illness,\" said Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, a leading manufacturing partner of Apple with 800,000 employees in China.",
"\"Steve's spirit will live on forever with those who, like me, had the honor to know and work with him,\" Gou said.",
"\"However, everyone has been touched by his genius and, because of this, he has left the world a better place.",
"He will be missed, but never forgotten.\"",
"Yang Yuanqing, the CEO of China's computer powerhouse Lenovo, said, \"As a competitor, he helped ensure all of us pushed even harder.",
"I am confident his legacy will continue to energize the industry for many years to come.\"",
"\"Jobs said, 'Remember that you will be dead soon',\" said Lee Kaifu, venture capitalist and founding president of Google China, referring to Jobs' famous 2005 Stanford University commencement speech.",
"\"It helped me through making the most important choices in my life.",
"Because all the glory and pride, embarrassment and fear will all vanish when confronting death.",
"What I see that's left with me is the truly crucial one.",
"When you are worried that you will lose something, 'Remember that you will be dead soon' is the best remedy.",
"If you can empty yourself, you have every reason to follow your heart.\"",
"In Hong Kong, admirers plan an \"i-Vigil\" for Jobs -- using iPhones with a flickering candle app -- outside the city's Apple store, which opened less than two weeks ago.",
"\"People have different ways of dealing with it,\" says organizer Casey Lau on the loss of Jobs.",
"\"As a fan and as a user, I think (the reaction is) a little bit crazy but it's a good idea to go out and pay our respects.\"",
"CNN's Kristie LuStout and Alexis Lai contributed to this report."
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"Many of the world's Apple iPads and iPhones are assembled in China .",
"Millions of messages were posted on microblogging sites following his death .",
"Apple's relationship with China is complicated, including revelations of fake Apple stores ."
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"(CNN) -- Mikey Welsh, most famously known as the bassist for the rock band Weezer, died unexpectedly Saturday, according to the band.",
"He was 40. The cause of death was not immediately known.",
"Darryl Baety, a Chicago police spokesman, said that officers responded at 1:45 p.m. Saturday to a call from the Raffaello Hotel regarding a guest who had been scheduled to check out, but had not.",
"After first knocking on the door, hotel personnel entered and found someone who was \"unresponsive and not breathing,\" according to Baety.",
"Police are conducting a death investigation related to the case, pending autopsy results, Baety said.",
"According to Welsh's official website, he was a painter before he made the the shift to music at age 19.",
"A decade later, he had achieved fame as the bassist for the band Weezer, replacing the band's longtime bassist Matt Sharp.",
"Welsh was part of the band's 2001 \"Green Album\" release, which featured \"Hash Pipe.\"",
"The single became one of the band's biggest hits, peaking at No.",
"2 on Billboard's Alternative songs chart.",
"Welsh left the band shortly after, saying he had suffered a nervous breakdown.",
"The band remembered Welsh as vital chapter to their history and one to never \"shy away from the absurd, dangerous or strange,\" according to a statement on Weezer's website.",
"Weezer played as scheduled Sunday during Chicago's RIOTfest.",
"CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report."
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"Chicago police found an \"unresponsive\" man in a hotel, a spokesman says .",
"Mikey Welsh was a painter before becoming a musician .",
"He replaced Weezer's longtime bassist Matt Sharp, then left the band in 2001 ."
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"(CNN) -- The stepfather of a missing Maryland boy was charged Thursday with first-degree murder after the boy's mother was found dead, police said.",
"Curtis Lopez, 45, was arrested Thursday morning in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a warrant was issued, said Chief Tom Manger of the Montgomery County, Maryland, police.",
"An Amber Alert has been issued for the boy, 11-year-old William McQuain, who remains missing, police said.",
"Homicide detectives from Montgomery County were on their way to Charlotte on Thursday.",
"\"Our focus and our priority now is locating William McQuain,\" Manger told reporters Thursday.",
"He held up two pictures of the sixth-grader, one a class picture and the other showing him in a baseball uniform.",
"The case began Wednesday afternoon when a friend of the boy's mother reported her missing, saying he had not seen her for about two weeks and that he was concerned for her welfare, Manger said.",
"Police learned her son had not been in school since Sept. 30.",
"When detectives arrived at the woman's home in Germantown, they found Jane McQuain, 51, dead in her bedroom with evidence of trauma to her upper body, Manger said.",
"Her son was not there and the woman's vehicle, a Honda CRV, was gone.",
"Lopez was McQuain's husband and had been known to frequent her residence but did not appear to live there, Manger said.",
"Witnesses told police they saw him recently at the home, removing property and loading it into McQuain's Honda, he said.",
"The car was found Thursday morning, but police would not reveal where.",
"Detectives contacted Lopez on Wednesday night, before they found McQuain's body, Manger said.",
"Once the body was found and the case was ruled a homicide, Lopez, based on his inconsistent statements, became a person of interest, he said.",
"\"We were hoping that we would find (William) with Mr. Lopez and we did not, so we are asking for the public's help in locating 11-year-old William McQuain,\" Manger said.",
"\"My hope is that he may be with a family member or a friend that perhaps has no idea what's occurred with his mother, but as time goes on it becomes, I guess, more and more of a long shot that that's the case,\" he said.",
"Jane McQuain was probably dead for 10 to 12 days before police found her, Manger said.",
"Police believe Lopez may have had a residence in North Carolina, Capt.",
"Paul Starks of the Montgomery County police told CNN, but they have few other details linking him to the area.",
"William McQuain is described as a light-skinned African-American, about 5 feet tall and weighing about 85 pounds.",
"Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to call 911, police said.",
"CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report."
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"Amber Alert has been issued for William McQuain, 11 .",
"The sixth-grader was last seen at school September 30 .",
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"(CNN) -- Talk with two people who have been to Marrakech and you'll get very different views on what a trip there is like.",
"One person will speak of the allure of wandering through a warren of market streets; the other will complain of getting lost over and over again.",
"One will tell you that people there are among the friendliest they've met, if you can meet them halfway on the language.",
"The other will say that the locals are only out to make money and not even directions are free.",
"The food is exotic yet easy on the palate, or restaurants serve up bland clichés that still manage to turn you inside out.",
"And they would both be correct.",
"Bottom line: Marrakech is not for the timid traveler.",
"My wife and I visited last November.",
"We had heard it had much of what we look for in a travel destination: Centuries of history coupled with a very modern vibe.",
"The city has a European feel, from the brand-name stores to the widespread use of French as a second or third language.",
"The crowded souks and calls to prayer from the mosque minarets are what you would find at the heart of a Middle Eastern country.",
"It is the outline of the High Atlas Mountains that reminds you that this is North Africa.",
"Share your Morocco tips and photos .",
"The city's origins stretch back to the 11th century.",
"Back then Marrakech was a key trading route with sub-Saharan cities.",
"And like other hubs -- Bruges as a European port, Samarkand on the Silk Road -- Marrakech had its golden epoch before falling from favor.",
"The result is that parts of the city within the rose-colored walls and imposing gates surrounding the medina, or Old City, have a sense of being frozen in time.",
"The massive Jemaa el Fna is likely to be the focal point of your time in Marrakech, both as a destination and as a much-needed reference point.",
"It is one of Africa's largest squares, and as long as the city has existed it has been a place where storytellers, musicians, healers and just about everyone else has gathered.",
"During the day you can't walk through it without some snake charmer or henna tattoo artist offering to make your stay more memorable.",
"At night, they push aside to make way for innumerable food stalls offering as genuine a selection of Moroccan cuisine as you'll find at any restaurant.",
"Grills sizzle beneath tiny merguez sausages and fish and skewers of vegetables.",
"For the more adventurous, there is boiled goat head or bowls of snails.",
"More than once we were brought food that we didn't order, like the deep red harira soup and a basket of bread, maybe some fresh olives.",
"We paid for it anyway, and frankly, it was worth it.",
"It exposed us to foods we may not have tried otherwise.",
"Just plan on paying a bit more than you might have expected.",
"Later, you'll walk it off as you wander amid the chaos, moving to incessant drum beats and chants, trying your best to take it all in.",
"Just north of the Jemaa el Fna you'll find the myriad alleyways of the Marrakech souk, or traditional market quarter.",
"No map will help you navigate these passages; just accept that you are going to get lost and enjoy yourself along the way.",
"While souvenir stalls are everywhere, you can still find shops selling items of remarkable craftsmanship that reflect local designs -- whether it is in the intricate patterns and colored glass of the hanging lamps, or leather goods from the tannery in another part of the city.",
"And trust me, the shop owners are always ready to make a deal.",
"Make eye contact with a market trader, and before you know it you're haggling over the price of something that you may or may not need, but will provide a terrific story when you get back home.",
"Nothing here has a set price, and shopkeepers can be aggressive when they think you are interested in something.",
"But no trip to Marrakech would be complete without trying your hand at negotiating.",
"At some point you realize that the hardest thing about visiting Marrakech is that you are usually moving at someone else's pace.",
"The streets of the souk are jammed with people who are either jostling to get past you or quite content standing in your way.",
"You and the other pedestrians will be on the lookout for young people on motorbikes heading in both directions.",
"And everyone will try to maneuver around donkey-pulled carts.",
"But anywhere you go -- and this is what makes a trip to Marrakech so special -- is an assault on the senses.",
"It could be the vibrant colors of the shops selling mounds of rich spices or hand-tied rugs, the smell of food cooking, the press of the crowd, or the calls of the souk.",
"When all the bustle gets to be too much, there are plenty of sites that give you a chance to relax.",
"South of the Jemaa el Fna stands the 19th century Bahia Palace and gardens, originally built for a high-ranking official and his concubines.",
"You won't find a palace in the sense of Versailles or the Hofburg.",
"Instead, you'll meander through a series of rooms with little more than lavishly decorated floors, walls and ceilings, leading to courtyards with fruit trees and fountains.",
"We walked through the palace on our own, though I suspect a proper tour could be organized.",
"The Ben Youssef Medersa, a former boarding school where for hundreds of years young men studied the Quran, will amaze you with its intricate stucco and cedar carvings.",
"Or just sit in the shadow of the Koutoubia Mosque minaret, an important example of the region's Islamic architecture.",
"Or simply hop on one of the tour buses at the far end of Jemaa el Fna and check out Marrakech's modern Gueliz district.",
"Staying in Marrakech is best experienced at a riad, a traditional Moroccan home built around a central courtyard.",
"The whole idea was originally to create as private a dwelling as possible, so even finding the entrance to one can be a challenge (always ask your hosts if someone can meet you, if not at the airport, at least at the edge of the Old City to get you there).",
"The best have only a few rooms, each uniquely decorated and appointed.",
"Your hosts will be more than ready to offer suggestions on where to eat, what to see, or just to offer a soothing cup of tea on the rooftop terrace.",
"Soothing tea aside, when you get back from Marrakech, don't expect to feel relaxed.",
"Exhausted is more like it.",
"You will have navigated more alleyways, gotten lost more times and told more people \"no, thank you\" for one reason or another than you should on a vacation.",
"But a few weeks later, when you are looking back over the pictures you took, none of that will matter much.",
"All you'll remember will be the sights and sounds that make Marrakech so special.",
"And you'll be thinking about when you might go back."
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"Marrakech is not for the timid traveler.",
"But if you're up for an adventure, it's a great destination .",
"The city's origins stretch back to the 11th century, and there's plenty of history to explore .",
"For the full experience, stay at a riad, a traditional Moroccan home built around a central courtyard .",
"Have you traveled to Morocco?",
"Share your photos and travel tips with CNN iReport ."
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"(CNN) -- This year's Nobel Peace Prize is divided between three women, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, the Nobel committee announced Friday.",
"Since it was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century, the Peace Prize has become the preeminent award honoring individuals and organizations that work for peace, justice and financial and political stability, according to the Nobel Committee.",
"Here are some facts, figures and history behind the award: .",
"The process . ** Nominations come from lawmakers around the world, university professors, previous Nobel laureates and members of the Nobel committee.",
"** That committee -- made up of five distinguished Norwegians chosen by the country's parliament -- picks the winner.",
"** This year, a record 241 candidates were nominated.",
"The winner is announced Friday, but the names of the other nominees won't be revealed for another 50 years.",
"The award . ** The award consists of a medal, a personal diploma and a cash prize (10 million Swedish kronor, or about U.S. $1.4 million).",
"** The Peace medal has the inscription \"Pro pace et fraternitate gentium,\" which means \"For the peace and brotherhood of men.\"",
"** A person must be alive to be nominated.",
"If they die during the consideration period, their name will be removed.",
"Only if a person is announced as a winner and dies before the ceremony will a posthumous award be given.",
"The history . ** The Nobel Peace Prize was created by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist, industrialist and inventor of dynamite.",
"** Ninety-one Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901.",
"It was not awarded 19 times, most notably during World War I and World War II.",
"** Sixty-two Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded to a single laureate; 28 prizes have been shared by two laureates.",
"One time, the prize was shared between three people: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.",
"Recent winners .",
"** Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won last year but could not attend.",
"The political activist and longtime critic of communist rule in China is serving an 11-year prison term for what the Chinese government calls \"inciting subversion of state power.\"",
"** In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama won for what the committee called \"his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.\"",
"** Martti Ahtisaari of Finland was the 2008 winner.",
"It was his \"important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades to resolve international conflicts\" that got him the prize, according to the committee.",
"** The year before, Al Gore and the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change shared the prize for their \"efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change,\" according to the committee."
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"A record 241 candidates were nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize .",
"The award is named for Alfred Nobel, a Swedish scientist and inventor of dynamite .",
"Last year's winner was Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo ."
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"(CNN) -- Back in the day, Shakespeare enriched the English language by pumping out neologisms like a maniac.",
"Fast forward 400-plus years, and we don't really have an official bard, per se -- at least not in corporeal form.",
"Nope, if you want to put your finger on the entity that's currently shaping and torquing our lexicon like a game of drunken Twister, you're already there: Look down at your keyboard, and then at the screen and down at your keyboard again.",
"Yup. Our bard would be the internet, breeding ground of such gems as \"BRB,\" \"tweet,\" and, sadly, \"OMG!!!!!\"",
"Some may call the advent of internet-speak the demise of the English language, and to them we would say, \"STFU.\"",
"Last year, \"unfriend\" was deemed the word of the year by the Oxford American Dictionary.",
"So, much like that tattoo of your initials you got emblazoned across your butt last summer after too many G&Ts, this new slang is here to stay.",
"Besides, Shakespeare coined the word \"puke,\" so it wasn't all sunshine and roses back in the 1500s, anyway.",
"Still, there are some internet terms that don't quite translate when applied to real-life situations (or, OK, any situation other than the original and intended one), because they're too obtuse, redundant or just plain stupid.",
"Here's our take on three of the most awkward phrases and symbols to go from screen to scene: .",
"# . Ah, the hashtag.",
"First introduced into the Twitter lexicon by Chris Messina in 2007, the hashtag was originally a way to tie together common threads of conversation (e.g., Follow Friday, tweets relating to events, news about natural disasters).",
"Now, however, the hashtag has also become a way in which to emphasize certain ideas on the microblogging site (\"This weekend has completely murdered my soul #whiskeyandheartache), and, more recently, to denote sarcasm and caustic wit (\"Wow, I really enjoyed that show.",
"Etch-a-Sketch art is totally dope.",
"More free wine, however, would have made the experience much more tolerable.",
"#JustSayin'). That's all well and good in the Twitterverse, but when taken into the real world, the hashtag is a bit harder to hash out.",
"You see, the majority of society -- you know, the people who don't sit in front of their computers tweeting about how \"Eating pancakes makes me feel like death now that I'm 30 #notakidanymore\" -- doesn't understand what the hell you're saying when you tack what amounts to a pound sign onto any given sentence/word in your correspondence (e-mails, etc.).",
"In fact, they could get offended by what you think is an artfully punctuated joke.",
"Listen, we do not yet have a symbol that translates into sarcasm (despite lofty efforts by the folks over at Sarcmark), and the hashtag is no exception.",
"So, for now, stick to being caustic and dry, and even then, watch your mouth.",
"Not everyone is socially fluent enough to recognize superior wit when they see it.",
"#JustSayin'... @ . MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design may have added the \"@\" sign to its collection in March, but the artfully looping symbol has yet to find any real foothold in the conversational realm.",
"Look, it makes sense to add an @ to your name on Twitter, and Facebook now has a handy tagging feature that works with the addition of that particular keystroke, but referring to your friends as \"@Tom\" or \"@T-Bone\" in digital parlance such as e-mail or chat is just ... well ... redundant.",
"You already said their name, so why do you need a directive?",
"Even more egregious is rattling off your Twitter handle in any person-to-person situation (Exception: At tech and social media events this rule is a little less hard and fast, given that your Twitter handle is akin to your phone number).",
"Not only does it reek of self-promotion, it's just weird.",
"And take it from us, tech and social-media experts' behavioral standards should not exactly be your yardstick of appropriateness.",
"LOL . Hey, did you know that before \"LOL\" came to mean \"laughing out loud,\" it was code for \"little old lady\" in the medical world?",
"Well, unless you're a doc alerting your compatriots to the arrival of a particularly ornery blue-haired broad, never should you stir your vocal cords to utter the phrase \"LOL.\"",
"Why? Because you're not actually laughing.",
"The day that LOL becomes common parlance, my friends, will be the day that this whole internet Bard-penned comedy will become a complete and utter tragedy."
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"The # has become a way in which to emphasize certain ideas on Twitter .",
"You can tag a name by adding @ to your name on Twitter or Facebook .",
"\"LOL\" was code for \"little old lady\" before it came to mean \"laughing out loud\""
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Palestinian negotiators put forward proposals on security and borders during talks with Israeli representatives in Jordan, Palestinian media reported Tuesday.",
"Israel's special envoy, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat met in Amman with representatives of the Middle East Quartet -- made up of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia -- in an effort to relaunch negotiations after more than a year of deadlock.",
"Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told reporters that \"serious and constructive talks\" had taken place, the official Palestinian Authority news agency WAFA said.",
"He said the talks focused on the two-state solution, according to the Jordanian state news agency Petra.",
"The Israelis said they would consider the Palestinian proposals, and the two sides agreed to meet again in Jordan, the agency cited Judeh as saying.",
"However, no significant breakthrough was made, Judeh acknowledged.",
"\"The gap is wide between the two sides on all issues,\" he is quoted as saying by WAFA.",
"\"The issues are complicated and we do not expect to resolve them in a day or two.\"",
"Petra quoted Judeh as saying, \"We don't want to raise the expectations about this meeting and we don't want to underestimate its importance in the same time.\"",
"Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians fell apart more than a year ago over disagreements on the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.",
"In September, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made a bid for the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state, a move Israel called premature without direct talks to address its long-standing security concerns.",
"Filling the vacuum created by the removal of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan's King Abdullah has taken a more active role in trying to bridge the gulf between Israelis and Palestinians.",
"In November, King Abdullah made a rare visit to the Palestinian political capital of Ramallah in the West Bank, followed by a meeting in Amman a week later with Israeli President Shimon Peres.",
"The United States has voiced its support for the new initiative.",
"\"We are hopeful that this direct exchange can help move us forward on the pathway proposed by the Quartet,\" Hillary Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state, said Sunday night in a statement.",
"\"The status quo is not sustainable and the parties must act boldly to advance the cause of peace.\"",
"But while both sides thanked the Jordanian government for its role in bringing about the meeting, few expected any serious breakthroughs.",
"Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio beforehand, Erakat said the meeting would not constitute the resumption of negotiations, but rather would be one that could lead to the restarting of talks.",
"Former Quartet participant and American diplomat Robert Danin wrote Sunday for the Council on Foreign Relations that, while the resumption of contacts between the two sides would be a positive development, it \"inadvertently makes the situation on the ground riskier.\"",
"\"Abbas is returning to talks without attaining his long-standing demand that negotiations resume with an Israeli settlement freeze,\" Danin wrote.",
"\"Unless he can demonstrate quickly that talks produce tangible benefits for the Palestinians, he will feel compelled to break them off.\"",
"This, Danin said, could add impetus to Abbas concluding ongoing talks with Hamas about forming a Palestinian unity government -- an idea vehemently opposed by representatives of Israel and the United States, who consider the Islamist group a terrorist organization.",
"Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, said Monday he was surprised by the meetings.",
"He said Hamas considered them a repetition of a failed initiative and called on the Palestinian Authority to cancel the meeting Tuesday with Israeli representatives.",
"Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told CNN that the meeting of the Palestinians with the Israeli occupying forces \"is a mockery.\"",
"Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN last week that \"if Mahmoud Abbas walks toward Hamas, he is walking away from peace.\"",
"CNN's Kevin Flower contributed to this report."
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"The talks fell apart more than a year ago over Israeli settlements in the West Bank .",
"Jordan is hosting the meeting in an effort to relaunch stalled peace talks ."
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